Chapter 20: Solving Doubts
"Qin Hui?" The crowd's eyes widened in disbelief.
Chen Wen knew this would be the result for a long time, because he was the same when he first read this history. "That's right, it's Qin Hui. At that time, Qin Hui was not as traitorous as he was later, but people would change. No one is born a traitor, and this is entirely a choice made when the catastrophe is imminent. ”
"For example, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the king of Songshan was defeated in the battle of Songshan, and the commander Hong Chengchou was captured. At that time, no matter whether they were close to the virtuous or foolish, everyone believed that Hong Chengchou would be righteous and not disgraced, and even the Lie Emperor personally wrote a sacrificial text and gave nine altars. But who would have thought that the thief not only descended the Tartars, but also climbed into the bed of the Queen Mother of the Tartars, and became brothers with the same boots as the Nanu Chief Taiji. ”
Chongzhen's memorial to Hong Chengchou is indeed a thing, and some people in later generations often use this matter to ridicule Hong Chengchou. And Da Yuer's seduction is from the wild history, of course, the official history will not write this. But after the baptism of the overwhelming Qing historical dramas in later generations, no one in the TV drama audience of Chen Wen's era who has watched the braided drama does not know the story of the three brothers in Xiaozhuang's bed.
It's just that this is sensational now, and Chen Wen wants this sensationalism, because this is what they are willing to accept.
"Hong Chengchou slept with the Queen Mother of the Tartars?" As Chen Wen expected, this explosive information directly blinded everyone.
Chen Wen said in a natural tone: "Exactly, at that time, the Tartar Empress Dowager was still Concubine Zhuang, and she was the concubine of the Slave Chief Emperor Taiji. I overheard this news from the mouths of the real Tartars of Beizhili, who were eating wine in the tavern. Originally, I only thought it was a joke, but then I heard other Tartars say it a few times, which can be described as a common word, so I dare to believe it. ”
This kind of peach-colored gossip is really more eye-catching than the story itself, and I saw that the group of men actually discussed it on their own, and the fierceness was no less than the debate in foreign parliaments in later generations.
"Shut your mouth up to Lao Tzu!" I saw Wu Dengke's face full of anger and stood up suddenly. "You have an egg for arguing here, and when you catch that thief in the future, you can naturally ask for clarification!"
Be ambitious!
However, Chen Wen knew that Hong Chengchou had not been captured again in history. Although he was condemned when he was alive and was later condemned by the Qing government as a retainer and satirized, his former home became a base for patriotic education in the new society.
He probably didn't think of such a thing himself.
Putting aside this obviously off-topic thought, Chen Wen secretly thought to himself, he couldn't let them continue like this, he had to bring the topic back, otherwise his reputation for erudition would not spread, and the reputation of the prostitute would be known to everyone.
After Wu Dengke stopped everyone's discussion, Chen Wen continued: "I remember that the great poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote a poem like this: Giving the king a way to solve the doubts, there is no need to drill the turtle and wish the yarrow. The test jade should be burned for three days, and the material must be aged for seven years. Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the time. Xiang Envoy died that year, and who knows the truth of his life. ”
"From now on, it seems that it should be on these two dog traitors who don't want ancestors."
Seeing that everyone was deep in thought, Chen Wen paused and continued: "At this time, Song Gaozong, who was still King Kang at the time, was recruiting troops in Hebei and trying to relieve the siege of Bianliang. Yue Fei, who had just returned to his hometown from the Pingding Army, witnessed the killing and enslavement of the people after the Jin people entered the Kou, and under the indignation in his heart, he wanted to join the army and drive out the Tartars. However, he was worried that his mother was old, his wife and children were weak, and it was difficult for him to settle down in the troubled times, so he hesitated. ”
Seeing this, Yue Fei's mother Yao actively encouraged Yue Fei to "serve the country from Rong", and tattooed the words 'loyal to the country' on his back as a guide. Yue Fei remembered his mother's teachings, said goodbye to his relatives, and went to join the army to resist gold. Since then, the history of China has finally ushered in a hero who has turned the tide. ”
"Serve the country with loyalty? Mr. Chen, shouldn't it be loyal to the country? New questions have emerged, and Chen Wen is happy to answer them, because the impression will be even deeper.
