Zhao Li (1094-1130), a native of Zhangyi Village, Xuzhou, was a hero of the Southern Song Dynasty in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, good at riding and shooting, not fond of wealth and profit, and strong and straight, but had not read books, but was loyal by nature. Since the ancient chaotic world, he has been holding the lonely city of Chuzhou for nearly a year, and he is a lonely and loyal hero who the Jin people dare not call his name directly!
Zhao Li, other information about him is zero eggs can not be searched, that is to say, the exposure in history is basically zero, so that no one knows his life, which is not surprising, many people's fame and strength are not proportional, but this grandfather has frustrated the two famous generals of the Jin people, is the Southern Song Version of the "Ancient Famous General".
The Southern Song Dynasty defended the city of Chuzhou against Zhao Li
Battle of Xuzhou
In 1128, the Jin people went south for the fourth time, and the soldiers pointed directly at Yangzhou, with the simple purpose of capturing Emperor Gaozong of Song.
At that time, the remainer of Tokyo was called Du Chong, who was really screaming in a wonderful second, and he thought of a nao (can) plan: dig up the Yellow River; the flooded Yellow River water, instead of stopping the Jin people, drowned countless people.
The Jin people attacked Puzhou (濮州), Xiangzhou (相州, in present-day Anyang, Henan), Dezhou (present-day Ling County, Shandong), Dongping Prefecture (present-day Dongping, Shandong), Damingfu (present-day Daming, Hebei), and Xianqingfu (present-day Yanzhou, Shandong).
In the first month of 1129, Zhao Li and his old partner Wang Fu were stationed in Xuzhou City together, and they were attacked by the Jin people, and both of them were determined to fight to the end.
Zhao Li went to the city to supervise the battle, 6 arrows in his body still died and did not retreat, after more than 20 days of persistence, Xuzhou City was destroyed; Wang Funing died unyieldingly, and was brutally destroyed by the Jin people, and Zhao Li's family was killed by the Jin people.
Zhao Li commanded the street battle after the city was destroyed, fainted due to his serious injuries, and woke up in the middle of the night to find Wang Fu's body and bury it.
There was a lot of rain in the south, and it rained heavily for several days, and the Jin people decided to return to the north, Zhao Li learned of this news, led the scattered remnants of the army, recaptured the city of Xuzhou, and recovered a large number of goods plundered by the Jin people, which greatly boosted morale.
Zhao Li, the upper court for the Wang Fu li temple, the imperial court agreed.
Whenever he went on a expedition, Zhao Lidu led the crowd to pray in front of the Wang Fu Temple: "You died for the country, and after death in Hades, you will surely bless those of us who survive." The people of Qi Di (Xuzhou belonged to the State of Qi in ancient times) heard these words and all of them were attached to him.
Zhao Li was awarded the title of Zhongyi Lang (忠翊郎) and Quan Zhi (權知州事) for his merits.
At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Shandong area was rampant with bandits and reckless grass; Zhao Li sent people to contact the rebels to resist Jin and secretly help, thus gaining prestige among the rebels.
Southern Song Dynasty Chuzhou City Defense Battle
Battle of Chuzhou
In August of the third year of Jianyan (1129 AD), the Jin people launched the fifth southern invasion, and Song Gaozong was also a mysterious person, and even gave up the defense of Lianghuai, simply wanting to rely on the natural dangers of the Yangtze River to block the enemy.
The Golden Man attacked in two directions:
Western Route Army:
Commanded by Emperor Yanzongbi (Jin Wushu), he successively attacked Luzhou (present-day Hefei, Anhui) and Hezhou (present-day Hexian County, Anhui), crossed the Yangtze River from Majiadu (near present-day Nanwujiang Town, Jiangpu County), and captured Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in December, all the way to Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang), forcing Emperor Gaozong of Song to take refuge at sea and float at sea for several months.
Eastern Route Army:
Commanded by Yan Chang (挞懒), he attempted to go south through Chu Prefecture (chu prefecture ( present-day Huai'an , Jiangsu ) , capture Yangzhou , and fight on the western road , but encountered nail households in Chu prefecture.
ChuZhou was in danger, and Du Chong ordered Zhao Li to go to support, to know that the current Chu Prefecture, that is, the meat in the bowl of the Jin people, was heavily surrounded by the Jin people, and the historical records are recorded like this:
"After seven consecutive victories, he can reach Chu, and his cheeks are flowing in the middle of the arrow, and he can't speak, and he can't say anything with his fingers."
