Chapter 39 The boastful Zhang Jun

After talking about Yue Fei, let's look at Song Jun's performance on other battlefields. Almost at the same time that Chuzhou City was broken, the Battle of Fuping organized by Zhang Jun broke out. This was the largest battle between the Song and Jin Dynasties since the start of the war. Coach Zhang Jun seemed full of confidence and was determined to win. Zhang Jun, whose courtesy name is Deyuan, was born in Mianzhu, Hanzhou. He had great ambitions since he was a child. When he was young, he worked as an official in Xihe. Do your best to make friends with the border defenders, and humbly ask for advice on various border defense strategies.During the Jingkang disaster, he witnessed the royal family being captured and the people dying, and vowed not to live and die with the Jin people, and opposed the peace negotiation.Like Li Gang, he belongs to the tough main combat faction.Regrettably, his personal relationship with Li Gang is not good, and he colluded with Huang Qianshan in the early days to suppress and exclude Li Gang.

Zhang Jun was deeply loved by Zhao Gou because he worked the hardest in persuading Yingtian Mansion. Yangzhou fell, and he and Lu Yihao stayed with Zhao Gou all the time, robbing civilian boats to protect Zhao Gou across the river.During the Mutiny of Miao Liu, he supervised the army in Pingjiang, planned well, and rushed to Hangzhou in time to quell the incident.There is nothing worse than a lack of food, and nothing better than a rescue.These two incidents made the relationship between him and Zhao Gou warm up quickly, and he was appointed as a member of the Privy Council.Zhao Gou once commented cruelly on his relationship with Zhang Jun: "Righteousness is the rule of the monarch and ministers, and love is of the same flesh and blood."

Zhao Gou also praised Zhang Jun in public many times: "There are many people who are talented and able to do things, but Zhang Jun is the only one who serves the country tirelessly." ("There are certainly many talented people who can do things. If you work diligently for the country, there is nothing like dredging.") But Zhang Jun's talent is also well known.According to legend, Miao and Liu rebelled and sent killers to assassinate Zhang Jun.The killer arrived at Zhang's mansion and saw Zhang Jun worrying about the country and loving the people, working hard on state affairs all night, so he couldn't bear it, so he walked up to him, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and said, "This Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan are also rewards for recruiting the thief." Zhang Jun was taken aback, but the assassin said again: "I am from Hebei, and I have read books for a few days. I know black and white loyalty and traitors. Would I be willing to be used by traitors? I just saw that you were unguarded, and I was worried that someone who would come later The assassin hurt you, so I came here to remind you." ("Servant from Hebei, who reads a rough book and knows how to obey, how can he be used as a thief? If you don't prepare carefully, I'm afraid someone will hear you later.") After finishing speaking, he turned around and left .Alas, respectable!

Many historians call it "the name of ZTE".Yue Ke also praised highly: "He has been in and out of the general for forty years, and he has the reputation of loyalty and honor, and he is the number one in ZTE." As early as the previous year (1129), Zhang Jun suggested to Zhao Gou: "The revitalization of the Song Dynasty should start with the revitalization of Guanshan. Once the Jin people capture Sichuan, the southeast area will not be safe." At the beginning, the Jin people might enter Shaanxi and take Shu first, and the southeast cannot be guaranteed.”) The difficulty in the land of Shu is that it is difficult to go to the blue sky, but it is the best place to hide for the government-in-exile.During the Anshi Rebellion and the Huangchao Rebellion, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty often hid there.Even Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government in modern times hid in Shu under the attack of the Japanese invaders.

Zhao Gou also had the idea of ​​going to Shu to play "peek-a-boo" with the Jin people.Now that Jiangnan has been hit repeatedly, if one day he really can't stay any longer, Shu will be his last hiding place.In addition, in Zhao Gou's eyes, the soldiers from Shaanxi have fought against Xixia for many years and have rich combat experience. They have already replaced the Hebei Army, and together with the Hedong Army have become the most powerful troops in the country. . In April of this year, Zhang Jun volunteered again and applied to Zhao Gou. He patted his chest and said that as long as he was allowed to go to the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi, he could control the division of the Sixth Route, and then occupy the millet of the two Sichuans, Zuo Tong. Jingxiang Zhicai, right out of Qinlong's horse, threatened Jin Guo from the flank.At that time, "the general trend of the world can be determined."

