Chapter 14 Chai Jie and Chai Shao
Chai Shao, the word Sichang, a native of Linfen, Jinzhou, was born in Jiangmen, and his father Chai Shen was the right inner rate of the Sui prince, and he was named the prince of Julu County. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Chai Shao since he was a child, "brave and courageous", famous for suppressing the strong and helping the weak, serving as the Qianniu preparation of the prince of Yuande of the Sui Dynasty, married Princess Pingyang, the daughter of Gaozu Li Yuan. Ranked fourteenth among the twenty-four heroes of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan Lingyan Pavilion.
His main achievements are that he responded positively when Li Yuan raised troops in the Sui Dynasty, served as the governor of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and later formed a women's army with his wife Princess Pingyang to contain the Sui army, clearing obstacles for the Li father and son to enter Chang'an; supported Yang Yu's accession to the throne and stabilized the situation; Li Yuan abolished Yang Yu as emperor, and he strongly supported it; During the Wude period, Li Shimin followed for a long time when he went on the expedition, and made great contributions to the unification war of the Tang Dynasty, pacifying Xue Ju, breaking the Song Dynasty King Kong, defeating Wang Shichong, and capturing Dou Jiande. In April of the sixth year of Wude (623), Tuyuhun invaded Fangzhou (Zhichangfang, now southeast of Diebu, Gansu), and Tang Fangzhou Thorn Shifang Dangshu fled to Songzhou (Zhijiacheng, now Songpan, Sichuan). On the 21st, the Tuyuhun army entered the two prefectures of Tao (Zhimeixiang, now Lintan, Gansu) and Min (Zhiyile, now Minxian, Gansu). On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Chai Shao (then the history of Qizhou Thorn) was ordered to lead his troops to the rescue. On the 15th, Tuyuhun and the party invaded Hezhou (Zhilinxia, now part of Gansu), and Lu Shiliang, the assassin of Tanghe Prefecture, defeated him. In June, Chai Shao's army advanced to Minzhou. On the 29th, Chai Shao fought against Tuyuhun and was besieged in a valley. The Tuyuhun army shot Chai Shao's army condescendingly, arrows rained down, the situation was critical, and the officers and men of the Tang army were all discolored. Chai Shao was not afraid of danger, sat peacefully, and asked people to play the pipa, so that the two beautiful women danced together. The Tuyuhun soldiers were very strange, and they all put down their bows and arrows and stopped to watch. Chai Shao saw that the Tuyuhun army was not in order, and took advantage of its unpreparedness, secretly sent elite cavalry to the back of the Tuyuhun army, attacked suddenly, defeated the Tuyuhun army, and beheaded more than 500 levels. In August, Tuyuhun was annexed to the Tang Dynasty. In this battle, Chai Shao was surrounded by danger, and used beauty tricks to confuse the Tuyuhun army, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness to send elite cavalry back to its back, attacked suddenly, and finally won the victory. Although the beauty meter has been used many times in history, the use of this method like Chai Shao has no ancients before, and there is no one to follow!
In the dispute between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng's crown prince, he stood firmly by Li Shimin's side, planned the Xuanwumen Change, and after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he was named Huo Guogong and the right general of Xiaowei. During the Zhenguan period, he also helped Tang Taizong to pacify the Liang Shidu forces in the northwest, occupied the important town of Shuofang, and prepared an advance base for counterattacking the Turks.
Soon Chai Shao turned to the general of the left guard, and he was the assassin of Huazhou.
In November of the third year of Zhenguan (629), the Turkic army entered Hexi, and Tang Taizong ordered the 6 Route Army and Horse to counterattack the Turks on the 23rd: Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, was the head of the march of Tonghan Road, Li Jing, the secretary of the military department, was the head of the march of Dingxiang Road, Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, was the head of the march of Datong Road, Wei Xiaojie, the governor of Youzhou, was the head of the march of Heng'an Road, Xue Wanche, the governor of Lingzhou, was the head of the march of Changwu Road, and Chai Shao was the head of the march of Jinhe Road, and attacked together with the above 5 roads. The Tang army totaled more than 100,000, all of whom were subject to Li Jingjie's degree, and set out in the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan (630), and finally destroyed the eastern Turkic Khanate.
In the seventh year of Zhenguan (633), Chai Shaojia was the general of the town army, the general of the right Xiaowei, and was renamed the Duke of Zhenguo.
In the twelfth year of Zhenguan (638), Chai Shao was seriously ill, and Tang Taizong personally went to visit. Soon, Chai Shao died and was given the title of Governor of Jingzhou.
Chai Jie is my fictional character, because Chai Shao is a complete Qin Wang Party in history, for the needs of the novel, so I fictionalize a character as a foreshadowing to contain Chai Shao and deal with Li Shimin in the future. The reason for the untimely death of Princess Pingyang in history is that on the one hand, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin fought everywhere for the position of the crown prince, which made Princess Pingyang depressed, according to historical records, Chai Shao was a full twenty years older than his wife Princess Pingyang, and I disagree with this kind of marriage that can be a father and daughter. So in order to save Xiao Luoli and let Princess Pingyang live for a few more years, I can only distort the historical facts, please forgive me.