Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 378 Messenger (4000)

After the entrepreneur has established his foundation, as long as he doesn't play tricks, generally speaking, he doesn't rely too much on the support of the clan, which is what the successor should do.

The reason is that the monarch and the honored ministers have long forged a deep friendship in the process of overcoming obstacles and creating a foundation. At the same time, as the founding monarchs, their own prestige cannot be compared with those of their successors.

Throughout the past and present, there has never been a phenomenon that the Xunchen Group collectively betrayed the entrepreneurial master, except for Li Yuan. After all, Li Erfeng's prestige in the army may be higher than his father.

The situations of Gao Cheng and Erfeng are similar, they are both deeply involved in their father's entrepreneurship, and have made outstanding contributions. The difference is that Gao Cheng is the eldest son and the undisputed heir, while Erfeng is just a junior.

Gao Huan is undoubtedly the founder of the Gao Qi regime, but the prestige of the young King Gao is not inferior to his father, so it needs the support of Gao Yang, Gao Yan and others to secure the Northern Qi throne.

Since you can seize power without their assistance, why give real power to those brothers who can threaten you.

Due to the appearance of Gao Cheng, history has changed beyond recognition. In the first imperial examination, Wang Xi, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites who ranked second in the classics department, failed to continue the friendship with Gao Yan in another time and space.

Everyone knows little Gao Wang's attitude towards his own brother, even Nan Zheng never forgets to tie Gao Yang and Gao Yan by his side, Wang Xi's brain is broken to make friends with that Changshan County King.

This time when Hu Luguang went west, Gao Cheng sent Wang Xi to accompany the army to assist in handling military affairs, and also explained something to Hu Luguang and Wang Xi.

The envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty who was sent to Tuyuhun Kingdom learned from the ministers of the pro-Qi faction that Yu Wentai sent people to the north, and immediately sent back the news. Hu Luguang followed Gao Cheng's instructions and led the troops to patrol Longyou as a deterrent, and Wang Xi sent the envoy Tuyuhun.

When Wang Xi came to Fuqi City, he was immediately received by Tuyuhun Khan Kualu, and then he greeted Kualu, and Kualu couldn't wait to ask:

"Shangguo sent envoys twice, and at the same time, he was also in charge of honoring Wulongyou. How dare you ask the Emperor Daqi's intention?"

Wang Xi adjusted his clothes, and then calmly said:
"Your Majesty has something to tell Khan that if Khan is bewitched by Yuwentai and sends troops to Longyou, the Qi army will surely retreat to Xiaoguan and Dashanguan, abandon Longyou, and stick to Guanzhong. Khan can compete with Yuwentai for Longyou. place."

Before Kua Lu showed joy, Wang Xi sternly said:

"However, if Khan breaks his oath, God will not punish him, and His Majesty will raise troops to question the crime. Da Qi will move his capital to Chang'an, and with all his strength, he will deal with Khan all his life and never look south again!"

Some intimidation sent a chill down Kwalu's spine.

Yuwentai promised to divide Guanlong together, he won Guanzhong, Kualu harvested Longyou, and Yuwentai resisted Gao Qi in Guanzhong, which made Kualu tempted.

However, if Gao Qi voluntarily gave up Longyou and defended Guanzhong, with the support of 15 troops and the remaining troops in Guandong, Yu Wentai would not be able to succeed anyway.

In this way, Longyou Yuwentai, who was free, could watch him swallow it all?
Even if the two sides share the land of Longyou, Yu Wentai, who only got half of Longyou, can block the Northern Qi soldiers for himself?
Or let Yu Wentai swallow all of Longyou, then what is he trying to brag about Lu's betrayal of the alliance this time, just to anger Gao Cheng, and let him, as he said in the threatening words, fight to the death with himself for the rest of his life?

Kwalu didn't believe that Gao Cheng would really give up mixing with China in a fit of anger, and use troops against Tuyuhun.

