Han Shizhong

Han Shizhong

Han Shizhong (from January 26, 1090 to September 15, 1151), a good minister, was a member of Suide army in Yan'an prefecture (now Suide County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province). He was a famous general, poet and national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was called "four generals of Zhongxing" together with Yue Fei, Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi.

Han Shizhong is a man of great stature and bravery. Born in poverty, he enlisted in the army at the age of 18. He was brave and good at fighting, and had a strategic mind. He made great contributions to the Song Dynasty in the war against the Xixia and Jin Dynasties, and also made great contributions to pacifying the rebellions in various places. Han Shizhong was upright and unwilling to rely on Qin Hui, a powerful minister. He once complained about Yue Fei's being framed, and was known in history as "a country official among the generals.". Lei moved to Zhennan, Wu'an and Ningguo, where he was appointed king of Xian'an. In his later years, he paid a visit to the West Lake and enjoyed himself.

Han Shizhong passed away in 1151, the 21st year of Shaoxing. As a gift to the grand master and the king of Tongyi Prefecture. Emperor Xiaozong of Song Dynasty was granted the title of king Qi, ranking among the seven kings. Chunxi three years (1176), posthumous title "Zhongwu.". Later, it will be served to the Gaozong Temple of Song Dynasty. During the reign of emperor LiZong of Song Dynasty, he was one of the 24 meritorious officials of zhaoxun Pavilion. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was more worthy to enjoy the imperial temples of the past dynasties. Today, there are CI works such as linjiangxian and nanxiangzi.

(source: Portraits of famous ministers of all dynasties)

Life of the characters

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Han Shizhong was born in an ordinary peasant family in Yan'an (now Suide, Shaanxi Province) on December 23 (January 26, 1090), the fourth year of Yuanyou reign of song zhezong. His family was poor, and he had been practicing martial arts since he was young. He was "fierce and brave". He was addicted to alcohol and advocated justice. Some people once said that he would become zhisangong in the future, but Han Shizhong thought that he was insulting himself, so he beat him up.

In the fourth year of Chongning (1105), Han Shizhong, who had not yet reached the title, responded to the recruitment of Xiang Zhou with "courage" and was incorporated into the military status of Yan'an prefecture to resist the Xixia. He was outstanding when he pulled a strong shot and was braver than the third army.

Han Shizhong was stationed in the Northwest with the army. Soon after he joined the army, he took part in the battle. Because of his bravery, he was promoted from a soldier to a small team leader, with only a dozen people in mind. Although his official position is small, Han Shizhong is still active and responsible. The soldiers he leads are older than him. However, Han Shizhong is brave in fighting, fair and upright in dealing with affairs, and upright in speaking, so everyone listens to him.

Once, the song army attacked Yinzhou for a long time. Han Shizhong tried his best to break through the city, kill the enemy general and throw his head out of the city. Inspired by this, the song army swarmed up and captured the city. Han Shizhong led the soldiers to fight back haopingling. Before long, the Xixia came again from another way. Han Shizhong arranged the soldiers to fight to the death, and the Xia army retreated slightly. There was a knight in the Xia army who fought bravely. Han Shizhong inquired about the captured Xia soldier and learned that he was the emperor's son-in-law of the Western Xia army, so he jumped his horse and rushed into the battle and beheaded him. The soldiers of the Western Xia Dynasty were in great disorder and rushed to flee. After the war, the Secretary for economics and strategy reported his achievements to the imperial court and asked for an exceptional promotion of Han Shizhong. However, Tong Guan, who was in charge of the frontier affairs at that time, doubted the authenticity of the report and only agreed to give Han Shizhong a promotion. All the soldiers felt deeply aggrieved.

