The fourteenth person, the famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty against Xia, the third generation of Yang Wenguang, the general of the Yang family, has four dimensions of 97 in force, 96 in command, 81 in intelligence, and 80 in politics.

Many interpretations describe Yang Wenguang as the fourth generation of the Yang family, the grandson of Yang Yanzhao, and the son of Yang Zongbao, but in fact, Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying in the Ming Dynasty Xiong Damu's "Romance of the Yang Family" are both fictional, and there is no such person in real history, and the son of Yang Liulang Yang Yanzhao is actually Yang Wenguang.

Sanmao himself is a genuine descendant of the Yang family, with "Yang Family Genealogy" as evidence, Sanmao once went to the family ancestral hall to find the old grandfather who was in charge of the care to read the family tree, and there was no Yang Zongbao Mu Guiying.

Yang Wenguang was born in the second year of Xianping (999) and died in the seventh year of Xining (1074), Yang Yesun, a general of the early Song Dynasty to resist Liao, Bai Shouyi believed that he was the third son of Yang Yanzhao (Zeng Gong's "Longping Collection" cloud: "The edict records his son Chuanyong, Dezheng, and Wenguang are poor. Yang Wenguang took his father's shadow as an official.

In the third year of Song Renzong's Zhao Zhenqing calendar (1043), Zhang Hai in southern Shaanxi led the hungry people to revolt, and moved to southern Shaanxi, western Henan and northwest Hubei. After returning from this expedition, Yang Wenguang was promoted to the rank of Dianzhi - a military attache rank lower than the enshrined officer. In the fourth year (1044), Fan Zhongyan, the governor (prime minister) who implemented the "New Deal", served as the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi and Hedong Road. In the first month of the following year, Fan Zhongyan resigned as prime minister and served as the governor of Pizhou (now Bin County, Shaanxi) and the pacification envoy of the fourth edge of Shaanxi. During this time, Fan Zhongyan had a conversation with Yang Wenguang, was amazed by his military talents, and placed him under his command.

However, a year before this year (1044), the Song Dynasty and Western Xia had successfully negotiated peace, and the Song Dynasty paid more than 200,000 yuan of silver, tea, and silk for "peace". Yang Wenguang also lost the opportunity to kill the enemy and serve the country.

In the fourth year of Emperor Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong (1052), Di Qing, a privy deputy envoy from the army, as a Xuanfu envoy on the north and south roads of Jinghu and a thief on the east and west roads of Guangnan, campaigned against the rebellion of Nong Zhigao, the barbarian leader who was entrenched in Yongzhou (now Nanning City, Guangxi). Di Qing selected Shaanxi soldiers and horses to rush to Guangnan to help in the battle, and Yang Wenguang, the governor of the Deshun Army (now Longde County, Ningxia) at that time (the state official is the governor, the government official is the prefect, and the officer is the Zhijun), was transferred to the Guangxi Chuan (that is, the commander of the Guangxi Temporary Theater).

Later, he was relocated to the left treasury envoy and brought imperial equipment - this is also an honorary rank of military attaché, and has no actual position, but the "left treasury envoy" is slightly higher than his father's previous "Chongyi envoy" and "Rujing envoy".

During the reign of Zhao Shu (1064-1067), the imperial court commented on the generals from all over the country, and Zhao Shu said: "Wen Guang, after the famous general, and meritorious." He was promoted to the regimental training envoy of Chengzhou (now Chengxian County, Gansu), and was appointed as the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei - this was the commander of the infantry cavalry of the Beijing Forbidden Army, and was once a relatively important military attache position, leading more than 10,000 troops, but when Yingzong, it was already a military general.

Later, Yang Wenguang was promoted to the position of defense envoy of Xingzhou (present-day Luoyang, Shaanxi) and deputy governor of Qinfenglu (which corresponds to present-day western Shaanxi, southern Ningxia, and central and southern Gansu). In the first year of Zhao Xining of Song Shenzong (1068), Han Qizuo, the envoy of Shaanxi Province, asked for the construction of a castle to protect the residents of the northwest border of Qinzhou and prevent the invasion of the Western Xia Dangxiang.

