Li Yu

Runan morning rooster chirps, and the drum horn sound of the city head is peaceful.

The old man on the side of the road recalled the old things, and he was grateful.

The old man gave a speech before collecting tears, and the officials and soldiers did not know about entering the city.

Suddenly frightened Yuan and twelve years, I saw Tianbao Chengping again.

This is the second of the "Three Songs of Ping Caizhou" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi, Caizhou, Tianbao was Runan County,

The poem writes the excitement of Caizhou's fathers and elders when they see Wang Shi again, and praises the eternal legend of the Tang Dynasty famous general Li Yuxue entering Caizhou at night.

It reproduces the divine power of the Tang Dynasty heroes stepping on the nest of the rebels, leaving a singable and crying proof for the history of the Tang Dynasty.

Speaking of Li Yuxue's night entry into Caizhou, we can't fail to mention the historical background at that time.

It is impossible not to mention the evolution of this official rank. The name of the Jiedu envoy originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Andi period, which means moderation and scheduling, and in the second year of Jingyun of the Tang Dynasty (711 AD), the imperial court let the governor of Liangzhou serve as the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu, and only then did he formally establish the position of the local military and political chief of the Jiedu envoy.

It became a frontier official system established by the Tang Dynasty to consolidate the frontier. In the later period of Tang Xuanzong, the conscription system gradually replaced the government military system, and the professional soldiers fought year after year, and there was no moment of peace on the frontier, and in the first year of Tianbao (742 AD),

The number of Jiedu envoys has increased to ten, Hexi Jiedu Envoy, Fanyang Jiedu Envoy, Longyou Jiedu Envoy, Jiannan Jiedu Envoy, Anxi Jiedu Envoy, Shuofang Jiedu Envoy, Hedong Jiedu Envoy, Beiting Jiedu Envoy, Pinglu Jiedu Envoy, Lingnan Jiedu Envoy, Jiedu Envoy set military and political, civil, financial power in one, with as many as 490,000 troops, completely changing the distribution of troops in the Tang Empire before being in the center and outside the system,

This situation of internal light and external importance finally led to the eight-year-long "Anshi Rebellion", in which the lives were devastated, the corpses were all over the field, the officials and rebels were exhausted, and the imperial court was full of envoys in the country.

This kind of military system of border passes was transplanted to the interior, and it buried the disaster of the feudal towns that could not be lost later. After the rebellion was put down, the Tang Dynasty, which had already broken its bones, reached a compromise with An Lushan and Shi Siming's old generals.

They were appointed as the envoys of the three towns of Chengde, Weibo and Lulong, known as the three towns of Heshuo in history, in addition, there was also Ziqing Town (Zhiqingzhou. present-day Yidu, Shandong), Huaixi Town (Zhicaizhou, present-day Runan, Henan) and other feudal towns,

During the Yuanhe period of Tang Xianzong, there were forty-seven festivals in the country, and the feudal domain was cut. It has become Tang Xianzong's imminent task.

In the ninth year of Yuanhe, Huaixi Jiedu made Wu Shaoyang sick and died, and his son Wu Yuanji concealed the news of his father's death, in the name of Wu Shaoyang,

asked the imperial court to let Wu Yuanji stay behind, but after being vetoed by Tang Xianzong, Wu Yuanji supported the army and stood on his own.

The three prefectures of Shen (now Xinyang, Henan), Guang (now Huangchuan, Henan), and Cai (now Runan, Henan) confronted the imperial court, burning, killing and looting.

He also conspired with Wang Chengzong of Chengde (present-day Zhengding, Hebei) and Li Shidao of Ziqing (present-day Yidu, Shandong), and asked them to speak for themselves. Li Shidao's recital did not get Tang Xianzong's approval, and he even sent troops to disguise himself as robbers.

Having burned down the imperial court's granary reserves in Heyin (northeast of present-day Xingyang, Henan) and disrupting the Tang army's logistical supplies for counterinsurgency, he had the audacity to send well-trained assassins into the capital, killing Wu Yuanheng, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Pei Du, who was the main battle faction.

