At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties were divided into the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty, both of which were seized by the powerful ministers. Gao Huan was in power in the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Gao Huan passed the throne to his eldest son, Gao Cheng, who was assassinated. His younger brother, Gao Yang, succeeded to the throne, seized the Eastern Wei Dynasty and established the Northern Qi Dynasty. Gao Changgong is Gao Cheng's fourth son. When he was born is not recorded in history. But Gao's family is short-lived. According to records, except Gao Huan, all men could not live past forty, and Gao Changgong died before his brothers. Based on this calculation, he died around the age of 30, that is to say, when his father died, the future soldier Lan Ling was still a child. When Gao Changgong grew up, he was named soldier Lan Ling-a title much louder than his real name.
Gao Huan, the ancestor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was known as SHEN WOO. During the Western Wei Dynasty, he fought fiercely with Yu Wentai for a long time and gained the upper hand. When the third emperor, Gao Zhan, was in chaos, the country was in great decline. In the past, the Yellow River would freeze every winter. It was the people of the Western Wei Dynasty (later the Northern Zhou Dynasty) who cut the ice to prevent the people of the Eastern Wei Dynasty (that is, the Northern Qi Dynasty) from stepping on the ice and invading. Now it's the turn of Beiqi people to chisel ice every year.
In the first month of 564 AD, the Northern Zhou Dynasty joined forces with the Turks to attack the Northern Qi Dynasty. The soldiers marched directly to Jinyang (at that time, the capital of Northern Qi was in Ye Jun County, but traditionally all the elite soldiers were in Jinyang, and the emperor was always here half the time every year). At that time, it was snowing heavily, and the Northern Qi army, with Duan Shao as the commander in chief, fought back fiercely against Zhou Jun relying on the fortified city and won a great victory. The Turkic army was frightened by the momentum of the Qi army and dared not take part in the battle. Finally, I plundered outside the city and was trapped in heavy snow on the way back, which caused heavy losses. This battle should be the first battle of the warrior Lanling. History book: "Zhou Jun and the Turk Kou Jinyang (warrior Lan Ling) tried their best to attack it". At this time, the soldier Lan Ling was not the commander in chief of the army. But what is certain is that he will emerge in the battle, because he will soon lead the army alone and become a general of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
In December of the same year, Zhou Jun launched another 200,000 troops to attack Qi. The focus of this campaign is Luoyang-Zhou Jun's whole army besieged Luoyang for nearly two months. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Duan Shao, Hu and Gao Changgong led the troops to save Luoyang. The total strength is about 80 thousand. The Qi army set out from Jinyang and soon arrived at the gates of Luoyang. The two armies met in Mangshan, Luoyang, and fought. At that time, the Qi army seized the hillside highland, Duan Shao was on the left, Hu was on the right, and the warrior Lan Ling led it. At the beginning of the campaign, Zhou Jun took the marching army as the pioneer and stormed forward. The Qi army contracted step by step and retreated to the mountain. When Zhou Jun's front gradually stretched and his momentum began to decline, the elite after Qi Jun's battle began a fierce counterattack from the two wings, and Zhou Jun suddenly failed and collapsed. At this time, the warrior Lan Ling led 500 elite fighters into the enemy line, penetrating many enemy troops and reaching Luoyang at the gates. The defenders in Luoyang city don't know who is coming, and they dare not open the city. The soldier Lan Ling took off his helmet and showed it on his back. Lanling, recognized as a warrior in the city, cheered loudly, so the reinforcements outside Kaesong and the city * * * attacked Zhou Jun, and under the attack of both inside and outside, hundreds of thousands of troops of Zhou Jun all collapsed and became out of control. The battle of Mangshan in Luoyang ended with a great victory in the northern Qi Dynasty. The warrior Lan Ling became famous in the First World War. "One of the songs of the samurai is" The Song of the Warrior Lan Ling Entering the Array. "
In fact, the legendary warrior Lan Ling always wore a mask when he joined the army. I don't think this is true. Because at that time, generals were all dressed up, and helmets could cover most of their faces. It seems unnecessary to wear a mask. For example, Xue Xizheng in the Tang Dynasty, three arrows set Tianshan Mountain, which made him famous at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. Later, when Tiele's ministries rebelled again, Xue came to beg again. The enemy said, "We heard that General Xue was dead!" Xue avoided showing his true colors. When the enemy stepped forward, he saw that it was Xue, and he was shocked for a moment. I can't see clearly without taking off my helmet. However, the legend is so legendary. Imagine: when the warrior Lan Ling took off his fierce mask at the foot of Luoyang, it was unparalleled, with a towering wall in front and an endless army behind him. The wind blows, and that long hair flutters with the wind, beautiful and brave. How fascinating.
