Speaking of the extremely tragic battles in ancient Chinese history, everyone can't help but think of the "Battle of Changping" in the last year of the Warring States, the life-and-death duel between the two great powers of Qin and Zhao. When it comes to the Battle of Changping, we have to mention zhao Kuo, a famous general who "talks on paper".
The history books record that Zhao Kuo had a father who was very capable of fighting, Zhao Guo's "MaFujun" Zhao Hao, and his younger brother Zhao Mu was also a rare general of the Zhao State, in fact, this descendant of the Zhao clan also produced many good generals with soldiers.
And it is said that on the eve of the Battle of Changping that year, Zhao Kuo's mother heard that King Xiaocheng of Zhao wanted to take Zhao Kuo as a marshal, so she hurriedly found King Zhao and said to him: "Concubines have seen his father Ma Fujun Zhao Hao as a general, they are all sharing weal and woe with the soldiers, and the treasures and goods given by the king and the clan are all distributed to the military officials and soldiers, every time he is ordered to go on a campaign, he has no hesitation, he never asks about the affairs of the family, and now my son Zhao Kuo is a general, sitting in the middle of the army, full of majesty, and none of the soldiers dare to look up at him, the golden veil given by the king, He moved back to his home to collect, every day thinking about how to buy a field and a house, his father and son are not at all the same heart, the king still thinks he can go to Changping to be the manager? ”
However, King Zhao said that he had already issued an appointment and could not change it, and Mother Zhao said: "The Great King will send him after all, and if he is defeated, he hopes not to affect the concubines and the other sons of the Zhao family!" King Zhao readily agreed.
Later, Zhao Kuo "talked about soldiers on paper" and was trapped in Changping by the qin god of war Bai Qi and led a large army, and finally was shot as a hedgehog and killed on the battlefield, while the 450,000 troops of the Zhao army were all killed by the Qin army, and the Zhao state was killed in the first battle, so that the crying in handan city was tremendous, and King Xiaocheng of Zhao did not listen to Zhao Kuo's mother, and regretted it.
However, the king did not joke, Zhao Kuo's crime, the crime was not as good as his family, Ma Fujun Zhao clan was preserved, and later Zhao Guo died in the violent Qin, Zhao Hao's grandson Zhao Xing was also moved into Xianyang, after the death of Qin, this Zhao clan in order to avoid disasters, took the ancestral title of Ma Fujun 'ma" as the surname, and later moved to Maoling County , Right Fufeng County (Shaanxi Xianyang Xingping) to become "Fufeng Ma Clan".
More than 940 years after the Battle of Changping, this Ma clan was actually born a "top" good general comparable to his ancestor Ma Fujun, who "suppressed rebellion and killed the enemy and the people" for the country, swept away the shame of "talking about soldiers on paper" for a thousand years, and ranked in the Ling yan Pavilion and became a beautiful talk in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, mortals are inevitably affected by the "majestic and prestigious", this generation of famous generals in his later years was also confused by the "enemy iron fans", almost led to the tragedy of the death of the dangerous country, fortunately, God took care of him, so that he was frightened, turned the danger into a disaster, and finally won the glory of life, and died, which is really fate!
His family was born in the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty, his family was in Ruzhou, Henan (he moved east from fufeng), his name was Ma Fu, the character Xunmei, his father was named Ma Jilong, he had been a Lanzhou Assassin (Shanxi Lüliang), Youzhou Jingluo, Ma Fu grew very tall, when he was a teenager, he studied with several of his brothers, he threw books on the ground and shouted: "When something big happens in the world, I will go to build a meritorious career and sweep across the seas, how can I sit here and become a scribe?" So he began to specialize in the art of war, and his personality became more and more calm.
After the outbreak of the AnShi Rebellion, Ma Fu was serving as a subordinate official in the guanglu qing Jia Xun mansion, when Jia Xun was stationed in Fanyang, Ma Fu said to him: "Alu Shan Da (An Lu Shan) failed the emperor's Tian'en to launch a rebellion, and has already captured the eastern capital Luoyang, which also shows that the rebels' arrogance has reached its peak, and the end of the crossbow will be destroyed, en should immediately build merit, kill the rebels around Fanyang, and remove the foundation of the old lair of Lushan, and when the rebels are blocked from entering guanzhong in the west, that is, they are homeless, their stomachs and backs are enemies, and they sit and wait for capture, and the world can be stable!" ”
Although Jia Xun thought it was a brilliant plan, he hesitated, and soon after the plan was leaked out, An Lushan sent his subordinate Han Chaoyang to summon Jia Xun. Jia Xun was so frightened that he immediately went out to meet him, but he did not want to be captured by the assassins ambushed by the rebels, and finally he was strangled alive by them with a bowstring.
