Chapter 21 3. Murong Han's ingenious plan to defeat Yuwen

When Murongxin repelled the invasion of the Yuwen Ministry, the "Eight Kings Rebellion" was in full swing. Li Xiong and Liu Yuan soon proclaimed themselves emperors one by one, and the north fell into flames of war.Youzhou and Pingzhou, where the Murong tribe is located, are no exception. In order to win over the powerful Liaodong Xianbei, Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, intends to promote Duan Xianbei and Murong Xianbei. We have already said in the previous "Yongjia Rebellion" that although Wang Jun owns the land of Youzhou, and all the scholars in the northern and Western Jin Dynasties who were in the war also defected to him, although he is ambitious, he has nothing in his stomach. For those talented scholars who don't know how to provide compensation, and his laws are unclear, and he acts entirely on personal feelings, the scholars who want to show off gradually lose confidence in him, and finally had to switch to Liaodong Xianbei.Duan's Xianbei was the most powerful among the various ministries in eastern Liaodong at that time, but the leader Duan Jiuliu and Duan Pi brothers were not interested in Han scholar-bureaucrats.The only choice for the scholars is Murong Xin, who has a clear understanding of politics and law and employs talents on their own merits.

All of a sudden, under Murongxin's command, a large number of exiled scholars from the five northern states were gathered. Murongxin never refused to come, and specially set up counties and counties for these scholars according to their respective origins to accommodate them.Murong Xin's method of treating scholars is to appoint them for whatever aspect they are capable of.Those who have insight and strategy are the masterminds, those who write good articles are the pivotal work, and those who are accomplished in Confucianism are given the position of sacrificial wine (Jijiu is an academic officer, and I feel that it is not much different from the current academician. ).Like Shi Le, the Murong tribe prospered rapidly with the assistance of Han literati.

In contrast, it seems to give people an illusion that the Jin Dynasty did not make good use of these scholars, which led to its defeat.In fact, the situation is quite the opposite. From top to bottom, the bureaucrats of the Jin Dynasty were almost all scholar-official figures.Under such a system, a large number of scholars cannot give full play to their professional expertise and do nothing all day long. Instead of playing a positive role, they will only become more and more corrupt. This is the root cause of the so-called "talking against the country".The entire history of the Southern Dynasties is the history of the decay of scholars. The poor performance of those scholars (mainly high-level scholars) who fled to the south in the Hou Jing Rebellion (to say that they are poor is already flattering them) makes people firmly believe that the scholars will surely perish. .However, in the northern Shile, Murongxin and other governments, the role played by the scholars objectively does not stem from their personal abilities, but from the mature thoughts of the Han people they brought. It is still the same sentence, different cultures, different The fusion of ideas will burst out the spark of success.

Emperor Jin Yuan proclaimed himself emperor in the south of the Yangtze River, and sent people to worship Murongxian as General Longxiang and Da Shanyu, but Murongxin did not accept it (in the past, Murongshe asked Emperor Wu of Jin to send troops to crusade against the Yuwen Ministry, but Emperor Wu of Jin refused to agree. Now it is the Eastern Jin Dynasty who took the initiative to give Murongxin Murongxian still didn't accept the conferment of a title, history is like this, it can be said that "one moment, another moment"), General Lu Chang advised him to communicate with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so that he could use the order of the Eastern Jin emperor to crusade against various ministries, which could justifiably eliminate dissidents , and can win the hearts of the world.Murong Xin felt that it made sense, so he sent envoys to Jiankang by sea, enshrining the Eastern Jin Dynasty as orthodoxy.

Murong Xin's power is growing day by day, naturally some people can't understand it.Cui Wei, the governor of Pingzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (that is, in the area of ​​​​Liaoning today), was after Cui Yan, a famous scholar in the Cao Wei Dynasty. He relied on his family's prestige to guard Liaodong. I was naturally upset.Seeing that Murongxin was within his jurisdiction but not obeying orders, Cui Wei decided to eliminate the Murong tribe. He secretly united with Goguryeo, Duan Xianbei and Yuwen Xianbei to discuss a joint attack on Murongxin and carve up the Murong tribe's territory.

In the second year of Emperor Taixing of Jin and Yuan Dynasties (319 A.D.), the coalition forces of the Three Kingdoms marched into the territory of the Murong Ministry.Murongxin's generals demanded to send troops to meet them. Murongxin shook his head and said, "The three countries were instigated by Cui Wu just for the sake of common interests. The armies of the three places have just united, and their momentum is unstoppable. We must not fight with them at this time." They will fight against each other, and they should use their defenses to dampen their morale. This kind of coalition is just a mob without a unified order, and each has its own ambitions. Over time, it will inevitably become suspicious of each other: first, it will suspect that we have secretly communicated with Cui Wei and deceive them. Send troops to destroy them; secondly, they will be suspicious of each other and unwilling to fight first. Hehe, when we send troops again at that time, we will be able to defeat the enemy army."

