In the first year of Tiaolu (679 AD), Tubo Zampu died, and the enthroned Zampu was only eight years old, Tang Gaozong intended to let Pei Xingjian attack Tubo, Pei Xingjian's eyes were like a moment, and he sincerely said to Tang Gaozong, "Tubo is now on Qinling in charge of military affairs, and the monarch and ministers are harmonious,

It is not the best time for the Tang army to attack", Tang Gaozong weighed the pros and cons and listened to Pei Xingjian's opinion.

At this time, there were ten more khans in the northwest, Ashina Duzhi and Beshuai Li Shalu, who colluded with Tibet and invaded Anxi (now Tokmak, Russia).

Endangering the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, the border situation gave Tang Gaozong a headache, Pei Xingjian offered advice, "The new funeral of the Persian king, sending the Persian prince Ninishi back to the throne, will inevitably pass by the tribe of Ashina Duzhi and Li Shalu, and then see the opportunity to act,

It will be able to make meritorious contributions", Tang Gaozong nodded again and again, agreed with Pei Xingjian's strategy of outwitting, and he appointed Pei Xingjian as the envoy to pacify the Great Food (now Arabia) and immediately set out on the road. Pei Xingjian asked Wang Fangyi to be the deputy envoy and serve as the inspector of the school and the protector of Anxi.

Xizhou is the place where Pei Xingjian once served, the locals heard that Pei Xingjian was coming, and the people and officials went out of the city to greet him, Pei Xingjian took the opportunity to gather thousands of Haojie's children to follow him to the west.

He also sent someone to threaten, "Now the weather is hot, it is not suitable for long travel, after the autumn is cool, go on the road again", Ashina Duzhi heard the report of the spies, and no longer guarded.

Pei Xingjian summoned the Hu chieftains of the four towns of Qiuzi, Bisha, Yanqi, and Shule (all in present-day Xinjiang).

Hunting and playing with everyone, never tired of it, after entering Beijing, I will never forget, today I want to relive this fun, who wants to hunt with me", Hu people's children rushed to accompany them, even to 10,000 people.

Pei Xingjian pretended to be hunting, reorganized the team, and traveled in a double way, and a few days later, he arrived more than ten miles away from the Ashinadu branch. The show is about to begin

Pei Xingjian first sent someone to greet Ashina Duzhi, saying that he was purely passing by, and then sent someone to summon Ashina Duzhi, which made the other party suspicious. Ashina Duzhi once made an appointment with Li Sharuo. In the autumn, they raised troops together to resist the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, and suddenly, Pei Xingjian was in front of him.

Ashina Duzhi couldn't think of a good countermeasure for a while, so he only led 500 of his disciples to meet him. As a result, they were all captured.

Then, Pei Xingjian used the arrows of the Ashina Duzhi to gather all the chiefs under him and escorted them all to Shattered Leaf City.

Immediately dispatched elite cavalry, day and night, to capture Li Shalu. On the way, the envoy of Ashina Duzhi was captured, and he was rushing back to restore his life, accompanied by Li Shalu's envoy, all of whom fell into the hands of the Tang army.

Pei Xingjian released Li Shalu's envoy and asked him to go and inform Li Shalu. The Ashina Duzhi had been captured by the Tang army, and the army was marching towards Li Shalu's tribe. Li Shalu had no choice but to surrender to Pei Xingjian.

So, the Persian prince of this trip was sold by Pei Xingjian and sent him back to China on his own, Pei Xingjian escorted Ashina Duzhi and Li Shalu and others to return to Chang'an to resume their lives, and the deputy envoy Wang Fangyi stayed, built the city of broken leaves, and made Shi Jigong.

Tang Gaozong was ecstatic, he didn't expect that things would be resolved so easily. This is exactly Pei Xingjian's accumulation, the emperor personally feasted the hard-working courtiers, and repeatedly expressed his praise,

"You're alone. The soldier is not bloody and the enemy is captured, which can be described as both civil and military, so he was awarded the second post of civil and military at the same time, and served as the general of the right guard of the Ministry of Rites and the inspection school".

