After the founding of the Kaiyuan dynasty, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji began to be complacent, without the previous spirit of hard work, nor the frugality of the reform, indulging in the beauty of Yang Guifei, appointing people is no longer meritocratic, foreign relatives and eunuchs began to chaotic government, the army was almost stationed on the frontier, the Tang regime was light and heavy inside and outside, and the centralization of power gradually weakened.
The three towns (Pinglu-Liaoning Chaoyang, Fanyang-Beijing, Hedong-Taiyuan, Shanxi) led An Lushan and fellow villager Shi Siming to launch the Anshi Rebellion under the banner of cleaning up their foreign relative Yang Guozhong.
Shi Siming led An Lushan's elite troops to garrison the south bank of the Yellow River to defend the Central Army from crossing the Yellow River. Stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River to confront Shi Siming was the famous Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi.
At that time, Li Guangbi only had 5,000 men and horses, and his troops were thin, so he did not dare to take the initiative to cross the river to attack, and Shi Siming's task was mainly to defend and prevent Li Guangbi and other central troops from crossing the river. In this way, the two armies confronted each other across the river.
A generation of famous generals Li Guangbi (picture source network, infringement joint deletion)
Since the two teams of people and horses can't directly shoot with real knives and guns, they must always do something to deter each other. In the era of cold weapons, in addition to more than people, it is to see whose horse is strong. The quality of the war horse is the most representative of the combat effectiveness and rapid reaction ability of the army. Just like the current military parade, there is nothing to pull out the nuclear weapons and shine, but also to make the opponent can't help but sweat on his back, weighing his own weight in his heart.
Historical records record that "Shi Siming had a thousand war horses, and washed horses in Henan every day to show that there were many of them." An Lushan and Shi Siming were both Hu people, and they owned most of the army of the Tang Dynasty, and their war horses were all stallions carefully bred in the northern steppe, fierce and powerful, and full of combat strength. Shi Siming is proud of himself, there are more people than you, the horses are stronger than you, there is nothing to do, just go to the river to wash the war horse, light up, anyway, as long as you can scare you Li Guangbi dare not cross the river.
And Li Guangbi's side are all some Central Plains horses, and they are like pets in front of the fierce stallions on the other side. Li Guangbi's soldiers looked across the river at the opposite war horse, and then looked at their pet horses, and one by one they shook their heads and sighed that this battle could not be fought.
As a commander-in-chief, Li Guangbi certainly could not be like the soldiers, and he said to the soldiers: "We can't defeat their weapons, so we will find a way to make their weapons disappear." "Everybody thinks that's impossible. Li Guangbi said confidently, "Wait and see! ”
"Guangbi was inspected by the camps and five hundred horses." "Mu Ma" mare also. Li Guangbi sent people to find 500 mares from various military camps, and they were all the kind of mares with cubs. When Shi Simingbu came out to the river to wash the horses, Li Guangbi ordered the ponies to be tied up in four hooves, left in the city, and then led 500 mares to the river.
Because the mother horse is not around and is tied up, the ponies will scream loudly, and the mare will follow when she hears the pony's call. I believe that the comrades who let the cattle in the countryside understand this very well, and generally the calf cubs and the mother cow are scattered, and they find each other through the screams of tearing each other's hearts and lungs.
The group of fierce stallions of Shi Siming, who were bathing on the other side of the river, heard the hissing of the mares on the other side of the river and immediately looked at the other bank. Oh, a group of young women are there releasing their beautiful sorrows. The hormones of the horses immediately soared, it was the taste of love, and the little hearts were instantly agitated, and I wanted to be grumpy!
Galloping War Horse (Image source network, infringement joint deletion)
The horses began to circle uneasily in place. Go to your battle, I'm going to find the young and beautiful young woman, to make the hormones stir, to find my love.
Before the soldiers who washed the horses could react, the stallions shot out like arrows off the string, and the water of the Yellow River was set off by them.
"Siming's war horse crossed the river, and Guangbi drove into the camp." In just a few moments, Shi Siming's warhorses became Li Guangbi's son-in-law, and li Guangbi's soldiers were all led into the city.
Just as Shi Siming was racking his brains to think about why his war horses had defected to him, Li Guangbi had already armed his army with those stallions and launched an attack on the opposite shore.
Shi Siming fled without a fight.
Battlefield fight (image source network, infringement joint deletion)
@Li Shijun has something to say:
1. When the hardware is in a weak position, it is better than the brain;
2. When encountering difficulties, sighing is useless, and finding a way to solve it is king;
3. Blazing another trail can often yield unexpected results.