Chapter 15 Captain Yue, who was convicted for his words

Patton once said: War will create heroes and heroes, and will clean up all mud and muddy water.Everyone is afraid of war.Cowards, however, are only those who let their fear outweigh their sense of responsibility.A sense of responsibility is the essence of manliness. Yue Fei is a responsible man! Yue Fei's hometown, Tangyin County, is located between Xiangzhou and Tokyo. Yue Fei, who kept his filial piety at home, was filled with righteous indignation when he heard and witnessed all kinds of beastly deeds of the Jin soldiers. The subordinates of Liu Hao, the doctor of Wu Yi of the Privy Council, vowed to kill the thieves and serve the country.

Yue Fei's mother, Yao Shi, understood the righteousness, and repeatedly asked her son to "encourage him to serve the Holy Son of Heaven, and never think of an old woman." Legend has it that this mother also stabbed the four characters "serve the country with loyalty" on Yue Fei's back, encouraging Yue Fei to fight the enemy and serve the country.Foreign tribes invaded and wars broke out everywhere. Sending your son to the battlefield means letting your son bleed and die.However, this mother still resolutely encouraged her son to join the army and not think of herself, because she knew very well that a country requires a family and a family can survive. She is a knowledgeable peasant woman and a role model among mothers.

Ren Kepu from the Qing Dynasty praised: "Follow the mother's message with sincerity, and repay the king's kindness with righteousness for thousands of years." With such a mother, it is not difficult for us to understand why Yue Fei became a "great man of chivalry" and dedicated his life to regaining his homeland. The reason for the struggle. When Liu Hao saw Yue Fei, he was very handsome and courageous, so he promoted him to a partial school in the army. It was from this year (1126, the first year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty) that Yue Fei officially started his military career.

The first year of Jingkang was a turning point in the Song Dynasty, and it was also a turning point for Yue Fei. Under Liu Hao's rule, Yue Fei quickly emerged.Liu Hao ordered him to lead 300 cavalry to Li Gudu to ambush the Jin soldiers in Weixian County, Daming Prefecture, Beijing (northeast of Weixian County, Hebei today), and won a complete victory.In a place called Shiyulin, Yue Fei led his troops to defeat a group of Jin troops and killed its owl general.This battle was triumphant, and because of his meritorious service, he moved the three officials and became Cheng Zhonglang of the ninth rank.

When Zhao Gou was preparing to withdraw to the south, Liu Hao's department to which Yue Fei belonged was also on the list.Entering Caozhou from Kaide Mansion, the Liu Hao tribe to which Yue Fei belonged was changed to Huang Qianshan.Yue Fei was caught in Huang Qianshan's southward team and retreated from Xiangzhou to Beijing Daming Mansion, and from Daming Mansion to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion. It is worth mentioning that when the Jin people heard that Zhao Gou was proclaimed emperor and the Song Dynasty was revived, they were furious and insulted Zhao Gou's ability. and his family as the sons of a good family", wantonly publicizing the deeds of Zhao Gou's mother and wife Congliang, sincerely disgusting Zhao Gou.What's more, they also "fabricated dirty books to slander Empress Wei and Empress Xing".

For any bloody person, this is a great shame and shame, and it can be called a sworn enemy. However, Zhao Gou turned a deaf ear to such evil deeds of the Jin people and remained indifferent. He calmly sent the missionary Lang Fu Xi to the Kingdom of Jin, in name to present the letter of credence and greet the two emperors Huiqin. His attitude towards ascension to the throne and whether it is possible to surrender to Jin. As soon as Fu Yu came to Yunzhong, he was driven back by Gao Qingyi, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Kingdom of Jin, and he was disgraced. Since there is no way to surrender, he can only hide in a safe place.

In Zhao Gou's eyes, Yingtian Mansion was not considered a safe place, so he set the next stop of his "patrol" in Yangzhou. Anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that Zhao Gou chose to retreat and avoid in his attitude towards Jin, and he has no intention of regaining lost ground. Yue Fei was just a low-ranking general in the army. Affected by the righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", he became impatient and couldn't help doing something very personal. He wrote a letter to Zhao Gou with a thousand words. At the beginning of the letter, he first analyzed the current situation, pointing out that Jiangshan Sheji had established a new master, and King Qin's army was constantly gathering, which was just right for the complacent Hulu to attack him; Wang Boyan and others are all treacherous villains, and they should be expelled from the court; at the end of the letter, he called on Zhao Gou to return the capital to Tokyo and recover the lost land in the Central Plains as soon as possible.

