Chapter 319: The Second Northern Expedition (Part II)
Yue Fei commanded his troops to advance in the east and west in unison, and it was only half a month since they moved around and assaulted, and they had already turned the hinterland of the Pseudo-Qi upside down and made a mess, and the Pseudo-Qi side had not yet been able to figure out Yue Fei's combat intentions.
This is Yue Fei's combat characteristics, and it is also what distinguishes him from all the generals of his time.
Yue Fei is unpredictable and unpredictable on the battlefield. At a time when other generals were always entangled in one city and one place, he did whatever he wanted in the vast war zone, galloping across the country.
Every attack must be overcome, and every move must be fruitful. This ability not only made the enemy panic, but even some literati within the Southern Song Dynasty court felt a little awkward, because they felt that Yue Fei was not grand enough and some were not martial.
Therefore, the right servant Zhang Jun's evaluation of Han is "loyal and brave", and the evaluation of Yue Fei is "Shen Fei".
What is a "Sinking Eagle"?
The sinking person is silent and unfathomable; The eagle is the most ferocious bird of prey, such as eagles, eagles, falcons, etc. When used to describe people, it is extremely powerful.
In history, in addition to Yue Fei, there are two other people who have also been described as "Shen Fei": one is Li Guangbi of the Tang Dynasty, "New Tang Dynasty Book? The Biography of Li Guangbi praised: "Li Guangbi was born and captured, and he was guarded; And the other is the Ming Dynasty's Chang Yuchun, "Ming History Chang Yuchun Biography" recorded: "Yu Chun Shen Yu is resolute, good at soothing soldiers, destroying the front, and not defeating." Although he does not study the history of books, he uses soldiers to cooperate with the ancients. ”
After the Yue family army entered the Central Plains, the battle was even more enjoyable.
This time it was the Chinese army led by Wang Gui who stood out, and the vanguard officer was Yang Zaixing, the god of killing.
Yang Zaixing went on the offensive with a thunderous ball. First, Shunzhou was captured. Killed all the pseudo-Qi soldiers stationed in the area. Then without hesitation, he rushed to the next target - Changshui County, to which Luoyang belongs.
It was only at this time that the pseudo-Qi side finally reacted.
The puppet Qi sent a commander surnamed Sun and a commander named Manzai, leading tens of thousands of elite soldiers drawn from Bianjing to fight.
Such a lineup is more than twice the strength of Yang Zaixing.
However, for the Yue family's army, the number of troops is never the key to victory or defeat.
Yang Zaixing once again exerted his invincible impact, and the battle was quickly over.
As a result, the ruler surnamed Sun was cut in half by him. More than 500 pseudo-Qi soldiers were annihilated together; And the commander who was called Manchu knew the current affairs, and he dismounted and surrendered early, but he saved his life; The rest of the Pseudo-Qi soldiers scattered in all directions.
Yang Zaixing, who was able to kill, did not want to stay in the local area for long, and after only one night's rest, he continued to advance towards Luoyang, Xijing, and arrived at Zhang Hongjian at the border of Changshui County the next day. Here he met the highest governor of the puppet Qi in the Shunzhou border and appeased Zhang Xuanzan.
This Zhang Xuanzan is also a wonderful person, although he was forced to come to meet the battle, he did not dare to step forward, but hid on the other side of Zhang Hongjian.
Zhanghongjian is a very wide river. Zhang Xuanzan thought that he could ensure his safety across the river, so he scolded Yang Zaixing across the river.
Yang Zaixing is an acute sub-person. I couldn't stand the teasing of others, so I braved the rain of arrows, crossed the river and rushed to the opposite bank, picked Zhang Xuanzan off the horse with a shot, and scattered the more than 2,000 people and horses of the pseudo-Qi, and then chased all the way, and we must kill all these cheap little rabbit cubs.
It's just that Yang Zaixing chased until about the second watch in the evening, and suddenly changed his mind - he decided not to chase it, and let go of these little sluts this time!
Could it be that Yang Zaixing suddenly had an epiphany and showed compassion?
Of course not.
The actual reason is that Yang Zaixing found a royal horse supervisor in the pseudo-Qi, which contained more than 10,000 war horses.
Yang Zaixing and his men were all crazy.
With these, who is going to chase any traitors, rob, rob them.
The robbery was so fierce that even more than 10,000 stone of grain piled up with the war horses could not be taken away, and all of it was given to the local poor people
At the end of August, the good news of Yue's army reached the southern court in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhang Jun was overjoyed, and this was what he was waiting for. Without major results, he will not be able to implement the next vision.
Zhang Jun reported to Zhao Gou and asked the Song court to take this opportunity to gather all the generals to cross the river collectively and recover Henan. For this reason, he urged the emperor to put the line in front of Jiankang, which was close to the river, so as to boost morale and show the heart of the decisive battle.
Emperor Gaozong agreed, and prepared to leave on the first day of September.
Before leaving Hangzhou, the emperor and his ministers went to Tianzhu Temple to pray for incense. And when he went out of the temple gate, it happened to be another good news from the Yue family's army.
After reading the good news, Emperor Gaozong reacted with a pair of cold eyes, and said to the ministers beside him:
"Yue Fei's good news is very likely to exaggerate his achievements. Write to his staff and carefully verify the outcome of the war. It's not that I'm reluctant to give Yue Fei an official and a knighthood, or that I'm reluctant to reward Yue's army, but because I want to reward my meritorious deeds and be practical. ”
Emperor Gaozong was suspicious of the good news.
But thinking about the environment at that time, it is no wonder that Emperor Gaozong had such a reaction.
