The Battle of the Great Boundary was a battle between Former Qin and Later Qin in the Great Boundary during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the two countries had two wars in order to compete for this place in the Great Boundary, the first time former Qin won, and the second time was the Later Qin victory, Former Qin was first victorious and then defeated, and Then Qin was first defeated and then won, the monarchs of the two countries were not inferior in strategy, but in terms of battle results, it was obvious that Later Qin would come more brilliantly.
Later Qin Yao Chang used 30,000 light horses to attack the Great Realm of Former Qin in less than a day without any defenses, and finally conquered the Great Boundary. And Former Qin's empresses and princes also died in this war, many generals were also captured one after another, and at the same time, more than 50,000 people in the Great Realm were also plundered by Yao Cang to the territory of Former Qin, and the weight of Former Qin's losses was even more numerous. So how did this ancient version of the "Blitzkrieg" happen?
In 389 AD, for the two countries of Former Qin and Later Qin, there was still a chaotic war between each other, although the war was cruel to everyone, but the war between the two monarchs of Later Qin and Former Qin seemed a little ridiculous. In October 388, when Gong Deng led tens of thousands of cavalry to surround Yao Cang's camp, he did not let his soldiers attack Yao Cang's camp, but let people cry loudly on all sides of the camp, and Yao Cang seemed to be unable to stand such cries, and also made his soldiers cry loudly. In this way, the battlefield at this time presented a scene that made people cry and laugh, tens of thousands of soldiers of the two countries were not carrying out bloody killings with knives, but they were crying louder than each other, and then after a stalemate for several hours, Yao Deng led the army to withdraw, obviously Yao Cangjun cried more sadly than The Gong Deng army, and it was louder.
Of course, this ironic "cry war" is only a small episode in the countless wars between the two countries, war has always been cruel, and it is doomed to be very rare to be able to decide victory on the battlefield with such a dramatic game. After this senseless battlefield, former Qin and Later Qin finally launched a thrilling battle in 389 AD, known in history as the "Battle of the Great Boundary".
The Deng generals Dou Luo and Dou Yu plotted against him and ran away from Cang. Climb into Pengchi Buke, attack the Mi sister camp and the Fortress of Fanchuan, and all of them are ke. After repeated defeats in the Battle of Canglian, He sent his army Yao Chong to attack the Great Boundary, dengzhi shizhi, defeated Chongqiu, captured 25,000, attacked the cang generals Wu Zhong, Tang Kuangyu in Pingliang, Kezhi, with Shang Shu Shu Shuo as the former forbidden general and lieutenant of the Qiang Commandery, Shu Pingliang. Climb into the stronghold to force stability. Cang led 30,000 night raids on the Great Boundary Camp, trapped it, killed His wife Mao Shi and his sons Ben and Shang, captured dozens of famous generals, and drove away more than 50,000 men and women.
The cause of the "Battle of the Great Boundary" was that several generals such as Dou Luo of Tangdeng at that time wanted to rebel, and then after being discovered, they defected to Yao Cang of Later Qin. At that time, Yao Cang asked Yao Cang to hand over these two people and let him deal with them, but obviously Yao Cang would not do this, not to mention that Former Qin and Later Qin were originally enemies, and then Yao Cang was not afraid of Gong Deng at all, if he wanted to hand them over, then who would dare to mix with him in the future? In this way, the enemies of Former Qin and Later Qin, which had only been suspended for less than a few months, went to war again.
In this great war, Former Qin took the lead in attacking Later Qin, and Yu Deng first led tens of thousands of light horses to conquer Later Qin's border stronghold of Qiangmi Fort, and then successively conquered the Later Qin Mijie camp and the fortresses of Fanchuan. Then Qin Yaochang saw that his army had actually lost consecutive battles, which was impatient, after all, after continuing like this, the Qin army's military spirit would definitely be scattered, and the people who could not protect him would be able to directly destroy him. So at this time, Yao Cang knew that he had to find a way to win once, and only in this way could he save the hearts of the army.
So Yao Cang decided to let his son Yao Chong go to this place in the Great Realm, so many people didn't understand, why did they want to fight this place? In fact, it is very simple, because this place in the Great Boundary is a key place for Former Qin to store grain and grass for large armies, and former Qin's soldiers on the front line need to rely on this place in the Great Boundary to replenish military supplies, so obviously if this place can be conquered, Former Qin will be defeated. And that's how Yao Cang decided to let his son lead tens of thousands of troops to capture this place.
