There is a commendable aspect of datang history, that is, under the posture of rong naida, there are many ethnic minority generals, and they have also made great achievements in the battle to defend the Tang Dynasty; but no matter how great the talent and merit, they will also be subject to the framing and calculation of a group of eunuchs and the like, which is also a kind of sadness! Villains gain power, celebrities are unstable, and no one is helpless to see this scene appear again and again.
Portrait of Lee Kwang-bi
I. Brief introduction of Li Guangbi's origin:
Li Guangbi was born in 708 AD, died on August 15, 764 AD, belonged to the Monkey Clan, a native of Liucheng, Yingzhou (present-day Chaoyang, Liaoning); his father Li Kailuo was a chieftain of the Khitan tribe, who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty during the Wuzhou Dynasty, and his Xiao Yong was good at war, and died of illness in the anti-Turk campaign, and served as the general of Zuo Yulin, the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, the duke of Jiguo, and posthumously awarded the title of governor of Yingzhou. It can be seen that after Li Guangbi was also a famous martial general, he inherited the style of his father's warrior.
Li Guangbi's full-body portrait
Since childhood, Li Guangbi was serious, deep and resolute, good at riding and shooting, liked to read the "Book of Han", ruled the army extremely strictly, and had both strategy and strategy. He joined the army as a teenager and served as the general of zuo lang in the zuo wei pro-government. The famous general Wang Zhongsi held him in high esteem, saying, "He is the one who wins over my soldiers, And Guangbi is also." Sure enough, After his father's death, Li Guangbi attacked the Duke of Ji Commandery and defeated the tubo and Tuguhun military attacks, and was promoted to general of Yunqi for his merits. The famous Sogdian general An Sishun took a fancy to Li Guangbi and wanted to marry his daughter to him, and also promoted him to be the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu; after Li Guangbi heard the news, he actually resigned from the government due to illness, and after An Sishun was wrongfully killed, Li Guangbi's choice seemed to be very correct; the famous general Of the Tuqi Shi clan, Ge Shuhan, also took a fancy to Li Guangbi's talent, and Shangqu recalled Li Guangbi to the capital Chang'an.
Stills of An Sishun and GeShuhan
Second, fight twice to rub the fall:
After the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi admired Li Guangbi's military ability and recommended Li Guangbi to Tang Xuanzong; Li Guangbi, who was appointed as deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu and other official positions, recovered the strategic changshan county and subdued the rebel general Shi Siyi; then defeated the attack of Shi Siming's army, and lightly attacked and suppressed 5,000 rebels and recaptured nine counties of Changshan County; and then fought with Guo Ziyi at Jiashan and killed more than 40,000 enemy troops. Ten counties were shocked and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi led the army to draw pictures in a chaotic manner
After the fall of Houtong Pass, Chang'an fell, and Tang Xuanzong fled to Shudi; Emperor Suzong of Tang succeeded to the throne at Lingwu, summoned Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi to go, and appointed them to official posts and ordered them to lead troops to put down the rebellion; Li Guangbi led a weak pawn of less than 10,000 people, and insisted on defeating Shi Siming and Cai Xide's 100,000 allied troops in Taiyuan in a row, and actually killed more than 70,000 people on the other side. Tang Suzong did not fully trust Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi, so he had the intention of holding each other back on the two of them regardless of priority and subordination, and at the same time sent eunuch Yu Chao'en to supervise the army.
Portraits of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Emperor Suzong of Tang
Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi were initially not harmonious, and Guo Ziyi treated Li Guangbi sincerely, saying that it was difficult to quell the rebellion without his outstanding military skills, and the two of them were relieved of their previous suspicions and unanimously confronted the enemy. In the Battle of Xiangzhou, although the Tang army won some victories, but in the windy weather, the Tang army suffered relatively large losses; Tang Suzong was very unhappy to hear that, Yu Chao'en put all the blame for the defeat on Guo Ziyi, Tang Suzong removed Guo Ziyi from his post, and let Li Guangbi take over as Shuofang Jiedushi, deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and commanding the Shuofang army; this was a wake-up call for Li Guangbi, and the eunuch supervising the army was like a lasso around the neck of these generals. This time, due to the overall war situation and the reality of personnel needs, Guo Ziyi carried the pot and was lucky to have escaped a disaster.
Stills of Yu Chao'en and Guo Ziyi
Li Guangbi's military ability was indeed remarkable; in Heyang, he designed to lure Shi Siming's warhorses and destroy Shi Siming's fireboat attack; in the face of The siege of Shi Siming's army, he was the first soldier, hiding the dagger Mingzhi who committed suicide when in danger, and his attitude of preferring to die and not surrender greatly inspired the soldiers' hearts to fight, break the enemy army several times, defeat Shi Siming, and achieve brilliant results. Later, he used the tactic of digging tunnels to capture the city of Huaizhou and capture the enemy general An Taiqing. The eunuch Yu Chao'en pointed fingers in the army, disagreed with Li Guangbi, and forced Li Guangbi to attack Luoyang; Li Guangbi had no choice but to send servants Gu Huai'en and Yu Chao'en to lead an army to attack Luoyang, and the servant Gu Huai'en did not listen to Li Guangbi's military orders, and the defeat of Shan Shan appeared, and all the guilt was lowered by Tang Suzong to the servant Gu Huai'en and Li Guangbi's official position was added. This made Li Guangbi deeply aware of the power of the eunuchs and the like, and he and other generals were greatly constrained by the eunuchs and the like, and the blame for the defeat was his own gang, but he was able to share the fruits of victory after defeating the eunuchs.
