The speed of the war to destroy Cao Cheng was unexpected by everyone, including Zhang Jun.

According to Zhang Jun's original assumption, Cao Cheng had more than 70,000 people after all, and even if he wanted to fight, it would take at least a month or two, or even longer.

When the time came, Zhang Jun naturally asked the imperial court to replace Li Gang and take charge of the bandits.

However, just when the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were looking ahead and hesitating, there were already fast horses in front of Hunan to send good news, and Cao Cheng retreated without a fight and fled in the direction of Guangxi

It turned out that when Yue Fei had just received the imperial court's holy decree to suppress bandits, he made a strange request to the imperial court.

This request was neither to ask the court for soldiers, nor to ask the court for food, but to ask Emperor Gaozong for the reduction of gold plates and ten pairs of yellow flags.

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Doctor of the guard, Jianzhou Observer, Shenwu Deputy Army Commander, Quan Zhitanzhou, and Quanquan Jinghu East Road to pacify, and Yue Feishen, the governor of the capital: Qikanhu East Road saw that the thieves gathered today, and moved tens of thousands, Li Hong was in Yuezhou, Liu Zhong was in Xiangyin, Cao Cheng was in Daozhou, and there were many other robbers. In addition to seeing measures to suppress and kill, if there are people who can change their careers and reform themselves, they are not entrusted or not compatible? For example, Xu Fei Zhao'an, who wants to give ten pairs of gold plates and yellow flags, still begs to send the ministers to take charge of the custody and pay Fei to deliver. I have the province of Shen Shangshu and the Privy Council, waiting for the command.

Yue Fei's request seems inexplicable, but in fact, it is the same as when Bao Zheng asked Emperor Renzong for three imperial guillotins, in order to gain the initiative in the matter, there is no need to tell the court everything.

For such a request, the imperial court will naturally not refuse.

So, in late March of the second year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei set off from Hongzhou and went straight to Cao Cheng

Others may not know how powerful Yue Fei is. Cao Cheng knows it.

In front of the Nanxun Gate of Bianliang City, Yue Fei split Fan Lu into two pieces with a knife, frightened Wang Shan's 100,000 army, and rescued Du Chong from the chaos.

In this process, Cao Cheng was one of the parties involved, and he witnessed the whole process of Yue Fei's might, and he was afraid of Yue Fei's martial arts.

In addition, Yue Fei had just surrendered Zhang Yong, and Cao Chengzheng was defeated by Zhang Yong that he fled to the land of Hunan. How dare Cao Cheng fight against Yue Fei?

When Cao Cheng heard that Yue Fei was coming to conquer him, he asked his subordinates: "The Yue family's army is coming soon, do we have any way to win against them?" ”

As a result, everyone was silent and speechless.

Cao Cheng made a decision immediately. Immediately, the soldiers fled in two ways.

The first route soldier: take the road from Quanzhou and Yongzhou and enter the Guangnan West Road. then took advantage of the road to attack Guizhou, the capital of Guangxi; The second route soldier went south from Daozhou. Attack Hezhou, Guangxi.

Cao Cheng's idea was very simple, try to make Yue Fei unable to figure out his whereabouts, and let Yue's army retreat on its own

If Cao Cheng hadn't gathered more than 70,000 soldiers and horses, he would have become the largest rogue; If the imperial court hadn't issued an edict to let Yue Fei wait for Han Shizhong's army because of Cao's large number of adults; If it weren't for Han Shizhong, in order to expand his troops as soon as possible, he quickly sent troops from Fujian to Hunan. Yue Fei might really let Cao Cheng go.

But with the above three situations, how can Yue Fei stop here.

When Han Shizhong arrived, Han Shizhong was now one level higher than Yue Feiguan, and of course Han Shizhong had the final say on the battlefield. Wouldn't Yue Fei, the emperor's original commander-in-chief at the front line, be very embarrassed?

As the saying goes, people fight for a breath, and Buddha fights for a furnace of incense.

