preface
When mentioning Cheng Biting Jin, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is the image of a fu general who is five big and three thick. He came from a grassroots background, sold salt, killed officials, and went to jail. In the end, because of the robbery of the emperor's bar, he was caught by Yang Lin, and later rescued by Qin Qiong and others, and everyone rebelled together in Wagang Village.
Armed with a sixty-four-pound Xuanhua axe, he used three moves to split the brain door (cutting watermelons), ghost teeth, and plucking ears to run rampant in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties.
When he was in Wagangzhai, he was also emperor for a few days. In his lifetime, he experienced many eras such as the "Wagang Uprising", "the founding of the Tang Dynasty", "Xue Rengui's conquest of the east", "Xue Dingshan's conquest of the west" and "Xue Gang's anti-Tang". According to "Talking About Tang", he lived for more than one hundred and twenty years! But this is just the artistic portrayal of folk novels, what does the real Cheng Biting Jin in history look like?
First, the birth is noble, not the grassroots
After the historical Cheng Yaojin defected to the Tang Dynasty, he changed his name to Cheng Zhijie. In 1976, Cheng Zhijie's epitaph was unearthed. It is written that Both Cheng's grandfather and father served as officials during the Northern Qi dynasty. After Northern Qi was destroyed by Northern Zhou, although the Cheng family was no longer an official, they were also a powerful clan in the local area
。 Cheng was good at riding archery and using horses as a teenager
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In the sixth year of the great cause at the end of the Sui Dynasty, due to the great construction of the Sui Emperor, thieves from all over the world flocked to the city. Relying on his family's prestige in the hearts of the local people, Cheng Yaojin formed an armed force of hundreds of people to protect the rural people.
Later, the Sui Became More and More Chaotic, and Cheng Yaojin had to go to Li Mi, the leader of the Wagang Army.
After defecting to the Wagang Army, Cheng Biting Jin was quickly reused, at that time
Among the hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops, Li Mi selected the 8,000 warriors as his own internal army. Four more generals were selected, each counting two thousand people, and Cheng Yaojin was one of them.
During a battle between Li Mi and Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong sent troops to sneak into Shan Xiongxin of the Wagang Army, and Li Mi sent Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyu to reinforce Shan Xiongxin. During the battle, Pei Xingyu was shot off his horse by a bow and arrow, and Cheng Biting Jin rushed forward, killing more than a dozen people in a row, and then saved Pei Xingyu, and the two of them rode a horse and retreated. During the retreat, Cheng Yaojin was pierced by the pursuers behind him with a horse mallet.
Cheng Biting Jin actually turned around and broke the opponent's long hammer, and then stabbed the other party to death with his own hammer! After this operation, no one dared to chase the two people anymore! The two evacuated safely.
Later, because Li Mi failed to deal with the internal relations of the Wagang army, the Wagang army was defeated by Wang Shichong. Generals such as Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong also became captives of Wang Shichong.
Second, the tang dynasty was thrown into the front, and the name was changed to "Zhijie"
According to historical records, after Cheng Yaojin was caught by Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong was still very good to him. Not only did he make him a general, but he was also given a rich reward.
However, Cheng Yaojin found that Wang Shichong was a person with a small temperament and superstition, and was not a person who had achieved great things. So Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong discussed and decided to leave Wang Shichong.
Once, when Wang Shichong's army and Li Tang's army confronted each other, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong suddenly rushed to the enemy position on both horses, and then turned to Wang Shichong's army and said, "It is good that you take us, but you are not the one who has achieved great things, and we have decided to join Tang." Wang Shichong was also very angry when he saw that the two fierce generals had surrendered to the enemy like this! But there was no way, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong were both fierce generals at that time, and more than a dozen or twenty people could not hold them. With more people on board, it was easy to attract the Tang Army to fight a decisive battle with them in advance. So I just watched the two of them leave.
Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was very happy to see that the two men took the initiative to vote. Therefore, the two were assigned to Li Shimin's account to listen to orders.
Li Shimin was also very happy to have two fierce generals at once, so he assigned the two to his most elite special forces, the Xuanjia Army, as the commander. Cheng bit Jin as a sign of loyalty, so he changed his name to Cheng Zhijie.
