Chapter 326 [Tang General 18]
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, thieves were everywhere, and Wei Chi Jingde joined the army, and the official was a doctor in Chaosan. Later, the rogues were still rogues, and the officers and soldiers also became anti-thieves, and in the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (617),
Liu Wuzhou, the captain of the Yingyang Mansion in Mayi, killed Wang Rengong, captured Yanmen (now Dai County), Loufu (now Jingle), Dingxiang (now Inner Mongolia and northwest of Lingel) and other places, attached to the Turks, and was named Dingyang Khan.
In the second year of Tang Gaozu Wude, Liu Wuzhou sent his brother-in-law Song Jingang to lead 20,000 troops south and capture the northern part of Shanxi
In one area, the soldiers pointed directly at Jinyang (now southwest of Taiyuan), and Li Yuanji, the governor of the state, fought unfavorably.
Fleeing to Chang'an (now Xi'an), Jinyang fell, Guanzhong was shaken, Tang Gaozu planned to give up the Hedong region and stick to Guanzhong, Li Shimin asked for war, believing that only by completely eliminating Liu Wuzhou's separatist forces and recovering the territory of Hedong, the Tang Dynasty could stabilize Guanzhong.
In November of the second year of Wude, Li Shimin led his troops to cross the Yellow River, assembled at Baibi (now southwest of Xinjiang County, Shanxi), and confronted the Song Jingang Army.
Li Shimin adopted the strategy of "building up the camp to frustrate its front", patiently waited for Song Jingang's grain and grass to run out, and sent people to cut off Song Jingang's grain route, which shook the morale of Song Jingang's army. Prior to this, Xia County and Puzhou in Hedong responded to Liu Wuzhou, and the Tang Dynasty sent Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, to conquer and suppress.
Song Jingang sent Wei Chi Jingde to reinforce the defenders of Xia County, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the Yongan King Li Xiaoji and his generals were all captured, and Yu Chi Jingde returned to the army in Huzhou (Zhiyi City, now Shanxi), Yin Kaishan and Qin Shubao ambushed the enemy in Meiliangchuan (now Wenxinan, Shanxi), and caught Yu Chi Jingde off guard, and Yu Chi Jingde fought hard to kill and broke through, and the Tang army beheaded more than 2,000 levels, turning the entire battle in one fell swoop.
Then, Puzhou also asked Song Jingang for help under the encirclement and suppression of the Tang army, and Wei Chi Jingde and Xunxiang were sent by Song Jingang to reinforce Puzhou.
Li Shimin concocted the same method and sent 3,000 elite soldiers to intersperse with the path. An ambush was set up in Anyi (now northeast of Yuncheng, Shanxi), and the whole army of Wei Chi Jingde was annihilated, and Wei Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang fled alone.
On the one hand, the Tang army regained the lost territory, and on the other hand, continued to confront Song Jingang. In April 620 AD, Song Jingang's army ran out of food and grass and withdrew his troops back to the army.
The Tang army marched 200 miles in a day and night. The two sides fought dozens of times, Li Shimin did not disarm for three days, did not eat for two days, and finally caught up with the main force of Song Jingang in the Bird Mouse Valley (southwest of Jiexiu), fought eight battles in one day, captured tens of thousands of people, Song Jingang and Wei Chi Jingde fled to Jiexiu (now Shanxi),
The Tang army followed closely behind, and Song Jingang led the rest of 20,000 people to set up a formation in Jiexiu back city.
The north and south stretched for seven miles, Li Shimin ordered Cheng Zhijie and Qin Shubao to attack its northern end, Zhai Changsun and Qin Wutong to attack its southern end, and Xu Shixian, who was facing it head-on, was unfavorable, and Li Shimin personally led his troops to rush and kill.
With the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, he defeated the Song Jingang army in one fell swoop, beheaded more than 3,000 people, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang fled to the Turks, and later died under the sword of the Turks. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Wei Chi Jingde and Xunxiang surrendered to the Tang army with the two cities of Jiexiu and Yong'an (now Huo County, Shanxi, Jiexiu South), and Liu Wuzhou was destroyed.
