Li Su entered Caizhou on a snowy night and was caught unawares by the son of a famous general.

There is an article in the Chinese textbook "Li Su entered Caizhou on a snowy night", which is extremely wonderful and is an excerpt from Zi Zhi Tong Jian Tang Ji.

After reading Zi Zhi Tong Jian Tang Ji 56, I finally read the full version of the story.

This story is very long. Li Sheng, the father of the protagonist Li Su, almost single-handedly judged the Jingyuan rebellion during the Tang Dezong period. It can be said to be the role of turning the tide before it falls and supporting the building when it is about to collapse.

A tiger father has no dog sons, and Li Su deserves to be the son of a famous general.

He also made extraordinary achievements and in one fell swoop judged Caizhou to be independent of the imperial court for thirty years.

This is the famous Li Suxue's night attack on Caizhou.

Li You, the surrendered general of Caizhou, advised Li Li Su: "All the elite soldiers and horses of Caizhou were sent to Huiqu and the surrounding borders to defend and garrison there. The troops defending Caizhou City were all The old, weak and remnant soldiers could take advantage of the emptiness of Caizhou and arrive directly at Caizhou City. By the time the enemy generals learned the news, Wu Yuanji had already captured him."

Li Su thought it was reasonable. In winter, October, Jiazi (the eighth day of the lunar month), Li Su sent his secretary Zheng to Yancheng to report to Pei Du secretly.

Pei Du said: "If you fight with troops, you can't win without surprising troops. Li Changshi came up with a good plan."

Xin Wei (15th), It's snowing heavily.

Li Su ordered Ma Budu Yuhou and Suizhou Governor Shi to stay and guard Wencheng, and ordered Li You and Li Zhongyi to lead a sudden force of 3,000 people composed of people who dared to die as the vanguard. The army led 3,000 people as the central army, and ordered Tian Jincheng to lead 3,000 people at the rear of the army. After the army set off, it was still unclear where it was heading.

Li Su said; "Just march toward the east!"

The army walked sixty miles and came to Zhangchai Village at night, and sent the Huaixi soldiers and soldiers who were stationed in the village to All the personnel waiting for the beacon fire were killed and the enemy's fortress was occupied.

Li Su ordered the soldiers to take a short rest, eat some dry food, adjust their horse gear, and left 500 people from the Yicheng Army to guard Zhangchai Village in order to cut off the bridges between Huiqu and various roads.

Li Su led his troops out of the gate of Zhangchai Village overnight. The generals asked for instructions on the march target. Li Su said: "Go to Caizhou to capture Wu Yuanji!"

Generals They were all shocked.

The supervisor cried and said; "Sure enough, I fell into Li You's trick!"

At that time, there was a heavy wind and snow, the flags were broken, and frozen soldiers and horses could be seen everywhere.

In addition, the sky was dark and the road heading east from Zhangchai Village had never been traveled by the army. Everyone secretly thought that they would not survive.

However, they were afraid of Li Su and did not dare to disobey orders.

In the middle of the night, the snow fell even harder.

The officers and soldiers walked seventy miles and arrived at Caizhou City.

There was a pond near the city where geese and ducks were fed. Li Su ordered the geese and ducks to be beaten to cover up the sound of the troops walking.

It has been more than thirty years since Wu Shaocheng resisted the imperial order and the army did not arrive at Caizhou City, so the people of Caizhou were unprepared.

At four o'clock in the morning of Renshen (the 16th), Li Su came to Caizhou City, and no one knew about the enemy.

Li You and Li Zhongyi used hoes to dig holes in the city wall and climbed onto the city first, with strong soldiers following behind them.

The soldiers guarding the gate of Caizhou City were sleeping soundly. Li You and others killed them all, leaving only the man on night watch to knock on the wooden sticks as before.

So, Li You and others opened the city gate and let everyone in.

When they came to the inner city, they also adopted this method, and no one in the city noticed the officers and soldiers.

When the rooster crows and the snow stops, Li You has entered Wu Yuanji's outer house.

Someone reported to Wu Yuanji: "The officers and soldiers are here!"

Wu Yuanji was still lying down and said with a smile: "It's just the captured prisoners who are committing theft!" I will kill them all after daybreak.

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Another person came to report and said: "The city has fallen! "

Wu Yuanji said: "It must be the young people from Huiqu who came to me to ask for winter clothes. "

He stood up, walked to the yard and listened outside, and heard Li Youjun issuing an order: "Chang Shi is sending a message. "Nearly 10,000 people responded to the order.

Wu Yuanji then said in fear: "What kind of regular servant is this, how can he come here! ”

So Wu Yuanji led his cronies and boarded Yacheng to resist the official army.

At that time, Dong Chongzhi had more than 10,000 elite troops and occupied Huiqu. Li Su said: "What Wu Yuanji is looking forward to is just Dong Chongzhi coming to the rescue! ”

So, Li Su found Dong Chongzhi’s family, deeply comforted them, and sent his son Dong Chuandao with a letter to persuade Dong Chongzhi, and Dong Chongzhi went to Li Su alone to surrender.

Li Su sent Li Jincheng to attack Yacheng, destroyed the outer gate of Yacheng, obtained the armor warehouse, and took out the military equipment.

On Guiyou (17th), Li Jincheng attacked again. Yacheng, the south gate of Yacheng was burned, and the people rushed to carry firewood to help the officers and soldiers. The arrows fired at the city were as dense as thorns.

By Shenshi, the city gate was destroyed, and Wu Yuanji was in the city. To plead guilty, Li Jincheng took him down with a ladder.

On the 18th of Jiaxu, Li Su sent Wu Yuanji to the capital in a prison car and reported to Pei Du. p> On this day, more than 20,000 troops from Shen and Guangzhou and various towns came to surrender.

Since Wu Yuanji was captured, Li Su did not kill any of Wu Yuanji's officials and subordinates. Li Su restored all the soldiers in the kitchen and stables to their duties, so that they had no doubts. Then Li Su stationed troops and horses on the court to wait for Pei Du to come.

Xianzong appointed Huainan. Jiedushi Li was the minister and Tongping Zhangshi.