Chapter 254: Tokyo Breaks
"What! Are you Yue Fei? Han Shizhong asked in surprise.
He turned to Xiao Ming and said, "Handsome! It is rumored that there is a fierce general in Liu Hao's army, whose surname is Yue, and his name is Feizi Pengju, which is a rare general, it seems that he is him? ”
Yue Fei said: "This general is falsely praised, the last general is Yue Fei, and now he is no longer under General Liu but under Marshal Zong!" These are my brothers and my subordinate generals" He introduced the generals behind him to Xiao Ming one by one, including Wang Gui, Tang Huai, and Niu Gao, and everyone stepped forward to salute, Xiao Ming shook hands with them with a smile!
This made Wang Gui, Tang Huai and others extremely moved, as a superior, when receiving subordinates, they generally have to hold their own identity, and a few words of encouragement to their subordinates are okay, and Xiao Dashuai, a second-class member, actually reached out and grabbed his hands and arms with warm hands and shook them, and his sincere care was beyond words.
Xiao Ming said to Yue Fei: "Lingshi Zhou Tong Zhou Old Hero once mentioned you to me, let me have the opportunity to promote you, saying that you are a rare general, I have never met you, and now I can be under the command of the old man of the sect, it is also a good master, I hope you can do more!" ”
Xiao Ming was still a little excited about Yue Fei's appearance, seeing that Yue Fei's current age was not much different from himself, according to the time when he was killed at the age of forty-nine, there would probably be more than ten years, he should be able to avoid this kind of tragedy, and he must save this national hero when the time comes!
Yue Fei said with trepidation: "It's really good that you have seen my old teacher, I don't know what is happening to the respected master now, Yue Fei has not seen his old man for a long time!" ”
"Last time, I was in the Shaolin Temple in Shaomu Mountain, and I saw Zhou Lao Hero, and then I heard that he went to Hebei Lianglu to organize the rebel army to resist the Jin soldiers! It's a pity that I can't see the demeanor of the old hero, and I don't know where he is busy now! ”
Yue Fei sighed: "The old teacher is still working for the country and the people when he is old, it really makes me feel ashamed!" ”
Xiao Ming introduced Han Shizhong and others to Yue Fei and others, Han Shizhong has long been a famous general, he was the deputy commander of Wang Yuan's subordinates, and defeated the Jin army at Yanmen Pass, Yue Fei naturally sympathized with him, Yelusha is a famous general in Liaodong, and Zhang Bofen is the son of Zhang Shuye, which makes Yue Fei awe-inspired!
Xiao Ming asked his subordinates to escort the hundreds of Jin soldier captives up to Yue Fei, and asked him to report his military merits, and learned that he was now only a seventh-rank martial arts man, so he wrote to Gaozong to report his merits to Yue Fei, suggesting that Yue Fei be promoted to a sixth-rank Xiao cavalry captain! Yue Fei was ashamed, but Xiao Ming insisted on doing it.
Yue Fei's subordinates all said to Yue Fei: "Brother! This Xiao Dashuai is not very old, but he loves his brother so much, why don't we join him and fight? ”
Yue Fei said: "The black head is talking nonsense again, Marshal Zong and I have the grace of acquaintance, how can we do this to be a gentleman, how to recommend my General Liu and Marshal Zong Ze, who appreciates me!" ”
Xiao Ming said with a smile: "It's okay, you will be reused under the Zong Shuai, I hope to make contributions as soon as possible, we are all colleagues, just help each other in the future, and I know that we will definitely have a day together!" ”
Xiao Ming said to Yue Fei again: "Now everything is about driving out the Jin State Tartars, everything else is a trivial matter!" ”
Yue Fei said: "Xiao Shuai taught a lesson! ”
Xiao Ming said with a smile: "I am not handsome, now I have led soldiers and horses to open up the road between Bianjing and Nanjing, in order to welcome the Holy Lord back to Beijing, I don't have many soldiers and horses, I still need your help!" ”
Yue Fei bowed and said: "Great, Zong Shuai has been looking forward to the return of the Holy Lord to the Jingshi, so that the matter of my Great Song Dynasty army and people's resistance to Jin will definitely be even higher, where Xiao Shuai needs me, please just ask!" ”
Xiao Ming then marched to Bianjing with Yue Fei's troops, along the way Xiao Ming only used Yue Fei's army as a scout, because Yue Fei was still very familiar with the local situation, Yue Fei was very curious about Xiao Ming's army, this army was only a few thousand people, but the logistics baggage was to be transported by nearly 10,000 people, what kind of army is this?