In any case, Yue Fei couldn't let Cao Cheng go this time.

If you want to blame, you can only blame Cao Cheng for being in the limelight and becoming the target of the imperial court

On the 30th, Yue Fei arrived at Chaling and sent scouts to Chenzhou and Guiyang Road to investigate Cao Cheng's actions.

Twenty days later, Yue Fei sent generals Zhang Xian and Wu Xi to lead troops and horses from Yongzhou and Quanzhou to relieve the siege of Guizhou; However, before the two generals' soldiers and horses arrived, Cao Cheng's troops had already retreated first, and the siege of Guizhou was lifted.

In short, Cao Chengcheng has a belief that he will not fight Yue Fei if he is killed.

Yue Fei soon joined Zhang and Wu and then went east to Hezhou.

In late April, Yue Fei sent Zhang Xian to attack Moxie Pass.

For Cao Cheng, the Mo Ye Pass is a very important pass; Because of this failure, Cao Cheng's troops were about to flee to Guangdong.

Therefore, Cao Cheng resisted the Yue family army for the first time at Moxie Pass.

Originally, Cao Cheng still had some hopes for Mo Xie Pass, after all, Mo Xie Pass was also a natural danger, with high terrain and narrow mountain roads, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, the result of the battle made Cao Cheng very disappointed, and the Yuejia army occupied Moxie Pass in the first attack and won a great victory at Moxie Pass.

To tell the truth, after fighting with the powerful Jin soldiers many times, and then going back to fight these rogues in the south of the Yangtze River, the two are not at the same level at all, and the Yue family army fights effortlessly.

The only bright spot in the victory at Moxie Pass is a soldier nicknamed "Da Ma Lao".

In Zhang Xian's army, there was a Hebei man named Guo Jin, who was infinitely powerful, and the amount of food was even more amazing, and every time he had a meal, he said that he couldn't eat enough.

Later, Guo Jin had a whim and made a big horse ladle to eat. When Huotoujun saw him, he made fun of him and called him "Da Ma Lao", and Guo Jin himself did not have the slightest intention of complaining. Later, this title spread everywhere, and the whole army called it that

The Battle of Moxie Pass began, and Guo Jin and two men carrying military flags rushed to the front. The enemy is waiting at the pass.

Who knew that Guo Jin's speed of running the mountain road was amazing, with a big iron gun in his hand, he jumped into the Mo Ye Pass with a few ups and downs, first knocked down the standard-bearer in the pass, and then killed Cao Cheng's defenders in a big mess and fled in embarrassment

By the time Zhang Xian led his troops into the pass, Guo Jin was already sitting there resting.

Zhang Xian was very surprised that there were still such warriors in his army, and he didn't know anything about it before.

When Yue Fei's army arrived, Zhang Xian reported Guo Jin's first achievement, Yue Fei was overjoyed, untied his gold belt and gave it to Guo Jin, and promoted Guo Jin to Bingyilang

On the fourth day of the fourth month of the leap month, Yue Fei entered the boundary of Hezhou, and Cao Cheng had no way to retreat. set up camp in Taipingchang and sent someone to send a letter of peace to Yue Fei.

Yue Fei asked Cao Cheng's envoy to stay in the big tent of the Chinese army and did not speak; After a while, Yue Fei came out of the tent, didn't care what the spy was doing, and walked out by himself.

What do you do when you pay for it? The herald ordered the firehead battalion to cook, and the marshal was hungry and wanted to eat.

At this time, the director of the Huotou battalion said with a handful of snot and tears that there was almost no food in the army, and if he ate today, he would be gone tomorrow. Xia Guan doesn't know what to do? Marshal give me an idea. Yue Fei glared at him, raised his hand, then put it down, and sighed:

"What else can I do, hurry back to Chaling and wait for the imperial court to deliver grain. Otherwise, would you stay here and starve to death? Count Cao Cheng's kid lucky. ”

The envoy was also a shrewd and flexible person, thinking that Yue Fei didn't pay attention to him. And he eavesdropped at the big tent. Listened to the conversation between Yue Fei and Huotou Jun.

