The rendition novel is a form of novel that is deeply loved by the people and is widely circulated in the folk. Many of the characters in the novel have taken to the stage and been rendered brilliantly, but sadly, some famous generals who have achieved great achievements have been degraded in the rendition, and their true images are not known.
The Tang and Song dynasties are the most numerous and well-known. Sui and Tang Dynasty Yanyi series, the Song Dynasty's Huyang Gao Zheng Diyue, widely circulated in the folk, people remember a lot of loyal generals, but also remember the scornful traitors, do not know that some traitors are only smeared by yanyi, but in history is famous.
Li Daozong, King of TangJiangxia
Li Daozong was the cousin of Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, and a cousin of Li Shimin. In the process of establishing the Tang Dynasty, Li Daozong participated in the attack on Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande, and made many military achievements. Subsequently, Li Daozong defended the frontier, defeated the Turks, and also participated in the great destruction of Tuguhun, the destruction of Xue Yantuo, and the conquest of Goguryeo, all of which had great achievements in the great war, and made indelible contributions to the tang dynasty's expansion of territory. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Daozong and Li Xiaogong were called the Xianwang, Li Yuan said that he was the same famous general as Cao Zhang, the king of Rencheng, and Li Shimin also called Li Daozong a famous general with the same name as Li Ji and Xue Wanche.
In the novel, Li Daozong is blackened very deeply and becomes a traitor. Speaking of Li Daozong, the first thing that comes to mind is that he repeatedly framed Xue Rengui's traitors, and finally was set on fire by Cheng Biting Jin, which was due to the influence of yanyi novels and film and television dramas. In fact, Li Daozong and Xue Rengui did not have a festival, but Wei Chi Jingde had some contact with him. Wei Chi Jingde was once proud of his achievements, and he was very unhappy to see someone lined up in front of him at Li Shimin's banquet. Li Daozong went forward to persuade him, but was almost blinded by Wei Chi Jingde's punch in the eye. This is also to meet Li Shimin, who warned Wei Chi Jingde with Liu Bang's killing of Han Xin and Peng Yue, and Li Daozong, who was beaten, did not bother with him, you can see his heart. However, Li Daozong's fate was really bad, after Fang Yi'ai and Princess Gaoyang plotted against the case, the eldest son Wuji and Chu Suiliang were responsible for handling it, and Li Daozong, who was incompatible with them, was exiled and died of illness halfway.
Su Dingfang, Duke of Tang Xingguo
Su Dingfang was a famous fierce general in the early Tang Dynasty, but he was misunderstood for a thousand years, and he was the most tragic character who was blackened by the novel. In the Sui and Tang Dynasty novels, Su Dingfang's image is far from the real history, and has always been described as a sinister and cunning villain who frames Zhongliang. In "Speaking of Tang", Su Dingfang and Luo Yi fought and shot Luo Yi with a dark arrow, and later used a trick to lure Luo Cheng into the mud and shoot him with arrows. In "Speaking of The Later Biography of The Tang Dynasty", Su Dingfang was even more a traitorous courtier, repeatedly framed the descendants of Wagang, and was eventually dissected by Luo Tong, and his grandson was the later Su Baotong. In "The Legend of Xing Tang", Su Dingfang not only shot Luo Yi and Luo Cheng, but also shot Wu Tianxi, and was eventually killed by Luo Tong in revenge. In short, Su Dingfang has always been a negative image, and his descendants have also been blackened into villains.
He fought alone for thirty thousand miles, and a sword once served as a million divisions. What exactly made Ling Yange's hero, the famous martial arts temple general Su Dingfang, be blackened into a villain? Su Dingfang rode the frontier for decades in his lifetime, conquering the west in the east, from the desert of yellow sand to the sea of terrifying waves, the battle line spanned nearly ten thousand miles, conquering the Western Turks, Pingliangling, Yi Baekje, and Goryeo, and cutting down the three kingdoms before and after, all of which captured their masters and subdued the countries of the Western Regions. It is precisely with Su Dingfang's record that the Tang Dynasty reached its maximum territory during the Tang Gaozong period, and his deeds sounded like enough to make people's blood boil.
