Chapter 138 Taiwei Army and General Li Qiong

Han Shizhong left the capital eight or nine days in advance, returned to his garrison Jiangning (Nanjing), and began his feint arrangements on the eastern front.

More than ten days before this, the imperial court also issued an order to Liu Guangshi in Chizhou to prepare for battle, ordering him to prepare for the attack on the front line of Luzhou in Jiangbei, collect grain, grass, ordnance, and reorganize the army, recall the soldiers and generals on vacation, and go to battle once the formal combat order is issued.

Liu Guangshi was born in a family of Jiangmen. His father, Liu Yanqing, was the envoy of the Baoxin Army during the Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the deputy commander of the guard horse army. In the third year of Xuanhe (1121), the suppression of the Fangla uprising, Tong Guan served as the Xuanfu envoy, and Liu Yanqing, who was the deputy commander of the palace in front of the palace, served as the Xuanfu envoy to control the military horses of the Zhulu and became the commander of the official army. In July of the fourth year of Xuanhe, the Song army attacked Liao in response to the Song and Jin "Maritime Alliance", Tong Guan served as the Xuanfu envoy, and Liu Yanqing served as the commander of the Xuanfu Division, and was the commander of the Song army, commanding 100,000 troops to attack Liao, and was later demoted due to defeat. Soon, he regained the envoy of the town's navy. In the first year of Jingkang (1126), the Jin army attacked Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and Liu Yanqing defended the northern city. In November, the Jin army captured Kaifeng, and Liu Yanqing and his eldest son Liu Guangguo led 10,000 troops to break through the siege, and both died in the chaos. Therefore, it can be said that Liu Guangshi is a loyal martyr, and he is the only one left in the family, so he rarely proximately supervises the front line, which may also have something to do with it.

Liu Guangshi was conservative in his use of troops, but he was not enterprising enough, and he was conservative in his use of troops, so that he rarely entered dangerous situations, as mentioned earlier, but his lack of progress often made others gossip. Many people say that his luck has always been better, so he has been able to enter the official ranks. But luck is also strength, just think about it, "the rogues and rebels were happy to join as subordinates, and became one of the largest armies of the time." Why are the rogues and rebels "happy" to join them, and can he surrender them without a fight? Is it the charm value of his super popularity? Therefore, Liu Guangshi should be said to be a wise general, not a brave general.

Liu Guangshi is the second son of Liu Yanqing, when he was young, the country was a special policy of supplementing the shadow of the Song Dynasty and became a third-class servant, and was promoted to the chief defense envoy and the commander of the soldiers and horses on the Yan Road. When his father and brother were killed in battle, he defeated the Western Xia army in the battle of Xingzibao (now on the bank of the Xingzi River in Zhidandong, Shaanxi), and was promoted to the rank of Du Yu Hou of the Guards and Horse Army, and became the deputy commander of the Guards and Horse Army.

As soon as he finished the war, he heard that Kyoto was besieged for the second time and received an order from King Qin, when Liu Guangshi led 3,000 men to set out from Guanzhong, but like the other western armies in Guanzhong, he was blocked to the west of Tongguan. By the time they broke through Tongguan, Bianjing had been broken, and the second emperor was floated.

So, according to the order of the Generalissimo of Soldiers and Horses (Zhao Gou), he led his troops to Jeju, and met King Kang Zhao Gou, who was heading to Yingtianfu in Nanjing, in Namsung Town, Jeju, and was immediately appointed as the Marshal's Mansion.

After Song Gaozong ascended the throne, Liu Guangshi was appointed to promote the affairs of the imperial camp envoy and the inspection envoy in the capital, and Zhao Gou assigned the western army general Wang De (Wang Yeyi) to Liu Guangshi's department. In August, Liu Guangshi was promoted to the envoy of the Fengguo Army with the merit of pacifying Li Yu in Shandong, becoming the first general to establish a festival after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In March 1128, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan staged a mutiny in Hangzhou. In April, Liu Guangshi and Zhong Zai worked together with King Qin to pacify Miao and Liu mutiny, and were promoted to the rank of lieutenant and deputy envoy of the imperial camp, and the department was called the deputy envoy of the imperial camp. Later, he served as the Jiangdong Xuanfu envoy, guarding Taiping Prefecture and Chizhou, and moved to Jiangzhou.

In June of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), the imperial camp envoy was abolished, and Liu Guangshi's department had no subordination, because its rank was the Tai Lieutenant, known as the "Tai Wei Soldier", the ministers thought it was improper, so they set up the Imperial Patrol Army, with Liu Guangshi as the capital commander, and concurrently served as the pacification envoy of the two Zhejiang roads, the Zhizhen Jiang Mansion, and the opening of the Fu Yi and the three divisions as the envoys.

