Qin Shubao, the hero of heaven and earth

The shopkeeper took the yellow horse to the east, and Qin Shubao couldn't help but burst into tears. mentioned this big horse, the king of the military department gave us a gift, and unfortunately trapped in heaven, and returned your store food money, so I had no choice but to sell it.

Wave your hand and you'll take it! But I don't know whose house this horse fell on? This is the famous singing segment in "Qin Qiong Selling Horses", the elderly and children can hum two sentences, which can be described as a household name and famous. Comparing history, we know the absurdity of literary and artistic works,

It's a far cry from the real persona. It is recorded in "Youyang Miscellaneous" that Qin Shubao's mount is not a yellow horse, but a sudden thunder, and the horse's coat is blue and white, majestic and mighty.

This horse likes to drink like a person, not only will not be drunk and dizzy after drinking, but the spirit is a hundred times, "every time in the moonlight, can erect more than three collars of black felt", after the death of Qin Shubao, the sudden thunder also neighed and died without eating.

According to the records of "Tales of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", the weapon used by Qin Shubao was not a pair of gold-armed guns, but an overweight spear. When he followed Li Shimin to attack Luoyang City, he stuck this spear in the dirt outside the city, and more than a dozen Wang Shichong's soldiers rushed out of the city, wanting to pull out this spear.

Their efforts together didn't work, and the spear remained firmly stuck in the dirt. Qin Shubao came to the city again, easily pulled out his spear, held it in his hand and left proudly, and the soldiers on both sides present were dumbfounded. Qin Shubao's spear has since become famous all over the world, and in the heavy dà activities of the imperial court,

This gun attracted the attention of countless people, greatly increased the majesty of the empire, and made the foreign barbarians convinced and sincerely admired.

Qin Shubao's story is full of sweat, but most of it is far-fetched. The official history of his account is very simple, in recent years. Qin Shubao's father's tombstone was unearthed,

only to let people roughly figure out his identity. Originally. Qin Shubao's grandfather served as the county magistrate of Guangnian during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Qin Shubao's father served as a clerk in the palace of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

His real identity is neither the eminent queen in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" (Luo Cheng, Qin Shubao's cousin in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" is a fictional historical figure), nor the son of a blacksmith in folklore, but a handsome man born in a family of middle-level officials in the Northern Dynasties.

According to the epitaph of Qin Shubao's father, the Qin family lived in Huaizhili, Licheng County, Qizhou, so Qin Shubao was a native of Licheng, Qizhou (now Jinan, Shandong).

Legend has it that the big locust tree there was planted by Qin Shubao himself. It is based on the portrait of Qin Shubao that has been handed down. Qin Shubao has long eyebrows and beautiful demeanor, and he is a beautiful man with extraordinary bearing, which is quite different from the image of the five big and three rough in the legend.

The mainland filmed the grand scene of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Tang Dynasty", in which Huang Haibing, who plays Qin Shubao, is tall and handsome, and is upright, which is very consistent with the historical prototype in appearance.

That is to say, Qin Shubao, a Shandong man, is a very outstanding man. Extrapolating from the historical chronology, he joined the army as a teenager, and soon showed unusual qualifications.

Qin Shubao was originally a personal soldier under the tent of the great future of the Sui Dynasty, among the legendary heroes of the Sui and Tang dynasties. The only good man in front of Qin Shubao is Laihu'er, and Qin Shubao is indeed appreciated by Laihu'er. Qin Shubao's mother died,

Come to Hu'er and send condolences. The crowd was amazed, "Soldiers were killed and their relatives died." There are many such cases, and the general has never asked about them. Why is it only polite to Qin Shubao? ”，

Lai Hu'er's answer was, "Qin Shubao is extremely brave, ambitious, and disciplined, and he will definitely be able to soar and achieve great things in the future, how can he treat him with a humble attitude."

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was extremely poor and extravagant at home, and used troops externally for many years. Qin Shubao was transferred to the account of Zhang Xutuo, the commander of Qi County, and started by suppressing the peasant uprising.

In the so-called peasant uprisings in history, few of them had strict military discipline and loved the people like children, and most of them burned, killed, looted, and ravaged the people, so it is not unusual for the peasant uprisings to end in failure.

It was also a matter of course for Qin Shubao to act as an executioner, and in December of the tenth year of the Great Cause (614 AD), Zhang Xutuo attacked Lu Mingyue's rebel army, and at that time, Qin Shubao's age would not exceed seventeen years old.

Zhang Xutuo has only more than 10,000 people, and the rebel army has more than 100,000 people, after the two sides hold each other for more than ten days, Zhang Xutuo's troops will run out of food, but the battle situation is not improving, Zhang Xutuo, who loves soldiers like a son, asked for everyone's opinions, "The enemy sees us withdrawing troops, and must go out,

Pursue them with all their might, and their camp will be empty, and a surprise attack on the enemy's camp with a thousand men at this time will surely succeed, but this stratagm is a dangerous move, very dangerous, and what general is willing to take on this heavy task".

