Chapter 36: The Han Army Question

Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing led the army across the river and walked dozens of miles north to a crossroads. To the north to Mengzhou, to the east to Huazhou. So the two armies went their separate ways. At the time of parting, Yue Fei once again told Yang Zaixing, "Wanyan Ba Lisu and Pucha Shi Jianu are both generals in a hundred battles, plus there are many military horses, and if you go to Huazhou again, you must not underestimate the enemy." ”

Yang Zaixing laughed loudly, "General Yue rest assured. Zong Shuai was suspicious of the imperial court, and the tiger was trapped in Luoyang, and there were only two of us who could cross the river. General Yue faced Zong Han's hundreds of thousands of troops, and he was still fearless. How could I be afraid of a mere distraction! ”

Yang Zaixing said goodbye to Yue Fei with his fists on the horse, carried a big gun, and led 10,000 soldiers straight to Huazhou. Yue Fei led 40,000 people to rush to Mengzhou. While marching, Yue Fei also had to brainwash the surrendered Han'er army.

Don't look at these Han soldiers from the Bohai Sea, Liaodi, all of them are tall and big, and they are good at riding and shooting, but these people have already been broken by the Jurchens, and let them take up arms and fight the Jurchens head-on, it is better to let them commit suicide.

The battle of Xiangzhou, it was precisely because Zhao Butry believed too much in Han'er's surrender to the army, and as a result, in the battle with Wanyan Yinshuke, thousands of Han'er troops turned against each other in front of the formation and captured Xiangzhou in one fell swoop, and Zhao Butry also committed suicide.

Of course, Yue Fei will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Xue Bi, who was promoted by Yue Fei to join the People's Protector Army, gave Yue Fei an idea. It is recommended that these Han army be called as platoon soldiers. When he made this suggestion, Xue Bi's eyes showed a ruthless color.

"Yue Shuai, Han'er Jun is the minions of the golden dog. Don't look at the same Han people as us, but when it comes to dealing with our Song people, they are even more ruthless than the golden dog. Which Han army has not had the blood of the Song people on his hands! Even if Yue Shuai kills them, the people of the world will only applaud Yue Shuai. Let them be platoons, they are already very worthy of them. ”

Ji Qian was very satisfied with Xue Bi's proposal. shouted loudly at the top of his voice, "Brother Yue, Xue Senjun is right. You can't let these bunnies be cavalry. If you really give them war horses, they will definitely ride away on horseback. Even if you don't escape, you don't dare to fight with the Jin people with these soft bones. Instead, it will hold us back. Let them be ten marches to atone for their sins. ”

Xue Bi glanced at Ji Qian, and secretly said in his heart, this Ji beard is ruthless enough. The mortality rate of platoon troops is more than 70 percent. If they are allowed to be the army ten times, it is estimated that there will be no less than 100 people left in the 10,000 Han'er army.

Yue Fei turned a deaf ear to Ji Qian's clamour. Ji Qian is simple-minded and has clear grievances, and it is not uncommon for her to want to kill all these Han army. But Yue Fei didn't expect Xue Bi to come up with such a desperate plan.

Xue Bi saw the confusion in Yue Fei's eyes, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Yue Shuai, don't hide it, my village was destroyed by a Han'er army. Hundreds of Han soldiers rushed into Xuejiazhuang and killed anyone they saw, whether it was a gray-haired old man or a baby who couldn't walk. My parents, my wife and children, all died at the hands of the Han army. At that time, I swore to heaven that in my lifetime, I would kill the Han'er army. ”

Yue Fei didn't expect Xue Bi's family to be killed by the Han Army, so he couldn't help patting Xue Bi's shoulder, with a look of sympathy in his eyes.

