Chapter 192: The Ancient Strange Man and the Rift
This Li Changjie, who was famous and powerful in the Li Dynasty in Jiaozhi, can be said to be a strange person who is difficult to find in ancient times.
Li Changjie is a figure similar to the god of war in the hearts of the people of Jiaozhi. If you want to find a character in ancient China to compare with it, then Li Changjie in the history of Jiaozhi, martial arts are like the undefeated in the East in the martial arts world; The spirit is like Sima Qian in the field of historiography; Loyalty is like a collaborator in politics; His exploits are like those of Zheng He in the nautical world...... (This paragraph is quoted from the post bar, and I feel that the description is very exciting.) )
That's right, this cross-toed god of war is a eunuch.
Since ancient times, the source of eunuchs has been poor families, because they really can't survive, so they will choose this kind of unethical approach, but Li Changjie is different.
Li Changjie's original name was Wu Jun, but after Wu Quan, the ruler of the Wu Dynasty, he was also a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty, and his father was Guo Shengyi, the Taiwei of Li Taizong, and later changed his surname to Li, the word Changjie. (As for why his father's surname is Guo, the historian who has been bothering Jiaozhi is estimated to be the old Guo next door?) )
Li Changjie has been handsome since he was a child, and he practiced riding and archery and the art of war. In his youth, that is, from the time of Li Taizong, he had already ascended to the official career. Li Changjie was appointed as a horseback captain because of his father's shadow, and then perhaps in order to eliminate the vigilance of Emperor Li Dynasty, or because he liked to be single, he took the initiative to become a eunuch.
Don't forget Gou Fugui, Li Changjie thinks so, so it is not enough for him to be a eunuch himself, he also let his younger brother Li Changxian also become a eunuch, and since then the descendants of Taiwei Guo Shengyi have been cut off.
Li Renzong, who later succeeded to the throne, may feel that Li Changjie's way of showing loyalty is very different, so he began to reuse this person and ordered him to lead troops to suppress the Mang rebellion.
Later, Li Changjie made many military exploits, conquered the city three times, captured the king of Champa Lüdrabrama III, forced him to sue for peace with Jiaozhi to "atone", ceded the three states of Dili, Maling, and Buzheng to the Li Dynasty, and then released the king of Champa and returned to China.
In 1075, Li Changjie led an army of 80,000 waterways to attack the Guangnan West Road of the Great Song Dynasty, slaughtering more than 58,000 people in Yongzhou, and killing more than 100,000 people in Qin and Lianzhou, and then capturing the people of Sanzhou and returning to Jiaozhi.
In the battle of Fuliangjiang, the Jiaozhi army was disheartened, and Li Changjie wrote a poem: "The southern mountains and Henan emperors live in the book of heaven. How to invade against the captive? Thou shalt wait for the sake of defeat.
This poem has been handed down to later generations and has become the spiritual pillar of the Jiaozhi people, and this poem will definitely appear as long as the Jiaozhi attacks China in all dynasties.
Although the battle with the Great Song Dynasty and the defeat of the Jiaozhi side, Li Changjie was rewarded by Li Renzong as an outstanding general who rebelled against the Song people in Jiaozhi, and was awarded the official positions and titles of "Yaozhu Zhudu", "Shangzhu State under the Tongzhong Shumen", "Righteous Brother of the Son of Heaven", "Founding Duke of the Auxiliary General" and so on, in order to show the court's respect for him.
Now the Song army led by Li Nan has captured Guangyuan Prefecture, so Taifu Li Daocheng recommended this military god of Jiaozhi to fight.
Li Renzong thought for a moment, immediately agreed to the matter, and ordered Li Changjie to lead 20,000 forbidden troops, 30,000 slave troops, and the war elephant army to Guangyuan Prefecture to meet the Song general Li Nan.
Li Nan, who came from later generations, paid great attention to information, so he had already sent countless spies to lurk in various countries on the peninsula.
Soon after Li Renzong's decree, Li Nan received a secret letter from the spies.