This does not need to be translated, is it across the screen to feel the face pain?
Zhao Li entered the city of Chuzhou and arranged for the generals to rest before pulling out the cluster of arrows; subsequently, he fought with the Jin people for many days, temporarily alleviating the crisis in Chuzhou.
After Yan Chang's men and horses were miraculously blocked, Emperor Gaozong of Song heard this information and ordered Zhao Li to hold on to the city of Chuzhou.
Author Jun, Fun History Lesson:
Emperor Gaozong of Song, in order to keep the Jin people from beating him, went so far as to write to him: "I am willing to strip away my title of emperor so that the whole world will become a family of the Jin dynasty." Since the whole world is the Golden Kingdom, you don't have to work hard to move the masses south. ”
In the first month of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130 AD), the Jin people attacked Chuzhou again, this time with a fierce rivet; Zhao Li, ordered the demolition of the waste houses, lit to form a fire pool, the soldiers held spears and waited in a strict position, and the Jin soldiers were repulsed several times.
When Yan Chang heard that Jin Wushu was fighting quite smoothly, he called him over to borrow a handle; Jin Wushu said arrogantly, "I am in a hurry to send the booty to the north now, where is the time to attack Chuzhou City?"
Subsequently, Jin Wushu sent emissaries to try to persuade them to surrender, which was also a normal operation, knowing that the Jin people repeatedly went south, and most of the city guards fell in the wind.
In March, after Jin Wushu raided Jiangnan, he wanted to return to the north, but happened to encounter Han Shizhong, who was blocked by Han Shizhong on the south bank of the Yangtze River, which is famous: the Battle of Huang Tiandang.
1. The Battle of Huang Tiandang, soon there was an inflection point, yes, you guessed it, there was the leading party in "Spartan 300 Warriors", under the leadership of the traitor, Jin Wushu attacked Han Shizhong with fire and crossed the river to return to the north.
2. One day, Zhao Li took 6 people out of the city and said loudly to the Jin army: "I am the town governor of this town, do you dare to come to meet the battle?", the backhand killed the two Jin generals who sneaked in, seized their war horses and returned, there were dozens of people chasing after him, he shouted loudly, and the Jin people scattered and fled.
3. The Jin people fought, three against three, surrounded Zhao Li with heavy cavalry (iron floating tu) regiments, Zhao Li stood up, shouted loudly, and countless people were shot off his horse by him. (Seeing that no one has done the iron floating slaughter alone, who can compare?) )
4. Zhao Li had just arrived in Chuzhou City, Xuzhou and Chuzhou had less than ten thousand men and horses combined, the people of Chuzhou would not fight, Zhao Li unreservedly taught them his riding and shooting; he did not like the sound of money, and every time he captured it, he would be distributed to the whole army as a fenglu; every time Zhao Li fought, he must be the first soldier, and once he found that someone had escaped, he would shout loudly and kill the deserters.
In May, Zhao Li, already determined to defend the city of Chuzhou, in order to boost morale, he beheaded the emissary, and Jin Wushu was furious.
Between Chengzhou and Chuzhou, there were three large lakes of Fanliang, Xinkai, and Baima, and Jin Wushu spread out the army among them, and carried out troops in the north and south directions of Chuzhou City, cutting off the logistics of Chuzhou City.
This could not shake Zhao Li's determination to resist Jin, and ordered the jin people's captives to be killed, and the corpses were hung on the city wall, which was the meaning of breaking the peace talks, and at the same time dispelled the idea that some people on their side wanted to talk about peace, but because of this, the Jin people hated Zhao Li to the bone!
At the same time, the imperial court divided the feudal towns and appointed Zhao Li as the envoy of The Lianshui Army Town of Sizhou and the governor of Chu Prefecture.
The location of Chuzhou City is the hub of the entire Jianghuai area, which is very important for the transportation of grain and grass.
Because the grain route was cut off, the defenders and people in the city initially took weeds and water weeds, and later they could only eat bark to fill their hunger...
