When it comes to Li Cunxiao, the first fierce general at the end of the Tang Dynasty, what many people may not know is that he is not Han, but belongs to the Turkic Shatuo tribe (if you don't believe it, please search for yourself), unlike the illusory Li Yuanba, this Li Cunxiao is real. However, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxiao's origin was not respected by many people: "Huatang is happy to drink from time to time, and it is rare to capture Hu and sacrifice the Heavenly Son." And Li Cunxiao is exactly the "Hu people" that everyone wants to capture and dedicate to the Son of Heaven.
Li Cunxiao was not originally surnamed Li, his surname was An Name Jingsi, because he was adopted by Li Ke as a righteous son, so he changed his surname to Li. In fact, Li Keyong was not originally surnamed Li, but an authentic Shatuo person, originally surnamed Zhu Xie, Li Keyong's father was named Zhu Evil Chixin, who was the envoy of Weizhou Thorn History and Yunzhou Shou ti during the Tang Xuanzong period, because of his meritorious service in battle, he was named Shan Yu Dadu Protector, Zhenwu Army Jiedu Envoy, Xuzhou Observation Envoy, given the surname Li, and given the name Guochang, so there was a later Li Ke to use Li Cunxiao. However, whether it was Turkic or Xianbei, they were all the people of the Tang Dynasty at that time, and if anyone dared to discriminate, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty would not agree: Li Shimin's grandmother's surname was Du lonely, and his grandmother's surname was Yuwen, saying that Xianbei was a foreign race was equivalent to punching the face of the Li Tang royal family. Although the open Tang Dynasty did not care about the surnames and clans of the military generals, there were some people who still looked down on the relatively backward and remote areas from their bones, and it was not surprising that they could not look at the house kilns or the ground kilns in high-rise buildings.
Back to the point, let's still talk about Li Cunxiao's bravery. According to the records of the five dynasties of the old and new dynasties, Li Cunxiao "rode and shot, Xiao Yong was crowned, and every time he faced a great enemy, he was mounted with a heavy armored bow, and the servants rode with two horses, easy to ride in the formation, light as fast as flying, dancing alone on iron rafters, standing up and falling into the battle, ten thousand people were easy, Gaigu Zhang Liao, GanNing Zhibiye." Li Cunxiao's ability to compare with Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, who made Xiao'er stop crying, and Ganning Ganxingba, who was unharmed by the Hundred Horsemen who robbed Cao Ying, shows that Li Cunxiao's single-handedness and command ability are superb. At that time, whether it was The Later Liang Taizu Zhu Wen Zhu Quanzhong or the Later Tang Wu Emperor Li Keyong, before he was proclaimed emperor, they were all considered Tang generals, and their mutual conquests were also under the banner of "Feng Tianzi to please the subjects". Zhu Wen and Li Ke used this pair of old enemies to fight from fame to death, and they did not distinguish between one and another.
In the Battle of Zezhou in the first year of The Dragon Age of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (889), Li Keyong's general Li Hanzhi was beaten by Zhang Quanyi, who was sent by Zhu Wen, and did not dare to go to war, and wrote a chicken feather letter to Li Keyong for help. Li Keyong sent his most trusted firefighting captain, the thirteenth Taibao Li Cunxiao, with 5,000 cavalry to rush to the aid. By the way, at that time, Zhu Wen belonged to the imperial court official army, under the control of Tang Xiang Zhang Mao (later killed by Zhu Wen), and Li Keyong was regarded as a rebel.
Neither side of this campaign was a good person, and when Li Hanzhi was stationed in Zezhou, he led his troops to plunder huaizhou, Mengzhou, Jinzhou, and Daizhou every day, and within hundreds of miles, "there were no officials in the county, and no residents in the countryside" - all of which were killed and eaten by Li Hanzhi. Later, this Li Hanzhi also surrendered to Zhu Wen and fought with Li Ke to death. As for Zhu Wen, of course, he was not a good bird, although he was given the name Quanzhong by Emperor Tang, but he was not loyal at all, and he later killed Tang Zhaozong and forced Tang Aizong to "Zen Concession".
After the character introduction, let's go back to the battlefield. At that time, the Tang officials (in fact, the Fanzhen army of Zhu Quanzhong, the King of Liang), besieged Zezhou and shouted to the city every day: "Surrender quickly, otherwise within ten days we will attack the city, and then you will have no caves!" Li Hanzhi was killed and did not show his head, but just waited for Li Cunxiao's reinforcements like the stars and the moon. And Li Cunxiao rushed to the outskirts of Zezhou, where the besieging Tang army was still shouting. If you don't say how not to scold the thief in front of the monk, Li Cunxiao was on fire as soon as he heard the four words "no hole in his own place", and rushed up with a long hammer: "I am a Shatuo person, and now I have come to you to find a nest (I, Shatuo Seeker)!" Li Cunxiao's next words also exposed his fierce nature: "You quickly send a fat man out to fight with me, I am hungry, wait for the meat to come out of the pot!" In fact, the original words in the main history are even more terrible: "The Meat Eating Army (one says that the meat of The Waiter Eats the Army) can make the fat people fight!" In this way, eating people is not Li Hanzhi's patent, and Li Ke's use of the ministry will be good at this bite.
However, Zhu Wen's subordinates were not vegetarians, and everyone knew that the Iron Gun King Yanzhang was Zhu Wen's fierce general (later beheaded by Li Cunxun). At that time, the Iron Gun King Yanzhang was not on the front line, but another fierce general, Deng Jijun, said that he did not fear Li Cunxiao, and rushed up with a group of cavalry to fight Li Cunxiao. This Deng Jijun is also not a general, he is Zhu Wen's tooth general, in charge of cavalry (will you remember Zhao Yun around you?). ), and was also a first-class master at that time: "In the Battle of Cutting Yun, liu jiao was sacrificed in a row of raw captures."
However, Zhu Wen's fierce general met Li Keyong's thirteen Taibao, and there was no expected three hundred rounds of the great war, if Li Cunxiao was compared to Guan Yu, then Deng Jijun became Yan Liang who inserted the bidder and sold the head. According to the "History of the Old Five Dynasties", it is "to save filial piety to motivate the people, to dance the mallet first, to be defeated in a battle, to obtain a thousand horses, and to capture Ji Yun in the army." The "New History of the Five Dynasties" records a simpler record: "Liang Xiao led Deng Jijun into battle, and saved the filial piety dance and captured him." ”
After the great victory in Zezhou, according to Li Hanzhi's hobbies and Li Cunxiao's promise, this Deng Jijun should have been put into the soup pot, but Li Ke was reluctant to use it: "Ke used to see it very happily, release it, treat it with courtesy, and do things in Russia." As a result, this Deng Jijun learned a Qin Shubao in front of the two armies in the later Battle of Jin (Li Keyong) Liang (Zhu Wen): "When the two armies were fighting, Ji Yun came out of the battle and returned from the flying horse. He ran back to Zhu Wen's camp, Li Cunxiao did not eat, Li Ke rejoiced with the air, Deng Jijun did not live long in the end, Zhu Wen was "angry at his horse and thin" during the military parade in the second year of Qianhua ((912), and when he was pulled under the big rope, he clicked...