Author: Chen Erhu
1. The virtuous wife advises her husband to join the army
Stepping on this land, looking for the traces left by the years, it seems that all the legends are related to Xue Li, the snow sun under the Buyeo, the golden mountain to kill the enemy, the hat to retreat from the enemy, the white robe of a small general, enriching the historical story of the Liaobei Kaiyuan.
So, where is this Xue Li sacred? Will it leave an evocative legend in Liao?
Xue Li (614-683 AD), the character Rengui, was born in Daizhou, Shanxi, it is said that his father was a small servant, died young, the family fell in the middle of the road, Xue Rengui had to farm in his hometown for a living, obscure, a flash of thirty years old, can not see what ability, to learn martial arts since childhood, physique is better than the average person, cold and righteous.
Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, a powerful lord of the generation, wanted to regain Liaodong, and decided to personally conquer Goguryeo, and led an army of 100,000 people on land and water to conquer Goguryeo with the generals Li Ji and Zhang Liang, and announced to the world:
Liaodong is the land of China, the Sui Dynasty four out of the division can not get, the present Eastern Crusade, want to repay the Chinese children of the chicken.
Before sending troops, the Tang general Zhang Shigui was ordered to recruit troops in Daizhou, where Hedong Province was located.
At this time, Xue Rengui was still struggling with the matter of his father's grave.
It can be said that Xue Rengui had a good wife Liu Shi who understood that he loved him, so he said to him in a serious and agitated and persuasive manner: "The husband has the talent of the high world, and he must meet the time." Today, the son marched on Liaodong and asked for a fierce general, and at this rare time, Jun yantu made his name self-evident, returned to his hometown with wealth and nobility, and was buried before it was too late. ”
The virtuous Liu Clan was quite far-sighted, and also knew that her husband was not a thing in the pool, and understood Xue Rengui's repressed energy, so he pointed out a clear path for her depressed peasant husband to establish meritorious achievements: You have great ambitions and martial arts, and the eldest husband should seize the opportunity. Now that Emperor Taizong of Tang wants to go out to liaodong, it is precisely when he needs a fierce general, this is a good opportunity to make a meritorious contribution, and you should gallop on the battlefield and become famous in the world.
Xue Rengui looked at his wife, couldn't help but nod, and then brought his own horses and weapons to register, Zhang Shigui found this Xue Rengui extraordinary at a glance, so he stayed under the tent as a relative.
Second, the white horse and white robe wield a long sword
In the nineteenth year of Tang Zhenguan (645 AD), Tang Taizong personally went to the Liaodong front, at this time the Tang people and horses fought fiercely with Goguryeo in the Andi area, Tang Lang besieged Liu Junqiong's troops by Goguryeo soldiers and horses, the situation was very dangerous, but no one dared to save, just at the moment of a thousand jun, Xue Rengui roared angrily, clapped his horse and danced into the enemy position, his eyes were fast, and he picked off a goguryeo general and threw his head to the saddle, and the Goguryeo soldiers and horses "all feared", so that Xue Rengui was famous in the war, and the long journey won a fantastic start. Yang Wei Liaodong.
As the old saying goes, "A general does not dare to ride a white horse, for fear of its easy recognition." That is to say, riding a white horse on the battlefield wearing a white robe is too conspicuous, often used as a target by the enemy, the white-robed white-horse generals in history are almost all brave, with the help of white-robed white horses to deter the enemy, which in the interpretation of the white-robed white horse is a cool existence, quite romantic and heroic, and the real battlefield is a dangerous existence, too eye-catching.
Xue Rengui is not a novelty, but prefers to wear a white robe and ride a white horse to reflect his arrogance.
In the battle against Anshi, facing the 100,000-strong army commanded by the Goguryeo general Gao Yanshou, Xue Rengui rode left and right, threatening the enemy and attracting the attention of Tang Taizong.
But in the midst of the ten thousand armies, a general, white-robed and white-horse, with a double bow at the waist and a long sword in his hand, like a god, rode the dust and tore open a hole in the Goguryeo army, and it was clear that the tiger entered the flock.
Li Shimin had experienced hundreds of battles, and he had seen more of the big scene, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Who are the pioneers in white?" ”
The attendant replied, "Xue Rengui, the dancer in white." ”
After the battle, Li Shimin immediately summoned him, rewarded him with two horses, forty silk horses, and ten slaves, and promoted him to a guerrilla general.
