At the end of 2004, the TV series "Yangmen Tiger General" was released. When people praised the yang family's great righteousness of sacrificing their lives for the country, they hated Pan Renmei, the taishi who betrayed the Yang family and colluded with the Liao state, and were eager to split his five horses into corpses. This drama is based on the Ming Dynasty novel "Yang Jia General Yanyi", Pan Renmei's prototype is Pan Mei, but the real him in history is not like the image of a traitor shown in novels and TV series, but a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, who has made a lot of hard work.
Pan Mei, a great celebrity, was a gentleman in her youth, and was attached to the Fuchu Canon. He once said to his compatriot Wang Mi: "The traitors of the Han Dynasty are wantonly rampant, and the world is afraid that it will change dynasties, and the Later Han will perish." If the eldest husband does nothing at this time, does not make meritorious achievements, and seeks wealth, it is a shame! ”
In the winter of the third year of the Later Han Dynasty, the Privy Counsellor made Guo Wei launch a mutiny. In the first month of the following year, Guo Wei declared the emperor to establish the rear axis, Chai Rong was appointed as the governor of Kaifeng, and the 26-year-old Pan Mei served as Chai Rong's attendant. Three years later, Chai Rong ascended the throne, and Pan Mei made up the official. In March of the same year, when the Northern Han Dynasty and the Liao State jointly attacked Hou zhou, Chai Rong personally led his troops to meet the battle, and Pan Mei went out with him. After the defeat of the Northern Han army in Gaoping, Pan Mei was promoted to deputy envoy of the Western Shangge Gate because of his military merits, and later served as the overseer of the Shaanzhou Army. When Chai Rong was preparing to attack Shu and Long, he ordered Pan Mei to lead the defenders of Yongxing to manage the war in the western region.
After the "Chen Qiao Mutiny", Zhao Kuangyin gave preferential treatment to Pan Mei. At that time, the main general of Shaanzhou, Yuan Yan, was fierce, liked to kill people and greed for money, trusted villains, and built many weapons. Zhao Kuangyin was afraid that he had ill intentions, so he sent Pan Mei to monitor him and prepare to dispose of him. Pan Mei alone went to Shaanzhou to meet Yuan Yan and persuaded him to join the hajj to meet the new emperor. Zhao Kuangyin was very happy and said, "Not only did Pan Mei not kill Yuan Yan, but she was able to let him come to see me and fulfill my wish!" ”
In the first year of Jianlong, Li Chongjin rebelled, and Song Taizu personally rebelled against him, and appointed Pan Mei as his assistant to the governor of xingying. After Yangzhou was pacified, Pan Mei stayed here and served as an inspector and performed the work of calming down. In the first year of Qiande, after the Song Dynasty quelled the rebellion of Wang Rui in Hunan, the people were panicked. So Zhao Kuangyin sent Pan Mei to Tanzhou, Hunan, to serve as a defense envoy and appease the people.
After the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Xun invaded Guiyang, Jianghua and other places many times, and Pan Mei led his troops to defeat them; from the Tang Dynasty onwards, the Xizhi barbarians and other ethnic groups often came to attack and became a major disaster, Pan Mei led his troops to raid their old nests, killed and captured many people, and at the same time appeased the people, and these ethnic minorities gradually settled down. During the crusade against the Southern Han Dynasty, Pan Mei made great contributions. Later, Pan Mei quelled the Rebellion of Zhou Siqiong, and Lingnan settled down.
Regarding the death of the good general Yang Ye, the truth is this. In the third year of Yongxi, Zhao Guangyi ordered Pan Mei, Cao Bin and others to go north. Pan Mei led his troops to single-handedly capture four of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. However, Cao Bin's troops were unfavorable, and Zhao Guangyi had no choice but to order the retreat of all the troops and horses, and also asked Pan Mei and others to protect the people from migrating to the interior when they withdrew. Yang Ye and Pan Mei simultaneously protected the people of Yun, Shuo, Huan, and Ying prefectures from migrating south.
When they arrived at the village of Wolf's Tooth in Shuozhou, Empress Xiao of the Liao State and Yelü Hanning and others led more than 100,000 Liao troops and captured Huanzhou. Yang Ye said to Pan Mei: "The morale and strength of the Liao army are very strong, and now is not a good time to fight with them. We escorted the people to safety first, and then we thought long term. ”
Pan Mei also agreed with Yang Ye's proposal, but Wang Nong, a supervisor who was bent on making meritorious contributions, refuted his proposal, saying: "You have led tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and you are still so timid and cowardly. We just need to go straight to Yanmen Beichuan and move forward with great fanfare. Liu Wenyu also agreed with Wang Nong's statement. Yang Ye said that there was no doubt that he would be defeated in this way, and Wang Nong said: "General, you have always been called 'invincible', and now that you see the enemy but dare not advance, is it difficult to have other thoughts?" Yang Ye retorted, "I am not afraid of death, the timing is unfavorable, it will only make the soldier lose his life in vain." Now you blame me for not dying, I should be ahead of everyone. ”
Before leaving, Yang Ye said to Pan Mei: "This operation is doomed to fail, I was originally a general of Taiyuan, and I should have been executed a long time ago." But the emperor not only did not kill me, but also gave me the power of the army and made me a general. It's not that I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, but I want to find a good time to serve the country. Now everyone says I'm afraid of the enemy, so I should take the lead in killing the enemy! Then, he pointed at Chen Jiagukou and said, "All the people and horses have laid down infantry and bows and arrows here to support the troops on the left and right flanks, and when I turn to battle here, I will use the infantry to attack the enemy to rescue you, otherwise we will all be killed by the enemy." ”
Pan Mei agreed to Yang Ye's suggestion, so he and Wang Nong led the soldiers and horses to deploy at Taniguchi. For a long time, Wang Nong sent people to Tuoluotai to look out, thinking that the Liao army had been defeated, he planned to fight for merit, so he immediately led his troops out of Taniguchi. Pan Mei could not stop Wang Nong, so she had to march along the Jiaohe River to the southwest for twenty miles.
When Yang Ye rushed to The Valley Mouth, Pan Mei and Wang Nong were long gone, and he fought fiercely with the Liao army, and was seriously wounded and captured by the Liao army. He refused to eat, and three days later, he starved to death in the Liao camp. After the news of Yang Ye's martyrdom reached the Song Dynasty, Song Taizong was so sad that he slashed Pan Mei from three official positions. Soon after, Pan Mei died at the age of 67.
Wang Nong was the culprit who killed Yang Ye, and his relationship with Pan Mei was not very great, so the world should not misunderstand him!