Murong Xin acted according to plan, allowing the armies of the Three Kingdoms to besiege his own capital, Dathorn City, and just keep the door behind closed doors.The armies of the Three Kingdoms were exhausted from attacking, and they did not get any bargains. At this time, Murongxin took the opportunity to send people out of the city with beef and wine, and specially rewarded the troops of the Yuwen Department in the name of Cui Wei.The other two countries suspected that the Ministry of Yuwen was conspiring with Murong Xin, fearing that it would be bad for them, they immediately led their troops back.

Yu Wenxi, the leader of the Yuwen Department, was plotted against by Murong Xin. He recalled the grievances and resentments he had with the Murong Department in the past. He kept both old and new grudges in his heart, and swore: "Although the two countries retreat, I will still annihilate Murong by my own strength." There is no need for others to help." Starting from the headquarters with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the company has a battalion for more than 30 miles, and the situation is quite grim. Seeing this, Murong Xin sent someone to call back his son Murong Han's army from Tuhe, preparing to join forces and discuss a good strategy to defeat the enemy.It is true to say that the Murong family has produced a large number of talents. This Murong Han is quite capable.Murongxin wanted to call his army back, but he stood still alone, and sent someone to explain to Murongxin: "I know that the whole country is coming to invade, and the enemy is outnumbered. We can only use tricks, not forceful victories. Now the defenders in the city use Since the defense is enough, I request that the army under my command stay outside as a surprise soldier, wait for the opportunity to attack the enemy, and then attack the enemy from both inside and outside, and the Yuwen Department will surely be defeated. Concentrate on attacking the city, then we will have nothing to do. What's more, if you are timid before fighting, your morale will be greatly affected." Murong Han's suggestion was supported by Murong Xin's subordinates, and Murong Xin let Murong Han stay in Tuhe.

Knowing that Duguan got the news, he also felt that Murong Han's staying outside would always be a disaster, so he decided to attack Murong Han first, and sent thousands of cavalry to surprise Murong Han.Murong Han learned that he sent someone to pretend to be an envoy from Xianbei of the Duan clan (Murong Han's army is in the border area between Murong and Duan, so the two have frequent exchanges), and met Xi Duguan's cavalry on the way, reporting: "Murong John has always been our side trouble, and we have long wanted to get rid of him. Now that you come to crusade, we will definitely help you. You'd better march in quickly."

The troops of the Yuwen Ministry were overjoyed when they saw Duan's emissary, they didn't think about it, they rushed all the way to Tuhe unprepared, and soon broke into the ambush that Murong Han had set in advance.Before the poor thousands of cavalry could realize what was going on, they were already killed by Murong Han's ambush soldiers.Murong Han took advantage of the victory to pursue and at the same time informed Murong Xin who was guarding the city of Dathorn about the battle situation.Murong Xin's eldest son, Murong Hao, suddenly went out of the city with his elite troops to capture Xi Duguan's camp. Battalion, the troops of the Yuwen Department were panicked and did not know what to do, and the entire battlefield was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.Knowing that the sole official really became a "single official", he fled back to the country alone.Knowing that Duguan did not avenge his old vengeance, and added new vengeance, the Yuwen Department was severely injured after this battle, and never recovered.

The most guilty person is the one with the most guilty conscience. Cui Wei was afraid that Murong Xing would become enemies with him, so he hurriedly sent his nephew Cui Tao to celebrate the victory, but unexpectedly, he bumped into the envoy of the Three Kingdoms who came to ask for peace.The three families exposed Cui Wei's true colors face to face, and put all the responsibility for the war on the governor.Murongxin proudly took Cui Tao to see the battlefield, and said: "Your uncle instigated the Three Kingdoms to destroy me, do you still have the guts to pretend to congratulate me?" Cui Tao was so frightened that he lay down on the ground and dared not speak.Murong Xin asked him to send a message to Cui Wei, saying: "The best strategy is to surrender, and the worst strategy is to flee." He sent a large army to follow him all the way.After Cui Wei heard the news, he quickly took dozens of horsemen and horses, abandoned his family, and went to Goguryeo.Murong Xin accepted the surrender of Cui Wei's original team, moved the new force to Dathorn City, and continued to advance towards the goal of hegemony.