Li Shao's contradictions
Whoever in the army forcibly obeys whom, or like Yue Fei showed favor to Han Shizhong back then, he can get an immediate response, and from then on, things like heroes love Han, heroes value heroes, and so on have nothing to do with this scum in the army!
A generation of celebrities had to act alone! On the 14th, he led the army from Lingbi, waved his army to the west, and attacked Suzhou! Suzhou is the most important stronghold of the Jin army in Anhui, it is located in Huaibei, near Henan, is the border line of the military and political center of the Jin State, once it breaks through here, it can immediately threaten a large number of key areas: to the northwest is Henan, to the northeast is Shandong, which side is enough for the Jin State to be tense!
The Western Route Army quickly approached Suzhou, and the Battle of Suzhou began. The Jin army is as arrogant as ever, this is a trait, it has been like this since the era of Wanyan Zongbi, no matter who they are facing and what they have lost, they will always silently say "I am the strongest" before the war and then go to battle... It's rare to hide behind the walls of a purely defensive!
This is exactly what Li Xianzhong wants, and he wishes that the battle would be solved in the wild! On the same day, the two armies fought a decisive battle under the city of Suzhou, and a generation of famous generals first defeated the defenders without any suspense, but then they encountered big trouble: Suzhou City would rather die than surrender!
This is the important town of Anhui and the frontier of Henan, and there are many Jurchens in the city and few Han people, and it has been completely nationalized, and Li Xianzhong has to brave the rain of guns and arrows to climb the city wall to conquer it. And this is only the first step, when Li Xianzhong broke through the city wall after the field battle outside the city, he found that he was facing a city full of swords and guns... Street fighting begins!
This is really a complete set of three steps of war, and by this time, the battle was all borne by Li Xianzhong's Western Route Army alone! Where is Shao Hongyuan? Where is the Eastern Route Army? According to reliable intelligence, they are still resting in Hongxian!
A generation of famous generals should be treated as if they did not exist, and they should be treated as the only people in the Northern Expedition! But the scum in the army is indeed not an individual! Shao Hongyuan is really talented, what this person has done is more hateful than hiding behind and watching the excitement all the time!
When the news of the Northern Expedition came, before the friendly countries were surprised and the military spirit was excited, the scholars and doctors of the Southern Song Dynasty were first provoked. The civilian clique was furious, and the war broke out? Provoked by the Southern Song Dynasty? Does this still put them in sight?
These people rebelled collectively under the leadership of the emperor and the second prime minister, Shi Hao! But the reason is still bright! Shi Hao: "My generation is in the middle of the house. And the imperial court sent troops unheard, so what's the use of keeping my generation like this, "Everyone resign!" When he said this, Mr. Shi's confidence was still very strong, Zhao Tuan was a student he taught single-handedly, which is like an elephant if it has been tied to a small wooden stick since childhood, and if it is tied to adulthood, it will also think that it will not be able to break free. So wherever he goes, as long as a small wooden stick is stuck in the soil and tied to the elephant, the elephant will not move... Similarly. Shi Hao believed that Zhao Tuan would once again keep him regardless of a single thing, just like the last time he would not punish even if he lost his troops and land, and he would definitely keep him...
It's a pity he was wrong! Zhao Tuan can withstand the pressure of "Dad", does he still care about a teacher?
On the 15th, under the premise that Wang Shipeng was on the premise of impeaching Shi Hao for eight crimes, Mr. Shi successfully dismissed himself! He was alone when he left, and there was no large group of people to follow him home to farm. This is very inconsistent with the fiery enthusiasm of the previous civilian-bureaucratic group, like thunder and rain?
But Shi Hao was very satisfied! The comrades are very mature and know that it is naïve to be angry for a while. Only when they keep their positions can they do things at critical moments! This will definitely teach a new lesson to his good students in the near future!
On the 16th, a generation of famous generals broke through Suzhou City! Just as the Western Route Army rushed into the city, the Eastern Route Army led by the scum of the army miraculously appeared. Following the Western Route Army, they effortlessly rushed into the city... Who said it didn't go to war? Isn't that coming?
This is the scum in the army, Shao Hongyuan! What about picking peaches naked? You dare to cut off the head of the soldier who took the saber of the soldier, Lao Tzu took your battle exploits in front of you, and you tried to cut Lao Tzu too?
With the same high military position, a descendant and a miscellaneous brand, you dare to cut off my head today. Even if your Northern Expedition succeeds, don't think about a good result! How are you better than Yue Fei, why didn't you make a mistake and were executed!
Li Xianzhong could only endure this breath. Devoted himself to the Northern Expedition. The street fighting that day was extremely tragic, and the Song army's list of casualties included Wang Heng, a commander-level officer. And the Jin army suffered even greater casualties, with thousands killed and 8,000 captured, which means that the Jin army involved in the street fighting was at least close to 20,000...
