Junior Walking - Huo Zaiwei
Huo Zaiwei (140 BC - 117 BC) was a hussar general and grand marshal of the Western Han Dynasty, and one of the most outstanding military geniuses in Chinese history, a constant victorious general.
Heroes don't ask about their origins
Huo Zaiwei was born into a legendary family. He was the offspring of Wei Shao'er, a slave girl from Princess Pingyang's residence, and Huo Zhongru, a petty official from Pingyang County, who didn't dare to admit that he had fornicated with the princess's slave girl, so Huo Zaizi had to be born as an illegitimate child. With a father who didn't dare to admit his illegitimacy and a mother who was a slave girl, it looked as if Huo Zaizi would never be able to make a name for himself.
But a miracle came to the family.
Around the time when Huo was just a week old, his aunt Wei Zifu entered Emperor Wu's harem and was soon made a lady, second only to the empress. Huo Zaiwei's uncles, Wei Changjun and Wei Qing, were also then promoted to the rank of minister. The Wei family changed its fortunes from then on.
-At this point, I'm afraid no one thought that it wasn't just Wei Qing and Huo Zaodi who had their destinies changed, but also the many years of attacking and defending between Han and Xiong.
Liu Che, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, was an emperor of Chinese history who was quite successful in martial arts, and the Han Dynasty at that time, with its unstable borders, suffered from the Xiongnu people at times. As a nomadic people, the Xiongnu almost took the agricultural Han Dynasty as their own treasury, burning, killing and plundering everything. In the face of such a situation, the countries within the Great Wall have been unable to fundamentally change the situation since the Qin Dynasty, with very few victories, and more often than not, they can only hope to buy a temporary relative peace by making peace with their relatives and a large amount of "dowry" property.
The ambitious Emperor Wu wanted to change this situation, and he soon found someone around him who shared his vision: Wei Zifu's younger brother Wei Qing.
In the fifth year of Yuan Guang (130 BC), Wei Qing was appointed general of the Che Cavalry, and three other generals each led an army out of the city. During this expedition, three of the four armies were defeated, and especially outrageous was the fact that the veteran general Li Guang was captured by the Xiong Nu, and only with great difficulty did he escape and return. On the contrary, the first time out of the army "riding slave" Wei Qing, out of the upper valley straight into the dragon city, beheading the enemy 700, become a real "dragon city flying general".
Wei Qing's military genius impressed Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and he has been on many expeditions since then, with many successes.
The world's greatest warrior
While Wei Qing was building his career, Huo Daizi was also growing up. Under his uncle's influence, he had been skilled in horseback riding and archery since his childhood, and although he was young, he didn't want to stay in Chang'an City like other princes and grandchildren, who were indulging in sex and enjoying the shade of their elders. He longed for the day when he could kill the enemy and make a mark.
In the sixth year of Yuan Shuo (123 BC), Emperor Wu of Han once again planned a large-scale counterattack against Xiong Xing (the historically famous Battle of Desert South). Huo Zaodi, who was under the age of eighteen, volunteered to fight in the battle, and Emperor Wu appointed him as a Hussar Colonel to accompany the army.
On the battlefield, Huo asked to fight again and again, so Wei Qing gave him 800 cavalrymen.
Huo Zaiwei, with his blood and courage, led his first group of soldiers, Mercedes-Benz hundreds of miles in the vast desert in search of the enemy's traces, the result of his original "long-distance running" encounters the first battle, beheading the enemy more than 2,000 people, the Xiong Nu monarch's two uncles, one killed and one was captured alive. On the other hand, Huo Zaizi's 800 cavalrymen returned in one piece. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately named him "Marquis of Champion", praising his bravery.
Huo Zaizi's first battle, with such eye-catching results, announced to the world that the Han family's brightest generation of famous generals had emerged.
The God of War is Invincible
The Emperor of Han Wu was amazed at Huo Zaiwei's talent in using military force. Perhaps to test Huo Zaiwei's talent and courage one more time, in the spring of the second year of Yuanhao (121 B.C.E.), the Emperor of Han Wu appointed Huo Zaiwei as a hussar general, and allowed him to lead 10,000 elite troops alone to go on an expedition against the Xiong Nu (匈奴). This was the Great Battle of Hexi.
Nineteen-year-old commander Huo Zaiwei lived up to his name and fought a beautiful battle of great detours in a lightning run through thousands of miles of desert. In six days he fought the five tribes of the Xiongnu, storming all the way and fighting a hard life-and-death battle with the Xiongnu's Luhou and the king of the folded orchids in the Gaolan Mountains.
