Under the circumstances at that time, it was difficult to criticize Han Shizhong's withdrawal of troops to avoid war.

In fact, Han Shizhong has done quite well.

The Han army was the first and only army to cross the Yangtze River to defend against the enemy.

In the absence of reinforcements and no help, in the face of the vanguard of the combined forces of Jin and Qi, they were fearless and almost completely annihilated the forward battalion of the enemy.

It was not until the arrival of the enemy's main army and the absence of their own friendly troops that the Han army withdrew its troops and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River unwillingly and reluctantly.

Why did Han Shizhong stop in Jiangbei and fight alone?

This is not a question of whether Han Shizhong has the ability to compete with the Jinqi coalition army, but a question of fairness; In case Han Shizhong fights out his troops and escapes back to Jiangnan alone, becoming a single commander, at that time, how can we be embarrassed by Han Dashuai?

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

In the first battle of Huang Tiandang, Han Shizhong led a lone army and suppressed Wanyan Wushu in the Yangtze River for nearly two months, and beat the 100,000 golden soldiers of Wanyan Wushu to a mess, with heavy casualties.

And the final result was that without any assistance, they were caught between the north and south banks of the Jin soldiers, and Han Shizhong's 8,000 naval army was only a few hundred people left.

If it weren't for Yue Fei's deliberate concession during the expedition to Hunan, Han Jiajun would not have recovered so quickly.

If Zhang Jun's troops and Liu Guangshi's troops could cross the river together and fight side by side with Han Shizhong, Han Shizhong would definitely not retreat, this is certain.

According to Han Powu's character, he must be in the front. Lead by example.

In fact. When Liu Guangshi flinched. When Zhang Jun was not injured and was not severely punished by Emperor Gaozong, he was already doomed to the inevitable consequences of Han Shizhong's withdrawal.

Regarding the inaction of Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun, Emperor Gaozong has no opinion?

Of course, there are opinions, but the little emperor is vaguely unremarkable.

Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun are both typical warlords, and the troops in their hands are their bargaining chips. For their inaction, Emperor Gaozong not only did not dare to reprimand them too much, but even appeased them so as not to rebel

That's it. The three major armies of the Southern Song Dynasty were all assembled on the south bank of the Yangtze River: Liu Guangshi was stationed in Jiankang Mansion, Han Shizhong was stationed in Zhenjiang Mansion, and as for Zhang Jun, he firmly "defended" in Pingjiang Mansion, faithfully and for a long time to the emperor as a front station, and to be the emperor's intimate little padded jacket.

Despite this, in the Southern Song Dynasty court, there were still bloody officials who stood up - he was the governor of Luzhou and the pacification of Huainan West Road.

Qiu Wei was ready to defend Luzhou City desperately.

At that time, most of the officials in Huaixi had fled back to the south of the Yangtze River, and Liu Guangshi's Jiangdong and Huaixi Road Xuanfu Division's urgent messages were endless, and their content was nothing more than an order to burn and accumulate hatred. Abandon Luzhou.

According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, the Huaixi pacification envoys were under the control of the Xuanfu Division of Jiangdong and Huaixi Road. In other words, Liu Guangshi is the top boss of Qiu Wei.

In other words, the enemy should be ordered to do what he is told, abandon the city and retreat; And his stubbornness is actually disobedience.

Liu Guangshi was very angry at Qiu Xi's disobedience and disobeyed his orders, and sent Zhang Qi to lead thousands of soldiers to Luzhou, trying to kidnap Qiu Yi by force and coerce him to take the lead in escaping.

The hatred was furious, and shouted: "If the generation does not defend the responsibility of the land, I should die for the country!" Kou fled before he arrived, how can people rely on him! ”

Qiu Yi was the most powerful official in Luzhou at that time, and not only did he not make any retreat and escape. And "unmoved, the look is no different".