Zhao Li sent people to the imperial court to warn the imperial court, and when Emperor Gaozong of Song saw the letter of urgency, he said, "Stand firmly in the isolated city, although the ancient name will be insurmountable." ”
After Chuzhou became an isolated city, the imperial court was very concerned, and all four parties were paying attention:
1. In August, Zhang Jun, the prime minister, was sent to Shanxi again, and he urgently recruited troops and horses in the local area, and gathered 200,000 troops to solve the crisis in Jiangnan.
2. The Jin people, fearing that the battle situation would be repeated, let Jin Wushu fight to the west, and the others stayed behind to attack Chuzhou City.
3. After Jin Wushu left, the pressure on Chuzhou City was much less, but there was still a shortage of grain; Yan Chang attacked Chuzhou City while asking Liu Yu, who had surrendered, to write a letter to persuade him to surrender.
4. Zhao Li threw the letter of persuasion into the fire and burned it, saying, "I have defeated Yan Chang, I must kill Liu Yu!" "If I have this thief, I will destroy Yu Nai", and zhao Lizhongyi's name was passed on outside the city, and "the Jin people did not dare to rebuke his name.".
5. The court of the Southern Song Dynasty showed that it was intriguing and intriguing. Why? Song Gaozong, he was worried about the subjugation of the country for a while, and the next he was worried about the military generals supporting the army and respecting themselves, you see, when the emperor is hanging like this, how chaotic the thoughts of the people below are, you can imagine it.
6. Zhao Ding, the prime minister, advocated supporting Chuzhou, and said to Zhang Jun: If you lose Chuzhou, the whole world is in danger, if you are afraid, I will go with you.
Zhang Jun still refused to go, he felt that to support Chu Prefecture, that is, to lose manpower in vain, Chu Prefecture was not saved; did Song Gaozong not know about this? How could it be, he saw the division and disunity of the warriors in it, well, very good, at least "I Da Song" was safe.
7. Li Yanxian of the East China Sea took the lead in supporting the huai river, but was blocked from advancing, and after Yan Chang captured Chu Prefecture, he attacked Li Yanxian with all his might, and after Li Yanxian's death, Haizhou fell with it.
8. Gaoyou Xue Qing, supported to Yangzhou, was unfortunately killed on the way to the battle.
9. Guo Zhongwei of Yangzhou, standing still in Tianchang, waited and watched the situation.
10. Hailing Yue Fei, there are thousands of people and horses on hand, grain and grass are not enough, in the end only Yue Fei really supported to Chuzhou, Yue Fei in Chengzhou Sanshu (now Gaoyou Sanduo Town) three battles and three victories, helpless soldiers and horses are too few, unable to continue to support.
When Li Yanxian died in battle, only Yue Fei's lone army was left in Lianghuai, and Liu Shiguang and others still refused to support; Yue Fei had no choice but to cover the retreat of the people of Lianghuai to Jiangnan, and at this point, Lianghuai fell.
11. Emperor Gaozong of Song ordered the general Liu Shiguang to come to his aid five times, but Liu Shiguang could not resign.
12. The imperial court asked Li Chengzao to transport 3,000 grains to Chuzhou from the sea route, and Li Chengzao did not issue a single grain.
In September, the Jin people, after knowing that there was no more foreign aid in Chuzhou City, stepped up their siege of the city.
Zhao Li was supervising the battle in the city tower, and unfortunately he was hit in the head by artillery, and the people around him quickly rescued him.
On his deathbed, Zhao Li said, "I can't destroy thieves for the country in the end." ”
When Zhao Li died in battle, he was only 37 years old, and the crying in Chuzhou City was tremendous, and at first the Jin people thought that Zhao Li had died fraudulently, and they did not dare to move for more than 10 days.
After the destruction of the city of Chuzhou, the soldiers and civilians of the whole city of Chuzhou still refused to yield and fought with the Jin people...
After the news of Zhao Li's martyrdom came, Emperor Gaozong of Song immediately stopped the imperial meeting and gave him the title of Zhonglie.
The year after Zhao Li's death, the Jin people withdrew, and the imperial court found his body and found "the buccal bone arrow hole remains", and the imperial court erected a shrine for him, named Xianzhong.
Zhao Li, who has not read a book, cannot tell any thought-provoking truths, but what he has done is righteous and magnificent, even though there are few records in the history books, through a few hundred and ten words, we still know that there is such a lonely and loyal hero, a tough man of the Southern Song Dynasty, who is loyal and righteous in Chuzhou City!