Since the Jin soldiers invaded the south, the Song army has won fewer and lost more. Although the situation changed greatly after entering the Shaoxing period, the Song army had gradually gained an advantage over the Shangjin-Qi coalition army.
But now the Yuejia army is galloping in the hinterland of the pseudo-Qi, killing all directions, and the good news is frequent, which has never been seen in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Sometimes people are hungry for a long time and can't believe that they can have a full day
Seeing that the emperor was suspicious, many ministers put forward defenses, including Zhao Ding, the left prime minister, and Zhang Jun, the right prime minister. And their opinions are similar and dissenting, among which Li Gang's statement is the most incisive.
Li Gang said: "Yue Feicuo is very big. There is absolutely no falsehood in this great work now. Now he is in close contact with the cottage leaders in the Taihang Mountain area, and jointly deal with the Jin State and the pseudo-Qi. Since Liang Xing and the others returned to their fate, Yue Fei's will has been very resolute and he has embarked on the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains......"
Li Gang's long speech actually has two meanings: first, Yue's army fought well on the battlefield; The second is that Yue Fei has a large number of allied troops in Henan to help.
Henan is Yue Fei's hometown, especially in Xiangzhou, and he has long done his espionage work to a meticulous level. On the big side, the rebel army in the Taihang Mountain area has already formed an alliance; In terms of small details, the passes in the battle area, the coachmen and helmsmen on the ferries, and the miscellaneous servants in the accommodation shops all have the internal response of the Yue family's army.
Although the two prime ministers, Zhao Ding and Zhang Jun, were both famous ministers of Zhongxing and were trusted and valued by Emperor Gaozong, the opinions of these two prime ministers often disagreed.
Zhao Ding was more conservative and put the safety of the emperor first, while Zhang Jun was more radical, always thinking about the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, and even keeping the emperor close to the front line to encourage morale.
And this time, Zhao Ding and Zhang Jun both spoke in unison for Yue Fei, and Emperor Gaozong had no doubts and was convinced of this original true good news. The decree praises Yue Fei:
It is recorded in the "Edict of the Resumption of Commerce, Yu Erzhou and the Puppet Town Rujun Fuwen": "If you are like a Qing, you will pass it again: the long drive will enter the Sanchuan, and the sound will be shocked by the five roads." Hold the soldiers, sit on the merits of the victory; The heart of the people has been deterred by the fierce spirit. If you are loyal to this, you will never forget. Therefore, I would like to ask and think about it. ”
At this time, Emperor Gaozong admired Yue Fei very much
Regarding the step-by-step advancement of the Yue Jiajun, Liu Yu decided to "use his own way to govern himself." "Avoid the main force of the Yuejia army, take advantage of the emptiness of Xiangyang's defense, and let Liu Fu, nicknamed the "Five Kings", make a detour to Hejiazhai, attack Tangzhou, and cut off the back road of the Yuejia army.
Liu Yu thinks that this time he avoids the truth and makes the false, which will definitely make Yue Fei stumble and complain.
However, he never dreamed that Liu Fu had just arrived in Hejiazhai when he was kicked into the camp by the Yue family's army.
This time, it was Dong Xian, the commander of the Yue family's army who stepped on the White Army, who came out to smash the field.
In the second year of Jianyan, Emperor Gaozong moved south to Lin'an and issued an edict to the world: "Those who can resist the Jin soldiers and protect the tomb will be given an official position." ”
Zhai Xing, a native of Yiyang, and his younger brother Zhai Jin responded to the call of Emperor Gaozong and rebelled in Fengniu Mountain, becoming the largest anti-Jin force in the Jin-occupied area.
The team of Fengniu Mountain is getting bigger and bigger, and Zhai Xing is also named the prefect of Mengzhou, Ruzhou, and Tangzhou by Emperor Gaozong, and Dong Xian is the most powerful general under Zhai Xing.
Later, Zhai Xing was assassinated and killed by Liu Yu, and Dong Xian was placed under Yue Fei's account together with Li Heng, the envoy of Xiangyang Pacification, and made many military exploits.
Yue Fei had already expected that Liu Yu would jump over the wall and bite back, so he arranged in advance for Dong Xian, who was most familiar with the terrain here, to be transferred to Tangzhou, and formed a formation in the mountains forty miles away from Hejiazhai, waiting for the enemy.
Liu Fu lost this battle very unjustly.
It was just the first day of arriving in Hejiazhai, the camp had just been built, and there were still many things that had not been arranged, and the camp was robbed by Dong Xian that night.
Although the enemy was outnumbered, the soldiers of the Yue family army were all brave and competed for the first, defeated Liu Fu's troops to the ground, burned their camps and got their food.
This is not all, Dong Xian's command made a big move, and attacked Pingxian overnight, seized more than 1,000 horses, and surrendered more than 3,000 soldiers. After dawn, they stopped in Beiyang.
In various historical materials, all the history involving the Yuejia army will invariably mention one point: the Yuejia army must win every battle, and after the war, they will do their best to rob the enemy's food.
What could happen for Lang?
The reason is simple, the Yuejia army is seriously short of food.
At the beginning, under the urging of the imperial court, Yue Fei set off north with only ten days of military rations.
Although 150,000 stone of grain was seized in Lushi County, the urgent need was solved. However, the Yuejia army had 100,000 horses, and the proportion of cavalry in the Yuejia army was very high, the largest among the various group armies in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the need for grain and grass was even greater.
However, the imperial court has not been able to keep up with the supply of grain and grass for the Yue family's army, forcing the Yue's army to have another task - to grab the enemy's grain and grass to replenish themselves...... (To be continued......)
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