The Four Generals of the Southern Song Dynasty refer to the four generals who made outstanding contributions to the establishment of half of the Southern Song Dynasty after the Jin people invaded the Northern Song Dynasty and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, and in the process of the Song Gaozong Zhao Shuo's lucky escape from Kaifeng to establish and consolidate the southern Song Dynasty's power.
The Four Generals of the Southern Song Dynasty usually refer to Zhang Jun, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi, and the "Four Generals of the Southern Song Dynasty" painted by the Southern Song Dynasty painter Liu Songnian were also these four masters.
But later generations often reported unevenly for this, first of all, the most controversial is Liu Guangshi, people who have read Liu Guangshi's resume know that this war is not much skill, the battlefield began in the Northern Song Dynasty to cut youyun sixteen states, is a well-known running general, many people think that Liu Guangshi's merits are not worthy of being selected as the fourth general of Xingxing, not as good as another Liu Qi who let Yan Zongbi meet in Shunchang.
Pictured: Running General Liu Guangshi
And Zhang Jun also caused a poor reputation because of some traps with Qin Jun' later Yue Fei.
So another folk version of the ZTE IV was also introduced.
They were Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Kun, and Wu Jie
Yue Fei and Han Shizhong are very familiar with each other and will not introduce them today, so let's introduce one of the four generals of the folk version of ZTE.
Liu Kunzi Shuxin, from the Northwest Army general Men family, his father Liu Yanqing was a general under the Tong Guan account in the era of Emperor Huizong,
Liu Kun was a teenager who accompanied his father to fight, famous for archery in the northwest, it is said that in a competition, Liu Shuxin drew a bow and shot an arrow at a tank filled with water to shoot through a hole in the cylinder, pulling the arrow out of the water flow to stop, and then Shuxin shot an arrow in the original position, impartially shooting the arrow hole on the cylinder, plugging the water leak.
Liu Kun, a young man with superb martial arts, made many military achievements in the battle with the Western Xia, and threatened the border, and for a while the Western Xia people frightened the children Often with a sentence of "Liu Du is coming", the Western Xia children immediately stopped crying. He is already the brightest young and new star in the Northwest Army.
After the Jin army invaded, Liu Kun retreated into Sichuan and Shaanxi with the Northwest Army, and zhang Jun entered Sichuan and Shaanxi to eradicate the Qurui forces, and appointed a large number of young and new talents.
Liu Kun was one of them, and Zhang Jun appointed him jingyuan jingluo and Zhiwei prefecture, and later served as the commander of Xuanfu Si, leaving Wang Yan's "eight-character army" under his command. He also participated in the Battle of Fuping initiated by Zhang Jun.
In May of the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), the Jin army once again went south, divided into two routes, scattered away from the drink to lead the troops into Sichuan, and Yan Zongbi led the main force of 100,000 people to continue south, from Bozhou, Shunchang (present-day Fuyang, Anhui), crossing the Huai River south.
After Yan Zongbi also wanted to relive Jianyan's old dream of three years, he once again let the Emperor of the Zhao family enter the sea for the New Year.
Liu Kun's combat mission was originally to lead 20,000 "Eight-Character Army" to Tokyo as a deputy retainer of Tokyo to defend Tokyo, but in the middle of the way, it was reported that Tokyo had been lost, and at this time a general persuaded the Jin army to be fierce, and since Tokyo was lost, it was better to return to the original road to wait for the future, but Liu Kun boldly made a decision to affect the current situation, leading his troops to station in Shunchang and blocking the Jin army from going south.
In order to let the officers and men of the whole army understand the determination to hold Shunchang to the death, Liu Kun chiseled and sunk the warship, and after entering the city, Liu Kun also received the full cooperation of the shunchang soldiers and civilians. When Yan Zongbi's 100,000-strong army arrived in Shunchang in early June, looking at this ruined city, he still despised it very much, smiled and said to his subordinates that we could tiptoe into this ruined city. After Yan Zongbi made the biggest mistake in his military career, the seemingly dilapidated city of Shunchang became an impenetrable fortified city under the protection of Liu Kun, and although the heavy cavalry he led, the "Iron Floating Tower", was mighty, but it could not break through Shunchang, which was guarded by Liu Kun.
Liu Kun did not blindly hold fast, he drew five thousand elites from the 20,000 defenders, made a surprise attack at the right time, attacked the Jin army, and set up a long knife for the other side's heavy cavalry "Iron Floating Tower", and the large long knife was specially used to cut the "Iron Floating Tower" horse legs, and the Jin army suffered heavy losses. After Yan Zongbi prepared for a long siege and dug trenches along shunchang city to build camps, Liu Kui sent small troops to constantly harass them, and the progress of digging trenches and building camps was slow, and it coincided with the rainy season, the flat land was one foot deep, and the Jin army camp had no dry land, and it was unbearable. The heavens, places, and people were not conducive to the Jin army, and Yan Zongbi insisted for a few days, had to withdraw, led his division back to Tokyo, and ended the last southern invasion of his life.
The Great Victory of Shunchang was the first real victory of the Southern Song Dynasty over Jin, and Liu Kun was famous in the world.
The following year, liu kun led by 20,000 Liu jia army once again defeated Yan Zongbi at the Battle of Zhegao, but at this time the Southern Song high-level was bent on peace, and after this war, Song Jin reached Shaoxing to negotiate peace, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Kun were all taken over, and the latter two knew that Jingnan Province was changed to civilian posts.
In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing, Yan Liang led his troops to invade the south, at this time the Southern Song Dynasty had no generals to use, and once again thought of this famous general, but unfortunately, Liu Kun, who was sixty-two years old, was sick and could no longer fight.
Liu Died of illness in Shaoxing in the 32nd year, and after his death, the Song court posthumously awarded him the title of Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division, with the posthumous title of Wu Mu. Among the founding generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, he handled things in a low-key manner and was able to die well.
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