How did the Ice City come from?

During the Song Dynasty, 200,000 Liao soldiers from Qidan invaded the territory and the border was tight. At that time, Bai Yingyang was in Suicheng. Suicheng is now Suicheng Village, 20 miles west of Xu Shui County. The waterfall river is in the north, and the ancient Great Wall faces each other across the river.

The city is small and the troops are insufficient. There are only 3000 people guarding the city. Liao soldiers came quickly, but suddenly Enemy at the Gates surrounded the city and attacked it several times in a row, each time more violently. However, the defenders and ordinary people in Suicheng did not seem to be as anxious as usual. Liu Lang was surprised. He asked the people, "Aren't Liao soldiers afraid to attack the city like this?" The common people replied, "With General Yang guarding here, Liao soldiers are invincible!"

When Yang Liulang heard that people trusted him so much, he felt more responsible. So he called the young people of the whole city together, gave them swords and halberds, and mobilized them to cooperate with the army to defend the city. The army and the people are gearing up to fight to the death with the city.

It was October, and the weather suddenly turned cold. Seeing this, Liu Lang Yang used his quick wits to make the soldiers and civilians draw water to fill the city. Water is poured on the city wall once at night, and a layer of ice forms immediately. Watered all night and frozen all night. The next morning, wow, the high wall was white and bright, and it became a cold Great Wall, which was firm and slippery and could not be climbed. Liao soldiers rushed to the city gate and came to the city, pushing and sliding, scraping and sliding, and some managed to climb halfway up the mountain, sliding and falling. Lying on the city, Song Jun took the opportunity to roll Mu Shile with a thousand arrows, killing and injuring countless Liao soldiers. Liao soldiers could not attack the city for a few days, so they had to order a retreat. Yang Liulang took the opportunity to open the gate wide and led the army to kill it, only to find that Liao soldiers fled in panic. In this battle, thousands of Liao soldiers and horses were captured alive and a large number of weapons were seized.

Because of this war, Yang Liulang was promoted by Song Zhenzong, from the governor of Baozhou (now Baoding, Hebei Province) to Zhou Mo (now Qiu County, Hebei Province). Qidan invaded the frontier, burning and looting all the way, and the people were miserable. Yang led his troops to repel more than 100 attacks by Liao soldiers, making the border pass peaceful for a while and deeply loved by the people.

At the age of 57, Yang Liulang died in Yanzhou. Yang, the eldest son of the emperor, accompanied by an envoy (in the play, Yang's son is called Zongbao and Zongbao's son is called Zongbao), escorted Lingshu back to his hometown of Taiyuan. Yanzhou people went out of the city, knelt around the hearse and cried bitterly, demanding that Liulang be buried in Yanzhou and guard the border with him in the spirit of heaven. Yang and the emperor's emissaries felt that people were uneasy, so they asked stable boy to report She Taijun's ruling. She Jun proposed to make another coffin, put Liulang's clothes and nod into it, and build Liulang's tomb in the north of Yanzhou to comfort the local people. Since then, the tomb of Liulang has been built in Yanzhou, becoming a memorial place for people to pay homage to national heroes. The civilian gets off the sedan chair here, and the military attache gets off the horse here. Every festival, the people will worship.