Since the fall of the bigwigs of the Northwest Army, such as the Planter Dao, the Planter, and Yao Gu, the Northwest Army has begun to fall; Various drawbacks, such as the existence of many factions and their own affairs, caused the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Army to decline sharply.

Especially in the winter of the first year of Jingkang, the old marshal of the Jin State Wanyan Lou was in danger and led his headquarters to blockade Tongguan, so that the Northwest Army could not go west to save the king.

The northwest region was cut off from the imperial court, and there was chaos and scattered sand.

As the old saying goes, troubled times produce heroes.

There is nothing wrong with that.

After only a year of chaos in the northwest, a person stepped forward and used various means to encircle the six armies in the northwest, including Yongxing, Yanyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Qinfeng, and Xihe, to compete with the Jin soldiers.

This person is a second-generation army, called Qu Duan, the word Zhengfu, a native of Zhenrong Army (now Guyuan, Ningxia). His father, Qu Lian, was a commander in the Royal Forest.

Qu Duan led the Northwest Army to hold on to the Jin soldiers many times, winning and losing each other, and did not fall behind at all. One of the most famous battles was the battle with the famous Jin general Wanyan Sali, which made the other party cry loudly, and since then he has been nicknamed "Crying Langjun".

This Qu Duan is very powerful, but he has a problem - self-respect. The orders of the imperial court were given, and he carried them out selectively. As long as it endangers the strength of his troops, he automatically ignores it.

Gradually, the troops led by Qu Duan suffered no losses in the crisis situation, and also annexed many local troops, incorporated many bandit organizations, and their strength rose rapidly, to the point of being a dominant family.

Qu Duan's various behaviors are no worse than Liu Guangshi's.

Emperor Gaozong sent commissioners to the northwest several times, including Wang Shu, who explicitly ordered the control of the western army. It's all overhead.

So. Zhang Jun wants to solve the problem of soldiers. The crooked ends must be resolved first, otherwise everything is not to be discussed

Zhang Jun used three tricks to deal with Qu Duan.

The first move: Li Dai Taozhuang. That is, let the units of the Northwest Army accept their own military orders.

Over the past few years, all units of the Northwest Army have only acted according to Quduan's military orders. If it weren't for the military order issued by Qu Duan, even if it was Emperor Gaozong's holy decree, he would not be able to obey it.

In order to change this status quo of the Northwest Army, Zhang Jun issued a large number of military orders to the Northwest Army.

Of course, most of these military orders were to inform these troops to go to Zhang Jun's headquarters to receive all kinds of money, food, and other materials. There are also a small number of military orders for the Northwest Army to clear out some small groups of bandits.

Zhang Jun has a very special saying that obeying someone's order is actually a habit, as long as you obey the order more times, you will always obey the order.

After several months of sprinkling money, Zhang Jun suddenly held a large-scale military transfer when Zhang Jun's orders were gradually accepted by the various departments of the Northwest Army.

Zhang Jun imitated the ancient act of "taking the stage to worship the general", and ordered the entire Western Army to be gathered in Weizhou, and worshiped Quduan as a mighty general in public.

This scene is quite touching, and the Northwest Army in the audience cheered, praising Zhang Xuanfu as a good leader who understands soldiers, respects soldiers, and loves soldiers! See. He brought us food and use, and he also raised the status of soldiers to such a high level. is no longer like the civil officials in the past, who commanded and drank to and fro the generals.

In fact, through this all-army transfer, Zhang Jun unknowingly took the dispatch power of the Northwest Army into his own hands.

Zhang Jun's practice is similar to the transfer of personnel and troops by the core leaders of the Celestial Empire to various military regions across the country.

At this time, Zhang Jun used the second trick: stealing the beam and changing the column

Zhang Jun used this trick quite rudely, he directly dismissed Zhang Shen, the chief general of the Xihe Army, Wang Bi, the chief general of the Huanqing Army, and others, and promoted a large number of young Zhuang factions, such as Liu Xi, Liu Qi, the sons of the famous general Liu Zhongwu, and the Wu brothers, and placed them in prominent positions.

