The capture of Yang Mi and Zhong Ziyi announced the complete extinction of the bandits in Dongting Lake.

At this time, it was exactly the eighth day before Yue Fei arrived in Dingzhou.

The good news soon spread to Zhang Jun's governor's mansion in Tanzhou, and Zhang Jun said with great emotion:

"Yue Hou is a god!"

Lord Zhang Jun left, escorted a few bandit leaders, and returned to Lin'an Mansion to report the good news to Emperor Gaozong and invite merit.

This time to Dongting Lake to suppress bandits is the second task Zhang Jun is responsible for after his comeback. Of course, the greatest credit is the leading coach Yue Fei, but as the governor and the former supervisor, Zhang Jun's credit will never be less.

Moreover, in the process of this cooperation, Zhang Jun not only saw Yue Fei's bravery and resourcefulness, but also discovered that Yue Fei's integrity had reached the level of "avoiding honor and favor".

Here, "avoiding honor and favor" refers to Yue Fei's eldest son, Yue Yun.

In this operation to suppress bandits, Yue Yun must charge forward in every battle, regardless of his own life, which can be said to be a great achievement, but Yue Fei is, as always, pressing Yue Yun's merits down and not reporting.

After Zhang Jun learned the truth, he was also quite moved, and said: "Marquis Yue avoided favor and Rong Yi here, and he was honest, but he was not allowed to be public." ”

After returning to Lin'an Mansion, Zhang Jun also specially played to Emperor Gaozong and said: "The battle of Huxiang, Yue Yun is really a miracle. ”

The water village and the bandits in Dongting Lake were all dismantled. However, there was a debate over what to do with the more than 200,000 captives, including their families.

Niu Gao's statement was: "Xu Dayang." Occupy the heavy lake and do it. Troubles to the court. Although the king has an army of tens of thousands. It's still defeated. This festival made the captain bring a large number of soldiers to the lair, and the thieves were afraid of the tiger's might, and they had already surrendered, and Yang Mo resisted and was captured. If we don't kill less of his subordinates, how can we show the prestige of our army? ”

is a good Niu Gao, and he actually proposed that Yue Fei slaughter the village. Kill all the top and bottom of the water village that refused to surrender before.

This was the practice at that time, and it sounded good to think about the country and long-term peace and stability. In private, everyone knows that Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun's money came from this way, and only after robbing it all can the evidence be destroyed.

Regarding Niu Gao's proposal, Yue Fei resolutely opposed.

Yue Fei replied: "Yang Mo's disciple was originally a villager, and he was first bewitched by Zhong Xiang with monsters, and then he was humiliated by the Cheng Minister's Department Huaidingjiang. If you don't save it, you have to kill it all. With shame before the snow, the thief is raised. In fact, it was just a matter of saving one's life and gathering people to escape. Now that the villages have surrendered, and Qu Kui Yang has been punished, and the rest of the disciples are the country's bare, wouldn't it hurt to kill them, what are the benefits? In addition, if you don't fight a soldier who surrenders to the people, and the whole army is superior, it is a soldier's preciousness; It is not a good thing to slaughter and behead. But the big thing is over, the intention of the deputy court to live a good life, and the worries of the saint and the virtuous, then the family does not bear the heavy responsibility, and there is no shame in the ministry. ”

Yue Fei's approach can be described by an idiom - being kind-hearted.

In this way, the battle of Dongting Lake ended with Yue Fei's benevolent behavior.

One thing can be confirmed, in the early Southern Song Dynasty, when the soldiers were in danger and fierce wars, no matter which known general came, the people of Dongting Lake would not receive such generous preferential treatment

Yue Fei's lenient measures were also affirmed by Emperor Gaozong.

He personally wrote an edict to Yue Fei, saying: "If it is not the prestige of the world, when the loyalty is good, the first voice is coming, and people are confident in their service, so how can they level the party that gathers in the year, and it is between the ten dynasties." Don't bother to punish you, sit on Jiajing, make me both graceful and powerful, and make great achievements! ”

This edict was drafted by Shen Heqiu, the governor of the government, for Emperor Gaozong.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the war disaster continued, and the population was greatly reduced. Preserving as much labor as possible in order to provide the state with a source of soldiers and enlistment, this is also one of the reasons why Song Gaozong's ministers favored "not bothering and punishing".

Yue Fei disposed of more than 200,000 prisoners:

27,000 cadres and many households of the old and weak "issued public documents", "each amount of rice and grain returned to the industry"; Tens of thousands of strong men were incorporated into the army; In addition, some people who "had nowhere to go" were sent to the distant Zhenjiang Prefecture, "so they fled the fields and made them farmers."

If you choose the strong to be a soldier, you will not be afraid of the old and weak rebelling; Keep the old and weak ploughing the fields, and provide food for the strong. This practice kills two birds with one stone, and it is also in line with the previous practice of the Southern Song court.

Not only that, Yue Fei also applied to the imperial court for the locals, so that the imperial court made some regulations and charters for tax reduction and exemption.

Volume 90 of "Records of the Year since the Establishment of Yan": Households along Dongting Lake, who owe taxes three years ago in Shaoxing, can rely on the pavilion for three years... The people who have returned to work in Tan, Yue, Ding, Li, and Jingnan have hired tenants for their fields for others, and they are still exempt from tax for three years if they are adjacent to idle fields. That is, those who have no property and are willing to receive idle land will also be given

Yue Fei's soldiers sent Dongting Lake, and in only two and a half months, he successfully solved the troubles of the imperial court's henchmen for many years, and won a cheer from the government and the opposition.

