Four hundred years of agitation: Tuoba Jue luckily turned defeat into victory, and Murong Lin rebelled and Murong Bao abandoned Zhongshan

This article is the 215th in a long series, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

On the first day of February in the first year of the Long'an era (397 AD), Tuoba Jue's Hui army was stationed at Yangcheng. At this moment, there were moths inside the Northern Wei Dynasty, almost making Tuoba Jue lose everything.

After The surrender of Wugen to Later Yan, his nephew and the governor of the state army, Ugly Ti, was deeply disturbed and feared implicating himself, so he simply led his subordinates back to China to rebel.

When a fire broke out in the backyard, Tuoba Jue had to go back first to solve the ugly mention, and sent tuoba shiyan to ask Hou Yan for peace, and took his brother as a hostage.

Take advantage of it and want to go? When Murong Bao heard of the turmoil in Northern Wei, he refused to make peace, and sent his servant Lan Zhen to the Northern Wei military camp to rebuke Tuoba Jue for being ungrateful, mobilizing all 120,000 infantry and 37,000 cavalry stationed at Baiyan in Quyang to intercept the retreating Northern Wei army on the north bank of the Tuotuo River.

On the ninth day of February, the Northern Wei army camped on the south bank of the Tuotuo River. More than 10,000 death squads recruited by Murong Bao crossed the Yellow River overnight and launched a sneak attack on the Northern Wei camp, and he himself formed a formation in the north of the camp as reinforcements.

In the middle of the night, the death squad set fire to the wind and launched a fierce attack on the Northern Wei army. The Northern Wei army was in chaos, and Tuoba Jue also woke up in his sleep and fled barefoot.

The Later Yan general Qi tezhen led more than a hundred soldiers straight to Tuoba Jue's big tent, but he came one step late, only to get Tuoba Jue's hastily lost clothes and leather boots.

Those recruited death squads fought bravely, but they had no discipline, and after the victory, there was suddenly infighting, slashing and shooting at each other.

Tuoba Jue saw it from a distance and immediately beat a drum to gather the scattered soldiers. Soon, his left and right attendants and Chinese generals regrouped and set up torches on the outskirts of the camp. Subsequently, the Northern Wei cavalry launched a counterattack.

As a result, the death squad recruited by Later Yan was defeated, and when he fled back to the camp, he scattered Murong Bao's formation, and Murong Bao wanted to cry without tears and led his troops back to the north bank of the Yellow River.

The next day, Tuoba Jue's reorganized troops gradually approached, and confronted the Later Yan army, and the morale of the Later Yan army was greatly reduced, murong Bao had to return to Zhongshan with his troops, and the Northern Wei army followed in pursuit, and the Later Yan army was repeatedly defeated.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and Murong Bao was very frightened, so he abandoned his large army and led 20,000 cavalry to flee into the wilderness. It was a time of fierce storms and snow, and people who froze to death were all over the field.

When he fled, Murong Bao, fearing that he would be pursued by the Northern Wei army, ordered his soldiers to drop their weapons and equipment, and finally discarded hundreds of thousands of sophisticated weapons, without even bringing back a small knife.

After the great destruction of the Later Yan army, Tuoba Jue captured a large number of Later Yan officials, one of whom was what he dreamed of getting.

This man's name was Cui Qi, and he was the secretary of the Later Yan official residence, and Zhang Gong highly respected him. After receiving him, Tuoba Jue was very happy and appointed him shangshu, in charge of the Thirty-Six Caos, and appointed him to the political affairs.

Unexpectedly turning defeat into victory, Tuoba Jue changed his mind and decided not to go back for the time being, and continued to besiege Zhongshan. Under his siege, the situation inside Hou Yan deteriorated day by day.

On the night of February 11, Later Yan Shangshu Lang Mu Yuhao plotted to assassinate Murong Bao and install Murong Lin the Prince of Zhao. After the defeat, Mu Yuhao cut open the city gate and fled to Northern Wei.

Although this matter was not directed by Murong Lin, after all, it was related to him and was also the biggest beneficiary, and from then on, his heart was uneasy, and Murong Bao was also jealous of him.