Xue Bi found that he was too excited, and he really didn't look like a calm strategist, so he immediately stopped talking, took a deep breath, and continued, "But Yue Shuai, don't think that I am carried away by hatred. These Han soldiers are not good at cavalry and archery, but they are used to being enslaved by the Jin people, and they dare not fight the Jin soldiers head-on. Anyway, they were in the Jin army, and they were also platoon soldiers and crashing Linglang, and they were responsible for consuming the arrow rake of bows and arrows before the war. Yue Shuai asked them to be platoons, and they definitely didn't dare to resist. ”

Dong Xian, Zhao Hong, and Wang Gang also supported Xue Bi's proposal. Mixing these gold-feared Han'er army with the Protector Army is really a thunderbolt from time to time. The two armies won against the brave. If the Protector Army and the Jin Army fought fiercely, but the Han Army fled on horseback, it might cause the whole army to collapse.

Even Hua Ruyu was in favor of using the Han army as a platoon to consume. Hua Ruyu said, "Yue Shuai, you are kind to the people and the soldiers, but you must not have the kindness of a woman to these Han soldiers. Xue Senjun was right, their hands were stained with the blood of the Song people. ”

Yue Fei secretly sighed. Most of the officers in the Protector Army were from Hebei Xilu, and most of them did not have a good impression of the Liao. Whether it is the Khitan people or the Liaodi Han'er. Don't look at the Song Liao signed a peace treaty, but the Liao people never stopped sneaking into the Song Realm to fight the grass valley.

But Yue Fei didn't want to retaliate. In the final analysis, these northern Han people are of the same language and species as the Han people of the Central Plains. Under the rule of the Liao, they also lived the life of untouchables. The Khitans never regarded the Northland Han'er as real Liao, but only as slaves to herd horses.

The country does not spare the people, and the people do not love the country. The Khitans have bullied the Northland Han'er for hundreds of years, and when they are about to die, they think of the Northland Han'er coming. formed a winning army, wanting to use Han'er's life to block the Jurchen Iron Cavalry. There is no such good thing in the world.

But the Han'er army took refuge in the Jin soldiers, but they still enjoyed the treatment of the platoon army. The Jin soldiers treated the Han army more ruthlessly than the Liao. This made some Han'er soldiers who were unwilling to continue to be slaves rebel, but more Han'er troops accepted their fate. Because they were bullied by the Jin soldiers, but they could also bully the Song people.

These Han army both despised and envied the Song people. They despised the weakness and incompetence of the Song people, but they also envied the rich and talented people of the Song people. And beyond these two emotions, there is another deep hatred. Although the pain of long-term abuse broke their bones and made them afraid to draw their knives to cut at the Jin soldiers, it allowed them to vent in the process of wantonly killing women and children.

But if you kill all of them because of these Han army's aiding and abusive forces, it will only make the Han in the north and the people of the Central Plains incompatible. Even Liu Yiyun's righteous army has the existence of Xi and Liao people, is it not as good as Liu Yiyun's mind?

Yue Fei thought for a moment and said slowly, "Although the Han Er Army is guilty, they are the slaves of the Jin people, and they can't act autonomously. Slave owners are always more guilty than slaves. I think that since the more than 500 Han soldiers who committed the most heinous crimes have been beheaded by us for public display. Today's men are forgivable. We can no longer treat them as criminals. ”

It turned out that after Yue Fei captured the Han army, he beheaded more than 500 Han soldiers who had tortured and killed women and children on the spot. Yue Fei has always believed that it is common for the two countries to fight and kill people. But torture and killing are intolerable.

Xue Bi asked, "Could it be that Yue Shuai really intends to use their riding skills to arm them into cavalry?" Yue Shuai, you must think twice about this matter. ”

Yue Fei suddenly laughed. "Xue joins the army, do you know that among the golden soldiers, in addition to the Han'er army who is cannon fodder, how many elite Han'er troops are there?"

Xue Bi nodded, "The last general has also heard of it." There was a Wanhu named Han Chang in the Eastern Route Army, and the Han army led by him was extremely strong. ”

Yue Fei pointed to his chest, and then to Xue Bi's chest, and said pointedly, "Isn't my dignified Han people's chest not as vast as the Jin people?"

