Chapter 57: Great Change
Picking up the two letters that Chen Lanruo threw on the ground, Wang Shen looked at her departing back, his heart had a thousand feelings, his lips moved, but he couldn't speak. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
He was not in a hurry to read Li Cheng's emergency military report, but unfolded An Niang's handwritten letter.
This is the first time he has seen the words written by An Niang, but he saw that the letter paper was neat and beautiful, which was really like his words, obviously long in this way, which made people's eyes light up.
As far as he knows, Yue Fei was born in an ordinary peasant family in Tangyin, Henan, and in the era of illiteracy, it is indeed amazing that a peasant woman can write such a good hand.
Thinking about it again, Yue Feiyue's grandfather can be literate and martial, and the "Man Jianghong" he said is even more famous through the ages. As for his calligraphy, judging from the only surviving four characters of "return my rivers and mountains", it is strong and powerful, and it is a generation of masters. With such a father, the daughter's handwriting can be worse.
"Brother Wang: Seeing words is like ...... face"
Her letter was written very simply, and it said three things roughly.
First, Li Cheng suddenly abandoned Pingyuan Town and led the army to withdraw to Sizhou. Before leaving, Lu Can, Gu Lie and other Huaixi Army officers and soldiers were released, and they went to stay at will.
Second, Lu Can and others received an urgent military order from their superiors, ordering them to go south to join the main force and withdraw to Jiankang Mansion.
The third is that Yue Yun's dysentery has been completely cured, but Pingyuan Town was seriously injured in the first battle, injured his lungs, and coughed day and night, until he coughed up all the blood. In recent days, he has had a high fever and is lying in bed unable to move. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines in Pingyuan Town, and there has been no way to treat it. Lu Can suggested that they go all the way to Jiankang with the army so that they could take care of them and ask a famous doctor for treatment.
An Niang said that after thinking about it, she felt that her brother's injury could not be delayed any longer, and she might still be saved if she went to Jiankang Mansion. She is such a younger brother, if she has three longs and two shorts, how will she explain to her grandmother and father in the future?
Besides, she also heard Lu Can say that now the officials and troops of the entire Jiangbei are gathering in Yangzhou, Jiangdu and Jiankang, and if she goes there, she may be able to find her mother, so that she can take her back to her hometown in Hebei.
At the end of the letter, this little girl, who had always been thin-faced, had the audacity to say that she missed Brother Wang very much, and asked him to go to Jiankang to find her and Yue Yun as soon as possible.
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After reading the letter, Wang Shen sighed in his heart, Yue Yun has been really unlucky in the past month, and he has been struggling with illness. Dysentery has healed, and now there is a high fever. If you didn't guess wrong, it should be caused by the inflammation of the wound on your body. In ancient times, when medicine was backward, once you were wounded on the battlefield, the wound could easily be infected by bacteria. In fact, at the end of each battle, ten times as many soldiers died from wounds as they died on the battlefield, and it was hoped that he would survive the battle.
Hey, I also forgot to tell An Niang, her mother is now in Han Shizhong's army, why did she run to Jiankang?
In real history, Yue Fei's wife Yuanpei has a very bad character, and the ugly thing is that she is a water-based flower. After Yue Fei joined the army, the woman couldn't bear the loneliness and hooked up with a military man, and finally left her children at home and eloped with her mother-in-law.
This is also a big stain on the life resume of the great hero Yue Fei, and it is also a shame for the Yue family.
Later, after Han Shizhong knew about this, Mrs. Yue Fei told Yue Fei about marrying a junior officer in her own army. Yue Fei is also open-minded, not only did he not retaliate, but gave his ex-wife a lot of property.
After all, she is the child's mother, for the sake of the child, Yue Pengju naturally can't make that ruthless move.
The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, and when An Niang and Wang Shen talked about this matter, they also mentioned it vaguely. It is related to the privacy of the future mother-in-law, and Wang Shen is naturally inconvenient to speak clearly with her.
Now, after getting the letter, he can only smile bitterly except regret.
In addition, his heart is full of question marks, now that Li Cheng has withdrawn to Sizhou, the Huaixi Army has retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, and the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty is moving southward, is this to abandon the Jianghuai region?
This is already a strategic rout, how did all this happen?
Putting An Niang's letter into his sleeve, he picked up Li Cheng's emergency military report again, and after just one glance, his head exploded.
The Jurchens are coming!
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The third year of the Great Song Dynasty and the ninth year of the Jin Tianhui were turbulent years for the reborn Song Dynasty.
