Agitated for four hundred years: Murong Han deliberately released water from his homeland, and Murong Hao successfully suppressed the rebellion for three years

This article is the 104th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

In February of the ninth year of Xianhe (334 CE), Murong Ren had his close associate Zhai Kai lead the Eastern Yi Colonel, and the former Pingzhou Bei pang jian lead Liaodong Xiang, openly confronting Murong Hao.

In coordination, Duan Liao sent an army to attack Tuhe, but to no avail, and sent his brothers Duan Lan and Murong Han to attack Liucheng together.

The liucheng capital Shi Chun and the city lord Mu Yuzuo joined forces to resist, and Duan Lan and others could not win and were forced to retreat. Duan Liao was furious and rebuked Duan Lan and the others, strictly ordering them to capture Liucheng.

After Duan Lan and the others rested for twenty days, they added more troops to attack. This time, the soldiers all put on heavy battle robes, protected them with shields, set up ladders, and attacked on all sides at the same time, day and night.

In the face of their strong attack, the defense of Shi Chun and Mu Yuzuo was also stronger, killing and wounding more than a thousand of Duan Lan's soldiers, and Duan Lan and others were never able to capture the city.

The situation was critical, and Murong Hao sent Murong Khan and Feng Yi and others to rescue Liucheng. Before leaving, Murong Hao warned Murong Khan: "The enemy's morale is high, don't fight with them to decide the winner or loser." ”

Murong Khan was Murong Hao's ninth brother, and he took pride in his bravery and marched straight to Liucheng with more than a thousand cavalry as the forward. Feng Yi advised him not to venture in, but Murong Khan did not listen, and as a result, he was hit head-on by Duan Lan at the Niuwei Valley, and died more than half. Feng Yi reorganized the array and fought hard as he could, so as to avoid the total annihilation of the army.

Since then, Murong Khan has never been given the opportunity to lead his troops to battle, and this is the price of impulsiveness.

After defeating Murong Khan, Duan Lan wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but Murong Han was afraid of destroying his own country and dissuaded him: "As a general, you should be cautious, know yourself and know the other, and you must not act rashly until everything is complete." Although the partial division is now thwarted, their main force is still there. Murong Hao was cunning and resourceful, and if he personally commanded the whole country to resist us, and we went deep alone and were outnumbered, things would be in danger. Moreover, when you accept the king's order, you just want to get today's victory, if you go against the king's order, in case of failure, all the merit and fame are lost, and what face will you have to go back to face the monarch! ”

Duan Lan snorted coldly, "It is a foregone conclusion that these people will be captured, and you are just worried about taking advantage of the situation to destroy your country!" Now that Murong Ren is in the east, if the march can really fulfill his wish, I will welcome him as the heir of your country, and after all, there will be no failure to defeat you and make the Zongmiao temple extinct. ”

Murong Han defended, "Since I have devoted myself to attachment, there is no reason to return again. The survival of the homeland has nothing to do with me! I just want to give advice to your country and cherish your name and my name. So he ordered his troops to prepare to return alone, and Duan Lan had no choice but to retreat.

Because of Murong Han's feelings for the homeland, Murong Hao escaped a disaster and avoided being attacked by Duan Lan and Murong Ren, which also laid the groundwork for Murong Han's future return.

In April, Murong Ren proclaimed himself the Duke of Pingzhou and the Duke of Liaodong, and presented himself as the monarch of Murong Bu.

In August, Murong Hao's emissary Wang Ji returned to Liaodong, and Sima Yan sent his attendant Yushi Wang Qi to pay tribute to Murong Xi, and also sent xu Mengzhi (徐孟谒) to make Murong Hui a general of the Zhen Army, a general of the Pingzhou Assassins, Da Dan Yu, the Duke of Liaodong, Zhijie, and the Governor of The Capital, exactly the same as Murong Xi's old practice.

Unexpectedly, when the boat reached Mashijin, all the people in the group were detained by Murong Ren. Murong Hao could not bear it any longer, and gathered all his elites to attack Liaodong in a big way. On November 15, Murong Hao's army arrived at Xiangping.