Fortunately, Pei Du's men sacrificed their lives to save them from being strewn on the streets. The crazy actions of the feudal town strengthened Tang Xianzong's determination to unify the society, and he let Pei Du succeed him as prime minister. presided over the overall situation of counterinsurgency, and it was at this time that the crown prince Zhan Shi Li Yu recommended himself and asked to share the country's worries.

Li Yu has a world-famous father, that is, Li Sheng, the king of Xiping County, who recreated the Tang Dynasty, Li Sheng is from the Li family in Longxi. It is the same ancestor as the Li Tang royal family.

In the "Qinwang Bay" near Lintao County, Gansu Province today, there is the tomb of Li Qin, the father of Li Sheng, the prince Taibao, Tang Zuojinwuwei, the general Li Qin, and his wife, Mrs. Wang, and there is also a "Li Qin Shinto Monument", which was unfortunately destroyed in a special period. According to historical records, Li Yu, like his father, was good at riding and shooting.

The mother is filial piety, Li Yu's biological mother is Li Sheng's concubine, died very early, he has been raised by the Jin State Lady Wang, Wang regards him as his own, he also treats Wang as his own mother, and later Wang died of illness,

According to the etiquette system, the son must serve his mother with filial piety, because Li Yu is not from the main room, but a concubine, Li Sheng only asks him to "serve", and the material of the hemp is a fine cooked linen cloth, which is used to make mourning clothes.

"Clothing" indicates that the relationship between the man and the deceased is far away, only filial sons and eldest grandsons are qualified to "serve the cloth", the silk is the heaviest mourning dress among the five clothes, made of the coarsest raw linen, the edge of the clothes is not sewn, indicating that there is no decoration to grief, Li Yu cried unbearable, Li Sheng was moved by his son's true feelings,

Let his son "serve" for the Wang family. After Li Sheng's death, Li Yu went home to worry about his father according to the etiquette system, he and Li Xian set up a shed next to his father's grave, sleeping in the cold and cold, coarse tea and light rice, and keeping filial piety for his father for three years.

He only stayed at home for one night, and the next day he returned to his father's cemetery, and Tang Dezong saw that he was so determined, so he no longer stopped him, and let him complete the three years of suffering.

This kind of filial piety is something that ordinary people can't do, so the people of the time have great respect for those who complete this kind of filial piety and regard it as a model for the world.

In addition to filial piety, Li Yu was awarded the position of the right concubine by the imperial court, and later became the young government supervisor and the left concubine. He once served as the assassin of Fang and Jin Erzhou, and because of his outstanding political achievements, he was crowned the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu by the imperial court.

Transferred back to the capital, he was promoted all the way to the crown prince Zhan Shi. At that time, the Huaixi rebellion had gone through many years, and among the generals, except for Li Guangyan, they all had the idea of raising Kou and self-respect, and 90,000 people besieged Wu Yuanji's territory, but the battle was fruitless for a long time.

In the eleventh year of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yu was appointed as the envoy of Tang (now Tanghe County, Henan), Sui (now Suixian, Hubei), and Deng (now Deng County, Henan), and an opportunity to carry out his great cause came to him.

In the twelfth year of Yuanhe (817 AD), the Tang army of the North Road, under the command of Li Guangyan, fought with 30,000 Huaixi soldiers outside Yuncheng, annihilating 23 out of 10 enemies, and the Huaixi defenders of Yuncheng surrendered to the Tang army.

Wu Yuanji transferred all the elites of the Huaixi Army to the northern front to defend Li Guangyan, and Caizhou's troops were empty.

Tang Xianzong sent Pei Du to the front line to supervise the war, obeyed Pei Du's construction, and abolished the practice of eunuchs supervising the formation. After Li Yu took office,

Pacifying the soldiers, comforting the wounded, and quickly mingling with everyone, he intended to show weakness to the Huaixi Army. The army is governed loosely and paralyzed the enemy's fighting spirit. The Huaixi Army had defeated the Tang Army on the Western Road many times before,

Seeing that Li Yu lacked experience in leading troops, he did not list Li Yu as a key target for prevention. gave the later surprise attack a chance. In order to increase the strength of the Western Front, Li Yu asked the imperial court to increase his troops.

