Chapter 32 Yue Fei's martial art on the bar

Wushu dug a river from Huangtiandang, passed the Qinhuai River, entered the river west of Jiankang City, and then transferred to Jiankang. His original plan to cross the river from Zhenjiang and return to Yangzhou fell through. During the period of stationing in Jiankang, Wushu "set up big villages and embraced the city at Jiangshan and Yuhuatai, opened two rivers to protect them, and built small caves on the cave mountain as a place to escape the summer heat, Lu Zeng fortified the city, and built warships with water". The vice president looks like he has settled down in Jiankang for a long time.

In fact, this is just a smokescreen he released. In midsummer, although the trees in Jiangshan and Yuhuatai are towering and can almost block out the sky, people can still feel suffocating under the scorching sun. "At noon on a day when the trees are all over the ground, I dream of the song of the warbler." The Jurchens have lived in a bitterly cold place for a long time, and they are not resistant to cold and heat. Just imagine, the Jurchens came from afar to the south, and they could only wear heavy armor on weekdays, fully armed, and stood ready to prevent being attacked by the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Song Dynasty.And these iron armors weigh fifty or sixty catties, and it takes a lot of physical strength to wear them without moving, and it is inconvenient to move. It is summer again, and the iron armors are heavy, airtight, hot and stuffy. The sick continue.

Therefore, at the end of April in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), the Jin people began to withdraw from Jiankang Mansion in batches. There were many people who crossed from Caishiji to the north, and Wushu himself sneaked in in early May. Liuhe County. People of insight in the Southern Song Dynasty have already summarized to Zhao Gou the living habits of the Jin people who "arrive in the cold and return before the heat", pointing out that the Jin people could not stick to Jiankang to survive the scorching heat, and "Jiankang is the throat of the southeast and the heart of the country." The gateway is also the gateway. The transfer of the world and the order of the imperial court, there is no one who does not pass through it. If the golden man fruit grows according to this point, the southeast will be cut off." It is suggested that the imperial court send surprise troops to attack Jiankang.

Zhao Gou was as timid as a mouse, how could he have the courage to take the initiative to attack the Jinren? He just appointed Zhang Jun as the envoy of Zhexi Road and Jiangdong Road to closely monitor the movement in Jiankang City, and then issued a series of instructions to let the three armies of Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun go up the river from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and send All the forces that could be mobilized around were assembled and put under Zhang Jun's unified command, as if fighting a protracted war with the golden soldiers in Jiankang Mansion.

Just in case, Zhao Gou also planned to let Sichuan Zhang Jun's soldiers and horses go eastward along the river to strengthen their resistance to Wushu. There were not many Jin people staying behind in Jiankang. They bluffed, "Mixed with women, wearing headscarves, bugles, holding weapons, and patrolling the city walls." If the Song army could have a surprise attack, it would definitely work. It is a pity that after all, "no one army took advantage of the situation to go to the city to be the author".After Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun had assembled, they waited and watched each other, not daring to make a move.

Wushu expressed emotion in Liuhe County, shouting "there is no one in the Southern Dynasties".He never expected that Yue Fei had already moved north from Yixing. On April 24, he arrived at Qingshui Pavilion, thirty miles south of Jiankang City, and suddenly launched an attack on Jiankang City. The young soldiers of the Yue Family Army had longed for such a big battle.As soon as Yue Fei's general order came out, the soldiers were like tigers out of the cage, instantly defeated the enemy in front of them, and chased after them fiercely, defeating Wushu's remaining troops for fifteen miles before giving up.

Yue Fei counted the loot after the war. Among the more than 2,000 heads harvested, 175 of them wore gold and silver rings.In addition, forty-five Jurchens, Bohai people, and Han soldiers were captured, and more than 3,700 vests, bows, arrows, knives, flags, gold, and drums were obtained. Jiankang's counterattack begins here. This new army advanced triumphantly all the way, launched four consecutive fierce attacks on the Jin soldiers, and won four battles and four victories. "After the cold food of dragons and snakes in the four seas, the wind and rain in the six tombs and the east of the river." Yue Fei was relieved. It seemed that he already had a strong enough army to regain his homeland and reorganize the rivers and mountains. It is no longer a dream.

"Who on earth attacked me? Except for Han Shizhong, I will kill gods when I meet gods, and Buddhas when I meet Buddhas!" Wu Shu was furious, and returned to Jiankang full of anger. The victorious Yue Fei was stationed at Niutou Mountain, twelve miles west of Qingshui Pavilion. Although the area of ​​Niutou Mountain is not large and the altitude is not high, but the strange peaks protrude, and the north and south face each other.Wu Shu didn't dare to expel the cavalry to attack rashly, he just set up a camp at the foot of the mountain to surround the mountain. In it, the battle of Niutoushan is the climax of the whole book. Around the battle for Niutoushan, heroic stories of generosity and elegy are unfolded one after another, and one hero after another appears.

However, in the real history, Yue Fei just cleverly used the technique of "four or two strokes of a thousand catties" to make Wushu go round and round, and finally beat him to the ground and left in a big defeat. Yue Fei ordered a hundred people to put on night clothes and take advantage of nightfall to sneak attack on the Jinying camp, lighting fires everywhere and attacking in disorder. All of a sudden, the Golden Camp exploded, everyone was in danger, everyone was terrified, many Jin soldiers woke up from their sleep, their hair was disheveled, and they didn't even have time to put on their shoes, they slashed and killed each other with knives, scrambling for their lives.As a result, he hacked and killed most of the night, and found that all the people lying on the ground were his own people, and he couldn't help being angry and annoyed.

