If there was no Li Shimin in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, then it is likely that the final unification of the world would be Dou Jiande, the King of Xia in Hebei.
From the beginning of the mutiny to the occupation of Hebei, Dou Jiande only took a few years to create a peaceful and prosperous world, there are no bandits in the territory, merchants can stay overnight anywhere, in addition to superb governance ability, Dou Jiande's military attainments are also very high, defeating Yu Wenhua and capturing Li Shentong, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, thousands of good generals.
However, Dou Jiande still failed, and his failure was inseparable from Li Shimin, let alone Wang Shichong.
Shan Xiongxin gun picked Li Shimin
Wang Shichong, who had just passed the throne, encountered an unprecedented challenge, and Li Shimin came.
After Li Shimin, who was full of vigor and a strong will to fight, entered the eastern battlefield, he encountered the first moment of life and death in Cijian, and he was surrounded by Wang Shichong's 30,000-strong army with only a few men and horses to survey the terrain.
Absolute crisis, Li Shimin reflects the reason why he can gallop the world without defeat, extraordinary courage and courage. A hundred people fought against ten thousand people, and Li Shimin, who was calm and self-assured and a pioneer, infected every warrior who participated in the escort, and it was only a matter of a moment to break out of the siege.
Li Shimin broke through the siege
The strong killing spirit also made Wang Shichong's subordinates face the fear in their hearts, and the governor of Huan Prefecture, Shi Zhanggongjin, did not fight and surrendered. Xianzhou, Chenzhou, and Weizhou followed closely behind, and Zheng Guo, who was originally a monolithic piece, fell to pieces, and the enemy and we crossed.
In addition to Xianzhou, Wang Shichong's subordinates Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie, and Li Junxian had already defected to Li Shimin, and before the battle began, Wang Shichong tasted defeat.
Whenever there is a battle front, Li Shimin must personally go to the front line to investigate the terrain, which is his habit of fighting, but it has also repeatedly plunged him into crisis. Not long after Cijian broke through, Li Shimin encountered a second moment of life and death at the foot of Mount Yao.
If it were not for Wei Chi Jingde's death to save him, Li Shimin would definitely die under Shan Xiongxin's spear.
Dou Jiande sent troops
The great difficulty did not die, and the rewards were very rich, and Wang Shichong's men continued to surrender. The wall fell and everyone pushed, and before Wang Shichong could fall, his men began to cut off his foundation almost madly.
Wang Shichong only had one last chance to deal with Li Shimin, and he finally thought of Dou Jiande in Hebei, but he didn't know if King Xia was willing to support him, a former sworn enemy.
Of course, Dou Jiande was willing, he understood the truth of the cold lips and teeth, the truth of the clams fighting each other, and the reason why the fishermen were profitable was even more clear to him, the soldiers were strong and strong, and the will to fight was strong, Dou Jiande intended to suddenly go south when Wang Shichong and Li Shimin were both defeated and injured. If Li Shimin was defeated, he could take advantage of his exhaustion to launch an attack and advance into Guanzhong; if Wang Shichong was defeated, he would annex Luoyang and divide the world into two parts.
Before Dou Jiande arrived, Li Shimin was already garrisoning qingcheng Palace at the foot of Mount Yao, Wang Shichong launched a surprise attack again, the Tang army panicked, and only Li Shimin rode one of the "Six Horses of Zhaoling", Salu Zi, under the cover of his entourage, and directly into the enemy camp.
The Tang army marched forward bravely, but Li Shimin encountered the third moment of life and death, and the speed of Salu Zi was too fast, and only Qiu Xinggong was left with Li Shimin.
The battle was fought very fiercely, the Zheng army suffered heavy losses, and the voices of the Tang army's internal squads were incessant, and only Li Shimin thought that this was the best opportunity to attack Luoyang.
Both sides were defeated, and Dou Jiande finally decided to send troops.
Raw capture Dou Jiande
In the first battle of the south, defeat Meng Haigong, capture his people, and pass through the Tiger Prison Pass, you can directly penetrate the depths of Li Shimin's army.
At the moment of the first attack, Wang Shichong's nephew, Wang Xingben, who was stationed at the Tiger Prison Pass, lost this important pass, and within a few feet, Dou Jiande was stopped outside Wang Shichong.
The Generals of the Tang Army once again thought of the Return of the Banshi Dynasty, unlike when they defeated Wang Shichong, at this moment, the situation in front of the Tang Army was extremely difficult, and the continuous fighting for several months had reached its physical limit, and once it failed, it would be doomed.
Li Shimin, who had always obeyed the enemy's front, changed his normal state and entered the Tiger Prison Pass to face Dou Jiande's 100,000-strong army.
Li Shimin confronted Dou Jiande before the tiger was imprisoned
In Li Shimin's view, this is the best opportunity to unify Henan and Hebei, Dou Jiande is as elite as possible, and if the tiger defeats him before the prison is passed, the world will be determined. He tried his best to defy the public opinion, and immediately decided to besiege Luoyang while killing Dou Jiande.
