Chapter 58 4. Murong Chui is proud of Kanto

When the former Qin Dynasty was wiped out, Murongchui, who was much smarter than Fu Deng and Yao Chang, had already firmly grasped the seven states of Kanto. It stands to reason that compared with the Guanzhong and Longxi regions where the Hu Rong sentient beings lived, the situation in the Kanto region should be much simpler.However, due to the emigration of Murong Yong, a side branch of the Murong family from Xiyan, the Dingling Zhai clan who continued to rebel in Henan, and the Tuoba clan of Xianbei Biebu who quietly rose, Murong Chui's pace of unifying the Kanto was not easy. (This can't help but remind people of the experience of his elder brother Murong Jun's unification of Kanto thirty years ago. At that time, Murong Jun was only in his thirties. He had spent most of his energy in the South and North Wars, and finally died of illness on the eve of sending his troops south. Murong Chui is now an old man over sixty years old, no matter how talented he is, the reality is that there is not much time left for him. In the ten years since he proclaimed himself emperor, this old man has never stopped his army. The place is invincible and invincible. But what do we understand from behind these victories? A kind of inexplicable sadness. Just like Xin Qiji's emotion: "To end the affairs of the king and win the fame before and after his life, what happened in vain! ")

In August of the first year of Jianxing in Later Yan (386 A.D.), Murong Chui personally led his army to the south shortly after he proclaimed himself emperor. state county.These places can be said to be buffer zones during the confrontation between the North and the South. As soon as the Houyan army arrived, they surrendered one after another.Murong Chui pushed his power to Huaibei again. At this time, there was trouble in the north of Houyan.Liu Xian turned his back on Tuobagui, and tried every means to destroy Tuobagui's power.In order to win people's hearts, he sent his younger brother Liu Kangxuan to welcome Shi Yijian's youngest son, Tuoba Kudu. (This Tuoba Kudu is not particularly promising, but he was taken to Chang'an by Fu Jian when the former Qin Dynasty destroyed the country, and then followed Murong Yong's eastward brigade to Xiyan, where Murong Yong appointed him as the new prefect.)

Under the banner of Tuoba Kudu, Liu Kangxuan's army approached the border of the Northern Wei Dynasty.The tribes of Tuoba were obviously moved. Yu Huan and Mo Ti, Tuobagui's subordinates, conspired with the people of their respective tribes to capture Tuobagui, and sent people to contact Tuoba Kudu, planning to make him the king of Wei.Tuobagui was very lucky. This time Yu Huan's uncle Mu Chong went to him and reported his nephew to him. Tuobagui killed Yu Huan and others first, and Mo Ti and others were pardoned.But after all, Tuobagui couldn't be safe, so he turned over the Yin Mountain again and went to the Helan tribe; at the same time, he sent his lord (similar to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) An Tong to ask Houyan for help.

Murongchui thought that this was a good opportunity to conquer the north, so he asked Muronglin, the youngest son of Zhao Wang who was staying in the capital Zhongshan at that time, to go to the rescue.Before Murong Lin arrived, Tuoba Kudu formed an alliance with He Rangan, who was dissatisfied with Tuobagui in the Helan tribe, to attack Tuobagui.Uncle Sun Puluo, an adult in the northern part of the Northern Wei Dynasty, fled and went to vote for Liu Weichen. The situation in the Northern Wei Dynasty was not good for a while. Murong Lin is very scheming (as mentioned earlier, this Murong Lin is very clever, even though he once betrayed his father and brother when Murong Chui fled, he did not lose Murong Chui's love for him, Houyan's new capital Zhongshan was run by him After the establishment of Yan, Murong Chui often entrusted him with the important task of leading troops to fight), he asked An Tong to rush to Tuoba Gui to report the news of the Yan army.When the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty learned that reinforcements were coming, they recovered a lot of morale and resisted Tuoba Kudu's advance.Murong Lin and Tuoba Gui reunited and defeated Tuoba Kudu in one battle. Tuoba Kudu fled to Tiefu Liu Weichen. How could Liu Weichen forget the enmity between the two at the beginning, regardless of his relationship with Tuoba Gui? The enemy killed Tuoba Kudu.

Tuobagui felt the strength of the Yan army in this battle.A year later, he borrowed troops from Murong Chui again while Liu Xianbu brothers were fighting each other, and Murong Chui asked Murong Lin to send troops to help.Stupid Liu Xian brought his own doom - very shamelessly snatched Liu Weichen's "filial piety" Houyan's good horse.Murong Chui was furious and sent his nephew Taiyuan Wang Murong Kai to reinforce Murong Lin.The two Murong and Tuoba Gui fought against Liu Xian and won a complete victory.Liu Xian fled to Xiyan, Later Yan obtained Liu Xian's tribe and livestock, and Tuobagui basically regained the territory of Dai Kingdom during Shiyiqian's period.