But he didn't dare to take this risk. After all, the national strength of the Tuyuhun Kingdom was far inferior to that of Qi, otherwise it would not have become a vassal of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

After thinking for a long time, he finally made a decision, and smiled at the stern Qi envoy Wang Xi:
"Emperor Daqi is worrying too much. The old oath of the alliance is still in my ears. How can I help the tyrant and do things that violate the alliance? Please tell the emperor that although Kualu is barbaric, he also knows faith and is willing to form an alliance with Daqi forever."

Wang Xi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but on his face he said sternly:
"Since Khan still remembers the oath of the past, please kill Yu Wentai's envoy to show his heart!"

Kua Lu was afraid of angering Gao Cheng, but he was not afraid of offending Yu Wentai. After all, there was still a distance between Shu and Yu. Yu Wentai could not beat him before the Northern Expedition succeeded. It is even more impossible to fight against him.

On the same day, after being confirmed by the previous batch of Qi envoys, Wang Xi took more than ten heads back to report to Hu Luguang, and Hu Luguang then returned from Longyou to Dashan Pass, focusing on preparing for Yuwentai's Northern Expedition.

In the original time and space, Tuyuhun practiced the strategy of long-distance friendship and short-term attack, and married the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Taking advantage of the war between the Eastern and Western Weis, he repeatedly sent troops to act as demons in the rear of the Western Wei Dynasty.

After Gao Huan's death, Yu Wentai was able to withdraw and just led the troops to patrol Longyou. Before a battle was fought, Kualu was already terrified and sent envoys to contribute to the Western Wei Dynasty. .

Now Gao Cheng threatens that if he dares to do something behind his back, he will do nothing in this life, move the capital to Chang'an, and stare at him to fight. The head of the Thai envoy is also reasonable.

Nanliang was facing the threat of Gao Cheng's invasion to the south, and it was impossible to spare any effort to plot Shu. Yu Wentai had already arrived in Hanzhong at this time.

He didn't look forward to the good news that Tuyuhun sent troops, but he knew that the envoy was killed by Kwalu, so he could only be helpless and furious. As said before, Yuwentai really had nothing to do with Kwalu.

Without Tuyuhun's help, facing Gao Cheng's [-] soldiers in the Guanlong area, and [-] state and county soldiers waiting in line, Yu Wentai stood at the head of Hanzhong City, looking east at Chang'an, but in the end there was only a sigh left.

During this period, he also sent secret agents to Guanlong to instigate rebellion among the people, but now most of the people in Guanlong are immigrants from the Kanto region. According to them, "The Gao clan divided my land and exempted me from taxes. What kindness does the Yuwen clan have to me?" ? '

There can be no internal chaos in Guanlong, and the foreign aid Tuyuhun, who had high hopes, killed and broke up. I don't know what the Rouran man thinks. He doesn't really think that marrying his daughter to Gao Cheng will really treat you, Anaru, as his father-in-law for the rest of his life. Respect it.

This means that Yu Wentai has been in Sichuan for a long time, of course he does not know the confrontation between Mobei Rouran and Turks.

After all, at this time, Turkic is still a vassal of Rouran on the bright side. From Yu Wentai's perspective, Rouran's attack on the enemy Gaoche should be a situation of dominating Mobei. He really can't figure out why Anaru would let Gao Cheng go. Going south instead of causing trouble behind his back, isn't he afraid that Gao Cheng will really get mixed up in China and turn his head to bite this father-in-law?
Of course Anahu was afraid, but he was even more afraid that he would send troops to harass the border of Northern Qi, anger his son-in-law, and push him to the Turkic side.

Especially when they knew that Gao Cheng had entered into a marriage contract with Turkic, Turkic has basically completed the integration of Gao Che's remaining troops, and gradually revealed its ambition for grassland hegemony, unlike in the past.

