The Life of the Characters in Li Su's Works

From the 9th year of Yuanhe (8 14), Tang Xianzong, who has always been interested in pacifying the buffer region, and Chun Li fought against Huaixi and Wu Yuanji, who was self-reliant. However, this is a long and futile battle. In the twelfth year of Yuanhe (8 16), Tang and Deng Xia were defeated in Tiecheng, and Yuan Zi was ordered to lead the army. Yuan Zi also had no military exploits. Li Su recommended himself and was willing to work at the front. Li, the prime minister, also thought that his talents could be employed, so in December of the same year, Jia Yin appointed him as the constant servant of Zuo Sanqi, and concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of Tang Jun, the secretariat of Dengzhou, the ancient scholar and the marked army of our army.

After the defeat at that time, morale was low. When he learned of this situation, he did not organize and train the army. Some people say that the troops are scattered. He said: "The rebels lifted Yuan Shangshu's inaction. I don't want them to be prepared. " So I pretended to tell all the troops: "The son of heaven knows that I am kind and patient, so let me comfort and care for you." As for fighting, it's none of my business. The soldiers believed it and were very happy. He sent the prostitute away again, and never hosted a banquet or played music again. He personally visited the wounded soldier. Because the rebels have defeated Gao and Yuan Zi, and because their reputation is not high, the rebels have not raised their guard.

Li Su is calm and brave, good at strategizing, and sincere to his subordinates, so he can take advantage of people's danger and take them by surprise. Shortly after he took office, he planned to attack Cai Zhou, and the above table requested more troops. Xianzong issued a letter to Zhao Yi, He Zhong, Yan Fang and other two thousand soldiers. In the 13th year of Yuanhe (8 17), on February 7th, Li Su sent ten cavalry officers, including Ma Shaoliang, to patrol and reconnoiter. They met Wu Yuanji's captor Yu Hou Ding Shiliang, fought with him and caught him. Ding Shiliang, a veteran of Wu Yuanji, often harmed Tang and Dengzhou in the East. Everyone asked for Ding Shiliang's heart, and Li Su agreed. Soon, Li Su called Ding Shiliang and asked him face to face. Ding Shiliang doesn't look afraid. Li Su said: "Ding Shiliang is really a gentleman!" He ordered him to be untied. Ding Shiliang volunteered to work for Li Su, and Li Su appointed him as a general. Ding Shiliang said gratefully, "The rebel general Wu Xiulin led thousands of troops and couldn't be defeated for a while because Chen Guangqia gave him advice. I can seize Chen Guangqia and let Wu Xiulin surrender. " Li Su followed his advice, and Ding Shiliang sent Chen Guangcha back alive on February 18.

On the fifth day of March, Li Su moved from Tang Zhou to Yiyang Gate. Soon, Wu Xiulin led the troops of Wenchengzha (now southwest of Suiping, Henan Province) to surrender to Li Su. On 28th, Li Su led the troops to 50 miles west of Wencheng, and sent Li Jincheng, the secretariat of Tang Zhou, to the gate with his troops. The arrows in the city were so dense that everyone dared not go forward. When Li Jincheng came back, it was reported that Wu Xiulin pretended to surrender. Li Su said, "This is waiting for me." Wu Xiulin immediately came to the gate, put away his weapons and fell in front of Li Su's horse. Li Su stroked his back, comforted him, and accepted three thousand troops from Wu Xiulin. And renamed him Li Zhongyi after his brave general Li Xian. Moved all the wives of General Wencheng to Tang Zhou. Tang's morale was cheered up again, and everyone had the determination to prepare for the war. The enemy troops who came to surrender walked on the road one by one, and Li Su arranged them one by one according to their specific conditions. Knowing that the defectors had parents to take care of, they gave them food and clothing and sent them back, saying, "You are all from the imperial court. You can't leave your relatives behind." Everyone was moved to tears. On the 29th, ten generals, including Dong and others, were sent to attack various checkpoints. On the same day, Dong Shaoxuan occupied Maanshan and conquered the crossing gate. On April 2nd, He Shan 10 army captured Ma Shaoliang and captured Liu Ziye, the general of Huaixi. Soon, our ten generals, Guiya Hetian, conquered the smelting furnace city. On the seventh day of July, Ten Generals Yan conquered Baigou and Wengang. On 14th, Guiya and Tian attacked Xiping. On the second day of May, Liu was sent to attack Langshan, and Liang Xiguo was captured alive. On 18th, Li Su sent Fangcheng Town to prevent Li Rongzong from conquering Qingxi City.