There is no reason for the leader to be unhappy that the subordinates volunteered so enthusiastically. Moreover, the current situation in Huainan is not good. If an offensive can be launched on the western front, the Jin army in Huainan can be contained to a certain extent.Therefore, Zhao Gou agreed to his application, appointed him as the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan and Shanxi, and gave him the power to "remove officials cheaply", that is, he had the right to choose or remove local administrative officials and military generals without his own consent. . In July of the third year of Jianyan (1129), Zhang Jun, who was 33 years old at the time, set off from Hangzhou excitedly, from Jiankang to Wuchang, and then went up the Hanshui River to Hanzhong. Seal an official and establish your own prestige.

In September, when I arrived in Xingyuan, before the bench was hot, I led a delegation to Dingjun Mountain to pay homage to Zhuge Liang, saying: "A certain Fei Cai, who mistakenly read the hadith, sent out his generals and envoys, and bridles Hanzhong." Recover the spirit of the Central Plains who can give me nothing.The people in Sichuan and Shaanxi were very happy, and they all praised: "This person should be the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang." Coming down from Dingjun Mountain, Zhang Jun resolutely carried out a large-scale personnel transfer. First of all, he appointed Zhao Kai, who is good at financial management, as the Minister of Logistics, and handed over the money, food, troops and horses of Sichuan and Shaanxi to him. A large number of young generals such as Liu Xi, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, etc. were promoted, and they went to the altar to worship the generals, and worshiped them as mighty generals.

When everything was settled, the Qinchuan five roads including Xihe Road, Jingyuan Road, Qinfeng Road, Xingjun Road, and Huanqing Road were summoned, with a total of 180,000 troops, known as 400,000, and invited the Jin Army to enter Shaanxi for battle. Fuping is the hinterland of Gyeonggi, located in the northern part of the Guanzhong Plain, with a flat terrain and an extremely important strategic location.In order to win this battle, Zhang Jun "exhausted all the resources of the six routes in Shaanxi" and gathered all the human, material and financial resources of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the Fuping area.

The Jin army, which had been trying to eliminate the Northern Song Dynasty, was hindered by the invasion of Sichuan and Shaanxi, so it has not been able to do so.Now that Zhang Jun has made such a big noise, Wu Qimai is actually a little nervous. He transferred the Wushu who was attacking Chuzhou with Talan in Huaixi to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and strictly ordered Lou Shibojin, who is stationed in Shaanxi at this time, to make preparations. . The battle is imminent! However, this battle was generally not favored by General Song.Some people believe that the Song Dynasty's military strength is not enough to match the Jin people, and defense is the best offense.However, how can Zhang Jun, who is so overjoyed, listen to him? !In order to successfully implement his strategic intentions, he demoted Qu Duan, who held objections, as Deputy Envoy of Haizhou Tuanlian, and sent him to live in Wanzhou; Wang Yan was transferred to the jurisdiction of Luling in Lizhou.Changed Liu Kai to be the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Starting from Qinting, he "supervised the six battle routes, 200,000 soldiers, and 70,000 horses." !” He also solemnly issued a letter of war to Jin Jun.

At the beginning, Lou Shibojin deliberately showed weakness and ignored Zhang Jun's various provocations. Zhang Jun laughed and said, "I never thought that Lou Shi Bojin would be so cowardly!" Turning around, he said to his staff, "I will be defeated!" Some staff who were confused about the situation even urged Zhang Jun to imitate Zhuge Liang's allusion of giving women's clothes to Sima Yi, Also humiliate Lou Shibojin. On September 22nd in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), Lou Shi Bojin suddenly said: "Whoever can capture Zhang Jun alive will reward a donkey and a piece of cloth!" This almost made Zhang Jun's nose crooked. !