Su Dingfang's brilliance is not only his achievements, but also his personality. When Cheng Zhijie, the grand commander of the Onion Mountain Road March, attacked the Western Turks, Su Dingfang followed, but Cheng Zhijie never listened to Su Dingfang's correct advice. When they arrived at Hengdu City, thousands of Hu people opened the door and landed, and Wang Wendu, the deputy governor of the general, suggested killing all of them to get rich, su Dingfang said that he would not become a thief in this way, and how could he fight rebellion for the country, and finally Cheng Zhijie still slaughtered the city, and only Su Dingfang did not take a fortune the whole time. After Su Dingfang became the commander-in-chief of the march, he destroyed the Western Turks, and he appeased the tribes to be at peace as before. During the conquest of Onion Ridge, in order to ensure the tranquility of the border, Su Dingfang promised to spare the life of Du Man, who had surrendered, and escorted him to Beijing, the relevant officials asked him to deal with him according to law. Su Ding Fangdun first begged Tang Gaozong to spare Duman the death penalty, tang Gaozong fulfilled his faith, and the west of the Green Ridge was stable from then on. In the treatment of talents, Su Dingfang taught pei Xingjian all his magic skills in using soldiers, making him a generation of famous generals. What is even more rare is that Su Dingfang was at the forefront of the Tuguhun battlefield in his seventies, and until the last moment of his life, he was still fighting for the tang dynasty's powerful conquest of Tubo, and finally died on the front line.
The interpretation is completely different from history, and Su Dingfang's evaluation in history is very high. Su Dingfang was one of the sixty-four generals of the Wumiao Temple, and he was also known to the seventy-two famous generals of the Song Dynasty. Liu Yuandong once said that "the husband should be like this", and Chairman Mao also called "Su Dingfang, a famous general and a great general, seventy-six years old", which is the real Su Dingfang.
Zhang Shigui, Duke of Tang Dynasty
Zhang Shigui is a well-known character. In "Later Biography of the Tang Dynasty" and "Xue Rengui's Conquest of the East", Zhang Shigui framed Xue Rengui in every way, arranged him in the Fire Head Army, and recorded his credit for his son-in-law He Zongxian. Later, when the matter was revealed, Zhang Shigui wanted to poison Xue Rengui to kill him, and finally rebelled, and Zhang Meiren, who let Li Daozong frame Xue Rengui, was his daughter. In fact, Zhang Shigui was the founding general of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Shigui was born as a general, "has courage, holds a bow of about 150 pounds, and shoots without false hair." At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, Zhang Shigui also gathered the crowd to expose the uprising, became a party Haojie, Wang Shichong and Li Mi both tried to win him over many times, he did not agree, after Li Yuan's uprising he decisively chose to follow. After that, Zhang Shigui followed Li Shimin, the King of Qin, to fight against the crowd, and made many military achievements, once defeating Wang Shichong's 50,000 horse-foot coalition army with inferior troops. Zhang Shigui was also Li Shimin's confidant, and he was the general led by Li Shimin in the xuanwumen revolution, and after Li Shimin was proclaimed emperor, he was appointed as the "chief of the Xuanwu gate" and became the head of the Janissaries. Subsequently, Zhang Shigui suppressed the southwestern rebellion, defeated Xue Yantuo in Izumo, and went out to goryeo to make great achievements for the Tang Dynasty to open up territory and expand the territory.
Xue Rengui was indeed Zhang Shigui's subordinate, but Zhang Shigui did not suppress him. During the conquest of Goryeo, Zhang Shigui led his troops to engage the enemy, and his subordinate Xue Rengui bravely killed the enemy with Fang Tianji in his hand, which left a deep impression on Li Shimin and rewarded him greatly. This did not exist at all for Zhang Shigui to suppress Xue Rengui, on the contrary, Xue Rengui was able to stand out because of Zhang Shigui's trust.