In this battle, Huo Zaiwei and his men took on the exhausted Xiongnu army, fighting with a determination to die as if they were at home, from top to bottom.
In the end, Huo won a resounding victory, with only 3,000 of his 10,000-strong army returning to Changan. The Huns suffered heavy losses - King Lu Hou and King Zuilan both died in battle, Prince Hunxie and his sages and lieutenants were made prisoners, and 8,960 of the enemy were beheaded, and the Hun Huotu Sacrifice of the Heavenly Gold Man became a trophy of the Han army.
After this battle of blood and fire, no one in the Han dynasty ever questioned the ability of the young Huo Daizi to command the army, and he became a model soldier and the embodiment of the spirit of martial arts in the Han army.
In the summer of the same year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to pursue the battle to recover the western part of the river.
In this battle, Huo Daizi became the commander-in-chief of the Han army, while Li Guang and others, who had been veterans for many years, acted only as his counter-measures.
The funny thing is that Gongsun Ao and other "old horses" who often run in the desert were not as good as Huo Zaoyi, the son of Chang'an two years ago, and they actually got lost in the desert and did not play the role of assisting as they should have. The old general Li Guang's troops were surrounded by the Xiong Nu Zuo Xian Wang.
Huo Daizi then once again marched alone and won another great victory.
It was in the Qilian Mountains that Huo Zaoyi's ministry decimated more than 30,000 of the enemy and captured five Xiong Nu princes, as well as the Xiong Nu big and small yu's, fifty-nine Xiong Nu princes, and the general of the Sangguo, Dangdudu***, counting sixty-three of them.
After this battle, the Xiong Nu had to retreat to the north of the Yanzhi Mountains, and the Han Dynasty recovered the plains of the west of the river. Once on the head of the Han Dynasty to do whatever they want, make the Han Dynasty people's families broke countless of Xiong Nu finally also sang a dirge: "Lost my Qilian Mountains, so that my six animals do not rest; Lost my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women have no color."
Since then, the Han army's military might has been greatly boosted, and the nineteen-year-old Huo Daizi has become the god of war who made the Xiongnu people afraid of fear.
The thing that really made Huo Zaiwei a god was the "Surrender at Hexi", which took place in the fall.
After two great battles in the west of the river, the Xiongnu monarchs wanted to deal ruthlessly with the defeated king of Hunxie, and when the news leaked out, the king of Hunxie and the king of Huotu wanted to surrender to the Han Dynasty.
Unaware of the authenticity of the surrender of the two Xiongnu kings, Emperor Wu of Han sent Huo Daizi to the Yellow River to accept the surrender.
When Huo led his troops to cross the Yellow River, there was a mutiny among the Xiong Nu's surrendered troops. In the face of such a situation, Huo Zaiwei personally rushed into the Xiongnu camp with only a few of his own soldiers, confronted the King of Hunxie, and ordered him to kill the mutinous soldiers.
We can never guess what was going through the mind of King Hunxie at that moment. At that moment, he had the opportunity to take Huo Zaizi hostage or kill him, and if he did so, Shan Yu would not only not kill him, but also reward him. In the end, however, the King of Hunxie gave up, and the aura of this young man who dared to risk his life without fear of death subdued him.
Huo Zaiwei's power not only calmed the king, but also the more than 40,000 Huns, who eventually prevented the mutiny from spreading.
The surrender at Hexi ended smoothly, while today we can only try to imagine with admiration how that nineteen-year-old boy stood in the enemy's tent at a time when the situation was confusing and crisis-ridden and subdued 40,000 soldiers and 8,000 mutineers outside the tent with just a single expression and a single gesture.
The Han dynasty's map, from now on more Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang four counties. The Hexi Corridor was formally incorporated into the Han Dynasty.
This was the first time in Chinese history that a foreigner surrendered to a foreign enemy, which not only raised the eyebrows of the Han people who had suffered from the Xiongnu for a hundred years, but also gave the Han people the confidence of being a strong man.
Beating the Wolf
In the fourth year of the Yuanhao era (117 B.C.E.), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched the "Great War of the Desert North," a battle of unprecedented proportions, in order to eliminate the main force of the Xiongnu.
By this time, Huo Zaiwei had undisputedly become the trump card of the Han army. Emperor Wu trusted Huo's ability so much that in the planning of the war, he had originally arranged for him to fight against Shan Yu, but due to an intelligence error, the matchup became Wei Qing's, and Huo failed to meet his most eager opponent, but instead ran into the Ministry of the Left-Hyun King.