Zhang Jun's practice is equivalent to a naked seizure of power, and in the army, even if it is a direct boss, there is a huge risk in doing so, and it is easy to cause turmoil in the army.

The strange thing is that for Zhang Jun's adjustment, the Northwest Army was actually very quiet, not only did there be no special opposition, but there was some natural taste.

The reason for this may be that the entire Northwest Army has received too much favor from Zhang Jun, and it is difficult to speak out after eating people's soft mouths; Second, the generals promoted by Zhang Jun in the Northwest Army were all people in the Northwest Army, and they did not carry any private goods, even if they wanted to oppose it, they could not mention it.

In the end, Zhang Jun used his last resort in the Northwest Army: to take advantage of the situation.

A month after the personnel transfer was completed, Zhang Jun sent someone to meet Qu Duan, saying that now that the organization was unified and the financial resources were sufficient, compared with the number of Jin troops in Shaanxi, the Northwest Army had the upper hand, and a large-scale battle should be held to eliminate the main force of the Jin army in the territory in one fell swoop.

Regarding Zhang Jun's request, Qu Duan did not agree.

For Quduan, the battle is a large-scale decisive battle between the group armies, and whether they win or lose, they will cause huge losses. And the loss of strength is the most unbearable thing for Qu Duan.

So Qu Duan said to Zhang Jun's envoy: Although there is money, the soldiers are still the same soldiers as before. In a head-on battle with the Jin army, there is no certainty of victory. Now it is time to divide the troops and send troops to harass the grain roads and tuntian of the Jin army, and only after a few years can there be hope of victory.

Regarding Qu Duan's reply, although Zhang Jun had been prepared for a long time, he was still so angry that he gritted his teeth.

The country is in danger, and there is no room for delay, and the decisive battle will be held only after a few years, and there will be no Song Dynasty at that time, not to mention that there is only the so-called "hope" of victory!

But Zhang Jun didn't have a seizure, he was still waiting.

Because Zhang Jun knew that Qu Duan had been in charge of the northwest for many years, and now he couldn't turn over his plate, he had to wait for Qu Duan to make a major mistake, and he and the Northwest Army could only win it in one fell swoop when he and the Northwest Army separated from Germany.

God willing, two major accidents occurred in the northwest in succession.

The first is the fall of Shaanxi.

At that time, the important towns of Jingzhaofu, Fengxiang, Yan'an and other places in the northwest fell into the hands of the Jin army, and the main force of the western army was controlled by Quduan, far away from the battlefield, and did not send troops to fight back, but the situation was still gradually developing in a direction favorable to the Song Dynasty.

The local militia and part of the Northwest Army spontaneously organized themselves and recaptured many towns, the most famous of which was Li Yanxian's army in Shaanzhou.

Li Yanxian has made outstanding contributions and has a brilliant record. He not only single-handedly recovered Shaanzhou, an important town at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan. And it is based on Shaanzhou. took the initiative to attack and hit the golden soldiers many times.

After the news came out, the high-level leaders of the Jin and Song dynasties were shaken, and even Emperor Gaozong said in person: "Recently, I heard that Yanxian fought with the Jin people, and won the victory repeatedly, and I couldn't sleep with joy." ”

The Jin State was extremely furious and ordered the Marshal of the Jin Soldiers who was guarding the Shaanxi Road to complete Yan Lou's room, and asked him to personally lead the main force to attack Shaanzhou. We must pull out the nail of Li Yanxian.

Shaanzhou suddenly fell into a bitter battle.

No matter how brave and tenacious Li Yanxian's department is, it also depends on the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us.

