Wei Xiaokuan was a key figure in ending the chaos of the Northern Dynasty, and in 573 he calculated Hu Luguang and Gao Changgong with a counter-calculation, and in 575 Yuwen Yong had the courage to launch the War of Annihilation of Qi; In 580, when Yang Jian ascended the throne, it was he who killed Wei Chiyi, who had almost no seniority, and completely ended the chaos of the Northern Dynasty. His military talent is not the top, but he understands human nature, and he is the kind of person who becomes more and more powerful as he gets older.
Wei Xiaokuan appeared early and became famous late, so that many people would subconsciously think of him as Yuwen Tai's junior. In fact, Old Wei was only two years younger than Yuwen Tai, but he lived to see the prosperity and demise of the entire Yuwen Tai family, and he was also regarded as Xiao He of the Yuwen Family. Wei Xiaokuan was a son of the Jingzhao Wei family who ate everything in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and when he was 18 years old, Xiao Baobao rebelled in Guanzhong, he acted as a vanguard, did not make a name for himself on the battlefield, but became the son-in-law of the famous minister Yang Kan, married the daughter of the Yang family of Hongnong, and became a winner in life. If you count his family lineage, Wei Xiaokuan at that time was a truly rich and handsome man. At the same time, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai were also serving as hungry thieves under Du Luozhou and Ge Rong, and Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong was just an ordinary member of Chen Qingzhi's army. If the times had not changed, these people would not have even been qualified to be despised by Wei Xiaokuan.
However, in the great dramas such as Erzhu Rong's destruction of Ge Rong, the change of Heyin, and Chen Qing's Northern Expedition, Wei Xiaokuan was like a game offline, and he could not find his shadow no matter how to find it. We only know that his father-in-law Yang Kan was killed by Erzhu Tianguang in the chaos, and he married the Zheng family of Xingyang and married Yuan Ying'e, the granddaughter of Yuan Shu the Prince of Changshan (Yuan Ying'e's elder Yuan Jihai served as Zhongshu Ling in Western Wei).
Wei Xiaokuan was a general whose defense was stronger than the attack, and he was most famous for fighting the Yubi Defensive Battle, before which he was famous for defending Xiangcheng, where he also became acquainted with Du Guxin, and let the grandchildren of the two families marry (his family did not marry Du Guxin's daughter); He was not well known in the battles against Huainan and Southern Liang. When he was PK with Wei Chiyi, who was also old (Wei Chiyi was only nine years younger than his uncle Yuwen Tai, and was already a 48-year-old uncle when he PKed with Lanling Wang and others), Lao Wei was actually beaten by Wei Chiyi and lost a while. Old Wei Bangzun's method was not to play a real battle against the enemy, but to take the crowd of onlookers and open a knife, kill Wei Chiyuan of Yicheng, a corpse mountain and a sea of blood, and use the innocent masses to impact wei Chiyuan's position and cause chaos in wei chi's position, so as to take advantage of the opportunity to win. In the real iron horse hedging PK of the Gao Huan family and the Yuwen Tai family, he is rarely seen.
The Wei family was an authentic Jingzhao Han chinese magnate, and there was no cavalry counterattack in the ancestors, but they were experienced in defensive operations with the City Pool Dock Fort as the core, which may also be the reason why Old Wei's offensive ability was relatively lacking. Lao Wei's family lineage also determined that he lacked the courage of Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan to fight hard, but the experience of the survival of the big family also made him insightful of human nature and good at using psychological tactics such as rumor-mongering. When Lao Wei was young, he was particularly good at copying the handwriting of others, relying on this hand to create chaos within the enemy and retake Yiyang; Lao Wei was also an expert in public opinion warfare, and he could not fight Huo Luguang on the frontal battlefield, but he could create songs and ballads to make Gao Wei kill. Because he is accustomed to seeing bloody storms and the rise and fall of hegemony, Lao Wei has no psychological pressure on the indiscriminate killing of innocents, and it is estimated that he will not be loyal to the upstarts in his eyes.
As an elder from a famous family, Lao Wei watched Erzhu Rong, Gao Huan, and Yuwen Tai rise in the chaotic world one after another, and also watched the wonderful Chen Qingzhi fade away; He does not have much loyalty to the Yuwentai family, is willing to help Yuwen Yong achieve hegemony, and when the Yuwen family wants to leave, he will also use his rich life experience to send the Yuwen family a ride.