He is Guan Yu in the film and television drama, the famous Fei general in history, and the person who Li Shimin most wants to be included in the account, he is the famous general Shan Xiongxin in the early Tang Dynasty, and his hometown is Heze Cao County, Shandong.
Shan Xiongxin
▲ Do you know that since Li Shimin wanted to get him, why did he finally execute Shan Xiongxin?
▲What are the fatal shortcomings of Shan Xiongxin in history that make posterity sick?
▲ Li Shimin executed Shan Xiongxin in spite of the objections of others, resulting in the death of several generals and countless soldiers, and even ruined the Tang Dynasty for about three hundred years?
Today we will look back at history and see this famous general.
Shan Xiongxin, a native of Jiyin County, Cao Prefecture (present-day Cao County, Heze, Shandong), was a famous general in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, who was brave and good at war, brave and fierce, and was known as the "Flying General". His best friend was Xu Shijie, who swore to live and die together, and during the Sui and Tang dynasties, he joined the Wagang Rebellion and followed Li Mi, and was awarded the title of Grand General of the Marquis of Zuowu.
In the Battle of Yanshi, the soldiers were defeated and surrendered to Wang Shichong, and then resisted the Tang army's attack, almost killing Li Shimin, the King of Qin. Wu De followed Wang Shichong to surrender to the Tang army in four years and was executed by Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
In the ninth year of Daye (613), Zhai rang Wagang to gather a crowd to revolt, and Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji went to Wagang to return. At Xu Shijie's suggestion, Zhai Rang captured Xingyang and Liang Commanderies, and the Wagang rebel army reached tens of thousands of people, and in the same year Li Mi helped Yang Xuan to rebel against Sui and defected to Wagang.
In the thirteenth year of Daye, at the suggestion of Wang Bodang and Xu Shijie, Zhai Rang ceded the position of the head of Wagang to Li Mi, who called himself the Duke of Wei, Zhai Rang as Situ, Feng Shan Xiongxin as the Grand General of the Marquis of Zuowu, and Xu Shijie as the Grand General of the Marquis of Right Wu.
In July of the same year, Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought each other, but at this time Zhai Rang's subordinates asked him to regain Li Mi's rights, although Zhai Rang refused. However, after Li Mi learned of this news, he designed to kill Zhai Rang. At the same time, he also cut Xu Shijie, and Shan Xiongxin had no choice but to ask Li Mi for forgiveness, and Li Mi regretted that Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shijie spared shan Xiongxin and Xu Shijie, and let them lead Zhai Rang's men separately.
The late Sui general Shan Xiongxin
In the first year of Wu De (618), Li Mi Wang Shichong fought with Yu Wenhua and fought. After Li Mi's victory over Yuwen in September, Wang Shichong led an attack on Li Mi, and Shan Xiongxin led the Foreign Horse Army to garrison the north of Yanshi City. Wang Shichong led his army to sneak into Shan Xiongxin's camp, and Li Mi sent Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyu to the rescue, and during the battle, Pei Xingyu was accidentally shot and fell off his horse, and Cheng Yaojin rescued Pei Xingyu and escaped. After Wang Shichong defeated Li Mi and besieged Yanshi, Shan Xiongxin and others surrendered to Wang Shichong, but Xu Shiji defected to Li Yuan, after which Wang Shichong made Shan Xiongxin a general.
In the third year of WuDe, Li Shimin led an army to attack luoyang city, Shan Xiongxin led the army to fight, Shan Xiongxin took a gun and killed Li Shimin, Xu Shiji appeared in time to stop Shan Xiongxin. He also persuaded Shan Xiongxin to retreat.
In the fourth year of WuDe, Li Shimin defeated Wang Shichong, and Li Shimin ordered that Shan Xiongxin and some other generals be executed. The Old Book of Tang states that Li Yuan ordered Shan Xiongxin to be executed, and Xu Shijie interceded with Li Shimin for Shan Xiongxin, hoping to forgive Shan Xiongxin, but Li Shimin refused.