Gao Cheng's envoy secretly revealed the marriage contract to Anahu, and at the same time informed him that Gao Cheng rejected the Turkic proposal to share the Rouran people, and would not interfere in the grassland war. Time to intervene in the war situation in the Central Plains.

The facts are slightly different from what the envoy said. For example, what Gao Cheng rejected was the Turkic invitation to send troops. The so-called sharing of the Rouran tribe was the reward given by the Turkic people for not interfering in the struggle for hegemony in Mobei.

But who told Xiao Gao Wang to be a filial son, to report good news but not bad news, why, isn't his father-in-law his father?

A Turk that has annexed Gaoche's remaining troops has already made Anahu feel difficult. If Gao Cheng is united with him, Rouran will be even more difficult to resist.

If Gao Cheng really has the ability to unify China, at worst he will go back to the early years and become a vassal of Gao Qi like he was a vassal of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

For Anahu, if he couldn't beat Gao Cheng, he would be a vassal at worst. At this time, there was no precedent for the Central Plains dynasty to actually control Mobei.

But if you have never fought the Turks, you will die and the country will be annexed by the Turks.

With the rise of the Turks, how could Anahu provoke Gao Cheng to interfere in the war in the Central Plains.

Ana Hu's concerns are also what the Turkic leader Ashina Tumen has to face.

Some people will help whoever wins, but in the struggle for grassland hegemony, whoever Gao Cheng helps will have an overwhelming advantage.

The people of Rouran were wary, and the Turkic people did not dare to stir up trouble in the northern border of Longyou. It can only be said that Gao Cheng did choose a good time to send troops to Nanliang. weak existence.

Yuwentai didn't know why Rouran didn't put pressure on Gao Cheng, and Tuyuhun didn't hesitate to kill envoys to break up, and he didn't want to be an enemy of Beiqi.

Now Guanlong has a heavy army stationed, and there are also a large number of troops left behind in Kanto for reinforcements at any time. In the absence of civil strife, the temporarily expanded army of [-] in my hands alone is mixed. How can I succeed? Yu Wentai sighed at the head of Hanzhong City.

He even sent someone to contact Wang Sizheng, as long as he was willing to turn against him, he was willing to play the Yuan Baoju and make him the king of Guanzhong, and he would be the king of Guanzhong, but what he sent back was just another envoy's head.

Wang Sizheng is not stupid. He nominally controlled [-] soldiers from Guanlong and [-] prefecture soldiers, but [-] soldiers and [-] prefecture soldiers belonged to Pan Le, and [-] soldiers were led by Hu Luguang. Both of them are loyal to the Gao family.

Although I have [-] warriors and [-] state and county soldiers under my command, most of the state and county soldiers are Gao Cheng's cronies, such as Liu Yanshou from Woye Huns, Xue Hu'er's sister-in-law Zhang Mo, etc. Gao Cheng was assigned to serve as the captain in the Guanlong prefectures, commanding the state and county soldiers.

Wang Sizheng really controls only 16 soldiers, but these people are all Xianbei soldiers, and Gao Huan, Gao Cheng and his father and son can be regarded as the friendship of two generations. After being supported by him for [-] years, how could they follow Wang Sizheng to rebel against Qi? .

In fact, this is why Gao Cheng dared to use Wang Sizheng to lead the battle in Guanlong. Wang Sizheng could mobilize these troops, but he definitely couldn't take them away.

As long as military power is involved, Gao Cheng will not be careless in the slightest.

In order for Gao Cheng to go south without any worries, he stirred up the situation of all parties. On the Huainan battlefield, when the two armies of Gao Yue and Murong Shaozong attacked the city, the war on the Korean peninsula was the first to end.

Uncle of King Yangwon, powerful minister 麁 (cū) sent troops to attack Baekje, and Silla general Zhu Zhen led troops to rescue. Under the joint resistance of Silla and Baekje, Goguryeo was defeated and retreated.

Under the instigation of Qi Shi, Silla and Baekje took advantage of the situation and sent troops northward to seize the Han River Basin in one fell swoop.

