Author: Chen Erhu
(Tang Guoqiang version of Li Yuanhao)
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Li Yuanhao, who was born extraordinary</h1>
At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a feudal town in the northwest with military power, and Li Jiqian, the "envoy of the Dingnan Festival" who held the land of five states (Xia, Yin, Sui, Yu, and Jing), was the leader of the party, and it is said that they originated from the Tuoba clan, were descendants of the Xianbei people of Northern Wei, who died after being injured in battle with Tubo, and their son Li Deming attacked his post, judged the time and time, and used the heavenly high emperor yuan, when the Northern Song Dynasty could not reach out, to develop and expand his own strength.
When Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao was born, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Great Liao fought fiercely for many years, and the Great Liao soldiers and horses, under the personal conquest of empress dowager Xiao Yanyan and his son Liao Shengzong Yelü Longxu, forced the Northern Song Emperor Zhenzong to sign the "Alliance of Yuanyuan", turned Gange into a jade warrior, and also wanted to appease the party regime occupying the northwest, And Li Mingde precisely took advantage of the contradiction between song and Liao to seek living space.
It is said that this Li Yuanhao was born with a full face, a pair of eyes torched with gods, an eagle hook nose, a tough and inviolable demeanor, a strong and strong body, since he was a child, he likes to wear white long-sleeved clothes, wear a black crown, wear a bow and arrow, smile and be arrogant, every trip has a hundred rides to accompany, riding a horse, in front of two flag bearers to open the road, followed by a green umbrella cover of jianjian guards, which is mighty.
Li Yuanhao liked to read military books since he was a child, and he loved the popular "Taiyi Jinjian" and "Field Song" at that time, and concentrated on studying them, which was quite exquisite. And Li Yuanhao was born smart, proficient in Han, Tibetan and other languages, at that time in the northwest of the Northern Song Dynasty general Cao Wei had a premonition that this boy was not a thing in the pool, and would become a song dynasty border trouble in the future, and wanted to see the real face, several times failed to see, so he sent someone to secretly paint a portrait of Li Yuanhao, Cao Wei could not help but exclaim: "True Yingwu also!" ”
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, Li Yuanhao's dialogue with his father</h1>
Yuanhao gradually grew up, very dissatisfied with his father Li Mingde's subservience to the Northern Song Dynasty, once Li Deming used horses to trade with the Northern Song Dynasty, something unpleasant happened, Li Yuanhao said to his father: "We were originally engaged in Kurama, now trading this luxury should not have been", but also said: "Our tribe has a large population, but the wealth is insufficient, if we lose the hearts of the people, how can we protect ourselves?" In my opinion, with the rewards given to us by the Song Dynasty, we recruited soldiers and trained bows and arrows. When there is an army capable of fighting, the small can conquer the four sides, and the big can seal the territory and establish the country, what is the disadvantage? It can be seen that this Li Yuanhao has quite ambition and foresight.
Li Deming looked at his son and said deliberately: "I am tired of fighting with soldiers, in the past thirty years we have been able to wear brocade and silk, and live a rich life, all of which are the favors of the Song Dynasty, and we must not be ungrateful." ”
Li Yuanhao retorted: "Wearing fur clothes and grazing livestock is our nature, we are a heroic nation, we should do great things, claim the king and hegemony, how can we be satisfied with the present and consume our fighting spirit?" ”
On the surface, the father and son seemed to be not speculative, but Li Deming was very happy in his heart.
In the middle of the ninth century AD, the Uighur Khaganate that dominated the north of the desert collapsed, and some of them reached the Hexi Corridor, allied with the Uighur tribes that originally lived here, and established the Uighur regime, and the tooth tent was located in Ganzhou (present-day Zhangye, Gansu), which became a new force, and also put the Dangxiang tribe between the Song, Liao and Ganzhou Uighurs, which posed a great threat to the Party, and if it wanted to be strong, it was necessary to kill the Ganzhou Uighurs, and the Hexi Corridor was geographically important.
Li Deming fought six wars with the Ganzhou Uighurs, all of which ended in failure, which also caused the party to form a deep grudge with the Ganzhou Uighurs.
After Li Yuanhao grew up, after making full preparations, he led his troops to attack Ganzhou, won a victory in a battle, occupied Ganzhou, and then adopted the tactic of attacking the west from the east, and surprised the troops to raid Xiliang, forcing the Uighurs to abandon the city and defect to Tubo.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, revitalize the party, with great ambitions</h1>
In October 1032, Li Deming died and Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, with the goal of Tubo.
