In Yiwu, Zhejiang, there is a road called "Zongze Road", which commemorates an ancient person in the Song Dynasty. Ask you today, how many people know who ZongZe is? How many people knew that he was the Bole who discovered Yue Fei? There are also a few people who know that although he has entered the army, he is a literary and martial all-rounder who can lead soldiers to fight, and he can win wars, so let's talk about this legendary Yiwu zongze.
Zong Ze statue
Zong Ze was born on December 14 of the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (January 20, 1060). According to legend, before Zong Ze was born, his mother Liu Shi dreamed of fierce thunder and lightning in the sky, and there was light shining on his body, and then gave birth to Xiao Zong. Looking at this legend today is a bit evil and quite divine, but judging from The performance of Xiao Zong after he grew up, he is indeed not an ordinary person.
Zong Ze was gifted with intelligence and diligence since childhood, and when he was less than twenty years old, he quit his family to go out to study for more than ten years; in the past ten years, he not only carefully studied and studied the "classics of the ancients," but also learned to apply what he had learned to investigate society to understand the people's feelings, tirelessly pursued the way of governing the country, and saw that the Liao state and the Western Xia had repeatedly invaded, so he seriously studied military books, practiced martial arts, and rapidly grew into an outstanding young man of the Song Dynasty who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, both literate and martial, and full of ideals and ambitions. Six years after Yuan You, Zong Ze passed the imperial examination and entered the career path, serving as a county lieutenant and regent of the county order in Guantao County, the Daimyo Prefecture, and after arriving at the office, he performed extraordinary, quickly and properly handling the backlog of litigation cases in the county over the years, revealing his ability to manage the government.
In the following decades, Zong Ze successively served as the governor of Quzhou Longyou, Laizhou Glue, Jinzhou Zhaocheng, Laizhou Ye County, and Dengzhou Tongju, all of which benefited one party and achieved outstanding political achievements, but unfortunately could not be promoted and reused by the imperial court.
In the first year of Xuanhe (1119), Zong Ze, who was sixty years old, returned to his hometown and planned to write a book to spend his old age, and was falsely accused of scorning Taoism and was given Zhenjiang "editor", which is probably today's residential surveillance, until Xuanhe four years Song Huizong held a sacrifice ceremony to implement amnesty, Zong Ze regained his freedom and was re-activated by the imperial court, successively supervising the Zhenjiang liquor tax and bazhou general judgment. At this time, the Jin state rose in the north, and war broke out between Liao, Jin, and Song, but Zong Ze, who was worried about the country and the people in both culture and martial arts, was placed in the southwestern border of Bazhou, until the first year of Jing Kang (1126) under the recommendation of the imperial master Chen Guoting, he was used as Zong Zheng Shaoqing as a peace envoy, but Zong Ze did not intend to survive before leaving, because he knew that the Jin people could not repent of withdrawing their troops, and he could not humiliate the king's life by bowing to the Jin people, so some people thought that Zong Ze was just and unyielding, and I was afraid that it would be harmful to peace negotiations. He instigated Emperor Qinzong to reassign Zong Ze to the prefect of Cizhou near the front, when Taiyuan had fallen, and the officials in the Lianghe region were afraid of war, so only Zong Ze rode on his own on the day of his order, with only a dozen old and weak soldiers and soldiers.
At this time, Cizhou was ravaged by the Golden Soldiers, the people fled, and the official treasury was empty. Zong Ze repaired the city wall and dredged the pond, rectified the equipment to recruit volunteers, began to make plans to defend the territory, and played his own defensive battle plan approved by Emperor Qinzong, and was immediately promoted to the governor of Hebei Volunteer Army. In October of the same year, after the Jin soldiers attacked the northern gateway Zhending, they dispatched thousands of cavalry to attack Cizhou, Zong Ze wore armor to command the battle head of Gordon City, and after a dazzling command to crush the jin soldiers' offensive, he opened the city gate to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and finally won a complete victory, beheading hundreds of enemies and capturing a large amount of booty, which became the first battle of the Song army to defeat the Jin soldiers, which greatly encouraged the morale of the Song army in various parts of Heshuo.
In November of the same year, the Jin soldiers arrived in Kaifeng in two directions, east and west, and once again surrounded the Song capital. Zong Ze was appointed deputy marshal and sent all the soldiers and horses of Hebei to The King of Jingqin. Zong Ze alone led his troops to Li Gudu, sent Qin Guangbi and Zhang De to attack the Jin soldiers, and won a great victory, and then sent strong men to attack the Jin camp by night, and they won one after another.
