Li Tingzhi

Li Tingzhi

Li Tingzhi (1219-1276) was born in Suizhou, Hubei Province. He was a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the first year of Chunyou (1241 A.D.), Zhongjin was a scholar. During the reign of Baoyou, he knew Zhenzhou and moved to Huaihe and Huaihe provinces to pacify the people. Hou Yi sent envoys to recall the imperial court as Prince Shaobao and Prime Minister Zuo, and Jiang CAI was sent to Taizhou with him.

In the second year of Deyou (1276 AD), he failed to break through the encirclement and was killed.

Life of the characters

Early experience

When Li Tingzhi was born, there was Ganoderma lucidum growing on the roof beam of his family. The villagers gathered to watch it. They thought it was an auspicious sign of giving birth to a boy, so they took it as their name. When he was young, he was very intelligent. He could read thousands of words every day, and his wisdom and knowledge often came from the elders. Wang Min was the governor of Suizhou, and Li Tingzhi was 18 years old at that time. He told his uncles, uncles and father, "Wang Min is greedy and doesn't care for his subordinates. Subordinates have many complaints. Suizhou is bound to be in trouble. Please move your family to De'an to avoid disaster." Uncle, uncle and father reluctantly listened to his words, and the whole family moved. Less than ten days after the move, Wang Min was held by his trilogy to launch a rebellion, and many people died in Suizhou.

Go to Meng Gong

At the end of the Jiaxi reign (1240 AD), the defense of the Yangtze River was very urgent, so Li Tingzhi could not get the township election. He wrote a letter to Meng Gong, the general of Jingzhou, asking to serve the country. Meng Gong was good at meeting people. In the evening, he dreamed that Li Shangshu came to visit him. The next day, Li Tingzhi arrived. Seeing that he was a big man, Meng Gong turned to his sons and said, "I've met many people. There's no one like Li Tingzhi. He will surpass me in the future." At that time, there was a military warning in Sichuan, that is, Li Tingzhi was temporarily the magistrate of Jianshi County in Shizhou. After Li Tingzhi arrived, he trained the peasants, managed the military affairs, and selected the strong men to join the army to teach him martial arts. After more than a year, the people knew how to fight and how to defend. They were good at fighting on horseback, farming with weapons when nothing happened, and all the soldiers and bandits went out to fight with them when they arrived. The general of Kuizhou also carried out this method in his jurisdiction. In the early years of Chunyou (1241 AD), Li Tingzhi left Jianshi County to take part in the imperial examination and was admitted as a Jinshi. As Meng Gong's staff, in charge of confidential and written matters. After Meng Gong died, shangyibiao recommended Jia Sidao to take his place and Li Tingzhi to Jia Sidao. Li Tingzhi was grateful to Meng Gong for being a confidant, so he helped him to bury his coffin in Xingguo County, and then he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown to mourn for Meng Gong for three years.

Outstanding military achievements

Jia Sidao guarded Jinghu. Li Tingzhi initially served as a counsellor of the system department. Later, he moved to guard Lianghuai. He and Jia Sidao proposed to set up five estuaries of the Zhaqing River and 120 beacon towers in Huainan. Then, he served as the magistrate of Haozhou, and set up a city in Jingshan for Huainan. All to the point. In the first year of Kaiqing (1259 AD), Jia Sidao served as the Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu, and Li Tingzhi was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou. Soon, because the soldiers were in the area of Bashu, they were invited to serve as the governor of xiazhou to defend the Yangtze River exit of Bashu. The imperial court appointed Zhao Yuchen as the system envoy of Huainan, and Li yinggeng as the councilor. Li yinggeng commanded two soldiers to garrison in Nancheng. Tens of thousands of people died of thirst in the heat. Mongolian General Li Fen observed that he had no strategy to capture the three cities of Lianshui and the South City by crossing the Huaihe River. When Ezhou soldiers came out of the siege, Li Tingzhi resigned in mourning for his mother. When the imperial court discussed the choice of generals stationed in Yangzhou, song LiZong said, "no one can match Li Tingzhi." So he was in charge of the two Huai system. Li Tingzhi defeated Li Fen's army, killed his general Marshal Li, and calmed down Nancheng. In the first year of JINGDING (1260 A.D.), Li Tingzhi defeated Li Fen in Qiaocun and captured Donghai, Shipu and other cities. In the third year of JINGDING (1262 AD), Li Fen surrendered and moved people from the three cities to Tongzhou and Taizhou. He also attacked Qi county and killed the general.

Guarding Yangzhou

When Li Tingzhi first came to Yangzhou, Yangzhou had just suffered from floods, and all the houses were burned down. Yangzhou relies on the salt industry to gain profits, but most of the salt making households flee, and the public and private salt industry is very depressed. Li Tingzhi lent all the debts to the people and lent them money to repair their houses. After the house was built, they were relieved of the money they borrowed. A total of one year, all the government houses were repaired. Forty miles of canals were dug to Jinsha and Yuqing saltworks to save transportation expenses. At the same time, it also dredged other canals to release more than 2 million tons of salt from the pavilion households. The people of salt producing households did not have the labor of transportation, and they were able to get rid of their salt debts. All the people who escaped came back, and the profits of salt industry flourished rapidly. At first, Pingshan hall had a bird's-eye view of Yangzhou city. When Yuanbing arrived, a watchtower was built on it, and a crossbow was set up to shoot arrows into the city. Therefore, Li Tingzhi built a high wall and gathered more than 20000 refugees from the south of Bianjing to enrich the population of the city. There was an imperial edict to order him to be a wurui army. He also overhauled the school, taught poetry and books, and practiced shooting with the literati. When the county suffered from flood, drought and famine, it ordered to open the official Treasury. If the Treasury was insufficient, it used its own private property to relieve the victims. Yangzhou people are grateful and respectful as their parents. Liu can entered the court from Huainan. Emperor LiZong of the Song Dynasty asked him about Huainan. Liu can replied, "Li Tingzhi is mature and cautious, and the army and the people are at peace. Now the border guards are not frightened. Pepsi is ready. They are all the achievements made by the candidates appointed by your majesty. "

