In 538, after the Battle of the Eastern and Western Wei River Bridge, Eastern Wei lost the Luoyang region, especially the death of the general Gao Ao Cao, which greatly damaged the morale of the people of Eastern Wei, and the loss of soldiers and materials caused further weakening of national strength. Although Western Wei won the victory of Xiaoguan and Shayuan, established its own position, and made The destruction plan of Eastern Wei aborted, but due to the continuous drought in Guanzhong and successive years of war, the people had long been overwhelmed, and because Yuwentai neglected the construction of his own base area in continuous battles, the Guanzhong region as its own rear area has been unstable, which was exposed at the Battle of Heqiao, and in the case of just learning the rumors of Yuwentai's death in battle, thieves in the Guanzhong area have risen and rebellions have continued. This made Yuwen Tai, who was fighting in the front, quickly lead his army back to reinforcements, which also made him realize the importance of a peaceful and stable Guanzhong for himself. Therefore, after the Battle of Heqiao, Eastern Wei and Western Wei invariably began to stop their own conquests and turned to their own internal affairs construction, resting and recuperating, and practicing internal skills. It was not until five years later, in 543, because of the problem of living together, that the two sides met again on the battlefield.
Gao Huan's son Gao Huan was greedy for money and lustful from an early age, and at the age of fourteen, he quietly committed adultery with his father's favorite concubine Zheng Shi, and after being discovered by Gao Huan, Gao Huan was furious and wanted to cut this thing, and after Sima Ziru's maneuvering, he killed the slave who had told the first complaint and destroyed his mouth, and the father and son were reconciled again. Although there was a lesson, Gao Cheng still remembered to eat and did not remember to fight, and it was not long before he took aim at the target again, this time he took a fancy to Gao Ao Cao's brother Gao Zhongmi, Gao Zhongmi's beautiful wife Li Shi, once he saw Li Shi alone in the palace, as soon as they saw each other, they pounced on it and pulled their clothes belts and wanted to rape. Li Shi resolutely refused to comply, desperately resisted, although in the end the belt was torn, but still escaped, and after escaping, he cried to Gao Zhongmi. Gao Zhongmi was furious when he heard this, just as Gao Zhongmi was about to be released as the Assassin of Northern Yu Prefecture, so Gao Zhongmi was anxious to find Gao Cheng to settle the account, because he understood that even his father did not pursue him, but only cut off the person who first sued him, and he went to file a complaint for sure, so Gao Zhongmi secretly endured it, and as soon as he arrived at office, he raised the city to surrender to Western Wei, and this surrender caused Eastern Wei's strategic stronghold Tiger Prison Pass to fall into the hands of Western Wei.
Seeing that such a strategic place could be obtained effortlessly, Yuwen Tai was extremely excited, and in addition to the excitement, he also understood that Gao Huan would never give up on such a heavy loss, so Yu Wentai personally planned Gao Zhongmi's army, and appointed Gao Zhongmi as a servant and Situ, and after the army arrived in Luoyang, Yuwen Tai ordered Kaifu Yi and The Three Divisions Yu Jin to capture Baigu, and in March led the army to besiege heqiao Nancheng. Prepare to block the pontoon bridge across the Yellow River.
Tiger Prison Pass is located at the junction of the Luoyang region and the Central Plains, once the Western Wei took the Tiger Prison Pass, the principle of east out of the middle is no longer blocked, the strategic position is very important, so when he first heard the news of Gao Zhongmi's surrender, he was also angry, but he was angry that he could not solve the problem, and then personally led a hundred thousand troops to the south, ready to take this opportunity to take back the Heluo area.
Gao Huan led his troops all the way south to the north bank of the Yellow River, preparing to cross the river, Yuwen Tai originally wanted to stage a good play of a fire boat burning the bridge, cut off Gao Huan's passage across the river, and as a result, Zhang Liang, the Xingtai Lang of Huo Lujin, loaded with more than a hundred small boats with long chains, and when the fire boat was about to arrive, he nailed it with nails, and then pulled the chain to the shore, and the bridge was thus preserved. Gao Huan's entire army was able to cross the river and line up according to Mount Yao, preparing to fight a decisive battle with the Western Wei army.
