Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, in Chang'an City, a weak man was leaning on a canopy royal car, and he had some pity in his heart, and under the left and right opening of the road, he entered a mansion in the city.
The people in the mansion knelt into a large piece, but he did not look, and slowly entered the main room under the support of the people, and on the bed in the room also lay an old man with white hair, and under the two opposite eyes, the people on the bed were startled, and the cloudy pupils flashed, struggling to get up, but unfortunately they were already weak, so they had to lie down again and let out a sigh from the nasal cavity.
Emperor, he said.
This sound made the heart of the person in front of the bed tremble, and he wiped the corners of his eyes with the sleeve of the dragon robe, and could not bear to look at him again, but just walked up to him and said some words of relief.
He had known him for many years, and now he was sitting and lying down, and he had already passed the time of knowing his destiny.
Thinking of this, the emperor could not help but shed tears, he suddenly felt that the so-called Jiangshan feats were just a matter of transience, and the person in front of him was both his own sword and his own friend, and he was extremely dashing when he first raised his horse and whip, and it was definitely not the old state of dying now.
He has many courtiers, either loyal or good generals, but only he is a man of both culture and martial arts, a person like himself, and a confidant who appreciates each other.
Your illness is very serious, you must have a good life and recuperation, the emperor said when he was leaving.
The medicine man, this side, is the last side, but he said this in his heart.
Two months later, the emperor in the Taiji Palace did receive the news of the death of his subordinates, and he sat quietly for a long time in disguise, and the next edict made him a Situ, and gave him the title of Jingwu, enjoying the honor of heaven.
Seven days later, the emperor died, and the two pillars of the empire returned to heaven together.
Before they died, they probably all saw the vast battlefield again, the young soldiers drew their swords and rose up, and the auxiliary country swung and fought heroically.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >, can't believe it can be so unlucky</h1>
In the sixth year of emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, at the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was a rather chaotic period in the Central Plains, and the power of the Sui was gradually rising, constantly launching wars against other countries, which was quite the meaning of sweeping away the Liuhe.
At this time, the Li family in the Yongzhou area added another male ding, named Li Jing, the character medicine man.
Li Jing's family lineage is excellent, grandfather Li Chongyi official to Yin Prefecture assassination history, a party member, and was awarded the title of Duke of Yongkang, father Li Yi also mixed with a Zhao County Taishou, uncle Han Huhu is a generation of famous generals, swept away Southern Chen, and the later lord Chen Shubao was forced to jump into the well with two concubines, and finally he dragged him up.
Therefore, Li Jing was born a proper official of the third generation, with a solemn family style, excellent education, and himself a dignified appearance and a large body, belonging to the kind of sunny young man who looks very decent at first glance, and is very talented in literary and martial arts, and can be called an all-rounder.
However, the all-round talent Li Jing did not have a satisfactory life, because the family relationship was very strong, so the young man was able to contact many celebrities and important courtiers in the DPRK from a young age, and these people also praised Li Jing's talent and learning, and predicted that he would become a great cause in the future.
This attitude is like we go to visit relatives' homes now, and when we see other people's children, we will boast two sentences in passing, and we will definitely be Tsinghua Peking University in the future.
Therefore, although Li Jing was famous in the government and the public, his career path has always been very difficult, starting from the bumpy county Gong Cao, and barely managing to achieve the position of the straight chief of the palace and the driver's officer Wailang, all of which are positions with very little power.
However, Brother Li Jing may be because his family is very well-off, even if the official is small, but life must be very moist, so he is actually not anxious about his situation, but commutes to work on time every day, usually there are probably some hobbies, and the time has passed unconsciously for twenty years in such a consumption.
For a frustrated young man, we often use the late success of the big instrument to comfort him, but everyone knows very well in their hearts that it is necessary to become famous early, and the people who are really late in the big instrument are very rare, and if there is real talent and practical learning, they will have achieved fame long ago.
At this time, Li Jing was already a middle-aged man in his forties, the bloodiness of young people and the recklessness of youth were almost finished, and those grand undertakings of his youth could not even be seen now, generally speaking, such a life would be properly buried if he continued to mix for decades.
But unfortunately, Li Jing was one of the very few people who had become a late bloomer, and his glory had only just begun from here.
The Sui Dynasty was a very short-lived dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, the second died, in the last year of the Sui Dynasty Emperor's great cause, the world has been chaotic, the country's internal and external difficulties, in addition to their own people, the Northern Turkic cavalry also took the opportunity to invade the Central Plains.
In order to resolve the internal disputes, at this time, the staff of the imperial court was already very insufficient, and no one was willing to deal with the barbaric nomads in the north, so Li Jing, who usually had a very low sense of existence, was pulled out and transferred to Mayi County, also a small official, to run errands for the county guards.
