Historical documents record that in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty's Huizong Xuanhe (1119 AD), Song Jiang, a native of Yuncheng, Shandong, took the lead in pulling the flag in Hebei.
The Song Jiang Uprising, which became famous for the influence of the novel "Water Margin", initially involved only 36 people. Because the scale of the Songjiang uprising was too small, it did not make much noise.
Historical records record: "The Song River rose from Heshuo and turned to ten counties, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to touch their fronts." The claim was coming, and the uncle and night messengers were looking at each other, and the thieves were on the verge of the sea, robbing more than ten huge boats and capturing them. So he recruited thousands of dead soldiers, set up an ambush near the city, and sent out light troops to the sea, and lured the battle. Hide the pawns on the seashore, wait for the soldiers to join forces, and set fire to their boats. When the thief hears it, he has no fighting spirit, and when he ambushes the soldiers, he captures his deputy general, and Jiang Nai descends."
Wang Yingchen, a person at the time of Xuanhui, also wrote on the epitaph of his former friend: "Hebei drama thief Song Jiang, wanton mo zhi yu." "Song Jiang Xiao gathered his life, plundered all the way in Shandong, and the prefecture and county Dazhen, and the officials hid."
The history books do not reveal Song Jiang's identity, and it is uncertain whether he was a knife and pen official in the Yamen of Yuncheng County, or the leader of the fishermen in Liangshan Po. Song Jiang revolted in Hebei in December of the first year of Xuanhe's reign, not in Shandong. There were thirty-six backbones in Song Jiang's ranks, and the number of minions under him was estimated to be around 10,000.
The occupations of Song Jiang's men were mainly fishermen, farmers, monks, miners, small craftsmen, and jianghu langren, and a small number of low-ranking officers in the Song army participated. The Song River first rose up on the North Yellow River Road, and then rushed into the prefecture, robbed the house, and confronted the officials and troops, which aroused the attention and panic of the Northern Song court.
Song Jiang wandered in all directions, his whereabouts were uncertain, and he did not hesitate to vote when he got the opportunity, so he was described by the government at that time as a "rogue". Although song Jiang's subordinates were small in number, they were fierce and cunning, good at guerrilla warfare, and flexible and mobile, so they repeatedly defeated the officers and troops. Song Jiang became famous for a time, and Wei Zhen Heshuo and Shandong.
Zhang Shu, who was a civilian official in Haizhou, was both brave and brave, and he heard that Song Jiang was going to invade Haizhou and made full preparations. Zhang Shuye selected thousands of elite soldiers to ambush on the outskirts of Haizhou, and then sent a small number of soldiers to the seashore to actively provoke Song Jiang and lure the rebels to land and fight. Song Jiang saw that the enemy army was small, and he was sure to win the plan.
Seeing that the rebels abandoned their ships and landed, a thousand ambush soldiers buried by Zhang Shuye shouted and rushed out, encircling the Song River people and horses. More than a dozen sea vessels hijacked by the Song River were also set on fire by the Song army's death squads, and the ground was cornered and had no way to enter the ground. Song Jiang led his brothers to fight hard, but the enemy was outnumbered, and when he saw the ship burning and cutting off the way out, he couldn't help but panic in his heart and be in chaos.
Zhang Shuye was unforgiving, and he marched forward and captured Song Jiang's deputy general Wu Jialiang (suspected of being a prototype of Wu Yong). Song Jiang saw that the enemy army was besieged by thousands of people, and his own general situation had gone, and it was difficult to break through, so he had to lay down his weapons and was willing to accept the imperial court's offer.
After Song Jiang accepted the offer, he was incorporated into Zhang Shuye's army. The "Biography of Song Shi Tong Guan" does not mention a word about Song Jiang's conquest of Fang La, and the most famous meritorious general who invaded Qingxi gangyuan cave to capture Fang La was the Xiao general Han Shizhong, and several other well-known generals, but only Song Jiang's name was not.
According to the historical data, Fang La was flattened first, and Song Jiang accepted the invitation to be in the back. From this, it can be basically concluded that the Song Jiang Rebellion at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty accepted the recruitment of security and surrendered to the imperial court, but the incident of being appointed to participate in the suppression of Fang La did not happen, which was purely false rumors.
Later, Song Jiang rebelled, was caught by Song officials and soldiers, and was killed.
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