Chapter 35: If and the beginning of sorrow
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One day in August, Dou Jiande's subordinate Liu Heimin raised troops! This person is brave and good at fighting, and his strategy is outstanding, when Dou Jiande was not captured, he felt that he was going to break through, so he retreated to the mountains and forests! He and Dou Jiande have been friends since childhood and have a deep relationship. One year, a year of retreat and a half-step myth! But before the joy of leaving the customs was too late to share with others, I heard the news that my friend Dou Jiande was killed!
This person has a very high prestige in the army, and he raised his arms and raised his troops, and many people echoed! Even the generals who had defected to Li Yuan had rebelled, and Xu Yuanlang, the governor of Yanzhou in Lu County, was once Wang Shichong's subordinate, and was the first to raise the flag to respond to Liu Heimin; Shenzhou assassin Shi Cui Yuanxun killed Shi Peixi and brought his head to Liu Heimin......
Luo Yi, now given the surname Li to be in charge of Youzhou, this repeated person since Li Yuanba did not kill him, after Wang Shichong's defeat and then took refuge in Li Yuan, now renamed Li Yi!
The Tang Dynasty requisitioned more than 50,000 troops from Xingzhou, Luozhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, Hengzhou, Zhaozhou and other places, and Liu Heimin was in the south of Raoyang City (near Baoding, Hebei today), and the formation was more than ten miles long, and it was snowing, Li Shentong took advantage of the situation to attack Liu Heimin, but the wind blew back, Li Shentong was defeated by Liu Heimin, and lost two-thirds of the soldiers, war horses, and military resources. Li Yi defeated Gao Yaxian, pursued for several miles, heard that the large army was defeated, and retreated to Gaocheng. Liu Heimin attacked Li Yi again, Li Yi was also defeated, Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun were captured by Liu Heimin, and then fled back. Li Yi led his troops back to Youzhou. After this battle, Liu Heimin's army was greatly boosted.
At this time, since the army of Jinyang, Li Shimin has experienced a hundred battles and is highly respected. Tang Gaozu believed that the Qin king's merits were great, and the previous acting officials were not enough to reward Li Shimin, so he set up the "Tiance General" in September of the fourth year of Wude (621), and was above the prince. Li Shimin was appointed as the general of Tiance, concurrently served as Situ and Daxing Taishang Shuling of Shaandong Province, increased the number of households by 20,000, and reopened the Tiance Mansion and set up official subordinates. So it opened in the west of the Qin Palace, and invited people from all over the world. He taught Du Ruhui, a subordinate official of the Qin Palace, Fang Xuanling, Yu Shinan, Chu Liang, Yao Silian, Li Xuandao, the chief bookkeeper, Cai Yungong, Xue Yuanjing, Yan Xiangshi, Su Xuan, Su Xuan, the counselor, Yu Zhining, the Zhonglang Yu Zhining, the military counselor, Su Shichang, Xue Shu, Cangcao Li Shousu, Lu Deming, the assistant teacher of Guozi, Kong Yingda, Gai Wenda, and Xu Jingzong, the governor of Songzhou. Li Shimin divided them into three groups, took turns on duty, and as soon as he had free time, he went to the museum to discuss the literature with the scholars until late at night. The king of Qin also asked the famous painter Yan Liben to write praise for the portraits of the bachelors and Chu Liang, known as the eighteen bachelors. At that time, people attached great importance to the bachelor's degree, and if it had to be a bachelor, it was called "Dengyingzhou" at the time.
In November, Liu Heimin captured Dingzhou, and Li Xuantong, the governor of Tang Dingzhou, was captured. Liu Heimin cherished Li Xuantong's talent, couldn't bear to execute him, and wanted to appoint him as a general, but Li Xuantong refused to accept it, so he was imprisoned. In prison, his old man brought wine and meat, and Li Xuantong drank with them. Drunk, Li Xuantong borrowed a sword from the jailer, saying that he wanted to borrow wine to dance the sword. The jailer didn't know Xuan's intentions, so he lent him a sword, and Li Xuantong sighed after the dance: "The eldest husband is reused by the state, guarding one side, but he can't defend the land, what face does he have to live in the world!" After saying that, he was disemboweled by a sword. When Tang Gaozu heard the news of Li Xuantong's death in Chang'an, he was deeply moved by his loyalty and worshiped Li Xuantong's son Li Fuhu as a general.