After Gao Huan's whole army crossed the river, he learned the lessons of the previous failures, led his army to line up in the mountains, and did not take the initiative to attack, but only made a defensive posture. Seeing that Gao Huan had no movement after crossing the river, Yuwen Tai decided to preemptively attack, so he left Yuanzhong in Qucheng and commanded his troops to climb Mount Yao at night and prepare to attack Gao Huan. However, Yuwen Tai's secret operation was seen by Gao Huan's scouts, who immediately reported to Gao Huan, and the cavalry who was looking at the enemy reported to Gao Huan: "The thieves are more than forty miles away from here, and they came early in the morning after eating a dry meal. Knowing that Yuwen Tai had ascended Mount Yao, Gao Huan did not panic and said, "They will definitely die of thirst!" He then commanded the troops to form an army formation and waited in a strict position. (Hou Qibai huan said: "The thief is more than forty miles away from here, and he comes with dry food.") Joy: "Die of thirst!" "It's just waiting. ）
At dawn, Yuwen Tai, who had ascended mount yao, led his army to rush down the mountain to engage Gao Huan's troops. At the beginning of the battle, the Eastern Wei troops immediately launched a counterattack, and Peng Le of eastern Wei led several thousand cavalry as the right wing to counterattack the left wing of the Western Wei troops, because Peng Le was too brave, he led the army to rush wherever it was, and it collapsed, so one did not pay attention and directly entered the western Wei military camp. Originally, it was an incomparably brave thing, but as a result, Gao Huan's men immediately reported gao Huan, Peng Le rebelled, and Gao Huan, who had just experienced a moment of horror, was immediately very angry. (The people accused Peng Le of rebellion, and they were very angry.) But before Gao Huan could finish his swear words, he saw the dust in the northwest, only to see Peng Le's emissaries running to report the victory, saying that they had captured Western Wei's attendants, Kaifu Yi Tongsansi, DaduDu, Lintao Wang Yuanhan, Shu County's Wang Yuanrongzong, Jiang Xia's King, Julu Wang Yuanliang, Chenjun Wang Yuanliang, Zhan Shi Zhao Shan, and the governor Zuo forty-eight people.
Just thought that his men had rebelled, and now suddenly captured so many prisoners, this day for Gao Huan is simply not too exciting, so Gao Huan took advantage of the hot iron, commanded the whole army to launch a counterattack, the Eastern Wei generals took advantage of the victory to pursue the Western Wei people and horses, beat the Western Wei army to the ground, the whole battle beheaded more than 30,000 people.
Repelling the main force of Western Wei, Gao Huan and non-stop sending the big star Peng Le to continue to pursue Yuwen Tai, don't give Yu Wentai a chance to breathe, Yu Wentai was chased more and more urgently, and finally saw that he couldn't get rid of this star, so he stopped his horse and said to Peng Le: "Dude, I know you, you don't chase me, you think, today I'm gone, tomorrow you are still here?" Don't you hurry back to divide up the gold, silver and treasure? Peng Le turned his head and thought, Yuwen Tai was right, and then turned the horse's head and returned to the camp. Yuwen Tai finally picked up an old life. (Huan made Peng Le chase after Tai, Tai embarrassed, said Le Yue: "Ru fei Peng Le evil? Foolish man, today there is no self, tomorrow there will be evil! Why not hurry back to the camp and collect the Golden Treasure! On the way back to the army, Peng Le grabbed a bag of gold bars left by Yuwen Tai and returned to the camp. From here, it can be seen that the generals of the Eastern Wei and Western Wei sides lamented that they had not been able to kill the enemy, and on the other hand, in addition to greed for money, there was also the careful thinking of raising Kou and self-respect, in fact, this can also reflect from the side that the political ecology of the newly established Eastern Wei has deteriorated, and the generals have begun to think of "cunning rabbit death, lackey cooking".
Peng Le, who returned to the camp, reported to Gao Huan how hard he had pursued and almost cut Yu Wentai, but Yu Wentai was too lucky, the knife did not hit, but he was already scared by me, don't worry about him. (Yan Yu Huanyue: "The black otter leaks its blade and breaks its guts!") Gao Huan was extremely angry at Peng Le's nonsense, so he ordered him to lie on the ground, and he personally grabbed his head, knocked him down one after another, and counted his defeats in the Battle of Shayuan. The more Gao Huan said that the anger was greater, he raised his knife three times to slash at him, gritting his teeth in anger, and the anger in his heart lasted for a long time and could not be calmed down. Peng Le told Rao, "Please allocate me five thousand cavalry, and I will go and capture Yuwen Tai for you, the Great King." Gao Huan said, "What is your purpose in letting him go, and why are you telling me now that you want to arrest him again?" Then he asked someone to bring three thousand silks and press them on Peng Le's back, even if it was a reward for him. (Let the earth be ambushed, kiss their heads, and count the defeats of the sand garden, and raise the blade to the next three, and silence for a long time.) Le Yue: "Beg five thousand horses, and restore it to the king of Kun." Huan Yue: "What does it mean to be indulgent, to regain evil?" Judging from Gao Huan's disposition, it should have received a secret notice from Peng Le to let Go Yu Wentai run, so he was extremely angry, and he also made a gesture to cut Down Peng Le, but Gao Huan's disposal method was obviously inappropriate, and letting Go Yu Wentai already show that Peng Le had already taken a certain precaution against Gao Huan, and at this time, it was very exciting to intensify the already delicate general contradictions.
