In the second year of Tang Suzong (761 AD),

Shi Siming defeated the Tang army at the foot of Pishan Mountain north of Luoyang, the Tang army suffered thousands of casualties, retired to Wenxi (now northeast of Wenxi, Shanxi), Heyang and Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan) fell one after another, the imperial court was shaken, and immediately increased troops to prevent the rebels from advancing westward. Tang Suzong knew that it was not Li Guangbi's fault, and he was very tolerant of him, "Few,

Worship the Taiwei, and serve in the middle and Henan deputy marshal", the five provinces of the camp are envoys, before leaving, the emperor personally wrote poems to say goodbye. After the Battle of Bishan, Shi Chaoyi killed his father Shi Siming, in the first year of Baoying (762 AD),

Shi Chaoyi entered the siege of Songzhou (now Shangqiunan, Henan). The generals Jianyì Li Guangbi retired to Yangzhou, Li Guangbi said, "The imperial court pinned its safety on me, and of course I will repay it wholeheartedly." The rebels don't know how many of us are.

If you take it by surprise, you can defeat the enemy with certainty". He went out to fight with illness, stationed in Xuzhou, and led a large army to attack Shi Chaoyi, who surrounded Songzhou, and relieved the siege of Songzhou.

Then, he recovered Xuzhou, beheaded more than 1,000 rebels, and captured 22 rebel generals. Soon, Yuan Chao rebelled in eastern Zhejiang, and Li Guangbi participated in the suppression of the peasant army, which soon pacified eastern Zhejiang.

He was awarded the title of King of Linhuai County because of his merits, "Zhao Zengshi sealed 2,000 households, and one son and three ranks, gave iron coupons, the name of the Taimiao, and the graphics of Lingyan Pavilion", so far, he has reached the peak of his career.

Background to the Battle of Talas.

The Battle of Talas (怛, pronounced dá), or Battle of Danlos, was a battle in which the forces of the Tang Dynasty during the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty of the Chinese Tang Dynasty met and the forces of the emerging Abbasid dynasty (i.e., the Great Eaters of the Black Clothes) from present-day Arabia, emerging and Shia Islam, and led the battle in Central Asia, including the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, the Great and the Great Bolu, and the Tocharo. The Battle of Talas was a collision between the most powerful Eastern and Western empires in history at the time.

The cause of the Battle of Talas, according to Chinese historical records, was the "No Minister's Ceremony" of the Western Regions vassal state Shiguo.

Tang Anxi Jiedu made Gao Xianzhi lead the army to conscript, Shiguo asked for surrender, and Gao Xianzhi promised to reconcile; However, Gao Xianzhi soon broke his promise and captured and bloodied the city of Shiguo, plundered men, slaughtered the elderly, women and children, looted property, and captured the king of Shiguo and beheaded him.

The prince of Shi, who escaped by chance, appealed to the Abbasids for help. After Gao Xianzhi got the news. It was decided to take a preemptive strategy and take the initiative to attack Da Shi. In view of the influence of the Tang Empire in the Western Regions at that time,

Many soldiers from Qarluq and Bakhana joined the Tang army, forming a coalition of more than 30,000 people (more than 70,000 according to other accounts). Among them, Tang soldiers accounted for two-thirds.

Gao Xianzhi led the Tang Dynasty coalition army to run for a long distance, penetrating more than 700 miles, and finally encountered the Great Food Army in Talas.

The location of Talas has not yet been fully determined, but it should be on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, close to the area of Kazakh Taraz (formerly known as Zhambyl).

According to the present historical research. The Battle of Talas was an inevitable consequence of the expansion of the power of the two great empires of the East and the West. As early as the beginning of the seventh century, Abdul, who was called the "father of kings" by the Arabs. Under the appointment of Merric (r. 685-705),

Hacha only. Ibn . Yusuf was appointed supreme ruler of the East, and under his leadership, the Arab Empire gained great expansion into the East, and coveting the richness of China, he promised his two great generals:

Muhammad and Ku Taibai, whoever first set foot on Chinese territory, appointed him as the governor of China. So Gu Taibai. Root. Muslim. Basiri conquered large areas of Central Asia, such as Taligan, Schumann, Takhastan, and Bukhara.