Shan Xiongxin comforted Xu Shiji and said, it doesn't matter, I know that I am already a person who must die, and I don't have to grieve for me anymore. Xu Shiji said, Since the dilemma of ancient loyalty and righteousness, I will take good care of your family in the future, Xu Shiji and cut off a piece of his own meat for Shan Xiongxin to eat. He said that he had not forgotten the original vows of the two men, and generously died after Shan Xiongxin ate it.
Xu Shijie
Who knows what caused the Tang Dynasty, tens of thousands of soldiers and many generals to die, and what is the reason for this?
After Shan Xiongxin's death, Li Shimin led the entire army back to the dynasty. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan felt that he had pacified the Hebei region of Henan, so in July he issued a decree that Dou Jiande, the leader of the Hebei rebels, should also be executed. In addition, Dou Jiande's old generals were also summoned to the capital, and when these generals learned of this, they gathered together to discuss the problem. After some discussion, they believed that Wang Shichong surrendered to Li Mi and that a group of generals under Li Mi, Shan Xiongxin and others, were killed, and if we went to the capital, we would be killed like Shan Xiongxin and others. And after Dou Jiande captured Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, he treated him with courtesy and saved his life and sent him back. Now that the Li family has captured Dou Jiande, the King of Xia, but has been killed, if we do not resist, we will be laughed at by the world's Haojie.
Dou Jiande
From this we can see the reasons for their rebellion, one is for self-preservation, they are like Shan Xiongxin, they are generals, if they go to the capital, they will face the situation of being killed, it is simply better to rebel; and then there is revenge for the old lord Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande has feelings and righteousness for them, but they were killed after Dou Jiande surrendered to Tang, which made them very angry and had the idea of revenge and hatred.
So they quickly took Liu Heimin as the leader and rebelled, Liu Heimin successively captured several cities, and recaptured the Hebei region in half a year, the Tang army retreated in this battle, and the general Xu Maogong was also defeated by Liu Heimin. The defeat of the battlefield reached the ears of Li Yuan in the capital, and Li Yuan could only let Li Shimin, the King of Qin, lead a large army to conquest, and Li Shimin and Liu Heimin fought fiercely in The Water, and finally Li Shimin defeated Liu Heimin's army.
Liu Heimin
However, the Tang army also suffered heavy casualties of tens of thousands of soldiers, and even the fierce general Luo Shixin was killed on the battlefield, and Liu Heimin was killed here. Instead, he led more than a thousand people to escape into the Turks through the siege, waiting for the time to come back. After only three months, Liu Heimin led people into Hebei again, and soon occupied several more cities.
This time, Li Yuan asked Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, and Shi Wanbao, the former duke of Huaiyang, to lead 30,000 soldiers to quell the rebellion against Liu Heimin. However, the brave and fierce Li Daoxuan and the deputy general Shi Wanbao had always been at odds, and when the two armies fought, Shi Wanbao refused to send troops for a long time, and as a result, the Tang army defeated Liu Heimin, Li Daoxuan was killed in battle, and Shi Wanbao fled on horseback.
After this battle, Liu Heimin regained control of Hebei, so Li Yuan sent the crown princes Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to quell the rebellion. The Tang army fought with Liu Heimin several times, and finally Liu Heimin was defeated by Li Jiancheng, escaped with hundreds of people, and was appointed by him to assassinate Shi Zhuge Dewei in Raozhou to deceive and arrest him in the city, and sent him to Li Jiancheng, who was soon beheaded by Li Jiancheng, completely ending the war.
This tug-of-war could have been avoided, but it was because Li Shimin killed Shan Xiongxin and Li Yuan executed Dou Jiande that it was possible to trigger the wars of the past few years. More than two hundred years after Shan Xiongxin's death, there were descendants of Shan Xiongxin in the Huangchao Rebellion, who was known as the Huang Army Jieshi because of his superior force, and the brothers followed Huang Chao all the way into the capital, putting the Tang Dynasty in danger.
