In August 424 AD, Rouran Khan in the north took advantage of the death of the Northern Wei Yuan Emperor to bully the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao who had just acceded to the throne and sent 60,000 fighters to the fortress. The army invaded the ancient capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty in one fell swoop, and Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was in an emergency.
Perhaps the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, but TaBaTao, who is only 16 years old, is a little excited. It was useless for the court ministers to discuss anything, so they put on their armor and led a small number of imperial guards to the front.
In fact, Tuoba Tao is not young, but has answers. As early as when he was twelve years old, Tuoba Tao went to Hetao to defend the Great Wall against the gentle invasion. A child actually reorganized the border defense military affairs perfectly.
In April of the seventh year of Taichang (422), Tuoba Tao, aged 14, was made King of Taiping, and in May, he was appointed General Manager of State. Now he has just boarded Dabao and was invaded by a foreign country. Tuoba Tao smelled a large group of cunning rabbits like a young eagle flying into the blue sky.
Defenders and invaders collided head-on in the clouds (now Inner Mongolia and Linger), but Rouran Khan was definitely not a cunning rabbit on the grassland. It is no exaggeration to say that the 60,000 grassland fighters he led are a group of wild wolves on the grassland.
Moreover, the number of guards of Tuoba Tao is much less than that of the enemy. This is the first confrontation between the young eagle and the wolf.
Contrary to his father's cautious tactical style in fighting against the northern enemy, Tuoba Tao led his troops straight to Khan Zhong Jun, but because of the disparity in strength between the two sides, he was surrounded by Rouran Legion for more than 50 times.
Great fear glance left and right, but TaBaTao resolute dignified, unmoved. The guards are determined and give full play to the advantages of long-range weapons. Longbows and strong crossbows focused on the approaching Rouran army forwards and even shot Rouran's leading generals. Soft soldiers suddenly messed up, TaBaTao assault with the head. The enemy was defeated and retreated from Mobei.
The following year (425), because the war had just passed, both sides were resting their troops, but Tuoba Tao gave up the rest and personally led the troops to raid Rouran's main force. The Rouran army being prepared was caught off guard and the whole army was scattered.
In this way, the Northern Wei Dynasty kicked off the strategic counterattack against Rouran, and from then on, Tuoba Tao personally led the army to attack Rouran 13 times. In these offensive actions, Tuoba Tao personally led the army, made decisive decisions, made careful arrangements, paid attention to tactics and commanded flexibly. Or go hand in hand, lightly assault, or lure the enemy out of the city, ambush panic in, so as to win more victories.
In the fourth year of Guang Guang (427), Tuoba Tao led the Northern Wei cavalry to capture Tongwan City, the summer capital, which was located in the desert along the Salawusu River in the south of Ordos grassland. It was the capital of the summer in the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Northern Dynasties, commonly known as "Baichengzi" (now Baichengzi Village, Hongdunjie Township, Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province).
Cavalry siege? Barto-Tao started a grand war. He ambushed his main force in the valley and arrived at the gate with a small number of cavalry, deliberately showing weakness and luring Xia Jun out of the fortified city. When Xia Jun went out of the city to pursue, he adopted Ho Choi's plan, succeeded in sneak attack and won a great victory.
In 429, Tuoba Tao commanded the last battle with his old enemy Rouran, and the Northern Wei army was divided into two ways. On the east road, Tuoba Tao personally led the Qing Qi army to make a long-distance attack, and unexpectedly, he soon arrived in Lishui (now Wengjinhe in northwest Mongolia).
However, the soldiers and civilians were frightened to disgrace, and Tuoba Tao led the way and captured many enemies, so Khan fled far away. Since then, the northern frontier of the Northern Wei Dynasty has been quiet. History: Tuoba Tao went deep into Mobei, and finally made Rouran "dare not flee to the north, dare not return to the south" and "stop the police at the border". Later, Tuoba Tao defeated Koguryo, a subordinate tribe of Rouran, and its territory expanded by more than a thousand miles.
In 430, Emperor Liu Yilong of Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties sent troops to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Tuoba Tao made Huilong Wang, Han Yanzhi, Sima Xiuzhi and other northern Wei soldiers lead the army to resist. Liu Song's army returned in vain.
As a matter of fact, Tuoba Tao's success in foreign military affairs is not a natural SHEN WOO, but the result of his years of practical experience in running the army. Tuoba Tao often selects ordinary talents from soldiers to give full play to their strengths. Strictly manage the army, reward without leaving a base, punish without avoiding expensive.
Moreover, Tuoba Tao himself was simple and thrifty all his life, resolute and self-disciplined, straightforward and frank. After leading the army to attack the capital of Daxia country, Tuoba Tao could not help feeling when he saw the splendor of the Summer Palace: "How dare a country with a vertical son abuse the power of the people! How can it not perish! "
Later, some ministers protested, hoping that Taizu would rebuild Wantong City and decorate the palaces of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Tuoba Tao disagreed and retorted, "The ancients said it well:' Being in Germany is not dangerous.' Helian Bobo built such a powerful city of ten thousand cities, but I didn't destroy it in the end. Now that the world is not settled, we need more manpower to fight on the battlefield, instead of mobilizing ordinary people to build the walls of houses. "
From this alone, we can see that Tuoba Tao is not careless.
Less than ten years after he succeeded to the throne, Tuoba GUI had defeated the biggest enemy in the Central Plains at that time, and then he sought to destroy the mountain beard, surrendered to Shanshan, and went west. Xia Guo died in 43 1 year, and Beiyan died in 436.
In 423 AD, Tuoba Tao, who was 15 years old, proclaimed himself emperor and inherited the ancestral system of external expansion by any means. /kloc-began to attack foreign troops at the age of 0/6, and destroyed the summer at the age of 22. At the age of 23, he occupied Qiu Chi. Destroy the northern Yan state at the age of 28. More than ten years of fighting can be described as invincible! Its territory has far surpassed that of its ancestor Tuoba GUI and his father Tuoba Si.
Under the bloody management of Tuoba Tao, the Northern Wei Dynasty was gradually realizing the ideal that Tuoba's ancestors had never achieved.
In this process, Barto followed the ancestral teachings and always attached importance to Buddhism. Especially in 438 AD, most of northern China basically belonged to the Northern Wei Dynasty, leaving only a cool country in the north.