Liang Hongyu was originally from Chizhou (now part of Anhui), his grandfather and father were both military generals, and Liang Hongyu trained a kung fu with his father and brother since childhood. In the second year of Emperor Xuanhe of Song Hui, the residents of Muzhou, Fang La, and Xiaoju Mountain People revolted, rapidly growing to hundreds of thousands of people, even trapping prefectures and counties, the officials and troops repeatedly failed to conquest, and Liang Hongyu's grandfather and father were killed for missing the fighter plane in the rebellion of Quelling Fang La. As a result, the Liang family fell, and Liang Hongyu also became a prostitute in Jingkou Camp, that is, an official prostitute managed by the official governments of various prefectures and counties, but because she was proficient in Hanmo, she also had divine power, and she could hold a strong bow, and every shot must be hit, and she would look at the ordinary young children with more white eyes and no prostitute atmosphere.
Han Shizhong is a native of Suide County, Shaanxi Province, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a body of courage, a man of Gengjie, and a person who is in a hurry, and is an upright and brave hero. After Tong Guan pacified Fang La, Ban Shi returned to the dynasty, traveled to Jingkou, summoned the camp prostitutes to drink wine, Liang Hongyu and the prostitutes joined the waiter, and met Han Shizhong at the table. Han Shizhong, in the cheers and drinks of many generals, appeared sullen and unhappy alone, which attracted the attention of Liang Hongyu; Liang Hongyu's cool and heroic posture and unworldly demeanor also attracted Han Shizhong's attention, and the two of them were attentive and each other had pity for each other, so the hero and beauty became dependents.
Pegasus Commandments
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army plundered and retreated, and after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital was Lin'an, which is today's Hangzhou, so it was changed to Kaifeng, and Zong Ze was left behind in Kaifeng. In the third year of Jianyan, the Jin army, under the leadership of Sticky Han, entered Sizhou from Pengcheng and reached Chuzhou. Emperor Gaozong of Song fled to the Zhejiang region in a hurry, and external troubles caused internal troubles, and the imperial commander Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, the assassin of Weizhou, rebelled against the masses, attacked and killed Wang Yuan, who was in charge of the privy council, hunted down the eunuchs separately, and forced Emperor Gaozong to give up the throne. In this rebellion, Han Shizhong's son and wife Liang Hongyu, who had a heavy army in Xiuzhou, were also detained.
After the incident, Emperor Gaozong of Song's actions were already free, and the chancellor Zhu Shengfei secretly consulted with Empress Dowager Longyou and sent Liang Hongyu out of the city and rushed to Xiuzhou, urging Han Shizhong to quickly march into The King of Hangzhou Qin, and the empress dowager made Liang Hongyu the Lady of Anguo and Han Shizhong the general of the imperial camp Pingkou Zuo. After discussing it properly, Zhu Shengfei said to Miao Fu: "When Han Shizhong heard about the incident, he did not come immediately, indicating that he was hesitating and undecided, and if you could send his wife to greet him and persuade Han Shizhong to defect to you, then your strength would increase greatly, and other people would not need to be afraid." Miao Fu was overjoyed after hearing this, and thought that it was a good plan, and immediately sent Liang Hongyu out of the city, Liang Hongyu went home and hugged his son, stepped on horseback, galloped away, and rushed to Xiuzhou day and night. After Han Shizhong learned about everything, he immediately joined forces with Zhang Jun and Zhang Jun to quell the rebellion of Miao Fu and others. Emperor Gaozong of Song was overjoyed, personally went to the palace gate to greet the couple, and immediately awarded Han Shizhongwu the victory of the army as an envoy, and soon after he was made an envoy to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Wave after wave, wave after wave. The civil strife in the Southern Song Dynasty just gave the Jin army an opportunity to take advantage of. In October 1129, the Jin army, led by Emperor Zongbi of Yan (also known as Jin Wushu), marched straight in and invaded Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The only way Song Gaozong could deal with it was to escape. He fled from Hangzhou to Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang), and then from Mingzhou to the sea. Fortunately, the Jin army and navy were not able to do so, so That Emperor Gaozong barely managed to save his old life. At this time, the Jin army had been alone for more than 5 months, and Han rebellions broke out everywhere in Jiangnan. Zong Bimi saw that if he stayed any longer, he would be "drowned in the ocean of people's war", so he returned north after a large-scale plunder.
At this time, Han Shizhong was serving as the commander of the Western Zhejiang Theater (Zhejiang Western System Envoy). Hearing that the Jin army was retreating north, he led 8,000 sailors to Zhenjiang to intercept it. The Jin Army claimed to be 100,000. Although there may not really be so many, the military strength is definitely much more than Han Shizhong's. Han Shizhong's Song army had already been defeated for a while when the Jin army moved south. In addition, the art of war has clouds to "return to the division and do not curb it." That is to say, do not intercept the returning troops, otherwise the homesick army will often exert extraordinary combat effectiveness. Therefore, on the surface, Han Shizhong was far inferior to the Jin Army in terms of strength, morale, and combat effectiveness. Zong Bi, the commander of the Jin Army, probably also felt that Han Shizhong was hitting a stone with a pebble, so he wrote a battle letter to Han Shizhong to agree on a date to start the war, and Han Shizhong accepted. On the appointed day, the Jin army began to cross the Yangtze River north. Han Shizhong led his army to intercept on the river. The two sides fought fiercely on the river. Liang Hongyu braved the rain of arrows to beat the drum himself. A dozen attacks by the Jin Army were repelled in a row. The Jin army was never able to cross the river.
