Chapter 10 The King of Guilin
It's just that Emperor Taizu allowed him to guard the Guangnan West Road, and allowed him to monopolize the two cities and monopolize overseas trade. However, he only agreed that his son and his family would go to Guangnan West Road first. On the grounds that the world has not yet been pacified, he has always refused to agree to his request for immediate surrender.
However, in order to appease the person, it is also considered that the matter is important. When Emperor Taizu attacked Shu and launched the final blow against the former Tang Dynasty, he finally reinstated him to continue to lead the army. and Huang Ye, who has been promoted to the king of Changyang County, and Wei Guogong Shangrang, divided the army of more than 100,000 soldiers into three ways to attack Shu.
It's just that when it was specifically deployed, it was mainly based on Huang Ye, the king of Changyang County, and Shang Rang, the prince of Weiguo, and only gave his infantry 30,000 to be a partial division. Emperor Taizu's move was obviously intended to replace the king of Guilin in the army with his own nephew Huang Ye.
However, this Guilin County King took advantage of the opportunity of Shang Rang's department and the last remnant of the main force of ** in the Sword Pavilion. He led the army to take the old road of the Three Kingdoms Deng Ai Pingshu, carried ten days of food, bypassed the main force in front of him and sneaked more than 700 miles, and went straight into the Chengdu Plain.
However, in half a month, it broke through several cities such as Jiangyou and Mianzhu, broke more than 10,000 ** who came to intercept, and reached the city of Chengdu first. Hearing that the Qi army had arrived in Chengdu, Tang Xizong, whose body had been hollowed out by wine, was frightened to death. Li Ye, the emperor's younger brother who succeeded to the throne, had no grain and grass inside, and there was no division of the king outside. was forced to lead the civil and military ministers and more than 1,000 members of the clan in Chengdu, as well as 30,000 troops inside and outside the city to open the city and surrender.
After entering the city, the king of Guilin County restrained his generals and pacified the former Tang clan and important ministers. Except for the eunuchs Tian Lingzi and Yang Fugong Lingchi, who have been in power for many years, they will not kill a single person or take any wealth, and all the property of the Tang Palace will be sealed. And sent an envoy to carry the prince's edict, and surrendered after the loss of Chengdu, there was no way to advance or retreat, and he could only trap more than 100,000 ** in the Sword Pavilion.
Later, he was transferred to escort the former Tang princes and important ministers back to Beijing, and received the title of Danshu Iron Coupon for the merit of destroying the Tang Dynasty, and his title of Guilin County was changed from three generations to hereditary replacement. He stepped down as the right servant of Shangshu and served as the deputy privy envoy and concurrently served as the governor. In the letter, Emperor Taizu decided that the people's livelihood would wither at the beginning of the world, and persuaded Emperor Taizu to pay taxes lightly, to serve as a servitute, and to pay heavy attention to agriculture.
And according to the chaos of the former Tang Dynasty, the official system was chaotic, the feudal lords were chaotic, the feudal towns supported the troops and respected themselves, and they did not accept the lessons of the imperial court, and recustomized the official system of the Great Qi Dynasty. It was established that civilian officials should govern the localities, and military attachés should not serve as concurrently local officials in any form, and they would not interfere in the appointment of local officials.
In the eighteenth year of the Jin Dynasty, the first part of Tubo entered the army in a big way. At this time, the king of Guilin County, who was already sick, immediately began to implement the prince-prince division system after Emperor Taizu issued three orders to recruit and promised to formulate a long-term system, but he had not been able to implement it because of Taizu's reasons.
In the battle of Qinghai Lake, with 20,000 iron cavalry, more than 100,000 troops of the Qinghai and Tibetan tribes were defeated. After pursuing all the way, they successively broke dozens of tribes in Tubo and beheaded tens of thousands. When pacifying the Tibetan army, in the northwest of Qinghai Lake, he broke the 50,000 Uighur army of Ganzhou who had learned of the defeat of Tubo and came to fight the autumn wind, and successively recovered Ganzhou and Suzhou.
