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preface
When it comes to the fierce generals of the Three Kingdoms, we will immediately think of "Chitu in the horse, Lü Bu in the people", think of the second master Guan who cut Hua Xiong with warm wine, the second master Guan who passed five levels and cut six generals, and Zhao Yun who entered seven in and seven out in the jungle of ten thousand armies. For these fierce generals, most of the historical records are giants who are seven feet tall, or even exaggerated, eight feet tall.
But only Lejin, who we want to talk about today, as a clearly recorded dwarf, can stop Lü Bu, defeat Guan Yu three times, and rank among the five good generals. Why is Lejin so courageous? Then look at it and you'll understand.
Congenital deficiencies, the day after tomorrow to make up
Lejin, born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Yangping Weiguo was also.
It is rumored that Lejin's mother gave birth prematurely due to fright, giving birth to Lejin. The newborn Lejin had a bruised face, a thin body, and did not cry even if he was beaten.
The elders in the family wanted to abandon the baby, but with the mother's careful protection, Lejin survived.
I don't know if it was affected by premature birth, but when he was young, Lejin was always shorter than others.
Therefore, there are always peers who laugh at Lejin for this and give him a lot of ugly nicknames. But Lejin didn't care about this at all, no matter how they laughed, Lejin was unmoved.
However, what Lejin cares about most is his mother's reputation.
Once, after the children laughed at Lejin, they saw that he did not have any annoyed expression, and felt that he was really "not addicted". So they began to turn the object of ridicule to Lejin's mother.
Lejin naturally couldn't stand their insults to their mother, so the short and thin Lejin made a move with them.
Not to mention that Lejin is thin and small, the other party is much taller than him, and it is not easy for several people to beat Lejin. Le Jin ran home with a big bag full of bags and cried.
After this incident, those older children not only did not converge, but said it once they saw Lejin.
Lejin is short in stature and can be described as congenitally deficient. However, for the sake of his mother's reputation, Lejin can only work harder.
Practice three nine in winter and three volts in summer. Whether it's wind, rain or lightning and thunder, Lejin does it all right.
Whether it was punches or feet, whether it was dancing knives or sticks, he practiced everything and practiced everything to the best in order to shut up those people.
A few years passed, from being beaten all over the head at the beginning, to gradually facing even three people without falling behind, and finally being able to fight one against three. Le further fulfills his original wish, but the reality of turmoil forces him to become stronger.
The world was in chaos, and he resolutely joined the army
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. In order to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, with the connivance of the Eastern Han government, many landlord armed forces appeared. Among them, Dong Zhuo is the largest landlord arm, and the Western Liang army under his command is very fierce and extremely brave.
We all know the story later, Dong Zhuo led the army into the capital, and deposed the young emperor and established a new emperor, making himself the de facto emperor. Unfortunately, Dong Zhuo was tyrannical, and under his rule, the corpses of the imperial court were everywhere, the people were not happy, and even the spectacle of a bag of rice and tens of thousands of dollars appeared.
At this time, Lejin was still a young man, and he couldn't help but feel angry when he saw that his country had been so turbulent in just a few years. The source of all this is Dong Zhuo's old thief, and crusading against Dong Zhuo has become his heart's desire.
At the right time, a generation of heroes Cao Cao appeared and assassinated Dong Zhuo, which shocked the world.
When Lejin heard the news, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, he wanted to follow such a righteous hero too much.
Soon after, the situation became even more turbulent, and Lejin's family died in the turmoil.
The family hated the country, and Le Jin resolutely followed Cao Cao and became a minor official under Cao Cao.
At first, Cao Cao could be described as starting from scratch, and after assassinating Dong Zhuo, with his reputation as "the first righteous soldier in the world", he gathered a group of followers and obtained the title of a Fenwu general in the coalition army of Dong.
Although he is a general, he has only a few thousand people, which is completely incomparable with Yuan Shao and others.
The coalition forces each harbored ghosts, named to fight against Dong Zhuo, but in fact they were seeking their own benefit. Cao Cao couldn't stand it and attacked on his own, and the end was naturally beaten by Dong Zhuo's army, and he fled with his pants, if it weren't for his cousin Cao Hong's timely rescue, I'm afraid that our boss Cao would have been shot to death by random arrows and died in Huangquan.
Cao Cao, who had just lost the battle, became a joke of the coalition army, but Lejin did not hesitate to defect to Cao Cao at this time.
Although he is a martial artist, he is excellent at understanding people. He could see at a glance that Cao Cao was the future overlord, and the rest of the bold mice were just a small pebble in the long river of history.
In this way, Le Jin became Cao Cao's subordinate.