The Jin army suffered a heavy setback, much to Zong's expectations. So he took peaceful measures and sent emissaries to Han Shizhong to tell Han Shizhong that as long as Han Shizhong was willing to let them have a way to live, he was willing to return all the property he had plundered in Jiangnan, and also gave Han Shizhong a famous horse as a thank you gift. Han Shizhong refused. The two sides fought and walked on the Yangtze River. The Jin army was not familiar with geography and was forced by the Song army into the yellow sky and the port of death. This was the best time to destroy the Jin Army. However, Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu's troops were too small, and without the cooperation of the army, Zong Bi took the opportunity to cut through the long-lost Old Stork River 30 miles and retreated to Jiankang (present-day Nanjing).
Zong Bi was again blocked by Yue Fei on his way to Jiankang. I had to turn back to the Yangtze River and continue to cross north. Han Shizhong's naval army has many sea ships, tall shape, good stability, and strong attack power. In order to take advantage of this advantage, Han Shizhong ordered the craftsmen to make many large iron hooks connected by iron chains, and selected strong sailors to practice using to deal with the small warships of the Jin Army. In the early morning of April 12, the Jinshui army launched the first attack, and Han Shizhong's water army fought in two ways, trapping the enemy in the position of being attacked in the back and abdomen. The Southern Song Dynasty warships sailed in the wind, flying back and forth, condescending to hook the enemy ship with a large hook, and dragged it hard, and the enemy ship capsized. The Song army once again won.
Winning consecutive battles made Han Shizhong very proud, believing that the Jin army was not used to water warfare, so he was careless. Unexpectedly, someone suggested to Zong Bi that it was difficult to use the fact that the sea ship was windless and difficult to start, and choose a windless day to attack the Song army and win. Zong Bi set up an altar to pray for no wind, but the next day there was really no wind. Zong Bi immediately led the fleet to launch a general attack on the Song army. The Jin army set fire to a small boat and shot the sails of the Song army with rockets. The inability of the Song Army's ships to start became the target of the Jin Army's rockets. Soon all were burned down. The Song generals Sun Shiqian and Yan Yun were killed in battle. Han Shizhong was defeated and returned to Zhenjiang. The Jin army broke through.
Although tactically Speaking, Han Shizhong lost the battle very badly. However, strategically, Han Shizhong was able to block the Jin soldiers for 48 days with an absolutely weak force, and the Jin soldiers did not dare to look south after going north, and they had already achieved the strategic purpose of repelling the Jin soldiers. However, after the defeat of the Jin soldiers, Liang Hongyu not only did not take advantage of the merits and asked for rewards, but because the Jin soldiers broke through the river defense, Shangshu impeached her husband Han Shizhong for "losing the opportunity to indulge the enemy" and asking the imperial court to "add guilt". This righteous deed has made everyone in the whole country admire and spread it as a beautiful talk. For this reason, the imperial court renamed her "Lady Yang Guo".
In the fifth year of Shaoxing (1136), Han Shizhong was appointed commander of the Wuning Anhua Military Region (武宁安化軍節度使), stationed in Chuzhou (present-day Huai'an District, Jiangsu). Liang Hongyu and Han Shizhong led their generals to Huaishui as the boundary, and built a new city outside the old city to resist the Jin soldiers. After the catastrophe of war, Chuzhou was already full of thorns and hazel, the army and the people had no food, no house, And Liang Hongyu personally used reeds to "weave pu as a house". When looking for wild vegetables to fill their hunger, on the shore of the Spoon Lake under the Wentong Pagoda, they found that horses ate pu stems, so they personally tasted them, and mobilized the military and civilians to collect pu stalks to fill their hunger. The Huai people eat "Pu'er cai", which is said to have started from Liang Hongyu. Pu'er is therefore called "anti-golden cabbage". Because Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu and the soldiers worked together and shared the hardships, the soldiers were happy to serve their lives. After painstaking management, Chuzhou has regained its vitality and become an important town. Han Shizhong was stationed in Chuzhou for more than ten years, and "there were only 30,000 soldiers, but the Jin people did not dare to commit crimes."
Untimely death
According to Song LiXin's "Records of the Chronicles of the Lineage Since Jianyan", vol. 92, in August of the fifth year of Shaoxing, Ding Di Tiao said: "Huaidong Xuanfu made Han Shizhong's wife Lady Liang of Qin, and gave the silver five hundred horses and two horses."
The "Huaiyin City Chronicle" and other sources show that Liang Hongyu and Han Shizhong guarded Chuzhou for more than ten years, and later resigned from their military posts and retired to Suzhou because Yue Fei suffered unwarranted injustice. It is also said that Liang Hongyu died in 1153, two years after Han Shizhong. This claim may have originated from the Book of The Two Spirits. However, the "Essentials" clearly records that Liang Hongyu died only five months after he and Han Shizhong moved to Tun Chu Prefecture, on October 6, 1135 (the twenty-sixth day of the eighth lunar month).
Major achievements
In the winter of the third year of Jianyan, Jin Taizong completed Yan Sheng, with Yan Zongbi as the commander, and led an army claiming to be 100,000 south to attack the Song. In November, Zong Bi's army crossed the river from Majiadu (in present-day northeast of Ma'anshan City, Anhui). The Song and Zhejiang western system made Han Shizhong, in order to avoid his front, lead an army from Zhenjiang (present-day Jiangsu) to retreat to Jiangyin (present-day Jiangyin). After Zong Bi forced his landing on Jiankang (present-day Nanjing), he quickly marched south and rushed to Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou). Han Shizhong, believing that the Jin army was alone and difficult to hold for a long time, divided his army into three parts: the former army was stationed in Tonghui Town (present-day Qingpu North, Shanghai), the Chinese army was stationed in Jiangwan (now part of Shanghai), the rear army was stationed in Haikou, the Dazhi sea ship, practicing water warfare, and the plane went north to intercept the Jin army and return to the division.