"I used to spend a long time looking at history books and asking a lot of people I knew about it. The final conclusion is that the story of the mother-in-law's tattoo was actually not recorded in the Song Dynasty, and even Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke's work did not have a relevant record. This incident first appeared in the "History of the Song Dynasty" by the Yuan Dynasty. As for serving the country with loyalty, you can check it, that is a popular statement from the words of this dynasty in this novel, and it is even more unbelievable. ”
"On the first day of the fifth month of the second year of Jingkang, King Kang was the emperor in Shangqiu, today's Guide Mansion, which was for Song Gaozong and changed to Yuan Jianyan. During this period, Yue Fei successively participated in the battle against the Jin people in the Generalissimo's Mansion of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, Zhang Suo, the envoy of Hebei West Road, and Wang Yan, a famous anti-Jin general, and won a great victory in Xinxiang. ”
Later, Yue Fei and Wang Yan disagreed on the strategy of using troops, and led his troops to accept the leadership of Zongze, who stayed in Tokyo. Zong Zeqi was extremely capable and quickly stabilized the situation. And Yue Fei also relied on his courage, strategy and bravery, and constantly killed thieves and made meritorious contributions, thus getting promoted. ”
However, the good times did not last long, and Zong Ze wrote to Song Gaozong Zhao Gou twenty-four times in a row, strongly advocating the return of the capital to Tokyo, and formulated a strategy to recover the Central Plains, but none of them were adopted. He became ill because of his ambition and grief, and finally died on July 12 of the second year of Jianyan, and died on his deathbed three times "crossing the river". Later, it was also the son of Zong Ze and Yue Fei who helped the coffin to Zhenjiang together. ”
"By the way, this loyal old hero Zong Ze and Brother Wu are fellow villagers and from Yiwu County, Jinhua Prefecture."
"Huh?" Wu Dengke was not surprised by Chen Wen's surprise, but it was not only Wu Dengke who showed a look of surprise, at least half of the more than 40 people present were like this.
This made Chen Wen cry and laugh, no wonder Wu Dengke was so concerned about this matter, most of the more than 40 people who co-authored it should be his fellow countrymen. That is, I bought it in front of myself, and added friendship with my fellow villagers, which is really a double win.
However, Zong Ze's successor, Du Chong, did not have his ability. It didn't take long for the Song army, which had just begun to stabilize the situation and attempt the Northern Expedition, to usher in successive defeats, losing two large cities of Bianliang and Jiankang, which is today's Nanjing City. Not long after Jiankang was lost, Du Chong lowered his gold. ”
During this period, some generals moved the idea of investing in gold under the mood of defeat, so they elected Yue Fei, who was already quite famous at that time, to invest in gold as the head coach. Yue Fei pretended to agree, took advantage of his unpreparedness, fought with him, and killed dozens of people in a row, and all the troops who were ready to invest in gold were all frightened, and then Yue Fei admonished, and the army was at ease. ”
After hearing this, many people in the audience expressed their sincere admiration for Yue Fei's courage and resourcefulness. When the threshing floor was quiet again, Chen Wen's tone gradually stirred.
"In February of the fourth year of Jianyan, after the commander of the Jin army, Yan Zongbi, after chasing Song Gaozong for 300 miles, found that he really couldn't outrun this long-legged son, so the commander plundered Lin'an, Mingzhou and other places, preparing to return to the Jin country to enjoy happiness. As a result, when passing through Changzhou, he was blocked by Yue Fei. It was a battle, Yue Fei won four battles and four victories, and captured eleven people including Jinren Wanhu. Well, that Wanyan Zongbi is the anti-No. 2 Golden Vulture in Romance. ”
"Well, who is that No. 1?"
At this time, I only heard the man who was called Yin Ergou by Wu Dengke immediately sneered: "Stupid, the anti-number one must be Qin Hui's dog thief." Then, he turned to Chen Wen and asked, "Yes, Mr. Chen." ”
"Exactly."
