Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 326 Collapse (5000)

In the Great Battle of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Cheng straddled his steed and watched Yu Wentai's [-] riders flying westward. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion. In the face of the general situation, his individual talents seemed so insignificant.

The outcome of this battle was foreshadowed as early as three years ago. Although Gao Huan's first westward expedition was a disastrous defeat, Yuwentai failed to go east because Gao Cheng captured Tongguan and threatened Chang'an with him.

Even after the Eastern Wei Dynasty died down, in just three years, Yu Wentai could not make up for the [-]% to [-]% of the population lost due to the severe drought in the Guanlong area. .

At the same time, the fall of Huayin (Yubi) also gave the Eastern Wei a bridgehead in Guanzhong.

Originally entering the pass from Puban, although it was possible to avoid the dangerous pass, the long supply line, a slight mistake, is enough to make the army fall into a place of eternal doom.

But with Yubi City as a material transfer station, not only the army can enter the customs without hindrance, but the risks and pressures faced by logistics transportation are greatly reduced, and Guanzhong is also lost.

In the second Western Expedition, because the Eastern Wei Dynasty built a city in Weibei, Yu Wentai was forced to go to meet the enemy and look for fighters. around.

There was chaos in the rear, and Yu Wentai was worried that he would encounter an ambush when he returned to his teacher, and the fact was just as he expected, Xue Guyan had indeed received an order to go west and lie in ambush on Yu Wentai's return journey, waiting to follow the army and attack together.

It's just that Xue Guyan was chased back by Gao Huan after learning that Yu Wentai had moved eastward.

It was indeed the only way Yu Wentai could think of to go out of Puban eastward and force the Eastern Wei Dynasty to fight quickly. He knew the gap between the two sides. Nearly three-quarters of the state and county soldiers, if they can win in the frontal battle in the field, the state and county soldiers in this period will not be regarded as weak roles.

So Yu Wentai took the army as a bait and tried to lead the elite cavalry to execute the beheading plan, but because Gao Cheng prevented Gao Huan from putting the reserve team into the battlefield in time, he resisted the temptation to complete the final blow to the Western Wei Dynasty and completely defeat the enemy. It also made Yu Wentai helpless in front of the [-] infantry formation.

At this time, returning to the main formation of the Western Wei Dynasty would be tantamount to throwing oneself to death. Only then did Yu Wentai lead the elite cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield westward.

Wan Teng (mò qí) Pu, Zhang Qiong and others who commanded an army of [-] as a reserve team saw Yu Wentai fleeing, and congratulated Gao Huan and Gao Cheng one after another. After all, the enemy coaches abandoned the army and withdrew from the battlefield, making it clear that the victory was over. decided.

Wan Tengpu originally belonged to the Kansai forces and became the governor of Qinzhou, but like Ke Zhu Hunyuan, Liu Feng and others, he also had a heart for the Eastern Wei Dynasty. His son Wan Tengluo was ordered by his father when he was in Gao Huanxindu Jianyi He traveled long distances to Hebei to serve under Gao Huan's tent. Because of this origin, although Wanqipu was in Kansai, he also obtained the identity of Xindu Yuancong.

There was a severe drought in Guanlong, and Wanqi and his sons resolutely returned east to the people of the Gao family. Gao Huan praised them a lot, especially Wanqiluo, who was highly valued because of his status as a general and Xindu Yuancong. It's a pity that he died of illness last year and missed the Western Expedition.

Seeing that the main force in Kansai was about to be destroyed, Wan Tengpu couldn't help but secretly rejoiced at his decision back then. If he hadn't resolutely returned east, he would have surrendered on the battlefield today. Gao Huan named him Duke of Hexi County, just to participate in this battle. According to Gao Cheng's previous promise, as a Duke of Hexi, he could not be promoted to the first rank, but he could still get a thousand food.

Now he has the credit for forcing Yu Wentai away, and if he works harder in the future and makes some meritorious deeds, he might be able to fight for a king before he dies.

Although Zhang Qiong, another general who commanded the reserve army, was named with a Han surname, he was indeed a generation of Xianbei.

He had participated in the Six Towns Uprising and served under Ge Rong's command, so he met Gao Huan. After all, He Liuhun had been in the Hebei Rebel Army in the early years, and he also served under the command of Ge Rong, a fellow Huaishuo.

Ge Rong was defeated and died. Zhang Qiong was appreciated by Er Zhurong and kept him. After Er Zhuzhao's defeat, he returned to Gao Huan's command.

Gao Huan originally didn't think much of Erzhu's generals who returned after the Hanling War, and only Hou Jing, an old friend of Huaishuo, was the one who reaped the rewards. After withdrawing from the stage of history, he surrendered, but he also retained the qualification to lead the army.