Every time Li Su got soldiers who defected to Huaixi, he would personally take them to inquire about the details of Huaixi, so as to have a clear understanding of the enemy's terrain and force distribution. Li Su asked Cai Zhou for advice and Wu Xiulin for advice. Wu Xiulin thinks that only Li You can capture Cai Zhou alive. Li Su designed to capture Li You alive to avoid his death. At that time, Li was preparing to attack Cai Zhou, and his planning was relatively secret. He called Li You and Li Zhongyi respectively, and didn't talk until outsiders were excluded. Sometimes the conversation will last until midnight and no one else can participate in the discussion. People are worried about Li You's misfortune. They often persuade Li Su, while Li Su is more generous to Li You. The soldiers are not happy either. Every day, all the troops have documents claiming that Li You is an inside man in Huaixi, and he heard it from enemy spies. Worried that the crime of libel would spread to the imperial court in advance and it was too late to rescue Li You, he took Li's hand and cried and said, "Is it because God is unwilling to pacify these thieves? Why do you and I know so well, but we just can't subdue everyone's comments? " So, Li Su said to everyone: "Since you doubt Li You, please let him go to the son of heaven to accept the death penalty!" So Li Su put Li You in chains and sent him to Beijing, secretly explaining the situation in advance, saying, "If you kill Li You, you can't succeed." Xianzong released Li You by imperial edict. After seeing Li You, Li Su was very happy. He was asked to be an emissary to disperse the military forces, and he was asked to patrol with sabre and communicate under his own account. Sometimes, Li Su goes to bed with him and talks in secret. He doesn't fall asleep until dawn. Someone eavesdropped outside the tent, only Li You's tears could be heard. At that time, there were 3,000 dental guards in the Tang and Sui Dynasties in our time, which were called the Six Military Forces. They are all lean and valiant soldiers in Shannan East Road, and Li Su appointed Li You as a military force in the Sixth Hospital.

The original military order stipulated that anyone who stayed with enemy spies would kill all his family. Li Su cancelled this military order, allowing people to give preferential treatment to enemy spies. On the contrary, the spy reported the truth to Li Su, and Su Li learned more and more about the enemy. On 26th, Li Su sent troops to attack Wolf Mountain and failed. Everyone is stingy and angry. Only Li Su said happily, "This is exactly my plan!" He recruited 3000 death squads, the so-called sudden generals, and personally tutored them every day to keep them ready to leave. Li Su intends to use this army to attack Cai Zhou. It rained continuously and the plan was not realized.

In July, Xian Zong, who had been fighting in Huaixi for four years, was tired of traffic and had weak financial resources. He was deeply troubled, so he appointed Pei Du, who had the strongest main battle strength, as our time, and Huaixi as the commander of the rebel army, and advised him to bid on the front line.

In August, after Pei Du arrived in Yancheng, the above table said that all roads were supervised by eunuchs, and the advance and retreat of soldiers depended on envoys. If you win, you will be rewarded by it, and if you lose, you will be humiliated by it. No one wants to go to great lengths. Xianzong allowed him to play and informed him to be an envoy in various prisons. The generals began to act arbitrarily and the war became more effective. Li Su was thus able to develop his talents without hindrance.

On September 28th, Li Su prepared to attack Wu Fang County. All the generals said, "Today is a good day to die." Li Su said: "We don't have many soldiers and horses, and we are fighting head-on. We don't have enough troops, so we are suitable for taking unexpected actions. The enemy will not guard against us, because today is the day of death. This is the time to attack. " He led the army to conquer the outer city of Wu Fang and beheaded 1000 people. The rest of the Wu Fang military forces guarded the inner city, afraid to play. Li Su led the troops and horses back to lure Wu Fang out. General Sun of Huaixi led 500 people in pursuit. Everyone panicked and prepared to escape. Jumping off the horse, leaning against the Hu bed, he ordered, "Whoever dares to retreat will be killed!" " Everyone went back to the army and tried their best to fight. Sun killed, Huaixi military forces retreated. Li Su was persuaded to attack the inner city of Wu Fang, and he was sure to conquer it. Li Su said, "This is not my plan." He led the army back to the camp.