Ma Fu, with his martial arts prowess, fled alone to the West Mountain outside the city, where he was hidden by Xu Yu, a hermit in the mountains, and after a month, he prepared to go to Pingyuan County. Unexpectedly, Pingyuan County was also captured by the rebels, so he changed his route to Wei County.
During the reign of Emperor Li Yubao of the Tang Dynasty, Ma Fu made Li Baoyu the Governor of ZhaoCheng under the command of Zelu Jiedu. At that time, Tang Xuanzong and Tang Suzong had all died, An Lushan and Shi Siming were also killed, and the major clan towns in the world supported the army and respected themselves. The western Hui Khanate army that helped the Tang Dynasty quell the Anshi Rebellion was about to return to the country, and they were very tough and rude to the Tang court, plundering property and killing officials and people everywhere they went.
When the Hui army passed through Li Baoyu's garrison, he asked for various supplies from the local area, but Li Baoyu did not dare to resist and did so one by one, but none of his bureaucratic guests dared to take over the matter for him.
Ma Fu arrived at the residence of the Hui Commander, first took out gold, silver and wine and meat to entertain the Hui Generals, and then made a legal covenant on the spot, not allowing the Hui army to plunder the people of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Ma Fu took the ling banner, thanked him, and ordered several servants to enter the banquet to serve Hui Dashuai, at this time one of the servants overturned the wine cup on the case, and Ma Fu immediately drew his sword and slashed it, frightening the Hui generals to look at each other, saying that the general Ma of the Tang Dynasty was even more fierce than their Huihui warriors. It turned out that the servants who were killed were the death row prisoners brought by Ma Fu in advance.
However, from now on, the Hui army would not dare to plunder and kill people in the two states of Zelu. After Ma Fu returned to his life, Li Baoyu felt greatly surprised that the cruel and unkind Hui people were actually "conquered" by Ma Fu in this way. As a result, Ma Fu became a subordinate of Li Baoyu.
Ma Xuan said to Li Baoyu: "Hui Hui will not dare to make a mistake in the territory of Dashuai in the future, but what The Marshal should be worried about is that the meritorious servant Gu Huai'en, Huai'en and Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, the two marshals, go hand in hand, gong gao sheji, such as today's heavy army, Li Huaixian, Zhang Zhongzhi, Xue Song, and Tian Chengsi were all subordinates of Huai'en, and Huai'en's son Gu Guwei was like Lü Bu, a flying general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiao Yong did not have benevolence, in my opinion, Huai'en would definitely use his own forces to cause trouble in the Taiyuan area. I hope the marshal will be prepared. ”
Not long after, the servant Gu Huai'en did collude with the Taiyuan general Li Ducheng to prepare for a rebellion, and the Taiyuan marshal Xin Yunjing discovered their plot and preemptively beheaded Li Ducheng and closed the Taiyuan city gates to hold on to the enemy. The servant Gu Huai'en was furious and sent his precious son Gu Gu Wei to lead an army to besiege Taiyuan.
When the Hui army returned to the north, the servant Gu Huai'en dispatched his generals An Ke and Shi Zhangting to garrison Heyang with thousands of soldiers and horses, snatched Hui Qi, and confiscated all the property piled up in Heyang for himself. At this time, Li Baoyu immediately asked Ma Fu to go to Xiangzhou to assassinate Shi Xue Song to lobby, and finally Xue Song decided to break off relations with the servant Gu Huai'en and obey the imperial court. This Xue Song was also the grandson of the famous general Xue Rengui, which made the servant Gu Huai'en dare not rebel unscrupulously.
Soon, the rebellion of The Servant Gu Huai'en was put down, and Ma Fu was promoted to the rank of Zuo Wu Guard Cao (曹) for his merits, and later as a prince of the Imperial Guard, and before long, he was promoted to secretary and deputy to the rank of junior superintendent and judge of the imperial history of the palace, and then promoted to zhengzhou assassin, in charge of the political side.
At this time, Ma Fu began to show his fists, persuading the local people to cultivate and support their families, and then conducted a census and statistics on the household registration, and could pay taxes to the imperial court on time every year, while the people of Zhengzhou did not complain in the slightest, which was rare in the provinces of the world to restore people's livelihood and people's strength soon after the anshi chaos was settled.
