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In a place called "Longqi Slope", the Jinwu army encountered the blocking position of the Song Jiang rebel army for the first time.

Hearing the news that Xu Meng had returned, Cai still personally followed Tabai to check the situation of this Song Jiang rebel army.

As Xu Meng silently came to the back of a small mound, Cai still picked up his glasses to observe the group of rebels.

After careful observation for a while, Cai was still sure that this group of Song Jiang rebels should only have about 100 people, and there was no horse army, and from the other party's posture as if facing a great enemy, Cai could still be sure that the other party must have discovered their Jin Wu army, and it was probably because they were afraid that the Jin Wu army's horse army would bite and kill them, so they had to occupy the favorable terrain on the slope to snipe the Jin Wu army.

Cai still quickly returned to his headquarters, and then called his five heads to discuss how to pull out the position.

After discussing with the five heads for a while, Cai still quickly formulated a plan for the attack.

The two all attacked from the front under the leadership of Dutou Niu Gao, the third attacked from the left under the leadership of Dutou Wang Sheng, and the four attacked from the right under the leadership of Dutou Zhang Yu.

The officers of the Jinwu Army were all selected by Cai through layers of selection.

But—

Although Cai still boasts that he is fair, in fact, Cai is still somewhat tendentious, Zhang Xian and Wang De will not talk about it, only say that Niu Gao, the capital of the second capital, and Wang Sheng, the capital of the third capital, there is no absolute fairness in the two of them.

It can be said that as soon as Niu Gao and Wang Sheng entered the Jinwu Army, they were closely watched by Cai Zhen.

Why?

The reason, of course, is that Cai still has an impression of these two names, no, to be more precise, Cai can still be sure who they are.

The former, but a very core character in "The Biography of Yue Fei", children know it.

It's just that in "The Legend of Yue Fei", Niu Gao is a joke with a big grinning gag, and he has a fight with Cheng Biting Jin in "Speaking of Tang".

And the real Niu Gao, it can also be said that it is the Niu Gao in history, but he is not such a person, he is not only strong in martial arts, but also knows the art of war very well, and is resourceful, he is a very powerful tiger general.

Historically.

After the invasion of the Jin army, Niu Gao joined the anti-Jin team to defend his hometown, because of his superb archery skills, Niu Gao was an archer at the beginning, and performed his military exploits.

As a result, the cow gao quickly stood out.

Because of his strong martial arts and bold and upright, after the main force was disabled, Niu Gao kicked high and shouted, and the responders gathered.

After that, Niu Gao organized the people to block the Jin army in the area of Pingdingshan, and won many victories.

Later, Niu Gao was promoted to Bao Yilang by virtue of merit.

When Du Chong was staying in Tokyo, Niu Gao crusaded against the powerful thief Kou Yang Jin in Lushan, won three battles and won three battles, and was repeatedly promoted to the commander of the Rongzhou Assassin and the Chinese army.

The Jin army attacked Jingxi again, and Niu Gao won more than ten battles with the enemy, and was promoted to the training envoy of the Guozhou regiment.

The Jin army attacked Jiangxi, retreated north from Jingmen, Niu Gao led his troops to ambush in Song Village in Baofeng, defeated the Jin army, promoted the defense envoy of Hezhou, and served as the commander of the five armies.

Niu Gao fought with the Jin general Jin at the Dengjiaqiao in Lushan, defeated the Jin, and was transferred to the Western Road Envoy.

The puppet Qi asked Jin to invade the Southern Song Dynasty, Niu Gao set up an ambush in a dangerous place, personally led a large army to be stationed in Danxia to wait for the invading enemy, and then set up an ambush to capture the enemy general Zheng Wu'er, and was promoted to the Anzhou observation envoy, and soon served as Cai, Tangzhou, Xinyang military town envoy, and knew Caizhou.

It is not difficult to see from these brilliant resumes that Niu Gao is brave and strategic, and he is a general in commanding the army, not a comedian.

And that's exactly what happened.

