The Song Dynasty was built on the basis of five generations of warlords fighting, song taizu Zhao Kuangyin in order to prevent the military generals from seizing power, not only to take back the military power of the military generals, but also to politically suppress the military generals, improve the status of civilian officials, in the mainstream society the status of the samurai clique is getting lower and lower, the scholar-doctor civilian official clique became the basis of the Song Dynasty's rule, the imperial examination system further expanded the literati clique, the Song Dynasty emperor and the literati clique believed in the principle of taking small money to eliminate disasters, using the economy in exchange for a hundred years of peace, even if the largest number of troops in history was raised. Do not let them make meritorious contributions, just a way of employment, the samurai group had to set up another cottage to fight against the mainstream, after Chao Gai and others outwitted the birthday class, Liangshan cottage developed rapidly, Song Jiang in order to realize the dream of heaven and earth as soon as possible, the production of various means to force 108 people to Liangshan, the elite of these samurai groups are people with family affection, after they went to Liangshan, the first thing they thought of was to take their families to Liangshan to live a happy life, even Li Kui also had to go down the mountain to pick up his old wife to go up the mountain, the late general of the imperial court, Liangshan first of all took their family members to Liangshan, one was to let them serve Liangshan with a dead heart, and more importantly, they were afraid of the imperial court's investigation, bringing the disaster of killing their families, even Guan Sheng, a descendant of Wusheng Guan Gong, moved his family members to Liangshan, and lost the treasures of the imperial court such as the serial horse and the thunderbolt cannon, and Hu Yanzhuo, who killed the emperor's brother-in-law, did not take the family to Liangshan, was he not afraid of bringing the disaster of killing the family? He was not afraid, because the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that treated the descendants of meritorious heroes well, and Hu Yanzhuo was precisely the descendant of Hu Yanzan, the founding hero of the Song Dynasty, and its background was Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
After Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added, he did not kill the heroes like Liu Bang of Han Gaozu and Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, but released the military power through a cup of wine, so that they could accumulate more money, buy more real estate for their descendants, and enjoy the glory and wealth with the heroes, Taizu gave preferential treatment to Chai Rong's descendants, and the descendants of the heroes were even more preferential, and the preferential treatment of the heroes and descendants was the national policy of the Song Dynasty just like the repetition of literature and suppressing martial arts, Shi Shouxin was the first founding father of the Song Dynasty, after resigning from the military post, he was promoted to a waiter, and Emperor Taizong inherited the motherland policy and gave preferential treatment to the heroes and descendants. Shi Shouxin was given the title of Duke of Weiguo, the eldest son Shi Baoxing served as Zhizhou, and the second son Shi Baoji supplemented the military post with yin, married Princess Yanqing, and was an official to the Zhen'an Army. Throughout the Song Dynasty, especially during the Northern Song Dynasty, the descendants of meritorious heroes were treated with high courtesy, at least economically.
Hu Yanzan, one of the Five Tiger Generals of Liangshan, and Yang Ye, were both fierce generals from the northwest. Hu Yanzan was a pawn when he entered the army at a young age, and was promoted by Song Taizu to be an envoy of Xiaoxiong. In 964 (the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty), when the general Wang Quanbin conquered Houshu and attacked Jianmen, he was a pioneer and was promoted to deputy commander for his merits, and the commander of the Iron Horse General. In 979 (the fourth year of the Taiping Revival), when following Emperor Taizong to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, Taiyuan City could not be attacked repeatedly, and Hu Yanzan took the lead in the fierce counterattack of the Northern Han army, and because he could not stand, he fell from the city four times, which greatly boosted morale and enhanced the confidence of the siege. Huyanzan also saved Emperor Taizong's life at the Battle of the Sorghum River. Hu Yanzan served as the deputy head of the Ma Infantry Army, the head of the military capital, the history of the state assassin, and the regimental training envoy. In the Northern Song Dynasty, even if they made mistakes, the descendants of the heroes would be lenient, there was no scourge of killing heads, the whole society was filled with the atmosphere of respecting the descendants of the heroes and protecting the descendants of the heroes, especially the descendants of the heroes who resisted the Liao state in the early Song Dynasty were even more worshipped, and the descendants of Yang Ye and Hu Yanzan were used by the imperial court.
