Mention of the Yang family general, it can really be said that the family is well-known to women and children, the novel "Yang Family General", the commentary, film and television dramas, etc., all interpret the Yang family will be extremely brave, such as the Seven Lang Eight Tigers breaking into Youzhou, the blood battle golden beach, Mu Guiying hanging commander, etc., the Yang family will be a lifelike character, such as the old Linggong Yang Jiye, She Taijun, Yang Liulang, Mu Guiying, Yang Zongbao, etc., widely circulated in the world, everyone knows.
So curious readers should ask, so why did the yang family general, who was famous and invincible, come out to save the Zhao and Song Dynasties when the Northern Song Dynasty fell?
In fact, the real Yang Family General Group in history does not have She Taijun, Mu Guiying, nor Yang Zongbao, as for the protagonist of the Yang Family General, the old Linggong Yang Jiye, the real name is Yang Ye. Next, there are Yang Yanzhao and Yang Wenguang, three generations of grandchildren as the pillars of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is necessary for us to review their history one by one.
Yang Ye, a native of Taiyuan, was an ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty, and his father Yang Xin served as the Assassin of later Han Lin Prefecture.
After Liu Chongjian overthrew the Later Han and established the Northern Han dynasty, Yang Ye followed him to serve him, and Liu Chongjian saw that Yang Ye was talented, so he adopted him as an adopted grandson and gave him the name Liu Jiye, and the prototype of Yang Jiye in the novel is him.
Later, the Northern Han Dynasty was overthrown, and Yang Ye switched to Zhao Kuangyin, while restoring his original surname. After Emperor Taizong of Song ascended the throne, Yang Ye was enthroned as the Assassin of Zhengzhou for his outstanding military achievements, and he was a major general who led the army from Zuo.
See, the old Linggong Yang Jiye, first of all a member of the Northern Han Dynasty, demoted to the general, because of the outstanding martial arts and martial arts, was constantly promoted and reused by the Zhao and Song Dynasties, is the gold will always shine, is the talent wherever will be valued by the Ming Lord, to say that in this regard, Yang Jiye is also lucky.
Yang Lao Linggong's most outstanding battle was the great victory of yanmen passing, and it was appropriate to win more with less:
In 980, the Liao state led an army of 100,000 people to attack Yanmen Pass, in order to hinder them, Yang Ye personally led thousands of cavalry to raid the rear flank of the Liao army by cutting a small road, not only capturing Li Chonghai, who commanded the Liao army's horse infantry, but also killing the Liao state horse Xiao Ju Li.
In addition, Yang Ye and Pan Mei, who were on the battlefield, attacked the Liao army on both sides, causing them to suffer heavy losses and finally had to flee in ashes.
Since then, Yang Jiye has shocked the world and become famous in the world...
People are afraid of being famous pigs and afraid of strong, since then, some people in the DPRK have begun to be jealous of Yang Jiye, and many villains have written to say bad things about Yang Jiye, and even folded their hands with Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi of Song. And Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi showed great generosity, not only did not get angry, but instead handed over all these slanderous music chapters to Yang Ye to deal with himself, which shows how favored Yang Ye was at that time.
However, there are unpredictable storms in the sky and people have bad luck...
In 986, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, was full of ambition and decided to send an army to attack the Liao state and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun that had fallen for a long time. During this Northern Expedition, the main generals were still Yang Ye and Pan Mei, but there was one more overseer Wang Xian, and it was this person who harmed Yang Ye and buried his life in vain.
Here's the thing:
The Northern Expedition was very unsuccessful at the beginning, Pan Mei led the army to defeat in Weizhou, and the general Cao Bin's troops were also defeated in Qigou, which forced Yang Ye to face the cavalry troops of the Liao army, and the situation was very unfavorable to him.
It should be known that the Khitan people were born in the steppe since childhood, where good horses are abundant, and the Liao army has an innate advantage in cavalry configuration, coupled with the home field advantage, if Yang Ye rushes into a direct conflict with it, it is likely to suffer a big loss. In order to preserve his strength, Yang Zhang temporarily avoided the Sharp Edge of the Liao Army and waited for the right time to find a fighter to annihilate the enemy.
In fact, Yang Jiye's view was correct, but Wang Xian, the overseer of the army, was short-sighted and completely rejected Yang Ye's propositions. In his view, Yang Ye's approach was to flee from the battlefield in a small way, and to cooperate with the enemy in the big way, to help the Liao army drive straight into the territory of the Great Song.
