What wonderful stories happened in the Tang Dynasty? （3）

Li Yuan sent emissaries to catch up with Li Mi's team and delivered a new order—to ask Li Mi to return to Chang'an alone.

What kind of reaction will Li Mi make?

He decided to take a gamble.

Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for the Wushan Mountain is not a cloud. Li Mi was once the leader of the Wagang Army, who was eager to restore his former position and strength, and was unwilling to return to Li Yuan as a subordinate, so Li Mi killed the emissaries sent by Li Yuan and led people to the nearby Taolin County (around Lingbao, Henan), hoping to be strong first and plunder some of the population before the Tang army could react.

The transmission of the news took time, Taolin's county order did not know that Li Mi had rebelled against Tang, he also thought that Li Mi was acting according to Li Yuan's orders, Li Mi claimed that he was ordered to return to Chang'an, and wanted his family to temporarily live in the official residence of the county order, and the county order agreed.

So Li Mi's subordinates hid their weapons, disguised themselves as Li Mi's people, and quickly captured the official palace, and then Li Mi led the crowd to continue to move forward, wanting to go to the old subordinate Zhang Shanxiang.

At this time, Li Yuan already knew that his emissaries had been killed by Li Mi, and ordered the Tang army to surround and suppress Li Mi along the way.

Li Mi and the others were still on the territory controlled by the Tang Army, and as long as the Tang Army formed a siege, Li Mi was certainly not an opponent.

In order to get out, Li Mi thought of a move - sound east and west.

He let out a message: he was going to Luozhou.

How would the surrounding Tang Jun react?

This was the closest to Li Mi, the Tang general Shi Wanbao of Zhenshou Xiong Prefecture (around Yiyang, Henan), and now that Li Yuan had ordered li mi to be dealt with, Shi Wanbao naturally wanted to carry out the order.

However, Li Mi was the leader of the Wagang Army, and his reputation was too loud, and Shi Wanbao was afraid that he was not his opponent and lacked self-confidence.

His subordinate Sheng Shiyan was very confident and expressed his willingness to lead his troops to kill Li Mi, but Shi Wanbao agreed and allocated thousands of men and horses to him.

At this time and another, the previous Li Mi was indeed difficult to deal with, but now that he had lost most of his men and horses, his strength had plummeted, and Sheng Shiyan was not afraid of him at all.

After having soldiers and horses, Sheng Shiyan and his troops quickly rushed to Bears Ears Mountain and found a place to hide.

A soldier asked incomprehensibly: "Didn't Li Mi say to go to Luozhou?" What are we here for? ”

Sheng Shiyan analyzed and pointed out: Li Mi is diverting our attention, he threatened to go to Luozhou, in fact, it should be to go over the mountain to join his old subordinate Zhang Shanxiang, we advanced the mountain to wait for him.

Know yourself and know thyself, never lose a battle, and when your tricks are completely seen by your opponent, you are in trouble.

Li Mi thought that he had deceived the Tang army, led the team into Bears Ears Mountain, and the Sheng Shiyan troops who had been waiting for a long time launched a surprise attack, Li Mi and the others were caught off guard and were killed on the spot, and the Wagang army was devastated from then on.

Shortly after Li Mi's death, his defeated general Yu Wenhua also died.

Since being defeated by the Wagang army led by Li Mi, Yu Wenhua and the defeated generals with the remnants of the army fled to Wei County, because he was even defeated and not good at management, many subordinates did not want to follow him anymore, Zhang Kai was one of them.

Zhang Kai plans to leave Yu Wenhua and, but is unexpectedly discovered by Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenhua, yu Wenhua and without saying a word, immediately execute Zhang Kai.

Such a brutal approach made Yu Wenhua and even more unpopular, more and more subordinates fled, Yu Wenhua and felt that he was almost finished, in order to die before addiction, he simply called the emperor.

As a result of claiming the title of emperor, he attracted more opponents, and the Tang army also began to attack him, and Yu Wenhua and his troops retreated to Liaocheng (墻城, in present-day Liaocheng, Shandong), where the Tang general Li Shentong led the Tang army to surround it.

At this time, Yu Wenhua reached the point where the mountains and rivers were exhausted, and the troops and military food were insufficient, and he wanted to surrender, but Li Shentong refused.

It turned out that Li Shentong planned to completely defeat Yu Wenhua and distribute his belongings to the soldiers to comfort everyone, and if he was allowed to surrender, Li Shentong would not be convenient to move his belongings.

Then go on.

After fighting, Li Shentong did not like others to steal his limelight.

In one of the attacks, the Tang general Zhao Junde had already climbed up to the opponent's city, and Li Shentong took the lead in him and actually ordered the attack to stop.

In this way, Li Shentong missed a good opportunity.

It was not only them who were fighting for the world, when Li Shentong was in Liaocheng, another army came, and Li Shentong saw that there were many people on the other side and decided to retreat first.

The new army was dou jiande's men and horses at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Dou Jiande came from Bei Prefecture (around Qinghe in Hebei), originally a lieutenant general, he was generous, in the early years there was a fellow villager who did not have money to do the aftermath of his parents, Dou Jiande did not say a word, prepared relevant expenses for his fellow villagers, because he was helpful, he had a high reputation in the local area.

As for Dou Jiande's later joining the rebel army, it is related to a man named Sun Anzu.

Sun Anzu, also Dou Jiande's compatriot, was hunted down for killing officials and hid in Dou Jiande.