In the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty Emperor's calendar, Ma Fu was renamed the Assassin of Huaizhou, and during his tenure, he also removed the harsh government troubles for the people of a prefecture and greatly educated him, and the whole of Huaizhou was even more grateful to him. Later, when his old superior, Li Baoyu, was transferred to Guanzhong Fengxiang as an envoy to Jiedushi, he actually remembered Ma Fu and asked the imperial court to ask him to do the Longzhou Assassination History and concurrently serve as the Imperial History Of Zhongcheng.
At that time, Tubo frequently invaded Longyou in Hexi, and the marching army took a small mountain road west of Longzhou, and ma Fu soon learned of this situation after his arrival, and immediately sent people to plant a variety of trees on the mountain to block the path, and set up two gates at the bottom of the mountain, and laid fences and towers around the mountain, and strengthened the guard against Tubo. Later, Tubo did not dare to easily break into the territory of Longzhou.
And every time Li Baoyu entered Chang'an to meet the emperor to report on his duties, he would take Ma Fu with him, and for a long time, Emperor Tang also knew that Ma Fu under Li Baoyu's command was a capable person, so he appointed him as the Shangzhou Assassin History, Yu Shi Zhongcheng, and the Envoy for Defending Land and Water Transport, yushi Zhongcheng was equivalent to the secretary general of the deputy prime minister level, who could pick up illegal officials at all levels, and the land and water transport was equivalent to the minister of military supplies and logistics of the three armies. Ma Fu's attainment of such a high position shows that Emperor Tang of Tang recognized his ability and loyalty quite much.
In the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty Emperor's calendar, there was a military rebellion in the three cities of Heyang County, and the emperor immediately appointed Ma Fu as the inspector of the left scattered riding changshi, Yushi Dafu, and the three cities of Heyang to quell the rebellion. At that time, the fiercest of the three cities was Li Lingyao, the defender of Fenzhou, who had an elite army of eight thousand people called the "Hungry Wolf Army", and he was afraid of everything near and far. However, Wei Bojie made Tian Chengsi a subordinate of the servant Gu Huai'en before, and had always had ill intentions, and at this time he also sent a large army to support Li Lingyao's rebellion.
The Tang army in Henan was actually beaten by the rebels and fled, and after Ma Fu arrived at his post, he immediately gathered elite troops and personally led the army to counterattack. In the first battle, Li Lingyao's "Hungry Wolf Army" was defeated completely, and later the other two rebel armies in Heyang were all defeated, and when Tian Chengsi's 20,000 reinforcements came to save Li Lingyao, Ma Fu only brought 4,000 soldiers and horses to meet Tian Chengsi's brother Tian Yue's 20,000 tiger and wolf division.
As a result, Tian Yue was defeated by Ma Fu's hands, and he escaped on horseback. When Li Lingyao heard that Tian Yue was no match for Ma Fu, he was so frightened that he abandoned the city with a hundred cavalry overnight, and Bian Prefecture was thus retaken by Ma Fu.
In the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty Emperor's calendar, Ma Fu was appointed as shangshu of the Ministry of Inspection and Works, Yin of Taiyuan Province, Beidu Liushou, and Hedong Jiedushi, and became a feudal governor on the side of Wei Zhen. After taking office, he feared that the Taiyuan area would be a place of contention for soldiers, and the armor was very weak, so he gathered thousands of grazing grooms and stout miscellaneous servants, and soon trained them into extremely rare fierce iron cavalry.
Ma Fu also ordered craftsmen to build ironclad chariots, the chariots were covered with foxes (lions) and elephant patterns of canvases, the car could be full of soldiers, soldiers could rush out of the car when fighting, when encamped, these chariots could stand up to resist the impact of enemy cavalry, he stayed in Taiyuan for a year, and actually trained thirty thousand elite soldiers.
After the death of Emperor Dezong of Tang, Emperor Dezong of Tang ascended the throne, and in the second year of Emperor Dezong's reign, Ma Fu entered the capital and was given the post of Shangshu of the Military Department of the Inspection School, but was still stationed in Taiyuan, the northern capital of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Wei Bojiedu caused Tian Chengsi to die, and his brother Tian Yue succeeded him as the commander of the army, and the imperial court was unable to ask questions, and Ma Fu wrote to the emperor saying that Tian Yue would definitely rebel, hoping that the imperial court would make preparations as soon as possible.
