Chapter 273: Success is in the sky
Under the threat of Han Shizhong's sharp arrows, Wanyan Wushu slipped like a rabbit and hid.
The funny thing is that after less than a cup of tea, I regretted it after finishing the Yan Wushu.
After several hard work, he invited that Han Nanman to come to negotiate, but because of his momentary anger, he actually destroyed the negotiation single-handedly, and lost an opportunity for negotiation and negotiation in vain.
Wanyan Wushu hurriedly ran to the shore to see that Han Shizhong had already sailed away.
In the next few days, he sat in the city of sorrow after finishing the Yan Wushu, and he was so sad that he died. What do I have to do? The river in front of him is likely to become his grave, and he can't think of any way to cross it even after racking his brains.
At the critical moment, the lucky star of the Yan Wushu came again, and the Song people came to help him.
A Fujianese surnamed Wang appeared leisurely and gave him a few ideas.
Didn't Jin Jun stand unsteady on the ship? Quite simply, the deck is planked and the boat will be stable and flat.
Isn't the speed of the ship enough? Dig a hole in the side of the boat and install the oars.
What, not fast enough? Then you can only beg the heavens to stop the wind. As long as the wind on the river stops and there is no wind power available, Han Shizhong's warships will become live targets that will not move, and they will be slaughtered by the golden soldiers.
The biggest military secret of the Song Army's naval division was revealed to Jin Bing in this way.
As the first leading party recorded in the official history, the Han people surnamed Wang have left their names through the ages and are firmly engraved on the pillar of shame in history.
Volume 107 of "Renewal of Capital and Governance Tongjian": There is Wang of Fuzhou, who lives in Jiankang, and teaches the gold people to carry soil in the boat, pave it with a flat plate, and use the oars on the hole boat board. When the wind breathes, it will go out of the river. If it's windy, don't go out. The sea boat has no wind and cannot be moved, and if you shoot its canopy with a rocket, it will be self-defeating
Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years.
After being reminded by the Song people surnamed Wang, Wanyan Wushu finally understood that the fundamental reason why Han Shizhong suppressed both sides of the Yangtze River with a weak force before this was because of the excellent armament. Sea ships are tall. These need to have enough wind to drive quickly. Once the wind is gone, Han Shizhong's sea ships will become live targets that will not move.
The Golden Vulture was pleasantly surprised, and this time there was hope for escape!
The Jurchens took out their old profession of housekeeping - shamanic witchcraft. They "tortured white horses, plucked out women's hearts, and cut off their own foreheads to sacrifice to heaven." "In exchange for the calm of the river.
After these feudal superstitious activities were completed, the wind really stopped. The huge Yangtze River, the largest water system in East Asia, has been strong for many years, and all of them have stopped at this time.
How is this to be explained, and how is this to be predicted???
In such a strange weather, Han Shizhong's sailors ushered in the two-sided attack of the Jin soldiers for the second time.
Sure enough, it was not expected to finish Yan Wushu. There was no wind, and the Song army's huge fleet of sea ships could only stop at the center of the river. Transform into giant wooden targets that don't move. And the ridiculous little sampans before the Jin Army flew together with oars and rowed vividly.
The movement speed was slow, and Han Shizhong's carefully prepared iron chain flying thallium became an ornament, because the Jin soldiers would not approach the Song army's battleship. What these Jin troops were doing was rowing to the north shore while firing rockets at the Song army's sea boats.
Han Shizhong's ships were all on fire.
With the flammability of the wooden boats, and the long distance from the shore in the middle of the river, the soldiers of the Song army were either drowned or burned to death...... According to records, not many escaped alive.
Volume 107 of "Renewal of Capital and Governance": There is no wind in the sky, and the sea boats cannot move. Shizhong Boat Division, this is a land and water battle, each boat has soldiers, horses, family members, and baggage. The Jin people shot their canopies with rockets, the fire was exposed, the people shouted in chaos, the horses were frightened and neighed, and the people who were burned and fell into the river were innumerable. The burning boat covered the river and went down, the golden people drummed and pursued it with a light boat, and the sound of the golden drum shook the heavens and the earth. The commander, the right military doctor, the Chengzhou regimental training envoy Sun Shixun, the martial arts doctor, and the Jizhou defense envoy Yan Yongji all died in battle. Shizhong and the rest of the army to Guabu, abandon the boat and land, return to Zhenjiang to gather troops, people who avoid troops along the river, often take their food, there are also those who have the army to save silver and silk, Zong Bi bow to the river escaped
Wanyan Wushu and tens of thousands of Jin soldiers finally fled back to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
What is the best thing to say about such a thing?
There are thousands of things, and in the end it can only be summed up in one sentence: Han Shizhong used his meager strength to do an impossible task, and he only succeeded by a little bit.
As for the result, it can only be described by an idiom: the plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky!
After this battle, the morale of the Song Dynasty was greatly improved.
In the battle of Huang Tiandang and the battle of Jiankang, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei teamed up to break the myth of the invincibility of the Jurchens, so that all the Song people could see that these northern aliens were not only defeated, but also defeated, completely defeated, and defeated without dignity.
At this level, the significance of these two wars is incomparably significant.
In addition, the two major battles of Huang Tiandang and Jiankang Mansion wiped out tens of thousands of Jin soldiers, and most of them were the children of the Jurchen clan, which greatly weakened the strength of the Jin State. From this moment on, the one-sided balance of power between the Jin and Song dynasties began to change subtly.
On the other hand, Jin Guo, aside from the last experience of fleeing in embarrassment, from the whole process, the Jin soldiers actually fought quite well, at least forcing the emperors of the Song Dynasty out of the sea, and finally successfully escaped.