The next day, the slow-tempered Yuwen Tai once again led the army to challenge, this time Yu Wentai directly sat in the Middle Army, Zhongshan Gong Zhao Gui commanded the left army, and the leading general Ruo Yuhui commanded the right army. In order to strengthen the attacking force, Yuwen Tai led the Chinese army and the right army to attack the Eastern Wei army, and the left army contained the strategy, broke the Eastern Wei army and captured all the infantry of the Eastern Wei. In the rout, Gao Huan lost his mount, Helian Yangshun jumped off his horse to let Gao Huan ride, Gao Huan stepped on the horse and ran, there were only seven infantry and cavalry behind him, and seeing that the pursuing soldiers were about to arrive, Gao Huan's close associate, Wei Xingqing, said to Gao Huan: "Wang Ye, you run fast, I still have a hundred arrows hanging from my waist, enough to kill a hundred people." Gao Huan said, "If I can get rid of this disaster, I will appoint you as the Assassin of Huaizhou, and if you are unfortunate enough to die in battle, I will give this position to your son." Wei Xingqing replied, "My son is still young, so you should appoint my brother." Gao Huan agreed. Wei Xingqing finished speaking and went forward to resist until the arrows on his body were exhausted, and he was killed by the pursuing soldiers.
Among the captives of the Eastern Wei army, some of them had been Gao Huan's personal soldiers, and they directly told Yuwen Tai where Gao Huan was, so Yu Wentai immediately recruited three thousand death squads, all of whom were short soldiers, and the former military governor He Pusheng led the army directly to Gao Huan's position. In the midst of the chaos, He Pusheng found Gao Huan, who was galloping on horseback, so he caught up with the thirteen horses, chased for miles, and several times the tip of the hammer almost stabbed Gao Huan, and shouted: "He Liuhun (Gao Huanzi), He Pu broke Hu (He Pusheng character broken Hu) today to kill Ru!" Fortunately, at the moment of this thousand gunshots, Duan Shao rushed to the horse, took a bow and arrow from the side, and shot over He Pusheng's mount with one arrow, threw it off the horse, and then shot over the western Wei two horses. By the time the horse arrived, Gao Huan and the others had already run out of shadows. He Pusheng sighed, "It is really providential that I forgot to bring a bow and arrow today!" ”
(When the recruits all engaged in short battles, they chased after the gods with a hammer and the blade fell to them.) The victorious horse was hit by the flowing arrow, died, and the vice rider arrived, and Qi Shenwu had escaped. Katsu sighed, "Today's matter, I do not hold the bow and arrow, heaven also!" ”）
Although Gao Huan escaped, but the battlefield was still glued, the Western Wei Southern Yingzhou assassin Shi Geng Linggui suddenly shouted loudly, a man rushed into the enemy group, the enemy's sword slashed at him randomly, people thought that he was bound to die, but after a while, he returned to his camp with his sword. One time was not enough, Geng Linggui rushed back and forth like this many times, and the enemies who stood in front of him continued to be killed and wounded. People advised him: "Big brother, just fight a war, why bother, so like to kill people?" He said to the people around him, "Where am I willing to kill people?" The eldest husband kills thieves, and he can't help it. If I can't kill the thief and can't be injured by the thief soldiers, then what is the difference between me and the person who relies on dancing to ink and talk about eating? As the founder of Northern Zhou, Sui, and even Tang, the atmosphere of Western Wei Shangwu had to be admired.
At this time, due to the unfavorable battle situation of Zhao Gui and five other generals who commanded the left army, the situation on the battlefield changed. The eastern Wei soldiers cheered up again, and Yuwen Tai returned to support the left army, but was again frustrated. It just so happened that it was getting dark, so Western Wei's men and horses retreated and fled, while Eastern Wei's generals took advantage of the victory to pursue. Seeing that the retreat was about to be defeated, the Western Wei generals Du Guxin and Yu Jin gathered a group of fallen soldiers to attack behind the Eastern Wei troops, which disturbed these Eastern Wei pursuers and saved the various armies of The Western Wei.