However, this battle could well be considered the pinnacle of Huo's career.
In the process of searching for the main force of the Xiongnu in the desert, Huo led his troops on a raid of more than 2,000 kilometers, annihilating more than 70,000 of the enemy with a loss of 15,000, capturing three Xiongnu princes and 83 generals and sages of Dangdudu. About the desire to run into the Xiongnu monarchs, the "lone wolf" Huo Zaiwei chased all the way to the area of the Kent Mountains in present-day Mongolia.
It was here that Huo Zaiwei made a pause and led his army to perform the ceremony of sacrificing to heaven and earth - the heavenly sealing ceremony was held at Wolf Juxu Mountain, and the earthly Zen ceremony was held at Gouyan Mountain. It was a ceremony and a determination.
After sealing Wolf Juxu, Huo Zaiwei continued to lead his army to pursue the Xiong Nu and fought all the way to Hanhai (present-day Lake Berga in Russia) before returning to the army.
What an achievement it was to start from Chang'an and run all the way to Belga Lake, winning great victories along the way in an almost completely unfamiliar environment!
After this battle, "the Huns were far away and there was no royal court in the south of the desert".
Huo Zaizi and his "sealing the wolves" have since become the highest pursuit in the lives of Chinese warriors of all generations, a lifelong dream of struggle.
This year, Huo was only twenty-two years old.
Even after his death, he still smells the fragrance of chivalry
After accomplishing such an unparalleled feat, Huo Zaizi also reached the peak of his life: the Great General and the Great Secretary of State.
However, only two years later, in the sixth year of Yuanhari (117 B.C.), at the age of 24, the great general Huo Zaiwei died.
Emperor Wu of Han was very saddened by Huo's death. He mobilized an army of iron armor and lined up in formation along Chang'an all the way to Huo Zaiwei's grave in Maoling. He also ordered Huo Zaiwei's grave to be repaired to look like the Qilian Mountains, to show off his miraculous success in overcoming the Xiongnu.
Huo Zaiwei was posthumously named Marquis Jinghuan.
Huo Zaiwei was born a slave and grew up in Qilian Mountain, but he never indulged in wealth and luxury, and he put the safety of his country and the building of his career before everything else.
The Han emperor once built a luxurious mansion for Huo Zaiwei, but Huo Zaiwei refused to accept it, saying, "Before the Xiong Nu is extinguished, what is home for?" This short eight words, because from the mouth of Huo Zaiwei and the words, shocking, engraved in the successive generations of soldiers to protect the country's heart.
Huo Daizi was a man of few words and never spoke empty words. Emperor Wu of Han once wanted to personally teach him the art of war of Sun-Wu, to which he replied, "War should be fought randomly, and the times are changing, the ancient art of war is no longer appropriate."
When Huo Zhongru was unwilling to be the father of Huo Zaodong in the womb, Wei Shao'er never told him of his birth. When he had achieved unparalleled feats, he finally learned the cause and effect. Right after he became a hussar general, he came to Pingyang (Linfen, Shanxi) and knelt down to his father, Huo Zhongru, who had deserted him that year, and said, "Going to be sick did not know that he was the son of a lord earlier, and did not fulfill his filial duties." Huo Zhongru was too ashamed to respond, and replied, "The old minister has been entrusted with the general, and this is the power of heaven." Subsequently, Huo Zhaizi bought a house for Huo Zhongru, who had never done his father's duty for a single day, and brought Huo Guang, the son of his stepmother, to Chang'an to be cultivated.
The teenage general Huo Zaiwei was not a perfect man; he once shot Li Dang and was once a severe opponent. However, he was still the god of the army, and all the soldiers aspired to be his subordinates and follow him to kill the enemy. In his life, he led four official attacks on the Xiong Nu, and all of them returned with great victories, destroying 110,000 enemies and subduing 40,000, opening up new frontiers and expanding the territory, and his war achievements were even more spectacular than those of his uncle, Wei Qing.
For the whole world military history and Chinese history, Huo Daizi is the legend of a thousand years.
After a thousand years, the world still thinks of the young general Huo Daizi's overwhelming style, falls for his spirit and wisdom and courage, and boils with blood for his ambition to protect his country without being fond of luxury.
