In the rendition novel, Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde are both first-class heroes and great heroes.
According to the novel "Speaking of Tang", after Li Shimin, the king of Qin, ascended to the pole, he had people make a couplet and hang it high in front of the door of the Golden Ruan Hall.
Written on the top link: Double hammer to play the Tang world.
The next joint writes: A single whip supports Li Qiankun.
Qin Qiong's weapon was a double hammer, and Wei Chi Jingde's weapon was a single whip, which was a metaphor for people, which meant that Li Tangjiangshan mainly relied on the two of them to fight down, and to maintain the stability of this country, it was up to them.
The plot in "Journey to the West", one of the four famous works, is even more bizarre.
It is said that Tang Taizong Li Shimin failed to live up to the trust of the Dragon King of Jinghe, resulting in the old Dragon King being beheaded by Wei Zheng in a dream. After the old Dragon King's death, his soul was still scattered, and he went to Li Shimin's bedchamber night and night to cry out for injustice.
Li Shimin was disturbed, and for a long time, his heart was haggard, and his spirit was almost broken.
Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde knew the inside story, were furious, volunteered to wear a cloak, held a blade in their hands, and were fully armed, and went to the gate of Li Shimin's palace at night to guard.
The old Dragon King's soul attacked, and when he saw the two of them, his soul also flew and scattered, and he fled with a stream of urine.
I have to say that Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde are too bullish! The two murderous qi emanating from their bodies made even the ghosts and gods frightened.
Li Shimin was indebted to the two old ministers, but he did not want to tire them to go to the door of the palace at night and night, so he asked the painter to draw out their appearance and body shape and hang them at the palace door--this is the origin of Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde as door gods.
Then again, fiction is just fiction, myths are just myths.
We know that the custom of hanging and posting couplets at the door was first born in the shu lord Meng Chang at the end of the five dynasties; and there is no such animal as a dragon in the world, let alone a dragon king.
However, the strength of Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde was very strong.
In the novel "Speaking of Tang", Qin Qiong was the sixteenth good man in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Wei Chi Jingde ranked seventeenth.
However, we cut out Li Yuanba, Yuwen Chengdu, Xiong Kuohai, Wu Yunzhao and other heroes with mostly fictional components, and Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde were actually one of the most popular characters in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Let's look at the old Book of Tang and the Biography of Qin Qiong's account of Qin Qiong: "Whenever Shu Bao (秦琼字叔宝) marches from Emperor Taizong, there are sharp pawns in the enemy, showing off people and horses, and those who come and go, and Emperor Taizong is quite angry, and he orders Shu Bao to go to get it. Shu Bao answered the order, the Prancing Horse marched with a gun, and among the multitudes that would stab him, the people and horses were easy, and Emperor Taizong thought that it was beneficial, and Shu Bao was also quite self-effacing. ”
Look, taking the first rank of general in a million armies is like probing for things, isn't it just a person like Qin Qiong?
Wei Chi Jingde is not inferior, and the Old Book of Tang Dynasty Wei Chi Jingde's Biography says: "Jingde is good at understanding and avoiding the thief, and every time he rides into the thief's line, the thief holds a thorn, and in the end he cannot be injured, and he can seize the thief's hammer and stab it." "Every time the single-horse charge is like an open hanging, the enemy uses a spear to stab, but can not hurt his hair, but is stabbed by his spear.
Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde were both top figures among the martial artists, so who of the two of them was more skilled?
The novel "Speaking of Tang" lists Qin Qiong as the sixteenth good man and the seventeenth because the two of them fought in the Battle of Miragawa.
At that time, Qin Qiong was already a general under Li Shimin, but Wei Chi Jingde was still in Liu Wuzhou's camp.
The forty-fifth time in "Speaking of Tang", "The King of Qin Visits BaibiGuan at Night, And Shu Bao Saves the Red Mud Stream" is written like this: Li Shimin and Cheng Yaojin went to Baibiguan at night to investigate the enemy's situation, and they were discovered by Wei Chi Jingde and chased all the way to Meiliangchuan. Qin Qiong came to the rescue and only hit two hammers. Wei Chi Jingde returned the three whips, feeling that he could not beat it, so he jumped over the red mud stream and fled the scene.