Wu Shu even blew his beard and stared at him, and he was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He ordered that "Yilao die outside the camp" to strengthen his guard. Once the attack worked, Yue Fei selected dozens of strong soldiers again and ordered them to sleep during the day and dispatch at night to hunt and kill the patrol soldiers in the Golden Camp. Most of the soldiers of the Yue Family Army were refugees from Hebei Province. Their homes were destroyed by the Jin people, and their relatives were killed by the Jin people.Even later, for Jin Bing, taking turns to be a patrol soldier was an extremely terrifying thing.Everyone is afraid and blames each other.Wu Shu was so angry that he went crazy and could not bear the disturbance, so he wanted to retire.

The Battle of Niutoushan fully demonstrated Yue Fei's wisdom. He was not eager to attack or drive away the enemy, but to consume the enemy's vital strength as much as possible and create panic, which is extremely rare. On the tenth day of the lunar new year, Wushu withdrew his team to Longwan, and sent people to Jiankang City to plunder gold, silver, mules, horses and migrant workers.After searching for a whole day, on the 11th, the Jin people set fire to Jiankang Mansion, withdrew from Jiankang Mansion City, crossed the river from Jing'an, 15 miles northwest of Jiankang City, and headed for Xuanhua Town, Liuhe County, Zhenzhou. For a time, the boats from Guabu to Liuhe were connected end to end, and they were connected continuously, and "Jiankang City was all ashes." When Yue Fei saw the fire in the city, he knew that the Jin soldiers were going to escape, so he personally led three hundred cavalry and two thousand infantrymen to gallop down from Niutoushan, hacked and killed all the Jin soldiers who had just boarded the boat and plunged into the water. , blood sprang up, and the river was red. Wu Shu went south several times, always winning every battle, no matter the big city or the small village, he got what he asked for.Only Huang Tiandang suffered from being dumb because he was not familiar with water warfare, but he thought that no one could fight on land, so he extremely underestimated the land combat capabilities of the Song Army.Being annoyed by Yue Fei's assassination activities this time, he wished he could have a straight fight with Yue Fei.Hearing that Yue Fei was out for activities, he gathered his troops and hurried over. According to the usual practice, the battle between Song and Jin should start like this. The infantry of the Song army formed a square formation, holding a long lance in their right hand and a shield in their left hand, making a solid posture, waiting for the Jin army to rush into the formation with their leaping horses and swords, and the bloody massacre. But this time, what he saw was the orderly cavalry of the Song Army standing quietly in front of him.Behind the more than 300 cavalry, more than 2,000 infantrymen with spears and shields were neatly lined up.This is how the golden men line up! Wu Shu's nerves were completely messed up, and the formation had already surpassed his comprehension ability, so he ordered to suspend the attack, and first observe what tricks the opponent is playing.After watching for a long time, he finally understood - this is a provocation. "Contempt can hurt the enemy's heart more than killing." Wu Shu's heart was deeply hurt, and he roared angrily: "The cavalry of the Great Jin Kingdom are all over the world, and the southerners are weak and can't ride, but today they are arrogant. , You want to fight against my cavalry, you clearly want to die, brothers, hit me hard!" As soon as the order came out, the cavalry of both sides rushed forward together, confronting each other abruptly. But what happened next made Wu Shu completely dumbfounded. The Song army in front of us, everyone's eyes burst out with angry flames, and they were not afraid at all. They were armed with big knives, big axes, and maces, whistling loudly, and their fighting power was extremely strong. Fighting, even if you are hit with arrows and knives, you will still fight to the death. The Yue family army was deeply influenced by Yue Fei, the hatred of killing their father and taking away their wives, when they don't work hard at this time, when will they wait?The invincible Jin army finally experienced an unprecedented fear, and the morale of the army collapsed. Just before the defeat, Wu Shu shuddered. Wu Shu noticed that although the armor of this army was not neat and the weapons and equipment were extremely poor, their energy was obviously very different from other Song soldiers. There were many things revealed in their eyes, there was hatred, excitement, Anxiety, too, but no flinching, "we're fully confident we'll drive the intruder away". Only then did Wu Shu truly feel Yue Fei's fear.Not only has the combat effectiveness of the Yue family army increased, but the soldiers' fighting spirit and confidence in winning have also risen unprecedentedly. After being defeated in Jiankang, Wu Shu finally understood that he was not invincible, but this time he met a really strong opponent. The defeat caused the morale of their team to plummet, and the pessimistic and war-weary mood permeated the entire army . In this battle, the Yue family's army "beheaded more than three thousand people with bald hair and earlobe rings, and more than ten miles of zombies, and sent more than a thousand soldiers, more than 20 people from ten thousand households, and more than twenty people from one thousand households, and got three hundred horses, armor, spears, Things like flags, drums, and supplies are useless.” At dusk, Yue Fei withdrew his troops into the city to appease the people in the city, "there was no one left for the captives." A year ago, Yue Fei withdrew his army from Majiadu and ran at night, recruiting refugees along the way, collecting scattered soldiers, waiting for nothing, policy without policy, funds without funds, no assistance from the central government, no support from friendly troops, but he did not abandon, Never giving up, relying on his wisdom, talent, and unshakable belief in serving the country and saving the people, and persevering to the end, he finally broke through the troubled times, gained a firm foothold, and defeated the powerful enemy at the critical moment. Defeat, regain Jiankang, turn the tide, and revive the morale of the army!What would happen if there was no Yue Fei in the Southern Song Dynasty?One can imagine.