Zhang Shigui followed Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi for decades, repeatedly made military achievements, and was a famous general of a generation. After Zhang Shigui's death, the imperial court posthumously honored him as a general of the auxiliary state and the governor of Jingzhou, accompanied by the burial of Emperor Taizong Zhaoling, and the famous minister Guan Yi personally wrote an epitaph for him, highly praising his life.
Song Zheng Wang Pan Mei
The Yang family will be a very widely circulated folk story, and various commentaries, operas, film and television dramas emerge in an endless stream. Yang Jia'erlang's blood stained the battlefield, and he was loyal to the country, and at the same time, he also remembered a traitorous minister, Pan Renmei. Pan Renmei declared a personal vendetta, causing Yang Ye to kill Li Lingbei, and he also shot Yang Qilang. Later, Yang Liulang entered the capital to file a complaint against the imperial court, and the twelve-year-old Hu Yanpi showed the lower border Guan Zhi to capture Pan Renmei, and the double-heaven official Kou Zhun at night finally clarified the facts, which was a very popular plot in the folk. What's more, there is a folk saying that Pan Yang is not married. In fact, the historical Pan Mei was not a traitor, but a founding general of the Song Dynasty.
In history, Pan Mei's merits and positions for the Song Dynasty are not comparable to Yang Ye. Pan Mei was first born in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and had considerable military achievements during the reign of Emperor Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong. After Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, Pan Mei, who had a deep friendship with Zhao Kuangyin, was also highly valued, leading the army to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty, participating in the Pingnan Tang and Northern Han Dynasties, and was the founding father of the Song Dynasty, and was awarded the title of Duke of Korea for his merits.
Back to the year of the Yongxi Northern Expedition, yang Ye's death. In the third year of Yongxi, Emperor Taizong of Song sent Zhao Guangyi to the Liao Dynasty on the Third Road Expedition, with Cao Bin of the East Road as the main general, Pan Mei of the West Road as the main general, and Mi Xin as the main general of the Northwest. At first, the three-way army won successive great victories, and the Western Route Army was liankehuanzhou, Shuozhou, Yingzhou, and Yunzhou, and as Cao Bin's 100,000-strong army on the eastern road was defeated by Yelü Hugo at Qigou Pass, Song Taizong ordered the three-way army to retreat. At the same time, Emperor Taizong of Song ordered the Western Route Army to move inland with the people of the four prefectures, just as Liu Bei led the people and then Cao Cao's army. In addition to the main general Pan Mei, the deputy general of the Western Route Army was Yang Ye, and there was also the overseer Wang Nong and the protector Liu Wenyu, who suggested that instead of engaging the Liao army head-on, only send archers at the mouth of the Shijie Valley to escort the people. The commander Pan Mei did not express his position, but the supervising army Wang Nong had to advance with great fanfare, and Liu Wenyu also approved of Wang Nong. Later, Wang Nong also mocked Yang Yekong for having the name of invincibility, and Yang Ye, who was originally a general, asked for orders to take the lead in killing the enemy in anger, and he also knew the danger of this trip, and asked Pan Mei to lead his troops to meet him at Taniguchi.
Yang Ye was very heroic in this trip, and he faced the famous Liao generals Yelü Xieyi and Xiao Taorin. The Liao army led the army to pretend to be defeated and retreated to capture Yang Ye, and Wang Nong, who was at The Valley Mouth, saw that the Liao army was defeated and retreated, and came down one after another to grab the merits, Pan Mei could not stop it, and after twenty miles of traveling to know that Yang Ye had lost the battle, these people all fled again. By the time Yang Ye struggled to kill the valley mouth, there was no one left, and he could only continue to fight the Liao army to the death, and finally went on hunger strike for three days and died.
