In the long history of ancient history, the name of Yang Ye is like a beacon fire in the north, which once burned with unyielding light outside Yanmen Pass. The story begins in the late Northern Han Dynasty, when Yang Ye was the guardian of the Northern Han Frontier. However, the tide of fate pushed him to the Northern Song Dynasty and became the general guarding the border of the Song Dynasty. There, Yang Ye used his wisdom and courage to make the banner of the Northern Song Dynasty fly high outside the Yanmen Pass, and his name "Yang Invincible" became a legend in Northern Xinjiang.
Yang Ye was not alone, he had a comrade-in-arms named Pan Mei by his side, who was later misunderstood and stigmatized, and actually fought side by side with Yang Ye to protect the peace of the frontier. However, the twists and turns of history are often unexpected, and a battle called the Yongxi Northern Expedition became a turning point in the fate of the two.
That year, Song Taizong launched the Northern Expedition, intending to defeat the Khitan in one fell swoop. At the beginning of the campaign, the three-way army marched hand in hand, and the momentum was like a rainbow. But soon, the mistakes of the Eastern Route Army led to the entire situation of the war being turned upside down. When the news came, Yang Ye and Pan Mei's Western Route Army also faced an order to retreat. Just as he was retreating, the prison army Wang Yu launched a provocation against Yang Ye, questioning his courage and loyalty.
Wang Yu's sarcasm pierced Yang Ye's heart like a knife. As a general, especially a former general of the Northern Han Dynasty, Yang Ye knew that his position and loyalty could not be doubted in the slightest. He decided to fight to prove his loyalty and courage. So, Yang Ye led his troops deep into the enemy formation, and they were like arrows with a broken line, soaring into the sky, and finally surrounded by a Khitan army several times larger than themselves in Chenjia Valley.
In the days of captivity, Yang Ye was resolute and unyielding, he refused everything in the Khitan, and finally chose to go on a hunger strike, guarding his faith and honor with his life.
On the ancient scroll of history, the legend and tragedy about Yang Ye are intertwined into a tragic picture. The fatal defeat of the Western Route Army was not only a defeat in a battle, but also a turning point in the fate of a loyal and brave general. Behind this disaster, the role of the superintendent Wang Yu is particularly crucial. He wielded a lot of power, and his decisions and words directly affected the fate of the army. In that era of strict power structure, although Pan Mei was the commander-in-chief, it was difficult to do anything in the face of Wang Yu's authority. Wang Yu's report is enough to ruin anyone's reputation, which is a situation that Pan Mei cannot easily reverse.
Under such pressure, Yang Ye embarked on the path of the final battle, and his loyalty and courage failed to change the cruelty of fate. The story of Yang Ye has become a source of sighs and reflections for countless people in later generations. And history sometimes turns a blind eye to the truth, misassigns responsibility, and makes real heroes suffer unjustly.
Unlike in the romance, Yang Ye's bloodline was not completely caught in the fate of war and exile. His eldest son Yang Yanzhao, the real identity in history, is a ** who was a stable official in the Northern Song Dynasty court and spent his life peacefully. In addition to Yang Tingyu, Yang Ye's other descendants have also not experienced the tragic fate in the romance, they may also have their own twists and turns and challenges, but after all, they spent their lives peacefully in the land of the Great Song Dynasty.
The legend that Yang Yanzhao is called "Yang Liulang" comes from the ancient legend of the stars and geography. The Khitans regarded him as the general of the Big Dipper, because his bravery terrified the enemies of the north. Yang Yanzhao inherited his father's will and guarded the northern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty until the last moment of his life.
In the long history of the Northern Song Dynasty, although the descendants of the Yang family after Yang Yanzhao continued to be loyal to the country, their stories did not leave a brilliant chapter in the history books like their ancestors. Yang Wenguang and his two brothers, Yang Chuanyong and Yang Dezheng, were both summoned by the imperial court after the death of their father Xian, but their fates were different in the context of the changing times.
The trajectory of Yang Chuanyong and Yang Dezheng is like a meteor hidden behind the scenes, although the court has summoned, but they are silent in the long river of history, probably because of their humble official positions and no outstanding achievements, so that there are few records of them in the history books.
And Yang Wenguang, the eldest son of the Yang family, has served in the army for a long time, but due to the alliance between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Khitan, the border war has been suspended, and he has no more stage for meritorious service. Despite this, Yang Wenguang participated in the crusade against Western Xia and the pacification of civil strife under Fan Zhongyan's banner, and although these experiences were not as brilliant as those of his ancestors, his loyal and dutiful career was enough to keep the Yang family's name as a Jiangmen to continue to be revered.
The legends about the female generals of the Yang family, especially the stories of Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying, although they are widely loved by later generations, are the imagination of literati and are different from the truth of history. As for Yang Ye's wife, her real name is Zheshi, from the family of famous generals, although she is proficient in martial arts, she has never set foot on the battlefield, and her story is also added to the color of later generations.
The decline of the Yang family seems to be the arrangement of fate. Although Yang Ye was a general of the Northern Han Dynasty and later became a loyal and brave man of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yang family did not establish a deep foundation in the Northern Song Dynasty as Zhao Kuangyin. With the passing of Yang Wenguang, the glory of the Yang family gradually dimmed, and there was no longer a famous frontier general like Yang Ye.
In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, although there were still Jiangmen families such as the Seed Family and the Zhe Family who guarded the frontier, under the incompetent rule of Emperor Zhao Huan, it was difficult for these families to show their due strength. In the end, in the face of the iron hooves of the Jin Kingdom, the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty became an inevitable end.
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