Later, Yue Fei was in charge of military affairs in Jiangxi and Hubei, and decided to march into the Central Plains by Xianghan to recover the lost territory, Niu Gao went to Lin'an to meet Zhao Gou, and Chen Liu Yu was defeated, and the Central Plains could be restored.

After joining the Yue family's army, Niu Gao and the Yue's army were all like fish in water.

Niu Gao was older than Yue Fei and had outstanding military exploits, so he was quite respected by Yue Fei.

Since joining the Yuejia Army, Niu Gao has been serving as the deputy commander of the Yuejia Army, and Yue and Niu have fought side by side, writing a singing and crying history of resistance to Jin.

Capture Wang Song alive, capture Yang Qi alive, four defeats of Jin Wushu, later Jin people on the battlefield to see Niu Gao, are very awe-inspiring, often without a fight and collapse, under the command of Yue Fei, Niu Gao led the troops invincible, straight to the Yellow River, in the attack on Xuchang, Bianjing in many battles, born into death, won many battles, for the recovery of the Central Plains lost land made a great contribution, because the credit is the greatest, Niu Gao was promoted to the command of the four compartments of the Tianwu Dynasty, Cheng German army Cheng Xuan envoy, the privy council to Niu Gao to manage all affairs.

Niu Gao in history did not "laugh to death Niu Gao, angry to death Vultures" and Jin Wushu died together, but was poisoned by Qin Hui - after Qin Hui killed Yue Fei, Niu Gao was indignant about Yue Fei's unjust death, and resolutely opposed Song Jinyi and advocated going north to restore the Central Plains, and repeatedly offended Qin Hui, so Qin Hui secretly ordered Tian Shizhong to use poisoned wine to kill Niu Gao in the name of banqueting generals from all walks of life.

Before he died, Niu Gao said sadly and angrily: "Niu Gao is sixty-one years old, and the official is enough to serve as an attendant, and what I hate is the peace between the north and the south, so that I can't die under the eaves of the horse-leather shrouded body!" ”

The general's temperament is high through the ages, and the heroic wind accompanies the king of Hubei. The clouds on the ridge increase generosity, and the wind and rain in the cave are desolate. The tears and weeds give birth to red medicine, and the bones and green mountains turn into phoenixes. The old juniper still has a grudge, why bother to the field.

This Niu Gao is not weaker than Zhang Xian and Wang De's generals.

Moreover, the Niu Gao people are also loyal.

Let's ask, how can Cai still not treat Niu Gao differently?

As for Wang Sheng, although his reputation is not as good as Niu Gao, Zhang Xian, and even Wang De, his ability and character are not inferior to Niu Gao, Zhang Xian, and Wang De.

Everyone knows the Yue family general, but they don't know that there is also the Han family general.

There are Niu Gao and Zhang Xian in the Yue family, and Wang Sheng and Xie Yuan in the Han family.

Wang Sheng's status in the Han family army is almost the same as Zhang Xian's status in the Yue family army.

Wang Sheng in history, nicknamed "Black Dragon", he is the second oldest general in the Han army, he followed Han Shizhong to fight in the south and the north, and fought many big battles, which can be described as invincible.

Moreover, Wang Sheng was not only brave in battle, but also upright, after he captured Haizhou, he did not commit any crimes against the people, and was highly praised by the people.

What's more, Wang Sheng is famous for his loyalty - as loyal as Zhang Xian.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Gou Yubi personally awarded Zhao Xuan (Zhao Gou's adopted son) the defense envoy of Hezhou to Jieyue and was named the Duke of Wu. Zhao Ding objected, saying that the founding prince of Zhao Ying (also Zhao Gou's health, that is, later Song Xiaozong) was a small country, but Zhao Xuan was a big country, and advocated that Zhao Ying should be given a festival, or a small country of the first class, in order to reassure people. Zhao Gou said: "They are all children, and they are released." But in the end, at the insistence of Zhao Ding and others, Zhao Gou had to retract his fate of sealing Zhao Xuan as Wu Guogong.

