The Northern Song Dynasty bordered the generals, surpassing the Yang generals, but few people knew about it
The Folding General, a family of military generals who were also revered in Chinese history, surpassed the Yang generals in their military exploits, but little is known. There is a close relationship between the two families of Yang and Zhe, and some people even believe that Yang Ye married the daughter of the Zhe family, and this daughter is the prototype of the fictional She Taijun in later generations.
As a surname, Zhe and She have the same pronunciation, and the two families are both border guards, and it is also common sense to become in-laws. Whether it is the Yang family general or the Zhi family general, they have all contributed their own strength to China's history and deserve to be remembered forever.
Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhe family has been living in the Yunzhong area of the Baotou region and serving as a garrison military attaché. During the Five Dynasties period, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the Zhe family successively took refuge in the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou, and then took refuge in the Northern Song Dynasty, and helped the Northern Song Dynasty attack the Northern Han.
After 150 years, the Zhe family has produced a total of four Jiedu envoys and thirteen hereditary governors, who have lived in the clouds for generations, because the local Yellow River forms a 90-degree "twist", so they take the Han surname "Zhe".
In the early days of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, it faced the challenge of the powerful nomadic regime of the Liao State, which led to constant border wars. Therefore, the Song Dynasty chose to rely on the Zhejia to defend the northwest and allowed them to set up their own army, the "Zhejia Army".
The Zhe family was able to garrison Fugu and formed an important local power. Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhejia family resisted the Khitan in Fugu and resisted the Western Xia. It is recorded in the History of the Song Dynasty and the Biography of Zhederan: "Since the Jin and Han dynasties, they have monopolized Fuzhou and controlled the northwest region, and China's security depends on them. ”
Zhejia Jimin controlled the three prefectures of Lin, Fu, and Feng on the Song Dynasty's Hedong Road, which were located in the northernmost part of Shaanxi, bordered by deserts in the north and Western Xia in the west. At that time, the northwest region was the junction of the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao and Western Xia, and the Zhejia family played a key role in frontier defense.
The wars between the Western Xia and the Northern Song Dynasty were frequent, and the Western Xia defeated the Song army many times. However, the garrison of the Eastern Road of the Northern Song Dynasty, including the Zhejia army, repeatedly invaded the hinterland of the Western Xia when the Western Xia attacked the southern part of Shaanxi, which made the Western Xia feel pressured and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
In the first year of Qingli (1041), the Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao defeated the Song army in Haoshuichuan, took advantage of the victory to attack Hedong Road, captured Fengzhou, and then turned to attack Linzhou and Fuzhou.
At that time, there were only 6,000 soldiers and horses in Fuzhou City, and Li Yuanhao led an army of 100,000 to pour into the country, with high morale, surrounded Fugu heavily, attacked day and night, and the situation in Fugu was critical.
As the defender of Fuzhou, Zhi Jimin led the army and civilians to stick to the city, and used a strong bow and crossbow to shoot the Xia army, causing a large number of **. The Xia army was forced to withdraw and attack Linzhou again. At this time, while holding on, the Linzhou army sent people to Fuzhou for help.
Zhe Jimin sent troops to rescue, the Xia soldiers were trapped under the fortified city, and the Song reinforcements arrived, and in desperation, the Xia army had to withdraw.
Zhi Jimin successfully resisted the attacks of the Western Xia army several times during the Song-Xia War, but he died at a young age at the age of thirty-five. He was posthumously awarded the title of Lieutenant by the Imperial Court. Zhi Kexing is the second son of Zhi Ji Min, he protected the grain road in the Song-Xia War in the third year of Zhiping (1066), successfully defeated the Xia army and surrendered more than 1,000 households, and obtained tens of thousands of horses and livestock.
In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), he captured Youzhou, an important town in Western Xia, in the Song-Xia War, and defeated 50,000 Youzhou troops. The Zhejia army was known for its strong combat effectiveness and elite training, and although it often fought against the Western Xia army, it always remained vigilant and did not leave the left flank soldiers of the Song army who were monitoring the area around Hedong Road.
1.The existence of the Zhejia army relieved the pressure on the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhe Kexing guarded the frontier for more than 30 years, fighting one hundred and seventy battles of all sizes, killing thousands of enemies, and recruiting thousands of families, and the Xia people called him "the father of the Zhe family".