Zhang Qi was immediately ashamed, he is not afraid of death as a civil official, we are a seven-foot man, a military general was born, is it not as good as a scholar? Forget it, Hengzhi is a death, it's better to stay and fight with the enemy.

In this way, the enemy defenders were joined by a few thousand more soldiers and horses

The main force of the Jin soldiers arrived, and soon surrounded the city of Luzhou.

Yes, there are several large cities in the Huaixi region, and Wanyan Wushu must divide troops to occupy them, which indirectly reduces the burden of Qiu Wei and Luzhou City.

However, as the only defender in the Huaixi region who insisted on resisting, the number of enemy troops that the enemy had to face was the largest; Countless camps were stationed around the city of Luzhou, wrapping the city.

The soldiers of the combined forces of Jin and Qi swarmed out, forming a vast sea; And Luzhou City has become an isolated island in this sea, constantly eroded by violent storms and waves......

However, even in this situation, the hatred still held on for more than two months.

By what?

Courage, forgetting life and death, that's all!

In the palace of the emperor of Lin'an Mansion, Gao Zong sat on a high dragon chair, and his face was hot for a while.

Emperor Gaozong did not have a fever, he was just slapped in the face.

finally waited until the emperor had the courage to resist the Jin soldiers, and the three group armies under his command actually demolished their own platforms in public, isn't this a slap in the face?

I really can't imagine that after spending such a huge amount of food, I actually raised such a wretch.

The emperor's emotions have been fully expressed on his red face, and under the court, there is silence, and no one wants to provoke the emperor at such a moment.

At this time, the eunuch on duty suddenly sent an urgent recital.

Emperor Gaozong opened it and saw that it was Li Gang's report to the imperial court, and the above statement was very new:

"Yue Fei's new meritorious service to Xianghan, his prestige has been revived by His Majesty, if the Ming edict is lowered, Yue Fei will be sent to Xiangyang to smash Yingchang to Linjidian with the whole army, and the lightning will strike by surprise; Then the pseudo-Qi will be terrified, call back the ugly, rescue yourself, and the king will chase after you, and there will be a reason to win."

What Li Gang meant was that this was an unprecedented opportunity, not only for the Song Dynasty, but also for the Pseudo-Qi. If Yue Fei suddenly attacked Kaifeng Mansion, there would be a huge gain.

Once Yue Fei was able to capture Bianliang City and cut off the back route of the puppet Qi army, not only could he force the Jin and Qi coalition forces to retreat immediately, but he could also deal a heavy blow to the puppet Qi.

Even if Yue Fei attacked and opened the Fengfu, this was at least a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao. It is still possible to force the Jin and Qi coalition forces to withdraw as soon as possible. It was possible to maintain the security of the Lianghuai region.

Li Gang's analysis. It has been recognized by most of the officials led by Zhang Jun, among which the analysis of Shen Heqiu, the governor of the political affairs, is the most simple and clear:

"The generals' soldiers are divided into the banks of the river, and the enemy cavalry patrols Huaidian, fearing that it will take a long time or change. When Yue Fei is sent to take the middle road from the upper reaches and take advantage of the false attack, the enemy cavalry will have the trouble of turning back. ”

So, Emperor Gaozong complied with the opinions of his ministers. wrote a handwritten letter to Yue Fei:

"Recently, Huaishang has reported an emergency, and I am very worried, so I have lowered my command and supervised the whole army to the east. Qing Shu has the heart of worrying about the country and loving the king, so he can lead the way on the same day and come at the same time. I am not here, and I will not feel at ease in the end, and I should know about it. ”

A good sentence "I am not here, and I will not be at ease in the end", Emperor Gaozong at this time. How heavy is it to fly! ”

Although Emperor Gaozong's letter asked Yue Fei to send troops, the route of sending troops was far from the opinions of Li Gang, Shen Heqiu and other ministers.

