"Those who have lofty ideals, things will be accomplished, the cauldron will be broken, and the hundred and two Qin Guans will eventually belong to Chu." Who Wu Gongheng wrote about in this "Couplet", I believe that everyone is not unfamiliar.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu fought with enthusiasm and ambition to defeat the Qin army with few victories and greater victories. Xiang Yu's heroism and Li Cunxiao, who is famous for his ten world-famous but equally famous as Xiang Yu, are rarely mentioned by modern people. If we talk about the famous generals of the Five Dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, he is a stroke of great color, and even at that time, there was a folk saying that "the king is not too much, but not Li".
So, who is Li Cunxiao? What did he do with a high evaluation?
Adopted as an adopted son
Li Cunxiao did not call this name at first, his original name was An Jingsi. When he was a child, when he was in the midst of military chaos, An Jingsi was displaced, and was taken prisoner by Li Ke, who was then made by Hedong Jiedu, and put into a tent to serve him.
An Jingsi's loyalty was appreciated by Li Keyong, so he adopted him as an adopted son and gave him the surname "Li", which was renamed "Li Cunxiao" from then on, becoming Li Keyong's thirteenth Taibao.
Everyone more or less feels that the name of the Thirteenth Taibao is familiar, the origin is that Li Ke used these thirteen sons, because they are brave and good at war, and their reputation is far-reaching, so many groups in later generations have used the name of "Thirteenth Taibao", for example, modern netizens laughed into the bulk of Jiangsu as "Thirteenth Taibao".
After Li Cunxiao became an adult, he was not only proficient in riding and shooting, but also read through the art of war, and had the talent of a general, which was quite appreciated by Li Keyong.
Force the Yellow Nest to die
In April of the third year of Zhonghe, the rebel Huang Chao planned to defeat Chen Prefecture, but was met with stubborn resistance and could not be attacked for a long time. It turned out that Chen Zhou's assassin Zhao Yi had already made plans after hearing that Huang Chao could not attack Chang'an for a long time, recruiting troops and buying horses, and the grain and grass were abundant, which was enough to resist the Huang Chao rebels.
However, the good times did not last long, and in the first month of the fourth year of Zhonghe, the war became more anxious because of Huang Chao'ai's death of Meng Kai, and Huang Chao's troops were still strong, and Zhao Li was too tenacious to resist, so he decided to ask his neighbor Li Keyong for help.
After Li Keyong received the report, he deliberated one or two and sent out troops, including Li Cunxiao, who was still young.
In February of the fourth year of Zhonghe, Li Ke led an army of 50,000 to aid Zhao Yi. Li Ke used Chen Zhoubei as a breakthrough point, and successively defeated the Taikang Shang Rang Army and the Xihua Huang Yi Army, with successive successful reports, and the army's morale was greatly encouraged, and at this moment, Huang Chao and retreated to the hometown of Northern Chen Prefecture.
Li Keyong understands the principle of one drum, then decline, and three exhaustion, so he does not procrastinate, leading his adopted son Li Cunxiao to break the bamboo and directly pound the Yellow Dragon.
At this time, although Li Cunxiao was still young, under the guidance of his adoptive father, he was able to stand alone, and gradually became accustomed to the days of taking Ge as a pillow and sitting in armor, and he was not afraid in the face of the floating war scenes, and he used his own strength to kill a bloody road.
Historian Xue Juzheng commented on Li Cunxiao: brave and invincible. Every time Li Cunxiao wore heavy armor, held a bow in his hand, and attacked with a hammer, carrying only one servant by his side to facilitate him to change his warhorse, maintain his state, and meet the enemy's tens of thousands of people.
In the end, the coalition army defeated Huang Chao, and Li Cunxiao's first battle in life was successful, and this battle also paved the way for him to be the god of war in the future.
Xiao Yong is good at war
After Li Cunxiao gained combat experience, in addition to being more adapted to military life, he was also more eager to make meritorious achievements. His adoptive father, Li Keyong, also saw Li Cunxiao's potential in the great battle with Huang Chao and intended to cultivate and temper him.
In the first year of Wende, Li Ke ordered Li Cunxiao to command 7,000 men and horses to assist Li Hanzhi in recovering Heyang, which Zhang Quanyi had captured. Li Cunxiao replied and promised to complete the entrustment of his adoptive father.
After Li Cunxiao's victory, his arrogance grew, and he believed that this trip would definitely be won. But unexpected things happened, Zhang Quanyi asked Zhu Wen for help, got the assistance of the generals Ding Hui and Niu Cunjie, and relied on the geographical environment of Taihang to be easy to defend and difficult to attack to counterattack, and Li Cunxiao was defeated.
This failure did not make Li Cunxiao depressed, he actively reflected on and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of his own side and the locality, and classified and summarized the failure experience, and successfully applied it in the next big war.
In the first year of the Dragon Age, Li Cunxiao was ordered to attack Meng Fangli. He led the army and set out in a mighty way. This time, his heart is no longer so easy and shallow and inevitable, but the calm and confidence accumulated later.