He obtained 2,000 cavalry transferred by Tang Xianzong from Zhaoyi (now Changzhi, Shanxi), Hezhong (now Yongjidong, Shanxi), and Yanfang (now Fuxian, Shaanxi), and had sufficient capital to compete with the Huaixi Army.

The Art of War, "Know yourself and know your enemy." A hundred battles will not be defeated", Li Yu's attitude towards the surrender of the general showed his full self-confidence. The Tang army captured Ding Shiliang, the general of the Huaixi Army,

Everyone asked to dig out his heart, but Ding Shiliang was not afraid, with a generous demeanor of going to death, Li Yu likes such a tough guy,

asked someone to loosen Ding Shiliang's ties and spared his life. Ding Shiliang was grateful for Li Yu's magnanimity and took the initiative to offer advice to Li Yu, "Wu Xiulin guarded Wenchengzha (now southwest of Suiping, Henan).

and Wu Yuanji are fighting each other's corners, and he has the mastermind Chen Guangqia to give him advice, so the officials and soldiers can't get cheap. Chen Guangqia is brave and likes to act alone, as long as he can be arrested,

Wu Xiulin will definitely surrender without a fight", Li Yu captured Chen Guangqia according to the plan, and sure enough, he recruited Wu Xiulin's 3,000 troops. Li Yu asked Wu Xiulin for a plan, and Wu Xiulin thought that Caizhou should be broken.

It was necessary to use Wu Yuanji's cavalry general Li You, Li You was resourceful and familiar with Wu Yuanji's internal affairs, and the fortress was broken from the inside. It will have the effect of doing more with less. At that time, Li You was stationed in Xingqiaozha (now southeast of Suiping, Henan),

Repeatedly gave the Tang army a headache, Li Yu dispatched troops to take advantage of Li You to harvest wheat in the field, and three hundred Tang army elites jumped out of the nearby woods and captured Li Yousheng alive.

Tang Jun used to suffer Li You's stuffy losses. He had long wanted to kill him to vent his anger, Li Yu knew the seriousness of the matter, and tried his best to save Li You's life.

People are terrible, for Li Yu often talked secretly with the two generals Li You and Li Zhongyi in the account, there was a lot of discussion in the army, and anonymous letters flew all over the sky, pointing out that Li You was a traitor in the Huaixi Army.

Li Yu felt a lot of pressure, he was worried that Tang Xianzong would have a misunderstanding because of this, and decided to send Li You to Chang'an and let the emperor deal with this matter.

"If Li You is killed, the pacification of Huaixi will not be successful", Tang Xianzong's generation of British lords, of course, understood the feelings of his courtiers, he pardoned Li You and asked Li You to return to Tangzhou to assist Li Yu's actions.

Li Yu was very relieved to see Li You return safely, he held Li You's hands, and said emotionally, "You can come back, this is the blessing of Datang." He immediately entrusted Li You with a military position, allowed Li You to enter and leave his military tent with a saber, and soon let Li You serve as the soldier and horse envoy of the Sixth Academy. Li Yu's trust and protection,

Let Li Yu feel heartfelt warmth, he put his heart in his heart, and presented Li Yu with a plan to attack Caizhou, which coincided with Li Yu's thoughts, for the sake of safety,

Li Yu sent someone to report this plan to Pei Du, and Pei Du asked Li Yu to act at the opportunity and deal with it with full authority. With the full trust of his boss, all Li Yu has to do is give it a go. Until then,

He abolished the old military order of "slaughtering his family by thieves and spies", collected a lot of intelligence through Guò's Huairou to enemy spies, and knew the internal situation of Caizhou well.

On this day, the cold wind is howling, cold and biting,

Li You led a death squad of 3,000 people to set off, followed by Li Yu's 3,000-strong Chinese army, and then Tian Jincheng's 3,000-strong rear army.