The Northern Wei army had besieged Zhongshan for a long time, and the Later Yan generals all had the heart to go out of the city to fight the enemy to the death. Murong Long said to Murong Bao, "Although Tuoba Jue has won many small victories, the army has been detained for a year, the soldiers and horses are tired, the people are thinking of returning, and the various departments are centrifugal, which is a good time to defeat them." The whole city is thinking of fighting hard, and if we use our sharpness and take advantage of their weakness, we will be able to win. If we are cautious and hesitant, we will wait until the morale of the soldiers is lost, and the environment is difficult day by day, and it will change for a long time, and there will be no chance to turn around. ”

Murong Bao agreed with Murong Long's views, but Murong Lin strongly opposed it, and even forcibly called him a halt when Murong Long was ready to attack, a total of four times, and Murong Long sighed in vain.

Since opinions on the attack were different, Murong Bao sent people to Tuoba Jue to seek peace, planning to send his brother Tuoba Yao back and cede the land west of Changshan.

At that time, the rear of the Northern Wei Dynasty was also constantly rebelling, and people's minds changed. Tuoba Jue wanted to retire from the army and try to do it later, but Tuoba Jue had just left, and Murong Bao regretted it again.

Tease me! Tuoba Jue was furious. On March 13, Tuoba Jue once again besieged Zhongshan.

At this time, several thousand generals of Later Yan took the initiative to ask Murong Bao for battle: "Sitting in the isolated city, one day we will be trapped and die, and we are willing to go out of the city to fight the enemy to the death!" Murong Bao agreed.

Murong Long once again completed the deployment of his troops, summoned Samsa, and said to them: "The emperor's prestige is not strong, the thieves are insulted, the courtiers are ashamed, and the righteousness does not care about life." In this decisive battle, if we defeat the enemy by chance, it is best to return safely, and if there is any misfortune, our ambitions and disciplines can also be stretched. ”

So Murong Long put on his armor, stepped on his warhorse, and came to the city gate to wait for the order. However, Murong Lin once again prevented the military campaign, and the morale of the generals was extremely angry, and Murong Long returned in tears.

Then, why did Murong Lin repeatedly prevent Murong Long from going into battle? What the hell is he trying to do? Quite simply, he wanted to kill Murong Bao and become emperor himself.

That night, Murong Lin finally made a move, and he first sent troops to kidnap the general of the Left Guard and Murong Jing, the king of northern lands, and sent him to lead the forbidden army to assassinate Murong Bao.

Murong Jing sternly refused, and Murong Lin was furious, killed Murong Jing, and fled the city to the Western Mountains, relying on the remnants of Ding Zero's tribe. Since then, the emotions of the military and civilians in Zhongshan have been even more shocked and turbulent.

Murong Lin's sudden escape made Murong Bao even more flustered, always thinking that Murong Hui's troops were nearby, fearing that Murong Lin would take his troops and occupy Longcheng first.

Therefore, Murong Bao summoned Murong Long and Murong Nong to discuss abandoning Zhongshan and going to Baolong City. Neither Murong Long nor Murong Nong objected, so they decided to move north.

On March 14, Murong Bao, together with the crown princes Murong Ce, Murong Nong, Murong Long, and Murong Sheng, led more than 10,000 cavalry and took advantage of the night to go out of the city to defect to Murong Hui, the king of Qinghe, who had already reached Jicheng.

However, would Murong Bao, who had a grudge against Murong Bao and had dissident ambitions, be reliable? Before answering this question, let's first take a look at how Murong Hui went from Dragon City to Jicheng.

At first, when he heard that the Northern Wei army was attacking in a big way, Murong Would take the initiative to request to lead troops to save the country, and Murong Bao gladly agreed to his request.

However, Murong Hui had no intention of saving the country at all, and only sent the Generals Of the Southern Expeditionary Forces, Ku Guanwei, and the Jianwei General Yu Chong, with five thousand troops as forwards, but he did not move.

After Ku Kuguan Wei and the others arrived at Lulong, they stayed for nearly a hundred days, ran out of food, and ate all the horses and cattle in the army, but Murong Hui still did not bring troops.

Murong Bao was furious and issued several edicts and severe reprimands, but Murong Hui was forced to stay for more than a month in the name of purchasing clothing and strengthening training.

It was not until March that Murong Hui arrived at Jicheng belatedly, and then continued to hold his troops still. Now, Murong Bao came to him at the end of the road, and he was simply sorry for not taking the opportunity to do things.