In July, Han Qi sent Yang Wenguang, the deputy governor of Qinfeng Road, to build the city about 185 miles northwest of Qinzhou (present-day Tianshui City, Gansu). Due to the construction of the castle by the Song army before, the Western Xia party would send troops to destroy the project. So Yang Wenguang adopted the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, threatening to build a pearl city somewhere, and the Western Xia army went to destroy, Yang Wenguang immediately led his troops to rush to the basket and fully deploy the defense, and the next morning, the Western Xia army finally arrived at the basket.

However, seeing that the Song army was well defended and could not advance, he had to retreat, but he left a letter claiming that he would go back and ask tens of thousands of cavalry to expel the Song Zhucheng troops - this was the threat of the scoundrel, Yang Wenguang immediately sent troops to attack and kill the Western Xia Dangxiang army, the Western Xia soldiers were defeated, and the Song army was killed. Someone asked him why he pursued the enemy, and Yang Wenguang said: "The ancestors had the spirit of seizing people. This must be contested, if he knows it, he will not be able to make it. ”

After this blow, the party members did not dare to make trouble again. In September of that year, three castles such as Gangu and Xiaozhu were completed, and they were praised by Zhao Xuan of Song Shenzong, and the city was named Tongwei Fort (now fifty miles northeast of Longxi, Gansu). Since then, Yang Wenguang has served as the governor of Jingzhou (now Beiqili, Jingchuan County, Gansu) and the governor of Zhenrong Army (now Guyuan County, Ningxia).

In December of the third year of Xining (1070), Yang Wenguang was reappointed as the acting governor of Quanzhou (now Fuxian County, Shaanxi). Later, he moved from the northwest frontier to the Hebei frontier, and served as the deputy governor of Dingzhou Road (now Dingxian County, Hebei), and was promoted to the guard infantry Du Yu Hou - and returned to the place where his grandfather and father served in the past. In March of the seventh year of Xining (1074), the Liao-Song border was silent for about 30 years and its disputes - as early as the second year of Zhao Zhenqingli of Song Renzong (1042), Yeluzong of Liaoxingzong really saw that the Song Dynasty was repeatedly defeated by the Western Xia, and took the opportunity to blackmail, asking the Song Dynasty to cede Jinyang and the land of ten counties south of Waqiaoguan - this Jinyang is not the location of Taiyuan City in present-day Shanxi, because assuming that it is indeed the place, then Waqiaoguan is in present-day Xiongxian County, Hebei, and the distance between the two is thousands of miles, and how can it stop at ten counties?

However, the "History of the Song Dynasty" and the "Continuation of the Capital Governance Tongjian" all say so: "Jinyang and ten counties south of Waqiao", now it is suspected that "Jinyang" should be "Gaoyang", Gaoyang is fifty or sixty miles south of Xiongxian County, Hebei Province, which is the location of Hebei Border Pass, and there are Xiongzhou, Gaoyang, Mozhou, Boye, Baozhou, Rongcheng, Baodingjun, Ansu, Wangdu, Suicheng, Bazhou, with a radius of about 10,000 square kilometers, and it is estimated that the land claimed by the Liao Dynasty should be this place.

Emperor Renzong Zhao Zhen urgently ordered the minister Fu Bi to negotiate, and added 200,000 "years of coins" (100,000 in silver and 100,000 in silk), and finally got another 30 years of "peace". Now, the Liao Dynasty sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to fight for the eastern boundary of the river. Yang Wenguang, the deputy governor of Dingzhou Road, presented the formation map and the strategy of seizing the Youyan region, but the imperial court did not have time to approve and reply, and in November of that year, Yang Wenguang died of illness. He was 75 years old. After his death, the imperial court posthumously made him an observer envoy in the same state.

The fifteenth person, Meng Liang, the second generation of Yang Yanzhao, the general of the Yang family in the Northern Song Dynasty, has 85 in force, 71 in command, 72 in intelligence, and 69 in politics; Meng Liang was originally the king of the mountain of Bajiao Mountain, however, the king of the mountain is not just the two of them, but four, the king of the sword Yue Sheng, strong martial arts and has the talent to lead the army, Meng Liang is the second, born a rich man, because he likes to make friends and lose his family business, and later became a lone thief, Jiao Zan is the third, but also the earliest king of the mountain, down the mountain cut the path to meet Meng Liang, admired his martial arts, and invited him to go up the mountain as the master of the village, the two soon wanted to rob Yue Sheng Yang Xing, and they were not opponents, so Yue Sheng became the king.

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