Zhang Jun, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi are usually the four generals in the Southern Song Dynasty, and The Four Generals in the Southern Song Dynasty painted by Liu Songnian is also the four great masters.
However, later generations often complain about this injustice. First of all, Liu Guangshi is the most controversial. Anyone who has read Liu Guangshi's resume knows that this man has no fighting skills. The battlefield began in the Sixteen States of Cheyouyun in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was a famous running general. Many people think that Liu Guangshi's achievement is not worthy of being selected as the fourth general of ZTE, and it is not as good as another Liu Qi who let Yan Zongbi hit a wall in Shunchang.
Photo: Running General Liu Guangshi.
Zhang Jun was also notorious for his relationship with Yue Fei in Qin Gui.
So another folk version of ZTE's four generals was introduced.
Who are they? Yuezhong Liu Kun Wu Jun
Yue Fei and Han Shizhong are well known, so we won't introduce them today. Here, I want to introduce a folk version of ZTE's four generals.
Liu Kun, Liu Kun's uncle Xin, was born in a noble family of the Northwest Army, and his father Liu Yanqing was a general under Tong Guan in the Hui Zong era.
Young Liu Yong fought with his father and was famous for his archery in the northwest. It is said that in a contest, Liu Shuxin drew his bow, shot an arrow at a water tank full of water, shot through a hole, and then pulled out his arrow to stop the water flow. Then Uncle Xin shot an arrow in the original position, hitting the arrow hole on the tank impartially and blocking the water leakage.
Liu Kun, a boy with superb martial arts, made great achievements in the battle with Xixia, which was a great shock. At one time, Xixia people often used the phrase "the willows are coming" to scare children, and Xixia children stopped crying at once. It is already the brightest star of the nationalist army.
After the nomads from the invasion, Liu Kun retreated to Sichuan and Shaanxi with the Northwest Army. After Zhang Jun entered Sichuan and Shaanxi to eradicate Qu Rui's power, he appointed a large number of young and cutting-edge people.
Liu Kun is one of them, and Zhang Jun appointed him as the general manager of Jingyuan and the governor of Weizhou. Later, he was in charge of Fu Xuan's department and put Wang Yan's "eight-character army" under his command. And participated in the Fuping Campaign initiated by Zhang Jun.
In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1 140), in May, Jin Jun went south again, and the soldiers were divided into two ways. After that, Hong Yanzong Bi led 100,000 main troops to continue southward and crossed the Huaihe River from Bozhou and Shunchang (now Fuyang, Anhui).
Wan Yanzong Bi also wants to relive the old dream of making suggestions for three years and let Emperor Zhao go to sea for the New Year again.
And Liu Kun's combat mission was originally to lead twenty thousand "eight-character army" to Tokyo, where he was left behind as a deputy to defend Tokyo, but the news that Tokyo had been lost came halfway. At this time, some departments will advise 8 Jin Jun to be fierce. Now that Tokyo has been lost, it is better to return to the original road for the sake of future life, but Liu Kun boldly made a decision to influence the current situation and led his troops to Shunchang to stop 8 Jin J from going south.
In order to make the whole army understand the determination to defend Shunchang, Liu Kun sank the warship. After entering the city, Liu Kun also got the full cooperation of Shunchang soldiers and civilians. In just five or six days, Shunchang City, which was originally heavily guarded, built a city defense that began to take shape. When Wan Yan Zongbi's10,000 troops arrived in Shunchang in early June, he looked at this dilapidated town, but he was very contemptuous. He smiled and said to his men, we can tiptoe into this broken city. Wan Yan Zongbi made the biggest mistake in his military career. Shunchang, seemingly dilapidated, has become an indestructible city under the escort of Liu Yong. Although the heavy cavalry "iron floating tower" led by him was powerful, it could not break Shunchang guarded by Liu Yong.
Liu Kun did not blindly defend his position. He drew 5,000 elites from the 20,000 defenders, raided and besieged the city of Jin Jun in due course, and set a long knife for the other heavy cavalry "iron floating tower". The long knife cut off the leg of the "iron floating tower", and 8 Jin Army suffered heavy losses. Hong Yan Zongbi prepared for a long-term siege, digging trenches and building camps along Shunchang City. Liu Kun sent small troops to harass constantly, and the progress of digging trenches and building camps was slow, which coincided with the rainy season. The ground is as deep as a foot, and there is no dry land in Jinjunzhai camp, which is a panic. The weather, geographical location and people are not conducive to 8 jin j.. After several days' persistence, Wan Yan Zongbi had to leave and lead his division back to Tokyo, thus ending his last trip to South China.
Shunchang's victory was the first real victory over Jin in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Liu Kun became famous in World War I. ..
The following year, 20,000 Liu Jiajun led by Liu Kun defeated Wan Yanzong Bi again in the battle of Gao Zhe, but at this time, the top leaders of the Southern Song Dynasty were bent on peace. After this World War I, Song and Jin reached a peace agreement in Shaoxing, and Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Liu Kun were all put in prison. The latter two learned that Jingnan House had been replaced by civilians.
In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing, Yan Hongliang led his troops to invade the south. At this time, there were no generals available in the Southern Song Dynasty. I thought of this famous soldier again. Unfortunately, 62-year-old Liu Kun is too ill to fight any more.
Liu Kun died in Shaoxing in thirty-two years. After his death, Song Ting named him the Third Division of Kaifu Instrument, posthumous title Wumu. Among the founding generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, he kept a low profile and was able to die a fair death.