Chapter 37 Zhao Lishou Lonely City

The time was pushed to the end of August, and Chuzhou was dying. In desperation, Zhao Gou sent Liu Guangshi five handwritten edicts that were sent by the gold medal courier ("When the Jin soldiers stayed in Huaidong, Guangshi was afraid of the front, Chuzhou had been besieged for a hundred days, and the emperor sent a letter to Guangshi to help There are five people in Chu, it’s not enough”), and the Privy Council issued nineteen official documents, Liu Guangshi’s heart was as firm as a rock, his body was as stable as Mount Tai, he was motionless, and he refused to cross the river. Zhao Gou was so anxious that he was about to swear at his mother, Liu Guangshi made a statement: he sent the commander Wang De and Li Qiong to take two thousand people across the river to save Chuzhou.

Wang and Li also knew that it was impossible to save the siege of Chuzhou with their two thousand people alone.So after fully understanding Liu Dashuai's strategic thinking, he held an armed parade in Huainan for a few days, went through the motions, and went back. "Jin Zhiwai rescued the dead, and the encirclement became more urgent." The city of Chuzhou was destroyed in the blink of an eye. Tarlan couldn't help dancing and dancing, very excited. However, something unexpected happened to him. Someone reported that a Song army appeared in the direction of Chengzhou. Although the army was small in number, it was fierce and unstoppable. It had defeated the Jin army stationed in Chengzhou three times.

There is such a thing?Our soldiers are mighty, like the sun at the top of the sky, whoever avoids me lives, and whoever touches me dies, who is so ignorant of what is good or bad? ! However, those who come are not kind, and those who are kind do not come. Since the Jin army guarding Chengzhou has lost three times, they dare not neglect their laziness. They ordered their favorite general Azhu Ribojin to quickly support Chengzhou. Taran thought that as long as Azhu Libojin came out, the Song army could be wiped out soon.On the third day, he received a battle report: Chengzhou had been recovered by the Song army, and more than 70 senior generals of the Jin army had been captured, including Gao Da, the general of Jin who was ordered to guard Chengzhou. Bao, and the beloved general Azhu Libojin who went to help!

When Talan first heard the battle report, he was shocked, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter and fell to pieces. When he woke up, he hurriedly dispatched troops and generals, gathered heavy troops, and rushed to Sandun near Chengzhou, trying to defeat the Song army in one fell swoop.However, it was the heavy troops he sent that were defeated. He besieged this army five times in succession, and was defeated all five times.What made him even more surprised was that every time this team rushed out of the encirclement, they had no intention of changing the direction of the march, and continued to point directly at Chuzhou City as always.

It stands to reason that such a troop that fully discloses its direction of action violates the taboo of military strategists and can easily be wiped out on the way. At that time, Chen Qingzhi, a famous general in the Southern Qi Dynasty, was good enough. "Famous teachers and generals should not be imprisoned, and thousands of soldiers and horses should avoid white robes." From Zhixian County to Luoyang, he fought forty-seven times and captured thirty-two villages. In the end, the entire army was wiped out. The reason is that his marching route has been figured out by the opponent. As the time progresses, the number of troops decreases, and it is impossible to escape in the end.

The people who lead this army now seem to be competing with Chen Qingzhi, meeting gods and killing gods, meeting Buddhas and killing Buddhas, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Chuzhou City. "Tell me, who is the commander of this Song army?!" Tarlan's eyes were as sharp as copper bells, and he was furious. The commander of this army can be said to be the most powerful opponent (no one) Talan has ever encountered in his life-Yue Fei. It turned out that Zhao Gou found that Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, the two uncles, could not be moved by him at all, so he had to order Yue Fei to be under the control of Liu Guangshi, and let him lead his troops to sneak attack from the back of the Jinren to alleviate the danger in Chuzhou.

Of course, he understood that Yue Fei had few troops and was alone, and that the lone army of Yue Fei alone could not save Chuzhou, so he continued to issue an edict to urge Liu Guangshi to send troops to cooperate in the battle. Zhao Gou’s edict to ask Yue Fei to rescue Chuzhou was officially issued on August 19th in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130). In fact, Yue Fei rushed back to Yixing from Taizhou on August 18th, the first day the envoy set off. , poured out the army and went straight to Chuzhou.On August 23, we arrived in Jiangyin.Since no ships could be found, they had to stay on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Yue Fei learned that the situation in Chuzhou was like a pile of eggs, so he didn't care about waiting for the large troops to cross the river. He took dozens of elite riders from the few civilian boats he found to cross the river, and returned to Taizhou on August 26. It was not until Chongyang, the ninth day of September, that all of Yue Fei's more than 10,000 soldiers crossed the Yangtze River. At about the same time, the "tourist group" led by Wang De and Li Qiong had finished their wonderful "7-day Huainan Tour". Back home swaggeringly, Yue Fei marched alone, the situation was very bad.