He sent troops to capture Wenchengzha, Maanshan, Lukouzha, Chayashan, Molufeng and Xiping strongholds in the west and northwest of Cai Zhou, and joined forces with Tang Jun in the northern Yancheng area. He also sent troops to conquer Baigou, Wengang and Zhucheng in the south and southwest of Cai Zhou, and cut off the connection between Cai Zhou and Shen Guang. Its main force was stationed in Wenchengzha, only 65 miles away from Cai Zhou, and established a surprise attack base near Cai Zhou. Main entry: The Battle of Caizhou in September, Li You saw that the conditions for surprise attack were ripe, and advised him to make the best of Huaixi and defend Cai Zhou around the border. They were all old and weak, so they could attack the city by taking advantage of their weakness and capture Wu Yuanji by surprise. Li Su was deeply moved and sent someone to secretly present the surprise attack plan to Pei Du. Pei Du was very grateful and agreed to send troops.

10/0, Li Su took advantage of the snowstorm, and the rebels let their guard down, which was favorable for a surprise attack. Three thousand trained death squads, such as Wencheng Town and Li You, were left behind as the vanguard, three thousand with the prison army and three thousand with Li Jincheng as the rear. The action of the army is very secret. Except for a few generals, the whole army doesn't know the destination of the March and the task of the troops. Li Su only ordered to go east. Three miles eastbound, Tang Jun arrived at Zhangchai Village at night, caught the defenders off guard, and wiped out the defenders, including the soldiers who were in charge of vigilance. After the whole army had a rest, Li Su left 500 people guarding the city gate to guard against the enemy in the direction of Wolf Mountain, and another 500 people cut off the bridge leading to Qu Hui and ordered the whole army to March immediately. When the generals asked where the troops were going, Li Su announced that he would go to Cai Zhou and take Wu Yuanji directly. People were frightened to disgrace, but the military orders were like mountains, so they had to lead troops to the southeast. At this time, the night was cold, the snow was blowing heavily, and the standard was broken. The people who froze to death looked at each other on the road. The road to the east end of Zhangchai Village was unknown to the Tang army, and everyone thought they would die, but everyone was afraid of Li Su, and no one dared to disobey orders. In the middle of the night, it snowed harder and harder. Tang Jun marched 35 miles and finally arrived in Cai Zhou.

There is a chicken and duck pond near the city. Li Su ordered his foot soldiers to beat chickens and ducks to cover up the marching sound. Since Wu Shaocheng resisted the imperial edict, Tang Jun has not been to the gate of Cai Zhou for more than 30 years, so Caizhou people were unprepared and did not find Tang Jun's action. At four o'clock, Li Su's army arrived at the gates of Caizhou, and the people guarding the city didn't know it. Li You and Li Zhongyi dug a hole in the wall, took the lead in boarding the outer city gate, killed the sleeping gatekeeper, leaving only the night watchman to avoid disturbing the enemy as usual.

Let's talk about Li Jue and others' success, so they opened the city gate to meet the enemy. Then, attack the inner city according to law. At dawn, the snow gradually stopped, and Li Su entered Wu Yuanji's outer house. At this time, someone noticed that the situation was different and told Wu Yuanji that the loyalist was coming. Wu Yuanji, still awake, smiled and replied, "The prisoners are in trouble. These guys should be killed at dawn." . Then it is reported that the city has fallen. Yuanji still casually said, this must be the children of Qu Hui defenders asking me for warm clothes. After getting up, Wu Yuanji heard Tang Jun's command, and nearly ten thousand people responded, only to have a fear, and he led the team to resist.

When Li Su entered the city, he sent someone to attack Yacheng, caressing Dong Chong's family and sending his son to give birth to him. Dong Chongdan surrendered in front of Su Lijun, and Wu Yuanji lost the hope of Qu Hui's defenders' Huiyuan. On the 12th, Tang Jun attacked Yacheng again, and Caizhou people scrambled to help Tang Jun burn the south gate of Yacheng. At dusk, the city gate was broken and Wu Yuanji surrendered. More than 20,000 soldiers from towns such as Shen and Guang also successively descended to the Tang Dynasty, and Huaixi was pacified.

