Yue Fei hurried to the Huaixi battlefield with 20,000 soldiers to help in the battle, passing through Caizhou on the way.

Yue Fei rode his horse and looked from a distance, the walls of Caizhou were heavily walled, and there was silence, and he couldn't find a single soldier. The black flags on the city walls are arranged in an orderly manner, and under the fierce blowing of the autumn wind, hunting sounds.

Could it be that this is an empty city?

Yue Fei was keenly aware that this was most likely a strategy to lure the enemy into the urn, and a large number of pseudo-Qi ambushes must have been ambushed around.

"The Art of War" has a cloud: "... Those who know what they can fight and those who can't fight win, those who know the use of the few win, those who want the same thing win, and those who treat those who are not safe win. ”

These descriptions and explanations of the difference between victory and defeat in "The Art of War" are applied to Yue Fei at this time, which can be said to be just right.

The Yue family's army quickly moved to a place called Baita more than fifty miles away from Caizhou City, so that an ambush circle that Li Cheng had prepared for a long time failed.

Li Cheng received the spies' return, and he was furious, and brazenly chased after him from behind with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

In terms of the comparison of troops, Li Cheng's 100,000-strong army was far more than Yue Fei's 20,000 horses. It stands to reason that taking the initiative to pursue is a right that Li Cheng should have.

It's just that this time Li Cheng doesn't have a long memory.

Just when Li Cheng's army was chasing after him, he didn't watch out for a sneak attack from behind.

Wang Gui, Yue Fei's good brother who shot this time.

Wang Gui scattered the rear camp of Li Cheng's army, and burned a large amount of grain and grass and all kinds of baggage, and when Li Cheng's elite cavalry came to the rescue, Wang Gui and his subordinates had disappeared without a trace

With such a loss, I'm afraid even Li Ben himself can't remember how many times he has eaten it.

As the first fierce general of pseudo-Qi. Li Cheng is definitely not a mediocre person. Opposite. In the early days of the Southern Song Dynasty. His cultural and martial arts are first-class, and even Emperor Gaozong once said: "As long as Li Cheng is willing to surrender, he is willing to give him the title of Jiedu envoy." ”

It's a pity that he met Yue Fei.

The safflower also needs the support of green leaves, and the celebrities and fierce generals also need weighty opponents to set off. For example, Zhuge Kongming had a fierce man named Zhou Yu next to him.

By Yue Fei's side, of course, there were also many green leaves. Wanyan Wushu is one of the larger pieces, and the size of Li Cheng's piece is also quite large.

And the largest leaf used to set off Yue Fei's red flower is not a general. but a civil official, his name is Qin Hui; The color of this leaf is very special, not the usual green, but deep black, so black that it is blacker than ink, and it cannot be washed for thousands of years.

Yue Fei led the army and advocated "the impermanence of soldiers and the impermanence of water".

Between attack and retreat, between encirclement and counter-encirclement, between assault and counter-attack. In Yue Fei's eyes, there has never been a fixed usage.

If you insist on saying that Yue Fei has some rules for using soldiers. There's only one thing: maximize efficiency. That is, to destroy the most enemies with the least number of troops.

Therefore, in the first important discussion of the "Wu Mu's Testament", it is written: "There must be a unity in the scattered, and there must be a combination in the division, so that the world is in all directions, and each has its own belonging, and there are thousands of threads, and the crowd has its own source." Cover a book scattered for ten thousand differences, and ten thousand salts are attributed to one, and things are inevitable. ”

Therefore, although Li Cheng has many soldiers, defeat is inevitable. This is the result of "inferior skills".

Although the rear camp was attacked by a sneak attack, Li Cheng did not give up the pursuit of the Yue family's army.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare, he doesn't dare to give up the offensive against the main force of the Yue family's army.

Now the 100,000 troops ambushed by Li Cheng have all been exposed in broad daylight. Once Li Cheng stopped the pursuit of the main force of the Yue family army and let Yue Fei take a breath, the rest of the results, Li Cheng would inevitably face the endless, disgusting and annoying, painful sneak attacks and counter-pursuits of the Yue family army.

To be honest, Li Cheng also had the courage to think about it for a long time and take a long time.

Once this courage is gone, you will definitely be defeated.

What Li Cheng didn't expect was that the courage he had mustered up after several hard efforts was exhausted by another pride of courage.

The master of this heroic courage is the commander of the Yue family's white army - Dong Xian.

When Li Cheng led his 100,000-strong army to the front of a river bridge, he suddenly found that there was only one Song general with a gun on the river bridge; On the other side of the river was a forest, in which countless soldiers and horses were ambushed.

The member on the river bridge, Song Jiangnai, shouted loudly: "I am Dong Xianye, the commander of the Yue family's White Army!" Who would dare to come out and fight me to the death? ”

Dong Xian's shouts were like thunder, and when the pseudo-Qi army heard it, they all shuddered.

Hey, this scene is so familiar, have you seen it somewhere?

That's right, the current scene is similar to the period of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu in the late Han Dynasty, when Zhang Fei was on the bridge of Changbanpo and single-handedly drank Cao Cao's million-strong army!!