Tarlan continued to divide his troops to the south. On the one hand, he ordered the generals not to let this team approach Chuzhou City no matter what; on the other hand, he accelerated the attack on Chuzhou City. On September 16, he mobilized a large number of siege equipment such as cloud ladders, fire ladders, partial bridges, goose carts, caves, and double-story carts to fill up the moat. Chuzhou. After experiencing many wars in the Liao and Song Dynasties, the Jin people were good at using stone cannons to attack the city. The Jin people also listed more than one hundred stone cannons at the bottom of the city. , while the star cannon can fire dozens of stones at one time.The golden men fired at the same time with the sound of drums, and flying stones fell into the city like rain.

Zhao Li led his troops to resist on the city, and burned the ladders on the city wall with pine oil. In September, the westerly wind blew up, and "the fire turned in the opposite direction" and could not be burned. Suddenly, a stone cannon flew from the front and hit him on the head. Zhao Li yelled and fell to the ground.Left and right quickly stepped forward to rescue him. Zhao Li's mouth and nose were severely deformed, his eyeballs protruded, his seven orifices were bleeding, and his face was terrifying. He still muttered to himself with difficulty: "I can no longer fight the enemy for the country!" ("I will never be able to defeat the enemy for the country! ") Not long after, he died at the age of thirty-seven.

When the people in the city heard the news of Zhao Li's death, they knew that the city would be destroyed, and they wept uncontrollably. The people also elected the councilor Cheng Kuoquan as the town governor to lead everyone to defend the city. The enemy's offensive became more and more fierce, and the city was about to fall.All the people in the city "burned incense at night and looked southeast to pay homage", weeping. On September 29th in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), the city of Chuzhou was broken. The militia rushed out, and leaders like Wan Wu, Shi Qi, and Wei Heng, known as "the enemy of a thousand men", all fought their way out and escaped. There was a general named Zuo Bin who couldn't bear to abandon his wife. He tied his wife to his back with a big rope, jumped on the horse, and fought for the door with a big knife in his hand. He "killed dozens of people with his hands" and finally died in battle , which makes people look awe-inspiring. Zhao Li's family members were all killed when Xuzhou fell. He rode into Chu alone. . Since the Jin people invaded the south, most of the famous cities they visited were mostly false threats, coercing the defenders of the city to surrender, and even attacking the city and looting the village, like searching for something.In the battle of Chuzhou, the Jin people suffered heavy losses, and Zhao Li's reputation was widely praised among the Jin people. When the Southern Song court heard the news of Zhao Li's death, they all sighed, "Although Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan are nothing more than that." Zhao Gou commented in writing: "Stand firm and guard the isolated city, even if it is famous in ancient times, it will not be able to surpass it." Yue Fei advanced more than a dozen stations in a row, and was entangled by more and more golden soldiers. The army was seriously downsized, food and grass were scarce, and the prospects were bleak, so he had to ask Liu Guangshi for help again and again.The "Shen Liu Guangshi Begging for Horses and Food" and "Shen Liu Guangshi Begging for Soldiers" that have been handed down to the world were written at this time. Liu Guangshi didn't respond as if he hadn't heard of it. "Turning to the full moon", Yue Fei learned that Chuzhou had been broken, and knew that it was meaningless to advance to Chuzhou, so he withdrew from Chengzhou and returned to Taizhou. Where is he willing to give up, he took advantage of the victory and swung his army south, claiming to have an army of 200,000, and followed all the way, preparing to strangle the entire Yue family army in Taizhou City. The two armies fought and killed all the way from Beitan Village to Chaixu. The Jin people were guarded by heavy soldiers everywhere, but Yue Fei was Yue Fei. He could always find the weak point of the Jin army on the complicated battlefield, "fighting chaos but not chaos" , "The shape is round but not defeated", quickly killed, and then withdrew before the Jin army returned to aid, and then returned many times to attack the lazy pursuers, "like turning a round stone on a mountain of thousands of feet", every time In the battle, "everything is victorious, and the dead will sleep together", but the sharpness has not diminished in the slightest! Zhao Gou received the news that the Jin people were going to attack Taizhou, so he hurriedly ordered Liu Guangshi to send troops to support him, and at the same time issued an edict to Yue Fei: "Taizhou can be fought as soon as it is fought, and it can be defended as soon as it is defended; if it is not possible, it should be near the sandbar to protect the people and wait for it. Then cover up." Liu Guangshi continued to implement his own style of dealing with things, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and not sending out soldiers. Although Liu Guangshi was ranked among the top four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was because his army was huge in number and posed a certain potential threat to the Jin people, and his actual combat ability could only be ranked at the bottom. "Biography of Guangming Generals" written by Huang Daozhou, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, selects the biographies of more than 170 generals from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. Lin, Li Xianzhong, Yang Yizhong, Wang De, and Wang Yan were thirty-four people in total. Among them, Wang De was still Liu Guangshi's subordinate, but Liu Guangshi's name was not listed on it.Huang Daozhou looked down on him at all, so he didn't include him.Alas!