The regimental training system Cheng Gongquan mourned
Song Chengyang
The river traces left empty barriers, and the tooth owl was different.
Repay the king loyally throughout the day, swallow the gas filled.
Death battle grief Yang Ye, birth and descent spit Li Ling.
Mourning and praise are preserved, and the Lord has been revived.
I believe that everyone has heard the story of Yang Jiajian, and the names of heroes such as Yang Ye, Yang Wulang, Yang Liulang, She Taijun, Yang Zongbao, and Mu Guiying are also familiar. The story of the Yang family general has been adapted and circulated through the operas of the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, and many people believe that Yang Ye's death was Pan Renmei's jealousy of Xian's ability to frame Yang Ye, but is this really the case?
Statue of Yang Ye (?) ~986)
Yang Ye's real name was Yang Jiye, a native of Linzhou (present-day Shenmu, Shaanxi), who was originally a general of the Northern Han Dynasty, and was given the surname Liu. In the fourth year of the Taiping Revival (979), the Northern Han Dynasty fell, yang ye surrendered to the Song with his lord Liu Jiyuan, and Song Taizong admired his bravery and good war, restored his original surname, only named Ye, and was named Daizhou Assassin History, which was used to defend the Khitans. Because of repeated battles and victories, he was called Yang Invincible by the Khitans.
In the third year of Yongxi (986), Song Taizong learned that the Khitan Emperor was young and suspicious, and his mother was dictatorial, so he decided to go north to Khitan and reclaim Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures (which were sacrificed to the Khitan by Shi Jingyao in 935 AD), and in the first month of this year, Emperor Taizong of Song divided zhao guang's volunteer army into three routes: Cao Bin, the general of the Eastern Route Army, led an army of 100,000 out of Xiongzhou and attacked Yanjing; the main general of the Middle Route Army, Tian Chongjin, took Weizhou from Dingzhou out of the Flying Fox (present-day Laiyuan, Hebei); the main general of the Western Route Army would be Pan Mei (renamed Pan Renmei in the opera), and the deputy general was Yang Ye, out of Yanmen Pass. Then the three-way army will meet Yanjing.
Pan Mei (925–991)
The Song army won the initial battle, and the Middle Route Army and the West Route Army attacked smoothly, and they cut through thorns and thorns along the way. Cao Bin's subordinates heard that the other two route armies attacked smoothly and made quick gains, and that the enemy was lightly attacking in the absence of grain and grass, and that it was a hot day in May, the weather was hot, the people were sleepy and lacking, and the grain and grass were about to be exhausted, and the Khitan general Yelü Hugo on the one hand intercepted the grain and grass of the Song army and cut off the military grain road; on the one hand, he sent small-scale light horses to constantly attack and harass the Song army, the Song army was too busy to save itself, and was tired of running for his life, and not long after, the Khitan empress dowager led the army to arrive, and then took advantage of the Song army's unstable foothold, and defeated the Song army at Qigou Pass, and the Eastern Route Army suffered heavy losses. The defeat of the Eastern Route Army affected the entire situation of the war, and Song Taizong had no choice but to order the withdrawal of all the troops. The retreat of the Zhonglu Army was smooth, but the Western Route Army encountered trouble, and the Khitan army was connected to Wei and Huan'er Prefectures, and the imperial court ordered the people who occupied the area to move into the interior, with Pan Mei and Yang Ye in charge of cover. Originally, Pan Mei and Yang Ye decided to temporarily avoid the Khitan army and planned to lead the army into the Shijie Valley. This was a bad thing, but Wang Nong, the overseer of the army, thought that they were afraid of the enemy and timidly fought, and let Yang Ye fight in Beichuan (in the Song Dynasty army supervision, the supervision army was as powerful as the commander- and commander-in-chief). Wang Nong said angrily, "You are nicknamed Yang Invincible, and today you are afraid of the enemy and do not fight, can you not have different ambitions?" Yang Ye said, "I am not afraid of death, but the time has not yet come, and I rushed into battle, not only will I lose my soldiers in vain, but I will not be able to make meritorious achievements." The commander-in-chief Pan Mei stopped Yang Ye from sending troops, but the power of the supervising army was equal to that of the commander-in-chief, and Wang Nong did not listen, forcing Yang Ye to send troops, and Yang Ye had no choice but to lead the troops to attack. Before leaving, Yang Ye said to Pan Mei with tears: "If I go, I will inevitably be defeated, I was originally a general of the Northern Han Dynasty, Your Majesty did not kill, and he also graced me and let me lead the troops." The reason why I wanted to take the road of Shijie Valley was to look for opportunities to make a contribution. Sure enough, Yang Ye encountered the main Khitan force, there was no way to go, he fought to the death, he was wounded in more than ten places, the soldiers were killed and wounded, he himself was also captured by an arrow and fell on his horse, insisted on not surrendering, and even went on a hunger strike for three days, martyred in a heroic way, and all his subordinates were killed in battle, and none of them survived! When the officials of the three prefectures of Yun, Ying, and Shuo heard that Yang Ye had died in battle, they all abandoned the city and left, and these three states fell into the hands of the Khitans.
Wang Nong (?) ~994)
Wang You, the overseer of the army, was accused of indulging in the enemy or even surrendering to the enemy, and forced Yang Ye to go out of the Yanmen Beichuan and march forward. Yang Ye had no choice but to lead his troops from ZhuLu north to Shuozhou. "When he reached the mouth of the valley, he saw no one, that is, he was in a great mourning, and then he led the corporals to fight, and his body was wounded by dozens of wounds, and the soldiers were exhausted, and dozens of people were bladed, and the horses were seriously wounded and could not enter, so they were captured by the enemy, but they died without eating for three days." ——Excerpt from Jin Shenghe and Xie Hongxi's "Yang Family General Character Examination"
When Emperor Taizong of Song heard the news of Yang Ye's martyrdom, he was deeply saddened and posthumously awarded him the title of Tai wei .. Pan Mei commanded the army without a party, demoted to the third level of use, Wang Nong was the culprit of persecuting Yang Ye, and his name was never used.