Qin Hui seized this opportunity to slander and said: "Zhao Ding wants to establish a prince, which is tantamount to saying that His Majesty will never have a son again in his life." You should wait until Your Majesty has a son of your own before appointing a prince. ”

Qin Hui also instructed Wang Ciweng to take a walk and spread the rumor that Zhao Ding wanted Zhao to establish the crown prince.

It can be said that Qin Hui saw it very accurately, Zhao Gou's weakness was that he couldn't have children, and what he hated the most at that time was that others proposed to establish a prince (Yue Fei also committed this taboo of Zhao Gou).

Sure enough, soon Zhao Ding was demoted to the Xinghua Army, and soon he was exiled to Chaozhou, and later, under the persecution of Qin Hui, Zhao Ding died of hunger strike.

After Zhao Ding left the court, Qin Hui took power.

Under Qin Hui's persuasion, Zhao Gou chose to negotiate peace with the Jin people despite the fact that his mother, queen, and five daughters were taken away by the Jin people and humiliated in the Jin country.

At that time, Han Shizhong led the army to surround Huaiyang, which was occupied by the Jin army, and defeated the Jin army that came to help in the town of Lukou, and at the same time, Han Shizhong sent his generals Xie Yuan and Liu Bao to break the Jin army in Tancheng and Qianqiu Lake respectively.

The situation is so good, Han Shizhong is ready to expand the team, plan ahead, and even want to cross the Yellow River and smash the Yellow Dragon in one fell swoop.

But at this time, Han Shizhong's military career came to an abrupt end.

Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and others wanted to negotiate peace with Jin Guo and faced several problems, that is, the "several major warlords" at that time, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Wu Jue, Liu Qi, Yang Yi and others, among them, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei, who had the heaviest military power at that time, were headed by Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei - At that time, most of the military people such as Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, and Wu Jue were in the main battle, and if they did not remove the military power in their hands, the matter of negotiating peace would not be truly implemented at all. Yue Fei and others will lead the troops to rebel.

(Wu Jue took over Shuzhong, and if Shu broke, the Southern Song Dynasty would die, and Wu Jue was hard and soft and hard to deal with, Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and others planned for a long time, and finally did not dare to move Wu Jue, but after Wu Jue's death, the military power in Shu was divided into three and many preventive measures were implemented.) ）

As a result, Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and others began to plot to recover the military power in the hands of Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others.

Soon after, Zhao Gosheng, Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong were privy envoys, and Yue Fei was appointed deputy privy envoys.

Zhang Jun figured out Zhao Gou's intentions and guessed that Zhao Gou's move was to take back the military power in their hands, so he first asked for the military power of the Xuanfu Division, and Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and others took advantage of the situation to dismiss the three Xuanfu Divisions (Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Yue Fei successively served as Xuanfu envoys and deputy envoys, and were the commanders of the three major military regions in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, known as the "Three Xuanfu Divisions"). ), also received the military power of Han Shizhong and Yue Fei.

Zhang Jun not only handed over the military power himself, but also helped Zhao Gou and Qin Hui plan to implement the recovery of Han Shizhong and Yue Fei's military power.

After some planning, Zhang Jun and Yue Fei went to Han Shizhong's military camp together to force Han Shizhong to hand over his military power.

At that time, Wang Sheng was not angry that Han Shizhong had fought for the country for many years but ended up in this fate, so he led the army to meet Zhang Jun outside the city, and even revealed his intention to kill Zhang Jun.

Later, Zhang Jun was alert and saw that Wang Sheng was going to kill him, and said good things, plus Han Shizhong had seen the situation at that time, and offered his savings of 1 million guan of military reserve money, 900,000 stones of rice and 15 wine cellars, and promised to return to Beijing with Zhang Jun and others, and Zhang Jun escaped.

However, since then, Zhang Jun has also hated Wang Sheng.

Zhang Jun knew that Wang Sheng and Wang De did not deal with each other, so he transferred Wang Sheng to Wang De and tried to kill Wang Sheng by Wang De's hand.

