It is recorded in The Legend of the Condor Heroes that Yang Zaixing led 300 men to fight 40,000 soldiers in the Song Dynasty with iron guns in a small commercial river, and finally killed more than 2,000 enemy soldiers, including eight households, 100 households and 100 households. It is recorded in the novel that Yang Zaixing came and went freely in the rain, but he missed an arrow. Finally, he was killed because his horse got stuck in the mud and was caught by enemy soldiers. At that time, when Yang Zaixing's body was burned, it was said that an arrow of about three liters was burned. It was through this incident that the Yang family's gun law spread badly at that time.
However, we know that novels are novels after all, and in order to attract readers, we have to use some exaggerated descriptions. So, how do we record the battle of Xiaoshanghe in the official history?
"Three North Korea Association" records:
Yang Zaixing and Zhang Li were sent to ride cavalry, with 300 people as a team, until they met Wu Shu's army in Linying, and Yang Zaixing and Wang Lan died.
Since there are 3 1 1 pairs, there should be at least two teams, otherwise there is no need to specifically mention 3 1 1 teams. Therefore, it can be seen that there were at least two teams of 300 people in Yang Zaixing at that time.
Some people may think this is unreliable, but in the eyes of historians, it is very convincing. Three dynasties? Evonne in Song Huizong, Zhao Huan in Song Qinzong and Zhao Gou in Song Gaozong. The book collects all kinds of historical materials about the Song and Jin peace wars in the Three Dynasties, marks the items by year, month and day, and sorts them out, so it is called? Editor of the North League? .
Although Yang Zaixing didn't kill 40,000 enemies with 300 as described in the novel, it didn't damage their reputation, because only in this way can he be more in line with the attempt and become a real hero in people's real life.