At first, Yue Fei thought it was a small stove specially made for Xiao Ming's generals, but it turned out that people were frying a big pot of dishes, and the bacon and vegetables in the whole car were transported, although there were no live chickens and pigs, but there were a lot of bacon and eggs, and there were several such dining cars.
And Xiao Ming and the others followed the soldiers to eat the same meal, this is just the food of the three thousand tiger guards, and the baggage troops behind them are to solve the problem of eating by themselves and bury the pot to cook, but they will not treat themselves badly if they want to guard the cart of materials, Xiao Ming also specially invited Yue Fei and others to come over and dine together!
The supplies of Yue Fei's army are all carried with him, and when he camps, he just burns some hot soup and fills his hunger with the dry food and bread he brings with him, and Yue Fei eats the same as everyone! Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming invited Yue Fei to come over and dine with him, Xiao Ming also ate a big pot of dishes, the rice was the same as that of a soldier, but in order to entertain Yue Fei, he specially opened a jar of rice wine.
Yue Fei was very cautious, claiming that he would not drink alcohol in the army, Xiao Ming smiled: "This is vegetarian wine, the rice wine in my hometown, it is very mellow, it should be the celebration bar for your recent victory in World War I!" ”
Niu Gao over there had already bottomed out a bowl of wine, so he clicked his mouth and said, "Xiao Dashuai, your wine has no taste, it's very light!" ”
Xiao Ming laughed and said: "Rice wine is light, but you don't want to waste it, this is what we brought all the way after being transported from Hangzhou to Weihai by boat for thousands of miles!" ”
Yue Fei was puzzled: "Why does the marshal have to carry so much baggage grain and grass over such a long distance?" Why not solicit nearby? ”
Xiao Ming said: "The Central Plains has now become a battlefield, the Jin soldiers are brutal, the lives of the people are miserable, and they can't eat enough. Although they can be given some money, they have lost their homes and land, so what is the use of scooping up a little money? ”
Yue Fei said respectfully: "The handsome man cares about the people of all the people, and shares the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, he is really an example for us, Pengju has been taught!" ”
Xiao Ming laughed and said: "It's all an excuse to care about the people, my soldiers are all southerners, I'm afraid that they won't be able to eat the food from the north, so I transported rice and grain from Hangzhou, haha, it shouldn't be true!" ”
Tang He under Yue Fei said: "The handsome man loves soldiers like a son, and he is also a model for us!" ”
Xiao Ming said: "Don't just talk, you eat more vegetables, in fact, this is equivalent to spending a lot of money, but this war, what is fought is money and grain, the Great Song Dynasty is rich in money and grain, and although the Jin people have seized a lot of land, most of them are wild lands in the north, and the output on the ground is limited, and the consumption of a long-term war will definitely be unbearable, so they can't last, and they will retire soon!" ”
Yue Fei said: "Xiao Shuai is right, but my Great Song Dynasty suffered from the Jin people for no reason, and the Second Emperor Huiqin was captured, the Jin people must have the heart of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the court uses more important ministers like Xiao Shuai, they will definitely hate this revenge for my Great Song Xue!" Yue Fei has the opportunity to be a pioneer for Xiao Shuai and carry the handsome flag! ”
Xiao Ming saw that he said sincerely, he couldn't bear to splash him with cold water, and laughed at himself: "I'm not a big minister, I still have to be the emperor's official family to scoop up the idea of the specific Jin strategy!" ”
During the meal, Han Shizhong introduced to Yue Fei how to defeat Yan Zongbi's 30,000 cavalry, which made Yue Fei listen to it very yearningly, and muttered in his mouth: "It turns out that the cannon can have such a powerful ......!" "Very yearning.
Yue Fei's army was less than 5,000 people, and he had just defeated the 2,000 men and horses of the Jin soldiers, and it was indeed very difficult to achieve such a result with infantry against cavalry, but compared with Xiao Ming's results, it was naturally not worth mentioning, and the arrogant expressions of Yue Fei's generals gradually disappeared, full of ashamed expressions.
"Dashuai, there will be a reluctant invitation in the end, and I hope that Xiao Shuai will cut his love!" Yue Fei suddenly said very earnestly.