Everyone looked at each other, no one dared to respond, only Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin volunteered and stepped forward to receive the order, Luo Shixin was only about fifteen years old at that time, a young hero, joined forces to attack, it was the age when the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger. Zhang Xutuo acted according to the plan, abandoned the camp and retreated, Qin Shubao,

Luo Shixin led more than 1,000 people to ambush in the barren grass, waiting for the opportunity. Lu Mingyue really led the crowd to chase Zhang Xutuo, Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin rushed to the camp of the righteous army with ambush soldiers, and the door of the other party's camp was closed.

Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin climbed the fence, the enemy swords and guns together, the two of them blocked with their swords, climbed over the fence, jumped down, they raised their knives and fell, quickly solved dozens of people, and then opened the camp gate and let the Sui army enter,

followed the arson everywhere, burned more than 30 camps of the righteous army, the flames soared into the sky, reflecting the entire sky, Lu Mingyue knew that something was wrong, and hurried back to rescue, but it was too late, Zhang Xutuo returned to the army to kill,

Countless enemies, under the fierce battle, Lu Mingyue only broke through with hundreds of horses, and the rest were all captured by the Sui army.

Then, Qin Shubao followed Zhang Xutuo to pacify other rebel armies, and repeatedly made military exploits, in the battle of Haiqu against Sun Xuanya, he took the lead, the first to jump on the city tower, defeated Sun Xuanya, and was awarded the post of Jianjie Lieutenant by the Sui Dynasty,

This is the first official position of Qin Shubao recorded in the history books. Helplessly, the world was out of control, and the rebels scattered and reunited, killing more and more.

It was doomed to the inevitable tragic fate of Zhang Xutuo, a loyal minister of the Great Sui. In the twelfth year of the Great Cause (616 AD), Zhang Xutuo and Li Mi of the Wagang Army fought a decisive battle in Dahai Temple (now northeast of Xingyang, Henan). The Sui army was ambushed,

Surrounded by Li Mi's Righteous Legion. Zhang Xutuo had already rushed out of the encirclement, and saw that his subordinates could not break through, so he turned back to rescue, and went in and out of thousands of troops, and finally died in battle and died in martyrdom. Some people called Zhang Xutuo the executioner who suppressed the peasant uprising, saying that he was full of blood.

Compared to history, he is really a good man. His heroism and unyielding loyalty brought tears to his eyes and moved him deeply. According to historical records, after Zhang Xutuo's death, his subordinates wept for several days, and they were overwhelmed with grief.

I don't know if there is Qin Shubao who was brought to the stage of history by Zhang Xutuo, after the war, Qin Shubao led the remnants of the army to take refuge in the Sui general Pei Renji, and obeyed Pei Renji's command and dispatch.

April of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (617 A.D.). Pei Renji fought unfavorably with the Wagang Army, so he simply surrendered to the Wagang Army, and in this way, Qin Shubao became the general under Li Mi of the Wagang Army.

Li Mi's family background is noble. Generations are eunuchs, but they are not the noble sons with low eyes and masters in people's imagination, which is recorded in the historical materials of the Tang people. He once competed with Zhai Rang in archery to determine who would be the leader of the Wagang Army. Here's how to compete. Write a king on the target,

The intersection of a horizontal and a vertical in the middle of the king character is the bull's-eye. Whoever hits the bullseye is the winner, Wang Bodang deliberately wrote the strokes very carefully to increase the difficulty of the competition. Li Mi picked up the bow and arrow unhurriedly and immediately hit the bull's-eye.

sat in the position of the leader of the Wagang Army. Li Mi attached great importance to Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie, and he selected 8,000 of the bravest soldiers to form the "Inner Army", which was divided into two armies, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie respectively, and the main task was to act as Li Mi's personal guard.

"My 8,000 people can be an army of millions", in Li Mi's eyes, Qin Shubao is the bravest and most superb general.

In July of the first year of Tang Gaozu Wude (618 AD), the Wagang army and the army of Yu Wenhua and launched a decisive battle in Liyang (now the northeast of Jun County, Henan), and the two sides fought at the foot of Tongshan (now southwest of Jun County, Henan).

