There are many people who think that Qin Hui and Emperor Gaozong are in the same group, and what Qin Hui did was just a secret instruction from Emperor Gaozong.

This view obviously has a certain deviation, because the demands of Emperor Gaozong and Qin Hui are different.

For Emperor Gaozong, his only appeal was to keep his throne.

There are two ways to threaten his throne: one is the pressure from the northern Jin State, which means the death of the country; The second is from within, including the rebellion of the generals, or the disputes of the royal court.

As for Qin Hui, what he asked for was relatively simple—power and glory and wealth.

It can be said that as long as he can ensure that he continues to be prime minister, he does not mind who will be the emperor. Whether it is Emperor Gaozong or Jin Xizong, they are all within the scope of Qin Hui's acceptance.

This statement is not untrue, but well-founded.

Two days after Emperor Gaozong issued an edict to arrest Yan Wushu, Qin Hui issued an order through the Privy Council to promote Liu Qi, the commander of the Suwei army, to the deputy guard of Tokyo, and led 20,000 Bazi military dependents to the north along the waterway to Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture, to resist the main force of the Jin soldiers led by Yan Wushu.

As soon as this order came out, there was a wowness inside and outside the Southern Song Dynasty court.

Is there any mistake in this arrangement???

The astonishment and incomprehension of this arrangement by the government and the opposition are justified.

From the geographical point of view, the closest to the old capital Kaifeng is undoubtedly Yue Fei, who is stationed in Ezhou; If you rank according to the strength of the army, he is the only one.

But Yue Fei stayed quietly in place from beginning to end, never moving, even though the envoy sent by the Southern Song Dynasty to visit the ancestral tomb in Kaifeng Mansion passed by his jurisdiction. He applied to lead a military escort and was ordered to be quiet.

It doesn't matter if you don't use Yue Fei. It should be okay to use Han Shizhong.

Even if you think that Yue Fei and Han Shizhong are disobedient, they can't be used. At the very least, we must use Zhang Jun's old field army.

But now, the imperial court actually sent the eight-character army of the abandoned general Liu Qi and his stepmother.

Liu Qi and Wu Jue, the two bravest generals in the Northwest Army that year, embarked on two completely different paths after the Battle of Fuping.

Wu Jue resolutely broke away from Zhang Jun's jurisdiction, led the soldiers of his headquarters to Dasanguan, severely damaged Yan Wushu, and created a miracle of a monk's original; After that, it soared to the highest honor of the festival.

And Liu Qi has been following Zhang Jun closely. With the ups and downs of Zhang Jun's career, he was finally demoted to a commander of the pro-army of the Quan Tiju Suwei, which is really a pity.

Compared with Liu Qi, the history of the Eight-Character Army is even more embarrassing.

In the first year of Jianyan, Hebei Zhaofu Sidu commanded Wang Yan, led 7,000 infantry to cross the river to resist Jin, entered Taihang Mountain to create the Bazi Army, developed to more than 100,000 people, and repeatedly created Jin soldiers.

At that time, Wang Yan's 100,000 eight-character army echoed Zong Ze's million-dollar rebel army, and counterattacked the Jin State at any time. But with the resignation of Li Gang, Zong Ze died. The good things have collapsed.

Zong Ze's million-dollar rebel army fell apart under Du Chong's manipulation; And Wang Yan's eight-character army went to Shaanxi and continued to entangle with the Jin soldiers.

Later, with the stability of the northwest battlefield, the Bazi Army returned to defend the Yangtze River; And because Wang Yan refused to merge into the Yuejia army, after Wang Yan's death, the entire eight-character army was merged into Zhang Jun's Governor's Mansion and became a team that no one cared for, and the usual treatment was not as good as that of the officials of Lin'an Mansion.

At this time, the pair of Liu Qi and the Bazi Army were sent to Henan alone, and they really couldn't understand the intentions of the imperial court.

It should be noted that the total strength of the Song army is only 20,000 people, and these remnants will face the main force of more than 100,000 people who have completed the Yan Wushu, which is not a reasonable arrangement in any case.

The only reason that can make sense is that Qin Hui hopes that this Song army will fail, let Wanyan Wushu drive straight in, annihilate the entire Southern Song Dynasty, and then let him continue to manage this area.

Qin Hui really can't estimate what kind of fate he will end up with if Song Jun wins this one, as a notorious lord and faction.

On the contrary, the Song army lost, no matter what the process was later, it would be beneficial to him Qin Hui and not harmful

For this appointment of the imperial court, the greatest pressure is still Liu Qi and his eight-character army.

Let 20,000 non-main infantry alone resist the impact of more than 100,000 main cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, what is the difference between such a situation and a moth to a fire?

Despite this, Liu Qi still led his new teammates on the road.

With the vast size of the Central Plains and Henan regions, 20,000 people are just a handful of pepper noodles, sprinkled into such a big pot of soup, and nothing can be seen.

In the more than 300 years of history of the Two Song Dynasty, the most glorious turbulence, fierce ambition, regret, humiliation, and glorious for future generations began in the year of war

To tell the truth, for this southern invasion offensive personally organized by Wanyan Wushu, not only were the civil officials in Lin'an Mansion unprepared, but even Yue Fei and Han Shizhong and other military bigwigs were a little caught off guard.

The reason is simple: nomads from the cold regions of the north always choose to launch their offensive in late autumn or harsh winter, when it is already the height of summer, can the soldiers from the north adapt to such hot weather?