The envoy had such an important piece of information, and there was still some kind of peace negotiation, retrieved the letter of peace, and hurried out of the big tent.

The envoy walked too fast, and he actually collided with Yue Fei, who turned back to the big tent, and scared the envoy out of his mind.

Fortunately, Yue Fei ignored it. Just shook his head and "slammed his ears in"

The envoy fled back to Cao Cheng's military camp smoothly, and told Cao Cheng all the conversations between Yue Fei and the head of the Huotou battalion.

Cao Cheng was overjoyed and ordered the three armies to have a good rest tonight. Raise enough energy to pursue the Yue family army tomorrow.

In fact, Cao Cheng didn't know that this was Yue Fei's temptation of him, and it was also to give him a chance, but unfortunately Cao Cheng couldn't accept it at all and made a misunderstanding.

In this way, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the scene of Zhou Yu fooling Cao Cao and Jiang Gan was staged again. Coincidentally, both victims were surnamed Cao

That night, after Yue Fei and the soldiers finished eating, they all arrived at Huanling in the middle of the night. Immediately launched an attack on Cao's army, and before dawn, he broke through the Taipingchang Village, killed countless enemies, and won a complete victory.

After this battle, Cao Cheng retreated all the way, first to Guiling, then to Lianzhou in Guangdong, and then to Chenzhou and Shaozhou. Along the way, I was displaced, so it was not bleak.

Han Shizhong's luck was extremely good, and on the way to Shaozhou, Cao Cheng met Han Shizhong, the deputy envoy of Fujian, Jiangxi, and Jinghu Xuanfu, who had just quelled the Fujian thieves.

Han Shizhong won the battle and returned triumphantly, and after hearing about Cao Cheng's location, he asked the Shenwu Left Army to promote the affairs officer, Gongwei doctor, and Guizhou assassin Dong Min to Cao Ying to recruit Cao Cheng.

When Cao Cheng saw the envoy, he was disheartened, knowing that the general trend had gone, so he was recruited.

Han Shizhong did not lose a single soldier, but he got the head of the thief and made great contributions

In Hunan, it was originally a situation in which the four major Kou relied on each other and restrained each other.

Now Cao Cheng, who is the strongest, suddenly escaped, and the balance between the rogues collapsed. Soon after, various changes took place one after another.

First of all, it was the ambitious Li Hong who sent troops to attack Ma You, and Ma You fought back with Liu Zhong and staged a small Three Kingdoms Killing in Hunan, which is not large.

When the three gangsters were killing each other and exhausted, Han Shizhong's troops carried the power of recruiting Cao Cheng to enter Hunan, forced Li Hong to surrender, beheaded Ma You, and drove Liu Zhong away. All kinds of rogues in Hunan are gone; Social order has also been completely renewed.

Han Shizhong's troops suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Huangtiandang, and after this trip, they replenished their forces and became the biggest beneficiary of this suppression of bandits

Ping Sikou's work is over. For Yue Fei's performance, the DPRK and China have a rave of praise:

Li Gang, the newly arrived Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu and Guangnan Road, praised Yue Fei for being "young and strong, serious in governing the army, able to perform miraculous feats, and rarely achieved anything in recent times", and asserted that he "decided to become a famous general of Zhongxing at different times."

In the official notice to Yue Fei from the imperial court, Yue Fei was praised as "a good general of the time, a sharp teacher for me, Xu Guo is only loyal, and the people can also be trained, and the joys and hardships of the same soldiers are strict." Xuanli has worked hard for a long time, fought a lot of real work, added several roads, and swept away the crowd of murderers".

Naturally, the promotion system issued by the imperial court has elements of false decoration, but this proclamation's comment on Yue Fei's talent, military exploits and military discipline is still appropriate.

Since then, Yue Fei's name has occupied a place in the imperial court...... (To be continued......)

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