The story of the unjust death of the famous anti-gold general Yue Fei after being recalled by the thirteen gold medals can be said to be unknown to everyone and everyone knows, but in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, there is a tombstone built by Yue Fei, and Yue Fei stipulates that all the descendants of the Yue family must repair it every year, so who is buried in it, worthy of such respect by a generation of famous generals Yue Fei? The owner of this tomb is Zong Ze, the first to take the initiative to gather the rebels with the anti-Jin banner, and he is also Yue Fei's life mentor.
When he was a teenager, Zong Ze carefully studied, studied the "classics of the ancients", and put what he learned into practice, seeing that the Liao State and Western Xia repeatedly invaded the frontiers of the Great Song Dynasty, he had the idea of abandoning literature and martial arts, so he seriously studied military books and practiced martial arts, and gradually Zong Ze became a knowledgeable and literate youth, and after being admitted to the Jinshi in 1091, he has been serving in the local area.
When the Jin people marched south, when The Capital was in a hurry, Zong Ze, who was over 70 years old, spontaneously invited the local left-behind generals to lead the Qin King, who was refused, and he himself led the army north to Beijing. Due to the small number of troops, Zong Ze's road northward was extremely unsmooth, and he was repeatedly blocked by Jin Bing, and because he was familiar with military books when he was a teenager, he was able to use the army to be handy. Repeatedly broken through the siege of the Golden Soldiers.
When Zong Ze arrived in Beijing, what came into his eyes was the ruins of broken walls, dry grass and white bones, and the former prosperous capital was full of devastation, and the second emperor of Hui Qin and the concubines of the clan were all taken captive. Zong Ze led an army to intercept the Jin army, intending to save the Second Emperor, but the other Song troops did not give assistance, resulting in no success.
After a short period of repairs, Zong Ze suggested that Zhao Zhuo and recover the mountains and rivers, Zong Ze's righteous deeds were praised by the main war faction of the imperial court and the benevolent people, but Zhao Zhuo did not reject or accept Zong Ze's suggestion, and always adopted an ambiguous attitude, and finally led his troops to retake the Central Plains centered on Beijing under the recommendation of the main war faction Li Gang.
Due to the long war, the people were displaced, and thieves in the Central Plains were rampant. Zong Ze felt that these people could be recruited as officials and let them participate in the great cause of resisting gold, so a white-haired old man, riding a war horse, began to persuade the group of Kou to appear in front of the eyes of the world, thieves from all over the world attached to it, Zong Ze gained hundreds of thousands of people, he chose to train the army, the rest of the Tun Tian. The devastated Central Plains gradually restored order and rejuvenated.
In the face of the Jin army moving south again, Zong Ze repeatedly asked Zhao To return to Beijing to boost morale and rely on the Yellow River to fight against the Jin. However, Zhao Zhuo refused for various reasons, not even the courage of Zong Zhenzong to visit here, Yu Zongze's request, the Song court had a lot of controversy: the construction of the capital Jinling, the construction of the capital Chengdu, the construction of the capital Jiankang, etc., but there was no proposal to return to Beijing, and the timid Zhao Zhuo directly retreated to the Jianghuai line.
In desperation, Zong Ze could only refine the rebel army, and Yue Fei stood out as a young general under Zong Ze's promotion. The iron horse of the Jin army quickly crossed the Yellow River and once again wreaked havoc on the Central Plains. Zong Ze sent his troops to meet Liu Yan and led his own army to attack and defeat the Jin army. After Zong Ze sent people to retake Zhengzhou in Western Beijing, the Battle of Huazhou, Zhang Li died and did not retreat, although he was killed, but he beat the backbone of the Han people, and then the Jin army was defeated by the Song army that rushed to support. Under the command of Zong Ze, Fenjing successfully resisted the southward movement of the Jin army, and the morale of the rebel army was greatly boosted.
Zong Ze's prestige reached its peak at this time, almost became a representative of the anti-Jin, he was not carried away by the victory, because of the attitude of the imperial court, Zong Ze could only continue to use his prestige to gather anti-Jin organizations from all over the world to resist Jin, these anti-Jin organizations led by Zong Ze, defeated the Jin army many times, Zong Ze became the nightmare of the Jin people, and many grass-roots soldiers of the Jin Army called him "Grandpa Zong".
Although the anti-Jin situation was very good, no matter how Zong Ze asked Zhao Shuo to return to Beijing, Zhao Zhuo did not return to the military and political affairs of the viceroy of Beijing, and the elderly Zong Ze became ill and soon became bedridden. On his sickbed, he also warned the generals that they must remember to subdue the rivers and mountains of the country, and cross rivers, rivers, and rivers. After his death, Yue Fei sent his bones back to Zhenjiang and buried them under qingshan.
After Zong Ze's death, Zhao Zhuo used Du Chong, who was very talented, as the Taishou of Fenjing, and Du Chong, who was frightened by the Jin people, chose to abandon the Hebei rebel army on the one hand, and suppressed the Central Plains rebel army on the other hand. The layout that Zong Ze painstakingly managed was destroyed. The Central Plains fell into chaos again, and the Jin army soon took control of Hebei, Fenjing once again fell, and the north of Jianghuai became the land of the Jin State. However, Du Chong was not punished in any way, but was promoted one after another, and the Song Dynasty could only retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River.
Resources:
History of Song. Lectionary 234, "The Dangerous Tale of the Prosperous World: Book VI. Bing Zheng", "Song Zongzhong Jian GongJi"