In the winter of the first year of Wu De, Li Mi was not willing to be subordinated to others, and found an excuse to go out of Tongguan in the east in order to make a comeback.
He told Li Yuan that he had not made any contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and he was really embarrassed to receive so much favor, and he heard that the old general of Wagang who had defected to Wang Shichong was very dissatisfied with Wang Shichong, so it was better to send him to recruit these soldiers, he was also the old leader of Wagang, and he still had some weight in his speech, hoping that Li Yuan would give him the opportunity to make meritorious achievements.
Li Yuan fulfilled Li Mi's request and appointed Wang Bodang as his second-in-command.
On the first day of December of the first year of Wu De's reign, Li Mi led his old army of about 20,000 people to the east, and Li Yuan, fearing that Li Mi had a different heart, sent Li Shimin to lead the main force to follow him and supervise Li Mi's every move.
Li Yuan gave him two instructions on Li Mi's way to the east, and these two instructions eventually forced Li Mi to rebel, and Li Mi's men left him one after another, and only Wang Bodang vowed to follow him to the death, preferring to die rather than betray Li Mi.
Li Mi and Wang Bodang stills
There are not many historical records of Wang Bodang, but he was indeed as loyal and righteous as interpreted in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the peasant rebel army was surging and Wang Bodang was also revolting in Jiyang.
After the uprising, Wang Bodang became acquainted with Li Mi, who was a first-class wanted criminal in the imperial court at that time, and he had joined forces with Yang Xuangan, the son of Yang Su, the founding hero of the Sui Dynasty, to launch a mutiny a few years ago, which ended in failure, and Li Mi escaped from prison on the way to the palace of the Sui Emperor.
Later, Li Misi came and went to prepare to surrender to the peasant rebel army, and at first he found Hao Xiaode and Wang Bo.
However, these peasant rebels were afraid of Li Mishu's big move, and if they took him in and recruited the main force of the Sui army, wouldn't they kill themselves?
Li Mi, who had been eating closed doors, continued to embark on his road of exile, and later Li Mi came to Huaiyang, Henan, and the coils ran out, in order to make a living, he could only change his name and surname to call Liu Zhiyuan as a teacher, and as a result, his identity was exposed, and Li Mi was forced to flee everywhere.
At this time, there were several armed forces around Luoyang, namely Wang Dangren from Waihuang, Wang Bodang from Jiyang, Zhou Wenju from Weicheng, and Li Gongyi from Yongqiu.
Wang Bodang stills
Li Mi tried everything to persuade them to take them in and accept his own strategy.
At first these people ignored him, and over time they gathered to discuss.
Some people say that Li Mi is a son of the Gaomen clan, not an ordinary person, he has ideals and ambitions, and now everyone is saying that the Yang clan will die, the Li clan is prosperous, and Li Mi has experienced so much suffering and has not died, I heard that people who do great things cannot die, Li Mi has been rescued many times, is this not providence? Maybe when people say Lee's Dangxing, they mean him.
Gradually, these people no longer hated Li Mi, and soon Wang Bodang led his tens of thousands of horses to Zhai Rang, and Zhai Rang trusted him. Later, Li Mi also joined Zhai Rang's Wagang Army through Wang Bodang's introduction.
At that time, li mi did not reveal his true identity in order to blend into the Wagang army, and he was afraid that Zhai Rang would not accept him like other rebel leaders.
Li Mi this person has an advantage, eloquence is very good, after joining the Wagang Army, he in order to gain a foothold in Wagang Village, everywhere to win people's hearts, he had a good relationship with Wang Bodang before, after joining the Wagang Army, their relationship by leaps and bounds, became close friends.
A few months later, Li Mi's identity was revealed, and Zhai Rang listened to the advice of his men and imprisoned Li Mi, preparing to kill Li Mi. At this critical moment, Wang Bodang stepped forward, he said that now the country is worried about internal and external troubles, the emperor has gone to Jiangdu to enjoy himself, this is a good time to achieve great things, you now have tens of thousands of troops, soldiers are strong and strong, it is more than enough to destroy Sui, you are a person who does great things, you need talents in your hands, you might as well send Li Mi to collect the scattered armed forces nearby, if he has the ability, you will keep him, and it is not too late to get rid of him.
