In the second year of Emperor Jingkang of Song Qinzong (1127 AD), Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains, occupied the capital of the Song Dynasty, Beijing, abducted Hui and The Second Emperor of Qin, and forced the capital of the Great Song to move to Lin'an. At that time, in order to resist the invasion of the Jin Dynasty, many people were recorded in the history books because of the death of the defending of the city, since the Song Gaozong Jianyan, the scholar doctor died where he wanted, and there were many people who sacrificed their lives for the country, Li Yanxian is a more typical example, but only because the history is not recorded, I recorded his deeds.
Li Yanxian (李彦仙), also spelled Shaoyi, whose real name was Li Xiaosi (李孝思), was a native of Ningzhou and later moved to Gong County. He has few great ambitions, likes to talk about the art of war, is good at riding and shooting, and carefully observes and memorizes the geographical situation he passes. He advocates righteousness, promises a lot of money, and the people he meets are all heroes and heroes.
When the Jin invaded the south, taking advantage of the opportunity of recruiting The Qin King's army in various counties, Li Yanxian scattered his resources and gathered 3,000 strong men to reinforce Kyoto (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Later, when the Jin army besieged Taiyuan, Li Gang was an envoy to Xuanfu, and Li Yanxian was very dissatisfied with him, and he wrote a letter to fiercely slander Li Gang, and was hunted down by the judicial department of the Southern Song Dynasty. Li Yanxian had no choice but to change his original name, Li Xiaosi, to his current name, Li Yanxian, and abandoned his official position to flee for his life. Soon, he followed the breeder Zhongjin. After the defeat of the zhongshi, Li Yanxian fled to Shaanzhou (陕州, in modern Sanmenxia, Henan) and followed the Shaanzhou defender Li Mida. Knowing that he was familiar with geography and defense, Li Mi-da asked Li Yanxian about the defense of the northwest, and he answered it in detail, believing that the focus should be on the area around Duguan and Shichi (present-day Vortex, Henan).
Later, the Jin people besieged Fenjing again, and Fan Zhixu of Shaanxi led a six-way army to reinforce Fenjing. Before the expulsion, Li Yanxian had already seen that the military situation at that time was not suitable for impatience, and suggested to Fan Zhixuan: "Xi and Shi are dangerous passes, it is difficult to garrison troops, it is very difficult to advance and retreat, and it is easy to cause the army to collapse." We should go our separate ways, find an opportunity to get out of the customs, and not blindly move forward. Half of the army should be left to defend Shaanxi, which is the best strategy. After hearing this, Fan Zhixuan said: "According to the action you said, it will become a stagnation." Li Yanxian said: "The division of troops can quickly reach Beijing." Fan Zhi did not listen, and Li Yanxian argued on the basis of reason, which made him angry, so he dismissed Li Yanxian's official. As a result, because Fan Zhifu did not listen to advice and insisted on going his own way, he soon suffered defeat and finally did not make meritorious contributions to the country.
In April of the first year of Jianyan (1127 AD), the Jin attacked Shaanzhou, and Wang Xie could not resist the Shaanzhou economic system, so he fled, and the rest of the officials also fled in a hurry. At this time, Li Yanxian was a lieutenant in the stone trench (present-day Sanmenxia East, Henan), but he did not escape, and he was still as calm and self-assured as usual, and his father and elders turned to him. He let the old, weak, sick and disabled hide in the mountains of Shihuayan, Sanzi, Shizhu and Datong, and selected warriors to defend them, and he personally presided over them. He said to the crowd, "The Golden Man is not terrible, and now that we have taken advantage of the geography, it is enough to hold on, and there is no need to be afraid." ”
Soon after, the Jin attacked Shaanzhou again to attack the army led by Li Yanxian. There was a fierce Jin general standing on the hill in front of the cottage and scolding loudly, Li Yanxian shook his spirits, single-handedly rushed down the cottage, and with lightning speed, he captured the guy alive on the mountain, and both armies were stunned. Li Yanxian then commanded his generals to meet the battle.
The Jin people besieged with tens of thousands of troops, and Li Yanxian used a strange strategy to ambush some of the elite troops first, and then fought head-on with the Jin people. The two sides were fighting fiercely, and the ambush soldiers came from the mountains behind the Jinren's formation, and the Jin people were startled and fled in a hurry, and the rebels took advantage of the victory to kill tens of thousands of enemies and seize three hundred horses. The Jin people suffered a great defeat and broke the siege. Since then, Li Yanxian's reputation has been greatly enhanced, and between Kaifeng and Luoyang, the masses have rushed to the rescue, the ranks have expanded rapidly, and the power has become even stronger. In less than January, Li Yanxian's rebels had breached more than fifty fortifications.
Initially, when the Jin people entered and occupied the city of Shaanzhou, they let the local people be officials to govern the local people, let them gather the old people to go home, and send a sign to these people. Li Yanxian secretly sent some rebel troops into the city and agreed on a good day so that the inside and the outside could cooperate and attack Shaanzhou. In the second year of Jianyan, Li Yanxian led an attack, the people in the city set off a fire, and the Jin people rushed to the south of the city to resist the attack of the rebels. At this time, the rebels' water army set out from Xindian and sneaked into the city at night from the Mengquan slope near the northeast of the city, attacking inside and outside, dealing a heavy blow to the Jin people, and finally recovering Shaanzhou.
