Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2662 Wanyan Surrenders to the Qing, Yelü Family Divides
Putting aside personality factors, just considering the monarchs, which one of them had a good ending after surrendering?

Others can do it, but he alone cannot surrender.

However, Tuoba Hong did not agree with Tuoba Gui's crazy idea of ​​risking everything.

Undoubtedly, Tuoba Gui, the founding emperor, and Tuoba Hong, the reformer, were the most outstanding monarchs in the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

However, the difference between the founding emperor and the successor emperor was already evident in these two individuals.

For Tuoba Hong, he was willing to die rather than surrender, but fighting to the last moment until his death did not mean that he was willing to risk the lives of his entire tribe, or even the lives of all the people on the grassland.

Therefore, from this moment on, a rift developed between Tuoba Gui and Tuoba Hong.

At the same time, in order to prevent Tuoba Gui from really risking the lives of his entire clan and all the people of the grasslands.

While personally comforting Tuoba Gui, Tuoba Hong had his advisor Dongfang Ji contact ten ministers or generals of Tuoba Wei, including Guo Yaoshi, Daxi Wu, Xi Kang Sheng, He Lou Zi Gan, Xing Luan, He Ba Yue, and Li Chong.

After three years of the pandemic, Tuoba Hong presided over the economic recovery of Tuoba Wei and ruled the court for so many years. How could he not have his own team? How could he not even have a few close friends?

However, despite several attempts by Tuoba Hong to change Tuoba Gui's mind, Tuoba Hong ultimately took the path he least wanted to take, leaving him with no other choice.

In mid-August, Tuoba Hong released Yuan Zan, Yuan Yu, Yuan Tianmu, Tuoba Yi, Yi Gui, Yu Libei and others from prison and launched a coup. Because this year was the year of the fall of the Tuoba Wei dynasty, later historical records referred to this coup as the "Chang'e Coup at the End of Wei".

At the beginning of the coup, Tuoba Gui was caught off guard, but with the protection of Shan Shituo, Zuo Xiong and other guards, and with the help of Wanyan Chegai, he was able to escape from the royal court.

Under normal circumstances, if things had developed to this point, Tuoba Hong's coup would most likely have failed.

After all, Tuoba Gui was the rightful emperor with a righteous reputation. Moreover, Tuoba Gui had great ambitions in the army. If he escaped, he could quickly gather troops and retake the royal court.

However, this is only under normal circumstances. Nowadays, there are the Yuan Mongols and the Manchus on the outside.

Therefore, from the day Tuoba Gui left the royal court, he had no chance to return.

On the other hand, Tuoba Hong was surrounded by a large number of surrender factions or fence-sitters. He simply did not have the same courage as Tuoba Gui to fight to the last moment and risk everything.

Therefore, three days later, Tuoba Hong formally surrendered the royal court and submitted to the Yuan Mongols, and subsequently took over the so-called Tuoba Khanate.

Furthermore, after that, he helped the Yuan Mongols persuade the various tribes of the Tuoba Wei to surrender.

However, although Tuoba Hong was stabbing Tuoba Gui with the final blow, Tuoba Wei, though clearly beyond saving, was still making a last-ditch effort.

After all, Tuoba Gui was still alive at this time.

Tuoba Hong was able to succeed in his coup because his troops were all at the front lines, leaving the royal court vulnerable, and his main forces were concentrated in the royal court.

After leaving the royal court, Tuoba Gui's first priority was to take control of his troops.

However, after repeated defeats, Tuoba Wei's army, which numbered nearly 200,000 at its peak, has dwindled to a mere 40,000 combat-ready soldiers.

With the royal court lost, his subordinates were in complete panic. After all, Tuoba Gui had only recently ascended to the throne and had not yet had time to win over the hearts of all parties, yet Tuoba Wei was already facing such a situation.

Therefore, at this time, people's hearts were in turmoil faster than he had imagined.

If Tuoba Tao were alive, even if he still couldn't change the eventual demise, he wouldn't have fallen to this state so quickly.

It wasn't because Tuoba Tao was significantly more capable than Tuoba Gui, but rather because they differed in their level of control over their subordinates.

The Wanyan lineage, represented by Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongbi, and Wanyan Xiyin, led their trusted confidants and direct followers to surrender to the Qing.

Before this, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongbi had fought incredibly fierce battles against the Yuan Dynasty, even more intensely than the battles fought by their own Tuoba family members.

The reason for this was an inexplicable deep-seated hatred for the Yuan Mongols, rather than entirely out of loyalty to Tuoba Gui.

When Tuoba Gui reached his wit's end, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongbi ultimately chose to betray him.

But it was precisely because of their deep-seated hatred for the Yuan Mongols that, even though the Yuan Mongols were powerful at this time, they could not surrender to the Yuan Mongols, but to another Manchu dynasty.

However, the time for everyone to kick someone when they're down has come. The Wanyan lineage is not the only one to betray the regime; the Yelü lineage also betrayed it.

However, the Yelü lineage did not share the same unfounded hatred for the Yuan Mongols as the Wanyan lineage. Naturally, they could not choose the weak Manchu Qing at this time, but instead chose the powerful Yuan Mongols and the equally powerful Great Jin.

From this point on, just as when Yelü Aguda was destroyed, the Yelü lineage split into two parts. At this time, the Yelü lineage again split into two parts.

Yelü Deguang, son of Yelü Abaoji, surrendered to Jin with Yelü Longxu, Yelü Xian, Yelü Liuge, and others.

Yelü Lihu, along with Xiao Tianzuo, Xiao Tianyou, Yelü Xiuge, and Yelü Xiezhen, surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty.

For the Yelü lineage, their choices were indeed far more numerous than those of others.

Whether they ultimately chose the Great Jin or the Yuan Dynasty, their family wasn't exactly adrift and rootless. Even if they didn't become extremely wealthy and powerful after going there, they at least had a basic guarantee of security.

In the harem of Emperor Li Xiang of the Great Jin Dynasty, there were three concubines from the Xiao clan. The Yelü lineage and the Xiao clan were originally intertwined on the grasslands.

On the Yuan-Mongol side, Yelü Chucai held a high position, which was enough to guarantee their safety.

Undoubtedly, the betrayal of these two families dealt another heavy blow to Tuoba Gui, who was already at his wit's end.

They left not only themselves, but also their trusted followers.

Although they initially took only a small number of people to prevent leaks, the two families combined still managed to take away a total of over 10,000 troops.

From then on, the Manchus officially ceased their activities, remaining vigilant while temporarily displaying a submissive attitude towards the Yuan Mongols.

As for the Yuan Mongols, they began to focus on completely eliminating the last bit of power of Tuoba Gui.