The ninth of the legendary Li Jiqian - how did Li Jiqian provoke the famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty

Before Li Jizhui was escorted back to the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo, he once said "Li Jilong is here!" Li Jiqian was not frightened, but skillfully took advantage of this opportunity and attacked Li Jishou, so that Li Jishuang was only the commander of the light pole, and was finally caught by Li Jilong.

In fact, "Li Jilong is here!" This sentence really scared Li Jiqian, but Li Jiqian skillfully played a time difference and cleaned up Li Jiqian, and then, in the face of Li Jilong's attack, he had no choice but to give up Yinzhou again and return to the desert.

Yes, Li Jilong's reputation is so powerful that Li Jiqian, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, has no choice but to retreat when he sees it.

When it comes to Li Jilong, many people may be very unfamiliar, but this person actually occupies an important place in China's military history. The famous generals of the Northern Song Dynasty are like clouds, and there are only four generals who are worthy of enjoying the Taimiao, they are Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Cao Wei, and one is Li Jilong.

Li Jilong's character is dominant, and his father Li Chuyun is also the founding general of the Song Dynasty, but he is at odds with Zhao Kuangyin's eldest brother Murong Yanzhao, his career is not smooth, and his reputation is not very prominent. But he has a beautiful scheming daughter, that is, Li Jilong's sister, who was favored by Song Taizu and personally came forward to marry Zhao Guangyi as his wife, which was later the famous Empress Mingde. Li Jilong also brought out his younger brother Li Jihe, and after Li Jilong, he became a famous general guarding the northwest frontier.

In 964 AD, the Song Empire's war against Houshu broke out, and Li Jilong, who was sixteen years old, resolutely joined the army and participated in the battle to conquer Houshu in Sichuan. He started to have a smooth journey, but when he returned from victory and crossed the plank road, he fell into a ravine, but fortunately he was able to hang a tree and not fall to his death. Some people say that this person will fulfill the proverb "If you don't die in great trouble, you will have a blessing in the future".

But later, Li Jilong did not accept the task of being blessed, that is, he was only given 300 soldiers, but he was asked to Hunan to suppress thousands of local barbarian rebellions. Moreover, these three hundred soldiers were also very under-armed, with only knives and shields. At that time, probably because he was a relative of the emperor, someone specially made trouble with him. However, the young and vigorous Li Jilong went to the battlefield and braved the poisonous arrows constantly cast by the barbarians, and defeated the enemy army at the cost of more than 100 casualties. In this battle, Li Jilong was seriously wounded, his hands and feet were all hit by the enemy's poisonous arrows, unconscious, and in danger, but his subordinates risked the danger to get the antidote, and Li Jilong came back to life.

Song Taizu really saw his courage in killing the enemy, and praised him. After the campaign to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty began, Li Jilong was sent to be responsible for water transportation and supplies to the troops of the Southern Expedition. The Tang army saw that the Song army was not accustomed to water warfare, and constantly sent water troops to attack the Song army's water transportation and supplies. Li Jilong fought bravely against the Southern Tang Army, won many victories, and killed a high-ranking general of the enemy army, so that the grain could be transported smoothly. Due to the fierceness of the battle, he was once again nearly killed, and a stray arrow shot through the head, piercing the helmet, and he was not injured.

Due to the logistical support of the Song army, it was victorious, and soon began the siege of Jinling, in which Li Jilong also participated. However, on the eve of victory, there are secrets in the army to be presented to the emperor, and none of the generals wants to leave, everyone is waiting for this victory without suspense, and then share the merits! Li Jilong showed a very high demeanor at this time, and took the initiative to ask to see the emperor, after he saw Song Taizu, he accurately predicted the time of breaking the city, and then it turned out to be exactly the same, Zhao Kuangyin was deeply surprised, and appreciated his talent. Soon, the southern general Lu Jiang rebelled and gathered more than 10,000 people to attack the prefecture and county, and Li Jilong was ordered to pacify it. After the war, he was promoted to the pre-and post-inspection envoy of the imperial camp, at this time, he was only in his twenties, which can be described as a young man's ambition. However, "Dezhi" is also exchanged for merit.

Some people say that he is a lucky general, and they also think that if he has obtained such a high official, his blessing should come to an end, and there will be no more danger. However, during a boat ride, the famous general Dou Shenbao (eunuch) gave Li Jilong a broken boat that should have been taken by himself because of his fatness, and the young Li Jilong sat on it with a big grin, and suddenly the boat overturned and fell into the water, and he was almost drowned again.

After Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne began the campaign to conquer the Taiyuan regime, Li Jilong was still stunned and brave and Li Hanqiong attacked Taiyuan Xicheng together, the Taiyuan siege battle was almost to the point of tragedy, Song history recorded that Li Jilong commanded the battle on the front line, the stone thrown by the enemy's trebuchet happened to fall on the side of Li Jilong, and a retinue was killed on the spot, but he did not change his face and calmly commanded in the first line, and finally the Taiyuan regime finally surrendered under the blow of the Song army. Li Jilong made great contributions to the great cause of reunification.

The dangers that Li Jilong experienced were very miraculous at that time, and they also spread to the northwest, and many party members thought that he had a divine body. The party members had just come out of the primitive tribe, and the atmosphere of superstition was strong, and Li Jilong's experience was regarded as divine help.

