Four hundred years of agitation: Li Bao returned from the west in frustration, and Northern Wei zaiping the western region of Northern Liang perished

This article is the 334th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

In the eighteenth year of Yuan Jia (441 AD), on the twentieth day of the first month, Tuoba Tao made Tuoba Tao the great general of the Western Expedition, Liangzhou Mu, and the King of Jiuquan, and asked him to guard Liangzhou.

On March 29, Tuoba Tao made the captured Yu Jiulu the King of Shuofang and the Frustrated Canal wannian the King of Zhangye, wanting to use the former to divide Rouran and the latter to balance the depression.

In April, Dunhuang Taishou Frustrated Canal Tang Er betrayed Frustrated Canal Wu Qi, who left his cousin Frustrated Canal Tianzhou Town shou Jiuquan, and he personally led his troops with his younger brother Frustrated Canal Yide to pursue Frustrated Canal Tang Er and behead him.

This was originally a contradiction within the Depressed Canal clan, and Frustrated Canal took the initiative to quell the rebellion, but Tuoba Tao was still not at ease, feeling that sooner or later depression was a hidden danger on the frontier.

On April 28, Tuoba Tao sent the Zhennan general Xi Ju to attack Jiuquan. After several months of siege, Jiuquan City ran out of food, more than 10,000 people starved to death, depressed Qu Tianzhou killed his wife, and distributed the soldiers to fill their hunger.

On November 22, Xi Yu conquered Jiuquan, captured Tianzhou, and escorted him to Pingcheng to be beheaded.

At this time, frustrated with food shortages in his army, and fearing the strength of Northern Wei's forces, he planned to cross the desert to the west, so he sent his younger brother An Zhou to attack the state of Shanshan to the west.

When the soldiers approached the city, Bi Long, the king of Shanshan, had intended to surrender, but it happened that the Northern Wei envoys arrived and persuaded him to resolutely defend. Therefore, An Zhou could not attack for a long time, so he had to retreat and hold on to the occupied Dongcheng.

In April of the nineteenth year of Yuan Jia (442 AD), Frustrated Qu Led more than 10,000 people to abandon Dunhuang and go west to An zhou to join him.

Before arriving, Bilong abandoned the city and fled to the end of the city with his men and horses, and his eldest son surrendered to Anzhou. The depression was unabashed and occupied Shanshan, but more than half of the soldiers died of thirst while crossing the desert.

Hearing that Fengqu had withdrawn from Dunhuang without concealment, Li Bao (Li Kuang's grandson), who had fled to Yiwu, led two thousand soldiers into Dunhuang to repair the city government and stabilize the people, and the Western Liang regime was revived.

When Northern Liang fell, Kan Shuang, a native of Liangzhou, occupied Gaochang and declared himself Taishou. At this time, Tang Qi could not bear rouran's persecution and led his troops west to try to capture Gaochang.

Tang Qi was a Hao clan of Liangzhou, and his father was a former minister of Western Liang. After the fall of Xiliang, Tang Qi and his younger brother Tang He took refuge in Yiwu, declared themselves vassals to Rouran, and were crowned king of Yiwu.

Learning of Tang Qi's betrayal, Rouran sent the general Aro to lead an army to pursue and kill, Tang Qi was defeated and died, and Tang He gathered the rest to defect to The former wang Che Yiluo of the Che Division.

At this time, An Zhou zhengtun was living in Hengdu City, Tang He captured Hengdu City, and then captured the two cities of Gaoning and Baili, and sent envoys to Surrender to Northern Wei.

Earlier, when Tang Qi attacked Kan Shuang, Kan Shuang sent envoys to defraud Frustrated Canal and wanted to attack Tang Qi together with Frustrated Canal Wu qi.

In August, Frustrated Qu Wuxian led his troops to Gaochang, and when he was about to arrive, Tang Qi was already killed in battle, and Kan Shuang closed the city gates and refused to meet with Frustrated Qu.

In September, the general Wei Xingnu (衛興奴) attacked Gaochang at night, washing the whole city in blood, Kan Shuang defected to Rouran, and Frustrated Qu wuqu occupied Gaochang, sending Chang Shujun to declare himself a vassal to Liu Song.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and Liu Yilong immediately issued an edict to make the three states of Liang, He, and Sha the military governor of Liang, He, and Sha, the general of The Expedition to the West, the Assassin of Liangzhou, and the King of Hexi, deliberately disgusting the Northern Wei.

On November 11, Rouran also sent envoys to Jiankangtong, and the situation became more and more interesting, and the warring states period of the united vertical and horizontal horizontal reappeared in the world.

In December, Li Bao, who had occupied Dunhuang, sent his younger brother Li Huaida and son Li Cheng to Pingcheng to claim subjection to Northern Wei and seek protection as hostages.

Northern Wei made Li Bao the governor of the Western Qi, the general of Zhenxi, the kaifu Yi tongsan division, the Shazhou Mu, the Duke of Dunhuang, and the officials below the four pins were all appointed by him.