Although it failed to restore the territory in the northwest during the heyday of the former Tang Dynasty, after this battle, the northwest border of the Great Qi was advanced to Zhangye, and the Ganzhou Uighurs remained in the Hexi Corridor only Jiuquan County. In the nineteenth year of Jin Tong, the king of Guilin, who had been fighting abroad for a year, marched to Lanzhou and died of illness in the army.
When his coffin returned to Beijing, Emperor Taizu led the crown prince, the kings in Beijing, and hundreds of civil and military officials to personally go out of Beijing to greet him. The order is fixed for three days, and the world is called to prohibit people from marrying for one month, and the capital forbids singing and dancing for three months to show mourning. Half a year later, Emperor Taizu died in Chang'an Daming Palace, and the crown prince, that is, Emperor Taizong, ascended the throne.
Closing this "Taizu Benji", Huang Qiong could only shake her head and smile bitterly. He finally knew where history turned, and the reason probably came from this king of Guilin, who had a hand in fighting wars and was doing an unusually prosperous business. At the beginning of the world, it was not so much that Emperor Taizu beat it down, but that it was the king of Guilin who beat it.
The actions of this Guilin county king made Huang Qiong feel a little puzzled in her heart, and even had a feeling that she couldn't speak. There are so many mysteries about this Guilin county king that it is difficult to judge what kind of person he really is. How could a clerk, who was only equivalent to a secretary, dare to kill a general with only five hundred cavalry without a holy decree?
commanded only tens of thousands of horses, but was able to fight with the dominant **, and finally defeated more than 100,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop? In the battle of Tongzhou, Emperor Taizu gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in the main force of the Qi army in Guanzhong, and did not send reinforcements to this brother with a strength of only tens of thousands.
More than a dozen letters for help are the same as the predecessor who was killed by him and was forced to rebel, when he was in trouble on the battlefield in Tongzhou, he sent a letter for help with almost the same content, like a stone sinking into the sea. The only difference is that the distress letter sent by his predecessor was withheld by Meng Kai, who was in control of the military power of Great Qi at that time.
And his more than ten letters asking for help were directly ignored by Emperor Taizu. Until the end of the battle of Tongzhou, the DPRK and China not only sent reinforcements, but even the grain and grass that should be given have always been only 60%. The battle of Tongzhou was completely carried down and won by it independently, and even the luck element still occupied a large part of it.
If it weren't for this old man's collection of folk copper coins to cast cannons, the former Tang cavalry, especially the cavalry horses of the participating party troops, would have fled in all directions as soon as the battle was fought, and even crushed the infantry army behind. Let the infantry army behind fall into a situation of chaos without a fight.
The infantry troops of the various feudal towns are also afraid of this kind of big guy who has a loud sound and penetrates for dozens of miles, and can shoot a large amount of iron sand or an iron ball with the mouth of a bowl hundreds of paces away, and is killed on the spot by those who are hit. The armies were not only afraid, but they were thrown into chaos by their own cavalry, and the result of the battle of Tongzhou is really hard to say.
In the Battle of Chenzhou, the most critical battle of the Great Qi Dynasty, in the battle of the tens of thousands of people in the river brought out, he played a great reputation, and he has become an elite descendant of the Great Qi army. Emperor Taizu was left in Guanzhong in the name of Gongwei Jingshi.
The only ones who were ordered to command were the remnants of the remnants of the army that were defeated by the remnants of the previous Henan territory that were defeated by the former Tang Dynasty when they counterattacked. There will be less than 100 soldiers, and the remnants of tens of thousands of troops will be in chaos. But even relying on these tens of thousands of remnants, of which the cavalry is only 30% of the troops, they can still win more with less and achieve a big victory.
Even if the prince personally suppressed the battle for the prison army and planned to supply food and salary in the center, that battle was also full of dangers. However, although it was full of dangers, it finally defeated the last main force of the former Tang in Kanto. It can be seen that in terms of marching and combat, he was definitely a first-class talent in the Great Qi Army at that time.
