Throughout China's thousands of years of history, countless people dare to call the emperor and the king, but the title of "overlord" is indeed few people dare to call it, in contrast, the domineering degree of the overlord even exceeds that of the emperor.
Today we want to say that only 1 man and 1 horse, he captured the emperor of the enemy country alive and destroyed the entire enemy country, he was not a "overlord", and even said the name of 9 out of 10 people did not know, at that time he was just a small military general under Li Yuan's name, Li Yuan did not know him. He dared to ask for orders to fight a country that Datang could not do, and he succeeded, who was it?
The time is to go back to the first year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty (618), which is the era name of Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, and the first year of the entire Tang Dynasty. In the newly established Tang Dynasty, there was an extreme shortage of military talents, and Qin Shubao, Wei Chigong and other tiger generals were still "working" in WagangZhai at this time, and Li Jing was also an unknown petty official under Li Shimin.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty did not complete the hegemony of unifying the world, and it took 10 years to destroy the Liang Shidu of Shuofang and complete the unification. In order to defeat Xue Ju, who called himself the "Overlord of Western Qin", Li Yuan had to cooperate with Li Rail and form an alliance before eliminating Xue Ju and establishing the Tang Dynasty. Although you have just helped me destroy the enemy, "one mountain does not allow two tigers", so Tang Gaozu decided to recruit Li Rail.
Li Rail is not a simple person. He is a famous and arrogant man in Liangzhou, unlike other rich people, he often helps the poor, and he is also eloquent and resourceful, and the villagers near and far love him. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the local division was serious, and the crowds were everywhere, fearing that their people would be bullied by Xue Ju, the "Overlord of Western Qin", Li Rail, with the support of everyone, became the "King of Hexi Liang".
According to historical records, "Xue Ju sent troops to invade, defeated Changsong, beheaded two thousand ranks, and captured his people", which frightened Xue Ju no longer dared to trouble Li Rail, and people at that time said that only Li Rail could bring Down Xue Ju, so Li Yuan came to him to join forces, and of course they succeeded in joining forces.
When Li Yuan of Tang Gaozu was panicked, a powerful person is a friend of course, can Li Lu prepare to destroy him? The Tang Dynasty, which had just ended the war, was very weak, and Li Rail "won 100,000 troops, while the place was thousands of miles, and it was dangerous and self-defending." At this time, a person stepped forward.
An Xinggui, a person with less than 1,000 words of Baidu encyclopedia information, can see the degree of unfamiliarity with him. He was a native of Wuwei, Liangzhou (present-day Wuwei, Gansu), and during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Ananda began to live in Liangzhou and gradually became a prominent family of Wuwei.
He said to Tang Gaozu Li Yuan: "I don't bring a soldier or a pawn, I can complete the task by myself and a horse." Where would Li Yuan believe and ask, "Li Rail is in the land of Hexi, even if he is good at Tuguhun and raises troops to attack, he still thinks it is difficult, can he ride alone?" "An Xinggui confidently said Emperor, you don't have to worry, I have my own way."
Li Yuan thought about it, anyway, he went alone, there was no loss to the country if he failed, and it was better to succeed, so the smallest "expedition" in the history of the Tang Dynasty began, and An Xinggui 1 person defeated the Great Liang State with 100,000 soldiers.
After saying that, An Xinggui set off with his beloved horse and came to the gate of the Great Liang Kingdom, he said to the gatekeeper and quickly let himself in, his brother An Xiuren was a general of Emperor Li Rail, and his brother who was deeply loved by Li Rail introduced his brother to the emperor, so An Xinggui did nothing and became a "Great General of the Left and Right Guards".
An Xinggui, who quickly gained Li Rail's trust, always intentionally or unintentionally tested Li Rail's attitude toward the Tang Dynasty, and Li Rail said: "Although Tang is strong, what about me? "Very arrogant, but not wrong. So An Xinggui prepared to implement his plan, he and his brother 2 people recruited loyal An family disciples, and then step by step into the various departments of the Great Liang State, grasped most of the military power, Li Rail still felt at ease.
Coinciding with the drought in Liangzhou, the people are not happy, Li Rail, who was only a rich man before, often gave disaster relief and grain, and after becoming emperor, it was not such a thing, he just did not open the warehouse, and the people disobeyed you, An Xinggui seized the opportunity to rebel.
Li Rail was particularly confident at first, and you An Xinggui also wanted to rebel? Only then did he discover that everyone around him had defected, and An Xinggui easily captured Li Rail as a prisoner. An Xinggui was very trustworthy, did not covet the throne, grabbed Li Rail and returned to Datang and handed it over to the Emperor of Datang. In this regard, the mighty Great Cool Country was so gone.
Li Yuan was particularly happy, and he no longer had to worry about Li Rail, and he did not have to pay for financial and material resources, all relying on An Xinggui's own efforts, so he immediately "commanded Xinggui to be the Grand General of the Right Wu Marquis, shangzhu Guo, the Duke of Liangguo, the seal of six hundred households, and the grant of ten thousand duan." An Xinggui became the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty.
An Xinggui won 1 country by 1 person, this record of the Tang Dynasty can not be broken, and it is also a miracle in the entire history of China. So why is the legendary figure so lowly known? You know what?
Reference: New Book of Tang