In the middle and late period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it can be called a macho incubator, full of macho men, dashing and strong. A large number of macho men walked to the front of the historical stage and became important people who changed history.
The first to appear was Tuoba Hong, the Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who reformed a bit thoroughly, and in order to integrate the Xianbei culture with the Han culture, he not only moved the capital to Luoyang, but also changed the various customs of the Xianbei and tried to get close to the Han culture. Even the surname Tuoba was changed to Yuan.
This seems to be conducive to national integration, but in fact, the hidden dangers are not small. Why? Because the time is too hasty, the humble nobles will not buy it at all. Internal contradictions at the top level intensified, and after Yuan Hong's death, there was no equally powerful heir, so that the Northern Wei gradually embarked on the road of division.
In the process of the division of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were also two fierce men, they were Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai. Gao Huan was the ruler of Eastern Wei and the founder of Northern Qi. Yuwen Tai was the ruler of Western Wei and the founder of Northern Zhou. Both of them are macho men, both overlords of one side, but they have not been able to sit on the throne, why is this?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > uprising of the six towns in the north, announcing the intensification of the contradictions of the Northern Wei reforms. </h1>
YuanHong's idea was very good, to move the capital to the south, so as to better integrate into the Culture of the Central Plains, laying the foundation for the future unification of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
But the reality is that the nobles within the Northern Wei Dynasty did not agree. In the past, everyone lived very well in the north, and the real estate was also well purchased in the north, and now you say that if you move the capital, you will move the capital, and people don't want face?
Therefore, since YuanHong's death, the Northern Wei Dynasty has not stopped. In particular, the struggle between the six northern towns and the Xianbei nobles in Luoyang basically finished the Northern Wei Dynasty. After the outbreak of the Six Towns Uprising, the Northern Wei Dynasty was completely disintegrated, and in order to suppress the uprising, the Northern Wei court even borrowed troops from Ruoran.
This kind of loss move was used, which showed that the Northern Wei Really had no means. At this time, the rise of Ge Rong, another fierce male rebel leader, laid the foundation for the demise of Northern Wei. Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan both happened to have followed Ge Rong.
After Ge Rong was defeated by the fierce male leader Erzhu Rong, Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan both went to work under Erzhu Rong.' However, the gap between the two people was reflected at this time, Gao Huan became Erzhu Rong's confidant, while Yuwen Tai was only Erzhu Rong's subordinate He Bayue's confidant, And Yu Wentai was one level lower than Gao Huan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="72" > Second, the rise of Gao Huan predates Yuwentai. </h1>
When Yuwen Tai worked with He Bayue, in fact, Gao Huan was already sitting on an equal footing with He Bayue. Especially after the failure of the Six Towns Uprising, everyone was celebrating the results of the battle, but Gao Huan was cleaning up the mess.
Gao Huan pocketed the remnants of Ge Rong, and in the blink of an eye, he became the most powerful cadre under Erzhu Rong. This also made Erzhu Rong sigh that the only person who could replace him in the future was Gao Huan!
Sure enough, after Erzhu Rong was killed by Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei, the Erzhu family was leaderless. At that time, Erzhu Rong's nephew Erzhu Zhao, still wanted to forcibly pick up the girder, but unfortunately his ability was not enough.
Unable to withstand Gao Huan's operation, Gao Huan was moved to Erzhu Zhao, and successfully obtained the military power of the six towns. This time Erzhu Zhao was considered to be the finished calf, originally his mind was inferior to Gao Huan, and now his strength was much worse than Gao Huan's, and he was finally destroyed by Gao Huan.
After Gao Huan destroyed the Erzhu clan, he took actual control of Northern Wei. According to his conscience, Gao Huan at this time was completely comparable to Erzhu Rong, and was a Northern Wei courtier of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er.
However, Yuwen Tai in the Guanzhong region was not convinced by his jurisdiction, which made Gao Huan a little embarrassed. In any case, Gao Huan vacated The Northern Wei Emperor Yuan Xiu and took over the Northern Wei regime in a disciplined manner. At this time, Yuwen Tai had just taken over the troops of the old leader He Bayue. To tell you the truth, on this matter, Yuwen Tai still has to thank Gao Huan, why?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > third, the rise of Yuwen tai completely divided the Northern Wei Dynasty into two. </h1>
Gao Huan's momentum was like a broken bamboo, and he didn't take Erzhu Zhao's eyes at all, but He Bayue in the Guanzhong area was a big problem for Gao Huan's confidants. Because He Bayue is a man with a level and is also a fierce man, it is not easy to deal with him. Moreover, He Bayue has Yuwen Tai to assist, and Yu Wentai is not a fuel-saving lamp.
So Gao Huan thought of a way, and he sent his subordinate Zhai Song to Guanzhong to let him split the relationship between He Bayue and Hou Mo chen yue. Hou Mo Chen Yue was also a fierce man in the Guanzhong region, and he had a good relationship with He Bayue.