After the war, in the city of Suzhou in the sea of corpses and blood, the silent Shao Hongyuan finally spoke, he smiled at Li Xianzhong, and said flatteringly, "The real Kansai General is also" Kansai General, which is an extremely great honor and even a title of inheritance. As far as the Song army at that time was concerned, the Zhongxing generals were all Kansai generals except for Yue Fei! Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Wu Jue, Wu Luan, Liu Qi... Every well-known name is deeply imprinted with the words "Great Song Western Army". For later generations, General Kansai has become a kind of legend, even after the country is ruined and the whole territory is lost, it still carries the hope of the Han people... In the words of Su Dongpo and Xin Qiji, the Kansai Han who holds the copper pipa, holds the iron plate, and sings the great river to the east is constantly sung in literary and artistic works...
But at this moment, after Li Xianzhong was in the limelight, Shao Hongyuan praised him as "General Kansai", but the taste was not pure! General Kansai is brave, well, you are brave. General Kansai is very imposing, yes, you are very imposing... But is this admiration or resentment? And if you study it carefully, a trace of a deeply buried abnormality will also surface: Shao Hongyuan is Han Shizhong's soldier, Han Shizhong is a general in Guanxi, but Shao Hongyuan himself is a big celebrity in Hebei, and his enemy Li Xianzhong is a native of Guanxi...
These are superimposed, Shao Hongyuan can still praise them calmly, and the content is still the words "General Kansai". You can see how strong the jealousy is inside... And what a dark ego the nature of the scum in the army is, it is even more about to come out!
Li Xianzhong should be able to feel these, but he can't control it! The Northern Expedition was in progress, and he didn't have time to pay attention to these filthy thoughts!
What's more, after the great victory, it brought great honor, and the commendation order quickly came from the rear, pushing the whole incident to another peak. This victory is an unprecedented victory won by the Southern Song Dynasty in the past 20 years, and the government and the opposition are jubilant, from Song Xiaozong Zhao Tuan down, all excited and happy, uncontrollable!
The herald rewards the frontline soldiers! Li Xianzhong was promoted to Huainan, Jingdong, and Hebei to recruit envoys. Shao Hongyuan is the deputy envoy. All the loot captured can be disposed of at will by the two front commanders!
Even Zhang Jun won the lottery, and Zhao Tuan wrote to him in person, praising the victory and affirming Zhang Jun's insight into people. "These are all good things, right?" It's a pity that I'm not afraid of no good things, I'm afraid that there are no good people! The bad guy has a talent for messing up anything good, or Shao Hongyuan!
Face the reward. Shao Hongyuan was furious. Why is it that Li Xianzhong is recruiting envoys, and I am deputy? Why? Reading history at this point, everyone should aim at his head and smash a brick to tell him to be sober! You don't have the level to fight, look at what you do, Hongxian was fought by you? Suzhou was captured by you? What have you done since the Northern Expedition? actually got promoted and made a fortune, but he was still ashamed to be a deputy? Do you think you are Zhao Gou's illegitimate son?
Not even one of these questions appeared in the minds of the scum in the army! This person has embarked on a road of no return without hesitation, and is determined to fight to the end with a generation of famous generals at any cost!
In terms of position, he continued to protest to his immediate superior, Zhang Jun. He must be transferred to a position on the same level as Li Xianzhong, especially in the area of independent authority, and he will never tolerate anyone's jurisdiction!
Zhang Jun was thinking depressedly, did he agree or not?
Over there, Shao Hongyuan has already begun to do practical things. First of all, there is the housing problem, although Suzhou is not the terminal of the Northern Expedition, but after fighting for a long time and running for a long time, the city has been breached, and there are a large number of houses in it. So it's very necessary to take a solemn break, right? Shao Hongyuan decided to pull his Eastern Route Army into Suzhou City!
Li Xianzhong is against! At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, how can you be arrogant? There are all kinds of temptations in the city, and the iron-blooded military discipline will immediately be scattered. It will be very troublesome to try to clean it up again! This is equivalent to not bringing family members when going to war, and not falling in love next to the station!
Everyone is a veteran, and Shao Hongyuan also knows that he has some reasons, and then moves on to the next topic! He's going to tip! Since the emperor has said: the spoils of war seized at the front can be disposed of by us at will. This made Shao Hongyuan very happy...
Suzhou was the largest stronghold of the Jin army in the Lianghuai region. Where military resources are important, money, grain, and silk are piled up, and there is an incredible amount of oil and water. If you come to the front line to share the spoils. I believe that it will be very happy. And afterwards, there was a holy decree at the bottom, and the court did not take them. Why not? So when this article was proposed, Shao Hongyuan really felt at ease!
