In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the impression of the generals in Jiangdong is far less touching than the five tigers under Liu Bei's account. There are not many Iliad in Jiangdong, except Sun Ce, the Iliad in Jiangdong in his early years, and Taishi Ci in Donglai, and then it is considered as Gan Ning. In fact, although there are not many first-class Athens in Jiangdong, it is the most United and tidy group among the three groups. Whether Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, who first followed Sun Jian, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun, who shone brilliantly in the hands of Sun Quan, or Zhuge Ke and Lu Kang at the end of the Three Kingdoms, it can be said that Jiangshan has produced talents, each leading the way for three to five years. Among the generals in Jiangdong, Huang Gai is a famous one.
In romance novels, Huang Gai attracts people's attention. Of course, he and Zhou Yu staged a wonderful and bitter battle against Huang Gai by Zhou Yu. In the official history, it was not Zhuge Liang who provided Zhou Yu with a fire attack plan, but Huang Gai. It can be said that in the romance, Huang Gai's strong appearance was mainly based on the official history of the Three Kingdoms, and Huang Gai did play an important role in history.
Of course, Battle of Red Cliffs's success also made Zhou Yu and Huang Gai successful. However, Huang Gai's life, in addition to offering fire attack strategy, actually has many remarkable places.
Huang Gai's life is bitter. Huang Gai's ancestors used to be beautiful. He is a descendant of Huang Zilian, the magistrate of Nanyang, but by his grandfather's generation, he had declined, so the whole family moved from Nanyang to Lingling County. Lingling county is roughly in Hunan and Guangxi where we are now. During the Three Kingdoms period, Lingling County produced many talents, such as Liu Ba, a famous scholar in Jingzhou, who lived in Lingling County all the year round. However, Huang Gai is in Lingling County, and it is estimated that there are few sweet memories. When Huang Gai was a baby, his father died. He was brought up by his mother and his family was poor. When he was six or seven years old, he had to go up the mountain to cut wood. However, Huang Gai is very ambitious. In his spare time cutting firewood, he even took the initiative to collect some books and learn some art of war.
In his youth, Huang Gai entered the official career and began to be a small official in the county magistrate's office. He is diligent and capable, and he is appreciated by the prefect. Later, he was recommended by the county as Xiaolian, and Sangong was recruited to the court as an official. Of course, Huang Gai was born in poverty and had no friendship with some celebrities and giants in the DPRK. Although he has the title of filial piety, he has not got a specific position. Later, Sun Jian rose in Jiangdong, and Huang Gai took refuge in Sun Jian. Sun Jian broke the mountain thief in the south, drove Dong Zhuo away in the north, and made many outstanding achievements, while Huang Gai always followed around. Because of his outstanding military exploits, Sun Jian appointed Huang Gai as his Ministry Sima, and got his first official position in his life.
Later, Sun Jian died while attacking Liu Biao, and generals such as Huang Gai and Cheng Pu took refuge in Yuan Shu under the guidance of Sun Jian's younger brother. After years of humiliation under Yuan Shu, Sun Ce grew up gradually. /kloc-Sun Jian, 0/6 years old, has great ambitions. He looked around for his father's old men and lobbied them to sum up his men again. Huang Gai and others were also moved by Sun Ce's lofty sentiments and gathered again under the banner of Sun Ce. Later, Huang Gai followed Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong and made great contributions. After Sun Ce's death, Huang Gai continued to work under Sun Quan and served three generations of bamboo slips, which can be said to be a founding father of Jiangdong.
Huang Gai is not only a strongman in war, but also a good hand in governing the people.
Sun Shi has just captured Jiangdong, and many ethnic minorities have not really joined it. Some people often gather against Sun Quan. Whenever there is rebellion in some counties, Huang Gai is sent to be the local first mate, and Huang Gai can often put down the rebellion and appease the local people quickly.
Shicheng at that time was the least suitable place for rebellion. Some officials in Shicheng colluded with ethnic tribal leaders and confronted officials sent by Sun Quan. When Huang Gai came to Shicheng, he first selected some local gentry and formed his own county leadership team. Then Huang Gai issued his first and most important order as a county magistrate.
Huang Gai said: I am a lout, I only know how to fight, and I know nothing about literature. Now the rebellion in our county has not been settled, and there are many military exchanges. I will leave all the paperwork to you. You should also take the responsibility to urge the subordinate departments, and I hope you can enforce the law impartially. If anything happens, I won't hit you with a whip and a board. You work hard, but you should set an example for the county officials!
When Huang Gai said these words, his tone was tough and his face was gloomy. When other leading members saw Huang Gai holding a broadsword in his hand, pairs of guards with bright swords stood behind him, trembling with fear.