I think that in that year, Beiliang destroyed Xiliang and unified Liangzhou. Today, Frustrated Qu has fled to the Western Regions, Li Bao has returned to Dunhuang, and although the Western Liang Kingdom no longer exists, the Li clan has begun to flourish.

In June of the twenty-first year of Yuan Jia (444 AD), Frustrated Qu died and was succeeded by An Zhou.

On the tenth day of July, Frustrated Qu Bing (son of Frustrated Qu Mengxun), who surrendered to Northern Wei and was awarded the title of Eastern Yong Prefecture Assassin, rebelled and was executed by Northern Wei.

On September 12, the Liu Song court made An Zhou the capital of Liang, He, and Sha Prefectures, Liangzhou Assassin History, and Hexi King, and continued to support the Frustrated Qu clan.

In this year, Li Bao took the initiative to enter the hajj, and Tuoba Tao left him in Pingcheng and appointed him as a high official in the outer capital.

After that, Li Bao successively served as the general of Zhennan in Northern Wei and the history of the prefecture, and then replaced Sima Wensi in defending Huaihuang Town and became the general of Zhenbei. After Li Bao's death, his descendants were able to emerge from generation to generation and become one of the top families in the next few hundred years.

After the fall of Northern Liang, the Shanshan people believed that their land was adjacent to Northern Wei, and feared that they would be destroyed by Northern Wei when they were discovered by Northern Wei emissaries, so they blocked all roads connecting with Northern Wei.

After that, whenever northern Wei envoys passed through Shanshan, they would block the road and rob them. Due to Shanshan's obstruction, the Northern Wei Dynasty was isolated from the Western Regions for several years.

In the summer of the twenty-second year of Yuan Jia (445 AD), in order to open up the Western Regions, Tuoba Tao sent Scattered Horseman Wandu to lead the soldiers west of Liangzhou to attack the Shanshan people.

In August, Wan Du returned to Dunhuang, leaving Behind a heavy weight, leading 5,000 light horsemen to cross the quicksand to the west and attack the Shanshan tribe.

On the sixth day of the first month of August, Zhenda, the king of Shanshan, tied his arms and surrendered, and Wan Dugui left part of his army to garrison, and he and Zhenda returned to Pingcheng together, and the western route was opened again.

In that year, when the Northern Wei army conquered Dunhuang, Mu qian sent people to cut open the treasury and take away the gold, silver, jewelry and jade, but the gate could not be closed, and the people rushed to go in and steal the gold and silver treasure, but Yousi failed to capture it.

In February of the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Jia (447 CE), the loyalists and guardians of the treasury of the Depression Canal Muqian reported him to the Northern Wei court and reported that the father and son of the Frustrated Canal Muqian were secretly hiding poison, and more than a hundred people were poisoned before and after. Moreover, his sisters had all learned the spells of the evil door and the crooked way, which was probably not good for the Northern Wei.

Yuji searched the home of The Depressed Canal Muqian and sure enough, he got what he had hidden. Tuoba Tao was furious and ordered Zhaoyi to commit suicide and exterminate the Frustrated Canal clan, but only the Frustrated Canal Ancestor was spared death due to the earliest surrender. Subsequently, it was reported that Mu Qian was still secretly dealing with his old ministry in an attempt to rebel.

In March, Tuoba Tao sent Cui Hao to the house of Mu Qian in The Depression Canal and asked him to commit suicide at home.

In September of the twenty-fifth year of Yuan Jia (448 AD), Wan Dugui once again sent an army to the Western Regions to attack the Yanqi Kingdom, and the Yanqi king Jiu JiBei fled to Guizi.

Subsequently, Tuoba Tao issued an edict and ordered Tang He and the former king Che Yiluo to lead his troops and Wandu to return to the division, and then attack the Western Regions. Tang He persuaded Liu Donkey and six other cities to surrender, and then took the opportunity to jointly attack the city of Pogulo and conquer it.

In December, Wan Dugui marched west from Yanqi to conquer Guizi, leaving Tang and Zhen to guard Yanqi.

Soon, the official stationed at Liu Donkey, Yi Zhijia, plotted a rebellion, and Tang He counterattacked, beheading Yi Zhijia. From then on, the People of Zhuhu were afraid of Tang He, and the Western Regions were completely stable.

In the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (460 AD), Rouran attacked Gaochang, killed An Zhou, and destroyed the entire Clan of Frustrated Liang, with Kan Bozhou as the King of Gaochang. Gao Changguo became king and began.

From the surrender of The Depressed Canal Muqian to the Northern Wei Dynasty, to the destruction of the Depressed Canal Anzhou by Rouran, the Frustrated Canal Clan persisted in the form of an exile regime for twenty-one years, in response to the phrase "the worm with a hundred feet dies but is not stiff".

Compared with the glory of the Li clan in The Northern Wei Dynasty of Longxi, the Frustrated Canal Clan was much dimmer, and those who were not killed by the Frustrated Canal Clan almost all changed their surnames, and the Frustrated Canal Clan withdrew from the stage of history.