And Muhammad. Ibn . The Kasim conquered the frontier regions of India. When the power of the Arab Empire bordered the four towns of Anxi, which was run by the Tang Dynasty, war was inevitable.

In the third and fifth years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, after the Arab Empire's invasion of the four towns of Anxi belonging to the Tang Dynasty was defeated, the Arab Empire continued to expand into Central Asia.

In 750, the Arab Empire underwent a revolution and the Abbasid dynasty was established, continuing its plans to expand eastward. In this case, the four towns of the Tang Dynasty that ran the Western Regions all knew the soldiers and horses to make Gao Xianzhi to Shiguo (one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu,

A vassal state of the Arab Empire) launched a war against the Stone Kingdom on the grounds of courtesy. The war broke out by taking the opportunity to strike at the Abbasid power in Central Asia.

The battle lasted five days. In the early battle, the elite infantry of the Tang Dynasty had the upper hand, but the war became a stalemate due to the disparity in strength, during which the Gelulu division of the Tang Coalition Army saw that the situation was not good. Pour into the big food. As a result, the infantry of the Don Army lost contact with the main forces of the Don Army. Taking advantage of the temporary confusion among the Tang soldiers, the Abbasid coalition sent the main force of heavy cavalry to attack the Tang infantry. Gao Xianzhi was attacked from both sides by the Great Food and the Qarlu Army, and was unable to support it and collapsed. So Gao Xianzhi, the deputy general Li Siye and the other general Duan Xiushi gathered the remnants and fled to Anxi, and on the way, it happened that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty Coalition Army also fled here, and the soldiers, horses and vehicles were crowded and blocked the road. Li Siye was afraid that the Great Food would chase after him, and killed more than 100 Bahanna soldiers before he was able to take the lead in getting through.

In the end, Gao Xianzhi and thousands of Tang soldiers fled to Anxi. This battle ended with the victory of the Great Food Army over the Tang Dynasty Coalition Army. More than 30,000 soldiers of Tang were almost all gone, and only a few escaped.

After the battle, the Tang Dynasty's strength in the Western Regions was not affected, but the ensuing Anshi Rebellion and the secession of feudal towns led the Tang Dynasty to be unable to manage the Western Regions, and since then it has withdrawn from the struggle for hegemony in Central Asia.

The Central Asian states, which had been subordinate to the Tang Dynasty, turned to the Abbasids and Tibetans, which played a role in the spread of Islam in Central Asia. Despite the Abbasid victory at the Battle of Talas, the Tang Dynasty army displayed amazing combat effectiveness in the battle.

The Abbasids also dismissed any attempt to expand their territory eastward, and the Abbasids acquiesced in the expansion of the Groh Dara and Syr Darya valleys near the Amu Darya and Syr Darya valleys. They established themselves as a state and maintained it until the end of the ninth century when they were wiped out by the invaders that were established later.

In the long run, partly because of the influence of the Battle of Talas, Islamic culture was more important to Central Asia than Chinese culture

The impact is even more far-reaching.

The art of papermaking in China was also brought to China by the first caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, Abu Abu, because of the papermaking craftsmen among the Tang prisoners of war. Abbasid al-Safah worked in a new paper mill in Samarkand and spread to Central Asia and the Middle East. The Battle of Talas had a profound impact on the course of Eastern and Western history.

In addition, there are different historical records about the strength of the Arabs, but one theory is that it was about 150,000 men, including 40,000 Khorasan soldiers and 110,000 servants of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya valleys.

Glory is followed by bleakness, and on the battlefield Li Guangbi is a brave general who charges into battle, but he has not yet entered the battlefield on how to meet the occasion.

