During the Northern Song Dynasty, both official and folk, there was a custom of worshipping ghosts and gods. During the reign of emperor, the imperial court ordered the general Di Qing to lead an army to attack Nong Zhigao (the leader of ethnic minorities in Guangxi in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty). When the army reached the south of Guilin, Di Qing did not leave, and pretended to worship the gods, saying: "On this expedition, the victory or defeat is really uncertain, I have to find an expert to calculate it!" The crowd was very puzzled by his approach, thinking that the general was afraid of battle, and some even threatened that the Song army would undoubtedly be defeated.
Actor Shao Bing plays the image of the general
But Di Qing did not pay attention to these, but found a reckoner, in front of the generals of the three armies, said: "I asked the high people to calculate, this time I made a wish, throwing a hundred copper coins into the sky, if most of the coins are facing upwards, it means that this battle can be won!" "After saying that, he took out a money bag from his pocket, counted a hundred, and threw it into the sky, and when everyone looked at it, the coins were all facing upwards, and it seemed that the gods had appeared. At this time, the whole army cheered the victory of the Song army, and the sound resounded throughout the valley. Di Qing also ordered a hundred nails to be nailed, and a hundred copper coins were nailed firmly, and he personally covered them with gauze, saying that when the army triumphed, he would burn incense to reward the gods and retrieve the coins.
With the blessing of the power of the gods, the army is like a broken bamboo, sharp and invincible, and wins in one fell swoop. When Di Qing thanked the heavens and recovered the copper coins, someone found that the original hundred copper coins were the same on both sides. It turned out that before the large army went out, some people were not very optimistic about this battle, believing that the southwest terrain was precipitous, the Song Dynasty cavalry and archers from the plains were not easy to develop under this terrain, and the Nong Zhigao army had a unique geographical advantage, plus at this time, Nong Zhigao's troops had just taken Yongzhou (present-day southwest of Nanning, Guangxi), morale was high, and the Song army had long been well-bred and superior, and its combat effectiveness was too weak, so this battle was bound to be difficult to win.
After the general Di Qing learned of this, he knew that the morale of the army was insufficient and that the expedition would be defeated, so he thought of this plan. If you want to win, you must go with providence. Ordinary divination may not be able to convince the three armies, only military moves, private minting of coins. In the Northern Song Dynasty, private minting of coins was a felony, and when caught, he was to be beheaded, and Di Qing, as an official representative, dared to play like this, in addition to touching the psychology of the people, there was also his personal eclectic personality in it
Di Qing was originally a child of a poor family, and his parents died when he was very young, leaving him and his brother to rely on each other, and the two brothers had a good relationship. When Di Qing was 16 years old, he went to work for people, but the boss bullied him, did not give him a salary, and the calm and calm brother is different, the brother is a violent temper, heard that the brother was bullied, angry, but went to beat the boss to life can not take care of himself. When the government came to arrest people, Di Qing could not bear the guilt of his brother, who had already formed a family and still had a wife and children, and he was alone, so he went to take it on behalf of his brother and filled the army.
In the army, Di Qing was trained to be strong in martial arts, riding and shooting, and performed prominently in one battle after another. Ironically, he was not promoted by the Song Army, but instead Li Yuanhao, the lord of Western Xia, noticed him. The soldier with a natural roll who rushed to the front every battle, and did not retreat after being hit by an arrow, was thus on fire in Western Xia. After the Western Xia fire, Di Qing was noticed by the Song army and promoted to general. Of course, this also implies that his future fate must be sad.
The Song people fight wars, like to use civilian officials as military generals, civilian officials in the war, most of them are not brave enough, afraid of the tail, compared with them, Di Qing is a real general, will spend flowers and intestines, it is indeed not worth mentioning!