After the Ming army opened ten cannons, Yang Gao ordered all the soldiers guarding the city gate to retreat, and Tolikuri hit the city gate again, and the door easily crashed open, due to excessive force, many people fell to the ground one after another.

"Fire—"

The fierce artillery fire made the Mongolian army dizzy, Yang Gao took the opportunity to lead the troops to kill, and the Mongolian army attacking the city gate retreated. Seeing that Yang Gao's beard was white, he thought that as long as he caught Yang Gao, the city would be within reach, so he led hundreds of men and horses back and fought with Yang Gao in an attempt to capture Yang Gao.

What I didn't expect was that Yang Gao, who was old and strong, waited for work, and it was less than 20 rounds, Yang Gao pretended to be invincible, and urged the horse back to the city with a false shot. Leaving Kuri in pursuit, he burst into the street alone, and suddenly Yang Gao slashed Torikuri under his horse with a return of his rifle. Seeing that the commander was dead, the Mongol army retreated to a place 200 steps outside the city in an organized manner.

The Mongol army that attacked the city did not have time to retreat and was wiped out. Zhang Xiliang was fighting too well and suggested: "General, although the Tartars are now defeated in an orderly manner, after all, they have suffered heavy losses, so it is advisable to take the risk of chasing and killing them. ”

Yang Gao said: "The Tartars retreat in an orderly manner, don't do it!" ”

Zhang Xiliang said: "With one blow, kill this group of Tatars, you can greatly increase the morale of the army." ”

Yang Gao still disagreed, but Zhang Xiliang still insisted: "General, the opportunity must not be lost, and the time will not come again." As soon as enemy reinforcements arrive, the trouble is great. ”

Yang Gao may be really old and dare not fight, so he signaled not to say again: "As a deputy general, you must obey the military order and withdraw!" The Mongolian army retreated to the small hill diagonally opposite and camped, and an hour later, about 3,000 reinforcements arrived, and Zhang Xiliang was so angry that he stomped his feet: "If you don't listen to me, you will lose the opportunity to fight." ”

In the afternoon, the Mongolian army changed its commander, Naligen Jinang. Yang Gao stood at the head of the city, and he couldn't help but think of the Tatar leader Balsborot who killed Yang Zuo back then, the father and son looked too similar. Yang Gao couldn't wait to tear this person's hand to pieces to avenge his uncle.

Yan Song couldn't win over the Yang generals at the imperial court, so he became jealous, so he ordered the Yan party to reduce the emergency situation at the border pass, and deliberately pressed the military situation to delay the report.

This time the Mongol army was not in a hurry to attack, they went to the nearby villages to rob cattle and sheep to replenish the shortage of supplies, Yang Gao's troops after several frontal strikes on the enemy, firearms and bows and crossbows and other consumption was very large, now the enemy is stationed outside the city, the range of firearms can not reach the water source is also cut off by the enemy, the advantage is lost, to destroy this enemy, the only way is to take the initiative to attack.

The security castle is known as the "lock and key land", and has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and it is the place of Jingwei fortress. Yang Gao knew very well that if the confrontation continued without limit, 3,000 people and horses would be dying of thirst and starvation.

The new security guards have been besieged for ten days, and the troops on the periphery, Yang Jicong, the Marquis of Changping, are also hundreds of miles away from Yang Gao. Zhang Xiliang found Yang Gao and proposed to kill him, and went to the Mongolian army to burn the grain at the third watch, asking them to retreat in spite of the difficulties.

In the early morning of October 19, the Battle of Xinbao (formerly known as Leijia Station, Huailai County, Hebei) broke out. Yang Gao led 2,500 men and horses, went around the back of the Mongolian army's camp, and lit the Tatar tent with the torches he carried.

The Ming and Mongol armies fought fiercely, and the heroic Ming army wiped out most of the sleeping enemy. After dawn, Ligong Ji Nang was defeated and fled in a hurry, and Yang Gao was unwilling to let him go. Five miles away, a group of Mongol troops galloped in from the northwest, and the sky was covered with dust.

Zhang Xiliang, the head of the city, found the enemy troops who came to meet him, urged the horse to run to Yang Gao, and persuaded: "General, don't chase it, return to the city as soon as possible, and reject the enemy behind closed doors." ”

Yang Gao said: "It's okay, five miles away, enough time, and I'll come back when the general beheads the tartar." ”

Zhang Xiliang tried hard to advise, but it was useless, and Yang Gao rode alone and still chased in the direction of Ligen Jinang's escape. Zhang Xiliang knew that something bad was wrong, and there was no way, so he handed over the responsibility of defending the city to another lieutenant, with 2,000 men and horses, and followed closely behind Yang Gao.

Yang Gao ran too fast, and soon separated 300 miles from the large army. Ligen Ji kept running, frequently turning back to shoot arrows at Yang Gao. Seeing that he was about to catch up, suddenly Yang Gao's war horse fell to the ground with a thud, and it turned out that the scattered Tatars tripped over the war horse with a tripping horse.

Yang Gao had no choice but to fight on foot and dozens of Tatars fought fiercely, and the frightened Ligen Ji Nang looked back to see that the elderly Yang Gao had gradually lost his physical strength, and the Ming army behind him was still hundreds of meters away. He decided to kill Yang Gao, who had disgraced him, before escaping. So he fired more than a dozen arrows at Yang Gao's back, the hidden arrow was difficult to prevent, and an arrow passed through Yang Gao's chest, bleeding like an infusion.

Ligong Ji Nang rushed into the crowd, cut Yang Gao's head from behind, picked it up and tied it to the horse's head, and then with a whistle, the Tatars dispersed like birds and beasts.