In that year, Tian Yue really co-opted the generals of Zi, Qing, Heng, and Ji to conspire together to rebel. The cities of Xingzhou and Linhuan were besieged by Tian Yue, and Emperor Dezong of Tang immediately sent Ma Fu to lead 20,000 troops with The Zhaoyi Army to make Li Baozhen (Li Baoyu's cousin) and the Shen ce army march to make Li Sheng's three-way army attack the rebels in order to relieve the siege of Linhuan.
When Ma Fu had just sent his troops, he knew that the army was going to cross a dangerous road, so he sent a special envoy to send a handwritten letter to Tian Yue to recount his old feelings. Tian Yue laughed when he saw it, thinking that Ma Fu was afraid of his powerful troops. However, when Ma Yue's army approached Handan in Hebei Province, Tian Yue also sent emissaries to greet Ma Fu, and Ma Fu killed the emissaries in public, and immediately led his army to attack Tian Yue's camp, and in the first battle, he actually shot Tian Yue's fierce general Cheng Xuanzhi to death, and the rebels were all shocked.
Then Ma Fu led Li Baozhen and Li Sheng's two large armies to attack the Tian Army's barrier, and then said to his confidants Li Ziliang and Li Fengguo: "If you let Tian Yue's army pass under your eyes, you will not be spared!" Tian Yue was repeatedly repelled by Ma Fu's army, but he couldn't rush out.
Ma Fu also sent elite soldiers to push the "train" to burn Tian Yue's camp fence, and the large army rushed into the Tian camp, beheading the generals Yang Chaoguang and Lu Zichang of the Tian army, killing more than 5,000 enemy troops and capturing more than 800 people alive. In five days, the siege of Linhuan was lifted, and Tian Yue was furious and poured all his troops into a decisive battle with Ma Fu.
Ma Fu personally led more than a thousand elite people to guard the dangerous place, and fought with Tian Yue's hundreds of thousands of troops for more than a hundred rounds, and the two sides repeatedly rushed to kill, while ma Fu soldiers bravely died, Tian Yue was defeated and lost, Ma Fu's army beheaded more than 10,000 people, captured more than 900 people, obtained 300,000 grains, and the armor blades piled up like a mountain.
Tian Yue wiped his face with blood with his hands, and only then did he escape from the pile of dead people, and even the xingzhou city that was about to be captured did not dare to ask for it, and ran wildly for five days and five nights in a row, killing three horses, before feeling that he had escaped the pursuit of the horse flint. From then on, he never dared to hold up in front of Ma Fu again.
In order to commend Ma Fu's military exploits, Tang Dezong awarded him the title of Right Servant, and when the emperor learned that in order to win the first battle, Ma Fu actually gave all of his family property to the generals of the three armies, so he was moved to tears, so he ordered Zhi Shangshu to take 50,000 yuan of money from the treasury to reward Ma Fu, and compensated Ma Fu's family wealth in full.
Soon after, he also gave Ma Fu an envoy to Wei Bo, and When Tian Yue heard that his old rival had obtained this title specifically for dealing with him, he was so frightened that he rushed to Ziqing and Hengji Erzhen Jiedushi for help, so Ziqing Li Na sent 10,000 troops, Hengji Li Weiyue sent 3,000 troops, and he himself gathered more than 20,000 remnants of soldiers and lined up in Huanshui, hoping to block Ma Fu's army by risk.
Ma Fu led the troops to Yicheng, and then asked the imperial court to send reinforcements from Heyang Town, and soon after, Ma Fu was going to lead troops to cross the river, but Tian Yue's army sealed the Zhouqiao ferry on the opposite bank, and Ma Fu's army could not cross the river. In a fit of rage, Ma Fu ordered his soldiers to pull hundreds of chariots full of earth and stones developed earlier into the river, block all the water in the upper stream, and lock the chariot with chain hooks, so that the middle stream was cut off, and Ma Fu ordered the army to bear the sand back soil, and crossed the river while filling the road in the shallow mud of the river.
Tian Yue was so frightened that he had to let the whole army hide in the fortress and not fight, and he hoped that when the Ma Fu army had finished eating the grain, it would naturally retreat. The generals under Ma Fu also reminded him that there was little food in the army, and he should find a way to let Tian Yue fight, otherwise it would be very dangerous for the grain army to be tired.
Ma Fu, however, kept sneering, but instead ordered the whole army to give up the surplus grain, bring only ten days of dry food, and prepare for a decisive battle with Tian Yue. Li Baozhen and Heyang Jiedu made Li Peng tremble with fear from his "reverse operation", and they were greatly puzzled and asked him what he really wanted?
