Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Huaixi Military Mutiny
Moreover, after Chen Wenduan received the holy decree from Emperor Ningzong to let him go to the Huaixi Army garrison to investigate the case, because this was his first time to go to other places to deal with things as a minister, he did not dare to be careless, and made very detailed preparations in advance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At the same time, considering that the place he went to this time was not too far from the border between the Song and Jin countries, and there were often spies of the Jin Kingdom, in order to ensure safety, Chen Wenduan arranged for Chen Ming to disguise himself as a man as his cronies and guards to protect himself.
After doing these things well, Chen Wenduan chose an auspicious day of the zodiac and set off.
Chen Wenduan's brother and sister had nothing to do on the road, so they chatted while walking.
Chen Ming asked Chen Wenduan: "Brother, we are going to the Huaixi garrison this time to do business, you can tell me about the Huaixi garrison." ā
"Sister, you don't have any interest in these military affairs on weekdays, but today you are interested, so I will tell you about it," Chen Wenduan said.
After saying this, Chen Wenduan asked Chen Mingdao: "Sister, do you know the four famous generals of Zhongxing after my Great Song Dynasty moved south?"
Hearing Chen Wenduan ask himself this, Chen Ming said disapprerovingly: "The storyteller of this teahouse often says, I naturally know, isn't it Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Liu Shiguang." ā
"You don't read much on weekdays, but you learned a lot of things from Mr. Storyteller," Chen Wenduan said with a smile.
After saying this, Chen Wenduan went on to say to Chen Ming: "Sister, what you said is right, the four generals of Zhongxing are indeed the ones you said, among which Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Liu Shiguang are the ones who followed Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty when he was not on the throne, and after Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, these three people were naturally reused.
In the four years of Shaoxing in the Great Song Dynasty, with the efforts of these famous generals, the military strength of our Great Song Dynasty can be said to have been greatly enhanced.
At the same time, Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty was also actively preparing for the Northern Expedition, and in October of the fourth year of Shaoxing, he moved from Lin'an to Suzhou
The morale of the army and the people have been greatly stimulated.
In the sixth year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty came to Jiankang again, and after the Liu Yu regime of the then attached Jin State heard the news, he was very frightened, so he falsely claimed that there was the help of the Jin people, and took the initiative to launch an attack on our Great Song regime.
It was at this time that some people within the Great Song Dynasty were frightened by the Jin people, and the representative figure was the Zuo Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty, who immediately panicked and ordered the people of the Great Song Dynasty to retreat quickly and turn from attack to defense.
However, Zhang Jun, the deputy privy envoy at that time, believed that Liu Yu's puppet regime was actually a strong foreign and a weak force, and the Jin people had lost confidence in Liu Yu's regime and would not necessarily send troops to help them.
Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty was still very courageous and knowledgeable at that time, and Zhang Junyou was a close confidant when he did not ascend the throne in the past, so he supported Zhang Jun's strategy.
In this way, with the support of Emperor Gaozong and the correct command of Zhang Jun, the army of our Great Song Dynasty achieved the famous victory in Lotang, which made the Jin people frightened.
However, after the Great Song Dynasty achieved a series of brilliant military victories externally, there was a serious rift within the generals of our Great Song court. The main reason is that the left prime minister Zhang Ding is getting bigger and bigger differences in the strategy against Jin, and above the court, as long as it is Zhang Jun's proposal, the left prime minister Zhang Ding will definitely oppose it vigorously; on the contrary, as long as it is the proposal proposed by the left prime minister Zhang Ding, Zhang Jun will definitely not be able to pass it.
In addition, there are a group of officials with cronies under both of them, who are trying their best to provoke the relationship between the two for their own selfish interests, so that the two are already tense above the court, and there is a situation where you don't have me.
In this case, Emperor Gaozong of our great sect had no choice but to remove Zhang Ding from the post of prime minister of Zuo and let him serve as the prefect of Shaoxing.
At the same time, Zhang Jun was promoted to be the prime minister of my Great Song Dynasty, so that Zhang Jun became a powerful minister above one person and under ten thousand people in my Great Song Dynasty, and as the prime minister, he also served as the power to lead the troops, which is extremely rare in the history of my Great Song Dynasty, you know. Our Great Song Dynasty has always been very strict with the generals who command the troops.
After Zhang Jun won a decisive victory in the internal power struggle of the Great Song Dynasty, at this time, after a series of victories, the various armies stationed in the Great Song Dynasty slowly leaked many problems.
The most important of them is that several elite armies at that time only saw each other and did not obey anyone, and they only saw each other lack a strategic cooperation, and more seriously, these generals also had a tendency to support their own troops, and sometimes even Emperor Gaozong's will was not obeyed.
After Emperor Gaozong and Zhang Junyi saw the seriousness of this problem, they naturally did not take it lightly, but immediately set about solving it.
In the Huaixi armies, Liu Shiguang, as one of the four famous generals of Zhongxing after the southward migration of the Great Song Dynasty, was the first to become the envoy of the four political festivals, and his subordinates were among the 50,000, and the army was assisted by fierce generals such as Wang De, but since this person was stationed in Huaixi for a long time, this person's enterprising spirit was slowly lost, and he only knew how to spend time drinking and having fun all day long, and the military discipline of the army also became relaxed.
In this case, if you want to completely rectify the Huaixi garrison, you can only take this Liu Shiguang first. As the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun asked Emperor Gaozong to depose Liu Shiguang, and at the same time divided Liu Shiguang's army into six, led by his former generals.
But after this army was separated, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, the two generals, wanted to pull Liu Shiguang's army under their command, but they both ignored the grievances and grievances between the several armies in the past.
In this way, under the struggle of forces from all sides, the army commanded by Liu Shiguang in the past was made panicked, and they all thought that they were no longer trusted by the imperial court.
It was at this time that Liu Yu's puppet regime sowed discord and lured some of the generals of Liu Shiguang's army with high-ranking officials.
Therefore, on August 8 of the seventh year of Shaoxing, Liu Shiguang's former subordinate Wang Shizhong and others led an army of more than 40,000 people and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to surrender to Liu Yu's puppet regime. This is the famous Huaixi Mutiny in the history of the Great Song Dynasty. ā
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