The "Battle of Xingcheng Town" was a more classic battle in the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After this battle, the Qin Emperor Yao Cang defeated the tens of thousands of Yu and Hu forces led by the Former Qin Zhendong general Wei Jiefei with 1600 elite troops, and finally ended in a total victory. In this battle, Yao Chang made full use of Wei Jiefei's arrogant personality, first by consolidating the fortress without fighting in order to deplete the morale of Wei Jiefei's army, and then showing weakness to the enemy when he went out to fight, so as to make Wei Jiefei's army full of contempt for it and no longer be defensive, and then when he lured Wei Jiefei's entire army to attack, he secretly let his son Yao Chong, led hundreds of light horses to sneak up on him, unexpectedly attacked it, and finally caused Wei Jiefei's army to collapse.
Battle of Apricot Town War Map
In the end, under such a series of strategies, Yao Cang miraculously annihilated Wei Jiefei's tens of thousands of troops with 1600 elite soldiers, and even killed Wei Jiefei before the battle. It can be said that from this battle, it can be seen that Yao Cang, the Later Qin Emperor, was indeed very accomplished on the battlefield, worthy of being a general who came from the chaotic world, at that time Yao Cang knew that Wei Jiefei had tens of thousands of troops to attack the border town of Xingcheng in Later Qin, but still dared to bring 1600 people to fight him, and it can only be said that Yao Cang was worthy of being a "chaotic hero".
Moreover, at that time, Yao Cang was facing not only the attack of the Former Qin general Wei Jiefei, but also the double oppression of Former Qin and the rebel general Lei Qidi, but under such circumstances, Yao Cang actually ignored the other two forces and directly took 1600 elite soldiers to personally recruit Wei Jiefei. But in fact, Yao Cang did do the right thing, when the other two forces heard that Yao Cang actually defeated Wei Jiefei's tens of thousands of troops with a strength of 1600 troops, first Former Qin withdrew its troops, and then the rebel generals' troops directly collapsed in morale and fell without a fight. So how did this classic battle of apricot towns with less wins and more happened? What about the whole details? Here we will unveil this layer of veil together.
Apricot Town Ruins
In 390 AD, the former Qin Zhendong general Wei Jiefei took advantage of the confrontation between Former Qin and Later Qin Yao Cang, first rebelled against Former Qin and established himself as the King of ChongTian, and then personally led tens of thousands of troops to attack Xingcheng, which was garrisoned by the general Of northern Qin of Later Qin, in order to occupy this military stronghold of Later Qin, and then slowly plotted against Later Qin's territory. At this time, Yao Cang, who was far away in the capital of Later Qin, heard that Wei Jiefei was leading an army to attack Xingcheng and was going to lead 1600 elite soldiers to march in person, but the courtiers all opposed it, and they all advised, "Your Majesty is not worried about sixty miles of Deng, but about six hundred miles of brown flying?" ”。 In fact, for those ministers, Yao Cang was indeed not suitable for personal conquest, after all, the current Later Qin was at a critical juncture in their view, first former Qin was such a fierce tiger looking at the tiger next to them, and then when Wei Jiefei attacked Later Qin, the Qiang leader in the Later Qin State also raised an army to respond to Wei Jiefei.
Map of former Qin territory
It can be said that at this time, Hou qin is a fat sheep stared at by three tigers, and if it is not good, it will lose everything. Therefore, at this time, Yao Cang, as the main heart of Later Qin, actually proposed to go to the imperial conquest, and he still took 1600 people with him, do you think these ministers can agree? After all, Hou Qin was going to die, and they wouldn't necessarily have good fruit to eat. Of course, at this time, Yao Cang did not intend to listen to these ministers, as he himself said, "Dengfei can be killed, and my city is not able to be killed." Evil land is wise, very human. Nan Yin Brown Fei, Dong Cheng in the East, Gan Yanmei said to be a treacherous plot, if you get Xingcheng and Li Run, evil land is based on it, control far and near, xiang is a wing, Chang'an Northeast Africa Fuwu has", yao Cang, the importance of Xingcheng, saw very thoroughly, he knew that Xingcheng absolutely could not be lost, if Xingcheng was lost, Wei Jiefei and Lei Evil Land these two people will definitely form an alliance, each other as horns, then the whole of Later Qin will inevitably be trapped, and at that time it will not be far from extinction.
Map of the Territory of Later Qin
Moreover, Yao Cang also knew that even if he left, he would not dare to come with the courage of Gong Deng, even if he came with such a strong city defense as the capital city, he would not be able to attack it for a while and a half. At this time, the most important thing is Xingcheng, Xingcheng is going to be lost, even if It is not coming, Hou Qin will not live long, and if the three parties form an alliance to attack the capital together, it will really be too late. Therefore, at this time, Yao Cang had to go to save Xingcheng, and in the end, the group of ministers had no choice but to let Yao Cang go to Xingcheng with 1600 elite soldiers.