Cheng Zhijie then followed Li Shimin to participate in all the battles against Song Jingang, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande.
Moreover, according to historical records, Cheng Yaojin often charged in the forefront during battles. After Li Yuan pacified the world, he made Cheng Jin the Duke of Suguo.
3. Prophecy of the change of Xuanwu Gate
Cheng Yaojin in the novel has always given people an image of courage and strategy. But the historical Cheng Yaojin, although he does not dare to say that he has any outstanding strategy, he definitely has a keen insight ability. As I said before,
He surrendered to Wang Shichong together with Qin Qiong and other veteran generals of the Wagang Army, but he was the first to see that Wang Shichong could not achieve great things.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was the first to remind Li Shimin, the king of Qin, that the contradictions between him and the crown prince Li Jiancheng were likely to develop to the point where they would be resolved by force, and advised Li Shimin to make preparations early. Although as early as the time when Li Tang calmed the world, the contradiction between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin had already become prominent. Almost no one considers that this contradiction will rise to the point of fighting each other. And Cheng Yaojin was almost the first to put forward this point of view. Facts have proved that Cheng Yaojin is very right, didn't the Xuanwumen change eventually break out between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng!
Just two years after Cheng Yaojin reminded Li Shimin to be careful,
Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji suggested that Li Yuan send Li Shimin's cheng to bite Jin, Wei Chigong and Qin Qiong outside the capital to do the assassination history. Among them, Cheng Yaojin was transferred the farthest, and he was transferred to Guangzhou.
Li Shimin knew that this was Li Jiancheng's going to do it! So Cheng Biting Jin also proposed to Li Shimin that the first move is strong! At that time, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng both had their own private armies in Chang'an. However, Li Shimin only had eight hundred people, and Li Jiancheng had thousands of people. In this gap, it shows that Li Shimin can't fight hard! So Li Shimin took Cheng Yaojin and Wei Chi Jingde and others and ambushed xuanwumen, the only way for the prince to enter the dynasty. When Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji went to the court, it was certainly impossible to bring so many people. So Li Shimin and the others suddenly sent troops to intercept and kill Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji when they passed through the Xuanwu Gate! Li Yuanji was killed by Wei Chi Jingde, and Li Jiancheng was killed by Li Shimin. The change of Xuanwu Gate ended with Li Shimin's complete victory.
Fourth, the hero is late, and the late festival is not guaranteed
After Li Shimin became emperor, Cheng Yaojin has always been an official.
After Emperor Gaozong of Tang succeeded to the throne, Cheng Yaojin took on the role of grand commander of the March of the Onion Mountain Road and attacked Ashina Helu of the Western Turks.
After cheng yaojin's army and Helu's army met for the first time,
With the cooperation of Cheng Yaojin and the famous general Su Dingfang, the first battle was successful and Helu was defeated.
Originally, if Cheng bit Jin and chased after him, Helu would definitely be finished.
But at this time, Wang Wendu, Cheng Biting Jin's deputy, did not want Su Dingfang and Cheng Biting Jin to make another great contribution. So he suggested that Cheng bite the gold, we should form a phalanx of the army, put it
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Place in the middle of the army and move forward slowly.
Such a camp has more than enough to defend itself, but it cannot kill the enemy. But Cheng Yaojin didn't know what was going on and listened to his advice.
Finally, due to the inability to make meritorious contributions in ordinary time, Wang Wendu also suggested that Cheng bite Jin and kill the captives! Later, this matter reached the ears of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, who was furious and dismissed both Cheng Yaojin and Wang Wendu. Although Cheng Yaojin was eventually recalled by Emperor Gaozong, it did not change the fact that he was late and unsafe.
summary
In the history of Cheng Yaojin, born from the local strong and powerful, in the last years of the Great Sui Dynasty, Cheng Yaojin, with his keen insight and bravery, was successively reused by Li Mi, Wang Shichong, and Li Shimin. In the end, Cheng bit Jin to assist Li Shimin in participating in the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and after Li Shimin sat on the throne, Cheng Biting Jin also officially transported Hengtong. During emperor Gaozong's conquest of the Western Turks, he was deposed by Emperor Gaozong. Cheng Yaojin also failed to give himself a wonderful life and draw a satisfactory end.