Chapter 298: Thirty-two years old
From the two battles of Monk Yuan and Xianren Pass, it can already be known that the Jurchens, like the Han Chinese, will also be afraid and will run away, and when they escape, they will slip faster than the Han people.
For the skillful, accurate, ruthless and cruel attack methods of the Yue Jiajun, Jin Bing was afraid.
Anyone wants to be the chef who cooks the cow, but if you find that you might be that cow, why don't you get out of the way as quickly as possible?
There is a saying that is very suitable for the golden soldiers to use now - avoid it is auspicious
The Jin soldiers were defeated, and this was the first time that the ironclad cavalry of the Jin State had suffered a crushing defeat in the plains and wilderness.
It's an absolutely fair matchup.
Relying on the flexible use of various equipment and hard training in peacetime, the Yuejia army wiped out the superiority of the Jin cavalry, and won the battle when the strength of the two sides was equal
The Jin soldiers retreated.
Victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, not to mention that the Yuejia army in front of them are all infantry, and they can't keep up with the pace of the cavalry at all, as long as the Jin soldiers retreat a few miles, they can even reorganize the attack and bite back.
This is also one of the advantages of cavalry over infantry, so the mood of Liu Hejian, the commander of the Jin soldiers, is not too bad, because there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory.
At this time, in the formation of the Yuejia army, the drums beat loudly, and from the east and west wings of the Yuejia army, two cavalry suddenly rushed out. The generals headed by the East Wing were Zhang Xian and Wang Gui; And the generals headed by the West Wing are Dong Xian and Wang Wan.
When Liu Hejin saw this style of play, he was really angry, and the cavalry on the east and west flanks rushed to strangle. Isn't it the signature style of play of the Jurchens?
This time, the Jin soldiers were really defeated. Desperately retreated in the direction of Dengzhou.
The defeat was like a mountain. Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Dong Xian, Wang Wan and others. Behind the golden soldiers, he covered all the way and slashed as much as he could, leaving no trace of his hands.
In the midst of the Jin soldiers' chaotic army, a team suddenly broke away and fled to the west.
This team is none other than Li Cheng and his personal guards.
Regarding Li Cheng's behavior, Liu Hejin felt inexplicable.
The closest state capital to the battlefield is Dengzhou. As long as you escape into Dengzhou, it is equivalent to entering a safe fortress. Even if the Yue family army wants to attack the city, it is not as easy as it.
Of course, Li Cheng is clear about Liu Hejin's thoughts. It's just that after years of fighting, Li Cheng is very familiar with the Yue family's army.
In today's battle, Yue Fei did not go all out, and several killing gods were collected, such as Yang Zaixing, such as Niu Gao, and Yue Yun, the winning official who has the most momentum now.
Li Cheng believes that the road to Dengzhou has become a dead end, and there is no return.
So. Li Cheng took his own personal guards and fled alone
Li Cheng has fought with Yue Fei for many years. Although he has been defeated repeatedly, he can always escape and make a comeback, relying on the inspiration he had when he was in danger.
This time, Li Cheng's inspiration saved his life again.
That's right, Yue Fei left a back hand, and it was a big back hand.
When Liu Hejin led a group of remnants of the defeated soldiers to Dengzhou City, he found that Dengzhou had changed its flag and became the territory of Yue's army.
Just as Wu Jue still let Wu Phosphorus support alone when the second pass of the Immortal Pass was at its most critical, he left a new force for night attacks.
When everyone, including the Southern Song Dynasty court, was not optimistic, Yue Fei not only defeated Liu Hejin in a dignified manner, but also divided his troops in advance and copied Liu Hejian's back road.
This kind of arrogance can only be described in one word: ruthless!
Wu Jue is ruthless, Yue Fei is even more ruthless!
Could it be that this is the common characteristic of famous generals?
The Jin soldiers had already lost all their fighting spirit, and after the siege of Yue Yun, Yang Zaixing, Niu Gao and Xu Qing, the result was that Liu Hejin broke out of the siege alone and fled back to the Dajin Kingdom in disgrace, and the rest of the people were all buried under the city of Dengzhou.
So far, more than 30,000 golden soldiers have been wiped out.
There is the following record in the "Chronicle of King Xingshi of E":
"The first ministers sent Wang Gui and others from Guanghua Road, and Zhang Xian and others from Henglin Road to meet and cover. Gui and Xian went to Deng City for thirty miles, encountered tens of thousands of thieves to meet the battle, Wang Wan and Dong Xian each attacked with soldiers, and the thieves gathered and collapsed. More than 200 people, including Yang Desheng, the deaf officer, won tens of thousands of soldiers, armor, and horses, and Liu Hejin was only spared. ”
Subsequently, the Yue family's army was like a rainbow. Six days later, Yue's army regained Tangzhou. It was probably in mid-August that the Xinyang Army was also "Keping" by the Yuejia Army.
The six counties of Xiangyang returned to the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty
The four years of Shaoxing were indeed a lucky year for the Southern Song Dynasty, and the two consecutive battles of Xianrenguan and Xiangyang Mansion achieved brilliant results; Not only did they hold their original positions, but they also killed and wounded a large number of Jin soldiers, making the Jurchens, who had a small population, overstretched, and crises arose.
After the two major battles of Xianren Pass and Xiangyang Mansion, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty really gained a firm foothold, not only holding on, but also having the spare strength to attack.
Jin and Song entered a phase of stalemate
For Yue Fei's victory, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was overjoyed.
Originally, the imperial court was worried that once the Yuejia army failed, the combined forces of the Jin State and the puppet Qi would cross the Yangtze River and unite with the Yang Mi Shui Division at Dongting Lake.
