Tuoba Tao succeeded to the throne at the age of sixteen, and twice in three years led his troops to the front line, using himself as bait, to capture the TongwanCheng of the Great Xia Kingdom, capture the Xia monarch Helian Chang alive, and force Helian Chang's younger brother Helian Chang to ask for peace and surrender, which was the first "martial art" in Tuoba Tao's life, and the second was to attack Rouran in the north.
Rouran was in the northernmost part of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the land area was active and extensive, and from time to time it came to plunder a wave, which had a serious impact on the economic development of the Northern Wei Dynasty, tuoba tao insisted on crusading against rouran, but the xianbei nobles stood on the opposite side of tuoba tao.
Like the Great Xia who crusaded against Helian Chang, Tuoba Tao still had the support of his most trusted strategist Cui Hao behind him, even though the Xianbei nobles talked about too many difficulties one by one, and the crusade against Rouran was already a matter of certainty, Tuoba Tao never worried about the recurrence of the incident of Changsun Song again.
Before leaving, Kou Qianzhi asked Cui Hao if he had absolute confidence in the battle, and Cui Hao said that victory was certain, but he was afraid that Tuoba Tao and the Xianbei nobles would covet the small profits in front of them and return to the mountains and would not be able to achieve a complete victory.
Distribution in the surrounding countries of the Northern Wei Dynasty before the extinction of xia
Tuoba Tao attacked Rouran in the north
Tuoba Tao's marching plan was just like Cui Hao's idea, all the way up were panicked Rouran people, because of the lack of preparation for Tuoba Tao's Northern Expedition, The Ruoran army collapsed for thousands of miles, and the Gao Chebu, who was circling between the major empires, once again chose to betray Rouran, threw himself into the arms of Northern Wei, and then carried out a bloody massacre of the Ruoran people.
Tuoba Tao himself led a large army along the weak water westward, all the way to the vicinity of Zhuo Evil Mountain, Tuoba Tao hesitated, unwilling to chase forward, and the humble nobles who came out with him also gave timely advice.
This emperor and ministers who coveted immediate interests finally chose Banshi to return to the dynasty at Zhuo evil Mountain, and the biggest reason for the victory in this attack on Rouran was the unexpected suddenness, but when it was time to capture the Ruoran lord Da Tan alive, Tuoba Tao actually went back, at this time, the Ruoran Lord Da Tan, who led hundreds of remnants of defeated soldiers, was less than one hundred and eighty kilometers away from Tuoba Tao's army.
After this battle, the lord of The Ruoran state, Da Tan Khan, died of illness, his son Wu Ti succeeded him as Rouran Khan, and the Gaoche tribes returned to the control of Northern Wei, in order to prevent the Ruoran people from taking revenge and robbing from going south again, Tuoba Tao strengthened the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and established six towns of Northern Wei to strictly guard against death.
Rouran cavalry
Tuoba Na Battle of SaiBei
Perhaps out of too much hatred for not capturing Rouran Khan alive, a few years later, Tuoba Tao once again ordered the Northern Expedition, the importance of this Northern Expedition is self-evident, Tuoba Tao even took the prince to fight through zhuo evil mountain, but the Rouran people learned very cleverly this time, they did not confront Tuoba Tao, just blindly fled, avoiding the vanguard troops of Northern Wei, luring Tuoba Tao's army to the depths of the desert, fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, and then destroying it when the Northern Wei army was out of grain and grass.
Tuoba Tao of course will not be fooled by this, when the grain and grass are almost gone, he began to retreat, so that the ambitious Northern Expedition once again ended without a problem, Tuoba Tao was very upset, he analyzed the current situation, and believed that the main reason why the Rouran people did not dare to confront him was that the Northern Wei soldiers and horses were too many, and the Rouran people were very afraid.
Northern Wei soldiers
Therefore, during the Third Northern Expedition, Tuoba Tao reduced the combat troops, he let Tuoba Na and Tuoba Qi'er lead a small number of elite troops north to seek a decisive battle with Ruoran, Rouran Land Tuhe Khan really saw this time, the Northern Wei soldiers came was really very few, so he set out, with several times Tuoba Na's large army to surround the Northern Wei army, trying to completely annihilate.