After getting Chen Wen's definite answer, the man raised his eyebrows, and his face was full of arrogance as if to say: "Look, you second dog brother I am also a knowledgeable person." ”
After the Changzhou Blockade, Yue Fei was ordered to recover Jiankang with Han Shizhong, who was stationed in Zhenjiang at the time. At this time, Han Shizhong fought a decisive battle with Wanyan Zongbi in Huang Tiandang, in this battle, Han Shizhong's wife Liang Hongyu personally beat the drum to help the battle, and the morale of the Song army was finally defeated by 100,000 Jin troops with 8,000 soldiers, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Tartars. ”
"Good!"
"Mr. Chen said it so well, Liang Hongyu is a heroine among women."
"King Han Qi is also discerning."
Seeing that Han Shizhong's limelight was completely suppressed by his wife here, Chen Wen was not surprised at all, almost everyone has the mentality of curiosity, and Liang Hongyu is indeed worthy of the four words of heroine.
"Actually, the name Liang Hongyu was given by Zhang Siwei during the Wanli period of this dynasty, and the previous history books only said that it was the Liang family, and the name was not recorded."
"Oh."
"After Huang Tiandang's victory, Wanyan Zongbi was blocked by Han Shizhong in Huang Tiandang for forty-eight days, hungry and cold, and finally relied on traitors to dig through the Qinhuai River, and managed to burn the sails of the Song warships, so he barely escaped."
Hearing this, everyone in front of them seemed to feel a little sorry. As a modern person, Chen Wen could not assess what the final result would have been if the Jin army was blocked in Jiangnan under the circumstances at that time, but this did not prevent him from adding fuel to the fire.
I saw that his words changed. "In fact, there are many such examples, such as the bloody battle of the Hunhe River that happened in this dynasty."
"In March of the first year of the Apocalypse, on the bank of the Hunhe River in Shenyang, in order to cover the formation of the Zhejiang army behind them, three thousand Sichuan white pole soldiers resolutely crossed the Hunhe River from the pontoon bridge and lined up on the north bank."
At this time, the Tartars besieging Shenyang saw the arrival of the king's division and immediately sent a white flag to meet the battle. To the surprise of the Tartars, the always fierce Zhengbai Banner collapsed in front of the Sichuan army. Seeing this, the old slave had to send the Zhenghuang Banner led by him to fight, and he was also defeated. In the two attacks, the Tartars suffered more than 2,000 casualties. ”
"If things develop according to the normal situation, the Sichuan army covers the formation of the Zhejiang army, and the two divisions converge, and the Tartars are not enough. If the old slave withdraws, he may only lose part of his troops; If it is a strong charge, it is still uncertain whether it will survive. ”
"However, just when the Tartars had no way to take the Sichuan army, the traitor Li Yongfang bribed the captured gunners in Shenyang, opened fire on the Sichuan army's large array, and blasted the military formation, and then the Tartars swarmed up, the Sichuan army was defeated, and finally only a small number of Sichuan troops retreated back to the south bank."
After defeating the Sichuan army, the Tartars crossed the Hunhe River to meet the Zhejiang army chariot formation, which had just completed the formation. The chariot array was a sharp weapon used by Qi Shaobao to fight against the Mongolian Tatar cavalry, but in the case of the Sichuan army's fiasco, the Zhejiang army's chariot array was thin in hand-to-hand combat. ”
But even so, the soldiers of the Zhejiang army still stood still, relying on the chariot formation to constantly repel the attack of the Tartars. So the Tartars continued to draw reinforcements, and later even the garrison troops of Shenyang City were also withdrawn, only to break through the car formation when the Zhejiang army was exhausted. ”
The Tartars cheered when they saw that they had broken through the rook, but when they saw what was going on behind the rook, the excitement of winning immediately vanished. Because after the car formation, there is one mandarin duck formation after another composed of the surviving Zhejiang army soldiers with the sentry as a unit. ”
"Relying on the Mandarin Duck Formation handed down by Qi Shaobao, the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army, who are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, fought bravely, and wherever the Mandarin Duck Formation went, the Tartars were flesh and blood. However, the rapid march and fierce fighting for two consecutive days before caused physical exhaustion, which made the soldiers of the Zhejiang army fall continuously, and fell forever on the cold black soil of Liaodong. ”
Until the end, the Zhejiang army, which was only about a fraction of the strength of the Tartars from the very beginning, was left with only the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua and Qi Shaobao's nephew Qi Jin, as well as dozens of wounded Zhejiang soldiers. At this moment, the sun is setting, the exhausted Tartars can no longer muster the courage to rush up to fight, under the order of the old slave, the Tartars fired ten thousand arrows, Tong Zongbing and General Qi and others were all martyred, and no one surrendered. ”
It's not enough to feel sorry, hatred is impressive.
