On the third day of June 626, Li Shimin complained to his father Li Yuan that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had committed adultery in the harem, and the next day, taking advantage of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's passage through Xuanwu Gate to the imperial palace to participate in "confrontation and inquiry", Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu gate rebellion. In this military coup, Li Shimin killed his brother and controlled his father, becoming the final winner. But how did this suspicious coup succeed? To understand it, we need layers of reasoning. In the heavily guarded Xuanwu Gate, how did Li Shimin attack Li Jiancheng and control Li Yuan?
The protagonists of the Xuanwumen Incident, in addition to Li Shimin, there are ten other people: Changsun Wuji, Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili, Gongsun Wuda, Dugu Yanyun, Du Junqiu, Zheng Rentai, and Li Mengxian.
The first four people were all the twenty-four heroes of the later Ling Yan Pavilion.
"Zizhi Tongjian": It is all in, interesting Xuanwu Gate. ...... Completed, Yuan Ji to the Linhu Hall, Jue Change, that is, the Palace of the Eastern Return of the Horse.
At that time, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji found the ambush behind them and prepared to flee. At this time, Li Shimin, who was trailing behind him on horseback, shot Li Jiancheng on the spot with one man and one bow. Then, Wei Chi Jingde led seventy cavalry to arrive, and li Yuanji was killed in a random shot.
During the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin shot Li Jiancheng instantly
After the deaths of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, more than 2,000 revenge armies from the Eastern Palace and the Qi Palace rushed to Xuanwu Gate and met the garrison's Tun battalion soldiers. At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Tun battalion was the Yunli general Jing Junhong and the Zhonglang general Lü Shiheng, these two did not participate in the conspiracy, but Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were already dead, and the two dereliction of duty were inevitable, but Li Shimin won, they could still survive and even add officials to the knighthood, so they ordered the Tun camp soldiers to block the revenge army, and subsequently, more than 800 warriors in the Qin Palace also joined the battle and killed the avengers army.
In the end, with the participation of hundreds of qin royal generals in the war, as well as the emperor's edict and the completion of the emperor' first rank, the vengeful army dissipated in despair.
Li Shimin is worthy of being a person who has been beaten on the battlefield, his decision-making power and reaction power are above the prince, Li Jiancheng's role in the support of the emperor and the identity of the prince, but he has not been able to fight the second brother, because bad luck is also doomed, after all, as a prince, it is impossible to destroy Li Shimin first, which makes himself always in a passive situation. In addition, Li Yuan thought that he could balance the strength of the two, and did not suppress Li Shimin's forces in time, and as a result, he played with fire and set himself on fire.