This is the story of a big man who is two meters tall.
Li Siye (李嗣業), courtesy name Siye, was a native of Gaoling, Xi'an, Shaanxi, and a famous general of the Sheng Tang Dynasty. Seven feet long, according to the Tang ruler about 30 centimeters, Li Siye is two meters tall. "Extreme strength", "brave and brave", a standard northwestern man.
[The four towns are rich and elite, and the destruction is extraordinary.] Also smell the dedication of soldiers, enough to calm the wind and dust]
Li Siye's family lineage is unknown, but it is estimated that he was born into a commoner family.
Since the family is not rich, there is no opportunity to learn the use of the horse mallet like Li Yuanji, Cheng Yaojin, and Qin Qiong, which is a luxurious weapon that only a wealthy family can afford. You can only rely on your own big man and strength to use some heavy weapons, such as large sticks, and strange knives weighing up to ten kilograms.
When Li Siye was a soldier in Anxi, the Tang Dynasty put the mo dao into use as a standard weapon, and Li Siye quickly mastered the use of this violent weapon. Every time when killing the enemy on the battlefield, Li Siye, as a grassroots officer, gave full play to the power of this weapon, "wherever he went, he would fall", and he was promoted to a lieutenant general, and he was a mid-level military attaché with four pins.
When Gao Xianzhi was recruiting Xiao Bolu, Li Siye was the captain of the Zuo Mo Dao team. At that time, Tubo's tens of thousands of troops were defending a mountain city with water, and Gao Xianzhi ordered Li Siye and others to attack strongly, "Before 12 noon, we must occupy the enemy's position!" ”
Several strange knife infantry attacked upwards, and the rolling wood on the mountain fell on the ground. Li Siye, armed with a large banner, was the first to go to the enemy's city head from a dangerous place, opening a breakthrough. The Tubo army was caught off guard, the Tang army beheaded 5,000 ranks, took more than 1,000 prisoners, and many Tubo soldiers were chased to the mountain stream and drowned;
Later, in Gao Xianzhi's defeat at the Battle of Hengluo City in the Great Food and the Western Regions, Li Siye made a great contribution to the breakthrough of the Tang army, "Siye held a big stick to drive it forward, and the men and horses were killed." Hu waited, Lu Kai, and Xian Zhi was spared. "The visual sense of playing baseball.
(Onion Ridge Ancient City)
Li Siye, who had made many meritorious achievements, continued to rise from the right Wei wei general of Sanpin to the general of hussars and the general of Zuo Jingwu, and from yipin (本官正三品), and his enemies called him "divine general".
And Li Siye seems to really have magical powers.
When the town guarded Shule to build a city, a place always collapsed, Li Siye prayed, a white dragon appeared, built a temple here, the city pool is not bad;
There is a well dug by Geng Gong of the Han Dynasty in the city, that is, the Geng Gong who returned to the Jade Gate by the thirteen generals. The well has long dried up, Li Siye prayed, and the well re-emerged;
During the conquest of Xiao Bolu, there were large stones blocking the road across the Onion Ridge, and Li Siye rolled down into the valley with a single stomp of his foot, and others believed that Li Siye was sincere and touched the heavens.
In any case, Li Siye had achieved the highest military general position in peacetime until the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion.
[The old horse night knows that the goshawk is hungry.] Facing danger and fighting for a long time, with an urgent beginning like a god]
After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Emperor Suzong of Tang ordered Li Siye to lead an army of 5,000 to qin the king. Li Siye led an army from Anxi to return to the aid of Wanli, and where he passed, Qiu did not commit any crimes, becoming an important force in fighting side by side with Guo Ziyi and Gugu Huai'en.
"Every time siye attacks with a big stick, the thieves are invincible and invincible." What a tough guy!
Later, in Guo Ziyi's battle to retake Liangjing, Li Siye reached the peak of his life, and the heavy infantry Strange Knife Team also burst out of its final glory.
The Battle of Chang'an Xiangji Temple was a decisive battle for the Tang army to retake Chang'an, and Guo Ziyi had been defeated and returned a few months ago. Whether or not to win this time, everyone has a question mark in their hearts.
This passage in the Old Book of Tang is so wonderfully written that it must be recorded in its original sense.
The enemy cavalry charged the Tang army camp, and Li Siye stood naked and shouted in front of the battle with a strange knife in his hand. The attacking enemy army was "shattered" under Li Siye's knife, killing more than ten enemy soldiers in a row and stabilizing his own camp. Then command the strange knife queue forward, the soldiers armed with strange knives and long-handled axes, like a wall, in front of the enemy instantly collapsed, moving forward.