On the 24th, Lou Shibojin started to attack. He ordered his general, He Bo Jin, to lead three thousand fine riders "Nangtu Yunao", carrying sandbags and soil bags, to attack Zhang Jun's camp by surprise.These golden soldiers stacked the sandbags and soil bags on their backs along the road, and soon a smooth trail appeared on the original swampy ground. Wushu, who acted as the right wing of the golden army, led the elite cavalry to kill like a whirlwind. All of a sudden, the village was in chaos.The first to react was the "Zhuya Team" guarding the outskirts of the camp. They bent their bows and drew their strings, and their arrows were like locusts.However, Wushu's cavalry attacked so fiercely that they killed them right in front of them. The panicked civilians acted as moving human shields for them, blocking countless sharp arrows, and the Jin army passed the shooting area smoothly, like waves coming , Straight into the Song Army base camp. The command center of the Five Route Song Army was in a paralyzed state, and the various ministries could not get corresponding instructions, so they could only fight on their own and became a mess. In this case, the Song army's numerical advantage became a disadvantage.Because of the chaos, I don't know which direction the enemy will come from. In order to save their lives, they can only fight on their own, hacking randomly, and as a result, they rush into each other and have no fighting power at all. At a critical juncture, Liu Kai, who had taken over Qu Duan's Jingyuan Army, jumped out of the formation amidst the chaos, and organized soldiers to block Wushu's iron cavalry army.The Jingyuan army can be called the number one soldier in Shaanxi. They stabilized the morale of the army in a very short period of time, formed a large formation, and faced the battle calmly. This battle was fought extremely fiercely, and Liu Kai "leads the soldiers to fight against it, and from Chen to Wei, the victory or defeat has not been decided."Under the cover of Liu Kai's desperate resistance, the other four soldiers of the Song Army were able to regroup and join the battle group. Two hours later, Wushu fell into the heavy siege of the Song army, and Han Chang, a giant of the Jin army, was shot in the left eye by a flowing arrow, "pulling out the arrow in anger, dripping with blood, filling the wound with soil, and fighting bravely on a leaping horse", Only then did he and Wu Shu break out of the siege and escape with their lives. Just when the outcome of the war was about to reverse, Lou Shibojin's cavalry regiment, the real main force of the Jin army, was dispatched. They circled to the right side of the Song army along the newly filled road, and came like a whirlwind. The Song Army, which had been struggling to support it, finally collapsed completely and was defeated across the board. Facts have proved that Zhang Jun, who claimed to be Tang Prime Minister Zhang Jiuling's younger brother Zhang Jiugao, who showed himself as Zhuge Liang, was actually a boaster. In the late Tang Dynasty, there was also Zhang Jun, who was good at soldiers and martial arts. He compared himself to Xie An and Pei Du. It was under his instigation that Tang Zhaozong Li Ye rashly went to war against Li Keyong in Hedong, and wiped out the little remaining military power of the Tang Dynasty. Run out. Compared with Zhang Jun of Tang Dynasty, although Zhang Jun of Song Dynasty made some achievements in "repelling the enemy and surrendering the thieves", he was narrow-minded, small-minded and easy to gain, and arrogant. Some people secretly ridiculed him for overestimating his capabilities and comparing himself to Zhuge Liang.His subordinates argued: "Mr. Zhang is also aware of adapting to the situation, but general is not his strong point. The two are just similar." But no matter how you say it, the success or failure of the Battle of Fuping is clear at a glance. "The Song Dynasty lost its power, the Jin people took advantage of it, captured its people, moved its treasures, imitated the Liao story, made its ministers kings, and changed positions. It was the time of Mozhen." Before the Fuping War, to the west of Tongguan, only Chang’an and other places on Yongxing Road were in the area that the Song and Jin sides could not compete for. It is also firmly in the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty government.However, with the fall of Chuzhou and the failure of the Fuping War, the Jin Army took the opportunity to seize the four capitals of the East, West, South, and North of the Song Dynasty, occupying most of Hebei, Hedong, Jingdong, Jingxi, and Shaanxi. Facing such a vast area, the supreme ruling group of the Kingdom of Jin had to consider how to rule and manage this area. Obviously, relying on the manpower of the Jin Kingdom alone is not enough to effectively control and manage this vast land, and it is imperative to re-establish a "Zhang Bangchang-style" puppet government. In addition to making up for the lack of managers in Jin, the establishment of a puppet regime has a greater advantage: it took over Jin’s three Song and Jin battlefields in Huaidong, Huaixi, and Jingxi, and completely eliminated the threat of the Southern Song Dynasty from the flanks. . With such a puppet state, a large buffer zone was created between the Jin and Song dynasties, and the Jin state avoided confrontation with the Southern Song Dynasty from now on, but worked behind the scenes to destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.