Initially, some people in Hedong proposed to fight against the Jin soldiers, and in order to expand his power, Li Yanxian used a leader named Hu Yesheng to help him, appointing him as a lift along the river. Unsatisfied with his position, Hu Yesheng defected to the enemy side, and was later booby-trapped by Li Yanxian, and his five thousand people were absorbed by Li Yanxian. Hu Yesheng's party wanted to avenge him, but under the persuasion of Li Yanxian, they instead turned to Li Yanxian.
Later, Li Yanxian crossed the Yellow River and came to Zhongtiao Mountain, and when the local people heard about it, they rose up to respond. Li Yanxian sent Shao Long and Shao Yun to lead an army to attack Anyi (present-day yunchengdong, Shanxi), Yuxiang (present-day Yongjidong, Shanxi), Ruicheng (芮城, in present-day Ruicheng, Shanxi), Zhengping (present-day Xindi, Shanxi), and Xiezhou, all of which were successfully captured. When Pucheng was about to be captured, it was not conquered because the Jin people sent strong reinforcements. Li Yanxian was commended for his merits, promoted to the position of pacifying the Secretary of Security, and asked him to escort the captured prisoners of war to the emperor. After Emperor Gaozong of Song saw Li Yanxian, he greatly praised him, gave him a robe and a sword, and especially allowed him to play things directly to himself, and could make his own decisions according to the specific situation without reporting the emergency to the imperial court. At this time, only Shaanzhou was still in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty east of Tongguan, which was actually the credit of Li Yanxian. He also stepped up the construction of city walls, dug deep moats, expanded his army, prepared military supplies, vigorously tuned fields, and organized agricultural production. He left his family in Gong County, and at this time also moved to Shaanzhou, saying: "My parents and wife will survive with Shaanzhou City!" He did this to show his determination, and those who heard about it were touched and raised the morale of the army.
In December of the second year of Jianyan (1128 AD), the Jin general Ulu withdrew and led an army to besiege the city of Shaanzhou, Li Yanxian went out of the city to fight with the enemy for 7 days, the Jin people suffered heavy casualties, and fled in a hurry. After the Jin general Lou Su Bo yan moved his troops from Dai Prefecture to Xie Prefecture, and after the rebel spies obtained this information, Li Yanxian set up ambushes in several valleys and captured eighteen Jin generals, and Lou Su Bo Yan escaped by chance.
The system made Wang Shu dispatch Li Yanxian to form a rivalry with him, and Li Yanxian led his army to Qianxiang. The Jin people blocked with 10,000 iron horses, and Li Yanxian led his army to battle, killing more than 2,000 enemies. Because of his military achievements, he was promoted by the imperial court to a martial arts master and a system envoy. At this time, Hao Jie of Hedong secretly allied with Li Yanxian, expecting the imperial court soldiers and horses to come and respond internally. Li Yanxian worked hard to train his troops, and wanted to ask the imperial court to order each of the Shaanxi provinces to assist him with 20,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry in order to deal with the powerful enemy. At this time, Zhang Jun presided over the great politics of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and did not agree to Li Yanxian's request.
In December of the third year of Jianyan (1129 AD), the Jin general Lou Subobo led 100,000 people to besiege the city of Shaanzhou again. Li Yanxian came up with a clever plan, he asked the soldiers to dig tunnels at night, from the city all the way to the enemy camp, burning the enemy's siege tools, and the enemy camp was in a mess. Li Yanxian took the opportunity to lead his troops from the city, and the enemy was defeated and retreated, encamping far from the city.
In the first month of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130 AD), the enemy army strengthened its offensive and attacked with siege tools such as trains and rushing cars, and the situation was very critical for a while. Li Yanxian was spontaneous, tenacious and heroic, injured by the enemy's artillery and gunpowder, and his body was rotten, but he still did not repulse the attack of the Jin people. Zhang Jun sent reinforcements, but was blocked by the Jin people. Zhang Jun ordered Qu Ruiping to rescue him, but he was jealous that Li Yanxian's reputation was higher than his own, so he lied that he could not send troops and did not rescue him. Soon, the city of Shaanzhou was breached, and Li Yanxian led his army to fight with the Jin people to the death. He was hit by several arrows, his left arm was slashed, his whole body was bloody, and finally he was martyred, and his whole family was killed.
Li Yanxian's subordinate Shao Yun was a Longmen man who was captured by the Jin people when the city fell. Lou Subo wanted him to surrender and made him the head of the Thousand Households. Shao Yun was unmoved and scolded incessantly. Later, he was nailed to a wooden frame by the Jin people and placed outside the east gate of Xiezhou for public display. A scoundrel touched the place on his back with the words and teased, "This can be my sheath." Shao Yun was furious and took the wooden frame to beat the scoundrel.
Five days later, Shao Yun was executed by Jin Renling. When the executioner was just executed, he rebuked him in anger and scared the executioner to death. Later, until he went out to dig his eyes and pick his liver, he still scolded incessantly, until the throat was cut. Li Yanxian's loyal and courageous demeanor was so magnificent!