Before long, Zhang Xiliang arrived with his men and horses, and when he saw that Yang Gao was killed, he was furious, regardless of how many reinforcements the enemy had, he ordered to chase the enemy at full speed, wielded his bronze sledgehammer, and smashed it at the enemy, and the enemy ** burst out and fell to the ground one after another.

Not long after, Changping waited for Yang Jicong's 10,000 horses to be killed. At the end of the battle, the Tatars were defeated, and only a few hundred escaped from the chaos. Zhang Xiliang ordered his subordinates to dismount and clean up the battlefield while keeping an eye out for the general's head. Until noon, all the corners were rummaged, and Yang Gao's head was not found.

Zhang Xiliang was desperate, so he knelt on the ground, hugged Yang Gao's body and cried: "General, it's all because I didn't protect you!" Master Hou, if you want to punish the crime, please punish my crime......"

Yang Jicong, who was standing on the side, was very sad at this time, and helped Zhang Xiliang up: "General, you have done your best." The horse leather shroud is also a great honor for my Yang general! ”......

Emperor Jiajing lamented the loss of a good general, and the edict used a stone to carve the general's head according to the appearance of Yang Gao before his death, painted with gold powder to make the head and connected it to the body, and buried it in the fief according to the system, and gave the guerrilla general (Zheng Sanpin), gave "loyalty and bravery", and gave the land Wuqing West Circle 60 miles (now Langfang Guangyang District and Wuqing junction, Ming Dynasty under the jurisdiction of Wuqingwei).

Yang Gao's tomb fiefdom, his descendants settled in the north of the tomb, gradually became a village, very close to each other, many years later, this is the origin of the Yang family of Xu Gezhuang.

It is said that since the fifth year of Hongwu, Yang Jing returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors and built the Yang ancestral hall, every once in a while, there are members of the Ming central government who follow the ancestral system according to the rules, and constantly add the military generals who served in the court, which are recorded in the Yang family tree, so as to inspire the descendants of the Yang family to serve the country and inherit the family style.

In the eleventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1583), Yang Yu, the martial arts officer of Zhangwu, wrote a letter to entrust the Wugang battalion to garrison Lu Mingshi, personally pay tribute to Shangguan Village, and present the plaque of "Xun Descendant".

In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign (1632), Nurhachi's rebels in Liaodong continued to attack the Ming Dynasty's army, and he continued to create chaos in the north and threaten Hebei by joining forces with the Mongols. The Yang Tongguan family, stationed in Huairou County, Hebei Province, became the forefront of resistance, and once the Mongol army invaded the territory of the Yang general, the Yang clan ancestral hall would inevitably be destroyed by the Mongol army.

The border situation was tense, Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, Jiangnan Patrol Supervisor Yang Qiaoran was very worried, and the continuous war burned down the plaque of "Yang's Official Hall" inscribed by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, so he asked Emperor Chongzhen to take leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and escorted the plaque to his hometown in Chengbu County, so as to inspect the training of Miao soldiers in his hometown.

In view of the great contribution made by the Yang family to the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen immediately approved Yang Qiaoran's request and appointed him to supervise the military affairs of Jiangnan.

Yang Qiaoran returned to his hometown for the first time to worship his ancestors in secret, and with the help and support of his clansmen, the plaque was successfully moved to the Yang Family Ancestral Hall in Shangguan Village.

The ancestor worship was carried out very smoothly, and feeling the emperor's grace, the Yang family set up a merit tablet pavilion to record the reason for returning to their hometown in detail. When Yang Qiaoran was leaving, he instructed his clansmen to step up military training and serve the country.

In 1644, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and Yang Chong, the nephew of Yang Hong's VIII, led his troops to defend the capital, and fought until he was seriously injured and killed himself, and the central government of the Ming Dynasty collapsed.

On the third day of May of the same year, Wu Sangui led 100,000 Guanning iron cavalry, surrendered to the Qing army, opened the gate of Shanhaiguan, introduced the Qing army into the Central Plains, and fought fiercely with the peasant army.

The Ming army in Jiangnan still had millions of troops, with vast land and endless taxes, which could completely confront the Qing army. So on the same day, Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, ascended the throne in Nanjing, which was the Hongguang Dynasty, and the Southern Ming Dynasty was established (1644-1683).

From the very beginning, this small court was accustomed to fighting and killing each other, and it was destined to become a big climate. Zhu Yousong is the same as his father - greed, adultery, alcoholism, unfilial piety, abuse, ignorance, domineering and omnipotent.

The confused Zhu Yousong did not distinguish between the enemy and me, and even gave the traitor Wu Sangui an official and a knight, named him the Duke of Jiguo, gave him a voucher, Lu rice, 50,000 taels of silver, 100,000 stones of Cao rice, and sent it to the official.

At the same time, Zhu Yousong also issued an edict to take refuge in Li Zicheng's Sichuan Jiedu envoy (Dashun) Li Yutian, and he was also rewarded. It's sad, Zhu Yousong has reached this point as an emperor, and there is such a mentally handicapped emperor in Nanming, who is full of mountains and rains, and it is strange that he does not fall apart under the attack of the Qing army that Wu Sangui is the vanguard.

Eight months later, 150,000 Qing troops defeated more than 400,000 Hongguang Dynasty troops who had evil intentions and fought on their own. Zhu Yousong, who did not care about political affairs, was addicted to wine, and was extremely promiscuous, but also defeated and captured, and was escorted to Beijing to be beheaded the following year.

On the 27th day of the sixth month of 1645, Zhu Yujian, the king of Nanyang, was proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou as Emperor Longwu. Zhu Yujian was full of ambition and confidence, and he always wanted to restore the Ming Dynasty, but he was overturned by the Zheng Zhilong family, who was born as a pirate, so his appearance could not avoid ending in tragedy.