In October of the same year, the Eastern Turkic chieftain Ashwin Fu rebelled, and all the twenty-four prefectures under his jurisdiction responded. There are hundreds of thousands of rebels, and the northern part of the Tang Dynasty is in frequent emergencies. The imperial court sent Shi Xiao Siye, the governor of the capital protectorate, to lead the army to fight for the need, first won and then lost, and the situation was critical.

Pei Xingjian was immediately appointed as the general manager of the Dingxiang Road march, leading 180,000 troops, and joining forces with Cheng Wuting of the Western Army and Li Wenjian of the Eastern Army with more than 300,000 troops to attack Ashdwin Fu. The Tang army was even thousands of miles away, and it was controlled by Pei Xingjian, and the historian praised it, "The Tang Dynasty is prosperous, and there is no such thing."

Pei Xingjian led his army to Shuozhou (now Shuo County, Shanxi), and learned that Xiao Siye was defeated because of the robbery of the grain truck, and decided to plan the plan.

There are 300 camouflage grain trucks, and five strong men lurk in each vehicle, armed with Mo knives (long-handled two-edged knives) and crossbows, escorted by old and weak soldiers, and elite soldiers follow behind.

The Turks did so and rushed over to attack the grain convoy, but the old and weak soldiers abandoned the cart and fled. The Turks drove the grain carts to the places where there were water and grass, unsaddled their horses, and prepared to get grain.

The strong men of the Tang army immediately jumped out, and the ambush soldiers were also killed at the same time, and the enemy was solved in a painful and vivid manner, and almost none of the Turks who grabbed the grain were spared, and from then on, the Turks no longer dared to approach the grain convoy of the Tang army.

The army advanced to the north of Shan Yu Mansion, and it was already close to evening, and the Tang army set up camp and dug the surrounding trenches.

Pei Xingjian ordered the soldiers to move the camp to the high post, and the generals said that the soldiers had settled down, and everyone was very tired and did not want to move anymore.

Pei Xingjian's tone was resolute, urging everyone to act according to military orders. Although everyone was resentful, they did not dare to disobey Pei Xingjian's military order, and got up and moved the camp. That night, the wind and rain raged, and the original camp of the Tang army was quickly flooded.

The depth of the water was more than a zhang, and the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army were all happy, sincerely admiring Pei Xingjian's foresight, and since then they have obeyed Pei Xingjian's words.

In the first year of Yonglong (680 AD), Pei Xingjian led his army to fight against the Turks in Montenegro (now northwest of Baotou, Inner Mongolia), and won victories one after another.

Captured the enemy chieftain Ashina to serve, Ashina was killed by his subordinates, and surrendered to the Tang army with his head.

The remnants of the Turks retreated to Wolf Mountain (in present-day Urad Zhonghou United Banner in Inner Mongolia), and the Tang army returned victorious, playing a triumphant song.

After Pei Xingjian's main force returned to the army, Ashina Funian established himself as a khan, gathered the remnants with Ashdwin Fu, and committed the Tang realm again.

Tang Gaozong once again appointed Pei Xingjian as the general manager of the Dingxiang Road march, and asked him to "chase the poor with the remaining bravery".

Pei Xingjian led the Tang army to the north, stationed troops in Daizhou Shankou (now northwest of Dai County, Shanxi), and was not in a hurry to attack, he resorted to counter-tactics to make Ashina Funian and Ashdewen Fu suspicious of each other, internal discord, Ashina Funian left his wife, heavy in Jinya Mountain, led the main force to attack the Tang army, the rear was empty, Pei Xingjian had an opportunity to take advantage of.

Pei Xingjian sent Cheng Wuting and He Jiami to attack Jinya Mountain,

Ashina's wife and baggage were captured by the Tang army. Ashina was confused, and his soldiers were infected with many diseases, so they had to retreat to the fine sand. Confused and frightened, he sent an envoy to Pei Xingjian, hoping to capture Ashdwin Fu to atone for his crimes, and Pei Xingjian promised to save his life after surrendering.