Attachment
Li Bai 《胡无人》
Seaweed is withered by the harsh winds of frost, the sinews and sinews of Hu Ma are proud. There are 300,000 warriors of the Han family, and the general is also the leader of the Huojuan Yao. The white feathers of the shooting star were stuck in his waist, and the light of the sword was out of the box. The heavenly army went down to the Jade Pass in the snow, and the arrows of the captors were like sand shooting at the golden armor. The clouds, dragons, winds and tigers were all handed back, and the enemy could be destroyed when Tai Bai entered the moon. The enemy can be destroyed, banner extinguished, fulfill Hu's intestines involved in Hu's blood. The blue sky is hanging over Hu, and the purple stuff is buried beside Hu. The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of the night, when I was in the middle of the night.
Wang Wei's "The Journey of a Young Man"
Born in the Han Dynasty as a feathered warrior, Wang Wei first followed the Hussars in the battle of Yuyang. I know that I will not suffer in the border court, but even if I die, I will still smell the fragrance of my chivalrous bones.
Tiankhan--Li Shimin
He has been a hero since he was a teenager, and he is both a scholar and a warrior, as well as a man of wisdom and courage. At the age of seventeen, he charged into battle and led the troops; at the age of nineteen, he opened a literary center and was a brilliant writer. He was the one who really made the Tang Dynasty brilliant in martial arts and splendid in literature. Since he was a Chinese emperor, so many people don't know that he was the first brave general, the first wise man and the first talented man of the flourishing Tang Dynasty.
He was Li Shimin, Emperor Wen of the Tang Dynasty.
Youthful Brave
Li Shimin was born on January 23, 599 AD as the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and his wife Dou. It is said that when he was four years old, a scholar said that he was, "A dragon and phoenix, a watch of the heavenly sun, and able to help the world and the people at the age of a weak crown." Li Yuan then adopted the scholar's words and named his son "Shimin".
We don't need to go into the truth of this story, but Li Shimin, as he grew up, soon showed his extraordinary talent and skill.
615 AD (Sui Daye 11 years) in August, Yang Guang, Emperor Yang was Turkic Shibi Khan rate hundreds of thousands of riders besieged in Yanmen. The situation is very critical. In desperation, Emperor Yang sent someone to tie the imperial edict on a piece of wood and threw it into the Fen River, and then sent out a message to recruit the royal forces in the whole country. Sixteen-year-old Li Shimin did not hesitate to join the rescue team.
At the beginning, the army was not yet able to gather enough numbers and appeared to be outnumbered. Li Shimin then advised the Tunwei general Wei Dingxing to think of ways to confuse the Turks and make them think that the Sui army was huge in numbers. "We must present flags and drums to set up a suspicious army. And Shibi Khan's army of the country, dare to encircle the son of heaven, must be in a state of haste and without assistance. I open the army, so that dozens of miles of flags and banners continue, the night is gongs and drums accordingly, the captives will be said to save the troops gathered, look at the dust and disappear. Otherwise, they are many and I am few, all the army to fight, will not be able to support carry on." Sure enough, the Turkic army can not feel the reality, looking at the reinforcements from the eyes of the troops galloped past, but do not dare to attack.
The Battle of Yanmen was the first time in his life that Li Shimin formally participated in a military formation, and his military genius and strategy were also revealed in this battle.
Two years later (617 A.D.), Li Yuan assumed the post of governor of Taiyuan, and the eighteen-year-old Li Shimin followed his father to Taiyuan. At that time, wars were raging all over the Sui dynasty, and soon an army came to attack Taiyuan. Li Yuan led his troops to attack and fell deep into the enemy lines. At this critical juncture, Li Shimin rode into the army to join his father, and the father and son combined their efforts to break out of the siege.
The Sui dynasty was already in a state of turmoil at this time, and Li Shimin was able to make friends with a wide range of heroes and heroines, and all those who knew him were willing to die for him. At this time, one of his close friends Jinyang magistrate Liu Wenjing was implicated in the incident in prison, Li Shimin took the opportunity to visit the prison, and Liu Wenjing to discuss the plan to rise up. He then relayed the plan to his father's close friend Pei Silence, and through some deliberation, Li Yuan recalled his eldest son Jiancheng, his fourth son Yuanji, his son-in-law Chai Shao and his daughter in Chang'an in the month of May that year, and raised an army to start a war.
First appointed as the King of Qin
After the army was raised, twenty-eight-year-old Li Jiancheng became the left leader of the army, and eighteen-year-old Li Shimin became the right leader of the army, cooperating with each other in battle. Li Shimin was the one who had the most outstanding achievements and the most decisive talent in the war.
When the army westward to Jahu Fort, encountered the Sui army resistance, a long time to attack down, and encountered a long rain cut food. Li Yuan then discussed with Pei Sil, wanting to retreat back to Taiyuan and make plans later.