The Song Dynasty was politically clear, the relationship between the monarch and the subject was harmonious, especially the relationship between the wenchen and the emperor was the best period in history, the Song Huizong and Cai Jing were not only the relationship between the monarch and the subject, but also the relationship of the artist's sympathy, Cai Jing led the emperor to concentrate on studying art, and reported to the emperor that the world was peaceful, the people were rich, even if there were small bandits, it was normal, Chao Gai robbed the birthday gang and did not report to the emperor, and the Jiangzhou robbery field did not report to the imperial court, because it was related to Cai Jing's children, and the later three dozen Zhujiazhuang, the imperial court was lazy to manage, It was nothing more than bandit infighting. However, the Liangshan clique was blown blind by the victory, in order to save Chai to attack Gao Tangzhou, which was also the watershed of the Liangshan clique, they attacked the strong city of the imperial court for the first time, and killed Gao Li's younger brother Gao Lian, Gao Li, in order to avenge his brother, reported to the emperor some of the crimes of Chao Gai and Song Jiang, but the impression given to the emperor was still a group of small cockroach thieves, the emperor immediately commissioned Gao Taiwei to select a general to transfer troops, go to hunt down, make sure to sweep Qingshui po, kill the species, Gao Taiwei immediately recommended candidates to the emperor, and played: "This person is the beginning of the founding of the country, The famous general of Hedong, Huyan Zanyuan, sent his descendants to summon a single name, making two copper whips, and having the courage of ten thousand men. At present, it is under the control of runing county, and there are many elite soldiers and brave generals under his command. The subject protects this person and can conquer Liangshan Po. It seems that Gao Li also admired the heroes who resisted the Liao state in peacetime, which is also the internal reason why Gao Li was a literati who held a military position. Hu Yanzhuo recommended by Gao Li was his subordinate and his friend, and Huizong Tianzi saw that Hu Yanzhuo also thought that he was a talent, so he gave a horse to kick Xue Wuqiao. The whole court of Liangshan was full of confidence this time. Instead of viewing the Liangshan clique as a large military group, the elite forbidden army stationed in the capital was not sent, but the forbidden army stationed abroad and the local van army of the two prefectures were dispatched.
Hu Yanzhuo was not a Zhao Kuo who talked on paper, he was born into a family of heroes, there was no habit of the sons and brothers, Gao Li did not look at the wrong candidate, at this time the Liangshan clique had half the scale of the total victory period, Hu Yanzhuo would be only three or four, and the soldiers were not more than 10,000, causing great trouble to Liangshan, and almost drove the Liangshan clique out of its old nest. Later, Gao Li led an army of 130,000 men and nearly 20 people to attack Liangshan, but he was unable to gain the same strength as Hu Yanzhuo. It can be seen that Hu Yanzhuo is a handsome talent in leading the soldiers. In addition to the serial horse, his personal martial arts are also outstanding.
Almost changed the history of the Song Dynasty is the gunner Ling Zhen, this is the song dynasty three major inventions in the military specific practice, the Song Dynasty attaches great importance to the lives of soldiers, ordnance equipment manufacturing in the forefront of the time, when the chain horse attack, Liangshan water army to respond, there is no big defeat deficit, to break through Liangshan alone rely on the chain horse is not enough. Hu Yanzhuo came to the imperial court waist of the Great Song gunner Ling Zhenlai, with artillery to attack the Liangshan cottage on the other side of the lake, Ling Zhenchu before arriving at the army tried to release three cannons, two of which hit the water, one of the cannon hit the small village of Yazui Beach, the frightened Song Jiang also moved the headquarters to Liangshan, generally less than the first line command of Chao Gai could not hold his breath and personally commanded the water army Sanruan and others to design to capture Ling Zhen, but unfortunately Hu Yanzhuo attached importance to the Ma army, did not attach importance to the water army and new weapons, and the useless Ling Zhen was inspired by Song Jiang's false feelings. In particular, Song Jiang used the myths and legends of Tiangang to brainwash him, And Ling Zhen, who wanted to become a star, surrendered to Liangshan, but instead helped the Liangshan team, and after entering the mountain, Ling Zhen used the "mother cannon" to bombard Yanzhuo's soldiers and horses, one mother cannon followed by forty-nine sub-cannons, and the wind was mighty, Hu Yanzhuo did not fight and chaos, just imagine that if Hu Yanzhuo attached importance to Ling Zhen, relying on artillery could destroy Liangshan, artillery may attract the attention of the emperor, and promote it in the whole army, and in the later Song Liao and Song Jin wars, the Song army will take the initiative. Chinese history will avoid entering the conservative Ming and Qing dynasties, entering modern society hundreds of years in advance. What is even more fatal is that Xu Ning, the former leader of the Imperial Forest Army, was forced to Liangshan by the Liangshan clique and became another victim of the legend of Tiangang Di, the golden leopard Tang Long said that Xu Ning's hook and sickle gun could break the chain of horses, and Wu used to move to Tokyo to steal Xu Ning's Yanling lock armor when he was designed. After Xu Ning arrived at Liangshan, he taught liangshan soldiers and horses hook and sickle gun method day and night, and after half a month, he had been taught five or six hundred people, and when the chain horse touched the hook and sickle gun, he became a dead horse, Hu Yanzhuo was killed and defeated, and Han Tao, the pioneer Yusheng, was also captured, and when he reached Liangshan, he was also influenced by Song Jiang's legend of Tiangang and Di yan to become the leader.