So Zhai Rang took Wang Bodang's advice and sent Li Mi to say that he would surrender various small rebels.
Everywhere Li Mi went, the rebels surrendered.
Even so, Zhai Rang still did not trust Li Mi very much, Zhai Rang was born in Cao Mang, in this era of attaching great importance to the status level, Zhai Rang seemed to be a little inferior, he always felt that he could not stop Li Mi.
So later, Li Mi made many proposals, and Zhai Rang did not listen.
So Li Mi began to woo Zhai Rang's confidant Jia Xiong, and with his help, Li Mi gained Zhai Rang's trust.
Zhai Rang adopted Li Mi's plan, successively captured several counties in Xingyang, and defeated Zhang Sutuo's troops, which made all the rebel armies fearful, and then took the world's first granary, Xingluocang, and expanded its strength to hundreds of thousands.
At this time, Zhai Rang was ashamed of himself, and he was willing to take the second seat, giving up his position as the lord of the village to Li Mi and honoring him as the Duke of Wei.
Zhai Rang let Xian lay the groundwork for the division of the Wagang army, and Zhai Rang's subordinates were dissatisfied with Li Mi.
The contradictions between the new and old Wagang groups gradually intensified, eventually leading to Li Mi killing Zhai Rang.
After Zhai Rang's death, Li Mi handed over his subordinates to Xu Shixun, Shan Xiongxin, and Wang Bodang, and made Wang Bodang the Duke of Langya.
After Li Mi became the leader of Wagang, he led them to continue to expand their territory, occupying almost the entire Henan region, leaving only the city of Luoyang, and the Sui Emperor sent Wang Shichong to attack Li Mi, and Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought more than a hundred times, winning or losing each other.
However, the arrival of Yu Wenhua changed the fate of the Wagang army, and Yu Wenhua and jiangdu launched a mutiny, killed the Sui Emperor, and led hundreds of thousands of Janissaries to Luoyang.
At this time, Li Mi made a strategic mistake, he threw all the main forces into the battle with Yu Wenhuahe, although he repelled Yu Wenhuahe, after all, he killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, and since then the Wagang army has been seriously injured and began to decline.
Wang Shichong took the opportunity to challenge the Wagang army, and Li Mi made a strategic mistake, he did not listen to the advice of Wei Zheng and Pei Renji, and was overwhelmed by successive victories and launched a decisive battle with Wang Shichong.
The Wagang army was defeated, Li Mi's army fled in defeat, and many of his generals also defected to Wang Shichong.
At first, Li Mi wanted to defect to Xu Shixun of Liyang, but on second thought, when I first killed Zhai Rang, Xu Shixun was also stabbed. Later, I transferred him away from the center and asked him to go to the town to guard Liyang, and now that I go to Liyang to join him, will he accept me? Forget it, I'll still go to Heyang and find my iron brother Wang Bodang.
Wang Bodang had always admired Li Mi, and when he learned that Li Mi was coming, he immediately went out of the city to greet him, and only a few light horses were still following Li Mi at this time.
Li Mi saw Wang Bodang with great emotion, and the Wagang Army, which had once been the head of the peasant rebel army in the Central Plains, collapsed in the face of a series of decision-making mistakes.
Li Mi was very excited and said to Wang Bodang: "It's all over, everyone's hard work in the past few years is all over, and I can only apologize for my sins with death." After saying that, he pulled out his waist knife and prepared to kill himself, Wang Bodang immediately stepped forward to stop it, hugged Li Mi and cried, and at the same time, Li Mi and the generals could not help but weep.
At this time, Li Mi saw that Wang Bodang was still a die-hard fan of his own, and did not betray his own intentions, so he proposed to go to Guanzhong to join Li Yuan, and everyone agreed.