Volume 95 of "Zhu Wen's Official Documents": "If the upper class is established, the situation in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jing, and Xiang will be one after another, and the strength will be doubled".

In this way, it caused the dissatisfaction of the three important ministers of the DPRK and China, who were the three giants in the army: Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun.

The reason for their dissatisfaction was very simple: with the addition of the Dongting Lake army, the total strength of the Yuejia army had reached 100,000.

Such a scale surpassed the forces of Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun at that time, second only to Liu Guangshi.

The most feared thing of the three army leaders finally happened, and everyone reacted differently: some gritted their teeth, such as Liu and Zhang; There is a wry smile and shaking his head, such as Han Shizhong.

Big fists are the last word, and Yue Fei has already pressed on top of their heads.

To their surprise, not long after, Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong each received a gift, a car and boat from Dongting Lake, and the equipment and personnel on board were complete.

This is Yue Fei's respect, he used this to show friendship to the big brothers, he did not forget Zhang Jun's support for him, and he did not ignore Han Shizhong's great military exploits, he wanted to gain their friendship.

Yue Fei was only half the battle.

After Lao Han received the gift, he smiled and made Yue Fei a friend; Zhang Jun was even more angry, in his opinion, Yue Fei was demonstrating to him and showing him his military exploits.

Zhang Jun recalled and compared the various episodes of his intersection with Yue Fei in the past few years, including this gift, Yue Fei's every step reflected his incompetence, cowardice and failure.

This slowly generated a resentment in Zhang Jun's heart, and in the years that followed, as Yue Fei continued to achieve great achievements, this resentment deepened.

Until he does something wrong that is the anger of man and God!

Among the three, Liu Guangshi's reaction was the strangest.

Judging from the process, he should hate Yue Fei the most. Yue Fei didn't write to him, and he didn't have a share in giving gifts, and he had the most troops, so he should have jumped up and taught Yue Fei a lesson.

But in fact, nothing happened, and Liu Guangshi was surprisingly calm.

In the early days of the Southern Song Dynasty, this person had always been the object of the imperial court's reliance, but unfortunately, he escaped too many times, not only in a precarious position at the top of the imperial court, but also in the minds of ordinary officials.

No matter how many soldiers he has, he can't fight, useless guy!

For Yue Fei, the greatest achievement of sending troops to Dongting Lake was the rapid expansion of the Yue family's army.

When he first set off, Yue Fei only brought 15,000 elite troops.

After arriving in Hunan, he took advantage of the newly appointed envoys to the south and north routes of Jinghu to recruit and transfer most of the local officers and soldiers, including Dingzhou, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops.

After pacifying the Tukou in Dongting Lake, another 50,000 or 60,000 "Ding Zhuang" were incorporated into the Yuejia army.

At this point, with the addition of the Yue family army that was originally left behind in the six counties of Xiangyang, the total strength under Yue Fei's command exceeded 100,000, and it became the second largest group army of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, and it was also the strongest group army.

With the consent of the imperial court, Yue Fei organized the entire Yue family army into the 12th army. They are: the Back Army, the Front Army, the Right Army, the Left Army, the Rear Army, the Middle Army, the Guerrilla Army, the White Army, the Election Army, the Victory Army, the Enemy Breaking Army and the Water Army.

Among the 12 armies, the three armies of Beiwei, Guyi and Xuanfeng are the most elite.

The Beiwei Army is Yue Fei's personal guard, and all the soldiers have been selected first. The result is "reward for abnormality, courage and strength", fierce and invincible.

In addition, this force is composed entirely of cavalry, and whether it is a long march or a short charge, it comes and goes like the wind. So much so that in the future, when Jin Bing mentioned the Beiwei Army, they all changed color, saying that "once the Beiwei comes, not an inch of grass is left", "The Beiwei Army and Horses have no battle, and they have suppressed all the princes of the year." ”

In addition, Yue Fei also divided all the generals into twenty-two commanders, five commanders, and two hundred and fifty-two generals. Among the 252 generals, there are 84 generals, deputy generals, and brigadier generals.

Among these generals, there are not only Zhang Xian, Yang Zaixing, Niu Gao, Dong Xian, Xu Qing, Wang Gui and other figures who can take charge of themselves, but also Li Shan, Fu Xuan, Wang Wan, Yue Heng, Yao Zheng, Li Bao, Bi Jin, Meng Lin and a large number of people who can fight well.

Of course, what is absolutely indispensable in the army is Yue Yun, the winning official who kills the god when he meets the god and kills the Buddha when he sees the Buddha

In addition to a group of tiger generals, because of Yue Fei's ambition, pursuit, quality and personality charm, he also gathered a large group of knowledgeable, talented, and virtuous scribes around him.

The most famous of them is Yue Fei's chief of staff, Huang Zong.

Huang Zong was a native of Suzhou, proficient in military affairs, and was known as the Heavenly Machine, because his father Huang Ce was characterized by Huizong Zhao Ji and Taishi Cai Jing as the "Yuan Fu Traitorous Party", and Huang Zong was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination for the rest of his life.

After Gaozong moved south, the descendants of the Yuan Fu traitorous party were ordered by the imperial court to be ordinary and restore their reputation. Huang Zong took the opportunity to present his speech to the imperial court and presented ten volumes of his research experience on the art of war, which caused a sensation.

Yue Fei took the lead through the needle of the wizard Zhao Jiuling, and finally incorporated Huang Zong into his army, which can be called a good story in the military circles at that time...... (To be continued......)

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