In this great battle, Li Cunxiao lived up to the expectations of the people, seizing the three prefectures of Xinghuan in one fell swoop and annexing the entire town of Zhaoyi. Moreover, in Liulipi, the main generals Ma Yu and Yuan Fengtao were captured alive, and for a time they were unstoppable, forcing Meng Fangli to commit suicide in embarrassment.
In the first year of Da Shun, Li Ke ordered Li Cunxiao to capture Luzhou, and Li Cunxiao completed the task brilliantly, but the response given to him by his adoptive father was not so heartwarming.
Talent beckons jealousy
"Wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it; the pile will come out of the shore, and the flow will be turbulent; the deeds will be higher than the people, and the multitudes will not be." The ancients advocated the middle way, because too good a talent will inevitably attract people's jealousy and be prone to premature death. And Li Cunxiao's life also happened to verify this truth.
In the battle to retake Luzhou, if the merits are rewarded, Li Cunxiao occupies the majority. But Li Ke used the name of only giving Li Cunxiao a Fenzhou Assassin, and Li Cunxiao was also a rectum, because this matter was so angry that he couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and even wanted to confront his adoptive father face to face, and there was inevitably a gap between the two.
It just so happened that Li Ke used his fourth son, Li Cunxin, to be dissatisfied with Li Cunxiao's popularity, and li Cunxin was originally Li Ke's most valued son, and since Li Cunxiao came, he no longer had the favor of the past.
After Li Cunxin heard of Li Cunxiao's dissatisfaction, he thought that this was a good time to stir up trouble, so he ran to Li Cunxiao's account as a confidant brother, intending to "enlighten" the other party.
Li Cunxin made a fuss about the identity of his adopted son, stood on Li Cunxiao's position, and advised him to restore his real name "An Jingsi"; although Li Keyong was Li Cunxiao's father, he was not his own child after all, and now he only regarded Li Cunxiao as a good knife to make it, and he saw that Li Cunxiao was strong in martial arts and could open up territory for himself, so he pretended to have the name of an adopted son.
When the world is really the same, the rabbits are cooked by the dead dogs, and the birds are hidden with bows, that is, when the donkeys are unloaded and slaughtered, and Li Cunxiao is given an example, how many founding generals in the past and now are highly successful and shocked, and they died tragically.
Instead of being at his mercy, it is better to be the hegemon of one side and become the emperor, relying on Li Cunxiao's own ability, he will definitely be able to do it.
Li Cunxiao was touted and brainwashed by the fourth brother, and he was already swollen beyond measure, so he immediately agreed with Li Cunxin that when he unified the Central Plains, there would be a piece of the fourth brother Li Cunxin's soup.
After Li Cunxin's front foot brainwashed Li Cunxiao, the back foot complained to Li Keyong, and Li Cunxiao had a rebellious heart. It turned out that in order to make Li Cunxiao's name of rebellion a nail in the coffin, Li Cunxin had already forged Li Cunxiao's correspondence with Zhu Quanzhong, and cut off the grain and grass sent to Li Cunxiao's camp, and Li Cunxiao was even more convinced that he and Li Keyong had already separated.
Li Cunxin's divisive plan successfully caused Li Cunxiao and Li Ke to break up with the father-son relationship. In the second year of Jingfu, in July, Li Ke sent troops to fight against the rebel son Li Cunxiao, and the commander of the army was his good fourth brother, Li Cunxin, and Li Cunxiao saw the true face of Li Cunxin and was furious.
Li Cunxiao's side generals had a bad idea at this moment, let Li Cunxiao and other trenches be dug before sending troops to break through, because at that time the King of Jin had left, and the remaining shrimp soldier crabs would definitely not be Li Cunxiao's opponents.
So Li Cunxiao obediently waited until the trench was dug before sending troops to break through, at this moment the enemy army had already occupied a favorable position, deep ditches and high ravines, Li Cunxiao's soldiers and horses were difficult to attack, and could only passively wait for the enemy to come out, and before long, the city was exhausted.
Before Li Cunxiao died, he questioned Li Keyong: "Do you really credulously believe the words of the villain Li Cunxin, but refuse to believe that I have done nothing in the Jin Dynasty?" "After the words were finished, the car cracked and died.
The life of Li Cunxiao, a famous general who "seized eight villages in a day, robbed three passes at night, and rode eighteen to take Chang'an", came to an end.
Since Li Cunxiao's death, Li Keyong's power has also declined. During the decisive battle with Zhu Wen's general Wang Yanzhang, forty-three generals were selected by a company, including the famous generals Xue Atan and An Xiuxiu, and Li Ke saw this scene, and his sorrow came from his heart, and he sighed, "If my thirteenth Taibao is still alive, how can I get to this point?" ”
But people can't be resurrected from the dead, no matter how Li Keyong sighs, a generation of famous generals Li Cunxiao finally folded in his hands.