Ma Fu sneered again, "You are afraid that the grain will go deeper, and the soldiers will be jealous, right?" Little grain is conducive to a quick battle, and the art of war should be good at controlling people, not controlling people, and now Tian Yue wants to not fight, and when our division retires from the old, this battle will make all the soldiers fight to the death and not retreat, and only by defeating the fortified city with flesh and blood can they break it with vigor and vigor! Both Li Baozhen and Li Peng were shocked by his extraordinary and fearless spirit, and they all obeyed his orders.
Ma Fu then scolded day and night for the challenge, and Tian Yue just didn't dare to fight. One night, Ma Fu ordered his army to eat dry food in the middle of the night, and beat the drums and horns before the chickens sounded, frightening Tian Yue's entire army from falling asleep, and he never dared to relax his vigilance. And Ma Fu had already sent a crack army to attack Tian Yue's old lair Wei Prefecture directly.
Not long after, Tian Yue heard that an army and horses had killed Wei Prefecture, so angry that he quickly led 40,000 troops out of the camp to kill the ma fu camp, Tian Yue ordered the men and horses to take advantage of the wind and set fire, and threw torches into the ma fu camp, and all the generals under Ma Fu asked to attack, but Ma Fu sat still and ordered the whole army not to move. Anxious to make the generals sweat cold on their foreheads, they waited until Tian Yue's army rushed into the camp, and Ma Fu got up, led the generals out of the battle, and counterattacked in one fell swoop, killing Tian Yue's soldiers on their backs, crying and shouting for their mothers, and fleeing everywhere.
Only then did Tian Yue understand that the military horses attacking Wei prefecture were all "fake moves", and that all of them were Ma Fu's "old traitors and giant monkeys" who deliberately led him out to fight to fight against the "empty camp", and in fact, the elite of the whole army of Ma Fu were waiting for him in the camp Tian Yue to "throw himself into the net". Tian Yue's army was defeated and wanted to flee back to the other side of the river, not wanting the bridge to be destroyed by Ma Fu's ambush troops, Tian Yue's army had to cross the river, and Ma Yue's army caught up, rushing to kill, beheading more than 20,000 people, capturing more than 3,000 people, drowning countless people. Almost all of Tian Yue's family was reimbursed, and the dead of this battle Tian Army lived together for more than thirty miles, and Ma Fu also shocked the world's domain town.
After Tian Yue fled back to Wei Prefecture, he had been distraught, his remnants of the defeated generals had long since lost their fighting spirit, and his subordinates Fu Xuan and Li Yao actually went out of the city to surrender to Ma Fu, and not long after, Ma Yue led his troops to the city of Weizhou and ordered his soldiers to block the river flowing into the city, so that the city interrupted the water, and for a time the soldiers and civilians in the city panicked. Tian Yue had no choice but to send people to Zhu Tao and Wang Wujun's two clan towns for help. The two families also knew that "lips and teeth were cold", and immediately sent troops to help.
Tian Yue received reinforcements from the Yan and Zhao families, and actually began to have no fear again, not taking Ma Fu in his eyes, and dared to line up under the city with 20,000 troops to wait for Ma Fu to attack the city. He didn't want Ma Fu to annihilate all his 20,000 horses in a battle. Tang Dezong heard that Ma Fu frequently reported victories, and immediately crowned him as Tong zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, equivalent to executive deputy prime minister.
Tian Yue became frightened again, so he asked Zhu Tao and Wang Wujun for 50,000 reinforcements. When the imperial court saw that the rebel army was strong, they all advised Ma Fu to see that it was good to retreat, but Ma Fu refused to die, and must step on Wei Prefecture and capture and kill the "old man" Tian Yue before he was willing to give up. In order to boost morale, Tang Dezong also sent Shuofang Jiedu to make Li Huaiguang lead 50,000 elite troops to reinforce.
However, this Li Huaiguang had no courage and strategy, and when he arrived at weizhou, he wanted to make a contribution, so he insisted on leading the army to fight, but was defeated by the rebels, and Tian Yue also took the opportunity to divert the river water to irrigate the Ma flint army. After all, Ma Fu's army and horses were short of food, and finally had to retreat to Wei County to rest. In the same month, Emperor Dezong of Tang also issued an edict to make Ma Fu the governor of the military capital Shi, and also served as an envoy to the four prefectures of Wei, Bo, and Bei.
