The shame of Jingkang is one of the most humiliating events in the history of the Great Song Dynasty. In 1127, the Jin people marched south and attacked the Song capital of Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng), capturing Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong of Song, as well as a large number of harem concubines, princesses, palace maidens, and princes and ministers. Then, after the Jin people looted the city of Kaifeng, they took the looted treasures and prisoners and fled, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and other generals appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. When the Jing Kang Disaster broke out, what were Zong Ze, Yue Fei, and others doing, and why didn't they step forward to help Song Qinzong resist the Jin army?
1. Li Gang
Li Gang was a courtier, and he was a jinshi of the Song Dynasty and the second year. In 1125, the Jin army attacked the Northern Song Dynasty in two ways. In order to avoid becoming the king of the subjugated country, Emperor Huizong of Song ceded the throne to the crown prince Zhao Heng. After Zhao Heng (Emperor Qinzong of Song) ascended the throne, he eliminated the Northern Song Dynasty's six thieves Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and others, and promoted Li Gang, the minister of the main war faction, to Shangshu Right Cheng and made him an envoy to the pro-conquest camp and was responsible for the defense of Kaifeng.
Under the leadership of Li Gang, the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City united as one heart and one mind, and successfully repelled the invading Jin army. The commander of the Jin army, Yan Zongwang, saw that Kaifeng City was difficult to breach, so he began to change his strategy and lure the Great Song. Many officials of the Great Song Dynasty, as well as Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Qinzong of Song, were afraid of fighting the Jin army, so the surrender faction soon gained the upper hand. Li Gang was deposed by Emperor Qinzong of Song for opposing surrender.
When the shame of Jing Kang broke out, Li Gang was in Ezhou. There was no Li Gang in Korea, and no one stepped forward to resist the Jin, and Tokyo was quickly breached by the Jin.
After Zhao Zhuo took the throne, in order to appease the people in The country, li gang was used, but he was a master and faction in his bones, which led to Li Gang's ambitions being difficult to reward and depressed.
2. ZongZe
Zong Ze was another famous anti-Jin general under Emperor Huizong of Song.
Zongze was a jinshi in the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1091). In 1126, after the Jin people went south, Zong Ze was appointed as the governor of Cizhou and led an army to resist the Jin army. In November of the same year, the Jin army besieged Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty. Zong Ze led his troops to Qin Wang, although Zong Ze won thirteen battles with the Jin army in Kaide and other places, but Zong Ze had fewer soldiers and horses in his hands, and he was unable to repel the Jin army and relieve the siege of the capital of the Song Dynasty.
After the outbreak of Jing Kang's shame, Zong Ze did not surrender to the Jin army, but still led his troops to fight against the Jin army. After King Zhao of Kang proclaimed himself emperor at Ying tianfu in Nanjing, Zong Ze was reused by Zhao Shuo and still let Zong Ze lead his troops to fight against the Jin army. However, at this time, the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty was weak, and it was more than enough to protect itself, and to defeat the Jin people and recover the lost land, it was powerless, which made the veteran general Zong Ze eventually die in a sad and angry way.
3. Yue Fei
Zong Ze failed to defeat the Jin army and regain the lost land, but he had a general under him, after Zong Ze's death, who carried the banner of resistance against Jin, and he was Yue Fei.
Yue Fei was born in 1103. In 1126, after the Jin people went south, the 23-year-old Yue Fei, encouraged by his mother-in-law, joined the Song army to fight against the Jin people. In 1127, after the outbreak of the Jing kang rebellion, Yue Fei was only a small soldier on the front line, unable to change the situation of the war. After that, Yue Fei's experience in the battlefield and the hatred of the Jin people in his heart made him quickly grow into a famous general who could stand alone.
Later, Yue Fei also formed his own Yue family army and led the Yue family army to confront the Jin people. Yue Fei defeated the Jin people many times in Haocheng, Yingchang and other places, and recovered a lot of lost land, but unfortunately, when the front-line army gained superiority, Zhao Zhuo took the opportunity to negotiate peace with the Jin people.
In order not to affect the peace, Zhao Zhuo not only asked Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and others to withdraw their troops, but also connived at Qin Ju and killed Yue Fei for the crime of "false accusations".
4. Han Shizhong
Born in 1090, Han Shizhong was recruited into the army at the age of 18. In 1121, Han Shizhong led his troops to quell the Fang La Rebellion at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
After that, Han Shizhong followed Wang Yuan and other generals to hunt down thieves in Shandong, Hebei and other places. In 1126, after the Jin army went south, Han Shizhong was forced by tens of thousands of Jin troops to the city of Zhaozhou. At that time, the soldiers in the city were short of food and the army was unstable, and many people persuaded Han Shizhong to abandon the city and flee, but Han Shizhong not only refused to flee, but also passed on the order, who dared to say that abandoning the city and fleeing, immediately beheaded. That night, Han Shizhong took advantage of the lack of preparation of the Jin army and led three hundred elite soldiers to sneak into the Jin army camp. Because it was impossible to distinguish between the enemy and us in the night, the Jin army mistakenly attacked and killed each other.
After a night of melee, most of the Jin army was killed and wounded, and finally had no intention of fighting again, and chose to withdraw its troops. The following year, when the Jingkang Rebellion broke out, Han Shizhong fought against the Jin army in the Hebei region and could not save Kaifeng. After King Zhao of Kang ascended the throne, Han Shizhong was reused by him and became a famous anti-Jin general.
Although Han Shizhong was of outstanding ability and made many military achievements, Zhao Zhuo did not trust his generals, and he seized Han Shizhong's military power through the method of rising and descending. Although Han Shizhong did not end up being killed like Yue Fei, after he was stripped of his military power, the evening scene was also lonely.
5. Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun
Liu Guangshi was the second son of liu Yanqing, a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, who fought against the Western Xia army and made many military achievements. In 1127, after the outbreak of the Jing kang rebellion, he led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Qin Wang, but before he could reach Kaifeng, the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed. Later, Liu Guangshi's passive resistance to Jin led to the dissatisfaction of the chancellor of the imperial Chinese, and under the impeachment of Zhang Jun and others, Zhao Zhuo deposed Liu Guangshi from his official position and seized his military power.
Zhang Jun was born in 1086, and at the age of 16, he became an archer in the army, participating in the war against western Xia and suppressing the peasants in Shandong, Hebei and other places. In 1127, when the Jing Kang Rebellion broke out, Zhang Junzheng led troops to suppress Li Yu, Zhang Yu and other rebels.
Later, Zhang Jun helped Zhao Shuo to sit firmly on the throne and was deeply valued by Zhao Shuo. Zhang Jun was a general of the main battle faction, but his ability was not as good as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, so when he fought against the Jin people, he established fewer merits. Later, Zhang Jun was targeted at the pillar of shame because of his participation in framing Yue Fei.