When Li Shimin heard the order to retreat, he immediately objected, saying, "Our intention is to raise an army to save the people, so we must enter the capital city with a bang to command the world, but if we encounter a small difficulty and then retreat, we are likely to make the various heroes who have followed us part ways with us. Moreover, if we are satisfied with the possession of Taiyuan alone, how can we call ourselves a righteous army, and what difference is there between us and the rebels who have cut themselves off from the rest of the world? How can we be self-sufficient!"
Li Yuan did not listen and pressed for a retreat. Li Shimin then found his elder brother Jiancheng, stood outside the tent and cried so bitterly that his voice was heard inside the tent. Li Yuan did not expect to fight the war is not afraid of death son actually cry, very surprised, and quickly asked why.
Li Shimin replied: "Today's soldiers move with righteousness, into the battle is bound to overcome, retreat is bound to disperse. The crowd dispersed in front, the enemy multiplied in the back, death will come in a moment, it is the sad ear!" Li Yuan finally came to a realization, and immediately dismissed the idea of retreat.
After the rain stopped, Li Shimin was the first to ask for orders to go out to the battlefield, and with a few cavalrymen, he ventured to the bottom of the city to provoke the city guards with a trick to induce them to go out to the battlefield. After the battle, the Sui army rushed to the east of the city where Li Yuan and Jiancheng were fighting instead of to the south where Li Shimin and Chai Shao were fighting, and Li Jiancheng fell off his horse in the confusion, and the soldiers all retreated. At this critical moment, Li Shimin personally led two horsemen from the south of the city to rush to their aid, and under his example, the generals rushed to kill, and the Sui army did not expect such a change, and soon turned their victory into a defeat, and the Tang army successfully captured this crucial battle.
Afterward, Li Shimin once again suggested to Li Yuan to enter the pass and take Yongfeng warehouse to relieve the poor people. After this battle, Li Yuan was already very convinced of his second son's military genius and immediately adopted it.
Subsequently, Li Shimin led the vanguard forces to pacify the Weibei region, and the whole way was as strong as a bamboo wall. In all the battles, he personally went into battle and took on the most dangerous charge, often riding lightly with a few men deep into the enemy line, no different from today's action-packed blockbusters in the lone hero. Moreover, he was courteous to his men and put his heart into them. And the military discipline is strict, no offense to the people.
Soon the young Li Shimin's fame was so great that wherever he went, officials, civilians, tycoons and good men from all over the world raised their families to join him, so much so that they were counted by thousands every day.
In November of the thirteenth year of the Daiye era, the Tang army conquered Chang'an, and Li Yuan installed Yang Yu, the grandson of Yang Guang, as Emperor Gong of Sui, and renamed the year Yi Ning. Li Shimin was appointed Duke of Qin for his military service. At this point in time, only a year and a half after the initial military campaign, Li Shimin was just nineteen years old.
A few months later, Emperor Gong of Sui "abdicated" to Li Yuan, and the Tang dynasty was formally established under the name of Wude. Li Shimin was crowned King of Qin.
The King of Qin breaks through
In March of the first year of Wude (618 AD), the Gansu warlord Xue Ju and Xue Rengao raised an army of 100,000 men to invade Guanzhong, and Li Shimin led his troops to attack the city. He skillfully used his tactics and strategy to lead dozens of horsemen into the enemy's line in the actual battle, which boosted the morale of the Tang army, and led to Xue Rengao's defeat.
In October of the second year of the Wude era (619 AD), Liu Wuzhou, a native of Shanxi, rebelled. Li Yuanji, Pei Silence, and others led a conquest, but were defeated. Liu's army soon occupied almost all of Hedong, and pushed into the center of Guanzhong. Seeing this momentum, Tang Emperor Li Yuan was ready to give up Hedong and defend Tongguan Pass. At this time, it was Li Shimin who stepped forward and led 30,000 soldiers to cross the Yellow River in the cold month of November. He soon defeated Liu Wuzhou's elite force, Song Jingang's troops.
During the battle, as he and his elite troops advanced too fast for the larger troops and provisions to catch up, his strategist Liu Hongji pulled his horse and begged him bitterly to pause for a rest, which he refused, saying, "I will do my best to martyr my country, will I not care for my body!" Said, he led the Department to catch up with the enemy, a day and a night to run more than 200 miles, on the way to the size of the battle dozens of together, two days without food, three days without armor, the only remaining sheep in the army also insisted on and the soldiers to share the food. Eventually, they found Song Jin Gang's main force in Jiexiu, Shanxi Province, and immediately launched an attack, breaking through the other side's eight lines of defense and wiping out more than 10,000 enemies in one day. On the next day, the ninth pass organized by Song King Kong was also broken through by Li Shimin, wiping out 3,000 enemies. Li Shimin's desperate style of fighting made his men brave and became a death squad. This kind of momentum makes the whole Song Jin Gang Department were shocked, morale is not only low, is simply collapse, to wait for the 100,000 army actually so by Li Shimin led a few thousand labor hungry army beaten into shape.
