Was Qin Qiong the first single-handed general in the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties? This statement has been recognized by the vast majority of people, but some people have proposed that the Tang Dynasty should be counted from 618 AD, because that year was the first year of Li Yuan's wude title, when the Tang Dynasty was established, Li Mi's Wagang army was not destroyed, Wang Shichong's Dazheng and Dou Jiande's Great Xia coexisted, and among these military groups, there were many people who were better than Qin Qiong.
Both Lai Hu'er and Zhang Sutuo had served as qin qiong's chiefs, and their bravery was also evident in the main history, but Lai Hu'er was killed by Yu Wenhua and his rebels in the fourteenth year of Daye, that is, the year li yuan was proclaimed emperor; Zhang Sutuo was also ambushed by Li Mi in the twelfth year of Daye, and died under the siege of Xu Shixun, Shan Xiongxin and other Wagang generals.
Zhang Sutuo was sacrificed, and Qin Qiong, a lieutenant of the Sui army Zhengliupin Jianjie, gathered the troops scattered by the Wagang army and retreated to Hu prison pass, where it was built in the Sui Dynasty Guanglu Dafu and Henan Province's ambassador Pei Renji. What Qin Qiong did not expect was that Pei Renji actually led them to defect to the Wagang Army—if Qin Qiong had been right at that time, he would never have surrendered to the enemy.
Qin Qiong in the main history is very different from the Yanyi novel, he has neither worked as a servant, nor has he ever been a horse seller, and he has no half-cent relationship with Wang Luoyi of Yan County. Our topic today is not to talk about Zhang Sutuo, nor about Lai'er, let alone Li Yuanba, who has a fictitious battle record, but only about the other two famous generals of the Tang Dynasty who can be counted as the heroes of Wagang -- in the canonical history records, the performance of these two people in battle, through paper, can make people feel a chilling killing.
First of all, we must admit that Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde exchanged three whips for two hammers, and Wei Chi Jingde was defeated by Qin Qiong and surrendered, but it was true: "Breaking Wei Chi Jingde is the most meritorious." Gao Zu sent an envoy to give him a golden vase, and Lao Zhizhi said: "Qing ignored his wife, and came from afar to vote for me, and he set up an effect." The flesh can be used by the Qing, and when it is cut to give the Qing, the children are jade? The secretary should be encouraged. ’”
When Li Yuan was emperor, Qin Qiong was given the titles of Pillar State and Duke of Yiguo, and Wei Chi Jingde's titles were blank, and everyone did not express any objection, indicating that qin Qiong was present, and the importance of Wei Chi Jingde really could not be shown.
Qin Qiong is indeed very capable of fighting, but to say that Qin Qiong was the first famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, it seems to be a little unfair to the other two Wagang heroes, especially Cheng Biting Jin, who we think we can only have three axes, is very different from the description of the novel: he has not sold smuggled salt, nor has he been a demon king of the mixed world, and his initial position was the commander of the militia regiment in Dong'a County, Jeju Province: "Cheng Zhijie, whose real name is Biting Jin, Shao Xiao yong, makes good use of horse mallets." At the end of the great cause, hundreds of disciples gathered to protect the township in case he stole it. ”
Cheng Yaojin's original wife, who was the daughter of Dong'a County Ling, was even more powerful: born in the Qinghe Cui clan, the first class door valve at that time, and his father was the Sui Dynasty QiZhou Bei driver (the deputy of the assassin Shi, who had his own car when traveling, so he called the other driver) Cui Xin - Among the door valve wang clan at that time, the status of the Qinghe Cui clan was much higher than that of the Guanlong Li family.
Cheng Biting Jin, who made good use of the horse mallet, really had a fierce spirit of not dying: "Xing Yu (Pei Xingyu, the son of Pei Renji, and Cheng bit Jin Qinqiong and rode for the four horses of the Horse Army in Wagang, which is also the historical prototype of Pei Yuanqing in the novel, but not Cheng Biting Jin's brother-in-law) rushed to the enemy first, was hit by a stream of arrows, and fell to the ground." Knowing the festival to save it, killing several people, the world's army is invincible, but it is a heavy ride and returns. Driven by Shi Chong's horse, he stabbed through the hole, and Zhi Jie turned back to break his hammer, and also won the chase, so he was spared from the line. ”
Reading this record of the old and new Tang Dynasties that are basically the same, people can't help but feel cold: the blade of the horse mallet is long and wide, and there are obvious broken armor edges, what fish scale lock armor, bright light armor, under the horse mallet are vulnerable, its lethality is basically equivalent to the super five or six military stabs. Being stabbed by such a horse mallet, and being able to break the mallet and kill the pursuing enemy generals, this shows that Cheng Bite Jin is not only infinitely powerful, but also has the ability to resist blows. If you really compare the names of the Three Kingdoms in the future, then Qin Qiong is basically equivalent to Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong, while Cheng Yaojin can be compared to Xu Chu Xu Zhongkang of the shirtless war horse Chao.