Due to the tyranny imposed by the Sui Emperor and the situation became more and more turbulent, Dou Jiande asked Sun Anzu to go to Gaojibo to form a team to prepare for the future chaos.

Gaoji Isor berth is near Gucheng County, Hebei, which was a large lake in the late Sui Dynasty, with a geographical environment similar to Liangshan Po, with a wide water surface and lush reeds, suitable for concealment.

The power of the king of Zhanshan gradually increased, they plundered everywhere, but never went to Dou Jiande's hometown, the local officials believed that Dou Jiande was secretly dealing with them, so they executed all of Dou Jiande's relatives, and Dou Jiande was forced to flee and join Gao Shida's rebel army (Gao Shida was the strongest rebel army leader in the Gaojipo area at that time).

In addition to Gao Shida, a man named Zhang Jin also organized a rebel army in the local area, they constantly recruited troops to buy horses, which attracted the attention of the imperial court, the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress many times, but the defeat was more than victory, and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang had to send a master- the Sui general Yang Yichen.

Yang Yichen's first target was Zhang Jin, Zhang Jin said that he had defeated the Sui army many times before, naturally he also had a certain strength, Yang Yichen did not rush to fight, he led his troops to a place 20 kilometers away from Zhang Jin's military camp, camped here, dug trenches, and did a good job of fortifications.

20 kilometers is far away, not close. Zhang Jin said that if he chose to defend, he would have to worry about it all day, because this point was not far away, and the Sui army could fight with a charge, and Zhang Jin said that the troops had to remain on alert at any time.

Zhang Jin said that he could not stand it and decided to take the initiative to attack and no longer wait passively.

He overlooked the point —not that he could fight if he wanted to.

Yang Yichen had long ordered the soldiers to take defensive measures, the Sui army dug a deep trench outside the camp, and it was difficult for the rebel army to attack it, zhang Jin said that he had to challenge outside, hoping that the Sui army would come out to fight a decisive battle.

When in a hurry, it is easy to fall into the trap of the opponent, and Yang Yichen and Zhang Jin said that they played psychological warfare.

Every time Zhang Jin said that he came to challenge, Yang Yichen agreed to be good, saying that he would make an appointment to start fighting.

As a result, when the agreed time came, the Sui army just did not come out, Zhang Jin said that he could not attack it, and he was upset by Yang Yichen.

Finally, one day, Yang Yichen solemnly said to Zhang Jin, "Tomorrow morning I will definitely fight with you." ”

Seeing that Yang Yichen said so seriously, Zhang Jin said that he was relieved to go back and prepare to fight tomorrow morning.

This time, Yang Yichen was planning to fight, but there was a small change - the time was brought forward a little.

That night, Yang Yichen led the elite troops to raid Zhang Jin's camp, and Zhang Jin said that he thought it was a battle tomorrow morning, but he was defenseless, and he was defeated and finally killed by the Sui army.

The words of the opponent cannot be believed.

Zhang Jin claimed that after the defeat, Gao Shida's team was left, and it was the Sui Dynasty official Guo Xuan who came to deal with him.

Guo Xuan had 30,000 horses, which was a severe test for the rebel army, and Gao Shida felt that Dou Jiande was more capable of fighting, so he gave the command to Dou Jiande.

The showdown is about to begin.

I don't know if Dou Jiande is referring to the story of the Three Kingdoms period, in the contest with the Sui Army, he staged a play "Zhou Yu Fights Yellow Cover".

Dou Jiande pretended to have a conflict with Gao Shida and "escaped" from Gao Shida with some of his men and horses, and Gao Shida was also very cooperative, publicly announcing that Dou Jiande had defected.

Dou Jiande then wrote a letter to Guo Xuan, saying that he had broken with Gao Shida and was willing to help the Sui army defeat Gao Shida.

It is estimated that the news of Dou Jiande's "defection" reached Guo Xuan, who believed Dou Jiande's words, and the two sides agreed to meet and form an alliance.

Dou Jiande and other places were this opportunity, the two sides soon met, and the Sui army thought that they had come to form an alliance, and they were very relaxed.

With a calculated mind and unprepared, Dou Jiande took the lead. He led his troops to launch a surprise attack, and soon defeated the unprepared Sui army and obtained a large amount of strategic materials.

Guo Xuan was defeated, and the Sui Emperor had no choice but to continue to let Yang Yichen out of the horse.

Dou Jiande was more sensitive, from the previous confrontation process between Yang Yichen and Zhang Jinchen, Dou Jiande felt that Yang Yichen was not easy to deal with, and he proposed that he first lead his troops and Yang Yichen's troops to negotiate, consume opponents, and then launch a decisive battle when the opponent's state declined.

This time Coatsdale did not listen.

The relationship between people and people is very delicate, the last time Dou Jiande defeated Guo Xuan, the big limelight, Gao Shida may be a little unhappy, he also wants to kill the enemy Liwei, so he rejected Dou Jiande's proposal and led his troops to battle.

His heart was higher than the sky, but unfortunately his level was much worse than Dou Jiande's.

At first, it went well, and Gao Shida led his troops to a small victory, and he was full of pride and ate and drank a lot to celebrate.

The Ming Dynasty thinker Wang Yangming once said: "A serious illness in life is just a "proud" word." Gao Shida was proud of his small victory and neglected to take precautions, and was soon killed by the Sui army, and Gao Shida's soldiers scattered and fled.

Portrait of Wang Yangming