One of the most chaotic periods in Chinese history was the two-hundred-year period from the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, which experienced two major turbulent periods, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The more chaotic the world, the more famous generals emerge, and this period is the same, before and after history entered the period when northern Zhou and Northern Qi were strong, these two old enemies were constantly opposing each other, And Gao Huan and YuwenTai's five major wars were basically equally divided, and Yuwentai had a slight upper hand. During this period, many famous generals emerged, such as Hu Luguang of Northern Qi Sanjie, Duan Shao and Gao Changgong the Prince of Lanling; The most famous and powerful in northern Zhou was Wei Xiaokuan, and others included the Eight Pillar Kingdoms including Zhao Gui, Du Guxin and others.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, the comprehensive strength of Northern Qi was actually stronger than that of Northern Zhou, and there were many reasons for this, of which two reasons had to be mentioned: First, although the emperor of Northern Qi was basically a group of madmen and neurotics, the two emperors of Northern Qi, Gao Yang and Gao Yan, were good, and although Gao Yang indulged in wine in the later period, he was still very qualified at the beginning of his ascension to the throne; Gao Yan is the only person of the Northern Qi Gao clan who has both moral integrity and ability and is outstanding in civil and martial arts; At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it fell into frequent changes of the imperial throne, mainly because after Yuwen Tai's death, the power fell into the hands of his nephew Yuwen Hu, who poisoned Yuwen Tai's two sons, that is, the first two emperors of Northern Zhou, Yuwen Jue and Yuwen Yu, in order to retain the power in his hands.
The second reason is that there are several famous generals in Northern Qi who can calm the field, among which Huo Luguang, Duan Shao and Gao Changgong are the most outstanding, and among the three, the battle merit and ability are the most important, today let's not talk about Duan Shao and Gao Changgong, only talk about how powerful this fallen eagle of Northern Qi is. To put it simply, with him there, Wei Xiaokuan was not an opponent, and Yuwen Yong did not dare to cut Qi.
Hu Luguang became famous as a teenager, proficient in horseback archery, famous for his martial arts, his father Huo Lujin was also a famous general of northern Wei and Northern Qi, Huo Luguang had a high-altitude archery in his youth and won the reputation of "falling eagle governor", and at the age of 17, he captured Yuwen Tai's chang Shi Mo Zhihui alive (at that time, in the last year of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Erzhu family had declined, and Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai were facing each other). After the establishment of Northern Qi, Huo Luguang went through Gao Yang, Gao Yan, Gao Zhan, Gao Wei four dynasties (Gao Yin does not count), experienced successive and Northern Zhou wars, since the establishment of Northern Qi, Huo Luguang and Northern Zhou engaged in more than twenty years of hundreds of battles, basically won victories, especially in several key battles Hu Luguang turned the tide, calling it Northern Qi's Dinghai God Needle is not excessive, let's take a look at the performance of these key battles Huo Luguang.
In 564, Yuwen escorted the Northern Zhou Dynasty's Sima Wei and Wang Xiong to lead an army of 100,000 to besiege Luoyang, which was in danger. Northern Qi Hu Luguang, Duan Shao and Lanling Wang Gao Changgong three famous generals came out, Hu Luguang led 50,000 cavalry to rescue, he took advantage of the fatigue of the Northern Zhou army to attack Luoyang for a long time, concentrated his forces to attack the central camp of the Northern Zhou army, Huo Luguang personally shot Wang Xiong, destroyed the command center of the Northern Zhou army, the enemy army was leaderless, scattered and fled, Huo Luguang drove the cavalry to kill, Wei Chiyi escaped alone, and his entourage was killed.
In December 569, Northern Zhou attacked Northern Qi in a big way and besieged the important town of Yiyang in Northern Qi, in 570 Hu Luguang personally led 30,000 reinforcements to Yiyang, and as soon as he arrived, he stormed the Northern Zhou army, Northern Zhou Yuwenxian and Li Muxi withdrew, and Huo Luguang built camp on the south bank of Luoshui, built the two cities of Tongguan and Fenghua, and opened up the grain route to Yiyang; Not long after, Northern Zhou attacked Northern Qi again, Hu Luguang showed the enemy to be weak, step by step to lead the Northern Zhou pursuing army into the ambush circle, and then surrounded the Northern Zhou army in one fell swoop, Northern Zhou Kaifu Yi and the three si Yuwen Ying, DuDu Yue Qin Shiliang, Han Yan and other generals were captured, followed by Huo Luguang and Han Guisun, Hu Yan, Wang Xian, and other joint attacks, defeated the Northern Zhou army again, the Northern Zhou general Liang Jingxing was killed, and Huo Luguang won a great victory.
In 571 AD, Huo Luguang and The Northern Zhou Hun general Wei Xiaokuan ushered in a peak duel between the two most dazzling generals at that time, the two fought in Fenshui, after several fierce battles, the Northern Qi army won a great victory to kill more than a thousand enemies and capture thousands of enemy troops, Wei Xiaokuan was defeated, Huo Luguang took advantage of the victory to pursue, for Northern Qi to expand the land for hundreds of miles. Wei Xiaokuan saw that he could not compete with Huo Luguang militarily, so he fabricated a rumor that "a hundred liters flew into the sky, and the bright moon shone on Chang'an (a hundred liters is a hu, and the bright moon is the word for Huo Luguang, and the rumor alludes to Huo Luguang's ambition to usurp the throne)." He also said, "The mountains do not push themselves to collapse, and the quercus trees do not support themselves." "Sing in Yecheng. Huo Luguang was a man of geng, and had offended the Northern Qi courtiers Zu Wei and Mu Tibo, and at that time, Gao Wei, who was reigning in Northern Qi, was also a faint and absurd lord, so Wei Xiaokuan's unwise counter-plan worked, and Gao Wei listened to rumors and self-destructed the Great Wall and killed Huo Luguang.
The Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yong was extremely jealous of Huo Luguang, and originally there was Huo Luguang, yuwen Yong would not and did not dare to raise an army to cut down Qi. On this point, Yuwen Yong later said after attacking the city of Yicheng, "If this person is here, how can he reach Ye!", and even Li Shimin said, "Huo Lu Mingyue, a good general of the Qi Dynasty, a powerful enemy country, the Zhou family cut the fenhe river ice every year, and worried about the west crossing of the Qi soldiers." And Mingyue was cursed by Zu Xiaozheng, and the Zhou people began to have the intention of swallowing. This means that there is Huo Luguang, and Northern Zhou is afraid of "the west crossing of the Qi soldiers", let alone the Qi. Therefore, after receiving the news of Huo Luguang's death, Yuwen Yong was extremely happy and ordered a pardon for the criminals in his territory, presumably thanking Gao Wei for removing this trouble for him.