General Meng?

Jia Rudao glanced back at Shi Xiang suspiciously, listening to the meaning of this article, he seemed to know this General Meng.

"Brother Zong Sheng's General Meng shouldn't be General Meng Heng Meng, who has just been promoted to the pacification envoy of Hubei Road and destroyed Caizhou City to destroy Jin, right?" At this time, Yu Ci suddenly said.

"Brother Zisheng also knows General Meng? That's right, if it's not bad as expected, this must be General Meng who returned to Beijing to face the saint. Shi Xiang glanced at Yu Ci in surprise, and said with a straight face.

Meng Hui? It turned out to be Meng Hui?

Hearing the conversation between the two, Jia Rudao couldn't help but be shocked.

The history after the Southern Song Dynasty crossed to the south is not long or short, and in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially after the outbreak of the Song-Mongolian War, if you want to study the Southern Song Dynasty, you will definitely not be able to avoid one person, and that person is Meng Hui.

Today's Jia Nidao is also clear about the general historical trend of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it is far from being detailed. Only Meng Heng can be said to be the person he is most familiar with.

Strictly speaking, Meng Hui, a military strategist, commander, and famous general who resisted the Jin and Yuan dynasties and was not inferior to Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others in his contribution to the Great Song Dynasty, was far less prominent than the previous two, especially Yue Fei.

In later generations, he first learned about Meng Heng from a Russian.

Unlike his reputation in China, Meng Heng has a great reputation abroad and a large number of loyal fans. There are even many military historians in many countries who specialize in studying Meng Hui's tactics against the Mongol cavalry, and have published many books on this purpose.

In later generations, Meng Heng's title of "Master of Mobile Defense" was first given to him by foreigners.

From the beginning of the 13th century to the middle of the 13th century, the Southern Song Dynasty, which had crossed to the south after the Jingkang Revolution, fought fierce national wars with the declining Jurchen Jin State and the emerging Mongol Khanate.

In this more than 100-year-long history of the magnificent and golden iron horse, Meng Heng can be said to be one of the most representative figures of the Great Song Dynasty during this period.

He started from an ordinary junior officer, and his father Meng Zongzheng became a famous anti-Jin general step by step by virtue of his military exploits, and later led the army to break through the capital of the Jin State, personally captured the remains of the last monarch of the Jin State, and washed away the shame of Jingkang that pressed on tens of millions of people in the Great Song Dynasty.

In the early ten years of the Song-Mongolian War, Meng Hui single-handedly commanded one-third of the war on the entire Southern Song Dynasty on the Second World War front, led the Song army to fight bloodily, and resisted the Mongol iron cavalry that had swept across the Eurasian continent at that time, ensuring that the Southern Song Dynasty, which was already extremely weak militarily, survived the first ten years of the Song-Mongolian War.

And it is precisely because of the large-scale integrated defense system based on Jingxiang that Meng Hui has established in the past ten years that the national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty have been extended for half a century.

In this half century, on the Eurasian continent, one by one, the world's great powers, such as the most powerful Arab (Khwarazm, etc.), and the Persian Empire were all destroyed under the hooves of the Mongols, but only the Southern Song Dynasty, which was in a remote corner, resisted the Mongol army for half a century.

It can be said that if it were not for Meng Hui, the Southern Song Dynasty might not have been the opponent of the Mongol iron cavalry army that had swept across Eurasia for a round.

In later generations of China, the most widely circulated deeds about Meng Heng may be the "Picture After Tasting".

In 1234, Meng Hui led the army to break through Caizhou City, captured the body of Jin Aizong Wanyan Shouxu who hanged himself, and captured the queen who did not have time to commit suicide in Jin Aizong.

And this "After Tasting Picture" is said to depict the picture of Meng Hui and a cadre of Song and Mongolian soldiers, and the last queen of the Jin Kingdom.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that Meng Hui's reputation is far less than that of Yue Fei and even Han Shizhong in China. Judging from thousands of years of thinking in China, insulting the queen, although she is the queen of the enemy country with a deep hatred, is still a little disrespectful and overstepping.

But no matter what, this cannot hide the reputation that Meng Heng deserves as a national hero. What's more, in addition to the matter of the Empress of the Jin Kingdom, Meng Hui is a well-deserved great national hero to the Song people and even the Great Song Dynasty, both in terms of morality and military exploits.

Jia Rudao never imagined that he would meet such a legendary figure who was about to become a pillar of the Great Song Dynasty and supported half of the country alone.

In order to resist the Mongol invasion in the south, the Southern Song Dynasty set up four major theaters from north to south, namely Sichuan-Shu, Jingxiang (also known as Jinghu), Huaixi, and Huaidong.

Before Meng Hui took over as the Hubei pacification envoy, the position of the Jinghu envoy, the supreme commander of the Jinghu Theater of the Central Theater, had been vacant since Shi Song went to the field two years ago, so Meng Hui, the Hubei pacification envoy, was already the de facto commander of the Jinghu Theater.

However, if I am not mistaken, at this time, it should be the stage of the second large-scale southern invasion of the Song Dynasty by the Mongols, and Meng Hui, as the commander of the battlefield in the middle of the Great Song Dynasty, can he leave his post and return to Lin'an City without permission?

"Shouldn't General Meng lead his troops to fight against the Mongols at this time? Why did you return to Lin'an City at this time? Could it not be him? ”

Thinking of this, Jia seemed to be puzzled.

"Hehe, Brother Shixian doesn't know, last year, the Mongolian Zong King Kou Wen Buhua, the general Zhang Rou besieged Huangzhou City, General Meng personally led the troops from Ezhou to rush to the aid to open the bloody road into Huangzhou City, and achieved a great victory in Huangzhou, and the Mongols who were killed and wounded eight or nine times out of ten have withdrawn at this time. General Meng returned to Ancheng to present the war to the Holy Lord, and Zong Sheng had heard his father talk about this matter a few days ago, so he was so sure. ”

Shi Xiang explained to Jia Rudao with a smile.

Shi Songzhi is Meng Hui's old boss, and he has always been extremely appreciative and friendly to Meng Hui, which is not a secret in the Great Song Dynasty. It has also been mentioned in the history books of later generations.

When Shi Songzhi was appointed as the envoy of the Jinghu system, it was the time when the Great Song Dynasty Alliance destroyed Jin, and at that time, Meng Heng was already a general under Shi Songzhi, and he was deeply appreciated by Shi Songzhi, which was also the main reason why Meng Heng was able to lead the army to attack Caizhou City.

Now that Shi Songzhi is the governor and the deputy envoy of the privy council, the major affairs of the DPRK and China are naturally very clear, since Shi Songzhi said that Meng Heng will return to Lin'an City, it is not wrong to think about it.

"Brother Zongsheng ......"

"Whew!"

A sharp and piercing whistle suddenly resounded through the noisy royal street, interrupting Jia Yidao's words and swallowing them back.

Jia Rudao looked in the direction where the whistle came from suspiciously, but he didn't notice that Shi Xiang and Yu Ci around him had already changed their faces when they heard the whistle.

"Bad ......"

Before the words fell, more than ten black shadows suddenly burst out from the attics on both sides of the hustle and bustle avenue, and there were also seemingly countless black shadows in the originally bustling crowd, dragging the cold cold light and silently bursting towards the advancing Meng Heng horse team.

The sword light in the sky reflected a dazzling and icy cold glow in the sunlight.

The avenue, which was originally crowded and noisy, but orderly, instantly turned into a pot of porridge.

The next moment, the miserable blood flowers bloomed suddenly......