This process is the plot of "three whips for two hammers" that Sui and Tang fans often talk about.
The historical Battle of Miragawa is much larger than in the novel.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty was just beginning to open, and the only territory sitting on was Shanxi and Guanzhong. Shanxi had been occupied by Liu Wuzhou, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty had shrunk greatly, and if it could not hold the Meiliang River, Guanzhong would be very dangerous.
At the critical moment, Qin Qiong stepped forward and won the battle beautifully and perfectly.
At the end of the war, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan thanked Qin Qiong thankfully, rewarded Qin Qiong with all his life, named Qin Qiong as a pillar state, rewarded him with a golden vase, and said with deep affection: "Qing ignored his wife, came to vote for me from afar, and set up an effect." The flesh can be used by the Qing, and when it is cut to give the Qing, the children are jade? The secretary should be encouraged. ”
Judging from Li Yuan's reward and gratitude to Qin Qiong, the victory in the Battle of Mirakawa was of great significance.
But somehow, whether it is the New Book of Tang, the Old Book of Tang, or the Zizhi Tongjian, the records of the Battle of Mirakawa are extremely brief, and only pass by in the words "from the conquest of Meiliangchuan, the destruction of Chi Jingde".
That is to say, Qin Qiong's great defeat at Meiliangchuan by Lieutenant Chi Jingde is an indisputable fact, but it is not very clear how it was defeated.
In 1995, during the construction of the bank dormitory building on Jingqixiaowei 6th Road in Jinan City, the construction workers accidentally excavated the tombs of Qin Qiong's father Qin Ai and Qin Qiong's son Qin Huaidao.
In the epitaph written by Qin Qiong's grandson Qin Jingqian for his father Qin Huaidao, people found the following passage: "Zu Shubao, the general of Sui Longjun, from Gaozu Shenyao Emperor to capture Lieutenant Chi Jingde, worshiped the pillar state and the commander of the Ma Army, granted the right three unified troops of Qin Province, and in addition to the general of Zuo Wuwei, the 700 households of Yizhou were sealed, and the Duke of Huguo was given to Xu Chensi, and the governor of the three prefectures was given to accompany the burial of Zhaoling." ”
This is the Battle of Miragawa.
It turned out that in the Battle of Meiliangchuan, Qin Qiong not only defeated Wei Chi Jingde, but also defeated Wei Chi Jingde in a complete and oppressive manner!
We know that when two armies are opposed, you beat the enemy army away, which is a big defeat of the enemy army, which is not easy; you kill the commander of the enemy army, which is more difficult, it is considered a complete defeat; if you want to capture the enemy commander alive, the difficulty is even higher, but is it not a rolling defeat?
If what Qin Huaidao's epitaph says is the truth, then it is not difficult to understand why the New Book of Tang, the Old Book of Tang, or the Zizhi Tongjian are vague about the history of the Battle of Miragawa. After all, Wei Chi Jingde later surrendered to Tang and became Li Shimin's confidant general, and Qin Qiong was more than twenty years older than Wei Chi Jingde, and died of illness in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, and Wei Chi Jingde not only followed Li Shimin to conquest Goguryeo in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, but also lived until three years of Tang Gaozong Xianqing, playing a greater role than Qin Qiong. Therefore, in the official historical materials revised by Emperor Taizong of Tang, Shi Guan, out of the psychology of "keeping secrets for His Holiness", covered up the scandal on behalf of Wei Chi Jingde.
However, it can also be Qin Qiong's grandson Qin Jingqian bragging about the ancestors. Otherwise, according to common sense, Qin Qiong's capture of Wei Chi Jingde alive is such a big thing, and it is not reasonable to say that the historian deliberately erased it only out of the psychology of "secrecy for His Holiness".
Of these two speculations, which is more reliable, it is up to the officials themselves to judge.