But This person was not stupid, he was very aware of the importance of the Great Realm, and he was also very aware that his old rival Yao Cang would definitely let people attack this place, so he had already taken precautions. However, when He Deng learned that Yao Chong had led tens of thousands of troops to the Great Boundary, he did not hurry to let the army return to defense, but quietly let the elite soldiers under his command quickly come to the place of Anqiu to ambush, at that time, This place of Anqiu was just in the center of the two places, when Yao Chong led the army to this place, it was bound to be tired, and it would definitely rest here, plus the environment around this place was also very conducive to the ambush of the army. Therefore, Gong Deng finally decided to set up an ambush here and then kill the Later Qin army.
When Yao Chong's army came here, the large army that Waseng had ambushed here rushed down, and the yao Chong's army that killed it was caught off guard. Because yao chong's army was in the stage of rest at that time, the state was the most relaxed moment, so when encountering the attack of the large army of Yao Chong, Yao Chong could not effectively organize forces to defend against the attack of Yao Chong, and finally Yao Chong's army was defeated, Yao Chong had to escape from the encirclement with hundreds of people, and as many as 25,000 people were left or captured or killed, which qin could be said to have suffered heavy losses after the war.
After that, the Army of Gong Deng also took advantage of this great victory and took advantage of the victory to pursue and successively conquer Later Qin Pingliang, Gou Touyuan and other places, and directly approached stability. Later, the morale of the Qin army also became even lower because of this fiasco, and when Gong Deng came to the vicinity of Anding, the Later Qin generals all persuaded Yao Cang that it was time to fight with them, and if he retreated like this, Qin would die, but at this moment, Yao Cang did not have a hot head and took a large army to fight with the Gong Deng army, he knew that now leading the troops to fight with the Gong Deng army and finally losing the battle would definitely be his own, so he could not do this.
However, if this kind of avoidance continues, even if Former Qin does not attack, Later Qin's internal collapse will collapse one step ahead, so this battle must be fought, but how to fight Yao Cang at this time did not think well. Of course, at this time, Yao Cang still had an idea in his heart, he knew that the success or failure of this war was still in this place in the Great Realm, if he could take this place, Former Qin would not attack himself, but who should he let go? After all, the last time I went to my son, I was defeated, and if I lost again this time, I am afraid that I would really have no chance.
In the end, Yao Cang decided to personally lead the remaining 30,000 elite cavalry to sneak into the Great Realm. Later, when he set out, he let his most trusted Shang Shu ling Yao Min stay in peace, and he himself took advantage of the night to lead 30,000 cavalry to the Great Realm in light armor. At the same time, in the Former Qin army, because the Former Qin army thought that it had already defeated the Hou Qin army's army that wanted to occupy the Great Boundary last time, plus they had already advanced to settle down, it was expected that Yao Cang and they could not play any tricks, so at this time they did not seem to have much vigilance against the Great Realm, so Yao Cang's army came to the Great Boundary City smoothly after a long overnight trek.
At this time, because the Great Boundary was already in the absolute rear of the Former Qin Army, there were not many troops left behind, plus after the last great victory, they did not think that the Later Qin Army would dare to come again, so there were almost no soldiers standing guard on the Great Boundary City Wall at this time, they were all sleeping, and when they found out, the Later Qin Army had already gone up to the city wall to open the city gate, and finally the Great Boundary was conquered by the Later Qin army without any defense. And those princes and nobles who remained in the Great Realm of Former Qin were also captured or killed by the Later Qin army, including the empress and son of Former Qin, and then Yao Cang, after burning all the Former Qin that could not be taken away, took the captive 50,000 people away.
When He deng learned that the Great Boundary had been occupied, he was terrified, so he rushed to withdraw to Hukong Fort with his army soon after, and the final victory of Qin after the months-long Battle of the Great Boundary ended. Yao Cang's performance in the Battle of the Great Realm was quite impressive, and at such a critical juncture he was always able to maintain a posture of not being in danger, even when he knew that the Later Qin army was gradually defeated, he still did not panic but was keenly aware of the key to this battle in the Great Realm. Later, although the First Battle of the Great Boundary ended with the great defeat of the Qin army. But even so, he did not mess up when the Former Qin army was advancing and stabilizing, and this time he was more calm.
At the same time, Yao Cang did not desperately fight a final battle with The Gong Deng's army, on the contrary, he decided to sneak into the Great Boundary again, and he personally led 30,000 cavalry to raid the gates of the Great Boundary in less than a day, and finally conquered this important territory of Former Qin. And it was also because of Yao Cang's decisive second blitzkrieg against the Great Realm that he finally helped Later Qin successfully survive this crisis and severely damaged the Former Qin army.