Cheng, formerly known as Bite Gold, was later renamed Jie. He was born in Dong 'e, Jeju (now southwest of Dongping, Shandong). General Tang and one of the twenty-four outstanding figures of Lingyange. In this novel, Cheng is the 100-day-old Lord of Wagangzhai, nicknamed the earthly demon king, and is brother and sister with Yanyeshiba Road and Anti-Wang Sixty-four Road, with infinite scenery. This novel is badly written in Chengdu.
While he was asleep, he learned a set of axe skills from an old fairy. As a result, he was awakened when he was practicing hard, so he only remembered the three axes. It fights against human beings and only scares people with three axes. After three strokes, the prototype of the straw bag came out. Tang Shuo's famous "three axes" allusions come from this.
Cheng, a household name. He is an amazing figure in novels and folk storytelling, with straightforward personality, coarse and fine. Its unique skill is to learn three axes in a dream: "beheading", "picking teeth" and "plucking ears".
Cheng started by selling illicit salt, became famous by robbing the emperor's outline, and was praised as the incarnation of the devil by all.
After investing in the Tang Dynasty, he made repeated military exploits with the help of three axes and good luck, and lived for over 100 years until the fall of Wu Zetian. The spread of famous sayings such as "Cheng San Banfu" and "Cheng" shows that everyone loves Cheng. However, after all, these are all fabricated by novels and folk storytelling artists, mainly exaggerating and joking, with a lot of water. Although Cheng in the history books is not the devil in the world, he also has three axes, which is much more powerful than you know!
The first axe: horses are different from storytelling and novels. Cheng's weapon was not a gossip axe, but a heavy cavalry weapon belonging to the aristocratic class, which was quite difficult at that time. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, cavalry was the decisive force to dominate the world. The duel of heavy cavalry promoted the development of armored forces and weapons and equipment, and also produced a group of experts, such as "Records of Weichi Gong" by Cheng and Cheng.
Because of the importance of cavalry, as soon as Cheng entered the Wagang Army, he became the elite of the elite. Cheng has never been the emperor of Wagangzhai, but he led four ancient generals and eight thousand cavalry under Shi Biao. Shi Mi called it "8,000 men are worth a million troops".
Cheng's skill is not ordinary. He can only operate three and a half axes, but in fact he is a valiant soldier. After he took refuge, every time he went out to war, he always made contributions by raising the flag, and his bravery was second only to that of Weichi Gong. It is obvious to all that the Tang Dynasty attached importance to it.
The second axe: accurate vision The second axe is to have an accurate political vision. Shi Biao was defeated by the king, was captured and forced to surrender. Wang is very kind to them, but Cheng thinks Wang is very cunning.
At the end of Sui Dynasty in troubled times, except Wang of Luoyang, Dou Jiande, Du of Jianghuai, Fugong of Hebei, Xiaoxian of Nanliang and others, Cheng chose to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty, but when Wang was at war with the Tang Dynasty, Cheng He directly surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
Because of their reputation, Li Shimin respects them very much. Cheng followed successively defeated Dou Jiande, Wang and others. He was so brave that he was made Duke of Su Guo because of his outstanding achievements. Subsequently, Li Jin slandered and will be transferred from Qin Gong.
Cheng ignored his own safety and told him to take measures to protect himself from Li's frame-up. Initiate the change of Xuanwu Gate, in which Cheng participated. Later, due to his achievements, he was promoted to the 19 among the 24 heroes in Lingyange.
The third axe: There were many talented people in the Tang Dynasty, and he was a good commander-in-chief, so there are few historical records about the soldiers. Cheng's martial arts is the third axe and a far-reaching attack on Turks, but this axe dance is not beautiful. Cheng crusaded against the west Turkistan as the marching general, and the former general Su won a total victory, beheaded more than a thousand people and seized countless military equipment. Wang, the assistant commander, was jealous of his contribution, and advised him not to pursue the victory.
The king even pretended to have the emperor's will, asking Cheng to give all his troops to his command and ordered him not to pursue the enemy. Cheng obeyed without judgment. After the invasion of Doudu City, the conference semifinals had already surrendered. Cheng listened to Wang's advice, killed thousands of Hu people and took them away.
Later, when he returned to the army, it was revealed that Wang was pardoned and forced to die from prison. Cheng was dismissed because he was not afraid of strong enemies. Soon, he was appointed as the secretariat of qi zhou. Cheng asked the court to allow him to resign.
Cheng is a careless character in traditional novels. Sui dynasty pardoned him, and as soon as he got out of prison, he killed another man. In fact, this is also an unfounded inference. Actually, Cheng is a very careful person. After the defeat of Wagang Army, Cheng, Qin and Dan were captured and appointed as generals. Dan was so grateful that he went to the king. Although Wang's character is very poor, Qin can't do anything at the moment, so he has to come second.
Only Cheng saw from his eyes that Wang had no future, so he had to change his mind. Although he has such an idea in his heart, there is no trace on the surface. He secretly colluded with Qin and others, and when he sent his troops to crusade against the Tang army, he abandoned the king to the front.
The king wanted to chase but didn't dare to chase, because Tang Jun was on the other side of the battle, and he was flustered and had no choice. Cheng did it quite neatly, which can be described as meticulous and watertight.
On the eve of the political reform, Prince Jian and Qi Wang Yuanji hacked to death Li Shimin's subordinate soldiers. Among these military commanders, only Cheng and He took the lead. Among the military commanders in the Qin dynasty, such a keen political mind and decisive way of doing things are extremely rare. Because of his outstanding success, Emperor Taizong ordered Yan, a famous painter, to hang his portrait in Lingyange, and he was called "the twenty-four outstanding artists of Lingyange" with Wuji and Fang.
However, like most of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty, Cheng accomplished nothing in his life, despite his high political status. Because he committed a massacre in a western expedition, he was said to be suspected of corruption and was removed from his official position. This is not a stain in his life. Just because his son married qinghe princess, the daughter of Emperor Taizong, he was soon restored to his official position.
After his death, Li Zhi wrote a memorial letter to the general and governor of Yizhou, and was buried in Zhaoling, where posthumous title was "xianggong". This kind of "fragrance" is not available to ordinary people. When the land is opened, virtue is called Xiang. It is a great reward to take it far away.
When I was a teenager, my family was so poor that I didn't even have enough to eat. So where did his three-axe stunt come from? This is because when Cheng was ten years old, he met a strange man. It was this strange man who taught him the skills of three axes and made Cheng make a career in that turbulent era.