Yang Ye's vow not to die has become a good story, and it is sung for people. Emperor Taizong of Song was very sorry for Yang Ye's death, and posthumously awarded Yang Ye the title of Tai Wei (太尉) and Datong Junjie (大同軍節度), while the main general Pan Mei was demoted to the third rank, and Wang Nong and Liu Wenyu were exiled. In this battle, Pan Mei, as the manager, does have the responsibility, but he should not bear the main responsibility, and he is not deliberately framing Yang Ye as in the rendition. Although Pan Mei was demoted to the third rank, he was later added to the rank of Tongping Zhangshi, and after his death, he was posthumously honored as King Zheng and worthy of the Song Taizong Temple, which can be described as a life and death mourning. In the Song Dynasty, Pan Mei's status was very high, and Pan Mei, the twenty-four heroes of the Zhaoxun Pavilion in the Southern Song Dynasty, ranked fifth, and Pan Mei still deserved to enjoy the imperial face during the Ming Dynasty, and Pan Mei could reach a very high status for the military generals.
In the Northern Song Dynasty Wang Cheng's notebook collection "Silent Record", there is a story about Pan Mei. After the Chen Qiao Mutiny, Zhao Kuangyin entered the Later Zhou Imperial Palace. At that time, some palace people came to visit the shrine with two children in their arms, and Zhao Kuangyin heard that it was Chai Rong's two sons, so he immediately let them be disposed of, and immediately pulled away the two children left and right. Only Pan Mei pinched the palace pillar with her hand behind Zhao Kuangyin, bowed her head and did not speak, Zhao Kuangyin saw the situation and asked him if it was okay. Pan Mei said that he did not dare to think that he could not, but was just uneasy in the reason. Zhao Kuangyin also repented after hearing this, and let people recover the two children, one of which was given to Pan Mei, who adopted him as a son, and Zhao Kuangyin never asked questions. This story was widely circulated in the Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song poet Wang Gong also had a similar version, which showed Pan Mei's tall personality and lived up to the old lord Zhou Shizong. In fact, this can also be seen that Pan Mei is definitely not such a person in the rendition.
Song Shu secretly envoyed Di Qing
The Yang family's series of renditions included Pan Renmei, Wang Qin, and other traitors, and Di Qing was once demoted to a traitor. In the "Romance of Yang Family House", Di Qing became a traitorous courtier, and the reason for quelling nong Zhigao's rebellion was attributed to the Yang family general, and Di Qing instead became a traitor who was jealous of Xianxian's ability. "Yang Wenguang Zhengnan" and "Yang Jinhua Seize the Seal" also have plots such as Di Yang's two families who were not compatible because Yang Jinhua competed to seize the seal by mistake, and Di Xiang, and Di Qing's soldiers trapped tianbo Yang Mansion, and the old lady Jun angrily beat the King of Pingxi. However, in the Qing Dynasty's "Wanhualou Yang Baodi Yanyi", "Five Tigers Pingxi Yanyi", "Five Tigers Pingnan Yanyi", "Later Song Ciyun Walking the Country" and other books, Di Qing and other loyal generals were praised.
The historical Di Qing was born in the cold door, and he was a meritorious name earned on the battlefield with one sword and one shot. Di Qing was a fierce general, who resisted western Xia in the early stages, and when fighting against the enemy, he wore a shawl and a copper mask, and when he entered and exited the enemy army, the Western Xia army was overwhelmed and no one dared to stop him. Subsequently, Di Qing led an army to attack Kunlun Pass at night, quelling the rebellion of Nong Zhigao and promoting his power to Qingshi. The yang family in history will only have three generations of Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, and Yang Wenguang, and Yang Wenguang is the merit of following Di Qing in his crusade against Nong Zhigao. If you really want to talk about merit, Di Qing's merit alone is not inferior to that of the real Yang family general.
These historical figures are all famous generals of the moment, all have great military achievements, and they should be treated fairly, which is also the treatment they deserve.