When he and his army appeared outside of Hochow like a miraculous force from heaven, Fan Botong, the governor of Hochow's marching army, and Zhang Dezheng could hardly believe that this was true, until Li Shimin took off his armor to reveal his face, and all the people in the city burst into tears of joy. It was only then that the generals told the people and soldiers in the city that King Li Shimin had won the victory on an empty stomach, and therefore had not eaten for two days.
While Li Shimin was pursuing Liu Wuzhou, another army was taking advantage of the situation. This was Wang Shichong of Luoyang, who had installed Yang Dong, the king of Yue, as Emperor Huangtai. Wang Shichong had defeated the Wagang army and forced Li Mi to defect to Li Yuan, and in the process he also collected famous generals such as Qin Shubao, Cheng Biaojin, Luo Shixin and Shan Xiongxin. He took advantage of Li Shimin's duel with Liu Wuzhou to use his army against Guanzhong, and the Tang army retreated, eventually saving only the land within the Hangu Pass.
However, Wang Shichong had no ambition and was not only a superstitious sorcerer, but also a nepotist. Therefore, in the second year of the Wude leap February, he and the Tang army fighting in the Jiuqu, the two armies against each other, Qin Shubao and Cheng Biaojin but suddenly led dozens of riders of cronies out of the team, to Wang Shichong salute said: "I received the public, and very much want to repay the favor. Public nature guess two, evening more fan confusion, non-servant body of the place, today I would like to resign." Polite and courteous finished, dozens of people will turn the head of the horse, the public galloped into the Tang army array went. In July of the same year, is also the Wagang army origin Luo Shixin (Luo Cheng?). The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of the night, when I was in the middle of the night, when I was in the middle of the night.
Qin Shubao, Cheng Biaojin, and Luo Shixin, after joining the Tang army, were immediately assigned to the Qin Wangfu, became subordinates of Li Shimin, and joined the battle against Liu Wuzhou. Li Shimin to them extraordinarily reuse, but also Qin Shubao and Cheng Biaojin appointed to serve as their own Qin Wangfu pro cavalry Xuanjia guards leader, when Li Shimin personally charged forward, they will follow the left and right, the main subordinates of the same as the death squad, become the Tang Dynasty army a unique landscape.
In April of the third year of Wude (620 AD), Li Shimin annihilated Liu Wuzhou's army and recaptured all of Hedong.
In July of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin, who had just finished his campaign against Liu, did not breathe a sigh of relief before he led 30,000 troops out of the pass to attack Wang Shichong, who had already made himself Emperor Zheng.
When the two armies faced each other at the beginning, Li Shimin did not have the advantage. In July, he led dozens of riders to challenge the enemy in person, and was caught in the siege of the enemy's army, which was a hundred or ten times larger than his own. Seeing the enemy situation, Li Shimin left and right of the battle-hardened cronies can not help but show fear. Li Shimin ordered all the people to retreat, and he himself stayed behind. Wang Shichong sent Shan Xiongxin to chase after him with hundreds of horses. Li Shimin, who was alone, was fearless, and his arrows were fired without fail, and the pursuers all fell down. As a result, he not only returned in one piece, but also captured the general Yan Chip.
A similar thing happened again two months later. In September, Li Shimin took 500 cavalrymen to survey the terrain, and unexpectedly met Wang Shichong's army of more than 10,000 men on a narrow road. The result of this battle, in which there was a huge disparity in numbers, was eye-watering: Li Shimin and his 500 light troops killed more than 3,000 of the enemy, and gained the great general Chen Zhiliu, while Wang Shichong escaped only thanks to his fast horse.
Li Shimin's dazzling fame and prestige, needless to say, made all the generals' hearts yearn for him, so that just three months into the war, many of Wang Shichong's men defected to Li Shimin: Zhang Gongjin, Deng Zhou, Tian Zan, Shi Derui, Zhang Zhenzhou, Guo Qing, Wei Lu, and Wang Zhihan. There were dozens of states and counties that followed them to the Tang army.