The rest are not very reliable in Gao Huan's eyes, or they betrayed their masters and surrendered to generals. Almost in these years, Gao Huan has stripped them of their military power and turned them into civilian positions.

Hearing the compliments and congratulations from the generals, Gao Huan smiled even more, his mouth was almost grinning to the ears. There is no doubt that this battle basically wiped out the main force of the Western Wei Dynasty and wiped out the shame of three years ago.

Gao Cheng also smiled happily, but he didn't forget that the front line was still fighting fiercely, so he suggested:
"Father, please move forward with the army formation. Yu Wentai's surprise attack is definitely not a temporary idea. After planning for a long time, his generals must know about it. As long as the father's commander-in-chief stands on the battlefield, Xi Ni knows that Yu Wentai is defeated, and his people will surely collapse. !"

Gao Cheng's suggestion was in line with Gao Huan's wishes, and with one order, the [-] troops rushed to the frontline battlefield under the command of Wan Tengpu, Zhang Qiong and others who had returned to the battle.

The reason why Modolo Daiwen's [-] cavalry and the [-] cavalry under Dou Tai and Gao Aocao who rushed back to chase Yuwentai was not allowed. The Eastern Wei cavalry fought on the battlefield and ran back and forth. People can bear it, but the horses also need to breathe.

On the other hand, it is also because these three people are more than brave, but not resourceful, if they really want to chase too deeply, they will inevitably fall into Yu Wentai's tricks.

In the face of the general situation, individual talents are indeed insignificant, but they can play a decisive role in local battlefields.

Gao Huan, who was sitting astride the horse, glanced at Gao Cheng who was beside him from time to time, feeling great regret in his heart: If I had known that such a mastermind could be so worry-free, I should have brought Ah Hui with me three years ago.

But Gao Cheng was thinking about Yuwentai's possible destination, Beitou Rouran?Xitou Tuyuhun?
But these two points were ruled out by Gao Cheng. Rouran is a heartless grassland overlord. Under the background of Gao's unification of the north, Anahu will only choose to continue to deepen friendship with Gao. The Eastern Wei Dynasty turned against each other.

As for Tuyuhun, even if he accepted Yuwentai, he only needed 20 troops from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to suppress the border, and sent someone to ask Tuyuhun Khan whether he wanted peace or war.

After all, everyone knows that once Yu Wentai dies, unless the Gao family father and son are crazy, they will ignore the good Jiangnan and blow cold wind on the plateau of Qinghai Lake.

Gao Cheng never thought about the possibility of Yuwentai guarding Longxi from the beginning to the end. The great man once said in a poem:

It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining courage, not to be famous and learn to be the overlord. '

The danger of Longshan would be taken no matter what. Gao Cheng reckoned that Yu Wentai had only one way to enter Shu, but he didn't know whether he was willing to be a guest general or to take Bashu by himself. After all, Xiao Ji's fifty thousand Shu soldiers were still on the frontal battlefield. He fought fiercely with the Eastern Wei Middle Route Army.

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Cheng decided to keep Xiao Ji's [-] Shu soldiers in Guanzhong instead of sending them back to compete with Yu Wentai.

It is not allowed that Yu Wentai really wanted to attack Bashu, but when he saw Xiao Ji's return of the Shu soldiers, he temporarily changed his mind and served as a guest general in Nanliang. Gao Cheng let the Shu soldiers go, wouldn't it be letting the tiger go back to the mountain.

Ten birds in the woods are worse than one bird in hand. Annihilate these [-] Shu soldiers, and Nanliang will lose [-] viable forces. Now that the Western Wei Dynasty is about to perish, only Gao and Xiao are left in this competition of mixing China. Regardless of who belongs to the two players of Bashu, these [-] Shu soldiers are determined not to let them escape.

Dou Tai, Gao Aocao, and Modolo Daiwen, a total of [-] cavalry soldiers were mobilized together, holding high the flag of Gao Huanshuai, shuttled back and forth on the three-way battlefield, and shouted in unison:
"Yu Wentai failed to make it to the battle, he was defeated and died!"

Shouts resounded through the sky.

Hu Luguang, who commanded the infantry of the Left Army with Pan Le, heard the shouts, and let go of the big stone in his heart. After all, no matter how well they fought on the front line, if something happened to the Gao family and his son, they would welcome the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It is also a situation where the morale of the army is disintegrated.

Now that Gao Huan and Gao Cheng are safe and sound, the army's morale has collapsed and it has become the Western Wei Dynasty.

The Eastern Wei cavalry spread rumors that Yu Wentai was dead. For the generals of the Western Wei Dynasty, it didn't matter whether Yu Wentai was dead or not. The appearance of Gao Huan's handsome flag here is enough to prove that Yu Wentai's beheading failed.

