"Fengshen Yanyi", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Sui and Tang Dynasties"... However, when dynasties change and chaotic worlds are strife, there are always heroic storms that make the world talk about it endlessly. But after all, there are many differences between yanyi and zhengshi, just take the "Sui and Tang Yanyi", many people know that the first fiercest of Sui and Tang will be Li Yuanba, but the character of Li Yuanba is fictional, and in real history he should be called Li Xuanba.
Li Xuanba was Li Shimin's younger brother, and he died when he was only 15 years old, so how could he tear Yuwen Chengdu with his hands on this body bone? And Yuwen Chengdu is fictional, the author designed these fierce generals, so that the fight scenes are more exciting and more artistic, but with the circulation of opera novels, it is really easy to mislead everyone, let us treat fictional characters as real historical figures, and take the ranking of fierce generals in the novel as the real ranking.
In fact, the first fierce general of the Tang Dynasty was neither Li Yuanba nor Wei Chigong, and this name should belong to Qin Qiong, who had long cooperated with Wei Chigong to guard the door, that is, Qin Shubao. In the rendition plot, Qin Qiong is quite low in the ranking of many fierce generals, but this is inconsistent with the real history, no matter from the weapons used or the number of battles and battlefield roles, specific achievements, Qin Qiong's strength is underestimated.
Qin Qiong's weapon is a horse mallet, not a double hammer, so what kind of cold weapon is the horse hammer? According to historical records, this weapon originated in the Han Dynasty, in the war to cavalry-based began to popular, it looks a bit like the spear, but the mallet is much longer, belongs to the typical heavy cavalry weapons, the production cost is very expensive, the manufacturing process to use wood can make at least 10 strong bows.
The horse mallet is powerful, but the price is really very high, at that time it was not affordable for the children of ordinary people, Qin Qiong's use of this heavy weapon shows that he was at least born into a warrior clan, and he was very brave, and this is indeed the case, which is described in the Old Book of Tang:
"Shu Bao makes good use of the horse mallet, and the thief base is outnumbered, which can be described as brave."
And Wei Chigong, in the Zizhi Tongjian, also has a record of his use of the horse mallet and was praised by Tang Taizong, when Tang Taizong said to him: "The public executioners follow each other, although millions of people are like me!" "So it seems that Wei Chigong is definitely a cruel character, the first bodyguard of the Tang Dynasty is none other than him, and a husband should be Guan Wanfu Mokai, but who is higher in wei Chigong and Qin Qiong's strength?"
Qin Qiong should be better than Wei Chigong. Qin Qiong's date of birth is unknown, but we know that he has followed Sui Hou'er, Zhang Sutuo, Li Mi, and Wang Shichong, and later arrived under Li Shimin's account, and qin Qiong's evaluation of Qin Qiong is very high, he believes that Qin Qiong is not an ordinary brave, and his ambitions are far and wide, and there will be achievements in the future, and it is not a difficult thing for Qing Shi to leave a name.
This shows that before Qin Qiong was returned to Li Shimin's account, his bravery in battle was already very prominent. Qin Qiong's own divine power was combined with a horse mallet, coupled with the charge of war horses, so that he often served as a vanguard in battle, and after being subordinated to Li Shimin's camp, Qin Qiong participated in the Battle of Miragawa in 619 AD.
In the 1970s, the tomb of Qin Huaidao, the son of Qin Qiong, was discovered, and Qin Huaidao's epitaph contains a description of this battle, which can also prove that Qin Qiong's force was superior to Wei Chigong:
"Zu Shubao, Sui Longjun general, lieutenant Chi Jingde Yu Mirakawa."
The Battle of Meiliangchuan took place in the territory of present-day DaiXian County, Shanxi, when Wei Chigong was still in Liu Wuzhou's camp, and the Tang army was defeated in Xia County, and the Tang army faced an unfavorable situation, but Qin Qiong turned the tide of the war, and at the Battle of Meiliangchuan, he played his usual level of brave charge, defeating Wei Chigong's army, Wei Chigong chose to surrender, and Qin Qiong was commended by Li Shimin:
"The emperor gave him a golden vase, and Lao said: 'The secretary of state has come to me without sympathy for his wife, and has made meritorious contributions, so that the flesh may be eaten, and when it is cut, the children will be jade!'" ”
In the change of Xuanwu Gate, Qin Qiong once again made meritorious contributions and won the reward of 700 households, and Li Shimin's opponent at that time, Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, even had the intention of solving Qin Qiong first and then dealing with Li Shimin, which shows that Qin Qiong was absolutely indispensable in Li Shimin's camp at that time.
Unfortunately, after Li Shimin successfully became emperor, Qin Qiong's health deteriorated, often sick and bedridden, according to his own description, it was through more than 200 battles in his life, too many injuries caused, he had been injured for many years because of the blood he had shed because of the injury, there were so many Qin, although Li Shimin may not like the meritorious people to boast about their merits, but also can not fail to recognize Qin Qiong's merits, let him be included in the Ling Yan Pavilion Twenty-four Heroes.
Qin Qiong died in 638, and Wei Chigong continued to serve Li Shimin after this, and also followed the conquest of Goryeo until his death in 658, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
According to Qin Huaidao's epitaph, Qin Qiong should have captured him after a fierce battle with Wei Chigong alone, and the Tang people had a more wonderful description of Qin Qiong's appearance during the battle: Qin Gong strained, and pulled out electrically; when the sharpness was exhausted, I was exhausted. It can be seen that Qin Qiong's image should also be more powerful, and roles such as white-faced Xiaosheng to play him will still give the momentum of the first fierce general of the Tang Dynasty a lot of points.