I didn't expect Li Xianzhong to oppose again! He actually said: Front-line officers and soldiers should be treated equally, and every three people should be equally divided into 1,000 yuan. In other words: each person only gets about 333 Wen...
The order came out, and the whole army was disappointed! The convention of the army of the Song Dynasty was that there was a reward for victory, a small victory and a big prize, and a big victory... Is there a danger, it is likely to lose office, resign, and go to jail? For examples, see Han Shizhong and Yue Fei.
The Northern Expedition has reached this point, to be honest, it is enough to reward everything, especially if you don't have to spend money from the imperial court, everything is a trophy, why not give it? Could it be that Li Xianzhong wants to monopolize it?
This idea quickly generated within the Northern Expeditionary Army, and was added fuel to the fire by Shao Hongyuan, and it became out of control! Li Xianzhong's own Western Route Army was better, and Shao Hongyuan's Eastern Route Army stood on the side of the road with the reward money and threw the money into the roadside ditch in public! Lao Tzu is not short of these few dollars, Lao Tzu is not subject to this reward!
This is Yan zhòng to provoke the prestige of the coach! A generation of famous generals is completely angry! In the past, when he was in Shaanxi, there was no other way to deal with this kind of subordinate except to cut it immediately! In the previous Northern Expedition organized by famous generals of Zhongxing, nothing similar was found. This damn Shao Hongyuan, what the hell does he want to do?
A generation of famous generals in anger showed complete toughness! Whether it is entering the city or rewarding money, he strictly ordered Shao Hongyuan to obey orders! Because now I am the envoy, Shao Hongyuan is the deputy, you must listen to me!
The two had a big quarrel, Shao Hongyuan had to listen to the order, this was ostensibly Li Xianzhong won, but a soldier ruffian had enough means to make the victory spoiled and rotten, Li Xianzhong's order was executed, in exchange for all the soldiers were full of resentment towards him. The opposite is: everyone thinks that Vice Marshal Shao is a good person, full of human feelings, and a caring person for the soldiers...
At this point, the Western Route Army fought bloodily and conquered the pass, and all the feats since the Northern Expedition came from Li Xianzhong, who led them, but Shao Hongyuan, who was pulling his hind legs, stood out flutteringly and dominated the feelings of the soldiers! I believe that many people will say: This is because Li Xianzhong's leadership art is not enough, and for some non-principled issues, he has led the team away from morality...
Things can't be seen that way! A recent example, is Yue Fei's army greedy for money? The reason why we can cross thousands of miles and be invincible, strict military discipline and the conduct of soldiers are prerequisites! As for whether to go to the city to rest and recuperate, there is no need to discuss, "freeze to death without demolishing houses, starve to death without plundering" is a famous saying for governing the army, and Li Xianzhong's request for this is not too much! Far away, for example, why will Li Zicheng be defeated by a stone? After his army broke through the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he returned to the battlefield with a huge amount of wealth, and almost every soldier carried a golden cake. I want to leave a life to enjoy!
That's why you can't give the army a real reward while the war is going on, but you can credit it and cash it out when you go home! Then now it is very clear: it's not that Li Xianzhong can't be a man, but that Shao Hongyuan has successfully used the bastard habits that the Southern Song Dynasty army has cultivated in the past 20 years, and he has to pull the army back to the quagmire!
As for whether it will lead to the failure of the Northern Expedition, when you see this, you should understand that in the minds of the scum in the army, there is no such concept at all! And at this moment, the danger is rapidly approaching the Song army...
Jin Guo finally reacted! To be fair: since the start of the Northern Expedition, the Southern Song Dynasty army has achieved great success, has crossed the Huai River, seized a large area of Jin land, here is a generation of famous general Li Xianzhong's outstanding war execution relationship, and more importantly, Zhang Jun's strategic intentions are correct!
The Jin army is empty in the Lianghuai region, and there is a vacuum on the sea, which is definitely an opportunity, and Zhang Jun keenly grasped this point. And Li Xianzhong's execution is very perfect to ensure the realization of his combat intentions, since the start of the war, like a blitzkrieg, quickly conquered one city after another, and advanced to the three-way junction of the Jin Kingdom...
But that's the limit! The vast border line is destined to make use of all the space as long as it is a war of annihilation. Whether it is a southern invasion or a northern expedition, they have to advance together in several ways and echo each other to have a way to win...
At this time, both Sichuan and Ezhou were unable to fight, and the Jin army could quickly and accurately judge the direction of the Song army's main attack and transfer troops without pressure. In this sense, Zhang Jun's strategic intentions have come to an end! It is just a local assault war, and it is impossible to restore and destroy the country at all. Unless his army can overwhelmingly defeat all the challenges of the Jin army on the battlefield, the Northern Expedition will not succeed at all! (To be continued......)