The only hope for the Western Wei Dynasty to turn against the disk also dissipated. The gap in combat effectiveness between state and county soldiers and full-time soldiers cannot be made up by courage alone, not to mention that the Eastern Wei Dynasty was spreading the news of Yu Wentai's death. can also become real.

The three armies of the Western Wei Dynasty were the first to break away from the left army of Zhao Gui and Li Bi. After shouting for a while, Dou Tai, Gao Aocao, and Modolo Daiwen joined forces with Peng Le to rush to the left army of the Western Wei Dynasty again.

This time I really can’t blame Zhao Gui. The Western Wei Left Army only had 6000 soldiers and [-] prefecture soldiers, a total of [-] people. The pawns, together with the [-] main cavalry led by Dou Tai, Gao Aocao, and Peng Le, a total of [-] cavalry, were on the verge of collapse.

Now with the help of Modolo Daiwen and the rumors of Yu Wentai's death, the tight string of Zhao Gui who was struggling to support finally broke. He abandoned a group of infantry. , Zhao Gui gathered all the cavalry in the army, less than 500, and led the [-] light cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield and break out to the west, obviously planning to enter Shu from Longshan.

If Yuwentai is not dead, he will follow him into Shu. Yuwentai will be Liu Bei, and Zhao Gui will be a general of Shu. If Yuwentai is dead, he can also serve in Nanliang.

Zhao Gui was not the only one who had such an idea. The Six Pillars were all insiders of the beheading plan. They abandoned the infantry on the left and right, and fled with only a small number of cavalry and all the generals.

The battle of the Western Wei Dynasty almost mobilized the generals in the army. In addition to Liuzhu Kingdom and Yu Wenhu, Yu Chijiong and others who fled with Yu Wentai, the generals from Wuchuan also included Yu Wentai's nephew Yu Wendao, his family member Yu Wengui, his nephew He Lanxiang, and his confidant Daxi Wu. , Hou Mo, Chen Shun, Yang Zhong, Han Guo, several Hui, Wang De, etc.

Non-Wuchuan generals also included Wang Xiong, Wei Xiaokuan, Xin Wei, Liang Chun, Liu Liang, Tian Hong, He Lianda, Chang Shan, Yifeng, Cai You, Li Yuan, Dou Luning and others.

When the general situation is in decline, geographical background often determines the attitude. Generals from Wuchuan fled westward one after another. They had made up their minds before that if things failed, they would gather in Longshan and make plans again.

Among the generals who were not from Wuchuan, there were Yu Wentai's diehards who tried to go to Longshan, but people from Jingzhao County, such as Li Yuan and Wei Xiaokuan, had other ideas after the collapse of the front line.

If Yu Wentai can keep Chang'an, Li Yuan and Wei Xiaokuan, the natives of Guanzhong, will naturally offer their loyalty to him.

But now that the battle situation is clear, Chang'an must fall into the hands of the Gao family, how could Li Yuan, Wei Xiaokuan and the others be willing to abandon their clan and follow Yu Wentai to find another place to make a comeback.

Not everyone is like Xianbei in the six towns, and the fire in Anahu burned the six towns, making them already homeless people. How can there be any homeland that is difficult to leave, whether it is Chang'an or Chengdu, where is it for them? Not start a business.

In fact, even in the Six Pillars Kingdom, not all people are fleeing westward. After Zhao Gui fled, Li Bi faced Gao Aocao, Dou Tai, Peng Le, Yaofen, Yaojie, Hulu Qiangju, etc. Under the siege of the people, the lowering flag was erected happily, and Li Bi's general Dou Luning and others also surrendered to the Eastern Wei Dynasty with him.

Li Bi and Yu Jin are the only two generals in the Six Pillars of Real Power who are not from Wuchuan, but there is also a difference between the two. Yu Jin was the head of the shogunate when Yu Wentai was only the governor of Xiazhou, and he was his confidant man of.

But Li Bi was different. He was under the command of Hou Mo Chen Yue who assassinated He Bayue.

Now it is Yuwen Tai who is poor, under heavy siege and no hope of breaking through, how could Li Bi sacrifice his life for righteousness? It can only be said that Zhao Gui slipped too fast, otherwise Li Bi might not be able to return. Hui took Zhao Gui as a gift to Gao Shi.

Dou Tai and others assigned some of their personnel to receive the surrendered soldiers, chase and kill the fleeing enemies, and organized a large army to continue to kill and rush to the Central Army of the Western Wei Dynasty without rest.