Later, the main force of the Tang army was trapped in the city of Anshi, and in the middle of winter, the supply of logistical grain and grass was insufficient, and li Shimin said with emotion: "The old generals are not old, and they cannot bear to be sent by the outside world. He didn't like Liaodong, he was happy to be Qing. ”
Since ancient times: the three armies are easy to obtain, one will be difficult to find, although Li Shimin did not conquer Goguryeo, but got a generation of generals, how can he not be pleased.
Third, the hero is famous in the northeast
In the blink of an eye, the Tang Dynasty came to the era of Gaozong Li Zhi's rule.
In the first year of Tang Qianfeng (666 AD), civil unrest broke out in Goguryeo, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang once again sent troops to prepare to take Goguryeo with a single blow.
Still with Li Ji as the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Province march, he commanded the army to split up and attack Goguryeo.
Xue Rengui's forces were like bamboo, successively attacking the cities of Nansu, Mudi, cangyan and other cities, or "beheading more than 50,000 levels", or "killing more than 10,000 people in the face of thieves", which can be called invincible.
In the second year of Tang Qianfeng (667 AD), Xue Rengui led 3,000 pioneers and horses to fight a fierce battle with the main goguryeo army at Jinshan (present-day northwest of Changtu, Liaoning), and then the main force of the Tang army arrived and won a great victory.
The Battle of Jinshan was a crucial battle to destroy Goguryeo, destroying the elite goguryeo troops, and then the Tang army drove straight in.
A month later, Xue Rengui led two thousand cavalry dressed in white and white horses to attack the goguryeo town of Buyeo, and some colleagues thought that the enemy could not be taken lightly, and there were too few soldiers to fear losing the battle, Xue Rengui replied: "The soldiers are noble and not many, it all depends on how the Lord will dispatch!" ”
At this time, there was a 100,000-strong army of Goguryeo in Buyeo City, and when they heard that the Tang army was coming, they sent out to counterattack, and happened to encounter it on the road.
At this time, it was the middle of winter, the snow was flying, the northeast land was vast, there was snow everywhere, and the enemy army did not find Xue Rengui's cavalry, all of which were white clothes and white horses.
When they were alert, Xue Rengui's cavalry had already burst into front of them, the soldiers were fast, and before the enemy could react, two thousand elite horsemen had already entered the enemy position, and after seven hours, they had beheaded twenty thousand Goguryeo soldiers and horses, and the rest fled in defeat, and then entered buyeo city (around present-day Huanglonggang in Kaiyuan, Liaoning), attacked Buyeo City in three months, and then waved their armies to fight consecutive victories, attacking and pulling down more than seventy cities and pools, becoming the gods in the eyes of the Goguryeo people.
Then he met with Li Ji's army in the victory of Pyongyang City, Goguryeo fell to this point, and the dream of several generations of emperors ding liaodong was finally realized in the tang Gaozong Li Zhi dynasty, when people exclaimed: "In the former Goryeo was in its glory, there were 300,000 soldiers, and the resistance to Tang was an enemy, which can be described as strong. Now that the Tang soldiers are coming, they will sweep the ground! ”
The Tang Dynasty recovered Liaodong and set up prefectures and counties, and Xue Rengui served as the first protector of the capital of Andong. During his term of office, he cared for the elderly, punished thieves, promoted the virtuous, and achieved outstanding political achievements.
Emperor Gaozong of Tang once asked his ministers: Who are the generals of Liaodong? The ministers said in unison: Xue Rengui bravely crowned the three armies, and his prestige was far away.
It can be said that Xue Rengui's god is brave, how a "fierce" word to get.
Xue Rengui later accompanied the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses to conquer the west, leaving behind a good story of three arrows fixing the Tianshan Mountain, and the military song said: "The general three arrows set the Tianshan Mountain, and the warrior long song enters the Han Pass." ”
A generation of generals, he later died of illness in Guazhou (present-day Jiuquan, Gansu).
【Author Profile】【Author Profile】Chen Erhu, pen name Hongye, is a Khitan among the Mongols. Deputy Secretary-General of the Weng Niu Te Banner Writers Association.
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