Chapter 36 6. Ge Rong's defeat

Although Ge Rongjun in Hebei is powerful, he has no great ambition to compete in the world.Mr. Fan Wenlan commented: "They are mutinies, exiles seeking to survive, and destroyers who don't know what production is." They have no discipline, specialize in massacres and looting, and break through Cangzhou City. Nine out of ten residents in the city was massacred, but this is only a small part of what has been recorded in history. Wherever they went, they were wanton and dilapidated, but they never had the idea of ​​collecting people's hearts and establishing a solid rear base. Resolutely oppose Sinicization, even the Han people, not to mention absorbing the essence of the Han nationality's ruling ideology.In the past few years, Ge Rongkong had millions of people, but they just wandered around the North China Plain to eat.However, after several years of war in Hebei, the people have run out of money, which is not enough to feed the millions of people who are sitting on their hands.

Ge Rong then divided his troops and went south, and his servant Ren Bao led the army to sweep south to Qinshui.The army of the Northern Wei Dynasty also began to assemble, preparing to find Ge Rong's main force for a decisive battle.Er Zhurong's superior party king Yuan Tianmu was in the front army, Situ Yang Chun was in the right army, Sikong Mu Shao was in the rear army, and he personally led the left army. In July of 528, Ge Rong personally led a main force of one million to encircle Yecheng, an important town, and the peripheral soldiers had moved to Jijun.Er Zhurong personally led 7,000 elite cavalry equipped with auxiliary horses to attack from Jinyang. With Hou Jing, a cunning and skilled Jie tribe, as the forerunner, he went out of Fukou in the east, crossed the Taihang Mountains and entered the Hebei Plain.

At that time, Ge Rong was powerful and was invincible in Hebei. He didn't pay attention to Er Zhurong's seven thousand people at all. Then bind and take."Ge Rong lined up his army of one million from the north of Yecheng for tens of miles, and marched in a small stretch. Er Zhurong hid some of his troops in the valley. As a surprise soldier, the three above the generals formed a group, and each group had hundreds of cavalry. They raised dust everywhere, bluffed, and made the opponent unpredictable. A knife is not as good as a stick, and the soldiers of the whole army were ordered to prepare a wooden stick and place it beside the horse.At the same time, battlefield discipline was promulgated, stipulating that cutting ranks should not be used as meritorious service in wartime, so as to prevent the formation from being disturbed and the maneuvering of one's own cavalry affected.Contrary to Ge Rong's carelessness, Er Zhurong was well prepared before the battle.

Although there are many people on Ge Rong's side, the layout is too scattered, and it is difficult for Ge Rong himself to control it.Er Zhurong's General Gao Huan used to be under Du Luozhou's and Ge Rong's subordinates and had many acquaintances. At this time, he took the opportunity to recruit seven kings and more than 10,000 troops from Ge Rong's army before the battle.On the one hand, Er Zhurong sent Gao Huan to launch a political offensive; Before he was captured alive, Er Zhurong put him in a prison van and sent him to Luoyang to be executed. At this time, Shangdang Wang Yuantianmu's troops had just reached the south of Chaoge, barely entering the battlefield, while Mu Shao's and Yang Chun's armies had not set off yet.

At that time, Erzhu Rong was so powerful in the world. Just after the battle, brothers He Bayue suddenly ran to Er Zhurong and wanted to recommend someone to him.Who is it?The Heba brothers' fellow Wuchuan township and family friend Yuwen Black Otter. Black Otter has a Chinese name, Yuwentai.His father was Yuwen Gong who joined forces with Heba Duba, the father of the Heba brothers, to attack and kill Wei Kegu.After killing Wei Kegu, they were attacked by the Gaoche people who had surrendered to Baling of Liuhan. Down.But Yuwen Gong came to the border of Boling, Hebei. Regarding the subsequent experiences of Yu Wengong's family, many years later, Yu Wentai's sister-in-law Yan Shi described it in a letter to her son Yu Wenhu. The past ten years ago is still sad:

This woman married into Yuwen's family at the age of nineteen, and her husband died soon after.Later, he fled to Boling with his father-in-law Yu Wengong's family.When Xianyu Xiuli raised his army, Yu Wengong and his family wanted to go to Zuoren City, but unfortunately they were defeated by the army on the way. Yu Wengong and his two sons were killed on the spot, and Yu Wentai fled.Yuwen Gong's daughter-in-law Heba and her son Yuanbao, Hegan and her son Puti, Yan and her youngest son Sabao (later the famous Northern Zhou power minister Yuwenhu) were captured together by the army.The officers and soldiers distributed the captives to the generals, and Yan's mother and son were distributed to Yuan Baozhang stationed in Tangcheng, and they were separated from their sisters-in-law, sons-in-law and nephews.Yuan Baozhang is still an acquaintance of Yuwen Ji, but it seems that he didn't take care of the mother and son in distress.Three days later, Yuan Baozhang escorted sixty or seventy captives under his name to the capital, including Yan's mother and son.When they walked to the south of Dingzhou City, it was already evening, and the officers and soldiers who escorted them took the prisoners to stay at the home of Ji Kugen, a fellow villager in Wuchuan. There was a servant in Rouran who sympathized with the prisoners, took the opportunity to escape, and went to the nearby Xianyu Xiuli army. Reported the letter.Yu Wentai, who was in Xianyu Xiuli's army when he heard the news, brought a group of people to set up an ambush on the way the next day, and rescued his sister-in-law and nephew.This great hero who created the foundation of four dynasties was only eighteen years old at the time, and today he is only a senior high school student, but in that troubled world, he had already shouldered the important task of protecting a family.

Later, Ge Rong replaced Xianyu Xiuli, and Yu Wentai continued to work under Ge Rong's account.In the Battle of Yebei, Ge Rong's army was defeated, and the young Yu Wentai had no choice but to surrender to Er Zhurong through his old friendship He Bayue.Er Zhurong admired Yu Wentai but was jealous, so he brought him back to Jinyang, his base, and later he was pulled back to serve under He Bayue's tent. Regarding the hundreds of thousands of Ge Rong who surrendered, Er Zhurong was afraid that if he dealt with them immediately, it would cause new chaos, so he lied that the people could form freely and go wherever they wanted, so the hundreds of thousands of people dispersed like birds and beasts.After the group of descendants happily dispersed and walked hundreds of miles away, Erzhu Rong secretly ordered the localities to separate them and arrange them as appropriate, so all the prefectures in Hebei were pacified.But Er Zhurong's handling method was no more clever than the Northern Wei Dynasty's handling of those who surrendered from the Baling Army that broke the Six Han Dynasty.This group of Hu rebels were forcibly removed from the familiar grassland nomadic environment, lost their livestock, and did not have the farming skills of the aboriginal Han people. They really could not make a living in this strange land, so large and small rebellions Still happening.