But. Pei Xingjian also saw Ashina Funian's hesitation, he sent Liu Jingtong and Cheng Wuting to chase after him, and the Hui army also advanced at the same time, and Ashina Funian was cornered. I had to grab Ashdwin Fu and go from the path to surrender to Pei Xingjian.

The dust outside the Tang army camp was covered with dust, and the reconnaissance soldiers hurriedly reported it, Pei Xingjian was calm and calm, and told everyone. "This is not an enemy attack, but Ashina Fu Nian came to surrender, and if he is surrendered, he must be on strict guard, he must be on strict guard."

He sent an envoy to greet Ashina Funian, and Ashina Funian came with Ashdwin Fu to surrender, and so far, the remnants of the Turks have been pacified.

Tang Gaozong was greatly excited, and sent Cui Zhiyi, the secretary of the household department, to the army to be rewarded. Pei Yan was jealous of Pei Xingjian's merits, and sang a duet with Pei Xingjian.

He believed that the enemy had surrendered in an embattled situation. Once it was in his favor, he would inevitably rebel, and he instigated Tang Gaozong to behead 64 people, including Ashina Funian and Ashdewen Fu, in the city, so that Pei Xingjian's previous promise not to kill him could not be fulfilled.

Pei Xingjian was very sad, he and Pei Yan were both from Wenxi Pei's family, "The past of Wang Hun and Wang Jun's struggle for merit is a shame in ancient and modern times." But after the fear of killing, there is no return."

Although Pei Xingjian was canonized as the Duke of Wenxi County by the imperial court, he was haunted by the killing and surrendering, saying that he was not sick.

The first year of Yongchun (682 AD). Ashina Chebo led ten Western Turkic tribes to rise up against the Tang Dynasty and besieged Gongyue City (northwest of present-day Huocheng, Xinjiang), and the northwest frontier was in an emergency. Pei Xingjian was appointed by Tang Gaozong as the chief of the Golden Tooth Road march, and led his troops to meet the Western Turkic army.

The army has not yet set out. Pei Xingjian died at the age of sixty-four. The imperial court gave the governor of Youzhou, and the nickname was dedicated.

At that time, Pei Xingjian's son Pei Guangting was only eight years old, and Tang Gaozong asked the crown prince to send a Liupin Jingguan to the Pei family to take care of him, and he would not stop until the descendants of the Pei family grew up. After Tang Zhongzong ascended the throne. and then gave Pei Xingjian as the governor of Yangzhou.

Pei Xingjian once said, "Scholars are far-reaching, first instrumental knowledge, then literature and art", is an out-and-out Bole, good at discovering talents and cultivating talents, he has recommended Cheng Wuting, Wang Fangyi, Li Duozuo, Heiya Changzhi, Liu Jingtong, Guo Zhifeng and others are all famous generals,

There are dozens of officials and generals. He also wrote ten volumes of "Selected Scores", which contained forty-six tips such as placing military camps, marching troops, winning and losing, and screening instruments, and later Wu Zetian sent Wu Chenghei to take this book and hide it in the palace, which was not handed down, which was a pity. Pei Xingjian is generous, generous and decent,

Won the hearts of the military. Once, Tang Gaozong rewarded Pei Xingjian with horses and saddles, and the Ministry of Rites ordered Shi Ce's horse to run too fast, and the horse fell down and the saddle broke, causing Shi to flee with sin. Pei Xingjian sent someone to find them back and said,

"How can you look down on me so much?" When he caught Ashina Duzhi and Li Shaluo, he seized a lot of rare treasures, among which there was an agate plate about two feet wide, "Wencai is extraordinary", in the banquet, when the military official Wang Xiulie held the plate and went up the steps for everyone to watch,

accidentally fell and smashed the agate plate, and everyone present was shocked. Wang Xiulie kowtowed and bled and pleaded guilty to Pei Xingjian. Pei Xingjian smiled and said, "You didn't mean it, why don't you do this?"