I don't want to, Wang Dezhi is a hero and a hero, and when he saw Wang Sheng, he said happily: "I'm Wang Yasha, you are Wang Heilong, who can go on a blind date if it's not me?" ”

After Han Shizhong handed over the military power, he closed his door to greet guests, kept his mouth silent, often rode a donkey and carried wine, took one or two servants, and indulged in visiting the West Lake, even his former subordinates were rarely able to see him.

Only Wang Sheng sneaked back to meet Han Shizhong, Han Shizhong not only met Wang Sheng, but also mediated for Wang Sheng, so that Wang Sheng worshiped Wang Jixian, the first favorite minister of Zhao Gou at that time, as his father-in-law, so that Wang Sheng could be promoted.

It's a pity that Wang Sheng died not long after he was promoted, and he missed the Song-Jin War a few years later, otherwise, he might be able to leave a heavier mark in history.

Don't talk about that, just say that Wang Sheng not only gained Han Shizhong's trust in the army, but later Han Shizhong stopped asking about the world and was still helping Wang Sheng plan.

Why?

Of course, it is because Han Shizhong, who has seen the cold state of the world and has lived to understand it, still affirms Wang Sheng's character, Wang Sheng's ability, and Wang Sheng's loyalty to him.

Such a person is exactly what Cai still needs most.

Moreover, the most rare thing is that Wang Sheng's loyalty, like Zhang Xian, is more to the individual than the country.

Let's ask, after such a Wang Sheng entered Cai Ying's field of vision, how could Cai still not pay attention to him, how could he not promote him, and how could he not reuse him?

It was also a coincidence that Niu Gao and Wang Sheng both signed up on the day Cai was still recruited.

Under Cai Ying's close attention, Niu Gao and Wang Sheng, who were already extremely outstanding, quickly defeated others to serve as the heads of the second and third capitals respectively, and soon became Cai Zhen's cronies.

As for the head of the fourth capital, Zhang Yu, it was completely selected by Cai still through layers of screening.

Before Zhang Yu was called, he was a butcher in Fushui County, killing pigs and selling meat in the market.

Zhang Yu was not ready to be called up as a soldier.

However, the world is unpredictable.

Once, when Zhang Yu was catching pigs, he met a woman from a good family in the county.

Zhang Yu couldn't get used to it, so he helped.

The splash skin did not give up, Zhang Yu accidentally beat the splash skin to death, ate the lawsuit, and then was sent to Yangwu County.

When Cai was still recruiting, Zhang Lu, in order to change the fate of his prisoners, came to explain his own identity and said that he wanted to give it a try.

Cai still liked Zhang Yu's honesty, so he let Zhang Yu give it a try.

No, Zhang Yu immediately lifted the heaviest stone lock that Cai Ying had prepared for the assessment - it turned out that this Zhang Yu was born with divine power.

As a result, Cai still naturally accepted Zhang Yu.

Later, Zhang Yu relied on his own talent and hard work to break out of the encirclement step by step, and finally became the head of the fourth capital.

In order to completely subdue Zhang Yu and let Zhang Yu die for his own use, Cai still deliberately found someone to make money to eliminate Zhang Lu's punishment, and sent someone to take Zhang Lu's family to Yangwu County.

After discussing with Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Wang Sheng, Zhang Yu, and Wang De, Cai still decided to attack this group of Song Jiang rebels - first, this gang of rebels was small, and it was not elite at first glance, it was likely to be a group of fishermen and peasants with knives and guns, and it was not difficult to defeat. Second, Cai still wants to let the soldiers of the Jinwu army see the blood, and then take a look at what problems exist in the Jinwu army now, and then correct them in time, so as not to break out after encountering a real strong enemy in the future and face a catastrophe of annihilation.

Soon, Niu Gao, Wang Sheng, and Zhang Yu took their respective soldiers to the designated combat position.

And Cai Yi, Zhang Xian, Wang De and others are also ready to respond......

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