Li Shimin recovered Taiyuan, the birthplace of the Tang Dynasty, and a large area of lost land in Hedong, and made great achievements.
Li Xiaoji, who was captured by Yu Chi Jingde, was beheaded by Liu Wuzhou,
This is one of the three king-level martyrs who died in Li Tang at the beginning of the founding of the country, so it is natural that Wei Chi Jingde after joining the Tang Dynasty will be suspected by everyone. Li Shimin has a very good impression of Wei Chi Jingde,
He was appointed as the commander of the right government, and still led 8,000 people from Liu Wuzhou's old army. Follow Li Shimin to the east to conquer Wang Shichong. At this point,
Liu Wuzhou's old troops fled one after another, and even the search for the appearance was nowhere to be seen, the generals of the Tang Army were furious, and took Wei Chi Jingde as a scapegoat, tied up with ropes, and imprisoned them, and they publicly pushed Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan to persuade Li Shimin, "Wei Chi Jingde is brave and fierce, and if he is suspected, he will have resentment,
If you are afraid of future troubles, please put him to death immediately", Li Shimin refused, "My opinion is very different from yours, if Wei Chi Jingde has the intention to defect, how can he be after looking for his face."
Li Shimin let Wei Chi Jingde go, led Wei Chi Jingde into his sleeping tent, took out a bag of gold, and told Wei Chi Jingde, "My husband is in a mood, don't mind with a little suspicion, I won't listen to slander and kill Zhongliang,
You can rest assured of this. If you really want to leave, you can give it as a gift to show your feelings of working together for a while", Wei Chi Jingde was deeply moved, and since then he has been loyal to Li Shimin and has been unswerving throughout his life.
One day, Li Shimin led Wei Chi Jingde and other 500 cavalry to Beiyu Mountain to observe the enemy's situation, and suddenly was surrounded by Wang Shichong's more than 10,000 cavalry regiments.
Seeing that he was about to die, Wei Chi Jingde was born, and at the last moment, he knocked Shan Xiongxin off the horse with a weapon.
Escort Li Shimin broke through. When Li Shimin entered the safe area, Wei Chi Jingde led the cavalry to fight with Wang Shichong's army for several rounds, beheading more than 1,000 ranks, and the Tang army was defeated by 6,000 soldiers.
Facing the victorious general, Li Shimin sighed greatly, "The people around me said that you would defect, and it was I who protected you, but I didn't expect to be rewarded so soon."
The weapon used by Wei Chi Jingde is a horse lance, of course, he is good at avoiding the lance and grabbing the lance, he fights with the enemy, every time he rides into the battle alone, "the thief picks up the thorn", but he is unharmed, and he can also grab the lance empty-handed,
Backstabbing the enemy, coming and going freely among thousands of troops, taking the head of the enemy general among the ten thousand troops, the enemy was terrified, Wei Chi Jingde was famous, and even Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, also knew his strong martial arts.
Coincidentally, Li Yuanji is also good at using horse lance, and his attainments are not shallow, the ancients had a saying that literati are inferior to each other, and martial artists are inevitably fighting in this situation. Li Yuanji wants to fight with Wei Chi Jingde,
Wei Chi Jingde was very personable, he removed the blade of his horse lance, and let Li Yuanji's horse lance keep the blade, under the competition, he did not fall behind at all, Li Shimin, who was watching the battle, asked,
"Which one is more difficult to seize the lance or avoid the lance", Wei Chi Jingde replied, "It is more difficult to seize the lance", Li Shimin ordered Wei Chi Jingde to take Li Yuanji's horse lance, Li Yuanji held the lance and jumped on the horse, and repeatedly missed the stab,
Soon he was seized by Wei Chi Jingde, and Li Yuanji was finally convinced. In martial arts, he bowed to Wei Chi Jingde.
