"Saying the Complete Biography of the Tang Dynasty" is an ancient vernacular written in the Qing Dynasty**, the specific author is no longer available, there are roughly three versions: "Yuanhu Yusuo Revision" version, "Rulian Jushi Preface" version and Chen Ruheng's rewritten version.
The first version basically belongs to the original version, with many bugs, and it is almost impossible to find it on the market; The second one fixes some bugs, and the content has not changed; The third canceled all the mythological colors, ** weight and name were not mentioned again, and even made a lot of changes to the content, such as changing Luo Cheng to kill Shan Xiongxin to Wei Chigong, and also changed the sixty-eight chapters to sixty-six chapters, and the chapter names were also rewritten.
There is a ranking of all the generals in the world in the book for martial arts, a total of eighteen, but only thirteen of them are named, they are:
The first golden-winged Dapeng Linfan's Li Yuanba made a double hammer weighing 800 catties.
The second place Nine Heavens Ying Yuan thunder Puhua Tianzun Linfan Yuwen Chengdu, so that four hundred catties of gold hammer.
The third place is Pei Yuanqing, who surveyed the heavens and Taibao's eight-armed Nezha Linfan, and made a pair of silver hammers weighing three hundred catties.
Fourth place is a majestic sea, making a pair of steel axes weighing one hundred and sixty pounds.
Fifth place, Wu Yunzhao, made one hundred and sixty pounds of eight snake spears.
The sixth place, Wu Tianxi, made 200 catties of heavy mixed gold.
Seventh place, one of the four elephants, the White Tiger Star Linfan, Luo Cheng, made two hundred and forty pounds of eight rolling clouds (silver) guns.
The eighth place is one of the nine Yao Yang Lin, who counts all the stars in the fan, so that three hundred catties of a pair of dragon sticks.
The ninth place Wei Wentong, making the Qinglong knife, did not explain the weight in the book, ** between one hundred and two hundred catties.
The tenth place is still a master and apprentice or a new Wenli, the Shang master and apprentice make 120 catties of Tilu guns, and the new Wenli makes 200 catties of heavy iron square lances.
Eleven Ibid.
Sixteen Qin Shubao, the handsome star of Zuo Tianpeng, made an eighty-three pound tiger head gun (later changed to the Tilu gun of Shang Shi's apprentice) and a family heirloom of 180 pounds of double hammers.
Shan Xiongxin, one of the eighteen four elephants, Qinglong Xing Linfan, made the Jinding jujube yang lance, which is not expected to exceed sixty catties.
There are three main battles that caused the mass deaths of the generals on the master list, the Battle of Linyang Pass during the Western Wei Dynasty's invasion of the Sui Dynasty, the Battle of Yangzhou where Yang Lin sought to oppose the king, and the Battle of the Purple Mountain outside Tongguan that I will talk about today.
Compared with the previous two, the Battle of Purple Mountain cannot be regarded as a battle, because there were two major battles in the same place, and at the same time, it was also the least number of heroes killed in the three major battles. However, the reason why I put it on the same list as the other two is that although only two generals died, they are the top two in the world and the highest quality; Second, the total number of people killed in battle is the largest, and it can be said that there are corpses all over the field, and at the same time, Luo Cheng, the second male number known as "Chang Sheng", also suffered the only defeat in his life here.
Yang Lin's Yangzhou serial plan failed, and he was killed by Luo Cheng with a horse pistol, and the death of the backer king also indicated that the Great Sui was about to collapse.
Sure enough, not long after, Yu Wenhua killed the monarch in Jiangdu and established himself as Emperor Daxu, which caused a shock in the world.
On the other hand, after receiving the letter, Li Yuan did not join the other anti-kings, but sent troops out of Tongguan. Yu Wenhua and when he heard the news, he urgently sent his son Yuwen Chengdu to garrison at the foot of the Purple Mountain outside Tongguan to intercept Li Tang's soldiers and horses.
I don't think that Li Tang led the army is the world's first Li Yuanba, Yuwen Chengdu has fought Li Yuanba twice before, once was defeated by a hammer, and once was captured alive by the empty hand, just because Li Yuanba had to be told by the teacher not to hurt the gold picker, so he let Yuwen Chengdu go twice.
Yuwen Chengdu saw Li Yuanba, he complained bitterly, he wanted to leave but he had already taken his face, so he had to fight hard, but Li Yuanba opened the gold hammer with a hammer, grabbed Le Jiaqi and threw it into the air, grabbed Yuwen Chengdu's feet with both hands, "tore and pulled", and tore into two pieces.
Yuwen Chengdu was killed, the soldiers dispersed in a hurry, and Li Yuanba took advantage of the situation to set up a camp in the Purple Mountain.
On the other hand, the rebel kings broke Yangzhou, Dou Jiande killed Yu Wenhua, Li Mi got the jade seal, and the coalition army planned to withdraw from Tongguan, but was blocked by Li Yuanba, and ordered the rebel kings to hand over the jade seal.
Cheng Biting Jin, who was the marshal of the coalition forces at the time, ordered the three armies to rush up, and Li Yuanba danced with a double hammer to kill the Quartet, which made Luo Cheng angry. The 240-pound Zhangba Rolling Cloud Spear took Li Yuanba directly, but Li Yuanba beat the spear into two sections with a hammer, and Luo Cheng returned to the horse and left.
After that, Li Yuanba fought alone against 1.8 million coalition troops, and in less than half a day, only 650,000 were left.
Li Yuanba was satisfied, and his brother-in-law Chai Shao joined up to collect troops, not far away, the clouds were thick, the sky was thundering, only in Li Yuanba's left and right ears, so angry that Li Yuanba scolded, and threw a sledgehammer, trying to compete with the sky, but the sledgehammer fell, hit Li Yuanba's front door, turned over and fell off the horse.
Chai Shao was shocked and was about to go to the rescue, but in an instant, the sand flew away, the rain was pouring down, and people couldn't go forward. After a while, the rain passed and the sky cleared, and the dust settled, and when I looked again, only Li Yuanba's armor was still there, and the horse, the double hammer and Li Yuanba's corpse were gone.
At this point, the Battle of Purple Mountain came to an end.
In this battle, Li Yuanba and Yuwen returned to heaven, and the total number of soldiers of the coalition army was 1.15 million! A Purple Mountain is a purgatory, and corpses are everywhere.