After Li Yu ascended the throne in the Tang Dynasty, he favored the eunuchs Cheng Yuanzhen and Yu Chaoen, and it was the practice of the Tang Dynasty for eunuchs to be the supervisors.

It is inevitable to belittle the generals who fought on the front line, and Li Guangbi is a figure with high achievements, and the suspicion of Tang Dynasty Zong is inevitable, and Lai Yao was executed by the imperial court because of Cheng Yuanzhen's slander. Li Guangbi developed an unprecedented fear of eunuchs who did not have male roots.

In the first year of Zong Guangde of the Tang Dynasty (763 AD), "Tubo Ling committed the capital and took advantage of the public to be fortunate in Shaanxi", the emperor asked Li Guangbi to rush to the rescue, and Li Guangbi was worried about the harm of Yu Chaoen and others. Delayed the trip and was reluctant to leave.

At this time, Guo Ziyi stepped forward to resolve the crisis, and Tang Dynasty Sect was able to return to Chang'an. Li Guangbi did not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court. His men were dissatisfied, and gradually refused to listen to him.

Li Guangbi was full of sorrow and fear, terminally ill, and when he was dying, he sighed gloomily, "I serve the imperial court, I have no time to serve my old mother, I am an unfilial son, what else can I say", and ordered the gold silk he received to be distributed to the generals.

In the second year of Guangde (764 AD). Li Guangbi died of illness in Xuzhou at the age of 57, and after his death, he was given the Taibao, nicknamed Wumu, and the Tang Dynasty Sect "mourned his mother" and held a grand state funeral for Li Guangbi.

A generation of good generals ended their vigorous lives, "working for the country and clumsy for life", expressing the common fate of loyal ministers and good generals in Chinese history, but. In any case, in the arduous struggle of quelling the Anshi Rebellion, he was the first in battle.

Li Daozong (600 AD - 653 AD) was the cousin of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and the cousin of Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Tianhuang noble, from the Li family in Longxi, he followed Li Shimin to fight in the south and north at the age of nineteen, and made immortal achievements. Historical materials everywhere show Li Shimin's preference and protection for this cousin, Li Daozong was injured in the battle formation, and Li Shimin personally acupuncture for him. Li Daozong was imprisoned for embezzlement. Li Shimin just dismissed him from office, and in the blink of an eye, he was reused.

Li Daozong lost the battle, Li Shimin cut off the scapegoat, and for Li Daozong, who should bear the main responsibility, he was lenient and compared himself to Qin Mu and Meng Ming. Li Daozong, what kind of character is it, Li Shimin, the proud son of heaven, who loves and appreciates it in every way?

Li Daozong, whose name is Chengfan, was born in the twentieth year of Emperor Wen of Sui (600 AD), and his ancestral home is Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an, Gansu). His father, Li Shao, was posthumously crowned King of Dongping during the Wude period.

Gift to the Ministry of Books. Prior to this, due to Li Yuan's involvement, Li Daozong was arrested and put to prison, and was almost executed by the Sui generals Wei Wensheng and Yin Shishi. In the first year of Tang Gaozu Wude (618 AD),

Nineteen-year-old Li Daozong became the prince of Luoyang County, and started Zuo Qianniu to prepare for himself. In the second year of Wude, the twenty-year-old Li Daozong followed Li Shimin to resist Liu Wuzhou.

The core of the Tang army was the Guanlong aristocratic group, they were brave and invincible on the battlefield, charging forward, showing unparalleled combat effectiveness, Liu Wu Zhousheng was not at the right time, doomed to the fate of failure. Li Shimin Tunbing Baibi (now southwest of Xinjiang, Shanxi),

It was a horn with the defenders of Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang, Shanxi), and fought with Song Jingang, the main force of Liu Wuzhou. Li Shimin asked Li Daozong,

"The thieves are numerous, how should our army respond?" , Li Daozong replied, "The thieves are in full swing, it is not advisable to fight hard, our army is deep and strong, and we will fight a protracted war.

