Su Dingfang was actually the most powerful person who was criticized by the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Several things Su Dingfang was criticized by the Romance of the Romance include:

When fighting in Yanshan, shoot Luo Yi with hidden arrows;

Use despicable means to lure Luo Cheng outside Zijin Pass;

In order to gain the trust of the Li Tang Dynasty and be able to be promoted after surrender, he killed King Chen Faxing, who came to reinforce Liu Heita.

In Romance novels, the two families of Su and Luo have a deep feud, and their grudges are entangled for three generations. The Su family has always been released as a villain, and Su Dingfang was finally cut off and died from his heart. In fact, these hackers have no basis.

Su Dingfang in history is far from this, but a real generation of famous generals in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Su Dingfang's achievements are no less than those of famous generals such as Li Jing and Li Ji in the early Tang Dynasty.

When he was young, Su Dingtian was famous for his bravery and good fighting in the village. He once followed his father to fight against the rebels and the village.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the rebel army who defected to Dou Jiande, lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests after the defeat, without caring about worldly affairs. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Su Dingfang was summoned to the court and followed Li Jing to attack the Eastern Turks in the northern expedition. In the decisive night attack on Yinshan, Su Dingfang led 200 cavalrymen to the first formation, captured Jie Li Khan's tent, and made great contributions to defeating the Eastern Turks.

After the war, Su Dingfang was awarded the title of General of the Left Wu Hou for his military achievements, and later changed to General of the Left Guard.

For more than 20 years after that, he had not been promoted, and many people did not know why. The General of the Left Guard was ranked second to the General, higher than the General, and had no duty or fixed positions. He only gave gifts to the military ministers. The military ministers ordered the demotion of the scattered officials and the resettlement of idle military officials, or the appointment of the royal family or the relatives of the foreigners... To put it bluntly, it was an official position with name but no real one.

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"Your father is Su Dingfang..." Li You looked at Su Qingjie and showed a playful smile.

"Your Highness knows my father?" Su Qingqing was happy.

Li You nodded: "In the fourth year of Zhenguan, General Su Dingfang followed Li Jing, the chief general of the Dingxiang Road marching, went to Jikou (now Shanding Hular, Inner Mongolia) to attack Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks.

On the night of the eighth day of the second month, General Li sent General Su Dingfang to lead 200 cavalrymen holding bows and crossbows as vanguards and marched secretly in the fog.

About one mile away from the Turkic garrison, the fog suddenly dissipated. General Su Dingfang saw the tent (the tent where the general lived), so he rode a horse and raided, killing dozens or hundreds of people.

Jie Li Khan and Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty fled with only dozens of cavalry entourages, and the rest of them all bowed down and surrendered. Li Jing's army arrived, and the Eastern Turks were defeated. The Tang army beheaded more than 10,000 men and women, and hundreds of thousands of animals were captured.

Jie Li Khan led more than 10,000 remaining soldiers to cross the desert, but was intercepted by Li Ji's troops, the chief marching chief of Tonghan Road, who was stationed at the intersection.

Soon, the chiefs of the Eastern Turks led their troops to surrender, and Li Ji captured more than 50,000 people and returned. In the battle of Yinshan, the Tang army won a great victory and completely defeated the Eastern Turks.

After Jie Li Khan was defeated and left, he defected to Sunith, located in the northwest of Lingzhou, and was captured by Zhang Baoxiang, deputy general manager of the Datongdao marching. The Eastern Turks were destroyed and the land returned to the Tang territory.

General Su Dingfang made great contributions in this battle...!"

"Yes... I'm invaluable, but the real thing is that my father was pushed to take the blame. After the war, my father was awarded the title of General of the Zuowu Hou for his military achievements, and later changed to General of the Zuowei General. In the following thirteen years, my father was never promoted again, and now he has no right to command troops."

"Can you tell me why this is?" Li You really wanted to know why such a general was hidden.

"Oh..." With a sigh, Su Jieqing said slightly: "It's not that my father was too simple back then. After conquering the Eastern Turks, soldiers took the lead in robbing. My father stopped him, but unfortunately he couldn't stop him.

Later, the soldier who took the lead put all the blame on my father, saying that his father gave the order and plundered the troops...!

Because of this, Li Junshen had a bad view of my father, and from then on, my father never had a chance to make a comeback."

"Ah...so that's it...!" Li You nodded. Li You knew Li Jing's personality. Li Jing was a man, Taoism, and military learning was used. He used humility, retreat and tolerance as his character, and flexible change as his means. His ambition was not to search for chapters and sentences, learn the study of worldly benefits and use, and choose a wise ruler to meet good times, and build a worldly achievement. This shows that his person is magnificent and generous.

So if you do something to plunder under his nose, it will ruin his reputation. He cares very much about this. It can be said that Su Dingfang must have hit the gun.

Li You nodded with a smile, looked at Su Jieqing and asked, "Then what does it mean to find me?"

After looking at Li You, Su Jieqing suddenly knelt down and said, "Student hopes that Your Highness can give my father a chance to command soldiers. The student's father was born as a general who commanded the army. Now he is at home, and he is in pain every day. As a son, he really can't bear it."

Looking at Su Jieqing kneeling in front of him, Li You was still a little moved. It was quite good for the son of man to do this.

"You are a good son...but I have limited abilities. Your father is the General of the Left Guard. He is an official position under the fourth rank. What I can give now is only an official position of the eighth rank. I can let him train 300 people... This is my limit, and you should also know that I am a civilian now.

So...you have to go back and discuss with your father...!"

"Only three hundred people, eighth-rank official positions...!" Su Jieqing lowered his head bitterly, but soon Su Jieqing looked up at Li You and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, King Qi, I will go back and say to my father, by the way... what you want will be sent to you at night..."

After saying that, Su Jieqing bowed: "Then the student will leave first..."

"Please...!" Li You didn't say anything else, but let Su Jieqing leave directly. Some people will definitely wonder why Li You didn't use high promises to win over Su Dingfang to his own subordinates.

But at this time, what Li You thought was to try Su Dingfang's character. If he was a person who could only share wealth but was unwilling to start with the joys and sorrows, then Li You would not use him, because such a person would be too easy to betray.

So Li You only gave a team of 300 people and an eighth-rank official position, just to see if Su Dingfang can be used?

"Your Highness...you have asked the other party a big problem. That General Su is already a fourth-rank official, how could he come to us to be an eighth-rank..." Yaoyu shook his head.

However, Li You showed a touch of playful expression and said, "Who knows...!"

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That night, heavy rain poured down... Li You did not stay in Dunhuafang. A carriage slowly left Dunhuafang under the night. This time Li You left with only one person, and that person was Xiao Baoer.

No one knows why Li You only brought a twelve-year-old child by his side.

But that night, Li You left and came back safely. No one knew where Li You went, nor who Li You went to see. Zhou Li Kai was going to be beheaded in two days.

Li You's whereabouts made it strange for those who knew Li You's departure.

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Chapter completed!