This was still when the Song Dynasty attacked the Northern Han Dynasty and the party sent troops to help the war.

In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979), the Battle of Mancheng broke out, and Li Jilong was the supervisor of the army. At that time, the commanders of the Khitan army were Yelu Huge and Han Kuangsi, and the Song army was originally divided into eight formations according to the deployment of Emperor Taizong, but many generals of the Song army proposed to change to two formations, which was a correct proposal, but Cui Han, the commander of the Song army, hesitated, I am afraid that he violated Taizong's order. Li Jilong said on the spot, "If there is a contingency, Encore is predetermined, and if you are guilty of violating the edict, please take it alone."

Speaking of which, the supervising army supervised the execution of the emperor's deployment and orders by the army leader, and Li Jilong made it clear that he supported the change of the emperor's deployment, and it was evident that he respected the changes in the actual situation on the battlefield and dealt with the enemy in the most powerful formation.

Due to the correct change of formation, the Liao army was defeated, with 10,000 killed and 30,000 captured, and the Song army captured countless baggage. Then he followed Pan Mei to counterattack the Liao State and broke through the Lingqiu County of the Khitans.

In the seven years of Taiping Xingguo after these accumulated military exploits, Li Jiqian "rebelled", Li Jilong and the general Wang Yu went out together, and those who are familiar with this period of history know that Wang Yu's success is almost all planned by Li Jilong. And Li Jilong also led the troops to fight alone, the history of the Song Dynasty recorded that he "went out of the north of Yinzhou, broke the tribes of Xili, chased dozens of miles, cut more than 3,000 levels, captured more than 1,000 Han people, old and young, and captured more than 1,000 people. He also went out of the west apricot flat of Kaiguang Valley, broke the Bao Temple and the Baoxiang tribe, beheaded its deputy leader and buried 57 people, and the leaders of the three tribes of the silver tribe analyzed more than 3,000 people, including the Eighth Army, and re-broke the Shao Lang, the Xi Zhen tribes, and the turbidity wheel in the east of Sichuan and the west of the rabbit head in Sichuan, captured 78 people alive, beheaded 59 people, and captured thousands. Led the division to the prison city, Wu moved and Yue moved the four tribes to surrender, but the fourteen tribes of Qijia Luo were unable to scare their people, but attacked them with Yin Xian, razed more than 1,000 of their tents, and captured more than 7,000 ranks."

This battle sent Li Jiqian into the desert.

At that time, if Li Jilong had been left in the northwest, Li Jiqian would not have become bigger. However, the main opponent of the Song army at that time was the Khitan, which was to subdue the sixteen states of Youyun, so when the Song army launched the war against the Khitan again in the third year of Yongxi (986 AD), Li Jilong appeared on the battlefield of the crusade against the Khitan as Cao Bin's assistant. Li Jilong fought bravely, successively conquered Gu'an, Xincheng, Zhuozhou, captured a high-ranking Khitan general, in the battle, he was wounded again, an arrow in the thigh, blood flowed to the heel, Cao Bin wanted to commend his merits, but he refused. However, due to the unfavorable logistical supply of the Song army, especially the poor coordination of people and horses from all walks of life, the Khitan adopted the method of combining guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and the Empress Dowager Xiao led the 13-year-old little emperor to the battlefield in person and participated in the battle in person, and the Song army was defeated. There were heavy casualties among the men and horses from all walks of life, and the famous Yang invincible Yang Ye was also captured. At this chaotic time, only Li Jilong's troops "formed a column, and the captives did not dare to attack", and withdrew to the Song realm in an orderly manner, and stationed in Dingzhou, when tens of thousands of defeated soldiers were scattered to Dingzhou, the situation was chaotic, Li Jilong calmly placed the defeated troops in accordance with Taizong's instructions, consolidated the defense line, and was commended by Taizong, and was reappointed as the guard of the horse army Du Yuhou and the defense envoy of Wuzhou.

Later, in the confrontation with Yelu Huge, the famous Khitan general and the god of war, Li Jilong defeated Yelu Xiuge twice, which was considered to have created a miracle.

At this time, Li Jilong led an army of 50,000 to crusade against Li Jiqian, and at the suggestion of Li Jilong, Zhao Guangyi issued an edict to cut the name of "Zhao Baoji", and accepted the suggestion of Lu Mengzheng, the prime minister of the dynasty, Li Jilong burned the city of Xiazhou. In the face of Li Jiqian's characteristic of "escaping", Li Jilong also changed the previous method of the Song army always looking for opportunities to annihilate the enemy, instead building fortresses on the periphery of important cities, cutting off the throat of grain transportation, and carrying out large-scale border relocation operations in Yin and Xia, resettled immigrants in the official land of Sui, You and other prefectures, and moved more than 8,000 Qiang people into Modong.

Now Li Jiqian can't survive, the food is gone, the source of soldiers is gone, the mass base is gone, and Li Jiqian has completely become a rear-free battle. Li Jilong can comfortably watch the changes in the walled fort, but Li Jiqian can't afford it, and he is facing a desperate situation.

Li Jilong let him know what the demeanor of a general is.