At the beginning of the fourth year of Wude, Li Shimin selected more than 1,000 elite cavalry to form the Xuanjia team, which was led by Wei Chi Jingde, Qin Shubao and other four people. The Xuanjia Heavenly Soldiers began an invincible war saga. The Tang army besieged Luoyang, Wang Shichong was lonely and difficult to defend, and frequently asked Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, for help.
Dou Jiande personally led an army of 100,000 to aid Luoyang, and it was the mountain rain that was about to come and the wind was full of buildings. Li Shimin personally led 3,500 elite infantry cavalry to seize the Tiger Prison (west of Bishui Town, northwest of present-day Xingyang, Henan) to prevent Dou Jiande's army from advancing westward.
Li Shimin is a bold man, his bow and arrows are always missed, and he can shoot through the door panel made of solid wood at a distance, Wei Chi Jingde has a strong melee ability, and the enemy who rushes up is always knocked down by him, one far and one near,
formed the best partner, Li Shimin once said to Wei Chi Jingde heroically, "I take a bow and arrow." If you have a lance in your hand, even millions of enemies can't stand the two of us."
When Dou Jiande camped in Banzhu outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Shimin personally led 500 personal guards to explore the virtual reality, and according to the terrain along the way, let Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie and others lead a small group of men and horses to do a good job of ambushing.
took Wei Chi Jingde and his party of five people to Dou Jiande's camp. Dou Jiande's troops did not know Li Shimin, the king of Qin,
Li Shimin shot one of the other party's generals with an arrow, and reported to his home, "I am Li Shimin, the king of Qin", Dou Jiande's army was moved. Thousands of cavalry were soon dispatched and launched an attack on a group of five.
The other three people who followed Li Shimin were all colorless, and their hearts were beating, and Li Shimin sued them. "You go first, I and Jingde are the two queens",
Dou Jiande's army was afraid of Li Shimin's bow and arrows and Wei Chi Jingde's horse lance, and was unwilling to give up the meat and bones sent to his mouth. Ambushes are everywhere, arrows are raining down,
The Tang army beheaded more than 300 levels, captured the powerful generals Yin Qiu and Shi Zan of Dou Jiande's army, and greatly frustrated the spirit of Dou Jiande's army.
On the second day of the first month of May, the decisive battle began, and the Tang army and Dou Jiande's army were at a standstill and fell into a stalemate. Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Wan rode the imperial horse of Emperor Yang of Sui to patrol in front of the battle,
This good horse was taken by Li Shimin at a glance, and he praised it, "It is really a good horse that is unparalleled in the world", when Wei Chi Jingde heard it, he immediately asked for orders to go over and take the horse, Li Shimin thought that it was too dangerous to do so,
Unwilling to damage a general for a good horse, Wei Chi Jingde was happy for the blogger at this time, and had already made up his mind to sacrifice his life, he rode his horse straight into the enemy formation, and Gao Yongsheng, Liang Jianfang and his party galloped among thousands of horses.
Wang Wan couldn't escape, and was captured alive by Wei Chi Jingde, and his priceless war horse was also robbed under Li Shimin's command, "no thieves dare to be the one", Dou Jiande's three armies were doomed to the final destruction.
In July of the fourth year of Tang Gaozu Wude, Liu Heimin, the old department of Dou Jiande, raised troops against Tang.
Occupying most of the counties of Hebei and part of Henan, in December, Li Shimin was ordered to go on an expedition, and Wei Chi Jingde followed Li Shimin to conquer Liu Heimin in Linwei (now Yongnian, Hebei), and Li Shimin habitually rode lightly against the enemy.
When Li Shiyun was attacked, he went to the rescue, but unexpectedly, Liu Heimin was extremely numerous, and the black crows and crows surrounded on all sides, the front ones fell, and the back ones were replenished, and they surrounded them like iron buckets.
Seeing that Li Shimin and Li Daozong were about to be trapped inside, Wei Chi Jingde led the strong men to rush and kill, and finally tore a gap in the encirclement.