At that time, in the southern part of Dangxiang, the vast area of the Huangshui River Basin and the Tao River Basin was the power of the Tubo people.
At that time, the leader was called 唃厮啰, which was Tubo reading, which means "son of Buddha", it is said that after tubo Zampu in the Tang Dynasty, he established the Tubo regime in the Xining area of Qinghai, dependent on the Northern Song Dynasty, and made enemies of the party for many years, and the Northern Song Dynasty also used him to contain Li Yuanhao and was awarded the title of General of Ningyuan.
After Yuan Hao succeeded to the throne, he had ambitions to become emperor and launched an attack on Tubo.
Later, there was turmoil within the Regime of Li Yuanhao, and Li Yuanhao took the opportunity to send troops to fight with 100,000 horses led by The General An Ziluo under the Command of Li Yuanhao, and the battle lasted for more than 200 days, Li Yuanhao had to withdraw due to lack of food in the army, and many soldiers and soldiers starved to death. When the army crossed the Zongge River, An Ziluo secretly made people break the dam, and Yuan Hao's men and horses were drowned.
The defeat of this Brother River made Li Yuanhao a great shame, and after rectification and recuperation, he came to Xue Shame and was defeated again.
At this time, Tubo was troubled internally, wives and concubines were vying for favors, sons were fighting for power, and Yuan Hao took the opportunity to divide and induce more than 10,000 people from Tubo to come and descend. The fragmented Tubo himself collapsed himself.
Li Yuanhao gradually became stronger, strengthened his national consciousness, increased unity within the party, won the support of the party nobles and tribal people, abolished the surname given by the Central Plains Dynasty, restored the party name "Song Name", and called himself a pawn. This "wu pawn" is a party word, which means "Qing Tianzi".
Li Yuanhao took the ancestors as a humble tuoba, and in order to remember his ancestors, he restored the old customs, took the lead in balding his hair, and wore heavy rings on his ears, and at the same time forced all dangxiang people to "shave their hair".
Li Yuanhao established the official system, set up hundreds of officials, founded the Ziyuan and the Chinese Character Academy, and created the script.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, the establishment of the Western Xia regime</h1>
Li Yuanhao attached even more importance to the army and improved the system of army building and garrisoning.
Li Yuanhao trained an elite infantryman, known as the "foot soldiers", this unit is agile, crossing mountains and mountains like walking on the ground, and its combat effectiveness is super strong.
Li Yuanhao also formed one of the most powerful heavy armored cavalry at that time, the "Iron Harrier", wearing heavy armor and almost unable to enter the battlefield, and also tied the pawns to the horse with ropes, even if they died in battle, they would not fall off their horses, and they could still rampage on the battlefield and play a role.
Li Yuanhao also formed an artillery corps, using a "whirlwind cannon" (cyclone cannon, which is said to have been invented by people and horses during the Three Kingdoms period, and is shaped like a windmill, which is actually a centrifugal stone thrower. There are four whirlwind guns called "cross cannons", and more than four are called "whirlwind cannons" that can stand on the back of camels and fire, but this "cannon" does not fire gunpowder shells, but fist-sized stones.
Fast forward to 1038 AD, Li Yuanhao on October 11 in the southern suburbs of Xingqing Province, the altar was built high, under the support of his close ministers Ye Li Renrong, Yang Shousu and other people, he was proclaimed emperor, the founding of the country was Great Xia, and the Jianyuan Lifa Yanzuo was just thirty-four years old.
Subsequently, in the war with the Northern Song Dynasty, he won the victory of Sanchuankou and the victory of Haoshuichuan.
Li Yuanhao claimed that in the late imperial period, internal stability, and the country gradually strengthened, he began to become another person, jealous of the minister and military generals, slightly unsatisfactory, dismissed from the official and killed the head, resulting in the later mother party to fight for power.
Li Yuanhao reveled in his martial arts and founded the country, began to indulge in wine, and often brought his beloved concubines to play in the palace of Helan Mountain, indulging in eroticism and accepting beautiful women.
His son Ning Linge's wife was as beautiful as a flower, like a heavenly immortal, and this Li Yuanhao took his daughter-in-law and became his new favorite.
His son Ning Lin couldn't bear it, and when he entered the Houguan assassination, Li Yuanhao hurriedly dodged and was cut off his nose, frightened, anxious and annoyed, and soon he died of a nasal injury, ending his 46 years of extraordinary life.
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