Study Of The Famous General Hanshizhong In Southern Song Dynasty

The famous general Hanshizhong in Southern Song Dynasty was born in 1090 and died in 1151. He was from Suide County, Shanxi Province.He experienced three dynasties, HUIZONG, QINZONG and GAOZONG He joined the army at the age of 17 and took part in the war of anti-Xia, anti-Liao and anti-Jin. Because of his brave and outstanding battle achievements, he was elevated from a soldier to a great general and a high position which corresponds to the prime minister in feudal China. Hanshizhong, as well as Liuguangshi, Zhangjun and Yuefei went by the name of ZHONGXING FOUR GENERALS. And among them, Hanshizhong was the best of all in the battle achievements. They are four pillars for surporting the regime of the Southern Song Dynasty.During the the war of anti-Xia, Hanshizhong won the merit in the war of Yinchuan City. After stopping Fangla's uprising and catching him, Hanshizhong left his hometown and took part in the anti-Jin war. In the war of Huangtiandang, he leaded 8 thousand isolated forces to oppugn Wuzhu's 100 thousand forces and made them besiege in Huangtiandang for 40 days; In the war of Dayizhen, he set up a wrinkle to beat the united forces of Jin and Qi and that was the first initiative launch and attack of the Song forces. The war inspired the army and the people and was thought as The First Gest of Zhongxing and also as one of the Qiandao Thirteen Battle Achievements. Huaidong was the main war field, and Hanshzhong leaded 30 thousand forces to defend there for 8 years and made the capital and the Souerneast area safe.Hanshizhong's good manner of high commanding officer possessed the general art of Master Sun's Art and War, that is, resourceful, truthful, kind, brave and strict. So he was a person of great of courage and resourcefulness and can suit his actions to changing conditions and defeat the enemy and win victory. He enforced strict...