Chapter 6 Join the army for the first time

In the first year of Jingkang, Yue Fei, who possessed amazing martial arts skills and learned the art of war, joined the army again. Different from the military system of the Tang Dynasty, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty implemented a recruitment system.Recruitment targets are mainly for people who cannot eat due to natural disasters and man-made disasters. At first, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin thought: If you have no food to eat, you can become a soldier. When you come to the army, I will take care of the food, and you must not make trouble for me just because you have no food. Zhao Kuangyin's own throne came from the mutiny. He knew the advantages and disadvantages of it, and he also had lingering fears about the turbulent scenes of the Five Dynasties, so he tried his best to protect his own country from every link.

But what he didn't expect was that this "benevolent act" made the government's military expenditure very large, and it became more and more overwhelmed. The state's finances not only had to support soldiers, but also their families.To raise an army of 10,000 people, you have to feed 50,000 to 60,000 people.With the increase in the number of troops, not only the treatment of soldiers is getting lower and lower, but also the salaries of generals at all levels are getting less and less. In this case, the combat effectiveness of the army is getting lower and lower. Yue Fei initially served under Liu Wei, the road appeasement envoy of Zhending Mansion (now Zhengding County, Hebei), as a "daring warrior".

Seeing Yue Fei's burly figure, high martial arts skills, and "great wonder", Liu Kai tried to make him a small team leader.Facts have proved that Liu Kai's decision is very wise. Yue Fei quickly demonstrated his superb military talents in this post and made his mark in the army. There were two great robbers in Xiangzhou, named Tao Jun and Jia Jin. They had soldiers and guns in their hands. They looted houses in Hebei and Henan, "attacked counties and towns", and killed officials and people.The people suffered a lot from it, and some villagers spontaneously organized to resist, but in comparison, their strength was too weak, and no one could do anything to him in the end.The government and army have also crusaded many times, but all ended in failure.

As a result, Tao Jun and Jia Jin became more and more courageous and appetizing, and gradually evolved into a group of thieves who specialized in robbing rich and powerful families. They ran rampant for many years until they met Yue Fei. Less than a month after Yue Fei joined the army, he encountered these two thieves in Zhending Mansion.They led the thieves and challenged them outside the city gate, openly provoking.At this time, there are not many soldiers in the mansion, what should we do? Liu Kai consulted his generals: "There are such a group of arrogant thieves outside, who will lead the troops to suppress the thieves?"

No one answered. Everyone knew that the offenders were two unprovoked masters, and no one dared to speak out. "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. When things come to an end, why is no one talking?" Liu Kai was a little anxious, and his tone was strengthened.But everyone was still silent. "The dignified soldiers of the Song Dynasty dare not confront the two thieves?!" Liu Kai was angry and annoyed. At this time, Yue Fei stepped forward: "My lord, I am willing to fight." Liu Kai lifted his spirits, looked at the burly captain in front of him, and asked, "How many people do you want to bring?"

Yue Fei replied, "A hundred riders are enough." The hundreds of Tao Jun and Jia Jin’s subordinates are all gangsters who murder and rob goods. They kill without batting an eyelid. They are ruthless and fierce. They are strong and strong, and they are invincible in Heshuo. Isn’t it too arrogant to bring them down with only a hundred people? ? But Yue Fei's face was very calm, as if he had a plan in mind. So, after a short period of astonishment, everyone applauded warmly for the brave little soldier captain in front of them, thanking him for his willingness to die in the spirit of "I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell" and shared the worries for everyone.

Liu Kai was very moved when he saw Yue Fei stand up in the face of danger, so he made a decision on the spot and sent 200 soldiers to him to destroy the thieves. This is the first time that Yue Fei has led a small-to-many battle. Before suppressing the bandits, Yue Fei held an impassioned pre-war mobilization meeting for his soldiers. Then, he set off valiantly and vigorously. Everyone was ready to fight, but Yue Fei made an unexpected decision—as soon as he left the city, he sent someone to ask Tao Jun and Jia Jin to surrender. When Liu Wei and the generals in the city heard the news, they were almost mad!Dare to feel that Yue Fei is playing everyone like monkeys.

In fact, they only guessed half right, Yue Fei was playing everyone like monkeys, but this "everyone" does not refer to them, but to Tao Jun and Jia Jin.You know, now Tao Jun and Jia Jin are so numerous that they can't do it recklessly, they can only outwit them!Therefore, surrender is only a stopgap measure. As long as Tao and Jia are successfully paralyzed, they can take advantage of their unpreparedness to carry out a surprise attack, control their command center, disrupt their deployment, and then attack them separately. For a long time, Tao Jun and Jia Jin, who have always been invincible, overestimated their own strength, thinking that the officers and soldiers in the city had already been frightened by themselves, so when they saw the people Yue Fei sent to beg for surrender, they laughed smugly stand up.

However, their smiles froze quickly. More than a hundred cavalry brought by Yue Fei quickly disrupted their formation and caught them off guard. Many thieves lost their heads before they recovered. What's worse, the thieves were also in chaos. It turned out that Yue Fei had already asked thirty soldiers to dress up as businessmen and infiltrate the thieves in the name of rewarding the thieves. Under the charge of the cavalry led by Yue Fei and these "merchants", "the thieves were in chaos, and they didn't know what they were doing, so they captured them and the rest of the party dispersed."Tao and Jia were captured alive on the spot.

Just as Sun Tzu advocated "avoiding the real and attacking the weak, and winning because of the enemy", this small battle was fought with vibrancy, courage and strategy, which fully demonstrated Yue Fei's talent in war. Yue Fei, who is emerging for the first time, can fly to the sky if he doesn't fly;