Foreword: During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the southern Chinese regimes included the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Song, Southern Qi, Southern Liang, and Southern Chen. In the north, there are five miscellaneous places, and the regime changes continuously, and there are sixteen countries with relatively large influence. Among them, Yao Xing, the High Ancestor of Later Qin, was a relatively accomplished monarch of ethnic minorities and the last Ming emperor of the Sixteen Kingdoms. How was his life? And how did he misuse Helian Bobo to lead to the subjugation of the country?
1. The father died at the beginning of his life and was in danger of succeeding to the throne
In December of the ninth year of the founding of the first year (394), Yao Cang fell ill and died, and Yao Xing succeeded to the throne.
At this time, the situation in Later Qin was not optimistic, internally, the Later Qin regime was extremely unstable, and on the outside, the Former Qin forces that occupied Longxi, Fu Deng, were the biggest threat.
In this case, therefore, Yao Xing did not immediately mourn. Fearing that his position was unstable, his uncles Yao Xu, Yao Shuode, and his brother Yao Chongwen would launch a rebellion and did not immediately claim the title of emperor. He calls himself a Great General
With the auxiliary chancellor Yin Wei as the long history and Di Bozhi as the Sima Commandery, he reorganized his army to meet The Commandery of the People's Republic of China.
First of all, to solve the worries of the future, with a surprise attack on Xianyang, the rebellious Liu Jinu was captured, and then, personally led a large army to the abandoned bridge to rescue Shiping.
At the abandoned bridge, a decisive battle was fought with Zhideng, and according to the defensive points, the water source of Zhideng was cut off, resulting in the lack of water for The people and horses of Zhideng, and finally Zhideng was defeated and fled to Pingliang Mamao Mountain.
In July of the same year, Yao Xing, while ordering people to beg for money to return to intercept and rescue the army of Zhi Deng, personally led an army to attack Mamaoshan.
Yu Deng was captured, and then Yao Xing eliminated Dou Chong and eventually took control of the Longdong region.
2. Occupy longxi, cool after extinction, and descend to southern cool, northern cool and western cool
In the third year of the imperial period (396), Yao Xing successively occupied Chengji and Shangyi (both in the west of present-day Tianshui City, Gansu Province), and reached Tianshui Commandery.com.
Yao Xing appointed his uncle Yao Shuode as the pastor of Qin Prefecture and the lieutenant of the Eastern Qiang Dynasty, and the town guarded Shangyi
At the end of the same year, Yao Xing captured the Hedong region, which was divided by the Western Yan general Liu Gong. Yao Xing divided Hedong into the prefectures of Ji and Ji, with Yao Xu as the pastor of the two prefectures and the town of Pusaka as the defender.
The regime in Longxi was established by the Qifu Xianbei people in Western Qin.
In the second year of the Hongshi Dynasty (400), Qifu Qiangui moved the capital from Jincheng east to Yuanchuan (袁川, in present-day Dayingchuan, Yuzhong County, Gansu), so Yao Xing ordered Yao Shuode to attack Western Qin with 50,000 troops from Nan'an Gorge. The two armies faced off under the city of Longxi (陇西城; present-day southwestern Longxi, Gansu).
Due to the deep penetration into the enemy territory, the Later Qin army gradually fell into a predicament. Yao Xing personally reinforced Yao Shuode.
During the bloody battle between the two armies, the wind was foggy and foggy, covering the sky and the sun, and Qianfu Qiangui was defeated by Yao Xing, and then escaped on a single horse. The remaining 36,000 Or so Western Qin soldiers all surrendered to Yao Xing.
After the destruction of Western Qin, houliang was eliminated successively, and southern liang, northern liang and western liang were descended,
In this way, The territory of Later Qin "extended to Hanchuan in the south, Ruying in the east, Xihe in the west, and Shangjun in the north."
It became a powerful dynasty with national strength second only to Later Yan.
3 Counterattack against Northern Wei and southern conquest of Eastern Jin
December of the fourth year of the reign (January 402 CE),
Northern Wei captured Gaoping with an army of 50,000, and Wuyigan and Helian Bobo fled south to Shangyi (present-day Tianshui, Gansu).
