Chapter 337: The Battle of Dongshan
In the spring of the fourth year of Chunxi, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The sun is shining, the spring breeze is blowing, and every household in the city is full of joy.
Miao Wang Yang Tongwen's house. The crowd is buzzing and the popularity is extraordinary.
More than 100 elders from various villages gathered at the Yang ancestral hall and greeted each other, and the annual economic work conference kicked off.
Yang Tongwen sat on the Taishi chair, cleared his throat, and said, "Elders, please come here today, there is only one important matter to discuss with you. ”
Jiang Junwen, the chief of Niu Dong, was the first to stand up and asked: "Wang, I am located on the border of Hunan and Guangxi, and the economic development is lagging behind, I don't know if the new economic planning plan has our share?" ”
Yang Tongwen said: "Don't worry, this king first asks Yang Tongfu to read out the new economic plan to you." ”
Yang Tongfu was on the left side of King Miao, and he took out the mustache that he had already prepared and began to read it aloud, unhurriedly: "..... first, Chishuitong has added 10,000 acres of orange orchards and 10,000 acres of watermelon fields; Second, build a dam in Niutong and Chishuitong respectively, enclose a contiguous area of 300,000 acres, and breed alpine river fish; Third, the purchase of spring and winter bamboo shoots, 300,000 catties of vetch, 100,000 catties of medicinal materials and a certain number of cherished beast fur; Fourth, encourage childbirth, add a mouthful to each household, and reward two taels of silver. ”
After everyone discussed for a while, the elders all got up and stood up to face King Miao, and said in unison: "The king is wise, we have no objection!" ”
Yang Tongwen was overjoyed and said: "The elders trust this king so much, I should go all out to rejuvenate my Miao Village!" Have a seat! ”
Yang Tongfu said: "The king intends to reorganize the Miao family trading house and unify the guidance of production and sales, and the elders serve as the branch treasurer, can you?" ”
"Wonderful! How are profits shared? Jiang Junwen asked.
"The head office will take 20% and use it for transportation and turnover, do you think it's appropriate?" Yang Tongwen said tentatively.
Everyone turned their heads and said: "Without the macro control of the head office, the branch is disorderly production, and it should be!" "Thirty percent is fine!"
"The king is really thinking about us." ……
As a result, the discussion meeting lasted for three days, and the "Economic Development Strategy" was finally finalized, and King Miao distributed a copy to each village. The vigorous economic movement was carried out in Miao Village, and Yang Tongwen, the king of Miao, was very busy, and he only lived at home for a few months a year.
The two ladies added four sons to him before and after, and they didn't have time to stay at home for a few days, and "three times without entering the house" was far more than that, three hundred times.
After 20 years of development, the cultivated land area of Chengbu Village has increased several times, the surrounding villagers continue to come and run, and the population has increased to 150,000 households. Soon, Yang Tongwen's four sons grew up, both civil and military, and took over the business of the trading headquarters.
The Song court rewarded Yang Tongwen for his political achievements and rewarded him with five thousand taels of silver, Yang Tongwen could finally retire and only work as a consultant behind the scenes, but he still remembered to go into battle to kill the enemy, and he had to practice martial arts and fitness day and night.
During the Song Ningzong period, the relationship with the Jin Dynasty gradually tended to be tense. His cousin Han Yanxuan gradually took power and advocated the resistance to Jin, and was supported by the famous anti-war factions Xin Qiji, Lu You, Ye Shi and others.
Song Ningzong was dissatisfied with the Jin Dynasty's arrogant demand to act according to the old etiquette and his humiliating position, so he also supported Han Yanxuan's tough measures against the Jin Dynasty.
In the second year of Kaixi (1206), Han Yanxuan, who was in charge of the state affairs of the Pingzhang army, was not fully prepared, and rashly launched the Northern Expedition under the condition of serious shortage of cavalry and lack of firearms and equipment. The Song armies from all walks of life attacked one after another, and the battle line was very long, and it was a living force that could not be annihilated.
Shandong Jingdong Zhaofu envoy Guo Ni sent troops to attack Suzhou (now Anhui), Jiankang Mansion (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), Li Shuang led his troops to attack Shouzhou (now Fengtai, Anhui) and Jiangling Mansion (now Hubei), and Huangfu Bin (now Tanghe, Henan) and Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and Wang Dajie attacked Caizhou (now Runan, Henan).
And the Yang family general, who had been waiting for decades, did not receive the order from the imperial court to fight, and Yang Tongwen was so angry that he scolded: "Han Yanxuan acted recklessly, and if he abandoned my Yang family's army, he would definitely be defeated." ”
At the beginning of the war, the Song army suddenly attacked and recovered some places, such as Sizhou, Suzhou and other places. The spies hidden in the Southern Song Dynasty transmitted the information back to the Jin State, so the Jin Dynasty got the news in advance and sensed that the Southern Song Dynasty was planning to invade the north, and was fully prepared, and immediately organized armed forces after being attacked, and carried out an effective counterattack against the Song army.
Due to Han Yanzhou's improper use of personnel, Huang Fubin, one of the commanders of the Middle Route Army, was defeated by the Jin army when he led his army to attack Tangzhou, and then was defeated in Qinshui during the attack on Caizhou, and Han Yanzhou hurriedly withdrew him. Deng Youlong, the commander of the two Huai in the main battlefield of the Northern Expedition, was also defeated, and Han Yanxuan removed them from their posts. Han Yanxuan sat in the rear, commanded remotely, and changed commanders on the spot, which had a very bad impact on the morale of the Song army.
Soon, the Jin army launched an attack on the Song army on the eastern, central, and western battlefields, and the Song Dynasty army turned from offensive to defensive. Under the large-scale attack of the Jin army, Zhenzhou (now Yizheng, Jiangsu) and Yangzhou were occupied one after another, and the Dasanguan, the gateway between Shangyuan and Shuchuan, an important military town on the western road, was also occupied by the Jin army.
