I believe that many readers and friends have read "Water Margin", as one of the four famous works, it occupies a great popularity of Chinese readers, telling the story of the good Han Xiao of Liangshan under the leadership of Song Jiang, who gathered in the mountains and forests, fought unevenly, and finally submitted to the Song court for its southern conquest of the northern war.
In fact, most of the good men were compiled by Shi Nai'an, but Song Jiang this person really existed, in the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe years, he led a peasant uprising, and later surrendered to the Song court, but the scale of the uprising is not as grand as the novel, Song Jiang is Yuncheng County, Shuibao Township Song family village people, in early 1121, Song Jiang led the rebel army into the Jiangsu region, and later was defeated by Zhang Shuye, and then was recruited, but in the end, there was no news that Song Jiang became the lord of Liangshan Water, and the story about Liangshan, It is likely that Shi Nai'an wrote it from the story of another person in the Northern Song Dynasty, whose name was Zhang Rong.
Zhang Rong was originally a fisherman in Liangshan Po in the southwest of Shandong Province, but the Yellow River after several diversions and breaches of the embankment, in this area formed a water berth of hundreds of miles in all directions, although Zhang Rong did not read much, but he had a sense of service to the country, after the jin dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, he responded to the call of the Southern Song Dynasty, led hundreds of people to revolt against the Jin Dynasty in Liangshan Po, ambushed the Jin Dynasty's grain transport troops, every time the Jin Dynasty troops sent troops to pursue, Zhang Rong and others fled into the depths of the water moor, there is no trace of it, he fought bravely, Therefore, at that time, his subordinates gave him a name "Zhang Diwan". More and more people joined his rebel army, and Zhang Rong used his own forces and the Song army on the border to contain the Jin army, leaving it deeply passive.
In the third year of the proposal (1129), the Jin army captured Yangzhou (present-day Jiangsu and other places), Zhang Rong became more and more critical in the Liangshan area, and then led the rebel army south, took a boat to the downstream of Surabaya, stationed in Chengzhou, which is now the north of Gaoyou, Jiangsu, in the waters of Dingtan Lake, and the main force of the water village, resisting the Jin Dynasty, at that time Zhang's army had grown to more than 10,000 people.
He cooperated with Xue Qing, the defender of the Song army in Chengzhou, to sneak attack the Jin army in several lakes such as Baima and Xinkai, and repeatedly won victories. In the first year of Shaoxing, the Jin army planned to continue to lead the army south, in order to solve the worries, began to eliminate any rebel forces in the territory, when Zhang Rong became the only lone army in Huaidong, not afraid, but insisted on fighting.
In the first year of Shaoxing, Guanyan Chang led 20,000 Jin troops into Shutou Lake by boat in an attempt to attack Zhang Rong's rebel army in one fell swoop, Zhang Rong, relying on the shortcomings of the Jin army's large ships and heavy and inconvenient, lured the enemy deeper, let them fall into the swamp area, the boat could not go, many Jin people disembarked, and also fell into the mud, Zhang Rong took the opportunity to lead the warriors in small boats to launch an attack, many boats were cut, Jin would drown, Jin would kill Yan Te, Wanfu Changpu Chalu Was captured, only 2,000 people of Wanfu Changpu Chalu were captured, only 2,000 people of Guan Yanchang fled back to Chuzhou, and Zhang Rong killed more than 10,000 Jin soldiers. And took advantage of the victory to pursue, the recovery of Taizhou and at this time the Song army heard the news, but also took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, the Jin army did not dare to stay here, until it withdrew to the north of the Huai River, and the Song army recovered the lost Chu Prefecture.
This Battle of Shrunken Lake was the biggest victory against Jin since the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the "History of Song" also recorded: "He also recommended Zhang Enemy Wan, lured the enemy deeper into Huainan, rode for four episodes, fell into the middle of nowhere, and there was no solution, and the Jin people are still afraid." After this battle, Zhang Rongyi's army finally met with the Song Dynasty army, and he was also knighted as a general, serving as the Right Wu Dafu, the Chungju Defense Envoy, and the Taizhou Zhizhou, and the 4,029 meritorious soldiers who deployed them also entered the palace to be rewarded, and the Shrinking Head Lake was renamed Desheng Lake from then on. Zhang Rong started in the middle of the end, and fought hard in the national community, and his story will also be remembered by future generations.