Since the founding of Zhao Kuangyin in the Song Dynasty, it has been holding a policy of humiliating the outside world and focusing on defending the inside. The political power, financial power and military power are highly concentrated in the central government, and the feudal oppression is very severe. Especially at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the implementation of the above policies, land annexation was very intense and feudal exploitation was extremely cruel. Therefore, although the industry and commerce were relatively developed at that time, the people's livelihood was broader, social contradictions were still quite acute, and there were many peasant uprisings. After the war in Xixia in the Renzong era, there were countless small-scale peasant uprisings with dozens to hundreds of people. It was in such a situation that Song Jiang raised the banner of righteousness.
in December of the first year of Song Huizong's Xuanhe (1119), he gathered 36 people to revolt in the area north of the Yellow River under the jurisdiction of JD.COM East Road, aiming at fighting social injustice, killing the rich and helping the poor, resisting the cruel rule of the Northern Song Dynasty and causing panic among the rulers.
Shortly after the uprising, Song Huizong Zhao Ji ordered JD.COM East Road and Jingdong West Road to be sentenced and arrested. However, due to the lack of training and the long-term absence of the Song army, the combat effectiveness was extremely poor; And because Song Jiang is "talented", his 36 people are all tough and brave men, all of whom are heroes of Song Jiang in the CCTV version of Water Margin. Therefore, this conquest not only did not destroy Song Jiang's rebel army, but made it famous. In the following more than a year, Song Jiang and others didn't enter Liangshan, Shui Bo, for the sake of justice, as depicted in literary works such as Water Margin, but "ran across Qi Wei" and traveled thousands of miles to Shandong and Hebei. Sung River led his troops to attack Heshuo (generally referring to the north and south areas in the lower reaches of the Yellow River today) and JD.COM East Road (governing Qingzhou, now Yidu, Shandong Province), and fought between Qing and Qi (now Jinan, Shandong Province) and pu zhou (now Juancheng North, Shandong Province), capturing more than ten counties and cities, punishing corrupt officials, killing the rich and helping the poor, and gaining momentum. In the siege of tens of thousands of loyalists, the insurgents attacked the city and fell into the ground, and attacked the enemy flexibly. Although the number was small, it was like a steel knife, which made the rulers turn pale at the news. "The loyalists dare not hold back their front" and became an influential peasant uprising team.
in December of the second year of Xuanhe (112), Song Jiang led his troops to attack counties in Jingxi and Hebei. Zhao Ji, Song Huizong, heard of this, and adopted Hou Meng's strategy of "forgiving and surrendering" in Bozhou Prefecture, and issued a decree to woo Hou Meng, and the matter went away. Song Huizong then ordered Zeng Xiaoyun, the prefecture of Zhangzhou, to lead an army to beg for it.
Song Jiang avoided his front, and led his troops south to Yizhou (now Linyi, Shandong Province) from Qingzhou, where he spent more than a year dealing with loyalists. At the beginning of the third year of Xuanhe, he turned to the south to attack Yizhou (now Linyi), and the battle was very hard. As a result, he was defeated by Jiang Yuan, the magistrate, because he was outnumbered. In February, the rebel army continued southward, attacking the Huaiyang Army (now southwest of Pixian County, Jiangsu Province), and then occupied Chuzhou (now Huai 'an, Jiangsu Province) and entered Haizhou (now southwest of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province). In these fierce battles, Song Jiang gave full play to his intelligence and military ability, and his command was determined, his strategy was extraordinary, and his tactics were flexible and changeable. At the same time, as Chen Tai later said in the Preface to the Legacy of Suo 'an in the Yuan Dynasty, "Song was a brave and arrogant man".
Song Jiang was also very brave in fighting, taking the lead in fighting and killing, which made some court officials have to admit that he was brave and resourceful. In the same month, Fang La, the leader of the peasant uprising in Zhejiang Province, also led the rebel army to attack even the virginity states and Xiuzhou (both belong to Zhejiang Province), and his offensive was sharp, which made the Northern Song Dynasty very frightened. In order to disintegrate and suppress these two anti-armies, Hou Meng, the magistrate of Bozhou, wrote to Song Huizong, saying, "Song Jiang, with thirty-six men, ran across Heshuo, JD.COM and tens of thousands of loyalists, and no one dared to resist, which shows that he must have more talents than ordinary people. It's better to forgive the surrender and let him lead his troops to beg Fang La to redeem him, and perhaps to pacify the rebellion in the southeast. " Song Huizong was very appreciative of this idea, and immediately sent a letter to Zhang Shuye, who had just been appointed as the magistrate of Haizhou with a badge, to make him try to have Song Jiang.
After Zhang Shuye arrived in Haizhou, the rebels were preparing to attack the city. Song Jiang and Wu Jialiang, the deputy commander of the rebel army, carefully analyzed the characteristics of Haizhou Binhai and the Yugoslav capital, and decided to break through the sea, so they took the seashore directly and captured more than 1 large ships. However, all this was spied by detectives sent by Zhang Shuye. Zhang Shuye quickly recruited more than 1, death squads and set up an ambush near the city; Then, send a small number of foot soldiers to the seaside to lure the war, and at the same time ambush the elite soldiers at the seaside. After the war between the two sides, the ambush swarmed and torched Song Jiang's ships. Although Song Jiang led his troops to fight bravely and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy, he was a little flustered when he saw that the ship was on fire and the retreat was broken. At this time, Zhang Shuye returned to launch an all-out attack and captured Wu Jialiang. Sung river was surrounded by heavy troops, and the pain was gone, so he had to lead his troops to accept it. [8]
Wang Yingchen's "Wen Ding Ji Xian Mo Ge Bachelor Wang Gong's Epitaph" says: "Song Jiang, a giant thief in Hebei, acted in defiance of Mo." Zhang Shou's Epitaph of Jiang Yuan Written by Piling Collection and Secret Pavilion states: "Song Jiang is a fugitive, plundering all the way to Shandong, and the counties and counties are greatly shaken, and many officials avoid hiding." It is recorded in The History of the Song Dynasty, Huizong Ji, that in the third year of Xuanhe (1122), "Huainan stole Song Jiang and others to commit Huaiyang Army, sent them to beg for arrest, and committed JD.COM (now Shandong), Jiangbei, and entered the border of Chu Haizhou, and ordered Zhang Shuye, the state of Huainan, to have it". It is also mentioned in "A Brief Account of the East Capital" that Hou Meng, the then governor of Bozhou, wrote to the emperor: "Song Jiangkou JD.COM wrote a letter saying that Song Jiangkou ran across Qi Wei with thirty-six people, and tens of thousands of loyalists did not dare to resist. If he did not forgive the river, Fang La would be redeemed, or it would be enough to quell the chaos in the southeast." The most detailed account in the Biography of Zhang Shuye in the History of the Song Dynasty is: "Sung River started from the new river and turned to ten counties, so the loyalists dare not look forward to it. The word is coming, and uncle night makes the interviewers want it. Thieves are heading for the sea, robbing more than ten giant boats and carrying brine. So he raised thousands of dead men, ambushed near the city, and went out to fight against the sea. First hide and die by the sea, wait for the soldiers to join together, and set fire to their boats. When thieves smell it, they have no fighting spirit. The ambush took it, and the bird was its deputy thief, and Jiang Nai surrendered. "