In the first month of the second year of Jing Kang (1127), Zong Ze went to Kaide, won thirteen battles with the Jin people, and became the only changsheng general at that time, and then he sent a letter to Zhao Ye, the governor of The Northern Province, Xuanfu of Hedongbei Road, Fanne, and Zhixingren Fu Zengmao, asking them to join forces to rescue the capital, all three of them thought that Zong Ze was arrogant and ignored it, so Zong Ze led the lone army forward, and all of them Chen Quan believed that the enemy was in full swing, and advised Zong Ze not to act rashly, which was originally well-intentioned, but objectively interfered with the commander's determination to fight, which was a big taboo at the moment of the enemy, zong ze was furious. Originally wanted to behead him, and then decided to let him serve him to death to make a meritorious deed, Chen Quan was not ambiguous, and he defeated the Jin soldiers with a big shot, and then Zong Ze sent Kong Yanwei to defeat the Jin soldiers in Kaide, and then Zong Ze estimated that the Jin soldiers would invade Puyang, so he sent three thousand cavalry to reinforce him in advance, and as a result, he defeated the Jin soldiers again in Puyang, and the Jin soldiers were not willing to be repeatedly defeated under Zong Ze's hands, and the second attack on Kaide, Zong Ze commanded Quan Bangyan and Kong Yanwei to attack together, and the Jin soldiers were defeated again.
After Zong Ze led the troops to Weinan, considering that he would have few lone soldiers and would be difficult to achieve a final victory without going deep into the enemy camp to win a surprise victory, he commanded his subordinate soldiers to directly attack the Jinbing camp to defeat the Jinbing, and then led the troops to the east, but the Jinbing continued to increase their troops, forming a situation in which the enemy was outnumbered, and in the face of the unfavorable situation in which the jinbing camp was both before and after, Zong Ze ordered him to survive in death, leading the soldiers to kill thousands of jinbing with one hundred, causing the Jinbing to retreat dozens of miles in a big defeat, Zong Ze expected that although the Jinbing retreated, it was bound to come again, so he took advantage of the dark night to transfer the army. After the Jin people regrouped that night, they attacked Zong Ze and found that Zong Ze had long since retreated, leaving only an empty camp, and the Jin soldiers were very frightened, and from then on they were afraid of using soldiers like the gods of Zong Ze, and did not dare to fight with Zong Ze again, and began to avoid the battle, Zong Ze was surprised, sent troops across the Dagou River to launch a surprise attack, and once again defeated the Jin soldiers with fewer victories and more victories. After Zhao Zhuo ascended the throne in Nanjing, Zong Ze was appointed as a scholar of Longtuge and Zhiyangfu. He was later renamed Zhiqing Prefecture when he was sixty-nine years old.
Soon, Zong Ze was reappointed as the prefect of the capital Kaifeng. At this time, the enemy army was still garrisoning troops on the Yellow River, the sound of war drums could be heard day and night, all the warships in the capital were destroyed, the soldiers and the people were living together, thieves were rampant, and people were afraid. After Zong Ze arrived in Kaifeng, he first hunted down several thieves and ordered that "thieves, no matter how much stolen goods, are punished according to military law." "Since then the thieves have been quelled, and the people have been at peace.
Wang Shan was a great thief in Hedong, with 700,000 men and horses and 10,000 chariots, Zong Ze went to Wang Shan's barracks alone to persuade him, and finally Wang Shan was moved and surrendered. There were also Yang Jin, who had 300,000 troops, and Wang Zaixing, Li Gui, and Wang Dalang, who each had tens of thousands of troops, who traveled back and forth between Jingxi, Huainan, Henan, and Hebei, and the intrusion and looting became a scourge. Zong Ze sent people to surrender them all, relieving them of internal worries. Soon after the emperor returned to the capital, he appointed Zong Ze, who had worked hard and made him a scholar of the Yankang Temple, a retainer of the capital, and a Kaifeng Yin.
Let's talk about Yue Fei.
Bingyi Lang Yue Fei was originally a criminal, and when he was about to be executed, Zong Ze found out that he was a general, and when he encountered the Jin people attacking Shuishui, Zong Ze handed over five hundred cavalry to Yue Fei and asked him to make meritorious atonement, Yue Fei did not fail him, defeated the Jin people triumphantly, Zong Ze then promoted Yue Fei to the command, and Yue Fei's family army became famous.
Statue of Zongze
When the Jin general Wushu was about to cross the Yellow River to attack Beijing, the Song Dynasty generals were timid, asking to cut off the river bridge to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, strictly defending, Zong Ze laughed at the generals' guts, opposed the breaking of the river bridge, ordered the general Liu Yan to rush to Huazhou, Liu Da rushed to Zhengzhou, dispersed the enemy's troops, and at the same time warned the generals to protect the river bridge to wait for the large army to gather, the Jin people learned of it, afraid of Zong Ze's use of troops, but instead fled by breaking the river bridge at night.