Han Yanxuan wanted to redeem the defeat through Wu Xi on the battlefield in Sichuan, but Wu Xi, the envoy of Hedong in Shaanxi, had already secretly communicated with the Jin soldiers in Sichuan and rebelled to become the king. Hearing this change, Han Yanxuan was shocked, feeling that the world was spinning, and he was unable to organize an effective counteroffensive for a while, and returned to the old road of fantasizing about peace talks.
The traitor Wu Xi has coveted the more than 30,000 war horses in Chengbu Village for a long time and wants to keep them all for himself, but he underestimated the armed forces of the Yang family army in Chengbu Village too much.
Wu Xi sent 5,000 elite soldiers, entangled bandits armed 5,000, set off from Fuzhou, Sichuan, after entering Jinghu South Road, day and night, more than 100 miles away from Yuechengling, was detected by the scouts in the Feishan area, and the branch commander of the Yang family, Feige, reported this battle to Yang Tongwen of Chengbu Village.
Yang Tongwen received the information and immediately ordered 3,000 men and horses, 2,000 cavalry first, and 1,000 firearms as backup, and personally put on the battle.
The four sons saw that their father was almost seventy years old, and they were going to Dongshan to kill the enemy, so they came out to stop them together: "Please also ask my father to go back to ......"
Yang Tongwen was very unhappy: "When Feishan Taigong was eighty-four years old, he was still in Pingnan!" Do you think this king is old? ”
The eldest son, Yang Guangyao, said: "Don't dare, my father is old and strong, but we are a little worried." ”
Yang Tongwen was angry: "Don't say more, don't worry, go with this king, and see if your father is still majestic?" ”
The sons couldn't resist Yang Tongwen, so they had to take their own weapons and rush towards Fucheng Pass with King Miao's troops.
More than 80 miles of mountain road, the Yang family will march rapidly, less than an hour to the foot of the Heifengling Mountain, the horse farm garrison more than 500 people saw the large army coming, hurriedly opened the village to welcome reinforcements.
Yang Tongwen didn't have time to rest, so he asked the garrison leader: "How far are the rebels from Chishui Lake?" ”
The leader replied: "Back to the king, there are still thirty miles." ”
Yang Tongwen said: "You go and light the wolf smoke and send a war alert to the surrounding area!" ”
"Yes, King!" After the garrison finished speaking, he left the camp......
2,000 soldiers repaired on the spot, ate some dry food and water, and suddenly fogged up on the top of the east mountain, and the visibility was less than 20 meters.
Yang Tongwen shouted: "The fog is too big, and the wolf smoke can't be released!" ”
Tan Malay reported: "The rebels are still ten miles away from Chishui Lake!" ”
Yang Tongwen couldn't help but get anxious in his heart, Dongshan was flat, there was no barrier that could resist the enemy, only a death battle.
Tanma reported again: "The rebels are still five miles away from here!" ”
Yang Tongwen asked his son Yang Guangyao: "Has the firearms team arrived?" ”
Yang Guangyao replied: "I just entered the camp. ”
"The order will go down, and the firearms team will go to Chishui Lake to set up a formation on the spot." Yang Tongwen said categorically.
"Order!" As soon as Yang Guangyao left the camp, the fog gradually dissipated.
"God help me! Firearms finally came in handy. ”
Yang Tongwen breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't sit still, and went straight to Chishui Lake with the Hongjun Dragon Halberd, and directly commanded the firearms team to set up the formation.
30 guns were placed in the first row, each equipped with 8 axemen, to slash and slash the enemy who rushed to the front. The second array of firebolts, the third array of crossbowmen and rocketeers. The horse corps was placed on the left and right flanks of the firearms corps for escort. Everything is ready, just wait for the rebels to go up the mountain.
The rebels came up from the southern foothills, and at the forefront was the servant of the Servant family, dressed in the robes of the Jin Army, and saw that the Yang family had no more than 3,000 people, so he didn't care about it at all.
He thought that this was in the northern prairie, and thought: The Yang family will be tender in the positional battle, so even such a few people dare to fight against me.
"Damn, this rebel army is colluding with foreign enemies!"
Yang Tongwen shot an arrow, and the three arrows flew towards the rebel leader Fusanhuami. The guy was quite cunning, lying on his horse and dodging two arrows. The third branch dodged, hitting the door of the brain, going straight into the skull, and diagonally through the back of the head. Immediately fell off the horse, and died with a whimper.
When the rebels saw that their master was dead, they were a little flustered, and soon a black-faced man shouted in the middle of the battle: "Calm down, calm down!" The first team to strike! ”
The 2000 rebels hesitated for a moment, brandished their machetes, and rushed towards the firearms array!
"Shoot!" As soon as Yang Tongwen waved the command flag, 30 thunderbolts fired in unison, and the shells exploded in the enemy group.
The enemy horses were frightened, collided with each other, and became a mess. The musketeers fired again, and the first group of rebels, killed and wounded, retreated out of the range of the artillery.
Yang Tongwen ordered the artillery team to move ahead, and when the artillery team moved a few steps, the rebels took a few steps back, until they could no longer retreat.
The leader of the rebels, knowing that if he continued to retreat, he would be driven down the mountain, so he took advantage of the gap when the artillery was not fired, and ordered the whole army to charge, and rushed desperately.
"Musketeers shoot!"
"Rocketeer launch!"
"Archer shoots!"
There were too many rebels, and in a moment the thunderbolt fired three more volleys, and the enemy was getting closer and closer, less than fifty paces from the artillery array. Yang Tong Wenming Bai Once the rebels broke through the firearms position, it was dangerous.