Yue Fei really didn't want to follow Zhao Gou to retreat again and again. Although he was just a nobody and insignificant, he had the ambition to protect the country, the method to defeat the enemy, and the determination to win.In a feudal society with strict hierarchy, it is impossible for Zhao Gou to receive the letter from Yue Fei, a sesame official.In fact, it is relatively rare for Yue Fei to directly write letters to the emperor at such a level. The letter fell into the hands of Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan. The two guys snorted and sighed: Superficial, really superficial!Then he approved eight words: "It's not appropriate for a small minister to go beyond his duties."

As a result, Yue Fei was stripped of his military status and expelled from the barracks. Yue Fei came out of Yingtian Mansion in cloth and straw shoes, all alone, no different from the fugitives, but the difference was that everyone else was going south, but he was walking north.All along the road are ruined cities and remnants of households, dead bodies and bones can be seen everywhere. Along the way, shocking. Facing the steep road ahead and the vastness ahead, he once again strengthened his ideal: to recover the homeland and reorganize the rivers and mountains. In the autumn and August of this year, I went to the Daming Mansion in Beijing of the Great Song Dynasty.I heard that Zhang Zuo, the recruiting envoy of Hebei West Road, planned food and pay here, recruited soldiers and bought horses, accepted loyal people from all over the world, and devoted himself to regaining the lost land in Hebei.Yue Fei was hating that he had nowhere to serve his country, so when he heard the news, he immediately cast him under his account.

After all, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan couldn't completely block Yue Fei's heart of serving the country. Although Yue Fei was expelled from the army in Nanjing, he could still find the stage he wanted in Beijing.Here, he will restart his legendary life. Originally under Liu Hao, after a lot of hard work, he has become a seventh-rank military officer, with a group of brothers who directly follow his command, but when he arrived at Beijing Daming Mansion, he had to start from scratch.Here, Yue Fei could only do some patrol work at first.If you want to gallop the battlefield and dominate one side, it seems that there is no end in sight.

