Since the first year of Zhenguan, Qin Qiong has been ill, and this disease does not seem to be pretend, because his explanation of the cause of the disease has been recorded in the annals of history: "I am a young man who has been riding horses for more than two hundred battles, and has been hit by heavy sores repeatedly." Ji Wu before and after the bleeding is also a few times, Ande is not sick? ”
The general spent the rest of his life in a hundred battles, the battle wounds are medals, Qin Qiong is not the victorious general Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when he followed the protector, he was known for his "bravery, talent and martial arts, and complete ambitions": following Qi County's guard Zhang Sutuo to break Lu Mingyue's 100,000 people, accumulating merit and being awarded the title of Liupin Jianjie Lieutenant, to the Wagang Army, and one of the four horsemen of the Inner Horse Army, after being captured by Wang Shichong, he was awarded the title of Dragon Horse, and these praises and senior ranks were all fought by fate.
It is unreasonable to say that Qin Qiong was discouraged because of the li family's brothers' cannibalism, and then refused to fight for the Tang Dynasty, because for a general, there is nothing more glorious than defending the country and expanding the territory.
Qin Qiong's relationship with Li Shimin has always been very good, and the first leader he led to the Tang army was Li Shimin, the king of Qin at that time, not Prince Jiancheng or Qi Wang Yuanji, and when Jiancheng Yuanji plotted to get rid of Li Shimin, the first of the generals to be killed was Qin Qiong: "When Jiancheng recommended Yuanji to the north, it was more to lead the Qin dynasty generals Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Zhijie, Duan Zhixuan and Xing, and the prince and Yuanji: 'Bingxing, I and the King of Qin go to Kunming Pond, Fu Zhuangshi Pullzhi, and kill Shu Bao and so on. ’”
Jianyuan Ji was not benevolent, and Qin Qiong did not do anything unjust, Li Shimin took ten generals to kill at Xuanwu Gate, of which there was no Qin Qiong: "The eldest son Wuji and Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili, Gongsun Wuda, DuGu Yanyun, Du Junqiu, Zheng Rengong, and Li Meng tried to beg for difficulties and pingzhi." ”
Since Qin Qiong did not do anything to be sorry for Li Yuan, of course he did not need to feel guilty, even if he participated in the change of Xuanwu Gate, he would be forced to be helpless, and he would not be unwilling to serve the new emperor Li Shimin. Therefore, comprehensive analysis shows that Qin Qiong really had an old injury attack, so that he lingered on the sick bed for many years.
At this time, there is a problem that needs to be solved: Qin Qiong is not pretending to be sick, which big war is the root of the disease?
To solve this problem, we can only use the method of exclusion to remove the battle in which Qin Qiong could not be seriously injured, and we can find out which big battle left such a serious battle wound on Qin Qiong's iron-cast body.
After Qin Qiong joined the Tang army, every battle was invincible, no one in the enemy army was his opponent at all, and every big battle that Qin Qiong participated in, the Tang army won. In all the major wars, Qin Qiong was not absent once, so when he fought Against Chi Jingde, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande, Qin Qiong could not be seriously injured at all.
Both the Old Book of Tang, Volume 68, And Liechuan No. 18, and the New Book of Tang, Volume 89, and Liechuan No. 14 both record the majesty of taking the first rank of a general in Qin Qiong's Wanma Army, such as probing for things: "Every enemy has a sharp soldier who shocks and shines in and out to praise the people, and the King of Qin orders Shu Bao to take it, and the Prancing Horse stabs the crowd with a gun, and it is better to be more arrogant than zhi, thinking that he is quite conceited." ”
Qin Qiong's battle exploits far exceeded that of Cheng Qijin and Wei Chi Jingde in blocking the killing god in front of the two armies: Cheng Qiaojin and Qin Qiong were both enfeoffed as dukes, but Qin Qiong also had a Shangzhu State converted from the Twelve Cexuns, and Wei Chi Jingde did not even get a viscount, let alone the Pillar State and the Shangzhu State.
