True heroes are never slaves: Why did the great general Qin Qiong of Long Jun abandon Wang Shichong with a counterattack in front of the battle?

At the forefront of the Tang-Zheng battlefield, Qin Qiong, the great general of the Zheng Army, rushed out of the main line with dozens of horses such as Cheng Yaojin, Wu Heimin, and Niu Jinda, and after calmly and unhurriedly saluted Wang Shichong, the commander of the Zheng Army, roared into the Tang camp. Wang Shichong's generals had wide eyes and small eyes, and not even one dared to stand up and speak, let alone come out to stop them. This is a real historical event recorded in the "Eighteenth Biography of the Sixty-Eight Columns of the Old Tang Dynasty", which made Wang Shi burst into tears, but it made Li Yuan ecstatic, wrote a somewhat fleshy letter, and raised his hands and feet to express a warm welcome to Qin Qiong's "return".

According to the official system at that time, Qin Qiong, the great general of Long Jun, was not a low-level general, but a top position of the lowest two products and the highest one product. Giving up the position of high-ranking and powerful General Long Jun, and leaving the dust without hesitation, what did Qin Qiong Qin Shubao really think? If it is for the sake of fame and fortune, Qin Qiong will definitely not leave, because in Wang Shichong's place, he is basically an extremely popular subject, and Wang Shichong has just defeated Li Mi and collected a large number of Wagang troops, it can be said that the limelight is in full swing, fighting with the Tang army, and it is not yet known whose hand the deer died.

Some people say that Qin Qiong's abandonment of Zheng to tang was the result of Cheng Biting Jin's persuasion, because Cheng Biting Jin saw through Wang Shichong's true face and felt that he was "not a troublemaker", but a "wizard old woman". Some people also say that the reason why Cheng Yaojin wanted to leave was because Wang Shichong did not give him a formal official position, which may have been to let him follow Qin Qiong. This is actually smearing Cheng Biting Jin and underestimating Qin Qiong. Regarding the reason why Qin Qiong abandoned Zheng toso Tang, we can summarize it in thirteen words: People without official addictions are absolutely unwilling to be slaves.

Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were both first-class and good men at that time, and they were also ranked among the four masters of the Wagang Army- the Four Horse Riders of the Inner Horse Army. Li Mi once proudly said, "These eight thousand people can be a million." "Cheng Biting Jincai will not be dissatisfied with the temporary position - at the time of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the status is played, and Cheng Biting Jin is just very capable of fighting." Regarding how much Cheng Bite Jin can fight, Wang Shichong has a deep understanding. Cheng Biting Jin, who was good at making horses, not only had three axes, the old and new Tang Books recorded the same thing: in order to rescue Pei Xingyu, who had fallen from the horse with an arrow, Cheng Biting Jin rushed into the enemy position with a horse mallet, killed several people in a row, picked up Pei Xingyu and ran back, and as a result, Wang Shichong, who was chased, stabbed him with a horse mallet: "The thorn passed through the hole, and Zhijie turned back to break his hammer and beheaded the pursuer." Cheng Yaojin, a brave general who fought a battle and did not want to die, Wang Shichong was also extremely fond of: "The world is full of people, and the encounter is very thick."

The reason why Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin abandoned Wang Shichong was actually that Wang Shichong offended Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin's friends, and through wang Shichong offended his friends, qin Cheng and the two of them found out: It turned out that Wang Shichong used everyone as a slave to summon and play as a fool, and no matter how high the status of the slave, it was not as good as Wang Shichong's family. In the eyes of Qin Qiongcheng, who has a backbone, what dragon and tiger wing general, if they do not get the respect they deserve, it is all floating clouds - if the slave can keep the official hat, the official hat is dirty when wiping the foot cloth!

Next, we should talk about how Wang Shichong offended Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao. Many people think that Cheng Biting Jin is Qin Qiong's best brother, in fact, this is not right, on the relationship with Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin can only rank second, ranking first is Luo Shixin. When Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin, fellow villagers of Qi Prefecture, led a thousand people and horses to break Lu Mingyue's 100,000 rabble-rousers to become famous in a battle, they seemed to be only fourteen or fifteen years old (Qin Qiong may be slightly older), and the two were under the command of Zhang Sutuo in Qi County, and they were the two most famous young heroes in Qi County. At that time, Cheng Yaojin of Dong'a in Jeju had not yet joined the regular army of the Sui Dynasty, and when Lao Cheng was still Xiao Cheng, "gathering hundreds of disciples and protecting the township together" should be the local security commander who belonged to the nature of the vigilante group.