The army went all the way to the east, but the route has been kept secret from everyone, and traveled sixty miles to reach Zhangchai Village (now Suipingdong, Henan), which was guarded by the Huaixi Army, and the Tang army killed all the soldiers, so as not to get the beacon warning from the enemy.

Then take a short rest, eat some dry food, and tidy up the harness and weapons. Li Yu asked 500 Yicheng troops to stay in the local area to guard against reinforcements from the direction of the enemy's Langshan (now Queshan, Henan).

The weather was cold, the strong wind blew the military flags, the horses trembled, and the soldiers had stiff hands and feet.

Seventy miles southeast of Zhangchai Village is Caizhou City, since Wu Shaocheng seized this place, the official army has not been to Caizhou for more than 30 years, the generals heard Li Yu's order, shocked, the prison army cried and said, "Sure enough, I fell for Li You's trick."

In addition to dividing 500 troops to cut off the road and bridge leading to Caizhou from Huiqu (now southwest of Shangshui, Henan), the rest of the soldiers marched eastward lightly in the wind and snow, and the snow was overwhelming, and the people and horses froze to death looked at each other.

Li Yu has only one command, forward, forward. The enemy never expected that there would be a visit from the officers and soldiers in such weather, and at the fourth watch, Li Yu's troops were already unaware of the ghosts and approached the city of Caizhou.

Li You and Li Zhongyi dug out a hurdle on the city wall that could be set foot on, and took the lead in entering the city, followed by the soldiers, and the officers and soldiers raised their swords and fell, and cleanly solved the Huaixi soldiers who defended the city, leaving only the people who fought the watch.

The city gate was wide open, and the officers and soldiers rushed in and entered Caizhou City. At dawn, the heavy snow stopped, and the official army had already invaded Wu Yuanji's outer house, and Wu Yuanji was still asleep, unaware of it.

A Huaixi soldier rushed into the inner room and told Wu Yuanji, "Oh no, the official army has entered the city."

Wu Yuanji didn't wake up from sleep, thinking that his subordinates lied about the military situation, "It must be the prisoners who are making trouble, and I'll clean them up when it's dawn", before the voice fell, another soldier came to report, "The city gate has been opened by the officers and soldiers",

Wu Yuanjiwu didn't believe it, "It's probably the defenders over there who are looking for me to ask for winter clothes", at this time, the shouts outside shook the heavens and the earth, "Chang Shi has passed the order (Chang Shi is Li Yu's official title at this time)",

Wu Yuanji was taken aback when he heard the response of tens of thousands of soldiers, "What kind of permanent servant is this, come here to give orders", at this time, he finally understood that the official army had reached his nose.

Wu Yuanji was unwilling to be captured, and led his cronies to resist stubbornly, and Li Yu knew that he was waiting for Dong Chongzhen, a general of Huaixi stationed in Huiqu, to send reinforcements, so he took action first.

Li Chongzhen sent people to comfort Dong Chongzhen's family and reassured them, Dong Chongzhen's son was sent to Huiqu to persuade his father to surrender, and succeeded in one fell swoop, Dong Chongzhen alone rushed to Caizhou and surrendered to Li Yu.

Cutting off Wu Yuanji's retreat, the official army attacked Caizhou Yacheng day and night, destroying its outer gate.

The armory was seized, and the next day, the south gate was set on fire, and the people of Caizhou carried firewood and grass on their backs and enthusiastically helped the officers and soldiers. The arrows of the officers and soldiers rained down, and the arrows that hit the inner courtyard were as dense as hedgehog hair,

In the evening, the inner courtyard was breached, Wu Yuanji and Qianqian were poor, pleaded guilty to Li Yu on the courtyard wall, surrendered to the official army, and Caizhou returned to the control of the central government.

Li Yu sent someone to escort Wu Yuanji to Jingshi in a prisoner car, and reported the victory to Tang Xianzong, while calming the people's hearts and waiting for Pei Du's arrival.

The successive victories of the official army shocked the arrogance of the rebels, and more than 20,000 soldiers from Shen, Guang Erzhou and Zhuzhen came to surrender one after another, and the campaign to conquer Huaixi lasted four years and cost a lot. (To be continued.) )