Chapter 38 129 Tan Daoji Sings Raising Sands

Nineteen years after Song Wudi Liu Yu established the Song Dynasty in the south (AD 439), Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao (Tuoba is the surname, Tao sound dao) destroyed Beiliang, the last small country among the sixteen kingdoms. Unified the North.In the 170 years since the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there has been a confrontation between the North and the South in the history of our country.The Southern Dynasties were successively replaced by Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties; the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Northern Dynasties was later divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei; Eastern Wei and Western Wei were replaced by Northern Qi and Northern Zhou respectively.Historically, this period was collectively called the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Emperor Wu of Song Dynasty was emperor for two years, and died of illness in the third year.After Emperor Wu's son Song Wendi came to the throne, the Northern Wei Dynasty crossed the Yellow River in a big way, attacked the Song Dynasty, and occupied a large area of ​​land south of the Yellow River.Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty sent Tan Daoji to lead an army to resist. Once, when the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked Jinan, Tan Daoji personally led the soldiers to the edge of Jishui, and fought more than 30 battles with the Wei army in more than 20 days.The Song army was victorious and chased all the way to Licheng (in today's Shandong Province).

At this time, Tan Daoji became proud, and his guard was a little lax.Wei Jun took a chance and used two light cavalry to launch a surprise attack on the front and rear wings of Tan Daoji's Song Army, and set the Song Army's supplies and grass on fire. Although Tan Daoji's soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they couldn't survive without the military rations, and they were going to retreat from Licheng. A soldier in the Song army fled to the Wei camp and surrendered, and told the generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty about the shortage of food in the Song army.The Northern Wei Dynasty sent a large army to chase after Tan Daoji, trying to surround the Song army.

The generals of the Song army were a little scared when they saw a large number of Wei troops surrounding them, and some soldiers fled secretly.Tan Daoji calmly ordered the soldiers to camp and rest on the spot. That night, the Song Army barracks were brightly lit, and Tan Daoji personally led a group of soldiers in charge of food to check the food in a camp.Some soldiers were singing and counting with bamboo sticks in their hands, while others were measuring rice with buckets. Someone sneaked a look into the camp, and saw that the rice bags were filled with snow-white rice. The news was immediately heard by Wei Bing's spies, and they hurried to tell General Wei.It is said that there is more than enough rations in Tan Daoji's camp, if he wants to fight Tan Daoji decisively, he will definitely lose again.

General Wei got the information and thought that Song Bing, who had come to inform him, had surrendered in a fake way to trick them into being fooled, so he killed the Song Bing who had surrendered. In fact, General Wei fell into Tan Daoji's trick.What Tan Daoji measured in the camp was not white rice, but buckets of sand, which was just covered with a small amount of white rice. When the sky turned pale, Tan Daoji ordered the soldiers to wear helmets and armor, and he himself wore civilian clothes, and rode in a carriage, and moved south along the main road in a grand manner. General Wei had been defeated by Tan Daoji many times. He was a little scared of the Song army at first, but when he saw the Song army retreating calmly, he couldn't tell how many people they had ambushed, so he didn't dare to chase after him.

Relying on his calmness and resourcefulness, Tan Daoji saved the Song army and allowed the Song army to return to the division safely.After that, the Northern Wei Dynasty did not dare to easily attack the Song Dynasty. Tan Daoji made great contributions in both Emperor Wu of Song Dynasty and Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty.However, due to his great achievements and high prestige, he aroused the suspicion of the rulers of the Song Dynasty. Once, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty fell ill.Liu Yikang, the brother of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, discussed with his confidants and said: "If there are any problems with the emperor, it will always be a disaster to keep Tan Daoji."

They issued an edict in the name of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, insisting that Tan Daoji recruited bad people in an attempt to rebel, arrested Tan Daoji, and sentenced him to death. When Tan Daoji was arrested, his eyes widened with anger, and his angry eyes seemed to spew out flames.He angrily pulled off his turban, threw it to the ground, and said, "Aren't you destroying your own Great Wall?" Tan Daoji was finally killed.The news spread to the Northern Wei Dynasty.The soldiers of the Wei Dynasty were all happy to congratulate each other, saying: "Once Tan Daoji dies, there will be no one to be afraid of in the south!"

Later, Emperor Song Wen also regretted it.Once, the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked Guabu in Jiangbei (now Liuhe, Jiangsu).Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty looked at the distance from the stone city in Jiankang, and said with emotion: "If Tan Daoji was still alive, Hu Qi would not be allowed to run rampant to this extent."