After that, Li Siye attacked from behind the enemy camp and the Hui reinforcements, fighting from noon to five or six o'clock in the evening, beheading the enemy army by 60,000 ranks, and two-thirds of the enemy who were trampled and killed.
After that, the Tang army went straight to Luoyang, and Li Siye led the cavalry to attack the enemy position, and together with Guo Ziyi and others, won the victory in the Battle of Luoyang.
After the victory of the Battle of Liangjing, Li Siye was promoted to Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division and Wei Weiqing for his merits, and was enfeoffed as the Duke of Yu.
Later, Tang Suzong did not continue to attack, giving An Qingxu a year of buffer time. Li Siye recaptured and defended Hanoi (the area northeast of Luoyang on the other side of the Yellow River) and defeated An Qingxu's attack of 20,000 horsemen.
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[The strange soldiers are not in the crowd, and the ten thousand horses save the Central Plains.] Talk and laugh without Hebei, the heart and liver serve the supreme】
The siege of An Qingxu by the 200,000 troops of the Ninth Festival is a joke, the logistics are insufficient, there is no commander-in-chief, only Yu Chao'en, the commander-in-chief army. No one knew what to do, and all the proposals made were vetoed by Yu Chao'en. The Tang army besieged Xiangzhou and diverted the river water into the city, but An Qingxu still insisted, and the two sides were deadlocked for several months.
Li Siye remained a pioneer in engaging the rebels until he was shot by a stray arrow.
Originally, the wound was going to heal after a few days, but when I was recuperating in the tent, I heard the sound of golden drums outside. Li Siye knew that the enemy had killed again, and he cried out in excitement, bleeding profusely from the sores and dying.
When Emperor Suzong of Tang heard the news of Li Siye's death, he was greatly sorry and posthumously awarded Li Siye the title of King of Wuwei County, with the posthumous title of Zhongyong.
Li Siye is really worthy of the word Zhongyong, and he is also the only person in the Tang Dynasty whose title is Loyal Yong that can be found in the history books.
(Tomb of Emperor Suzong of Tang)
The history books have a very high evaluation of Li Siye.
First of all, he pointed out Feng Ang, Ashina Sheer, Qifu Heli, Black Tooth Changzhi, Li Duozuo, Bai Xiaode, and other foreign military generals who were loyal to the Tang Dynasty, saying that these generals were outstanding soldiers of the three armies, with noble qualities such as courage, loyalty, forgiveness, wisdom, and knowledge, and could not be regarded as the rough people of the barbarian nation.
Under the background of these Hu generals, Li Siye, who was a Han Chinese, sacrificed heroically for the revival of the Tang Dynasty, which was a step higher than these Hu generals.
"Praise: The residence of a gentleman, nine yi is not ugly." Magnificent heirloom, out of the right! ”
[Lonely clouds follow the killing qi, and birds avoid the gate.] The day is happy, the city is not noisy]
The Mo Dao was only used for a few decades in the Tang Dynasty, from the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang to the Anshi Rebellion.
This weapon evolved from the Han Dynasty chopper (sword) and was the best weapon for heavy infantry against cavalry, or the only infantry weapon that could attack cavalry.
But the requirements for soldiers were too high, and according to Li Siye's standards, it took more than two meters and extraordinary strength to use them. Clad in heavy armor, the infantry used their waists to slash a long knife weighing ten kilograms and nearly three meters in length hundreds of times in a row, and also kept the infantry line in order and advanced at least a few hundred meters.
It must be one of the elite of the military to be qualified to use the Strange Knife, let alone the leading general of the Strange Knife Team.
After the Anshi Rebellion, there is no record of the use of the Strange Knife in the history books, and Li Siye may be the last Strange Knife Grandmaster in human history, or it may be the only one.
(This is more like the knife head of the strange knife)
Du Fu wrote two poems, "Guan An Xi Bing Passing through Guanzhong to Be On Standby", when Li Siyezheng and Guo Ziyi and others led a large army to encircle and suppress An Qingxu, which was Li Siye's last battle and was sacrificed in the counterinsurgency battlefield. The subtitle of this article comes from du fu's two poems.
It is said that it is an untitled poem written by Li Siye, which is extremely imposing.
"Looking northwest, the yellow sand is rolling in the sky. Wolves are in a hurry, and thieves are rampant. Can the people sit down and die?
Looking southeast, the mountains and rivers are majestic. Heaven desires, and the state is destroyed. Why not see each other with a severed head! ”