Thanks to the "Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Speaking of Tang" and other deductive novels, Wagangzhai has gained a lot of heat.
Shan Xiongxin, Qin Shubao, Wang Bodang, Xu Maogong are all cloudy, and Jia Liulou's forty-six friends are even more blood-boiling.
However, the real Wagang Army has no emotion, only interest.
First, Wagang began
To talk about Wagangzhai, we must first mention its founder Zhai Rang.
He was originally a Fa Cao of the Eastern Counties of the Sui Dynasty, but was sent into the bureau for openly spreading statements against His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty.
The jailer saw that he was a good man, opened the chains, and let him go.
After gaining his freedom, Zhai Rang rebelled at WagangZhai (wagangzhai in present-day Huaxian County, Henan).
It is located on the southeast bank of the Yellow River, close to the Grand Canal, and the terrain here is high, overgrown with bushes, and it is not easy for the officers and troops to encircle and suppress it. From the place he chose, it can be seen that Zhai Rang really has vision.
After Zhai Rang started the incident, the nearby heroes came to vote.
Among them are Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shixun and others that we are familiar with.
Shan Xiongxin is a fellow countryman of Zhai Rang, who mixed with the underworld when he was young, and he was good at making horses and mallets, known as the "flying general".
Shan Xiongxin stills
Xu Shixun is the prototype of Xu Maogong, but he is not a military master, but a warrior, who claims to be thirteen and kills people, and is also a generation of fierce people.
Zhai Rang was righteous and soon gathered a team of tens of thousands of people. With his brothers, Zhai Rang was active in Xingyang and Liang County, where they either robbed the rich and the poor, or robbed the boats on the canal, and lived a life of drinking in large bowls and eating meat in large mouths.
For such a life, Zhai Rang and his brothers are very satisfied, the chaotic world, it is good to have a stutter.
But the arrival of one person changed the fate of Zhai Rang and Wagangzhai, and this person was Li Mi.
Second, Li Mi is coming
After failing to rebel against the Sui with Yang Xuangan, Li Mi lived in exile, eating even tree bark when he was hungry.
After two years of upheaval and displacement, Li Mi turned to Zhai Rang.
In front of all the reckless heroes, Li Mi talked about "taking the world's strategy" again, saying that these people were stunned and became the second boss of WagangZhai.
Then, Li Mi began to fool outsiders and persuaded several small forces around him to defect to Wagangzhai, prompting all anti-kings to form an anti-Sui united front.
The team grew, and Li Mi encouraged Zhai Rang to do something big.
At first, Zhai Rang had not yet transformed, and what you said was too tall to be done. But as the days went on, it was inevitable that I would think about it.
Under Li Mi's planning, Zhai Rang sent troops to occupy The Golden Causeway Pass in Xingyang, a move that ushered in Zhang Sutuo's encirclement and suppression.
Zhang Sutuo was a fierce general, and Wagangzhai did not eat his losses, so Zhai Rang's first reaction was to quickly escape.
At this time, Li Mi pulled him aside and said that as long as he did so, he would be able to fight and capture.
According to Li Mi's plan, the Wagang army set up an ambush near the Great Sea Temple, and finally eliminated Zhang Sutuo and took advantage of the victory to defeat Xingyang.
After this battle, Zhai Rang allowed Li Mi to take one by himself.
In February of the thirteenth year of Daye (617), a great famine occurred in the Central Plains.
Li Mi suggested that it would be better to take the Xingluo warehouse near Luoyang, obtain the grain there, and then distribute grain to help, so that millions of people could be gathered.
Therefore, they led 7,000 elite soldiers to lay down xingluocang as planned, and after opening the warehouse to help the disaster victims, they won a large number of military food and the support of the people, and Wagang became the strongest rebel army.
Zhai Rang and others were satisfied and convinced, and publicly promoted Li Mi as the main one, known as the Duke of Wei.
After Li Mi took power, he personally recruited a group of talents.
There are Pei Renji Pei Xingyu father and son, Zhang Sutuo's old department Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and Shandong's Cheng Yaojin.
By the way, in history, Cheng Yaojin was never the leader of Wagang Village, and the people first established themselves on the mountain in Shandong, and only after Li Mi's solicitation did they defect to Wagang.
In addition to the above, there are also talents who are good at scheming, he is the future famous Wei Zheng, after Li Mi's death, he disregarded the danger and wrote a sacrifice for his former master.
Third, repeat the mistakes of the past
Li Mi took the death of Sui as his own responsibility, declaring that the crimes of the Sui Emperor were "the bamboo of the Southern Mountains, and the crimes of the book are not exhausted; the waves of the East Sea are decided, and the poison is difficult to exhaust." "
He went on to put forward the slogan of "eliminating the Sui Dynasty".
Wagangzhai, which once survived by fighting against families and robbing houses, was thus upgraded to a military group that fought the world.
Successive victories have created the reputation of Wagangzhai and made Li Mi an ally of all roads.
At that time, the prophecy that "Li Shi should be the son of heaven" was widely circulated, and it seemed that it was about to be fulfilled in Li Mi.
Li Mi, who had hundreds of thousands of troops, ordered an attack on Luoyang. Coming to Luoyang City again, Li Mi felt a thousand emotions in his heart.
In the past, before Yang Xuangan to raise an army, Li Mi proposed three strategies for the upper, middle, and lower levels, of which the lower strategy was to attack Luoyang.