On this nameless river bridge, Dong Xian actually reenacted the scene of Yanren Zhang Yide making trouble in Changbanpo. This scene is recorded in the following details in "Baishi Zhaozhong Lu" and "Yue Wumu Gong's Testament":

Dong Xian then chose a dangerous place, ambushed his army in the forest, and waited for him on the river bridge alone.

After a while, Li Cheng waited, saw Dong Xian, raised the rope to tell him, as the white army said, Dong Xian: "Don't go, I'll capture you first." ”

He replied first: "I will not leave, but I am afraid that you will go!" ”

The thief saw that he had time to wait first, and suspected that there was an ambush, so he did not dare to enter. Every time he sent troops to fight, Dong Xian spun out one or two teams of soldiers in the forest to respond. If they retreat, they will return to the forest.

Thieves are suspicious

It is hard to imagine how much guts and courage it would take to face the enemy's army of 100,000 alone.

However, Dong did it first.

He completely explained what it means to be "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open." With his extraordinary courage and extraordinary strategy, he managed to hold on to Li Cheng's army of 100,000 for a full day and a night.

The next day, Li Cheng got impatient and waved his flag. Let the generals of his subordinates rush up to fight Dong Xian.

From this point alone. Li Cheng was already stronger than Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period. At least he was not frightened by Dong Xian's words and fled, but insisted on charging.

It's just that he was still seriously influenced by Dong Xian, and instead of letting the whole army charge together, he sent generals to test the details of the Song army.

Although Li Cheng sent several teams of generals to rush the bridge, the bridge deck was narrow, and at most it could accommodate two or three horses in parallel, and the flexibility was greatly affected.

This time. Dong Xian, the commander of the White Army, used all his strength, his hands and feet did not stop, and he fought viciously for a whole morning, picking dozens of cavalry generals in a row.

In the woods behind the river bridge, the morale of the Song army ambushed in it was high, and the mountains shook with cheers.

Among the army, they advocate force the most, and seeing Dong Xian's bravery, the soldiers of the pseudo-Qi army had no fighting spirit, and even began to stop and prepare to retreat.

It's time too. Yue Fei led the main force of the Yue family army to cover up from the flank of the puppet Qi army, "like a silver mountain hugging out of the mountains"

Li Cheng was shocked. In a hurry, he turned the horse's head and galloped away.

Yue's army chased out more than 30 miles, "got more than 2,000 horses, armor, and weapons, and more than 3,000 cavalry..."

After simply cleaning up the battlefield, Yue Fei waved his army and continued to move eastward, heading towards the Huaixi battlefield

Yue Fei finally arrived in Jiangzhou.

It's just that the arrival of the Yue family army has brought about a slight change in the Southern Song Dynasty court, which is still festive. Because at this time, the three route soldiers of the puppet Qi had already been defeated and retreated, and Zhang Jun and Yang Yi were still waiting for the emperor's reward.

The princes of the Beacon Theater, no matter which dynasty it is placed in, is a very taboo thing.

Emperor Gaozong was very embarrassed, and Zhao Ding, the left minister, was very ashamed, at this time they knew that Liu Yu was in charge, but the superior naturally had a saying that they used to cover up their shame.

Zhao Ding first congratulated His Majesty the Emperor and said: "From this matter, it can be seen that the generals in front of you respect the imperial court, and everyone obeys orders, which is a good thing." ”

Emperor Gaozong nodded again and again: "Yes, Liu Lin was defeated, I am not happy, and the generals know that they respect the imperial court, which is the real gratifying thing!" ”

This statement is clearly similar to the modern "theory of rejuvenating the country through disaster".

In this way, the Second Northern Expedition against the puppet Qi regime launched by the Southern Song Dynasty court came to an end.

This Northern Expedition, presided over by Zhang Jun, the right servant, began with Han Shizhong's crossing of the Yangtze River in February of the sixth year of Shaoxing, and ended with Yue Fei's withdrawal from Caizhou to rescue the Huaixi battlefield.

In this Northern Expedition, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty fought dozens of battles, large and small, all of which ended in victory.

The Southern Song regime won more victories in this year than in previous years combined.

This Northern Expedition proved that the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty had been greatly improved after being tempered by the wars in the past few years. Not only is the strength far superior to the pseudo-Qi, but even against the Jin soldiers.

The problem is that, in any case, the Second Northern Expedition ended in failure. After all, the puppet Qi regime still existed, and the army of the Southern Song Dynasty had all retreated back to its original defensive line.

The failure of this Northern Expedition was not a crime of soldiers, but entirely because of the support and overall decision-making of the imperial court. Among them, the two prime ministers on the left and right - Zhao Ding and Zhang Jun have a lot of responsibility.

Zhang Jun's responsibility lies in the failure to coordinate the rhythm of Han Shizhong and Yue Fei's attacks, crossing the river one after the other, and greatly reducing his power; Also, Zhang Jun failed to meet the needs of the front line for grain and grass, which made Han Shizhong and Yue Fei very troubled.

And Zhao Ding's responsibility lies in the fact that he easily believed in the armies of Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun, made a wrong judgment of the situation, and tried his best to persuade Emperor Gaozong to let Yue Feishi return to the court to save the driver, and died in a good situation

The Second Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty ended in a daze. However, the shock caused by the Huaixi farce has not subsided, and it is still spreading, and even becoming more and more intense.

The problem happened to two people - Zhao Ding and Zhang Jun...... (To be continued......)

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