However, when the military bigwigs of the Southern Song Dynasty spread out the map and compared the information sent back from the front line by the scouts, their tense hearts quickly relaxed.

The Jin State attacked the Southern Song Dynasty with a four-way army:

The first army was led by the right deputy marshal Wan Yan Sali, who was in charge of attacking Shaanxi.

This is the general of the Jin State who was beaten by the Northwest Army as a "Crying Langjun". To challenge the two brothers Wu Jie and Wu Phosphorus at his level, he couldn't think of any other adjectives except "playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong".

By the way, Wu Jue has been fighting with Jin Bing over the years, and has experienced countless battles of all sizes, but he has never missed. In this case, Wu Jue had no interest in Jin Bing, so he had to study various golden stone pills.

In this army, the golden soldiers want to win, and they don't even have a door.

The Second Route Army, led by Nie Lijian, attacked Shandong.

The Southern Song Dynasty court now has no fortifications in Shandong, so there is no problem for Nie Lijin to invade Shandong. And here's the problem. What about after the attack on Shandong?

In the downstream. It is the jurisdiction of Marshal Han Shizhong. It's okay if Nie Lijin doesn't come, once he enters Han Shizhong's jurisdiction, he will be able to taste the power of "Han Powu".

This road also had no impact on the safety of the Southern Song court.

The third route was led by Li Cheng, the former pseudo-Qi general, and attacked Luoyang, Xijing.

With Li Cheng here, Luoyang will definitely not be able to hold it, but Luoyang's military influence is far less than its political influence, and it is still far from Jiangnan, so this road is completely negligible.

So. The focus of this war is all focused on the Wanyan Wushu in the middle lane.

In the middle road, in addition to the 20,000 eight-character army sent out by the imperial court, there is also the most famous group army in the Southern Song Dynasty - the Yuejia Army.

As for the war, the Yue family army has been preparing for nearly ten years.

Because of this, Yue Fei soon received gifts from two old friends from afar:

Han Shizhong sent a big red apple, which means, my brother, you have another big fruit to eat this time; And Wu Jue sent a young and beautiful maidservant, Wu Jue was the king of the northwest. Wives and concubines are in groups, while good friends live frugally. Let Wu Jue not go, and give a woman to Yue Fei at every opportunity.

If you don't want to send a wife, you should accept it if you send a maidservant, right?

Compared with the relaxation of the military bigwigs of the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Wushu was restless and sleepless at night.

No one knows the strength of the Jin Kingdom and the comparison of the situation between the Jin and Song countries better than Wanyan Wushu.

More than ten years ago, compared with the Song Dynasty, the military strength of the Jin State was superior in all aspects: at that time, not to mention the dispatch of a large army of tens of thousands of people, even a few thousand Jurchen cavalry, could defeat and disperse the Song army in a systematic manner, so that the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty fled in despair.

And in the past ten years, the Jurchen warriors have fought less and less, and they have become weaker and weaker; The army of the Song Dynasty became stronger and stronger, bigger and bigger, from being completely backward to gradually being able to contend with it, and even began to gain the upper hand.

There is no way, the population base of the Jurchen people is still too small compared with the Han people.

According to the current trend, if there were no major changes in the Jin and Song dynasties, the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty would definitely surpass that of the Jin state.

Therefore, the only opportunity for the Jin State was to suddenly launch a war, take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Southern Song Dynasty, completely defeat the military power of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even eliminate the Southern Song regime.

This is also the reason why Wanyan Wushu dared to risk the taboo of the soldiers and sent troops in May.

Wanyan Wushu wants the word "fast", the faster the better, and the Song Dynasty was caught off guard.

Matters. In order to succeed in sending troops this time, Jin Guo can be said to have poured out of the nest this time, and all the troops that can be mobilized have been taken out.

But in fact, let's take a look at the situation of the Wanyan Wushu army:

Let's take a look at the total strength first: Jin Bing claims to have an army of 300,000 this time. According to the ancient boasting standards, the total number of Jin soldiers is most likely less than 200,000.

Wan Yan Sali attacked Shaanxi and took away 10,000 or 20,000, Nie Lijin attacked Shandong and took 120,000, and Li Cheng went to Xijing Luoyang and took several thousand.

In this way, there are more than 100,000 people in the hands of Wanyan Wushu. Just with these horses, I want to end the entire Southern Song Dynasty court, and the appetite for Wanyan Wushu is too great!

Therefore, time is too important for the completion of the vultures.

Because of this, Qin Hui actually sent a non-main force like Liu Qi and the Bazi Army to fight, and Wanyan Wushu was still a little grateful.

Despite this, the cautious Wanyan Wushu still sent a large number of scouts, and it was important to find out all the details of the commander Liu Qi

Liu Qi, Uncle Xin, a native of Tianshui, Gansu. He is the ninth son of Liu Zhongwu, the envoy of the Huchuan Army. The history of the Song Dynasty said that when he was "fifteen or twenty years old, he won the Hu horse ride on foot", and his archery skills were excellent and his strength was amazing.

Liu Qi first became famous during a battle with the Tanguts. Because of his bravery, the Xia people were feared like tigers, and even the women and children in the Xia Kingdom knew his prestige.

Shi Zai, "Xia Ren'er cried, and he said in horror: 'Liu Du is here!' The little doll immediately didn't dare to cry anymore.

And this time, after many years of silence, God gave Liu Qi another chance to prove himself...... (To be continued......)

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