Just as the so-called "heroes of the chaotic world" have experienced countless battles of all sizes in the history of our country, and many heroes and heroes have also been born during this period. When it comes to heroes, what comes to mind are the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms period and the generals of the late Sui and early Tang dynasties.
The generals of these two periods have become the representative figures of ancient heroes, and the life of each of them is a book of ganquan, and the heroic deeds of these characters have become vivid through historical texts, and they are no longer ancients, but living people.
Among the famous generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties, many people had the same ending, basically dying on the battlefield. But only Wu Yunzhao's death was quite humiliating, which also added a lot of fantasy color to his life.
Xingbing rebelled against Sui
Wu Yunzhao was born in present-day Nanyang, Henan Province during the Sui Dynasty, and his father Wu Jianzhang was crowned king of zhongxiao for his military exploits. In the battle between the Sui Dynasty and the Chen Dynasty in Shanwa that year, Wu Jianzhang single-handedly single-handedly singled out more than a dozen generals of the Chen Dynasty and defeated the Chen Dynasty to save the Sui dynasty's monarchs.
After returning to the dynasty, he was rewarded and reused by Yang Jian, and his son Wu Yunzhao was also given the title of Marquis of Nanyang, and the town was guarded in Nanyang City.
The Wu family had an ancestral set of sword techniques, and Wu Jianzhang passed them all on to his son Wu Yunzhao and nephew Wu Tianxi.
Therefore, Wu Yunzhao was famous for his sword skills and became the fifth fierce general of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is said that Wu Yunzhao not only has extraordinary skills, but also looks very handsome "like purple jade and eyes like a star", and the later Lanling King is also more than comparable to it.
The Wu family performed their duties in the court, but with Yang Jian's death, a major turning point occurred after Yang Guang ascended the throne. In "Speaking of Tang", it is described that Yang Guang seized power and usurped the throne and committed a heinous crime, but none of the ministers dared to speak.
At this time, Wu Jianzhang stood up, and he ran to the court hall to scold Yang Guang for not filial piety. Although Yang Guang denied that he was conforming to Providence, Wu Jianzhang was also righteous. This move completely angered Yang Guang, so he ordered someone to break his teeth and pull out his tongue.
But even so, Wu Jianzhang still scolded. Subsequently, Yang Guang ordered Yuwen Chengdu to destroy Wu Jianzhang's home, and Yuwen Chengdu saw that his old courtiers could not bear to let his family members have a way to live, but Wu Jianzhang's family members insisted on dying with their master's generosity.
The Wu family was full of more than one hundred and eighty people who were all beheaded in the city well, only a groom named Wu Bao ran out, he went straight to Nanyang City to tell Wu Yunzhao about this matter, he almost fainted when he heard it.
A few days later, news came that Yang Guang had gathered his men and horses and was coming towards Nanyang City. The leader of the team was Han Huhu, Ma Shumou, Yuwen Chengdu, etc., and they marched into Nanyang with great momentum, and a battle was about to begin.
At this moment, Wu Yunzhao also gathered his soldiers non-stop and made an impassioned speech, and the blood of avenging his family also infected the soldiers, and everyone was indignant and wanted to break with the Sui Dynasty.
Bloody battle in Nanyang
The Battle of Nanyang was imminent, and the leading Han Huhu deliberately slowed down the march because he had a personal relationship with Wu Yunzhao, and ordered Ma Shumou to take his men and horses to Nanyang Pass first to fight with Wu Yunzhao. This battle made Wu Yunzhao's divine power soar.
Wu Yunzhao relied on his exquisite sword technique and accurate sword technique to kill more than a dozen sui generals in three strokes and five divisions. First of all, He Lun, his weapon was xuanhua axe, which was very heavy, but He Lun easily picked him up and slashed at Wu Yunzhao's face.
Wu Yunzhao did not dodge either, and put the gun against his Xuanhua Axe, only to hear a bang, He Lun's entire arm was shocked and numb. Seeing this form, Wu Yunzhao immediately backhanded and shot him again.
Then the soldiers surrounded Wu Yunzhao in a circle, and he took up the gun and danced out of the Wu family's unique skill, "blazing" a few shots to kill more than a dozen soldiers.
Then Wu Yun summoned Shunshi to cut down the three people leading the way, and he killed the red eye for a while, and he couldn't stop at all.