Tian Yue also invited Zhu Tao and Wang Wujun to come to Weizhou, and the three major armies came out to duel with Ma Fu's army, and in front of Ma Fu, the three of them simultaneously called wang, Zhu Tao was the king of Ji, Tian Yue was the king of Wei, and Wang Wujun was the king of Zhao, and he also sent envoys to pull a Ziqing Li Na as the king of Qi, and also promoted Li Xilie of Huaixi as the king of Jianxing and the grand marshal of the Terracotta Army, and openly fought against the Tang Tianzi. For a time, the five anti-kings stood side by side, the world was full of noise, and Ma Fu was determined to be the king of Qin, but because the rebels in the world were united and the momentum was huge, he had no choice.
In the fourth year of Jianzhong, the Jingzhou soldiers who were going south to suppress the rebellion because they did not receive the corresponding pensions, and launched a mutiny, frightening Tang Dezong to flee to Fengtian County (Shaanxi Qianxian County), where Tang Gaozong's Qianling was located. At that time, it was rumored that the reason why Ma Fu could not attack Wei Prefecture was because he had robbed Li Baozhen of his army food, so the two were at odds and delayed the fighter, which caused the three rebel kings to unite in the first line.
It turned out that at first, Ma Fu did "rob" Li Baozhen's military food emergency, and later Li Baozhen was also trapped because of Ma Fu, and the soldiers did not save "revenge". Later, in order to jointly deal with the anti-minister Wang Wujun, Ma Fu lost his temper with Li Baozhen on the spot, directly scolding Li Baozhen for being stingy, and he did not die alone, leaving him alone to do great work! At that time, the famous general Li Sheng was present to persuade the two, but he did not expect that Li Baozhen, like his cousin, really ate ma fu's set of "straight forward" and actually became a good comrade-in-arms with Ma Fu.
Later, after capturing Huanzhou, Ma Fu immediately asked the imperial court to subordinate Huanzhou to Baozhen, and Li Sheng also subordinated all his soldiers to Baozhen, and Baozhen was impressed by the righteousness of the two, and also asked the imperial court to submit all his soldiers and horses to Ma Zhen, and Tang Dezong greatly appreciated the three after learning of this.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, Ma Fu was given the title of Inspector Situ and given the title of King of Beiping County. When Emperor Dezong of Tang returned to Chang'an, he was also appointed as the envoy of the Fengcheng Army and the five towns of Jin, Dai, Ci, and Kui, and deputy marshal of the Yulin Army. At this time, Li Huaiguang rebelled in the river, and Tang Dezong was furious, and ordered Ma Fu and Shizhong Hunyu and Zhen Guojun jiedu to make Luo Yuanguang jointly attack the river.
After all, Ma Fu and Li Huaiguang still had old friends, so they sent envoys to persuade him to surrender. Li Huaiguang's brother-in-law, Ying Tingzhen, the general of the Prefecture of Suizhou, and the general of Cizhou, all took the initiative to surrender to Ma Flint. Even Wang Wujun, the "King of Zhao", went to the "King' Horn" to show his kindness to Ma Fu. Ma Fu immediately asked the imperial court to order Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen to attack Zhu Tao, but after the success, he assigned shen and Zhao erzhou to Wang Wujun to bribe his heart and disintegrate the various feudal towns.
At that time, The Zhao Prefecture Assassin Shi Kang Rizhi had been fighting Wang Wujun, and later Ma Fu repelled Wang Wujun, and the three states of Jin, Ci, and Yi surrendered to Ma Fu without a fight, but Ma Fu gave the credit for recovering these three states to Ri Zhi. When Kang Ri learned about it, he was overjoyed, very grateful to Ma Fu, and swore allegiance to the imperial court to the death.
Later, Ma Fu extinguished several rebellions, and in the first year of The First Year of Emperor Dezong of Tang, the locust drought was very serious, the army was very short of food, but Li Huaiguang's rebellion became more and more rampant, and he was only afraid of Ma Fu alone. In order not to let Li Huaiguang notice, Ma Fu secretly entered Chang'an from Taiyuan with a hundred cavalry, and the emperor was very surprised to see him, but Ma Fu said: "If Li Huaiguang knows that I am coming, he will run away without a trace, and it will be difficult to catch him again, although the minister is not a good military general, as long as he has a month's military food, it is enough to pacify the river for His Majesty!" The emperor was very pleased and immediately granted his request.