2.Zhe Kexing's nephew Zhi Keshi is a leader in the Zhe family's army, he is good at riding and shooting, and his martial arts are excellent, and he is known as "the real general". 3.When he accompanied the Chinese to patrol the border, he showed his martial arts, and stabbed the Western Xia who despised him under the horse, beheaded him, and captured his horse and returned, and since then he has become famous on the frontier and is known as "General Xiaozhi".
4.When the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun and his mother Empress Dowager Liang led a large army to attack the Song Dynasty's Yan Yanlu and captured Jin Mingqi, Zhi Keshi was ordered to rescue, but was unfortunately besieged by the Xia army.
5.With his own wisdom and bravery, he successfully broke through the siege and set up an ambush in the north of Hongde City, after the Xia army was ambushed, he scattered and fled, and tens of thousands of people fell off the cliff. 6.When Empress Dowager Liang heard of her mother's defeat, she also hurriedly withdrew her troops, and Li Qianshun also hurriedly withdrew her troops, so the Zhejia army won a great victory.
In the first year of Yuan Fu, the state of Western Xia was in the hands of Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mol Du, who repeatedly attacked the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Song court ordered the Song court to find an opportunity to defeat them. As a result, under the pretext of grazing, the names of Ah Bury and Mul were stationed on the border, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhe Keshi took advantage of the night to send troops and killed 3,000 of the former troops of Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mol Du. Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mol Du Kui led the army to pursue, Zhi Keshi retreated to Xia City, defended the city, looked for an opportunity to counterattack, and finally defeated the Xia army and captured Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mol Du Kui.
Then, Zhe Keshi took advantage of the victory to pursue, occupied Tiandu Mountain, and built Linqiang Village on the basis of the original Qiuwei River, and built Xi'an Prefecture on the basis of Nanmu Hui. This battle is of great significance in the history of the Song-Xia War, it was a turning point in the Song-Xia War, known as the "Pingxia Defeat", and from then on, the Western Xia Kingdom could no longer cheer up.
Zhi Keshi adhered to the strategy of step-by-step and gradual encroachment, and he built the five stops of Moduo Pass, Zhulong, Wuji, Sancha, and Jianjingzi, which supported each other, controlled the borders, and effectively contained the Western Xia.
In general, if all goes well, then the Song dynasty will achieve the final victory in the Song-Xia war in the next hundred years.
Zhi Keshi, a heroic general who fought on the battlefield of Song and Xia for 40 years and experienced hundreds of battles, his military exploits are unparalleled. His son was able to survive, and when he was a teenager, he followed his father to join the army, and made many meritorious contributions in the Song-Xia War.
His greatest achievement was the capture of Fang La. According to his epitaph, he once followed Tong Guan south to the south of the Yangtze River to suppress the Fang La uprising, "breaking through the rain of arrows, moving forward bravely, capturing Fang La, and being promoted to Wujie Doctor".
On the way back to his division, he suppressed the Songjiang Uprising and was promoted to martial arts doctor. In the ninth year of Xuanhe, the Jin soldiers went south and attacked the Northern Song Dynasty in two ways, all the way to Taiyuan and all the way to Bianliang.
Zhe Kecun led his army to garrison Lao County, Shanxi, but the Jin army broke through Lao County and he was captured. However, he did not give in, and in the first year of Jingkang, he escaped from Jinying and ran south to Zhongshan Fu (present-day Dingzhou), where he died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.
Zhe Keqiu was a Jurchen heavy cavalry general, his father and son were detained by the Jin general Wanyan Lou Chamber, and in order to protect the family, he was forced to dedicate the three states of Lin, Fu and Feng to the Jin State.
However, in 1138, the Jin people poisoned him, fearing that he would rebel in order to master a heavy army. After Zhe Keqiu's death, the Western Xia army took the opportunity to capture Fuzhou, and because of their long-term hatred for the Zhi clan's long-term resistance to the Xia army, they destroyed the Zhe clan's cemetery.
After Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Yanzhi were occupied in Fuzhou, Zhe Keqiu's son fled to Daizhou with his family, took refuge in Wanyanchang, the clan of the Jin State, and was appointed as the governor of Daizhou.
In order to avenge his family, Zhi Yanwen led his army to attack Western Xia many times. In order to quell the war, the Jin State moved Zhi Yanwen's family to Qingzhou (present-day Yidu, Shandong).
Zhe Yan, the son of Zhe Keshi, the Jinshi of the Northern Song Dynasty, both civil and military. However, born in troubled times, the Jin soldiers invaded the south, and Qin Hui of the Southern Song Dynasty was in power, and did not make any outstanding achievements.
Since then, the descendants of the folded family have disappeared silently in the torrent of history.