spent four issues telling the story of Li Zhu entering Caizhou at night. Today I will summarize the reasons why he was successful.
1. The reason for the successful attack of Li Zi
First of all, the success of Li Zi's surprise attack was not due to accident.
Subjectively, Li Yan is good at governing the army, is frugal, and treats the soldiers with richness, and can win the hearts of the soldiers; he is also clear about knowing people, dares to value surrendered generals, and can win the situation of the enemy; he sees that he may be broken, and dares to seize the empty opportunity of Caizhou and launches surprise attacks; he is also good at strategy, good at paralyzing the enemy, and dismantling the hearts and morale of the people. All of these allowed him to take advantage of the wind, snow, and the unfloating weather, and the unflinching war, to go deep into the army alone, kill the entire army and then win the surprise attack.
Objectively speaking, Tang Xianzong and Pei Du never changed their determination to pacify Huaixi , and was able to concentrate their forces on Wu Yuanji , and even withdrew the envoys from the supervision formation. The Tang army on the northern front restrained and attracted the main force of Huaixi, which created favorable conditions for the victory of the surprise attack.
2. Why did it take four years to wipe out Wu Yuanji in Huaixi
See Wang Fuzhi's evaluation
How could Wu Yuanji have a terrible rebellious ambitions and history? Wang Chengzong and Li Shidao are also particularly so. The troops are not enough to compete, and we only rely on the need to make leisure in order to achieve their desires.
Li Shidao sent three minority men to the capital residence, killing the prime minister, destroying the tomb, burning the garrison, holding fire and holding blades, but failing to find them. Why?
The minister received the money from the three enemies to be the minister of Api. He bribed the towns and waited and refused to move forward, showing that it was difficult to attack and threatened the emperor's surrender. Outside, there are Han Hong hinder Li Guangyan , and inside, there are Wei Guanzhi , Qianhui , Li Fengji and other hinder Pei Du. They are all drunk and full of the three enemies, and they are used to make their lips and tongues.
Therefore, Caizhou is empty, Yuan Ji is the only husband, Li Zhu tied it up like a chicken and a rush overnight, and the easy is the same, but after four years of attack, the difficulty is like that. How can there be generals and ministers in the Tang Dynasty? They are just hawks and dogs raised by Yuanji. Only Pei and Wu stand above all the officials, and are a move of doubt and slander, and they cannot win. Isn’t it appropriate to be able to overcome it after a long time?
Therefore, when the country is in trouble, talented ministers have talent that is not enough to be entrusted, and brave generals have courage that cannot be encouraged. The reason why barbarians and thieves in the world is all favorable to the bean area, and people are popular. If there is no minister of Qingzhen who disdains his daughter in front and does not care about the tiger in the future, the emperor will never have any heart to express. Zhuge Gong said, "Only Danbo can show your ambition." The king still knows what he entrusted to the country!
(read the general discussion)
3. The influence of Li Jue's pacification of Huaixi
Wu Yuanji died. Li Shidao was afraid and wanted to give up his land to the court, and sent his eldest son to the court as a hostage, but later he rebelled. In July of the 13th year of Yuanhe (818), Emperor Xianzong transferred Xuanwu, Wei Bo, Yicheng, Wuning and Henghai towns to fight. Under the circumstances of Dabingzhuang, the internal conflicts of Li Shidao intensified. They all knew that the soldiers and horses were killed by Liu Wu, and the areas of Zibo, Qing and Jiangzhou were pacified by the Tang Dynasty court. In July of the 14th year of Yuanhe (819), Han Hong, the governor of Xuanwu, entered the country and contributed a large amount of silk, gold, silver and horses twice, demanding to stay in the capital. Li Chun Han Hong guarded Situ, and was also the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and Zhang Hongjing, the Minister of Personnel, was appointed as the governor of Xuanwu Jie. Wei Bo Jiedushi Tian Hongzheng made great contributions to the attack on Li Shidao, and Li Chun also served as the Minister of Service. In order to show his loyalty to Emperor Xianzong Li Chun, he made his brothers and nephews go to the court to become officials.
Li Chun successively pacified the Jinshichuan envoy Liu Pi and Zhenhai envoy Li Qi, surrendered the Hebei vassal states, destroyed the Huaixi Jiedu Wu Yuanji and the Ziqing Jieduan Li Shidao, and made the vassal states surrender one after another and surrendered to the court.
Until During the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty, in addition to several parts of Hebei, the central government re-established its control over the local area, thus entering a relatively peaceful period.(Cambridge History of Sui and Tang Dynasties in China)
4. Summary of
Of course, Li Xu's success did not change the reality of jail 1 separatist in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. In the 15th year of Yuanhe, Xianzong died suddenly, and the vassal states rekindled. It was not until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty that the situation of separatist vassal states was eliminated. However, in order to curb the vassal states, the two Song Dynasty went to another extreme.