The twist begins here.
Although Li Jing still had no sense of existence at this time, he was subordinate to the highest official in the Shanxi region, Taiyuan Taishou Li Yuan, and li Yuan naturally did not need to say more about what he was thinking at this time, but in a later battle, this kind of thinking made Li Jing, who had a keen mind, aware of it.
Li Jing was a man, three generations in his family, including himself, were all civil servants of the Sui Dynasty government, belonged to Gen Zheng Miao Hong, and he was a righteous and awe-inspiring personality, so he decided to report it quickly.
However, Taiyuan was 18,000 miles away from the Jiang capital where the Sui Emperor was located, and as a commander, he could not easily escape so as not to arouse Li Yuan's detection, so he simply committed crimes in broad daylight, and then was arrested and imprisoned, ready to be released to the capital as a prisoner, waiting for an opportunity to escape on the road.
Unfortunately, when Li Jing came to Chang'an with some tossing and turning, there was already chaos here, Li Jing was wrapped up in the tide, and he could not find an opportunity to escape for a while, and as a result, soon after, Li Yuan raised an army in Taiyuan, and the soldiers quickly captured Chang'an.
The unlucky Li Jing naturally became a real prisoner, and in the face of betraying his subordinates, Li Yuan was very angry, and he decided to kill Li Jing directly.
And Li Jing was a wise man, and he did not have the consciousness of preferring to die to repay the Sui Dynasty, and he still shouted passionately with shackles: "Ming Gong raised up the righteous soldiers, originally to remove the riots in the world, why did he not accomplish great things, but killed the heroes with personal grudges?" ”
These words may not have impressed Li Yuan, but they were listened to by another person present, he was the teenager standing at his father's side at this time, Li Shimin.
Eventually, due to Li Shimin's intercession, Li Jing was released by Li Yuan, and soon after he was invited to join Li Shimin's shogunate, and at the same time entered the Three Guards of the Forbidden Army (親衛, 勋衛, 翊衛).
Heroes always feel sorry for each other, and Li Shimin's move will also win countless benefits for himself in the future.
For Elder Brother Li Jing, he painstakingly studied and studied the martial arts of the first half of his life, which has always stayed on paper, and from now on, he will step into the real battlefield.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > second, the sharp blade of the Tang Empire</h1>
In the first year of Wu De, Li Yuan was proclaimed emperor, Li Shimin was made the King of Qin, and then Li Jing followed him to destroy Wang Shichong in Luoyang, and he had already made his debut in the army.
At this time, most of the south was in the hands of Xiao Milling of Southern Liang, Li Jing was ordered to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and when passing through Jinzhou, he just happened to encounter Li Yan, the king of Lujiang, who was beaten to the head and bleeding by the local barbarians, so he casually pointed at him, and Li Jing immediately turned defeat into victory and took advantage.
He then continued to advance, but Xiao Qiao received the news and strictly controlled all the main traffic routes along the way, and Li Jing was temporarily blocked, but Li Yuan mistakenly thought that he was deliberately delaying, and secretly ordered Shi Xushao of Xia Prefecture to execute him, but fortunately Xu Shao and Li Shimin interceded again and still saved.
Li Jing was really unlucky, but he was not a man of many words, and the task still had to be completed, at that time, the barbarian activities in the Bashu region were very rampant, Li Jing personally led the army to directly attack the enemy camp, and after the victory, he promised their rich interests, and soon took the barbarians into submission.
Li Yuan was very satisfied, but he wanted to kill Li Jing several times, and now he was very awkward, so he personally issued the seal book, to the effect that I had forgotten all those things in the past, and we would be fine in the future.
Li Jing was also very satisfied, and besides, he was already a sincere person, so he returned a letter from Li Yuan, which contained the "Ten Strategies" of Breaking Xiao Milling.
At this time, although Li Jing was the commander-in-chief of the march, he was actually the real commander of the three armies and began to cross the river to destroy the enemy.
A few months later, the army was pulled out, it was the rainy season, and the water level of the Yangtze River soared, but Li Jingli insisted on crossing the river immediately, and the enemy troops were indeed defenseless and fled.
After encountering Xiao Milling's main force, Li Jing advocated retreating to avoid its front, but the commander Li Xiaogong insisted on facing the battle, and as a result, he was defeated, Li Jing was not in a hurry, he took advantage of the enemy's rush to grab supplies and led his men to fight another wave of counterattack, turning the tide of the war again.
