Dou Jiande

Dou Jiande

Dou Jiande (573-621) was born in Zhangnan County of beizhou (now Gucheng County of Hebei Province). He was one of the leading figures in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties.

Generations of industry and agriculture, at the beginning of Li Chang. In the seventh year of Daye (611), Emperor Yang attacked Korea and served as the leader of 200 people. Because of helping sun Anzu uprising, his family members were killed, so he led the Ministry to fight against the Sui Dynasty and cast for gaoshida (in the southwest of the old city of Hebei). In the 12th year, he was the commander of the army and took charge of the military power. Shida died in the war, claiming to be a general and supporting more than 100000 soldiers. Thirteen years, known as the king of Changle, age Dingchou, all Leshou (now Xianxian County, Hebei Province), home official. More than 30000 people of Xue Shixiong, a general of Sui Dynasty, were annihilated, and Hebei counties and counties were more powerful. Tang Wude first year (618), known as the king of Xia, changed yuan Wufeng, the country name Xia. The next year, soldiers entered Liaocheng (now northeast of Liaocheng, Shandong Province) to capture and kill Yuwen Huaji. They mourned for emperor Yang and offered sacrifices to Emperor Tai. In the fourth year, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, led the army to besiege Wang Shichong. He led the army to save Wang Shichong. He was defeated, captured and killed in Chang'an.

He was very thrifty, and every time he got more money, he advised his officers and soldiers to teach farming and mulberry in the territory, so as to restore production. People in Weizhou built the king of Xia temple and sacrificed every year.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Dou Jiande is a native of Zhangnan, beizhou. When he was young, he attached great importance to fulfilling his promise. There was once a fellow villager whose parents died and his family was poor enough to bury him. At that time, Dou Jiande was farming. He sighed and immediately put down his farm work and took the initiative to send all the belongings needed for the funeral. Therefore, he was praised by the villagers. Originally, he worked as a magistrate, escaped because of breaking the law, and returned home only when he was granted amnesty by the imperial court. When his father died, more than a thousand people were buried. If there were any gifts, they would not accept them.

Fighting against Sui Dynasty

In 611, the imperial court recruited soldiers to fight against Korea. The county chose brave and excellent people to be commanders, so it appointed Dou Jiande as the head of 200 people. At that time, sun Anzu's wife fled to the flood and his children died. The county saw sun Anzu valiant, also selected him into the team. Sun Anzu refused to join the army because his family was poor. He told Zhangnan county magistrate face to face that the county magistrate lost his temper and beat him hard. Sun Anzu killed the county magistrate and fled to Dou Jiande, who took him in.

This year, there was a famine in Shandong Province. Dou Jiande said to sun Anzu, "when Emperor Wen was in power, the world was prosperous and prosperous. He sent millions of people to fight against Liaodong, but they were defeated by Korea. This year's flood brought poverty to the people. However, the emperor was not considerate of the people. He had to go to Liaodong to supervise the war in person. In addition, in previous years, the injured vitality had not recovered, and the people were tired and sleepy. After years of fighting, those who had been away for many years could not go home. Now they have to send troops, which is easy to lead to unrest. As long as a man doesn't die, he should make contributions. How can he be a runaway prisoner. I am familiar with Gaoji Park, which has a vast area of several hundred Li, and has dense and deep dandelions on the marshes. You can go there to hide, find opportunities to rob, and save enough to live and save. After pulling up people and horses, and waiting for the turbulence of the current situation, you are bound to do something earth shaking. " Sun Anzu agreed with his plan. Dou Jiande recruited hundreds of people to avoid conscription and have no family property, and let Sun Anzu lead him to Gaoji park to become a grass-roots bandit. Sun Anzu called himself a general. Zhang Jin, a native of He county, said he had invited hundreds of people to take part in activities in the dangerous waters of the Yellow River.

Gao Shida, a native of Shexian County, launched a rebellion again, and gathered more than 1000 people to carry out activities in Qinghe County. At that time, bandits in Zhangnan County slaughtered and robbed local people along the road, burned houses, but did not harass Dou Jiande's hometown. As a result, the county arrested Dou Jiande's family members and killed them, young and old. When Dou Jiande heard that his family had been killed, he led his 200 men to flee and take refuge in Costa. Gao Shida called himself the Duke of the East China Sea and appointed Dou Jiande as the commander. Later, sun Anzu was killed by Zhang Jin, and all his thousands of soldiers went to Dou Jiande. Since then, the team has grown to more than 10000 people, and they are still active in gaojipo. He often takes out all his belongings to help others. He is as hardworking as a soldier, so he can inspire people to work hard for him.

Uprising development

In the 12th year of Daye (616), Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuozhou, led more than 10000 troops to gaojipo to fight against gaoshida. Knowing that his wisdom and strategy were not as good as Dou Jiande's, Gao Shida promoted him to military commander Ma and gave him all military power. For the first time, Dou Jiande was in charge of the army. He wanted to show his dignity by building up a miracle. He asked Gao Shida to guard the military supplies. He selected 7000 strong soldiers to resist Guo Xuan, pretending to be in conflict with Gao Shida and betraying him. Gao Shida also preached that Dou Jiande had defected. He also pulled out a captive woman to cheat him into saying that she was Dou Jiande's wife and killed her in front of the left behind troops. Dou Jiande pretends to send a letter to Guo Xuan to ask for surrender. He is willing to take the lead and defeat Gao Shida to avenge himself. Guo Xuan believed it, and led the army to follow Dou Jiande to the Changhe border, ready to make an alliance with him, and jointly try to kill Gao Shida. Guo Xuan's army was more relaxed and unprepared. Dou Jiande attacked them suddenly, defeated Guo Xuan, killed and captured thousands of people, and got more than 1000 horses. Guo Xuan and dozens of people fled quietly. The dispatch department chased them all the way to Pingyuan County, and killed his head to Gao Shida. Since then, Dou Jiande's power has been further enhanced.