Both the old and new Tang dynasty books record Qin Qiong's invincible exploits after surrendering to the Tang: "From the conquest of Meiliangchuan, the broken lieutenant Chi Jingde, the most meritorious, Gao Zu sent envoys to give him a golden vase." He also broke the Song King Kong Yu Jiexiu, recorded the front and back xun, gave 100 pounds of gold, 6,000 pieces of miscellaneous color, and awarded the pillar state. From the king shichong, every is a striker. Emperor Taizong would reject Dou Jiande from the Wu Prison, and Shu Bao would be trapped by him with dozens of fine horses. Shi ChongPing, enfeoffed the Duke of Yiguo, and gave him a hundred pounds of gold and seven thousand pieces. From Ping Liu Hei Min, admire the thousand paragraphs. ”
The four battles after Wu De's second year were all ruled out, and we can only find answers from the five fierce battles that Qin Qiong participated in before he surrendered to Tang.
Under Qi County's guarding Zhang Sutuo's tent, Qin Qiong participated in two major battles, one was to break Lu Mingyue's 100,000 yuan with a thousand people, and the other was the Battle of Dahai Temple with the Wagang Army led by Li Mi.
When Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin fought the battle of Lu Mingyue's Xia Pi, there should be no danger: "Shu Bao and Luo Shixin fought hard, divided into thousands of troops, Sutuo commissioned camps, and Mingyue chased after the soldiers." Shu Bao and others knocked on the thief camp, the door could not be closed, but they raised the banner of the thief from the building, killed dozens of people, and the camp was in chaos, that is, they beheaded the foreign soldiers and set fire to more than thirty tuns. Mingyue ran back, Sutuo fought back, and broke it. ”
The Sui army won the battle, Qin Qiong was not injured in the battle, and then he participated in a not-so-big battle, and also won: "Again hit Sun Xuanya in Haiqu, and first climbed and broke it." He was awarded the title of Lieutenant of Jianjie. ”
Qin Qiong encountered the toughest opponent in his life, that is, the Wagang Army, when Qin Qiong followed Zhang Sutuo to fight the Wagang Army at the Xingyang Dahai Temple, the Wagang Army already had a large group of world-class masters such as Li Ji (that is, Xu Maogong in the novel), Shan Xiongxin, Wang Junkuo (Wang Junke in the novel), Liu Heimin (Li Mi as a general), and Wang Bodang.
Zhang Sutuo was ambushed by Li Mi and died after killing a four-out-four-in and four-in to save many of his subordinates. After Zhang Sutuo's death, Qin Qiong became the last reliance of the Sui army: "The army was defeated, Sutuo died, and Shu Bao attached Pei Renji to the rest of the people." If it were not for Qin Qiong coming forward at a critical moment, Zhang Sutuo's men would have been completely annihilated.
Qin Qiong was able to retreat to Tongguan with the remnants of Zhang Sutuo, indicating that he was not seriously injured in the Battle of the Great Sea Temple.
Qin Qiong had changed camps, but he did not intend to defect to the Wagang army, it was under the leadership of his superior Pei Renji, and he was forced to join the Wagang army under the force of the Sui Dynasty's traitors, Li Mi was also good to Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong also returned his affection, and in the battle of Liyang soon after, he saved Li Mi's life: "Mi and Yu Culture and Battle Liyang, Zhongya fell on horseback, Bin died, pursued the army, and Du Shubao defended it. ”
Li Mi was seriously wounded and dying, and the heavy responsibility of commanding the Wagang army fell on Qin Qiong's shoulders: "Shu Bao collected troops and fought with strength, and turned into retreat. ”
The Battle of Liyang also ended with Qin Qiong's victory, so the possibility that Qin Qiong could not fight again after being seriously injured in this great battle could also be ruled out.