Twenty-three-year-old Li Shimin, his eyes were firm, three thousand soldiers and horses against a hundred thousand troops, without fear.
Dou Jiande was again kept out of the Tiger Prison by Li Shimin for more than a month, and Wang Shichong, who was in urgent need of rescue, had a more difficult time, Luoyang was completely besieged, lacking food and water, and there was no food, tens of thousands of people in the city were starved to death, and more people had to eat soil because of hunger and were choked to death.
The dilemma in Luoyang made Dou Jiande even more panicked, and once Wang Shichong could not resist, he went out of the city and surrendered, losing everything.
In an emergency, it can be seen whether a person's heart is really as calm as water, and Dou Jiande's concentration is obviously inferior to Li Shimin's. Desperate for a decisive battle, he slipped into Li Shimin's pocket of "showing weakness to the enemy" and became the object of being walked, and hundreds of thousands of troops ran one after another, thirsty and hungry, exhausted.
When the breathless Dou Jiande convened a military meeting to discuss the next march plan, Li Shimin was already ready to go, and not long after Dou Jiande's meeting was held, Li Shimin arrived.
One was an unguarded and exhausted division, the other was a well-prepared elite force, before the tiger prison was closed, all of Dou Jiande's dreams were shattered, and he was captured.
Kill Shan Xiongxin
When the prison cart carrying Dou Jiande appeared under Luoyang City, would Wang Shichong, standing on the city wall, think of Li Mi in the past, and in just two years, he would repeat Li Mi's mistakes.
Entering Luoyang City, Li Shimin could not wait to swing the butcher's knife at several of Wang Shichong's subordinates, and Shan Xiongxin, Zhu Cang, Duan Da and others died on the banks of the Luoshui River.
Shan Xiongxin was killed
Why did Li Shimin have to kill these generals who had already surrendered, of course, there are their own subjective reasons, great merit, strong ability, and loud reputation, killing them is enough to deter the rest of the surrendered, so that the living people are more afraid of Li Shimin's authority, and on the other hand, the typical killing of chickens to the monkeys, who are the monkeys? Of course, it was Liang Shidu, Liu Heimin, and the anti-kings in the south who had not yet been suppressed.
As for Shan Xiongxin, who was trapped in the death list, although he was Xu Shixun's brother-in-law, even if Xu Shixun exchanged his official position for Shan Xiongxin's life, Li Shimin could not let him go.
Shan Xiongxin was extremely evil, and once almost pierced Li Shimin's heart on the battlefield, and more importantly, Shan Xiongxin was a person who was lighter than going.
Later generations called Shan Xiongxin a small Guan Yu of Yi Bo Yun Tian, but in fact, he was more like Xiao Lü Bu. When Wagang was infighting, Zhai Rang was killed, and Shan Xiongxin knelt down to beg for forgiveness and surrendered to Li Mi; When Li Mi failed, Shan Xiongxin did not obey the edict and turned to Wang Shichong, causing the corpses of the Wagang army to be piled up on the banks of the Luoshui River.
For this alone, Li Shimin could not keep him, just as no one was willing to give Li Mi another chance.
Li Shimin had to kill Shan Xiongxin
The two males ended
Back in Chang'an, Li Yuan made a surprising decision to behead Dou Jiande, who had deepened his benevolence, and instead left Wang Shichong, who was full of evil, and sent him to Shudi to live the rest of his life.
Dou Jiande's murder was expected, it was also in the wave of division at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan bullied the weak, murdered the young emperor Yang You, slaughtered the hero Liu Wenjing, beheaded Xue Rengao's entire clan, and destroyed Li Yuan's family, Li Yuan's road to the throne was in the bloody storm, and it was fought in one battle after another by Li Shimin.
The bloody road of Li Tang's founding of the country
But Dou Jiande was different, he destroyed the Yu culture and treated Empress Xiao with courtesy; Xu Shixun defected and released his father without charge; Li Shentong was captured alive and did not even let him go to prison; the people of Hebei respected him and loved him, and the people of the world admired him and looked forward to him.
Perhaps his ability and courage were not as good as those of the young Li Shimin, but in terms of benevolence, he was far higher than the Li family's father and son, but it was this benevolence that killed him.
Why are you Dou Jiande more benevolent than our Li family, isn't this the basis for your future rebellion?
Not long after Dou Jiande was killed, Wang Shichong, who was acquitted, also came to the end of his life, and he was hacked to death by dugu Xiude's random knife. Dugu Xiude and Wang Shichong had a vendetta against their father, but they were killed for no reason in the well-defended inn, which had to be reminiscent of Li Yuan.
In the late Sui Dynasty, the forces destroyed by Li Yuan without exception did not end up with a good ending, the kung fu of the show was very good, the surface was harmonious, and the back was full of knives, at this point, he really inherited the style of his uncle Yang Jian.