But Jin Bing couldn't be proud, especially in the last 50 days, that difficult mental journey, and those difficult experiences to confide in outsiders, were still in Jin Bing's mind for a long time.
As the marshal of the Jin soldiers, Wanyan Wushu actually cried.
For a period of time after crossing the river, as long as he saw an acquaintance, Wanyan Wushu would not let go, crying endlessly, and confiding all kinds of tragic encounters across the river to ease the shadow in his heart.
"Dajin Guozhi" Volume 6 "Emperor Taizong Wenlie IV" records: Wushu "from the south of the Yangtze River, the first to the north of the Jiangbei, every time you meet a personal acquaintance, you will hold on to crying, complaining about the difficulty of crossing the river, almost inevitable"
The Jin soldiers retreated, the Jiangnan region was at peace, and our Emperor Gaozong was the happiest.
To be fair. Emperor Gaozong has indeed changed a lot now. At least go to court on time every day. Won't stay in the harem all day and have fun.
After the war, it is natural to be rewarded for meritorious deeds.
And when it comes to who has the most credit, it is Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.
Yue Fei escorted the captives to Jin Bing to Beijing to face the saint.
Before going to Beijing, there was a small episode in Yue's army: Liu Jing, who had stayed in the base camp in Yixing County, actually wanted to take Yue Fei's family as a hostage, and then annex Yue's army.
This news was informed to Yue Fei by Liu Jing's subordinate Wang Wan.
In the turbulent times of the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was not uncommon for warlords to fight and annex each other. The relationship between Yue Fei and Liu Jing is extraordinary. He would do such a thing, which made Yue Fei puzzled. But Yue Fei also knew that Wang Wan would not lie to himself, because he was his savior.
After seeing through Liu Jing's conspiracy, Yue Fei quickly cut through the mess and quickly executed Liu Jing. As for Liu Jing's subordinates, when they had a lot of Yue's army, they also very much agreed with Yue Fei's personality and Yue's style of the army. The matter subsided, leaving only some after-dinner topics.
This meeting between Yue Fei and Emperor Gaozong seemed to be very hurried, and neither of them wanted to revisit the past. After a few casual conversations, it was hastily finished. Emperor Gaozong only rewarded Yue Fei with fifty pairs of iron armor, gold belts, saddles, horses, gold-plated spears, and flowered robes, which seemed very stingy
Yue Fei has just returned to Yixing County. The imperial court ordered Yue Fei to crusade against Qi Fang.
Qi Fang is Yue Fei's old colleague. After the defeat of Majiadu, Qi Fang went up the mountain to serve as a coward, and after the army of Hucheng was annexed, the number of troops in his hands grew to 10,000.
Just when Yue Fei was fighting against the Jin soldiers in Changzhou and Jiankang, Qi Fang also led his own team, first attacking Xuanzhou and then raiding Huzhou, and became the most fierce bandit in the southeast.
For the conquest and suppression of the Qi Fang gang, the imperial court originally assigned Zhang Jun to be responsible.
When it comes to fighting, Zhang Jun's legs have been weakened by three points, especially against some extremely vicious people.
However, Zhang Jun soon found a suitable substitute for the dead ghost - Yue Fei.
Zhang Jun was nominally Yue Fei's immediate boss, but had no substantive command and dispatch authority. The reason is that the imperial court does not have enough money and food, and the army below has to raise its own funds.
Without the supply of food and grass, the army below can of course ignore the military orders above.
This situation is called listening to the propaganda and not listening to the tune.
To put it simply, the upper (imperial court) can come and give orders at any time, but whether or not to carry out the order and when to execute the order is another matter.
On this issue, among the many generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, there are two people who are the most obvious and outrageous: Liu Guangshi and Qu Duan
Others were afraid of fighting, but Yue Fei was not afraid.
Yue Fei is not only not afraid of war, on the contrary, he is eager to fight, and the more the better.
The reason is simple: money and food. After winning the war, there will naturally be loot, which can be exchanged for money, silver, and various materials.
This practice, the modern term is "to feed the war with war", and Yue Fei called it "food for the enemy".
Yue Fei and Qi Fang's forces were not far apart, both of them were more than 10,000 people, but after fighting, they found that the combat capabilities of the two armies were not on the same level at all.
Qi Fang's army was crushed at the first touch and was completely defeated by Yue's army.
Against this group of wolf-like Yue family army, there is no way out. For Qi Fang, there were only two options: surrender or commit suicide.
Qi Fang chose to surrender, but he played a trick and did not surrender to Yue Fei, but fled to Zhang Jun's barracks to surrender to Zhang Jun, and at the same time presented Zhang Jun with 6,000 elite soldiers, 600 war horses, and countless gold and silver treasures.
"Records of the Year since the Establishment of Yan" Volume 3 and 4: Qi Fang used his department to go to the line, and at the time he led troops to commit crimes in Shangxiang Township, Anji County, Zhexi, Jiangdong, and made Zhang Jun ask for it with soldiers, or said that the road to the countryside was narrow and impractical, and Jun Nai sent his general Wang Zaixing to recruit Yue Fei, the commander of the meeting, to pursue him, and there was no way to advance or retreat in the rear. ”
This kind of peach picking behavior is actually quite bad.
Zhang Jun also knew that his behavior had broken the rules, so he invited Yue Fei to apologize for his sins at a banquet in the army.
Anyway, he was also the boss, Yue flew to Zhang Jun's camp, scolded Qi Fangyitong, and then smiled at Zhang Jun, and gave up...... (To be continued......)
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