In June of the third year of Yongxi (the sixth year of Datong in the Southern Liang Dynasty, 534 AD), the relationship between the Northern Wei Emperor Yuan Xiu and the prime minister Gao Huan was almost broken, and a great war was about to come again.
In order to deal with Gao Huan, Yuan Xiu first issued an edict stipulating that all civil and military officials from the north could leave or stay at will, so as to test their loyalty to themselves. Then he issued an edict to count Gao Huan's sins, and recruited He Batsheng to rush to the capital to support. But He Batsheng was opportunistic and chose neutrality. Yuan Xiu had to pin his hopes on Yuwentai, he appointed Yuwentai as a scholar and servant, and served as the Guanxi Daxingtai, and promised to marry the eldest princess Feng Yi to him as his wife, so as to ask Yuwentai to send troops to meet him. After Yuwentai received the order, he first appointed Shi Luochao as the governor of the capital, led a thousand lightly armed cavalry to Luoyang, and then sent Yang Jian and Changshi Yuwen to meet Yuan Xiu outside the pass.
Gao Huan, who was far away in Jinyang, was no longer silent at this time, he arranged for his younger brother Gao Chen to guard Jinyang, and he led the army south under the banner of killing Hu Sichun on the side of the Qing monarch, and Gao Aocao, who had a grudge against Yuan Xiu to kill his brother, was the vanguard officer. Perhaps because he was worried that Yuan Xiu would fall into the hands of Yuwentai and others, Gao Huan actually committed a taboo under the huge advantage of being weak and strong, and marched for hundreds of miles in a few days, which made his army exhausted.
Fortunately, Gao Huan's opponent is Yuan Xiu, who doesn't understand military affairs at all. On the ninth day of the seventh month (the ninth day of the first month), Yuan Xiu personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in the Heqiao area, with Hu Sichun as the vanguard, and Chen Bing in the north of the mountain. After all, Hu Sichun was a person who had been on the battlefield, and he saw the weakness of Gao Huan's department, so he asked to lead two thousand elite cavalry to cross the Yellow River, intending to launch a surprise attack when Gao Huan was tired and sleepy and in a disadvantageous state. Originally, Yuan Xiu agreed to his plan, but Yang Kuan, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, strongly opposed it, believing that if Hu Sichun succeeded, he would be the next Gao Huan. This frightened Yuan Xiu, and he hurriedly ordered to terminate Hu Sichun's actions. What's even worse is that in order to prevent Gao Huan from crossing the river, Yuan Xiu actually chose to divide his troops to guard each ferry.
Facts have proved that such a defensive strategy is not effective at all, Gao Huan first ordered Xiangzhou Assassin Shi Doutai to march into the slippery platform, and Jianzhou Assassin Shi Han Xian to march to Shiji. Due to Jia Xianzhi's defection, the situation on the slippery platform was very bad, and Yuan Xiu hurriedly sent someone to rescue him. As everyone knows, the slide is just a false shot by Gao Huan, Gao Huan's real purpose is the wild king near Luoyang, and now Zi Yuanxiu's Yellow River defense line has become useless. In order to demonstrate his benevolence and righteousness, Gao Huan once again sent an envoy to Yuan Xiu to declare his sincerity to Yuan Xiu before crossing the river, but seeing that Yuan Xiu did not reply, Gao Huan led the army to cross the river on the Bingwu Day (26th) and approached Luoyang.
At this time, Zi Yuanxiu was completely panicked, so on Ding Weiri (27th), he took the clan and 5,000 cavalry to prepare to flee westward. Who knew that in just one night, more than half of the people who fled, even Qinghe Wang Yuanyan and Guangyang Wang Yuanzhan also ran away. Fortunately, Yuan Xiu was lucky, and met Li Xian's department sent by Yuwentai to pick up him in Kun County, and then the group quickly retreated, and finally got rid of Gao Aocao's department who came to pursue.
Gao Huan entered Luoyang on the 29th, and because of the loss of Yuan Xiu's political bargaining chip, Gao Huan was very angry, and the new hatred and old account made him wave a butcher's knife at the ** in Luoyang City. As for Yuan Xiu, who fled to Chang'an, he breathed a sigh of relief, he not only fulfilled his promise to let Yuwentai marry the eldest princess Feng Yi, and named him the captain of the horse, but also appointed Yuwentai as the general, the assassin of Yongzhou and the Shangshu order. It's just that Yuan Xiu wouldn't have thought that he had just escaped from Gao Huan's hukou, but he had already fallen into the clutches of Yuwentai.