If this situation becomes a reality, the national fortunes of the Southern Song Dynasty court will come to an end.
Now Yue Fei's victory can be described as sweeping away the haze and returning a clear sky to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Because of the defeat of the puppet Qi in Xiangyang Mansion, it was also announced that the end of the Dongting Lake rebels was coming soon.
In addition, Yue Fei's victory in Xiangyang had another important meaning for the Southern Song court.
There is such a sentence in the "Chronicle of King Xingshi of E": Xianghan Xiping, Sichuan, Shaanxi Gongfu, and Wangma Road are unimpeded to the beginning of traffic
Emperor Gaozong looked at the good news in his hand, smiled, and said to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty: "I have heard that the Yue Flying Army is extremely disciplined. I don't know how to break the enemy. ”
Emperor Gaozong's sentence is honest.
Before this battle. Although everyone knows that Yue Fei is strict in governing the army. Disciplined; However, for the combat effectiveness of the Yue family's army in actual combat, everyone in the court did not know much. That's why in the battle to destroy the four invaders in Hunan, an edict was issued to let Han Shizhong send troops to assist.
In the battle to conquer Xiangyang, Yue Fei led the troops independently, defeated the strong with the weak, and not only defeated Li Cheng's 300,000 army, but most importantly. Wiped out Liu Hejin's 30,000 cavalry.
Being able to wipe out such a large Jin cavalry in the plains and wilderness, Yue Fei filled a gap in the data on exchanges between the two countries for the Southern Song court.
Another point is that this battle was the first time that the Southern Song Dynasty regained a large area of lost territory. Among them were the Tangzhou and Xinyang armies, which were originally outside the jurisdiction of Li Heng and controlled by the puppet Qi, which was a great victory in the local counteroffensive in the eight years since the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Regarding Emperor Gaozong's Chrysostom Yuyan, Hu Songnian, who was the Privy Councillor and the governor of the Governor's Office at the time, said: "Only if he has discipline, he can break the thief." If the order is unclear, the soldiers are not in order, and the party is not self-sufficient. How can it succeed in a hurry? ”
Hu Songnian did not slap the horse, but pointed out that there is only strict discipline. to be able to have a truly powerful division of steel.
Hu Songnian's words were very incisive, but unfortunately, there were no words praising the emperor in it, which planted a trace of gloom in the heart of the sensitive Emperor Gaozong.
A year later, Qin Hui was in power, and this scholar who was proficient in the Book of Changes resigned from the current dynasty because he was unwilling to "bend his will to attach" and was reappointed as the governor of Xuanzhou. In the sixteenth year of Shaoxing, Hu Songnian died of illness at the age of 60, and was buried in Meilin, Yicheng, and then moved to his hometown
For such a major victory, the reward of the imperial court is inevitable.
In accordance with the earlier promise, the imperial court promoted Yue Fei from the Zhengzheng Zhennan Army to the Xuanxuan Envoy of the Zhennan Army, and promoted him to the Qingyuan Military Envoy, and his actual post was changed to the Hubei Road, Jing, Xiang, and Tanzhou system envoys, according to the former Shenwu and the rear army control.
The "Jing" here refers to Jingnan Mansion, and "Xiang" refers to Xiangyang Mansion.
In other words, the imperial court appointed Yue Fei to "control" Tanzhou and Jingnanfu, the capitals of Jinghu South and North Road, as well as Jinghu North Road.
The reason why the imperial court would put these places under Yue Fei's jurisdiction was because of the Yang Qi rebels in Dongting Lake. The imperial court sent Wang Xie to exterminate Yang Mo, "the system was useless", and he was ready to hand over this work to Yue Fei
The Jiedu envoy was originally an official position in the Tang Dynasty, and was the highest military governor of a large state or military region.
Although the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system, it changed the actual position of the festival to an honorary virtual title, which was the "extreme" of the promotion of military generals, and the courtesy was generous.
Where the envoy is enshrined in the festival, the imperial court should grant a set of very majestic "festivals", including a dragon and a tiger red silk flag, a red silk painted white tiger, a knot with a bunch of red silk, two spears, and two leopard tails made of red linen.
A full set of eight pieces of five categories, all with black lacquered wooden poles, with all kinds of decorations, exquisitely made, after the festival was issued by the Song Dynasty, along the way, it is better to "remove the bad house, no inverted festival ceremony, in order to show unyielding". The grand and chic "festival-building" ceremony, which is not found in other civil and military generals, is especially used to show that the festival envoy is the most important and glorious title in the promotion ladder of the warriors.
At that time, the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty who had established a festival included Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and Wu Jue.
Yue Fei is the second person who built the festival because of his anti-gold exploits. His combat exploits are temporarily inferior to Wu Jue, but they are far superior to the other three. As for the establishment of the festival at the age of thirty-two, it was unique at that time.
The problem is that Yue Fei "rose from the rank of colonel", and once he suddenly ranked on an equal footing with the generals, it also aroused the jealousy of Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun, especially Zhang Jun, who had served as Yue Fei's superior three times in the past, was even more indignant.
From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an unwritten law circulating in the imperial court: after receiving a newly appointed official position, every civil and military minister had to resign at least two or three times, and the imperial court would not allow it every time before he was willing to accept it. Yue Fei also acted according to this practice every time he was promoted to the rank.
This practice was commonplace at that time, everyone had it, and it was as usual that there was no distinction between sincerity and falsehood, and Song Gaozong would never retract his life because of this.
When the Qingyuan Army's festival was sent from Lin'an Mansion to Ezhou, the soldiers of the whole army were proud...... (To be continued......)
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