But how could this kind of talent be used by Taizu? You must know that in the Battle of Chenzhou, the role played by Emperor Taizu was not too glorious. Although this book has been whitewashed for Taizu as much as possible, Huang Qiong still sees some clues. This Emperor Taizu, some of the practices during the Battle of Chenzhou can be described as quite inauthentic.
Secretly restrain not to mention, and even dismantle behind the scenes in some cases. The supply of food and salary in the Chenzhou army was intermittent, and under the situation that the grain in the east of the river was piled up, the front line in Chenzhou was suffering from food shortages from time to time. Even the army could only drink porridge every day for a long time.
When the fierce battle on the battlefield of Chenzhou was burning, he led 30,000 cavalry and 110,000 infantry troops out of Tongguan's Meng Kai's department. Although it was close at hand, it never sent a single soldier to support. He didn't act like he was here to support, but more like he was here to supervise the war. His threat that in the Chenzhou army, those who did not follow the holy decree and appeared in Tongguan would be killed regardless of the size of their official position, which confirmed this point.
At this time, the crown prince was also supervising the army in Chenzhou, and without the order of Emperor Taizu, the first confidant of Emperor Taizu in the army would not dare to do this no matter what. If it weren't for the full support of the crown prince, who was the supervisor at the time, and coordinated the mobilization of food and salary support everywhere, that crucial battle might have ended in a great defeat for the Qi army.
Such a general who can conquer and fight, and can even be said to be an all-round general who can govern the army on the horse and can manage the people when he gets off the horse, in the face of a boss like Emperor Taizu who doubts everything and can even be said to be quite inauthentic, he actually did not rebel and establish himself as the king? This was almost unimaginable in the late Tang Dynasty, where chaos was already rampant.
The most important thing is that before the battle of Chenzhou, the remnants of the temporarily collected army will be defeated, and in a short period of time, they will be re-formed into a tiger and wolf army, and the support of the prince's food and salary alone is simply not enough. Without the prestige accumulated in the army in the battle of Tongzhou, and without a complete set of military management skills, where can you win more with less? It's good to be able to hold Tongguan without losing it.
To put it mildly, if the king of Guilin at that time took the military horses that had been reorganized and reorganized, he would take advantage of the opportunity of most of the main forces of the former Tang Dynasty in Kwantung to gather in Henan to get out of the way from Chenzhou to Luoyang. Regardless of the enemy in Shandong, he led his troops to penetrate the two Huai and then swept the south of the Yangtze River.
With its characteristics of being good at commanding roundabout operations and rapid cavalry assaults, it may be an exaggeration to say that he has conquered the whole world. But it is still no problem to divide one side, or even divide the river and rule. You must know that the remnants of the defeated soldiers that he had collected before were almost none of the Taizu lineage. Even the battle of Henan was defeated, and there were many people who were disappointed in Emperor Taizu.
If he really has the iron heart to get out of the way of Chenzhou, it is estimated that no one will hinder him. Even if the crown prince was supervising the war in the army at that time, what could he do? Not to mention that the prince is only a thousand guards in the army, even if there are more, how can he be the opponent of the 50,000 army? If he had been resolute, no one would have been able to stop him at that time.
If he really got out of the way of the frontal battlefield at that time, Meng Kai, who was sent by Taizu behind him to supervise the battle, would bear the brunt. And with this empty brute force, he will only fight to the death on the battlefield. Moreover, he was extremely selfish, and he often withheld grain and grass from his subordinates who were not his descendants, and even used the left military envoys who excluded dissidents to defeat in successive battles on the battlefield in Guanzhong.
It is estimated that his more than 100,000 Great Qi are the last elite in Guanzhong, and there is a great possibility that they will be buried in his hands. And once the more than 100,000 troops that were the last capital of Emperor Taizu were defeated, Tongguan would definitely not be able to hold it. Tongguan can't be defended, I'm afraid that Emperor Taizu will have to re-copy the old business and become a rogue.