Yang Xuangan chose the next strategy and insisted on taking Luoyang. Now, when he came to Luoyang City again, the city defense of Luoyang was still strong, and the Wagang Army and the officers and soldiers had been facing each other.
Seeing that there was no way out, Chai Xiaohe advised Li Mi to hurry west into Guanzhong.
For this suggestion, Li Mi could only smile bitterly, wasn't this the middle strategy he gave Yang Xuan. As a strategist at the time, he was also dissatisfied with Yang Xuangan's failure to enter Guanzhong in time.
Now that he was the commander-in-chief, he found out how unreliable the plan to enter the west into the pass was.
Like Yang Xuangan, Most of Li Mi's men were from a grassy background, and they were not interested in what kind of imperial karma.
They were more concerned about the real interests in front of them, laying down Luoyang, they could get countless riches, and Li Mi had to meet their demands and take dongdu in order to gain support.
Entering guanzhong in the west and achieving imperial karma, I am not willing to do it, but I really can't do it.
Li Mi knew that he could not escape, so he sent Chai Xiaohe to Guanzhong first to contact the righteous soldiers.
Li Mi was defeated, these people scattered, and the plan to enter Guanzhong in the west was stranded. After regrouping, Li Mi gave up his plan to move west, and he wanted to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Sui Dynasty army with all his might.
Wang Shichong, under the orders of the Sui Emperor, led an army of 100,000 to fight Against Li Mi.
Although Wang Shichong fled in defeat, the Wagang army was also unable to fight again.
Fourth, people's hearts are scattered
The Wagang army won a great victory, but internal problems followed. Zhai Rang's old subordinates persuaded him to regain real power, and Li Mi knew about it and was determined to completely remove this stumbling block.
On November 11, 13, Li Mi invited Zhai Rang to a banquet, accompanied by his brother Zhai Kuan, as well as Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shixun, and Wang Bodang, who were brothers of Jieyi.
After three rounds of drinking, Li Mi handed a good bow to Zhai Rang. Zhai Rang would draw a bow like a full moon on the spot, which attracted a lot of applause, and the joyful atmosphere was even stronger.
At this moment, the ambush troops came out in unison, and Zhai Rang and Zhai Kuan were hacked to death by random knives.
Xu Shixun saw the situation and hurriedly escaped from the tent door, but was still cut off his neck; Shan Xiongxin did not have the hardness of a good man at all, and repeatedly prostrated his head and begged for forgiveness; only Wang Bodang seemed to know about this matter in advance, and hurriedly stopped the sword and axe hand.
After that, the old department of Wagang was led by Xu Shixun, Shan Xiongxin and others.
This bloody toss has both positive and negative effects, and the good thing is that no one can threaten Li Mi's position.
The bad side is that people's hearts are scattered, and the team is no longer easy to bring.
In the fourteenth year of Daye (618), Yang Guang died in the Jiangdu Mutiny.
After learning the news, the ministers in Luoyang City supported Yang Tong, the king of Yue, as emperor, and was known as "Emperor Tai Lord".
In the face of the upcoming Yu Wenhua and the army, they unanimously decided: recruit the Anwagang Army, so that the two sides will lose both sides.
Outside the city, Li Mi suffered from the enemy in his belly, so he accepted the offer despite the opposition of his men.
In the heyu culture and battle, the Wagang army was seriously injured, and even Li Mi himself was shot by an arrow, and without Qin Qiong's rescue, he was killed long ago.
Wang Shichong in the city took advantage of the fire and robbery to attack them, and the Wagang army was defeated, scattered, and fled.
V. Death of Li Mi
Almost at the same time, Li Yuan occupied Guanzhong, first making Yang You the Emperor of the Imperial Dynasty, then kicking him away, ascending to the emperor's throne himself and establishing the Tang Dynasty.
Li Mi, who was on the battlefield of the Central Plains, was defeated by Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong, and had no choice but to go west to Chang'an and defect to Li Yuan.
Li Yuan entertained him with grand etiquette, which made Li Mi very happy, but he was soon not happy.
Because Li Yuan only gave him a false position of Guanglu Xun (the housekeeper in charge of the palace's meals).
In this regard, Li Mi, who had been a prince of the party, was deeply ashamed, so he conspired with Wang Bodang to return to Shandong.
He then expressed to Li Yuan that he was willing to return to Shandong to recruit the old troops and help the Tang army to capture Luoyang.
Li Yuan agreed to his request, and before leaving, he also pretended to say that many courtiers had opposed this matter before, but the trust in you remained unchanged.
Li Mi believed his lies.
Just as he was about to leave the customs, Changshi Zhang Baode privately informed Li Yuan that Li Mi was going to rebel.
Therefore, Li Yuan ordered Li Midan to ride back to the dynasty and make this matter clear. Of course, Li Mi knew that this matter could not be explained clearly, so he killed the messenger.
Entering the mountains, Li Mi encountered an ambush by The Tang Army, was caught off guard, and finally killed by the neck, only 37 years old.
A generation of tyrants, just like that, died.
Upon learning of his death, The old general Xu Shixun of Wagang requested to host a funeral for his sake.
Li Yuan felt his loyalty and allowed him to bury Li Mi thickly.
Wei Zheng, another who carried out the righteousness of the monarch, although he did not heed many of his suggestions, Li Mi wrote an epitaph for his former superiors and spoke highly of Li Mi.
This is the bright color of human nature after the collapse of Wagang Village.