Of course, when he arrived in Xingcheng, Yao Cang did not stupidly take these 1600 elite soldiers to rush into the formation of Wei Jiefei's tens of thousands of troops, after all, even if the enemy was weak, it was dozens of times more troops than Yao Cang's army, and if he was not careful, he would be trapped in the formation. And the first thing Yao Cang did when he came to Xingcheng was to build a camp, and then go to the front of the army to observe the enemy situation, when he noticed that Wei Jiefei's tens of thousands of troops were almost all new soldiers, he knew that he was already victorious in this big battle, at this time he laughed and said to the soldiers around him, "Now that the same evil is in harmony, they all come to gather, I have to take advantage of the victory to sweep, and cover its nest in one fell swoop, and there is no more in the northeast."
Battle scenes of the Battle of Apricot Town
But even though Yao Cang knew that he could win, he did not show the slightest contempt for Wei Jiefeijun, and he was still very cautious about this big battle. He first insisted on holding out for several days, but stubbornly resisted the attack of Wei Jiefei's army for several days, and because Yao Chang's defense was proper, wei Jiefei did not care for several days, and with the onslaught of several days without any results, the morale of Wei Jiefei's army began to gradually decline, and for the repeated attacks and attacks every day, but without any gain, and then looked at the fall of one after another of his comrades around him, at this time, Wei Jiefei's army was already filled with a timid atmosphere. In this way, Yao Cang realized a few days later that the time had come, and he personally led more than 1,500 elite soldiers to meet Wei Jiefei's army, but at the moment of battle, Yao Cang secretly arranged another conspiracy, and when he was preparing to send troops to meet the battle, he quietly let his son Yao Chong lead hundreds of elite light horses around the rear of Wei Jiefei's army.
Then, when Yao Cang came to wei jiefei's army with thousands of people and horses, he deliberately let the generals put on a timid posture. And when Wei Jiefei saw this situation, it was a great joy, at this time in Wei Jiefei's eyes, the Number of Later Qin Troops was not only tens of times fewer than the number of his troops, but even more so that these soldiers looked so vulnerable. So Wei Jiefei completely relaxed, at this time he was thinking about how to torture Yao Cang after he captured him, and then what should he do if he took The territory of Later Qin? Is it to be called emperor? Or is it king? But he certainly did not know at this point that there was an elite light cavalry behind him staring at him and the soldiers behind him.
Wei Jiefei saw this and took the lead in pressing his entire army against Yao Cang's army, and he fantasized about completely crushing Later Qin's army with absolute superiority. However, just as Wei Jie was hurrying to yao Chang's army, this vulnerable soldier who had just behaved suddenly turned into an elite soldier who was full of the atmosphere of a hundred battles, and that bloody breath made the attacking Wei Jiefei army stunned, but at this time, Wei Jiefei did not notice at all, and all he thought about was what happened after the victory.
He seemed to forget that the tens of thousands of soldiers behind him were almost all new soldiers, or the ordinary people he had forcibly recruited, who did not have much combat effectiveness at all. And he also forgot that since Yao Cang dared to bring these 1600 soldiers to fight him, could these soldiers be worse? It must have been an elite soldier who had experienced hundreds of battles, but he didn't see it, and he was blinded by his arrogance. It wasn't until Wei Jiefei touched this unit that he found himself deceived, where was a flock of sheep, it was clearly a group of tigers, but now Wei Jiefei was already riding a tiger, and now if he retreated, he would lose everything, and he also hoped that his army could crush them in an absolute number.
But it was obvious that Yao Cang would not let him do as he pleased, and just when the fierce battle between Yao Cang's army and Wei Jiefei's army was in full swing, Yao Cang's hundreds of light horses in the rear were moving, and they rushed down from the rear. And Wei Jiefei's army was already struggling to support, this is good, these hundreds of light horses became a straw to crush their last morale, and then with one soldier after another either fleeing, or surrendering, Wei Jiefei's army finally collapsed, the entire army began to flee everywhere, and then even Wei Jiefei was beheaded by the Later Qin army. Since then, this battle of Xingcheng town has finally ended with the complete victory of Later Qin.
Later, with the total annihilation of Wei Jiefei's army, the thunderous land far away in Li Runzhen also surrendered to Yao Cang shortly after. Since then, this event, which would have become a great disaster for Later Qin, was finally easily solved by the 1600 elite soldiers led by Yao Cang. The Battle of Xingcheng town also became one of the most classic battles in the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.