Once the bad eye is played, it will gradually ferment. The meaning of Wang Xian of the supervising army is that Yang Jiye is a general who will be a general who will be treason again. However, as we said earlier, Yang Jiye has already made it clear through his countless military achievements that he will serve the Northern Song Dynasty in the future, and he has also been recognized by Zhao Guangyi, the Emperor Taizong of Song!
Yang Jiye understood the vicious intentions of the overseer Wang Xian, so in order to urgently prove his loyalty, Yang Ye made a very impulsive decision: he took the lead in setting up an ambush at the nearby Chen Jiakou, and then used himself as bait to lure the Liao army to come, and finally annihilated the other side in one fell swoop.
We know that impulsive decisions are often immature and dangerous! Yang Jiye is no exception.
When Yang Ye successfully lured the Liao army to Chen Jiakou, he found that not a single reinforcement was seen, and we did not know whether there was disagreement within the army or whether someone deliberately plotted to kill Yang Ye.
In the face of the menacing Liao army, Yang Ye had no chance of winning, the troops he led were completely destroyed, his son Yang Yanyu was killed on the battlefield, and he himself became a prisoner of the enemy army. In order to show his loyalty, Yang Ye refused to surrender, and finally went on a hunger strike for three days and sacrificed heroically.
A generation of famous generals, just left.
After Yang Jiye's death, the person who carried the banner of the Yang family was his son Yang Yanzhao, who was the famous Yang Liulang!
After Yang Jiye was killed in battle, Emperor Taizong of Song, In order to express his remembrance, promoted Yang Yanzhao from an envoy to Chongyi and served as an envoy to the capital of Baozhou, responsible for public security in Hebei.
Perhaps inheriting Yang Ye's legacy, Yang Yanzhao spent almost his entire life guarding the frontier, and because of his military achievements, he was promoted many times, and the highest was deployed as the deputy capital of GaoyangGuan.
In 1014, Yang Yanzhao died in office at the age of fifty-seven...
Yang Yanzhao's son is Yang Wenguang, who is the third generation of the Yang family.
Whether it is the history of zhengshi or the history of the wilderness, Yang Wenguang is a great existence, and he has also been promoted by the famous Northern Song Dynasty scholar and prime minister Fan Zhongyan in history, and belongs to the same strategic echelon as the famous Northern Song general Di Qing.
Fan Zhongyan was transferred to Shaanxi as a magistrate, during which time he became acquainted with Yang Wenguang. Fan Zhongyan found that Although Yang Wenguang was young, he was quite talented, and he decided to take Yang Wenguang with him.
In 1052, at the recommendation of Fan Zhongyan, Yang Wenguang followed Di Qing in his campaign against Nong Zhigao, during which he made great military achievements.
In 1068, the Northern Song court ordered Yang Wenguang to build a castle in southern Shaanxi to prevent the Western Xia Dangxiang from invading and to protect the residents of the northwest border of Qinzhou. In the past, every time the castle was built, the party members would send people to make trouble, seriously affecting the construction progress, Yang Wenguang decided to adopt a strategy of wanting to get away with it, deliberately confiding that the wind would build a castle in a certain place, luring the party members to come and make trouble.
The Dang Xiang people did not know the plan, and indeed planned to send a large army to sabotage the construction progress, so Yang Wenguang ordered people to set up an ambush on the road they had to pass, and wait until the enemy army came to launch a surprise attack in one fell swoop. Yang Wenguang won, and the party members lost soldiers and broke the morale,
In 1074, the Liao state demanded the territory of Hedong from the Northern Song court, and after learning the news, Yang Wenguang played the strategy of the central imperial court to deal with the Liao state, but unfortunately, before the song was sent to the capital Beijing, Yang Wenguang died of illness one step ahead of him, at the age of seventy-five...
The glory of the Yang family is actually only three generations of Yang Jiye, Yang Yanzhao, and Yang Wenguang. Although after Yang Wenguang, many descendants of the Yang family still embarked on a military career, but their official positions were not large, usually only some of them served as subordinate officers, so the glory of the Yang family was extinguished little by little with the fall of those three generations.
The Northern Song Dynasty lasted for 167 years from the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's launch of the Chen Qiao Mutiny (960 AD) to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty (1127 AD). Historical records show that Yang Wenguang died in 1074 AD.
That is to say, at the time of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Wenguang, the last able person of the Yang family, had been dead for 53 years! Therefore, the Yang family general could not help the Northern Song Dynasty at that time.
Friends, do you think this is the truth?