The first step in making a comeback is to recruit soldiers. The whole army had just been defeated by Dong Zhuo, and there were not many troops left now.
On this day, Cao Cao frowned and drank alone in the tent. So Lejin took the opportunity to step forward and ask what was going on.
"Master, depressed, why?"
"There is not enough food and grass, the soldiers will be damaged, how can I make a comeback?"
"The minister is willing to relieve the worries of the Lord."
Cao Cao was overjoyed and promised that if Lejin could recruit troops for him, he would be rewarded.
Lejin was really reliable, and in just half a month, he recruited more than 1,000 soldiers, all of whom were his fellow villagers.
In this way, Cao Cao had the capital to continue chasing the deer, and he was very happy, and directly made Lejin a trapping captain.
Trapped in battle, there is no life or death, and the first position deeply affected Lejin.
In his short life, he was always fighting, always rushing to the front, and he was really worthy of the four words of the captain.
The aspiration to ascend first, there is death and no life
Since becoming a captain, Lejin's life is like a hanging, fighting more and more courageously, and winning every battle.
As the first general of the fifth son Liang to follow Cao Cao's Lejin, he fought with Lü Bu in Puyang in the first year of Xingping, and had the merit of ascending first.
What is the first adopter? In layman's terms, the merit of the first ascension is the credit of being the first to rush to the opponent's wall. On the battlefield, it is dangerous enough to meet short soldiers, and besides, in the face of enemies and random arrows, take the lead in the charge, and be the first to attack the city wall? Such a merit once even if it is a glorious ancestor, it is enough to be proud for a lifetime, and Coke is like drinking water.
From the defeat of Lü Bu in Puyang, Zhang Chao in Yongqiu, and Qiao Rui in Bitterness, they all ascended to the meritorious service first, and were made Marquis of Guangchang Ting. ——Chen Zhi "Le Jin Biography"
As the battle of Puyang in Cao Cao's life-and-death battle, Lejin was a great help in blocking Lü Bu, and he and Yu Ban blocked Lü Bu's attack, buying a lot of time for Cao Cao to escape.
Later, Cao Cao countered the Chen Palace and entered Puyang City. Besieged by the army, Lejin and Dian Wei fought Lü Bu's army in blood, and made great contributions to Cao Cao's survival.
The following year, Cao Cao took revenge for Zhang Liao, who betrayed him, so he sent troops to besiege Yongqiu, fighting hard. So he released a cruel word: "Those who surround and descend will not be pardoned!" ”
What does this mean? Those who surrendered after the city was besieged could not be pardoned, and all were executed.
Those who remained in Yongqiu knew very well that this Cao Aman had just broken the city in Xuzhou, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, and was ruthless.
If such people were allowed in, they would definitely have no way to live, so they resisted vigorously, preferring to die in battle rather than be destroyed.
We all know that siege is never easy.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" cloud: "The upper army fells the plot, the second fells the handover, the second fells the soldiers, and the next attacks the city"
The last strategy will be to choose to siege the city.
For three months, even though Cao Cao's troops were strong and strong, after attacking countless times and losing his troops, he still had no way to take Yongqiu. The angry Cao Cao kept throwing things in the big tent, and he couldn't wait to go into battle himself. Cao Cao, leading the army to personally take a small Yongqiu, there is no way, will it not make the world laugh.
The generals sent have already tried, and not only were they repulsed, but they also suffered heavy losses. Faced with this situation, Le Jin resolutely led the troops forward, and within a day, he directly broke the city, and Le Jin was the first soldier to directly achieve the first achievement.
After that, Lejin was like being opened up to the second vein of Ren Du, which is unmatched in terms of breaking the city, and can be called a "humanoid siege machine".
The battlefield changes, and on the frontal battlefield, Lejin is equally brave.
First, he led an army of 5,000 to break Yuan Shaobe's camp, and then accompanied Cao Cao to attack Chun Yuqiong.
It should have been a sneak attack battle, but I don't know if it was because of Lejin, the "siege machine", Providence did it, and Chun Yuqiong discovered Cao Cao's troops at the beginning.
After the battle, Chun Yuqiong suffered a loss, so he directly retreated to the camp gate and could not hold out.
Now, it's time for our performances again. Siege this work, Lejin is the best at it.
So in just a quarter of an hour, the camp was breached by Le Jin's army, and I saw him take the lead, rushing to the front, shouting as he rushed back, and waiting for me to capture Nachun Yuqiong.
Lejin broke the general Yuan Shao Chun Yuqiong, which opened the situation for the Battle of Wuchao and also contributed to the victory of the Battle of Guandu.
In the ninth year of Jian'an, after Cao Cao's army besieged Yecheng, he moved north.
