Therefore, many people who once had a positive image in history have become sinister villains after being processed and smeared in romantic novels. Su, the protagonist of this article, is a prominent example. In The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, he first shot Luo Yi in the back, and then lured and killed the hero of the idol school, which made many readers with heroic complex deeply despised. On the stage of drama, he enjoyed the treatment similar to that of Cao Cao: long beard and white face, full of traitor image.
So what kind of person is Sue in real history? What brilliant achievements have you had?
It's important to follow the boss.
Sue is from Wuyi, Jizhou (now Wuyi, Hebei). At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was chaos and thieves were rampant. His father, authorized by the local chief, recruited thousands of villagers to resist and punish the invading thieves.
As a teenager, Su was a hero, good at fighting and brave, and followed his father to the battlefield for many times. After his father's death, he became the leader of these thousands of armies, and killed the thief's first golden list, and beat back the invading king's department Yang Gongqing. He and his army became an important barrier to protect one side's peace.
A few years later, the world situation gradually became clear, mainly including Li Yuan, father and son, the king who occupied Luoyang, Dou Jiande in Hebei, filial piety who dominated the south of the Yangtze River and other forces vying for the Central Plains.
In view of Dou Jiande's good popularity in Hebei, Su led the army to Dou Jiande's account, and was valued and loved by General Gao Yaxian of Dou, who accepted him as his adopted son. In May of 62 1 AD, Dou Jiande led an army to rescue Wang in Luoyang, and Wang was defeated by the King of Qin in the Battle of Hulaoguan and became a prisoner. In July, Dou Jiande was executed by the Tang court in Chang 'an.
With the boss gone, everyone's life has to go on. Dou Jiande originally elected General Liu Heita as the new leader and continued to lead the troops against Tang Jun. After many twists and turns, Liu Heita was defeated by Li Shimin in the Battle of Luoshui, and then the remnants fled to Turkey. Soon, he made a comeback and was defeated by Prince Li. When he escaped, he was caught by his subordinate Zhuge Dewei and presented to Li. Like his old superior Dou Jiande, he became a ghost of the Tang Dynasty.
Adoptive father Yaxian also died in the army, and Su, who was disheartened, retired to other places. It was not until the early years of Zhenguan that he was re-enabled by the Tang court and became an intermediate officer (Kuang Daofu, a surname).
Before the age of 39, Sue followed her eldest brother from Dou Jiande and Liu Heita, and finally switched to the Tang Dynasty. Under the account of the first two bosses, because they all ended in failure, there was no opportunity for performance; Finally, I went to the hukou of the Tang Dynasty, because I was very sensitive to the identity of the rebels, so I didn't get any reuse.
In 630 AD, the long-awaited war against East Turkistan began, and Emperor Taizong of Li Shimin appointed Li Jing, a generation of army gods, as the chief marching officer of Dingxiang Road, in charge of the war. Li Jing appointed Su as a striker and ordered him to lead two hundred cavalry to sneak attack the East Turkistan base camp in the fog.
Sue's vanguard cavalry has rushed to a place about a mile away from the enemy camp, and the fog has gradually dispersed. Sharp-eyed Sue saw the Khan tent in the center, which was tall and gorgeous. Without hesitation, he immediately led someone to kill him. Seeing this group of Tang Jun cavalry with bright armor and courageously descending from the sky, like nobody's business, the Turkish army was in a panic and never had time to organize effective resistance.
Under the desperate protection of pro-Wei, Jie Li Khan fled hastily, and Su led the army to kill again and again in the Turkic camp. At this moment, the following main cavalry arrived, and even the attacked Turkish soldiers knelt down and surrendered. In this campaign, Tang Jun beheaded more than 10,000 people and captured 100,000 people, which was a shame that Wei Shui was forced to form an alliance with the Turks.
Su became General Tang, and it was a blockbuster as soon as he appeared. Because of his work, he was awarded the corps commander of Zuo Wuhou and soon became the corps commander of Zuo Wei.
In 655 AD (the sixth year of Yonghui), on May 14th, Su followed the general manager (Cheng) marching on Ongshan Road to conquer the West Turkic, and was appointed as the former general manager. The following year, the army arrived at Yingdi River (now the Yuledus Valley on the Kaidu River in Xinjiang), and 20,000 cavalry from West Turkistan came to resist. The two armies fought fiercely, and Nishi, a branch of the West Turkic, led more than 20,000 cavalry to reinforce them. The situation is quite critical.
