Admiral Wei - an elegant and gorgeous star (ZT)

Admiral Wei - an elegant and gorgeous general

Author: Devil's Reader

When I saw the prey, I reprinted the article of Demon Brother I have always liked. I have no other intentions and can be used to look up.

It is estimated that everyone doesn’t sound very familiar to everyone, but the protagonist we are introducing today is this not-famous Admiral Wei.

Wei Gao was a figure from the Middle Tang Dynasty. He was very magical when he was born. Legend has it that when he was one month old, his family had a banquet and invited many monks to pray for the baby's birthday. However, there was an ugly monk, who was not invited and came to eat for free, and was treated coldly. However, when Wei Gao's mother asked the wet nurse to carry the baby out and asked the monks to celebrate his birthday, Hu monk said to the baby: "Don't be fine?" Wei Gao seemed to understand Hu monk's words and smiled at the Hu monk. Everyone was very surprised. So after Wei Gao's mother's repeated questioning, the Hu monk said that Wei Gao was the reincarnation of Zhuge Wuhou and would protect Shu in the future. Wei Gao's future development was indeed as the Hu monk said. It can be said that Wei Gao was covered with a magical halo from birth.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was already in turmoil. During the reign of Emperor Dezong, Prime Minister Zhang Yi was transferred by the emperor to be the governor of Fengyi Longyou. Wei Gao was called the judge of the camp, and was appointed as the censor of the palace. He was appointed as the chief censor of Longzhou. He was the chief magistrate of Longzhou. Not long after, the 5,000 troops of the governor of Jingyuan, Yao Lingyan, mutiny and occupied Chang'an. Yu was supported by the chaos. Dezong had no choice but to flee to Fengtian in a hurry. Who knew that disaster would not go alone? Yu's old subordinate Fengxiang military envoy Li Chulin killed Zhang Yi again and led the chaos soldiers to Yu. At this time, our protagonist was in the city of Longshang. There was a general named Niu Yunguang in this city. Seeing that Wei Gao was very talented, he wanted to launch a mutiny.

He led Wei Gao to join Wu Xi, but unfortunately, this plan was revealed, so Niu Yunguang took people away in panic. However, when he was halfway through, he met Yu, the servant Su Yu, who was moved by this person, and wanted to turn around and surrender Wei Gao. As a result, Wei Gao followed Zhou Yu's Linjiang Meeting and killed Niu Yunguang, Su Yu and others. This was Wei Gao's first wonderful performance full of wisdom. What was Wei Gao's image at this time? I think he should be a white-faced scholar, because before the enemy understood his interests, he used the word "scholar". Maybe Wei Gao really had a bit of Zhuge Kongming's style.

After resolving Niu Yunguang's rebels, he sent an envoy to contact the Tubo Kingdom to stabilize the situation so that Emperor Dezong could return to the capital. Due to his activeness in this incident, Wei Gao was promoted to General of the Left Jinwu Guard and promoted to General. In the early Zhenyuan period, he replaced Zhang Yanshang as the governor of Jiannan Xichuan, became the chief official, and responded to the language of the Hu monk, became the guardian of Shu, and also began the gorgeous battle career of Admiral Wei on the stage of Shu.

Those who are familiar with the history of the Tang Dynasty know that the governor of Jiannan Xichuan in the Tang Dynasty was not an easy position. The people in Shu were strong and there were many ethnic minorities. There were Nanzhao to the south and Tubo to the west. During the Tianbao War, the war between the Tang army and Nanzhao was wiped out in a total of 180,000 elite troops. Tubo was the old enemy since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. In such a place where the young wise general Wei Gao began his business.

What China has praised throughout the years is to fight wits but not strength. Wei Gao is not a reckless man who only knows how to fight, so he naturally will not do stupid things to fight on both sides. After he took office, he first appeased the local ethnic minorities, and then became friends with the Nanzhao Kingdom, and alienated the relationship between Nanzhao and Tubo. So after this series of efforts, Wei Gao could concentrate on dealing with the biggest foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo.

In the fifth year of Zhenyuan, Wei Gao's first battle in Shu began, which was different from what ordinary people imagined. This battle was initiated by Wei Gao. He sent general Wang Youdao to lead two thousand elite troops to join forces with the Dongman, defeated Tubo in Taideng, and killed Qinghai's great chief Quezhezhe, Lacheng chief Sidu Yang Zhu and Lun Dongchai, and historical books said, "The enemy fell to death and was invisible to the cliff valley, and many were armored by cattle and horses. Zhang Xizhi, and he was the son of the noble general and the heroes who captured the noble generals and heroes. After being defeated, more than a hundred chiefs cried and followed. The fierce generals were destroyed, and then the troops were stationed in the next step to surrender." It was a bit of a gust of the occupation of Chang'an. Wei Gao was promoted to the Minister of Personnel for this contribution.