The Zhejiang army that participated in the bloody battle of Hunhe River was all from the new Qi family army reorganized by General Qi Jin in accordance with Qi Jiguang's training method, and most of these people came from Dongyang and Yiwu counties in Jinhua Prefecture, and most of them had a relationship with the people in front of them. In Chen Wen's view, this is more likely to produce the sadness of the rabbit and the fox.
"During this period, the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua successively asked for help from Li Bingcheng, the chief soldier of Fengji Fort, Zhu Wanliang, the chief soldier of Hupiyi, and Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaodong, who were already close to the battlefield, but not even one of them reached the battlefield."
"Are Tartars strong? Very strong. Is it really invincible? I don't believe it! At least the martyrs who died on the banks of the Hunhe River proved to us that Tartars are also human beings, and Lao Tzu would have to die if he stabbed him into it! ”
"If there were no traitors to open the Sichuan army's array, if even only one of the Liaodong governors and reinforcements stood up to meet these Zhejiang army soldiers, the battle of Shenyang would not have been like this. If this were not the case, the things of this world would not have developed to the way they are today. ”
But it was these dog traitors and cowards of the Liao army that led to the annihilation of the Zhejiang army, and it was these dog traitors and cowards of the Liao army that ruined state affairs and made more people pay the price of their lives because of their greed, selfishness and cowardice. And when they had done all this, they lay down like pugs at the feet of the tartars and licked and ate the scraps that had fallen off them. ”
Chen Wen knew very well that what he said was actually extremely one-sided.
Since the Liao incident, countless Liaodong soldiers have died on the battlefield in order to recover their homeland, but there are more Liao troops who are constantly betraying their teammates for their own interests, such as the Sichuan army and the Zhejiang army in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the Qin army in the battle of Songshan and the Ming army of the previous aid to Liao are bloody examples.
Among them, as the culmination of the knowledge of selling teammates, the two uncles and nephews of Guan Ning's "pit father" iron horseman, Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, did not even let go of their own relatives. And after they sold everything they could, this group of scum did not hesitate to shave their heads and went to be slaves to the Manchu slave owners in a proper manner.
Thinking about Wu Sangui's later opposition to the Qing Dynasty and becoming emperor, it is really embarrassing. It is also a miracle that a person can become a winner in life by selling his teammates. But if you think about the result of his defeat, it is clear that he won't play this game if he doesn't sell his teammates.
Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Wen, who had originally planned to use Yue Fei's recovery of the six counties of Xiangyang as the end point of today, had to give up this idea.
It's really a plan that can't keep up with the changes.
It's just that the people in front of him are still sitting on the ground in silence, completely ignoring the anger when they talk about Jingkang's shame and the excitement of Huang Tiandang's victory, which makes Chen Wen doubt the effect of today's speech.
However, the past cannot be reversed, and since this is already the case today, let's look at tomorrow.
"It's not early today, so you'd better go back first, it's hard to walk late at night. If you want to listen more, each person will bring a firewood tomorrow, and light a bonfire so that you will not be hurt by the mountain wind at night. ”
After that, Chen Wen bowed his hand and walked towards the Sun family by himself, as if he had no intention of paying attention to everyone at all.
Back at Sun's house, Chen Wen hurriedly met the Sun family, and didn't have the heart to talk to Sun Yu about anything, so he went to sleep.