Under the pressure of the large army, Wang Qian, a native of Liaodong, secretly sent emissaries to surrender, and Murong Hao entered Liaodong City, Zhai Kai and Pang Jian fled on horseback, and all the counties of Juju and Xinchang surrendered.

Murong Hao hated Liaodong's betrayal and wanted to kill the residents of Liaodong as many times as possible, and Gao Xue advised: "Liaodong's betrayal was not actually their intention, but they were afraid of Murong Ren's fierceness and arrogance, and had to obey." Now that the chief evil is still alive, and having just conquered this city, he is anxious to destroy the people, so there is no way to submit to the good city that has not been conquered. Murong Hao gave up.

As a result, Murong Hao moved the rich surnames of Liaodong to Zhicheng in batches, and appointed Du Qun as the minister of Liaodong to appease the remaining people.

In December, Murong Ren was not content with defeat and sent troops to attack Xinchang, but the overseer Wang Yu repelled it and relocated the people of Xinchang to Xiangping.

Thereafter, Murong Ren remained firmly entrenched in Pingguo and stood side by side with Murong Hao of Zhicheng.

In November of the first year of Xiankang (335 CE), after detaining Wang Qi, Xu Meng, and others for a year, Murong Ren finally allowed them to return to Jiankang.

Wang Qi did not forget his mission and drove from the sea to Thorn City, but unfortunately he was killed at sea and failed to arrive. In December, Xu Meng and the others arrived at Zhicheng, and Murong Hao formally accepted the appointment of the imperial court.

Despite accepting the imperial orders, the Duan and Yuwen clans still saw that it was not too much trouble, and each sent emissaries to meet Murong Ren and stay outside pingguo city.

Murong Hao was furious and sent his subordinate Zhang Ying to lead more than a hundred cavalry from The Trail to raid, behead more than a dozen of Yuwen's envoys, and capture Duan's emissaries alive to return as a deterrent.

In the first month of the second year of Xiankang (336 CE), Murong Hao decided to deal with Murong Ren once and for all, and Gao Xue suggested: "Murong Ren turned his back on his relatives, and the gods and men were angry, and the sea had never frozen before, and had been frozen for three consecutive years since Murong Ren rebelled." Moreover, Murong Ren was specifically guarding against land routes, and Heaven probably wanted us to attack him from the sea. Murong Hao listened to him.

This bold idea was opposed by other staff members, who believed that crossing the sea by ice was too dangerous or that it was safe to cross the sea by land. Murong Hao shouted, "I have already decided, and those who dare to be depressed will behead!" ”

On the nineteenth day of the first month, Murong Hao led the general Murong Ping (慕容評) and others from Changli eastward to the ice, a total of more than 300 miles, to Lilinkou, abandoning his weight and rushing to Pingguo with light troops. Seven miles away from the city, Murong Ren learned of their whereabouts and rushed to battle.

When Zhang Ying captured the emissaries of the Duan and Yuwen clans, Murong Ren regretted that he did not pursue them endlessly. When Murong Hao's army came again, Murong Ren thought it was another detachment he had sent, and said to the attendants on the left and right, "This time they can't even go back with a horse!" ”

As a result, Murong Ren and his men formed a formation in the northwest of the city, trying to prevent the detachment from escaping to the west, and Murong Hao was able to launch an attack from the east, killing Murong Ren by surprise.

At the critical moment, Murong Jun, the eighth brother who had been following Murong Ren, suddenly led his troops to surrender to Murong Hao, and Murong Ren's troops were demoralized, and Murong Hao took the opportunity to attack and break it.

Murong Ren fled in defeat, but all of his men rebelled, capturing him and surrendering to Murong Hao. Murong Hao first killed the rebels for him, and then put them to death.

At this point, the three-year Murong Ren Rebellion was completely put down, Yu Dang Zhai Kai, Pang Jian, and others were beheaded, Tong Shou and Guo Chong fled to Goryeo, and the other officials who were affected by the mistakes were all pardoned by Murong Hao.