The Wei army looted Gaoping's treasury and all its livestock, and moved all the people to Pingcheng (平城, in modern Datong, Shanxi).
Yao Xing couldn't swallow this mouthful, so he decided to fight back.
In May of the fourth year of the reign (402), Yao Xing, with the generals Yao Ping and Di Bozhi as the forwards, led 40,000 troops to attack Northern Wei's Hezhou (present-day Shanxi region). Yao Xing personally led 47,000 people to support.
I didn't expect Tuoba Jue to be too fierce, much fiercer than Yao Xing.
It forced Yao Ping to besiege and defeat Yao Xing. In the end, when the breakthrough was hopeless, Yao Ping committed suicide, and the 20,000-strong army was captured. Yao Xing wanted to make peace, but Tuoba Jue did not allow it. Yao Xing almost asked Ma Ge to wrap his body.
Fortunately, halfway out of the way to bite the gold. Rouran in the north of the Northern Wei Dynasty harassed the Northern Wei border. Tuoba Jue was afraid that his old nest was on fire, so he withdrew his army.
Yao Xing had picked up an old life.
From then on, Later Qin had a deep sense of fear of Northern Wei and was powerless to go north and capture the Central Plains.
However, in the fifth year of the Hong dynasty (the second year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 403), Yao Xing took advantage of the internal strife in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and marched south to capture the twelve counties of Nanxiang, Shunyang, and Xinye.
The so-called "East is not bright and The West is bright."
4. Misuse of Helian Bo, raising tigers is a problem
Helian Bobo was originally the son of Liu Weichen, the Xiongnu King of Zuoxian.
Liu Weichen had the land of Shuofang, and his army had 38,000 men. He was defeated by the Northern Wei And died.
Helian was like a dog that lost his family and defected to Later Qin.
When Yao Xing saw him, he was very surprised and showed deep respect for him, and appointed him as a general of the Horse Riders, plus a lieutenant of Fengche, and often participated in major military and state affairs, and was very favored.
Yao Xing appointed Helian Bobo as the general of Zhijie, The General of Anbei, and the Duke of Wuyuan, and assigned him more than 20,000 tribes of the Three Jiaowu Xianbei and miscellaneous tribes, and the town guarded Shuofang.
Helian Bo killed his father-in-law and annexed his men.
In the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Hongshi (406), Helian Rebelled against Qin and established himself, proclaiming himself The Heavenly King, Da Dan Yu, Jianyuan Longsheng, and the state name Bactria ( Bactria ).
In the tenth year of the hongshi dynasty (408), Helian Bobo defeated the Qin army in Qingshiyuan, capturing and killing more than 5,000 people.
In the eleventh year of the Hongshi Dynasty (409), Helian Bobo successfully attacked Pingliang in Later Qin, seizing more than 7,000 households and entering the Yili River south of Tunpingliang.
Helian Bobo made it an established national policy to harass Yao Xing from the south, which led to frequent wars between Later Qin and Bactria.
After that, until Yao Xing fell ill and died, in the battle between the two sides, Later Qin had few chances to win, and successively eliminated nearly 100,000 Qin troops, plundered more than 20,000 households, and countless livestock property.
Helian Bobo has always been a nightmare for Later Qin, and Yao Xing has been unable to eliminate Helian Bobo, so that the subsequent policies have led to the decline of national strength and the people's livelihood, laying the foundation for the subjugation of the country.
5. Shortly after his death, he was destroyed by the Eastern Jin Dynasty
In February of the eighteenth year of the reign of Later Qin Hong (416), Yao Xing fell ill and died, and was succeeded by the cowardly and mediocre crown prince Yao Hong.
Helian Bobo was still at war with Later Qin, dragging down Later Qin.
Eventually, Liu Yu took advantage of the instability of the Later Qin regime and the decline of national strength. The army marched north, marched in five directions, and destroyed Later Qin in only one year.
Yao Hong was taken to health and beheaded.
If Yao Xing knew that Helian Bobo was such an ungrateful man, he would not have taken him in when he was like a lost dog, and reused him, so that he would lure wolves into the house, raise tigers for trouble, and die and destroy the country.