At this time, the former detachment led by Su was resting, separated by a small ravine, about ten miles away from the headquarters army. I saw dust flying in the distance, ShaSheng everywhere, battle-hardened Sue judgment, may be the main enemy. At this time, he showed the excellent accomplishment of an outstanding general who dared to take the initiative to fight, so he immediately led 500 fine riders, climbed mountains and mountains, and went straight to the enemy's rear.
Suddenly, a new force came to kill, and the deadlock in the war was immediately broken. When the Turkish army saw the arrival of reinforcements from Tang Jun, it was demoralized and immediately fled in rout. Encouraged, Tang Jun chased for more than twenty miles and killed more than 1,500 people. There are countless armored weapons abandoned by the West Turkic Army, horses and cattle criss-crossing the hillside of Yuan Ye.
However, due to the advice of Wang, the assistant general, he did not want to pursue further and hesitated. As a result, Tang Jun did not succeed in expanding in the end. Since then, Su has made many achievements, which attracted the attention of Li Zhi. Since then, it has become an important executor of Soviet foreign military policy.
Destroy the Three Kingdoms and defend your master.
In the spring of 657 AD, Su finally got the chance of independence, and his military career became more brilliant. From this moment on, Tang Gaozong appointed him as the general manager of Ilido's March and conquered West Turkistan again.
Send troops from the north of Jinshan (now Altai Mountain in western Mongolia), break through the Mukun Department of western Turkistan, and select 1000 elite cavalry from the army to go out with the army. When Tang Jun went to Tuxie River (now Irtysh River in northern Xinjiang), Ashnahulu, a sand bowl in western Turkey, heard the news and led hundreds of troops to engage. At this time, Sue and his men in Tang Jun and Uighur * * * soldiers more than ten thousand people, the disparity between them is close to ten times.
When He Lv saw that Tang Jun had too few troops, he immediately ordered the army to surround Tang Jun, and he was fearless in a crisis. Sue ordered the infantry to occupy the commanding heights, form a tight formation, and concentrate their spears outward. At the same time, the cavalry was guided to the flat land in the north.
The West Turkic Army launched three charges on the infantry positions, but none of them were breached, and their morale was greatly damaged. Sue took advantage of the situation to lead the cavalry into the enemy line, and the two armies fought fiercely at the Sanli front. In the face of Tang Jun, which became more and more brave in the Vietnam War, the Turkish army was losing ground, and tens of thousands of troops were killed, including more than 200 generals, and the rest of the troops fled.
After that, a long-distance chase was staged, and He Lu of running all the way fled to the Soviet city in the northwest of the stone country (now Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan).
Sue led the troops through difficulties and hardships day and night, constantly defeating the Turkish army that came to stop them. When they arrived in Shiguo, they learned that Yi Juda, the duke of Shiguo, was afraid of the powerful military power of the Tang army. In order to have a good relationship with Tang Jun, He Lv and his relatives were caught by traitors and handed over to Sue soon.
Tang Jun's conquest of He Lu "collected more than 400,000 people and animals". Since then, Su ordered the western Turkic ministries to return to their homes, open roads, set up post offices, bury bones, sympathize with their sufferings, draw tribal boundaries, resume production, and return all the property and livestock plundered by Shabolo Khan to their original owners. Ten tribes live in peace as before.
Su, who returned home in triumph, held a grand ceremony to present prisoners at Zhaoling and Taimiao in Chang 'an, the capital. After the demise of West Turkistan, the land there was divided into counties in the Tang Dynasty, reaching the West Sea (now XianHaidong). Su was promoted to General Zuo, and was named Duke of Xingguo, and his son Su Qingjie was named Duke of Wuyi County.
In the winter of 659 AD (the fourth year of Xianqing), Quejindu, the main country of Sijie, was in the west of Jungle State (now Pamirs Plateau). It originally controlled the Hu people, and led the three countries of Heshuole (now Kashi, southwest Xinjiang), Zhujubo (now Yecheng, southwest Xinjiang) and Bantuo (also known as Jungle State, now Tashkurgan, southwest Xinjiang) to rise up against the Tang Dynasty again.
So he ordered Sue to appease the emissary and then go west. Su Fangding led an army to Yeye Water (now the Syr Darya River in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) after a long journey, while the enemy camped in Matouchuan.
Su Ding immediately selected 10,000 elite infantry and 3,000 cavalry to make a quick raid, marched three hundred Li a day and one night (one Li in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to about 450 meters now), and arrived ten Li in the west of the city at dawn. Du Man was frightened to disgrace and quickly led the army to resist outside the city gate. As a result, he was defeated and fled all the way to Ma Baocheng. Sue led troops to kill again, and Tang Jun led troops to kill. At night, the follow-up troops arrived one after another, surrounded the city and cut down trees to make siege equipment. Du Man, he had no choice but to tie himself up and surrender.