There was no way, Li Yanxian urgently asked Zhang Jun for help, Zhang Jun passed the book with a flying pigeon, and led the army to aid Shaanzhou. However, the "mighty general" once again stood still and automatically ignored Zhang Jun's orders.

By the first month of the fourth year of Jianyan, Shaanzhou ran out of ammunition, and the whole city could only eat beans eaten by horses, and Li Yanxian himself only drank the soup made from beans. Up to this point. Li Yanxian's troops still fought to the death.

On the 14th day of the first lunar month, Shaanzhou fell. Li Yanxian led his troops to fight in the streets. "Hit by an arrow like a hedgehog", his left arm was seriously injured, and finally he threw himself into the river and died, martyrdom heroically. Fifty-one of his men were killed in battle, and none of them surrendered.

When the news came, Zhang Jun secretly sneered.

Seeing Qu Duan's behavior like this, I don't believe that your subordinates are not cold.

Then another incident happened in the Northwest.

After Yan Lou's room broke through Shaanzhou, he quickly moved west to reinforce Yan Sali, because he was beaten violently by Wu Jue, the elder brother of the Wu brothers, in the area of Pengyuandian, and he was about to be unable to stand it.

Regarding the arrival of the chief victorious general of the Jin State, Wu Jue did not panic, and even Zhang Jun, who was far behind, was very calm, because Qu Duan was sitting behind Wu Jue. This time it's no longer a friendly army, but a subordinate of the headquarters, and the mighty general won't sit idly by no matter what!

However, Zhang Jun and Wu Jue were wrong, and they were very wrong.

Qu Duan not only did not help Wu Jue, but also took the initiative to retreat, isolated Wu Jue in front, and gave up an incomparably wide straight passage to Wanyan Lou's room.

Wanyan Lou Room did not hesitate, quickly marched back to Wu Jue's back, and fought back and forth with Wanyan Sali, wrapping Wu Jue with dumplings.

Wu Jue's combat power is amazing, if all the generals in the Southern Song Dynasty are ranked, he can at least rank in the top three, only listed below Yue Fei, and Han Shizhong is estimated to be between the best.

Wu Jue broke out and returned to the rear to quarrel with Qu Duan. Qu Duan is really good, and after making such a despicable act, he actually demoted Wu Jue's official very confidently, on the grounds that Wu Jue has no superiors.

What else can be said, the mighty general is really too mighty!

At this time, Zhang Jun believed that the time was ripe to get rid of Quduan.

A few days after Wu Jue was demoted, Zhang Jun suddenly issued a summoning order in the name of the emperor to the entire Northwest Army, asking all the troops of the Northwest Army to concentrate in Fuping, the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi.

What is Bupyeong?

It is recorded in the "Fuping County Chronicle": "...... Fuping, Shi, Wen Zhouza, Jing, Floating Wings. The south limit is depressed, paint, the north is based on the frequency mountain, the peaks are steep, and the surrounding is like a city...... The dangers of land and water are prepared, there is a difference between the host and the guest, according to the danger to solidify, choose the profit and advance, and there are criminals, so that the piece of armor can not be returned. ”

Obviously, Zhang Jun took a fancy to the point of "the difference between work and rest between the host and guest", and he wanted to occupy this strategic place first, wait for work with ease, bully customers with the host, and subdue Yan Lou's room.

As soon as Zhang Jun's military order came out, the Western Army Yongxing Marshal Wu Jue, Huanqing Marshal Zhao Zhe, Xihe Marshal Liu Xi, Qin Fengshuai Sun Wu and so on quickly rushed to the assembly site. At the same time, the logistics force of the Song army stretched thousands of miles from Sichuan to Shaanxi, and the grain, grass, money and silk were piled up like a mountain, which was transported to Fuping by a huge number of people.

Everything is in full swing, except for the mighty general and the Jingyuan army. With such a military order, such a battle, he actually dared not obey the military order!

Regarding Qu Duan's absence, Zhang Jun finally laughed...... (To be continued......)

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