In the same month, a severe famine occurred in Youzhou, and Gao Kaidao promised to help the people of Youzhou with millet. Li Yi sent the old and weak people to Gao Kaidao to eat, and Gao Kaidao was generously entertained. Li Yi was very happy, so he sent 3,000 people, with hundreds of carts, more than 1,000 donkeys and horses to transport grain, but Gao Kaidao detained all of them, cut off relations with Li Yi, and then called the king of Yan. He connected the Turks in the north and Liu Heimin in the south, led his troops to attack Yizhou, but did not capture it, and plundered the people along the road and returned. Gao Kaidao sent his general Xie Ling to surrender to Li Yi and asked Li Yi to send troops to meet him, and Li Yi sent troops to respond and rescue Xie Ling. Halfway through, Xie Ling raided Li Yi's army. Gao Kaidao also colluded with the Turks, and Heng, Ding, Yi and other prefectures all suffered from it.
Since the uprising, Liu Heimin has won battles every time. In the first battle of Raoyang, he defeated the Tang army led by Li Shentong with less and more with weakness. In December of the fourth year of Wude (621), Liu Heimin captured Jizhou and killed Tang Thorn Shi Liling. Dou Jiande's old generals in Zhao, Wei and other states also rushed to respond to Liu Heimin's army. Tang Zhengaxe sent the general of the Right Tun Guard, Yi'an Wang Li Xiaochang, to lead troops to suppress it. Liu Heimin led tens of thousands of troops to force Zongcheng, and Tang general Li Shichang abandoned Zongcheng and retreated to Zhaozhou. Liu Heimin pursued the Tang army, defeated Shiyun, annihilated 5,000 Tang troops, and Shiyun escaped. The local tyrant of Luozhou opened the city to welcome Liu Heimin, who sued the sky in the southeast of the city, and entered the city after sacrificing Dou Jiande. Then, he captured Xiangzhou (now Anyang, Henan), captured Shi Yanhuang alive, and attacked Lizhou and Weizhou to the south, and in less than half a year, he occupied the land originally occupied by Dou Jiande. Liu Heimin sent envoys to the north to connect with the Turks, and Jieli Khan sent Qi Jin Song Xie to lead Hu Qi to help Liu Heimin. Qin Wutong, the general of Tang Youwuwei, Chen Junbin, the assassin of Luozhou, and Cheng Mingzhen, the commander of Yongning County, all fled back to Chang'an from Hebei.
Li Yuan, who was furious, immediately ordered Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to lead the Tiance people to conquer Liu Heimin in the spring of next year!
"Liu Heimin, this person is very powerful now, and he is proficient in strategy, and this person is said to be about to step into the mythical level! We now have very few legendary masters, do we really want to use our secret weapon? But this is what I have to deal with me...... Do you have any way to deal with Liu Heimin? Li Shimin sat in a high position, and asked the military generals under him with annoyance!
The people of Tiance Mansion will look at me and I will look at you, and finally set their eyes on two people - Xu Shiji and Eldest Sun Wuji! The two people who attracted much attention looked at each other and smiled, and Xu Shiji said: "Without revealing our secrets, there are no more than two ways to deal with Liu Heimin, one is inside and the other is outside!" Externally, we now have to recruit people of his same strength, one is to see if we can recruit other people who are in seclusion and retreat, but this is very difficult; Internally......" glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji, and the other party took over the conversation knowingly: "I heard that Her Royal Highness's fourth sister, Princess Pingyang, has the best relationship with King Wei!" Moreover, the women's army led by Princess Pingyang is very powerful, and the princess also entered the legendary situation last year...... If the princess falls into any crisis, we can also send troops to ask the king as quickly as possible! Moreover, I also heard that the princess's master has also entered the myth, and the king of Wei will not be ......"
"Is this appropriate? In case my third brother knows about the situation inside......" Li Shimin said worriedly.
"Your Royal Highness, who doesn't know who King Wei is, let's do this thing secretly, let the emperor open his mouth and make an order......"
