In March 618, a man named Yu Wenhua entered the city of Jiangdu, broke into the Western Pavilion, and strangled the Sui Emperor. The Sui Dynasty was established in 591 and died in 618, lasting 37 years.
Yu culture and do not need to pay too much attention, to pay attention to a Taiyuan Taishou named Li Yuan.
In 617, Li Yuan declared a rebellion in Taiyuan, when there were Sui troops to the west and east of Taiyuan, so Li Yuan wrote to a rebel named Li Mi. Let him attack the Sui army to the east. Li Mi readily agreed, so Li Yuan raised an army to attack Daxing City from the west and changed its name to Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi).
The late Sui and early Tang dynasties were divided into territory
Li Yuan's second son was named Li Shimin, and he was very fierce. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty as emperor in Chang'an, he prepared to conquer everywhere and unify the world. Li Shimin is his good helper.
In early 618, the Tang army with Li Shimin as its marshal attacked everywhere, with Xue Rengao (薛仁杲), the overlord of Xiding, and Liu Wuzhou (劉武周), the general of Northern Ding. The Tang Dynasty also acquired the vast majority of its territory in the north. Next, the Tang Dynasty's army officially faced the king of the Central Plains, Wang Shichong. When the Sui Dynasty was still alive, Wang Shichong was a favorite of the Sui Emperor and gained the right to control the army.
There was another person, Dou Jiande, who was also a confidant of Tang Jun. Wang Shichong and he defeated Yu Wenhua and Li Mi's armies, respectively. Wang Shichong established the State of Zheng and Dou Jiande established the State of Xia.
Dou Jiande continued to march east to invade the Tang army, and Wang Shichong did not bother to pretend, taking advantage of the fact that Li Shimin only took five hundred people on patrol and sent a general with tens of thousands of Zheng troops to sneak attack. Unexpectedly, it was actually defeated, and the capital city of Luoyang was still surrounded by Li Shimin. Wang Shichong fled into the city of Luoyang and asked xia jun to come and save Zheng Guo.
After Dou Jiande knew about it, he reorganized thirty-five soldiers and horses and attacked directly towards Shuishui Pass. This is the famous Battle of Shuishui Pass (also known as the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass).
Battle of Tiger Prison Pass
After Li Shimin knew this, he took his soldiers and horses to the pass and prepared to defend against Dou Jiande's 300,000 soldiers and horses. Of course, Li Shimin knew that he could not fight hard enough for 300,000 Xia troops, so he ordered his soldiers to rush through the water and rush directly to the summer camp.
After Xia Jun learned about it, he rushed to pursue Tang Jun. Unfortunately, it was already too late, and the summer camp had long been occupied by the Tang army. Dou Jiande was furious and ordered his men to attack the Tang army. The Tang army immediately went around to the rear to carry out an encirclement battle, and cut off the food and grass transportation of the Xia army, and the Xia army was defeated and scattered and fled. Li Shimin led the Tang army to pursue Dou Jiande, and captured Dou Jiande under the city of Luoyang to threaten Wang Shichong to surrender. After the city of Luoyang was destroyed, Wang Shichong was also captured by Li Shimin.
A generation of fierce Li Shimin
Although Li Shimin made all his military achievements in the Tang Dynasty's unification war, due to the ancient traditional concept of "establishing a long and a young man", Li Yuan still chose to make Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, and Li Shimin was very angry, thinking in his heart: When I helped you unify the Tang Dynasty, but you made him the prince?
On the third day of June 626, Li Jiancheng and his brother Li Yuanji were on their way to Xuanwu Gate to go to the court, but they did not expect that a bloody case was about to happen. See what exactly happened, see the next breakdown.