Xiao Ming said: "Don't say it, I know what you think, I'll give you two infantry cannons, and a hundred shells?" ”
Yue Fei was overjoyed, and couldn't help but kneel down to thank him, Xiao Ming hurriedly helped him up, and said to him: "Liangchen once said to me that although the weapon is advanced, the way of the art of war cannot be abandoned, I am not as good as him, and even less as you, the artillery will send you, I only hope that you can establish meritorious deeds, for the sake of all the people in the world!" ”
Yue Fei bowed in thanks, grateful and disrespectful, and said that he would not live up to Xiao Shuai's expectations.
On the second day, the army was pulled, Xiao Ming sent Yue Fei five carts of rice, flour, grain, oil, bacon and other materials, Yue Fei was not pretentious, said thank you to accept it, and rushed to the south gate of Bianjing City in the afternoon of the same day.
There are 5,000 Jin soldiers stationed in the three miles outside the south gate, and the battalions are together, and the camps are also very loose, but they are in two and there are two cavalry camps of two or three thousand, Yue Fei asked Xiao Ming whether to take the hedge through the other party's camp, and there will be an army in Bianjing City to meet at that time.
Xiao Ming said: "Don't be so troublesome, let's just push them over and drive them away!" ”
Yue Fei naturally would not object, he was just about to see how Xiao Ming's army fought, only to see that the Tiger Guards were all scattered, lined up in a tight formation of three attacks, and the distance between the front and back was not too large, and then waited for the instructions of the flag soldiers, but the flag language did not give instructions for a long time, and after waiting for a long time, suddenly there was a "rumbling" cannon sound!
It turned out that the method Xiao Ming used was very simple, that is, to attack the camp of the Jin soldiers! Only three shells were fired from each artillery, and the camp of the golden soldiers was already a sea of fire! After the Jin soldiers were attacked by this, they fled one after another, and in a blink of an eye, all the Jin soldiers outside the south gate ran away, leaving an empty camp with a burning crowd.
On the one hand, Xiao Ming's arrival made Zong Ze overjoyed, the Jin soldiers had besieged Tokyo for more than ten days, and a few soldiers and horses sent out to ask for help came back from Yue Fei, and the city of Tokyo was attacked by the Jin soldiers several times, relying on the thick walls of the city and the lives of the soldiers, the loss was not too great, and the Jin soldiers used the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements and defeated several Song troops who rushed to rescue Tokyo.
On the one hand, Wanyan Zonghan suddenly stopped moving, and finally after besieging Tokyo for nearly twenty days, the Jin soldiers suddenly withdrew their troops and crossed the Yellow River from Huazhou to the north, which was tantamount to being scared away by Xiao Ming! Sticky Han had suffered Xiao Ming's losses, and after learning that Xiao Ming had come to Tokyo Bianliang with a cannon, it was very wise for him to choose to withdraw his troops!
Zong Ze was naturally overjoyed, since the launch of the Jin soldiers, although there have been victories and defeats, there has never been a matter of the Jin soldiers taking the initiative to withdraw the army, and it was the three thousand tiger guards that Xiao Ming went to take that scared these Jin soldiers away!
Now that the siege of Tokyo has been resolved, Zongze immediately deployed to garrison in the direction of the retreat of the Jin soldiers, and deployed defenses along the Yellow River, and the news of the battlefield on the Erxi Road has also been restored, and although Wanyan Zongfu's army has lost several times late, it still captured Qinfeng Mansion, and is now confronting the Song army near Jingzhao Mansion.
Xiao Ming was a little anxious, that was because the progress of the railway construction was too slow, since the road between Bianjing and Nanjing had been opened, then the next step was to build the railway on a large scale, as long as people did whatever it takes.
So between Bianliang and Chen Liu and Ying Tianfu in Tokyo, a large number of golden soldiers suddenly appeared, but these people were all captive laborers, under the supervision of the Tiger Guards, sweating like rain to do the work of road repair, this scene can be described as in full swing! Because Xiao Ming stipulates that as long as they work hard, they can be let go home, but if they are passive and slack off, then they will have to do coolies for a few more years!
These Jurchens have no choice but to accept their fate, and they can't beat others, and if they don't work hard, it is a small matter to be hanged, and they can't stand it if they don't give them food!