Hu Yanzhuo's serial horse was broken by Xu Ning's hook and sickle gun, the whole army was destroyed, and the single man stood out from the siege, at this time his famous courtiers helped him again, he knew the emperor's brother-in-law, he wanted to open up Murong Guifei's joints, the five tiger generals Hu Yanzhuo was the only famous courtier of this dynasty, and unlike Guan Sheng, although his ancestors were not immortals, they had deep roots in the trees of this dynasty, and it was good to cool under the trees. From his easy friendship with powerful people, it can be seen that he has a deep network of contacts in the capital division, even the emperor was greatly rewarded at first sight, and the good image of his ancestors is probably very related, Huyan officialdom experience is very rich, Huyan himself knows how to use the advantages of his meritorious descendants in the official field, Gao Li took the initiative to recommend him to conquer Liangshan, indicating that his usual impression of Gao Li is better. Although Yang Zhi said that he was a descendant of Yang Linggong, the author has already discussed in Yang Zhi that he is just an imposter, at least the imperial court does not recognize, from Gao Li's different attitudes towards Hu Yanzhuo and Yang Zhi, it can be seen that the gap between the ranking of Liangshan and The two is even greater, indicating that his identity is not recognized in Liangshan. There was no one in the whole dynasty who could make Gao Li approve of the people, and this was one of the reasons why Hu Yanzhuo did not take his family to Liangshan.
Murong Prefect used Hu Yanzhuo to help him pacify the Three Mountains, and Hu Yanzhuo alone beat the leaders of the Three Mountains, including Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, to ask for help from Liangshan, and almost defeated Qin Ming before the war, Wu used a trick to capture Hu Yanzhuo, and Song Jiang arranged Hu Yanzhuo on the throne, and said: "How dare Xiao Ke Song Jiang carry the imperial court?" After saying a few more words about the current situation of society, Hu Yanzhuo thought that Song Jiang wanted him to go back to the imperial court to recruit An Liangshan. Song Jiang listened and said, "How can the general go?" Lieutenant Gao's heart is narrow... The general folded so much money and grain, how can he not be guilty? ...... Song Jiang was willing to give way to the throne and the general, and when the imperial court saw the use, he was recruited, and at that time it was not too late to be loyal to the country. Then he performed his heavenly and fierce ghost trick again, Hu Yanzhuo understood Song Jiang's intentions, and was determined to help the imperial court recruit the Liangshan clique, so he decided to stay in Liangshan, in order to increase the weight of his task, Hu Yanzhuo deceived Qingzhou, established his prestige in the Liangshan grassy crowd, Hu Yanzhuo used his status as a hero to defraud Guan Sheng, lured Guan Sheng into an ambush circle to capture the first great feat of Liangshan Li, and also found a good helper for himself to help himself achieve Liangshan Zhao'an.
When the Liangshan clique ambushed Tong Guan on ten sides, Hu Yanzhuo singled out Duan Pengju, the suizhou soldier and horse capital supervisor, and his men were merciful, and Duan Pengju was the only tong guan who broke through and escaped, and the eight soldiers and horses under the command of Tong Guan, sent a signal to the imperial court with his actions. When Liangshan ranked Hu Yanzhuo relied on his reputation and performance to become the eighth of the one hundred singles and eight generals of Liangshan, becoming the fourth of the five tiger generals of the Liangshan Po Ma Army, laying the foundation for him to help Zhao'an Liangshan.
After the recruitment, Hu Yanzhuo was even more loyal to the imperial court, and during the conquest of the Liao Kingdom, Hu Yanzhuo outside Youzhou City guarded the Northern Gate of the Bagua Array of the Nine Palaces, and a whip interrupted The Fang Tianji of Wuyan Yanshou and captured it with his hands. Zheng Fangla killed the attendant Gao Yu in Shezhou. It was affirmed by the imperial court.
The national policy of the Song Dynasty was destined to have a good ending: the return of Zheng Fangla, "under the command of the imperial camp, every day with the driver." "It is the best position in Liangshan's military position, which proves that the imperial court did not regard him as an outsider and let him protect the emperor every day, which is not a general trust, and the attitude of the imperial court to Song Jiang and Lu Junyi is very different, in addition to the political environment at that time, Hu Yanzhuo did have excellent political experience, "After leading the army, breaking the fourth prince of the Great Golden Wushu, sending the army to Huaixi and being killed. The last drop of blood was shed in the jiangshan built for his ancestors, and it was also the reward of the imperial court to protect Hu Yanzhuo's family.