In the second year of Jianyan (1128), the Jin people arrived in Baisha from Zhengzhou, close to Beijing, and the people of the capital were alarmed. Zong Ze was sitting around the guests talking, laughing and answering without panic, and then immediately selected thousands of elite soldiers to go around the enemy's rear, ambushed them on the way back, and took advantage of the fact that the Jin people were fighting with Liu Yan to launch a surprise attack, attacking the enemy army back and forth, and the Jin people immediately suffered a big defeat and collapse.
After the Jin general Muhan occupied Xijing, he confronted Zong Ze, who sent his generals Li Jingliang, Yan Zhongzhong, and Guo Junmin to lead the troops to Zhengzhou, but on the way, due to the paralysis of the generals, they were ambushed by Jin soldiers, Yan Zhongzhong was killed, Guo Junmin surrendered, and Li Jingliang fled. After Zong Ze captured Li Jingliang, he scolded him for "fighting without victory, fleeing without permission, ignoring the main general", and beheaded him to warn the soldiers. Soon after, the enemy general Guo Junmin and the Jin general surnamed Shi and the Yan man He Zhongzu held a book to summon Zong Ze, and Zong Ze reprimanded Guo Junmin for "holding a book for the Jin people to lure them down, what face do you have to come back?" "Behead him."
Soon the Jin people invaded Huazhou again, the ministry asked Zhang Zhu to go to the rescue, Zong Ze selected five thousand soldiers to hand over to him, and warned him not to fight easily to wait for support, as a result, Zhang Li did not obey Zong Ze's order to avoid war after arriving in Huazhou, and rashly engaged an enemy ten times that of himself, and fell into a heavy siege, Zong Ze learned that Zhang Zhu was in a hurry, and sent Wang Xuan to lead five thousand cavalry to rescue, although Zhang Zhuo was killed in battle, but Wang Xuan defeated the Jin people, and from then on the Jin people feared that Zong Ze would no longer invade Tokyo.
Wang Ce was originally a Liao general, but was later appointed by Jin as a general and traveled to and from the Yellow River. Zong Ze captured him and entertained him, and because of the situation, he inquired about the virtual reality of the Jin state, learned more about the situation of the Jin people, found the fighter, and immediately decided to launch a large-scale attack, and won a complete victory, the Jin people had to withdraw their troops from Huazhou because of repeated defeats with Zong Ze, and the morale was low, so they had to withdraw their troops from Huazhou, and soon the Jin people attacked Huazhou again, at this time Zong Ze had been appointed as a senior scholar of the Palace, and he boldly appointed Zhao Shixing, the brother of the deposed rebel general Zhao Shilong, to rescue the Jin soldiers in Huazhou, Zhao Shixing lived up to the expectations of the people, and the soldiers and nobles quickly took advantage of the enemy and were not ready to defeat the Jin people.
As Zong Ze's reputation grew, whenever the Jin people heard his name, they often respected and feared him, and even talked to the Song people about Zong Ze, and they must call him Zong Grandpa.
On July 12, 1128 (July 29, 1128), Zong Ze, who was on his deathbed, did not talk about family affairs in a single word, and his words were all in mind of the Northern Expedition to recover the lost land, and he cried out three times in a row, "Cross the river!" Crossing! Crossing! He died at the age of seventy. When the officials and people of Kaifeng heard about it, they all wept bitterly, and then their sons Zong Ying and Ai helped Yue Fei to Zhenjiang together, where they were buried with their wife Chen on the Jingdan Mountain in Zhenjiang.
The suicide note left by Zong Ze still advocated that Zhao Zhuo still be kaifeng, and the imperial court posthumously awarded Zong Ze a scholar of the GuanWen Hall and a doctor of the General Council, with the title of "Zhongjian".
Although Zong Ze failed to realize his ambitions of expelling the Jin soldiers, recovering the lost land, and restoring the great unification of the Song Dynasty, he sat in Kaifeng, an anti-Jin outpost, prevented and crushed the large-scale invasion of the Jin soldiers, and defended half of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the struggle against the Jin dynasty, Zong Ze held high the banner of resisting jin, relied on the broad masses of soldiers and people, resolutely resisted the invasion of the jin soldiers, and opposed compromise and surrender; he not only achieved brilliant results and made outstanding meritorious achievements, but also put forward with great foresight the idea of uniting all enslaved nationalities to jointly resist Jin and peaceful coexistence between all nationalities in the country and their political power. This lofty patriotic spirit and national integrity expressed in him have touched the heavens and the earth and have been passed down through the ages.