Chapter 360: The Tang Dynasty Army God Su Dingfang
"Zong Suo, don't make a mistake, this is Datang!" Fang Xuanling stood up and scolded Zong Suo, and at this time, Fang Xuanling stood up and scolded in order to help Zong Suo.
But this Zong Suo is here to find the ballast, so he doesn't need anyone's help.
"What about the Tang Dynasty, my Zongsuo only bows down to the strong."
"Oh!" Li Shimin finally became interested, he looked at Zong Suo and said: "Then you think that Datang is not a strong man, so why do you want to come to worship again?" ”
"The worship is decided by the king of my family, I can't decide, and I came here to take a look, the majesty of the Tang army, my sect has a hundred people personally trained, and I want to compete with the army of the Tang Dynasty.
I don't know if Datang has an army that dares to fight? Zong Suo looked around.
"Zong Suo, you are bold that this is the Tang Taiji Palace, what do you want to do?" Fang Xuanling asked angrily.
"Isn't there any last time my Zong Suo was in front of Chang'an Qingfeng Tower, I repelled the people of Chang'an, Zong Suo found that the people of Chang'an were weak, and we actually beat one person to death with our fists.
Hmph, presumably the Tang army is the same, but I don't know, whether His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty dares to admit it. ”
Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and said with a slightly unkind look: "This is what Nanzhao means?" ”
"Does Your Majesty dare to fight?" Zong Suo looked at Li Shimin without hesitation.
"I dare to do it, but I don't know which army you want to challenge me?" Li Shimin said lightly.
"That one is fine, even if Your Majesty you use your strongest hundred horses, my Zongsuo will not be afraid." Zong Suo looked at Li Shimin and smiled slightly, this is a bet, a bet on Li Shimin's arrogance.
Sure enough, Zong Suo won, only to hear Li Shimin say slightly: "I won't send a hundred horsemen to kill chickens with a bull knife, you can rest assured, but I still have to remind you, if you lose, I don't think you can go back." ”
"If I lose, I will cut myself, but Your Majesty, if your army of the Tang Dynasty loses, will you also lose something?" Zongsuo finally stated his purpose.
"What do you want?" Li Shimin asked.
"If Datang loses, my Nanzhao asks to marry the Tang princess." Zongsuo said it emphatically twice.
"I promise you!" Li Shimin flicked his robe sleeves and said: "At noon, the two armies compete in front of the palace, but if you want a real knife and a real gun, there is no complaint about the dead and wounded, Zong Suo, have you thought about it?" ”
"Zong Suo is not afraid, Nanzhao is not afraid of noon, Zong Suo will let the Tang Dynasty remember the cavalry of Nanzhao!" After speaking, Zong Suo turned around and left, and after leaving the hall and meeting his Tubo companions, Zong Suo said excitedly: "Success, success, Lu Dongzan is really amazing, worthy of being Zanpu's teacher, he actually guessed the words of His Majesty the Tang Emperor."
I just followed what he taught, and finally let the emperor of the Tang Dynasty enter the trap, no need to ride a hundred horses, ask to marry the princess, haha we can kill the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. ”
It turns out that what Zong Suo said above was taught by Lu Dongzan, I have to say that this Lu Dongzan is really powerful, he deliberately made Zong Suo show an arrogant appearance, and then took the initiative to ask for a hundred rides, but the reason for taking the initiative to ask was to let Li Shimin not have to ride a hundred horses.
There is also a princess to marry, the main purpose of the famous Tubo this time is to marry the princess, but Lu Dongzan wants to press it to the end and say it inadvertently, so that the Tang Dynasty ministers ignore this main purpose.
It can be said that this Lu Dongzan's speculation is really powerful.
Just when Zong Suo was excitedly going back to prepare for the whole army, in the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and said slightly: "After everyone has seen it, now I want to ask, who is willing to go to fight for the Tang Dynasty." ”
Cheng Chumo didn't say a word, moved forward bravely, came to the middle of the court and knelt down and shouted: "The last general is willing to go!" ”
"The last will go!"
