In the fourth year of Tang Wude, after Li Shimin defeated the combined forces of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, he was made a general of Tiance by Li Yuan and placed in Tiance Province.
Speaking of which, Li Yuan's appointment of Li Shimin as a general of heavenly strategy was also a last resort, because almost all the territory of the Tang Dynasty was laid down by Li Shimin. Li Shimin's Tiance Mansion can be described as a wealth of talents, among which there are countless fierce generals, and among the many fierce generals who follow Li Shimin to fight in the world, the most famous are the following three, ranking in no particular order, let's see who they are.
First place: Qin Qiong
Qin Qiong was a famous founding general of the Tang Dynasty and one of the twenty-four heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion. He was known for his bravery and martial prowess, initially serving under the Sui Dynasty's ming dynasty, and then transferred to serve under Zhang Sutuo, who led the remnants of the Sui army to pei Renji after the defeat of Li Mi of the Wagang army. Thirteen years after Daye, Pei Renji asked the Wagang army to surrender with tiger prison city, and Qin Qiong then joined the camp of the Wagang army.
At first, Li Mi relied heavily on Qin Qiong, and asked him and Cheng Yaojin to command an army of eight thousand. However, after Li Mi defeated Yu Wenhua, he began to become proud and arrogant, and he did not treat his generals with the same respect as before, let alone as sympathetic to the soldiers before. Soon after, the arrogant Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong, and Li Mi fled west to Li Yuan, and Qin Qiong became Wang Shichong's feng lu.
As the saying goes, gold shines wherever it goes. Although Qin Qiong was captured by Wang Shichong, this did not mean that Qin Qiong's skills were inferior, but because of Li Mi's arrogance, it led to the defeat of the Wagang army. Wang Shichong was also very happy after he won Qin Qiong, and he naturally cherished such a fierce general, and named Qin Qiong a general of Long Jun. However, Wang Shichong was treacherous by nature, and Qin Qiong was very disliked by Wang Shichong's personality, so he soon defected to Li Yuan with Cheng Yaojin.
Before defecting to Li Yuan, Qin Qiong changed many camps successively, but he could not find anyone who could make him die hard, until he met Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin. After Qin Qiong defected to Li Yuan, he was placed in Li Shimin's mansion, and Li Shimin had already heard about Qin Qiong until he was a rare fierce general, so he was made the commander of the Ma Army.
After Qin Qiong joined the Tiance Prefecture, he followed Li Shimin on his eastern expedition to the west and made great achievements, defeating Song Jingang, Wei Chigong, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande. Qin Qiong was highly skilled in martial arts and good at fighting, and Li Shimin took Qin Qiong as the vanguard every time he went out on a campaign, and also handed over a thousand Xuantie heavy horses under his command to Qin Qiong, and the invincible attack was invincible, which made the enemy very afraid.
Second place: Cheng bites gold
Compared with Qin Qiong, Cheng's experience of biting Jin is much simpler, he is a native of Dong'a County, Jeju, and when he was young, he was brave and good at fighting, and was good at using horse mallets. People who do not understand cold weapons may not know that the horse mallet is not a weapon that anyone can hold. This weapon is a heavy cavalry weapon, and the use of this weapon requires superb riding skills in addition to high martial arts, and the physical requirements are also very high. Therefore, on the ancient battlefield, if the two armies encountered an enemy general who made a horse mallet when fighting, it was better to avoid it a little.
In the sixth year of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and thieves swarmed, and Cheng Yaojin organized an armed force of hundreds of people to guard the township. Later, Cheng Yaojin was attached to Li Mi, because his martial arts were reused, and together with Qin Qiong, who later defected to Li Mi, he was named one of the horsemen of the inner army. However, Li Mi was not the lord of the Ming Dynasty, and after the defeat of the Wagang army at the hands of Wang Shichong, Cheng Yaojin was also captured by Wang Shichong, and later left Wang Shichong with Qin Qiong and defected to Li Yuan.
After Cheng Yaojin defected to Li Yuan, he was also assigned to li shimin's mansion and was appointed to the left third army. In the process of Li Shimin's fight against the world, Cheng Yaojin successively participated in the defeat of Song Jingang, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong and others, but these were not the biggest credits of Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Yaojin's greatest merit was to persuade Li Shimin to protect himself as soon as possible, and strengthened Li Shimin's determination to launch the Xuanwumen Revolution.
In the seventh year of Tang Wude, the crown prince Li Jiancheng, in order to weaken Li Shimin's military power, made a rumor to Li Yuan, and Cheng Yaojin was immediately transferred from the capital by Li Yuan to serve as the assassin of Kangzhou. Before Cheng Yaojin left, he found Li Shimin and said to him: "The great king has been cut off his left arm and right arm, and he will certainly not be able to save himself." I'm just dead, I hope you can protect yourself quickly! Under the persuasion of Cheng Yaojin, Li Shimin began to plan for his future, and successfully launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion two years later.
Third place: Wei Chigong
Wei Chigong's real name was Wei Chirong, and he initially served under Liu Wuzhou, but was later defeated by Qin Qiong at the Battle of Meiliangchuan and subsequently surrendered to Li Yuan. After he defected to Li Yuan, he was also assigned to serve in Li Shimin's mansion. Some people may wonder why the generals who came to defect to Li Yuan were all arranged by him to be under Li Shimin. This is mainly because in addition to Li Shimin, Li Yuan's other sons are useless, and only Li Shimin can fight, so these fierce generals can only be arranged under Li Shimin.
Wei Chigong followed Li Shimin in the unification war of the early Tang Dynasty, and successively helped Li Shimin pacify Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, Xu Yuanlang and others. His greatest credit was not actually to conquer the battlefield, but to successfully control Li Yuan of Tang Gaozu in the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and also saved Li Shimin from Li Yuanji. It can be said that if it were not for Wei Chigong, Li Shimin's change in Xuanwumen would definitely be a failure.
The above three people have all made great achievements in the process of Li Shimin's fight against the world, they are all brave and brave, and they are the number one fierce generals under Li Shimin's account. As for why Li Jing was not included in it, this was because Li Jing was known for his military strategy, and although he was also considered to be a complete man of literature and martial arts, he was certainly not an opponent of Qin Qiong and others when it came to martial arts. Of course, in terms of merit, Qin Qiong and others are no better than Li Jing, who has never been defeated.