This period of Sui and Tang Dynasties can be regarded as another era in Chinese history in which stars gather and talents are born. Its intensity and excitement are by no means weaker than those of the Three Kingdoms. During this period, li shimin, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Wei Zheng, Luo Cheng, Li Ji, Liu Heimin, Qin Shubao and other heroes and heroes emerged, but the influence of our filming in yanyi is often seriously underestimated by the civilian and military generals who do not belong to Li Shimin's family, of which Liu Heimin is a seriously underestimated one.
Liu Heimin, born and died unknown, was cunning and arrogant when he was young, drunk and gambling, and did not do his business all day, but dou Jiande, a fellow villager, thought that Liu Heimin was very extraordinary and often funded him. Later, the world was in chaos, and Liu Heimin unsurprisingly embarked on the road of rebellion, successively defecting to Hao Xiaode, Li Mi and others.
In 618, the Wagang army collapsed, and Liu Heimin was captured by Wang Shichong, who had always heard that he was brave and strong, so he made him a cavalry general and guarded Xinxiang (present-day Henan). However, Liu Heimin despised Wang Shichong and soon fled back to Hebei with his troops to join his friend Dou Jiande. Under Dou Jiande's command, Liu Heimin was highly valued and was given the title of Duke of Handong County, and Liu Heimin also lived up to Dou Jiande's trust, marched from east to west, and made great contributions to the Xia regime, with fruitful results, and was called "Shen Yong General" in the army. Unfortunately, dou Jiande was defeated and captured by Li Shimin in front of the Tiger Prison Pass in order to rescue Wang Shichong, and the Xia regime was also destroyed, and Liu Heimin did not want to serve the Tang Dynasty, so he lived in seclusion in the countryside.
Later, Dou Jiande was executed by the Tang Dynasty, Hebei was shaken, and the generals loyal to Dou Jiande rebelled one after another, and were bound to avenge the favor of Dou Jiande, and Liu Heimin, as Dou Jiande's most trusted general during his lifetime, undoubtedly assumed the heavy responsibility of opposing the Tang leader. The rebel army broke through all the way, regaining the lost land one after another, and later defeated the famous Tang Dynasty general Zuo Wuhou General Li Shijie in Songzhou, and captured xue Wanjun's brothers, and the military momentum was great. The Tang Dynasty was shaken by the whole country, and immediately sent the first general Li Shimin to fight Liu Heimin.
Li Shimin's army arrived at The River and camped with its back to the riverbank. At the same time, Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, also led an army south from Youzhou. The central and local armies of Li Tang formed a pinch attack on Liu Heimin. Luo Yi first gave Liu Heimin a dismount, and at the Battle of Xuhe (徐河, in present-day northeastern Baoding, Hebei), he destroyed Liu Heimin's younger brother Liu Shishan and "captured and beheaded eight thousand men."
Li Shimin did not expect that he would encounter an equal opponent on the bank of the river, Liu Heimin. The Tang army had nearly 100,000 men and horses on both roads, and its strength was several times that of the Han Eastern Army, but it was actually defeated in succession, and even Luo Shixin, the commander-in-chief of the general's march, was killed by others. This Luo Shixin was the top master of the early Tang Dynasty, and even he was folded under Liu Heimin's hands, and the fierceness of the battle was evident.
And just like that, you came and went, and in the blink of an eye, two months passed. Liu Heimin could not sit still at first, his food and salary guarantee was very problematic, and Li Shimin had a huge central government behind him. Although Li Shimin suffered repeated failures, he killed Liu Heimin by consumption alone.
It's not okay to go on like this. On this day, Liu Heimin finally thought hard about a plan in the camp, and he planned to attack Li Shixun's camp with a small force disguised as the main force, at which time Li Shimin would inevitably lead his army to the rescue. By that time, the Han Eastern Army had concentrated its forces to kill Li Shimin. This is called the art of war to catch the thief before the king. Li Shimin was indeed successful and was heavily surrounded by the Han Eastern Army. At the critical moment, it was Wei Chi Jingde who led the death squad into the siege and rescued Li Shimin. Looking at Li Shimin's distant back, Liu Heimin screamed angrily. He knew that such an opportunity would never happen again.