Li Shimin, King of Qin
Li Shimin could never have imagined that his killing of Shan Xiongxin would also have an impact on the Huangchao Rebellion hundreds of years later. However, why did Li Shimin execute Shan Xiongxin in history? What happened to him that made posterity sick?
The character image in film and television dramas often contrasts with history, Shan Xiongxin is admirable in film and television, and in history, Shan Xiongxin has raided Li Shimin many times and almost killed Li Shimin, so he was killed after he caught Shan Xiongxin.
But this is not Li Shimin who killed him out of hatred, although Shan Xiongxin is a rare good general, but in terms of character, he is flawed and sick. Under Li Shimin's account, he was not a minority of friends with Shan Xiongxin, but only Xu Maogong was the only one who interceded for him, like Qin Qiongcheng biting Jin and others why they did not intercede, I myself think that some people look down on Shan Xiongxin as a person, and it is very shameful to rebel against Li Mi and turn to Wang Shichong, which makes Li Shimin very uneasy. Unlike Qin Qiong and others, because he has always been a general, both fame and status are higher than Qin Qiongcheng and others, and then there is a gap between the Wagang Army and Li's Guanlong forces. The Wagang Army was so famous in the late Sui Dynasty that even Li Yuan could not look up to the three people representing the Wagang Army, one was Li Mi and the other was Shan Xiongxin, and it was Only after the death of these two people that it was Li Ji's turn. Shan Xiongxin was a great general of Wagang and represented the combat effectiveness of the Wagang Army. Li Shimin was a Guanlong force, and he had always been wary of the Wagang Army, and in addition to killing Shan Xiongxin, he was not at ease with another great general, Li Ji, until his death, and if he let Shan Xiongxin go, he would undoubtedly let the tiger return to the mountain, and he would not know when he would take his own life.
Sculpture of the Great General of Wagangzhai
In addition, if You let Shan Xiongxin go, you must give him a high degree of power and status, then the people who were born and died with Li Shimin will definitely be unconvinced, and then there is Shan Xiongxin and Li Ji who are closely related, if the two join hands to start a fight, the result will be unbearable. I think this is the reason why Li Shimin wanted to kill Shan Xiongxin.
After Li Shimin planned the xuanwumen change, Li Ji did not participate in it, and it can be seen that Li Shimin made the right choice to kill Shan Xiongxin. If Shan Xiongxin were alive, he might be bribed by Li Jiancheng, and if something happened, then Li Shimin's fate could be imagined.
The change of Xuanwu Gate
When Shan Xiongxin was going to die in the film and television drama, why did he only drink the Zhuangxing wine of Cheng Biting Jin, the People of Wagang at that time came to see him off, he just drank the wine of Cheng Biting Jin. In Shan Xiongxin's view, Cheng Biting Jin's mind is simple, not like others. The only regret is that I could not see the second brother Qin Qiong Qin Shubao again. In the end, Shan Xiongxin was beheaded, and a generation of Haojie came to an end.
Shan Xiongxin and Cheng bite jin
In the Song Dynasty essays, Shan Xiong was believed to be a god, and the people built a temple and sacrificed for him, but in the Yuan Dynasty miscellaneous dramas, Shan Xiongxin was described as "bold and treacherous", and in the Ming Dynasty novel, it is said that Shan Xiongxin had Wang Shichong's beautiful plan to become his donkey, escorting Li Mi's family to coerce him to surrender to Wang Shichong, and after being defeated by Li Shimin, Shan Xiongxin knelt down on his knees and begged for forgiveness, vilifying his image. In the late Ming Dynasty, the image of Shan Xiongxin was reversed, and for the first time it was said that Shan Xiongxin was the leader of the Green Forest, and in the Qing Dynasty novel, Shan Xiongxin was heroic and righteous, robbing the rich and helping the poor, until finally he would rather die than yield.
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