The success of Li Su's surprise attack was not accidental. Subjectively, Li Su managed the army well, kept his promise, treated the soldiers well, and won the hearts of scholars; Knowing people and being good at their duties, dare to reuse surrenders and get the enemy's situation; Seeing that the function was broken, he dared to seize Cai Zhou's space and carry out a surprise attack; He is also good at strategy, paralyzing the enemy and disintegrating his people's hearts and morale. All these enabled him to take advantage of the gloomy weather in which snow and fire were not connected, go deep alone, be completely annihilated, and win a surprise attack. Objectively speaking, Tang Xianzong and Pei Du never changed their determination to pacify Huaixi. Instead, they were able to concentrate on attacking Wu Yuanji, and even moved the envoys out of prison. The Bei Tang army contained and attracted the main forces of Huaixi, which created favorable conditions for the victory of the surprise attack.

After Su Liping settled in Huaixi, the people in the buffer region were in panic. Henghai made Cheng Quan an official in the DPRK on invitation, and the court recovered Cang and Jing (now northeast of Jingxian County, Hebei Province). Liu, general manager of Youzhou (now Beijing) Town, please submit. Chengde Town also made a new start on the table, offering Dede and Di (now southeast of Shandong Huimin) two states, and asking the court to appoint the following officials from other states. After Wang Chengzong died of illness, his brother Wang Chengyuan surrendered. The court also tried to pacify the prestige of Huaixi, strive for the peace of Zi and Shidao, and recover twelve states, such as Zi (now south of Zibo, Shandong Province) and Qing (now Qingzhou, Shandong Province). As a result, the separatist regime of the buffer region temporarily came to an end and the Tang Dynasty was reunified.

After Wu Yuanji was captured, Li Su didn't kill anyone. Those who led the troops, managed meals and horses for Wu Yuanji were all restored to their posts to reassure them. On the third day of November, Tang Xianzong appointed him as the left servant of the proofreading minister, and concurrently served as the observation envoy of Xiangzhou Secretariat, Shannan East Road, Xiangxiang, Deng, Sui, Tang, Fu, Ying, Jun, Fang and other States. He was appointed as a foreign country, and was named as a cool Lord protector. There were 3,000 food cities, with 500 households and one son sealing the five senses.

After the war, Zheng Hao wrote a special volume "Fair Cai Lu" in Guo Liang. Tang Xianzong specially appointed Han Yu to write an essay "Ping Huai Xi Feng Zi", praising this great victory, and carved a stone and erected a monument outside the north gate of Runan, Cai Zhou. Because the inscription rarely mentions Li Su's deeds, Li Su feels aggrieved, and his wife Webster often complains about it. Yes, he threw a stone, "pushing its monument, but repeatedly moving", and smashed the Pinghuai West Monument. When the officers and men came to arrest people, Shi also killed people, and things went to Xianzong. Xianzong ordered Hanlin Duan Wenchang to rewrite the experience of the Pinghuai Xihe War. In the first year of Changqing (82 1), there was another rebellion in Youzhou and Tian was killed. After hearing this, Li Su, dressed in plain clothes, issued an order to the whole army, saying, "The reason why Wei Bo is rich and can obey the emperor's jurisdiction is because God has managed them well. Because of his kindness and love for the people, the emperor put him in charge of the town and the country. Tiangong set out from Weber. He ruled the army for seven years, and all the soldiers in the town and state dared to do so. Do they think Weber has no soldiers? How can your father, brothers and sons repay the kindness of God? " Everyone was crying. He also gave Niu a jade sword, and sent an envoy to say to him, "My father made great contributions with this sword, and I used this sword to pacify the rebellion in Cai Zhou. Now that everyone in the town has rebelled, you can also use this sword to pacify them. " Niu Yuan Yi was emotional after receiving the order, so he used this sword and jade belt to mobilize in the army and told him: "I am willing to lead the army to listen to the order and do my best." Is preparing to send troops, meet with Li Su's disease, can't deal with military affairs, soldiers violated military discipline, so failed to make achievements. Tian Bu, the son of Mu Paitian, succeeded to the throne, named him Prince Shaobao and returned to Luoyang. In the same year 10, Li Su died in Luoyang at the age of 49. Knowing this, Mu Zong was very sad, so he ordered an increase in funeral property and gave it to Qiu and posthumous title Wu.