Li Yuan stills
Li Yuan was very excited to learn that Li Mi had come to surrender, he was afraid that Li Mi would temporarily change his mind, and sent emissaries to comfort Li Mi one after another, Li Mi saw that Li Yuan attached so much importance to himself, and he was overjoyed, and he said to his subordinates: "Although the phoenix with the fallen hair is not as good as the chicken, but I was originally a million soldiers, now I am not alone in surrendering, the Shandong region is my generals, I surrendered to Tang, there are at least a hundred cities in the Shandong region to surrender to Tang, and my merits are not smaller than those of Dou Rong in the Eastern Han Dynasty (Dou Rong once gave the land of Hexi to Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu gave him generous treatment). No matter how li yuan said, he also had to give me a prime minister.
Often the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment, when Li Mi came to Guanzhong, Li Yuan gave him a position of Guanglu Qing (from Sanpin), which greatly disappointed him, in fact, Guanglu Qing's level was not low, that is, there was no real power, mainly responsible for the work of etiquette, such as sacrifices, court meetings and state banquets, so that Li Mi lost the opportunity to lead troops to fight.
In fact, on the surface, Li Yuan was quite good to Li Mi, and he also married his cousin DuGushi to him, but Li Mi was not willing to be a green leaf that set off the red flowers all his life, thinking that when he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to sweep the world, now give such a shabby official position, think about it.
But Li Mi thought about it for a moment, Li Yuan was not bad for himself, whether he would have the opportunity to be promoted in the future.
I can only say that he thinks too much.
Soon after Li Mi surrendered to Tang, his former subordinates defected to Li Yuan, and what made Li Mi dissatisfied was that Li Yuan gave him more treatment than his old subordinates, such as Xu Shixun as the Grand General of the Marquis of Right Wu and Wang Bodang as the Great General of Zuo Xiaowei, both of whom belonged to one of the Twelve Great Generals of wei, all of whom were Zheng Sanpin and had a status comparable to that of the chancellor.
Guang Luqing also has a duty, every festival and the dprang will take the lead in passing on dishes.
Once Li Mi was very depressed and told Wang Bodang about the bitterness in his heart, I am also a hero of the storm, and it is simply an insult to serve food to others.
Wang Bodang saw his good friend fall and expressed deep sympathy in his heart.
So he said to Li Mi, if you really can't swallow this evil breath, it is better that we leave Guanzhong on the pretext of recruiting the old department of Wagang and try to dominate the industry again.
Li Mi listened to Wang Bodang's suggestion and proposed to Li Yuan that Dong chu Tong Guan be the tang to surrender the old department of Wagang, and Li Yuan agreed.
On his way east, Li Mi received an order from Li Yuan to leave half of his army in Huazhou and lead the other half to continue advancing.
This order made Li Mi's subordinates panic, and some people were afraid of being implicated, and informed Li Yuan that Li Mi really had the intention of rebellion.
Li Yuan immediately ordered Li Mi to drop his troops and return to Guanzhong alone, but Li Mi was even more panicked, believing that Li Yuan wanted to get rid of him, so he prepared to raise troops on the spot.
At this time, Li Mi's subordinates saw that Li Mi's general situation had gone, and they were unwilling to follow him to rebel against Tang, and only Wang Bodang always supported him.
In fact, Wang Bodang also felt that Li Mi's general trend had gone, he said: "Bo when we still give up going east, I am afraid that the end will not be good", but Li Mi did not listen.
Wang Bodang finally said: "The eldest husband does not think about life and death, we are good brothers, and I will support you in whatever you do, even if it is death." ”
Later, the Tang army ambushed at Xinggong Mountain (邢公岘, in present-day Song County), and when Li Mi and Wang Bodang passed by, the Tang general Sheng Yanshi ordered ten thousand arrows to be fired in unison, and Li Mi and Wang Bodang were killed on the spot.
In the chaotic world, in the era of frequent regime changes, it is difficult to predict who will die, most of the civilian and military generals are in a wait-and-see state, who is strong will follow whom, like Wang Bodang, such a loyal and courageous person, it is really rare.