The story of Yang Family General , I believe many people know it. Northern Song Dynasty General Yang Jiye swept across the Yanmen with a nine-ring golden sword, which shocked the northern country and was called "Jin Dao Linggong Yang Wudi " in the army. Five of his seven sons were also named marquis, and they were in the limelight for a while. This also aroused the jealousy of Master Pang. In order to frame the Yang family generals, Grand Master Pang ordered people to cut off food and grass when Yang Linggong went to war and refused support, which led to Yang Linggong being trapped in Lianglang Mountain and finally hit and died in front of Li Ling Monument . And his sons only Liulang Yang Yanzhao returns.
Yang Yanzhao inherited his father's will, continued to lead the army to kill the enemy, and also brought his son Yang Zongbao to the battlefield. Xixia leads the invasion, and the frontier is in a hurry. Yang Yanzhao takes his army to fight, but is trapped. In such a large court, there was no general who could rescue Yang Yanzhao and others. At this critical moment, the female general of the Yang family led by She Taijun went to war and won the war and rescued the trapped soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty. Since most of the female generals who went on the expedition had already died in the battlefield, this story is called "The Twelve Widows' Expedition to the West". So who are among the "Twelve Widows" and what are their different destinies? Let me introduce them to you today.
The first place: She Taijun. She Taijun's real name is She Saihua and is the wife of Ling Gong Yang Jiye. In the huge family of the Yang family, she is a figure like a Dinghai Sword. She Taijun made an indelible contribution to the Yang family's appearance of characters like " Qilang Bahu ". After her husband died in battle, she reluctantly took on the burden of the family and continued to lead her children and grandchildren to defend the country. After her son was surrounded, she decided to take the female general in the mansion to expedition the west. In the folk storytelling , She Taijun lived for many years after returning from the Western Expedition, and lived nearly 200 years old. She did not die until Song Huizong .
Second: Dalang's wife Zhang Jinding. Dalang Yang Yanping 's wife is Hua Jieyu. Legend has it that she is the disciple of Suzhu Holy Mother and one of the Five Yin Major Generals. After the bloody battle on Jinsha Beach, Hua Jieyu became a monk and practiced Taoism because she missed her husband. Later, Yang Yanping married Zhang Jinding again. Zhang Jinding is virtuous and kind, but not confident and cowardly. But when you are really angry, you will also burst into amazing power. When the Twelve Widows fought in the West, she made some contributions, but died not long after she came back.
The third place: Erlang’s wife Geng Jinhua. Geng Jinhua is the daughter of former surrendered general of Northern Han Zezhou Huadao Linggong Geng Zhong. Although her martial arts skills are pretty good, she is not famous among the female generals of the Yang family. During the twelve widows' expedition, she was responsible for taking care of She Taijun in the army, and helped with some military affairs. She also had the record of killing the Western Xia general Bai Sheng. A few years after Zhang Jinding's death, Geng Jinhua also left.
Fourth place: Saburo’s wife Dong Yue’e. Dong Yue'e was the daughter of Dong Zhenhong, the former general of the Northern Han Dynasty, who was nicknamed "Shark Dong Sanniang". Because of his superb martial arts, Dong Yue'e is highly valued by She Taijun. Mu Guiying Before marrying into the Yang Mansion, Dong Yue'e and Goro's wife Marseille , Qilang's wife Du Jin'e was She Taijun's biggest helper. During the Battle of the West, Dong Yue'e made great contributions.
Fifth place: Silang's wife Yun Cuiying. Yang Silang There are two wives in total, one is Yun Cuiying and the other is Princess Iron Mirror from the Liao Kingdom. Yun Cuiying has mediocre martial arts skills and has not made much contribution in the war. But she is broad-minded, and after Yang Silang returns to China with Princess Tiejing, she can live in harmony with her. Therefore, she also became the longest-lived female general of the Yang family after She Taijun.
Sixth place: Goro's wife Ma Saiying. Ma Saiying was the daughter of Mei Ling Gongma Xin, the former surrendered general of the Northern Han Dynasty. She was good at using Jiugu to train and train. Like Dong Yue'e, she is also favored by Taijun She because of her excellent martial arts skills. After Goro became a monk, she could have left, but decided to stay in the Yang family. She was considered a capable general among the female generals of the Yang Party. She rushed to the front in battles such as Suizhou and Dapotianmen. During the Battle of the West, she was also the mainstay of the twelve widows, but she died shortly after returning.
