<h1>Text/Fu Huaxuan</h1>
The story of "Yang Jia jiang" was once well known in China by women and children. The reason why it is so popular is mainly from two sources, one of which is drama, "Mu Guiying Hangs Commander", "Mu Guiying Breaks the Heavenly Gate Array", "Yuanmen Chopper", "Three Forks", "Li Ling Monument"... Wait, in the former theatrical stage, Yang Jiajian's play occupies a very important position. The second is the commentary, the big drum book. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were many drum book artists in the countryside, and every night in the wheat field, people from the village or people from nearby villages gathered together to listen to the big drum book, and the content of the big drum book was mainly "Yang Jia General" and "Yue Jia General", etc. The storytellers sang like crazy, and the people who listened to it were also fascinated. In that era, listening to plays and listening to books was the main form of cultural life. In fact, in modern times, young people are not so familiar with the Yang family.
Some of the protagonists of the Yang family story do have their own people in history, but in order to increase the artistic effect, the artists have fictionalized many characters and fictionalized many details, such as Mu Guiying is a pure fictional character, and the most poisonous thing in the fictional story is that the two surnames of "Pan Yang" do not marry, in fact, there is no Pan Renmei in history, it is a fictional character. There is a man named Pan Mei, the founding father of the Song Dynasty.
The old Linggong Yang Jiye did have his own person in history, he was not a Song Dynasty man, he was a general of the Song Dynasty's enemy state of the Northern Han Dynasty.
Yang Jiye, formerly known as Yang Chonggui, was originally from Linzhou and later migrated to Taiyuan Prefecture (Taiyuan, Shanxi). Yang Jiye has been chivalrous since childhood, good at riding horses and archery, likes to hunt, and when he was a child, he went up the mountain to hunt and get several times more prey than his companions. He once said to his friends: "When I go to the battlefield as a soldier in the future, I will also use falcons and hounds to chase pheasants and hares, and I will bravely kill the enemy and receive meritorious awards." The young and heroic Yang Chonggui was highly valued by Liu Chong, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, so Liu Chong, recognized Yang Chonggui as his adopted grandson and changed his name to Liu Jiye. Yang Jiye first served as a defense commander, because Xiao Yong was famous for his good fighting, he was promoted to jianxiong army jiedushi envoy, made many military achievements, and could win almost every expedition, and the people of the Northern Han Dynasty gave him a nickname called "Invincible", known as "Liu Invincible".
After the death of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, his younger brother Zhao Guangyi succeeded him as Emperor Taizong of Song. At this time, the northern enemy state of the Northern Han Dynasty also experienced a change of throne. The throne of the Northern Han Dynasty went through three lineages, namely Liu Chong(Liu Min), Liu Jun, The Young Lord Liu Ji'en, and Emperor Yingwu Liu Jiyuan.
It was now The Song Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi and the Northern Han Dynasty Emperor Yingwu Liu Jiyuan against each other.
Zhao Guangyi felt that his brother Zhao Kuangyin had not taken the Northern Han and died, and he must have taken the Northern Han down. As a result, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, personally marched and attacked the Northern Han Dynasty.
In April of that year, Emperor Taizong of Song arrived at taiyuan, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty.
The Song army surrounded Taiyuan City layer by layer and attacked from all sides, but the most difficult aspect of the battle was in the west of the city, which was facing the Northern Han Imperial Palace and had the strongest garrison. Emperor Taizong of Song personally inspected the west of the city and supervised the generals to attack the city, and the battle was very fierce. As emperor, Song Taizong's performance was remarkable, he was clad in armor, risking being hit by the enemy's arrows, and commanding the army to fight. The people around him were very worried about the emperor's safety, and Emperor Taizong replied: "The generals are scrambling to serve under the blade, so why can't you bear to sit back and watch?" As soon as these words were said, all the soldiers on the front line were moved, their courage multiplied, and they all shook their fists.
In order to conquer Taiyuan, the Song Empire spared no expense, and the archers under Taiyuan City reached hundreds of thousands of people, and millions of sharp arrows shot into the city, and for a time, the walls of Taiyuan City were full of arrows.
In the absence of reinforcements, the resistance of the northern Han military and civilians was also quite tenacious, causing a lot of trouble to the Song army. The dense rain of arrows by the Song army provided weapons for the Northern Han defenders. Liu Jiyuan, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, issued an order that the people could exchange arrows for money after picking up arrows, and each arrow could be exchanged for ten dollars. Of course, the residents of the city rushed to collect arrows, and by this method, more than a million arrows were stored, which could also reflect the intensity of this offensive battle from one side.
Emperor Taizong constantly patrolled the camps, and everywhere he went, morale was high and the siege of the city was more intense. By May, the situation in Taiyuan had deteriorated dramatically. First, the fortifications were almost destroyed by the Song army's Yashi, and "the city was unfinished"; secondly, many senior officials and generals of the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered to the Song army, including Ma Bujun, who commanded Guo Wanchao and others.
Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, knew in his heart that the Khitan people who had originally fantasized would not come to the rescue, and there were hundreds of thousands of Song troops outside the city, while the defenders inside the city were less than 30,000. The fall of Taiyuan is only a matter of time. In desperation, Liu Jiyuan had no choice but to send emissaries to request surrender, pay money on the table, and wait for the guilt to be under the stage.
Emperor Taizong of Song accepted Liu Jiyuan's surrender and took over ten prefectures and forty-one counties, totaling 35,000 households and 30,000 soldiers. After twenty years of tenacious struggle with the Great Song Dynasty, this projectile country could not escape the fate of extinction.
There was another person who did not surrender, he was the famous Northern Han general Liu Jiye, that is, the Yang family general Yang Jiye, who had been famous for thousands of years, an old general who assisted the four generations of northern Han lords. After the fall of Taiyuan City and the surrender of Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, Yang Jiye was still resisting, and he still fought tenaciously. His bravery and loyalty to the country touched Emperor Taizong zhao Guangyi of Song, and he could not bear to kill this famous general who was loyal and courageous, so he asked Liu Jiyuan, the king of the fallen country, to go and appease him.
Facing the former lord of the country, Liu Jiye mourned in his heart and cried loudly. Because of his loyalty, he was indomitable and resisted to the end; because of loyalty, he finally surrendered to the Great Song Empire under the beckoning of the old lord. Liu Jiye's surrender made Emperor Taizong of Song very happy, and he immediately awarded him the title of leading Wei Dajun and serving as a defense envoy of Zhengzhou, while restoring his original surname "Yang" and changing his name "Jiye" to "Industry". In this way, Liu Jiye's name became Yang Ye, which is the Yang Linggong that has been passed down through the ages.
This old Linggong Yang Jiye, later misfortune, is also related to this surrender, the Song Dynasty's bad civilian generals, jealous of his literary talent and martial strategy, at the critical moment, always take Yang Jiye's surrender, ridicule him as a "second minister".
Fortunately, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty has always used Yangmen generals very heavily. His son Yang Yanzhao and grandson Yang Wenguang were all famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty against the Liao, who made great military achievements and were loyal and loyal!