Seeing that Xue Bi was silent, Yue Fei pointed to the far north and said in a deep voice, "Yanyun Bohai, there are tens of millions of Han people. Their fate was far more tragic than that of the Song people. Because they have been enslaved by aliens for hundreds of years. Since they can take refuge in the brutal alien race, I don't believe that they will be determined to fight against us, who are also Han Chinese. Don't forget, among the golden soldiers, there are millions of Han'er soldiers. The most important thing we should do now is to pull these Han army to our side. Instead of pushing them to the side of the golden soldiers. Now Jin Cai is the number one enemy of the people of the Central Plains. We will do everything that can weaken the power of the Jinren. ”

Xue Bi let out a sigh of relief, and finally bowed down and said, "Yue Shuai's words are reasonable. Xue's vision is too small. ”

After admitting his shortcomings, Xue Bi began to make suggestions on how to subdue the Han'er army.

Of the 10,000 Han'er troops that were recruited, there were a total of 10,000 households, but 8,000 households were beheaded by Yue Fei for public display. Only one thousand households named Xiao Shan and another thousand households named Zhang Lei were not beheaded by Yue Fei.

Xiao Shan is a mixed race of the Khitan Han people, and is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today. A few months ago, he had led a rebel army to fight against the Jin soldiers. After being captured by Zong Han, he became the head of a thousand households in the Han'er army.

Zhang Lei is a Han family in the north, the family is rich, in order to protect his family's foundation, he led hundreds of clan children to join the Jin army.

Because of the short time they joined the Jin Army, the hands of the two were quite clean, although on the way south, they killed the rebels, but they did not kill the unarmed people. It is for this reason that they escaped beheading.

Xue Bi suggested that Yue Fei's 10,000 Han'er Army be reorganized into the Fourth Division of the Protector Army, with Xiao Shan as the division commander and Zhang Lei as the deputy division commander. Then five hundred elites were drawn from the Protector Army to serve as petty officers.

In order to arouse the hatred of these Han soldiers against the Jin soldiers, it is best to pull over hundreds of people who can tell stories and speak well to the Protector Army, specifically to tell about the brutality of the Jin people, and ask these Han army to also talk about the crimes of the Jin people in the northland.

"In this way, in a few days, the Han'er Army will definitely hate Jin Bing to the core. When the time comes, we will have to worry that they will turn against each other again. ”

Xue Bi said confidently.

Yue Fei glanced at Xue Bi with a strange expression, and asked coldly, "Xue joins the army, you are very clever in attacking tactics, you learned from the Bolsheviks, right?" ”

Xue Bi was stunned for a moment, and looked at Yue Fei in confusion, "Yue Shuai, what is a Bolshevik?" Person's name? ”

Yue Fei smiled secretly, thinking that he was too allergic. The main thing is that Xue Bi's last move is quite similar to that camp's favorite bittersweet meeting. But this trick is absolutely powerful. After all, the vast majority of people are group animals without independent thinking. One person wept bitterly, and everyone was sad, and when one laughed, everyone rejoiced.

The reason why Xue Bi came up with this trick was inspired by Amitabha Buddhism. Chen Gutong's great transformation into a golden-bodied Arhat outside Mulan Village is actually a psychological warfare.

Yue Fei looked at Xue Bi with blazing eyes, and said with great confidence, "I'm sure that as long as the story of the people we sent is well told, before they reach Mengzhou, the Han'er Army will definitely turn into a Tiger Army." ”

Xue Bi was encouraged, and couldn't help volunteering to say, "Yue Shuai, Xue Bi invited himself to serve as a staff officer in the Han'er Army. ”

Yue Fei said with a smile, "Except for joining the army, others can't tame this 10,000-strong Han army." Go ahead, I'll wait for your good news. I hope that before our army reaches Mengzhou, you can boost the morale of these Han army. ”