Agitation for four hundred years: Northern Qi provoked the south to fight a draw, and softly destroyed the Turkic northern hegemony

This article is the 624th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

Xiao Ji's eastward advance forced Xiao Yi to withdraw Wang Shengjie from Jiankang, and Gao Yang, who was full of pride, immediately turned his attention to Jiankang, intending to take advantage of the fire at this time.

In September of the second year of Chengsheng (553 CE), Gao Yang sent Hou Jing's former general Guo Yuanjian to train more than 20,000 sailors in Hefei to prepare to attack Jiankang, and also accepted the surrender of Hou Xiao of Xiangtan, and sent the generals Xing Jingyuan and Bu Da Khan Sa to lead the troops to follow suit.

Upon hearing the news, Chen Baxian immediately reported to Xiao Xuan, who ordered wang monks to defend their sisters.

On October 20, Wang Shengjie arrived at Guyi and sent Hou Yao of Wuzhou, Wu County Taishou Zhang Biao, and Wu Xing Taishou Pei Zhiheng to build a fort at Dongguan to wait for the arrival of the Northern Qi army.

In October, Hou Yan and Guo Yuanjian engaged in battle at Dongguan, which was greatly destroyed, and tens of thousands of soldiers drowned by the Northern Qi army. Xiao retreated and did not dare to enter again, and retreated to Yecheng, and Wang Shengquan returned to Jiankang.

In fact, Gao Yang's dispatch of troops this time was mainly a temptation, and the result of the temptation was very cruel, and Nanliang, which had two famous generals, Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian, was not as good a bully as imagined.

In December, inspired by Hou Yao's great victory, the Northern Qi Su pre-civilian Dongfang Bai'e sacrificed Su Pre-City to surrender to Southern Liang, and all the prefectures and counties in Jiangxi raised troops in response to the Eastern White Front.

In the first month of the third year of Chengsheng (554 AD), Chen Baxian took advantage of the victory to go north, crossed the river from Dantu, and besieged Northern Qi's Guangling, Qinzhou's assassin Shi Yan Chaoda set out from Qin County to besiege Jingzhou, and Hou Yao and Zhang Biao set out from Shiliang to assist Chen Baxian in launching a counterattack.

On the fourteenth day of the first month, Chen Baxian sent The Jin Ling Taishou Du Shengming to lead three thousand people to aid Dongfang Bai'e.

On March 21, the Northern Qi general Wang Qiu attacked Su pre-city, Du Shengming led his troops to attack, and won a complete victory, Wang Qiu had to return to Pengcheng, and Northern Qi suffered another big loss.

On June 27, When The Great Khan led 40,000 troops to approach Jingzhou, Wang sent Hou Yao and Zhang Biao to lead troops from Shiliang to assist Yan Chaoda in resisting. However, hou yao and Zhang Biao were ordered to stay still, and the general Yin Lingsi took matters into his own hands, leading more than 10,000 people to prepare to attack Xuyi.

At that time, Northern Qi sent Duan Shao, the assassin of Jizhou, to attack The Eastern Bai'e in Suqian, just as Guangling and Jingzhou were in a hurry, the military hearts of the Southern Liang generals began to waver.

As for the internal situation in Southern Liang, Duan Shao knew it well and said to his subordinates: "Liang Dynasty was even in turmoil, the country did not determine the lord, and the courtiers were at both ends of the rat. Chen Baxian and others were ostensibly of the same heart and mind as Liang Chao, but in fact they had long been in the same bed and dreamed. ”

Therefore, Duan Shao left Yi and Sansi Jingxian and others to besiege Su pre, and he led his troops to take Jingzhou directly, passing through Xuyi on the way.

Yin Lingsi did not expect that the Northern Qi army would suddenly appear and flee in the wind. Duan Shao first broke Yan Chaoda, and then turned back to approach Guangling, Chen Ba first broke the siege and retreated, Du Shengming returned to Dantu, Hou Yao and Zhang Biao returned to Qin County, and Southern Liang counterattacked.

However, when everyone retreated, only one person persisted to the end, his name was Wu Mingche.

Wu Mingche, a native of Qin County, Southern Yanzhou, was born into a family of generals, his grandfather Wu Jing'an was the Southern Qi Southern Guard, and his father Wu Shu was a general of the Southern Liang Right Army. Wu Mingche was very unfortunate, his parents died at an early age, he learned martial arts in his early years, and later served as the head of the Eastern Palace of Southern Liang, and then served as the left army.

In the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (548 AD), Hou Jing rebelled and forced Jiankang, and the world was in chaos. At that time, Wu Mingche still had more than 3,000 grain in his home, and when he saw that his neighbors were starving, he said to several brothers: "Thieves are everywhere, and people can't think too long-term, how can they have grain but not share it with the villagers?" So the food was distributed to the neighbors to eat together, and many people were able to survive.