The leading general Ruo Yuhui commanded the troops to escape at night, and the Eastern Wei men and horses chased after them, seeing the tired and exhausted troops after a day of conquest, Ruo Yuhui slowly came down from his horse, ordered the troops to stop retreating, let the cook bury the pot on the spot to cook, after eating, he said to the people around him: "Is there any difference between dying in Chang'an or dying here?" So he ordered the people to put up the battle flag, blow the trumpet, and gather the scattered soldiers to return slowly. The pursuing Eastern Wei cavalry heard the horn, saw the banners in front of them, and suspected that there was an ambush of the Western Wei army on the road, so they did not dare to approach and slowly retreated to the camp. Yuwen Tai was thus able to safely retreat to Guanzhong and lead his army to garrison the Wei River to guard against an attack by Eastern Wei.
Gao Huan threatened with the great victory of mount Yao, and led his army into Shaanxi, hearing that Gao Huan had entered Shaanxi, Yuwen Tai hurriedly sent Kaifu Yi and The Three Si Da Xi Wu and others to lead the army to defend. Seeing that the Western Wei still had to resist, Gao Huan did not dare to go deeper, so he immediately held a military conference to discuss whether to advance or retreat? Feng Ziye of the Eastern Wei Dynasty said to Gao Huan, "The opportunity to unite Eastern Wei and Western Wei into one is today. In the past, when Emperor Daowu pacified the Hanzhong region, he did not take advantage of the victory to occupy Ba and Shu, and his mistakes were in hesitation, and there was no way to regret it. I hope you don't doubt this. However, the rest of the generals believed that although Western Wei suffered a major defeat at this time, Eastern Wei also suffered heavy losses, and now it was difficult to supply materials, the army lacked grain and grass, and the people and horses were tired and emaciated, and they could no longer attack long distances. Chen Yuankang stood up again and said: "The war and struggle between two powerful countries has lasted for many years. Now that we have the privilege of achieving brilliant victories, this is a good opportunity given to us by God, which we cannot afford to lose, and we should take advantage of the victory to pursue them. Gao Huan asked again, "If I encounter an ambush, how will I succeed?" Chen Yuankang replied, "Great King, when you lost the Battle of Shayuan before, they had not yet ambushed them; now that they have suffered a crushing defeat and are exhausted, how can they still think deeply?" If they are abandoned and not pursued, they will inevitably be left with troubles. Seeing that the fleeting opportunity to unify the north was in front of him, Gao Huan pondered again and again, having been beaten by Yuwen Tai to use troops to protect him more and more, he decided that it was safer, and only sent Liu Fengsheng to lead thousands of light cavalry to pursue Yu Wentai, while he himself led the main force back to the east.
However, what Gao Huan did not expect was that at this time, Yuwen Tai had almost completely destroyed his army and had become the end of the strong crossbow, as long as Gao Huan's main force arrived, Yu Wentai would undoubtedly be defeated. However, it was a pity that Gao Huan saw that most of the generals had no fighting spirit, and he was also worried that if he failed, he ordered a return to the army and lost this excellent opportunity to unify the north and then unify the world.
When Wang Sizheng, who had been defending Huannong's granary for Yuwen Tai, heard the news of the defeat of the Western Wei army, he not only did not flee, but instead let people open the city gate, undressed and lay on the city tower, comforting the soldiers, in order to inspire the soldiers and show their courage. A few days later, Liu Fengsheng led his army to the city, saw the city gate wide open, and knew Wang Sizheng's reputation, and his heart was so timid that he fled without a fight and took Liu Fengsheng to retreat, and Wang Sizheng immediately ordered the construction of inner and outer cities, the construction of high platforms for reconnaissance and defense, and the encouragement of the people, the management of farmland, and the accumulation of hay and grain. Zhuge Liang's "empty city plan" was done by Yanyi, and Wang Sizheng's "empty city plan" was actually recorded in the correct history.