In 57 1 year, the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty repeatedly saw each other along the Yellow River in Henan Province, and Zhou Jun captured several cities in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Warriors LanLing and Duan Shao * * * led the troops to help. Duan Shao fell ill in the army, and Lanling, who fought bravely with the governor's army, went to Jack and won the siege battles of Cooper and Ding Yang. On the way back to the army, Duan Shao died of illness. The martial arts of Master Lan Ling's life ends here.
As a general, the soldier Lan Ling took good care of his foot soldiers. "Although a melon is a fruit, it will be with the warrior." He enjoys high prestige in the army. But he later became an official but was famous for his greed for money. Isn't that weird? A Ministry will come and ask him, "Do you want to avoid the emperor?" Sure enough! One day after Mangshan's great victory, the soldier Lan Ling, the emperor asked him: "You only dare to go deep into the enemy's rear with 500 people, isn't it dangerous?" The soldier Lan Ling said, "Although the family affairs are good, I have no feelings"-I want to defend my home! The emperor immediately changed his face! The warrior Lan Ling, the emperor's cousin, takes the gain and loss of the world as a "family matter". Is he interested in taking the throne? The warrior Lan Ling probably saw the emperor's jealousy. But this recruit can be used by Wang Jian of Qin Dynasty and Xiao He of Han Dynasty, but Gao Changgong can't, because his surname is Gao! As the Ministry will analyze: "The emperor wants to kill you, and your greed for money is an excuse!" The soldier Lan Ling shed tears when he heard the news. He followed the advice of the Ministry. From then on, he said that he was ill and stopped treatment. He's probably lucky to be dead. After a year, the Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River marched northward, and the warrior Lan Ling was afraid that the court would send himself as a general again. He sighed. "My face was swollen last year. Why didn't I get sick this year?" So sad! He is not afraid to go to the battlefield, but to return home in triumph!
Is it lucky or unlucky for a soldier like Lan Ling to be born in such troubled times? There are many reasons and wars in the world. It's time for the samurai to gallop on the battlefield and make a name for the future. Kites are soaring in the sky, and birds are fluctuating, but when birds occupy the throne, what should the eagle do with itself? Maybe soldiers like soldier Lan Ling should only belong to the battlefield. Soldiers come back from the battlefield, and they want a place to live!
Rao retreated repeatedly, but the emperor spared him. In May 573, the Emperor of Qi sent someone to send poison to the warrior Lan Ling. The wife of Master Lan Ling also went to see the emperor to complain, and Master Lan Ling sighed, "How can I see the light of day!" So I took the medicine and fell ill. Just the year before last, the general Hu, who could shoot an eagle with one bow and swing a thousand miles with one whip, was wiped out by his father, son and brothers.
Four years later, the Northern Qi Dynasty perished and the Gao family was killed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It's probably lucky that the great warrior Lan Ling didn't live to that time.
Before the warrior Lan Ling died, he burned all the debts owed by others in his family. At the same time, all his hopes and enthusiasm and his brilliant but short life were reduced to ashes.
Before his execution, Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, wanted to be an ordinary person and walk out of the East Gate of Shangcai with his son and yellow dog at ease. Before being killed, Lu Ji, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty star, thought about raising a glass in the wind at the Huating in Songjiang when he was young and listening to the sound of flying cranes in Qingyuan. And the soldier Lan Ling went to the end of his life at the last minute. I don't know how this happened. Is it the moment when he rushed to the enemy's gun like a forest with 500 fighters at the foot of Mangshan Mountain?
Su Shi, the most talented scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem in his later years: Life begins with worry and accomplishment. For Gao Changgong, a natural warrior in Lanling, perhaps the moment when his father put him on horseback and galloped in the turbulent suburb of Jinyang was the beginning of his life troubles.