Even breaking the Sui generals

The Sui court sent Yang Yichen, the imperial servant, to lead more than 10000 people to attack Zhang Jincheng. He defeated him in Qinghe and killed all the soldiers who caught Zhang Jincheng. The soldiers who fled in the lake gathered to join Dou Jiande. Taking advantage of the victory, Yang Yichen marched to Pingyuan county and prepared to fight in gaojipoli. Dou Jiande said to Gao Shida, "of all the generals of the Sui Dynasty, only Yang Yichen could fight. Just defeated Zhang Jin, he said that their spirit is irresistible when they attack us on a long journey. Please let me take the army to avoid them, so that they can't fight and drag him for months in vain. When his soldiers are tired and tired, they can take the opportunity to beat him off guard and win a big victory. If you fight with him now, I'm afraid you can't resist it. " Gao Shida didn't listen to his advice, so he left Dou Jiande to guard the base camp and led his elite troops against Yang Yichen. After a small victory in the first battle, he indulged in drinking and having a big feast, resulting in the thought of belittling the enemy. When Dou Jiande learned of this, he said, "the Duke of Donghai is arrogant before he defeats the enemy. Disaster will come in a few days. The army of the Sui Dynasty, taking advantage of the victory and pursuing the attack, will definitely fight straight here. People are shocked and scared. I'm afraid I can't keep it. " So he left his troops to guard the barracks, and led more than 100 elite soldiers to occupy the important position, in case of the defeat of Goldstar. After five days, Yang Yichen defeated Gao Shida and killed him on the battlefield. He wanted to besiege Dou Jiande. There were few guards in the barracks. It was said that Costa had been defeated and everyone fled. Dou Jiande fled with more than 100 people. When he arrived in Raoyang County, he saw that he was not on guard, so he beat them down and appeased the taxi people in the city. Many people were willing to follow him, and there were more than 3000 people.

At first, after Yang Yichen killed Gao Shida, he thought that there was no problem in defeating Dou Jiande. However, Dou Jiande took advantage of his surprise and returned to Pingyuan county to collect and bury the bodies of those who died in the war with Costa. He also held a funeral for Costa, and the whole army wore white mourning clothes. After collecting thousands of escaped taxi soldiers, the army was inspired again, and Dou Jiande began to call himself a general. At the beginning, the bandits captured the officials and local gentry of Sui Dynasty and killed them all, but Dou Jiande must treat them with courtesy when he caught them. At first, he got the chief officer of Raoyang County, song Zhengyuan, as a distinguished guest, to discuss with him the major plans and policies. Since then, the prefectures and counties of the Sui Dynasty gradually surrendered to him, making the army more prosperous, with more than 100000 strong generals.

In the first month of the 13th year of Daye (617), an altar was set up at the junction of Hejian county and Leshou county to hold a ceremony. He called himself the king of Changle, and his year name was Ding Chou. He set up an organization to appoint officials. In July, the Sui court sent you Yiwei general Xue Shixiong to fight against Dou Jiande and set up camp in qilijing in the south of Hejian City. When Dou Jiande heard that Xue Shixiong was coming, he selected thousands of elite soldiers to ambush in the marshes on the southern border of Hejian county. All the garrison in each town set up camp to camouflage and sneak away, saying that they were hiding in Douzi lake. Xue Shixiong thought that Dou Jiande was afraid of himself and did not build military facilities. Dou Jiande explored the situation and led a thousand taxis to attack Xue Shixiong. In the thick fog everywhere, the two armies could not identify each other. The Sui army ran away and trampled on each other, killing more than 10000 people. Xue Shixiong fled with hundreds of people, and the rest of the troops were defeated. Dou Jiande then attacked Hejian County, but failed to do so many times.

Later, when the city ran out of food, he got the news that emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty had been killed. Wang Cong, the governor of Hejian County, led officials to announce the bad news to the people. Dou Jiande sent envoys to the city to express his mourning. Wang Cong took the opportunity to entrust envoys to surrender. Dou Jiande retreated thirty miles to hold a good banquet waiting for him. Wang Cong took the officials in white mourning clothes and tied their hands behind their backs to the barracks. Dou Jiande personally untied them and talked with them about the demise of the Sui Dynasty. Wang Cong bowed down in grief and pain, and Dou Jiande sobbed for it. Some generals suggested to Dou Jiande: "Wang Cong resisted our army for a long time. Many people were killed and injured. We had no way to go out of the city and surrender. We asked to boil him to death." Dou Jiande said: "this is a man of integrity. How can he be killed if he happens to be promoted and appointed so as to encourage those who serve the king faithfully. Once upon a time, he was a bandit in gaojibo. Maybe he could kill people at will. Now he wants to stabilize the people and calm the world,

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