It can be said that the thrilling Battle of Qiushan, the whole process, finally came to an end in the sound of Liu Fengsheng's retreating horseshoe. After the battle, Western Wei's chancellor Yuwen Tai petitioned for demotion, but Emperor Wen did not agree. In this battle, none of the generals of Western Wei had any merit, only Geng Linggui and the crown prince Wu Wei led Wang Huren and the governor Wang Wenda to work hard and make a lot of merit. Yuwen Tai wanted to put the three prefectures of Yong, Qi, and Beiyong under their control, because the three states were good or bad, so he asked them to decide who was in charge of which state by means of a trick, and he also gave the three of them new names, calling Wang Huren Wang Yong, Geng Linggui as Geng Hao, and Wang Wenda as Wang Jie, in recognition of their merits. Therefore, Western Wei extensively recruited the sons of the powerful clans in the Guan and Long regions to strengthen the strength of the troops. (Tai wants to give it to the three states of Yong, Qi, and Beiyong, and to make the prefecture have advantages and disadvantages, so that the probe can take it, but still gives Hu Ren the name of Yong, makes the noble name Hao, Wen Da Mingjie, and uses it to show his merits.) Therefore, Guangdong Guan and Long Hao right to increase the army brigade. ）
A small episode after the battle was also interesting, gao Huan ordered Hou Jing to lead an army to attack Tiger Prison Pass, Yuwen Tai sent spies to infiltrate Tiger Prison, ordered the general wei Guang who was defending the city to defend resolutely, Hou Jing caught the spy, and changed Yuwen Tai's letter to this: "You should leave as soon as possible." Then the spy was sent into the city, and Wei Guang saw the letter and escaped overnight. Hou Jing captured Gao Zhongmi's wife and sons and sent them to Yicheng, and the two prefectures of Northern Yu and Luo were reverted to Eastern Wei. On the third day of the first month of May, Eastern Wei, because of the reconquest of the Tiger Prison, gave leniency to those prisoners who had been sentenced to death, except that Gao Zhongmi's family was not pardoned. Considering that Gao Qian had supported himself in the Xindu uprising and Gao Yang had died in battle in Heyang, Gao Jishi first came from Yong'an Shu to tell him the situation, and interceded for them one by one in front of Emperor Xiaojing, and did not let their families sit together. Gao Zhongmi's wife, Li Shi, was supposed to be executed, but Gao Cheng received her dressed in a good manner and asked, "How is today?" Li Shi was silent, so Gao Cheng took her in as a concubine. In the sixth year of the first year, Eastern Wei appointed Hou Jing as Sikong. (Xiang Huan is highly qualified to have a righteous victory, and the king of death is high, and Ji Shi first tells himself, and all of them are invited to spare him from sitting.) When Zhongmi's wife Li Shi died, Gao Chengsheng was convinced: "What is it today?" Li Shi was silent, so he accepted it. ）
Faced with the defeat that should not have been defeated at the Battle of Yaoshan, Yuwen Tai was discouraged, knowing that he was fully prepared and once grasped the initiative of the battlefield, but in the end he lost a big defeat and almost lost his old capital, the Guanzhong region, so he began to think hard about a problem: how to compete with Eastern Wei?
Unlike the Guanzhong region, where Hu and Han lived in mixed quarters, fortified wubao, and whose natural environment had been greatly damaged, the Eastern Wei controlled by Gao Huan occupied the essence of the Northern Wei such as the North China Plain, and its national strength and population were far above that of the Western Wei. Yuwen Tai, who was thinking about it, decided that since he could not change the objective existence of the situation, he would change the state system that the subjective could decide!
In order to counteract the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Yuwen Tai initiated the fu military system, and established a strong fu military system with the eight-pillar state (Yuwen Tai and the Western Wei emperor at that time were one pillar state, and the six-pillar state commanded the twelve generals) and the twelve generals commanded the whole army, establishing a strong fu military system, but if this is not enough. After the Battle of Yaoshan, Yuwen Tai's old pawns from the frontier had been lost, and local conscription had to face the problem of powerful landlords occupying a large number of people in the form of Wu Fort and establishing a grange economy. After much deliberation, Yuwen Tai made a bold decision: to break the distinction between the military and the civilians of Hu Han.
In order to win over the powerful forces in the Guanzhong region, Yuwen Tai chose to take the lead in breaking the division between the Hu and Han military and civilians, combining the Beizhen forces with the Guanlong Hao clan, so that the originally independent Han landlord Haoqiang armed forces were combined with the regular army of the Western Wei, thus giving birth to the prototype of the Sui and Tang armies that would later sweep the world - the Western Wei Fu soldiers. It was also the military concessions that made Yuwen Tai realize the huge potential of the Han people, and he had no choice but to open up the qualifications for political participation within the imperial court and the twelve generals and the pillar generals to the Han people under the guanzhong policy, and the famous Sui Emperor Yang Jian was once the pillar general of the Northern Zhou regime established by Yuwen Tai to overthrow the Western Wei dynasty.
In this way, under the impetus of Yuwen Tai, a huge political and military clique that integrated the military and civilians of Hu Han, the Guanlong military aristocratic group, began to gradually take shape. Northern Zhou and Sui also destroyed Northern Qi and Southern Dynasties with its help, unifying the land of China, which had been divided for hundreds of years. But its story is far from over, and the once-mighty Guan Long clique still plays an important role in the political arena of the Sui and Tang dynasties.