"The last will go!"
"The last will go!"
"The last will go!"
Cheng Chumo was puzzled, how could he have so many echoes, and then Cheng Chumo subconsciously looked up, oh my God, at this time, Cheng Chumo found that his side was already full of people, all of whom wanted to fight the Tang Dynasty generals, hey, yes, this is troublesome.
Because of the generals kneeling beside Cheng Chumo this time, at least ten of them are basically Zhonglang generals who are similar to Cheng Chumo!
The strongest of them is actually Su Dingfang, you must know that Su Dingfang, although he is not very old, but he is the person that Cheng Chumo admires the most, in the early years of Zhenguan, Su Dingfang was enabled by Tang Ting, and Ren Kuangdao Mansion was folded.
In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Su Dingfang followed Li Jing, the general manager of the Dingxiang Road march, to attack the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan
On the eighth night of the first month of February, Li Jing sent Su Dingfang to lead 200 cavalrymen armed with bows and crossbows as the vanguard to secretly march through the fog. When he was about a mile away from the Turkic garrison, the fog suddenly lifted, and Su Dingfang saw the tooth tent (the camp where the general lived), so he attacked on horseback, killing dozens or hundreds of people. Jieli Khan and Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty fled with only a few dozen horsemen, and the rest of the people fell on their stomachs and surrendered. Li Jing's army arrived, the Eastern Turks were defeated, and the Tang army beheaded more than 10,000 people, captured more than 100,000 men and women, and hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous animals.
Jieli Khan led more than 10,000 remnants of his army to cross the desert, but was intercepted by Li Tao, the general manager of the Tonghan Road marching army at the crossing. Soon, the Eastern Turk chieftains all led their people to surrender, and Li Jing captured more than 50,000 people and returned.
In the Battle of Yinshan, the Tang army won a great victory and completely defeated the Eastern Turks. After the defeat of Jieli Khan, he defected to Suni in the northwest of Lingzhou, and was captured by Zhang Baoxiang, the deputy head of the Datongdao march, and the Eastern Turks died, and their land returned to the Tang realm.
After the war, Su Dingfang awarded the Zuo Wu Hou Zhonglang General for his military exploits, and later changed to the Left Guard Zhonglang General.
However, until now, it has been five years, and Su Dingfang's official position is still the general of the left guard, and more importantly, Su Dingfang has been smeared in history, and many people think that he is not as good as Xue Rengui.
In fact, how could Su Dingfang be inferior to Xue Rengui, it is not an exaggeration to say that Su Dingfang is a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, but why is such a famous historical general with remarkable achievements not praised by the world.
First: Su Dingfang had a bad relationship with many ministers in the court, and his temperament was upright and tactful, and he had a lifetime of fighting horses, but he attracted many jealousies, so the ministers of the court deliberately targeted him and concealed his merits, especially the "Battle of Wuhai" was not recorded in later Chinese.
Second: The military strength of the early Tang Dynasty was very strong, there were many famous generals, and they often achieved greater victories at a small cost, such as Li Jing defeated the Eastern Turkistan army with 3,000 cavalry, Li Ji led 3,000 Tang troops to defeat Xue Yantuo's 80,000 army. It is precisely because there are too many examples of this that everyone is a little "numb" to Su Dingfang's record.
Third: Su Dingfang was a general, and he was from a humble background (at that time, he was still in power by the gate lords of the Shi clan), and was despised by the nobles of the gate lords, so many of his exploits were buried.
Fourth: Although after Su Dingfang's death, Tang Gaozong said: "The court's reward for him is not enough to show his merits", but Su Dingfang is a "foreign minister" after all, not a descendant army, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty cannot see him become big alone, and he may "turn a blind eye" to the suppression of him by the ministers.
It's just that others don't dare to use it, and some people dare to use it, Su Dingfang will soon meet his own Bole.