During this seemingly ordinary period of time, Yue Fei practiced martial arts diligently every day, studied military books hard, and never slack off, just as he himself wrote in his poem: "The sun and the moon live in idleness, and fame does not come from laziness. " The soldier's abnormal behavior attracted many people's strange eyes and the attention of Zhang Suo. By chance, Zhang Suo personally met Yue Fei and asked him some military questions casually. Yue Fei's answer surprised Zhang Suo.He originally thought that this person was just a sensationalist who borrowed military books, and he didn't have much ability, but Yue Fei took him by surprise. What's more, during the conversation, Yue Fei turned his back on the guest and talked with eloquence, with his demeanor and manner, as if he was the owner of this handsome tent.At the scene, Zhang Suo's generals, staff, and even sergeants thought it was inconceivable that this kid was so talented. What surprised everyone even more was that Zhang Suo actually left his seat, stepped down from the stage, and saluted Yue Fei. Zhang Suo was not a general, but a civil servant. According to the Song Dynasty practice, the senior military officers in the army were generally held by civilian officials. Even at the same level, the status of civil officials was higher than that of military commanders, not to mention that Zhang Suo was a second-rank official in the court.In the eyes of literati, military generals are a group of illiterate old men. What's more, the current Yue Fei is not even a military general, but a small soldier with a gun patrolling the guard. Zhang Suo asked: "That day you bravely won the three armies under Zongliu's tent and frightened the enemy. Tell me, how many people do you think you can defeat with your own martial arts?" How many enemies can you expect?") Yue Fei replied: "Braveness is not enough. A good general leads troops to fight with strategy, and strategy is the key to victory." Zhang Suodao: "Eh? I don't see that you know strategy in addition to being brave." Yue Fei smiled slightly and said: "Strategy is the key to victory or defeat. Therefore, in order to be a general, you should not worry about his lack of courage, but worry about his lack of strategy. Nowadays, many generals like to say, 'One man's strength is enough to win the three armies' , thinking that as long as one's force is strong enough, one is invincible in the world. In fact, first-rate commanders should pay attention to combat strategy, and second-rate generals will unilaterally pursue strong force. This is the truth." ("A strategist has the opportunity to win or lose, so it is the way of the general. Don't worry about his lack of courage, but worry about his lack of strategy. Today's soldiers are all saying: 'My strength It is enough to win the three armies.'However, there is no certain picture before the battle, and there is no achievement after the battle. It is "soldiers plan first, and soldiers fight second.") Zhang Suo clapped his hands and said, "It's a good 'Shang Bing Mou, Second Bing Fighting'! Then, let's talk about the 'Fighting Mou' in your mind." Yue Fei said: "Jin general Luan Zhi defeated Chu with a tree branch, and Jin general Mo Ao sent soldiers to collect firewood to defeat Jiang. They are all successful examples of 'conquest'. The way of generals, not Suffering from lack of courage, but also suffering from lack of strategy, if you do not have a strategy in battle, you cannot win." Zhang Suo praised the young man sincerely: "You are young and have such insight, you are by no means an ordinary person, and you will definitely not be trapped in the army for a long time." ("You are not a member of the army! ") The two sat down again, and Zhang Suo asked again: "The emperor arranged for me to appease Hebei. Now that the court has been rebuilt, people's hearts are still uncertain. I have arrived in Hebei, but I haven't got the essentials yet. The progress is not going well. Do you have any good suggestions?" ("The lord uses me to appease Hebei. I am only thinking about my job, but I don't get what I want. Do you want to plan it?") Yue Fei pointedly pointed out: "Tokyo is the ancestral temple and the foundation of the country. If Tokyo is there, the people's hearts will be at ease; if Tokyo is lost, the people's hearts will be scattered. To appease Hebei, you must first protect Tokyo without losing it. To protect Tokyo, you have to rely on Hebei." Self-reinforcing." Then surrounding Tokyo, it was suggested that Zhang Suo should be equipped with elite soldiers and strong generals, so as to occupy key points, set up deep trenches and high fortifications, and set up important towns.He said: "Even if the enemy invades the border, one city is besieged, and the cities are rescued, the Hulu will not dare to look at Henan, and the capital's foundation will naturally be consolidated." Mountains and temples are important towns, and if one city is besieged, all the cities will be harassed or rescued, Jin people can't see Henan, and the capital's foundation is solid.") The two talked more and more speculatively, Zhang Suo also believed that the young man in front of him was a once-in-a-century general, so he "treated him as a national scholar", promoted him exceptionally, and "borrowed" Yue Fei as Xiuwu Lang and Hemen Xuanzansheren Served as the commander of the Chinese army. Zhang Suo was a well-known loyal man during the Song Dynasty, and Yue Fei worked under him. We have reason to believe that Zhang Suo's spirit of loyalty for the country and the people, regardless of his own life, will affect Yue Fei's growth to a certain extent. Soon, Zhang Suo borrowed Yue Fei as Wu Jinglang from the seventh rank, and was promoted to the commander, and he was subordinate to the governor of the capital, Wang Yan, who was later the famous anti-gold general Wang Yan. Wang Yan, courtesy name Zicai, was born in Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang County, Henan).He has a bold and unrestrained personality, and likes to read strategy books.He once joined the army on Jingyuan Road and made Zhong Shidao's subordinates. He followed Zhong Shidao to the Xia Kingdom twice and made many military exploits.When the Jin people besieged Tokyo, Wang Yan left home and rushed to the capital, asking to lead the army to kill the thieves.When the imperial court was rebuilt, Zhang Suo cherished his loyalty and bravery, and promoted him to be the governor of the capital. Wang Yan and Yue Fei were determined to fight against gold, they were like-minded, and they should have become a pair of good friends. However, because of a small incident, they turned against each other. Later, although Yue Fei repeatedly asked Wang Yan for forgiveness, he never got a response. So far, the two It is a pity that people cut off ties and do not interact with each other. In November of this year, Zhang Suo ordered Yue Fei to follow Wang Yan and lead troops across the Yellow River to recover the three prefectures of Wei, Huai, and Jun located at the southern end of Hebei West Road. Galloping on the battlefield, resisting gold and killing enemies is what Yue Fei is most passionate about, so he set off happily.But he never expected that when he left this time, not only would he have a lifelong estrangement with Wang Yan, but he would also bid farewell to "Bole" Zhang Suo forever.