Three years ago Anyuan Wang Gao Baoyan died. The uncles of Gao Baoyan's two sons, Qunqun and Xiqun, led the troops to fight outside the palace gate. Xiqun was defeated and died. The faction of the Zhongxi group, which is also the reason why the Xiqun and a group of local forces formed an army and actually separatist.

Now that the deer group lost the Han River basin, it undoubtedly further intensified the internal conflicts in Goguryeo, and Goguryeo has rebelled everywhere since then.

Silla and Baekje, which occupied the Han River Basin, were not much better. Seeing that Goguryeo fell into civil strife, Silla backed the alliance and raided Baekje. Baekje was defeated, and Silla was able to monopolize the Han River Basin.

This time, there was indeed no envoy from the Northern Qi Dynasty to instigate it. After all, maintaining the alliance between Silla and Baekje and adding chaos to Goguryeo's rear was more in the interests of the Northern Qi Dynasty. King Gao couldn't be blamed for all the wickedness.

Returning to the Huainan battlefield, Lan Qin received Xiao Yuanming's surrender letter, and was burned without even opening it. Gao Cheng led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to march towards Hefei.

On the same day, Gao Cheng asked Xiao Yuanming to inspect Hefei's city defense on his behalf, and sent knights to lead him around the city to show the public. Who knew that Lan Qin shot with his bow on the city wall, and managed to escape Xiao Yuanming's death with an arrow.

Apart from Xiao Yuanming being terrified by the whole incident, Gao Cheng was also terrified when he heard about it. It was a total of [-] pieces of cloth. If Lan Qin was shot to death with an arrow, he, Gao Cheng, would have been the one to ask for it. Could it be that he was counting on Xiao Yan? Take out [-] bolts of cloth to redeem a corpse.

So I didn't dare to use Xiao Yuanming to show off to the city anymore, but with the news that Huainan was lost one after another, the morale of the defenders in Hefei became more and more sluggish.

On the ninth day of August in the first year of Taichang, Gao Yue attacked Liyang (Liyang Town, Hexian County, Anhui Province) in the east of Hefei. Lan Qin's son Lan Xiali was killed in battle. On August [-]th, Murong Shaozong led troops to occupy Lujiang County. The division went south along the way to take over the Nanliang Navy Water Village that had already withdrawn to the Yangtze River, and Hefei was completely reduced to an isolated city in the north of the Yangtze River.

As for Xiao Huili abandoning Shouyang and crossing the south of the Yangtze River, he was not blamed by Xiao Yan.

After all, he is Xiao Bodhisattva who loves the clan, and Gao Cheng is two extremes.

In the original time and space, Xiao Ying, the governor of Guangzhou, died of illness. Xiao Yan ordered his nephew Xiao Tian to temporarily manage Guangzhou, waiting for Lan Qin to take over. Only deprived of official titles.

Xiao Huili just abandoned the city and left, how could Bodhisattva Xiao have the heart to punish him.

And Xia Houzhen, who fled after the defeat of Bagong Mountain, was only demoted because of the existence of two thousand cavalry of the Xiahou family, which was considered a felony and light punishment.

Of course, what attracted Liang people's attention was the matter of Gao Cheng drinking horses along the Yangtze River. It was less than three months since Liang Qi started the war, and only Hefei was left in the north of the river.

Ever since Gaocheng’s Southern Expedition, some people in the Southern Liang Dynasty had proposed to negotiate a peace with the Northern Qi. After the Battle of Bagong Mountain, the proposal for a peace has become more and more popular. Until now, Hefei was besieged, but the Liang army did not dare to cross the river to rescue them. They are gone. Confidence and Northern Qi land battle.

Even Xiao Yan planned to make peace with Gao Cheng under the persuasion of his favorite minister Zhu Yi.

　I finally caught up and completed the minimum guarantee of 4000 words.

　　
　
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