Li Gang's suggestion was to let Yue Fei go north. directly attack Bianliang City; And Emperor Gaozong ordered Yue Fei to march eastward, and used 30,000 people in the Yuejia Military Region to defeat the Jin and Qi 150,000 coalition troops.

This Emperor Gaozong also thinks too highly of Yue Fei!

Yue Fei soon received an edict from Emperor Gaozong and an order issued by the imperial court.

To be honest, this is a very unreasonable arrangement.

The imperial court had an army of more than 150,000 in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but it stagnated, and instead wanted the Yuejia army stationed in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to enter the Huai to fight.

Isn't this a way to put out a near fire with water far away?

According to the practice of Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and others, it must be delayed for a period of time first, and then we will talk about it later.

But if this happens, this Yue Fei will not become the Yue Fei we know in the future.

Yue Fei moved as soon as he heard the order, without the slightest delay. While gathering troops to cross the river, he sent Xu Qing and Niu Gao to lead 2,000 cavalry to rescue the most critical Luzhou.

According to the results agreed between the imperial court and Yue Fei before, Yue Fei's base camp was set up in Ezhou, while generals such as Xu Qing and Niu Gao were stationed in the six counties of Xiangyang in Jiangbei.

These two thousand cavalry were already the largest troops that Yue Fei could send in the early stage

Although there were thousands of more soldiers and horses of Zhang Qi, the protection battle of Luzhou City was still extremely difficult.

The disparity between the forces of the two sides was too great, although the walls of Luzhou City were still quite strong, but the enemy's stone throwers and siege engines made the defenders suffer enough.

Qiu Wei also received bad news, because Luzhou City could not be captured for a long time, and Liu Lin, the marshal of the puppet Qi, personally led the army to Luzhou City to command the battle.

At this time, Luzhou City was already stormy and crumbling, from an isolated island to a light boat

On December 18th, the fierce should be taboo: the blood branch of the Tufu Heavenly Officials returned to the blood taboo heavenly punishment

On the morning of this day, Qiu Yi climbed the city gate to observe the enemy's movements, and suddenly a cavalry unit came to the city, and it turned out to be the banner of the Yue family army after a closer look.

Qiu Yi opened the city gate without thinking about it, and it was Niu Gao and Xu Qing and a group of 2,000 cavalry.

Qiu Yi said to the soldiers around him: "This is Niu Gao Niu's observation, we now have the help of the Yue family's army, and we are bound to break the enemy in one fell swoop, and Luzhou can defend it." ”

Before Niu Gao and Xu Qing could sit down, five thousand enemy cavalry approached. The two immediately went out of the city to face each other.

The behavior of Yue's army frightened the defenders of Luzhou, the strength was seriously unequal, who were Yue Fei's subordinates, was this brave or arrogant?

Outside the city, in the cold wind of the deep winter in Huaixi, a large group of enemy cavalry gradually approached.

Niu Gao ordered the soldiers to unfurl the "Yue" flag and the "Jingzhong Yue Fei" flag to show the enemy, and the 5,000 enemy cavalry were greatly stunned, they did not expect that the Yuejia army would appear here.

Niu Gao took the lead in the charge, and shouted loudly: "I, Niu Gao, have tasted the four defeats and vultures, and I can come to the death!" ”

The first battle of the Yue family army in Huaixi ended quickly, ending with a great victory for the Yue family army.

In the case of a large difference in the number of enemies and friends, they were still able to win more with less, and chased the enemy soldiers for more than 30 miles, trampling on each other along the way, killing and wounding many people, and the rest fled in confusion.

There was another result of this battle, which lowered the status of Wanyan Wushu in history by a level.

As the old saying goes: soldier to soldier, general to general.

Before this battle, Wanyan Wushu's opponents were still coach-level generals such as Wu Jue and Yue Fei, but after this battle, Wanyan Wushu was lowered by one level and became Niu Gao's opponent...... (To be continued......)

PS: The Christmas season is here, and it's time to ship again, Chen Dou may only be able to change three or four times a week, please forgive me.