Yang Zaixing
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Yang Zaixing (
Jin–Song Wars. His heroic death in the battle of Yancheng—where he led 300 cavalry to kill an estimated 2000 enemies before succumbing to hundreds of arrows piercing his body—made him a legendary figure still remembered today. The site of his last battle, near the Xiaoshang River (小商河; a tributary of Ying River), in modern Linying County, Henan
, houses a mausoleum and temple dedicated to him.
In the 18th-century novel Generals of the Yang Family, also known for their bravery defending the Song dynasty against hostile foreign powers. In Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy novels (1957–1961), the fictional protagonists Yang Kang and Yang Guo are said to be Yang Zaixing's descendants.
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