Li Mi was shot by a stray arrow, fell off his horse, and fainted, everyone in the Wagang army thought that Li Mi had died in battle, and their morale collapsed, and Yu Wenhua's army took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, seeing that the Wagang army was about to be defeated, Qin Shubao was in danger,

In the thousands of troops and horses rescued Li Mi, and then, gathered scattered soldiers to defeat the generals, launched a counterattack against Yu Wenhua, and finally defeated Yu Wenhua, however, the Wagang army has also suffered heavy losses,

It's actually a lose-lose situation. At this time, Wang Shichong, another separatist force, wanted to take advantage of the fishermen and led 20,000 elites to attack the Wagang army. Wang Shichong's army faced a situation of running out of food,

It was to put them to death and then come to life, all of them were like tigers on the battlefield, and the result was that the Wagang army disappeared, and the big boss Li Mi left his subordinates and defected to the Tang Dynasty alone, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie were helpless and submitted to Wang Shichong, a traitorous male.

Qin Shubao got the high-ranking official Houlu and was named the general of Longxiang,

but soon despised Wang Shichong's personality. Cheng Zhijie said to Qin Shubao, "Wang Shichong has no measure for people, and loves to curse and swear, living like a witch and a god, he is treacherous and cunning, and he can never be the master of the world.

There is no way out for us to follow him", Qin Shubao deeply agreed, and decided to leave Wang Shichong and join the Ming Lord. At this time, Li Yuan's father and son were famous, and since they came out, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie admired it in their hearts.

decided to go to Datang to make contributions. In February 619 AD, Wang Shichong's army and the Tang army fought in Jiuqu, Henan, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie pretended to attack the Tang army, and a group of dozens of horsemen ran out of more than 100 steps, and dismounted together to bid farewell to Wang Shichong, "We have received your special courtesy, and we want to repay you,

But you are too suspicious to tolerate people, we don't want to be with you, say goodbye, there will be a period later", Wang Shichong's nose was almost crooked, but he was helpless, watching everyone defect to Tang Ying.

After Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie returned to the Tang Dynasty, they were assigned by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan to the account of Li Shimin, the king of Qin. Qin Shubao was awarded the title of Governor of the Ma Army,

Cheng Zhijie was awarded the third commander of the Qin Palace, Li Shimin personally selected more than 1,000 elite cavalry, wearing black clothes and black armor, led by Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie and others, forming the Xuanjia team, which must be the vanguard in every battle, and began the process of sweeping away the separatist forces.

In March 619 (the second year of Tang Wude), Liu Wuzhou, the largest separatist force in the north, raised troops to attack Tang, and Li Yuanji, the governor of the state, was not properly commanded, resulting in the loss of Taiyuan, Li Yuanji fled to Chang'an, and the battle of Baibi began. Liu Wuzhou's general Song Jingang advanced by victory,

Along the way, almost all of the territory of Hedong in the Tang Dynasty fell, and Li Shimin saw that the situation was critical, stepped forward and took on the important task of recovering Hedong.

Li Shimin's 30,000 elite soldiers crossed the Yellow River and confronted Song Jingang's army at Baibi. Song Jingang was alone in the depths, and the advantage was to fight quickly, Li Shimin did not come out, and sent people to cut off Song Jingang's grain channel, waiting for Song Jingang's grain and grass to run out and be unable to continue. Prior to that,

Xia County and Puzhou in Hedong responded to Liu Wuzhou, the Tang Dynasty sent Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, to conquer and suppress, and Song Jingang sent Wei Chi Jingde to reinforce the defenders of Xia County.

At this time, Qin Shubao was already ambushed in the Meiliang River between Xia County and Huzhou, ready to give Wei Chi Jingde a head-on blow. Wei Chi Jingde had already been carried away by the victory, and did not take Qin Shubao's ambush army in his eyes.

Only to find that the Tang army was brave and invincible and unstoppable, Wei Chi Jingde rushed left and right, fought hard to get out of the encirclement, the wolf bèi fled to Huzhou, and Qin Shubao 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.

Interspersed with small roads, 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. The Tang army regained the lost territory on the one hand, and continued to confront Song Jingang, and in April 620 AD, the Song Jingang army ran out of food and grass and withdrew its troops back to the army.

Li Shimin began to strike preemptively and pursued with all his might. The soldiers of the Tang Army galloped 200 miles in one day, and even 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 finch mouse.

Eight battles in one day, tens of thousands of prisoners were captured, Song Jingang and Wei Chi Jingde fled to Jiexiu, the Tang army followed closely behind, Song Jingang was helpless, led 20,000 soldiers to set up a formation in Jiexiu's back city, and fought a decisive battle with the Tang army with the last old book. Li Shimin sent Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie to attack the northern end of the big array,

Zhai Changsun and Qin Wutong attacked the southern end of the big array, and Xu Shiyun, who was facing it head-on, was unfavorable, and Li Shimin personally led his troops to rush and kill, and he was overpressed by Mount Tai.

In one fell swoop, defeated the Song Jingang army, beheaded more than 3,000 people, Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang fled to the Turks, and later died under the knife of the Turks. (To be continued......)