Together with Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin made many military achievements under Zhang Sutuo, so much so that even the palace of the playful Sui Emperor Yang Guang was hung with portraits of Luo Shixin and Zhang Sutuo's courageous killing of the enemy (see luo Shixin's deeds in the two Tang Dynasty books "Zhongyi Zhuan" and "Zizhi Tongjian" volumes 182-190). Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong were inseparable: after Zhang Sutuo's death, the two returned to Pei Renji's camp, joined the Wagang Army with Pei Renji, and then served as the commander of the Neima Army, and were also absorbed by Wang Shichong. At first, Wang Shichong was also kind to Luo Shixin, "Generous gifts, and sleeping with the same food." However, Wang Shichong's closeness to Luo Shixin was only superficial, and after having the traitorous villain Feng Yuanzhen, he alienated Luo Shixin, and even Wang Shichong's nephew began to bully Luo Shixin: "Shixin has horses, and Shichong's brother Zhao Wang Dao consults him. ”

Readers and friends who are familiar with ancient warfare know that war horses are the second life of famous generals, weapons can rob the enemy, but war horses have to go through years of running-in to achieve the tacit understanding of the unity of people and horses. To take a man's war horse is to take half a life. Wang Shichong snatched Luo Shixin's war horse from his nephew, which not only humiliated Luo Shixin, but also angered Qin Shubao: You dare to rob my brother's war horse, but my thunder refutes you from robbing it? What is even more serious is that the horse-snatching incident has completely exposed the true face of Wang Shichong, who only values his family and does not pay attention to his generals, no matter how the general has made great achievements in battle, he is far inferior to the "little prince" of the poor disciple!

True heroes are never slaves. Of course, Qin Qiong couldn't swallow this breath, and from then on, she had a bad idea. And it was precisely at this time that Wang Shichong offended Cheng Yaojin's brother Pei Xingyu, the comrade-in-arms who risked death on the battlefield to save him. Here we also need to correct a point, Cheng Biting Jin is not the brother-in-law of Pei Xingyu (Pei Yuanshao in the interpretation), the original wife of the family's son Cheng Biting Jin (who was a high-ranking official from the great-grandfather's generation) is the daughter of the county order, surnamed Sun, it is estimated that the old Cheng (Xiao Cheng) married when he was the commander of the security, the step-in-law is bigger, born from the Door Valve family Wang clan "Qinghe Cui Clan", the eldest daughter of the Sui Dynasty Qi Prefecture Don't Drive Cui Xin.

Pei Xingyu was also taken in along with Pei Renji by Wang Shichong, who was ostensibly a Sui courtier at the time. At first, Wang Shichong also tried his best to woo Pei Xingyu, and even sent his daughter to Pei Xingyu as a wife. But later Wang Shichong began to suspect Pei Xingyu, who was brave and good at war: "Xingyu is a general of the Left Auxiliary Army, and every time Xingyu attacks, he is invincible, and he is called a thousand enemies." Shi Chong was ashamed of its prestige and was quite suspicious. "After a lifetime of suspicion, Wang Shichong pondered killing the Pei family father and son, and the Pei family father and son also conspired to kill Wang Shichong. As Pei Xingjian's savior, Cheng Yaojin was naturally aware of it. Of course, the clever Cheng Yaojin knew that within Zheng Jun, Pei Xingyu could not do Wang Shichong, and when he saw the uncle Wang Shichong's suspicion and suppression of his niece and son-in-law Pei Xingyu, he was also chilled: Following such a lord, it would not be a problem!

Qin Qiongcheng bit Jin and ran away in February, and in May of the same year, Pei Xing was defeated and exterminated. Through Wang Shichong's offense against Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyu, Qin Qiongcheng was completely chilled by biting Jin: instead of swallowing his anger and succumbing to slavery, it was better to fight to the death before turning against him. It turned out that Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin had made the right choice, and Li Yuan not only did not regard Qin Qiong as a subordinate, but even regarded him as a benefactor who had achieved Li Tang's great cause: "The meat can be used by Qing, and when it is cut to give Qing, the children are jade and jade? ”

Repeat the sentence at the end of the article: True heroes are never slaves. Later, Qin Qiong said that he could not get sick after the change of Xuanwu Gate, not because he refused to serve Li Shimin, who killed his brother and forced his father. The reason why Qin Qiongcheng struck a blow before biting the golden front and later returned to seclusion can be summed up in thirteen words: people without official addictions absolutely refuse to be slaves. The practical application of this sentence is also appropriate later (I did not say today), and I do not see that many officials and fans are willing to be slaves in order to beg for a yarn hat. And those who exchanged their official hats for slavery were invincible in front of their subordinates. It is really rare to be able to give up the high-ranking official Houlu like Qin Qiongcheng biting Jin and ride away on a long ride.