In 580 AD, Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu Wenyun died suddenly. When he was young, Yu Wenyun could be described as an out-and-out rebellious teenager. As the eldest son of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyong, he became the crown prince at the age of 13.
A person who is destined to be in charge of the country at such an age, no matter who he is, is considered very lucky. In particular, his father, Yu Wenyong, not only succeeded in eliminating the Northern Qi Dynasty, but also worked hard to achieve the prosperity of the country.
In order to make the Northern Zhou Dynasty prosperous, Yu Wenyong implemented a strict education for Yu Wenyun since he was a child, and even sent people to supervise his words and deeds at any time. As long as there is the slightest slackness, Yu Wenyun will be severely punished by Yu Wenyong.
After all, he didn't want history to repeat itself, the tragedy of the death of Qin II. However, fate seems to have played a cruel joke, Yu Wenyong's strict education did not make Yu Wenyun truly understand his good intentions, he was very resistant to this kind of strict discipline in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be obedient.
When Yu Wenyong died and Yu Wenyun ascended the throne as emperor, he immediately began to overturn all of Yu Wenyong's policies, specializing in those absurd things that Yu Wenyong prohibited, indulging in wine and ornate palaces, indiscriminately torture, and gradually became a mediocre emperor who disregarded the government.
Although Yu Wenyun was talented when he was young, his lack of self-control, coupled with his rebellious nature, made him gradually lose himself in the pursuit of the short-term pleasure of wine.
As a result, due to excessive indulgence, at the age of 21, his body was hollowed out, and then he fell ill and died violently, becoming another emperor in history who died early. However, every time an emperor dies, there is a struggle for power.
Yu Wenyun's death sparked a struggle for power, and in the end his father-in-law Yang Jian managed to stand out and become the founder of the Sui Dynasty. After Yang Jian ascended the throne, his goal was to unify the north and the south and end the situation of separation.
However, he didn't expect that the course of the battle to destroy Chen would be much smoother than he expected.
Due to the mediocrity and incompetence of Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, when the Sui army was pressing, he was obsessed with beauty, and even took the general's beautiful wife for himself, which eventually led to the destruction of the entire country.
In the battle of Sui to destroy Chen, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was a controversial emperor in history. However, if one takes into account the influence of the dynasty he founded in later generations, he is completely comparable to Qin Shi Huang.
At the beginning of his reign, he faced the dilemma of internal and external troubles, but he was still able to resolve internal contradictions one by one, and successfully eliminated the threat of the northern Turks, and also annexed the Western Liang.
Now, the challenge he faces is Nanchen, who crosses the Yangtze River moat.
Faced with the matter of destroying Chen, Yang Jian hesitated in his heart. After all, the powerful Northern Qi had tasted a lot of hardship in front of Nan Chen. However, Yang Jian is not an idle person. In the face of difficulties, he will not back down, but will only move forward.
In order to ensure that he could win this battle, he directly mobilized 510,000 troops from all over the country to conquer Nan Chen. These forces were divided into three group armies, the first group army was commanded by Yang Jian's second son, Yang Guang, with the goal of breaking through Jiankang, the capital of Southern Chen; The commander of the Second Army was Yang Jian's third son, Yang Jun, whose goal was to break through Hankow; The Third Army was led by Qinghe Gong Yang Su, with the goal of breaking through the gorge of the Three Gorges.
Yang Guang was the general head of the Third Route Group Army, and his main army was highly valued. Young and inexperienced, he was arranged by his father Yang Jian to serve as the marshal of the experienced Gao Gong.
The First Group Army led by Yang Guang consisted of the Fourth Route Army, and he personally sat in charge of the Middle Route Army, with the goal of directly attacking Liuhe Town on the north bank of the Yangtze River and forming a confrontation with Jiankang. The other way is the waterway, intending to outflank Jiankang from the southeast.
The remaining two roads were led by Yang Jian's pre-arranged fierce generals He Ruobi and Han Baohu, all the way from Yangzhou to cross the river, all the way from the Lujiang River.
As soon as he saw this kind of deployment, a discerning person could see that Yang Jian was determined to win Nan Chen, but Chen Shubao, the queen of Nan Chen, naively thought that it was impossible for the Sui army to cross the river, so he was still enjoying himself, and even set his sights on Xiao Maha's beautiful wife.
However, on the first day of the first lunar month in 589 AD, Xiao Maha's wife had already been pierced from the east and west of Jiankang by two sharp knives, Han Baohu and He Ruobi, and to their surprise, they did not encounter any decent resistance.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, their two advance troops actually completed the encirclement of Jiankang.
Facing the Sui army under the city, Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, finally couldn't sit still. At this time, he only relied on two generals: Ren Zhong and Xiao Maha. These two battle-hardened veterans each have no less than 100,000 troops.
However, at this critical juncture, their opinions diverged. Xiao Maha advocated actively facing the battle, while Ren Zhong advocated avoiding its edge, and he personally led his troops across the river to attack Yang Guang, so as to achieve the effect of encircling Wei and saving Zhao.
Obviously, Ren Zhong's strategy is more able to solve the current dilemma. The Sui army only besieged Jiankang's forward troops, and if Yang Guang's main army was crushed by surprise, then Jiankang's predicament would naturally be solved.
However, Chen Shubao eventually adopted Xiao Maha's suggestion. After hearing the news, Ren Zhong kowtowed like pounding garlic, and tried hard to dissuade the Lord from doing this, but Chen Shubao didn't listen to it at all.
Why did Chen Shubao ignore Ren Zhong's advice? It turned out that he had a small calculation in his heart, and he hoped that Xiao Maha would lead the troops to meet him, so that he could take the opportunity to get close to Xiao Maha's beautiful wife, and he had been coveting Xiao Maha's wife for a long time.
Xiao Maha is very fond of his wife and does not allow anyone to approach, so although Chen Shubao is very eager for Xiao Maha's wife, he does not dare to act easily because he is afraid that Xiao Maha has a heavy army.
Therefore, when there is an opportunity to transfer Xiao Maha out, Chen Shubao will naturally not let it go. On the twentieth day of the first month of 589 AD, the 100,000 troops gathered in Jiankang set out to meet He Ruobi under the leadership of Xiao Maha.
Before leaving, Xiao Maha was not at ease with his wife, believing that he had military power in his hands and that Chen Shubao would not do anything to his wife, so he asked the emperor to help take care of his wife.
Xiao Maha is a battle-hardened veteran, he has an army of 100,000, He Ruobi has less than 10,000, theoretically speaking, ten to fight one, can achieve victory no matter what.
However, surprisingly, Xiao Maha did not play any role and was captured alive by He Ruobi. Some people think that Xiao Maha is a straw bale, but I don't think so.
In fact, the reason why he led the army but returned with a crushing defeat was because he was unwilling to command the army to die for Nan Chen.
On the eve of the outbreak of the war, Xiao Maha was full of confidence, but just as he was planning his tactics, he received heartbreaking news from his family: his home had been stolen, and to his heart's content, his wife had been robbed by Chen Shubao.
After he left with his troops, Chen Shubao ordered his wife to be taken to the palace, an act that made him feel extremely humiliated. He had fought to defend the dignity of the country and the queen, but Tan Shubao not only destroyed his family, but also trampled on his dignity.
Xiao Maha would rather burn all the jade and stones, and be willing to **, along with the 100,000 army of Nan Chen, and since then, there is only one way for Nan Chen to go, that is, to perish. Soon after, the Sui army broke through Jiankang, and Chen Shubao had to surrender, and his absurd rule eventually led to the destruction of the country, what a sad thing!