Seventh place: Liulang’s wife Wang Lanying . Yang Liulang has two wives, one is Chai Meiyang, the daughter of the Houzhou , and the other is Wang Lanying. Wang Lanying is the daughter of Wang Huai, one of the four great emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty. Under the influence of his eyes, Wang Lanying has also developed superb martial arts. She is good at using double swords, and her martial arts skills are higher than that of Yang Qilang , which is known as the "No. 1 brave general of the Yang family". In the Battle of the West, she and Mu Guiying became She Taijun's deputy, and cut off the souls of many Western Xia soldiers under the knife. He also escaped unscathed during the battle against the West.
Eighth place: Qilang's wife Du Jin'e. Du Jin'e was born into a general and had a good relationship with the Yang family for generations. She was married to the Yang family by her father. And her husband is Yang Qilang. During the Battle of Qihu Youzhou, Qilang went out of the siege to meet him and became a husband and wife in Dujiashan. After Qilang died in battle, she killed Pan Renmei alone in the Black Songlin to avenge her husband. She has outstanding martial arts skills, can use three flying knives, and can hit every shot, so she was also the main force during the Battle of the West. Unfortunately, he was shot by Wang Wen on the battlefield and died of illness shortly after returning.
Ninth place: Cai Xiuying, the wife of Hachiro. Yang Balang Yang Yanshun is the adopted son of the Yang family, but Yang Jiye and his wife regard it as their own. Cai Xiuying was the daughter of Cai Rong, the former prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty. After Cai Rong surrendered to the Liao Kingdom, he was appointed as prime minister of the Southern Prefecture. When She Taijun broke the four iron flag formations of Liao Kingdom, she recruited her daughter as her daughter-in-law for Balang and broke the formation together. During the Battle of the West, she also went on a war with her, but she did not make much contribution.
Tenth place: Mu Guiying, the wife of Yang Zongbao. Among the female generals of the Yang family, besides She Taijun, Mu Guiying is the most famous. She is the daughter of Mu Yu, the leader of Muke Village. It is said that the old mother of Mount Li taught her the art of flying magic arrows and swords. After marrying Yang Zongbao, she fought on the battlefield with the Yang family and died. When She Taijun was in charge at the age of 100, Mu Guiying still had the vanguard seal in middle age, went deep into the enemy territory, fought hard against foreign generals, and won a great victory. Later, when her son Yang Wenguang grew up, she faded out of the court, and it was rumored that she would go to practice immortality with her master Lishan’s mother.
Eleventh: Yang Zongying’s wife Jiang Cuiping. Jiang Cuiping was the adopted daughter of Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao, and the sister of Jiang Feixiong, the marshal of Liao, and later married Yang Zongying, the son of Yang Qilang. Some novels say that Jiang Cuiping died in the Tianmen Formation, and some say that she participated in the Twelve Widows' Conquest to the West, but there is no detailed explanation about her ending.
No. twelfth place: Yang Zongmian wife Jiao Yueniang. Jiao Yueniang married Yang Zongmian, the son of Yang Liulang and Princess Chai, and was also the most heroic death among the twelve widows. She and Yang Zongmian were killed on the front line just a few days after they got married. Other widows, including She Taijun, advised her to remarry, but Jiao Yueniang refused. When the Twelve Widows were expeditioning the West, she was shot to death by the enemy in the formation in order to save Mu Guiying, and thousands of arrows were pierced.
Of course, there is another ending for the twelve widows to conquer the West, that is, except for She Taijun, all eleven widows were killed in battle. They were surrounded by the Xixia army on the top of a cliff, but they would rather die than surrender and all died heroically. She Taijun rushed over and saw the daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law who died in battle crying loudly, which moved the Eagle-billed Cliff. The mountain god cried and burst into tears. The tears turned into stones and rolled down the cliff, so he got the name " Tears Cliff ". According to legend, there are also twelve widow graves in Datong, Shanxi. The curious person counted again and found that there was a vague grave, which was said to be Yang Paifeng's.