In the end, Xiao Milling himself and the remnants were shrunk in Gangneung City and surrounded by Li Jing's regiment, and finally forced to open the door and surrender when the isolated city was helpless, and then he treated all those who had already surrendered with an extremely lenient policy, causing towns across Jianghan and the hundreds of thousands of reinforcements that came behind Xiao Milling to fall in the wind.
Therefore, Li Jing succeeded in one fell swoop, and as the actual commander of the army, it took only two months to help the Tang regime eliminate the largest Southern Liang force in the Jiangnan region and be crowned a pillar state.
After that, Li Jing became a firefighter, and wherever there was a disturbance, Li Yuan sent him to solve it.
In the fourth year of Wu De, he led his troops to Lingnan, and with his personal prestige alone, he took ninety-six prefectures and more than 600,000 households without spending a single soldier, and the local people loved him very much, and since then the society has been stable and peaceful.
In the sixth year of WuDe, the auxiliary dukes in the Jiangnan region rebelled again, and the Tang army went to suppress the thieves, Li Jing was still a deputy general, and Li Xiaogong was still the main general, but he already had a full understanding of the strength of this deputy at this time.
When the opinions of the people were at odds with Li Jing, he did not hesitate to choose to side with Li Jing of the minority faction, and indeed broke the enemy army one after another, successively defeated the generals Feng Huiliang and Chen Zhengtong under the command of Fu Gongyi, and finally captured himself at Wu County, and Jiangnan was pacified.
Li Jing's fame is far less than that of Qin Shubao, Cheng Yaojin, Luo Cheng, and others among the storytellers, but he has indelible merits for the creation of the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Li Jing's mission has not yet been completed, and now is not the end of his military career.
Although he is no longer young, he still has ambitions in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" >3. </h1>
At this time, almost all the whole country had fallen into the hands of the Li Tang family, but there were still Turkic iron horses in the north, as early as the beginning of Li Yuan's army, in order to stabilize them, they had already bowed their heads to the Shibi Khan to stabilize the northern border, but after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, this group of nomads continued to constantly violate the boundaries and meddle in the internal affairs of the Central Plains.
So Li Yuan threw Li Jing, who had made great achievements in the south, to the north to fight against the Turks, but at this time the country had just been unified, and he was temporarily unable to take the initiative to start a war.
However, in the ninth year of WuDe, the storm in the Palace of Chang'an City suddenly arose, and the famous "Xuanwumen Change" broke out.
Two months later, Li Shimin announced his ascension to the throne as emperor, changed his name to Yuan Zhenguan , and was historically known as Emperor Taizong of Tang.
At this time, the Turkic leaders learned of the turmoil within the Tang Dynasty, and immediately sent more than 100,000 people and horses to invade Jingzhou, and the soldiers arrived all the way to the Edge of Weishui outside Chang'an City, and Li Shimin personally came to the front to agree to an alliance, because the enemy was outnumbered, and this covenant was naturally Li Shimin bowed his head.
As a young and vigorous emperor who had just ascended to the throne, he could not swallow this breath, and after retreating from the enemy, he immediately transferred Li Jing to be the shangshu of the army and began to plan a counterattack.
Soon after, civil unrest broke out in the Eastern Turks, several tribes broke away one after another, and a snowstorm caused famine, and Li Shimin immediately took Li Jing as the commander-in-chief of the Dingxiang Road march and led an army to fight.
Li Jing first sent people to spread rumors, and the Turkic leader Jieli Khan thought that the Tang army was out of the nest, so he shrunk in the base camp and did not dare to move, and then Li Jing led three thousand light horses to take the city of Dingxiang where he was located, destroyed the enemy army, and captured the Turkic empresses, imperial grandchildren, and countless nobles.
After jieli was severely defeated, he also wanted to use the strategy of delaying the army to send people to ask Li Shimin for his guilt, but if the Tang army withdrew, he would be able to gather people and horses again with the high mountain and the road.
Unfortunately, Li Jing saw through his plan and rebelled against the first army, he sent emissaries to pacify Jieli, and at the same time with ten thousand iron horses to beat the falling water dogs, the Turkic army was unable to resist at all, Jieli Khan himself was captured, and the Eastern Turks perished.
However, Li Jing, who had returned from a great victory, had just entered the imperial city when he was sued by Xiao Yu, the imperial master, saying that he had no way under his rule, which led to many soldiers robbing the Turks.
However, Li Shimin really reprimanded Li Jing for this matter, and Li Jing prostrated his head and apologized for his sins and received a reward from the emperor: Zuo Guanglu Doctor, who gave silk to the land.
And it is precisely such a small thing that can see the tacit understanding between the two monarchs, at this time, Li Shimin has only recently ascended the throne (usurped the throne), the situation is unstable, and Li Jing is full of military merits, in order to coordinate the emotions of other ministers, so he played such a drama.
