"I've always wanted to find someone, someone who was really good to me, and I finally found one."
Presumably, friends who have seen "The Legend of the Archery Hero" are familiar with this line, which is a sentence that Huang Rong said to Guo Jing after she faded her beggar's clothes and changed back into her daughter's clothes. However, Guo Jing foolishly only said an "Oh" word.
At that time, Guo Jing, who was looking silly in the silly, was thinking, I don't know what Jin Yong and his old man thought, why did he set up such a silly protagonist, is it to take the opposite route of "Deer Ding"?
In fact, I later learned that "Deer Ding" is Jin Yong's sealed work, even if it is the opposite route, it should be "Deer Ding".
However, the more I looked back, I realized that although Guo Jing's setting was silly, it was very blessed, and it was also very in line with the taste of the public, and the pleasure of small people achieving big things was indeed tireless.
When the archery was finished, I think everyone, like me, had a feeling of inexhaustibility, so I bought the follow-up works and read the trilogy in one go.
After reading it, the kind of pleasure of galloping across the rivers and lakes and smiling and vengefulness could not be dissipated in my mind for a long time. Especially at the end of "Divine Eagle Hero", Yang Guo xiaolongnu joined hands in the jianghu, while Guo Jing and Huang Rong and his wife guarded Xiangyang for the country and became the "Northern Hero" respected by the world.
But unfortunately, in the "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon Record", Guo Jing Huang Rong's ending is given, that is, the death of Xiangyang in battle.
Mr. Jin Yong is very clever, he has brought through the cruel battle of that year with only one stroke, giving others unlimited imagination space.
So why did Guo Jing, who was almost invincible in martial arts and unparalleled in martial arts, die in battle? Who is his opponent? Today we may wish to explore together.
Xiangyang
If you want to find out why Guo Jing was defeated, you must first know why he wanted to defend Xiangyang.
From the map, Xiangyang as a whole not only spans Jingyu, but also controls the north and south, because to the west of Xiangyang is the branch of Jingshan Mountain, and to the north there is dahong mountain. Coupled with the fact that a Han River runs through Xiangyang from the southwest, this solves the problem of transportation and supply in Xiangyang.
Guo Jing stubbornly defended Xiangyang, not only because it was a dangerous terrain and an important border town, but also because it was a city that the Mongol army would attack from Sichuan and Shu to the Central Plains.
In fact, whether it is a novel or a history, the focus of the Mongol army's attack is indeed Xiangyang, and even history has given proof that when Xiangyang and Fancheng fell, the Mongol army poured in like an open gate, and soon destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty.
Then again, according to the setting of Guo Jing in the archery eagle, he is almost invincible. Not only did he possess the supreme martial arts, but he also had the Martial Testament in his hand, the Sacred Code of War, and Xiangyang, which could control the north and south, and it was reasonable to say that he would never be defeated. Why did he finally die in Xiangyang?
The First Butcher
From a historical point of view, the Southern Song Dynasty should indeed perish, and even If Guo Jing, created by Jin Yong, has the ability to reach heaven, he cannot confront history. In other words, he could not confront the "First Butcher".
This person is also thunderous, that is, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and also the emperor who slaughtered the city and killed the most people in history, Kublai Khan.
After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the alliance between Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty broke down, and the Southern Song Dynasty became the next target of the Mongols. During the reign of Möngke, in 1258 he sent a three-way army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Möngke died of illness halfway, resulting in a five-year-long battle for the throne within Mongolia.
When Kublai Khan won the struggle for power, he immediately straightened out military discipline and continued to attack the Southern Song Dynasty four years later in 1267.
According to historical records, Kublai Khan was a well-known butcher who slaughtered about 24 million people in the Southern Song Dynasty, and this data is derived from the number of households after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty.
According to the records of the "History of the Yuan", after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, there were about 9 million households in households, while in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were about 13 million households, which was 30% less according to the population of 5 people per household.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Kublai Khan was a butcher. In fact, this point is also mentioned in Jin Yong's martial arts world.
Therefore, even if Guo Jing, who had the ability to reach heaven, came to guard Xiangyang, he could not resist this "first butcher" who had a large number of soldiers and killed people.
Of course, the real guardian of Xiangyang in history was the famous Southern Song Dynasty general Lu Wenhuan. The reason why he is called a famous general is because he is as heroic as Guo Jing, and his martial arts are like gods. Under the fierce attack of the Mongols, Lü Wenhuan defended Xiangyang for 6 years.
If it were not for the advanced catapult created by the Mongolian army to severely damage the defenders, Lu Wenhuan would probably have lasted a few more years.
References: "Legend of the Archery Hero", "History of the Yuan", "History of the Song Dynasty"