All the people in Yuanping City gathered together, and Li Nan asked: "Now that Jiaozhi has sent an army of 50,000 troops, and an unknown number of war elephant troops, let's discuss it, how should we fight the enemy?" ”
Spartacus began by saying: "Of the more than 30,000 prisoners of war captured that day, most of them chose to join our army, and with the slaves who later defected, the number of infantry regiments under my charge has now expanded to 20,000. Although the training time of these slaves is still short, as long as they are equipped with weapons, they should be able to form combat effectiveness. ”
"Don't put your hopes in these soldiers." Dorcott, who was in charge of training the slave soldiers, poured a bucket of cold water on everyone.
Li Chen, a young man who also served in the slave army, showed a dissatisfied look on his face, and said loudly: "The slave army was able to defeat 30,000 Jiaozhi troops with 1,000 people, but now it has expanded to 20,000, even if it is not good, it can destroy all enemies!" ”
As soon as Li Chen's words came out, he immediately won the approval of many people, and Li Nan suddenly found that something was wrong, but he didn't speak, but watched silently.
Dorcott explained: "The more than 20,000 slave soldiers are indeed quite a few people, but they are not the same as the original 1,000 slave soldiers. They have only been trained for a short time, and they have not even changed much in their thinking, and if they start a good fight, if there is a defeat in the battle between our army and Jiaozhi, I am afraid that these people will immediately collapse. ”
This statement is very reasonable, so Vero and Cress and others have expressed their support and recognition for Dorcott.
The two parties began to debate this issue, but Li Nan and Hu Bing, who was sitting in a wheelchair next to him, used fried sesame seeds to feed the white rat king who was lazily lying on the table.
Since this little thing can communicate with Li Nan, he often blatantly comes here to mix rice.
Although Guangyuan Prefecture is not Guizhou, Li Nan's base camp, but as the highest general among everyone, it is a matter of course that he eats the best food, but he didn't expect that after eating this rat king a few times, he would not return to the nest at all.
After a cup of tea, seeing that the two groups of people had not finished arguing, Li Nan knocked on the table with a teacup, "Be quiet." ”
Li Nan spoke, no one dared not listen, and the hall suddenly fell silent.
After sweeping through everyone one by one, the smile on Li Nan's face gradually disappeared, and he said with a serious face: "Now that the big war is imminent, if our side is defeated, the Jiaozhi people will definitely take advantage of the situation to attack Guangnan West Road, do you know what will happen?" ”
Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Li Nan slowly walked in front of Li Chen and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know your mistake?" ”
Since these homeless children were taken in by Li Nan, it was the first time they saw Li Nan with such an expression, and Li Chen immediately fell to his knees in fright.
"Master, I really don't know what I did wrong, but my life was given by you, and I am willing to be punished!"
"Alas!" Looking at Li Chen, whose face was full of confusion and horror, Li Nan sighed deeply.
In fact, Li Nan has already discovered some bad signs, with the expansion of his territory and the growth of power, the talents under his command are becoming more and more scarce, all because of his lack of background.
In the beginning, Li Nan could do everything himself, but when he actually occupied several states on the west road of Guangnan, he had to disperse his power.
In the past, Li Nan's subordinates were divided into two circles, the first circle was made up of Li Nan's wives and concubines, and the second circle was made up of homeless children from Tokyo.
Originally, everything was fine, but things changed after these foreigners from Rome learned Chinese and participated in various political affairs.
Ludia trained with Pan Jinlian and Sun Erniang, opened liquor shops on various major roads leading to Quang Nam West Road, and Ashur assisted Master Li in commercial trade, which was not bad.
But when Docot and Spartacus and others got the training and command of the slave army, Li Chen, who was originally in charge of the slave army, felt lost, and the other children also felt a little unfair, so they became hostile to the gladiators.
Li Nan believed that Li Chen didn't dare to lie to himself, he really didn't know what he was wrong, but this wind couldn't last, so he immediately ordered someone to take him to a separate room and confined him, hoping that he could reflect well.