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The Wei Chi Hui Rebellion was the largest rebellion in the late Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it was precisely because of Yang Jian's dictatorship in the Northern Zhou Dynasty that Wei Chi Hui began to raise troops against it.
And in this process, the scale of the rebellion was very large, and it once grew to more than 200,000, and even Wei Chi Hui united with ethnic minorities to fight against Yang Jian, but he didn't expect this rebellion to end in only 68 days, what is going on?
Development process
At first, after the Northern Wei Dynasty successfully unified the north in 439, the national strength was extremely strong, even if the emperor was young, the empress dowager did not fall behind in the slightest.
But as the saying goes: "things and life change", things will change when they reach the extreme, and the same is true of the Northern Wei Dynasty, after ushering in a strong period, accompanied by eunuch rebellion, such as the Six Towns Uprising, Heyin Rebellion and other events occurred.
The originally powerful Northern Wei Dynasty also gradually began to decline, and was divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, with Gao Huan being the actual ruler of the Eastern Wei and Yuwentai being the Western Wei.
But over time, these two countries were gradually inherited by their descendants, which led to the formation of the later Northern Qi and Northern Zhou.
However, for many years, the two states of Northern Qi and Northern Zhou were comparable in strength, but because of the extravagance of the rulers of Northern Qi, the Northern Zhou seized the opportunity to unite with Chen and eliminated Northern Qi in 577.
Of course, when the Northern Zhou Dynasty eliminated the Northern Qi Dynasty, in this process, it was obviously inseparable from one person, and he was Yang Jian.
Before Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, he was working for the Northern Zhou Dynasty, plus his family was a famous family, and he was deeply trusted by Emperor Wu of Zhou, of course, because of his high status, he was also suspicious of Emperor Wu of Zhou.
But even so, Yang Jian was still cautious, in the second year of the elimination of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Zhou died, Emperor Xuan of Zhou ascended the throne, as the so-called "companion of the king is like a companion of the tiger", Emperor Xuan of Zhou was more suspicious of Yang Jian than Emperor Wu of Zhou, and even once wanted to find a strike to kill him.
This frightened Yang Jian, so he adopted the strategy of leaving the vassal to reassure Emperor Xuan of Zhou, and at the same time, Yang Jian had ideas about the throne, and he did not want to bend to the Northern Zhou.
If you wait for a long time, once the emperor catches the opportunity, his life will be in danger, so Yang Jian began to accumulate strength and attract talents.
In 580, after the death of Emperor Xuan of Zhou, his son Emperor Jing of Zhou took over, because Yang Jian had contacts with some ministers in the court, so that Emperor Xuan of Zhou's edict was tampered with, and Yang Jian directly gave Yang Jian an overview of the major affairs of the court.
As soon as Yang Jian took office, the first thing he had to do was to eliminate the princes and kings of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and assign all the people around him to important positions.
This also means that the generals who have been engaged in important positions in the Northern Zhou Dynasty for a long time in the past will face a replacement situation, and no one will agree to this incident.
And Wei Chi Hui is the same, when Yang Jian announced that he wanted Wei Xiaokuan to replace his position, he immediately felt dissatisfied with Yang Jian, of course, what made him even more angry was the reason why Yang Jian was in power in the DPRK and intended to rebel.
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Therefore, Wei Chi Hui began to implement his plan of rebellion, and Wei Chi Hui's rebellion was soon known by Wei Xiaokuan, who immediately went to replace Wei Chi Hui after receiving the order to take office.
Later, after Wei Xiaokuan talked with He Langui, the person who was sent to greet him, because he was thoughtful, he felt that Wei Chi was suspected of rebellion, but in order to investigate the truth of the matter.
The war began
Wei Xiaokuan investigated this matter in depth, but as the investigation deepened, the matter was soon noticed by Wei Chiyu, who thought that if the news of his rebellion was learned by Wei Xiaokuan, the future opportunities would fail, so he sent someone to deal with him.
As a result, Wei Xiaokuan and others took the first step to know that their investigation had been exposed, so they fled in a hurry, and the news was quickly learned by Yang Jian.
In fact, Yang Jian needed to take precautions against whether there was a rebellion in Wei Chi Yuan, so he showed favor to Wei Chi Hui on the one hand, and prepared for battle on the other hand.
After seeing Yang Jian's approach, Wei Chi Hui had to openly rebel, using the interests of Yang Jian's dictatorship to make the people follow, and they followed the rebellion.
At first, the scale of the rebellion was very small, but as time passed, all local states and counties began to respond, and when the scale of the rebellious soldiers became larger and larger, Wei Chi Hui began to contact the foreign minority and the Chen Dynasty next door.
At this time, after Yang Jian understood the seriousness of the matter, he immediately went to Wei Xiaokuan and others to levy it, and at the same time, while Yang Jian sent troops to quell the war, the generals in some places did not accept Wei Chiyuan's bribes and resolutely supported Yang Jian.
For example, Yu Yi, the governor of Youzhou, Yuanxiong, the governor of Xuzhou, and others, after they refused Wei Chi Yuan's invitation, they began to send troops to resist, and once stopped Wei Chi Yuan's rear.
At the same time, after Wei Xiaokuan resisted the Qinhe, he began to engage Wei Chi Dan, and the two sides were at a stalemate, but Li Xun was worried that the army led by Wei Xiao Kuan would change, and even be tempted by Wei Chi Yuan's money and be betrayed.
Yang Jian wanted to listen to Li Xun's words, and when he took certain actions, he replaced these people, but was stopped by Li Delin, he thought that if these people were replaced, or even after the news was revealed, the army would definitely be panicked, which was not conducive to fighting, rather than this, it was better to send capable people to monitor them.
In this way, after listening to Li Delin's suggestion, Yang Jian felt that it made sense, so he sent Cui Zhongfang to monitor the army, and then, because Wei Xiaokuan and others took the lead in acting, they built a bridge and wanted to attack.
End Result
Originally, Wei Chi Dan wanted to let the enemy attack half of the bridge and then attack, so as to make the enemy army in a dilemma, but he never thought that during the engagement, because of the high morale of the army led by Wei Xiaokuan, Wei Chi Dan was quickly defeated.
Seeing the defeat of Wei Chi Xuan, Wei Chi Xuan had to make a decision, he used 130,000 troops to hold on to the south of Yecheng, and in the face of the enemy's attack, Wei Xiaokuan was obviously defeated.
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But in the end, under Yu Wenxin's strategy, the soldiers were able to raise their morale, further defeated Wei Chi's army, and surrounded Yecheng.
In the face of Cui Hongdu and Wei Xiaokuan's army attacking, Yecheng was soon breached, and at first Cui Hongdu, after seeing Wei Chiyu, wanted him to save himself and surrender to Yang Jian.
But Wei Chi Yu was so humiliated that he chose to commit suicide, and after Wei Chi Yu's army was defeated, the local rebels began to panic, and in the face of the enemy's attack, they could only defend, and Wang Qian was the same.
However, in the end, it was defeated by the 200,000 army led by Liang Rui, and then Sichuan was pacified, and the 68-day war ended.
Author's point of view
The Wei Chi Hui Rebellion was an event in which Yang Jian consolidated his power and position, and it was this rebellion that ended that Yang Jian completely grasped the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty in this way.
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