However, the Left Route Army to which Hu Luguang belonged broke the formation a little later than Dou Tai, Gao Aocao and others. Li Hu and Duguxin led their cronies to flee. He shot Wang Xiong, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, from his horse, but he could only watch Li Hu, Dugu Xin and others flee without a trace.

The next thing to do is similar to that of Dou Tai and others, that is, separate the men and let Pan Le lead them to collect the surrendered soldiers, chase and kill the defeated soldiers, and Hu Luguang leads the remaining more than 3 infantry to surround the Western Wei Central Route Army.

The Central Army of the Western Wei Dynasty was the most numerous among the three routes. There were 11 prefecture soldiers from the Western Wei Dynasty, plus [-] Shu soldiers from Xiao Ji, making a total of [-] soldiers, accounting for more than half of the total military strength of the Western Wei Dynasty.

The Eastern Wei Middle Road army that we faced before only had [-] cavalry led by Hu Luping, Xue Guyan and others. The pressure is not too great.

But now both the left and the right have been defeated. Dou Tai and others led the Eastern Wei right army from the south, and Hu Luguang led the Eastern Wei left army from the north. The pressure increased in vain.

The two armies collapsed in an instant. Facing the encircling three armies of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Yu Jin didn't know where to run if he wanted to run, and Xiao Ji was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

He is full of remorse now, if he raises an objection at the pre-war meeting and puts himself on the flank, he would have led Qingqi away by this time.

However, Yu Wentai hinted that staying in the Chinese army does not require a fierce battle, so Xiao Ji was fooled.

Yu Jin is determined to fight to the death, but the soldiers have witnessed the defeat of the two armies, and the army has lost their morale. Of course, the most important thing is that although there are [-] soldiers in the Western Wei Dynasty, they are only state and county soldiers, and their combat effectiveness and fighting will can be imagined. And know.

The deputy generals Li Yuan and Wei Xiaokuan, two locals with Chang'an household registration, also had other ideas. They captured Yu Jin on the spot and asked to surrender to the Eastern Wei Dynasty. The qualifications for promotion can't help but be messed up in the wind: the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, is it so real?
The Eastern Wei army came from south, north and west. Xiao Ji led [-] Shu soldiers to retreat eastward, but was intercepted by Eastern Wei cavalry on the way. As a last resort, Xiao Ji had to abandon the infantry and fled eastward with less than a thousand horsemen West Tongguan.

But West Tongguan is also a place of death. To the east is blocked by Tongguan, and to the west is the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Even in modern society, many people have disappeared due to wild travels across the Qinling Mountains, not to mention the Qinling Mountains in the sixth century A.D., 0 might even meet wild people baring their teeth at Xiao Ji.

After Gao Huan heard the news, only Modolo Daiwen was left with [-] cavalry to guard Xitong Pass, while the rest of the army cleaned up the battlefield on the spot and counted the results of the battle.

Prior to this, Li Yuan, Wei Xiaokuan and other surrendered generals and the captured Yu Jin and others were taken to Gao Huan to wait for their release.

Gao Cheng knew Gao Huan's bad temper, so if he was not sure, he would follow Fu Jian's example.

How did Fu Jian do it?

Li Bohu, the governor of Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, secretly surrendered to the former Qin Dynasty. Under the cooperation of inside and outside, Zhu Xu, the defender of Xiangyang, was captured alive. Have integrity and reuse it.

So in the battle of Feishui, Zhu Xu and other young men who were forgiven by Fu Jian repaid him severely, shouting: "The Qin army is defeated!" ', causing the former Qin army to be defeated like a mountain.

Li Yuan, Wei Xiaokuan and others betrayed and captured the generals, which was tantamount to betraying the masters. Gao Huan hated these people the most, and he almost killed Qiao Ning and Zhang Ziqi back then.

Gao Cheng was afraid that he would make another old mistake, so Yu Jin reminded Gao Huan of Fu Jian's story before the others were escorted.

After a big victory, Gao Huan was inevitably in a trance, but fortunately he could listen to the persuasion, he said with a smile:

"Ah Hui, don't worry, I won't be Fu Jian for my father."

When Wei Xiaokuan, Li Yuan and others came to the horse, Gao Huan was naturally looking at Yu Jin who was tightly bound, but Gao Cheng's attention was on Wei Xiaokuan who was a surrendered general.

This is an old acquaintance. Although he has never masked his face, he has been friends with him for a long time.

When he was a teenager, every time he was beaten by Gao Huan, the little King Gao would always hold back in secret, planning to let Wei Xiaokuan and Wang Sizheng be buried in Gao Huan's mausoleum in the future, but Gao Huan should be placed outside and those two people inside , See if Gao Huan from the ground can get in.

　10w/21w，离今天目标1w3还差8千。

　　
　
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