However, after being separated for a while, Hou Mo Chen Yue's brain fainted. When they planned to fight Cao Ni together, Hou Mo Chen Yue decisively asked his son-in-law to slaughter He Bayue.
He Bayue was killed, and his subordinates were leaderless, which was going to cause chaos in the world! In this case, these people did not submit to Hou Mo chen yue, but elected Yuwen Tai as the leader of Guan Long's armies.
Gao Huan was very happy, thinking that if he had eliminated He Bayue's confidant, then it would be easy for him to seize Guanzhong. Unfortunately, without He Bayue, there was a more powerful macho Yuwen Tai, which could blow gao Huan up.
Yuwen Tai was even higher than He Bayue's level, and after he stabilized He Bayue's subordinates, he began to avenge his old leader, and it didn't take long to crush Hou Mo Chen Yue. Since then, Yuwentai has completed the integration of the Guanlong area.
At this time, Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei, Yuan Xiu, and Gao Huan were in conflict, and Yuan Xiu, in a rage, contacted Yuwen Tai. Yuwen Tai didn't mention how happy he was: Come and come, come to me to eat delicious and spicy!
So Hu Yuanxiu really left Gao Huan with the clan members and went to Chang'an, where Yuwen Tai was located. Gao Huan didn't care at all, he even felt that Yuan Xiu was a burden, so he immediately changed Yuan Shanjian to emperor, which was Eastern Wei.
Do you think Yuwen Tai is a good stubble? He just wanted to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes! After Yuwen Tai took Yuan Xiu over, he found that this guy was not easy to control, and it didn't take long to slaughter this old brother, and by the way, he set up Yuan Baoju as emperor, which was Western Wei.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > four, boil each other, see who can't survive first. </h1>
Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan were actually the actual controllers of Western Wei and Eastern Wei. Gao Huan felt very humiliated, when he became the Northern Wei Grand Chancellor, Yuwen Tai was still just a follower, and now he was actually on an equal footing with himself!
Therefore, Gao Huan, who was not afraid of causing trouble, naturally wanted to unify the Northern Wei again and clean up Yuwen Tai, which almost became a threshold that could not be bypassed. Therefore, a series of wars between eastern and western Wei began in this way.
In the first battle, the Battle of Xiaoguan, Gao Huan was defeated.
At gao huan's behest, Sima Ziru of the Eastern Wei Dynasty led the governor Dou Tai and The Qin Prefecture Assassin Shi Han Rail to storm Tongguan. Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, and after laying down here, Yuwentai did not want to stay safe in Guanzhong, and as a result, Yuwentai successfully resisted this attack.
Soon after, Gao Huan personally led his troops to Pusaka, intending to cross the Yellow River. At the same time, he ordered the governor Dou Tai to attack Tongguan, and Situ Gao Ao Cao to attack Shangluo. It seems that the soldiers are divided into three roads, but in fact, the other two roads are all to cooperate with Dou Tai, who attacked Tongguan.
This matter was immediately seen by Yuwen Tai, so Yuwen Tai ostensibly threatened to surrender long right, but in fact secretly left the city from Xiaoguan to sneak up on Dou Tai's army. Dou Tai had no defenses at all, and was beaten by Yuwen Tai on the ground, which eventually led to Dou Tai killing himself and tens of thousands of people being captured. The two armies of Gao Huan and Gao Ao Cao had no choice but to withdraw in a hurry.
In the second battle, the Battle of Shayuan, Gao Huan was once again defeated.
After the defeat at the Battle of Xiaoguan, Gao Huan was very upset, and he felt that he had been insulted, so he kept thinking about snow shame. After all, the strength of Eastern Wei was stronger than that of Western Wei at that time, and there was no reason why it could not defeat Western Wei.
Therefore, Gao Huan took advantage of Yuwen Tai's business trip to Henan and personally led an army of 200,000 to attack Western Wei, while at the same time asking Gao Ao Cao to take 30,000 troops to Henan to contain Yuwen Tai.
After learning this news, Yuwen Tai was too busy to eat, and with less than 10,000 people, he hurried back to meet the battle. After arriving at Shayuan, Yuwen Tai chose to set up an ambush in Weiqu, which was 10 miles east of Shayuan.
Taking advantage of the fact that Gao Huan's army entered the ambush circle, Yuwen Tai immediately attacked, cutting Gao Huan's army into two pieces, dividing the troops to pursue, and killing more than 6,000 people on the spot. In total, more than 70,000 Eastern Wei troops were captured and more than 80,000 were annihilated. Frightened, Gao Huan rode a camel all night and ran away!
The third battle, the battle of the river bridge, in one word: chaos!
As soon as the Battle of Shayuan came to an end, Gao Huan's general Hou Jing (also a super macho man) took the opportunity to retake Luoyang Jin Yong City, which was a chicken blood for Eastern Wei. However, after Yuwen Tai learned about it, he rushed to retake Luoyang.