Wu Mingche's move suddenly won the respect and support of the locals, so that the thieves avoided him far away and did not dare to come and harass him.

In March of the third year of Chengsheng (554 AD), Chen Baxian guarded Jingkou and heard of Wu Mingche's name for a long time, so he wanted to make deep friends with him. After Wu Mingche knew, he took the initiative to meet Chen Baxian. Chen Ba, who first lowered his ranks to greet him, took his hand and sat down, and talked with him about the major events of the world.

When Wu Mingche was young, he dabbled in the history of books, and studied astronomy, void, and dungeon with Zhou Hongzheng of Runan, and he understood the mysteries of them a little, and he was quite a hero. After some conversation, Chen Baxian thought he was a strange person, so he named him General Rong Zhao and Anzhou Assassin.

This time, Wu Mingche was ordered to besiege Haixi, and the Northern Qi general Lang Ji held the city, cutting wood into arrows, cutting paper into feathers, and stubbornly resisting. Wu Mingche besieged for more than a hundred days, but he was never able to fight down, and finally had to withdraw his troops.

This was Wu Mingche's first time leading troops into battle, and the reason why he was so persevering was because he was already fifty years old, and he would be old without making meritorious achievements. However, he ran into the hard stubble of LangJi.

Forcing Chen Ba to retreat, Duan Shao returned to Su pre and sent a well-spoken and eloquent person to lobby Dongfang Bai'er. Dongfang Bai'e was moved to open the city gate and ally with Duan Shao, but was captured and killed by Duan Shao.

Due to the presence of Duan Shao, Northern Qi regained the situation in the early stage when it was at a disadvantage. But in the north, they were challenged again, and they rebelled because of the gentle surrender.

In March of the third year of Chengsheng (554 AD), the Rouran Khan Yujiu Lu'an Luochen rebelled, and Gao Yang personally led an army to attack, and the father and son of Yujiu Lu'an Luochen fled north.

In April, the Ruoran people invaded The Prefecture again, and Gao Yang set out from Jinyang to fight. When the army marched to Hengzhou, the Rouran people scattered and fled, and Gao Yang sent more than 2,000 cavalry to camp in cucumber piles.

At this time, another unit of Rouran suddenly arrived with tens of thousands of cavalry, Gao Yang lay down safely, did not get up until dawn, and then commanded the warriors with a relaxed look to strike bravely, breaking through Rouran and breaking out.

The Rouran people fled into the wilderness, Gao Yang turned around and led his army in pursuit, all the way like a bamboo, the corpses of the Rouran people were thrown over more than twenty miles of the road, captured the wife and children of Yu jiulu'an Luochen, captured more than 30,000 people, and ordered the governor Gao Ana to lead thousands of cavalry to block the way for the Rouran people to escape.

At that time, Rouran's army was still very large, and Gao Anaqiu asked for more people and horses because of the small number of troops, but Gao Yang not only did not give, but reduced it by half.

In desperation, Gao Ana attacked bravely and broke it. Yuku Lu'an Luochen crossed the rock valley and was lucky enough to avoid death, after which he disappeared. At the end of the month, Gao Yang personally attacked Rouran again and won a great victory.

In June, the remnants of Rouran moved eastward, intending to attack south. Gao Yang personally rode lightly to intercept Jinchuan, and when Rouran learned the news, he fled. Unexpectedly, on the way to escape, he was ambushed by Shi Jun, the assassin of Northern Qi Yingzhou, and dozens of famous leaders were captured, and the rest of the group was leaderless and became a rogue.

In the first year of Shaotai (555 AD), the Turkic Muzhan Khan attacked another tribal leader in Ruoran, Yu jiulu Deng's uncle, and Yu Jiulu's uncle Deng collected the remnants and defected to Western Wei.

After that, Mugan Khan defeated The Dagger to the west, drove the Khitan to the east, annexed the Qi bone to the north, and the territory stretched from the Liaohai in the east to the West Sea in the west, up to 10,000 miles, and the south belonged to him for five or six thousand miles north of the desert, replacing Rouran as the new generation of overlords of the northern steppe.

In the face of his strength, Muzhan Khan demanded that Western Wei must kill all Of Yujiulu and Deng Shuzi and others, and sent emissaries to Western Wei one after another. Under pressure, Yuwen Tai had no choice but to arrest more than 3,000 people under Uncle Deng of Yujiulu and hand them over to the Turkic emissaries and let them all be killed outside the Qingmen Gate.

The disappearance of Luo Chen of Yujiu Lu'an and the killing of Yu Jiulu's uncle Deng meant that Rouran's upper ruling clique had been eliminated, and the remaining remnants of Rouran had never been revived.

The rise of Rouran was almost at the same time as that of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and although it was an enemy of generations, it coexisted and perished. Today, the Northern Wei Dynasty has withdrawn from the stage of history, and Rouran has disappeared, but their bloodline has been integrated into other ethnic groups and eventually become part of the Chinese nation.