Wang Shichong saw that the Tang army was unstoppable and had to send for help from Dou Jiande, the king of Xia. Dou Jiande sent 100,000 troops (known as 300,000) to help at the beginning of the fourth year of Wude. Before that, most of the Tang army could not get along well against the Xia army. Therefore, upon learning this news, the famous Tang generals, including Qu Tutong, found it difficult to resist the enemy and proposed to retreat. Li Shimin, however, made a bold decision: to leave Li Yuanji and Qu Qututong to besiege Luoyang, and to lead his own elite cavalry of 3,500 men to rush to Hujian Pass before Dou Jiande to face him.
When Li Shimin took his own troops of soldiers and traveled day and night without sleep, he finally arrived at Hujingguan Pass a day later. By this time, Dou Jiande's army was less than 30 miles away.
After a night's rest, Li Shimin immediately took 500 cavalrymen out of the pass to challenge them. Along the way, he divided his troops to Qin Shubao and Cheng Biaojin to set up ambushes along the way, and he himself ended up only with Yuchi Jingde to take four men to the Xia army camp. The Xia army immediately sent more than 5,000 cavalry to pursue the attack. Seeing that the young King of Qin only brought such a few close friends, they were both afraid of an ambush and couldn't let go of such an opportunity, so Li Shimin and Yuchi Jingde lured the cavalry all the way to the ambush circle of the 500 Tang troops. Qin Shubao and Cheng Biaojin immediately took action, and the Xia army, which had been lured by Li Shimin all the way to his heart, was in great disarray, losing more than 300 men, and generals Yin Qiu and Shi Zan also became prisoners.
After this battle, the summer army did not dare to easily out of the battlefield, the two armies actually so in the tiger prison pass against a month. The hesitant Dou Jiande then had the idea of turning to attack Shanxi. This forced Li Shimin to change the idea of "guarding the pass", but to try to defeat the Xia army.
How can 3,500 men defeat 100,000?
On May 1, Li Shimin sent a thousand horses out to graze, creating the illusion that the cavalry had no horses, and luring Dou Jiande, who wanted to fight in Shanxi, to go to war. Dou Jiande indeed on the next day in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, want to take Tiger Prison. Li Shimin's brave generals, the Xia army's first small-scale challenge on the bad luck: just because Li Shimin on the summer general Wang Wan's buckskin horse praise, Yuchi Jingde will not be able to help out, not only immediately captured Wang Wan alive, but also the horse also took back.
Just as the Xia army was dumbfounded by this scene, at noon Li Shimin sent Yuwen Shihe to lead a lone attack with 300 riders. Thinking that there was an opportunity to take advantage of this, Dou Jiande sent thousands of his elite cavalry to chase him far away. As a result, Li Shimin's plan was realized, and he ordered his generals to bring the remaining 3,000 elite Tang soldiers to storm the summer camp where they were having a meal and meeting. Dou Jiande and his army of 100,000 people could not have imagined that someone would actually take 3,000 people to charge 100,000 people like this, did not make any preparations, and immediately messed up.
In this chaos, Dou Jiande was captured alive by Tang generals Bai Shijiang and Yang Wuwei, and the battle was declared over. In the Battle of Tiger Prison in Tangxia, Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000-strong army with 3,500 men and captured more than 50,000 prisoners.
The twenty-two-year-old Li Shimin created a miracle in the world's military history.
Wang Shichong, who was waiting for the summer army in Luoyang, never dreamed that what he was expecting was Dou Jiande, who was escorted by the Tang army. He had no choice but to open the city and surrender.
The creation of the Tang dynasty
In June of the same year, Li Shimin led the army triumphant, personally clad in gold armor, with 10,000 iron horseback riding, armor 30,000 people, Chen before and after the Department of drums, will be the Sui Zhengxia three dynasties of artifacts in the carriage chariot offered to enjoy the Imperial Temple. The happy Li Yuan in October of the high ancestor will make the achievements of Li Shimin as "Tianze generals", located in the princes and dukes above, available at the level of the emperor's coronet, drums and ceremonies.
Take a break from the battlefield, Li Shimin regained the literature, the opening of the Museum of Literature, widely recruited learned men to Du Ruhi as the head of the "18 Bachelor" are at this time to join the Qin Wangfu. Li Shimin and these learned Confucian poetry and singing, his literary attainments also reached a considerable degree. All Tang Poetry says that his "poetic brushwork is excellent in cursive and clerical style, and is of the highest antiquity," and that his "Tianwen Xiuha is of the highest elegance, and the emperor has really started it.