The problem of ethnic minorities in the southwest of China has always been a headache. Ethnic rebellion is simply common. Wei Gao naturally encountered such a problem. He had just appeased several ethnic minority leaders in Shu. Who knew that not long after, one of them, an old rebel named Meng Chong, defected to Tubo. Wei Gao did not capture Meng Chong seven times like his "previous life" Zhuge Wuhou, and launched a emotional offensive. Instead, he was very straightforward to behead him under the Pipa Sichuan and set up the second leader of the tribe as the leader. From then on, the ethnic minorities in Shu were shocked, and Wei Gao also firmly controlled Shu in his hands.

In the ninth year of Zhenyuan, the imperial court built Yanzhou City, which was just under the nose of Tubo. Of course, Tubo would not watch it complete. In order to ensure the safe completion of the city, Wei Gao once again took the initiative to attack Tubo Ehe, Tonghe, Dinglian City, and Jubo Boling, surrounded Weizhou, fought Qiji, captured Yangxi and other three cities, and burned down Tubo's Dinglian City. Tubo's southern marshal Lumangre came to rescue him, but was defeated and killed thousands of people. Therefore, Yanzhou City was built smoothly without any interference.

In the 13th year of Zhenyuan, Wei Gao recovered the lost turf state. At this time, Wei Gao was as hateful as a thorn in his eyes to Tubo, so his troops were overwhelmed and attacked repeatedly. However, Wei Gao was not only a good offense, but also had a steady defense. Tubo's attacks continued to eat turtles.

The above situation continued until the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan. In this year, Wei Gao's differentiation policy achieved results. Two major alliance groups, represented by Wei Gao, were formed in the southwest of the empire, namely Wei Gao, and the Tubo Kingdom-Arab Abbasid Empire, and conflicts continued. However, under Wei Gao's leadership, the defeated side was always the Tubo Kingdom. The intermittent war finally formed a war in the 17th year of Zhenyuan. Given that the situation in the southwest of the empire was becoming increasingly unfavorable to Tubo, Tubo Zanpu went north Fang launched a general attack, attacking Ling and Shuozhou, and attacking Linzhou, hoping to make up for the losses of Tubo in this way. Wei Gao once again took the initiative. In the southwest of the empire, he divided the army into ten routes and attacked the hinterland of Tubo. It was a bold and gorgeous combat style. The scattered army was not defeated by each one, but instead defeated the coalition forces of Tubo and the Arab Abbasid Empire at the beginning. So "Kang, the black-clothed Dashi and the Tubo chiefs all surrendered and won 20,000 heads." .This large-scale war was fought from spring to autumn. By October, Wei Gao had defeated 160,000 Tubo troops, captured seven cities and five military towns. Then he attacked Victoria, defeating Tubo's rescue troops one by one, forcing Tubo Zanpu to attack the northwest of the empire to come back to rescue, and finally a decisive battle in Victoria. In this decisive battle, Wei Gao used the strategy of luring the enemy into depth and yin* the 100,000 Tubo troops into the ambush circle set up by Wei Gao. As a result, more than half of the 100,000 enemy troops were annihilated, and the enemy's commander-in-chief Lun Mangre alive.

In the 21st year of Wei Gao's reign in Shu, the total number of Tubo troops was 480,000, captured and killed the Jiedu, the governor, the city lord, the cage 1,500 officials, beheaded more than 50,000 cattle and sheep, and collected 6.3 million weapons. Almost no general of the same era as Wei Gao could surpass him. He could definitely be regarded as a famous general. Wei Gao not only fought well but also played politics as a foil, not only governed Shu well (after Wei Gao's death, the people of Shu would worship him when they saw his portrait.), but also assisted the prince ascended the throne and expelled his political enemies.

OK, after talking about Wei Gao's heroic side, let's talk about his "cultural bourgeoisie". Wei Gao is not only proficient in war, but also good at music. He himself wrote "Nanzhao Fengsheng Music" and revised the national music of the Piao Kingdom. He is really a famous general with style. Wei Gao also created China, perhaps the world's first female public relations, and the allusions of female scholastic books have been passed down through the ages.
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