However, people are lazy. The gang used to be arrogant in the county, and there were many officials who went to Shicheng County before and after, but the bloody soldiers left many officials, but they were real masters. Now Huang Gai has come to Shicheng with his army. Who dares to provoke him? As a result, all the officials in the county worked conscientiously and carefully for a month or two. But with the passage of time, people gradually found that Huang Gai was not as terrible as it was spread outside. Some people made mistakes, even embezzled public funds and oppressed the people. Someone told Huang Gai that Huang Gai didn't respond.
Gradually, these people began to be presumptuous again, and resumed their old arrogance.
Huang Gai, see all this in your eyes and keep it in your heart. One day, Huang Gai called all county leaders and all county officials to a meeting. Then announce what crimes other members of the county leadership have committed and what bad things everyone has done on a certain day, all of which are clear and irrefutable. Then, Huang Gai announced: When I made the rules, I warned everyone that as long as I committed a crime, I would not beat you with a whip. I'm going to cut off your heads directly! Huang Gai ordered all officials who broke the law to be beheaded. Other officials present were immediately frightened when they saw that Huang Gai was serious. Officials dare not stand up, and those ordinary people naturally just do it.
Later, Huang Gai was appointed as the magistrate of Chungu County, the magistrate of Xunyang County, etc., and served as the magistrate of nine places before and after, all of which were difficult to manage. But as long as the yellow cover comes out, it will soon settle down. For Sun Quan Group, Huang Gai can say that he can come at the drop of a hat, fight when he comes, and win the battle!
Battle of Red Cliffs, Huang Gai is Zhou Yu's best assistant. At that time, Wu Dongyuan was always headed by Cheng Pu, but Cheng Pu thought that he followed three generations of monarchs, and his qualifications were very old, completely ignoring the young Zhou Yu. Sun Quan appointed Zhou Yu as viceroy and Cheng Pu as deputy viceroy, which made Cheng Pu even more dissatisfied. Many years later, Sun Quan arranged for his younger brother and Lv Meng to jointly serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy. However, Lv Meng said that it was precisely because Sun Quan appointed Cheng Pu and Zhou Yu to take charge of the Jiangdong army at the same time, and the military orders were different, and many disputes occurred, which seriously affected the record. It can be seen that Cheng Pu and other veterans are dissatisfied with Zhou Yu.
On the one hand, Huang Gai is resolute and dignified, but on the other hand, he is kind to soldiers and knows how to use troops. He is a hawk with a clear attitude towards Cao Cao's massive invasion, and he also supports Zhou Yu without reservation. It can be said that Battle of Red Cliffs's success has a lot to do with Huang Gai's leading support. Huang Gai's most important thing, of course, is to put forward the plan of fire attack.
Huang Gai himself almost died in Battle of Red Cliffs. At that time, Huang Gai charged ahead, was shot by a stream vector, and turned over and fell into the water. Although he was rescued by the Soochow army behind him, Huang Gai was covered in blood at that time, and no one could tell who it was. Because of the urgency of the war, he just put it on one side of the chessboard. It was already winter at that time. It was freezing and the river was even colder. Huang Gai was wounded by an arrow, soaked to the skin and almost didn't freeze to death. Just old friend Han Dang led the army through, and Huang Gai barely supported him, shouting Han Dang's name. The Korean party just heard the voices of Huang Gai and Huang Gongfu, and found him. He took off his wet clothes and Huang Gai survived.
After Battle of Red Cliffs, Huang Gai was promoted to be a corps commander of the Five Peaks. Later, the barbarians in Wuling rebelled and captured the city, and the fire fighting captain Huang Gai was sent to Wuling as the prefect.
There are many barbarians in Wuling County. There were tens of thousands of rebels at that time, but how many county soldiers were there in Wuling County? Only 500 people. Huang Gai knew that there was no possibility of winning a head-on conflict, so he came up with a clever plan. When the rebels attacked Wuling County, Huang Gai opened the city gate to let hundreds of rebels in. After these people came in, Huang Gai led 500 people to rush out and killed all the people who just came in. The rebels outside don't know how many people are lying in ambush. Seeing so many people dead in front, the morale of the army was in chaos. In addition, the rebels are mostly oppressed ordinary people, and everyone will rise up and rebel if they can't live any longer. Don't run away when you see a demon like Huang Gai coming.
Later, Huang Gai led troops to patrol the village and beheaded all the leaders, but those who were coerced to follow were not investigated. Many people survived. The leader of the riot died and people gradually settled down.
Later, Jiangdong was troubled, and Huang Gai went to put out the fire again, for many years before and after, until his death.