Ma Fu then went on a crusade with the four armies of Hun Yao, Luo Yuanguang, and Han Yougui, and Li Huaiguang's general Xu Tingguang was stationed at the Changchun Palace, and Ma Fu personally went to the palace to shout Xu Tingguang's name, Tingguang had always been jealous of Ma Zhao's prestige, and was so frightened that he bowed to Ma Fu above the city tower, and Ma Fu took the opportunity to shout to him: "Ting Guang! Several generations of you have been meritorious soldiers who guarded Shuofang for the imperial court town, and since the great rebellion of Alu Mountain, your military town has been the first batch of heroes to fight thieves, and it has been more than forty years now, and the merit is also the highest! Why should we abandon the merits of our ancestors and disobey the king and do such a thing of extermination? Now as long as you follow me Ma Mou, I will surely save you from misfortune, and the rich and noble can also be tuye! ”
Ma Fu shouted again, "You think my words are not sincere, then I am coming, you can shoot me to death!" Saying that he took off his armor and cracked his chest, at this time the city head cried loudly, Xu Tingguang and the soldiers wept and fell to the ground, and all went out of the city to surrender. Ma Fu only entered the city with a few cavalry to surrender, and the soldiers in the city were not afraid to obey. Everyone shouted with joy, "General Congma, I am waiting to be restored to the Tang Dynasty!" ”
Hun Yao, a famous Tang Dynasty general who had always disobeyed Ma Fu, also sighed: "I have always thought that Ma Gong's soldiers are not far from me, and the previous tired defeat of Tian Yue has already shocked me, and now looking at his marching enemy, the true heavenly people are also, I am not as good as far away!" Later, Li Huaiguang was killed by his own general Niu Mingjun, and all the people surrendered to Ma Flint.
Ma Fu sent troops from Chang'an to Banshi twenty-seven days before and after he calmed the river, and Tang Gaozong heard the good news and exclaimed: "Ma Aiqing said that he would pacify the river in one month, and sure enough, he won this famous general, and he did not worry about it!" Later, he personally wrote two antique inscriptions, "Chen" and "Tai Heng", to praise Ma Fu's merits of King Qin, which was extremely rare in the entire Tang Dynasty.
In the second year of the Zhen Dynasty, Shang Jiezan, the most scheming general of the southwestern powerful state of Tubo, invaded the Tang Dynasty's Hexi land in a big way, and Tang Dezong ordered Ma Fu to go to defend against the soldiers in order to solicit envoys. When Shang Jie Zan heard that Ma Fu was the commander,he was frightened and quickly sent an envoy to ask for peace, but asked for an alliance, but Tang Dezong said that because Tubo often betrayed the alliance, the "sacred" Chiling Alliance monument was smashed by the old lady Emperor Xuanzong in anger, so it was not allowed to mention the alliance again.
Shang Jiezan sent his cronies to the cheeks of the hot cheeks and bowed their knees to ask for the flint. Ma Fu was slapped in the clouds by this Tubo envoy who could speak the Tao, saying that General Ma chao was even more powerful than Ma Chao in the Three Kingdoms, and that the Western Qiang regarded Ma Chao as a god, and now the Tubo people were descendants of the Western Qiang, and regarded him as just like Ma Chao at that time, only to bow down and submit, and there was no rebellion or disrespect.
Ma Fu was momentarily confused by his prestige in the eyes of the Tubo people, and actually frequently said good things for the Tubo people in the court, asking for permission to meet the alliance. Tang Dezong did not give Ma Fu a little face in this matter, and insisted on refusing to make an alliance. Later, Ma Fu simply sent the "qiaozui" to the Chang'an Palace and told The pleading of Tubo in front of Tang Dezong.
Not wanting to talk about cheek heat, this sharp tooth is indeed extraordinary, coupled with Ma Fu's "god assist", the stubborn Tang Dezong was actually moved, and agreed to send the famous general Hun Yu to make an alliance with Tubo. At that time, the chancellor Liu Hun and another famous general li sheng of the court who was equally famous as Ma Fu and Hun Yu were all opposed to the alliance, but Tang Dezong still could not withstand Ma Fu's persuasion and the tufan lobbyists.
It turned out that this Shang Jiezan knew very well that after the Tang Dynasty experienced the Anshi Rebellion, four generations of emperors fought hard, and only then barely managed to save the tang dynasty, which was full of holes, and at this time, the Tang Dynasty was not as fierce as when Zhenguan and Kaiyuan were, and Tang Dezong only had three first-class military generals around him, Li Sheng, Ma Fu, and Hun Yao, and as long as these three people were removed, he could realize the grand plan of capturing Chang'an for the ancestors of the Tubo dynasties and eating up the entire northwest long right and southwest Shu land of the Tang Dynasty.
