Chapter 22 no reason to run away
Gold soldiers plundered all the way, and gold, silk, pearls and jade piled up like mountains on both sides of the river bank.
In fact, there were only 500 Jinmen who raided Yangzhou, but there were more than 40,000 Yangzhou imperial soldiers, and 500 scared 40,000. This is also a great miracle in the history of world wars.
The Jinren couldn't find a boat, so they chased to the riverside, only to "drive to Guazhou and return by looking at the river".
As a result, Zhao Gou was able to escape from Changzhou, Wuxi, and Pingjiangfu (now Suzhou) in Zhenjiang, and arrived in Hangzhou.
Hearing that Zhao Gou had fled to Hangzhou, Du Chong, who stayed behind in Tokyo, couldn't sit still.
That's right, since the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty has withdrawn to the south again, and they are still foolishly sitting in Tokyo, sooner or later they will become the fish on the table and the meat on the anvil of the Jinren.
I can't live like this again, I can't live like this again, it's not too late, I'll flash!
In the early summer of the third year of Jianyan (1129), Du Chong played a trick of "escape the shell of the golden cicada", and ordered Guo Zhongxun, the deputy left behind, to stay, and led the main force of the left behind in Tokyo to retreat southward with great strides.
Yue Fei is Du Chong's "direct line of troops", so he was naturally among those who withdrew to the south.
Hearing that he was going to withdraw his troops to the south, Yue Fei was in a hurry, and shouted at Du Chong: "The size of the Central Plains cannot be discarded, not to mention that the Sheji and the Ancestral Temple are all in the capital, and the mausoleum is in Henan. The relationship is very important, and it is not comparable to other places. You Mr. Du has a large army in his hand, and if he can’t protect it with all his heart, how can he place his hope on others? As soon as you pull out today, this place will change hands. If you want to regain it in the future, you will have to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Please You should carefully consider this matter." ("The size of the land in the Central Plains cannot be discarded. Kuang Sheji and the ancestral temple are in the capital, and the mausoleum is in Henan, especially in other places. If you stay behind, you will have a strong army. If you don't keep this, what will others do? Stay here and make a move. It’s enough, I don’t own this place. If I want to take it back in the future, I have to donate hundreds of thousands of people to get it. Stay here and focus on it.”)
Du Chong was eager to run for his life, how could he hear Yue Fei's heartfelt words?
Tokyo is important, but compared to my life, it is insignificant. Sorry, I have to go!Goodbye, Tokyo, which I once loved so much!Goodbye, I will not be coming back!
The place Du Chong was going to retreat to was Jiankang (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province), not only had to cross the Huai River, but also the Yangtze River.
As the army withdrew from Tokyo, Yue Fei and the soldiers of the three armies stopped one after another. Facing the last rays of the setting sun, they cast a deep glance at the nearly two hundred year old imperial capital. Everyone's eyes were filled with tears.
It is hard to leave the homeland. If I leave today, I may never come back.
We have survived so much hardship and hardship, so much desolation and despair, so why withdraw?
After sweating so much, bleeding so much, and losing the lives of so many soldiers, in the end, I retreated again and again. Maybe, only when I become a general with a heavy army can I advance and retreat on my own, and I can’t be restrained Only a mediocre person like Yu Duchong can send troops to the north to wipe out powerful enemies and regain the rivers and mountains!
But when can I do it?
Yue Fei didn't know that soon, his time would come.
As soon as the army withdrew, what happened next was just as Yue Fei expected. Compared with Du Chong, Guo Zhongxun who stayed behind had no higher level of thought—could it be that if you slipped away, Du Chong, I couldn't?snort!Leave me as cannon fodder, no way!
As soon as Du Chong left, Guo Zhongxun followed suit.
Follow up, and the "stand-in" who stayed behind to guard Tokyo is Cheng Changyu, the left-behind judge.
Cheng Changyu is even more human. Before Guo Zhongxun's back completely disappeared, he shifted the responsibility of staying in Tokyo to Shangguan Wu, another judge who stayed behind, and went south by himself.
In the eyes of these people, Tokyo City is a huge tomb, and everyone avoids it for fear.
In this way, it is not too long before the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was once blooming like a brocade, will fall again...
"Crossing the rivers and mountains in the south mourns the passing water, and marching on pommel horses in the north to pay for the autumn wind."
In the early autumn of July, before the wild geese began to fly south, Du Chong's team had already retreated southward.
Walking in the team, Yue Fei looked up at the light clouds and high sky. The setting sun on the horizon seemed to have changed color due to grief and anger, turning into an empty and desolate gray-white.
In fact, although the Jin soldiers captured Yangzhou, they did not cross the south from Yangzhou to invade again, but returned north with a full load of looted property.
On the way, Yue Fei kept encountering golden soldiers who were retreating in batches, and every time he fought, he gained a lot.
Along the way, the war continued.The most intense one was not with the Jinren, but with Zhang Yong, a former colleague, comrade-in-arms, and fellow countryman.
Zhang Yong broke up with Wang Shan from Chenzhou, led the team, and made a living by plundering, robbing the people, the government, and the gold soldiers, and moved to the north and south of the river, wandering in the rivers and lakes.
On the railway step, Zhang Yong and Du Chong's team met unexpectedly.He was originally Du Chong's number one "imaginary enemy". After the Nanxunmen incident, he became a thorn in Du Chong's eyes and flesh.Without further ado, Du Chong called Yue Fei to lead his troops to fight Zhang Yong.After fighting, Zhang Yongjun was defeated and fled in all directions.
Yue Fei simply cleaned the battlefield, led the army across the Yangtze River, and entered Jiankang.
And Zhao Gou has also arrived in Jiankang from Hangzhou. There are rumors that the imperial court plans to set up all his trips in Jiankang.
Jiankang is not only the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, but also the current capital of Jiangnan East Road. With a permanent population of nearly 200,000, it is a super big city in China!
Zhao Gou set up his palace in Shenxiao Palace, which was reconstructed by the "old Taoist priest" Zhao Ji on the original site of Baoning Temple, a holy land of Buddhism. Taiwan, overlooking the Yinhong Bridge on the Qinhuai River in the north.
In Shenxiao Palace, he grandly received Du Chong and his party.
To say that Du Chong left his post without authorization, he should have been arrested and shot, but Zhao Gou not only didn't mean to blame him at all, but was very polite to Du Chong. Why?
In fact, it is very simple: first, Zhao Gou has little interest in the sad place in Tokyo, and it is dispensable, and he is not very happy when he gets it, and he is not very sad when he loses it.Second, Du Chong held a new force that the Southern Song court could rely on, and he could not be neglected.Third, after Zhao Gou fled from Yangzhou to Hangzhou, he suffered a series of sudden blows there, exhausted both physically and mentally, and lost his temper at all.In Hangzhou, Zhao Gou not only fell from the emperor's throne, but almost lost his life and died in Huangquan.