The physical quality of Cheng Yaojin was obviously stronger than that of Qin Qiong: in the first year of Zhenguan, Qin Qiong began to take sick leave, and thirty years after Qin Qiong's illness was taken, that is, in the first year of Xianqing (656), Cheng Yaojin, who was nearly seventy years old, also attacked the Western Turk Ashina Helu as the grand commander of the March of the Onion Mountain Road (the Tang Dynasty's marching commander was equivalent to the commander of the front army), although many Tang soldiers were killed in the bitter cold of the desert north, Cheng Biting Jin still beat Ashina Helu and fled.
If we look closely at Cheng Yaojin's resume, we will find that he really became famous very early: he was only twenty-one years old when he joined the Wagang Army, and he was only thirty years old when he was crowned duke of Suguo.
Whether Cheng Qiongjin during the Wude period could have beaten Qin Qiong could draw a question mark, and Qin Qiong during the Zhenguan period was definitely not as good as Cheng Biting Jin could fight - of course, if Qin Qiong was not used to Li Shimin and pretended to be ill, it would be another matter.
Cheng Biting Jin is a good brother of Qin Qiong, who never abandoned him, and when they first defected to the Tang Dynasty together, it was Cheng Biting Jin's idea to Qin Qiong: "The world is shallow and narrow, and there are many vain words, so as to swear for the curse, is it the old woman's ear of the wizard, is it to disturb the master?" ”
In the days of fighting side by side with Qin Qiong, Cheng Qiqin showed superhuman bravery and keen vision, and later generations often referred to Qin and Cheng as a door god, Wei Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong were the door gods together, Cheng Chi Jin would not be convinced, and Wei Chi Jingde would also be very uncomfortable: Wei Chi Jingde was a defeated general under Qin Qiong, but he was also the elder of Qin Qiong's in-laws (Wei Chi Jingde's granddaughter married Qin Qiong's son), and the two of them stared at each other all day long, and there was unspeakable embarrassment - Qin Qiong guan Wei Chi Jingde called Shi Uncle, did he dare to agree?
Cheng Bite Jin's combat effectiveness is not weak, but we can only say that he may not lose to Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong's other good brother, Luo Shixin, who is also a hero of Wagang, can say with certainty: If he is not trapped and killed by Liu Heimin, who is also from Wagang, he can completely compete with Qin Qiong and drive the first.
Liu Heimin was also from Wagang, which many people may not know, but in the "Old Book of Tang Liechuan No. 5" and the "New Book of Tang Liechuan NO. 11" are recorded: Liu Heimin and Dou Jiande are old friends, but "Li Mi, for the general", together with Qin Qiong and others, after belonging to Wang Shichong, Qin Qiong was awarded the title of Grand General of Longjun (at that time, Wang Shichong was still under the banner of Great Sui, honoring Yang Tong the King of Yue as emperor), and Liu Heimin was only given the title of "Riding General (Commander of the Horse Army)".
It is also quite funny to say that Liu Heimin was once enduring dou Jiande's favor, and after defecting to Wang Shichong, he went to war against his benefactor Dou Jiande, and as a result, he was captured by another Wagang hero, Xu Shixun (who had already surrendered to Tang and changed his name to Li Shixun at that time, and was briefly assigned to "Great Xia" after being captured by Dou Jiande): "When Li Shixun fell to Dou Jiande, Jiande made him attack Xinxiang, and Jiande was sacrificed, and Jiande was used as a general and made the Duke of Handong County. ”
In the ancient cold weapon war, the general's individual combat ability could not determine the outcome of a battle, so Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Li Shixun, Liu Heimin, and Luo Shixin had all been captured with all their might, and if the real soldiers were against the generals, whether it was Liu Heimin or Qin Qiong, they might not be able to believe Luo Shixin.
If Cheng Bite Jin's bravery makes people chill, then the fierceness of the young hero Luo Shixin will make people feel like falling into an ice cave, because it is too cruel to translate it in the vernacular, let's still read the original text of the two Tang Dynasty books "Zhongyi Biography": "Shi Xin is fourteen years old, short and fierce, heavily armored, left and right (skin bags with bows and arrows), hitting thieves on the water, lining up, holding spears into the thieves' camp, assassinating several people, taking a first-level throw, inheriting spears, wearing and walking, thieves are afraid and dare not dare to move." Shi Xin chased north, and every time he killed a thief, he took his nose to the heart, and returned it, and he was tested to replace him. ”
Luo Shixin beheaded too many to carry, had to take the parts of the enemy to count, at this time there may be many people will be very strange: cutting the ears is not better to operate and cleaner, why does Luo Shixin like to cut the nose?
In Zhang Sutuo's army, Qin Qiong's rank was higher than That of Luo Shixin, but when fighting, Zhang Sutuo still preferred to use Luo Shixin, and in the eyes of the Sui Emperor, it seemed that Luo Shixin was stronger: "In every battle, Sutuo ascended first, and Shixin was the deputy." Emperor Jue sent envoys to comfort him, and ordered the painters to write pictures of the battle fronts of Sutuo and Shixin, which were on the internal history. ”
The battle characteristics of Cheng Biting Jin and Luo Shixin have been displayed, and now it is up to the readers to draw the final conclusion: Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin Luo Shixin are brothers who fought side by side, they have never abandoned their lives, and they have made great contributions to the Tang Kai state, if they give these three Wagang heroes a single challenge to make a ranking, who is the first to deserve it?