"Maybe that's all there is to it! Good! I'll do the rest, and I'll go and ask my father now!" "Once Li Shimin decides, he will act vigorously immediately!
"Your Highness......"
"Don't worry, I'll care!" Li Shimin is gone! But in the end, this matter simply developed in an unpredictable direction for Li Shimin......
Li Yuan was somehow said by Li Shimin, and in the second day, Li Yuan issued another decree to order Li Xiuning, who was defending Niangzi Pass, to lead troops to fight against Liu Heimin with the King of Qin!
Half a month later, Li Xiuning led his troops to Chang'an!
Since Li Xiuning got married, he has never seen his third brother. When Li Xiuning came to Chang'an to arrange the army, the first thing he did was to find Li Yuanba!
The two brothers and sisters are very close when they meet, looking at the beautiful and heroic face of the fourth sister Li Xiuning, Li Yuanba is very moved, it is still his own relatives!
Li Xiuning cried several times for his calamitous third brother, and Li Yuanba took a lot of effort to comfort his sister in this life! I heard that after Li Xiuning raised troops in Li Yuan, with the help of our master Pingshan Virgin, she established the Women's Army, and she helped in several key battles! Li Yuanba really admires this sister, unlike him, he can only single-handedly challenge the world!
Every day, Li Xiuning will come to see her third brother, because a woman's sixth sense tells Li Xiuning that only her third brother has no utilitarian heart for herself, and some of them are also the purest family affection! She also felt that the third brother, who was feared by everyone in the world, was very lonely, and at the same time there was a kind of indifference that was proud of the world...... In the end, Li Xiuning simply moved to Li Yuanba's mansion, just to see this arrogant third brother in a limited time, maybe there will be no chance in the future......
At the beginning of spring, Li Xiuning is gone! The army marched straight to Liu Heimin's territory! When he said, Li Yuanba came out with a double hammer to send Li Xiuning rarely. This is a treatment that Li Yuan has never had! If Li Yuanba loved history in his previous life, if Li Yuanba looked up the information of these celebrities when he played games to watch the Tang Shuanglong, what if ...... But there are no ifs!
After the pacification of Chang'an, Princess Pingyang did not appear in the official history. Due to the continuous war, according to Princess Pingyang's defense of Niangzi Pass, Princess Pingyang has always been very active, leading troops to fight the world for the Tang Dynasty.
In early February of the sixth year of Tang Wude (623 AD), the history books suddenly recorded her death. And the reason why this is recorded is mainly because her funeral is different, it is a military funeral (front and back feather Bao advocacy, big wheel, Lu building, squad sword forty people, tiger Ben armor).
The real cause of death of Princess Pingyang in history, according to later generations, may be the most likely to be the death of Liu Heimin during the implementation of the battle to eliminate Liu Heimin. In November 622, Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng to lead an army against Liu Heimin, and the two sides began to win and lose each other. It was not until December 25 that it was completely defeated. Princess Pingyang's Niangzi Pass is on the front line, and of course she will lead her troops to the battle. So the possibility of dying in this battle is very large. If he died in battle at this time, it would take almost half a month for his body to be transported back to Chang'an. Since she is a princess, the preparations for the burial are almost half a month. The timing also coincides.
Li Xiuning died a miserable death in this historical record: Princess Pingyang's big knife could not be used in the forest, and it was stuck on the trunk of a tree. The enemy soldiers took the opportunity to stab with their spears, and Princess Pingyang was shot several times, and her intestines flowed out, and she screamed miserably, fell off her horse, and died heroically. Seeing that Princess Pingyang was killed, the enemy general stepped forward to cut off the princess's head and gave orders. At this time, Li Shimin, who came to reinforce him, arrived to kill the enemy soldiers and recapture the body of the princess. Li Shimin saw that the princess's head was covered with blood, so he washed her head in a waterhole next to the Niangzi Pass. This waterhole is today's "princess shampoo pool".
Li Yuanba would not have thought that this dearest sister would have walked into the abyss of hell since then! Li Shimin couldn't have imagined that the first emperor of the ages who forced his father to kill his brother in history, the first person he sent to hell was Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning - his own sister!