Wronged and demoted

In the fifth year of Xianchun (1269 AD), the Northern Yuan soldiers besieged Xiangyang, and the war was urgent. Xia GUI came to aid Xiangyang, and was defeated by huweizhou. Fan Wenhu mobilized all soldiers to reinforce Xiangyang again, and was defeated again. Fan Wenhu was able to escape by boat, and his soldiers were in chaos. Many soldiers fell into the Han River and drowned. In winter, the imperial court ordered Li Tingzhi to assist Xiangyang with the system of Jinghu. When fan Wenhu heard that Li Tingzhi was in Xiangyang, he sent a letter to Jia Sidao: "I will lead tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Xiangyang, and we can defeat the enemy in the first World War. Just don't let me obey the orders of Jinghu. If I succeed, I owe the credit to my benefactor." Jia Sidao was so happy that he appointed fan Wenhu as Fuzhou observation envoy, and his army was also under his command. Every day, fan Wenhu takes his beautiful concubine with him to play ball in the army. Li Tingzhi wanted to enter the army many times. Fan Wenhu replied, "I haven't sent someone to take orders yet." In June of the next year, when the Han River was overflowing, fan Wenhu had no choice but to send troops. Before the army reached lumen, he fled halfway. Li Tingzhi personally impeached him many times and asked him to replace him, but he didn't approve. As a result, he lost Xiangyang. Chen Yizhong asked to kill fan Wenhu, but Jia Sidao took his side. He was only demoted to be the governor of Anqing Prefecture, and Li Tingzhi and Su Liuyi and fan Youxin were demoted to Guangnan. Li Tingzhi dismissed from office and lived in Jingkou.

Keep Yangzhou

Before long, the yuan soldiers besieged Yangzhou, and the imperial envoy Yin Ying died of thunderstorm. That is to say, Li Tingzhi was appointed as the imperial envoy of Huaihe and Huaihe. Li Tingzhi asked Xia GUI to lead his troops to defend Huainan West Road, but he could concentrate on defending Huainan East Road. He was approved. Xianchun ten years (AD 1274), built qinghekou, edict for Qinghe army. In December, the yuan army conquered Ezhou. Song duzong ordered the army to serve the king of the world. Li Tingzhi first sent the army to propose obedience. In the spring of the first year of Deyou (1275 A.D.), Jia Sidao defeated Wuhu. The generals of the states along the Yangtze River either surrendered or fled, and no one could hold on. Li Tingzhi led his troops to stick to the counties and cities. Li Hu took the surrender list to Yangzhou to surrender. Li Tingzhi killed Li Hu and burned the surrender list. Zhang Jun, the commander-in-chief, took Meng Zhijin's book to surrender. Li Tingzhi burned the book and cut off the heads of Zhang Jun and other five people. After that, Jiang Cai was transferred to battle in the south, and Xu Wen de was fighting in the north. He and Shi Zhong were able to defend in the city. At that time, they took out gold, silk, beef and wine for a banquet to reward the soldiers, and people fought to the death. The imperial court also rewarded the soldiers with the gold and silver of the governor's office, and ordered Jiasheng Li Tingzhi to participate in political affairs. In July, Xia GUI was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou, but Xia GUI didn't come to Yangzhou, so he gave up. In October of the first year of Deyou (1275 AD), Boyan, the Prime Minister of the Yuan Dynasty, entered Lin'an, leaving marshal Ashu stationed in Zhenjiang to stop the army in Huainan. A Shu could not attack Yangzhou for a long time, so he built fortifications and besieged Yangzhou for a long time. In winter, the city is full of food, and the streets are full of dead people. In February of the next year, the famine became more severe. Hundreds of people went to haoshui to commit suicide every day. There were dead people on the road, and they all competed to cut his flesh and eat it. In a short time, it was over. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Empress Dowager Xie and the Duke of Ying were ordered to surrender. Li Tingzhi climbed up the city wall and said, "I was ordered to defend the city, but I didn't hear of an edict to surrender." After that, when the two palaces entered the court and went to Guazhou, they ordered Li Tingzhi to say, "recently, they ordered you to pay money, but I haven't heard your return for a long time. Don't you know what I mean, or do you want to stick to self-discipline? Now that the crown prince and I are both subject to the Yuan Dynasty, who else do you defend Yangzhou for? " Li Tingzhi didn't answer his question, so he sent arrows and crossbows to kill the emissary, killing one person, and the rest of them retreated. Jiang Cai sent troops to recapture the two palaces, but failed to win. He closed the city gate and garrisoned. In March, Xia GUI came down to the West Huainan road. A Shu drove his troops to Yangzhou city to show them. Banners were everywhere. In the audience, Li Tingzhi was tested with words. Li Tingzhi said, "I have only one death." Ah Shu's messenger came to surrender with an edict. After Li Tingzhi opened the door and let him in, he killed him and burned the edict on the wall. Later, it was learned that Xu Wende of Huai'an Prefecture, Zhang Sicong of Xu Yi army of Zhi'an Prefecture, and Liu xingzu of zhi'si Prefecture all fell because of food depletion. Li Tingzhi also collected grain and millet from the people to supply the army. After the millet was eaten, he ordered the officials to produce millet, and the millet was eaten up. He also ordered the generals to produce millet, and eat it with cow hide and bran crickets. The soldiers cooked their sons' meat and fought hard every day.

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In July of the second year of Deyou (1276 A.D.), azhuplease

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