What are the deeds of Zongyu in the Southern Dynasty?

Zong Yu broke the elephant". Zong Yu was a famous military general during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Since he was a teenager, he had lofty ideals, and he was very witty and brave, and learned a good martial arts.

Once, he went on an expedition to attack Linyi. The king of Linyi sent his soldiers to resist them, and drove out a few elephants and rushed over. The elephant was dressed in staggered armor and rushed to the front. Unstoppable. At the critical moment of victory or defeat, Zong Wei came up with a strategy to retreat from the enemy.

Zong Wei said: "Elephants are afraid of lions, frighten elephants with lions, and the enemy army will retreat!" So he asked the soldiers to make a few fake lions, and they were dressed in lion skins and tiger skins, and they rushed up to the elephants, shaking their heads and tails, and roaring and screaming, so that they scared everyone away.

Zong Yu led the troops in pursuit, killed the enemy to the point of losing their armor and fleeing in all directions, so they captured Linyi in one fell swoop. Zong Yu broke the elephant and made meritorious achievements, so he was promoted to the general of the left guard.

In this game, the red side has two rooks, two guns and one horse, and the five sons attack together, dismantling the black side's double elephant joint defense, and finally causing a killing game, which is relevant to the topic of "Zong Yu Breaking the Elephant".

The deeds of Zongfu in the Southern Dynasty can be found in "Song Shu: The Biography of Zongyu". The famous ones are:

1) "Riding the Wind and Waves":

Song Shu Zong Wei Biography": "When he was young, Bing asked him about his ambitions, and he replied: 'I am willing to ride the long wind and break the waves of thousands of miles. ’”

During the ancient Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a general in the Song State whose surname was Zong Ming 悫 (què), and he was brave and ambitious since he was a child. One day, Zong Wei's uncle asked him what his ambitions were, and Zong Wei said, "I am willing to ride the long wind and break the waves for thousands of miles."

Meaning: I must break through all obstacles, move forward bravely, and do something good. After diligent study and hard work, Zong Wei finally became a general who can fight well.

Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" has "a pen with a pen, and the long wind of Mu Zongyu"; Li Bai's poem "Difficult to Walk" also has the sentence "There will be a time to ride the wind and waves, and hang on the clouds and sails to the sea".

Later, "riding the wind and waves" became an idiom used to describe the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and moving forward bravely.

2) "Breaking the Elephant":

According to the "Book of Song: The Biography of Zongyu": In the twenty-second year of Yuanjia (445), a war broke out between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Linyi Kingdom. Liu Yigong, the commander of the Song army, was brave and resourceful and sent as the vanguard. And after the battle, it was indeed invincible and unstoppable, and won two cities in a row.

But after that, Lin Yiguo sent an army with elephants as mounts to gallop on the battlefield, and there was no obstacle to comings and goings, and the Song army could not resist it at all. After being frustrated one after another, Zong Yu came up with a clever plan. He summoned the soldiers

I have heard that the power of a lion is enough to subdue all beasts. He ordered everyone to carve wooden blocks, make lion hoods and masks, put them on, and put them on yellow clothes, and then fight against the "elephant army". The elephants saw many "lions" rushing towards them, and they were really frightened and crushed.

Zong Wei took the opportunity to command the army to cover up the killing, and the pawn won a complete victory.

宗悫 [què], the character Yuan Gan, a native of Nanyang, was a general of the Southern Song Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He has had great ambitions since he was a child, and he practiced martial arts carefully and diligently, until he finished his training, and said to his uncle: "I am willing to ride the long wind and break the waves of thousands of miles."

This is where the idiom "riding the wind and waves" comes from). Later, Zong Wei really became a famous general.