This rabble will inevitably find it difficult to hold on, and when they are short of food and grass, we will take the initiative and win in one fell swoop." Li Shimin agreed very much, "Your opinion coincides with mine." Later, the generals asked to go to war,

Li Shimin explained to everyone the truth that the enemy is good at fighting quickly and our army should not move lightly, and led the Tang army to hold on to Song Jingang's troops for five months. Song Jingang's grain transportation was poor, so he could only withdraw the army, and the Tang army was not disarmed.

Sleeplessly, he pursued the main force of Song Jingang, captured tens of thousands of people, and later completely defeated the enemy army in Jiezhou (now Shanxi). Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang fled to the Turks and were killed by the Turks.

Liu Wuzhou's general Wei Chi Jingde cleaned up the remnants of the defeated generals and stuck to Jiexiu (now Shanxi), and it was Li Daozong who went to recruit him.

Li Daozong lived up to his mission, and the two cities of Wei Chi Jingde, Xun Xiang Yijiexiu, and Yongan (now Huo County, Shanxi) surrendered to the Tang army. Hedong was recovered, Guanzhong was stabilized, and Li Shimin won an initial victory in the battle for the Central Plains.

The next step is to deal with the two major separatist forces of Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong. In the fourth year of Wude, Li Daozong followed Li Shimin to break Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande in Luoyang and Hujiao (now Henan).

The Tang army defeated 100,000 of Dou Jiande's troops, forcing Wang Shichong, who was struggling to survive in Luoyang City, to surrender, and the main areas of the Central Plains fell under the control of the Tang army.

Dou Jiande's Liu Heimin raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and for a time it was a spark that burned the prairie fire, and in the fifth year of Wude, Li Daozong followed Li Shimin to conquer Liu Heimin.

When Li Shimin and Li Daozong were rescuing the generals, they were surrounded by Liu Heimin's troops, and the enemy killed more and more, and their lives were about to be guaranteed.

At the critical moment, Wei Chi Jingde rushed into the encirclement, fought bloodily, rescued Li Shimin and Li Daozong, lived and died together, and helped each other in adversity, no wonder Li Shimin treated the two very well in the future.

The friendship cemented by blood is naturally extraordinary. On March 26, the Tang army broke through the water, and Liu Heimin's army was finally defeated, tens of thousands of people were killed, thousands drowned, and Liu Heimin fled into the Turks on horseback.

Later, he was betrayed, handed over to the Tang Army, tied to the execution ground and beheaded, before the execution, Yang Tian sighed, "I used to grow vegetables at home, but I was misled by Gao Yaxian and these people, so I have today."

In the fifth year of Wude, Tang Gaozu granted Li Daozong the post of governor of Lingzhou (now southwest of Lingwu, Ningxia). At this time, the Liang division seized Xiazhou (now northeast of Jingbian, Shaanxi) and colluded with the Turks.

Let his brother Liang Luoren with tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers surround Lingzhou, where Li Daozong is located, Li Daozong is calm, first hold the city, and then attack in the gap, killing the Turkic soldiers to collapse,

The Tang army expanded the results of the battle, and soon drove the Turkic soldiers out of the hometown of Wuyuan, and opened up the territory to the north for thousands of miles.

"The Taoist Sect is outnumbered and unstoppable. In the past, Wei Rencheng King was a hero and a brave man, and Daozong was very similar to him, so I named Daozong the King of Rencheng." The young Li Daozong became the king of Rencheng of the Tang Empire, and he was dressed in Mingguang armor,

Riding a galloping horse, flying bravely and resolutely, like Li Shimin, he became an idol in the hearts of young boys and girls of that era.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic elite vied with each other, which played a great exemplary role, and the Tang Army became the most formidable army in the world, with advanced weapons, tenacious fighting spirit, and heroic and good fighting, leaving behind unforgettable heroic legends. (To be continued.) )