During the Battle of Nanpi, before Cao Cao could send Lejin, Yuan Tan went out to meet the attack himself. Cao Cao was simply overjoyed, and such a good thing?
However, after the battle, Cao Cao found that this was not the case, this Yuan Tan's troops were extremely brave, and the Cao army suffered many casualties.
Most of the elite brought by Cao Cao in this battle were tiger and leopard horses, and Cao Cao originally wanted to suspend the attack and recharge his strength, but at Cao Chun's suggestion, he rushed to attack.
Therefore, our Lejin was entrusted with a heavy task again, and finally lived up to expectations and climbed first again, breaking into the east gate of Nanpi City, opening a road to break the city for Cao Jun.
It can be said that with Lejin, there is no unbreakable city in the world.
Three battles against Guan Yu, all victorious
Speaking of Guan Yu and the Wei Kingdom, whether it was the flooded Seventh Army first beheading Pang Tong and then capturing the ban, or Huarong Dao's release of Cao Cao, it seems that Guan Yu won a big victory.
The same five sons and good generals, Yu Ban made people live and capture, but our little dwarf Yu Ban faced the eight-foot Guan Gong, engaged three times, but three times he returned victorious.
The first time, shortly after the Battle of Chibi, the Sun Liu family was busy dividing the seven counties of Jingzhou. Lejin, who was stationed in Xiangyang, also moved his mind at this time. Nan County is rich in property, and if I can get it, it will definitely be the basis for my Wei Kingdom's southern expedition.
Therefore, Le Jin persuaded another defender, "Sun Liu and the two have just won Nanjun, and they have not yet gained a foothold and are unpopular, and at this time, the attack will definitely win a big victory." ”
Le Jin did not know that at this time, the Sun Liu family had won the battle, and their appetite was much greater, and they had some plans for Xiangyang, where they were stationed.
Guan Yu believed that Cao Cao's new defeat would greatly reduce morale at this time, and if he took advantage of the victory to pursue, he would definitely break Xiangyang and severely damage Cao Cao. If it goes well, the army will flee, and he can go all the way north and capture more cities.
In this way, the two people met by chance in the wild under the auspices of God.
Le Jin was worried that there was no battle to fight at this time, and in order to avenge the battle of Chibi, he could be said to have raised twelve points of spirit.
For a time, the sound of fighting was everywhere, and although Lejin was short, he also had the tendency to block a hundred.
Le Jin's arm strength is amazing, and when he fights with Guan Yu, he does not fall behind within dozens of moves, and even becomes more and more courageous.
Not long after, because Lejin led the army too bravely, Guan Yu had to lead the army to retreat to Jiangling, and Lejin was afraid that the other party would ambush, so he also returned to Xiangyang City.
The second time, after the last battle, Lejin, who returned to Xiangyang, regretted why he did not directly pursue Guan Yu in the first place to eliminate this big trouble for Cao Cao.
Moreover, there are many literati in Jingzhou, all of whom are influenced by Liu Beirende and are popular with the people. In the long run, there will be a situation in which "the people's hearts are not in Liu and not in Cao", so even if Cao Cao captures Jingzhou, it will not really be "used by me".
So in the Qingni area, Lejin fought Guan Yu again, only this time, even if Guan Yu fought locally and personally led the army to face the battle, he was also defeated by Lejin.
After the defeat, Guan Yu fled all the way to Xunkou, but he did not expect that Wen Ping led the army to attack again from Guan Yu's flank, and Lejin took the opportunity to attack Guan Yu and defeated Guan Yu's army again.
And the last time, it was still in Xiangyang, but this time it was a water war.
In 218 AD, Guan Yu went on the Northern Expedition, and at this time stood in his way of his old enemy Lejin.
In Hanjin Port, Guan Yu held the Jingxiang army, the warships were extremely strong, and the navy was brave. Unfortunately, when encountering Lejin, the ending is still unchangeable.
Le Jin commanded the Cao Wei water army, defeated the strong with weakness, and defeated Guan Yu again in the front. The weight of Guan Yu's warship was burned and robbed.
Unfortunately, Lejin died of illness in this year and died young. After Lejin's death, Guan Yu was really unstoppable, and the following year he launched the Battle of Xiangfan, killing Cao Jun without leaving a piece of armor.
epilogue
Such a brave Lejin has few records in history, making people very doubtful whether Lejin's descendants offended Chen Zhi, and his "Three Kingdoms Zhi Lejin Biography" is like a book, with few details described.
Lejin's image is a war machine, Cao Cao refers to wherever he fights, invincible and invincible.
It's a pity that he has too few words, and he will only fight desperately to the death, so there are very few shots in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so that many people do not know Lejin, and he has become the least famous of the five generals.