Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 269

"Qin loses its deer, and the talented and fast-footed get it! My Tang Dynasty is a talented and fast-footed person, and Dou Jiande is just half a step behind." Liu Ren said: "You want to say that these two are rebels That's not bad, but the people of Hebei may not think so!"

"I think the incense in Xiawang Temple is good, and the local government doesn't care?"

"Local government?" Liu Rengui laughed: "Are the common people the only ones who you miss Dou Jiande and Liu Heita?"

Jin Renwen, who was at the side, heard the implication, and asked, "Does Governor Liu mean that the local government is also turning a blind eye to this matter?"

"It can't be said to turn a blind eye!" Liu Rengui sighed: "The Hebei government also reported this matter to the Ming court!"

"Then what then? The court will never do nothing, just let it go?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"What can we do if we don't let it go?" Liu Rengui shook his head: "It has been five or sixty years since the founding of the country, but people in Shandong and Hebei may still talk about it and worship it. In the countryside, there are many fathers and elders offering sacrifices , Jun Ben You Yi, the title of King Xia, is still in the past, facing this situation, what can the court do?"

"Inspector Liu!" Jin Renwen asked: "As far as I know, there were many heroes in the late Sui Dynasty. Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Du Fuwei, and Xiao Mian were no less powerful than Dou Jiande. Far better than Dou Jiande, why don't many of these people pay homage to them, but Dou Jiande is different?"

"The general is from Silla, and I don't know much about the situation when we founded the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, it's raining outside today, and I have nothing to do, so I will talk about the situation back then, and you can listen to it, it's all Don’t take these past stories too seriously!” Liu Rengui coughed twice, and began to tell in a deep voice.

"At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and there were many heroes. Among the four people you mentioned just now, Li Mi, Wang Shichong, and Xiao Xian were all court officials. Li Mi was born in one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms and was a hereditary duke. It is unfaithful to rebel against the Sui Dynasty after eating the imperial salary. However, Dou Jiande has been a farmer for generations and has never eaten the imperial salary. His family members were killed by the government before rebelling. And the thieves who killed the king were kind to the previous dynasty. Most of the heroes tortured the people and killed the scholar-bureaucrats. The people have no fornication and violence against themselves, they march with discipline, and they are brave, they listen to advice well, and no one refuses to be brushed.

Every Pingcheng breaks the formation, and the funds obtained are scattered and rewarded to the generals, and nothing is taken.He doesn't eat meat, and often eats only vegetables and rice from millet. His wife, Cao, doesn't wear rich clothes, and he has no more than a dozen maidservants and concubines.After Dou Jiande was defeated, he was sent to Chang'an for execution. Many generals in his army were heroes from Hebei and Shandong. They were angry that Dou Jiande was killed, but also feared that he would harm the court, so they regrouped and took Liu Heita as the general. As a last resort, the late emperor personally led the army to conquer, and only then won the victory. Even so, it would be a loss of soldiers and generals. "Speaking of this, Liu Rengui sighed: "Hebei scholars and horses are the best in the world!" "

"So, this King Xia is really a rare hero in the world!" Jin Renwen exclaimed.

Compared with Jin Renwen, Wang Wenzuo heard more subtext from Liu Rengui's words. In addition to the generosity to the people and his own simplicity, Dou Jiande also had some other things in him, such as treating him even though he was He was born as a farmer, but unlike Wei Daoer, Du Fuwei and other low-level peasant army leaders, Dou Jiande also treated the captured Sui officials and scholar-officials quite preferentially. Dou Jiande's troops caused a lot of casualties. Dou Jiande still reused the officials of the Sui Dynasty who didn't open the door to beg for surrender until the food in the city was exhausted and Emperor Sui Yang died.

After Dou Jiande eliminated Yu Wenhuaji, he treated Sui Yangdi's widow's family favorably. After escaping, Li Ji's father, who was also captured, was not harmed. Soon after Li Yuan sent an envoy to repair it, Dou Jiande released Li Shentong and Princess Tong'an.Compared with Dou Jiande, not to mention Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Du Fuwei, and Xiao Xian, even Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, who won the victory in the end, is much inferior. In a sense, Dou Jiande was captured by Li Yuan after being captured. Execution is a kind of revenge, after all, Dou Jiande had treated the captured generals of Li Tang's clan very kindly before.It can be said that Dou Jiande stood on the moral high ground of the heroes in the late Sui Dynasty.

This is why the Tang army easily defeated the army led by Dou Jiande in Hulao and captured him. However, after his death, the war against Liu Heitai was very difficult. In the Tang army, Li Ji was defeated by him, and the famous general Luo Shixin was killed. The brothers Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanjun were all captured.In the end, Li Shimin went out in person, and he had to use the trick of water attack to defeat Liu Heita's army.It is recorded in the history books: "The people of the world will attack their cavalry with fine cavalry, break them, and trample their infantry. Hei Kai said, "I have exhausted my intellect, so I should die early. "So he and Hei Kai fled first, and the rest of the people didn't know, and Yuge fought. The guards broke the weir, and the water was so large that it was more than ten feet deep. We waited for [-] riders to rush to the Turks, and Shandong Xiping."

Book friends who are familiar with ancient military affairs know that when two armies confront each other in the era of cold weapons, if the cavalry of one side can defeat the cavalry of the other side first and drive them out of the battlefield, they have basically won 60% to [-]%.Because the cavalry on the winning side can easily detour the enemy's infantry and attack the remaining infantry of the enemy from the flanks or even behind.In this case, the side that lost the cavalry had to resist the enemy's attacks from the front, flanks, and rear at the same time, and it would soon collapse completely.In this battle of Mingshui, Li Shimin personally commanded the cavalry to defeat Liu Heita's cavalry from the very beginning (the two sides had been stalemate for more than [-] days before the war, and Liu Heita was about to run out of food, and the people were not full enough to eat, so the horses were forced to fight. Not to mention, war horses can’t just eat grass), and then led the cavalry to attack Liu Jun’s infantry, but Liu Heita’s troops not only withstood the Tang Jun’s cavalry offensive, but also repeated the battle several times, fighting from noon to evening .

After Liu Heikai escaped in despair, these infantrymen who lost the cover of the cavalry continued to fight the Tang army because they did not know that their commander had escaped.If the fighting continues, anything can happen—no one can command his own army after dark, and both sides have half the chance of winning. , beheaded more than ten thousand people, drowned thousands of people, Shandong Xiping."
(End of this chapter)