However, Li Jing himself is a down-to-earth personality, so the performance is very natural and natural.
Not long after, as soon as the limelight stopped, he was indeed promoted by Li Shimin to the position of Right Servant of Shangshu, a position equivalent to that of Right Chancellor, and it was intertwined with Fang Xuanling, the Left Chancellor, and supported the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Li Jing, who has passed the age of flower armor, time has made him old, but also let him read through the world, although he is an extremely popular subject, he almost does not discuss state affairs in public or private, and later on the grounds of physical sickness, he is in a semi-retired state, so even if he has been in the political center for a long time, he has not suffered any meritorious blows, which is the power of low-keyness.
As a great general with great fame and prestige, this kind of personality can be said to be extremely rare (refer to Han Xin).
However, his low profile is not an escape, not a hiding, because fame and fortune are not Li Jing's responsibility, his heart is not here, but in the shadow of the sword and light in the distance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="76" > fourth, the sheath is still cold</h1>
In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Tuguhun in the northwest rebelled again and invaded Liangzhou on the border of the Tang Dynasty, and for a time no one could stop it, and the border pass was urgent.
As for the candidate for the commander-in-chief, Emperor Taizong's first thought was Li Jing, but he was now too old and plagued by foot diseases for many years, so he really did not want to bother him, and only prepared to find him another choice.
Li Jing, who did not want to hear that the emperor was going to mobilize troops against Tuguhun, suddenly glowed, and overnight seemed to be dozens of years younger, and happily ran to find Fang Xuanling, so he volunteered to be a commander to go on the expedition.
Emperor Taizong was overjoyed, and quickly received the old general, appointed him as the grand commander of the March of the Western Sea Province, commanded the army with full authority, and accompanied by famous generals such as Hou Junji and Li Daozong, immediately set out to attack Tuguhun.
Li Jing should have been holding his eldest grandson and nestled on the kangtou at this time, roasting his uncomfortable feet, but the war made him reawaken and put on his horse, but now not everyone still believes that he can regain the glory of the past.
He's old.
Unfortunately, the dying Li Jing still braved the bitter cold wind of the waxing moon to penetrate deep into qinghai territory, and won a great victory in the first battle, beating him to the head, and when he fled, he did not forget to burn a large area of wild grass to cut off the food source of the Tang army's warhorses.
But Li Jing was always the right minority, and he insisted on taking advantage of the victory to pursue, dividing the army into two roads, north and south, all the way from the present Qinghai to Xinjiang, and attacking for nearly two thousand miles, completely annihilating the Tugu Hun department and wiping out the northwest.
Unsheathed, sword closed, plain and unpretentious, he was still him.
After his return, the general Gao Yusheng who accompanied the army was still dissatisfied with being punished by Li Jing because of his previous mistakes, so he actually ran to Emperor Taizong to file a complaint, nonsense that Li Jing was plotting rebellion.
If Li Jing were to rebel, the sun would probably come out of the west (not to mention who would rebel when he was old), and Emperor Taizong was wrong when he heard it, and after sending someone to investigate, he exiled Gao Yusheng to the frontier land with his backhand.
But Li Jing's condition worsened after the conquest, and he began to be bedridden and recuperate, and later Emperor Taizong wanted to cut goguryeo again, Li Jing still wanted to go out of the mountains, but he really couldn't do it, if he could fight at that time, maybe the battle of Goguryeo could really be defeated and won.
Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, Li Shimin, who was seriously ill, personally went to visit Li Jing, who was already dying, and the two immortals saw each other for the last time, and soon after they both left.
Li Jing is a military all-rounder; he is proficient in almost everything in land and water warfare, large corps combat, cavalry combat, and special operations; he is open-minded and transparent in terms of human feelings and sophistication, and does not argue or grab; his "Law on Guarding the Gong Soldiers" and "Li Wei Gong Asks questions" are all famous military articles that have been passed down to later generations, and their influence is far-reaching and far-reaching.
And the reason why he seems to be very famous, in addition to being low-key, is also because his victories are too simple and straightforward, almost destroying the decay, and none of the generals of the same era can compare with him.
The people like to listen to the entanglement of grievances and the fights between you and me, but unilateral crushing is always boring.
He always stood outside the crowd, staring at the battle situation with a unique perspective, and when he gave the order, no matter how bad it seemed, he could finally win a big victory.
Posterity can only beautify him in the name of a deity such as King Tota, and only then will he be able to write.
Savings for half a lifetime, the first appearance of glory, soaring into the sky, invincible, retiring from success, and living in peace in old age.
It is actually the first god of war of the Tang Dynasty.