However, Tuga Khan underestimated the strength of Tuoba Na, who was also a lord who did not want to fight a war, and under the heavy siege, he fought a beautiful battle, frightening Tuga to flee, throwing away countless heavy grain and grass, and almost trapping all of Rouran's foundation.
Although Tuoba Na did not completely eliminate Rouran this time, Rouran has since declined, no longer has the majesty of the Shelun Khan period, and in the face of powerful enemies in the south, Rouran began to develop westward, avoiding Tuoba Tao, who was feared by everyone.
Northern Yan, not to mention a mess
The western Xia was destroyed, the north attacked Rouran, and the Liu Song in the south was at its peak at this time, and it was not easy to attack, and Tuoba Tao's side was left with the Northern Yan in the east.
At this time, the Northern Yan, that is called a chaos.
Northern Yan originated from Later Yan, and after Murong Chui established Later Yan, he died in Sanhepo while attacking Tuoba Jue, and Tuoba Jue took advantage of the situation to eliminate Murong Chui's son, Murong Bao, the Emperor of Later Yan, and occupied most of Later Yan's prefectures. After Murong Bao's defeat, he defected to his uncle Lan Khan, who although Murong Bao's uncle was too strong, pretended to welcome Murong Bao back and beheaded him, and then destroyed Murong Bao's son and the descendants of Murong Bao's clan, only Lan Khan's son-in-law, Murong Sheng, was not killed.
Murong Sheng pretended to be obedient under Lan Khan's tent, but day and night he wanted to avenge his father, in order to disintegrate Lan Khan's power, he constantly blew wind in Lan Khan's ear as a son-in-law, and Lan Khan, who was already suspicious, took this opportunity to drive away two younger brothers, Lan Ti and Lan Nan, Lan Khan who lost his brother's protection instantly became a lonely man, and Murong Sheng, who was in a position of power, cried out, and Lan Khan and his son cried out.
Murong Sheng
After the destruction of Lan Khan and Murong Sheng ascended to the throne of Later Yan, Murong Sheng inherited the military talents of the Xianbei Murong clan, and his war skills were very strong, and the surrounding goryeo and other countries all became his defeated generals, but the personality deformity created by years of hidden tolerance made Murong Sheng too strong and treated his subordinates very harshly, so he established many enemies.
Not long after, the ministers who were dissatisfied with Murong Sheng secretly formed a rebel alliance and assassinated Murong Sheng, and once Murong Sheng died, Empress Ding decided to depose Murong Ding as crown prince and install Murong Xi as emperor.
Murong Xi's corpse was raped
Murong Xi was Murong Sheng's uncle, but much younger than Murong Sheng, and he was able to become the successor to the throne mainly because he often maintained an improper relationship with Empress Ding.
Unfortunately, Empress Ding had paid for the wrong person, and after Murong Xi became emperor, he favored the sisters of the Ling clan and ignored Empress Ding, empress Dowager Ding was of course angry and wanted to carry out a coup d'état, Murong Xi was not the youngest prince Murong Ding, he already knew Empress Ding's every move, and before Empress Ding could make trouble, he forced her to die.
Not long after Empress Ding's death, the two sisters of the Fu clan died of illness one after another, and Murong Xi was so sad that he could not help himself, and the only recorded corpse of the emperor in Chinese history was left by Murong Xi.
The Book of Jin evaluates Murong Xi
No one wanted to mix with an emperor who liked to rape corpses, there was no doubt that the commander of the Forbidden Army, Feng Bao, expelled Murong Xi from Longcheng and installed Murong Bao's righteous son Murong Yun as emperor.
Murong Yun's original surname was Gao, and he had little to do with the Xianbei Murong clan, starting from Murong Yun ascending the throne and establishing Northern Yan, the Xianbei Murong clan that had been running for more than a hundred years completely disappeared in eastern China, but there was also a branch in western China, Tuguhun.