So he came up with this trick and killed three birds with one stone, saying that by persuading the emperor to send Hun Yu to make an alliance, Li Sheng's opposition would inevitably be deposed, and when the time came to rely on Liu Hun as a literati prime minister, no matter how wise he was, he would not be able to save the Tang Dynasty. Later, sure enough, Hun Yu ran to Pingliang to meet the alliance, and as a result, he was ambushed by the Tubo army, if it were not for his high martial arts, he would have escaped and almost lost his life. Tang Dezong was so angry and ashamed that he had earlier taken back Li Sheng's military power, and now hun yao and Ma Fu had both made mistakes on the Tubo issue, and they had all been stripped of their posts and seized power, and they had rushed home to think about it behind closed doors.
Fortunately, Hun Yu returned alive, and if he was killed by Tubo, Tang Dezong, who had always been suspicious, would inevitably be like the Chongzhen Emperor of the Later Ming Dynasty, and in a fit of rage, he would kill Ma Fu in anger, and at the same time he was ashamed to see Li Sheng, and he was afraid that he would not reuse his talents again.
Shang Jiezan's conspiracy did not succeed, and later he did not want to open it, and he was so angry that he was so sick that before he died, he actually released ma Yi, the nephew of Ma Yi, who had been captured before, and said: "We Tubo all rely on the land of hequ to herd horses and raise cattle for a living, if Ma Gong crosses the river with his troops and makes me lose the land of the river bend, Tubo will not be able to live!" Now release the yi to repay also! ”
In the fifth year of Zhen yuan, Tang Dezong's anger also dissipated, and after repeated contemplation, he still felt that these old guys were great loyal servants and good generals of the country, and could not treat them badly, so they summoned the still surviving Ma Fu and Li Sheng to the Yanying Hall, praised their merits in public, and painted the portraits of the two of them into the Ling Yan Pavilion, only after the twenty-four heroes of the founding of the country. Ma Fu and Li Sheng were honored by this honor, and when they saw that their portraits could actually be placed together with legendary generals such as Li Jing and Qin Shubao, they almost fainted.
In the ninth year of Zhen Yuan, Li Sheng died, and only Ma Fu was able to meet Tang Dezong, at that time Ma Fu still had a foot disease, legs and feet were inconvenient, after entering the palace, Tang Dezong was very kind to him, exempted him from the number of ceremonies, and also found him a cushion to give him a seat. After junchen sat down, Tang Dezong said to him again: "In the past, you and Li Sheng came together, but now I see AiQing alone, and I don't feel sad!" When Ma Fu heard this, he was moved to tears and cried so much that his face was a mess.
After the emperor finished talking, Ma Fu retreated, but because he had sat for too long, his foot attacked, and he fell to the ground, and Tang Dezong actually rushed in front of the eunuchs on the left and right, personally helped him up, and sent him to the outside of the palace door, and then moved Ma Fu to kneel on the spot and prostrate himself, weeping and retreating.
Soon, he went to the table to ask him to return to his hometown for retirement, but Tang Dezong did not allow it. In August of the eleventh year of Zhen yuan, Qin Tianjian frequently reported to the emperor that Yinglu Taibai had repeatedly committed taimeixing, and not long after, the seventy-year-old Ma Fu died in this month. Emperor Dezong of Tang mournfully deposed the dynasty for four days, and ordered Li Xian, the king of Wu, to preside over the funeral ceremony as a sacrificial envoy, and gave Ma Fu the title of "Zhuang Wu", which can be described as extremely mournful.
And Ma Chang's son Ma Chang was almost executed by Yousi for inciting people's hearts, and later Tang Dezong, remembering Ma Fu's merits, actually killed eleven criminals, but did not severely punish Ma Chang, only at Ma Zhang's repeated requests, he gave the court staff a "just" thirty rods (or take the court staff home to beat). Later, Ma Chang destroyed all of his father's billions of family wealth, and after his death, Ma Chang's grandchildren actually reached the point of having no room to live in, so that they were frozen, and the descendants of a generation of famous generals were like this, which was really sad and regrettable!
Frantically pouring feces on the father's mausoleum, and then marrying the bride into the coffin and marrying the absurd emperor who entered the palace!