In June of the second year of Shaoxing (1132), Liu Guangshi was promoted to lead the Ningwu Army and the Ningguo Army to envoy the two towns. In April of the third year of Shaoxing, he was changed to Jiangdong Road Xuanfu Envoy and placed Si Jiankang. In September, the Southern Song Dynasty adjusted the Jiangfang Department, and Liu Guangshi changed it to Jiangdong and Huaixi Xuanfu envoys, and placed Si Chizhou.

Liu Guangshi can be a man, morality, and is also a very protective person, most of the entire imperial patrol army are his family disciples, or they are subordinate generals to him, and among these generals, the most well-known is Li Qiong.

Zhao Shiyan, the commander of Huazhou, has been bad for his subordinates, when the Jin army attacked Jiangnan in 1130, the people below took the opportunity to rebel and kill him, Li Qiong was a very charismatic and leading general, at that time he was just a captain of seven hundred people, everyone elected Li Qiong as the leader, Li Qiong took the Great Song Qin King as an excuse, gathered the surrounding guerrillas scattered together, and collected the soldiers while opening Huainan to open the Huai River, and so on the Huai River has gathered tens of thousands of people. But this is a rebel army. He led these more than 20,000 people to besiege Gusi County in Gwangju.

When Liu Guangshi sent people to surrender him, it didn't take long for Li Qiong to withdraw and surrender to Liu Guangshi. In Li Qiong's words, he is Liu treats the people below him well, and does not discriminate against all the generals, the second is to admire Liu's personality, and he also knows that there is no way to be a rebel, so he accepted Liu Guangshi's surrender and became Liu Guangshi's former general.

This Li Qiong became famous not only as a general under Liu Guangshi, but in the "Huaixi Mutiny" in 1137, this mutiny, the Southern Song Dynasty lost a large number of soldiers and horses, lost a very strong and commanding general, and gave the Jin army an additional vanguard who knew the roots of the Song army. After this Li Qiong surrendered to the Jin State, he fell in love with the reuse, and later became the hussar general of the Jin State.

In the seventh year of Shaoxing (1137), Liu Guangshi was removed from the military by Zhang Jun, and Wang Deren was the commander of the capital and Li Qiong was the deputy commander, and Li Qiong was dissatisfied with the large-scale removal of the original Liu Guangshi's subordinate officers. On August 8, Li Qiong, Wang Shizhong and others killed the prison officer Lu Zhi, led 40,000 soldiers to surrender to Liu Yu of the puppet Qi, and awarded the envoy of the Jingnan Army, which is known as the "Huaixi Mutiny" in history. In this mutiny, the entire imperial patrol army, Li Qiong took away more than 40,000 elite soldiers, and more than 100,000 people were attached to Liu Yu of the puppet Qi, and only 8,000 soldiers and horses were left for Wang De. This was the "Huaixi Mutiny" that shocked the land of China.

Jin Shi: "Not a few, led by more than 100,000 cavalry attached to Qi, awarded the Jingyan army festival envoy, and knew Gongzhou." ”

Let's take a look at this Li Qiong's personality. You can see why he was promoted to hussar general in the Jin country.

Here are two accounts of the Golden History:

Jin Shi: "And Zongbi asked Qiong about the success or failure of Jiangnan, who would dare to refuse." Qiong said: "The Jiangnan army is cowardly, they are all defeated, and there is no good commander, how can they resist me." It is quite heard that Qin Hui is a national business. Juniper, the old Confucian, the so-called doctor of the dead country, is conscientious and self-controlled, but subversion is fear. I will come to it with a large army, and his kings and ministers will be broken in their hearts, and they will cry endlessly, and the bird that covers the wounded bow can also be weakened. "Since Jiangnan Guo is a minister, Zong Bi Xiqiong is a knowledge." It can be seen that Li Qiong's understanding of the Great Song Dynasty and its strategic vision.

Jin Shi: "At the beginning, Qiong went to Bozhou (Bozhou) not a few times, and the Song soldiers fell into it but did not defend it, and abandoned it, but Song Chao, a native of the state, guarded it. And the army arrived, and fled with the state affairs commission. The Shuaifu makes people recruit scriptures, but they can't stand it. and the city collapsed, and the people were afraid to stand by, and Joan asked Marshal Yu to say: 'Those who can't go down to the city will also be robbed.' Whatever the sins of the people, may they be comforted. 'The marshal tried to defend Bo first, and released the people of Qizhou because of the stopping of the killing, and reinstated Qiong's Shoubo. Where six years, Bo people Lourdes. ”