After reading the previous articles, some people may want to complain, Liu Jun and Tuoba Mao just put all their energy into their respective countries, and they will not fight abroad? This is a chaotic southern and northern dynasty! Don't worry, Tuoba Mao will soon be the only time during his reign that he will personally lead a large-scale foreign war.
In October of the fourth year of Tai'an (458 AD, the second year of Liu Song's reign), as the domestic situation gradually stabilized, Tuoba Mao was finally able to free up his hands to use troops abroad, but this time his opponent was not Liu Song, but Rouran, a sworn enemy of Northern Wei.
Rouran is very familiar to everyone, and the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty have to fight rouran when they have nothing to do, especially Tuoba Tao's grandfather Tuoba Tao, who fights with his brother-in-law Shulian Khan (Yujiu Lu Wuti). However, Yujiu Lu Wu Ti died of illness as early as the fifth year of taiping Zhenjun (444 AD, Liu Song Yuanjia twenty-one years), and his son Yu Jiulu Tuhe Zhen took the throne, known as Chuluo Khan, that is, the meaning of the only king, Tuoba Mao's Rouran Khan when he launched the war against Ruoran this time was Tuhe Zhen.
In fact, this was not the first time that Tuhe Zhen had fought against Northern Wei, as early as September of the tenth year of the Taiping Zhenjun (449 AD, the twenty-sixth year of Liu Song Yuanjia), Tuoba Tao once again attacked Rouran. On that occasion, the King of Gaoliang, Tuoba Na, led an army from the East Road, and the King of Luoyang, Tuoba Qi'er, marched from the middle road. Tuhe Zhen hurriedly transferred all the elite troops in the country and surrounded Tuoba Na's troops for dozens of layers, and Tuoba Na had to dig a deep ditch to hold his position. Tuhe Zhen then challenged Tuoba Na several times, but was defeated by Tuoba Na.
He thought that Tuoba Na's army was so small but so tenacious, and suspected that he was holding out for help, waiting for the arrival of the army to surround himself, so the more he thought about it, the more frightened Tuhe Zhen led the army away overnight. Tuoba saw the situation and quickly led his men to pursue, chasing for nine days and nine nights. Tuhe Zhen became more and more frightened, dropped his heavy supplies, and fled far across the Dome Ridge. After Tuoba Na captured the heavy supplies left by Tuhe Zhen, he led a large army back and joined Tuoba Tao at Guangze. On the other hand, Tuoba Qi'er captured a large number of people and livestock in Ruoran, and after this battle, Rouran's national strength became more and more weakened, and for a time he no longer dared to invade the Northern Wei border area.
This is in this context, Tuoba Mao inspected the north, wanted to fight Against Rouran, and had not led an army to fight since he succeeded to the throne, which was obviously not in line with the fine tradition of the Northern Wei Emperor. Compared with Liu Song, Rouran, who was constantly destroyed by his grandfather Tuoba Tao, was more suitable for making a novice gift bag, so Tuoba Tao led 100,000 cavalry and 150,000 chariots to Yinshan. Who expected that the sky was not beautiful, and it began to snow heavily, and it was several days at once. In this case, it was naturally not appropriate to use troops, so Tuoba Mao planned to return to the dynasty.
At this time, Wei Chiju (尉眷) put forward a different opinion, he said: "Now that we have launched the whole army to wei zhen Beidi, it is not far from leaving the capital, but we are going to suddenly return to the dynasty, and the barbarians must suspect that there is turmoil in our country." Although the soldiers felt cold, they could not help but move on. After thinking about it for a while, Tuoba Mao accepted the advice and ordered the army to camp at Chelun Mountain and wait for the right time to make a decision.
After waiting for the weather to turn better, Tuoba Mao led his army through the great desert, and the Northern Wei army was huge, and the flag flew and stretched for thousands of miles, which was frightening to watch. After a big loss, Tuhe Zhen naturally did not dare to be careless, and the army that had been tuoba so small before could be beaten to the point of, this time facing the main force of Northern Wei, there would be no good end, and the thirty-six counts went up, so Tuhe Zhen led his troops to flee far away early. Its tribe of Uju and others led thousands of tents to surrender to Northern Wei. The first expedition was won without a fight, which made Tuoba Mao very happy, so he carved a stone in the Rouran country to record the battle achievements, and then the banshi returned to the dynasty.
But I have to say that at this time, Rouran was no longer a powerful opponent, and it just so happened that there was a situation on the border of Song and Wei at this time.