With the passage of time, Li Shimin, a brilliant writer and martial artist, gradually became a thorn in the side of the Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, and because of his "great achievements", the people returned to the heart of the world and sang the song "The King of Qin's Broken Battle Music", so much so that Li Yuan, who had once promised Li Shimin's successor, started to show his support for him after repeated waverings and changes of heart. Li Yuan, who had promised to let Li Shimin succeed the throne, began to be suspicious of him after repeated vacillations. Wude nine years, Li Yuan ordered Cheng Biaojin transferred away from the capital as Kangzhou assassin, after Cheng Biaojin resisted the order, and then ordered Qin Shubao, Cheng Biaojin, Yuchi Jingde, Duan Zhixuan and other people with Li Yuanji expedition to the Turkic, so as to discrete Li Shimin's strength, to achieve the ultimate goal.
On June 4 of the ninth year of the Wudu era, Li Shimin, who had been pushed to the brink of extinction by his father and brothers, finally staged the Xuanwumen Incident at the urging of his subordinates, killing the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi, Li Yuanji. Two days later, Li Yuan made Li Shimin the crown prince. In August, at the age of twenty-seven, Li Shimin became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Ten days after his accession to the throne, the Turkic Jieli Khan tried to take advantage of the change of the Tang dynasty to invade, and Li Shimin sent Yuchi Jingde to defeat the Turks. A few days later, the Jie Li and not dead hearted to lead the army pushed forward, directly to the bridge on the Wei Shui. Li Shimin was furious at the news, and before the Tang army left, he took Fang Xuanling and six others to ride to the Wei River first, and met Jie Li across the river and rebuked him. Soon the Tang army arrived one after another, Jie Li Khan saw both Li Shimin fearless, but also see the Tang army strict, can not help but great fear and please. The next day, Li Shimin again personally arrived at the bridge, and Jie Li Khan set up an alliance, Turkic retreat. Returned to the Jie Li Khan more and more think more and more afraid, and immediately sent people to send three thousand steeds, 10,000 fat sheep to show goodwill. Li Shimin refused to accept the Turk's gift, ordered him to must immediately return the captivity of the people of the Great Tang in the past years.
From then on, Li Shimin formally began his 22-year-long "reign of Zhengan.
Li Shimin is the only emperor in Chinese history who was outstanding in civil and military affairs as well as in character and benevolence. Under his rule, the Tang dynasty was invincible externally, with four barbarians submitting to it and ten thousand nations coming to the Tang Dynasty; and internally, it was politically clear and accommodating, with no racial or religious distinctions. Literary skills were even more colorful. He founded the Hongwenkan, which enrolled the children of the royal family and high-ranking officials in school, and made the learning style flourish. The poetry of the Tang Dynasty is still a marvel in the history of world literature, and the poetry of the Tang Dynasty is magnificent, and the literary style of the world is to protect the country and join the army as their own duty is unprecedented, and is by no means comparable to that of the later generations of literati and ink masters. And such a style, there is no doubt with the Tang Emperor Li Shimin has an inseparable relationship.
In March 630 A.D., the chiefs of the various tribes of the western and northern borders gathered in Chang'an and proposed to honor the thirty-one-year-old Li Shimin as the head of all the tribes **** the same. From then on, Li Shimin was not only the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also the "Heavenly Khan" of the neighboring countries.
To this day, the Tang Dynasty, the Zhen Guan monarchs and ministers, is still the most splendid and proud memory of China's 5,000 years of history. And Li Shimin is, without a doubt, the most deserving emperor of the ages.
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Repeat Shaan to describe the memory of Li Shimin
Lovely strokes the long sword, the world will not invite the name. The stars and banners are in a flurry, and the sun and feathers are in the sky. I have been in the middle of a long journey, and I have been in the middle of a long journey, and I have been in the middle of a long journey. I've been to the mountains, I've been to the waters, I've been to the mountains, I've been to the waters, I've been to the waters. In the past, the military and the military were in flux, but today the universe is at peace.
Luckily, Wugong Qingshan Palace, Li Shimin
Shouqiu is only the old traces, Fengyi is the former foundation. I have been a member of the Saints since I was born, and I am now here. I am now in a position to take up my sword and make my fortune in the world. He has commanded the eight wildernesses to be settled, and has been kind to ten thousand countries and razed them. The mountains were paid for, and the sea was also visited. I have accompanied you in your tent, and I have been reading the machine since day one. I have searched the four mountains, and I have done nothing. Autumn is bright and frosty, and light ice forms on the water. The yellow of the trees is all over the marshy land, and the harvests are all over the capital city. ***I am happy to return to my hometown, and I am happier than the poems of the great winds.