In the seventh year of Zhenghe (1117), Han Shizhong followed Liu Yanqing, the general manager of Wanyan Road, to fight against the Chengde army, which was built in fokou valley of Huanqing road in the Western Xia Dynasty. He climbed the city at night, beheaded the second level, and "cut off the city felt for sacrifice.". In the eighth year of Zhenghe (1118), he followed Liu Yanqing to tianjiangshan to build a new city, repelling the Xia army who came to obstruct him and beheading him several times. Later, zhongshidao, the chief General of Jingyuan Road, led the division of Shaanxi and Hedong seven roads to attack ZangDi Hecheng (i.e. the puppet Hongxia Army). Liu Yanqing led Bingyan soldiers to take part in the battle, and Han Shizhong won the third level in this battle. During this period, Han Shizhong, by virtue of his military exploits, successively made up the officers, including Deputy Jinyi and Deputy Jinwu.

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In 1120, Fang La, the owner of Qingxi lacquer garden in muzhou, launched an uprising. He called himself Shenggong and successively conquered dozens of prefectures and counties. His army grew to nearly one million people, which shocked the southeast. In 1121, Han Shizhong went out with Liu Yanqing as a partisan general. After arriving in Hangzhou, he defeated a large number of rebels with an ambush. The vanguard praised Han Shizhong as "the enemy of thousands of people" by Wang Yuan, gave him his belongings and made him a friend (the biography of Wang Yuan in the history of Song Dynasty says that Wang Yuan advised Han Shizhong to attack the rebels with crossbows). Later, Han Shizhong chased the rebels to qingxidong, muzhou, and asked the people for a shortcut. He crossed the danger several miles to the rebel camp, killed dozens of people and captured Fang La alive. However, the credit was taken away by Xin Xingzong, and Han Shizhong was transferred to chengjielang only after the right army controlled Yang Weizhong's return to court.

Travel north and South

In 1120, the song and Jin Dynasties reached a "maritime alliance" to jointly attack and destroy the Liao Dynasty. In 1122, the song and Liao dynasties fought in the south of Yanshan, and the song army was defeated. At this time, Han Shizhong was leading more than 50 horsemen to the Hutuo River, and encountered two thousand cavalry of Liao army. Han Shizhong told the soldiers: "panic is death. Don't move. I'll arrange everything." He asked a team leader named sug to lead some people to occupy the high slope, line up on it and watch without moving. They also sent people to organize the song army who fled from Yanshan and got hundreds of people to fight drums and shout. Then, Han Shizhong and several brave knights rushed straight into the Liao army and attacked the Liao people holding the flag. Su Ge led the cavalry occupying the highlands to kill them from top to bottom. Song soldiers along the river also beat drums and yelled. The Liao army was in chaos and withdrew northward. Han Shizhong led the pursuit and made great achievements.

In the last years of Huizong, thieves swarmed in Shandong and Hebei. In the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125), Han Shizhong followed Wang Yuan to fight for arrest. He annihilated the water bandits in Daming mansion, and defeated the bandits in Tangcun village. He made a great contribution and transferred it to Bing Yilang. Later, Liang Fangping, as a partisan general, took part in the battle against Shandong. He defeated Yang Tianwang and toushouhua in Wei's family, and defeated Wu Hu in Linyi in hanwangdian. He took part in the battle against Xu Jin in Yizhou, Zhang Xian in Qingshe, Liu Dalang in shuigu, Gao Tuoshan in Wangxian, Jia Jin in Jilu, Xu Dalang in Juxian and Zhang Kui in Donghai. He turned to Wu Jielang.

