In "Water Margin", there is a common bridge section to describe the heroism of good men. Before the heroes were escorted to the law field to be beheaded, they often staged wonderful scenes of robbing the law field, such as Li Kuijiangzhou robbing the law field to save Song Jiang, Shi Xiu robbing the law field to save Lu Junyi, and making the robbery of the law field a common thing. The real history is very different from this, and the robbery of the law field has hardly been seen in any historical materials for thousands of years, which can be described as pure fiction.
Although it is impossible to rob the law field, on the law field, before the death row prisoner is beheaded, there is really chaos. In the Ming Dynasty, there were two death row prisoners, and before they were beheaded, they came to the Heavenly Palace on the court, snatched the large knife from the hands of the knife and axe hand of the executioner, and slashed the knife and axe hand with the backhand, which made the onlookers stunned. These two death row prisoners, both famous figures recorded in the annals of history, had an important impact on the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The first was Hua Yun, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang. The "History of Ming" records that Hua Yun was a Huaiyuan man, with a large body and a dark complexion, who fought and did not die, and was a fierce general who was feared by people. After Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled, Hua Yun came to admire him and became an important military general of the Zhu Ming clique, Xiao Yong made great achievements in good warfare, and was deeply valued and appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang. Unfortunately, he died at the age of thirty-nine, otherwise with his meritorious prestige, he could also keep pace with famous generals such as Chang Yuchun and Feng Sheng.
After Hua Yun returned to Zhu Yuanzhang, he became famous in the Battle of Chuzhou. Zhu Yuanzhang led Hua Yun and more than ten cavalrymen to the front line to reconnoiter the enemy situation. As a result, he fell ill halfway and bumped head-on with the enemy's cavalry of more than a thousand men. Although Zhu Yuanzhang had experienced hundreds of battles, at this time, the disparity between the widows and widows was in a desperate situation, and he could not help but panic. At the critical moment, Hua Yun, with his terrifying courage, "drew his sword and leapt on horseback and charged forward", leading the only ten or so people to rush straight into the enemy position, and the enemy army was shocked by his fierceness, and even broke up, saving Zhu Yuanzhang's life.
In the Taiping Guard, Hua Yun was responsible for defending the city, with less than three thousand men under his command. Chen Youyu led tens of thousands of troops to the ground and launched a fierce attack on Taiping City. Hua Yun fought desperately, and after holding out for three days, his men suffered all their casualties, and Chen Youyi's army rushed into the city, and Hua Yun was wounded and captured. The enemy tied him up strongly and took him to the court to be beheaded. The "History of Ming" records that at the last moment of his life, the fierce general Hua Yun actually "shouted loudly, tied up the cracks, grabbed the defender's sword, and killed five or six people", broke the rope, grabbed the knife and cut over several knife and axe hands, and simply bravely raced against the gods.
Hua Yun's bravery and tenacity angered Chen Youyu, and he ordered his men to catch him, tie him up and hang him on the mast, and shoot him to death with random arrows. Hua Yun cursed endlessly until death. After Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he wept bitterly and was heartbroken, and raised Hua Yun's orphan Hua Wei as an adult.
The second is Yang Zhan, a warlord at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Yang Zhan was born in Chongzhen's ten years as a martial artist, strong in martial arts, and brave and courageous. At that time, Zhang Xianzhong's troops occupied Sichuan and connived at the burning and looting of soldiers and soldiers, which aroused strong resistance from the military and people of Sichuan. Yang Zhan served as a staff general in the Ming army, and during the siege of Chengdu, he fought hard to hold the city and inflicted heavy casualties on Zhang Xianzhong's troops, but because of the disparity in strength, he ran out of food and was captured.
The Ming Ji Shu Records record that after Zhang Xianzhong captured Yang Zhan, he ordered his men to take him to the court and behead him along with other captured personnel. Before the execution, the knife and axe hand saw that Yang Zhan's armor was well-made, and he became greedy and wanted to take it for himself. Yang Zhan hurriedly pushed the boat along the water, asking that the armor be taken off before the decapitation was taken off to avoid blood stains. The knife and axe man untied Yang Zhan's rope without thinking. As a result, Yang Zhan rose up, grabbed the sword suddenly, cut down several people on the spot, and then fled.
After Yang Zhan escaped from death, he swore not to share the sky with Zhang Xianzhong. He quickly became one of the most powerful warlords in Sichuan, and was known as Zhang Xianzhong's foremost rival, giving Zhang Xianzhong heavy casualties many times. The most classic battle he fought against Zhang Xianzhong was to intercept the great Western Army's gold and silver heavy fleet at the mouth of the river, and won a complete victory, Zhang Xianzhong suffered heavy casualties, and the gold and silver treasure accumulated over the years was almost lost.
Unfortunately, Yang Zhan was accidentally killed in the warlord melee in the end, and his incidents such as seizing the sword in the court and defeating Zhang Xianzhong have since become a permanent legend.