The possibility of Qin Qiong being seriously injured in the Battle of Meiliangchuan (Fighting Lieutenant Chi Jingde), the Battle of Jiexiu (Breaking Song Jingang), the Battle of Luoyang (Attacking Wang Shichong), and the Battle of Hu prison pass (capturing Dou Jiande) after surrendering to tang can be ruled out; the possibility of Qin Qiong being seriously injured before surrendering to Tang Can be ruled out; the battle of Xia Pi (Breaking Lu Mingyue), the Battle of Haiqu (destroying Sun Xuanya), the Battle of Xingyang Dahai Temple (Fighting Wagang Army), and the Battle of Liyang (Anti-Yu Culture) before surrendering to Tang Can be ruled out.
Qin Qiong in the eight major wars all played the role of pioneer and needle of the sea god, and if he was seriously wounded, the results of the eight battles would be rewritten.
Eight battles were excluded, and we were left with only the ninth, the last battle of Qin Qiong before surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Battle of Yanshishan between Wang Shichong and Li Mi.
In the Battle of Yanshi Mountain, the Wagang army suffered heavy losses: "In September of the first year of Wude, Shi Chong was full of decisive battles, first riding hundreds of people across the river, secretly dispatching to meet the battle, and more than ten people were returned. ”
More than ten Xiao generals of the Wagang Army were seriously wounded, including Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao, because in the next battle, Qin Qiong no longer appeared: Pei Xingyu fell from his horse and fainted, Cheng bit Jin Shan and rode to charge the battle, killed several people and saved Pei Xingyu, but he was also fatally injured- "Hugging Xingyu and riding back." Driven by Shi Chong's horse, the thorn passed through the hole, and Zhi Jie turned back to break his hammer and beheaded the pursuer. ”
Cheng Yaojin held back his last heroic breath to save his brother, and of course, he also lost his combat effectiveness. The fierce generals of the Wagang army could not afford to be seriously injured, and Li Mi ran to Li Yuan with his confidant Wang Bodang, and the wounded generals in the camp became Wang Shichong's captives, and Qin Qiong was of course among them.
Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin did not regard Wang Shi as the lord of the people who could help the world, they had been plotting to leave, but they could not make the trip because of their serious injuries.
It was not until February of the second year of Wu De that Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, who had been wounded for a hundred days, found an opportunity to calmly run to the Tang army led by Li Shimin during the confrontation between the two armies in the Battle of Jiuqu: "Shubao Bo Shichong was deceitful, because he was out of the anti-official army (Tang Army), as for Jiuqu, with Cheng Yaojin, Wu Heimin, Niu Jinda and dozens of others riding west, Shi Chong did not dare to force it, so he came to surrender. ”
In this way, the eight major battles before and after the surrender to the Tang Dynasty were removed by the exclusion method, and we can draw a conclusion: it was in the Battle of Yanshi Mountain that Qin Qiong was seriously wounded and helplessly captured—he was carried to Wang Shichong's military camp.
It was also this serious injury at the Battle of Yanshi Mountain that laid the groundwork for his later lingering illness - in several battles after surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, Qin Qiong found Li Yuan Li Shimin, who could relieve the people of water and fire, so he exhausted his life's energy to slash the flag. At that time, with a lot of blood, he did not fall, but when the big war was over and the tense nerves relaxed, Qin Qiong could no longer support it.
We have listed today the nine major battles in which Qin Qiong participated, and eight of them can find evidence that Qin Qiong was not seriously injured, and only Qin Qiong was not seen in the middle and late stages of the Battle of Yanshi Mountain, so we can be sure that Qin Qiong was seriously injured in the first hard encounter between the two armies, which is also the fundamental reason why he was sick from the first year of Zhenguan to the twelfth year of Zhenguan -- if Qin Qiongcheng was not seriously injured and could not stand seriously, he had already highlighted the siege, how could he be a prisoner of Wang Shichong?