Li Shimin escaped from death, and after returning to the camp, he hung up the exemption card. It seems that it is difficult to achieve the expected effect of the frontal decisive battle, and this Liu Heimin is obviously much more difficult than Dou Jiande. Worthy of Li Shimin, he quickly thought of a way to eliminate the Han Eastern Army in one fell swoop. The han eastern army was running out of grain and grass, and Liu Heimin had to lead a large army to cross the water and compete with Li Shimin. This fierce battle lasted from noon to dusk, and the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dark. At the time of the melee, I saw that the billowing water suddenly poured in, and the two armies were submerged. Originally, Li Shimin thought of a way to build a dam to store water in the upper reaches of the river, and when the fierce battle between the two armies was in full swing, he would release water to flood Xiao Hei. Of course, this inevitably requires the sacrifice of some of their own people. During the battle, the Han Eastern Army lost more than 10,000 people and drowned nearly a thousand people, and Liu Heimin had to lead the remnants of a hundred people north to the Turks. Immediately after, Li Shimin smoothly leveled Xu Yuanlang. The news of the great victory of the flood water reached Chang'an, and the people and the people cheered and thundered, and Li Shimin did not disappoint them.
In 622, Liu Hei borrowed a Turkic force to rebel against the Tang, and the Tang Dynasty hastily appointed Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang County, as the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Province, and fought against Liu Heimin with Shi Wanbao, the former duke of The State. However, Liu Heimin won consecutive battles and attacked the Tang army, and within a month he was recaptured most of the lost land, and Bing Feng only pointed to Chang'an. The Tang Dynasty also hurriedly dispatched troops, the commander of the three Yi, and finally the crown prince Li Jiancheng personally led a large army to fight a decisive battle with Liu Heimin. During the decisive battle, Li Jiancheng commanded properly, repeatedly listening to the advice of the strategist Wei Zheng and others, and Wei Zheng contributed a golden idea in a timely manner: release the prisoners of war of the Han Eastern Army who had already been captured, as long as they no longer defected to Liu Heimin, they would never be blamed for the past. This move is called "attacking the heart" in the art of war. Today's political scholarship is "political inducement." The introduction of this policy comes at an opportune time. At this time, the grain and grass of the Han Eastern Army had been exhausted. As a result, the phenomenon of soldiers fleeing began to appear in the Handong army. Run one today, run a pair tomorrow, run a group the day after tomorrow...
Liu Heimin saw that the situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable to him, and was worried that the defenders of Wei Prefecture would attack, so he quietly retreated to Guantao at night. Li Jiancheng led a large army in hot pursuit, and Liu Heimin fought and retreated. When he arrived at Raoyang City, Liu Heimin looked back and saw that there were only more than a hundred people left around him, and all of them were hungry and green-eyed. Old Liu's appointed Raoyang Thorn Shi Ge Dewei appeared in time to warmly welcome Liu Heimin to raoyang. Unexpectedly, Ge Dewei suddenly attacked, and Liu Heimin was caught off guard and was captured. Subsequently, Ge Dewei surrendered the city and sent Liu Heimin to Li Jiancheng. In the matter of pacifying Liu Heimin, only Li Jiancheng was the biggest winner. Li Shimin mobilized the crowd, in vain, and smashed the signboard; Li Yuanji's momentum was quite loud, and as a result, he did not even see what Liu Heimin looked like; Liu Heimin avenged his benefactor, and his integrity was honorable and lamentable, but in the end it was not empty to sprinkle a cavity of hot blood on the loess.
On the other hand, Li Jiancheng, through this counter-rebellion, first, fully displayed his military talents; second, he recruited Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, Li Yan, the king of Lujiang, and his fourth brother Wang Yuanji of Qi, and third, he successfully included Shandong Hebei into his own category of influence, which can be described as "three battles in one fell swoop." The most crucial thing is that he successfully curbed Li Shimin's upward momentum and fought a beautiful turnaround battle. A generation of war god Li Shimin is actually difficult to match under the fame, but the originally unknown prince Li Jiancheng has been determined in one fell swoop, such a huge contrast and sharp contrast, the old father Li Yuan looked in the eyes, the world also looked in the eyes. The Li brothers have since officially broken up.