When Su Banshi returned to Beijing to offer prisoners, he personally went to the Ganyang Hall, where officials summoned him and demanded that he be punished according to law. Sue kowtowed and asked, "I have informed your majesty that I promised to spare his life." Tang Gaozong said approvingly, "I will protect your faith." He pardoned Du Man, and since then the whole jungle has been pacified. Sue, because of his contribution, got the tax stamp of 500 households in Xingzhou Julu, and moved to General Zuo Wuwei.
In 660 AD (the fifth year of Qing Dynasty), on February 10th, Su served as the chief of the March on Shenqiu Road, and led an amphibious army of 100,000 generals, including Zuo and Liu Boying, across the sea to conquer Baekje.
King Jin Chunqiu of Silla was also the chief officer of Mo Yi Road, who led Silla soldiers to cooperate with the Tang army. Tang Jun crossed the Yellow Sea by boat from Chengshan (now the northeast seaside of Rongcheng City, Shandong Province) and arrived at Jinxiong River Estuary (now Jinjiang in the south of the Korean Peninsula). The Baekje Army was stationed along the river, and the Soviet Union sent troops from the east coast to fight against the Baekje Army.
Tang Jun set sail for dozens of miles and directly entered the Baekje Water Army. The paekche army was defeated, thousands of people died, and the rest fled and dispersed. Tang Jun's big troops braved the wind and waves, and their strength was stronger. The warships sailed into the river from beginning to end, paddling and hitting the water, beating drums and shouting. Su followed the cavalry into the river and reached Zhendu.
About twenty miles away from the city, Baekje sent his troops to fight, and Sue met him. After World War I, he defeated the Baekje Army, killing more than 10,000 people. Tang Jun pushed her into the outer city. Baekje King Fuyu Yici and Prince Fuyu Long fled to the north, and Tang Jun surrounded the Baekje Capital (now Fuyu County, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea). Fu Yutai, the second son of Yi Si, became the Baekje King and led the people to stick to it.
Fu Yuwen, the grandson of Yici, worried that his uncle would be unfavorable to him after he became king, so he took people to surrender to Tang Jun, and Sue took advantage of the situation to order his foot soldiers to board the tower and set up the flag of the Tang Dynasty. The people in the city were frightened, and Fu Yutai saw that the tide was gone and had to open the door and surrender. Soon, the old king Yici, Taizilong and other casters all surrendered.
1 1 month 1 day, 58 people including Fuyu Yici, Taizilong and Taitai were captured by Su in Zetianmen, the eastern capital of Luoyang.
At this point, Sue traveled 3,000 miles from northwest to northeast, and made an expedition across the sea, destroying three countries before and after, and all of them captured their kings alive. Horseshoe refers to the land of the Tang Dynasty, which became a glorious symbol of great martial arts in the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty!
His reputation in later generations is not obvious, on the one hand, it is the ugliness of unofficial history's romance, on the other hand, it is the deliberate suppression of the government. Due to the close relationship between Su and Wu Zetian's favorite concubine Xu, this person is a greedy villain, so he is despised by many loyal ministers, even Su, among whom the prime minister is the best.
When Sue died, this distinguished celebrity should have been highly praised and buried by the imperial court, while others kept silent. On the other hand, they were silent because they hated the constant use of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, which led to the emptiness of the national treasury and the depression of people's livelihood. Silence speaks louder than words. On the surface, it is a crackdown on pro-Queen Sue, and in essence it is also a major military policy.
Finally, Tang Gaozong couldn't stand it any longer. He said sadly: "Sue has made great contributions to the country. According to the law, it should be rewarded, and Qing and others did not say anything, which caused his death to be cashed in time. " Don't say anything, I'll do it myself. Then posthumous title Su became the secretariat of Youzhou, and posthumous title "Zhuang".
During the period of Tang Daizong and Tang Dezong, due to national turmoil, border unrest and national disasters, they kept mourning for the famous generals of the previous dynasties to commemorate the achievements of their ancestors and inspire people to be loyal to the king. In all previous posthumous gifts, Sue was on the list. He and his disciple, the legendary star Pei Xingjian, also entered the highest honor hall that all military commanders dreamed of-enjoying the "Temple of King Wu" (a temple in memory of the ancient sage Jiang Ziya). ) This legendary figure, praised by Chairman Mao as a "great general", finally got an official evaluation and affirmation that matched his achievements.