The strange Lord of the Northern Yan Kingdom, Feng Hong
Although Gao Yun was elected to the throne by Feng Bao, he was not a puppet emperor, on the contrary, his power was not small, and the guards around him were all close generals, especially the two brothers Li Ban and Tao Ren, who were simply Gao Yun's right and left arms, but these two brothers actually bizarrely assassinated Gao Yun.
Feng Bao watched Gao Yun being killed, he neither stepped forward to stop it, nor added oil and vinegar, but immediately after Gao Yun was killed, he executed the two people who left the ban, gao Yun died, Feng Bao naturally became the emperor of Northern Yan, although he was born as the commander of the forbidden army, but it was more than enough to be an emperor, in the more than twenty years under his rule, the people of Northern Yan enjoyed a rare peace.
Feng Hong rebelled
Before Feng Bao's death, his favorite concubine Song Shi, in order to let his son ascend to the throne, went so far as to declare that the prince was not allowed to enter the palace to face the saint, and after the eunuch Hu Fu knew about it, he immediately informed Feng Bao's younger brother Feng Hong, who rushed into the palace with his troops, put Song's mother and son under house arrest, deposed the crown prince Feng Ji, killed more than a hundred sons of Feng Bao, and scared the old emperor Feng Bao to death.
After killing his nephew, he took over Feng Bao's wife, Song Shi
At this time, the chaos of Northern Yan was seen by Tuoba Tao, who was already impatient to annex Northern Yan, and at this time Feng Hong was a demon again, and even ran away to Goryeo with concubines, treasures, and the people of Longcheng, and Northern Yan perished.
Feng Hong's fate was more tragic, to Goryeo also put the Northern Yan Emperor's shelf, did not understand the reason for sending people to the fence, the King of Goryeo was angry, he killed all the children of the Feng clan, only Feng Hong's granddaughter escaped, this person is the future famous Empress Feng.
Northern Liang was destroyed, and Tuoba Tao unified the north
Northern Yan was destroyed, and there was only one obstacle in front of Tuoba Tao, Northern Liang, and the northern Liang state lord, Frustrated Canal Mujian, took over from the old Liang king Frustrated Canal Mengxun to take over a country that could eat on all sides and was at ease, and he was also Tuoba Tao's brother-in-law, and this identity and network diagram were no problem in enjoying his old age in peace.
However, Depressed Qu Mujian has a small problem, lustful.
Tuoba Tao, out of respect for Tuoba Qu Mujian, also sent his sister Princess Wuwei to marry the new Liang King, but Tuoba Mujian did not like Princess Wuwei, or out of resentment towards Tuoba Tao, or Princess Wuwei looked really unsatisfactory, in short, from marrying to Northern Liang, Princess Wuwei's nightlife was not happy.
Depressed Canal Pastoral
A lustful prince who is not with his wife is looking for another concubine? In fact, it was not, Depressed Qu Mujian did not seem to be interested in the concubines in his harem, and he actually hooked up with his sister-in-law, Li Shi.
Is there anything more terrible about human tragedy than incest? Yes, that is, Li Shi, the sister-in-law of Depressed Canal Mujian, actually fell in love with this lustful brother, once people have love, they will hate, she does not hate Depressed Canal Mujian, nor does she hate Tuoba Tao, she hates Princess Wuwei, she feels that this woman makes them forced to incest, can not come together in a fair and upright manner.
So Li Shi poisoned, intending to poison Princess Wuwei, this poor princess who was innocently lying and was shot was sent to Northern Wei Pingcheng for treatment overnight, barely saving her life, but permanently disabled.
Tuoba Tao hated, he hated Li's jealousy, and even more hated Beiliang's disregard for his authority, so he decided to go on a crusade against Beiliang.
Not surprisingly, the Xianbei nobles, like those who had fought against Xia, Rouran and Northern Yan before, once again stood against Tuoba Tao, and these nobles of Northern Wei did not seem to be very interested in expanding their territory, but Situ Cui Hao always stood behind Tuoba Tao.
Northern Liang was too small, in the face of the powerful Northern Wei, there was no power to fight back, and it was destroyed between the raised hands, Northern Liang was destroyed, and Mu Jian was captured and killed not long after.
At this point, Tuoba Taoshi ended the chaotic situation of the Sixteen Kingdoms and unified the north.