The two sides fought a big battle, and Yuwen Tai was shot with an arrow and almost hung up. Hou Jing was also defeated by Western Wei reinforcements and fled in a hurry. At this time, Gao Huan's general Gao Ao Cao did not believe in this evil and had to fight with the Eastern Wei reinforcements. As a result, he was beaten to the ground.
Gao Ao Cao saw that the momentum was not right, and rushed to run away, but unfortunately Gao Huan's cousin Gao Yongle and Gao Ao Cao had a festival, and they did not let him enter the city at all, which eventually led to Gao Ao Cao being shot by the Western Wei army with ten thousand arrows and shot into a hedgehog.
Gao Ao Cao's death was a real blow to Gao Huan. However, the Western Wei side was not much better, because there were too many troops invested, which caused the scene to get out of control for a while. Relatively speaking, Western Wei suffered a lot of losses.
The Western Wei generals Du Guxin, Zhao Gui, and others had no idea where Yuwen Tai and Yuan Baoju had gone, so they had to go home first. Other people take a look, yo huh? Can it still be so whole? So they ran back.
At this time, Yuwen Tai knew that he could not fight, and he could only flee in a hurry. The result of the war was that Western Wei was defeated, but Gao Huan lost Gao Ao Cao, which was considered to be his half life!
In the fourth battle, the Battle of Qiushan, Gao Huan won a complete victory.
After 3 years, the two sides were almost rested, so they remembered the group fight again. Gao Ao Cao's brother gave Northern Yu Prefecture to Western Wei as a surrender, causing Eastern Wei's strategic stronghold of Tiger Prison to fall into yuwen Tai's hands.
At this time, Gao Huan did not agree, and personally came with 100,000 troops, taking Mount Yao as the front, planning to have a good fight with Yuwen Tai. Yuwen Tai planned to sneak up on Gao Huan at night, but he just fell into Gao Huan's trap.
More than 30,000 Western Wei troops were beheaded, 48 generals were captured, and Yuwen Tai fled the battlefield in a panic. Gao Huan finally regained a little face.
The next day Yuwen Tai regained his strength and gathered 3,000 death squads, intending to take revenge on Xue Hate, so he bypassed the main force of Eastern Wei and went straight to Gao Huan's big tent. As a result, all of Gao Huan's guards were killed, and Gao Huan's own mount was also shot to death, frightening Gao Huan into fleeing in a hurry.
After escaping, Gao Huan led a large army to counterattack Yuwentai again, which directly led to the basic destruction of the Western Wei army, and Yuwentai once again fled in a panic. At this time, if Gao Huan entered Guanzhong, then the situation of Northern Wei unification would definitely appear again, but unfortunately he missed this opportunity.
In the fifth battle, the Battle of Yubi, Gao Huan fought bitterly and without success.
Two years later, Gao Huan attacked Yubi with an army of 100,000. This time, the town guarded Yubi by the famous Western Wei general Wei Xiaokuan, who only had a few thousand people in his hands, and it was a fool's dream to want to hold here. However, Gao Huan attacked the city for several days in a row, and he used all kinds of tricks, but he failed to defeat Yubi.
After that, Gao Huan began to dig tunnels, while Wei Xiaokuan dug long ditches at the end of the tunnels to kill one by one.
Gao Huan thought about tying firewood and grass on the long pole to burn the city wall, but Wei Xiaokuan had people tie the knife to the long pole to cut the other party's long pole.
Gao Huan almost died of anger, and let people dig 20 tunnels, and the beams and pillars were first made in the middle of the tunnels, and after his own people withdrew, they would burn down these beams and pillars with fierce fire, causing the walls of Yubi City to collapse in a large area.
This time, Wei Xiaokuan let people make a large wooden fence out of wood, and then let the crossbowmen defend behind them, resulting in the Eastern Wei army still unable to fight. Gao Huan was so angry that he almost didn't jump up.
In the Battle of Yubi, Eastern Wei attacked for more than 50 days, losing more than 70,000 people, but it was stunned that it could not take the city. Gao Huan has been depressed since then, and no longer has the idea of fighting with Yuwen Tai.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > Summary: Shule River, under the Yin Mountains. </h1>
Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai fought for many years, and as a result, they were picked up by Wei Xiaokuan under the Yubi City. This time Gao Huan was completely out of his mind. Due to the heavy losses of the army, Gao Huan had no face to claim the emperor at all, and ended his life as a fierce man in helplessness and desolation, at the age of 52.
After Gao Huan's death, Yuwen Tai finally had a chance to breathe, and only then did he begin to continuously develop the cause of Western Wei. Yuwen Tai died nine years later than Gao Huan at the age of 50.
It was precisely by taking advantage of these 9 years that Yuwen Tai established the prefectural military system, reformed the official system, and developed productive forces, so that the Western Wei gradually overtook the Eastern Wei. It laid the foundation for the future fall of Northern Zhou and Northern Qi. Unfortunately, he did not catch up with the title of emperor, and he became seriously ill. The unfinished business had to be handed over to his nephew Yuwen Hu to end.
Reference: Book of Wei