Soon all three armies died under his guns, and corpses piled up at his feet. Then the four generals stepped forward to block him, only to see Wu Yun summon the group to pick four generals, and killed two generals in two or three rounds. The other two wanted to run when they saw the situation, and were summoned by Wu Yun to slash at the horse with a sword on the left and a sword on the right.
The other troops with the army began to retreat, and Wu Yunzhao immediately chased after him, but unexpectedly, when he chased Changpinggang, a cannon sound led to an ambush on all sides, and about three thousand soldiers and horses on the other side blocked his way.
At this time, there were also ambush soldiers in the rear, and Wu Yunzhao immediately ordered a retreat, but it was too late. Han Huhu sent two generals, Wu Lie and Wang Ming, to each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to surround them.
Not daring to hesitate at all, Wu Yunzhao immediately raised his spear and charged forward, rushing towards the four generals who were the leaders. But none of the four of them were his opponents, and all of a sudden the three generals fell, leaving only the last one to escape, and Wu Yunzhao drew his bow and arrow and shot him to death.
The soldiers who fought in the front saw that the generals had been beheaded, and they fled in all directions. Wu Yunzhao took advantage of the victory to pursue, and Wu Lie and Wang Ming also each came with a large knife to Wu Yunzhao. But Wu Yunzhao was not afraid, and fought alone against two generals.
As a result, within five rounds, Wu Lie was stabbed by Wu Yunzhao's gun and fell off his horse. Wang Ming wanted to escape, and Wu Yun summoned a spear to his death. Those soldiers insisted that the situation was chaotic and scattered, and Wu Yunzhao took up his sword and slashed it randomly, and for a time the blood flowed into a river.
In this battle, Ma Shumou lost twelve generals, and he himself fled back to the camp. In the Battle of Nanyang Pass, Wu Yunzhao won a great victory. Later, Yuwen Chengdu's reinforcements arrived, and the two fought for several rounds, but Wu Yunzhao was unable to defeat Yuwen Chengdu and could only retreat to Nanyang City.
Defect to the rebel army
After the first round of battle between Wu Yunzhao and the Sui Dynasty army, he was beaten back to Nanyang City by Yuwen Chengdu. At this time, Han Huhu led the troops to surround Nanyang City, and Wu Yun summoned Jiao Fang to break through and move the rescue troops.
This rescue soldier is Wu Tianxi, a cousin who is in The Top Village of Hebei Province, who grew up together, and he also studied the Wu family's sword skills, ranking sixth sui and Tang dynasty heroes. However, Wu Tianxi was on the way to the rescue because of some conflicts with the xiongkuohai, and finally failed to arrive in time.
Wu Yunzhao knew that the great war was coming, so he consulted with his wife and prepared to break through and escape, but his wife did not want to involve him and chose to commit suicide. Wu Yunzhao endured grief and embraced his one-year-old son Wu Deng, ready to rush into the enemy's encirclement to find an opportunity to break through.
On the way, he met Zhu Can, so he entrusted his son to him, and Wu Yunzhao himself ran to Li Zitong. Li Zitong was a benevolent leader of the peasant rebel army, and there were many rebel armies like this in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and they formed an anti-wang clique.
After Wu Yun summoned Li Zitong, he fought again with Yuwen Chengdu with Xiong Kuohai and Wu Tianxi. They fought for four days and four nights, and in the end, the three of them could not defeat Yuwen Chengdu and could only withdraw their troops.
At that time, Wu Yunzhao wanted to expand his momentum and gather more soldiers and horses. It coincided with the "Anti-King Championship Conference" held in Yangzhou, so he signed up to participate, but this decision ended his life.
In the competition, Wu Yunzhao played against Zuo Xiong. On single-handedly challenging this zuo xiongqi was not Wu Yunzhao's opponent at all, and he lost one after another. But he had a good horse called "tailless colt", which means a horse without a tail.
Only to see Wu Yunzhao rush towards Zuo Xiong, he hurriedly patted the horse's belly several times in a panic, and then the horse's front hoof was low, and the back hoof was lifted, and a tail at least a mile long was exhaled from the horse's butt towards Wu Yunzhao.
Wu Yunzhao naturally did not expect this horse to have this move, so he could not dodge. The horse's tail swept towards his head, and Wu Yunzhao's head was immediately smashed and killed on the spot.
A generation of heroes Hao Jie, the fierce generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties did not die on the battlefield, but were killed by a horse, which is really sad and lamentable.