Murong Chui spent the next five years managing his own northern territory. During this period, he wiped out the rebels in Hebei, regained Qinghe, Bohai and other places, and conquered the relatively powerful Helan tribe in the north. The army defeated Goguryeo and occupied Liaodong. Later Yan consolidated its rule and became the largest country in the north. In the blink of an eye, it was the seventh year of Jianxing (392 A.D.), when Murong Chui reached the peak of his career. According to the official history, Murong Chui grew up from a young age (we once read "Murong Chui" in the eleventh chapter of "Murong Xianbei"). In "Unifying Liaodong", Murong Chui (the first battle of Murong Ba at the time) was introduced in hundreds of battles, big and small, almost without a defeat (even in the fiasco of Fu Jian's southern expedition, he fought the most one of).Compared with the "Fu Jian Myth" that unified the north during the Sixteen Kingdoms War, Murong Chui's "Invincible Myth" is even more fascinating. old man.

Murong Chui decided to spend the last strength of his life to establish Houyan's great cause of dominating the world.In his view, Houyan's enemy is only his own family enemy——Xiyan Murong Yong.It's just that the Dingling Zhai family in Henan area attached to him for a while, and then the Eastern Jin and Xiyan for a while, which annoyed him very much.Murong Chui personally led troops to conquer Zhai Zhao, the leader of Ding Ling. Zhai Zhao asked Murong Yong for help. Murong Yong should have understood the truth of "dead lips and cold teeth" and should send troops to help "difficult brothers and sisters", but he blindly followed the words of Shang Shulang Bao Zun, thinking that he was sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and did not give Zhai Zhao any help. .

So Zhai Zhao had to face the powerful Houyan army alone. Murongchui was really scheming and played "coincidentally" with Zhai Zhao: Murongchui led the army to Liyang, and the small army lined up to defend the south bank of the Yellow River. The opponent is elite and it is not suitable to cross the river.Murong Chui smiled and said, "Zhai Zhao is just a bastard, what can he do? Now you just watch me deal with him." He first moved his camp to Xijin, 40 miles upstream, built hundreds of cowhide boats, loaded some soldiers with chariots, and started to cross the river.Ding Ling Zhai Zhao heard the news in the downstream, and he led the army to Xijin to resist.At this time, Murong Chui sent the troops left in Murong Town, Liyang to cross the Yellow River overnight and set up camp in Henan.

The next morning, Houyan's army had already stationed many people in the camp in Henan.How could Zhai Zhao defend against Murong Chui's move, and rushed to the downstream to fight Murong Town. After Murong Town held firm for a while, the Houyan army from the upper reaches also took the opportunity to cross the Yellow River. Not counting the annihilation of the whole army, Zhai Zhao was pursued all the way by Murong Chui, fled to Xiyan alone, and was later killed by Murong Yong. After cleaning up the small people, it was Murong Yong's turn to regret (he should have expected this day earlier).Only one year later, Murong Chui began to prepare to attack Xiyan.The Houyan generals seemed worried again, thinking that the Houyan soldiers were exhausted after years of fighting and needed to rest.Only Fanyang Wang Murongde agreed to attack Xiyan.Murong Chui said happily: "I have made up my mind. And I will invest in the old man, and I will be wise enough to overcome them. I will not leave rebels to burden my descendants!"

In the ninth year of Jianxing (394 A.D.), Murongchui's army assembled in the southwest of Yecheng, but did not advance to the territory of Xiyan for more than a month.On the contrary, Murong Yong was afraid—Murong Chui’s use of troops like a god is well known in the world—he began to be suspicious, suspecting that Murong Chui would break into Shanxi from the Taihang Mountain Pass, and quickly divided his troops to block the Taihang Pass. an army. It was his move that Murong Chui was waiting for. Later Yan's army suddenly attacked from the wall of the platform. As soon as the two armies fought, Xiyan was defeated and the wall of the platform was besieged.Murong Yong was played so badly that he recalled more than 50,000 defenders from Taihang Mountain. However, his subordinates Diao Yun and Murong Zhong were overwhelmed by Houyan's momentum, and the army had no fighting spirit and surrendered.

Once Xiyan's door is opened, there is no remedy.Murong Chui set up a formation to the south of the platform wall to fight Murong Yong. He also arranged for the elite cavalry of Xiaoqi General Murongguo to ambush in advance.Murong Chui pretended to be defeated and led the Xiyan army into the encirclement. Murong Guo fought out from behind. In a big battle, the number of Xiyan army beheaded reached 8,000, and the important city of Jinyang was also lost. Murong Yong retreated to the capital and asked for help from the Eastern Jin and Northern Wei.Before the reinforcements from both sides arrived, the generals under Dayidougui of Xiyan Biebei opened the city gate to welcome Murongchui.Murong Chui beheaded all of Murong Yong and his senior generals, and Xiyan's fighting and killing in the eleven years since Murong Hong proclaimed the king has become another fleeting moment.