Lee Kwang-bi defeated the rebels several times
In the entire campaign to quell the rebellion at that time, the first-class famous generals were only Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, whose outstanding military ability dominated the direction of the entire counterinsurgency campaign; for the emperor, it was necessary to rely on their talents and abilities. However, because the Anshi Rebellion was a rebellion launched by the Jiedu envoys, the emperor had a deep distrust and defense against the Jiedu envoys who led the troops to control one side, and the eunuchs' means of supervising the army were only one of the control measures. Li Guangbi not only led his troops to quell the rebellion in Anshi, but also repeatedly quelled the rebel armies that rebelled in various places, and when the war was completely calmed, the Tang court was stabilized; the Tang Emperor began to calculate and eliminate the threat of strength of the envoys.
Eunuchs framed famous generals in the emperor's ear for stills
Iii. Success evades lamentation three times:
The rise of the eunuch group of the Tang Dynasty began with the leadership of Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong, and this group did make great contributions to Li Longji at the beginning; but with the growth and rise of the group, the mixed eunuch group changed, and in the later period, this group of eunuch slaves even controlled the lives of several generations of emperors, and could not help but make people laugh at these nine-five-year dignitaries, and created a batch of cage shackles and butcher knives for themselves. Of course, the most lamentable thing is that those military generals with great achievements and talented courtiers, who are extremely brave and brave in the battlefield, pointing out the trend of change in the country and the mountains, but they can only bow to the eunuch group.
Portrait of the little emperor and eunuch group
In the whole process of quelling the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guangbi was on a par with the famous general Guo Ziyi, and was called "Zhongxing Li Guo", and his battle merits were the first. On the battlefield, the strategizing and calculating countless victories, the judgment of the strategic forward-looking and backward looking is not bad, the prestige and prestige in the official field and the military service are outstanding; the conquest has been arduous and meritorious for many years, the talent for quelling the rebellion is extraordinary, the control of the military and the martial gods are idle, leading the development of the historical trend, and determining the life and death of many people..... But Li Guangbi also had people to be afraid of, that is, the eunuchs around the emperor, Tang Suzong appointed a large number of eunuchs as overseers, not only to keep an eye on this general, but also to frame and persecute the famous generals.
Famous generals also had no choice but to persecute portraits by eunuchs
The lessons of many fierce generals and gentlemen made the calm and resolute Li Guangbi have a lingering feeling in his heart, he wanted to protect the family's descendants to pass on the family, he wanted to protect the reputation of loyalty and integrity, and he wanted to protect the safety of the Tang Dynasty And the Jiangshan Empire... There were too many things he had to worry about, his weakness was the high merit of the Lord, the eunuch's rumors framed, and no matter how talented and strategic he was, he had no choice but to passively take the only way to provoke and hide. Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty transferred Li Guangbi three times into the dynasty, hoping to gradually deprive him of his military power by ascending and descending in the bright and secret, and transferring him away from the territory of deep roots.
Images of Karadai Sect
Li Guangbi was well aware of the emperor's intentions, and at the same time he was jealous and framed by the eunuchs Cheng Yuanzhen and Yu Chao'en and others; he knew how bad the eunuch group was and how despicable and cruel the means were; in order to protect himself, Li Guangbi used the excuse three times to find reasons to push out the Tang Dynasty Emperor's edict to enter the dynasty and live in his own territory to protect himself. As a result, his prestige was greatly reduced among the ministers of culture and military affairs, and Li Guangbi was very discouraged in his later period, feeling some shame and shame, which led to depression, and died of illness in Xuzhou on August 15, 764, at the age of fifty-seven. Emperor Daizong sent emissaries to mourn his mother for three days and posthumously presented him with the title of "Wu Mu". On the day of the funeral, the hundred officials were ordered to send the funeral to the Yanping Gate. From the perspective of the situation in the court at that time of the Tang Dynasty and many examples from later generations, Li Guangbi's three attempts to resign from the court on the grounds of not entering the dynasty were really a wise and helpless act of self-preservation, otherwise the probability of being framed and insulted by the eunuch group was very high, and even his descendants and families might not be able to escape the disaster of extinction.
Li Guangbi had lingering stills about the eunuchs in the court
Summary: Although Li Guangbi is a wise and resourceful person, his military ability is outstanding, his achievements are brilliant, and his battle achievements are outstanding..... However, in the era of the feudal dynasty, it was inevitable that the meritorious and powerful would not be jealous of the emperor, and would not be framed by the jealousy of the traitorous eunuch party, and too many famous generals would die in such a situation, which was a sad curse that could not be shaken off. Of course, Li Guangbi has insight into all this, "rabbit dead dog cooking" is the most reasonable saying that has been circulated in human society for thousands of years, who does not have palpitations? Everyone said that this is not the case, welcome to leave a message to communicate. (Picture from the network, thanks for borrowing)
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Reference books: Old Book of Tang, New Book of Tang.