There was not the slightest expression of regret on his face. Tang Gaozong gave Pei Xingjian more than 3,000 pieces of gold artifacts from the Ashina Duzhi, as well as a lot of livestock and camels, and Pei Xingjian gave all the money to relatives, friends and subordinates.

It was divided in a few days. There is the Tang generation, and there is an endless stream of prime ministers surnamed Pei, and you can see the clues from what Pei Xingjian did. Although Pei Xingjian has only commanded three battles, his military career is only eleven years,

The achievements are difficult for many battlefield veterans to match, and what is even more rare is that he is an all-round man in civil and military affairs, and has formulated a quantitative code system for the selection of officials in the Tang Dynasty.

He advocated "cautious warfare", advocated outwitting, and showed a military strategist's far-sighted mind and insight, so to speak, the wealth and strength of the Tang Dynasty cultivated open-minded ministers and good generals.

Pei Xingjian, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, is like a shining star in the sky of history, shining brightly, and will always warm the hearts of future generations of China.

Li Siye

"The strange soldiers are not in the crowd, and ten thousand horses save the Central Plains. There is no Hebei in talking and laughing, and the heart and liver are supreme. The lonely cloud follows the murderous aura, and the birds avoid the door.

The day is happy, and the city is not noisy", this is the sentence in the Tang Dynasty poem Du Fu's "Guan'an West Soldiers Go to the Pass to Stand by Two Songs",

Highly praised the Anxi soldiers who went to the country for thousands of miles, their military appearance was neat, and there was no crime in the autumn, which can be called a model of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and the leader of the five thousand Anxi soldiers is the famous general Li Siye of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially in the life and death of the Anshi Rebellion, he drove the army forward, led the Modao team to "advance like a wall", invincible, and single-handedly supported the crumbling Tang Dynasty.

Li Siye is a native of Jingzhao Gaoling (today's Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province), seven feet long, that is, 2.1 meters, with extraordinary strength, born to practice martial arts good embryos, in the atmosphere of advocating military merits in the Tang Dynasty, enlisting in the army, making meritorious contributions, became his logical choice. The young Li Siye fought hard in every battle, charged ahead, and was soon promoted to the captain of Zhaowu.

In the early years of Tianbao, he was recruited into Anxi and worked for Datang in the Western Regions. At that time, the army promoted the Mo knife (a long-handled two-edged knife), which was simply a weapon prepared for Li Siye, and he soon stood out and became a famous Mo knife general.

In the sixth year of Tianbao, Li Siye followed Gao Xianzhi, the then commander of Anxi, to go to the country of Xiaobolu, and in Lianyunbao (now Salhad in northeast Afghanistan), the necessary place for the Tang army, the Tubo army built fortifications and waited for the battle.

Gao Xianzhi appointed Li Siye and Tian Zhen as the left and right Mo sword generals, and issued an order, "Lianyun Fort must be captured before noon, otherwise they will all die." The battle began, and Li Siye took the lead and climbed the mountain from the most precipitous place.

Mo knife waved, the enemy cried wolf, dead bodies were everywhere, seven or eight out of ten fell off the cliff and drowned in the water, and the Tang army took Lianyunbao in one fell swoop. Then take advantage of the victory and go straight to the little Bolu country,

After capturing King Bolu and his wife, Princess Tubo, the Tang army regained military hegemony west and north of Kashmir, and "the seventy-two kingdoms of Fulu and Dashi were all shocked and surrendered".

After returning to the army, Li Siye was promoted to the town guard of Shule (now Kashgar region, Shule Town is the westernmost of the four towns in Anxi) to defend the frontier areas of the Tang Empire.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty are really as dazzling as the stars, and each of them has their own extraordinary war history.

However, among these people, Li Weigong Nanping Xiao Jian and Fu Gongyou, Northern Breaking Turkic, Xiding Tuguhun, is definitely the first person in Tang Dynasty martial arts. (To be continued.) )