In the first month of the first year of Jingkang (1126), Han Shizhong followed Liang Fangping to guard the Yellow River Bridge in Rongzhou (now Junxian County, Henan Province) to fight against the Jin army. Liang Fangping fled. Han Shizhong fought hard to break through the encirclement, burned the bridge and retreated to Kaifeng. When the Jin army besieged Kaifeng, Han Shizhong was promoted to commander and took part in guarding Kaifeng. In February, the Jin army retreated, and Han Shizhong was the vanguard of Wang Yuan, the general manager of Hebei Province. In June, Li Gang, the Xuanfu envoys of Hedong and Hebei, came out to aid Taiyuan. At that time, Han Shizhong garrisoned Daming. He was ordered by Li Gang (a deputy Xuanfu envoys, Li Mida) to fight against the rebels and led the Danzhou regiment to train envoys and garrison in Hutuo River. At that time, Wang Yuan guarded Zhaozhou (now Zhaoxian County, Hebei Province). Han Shizhong went to help Wang Yuan, and was forced into Zhaozhou city by tens of thousands of Jin troops. The number of enemy troops besieged the city was heavy, the soldiers in the city were few, and the morale of the army was unstable. Some people advocated abandoning the city and escaping, which was rejected by Han Shizhong. That night, it snowed heavily. Han Shizhong selected 300 elite soldiers and raided the camp of the Jin army, which made the Jin army lose heart to fight again and retreat. After the war, he was promoted as a defense envoy. After Han Shizhong led his troops back to Daming, he was appointed as the former army commander by Zhao Ye.

Han Shizhong has been fighting against Jin for several years in Hebei area, which is quite famous.

From the Minister of the Dragon

In the second year of Jingkang (1127), the change of Jingkang took place, Kaifeng city fell, and song Huizong and song qinzong were captured by Jin army. Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Huizong and king of Kang, arrived in Jizhou (today's Juye, Shandong). His ministers advised Zhao Gou to rebuild the Song Dynasty. Han Shizhong also led his troops to Jizhou and joined the ranks of supporting Zhao Gou as emperor. In April, Han Shizhong defeated Yang Jin's Jin army who invaded yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan Province), and Han Shizhong's retinue Zhao Gou arrived in Nanjing. Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Nanjing for Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty. Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne and granted Han Shizhong as the observation envoy and imperial instrument of Guangzhou. Han Shizhong had a request to "move his capital to Chang'an and send troops to collect two rivers", but it was not accepted. When the imperial camp was rebuilt, he was appointed as the leader of the left army. Later, Han Shizhong was ordered to recover Yutai alone, defeat the rebels in Danzhou, and assist Liu Guangshi to defeat the rebels in Liyi. After the "group robbers" subsided, they entered the court to "prepare for lodging guards".

In the second year of Jianyan (1128), Han Shizhong was promoted to Chengxuan envoy of Dingguo army and led his subordinates to flee to Yangzhou with Gaozong. At that time, Zhang Yu, who surrendered to the imperial court, came to the lower part of the city and still did not understand the armor, which made Yangzhou people panic. Han Shizhong came to Zhang Yu's camp by himself, and settled his troops. Li Min's troops came to surrender, but there were signs of rebellion on the way. Han Shizhong was ordered to kill Liu Yan, expel Li Min, and send 29 people from his primary school to his superior Wang Yuan for execution. After dealing with this, Han Shizhong was awarded the title of "Jingxi and other roads to catch and kill internal and external thieves".

When the Jin army attacked Henan again, Han Shizhong took the initiative to attack. Because of the song army's poor coordination, he was defeated. Han Shizhong fought hard and was able to escape. Not long after, Han Shizhong was recalled to serve as deputy manager of Yanyan road and general Jiaping kouzuo. He stationed in Huaiyang and was defeated by Jin general Wan yanzonghan and the main force of Jin army.

Save Gaozong

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In the third year of Jianyan (1129), in order to avoid the Jin army's attack, Gaozong called all generals to discuss the escape route. Zhang Jun and Xin Qizong asked to move to Hunan. Han Shizhong, however, disagrees. He thinks that the Huaihe Zhejiang area is a place of fundamental prosperity. Now people are in a panic. Once they flee, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no change on the way to Hunan. Besides, when Gaozong left, he also needed to keep troops to guard the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. If half of the 100000 troops were divided to guard the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, the remaining 50000 people would not be safe. Later, Han Shizhong received thousands of deaths in Yangcheng

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