First, in the rebellion of Liu and Miao in March, Zhao Gou was held by the rebels. In the end, under the leadership of Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and set out from Pingjiang to fight for thieves. The war lasted for two months, and the rebellion of Liu and Miao was finally quelled, and the two were also captured alive by Han Shizhongsheng, and sent to Jiangning and the same city. After this turmoil, the Great Song Dynasty was really in turmoil, and Zhao Gou escaped death, and his spirit was in a state of panic all the time. Considering that Hangzhou is the nest of Liu and Miao, there may still be henchmen. I didn't dare to stay in Lin'an any longer, so I moved from Hangzhou to Jiankang Mansion in the name of autumn defense.
At the same time, Huaibei is full of smoke and turmoil, this year's tax payment is not settled, and the state finances are also on the verge of collapse.
Now that Li Yu has given the head, the Huai River valley has finally been calmed down.
But as soon as the autumn grain in the field was harvested, and before it was put into storage, the Jurchens went south.
How many Jurchens came, Li Cheng, Liu Guangshi and others did not know because of the backward communication conditions of this era, but they only knew that the general of the Jin State who led the army this time was the fourth prince Wanyan Zongbi, that is, Wushu. As for him, he is completely unknown.
At this moment, Huainan East Road is full of Jurchen light cavalry, and a large number of soldiers and civilians are frantically fleeing south, and the order is so chaotic that it can no longer be chaotic.
The entire Jianghuai region has been lost.
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Wang Shen suddenly felt a sense of grief and indignation in his heart: "From the second year of Jingkang to the present, in four years, under the leadership of Li Gang and Zong Ze, how many people with lofty ideals have thrown their heads and spilled their blood, and the horses have been wrapped in corpses, so that they can hold the line from Henan to Huaibei and confront the Jurchens across the Yellow River. Now, with the withdrawal of the Huaibei army, so many people's blood has been shed in vain. ā
"This Song Jun is really suffering from a terrible phobia of gold, and he doesn't even have the slightest bit of blood in his bones?"
With a sonorous sound, he pulled out his waist knife, and Wang Shen almost wanted to cut down everything that stood in front of him.
But at this time, suddenly, there was a pang in his heart: "The Wushu is about to arrive, if I don't leave, I'm afraid that I will die on this Huaixi battlefield, and I will never be able to reunite with An Niang." ā
"I crossed into this world alone, and only An Niang is my only relative."
It turned out that just now, he suddenly remembered the record in the real historical materials.
The scale of this battle was unprecedented, and the deployment of the Jurchens was: with Wushu as the commander, they continued to use cavalry large-depth lightning raids, smashed Jiankang Mansion, and used beheading tactics against Zhao Gou to smash the command center of the Song Dynasty.
In this war against the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens did their best to fight the whole country and divided into two routes: Wan Yanchang, the marshal of the Jin State, that is, the tart lazy was responsible for sweeping the Huainan battlefield; And Wushu is in charge of Jiangnan.
After crossing the river, the Wushu Department divided the troops into two routes, the West Route Army was commanded by Wanyan Bali Su and Yelu Ma Wu, and the East Road was still the Wushu cavalry marching forward, and soon captured Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Mingzhou and other places.
Zhao Gou was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, so he fled all the way, and when there was no way to escape, he directly took a boat and floated on the sea for three days and three nights
This brazen southern invasion of the Jurchens lasted for a year, and the forward army even reached northern Fujian.
By the end of next year, when the Jin army was exhausted, it withdrew to the north, and the history called "searching the mountains and inspecting the sea to catch Zhao Gou" and searching the mountains and inspecting the sea has also become an idiom in the Chinese language.
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At this time, the Jurchen was at the peak of national strength, and her combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and the Jurchen Iron Cavalry was likely to be the strongest army in the history of cold weapon warfare.
The cavalry troops led by Wushu traveled hundreds of miles a day, coming and going like the wind, and in the small half of China, it was like entering a no-man's land.
roughly predicted, Wanyan Zongbi's fast horse should have bypassed Chuzhou and killed Jiangdu and Yangzhou directly.
If those two cities fell, Wang Shen's road south to Jiangning would be cut off.
At the most terrible time, Jiang Ning will also be taken down by the Jurchens.
After the Jurchens entered Jiankang, they carried out a terrible massacre, and the brothers and sisters of An Niang and the brothers of the baggage camp fell into the city, and by that time......
There was a cold sweat on Wang Shen's body, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Suddenly put away the general's newspaper and gritted his teeth fiercely: "I'm going to leave now, Anniang, Brother Paoze, wait for me, I'll go to Jiankang immediately, I'm going to take you away, we have to live in this troubled world." ā