The formation was in chaos, and Wei Chi Jingde finally met the exhausted Li Shimin, and the others took the opportunity to fight their way out of the encirclement. The decisive battle between the Tang army and Liu Heimin's army took place in March of the fifth year of Wude.
At this time, Liu Heimin's army had run out of food and grass, they crossed the river (now southeast of Quzhou, Hebei), and the Tang army launched a desperate struggle, the battle lasted from noon to dusk, Liu Heimin's army was beheaded by the Tang army more than 10,000 levels,
Thousands of people drowned in the water, and since then the whole army has been annihilated, Liu Heimin fled in a hurry with 200 cavalry, and was later betrayed and sent to the Tang army, where he was beheaded for public display. Wei Chi Jingde has been the Savior several times,
has already become Li Shimin's confidant, followed Li Shimin to sweep away Xu Yuanlang and other rebels, and has made meritorious deeds, Li Shimin awarded him the second deputy left of the Qin Palace.
In addition to external troubles, internal worries were born, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, swept away all the anti-kings, and his achievements were high, and he was hated by the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, Li Jiancheng in order to keep the position of the crown prince.
used all means to attack Li Shimin, who had the same father and mother as him. He first tried to pull away the living force around Li Shimin, and used a large cart of gold and silver artifacts to envelop Wei Chi Jingde, but Wei Chi Jingde politely refused.
"The King of Qin has the grace of knowing me, took me in when I was most depressed, and entrusted me with a heavy responsibility, I can only kill to repay, and I dare not have two hearts for him", Li Jiancheng touched a big nail,
hated Wei Chi Jingde to the core. Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, sent assassins to assassinate Wei Chi Jingde, but Wei Chi Jingde had already noticed it, so he simply opened the door of the room, and he lay high in the tent, with a blade by his side.
Wei Chi Jingde bravely crowned the three armies, and the assassin looked at it again and again, but he was not an opponent, and he never dared to attack, and the assassination operation failed. Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were unwilling to give up, and they had poisonous plans.
This time, he falsely accused Wei Chi Jingde of a crime to Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and Li Yuan also wanted to reduce the power around King Qin, so he arrested Wei Chi Jingde and imprisoned him.
Although Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji wanted to put Wei Chi Jingde to death, Wei Chi Jingde refused to admit his guilt, and Li Shimin also tried his best to rescue, and finally Wei Chi Jingde escaped this catastrophe.
The contradiction between the crown prince and the king of Qin became more and more intense, and the king of Qin took the initiative to go to the eastern capital to avoid trouble.
The Turks invaded the border, Li Yuan let Li Yuanji take command, and dispatched the strong generals of the Qin Palace's elite soldiers to Li Yuanji's tent to listen to the order.
And Li Shimin is still hesitating. Wei Chi Jingde was very anxious, and together with everyone he encouraged Li Shimin to strike first, "People are afraid of death, and everyone serves the king with death, and this is also bestowed by God." If the sky doesn't take it, it will be blamed", Li Shimin still wants to wait for the other party to do it first,
So as not to be infamy, Wei Chi Jingde made a threatening speech, "If the King of Qin doesn't listen to our opinions, we can only flee, and we can't sit and wait with His Highness, and the eldest grandson Wuji will also leave with me",
At the same time, he told Li Shimin that he had gathered 800 warriors, all of whom were in control of the strings, and were ready to be dispatched by the King of Qin at any time.
On June 4 of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of Tang Gaozu Wude (626 AD), the Xuanwumen Mutiny broke out, and Li Jiancheng, who was about to enter the palace, was killed by Li Shimin with an arrow, and Li Yuanji fled into a forest.
Li Shimin chased after the horse, the war horse ran too fast, Li Shimin was swept off the war horse by a huge branch and fell to the ground, Li Yuanji saw the opportunity and rushed over to snatch Li Shimin's bow,
strangled Li Shimin's neck with a bowstring, Yu Chi Jingde appeared in time, and with a loud shout, Li Yuanji let go of his hands in fright, Li Yuanji fled to the palace, and Yu Chi Jingde caught up with him and killed him with an arrow. (To be continued.) )