Chapter 48 Thirty-two Jianjie feudal marquis

Today, it is Yue Fei's old enemy Li Cheng who is guarding Xiangyang. I believe readers also remember that in the third year of Jianyan (1129), Yue Fei once defeated his 300,000 people in Louzizhuang, Hongzhou.They are old rivals, and they are no strangers to each other. However, Zhao Gou has a deep understanding of Li Cheng's ferocity, and this time he issued an edict to repeatedly warn Yue Fei to be careful.In fact, Yue Fei had expected that Li Cheng would never give up easily. In terms of military strength, he must be far less than the opponent. In terms of combat capability, although his soldiers are better than the opponent in terms of training, Li Cheng has Jin people behind him to form a large number of cavalry regiments.If fighting on flat ground, his cavalry regiment will definitely go all out, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.That being the case, what should we do if we go deep into the enemy's territory and encounter an ambush?Looking at Zhao Gou's edict, Yue Fei fell into deep thought.

Xiangyang is located on the south bank of the Han River, and together with Ezhou and Jingzhou, is known as the three core areas of Hubei, but its importance is much higher than that of Ezhou and Jingzhou.The importance of Ezhou is mainly for the southeast, and the importance of Jingzhou is mainly for the two lakes (Hunan and Hubei), but Xiangyang is related to the direction of the north and south of the world, and is the key to the overall outcome.When the regimes south of the Yangtze River occupy Xiangyang, they can peep at the Central Plains from the "Nanxiang pass"; while the northern regimes occupy Xiangyang, they can go directly from the Han River to the Yangtze River and covet the south of the Yangtze River.More than a hundred years later, the Mongolian army that went south to end the Southern Song Dynasty regime started with the capture of Xiangyang, which was hailed as "the spine of the world and the west gate of the country" by the soldiers and people of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Niu Gao, the vanguard general, learned from the captured prisoners that Li Cheng's army was in Xiangjiang Xiazhai outside Xiangyang City, and they were now defenseless.But Niu Gao strongly felt that Li Cheng was obviously luring our army to go deeper, the defeated vanguard was the bait deliberately released by Li Cheng, and the confession of the captives was undoubtedly a beautiful lie. Yue Fei completely agreed with Niu Gao's opinion, and at the same time, he also decided: attack at full speed and proceed as planned.Knowing that it is a pocket, but also going to drill, knowing that the enemy is cheating, but also going for it?Niu Gao and the others couldn't believe their ears.

In fact, Yue Fei's decision was deliberate.Standing still, of course, is impossible.Moreover, since he came from afar, it was an away game, and the burden of food supply was heavy, so he couldn't afford it anyway.If you can't go back, you can only go forward.Make quick decisions and deal a devastating blow to the enemy with lightning speed. Li Cheng, just wait, the Yue family army is here, even if it is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, we will smash it upside down, and we will not live in peace! At this time, Li Guoguo had already assembled the most powerful 30,000 troops of the puppet Qi, went out of the city forty miles, faced the Xiangjiang River on the left, lined up along the river, set up a trap, and waited for Yue Fei to drill.

When the Yue family army finally appeared in front of his eyes, Li Cheng felt a strong excitement. The 30,000 army behind him could rush out and defeat the Yue family army completely, just waiting for his order! Victory seemed within reach! Li Cheng watched Yue's army enter his pocket, his eyes lit up, and with a wave of his hand, he gave the order for a general attack!The 30,000 cavalrymen launched a general attack together and rushed out like a tiger. The sound of killing immediately shook the sky and shook the earth. Li Cheng was proudly commanding his army behind the formation. He believed that the scene of Yue's army's disastrous defeat would appear soon.

However, when Yue Fei saw the army that Li Cheng rushed out, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.He said to Wang Gui, Niu Gao and others: "Li Cheng has been defeated by me many times. I thought he would become a little smarter after being defeated a lot. Who knows that seeing him today, he still didn't make any progress. You know, the infantry is very powerful. In times of danger, the cavalry is advantageous in the plains; Li Cheng now arranges the cavalry on the river bank and the infantry on the flat ground, such a commander, such an army, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, what can they do!" The generals listened There was a chorus of cheers.

Yue Fei raised his whip and said to Wang Gui, "You lead the pikemen to attack Li Cheng's cavalry from the right side." Then pointing to Niu Gao, he said, "You lead the cavalry to attack Li Cheng's infantry from the left side." It worked. Under the mobilization of Wang Gui and Niu Gao, the Yue family's army quickly changed their formation, step against cavalry, cavalry against step, and the battle on both sides started at the same time.I saw Li Cheng's cavalry "all shot to death", the horses were stabbed down in rows, "the rear cavalry could not support";As a result, the cavalry and infantry squeezed each other, "both men and horses drowned, and the water was more than ten feet high", and countless people died.Li Cheng behind saw this scene, his hairs stood on end, and his back felt cold.

The war was still going on, and countless puppet Qi soldiers were injured and fell to the ground, suffering heavy losses.For a moment, the people on the battlefield turned their backs on their backs, and it was extremely tragic.At this point in the battle, Li Cheng was a smart man, and seeing the situation was not good, he immediately took the lead and fled. Yue Fei has already won a complete victory in Xiangyang, but Zhang Xian and Xu Qing have not beaten Suizhou yet.It turned out that the puppet general Wang Song heard that the Yue family army was coming, "fleeing without fighting", he retreated in the city of Suizhou, and resisted stubbornly with the high walls of the city.

Suizhou, today's Suizhou City in Hubei Province, is located between Dahong Mountain and Tongbai Mountain. It is not only the throat fortress between Xiangyang and Ezhou, but also the main passage between the Yangtze River Basin and the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. Only by winning Suizhou can we cooperate with Zhang Xianjun and advance hand in hand.Yue Fei decided to send troops to reinforce. Who should I send?Before Yue Fei could make up his mind, someone volunteered and volunteered. This person is Niu Gao who just made a great contribution!He boasted that as long as he was given three days, he could break through Suizhou and capture Wang Song alive.As soon as this remark came out, everyone was stunned.

As we all know, both Zhang Xian and Xu Qing are veteran generals in the Yue family's army. They are used to fighting for so many days, and Suizhou City is still unscathed. You, Niu Gao, are not bragging, right? !Yue Fei agreed to his application.However, Suizhou's success or failure is related to the success or failure of the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei specially ordered a young general to go with Niu Gao - his eldest son, Yue Yun, who is only fifteen years old. With doubting eyes, Niu Gao led Yue Yun onto the battlefield.As for the Battle of Suizhou, there are only a few words in the history books: "Niu Gao packed food for three days, and before the end of the three days, the city was pulled out. Hold Song, kill him, and get 5,000 soldiers, so he returned to Suizhou." And attacked the city. There is only one sentence for the details: "The son of the prince, Yun Yong, won the three armies, attacked Suizhou, held a double cone, and took the lead in ascending the city." All the generals admired them.

The news of the defeat of Xiangyang and the fall of Suizhou almost drove the puppet emperor Liu Yu crazy! The time it took Yue Fei from dispatching troops to conquering Suizhou was fully calculated, but it was less than one month!Is this too fast? ! Liu Yu hurriedly sent a distress signal to Jin Guo.However, Jin Ren's answer this time completely disappointed him. Jin Guo passed through the Immortal Pass and suffered a disastrous defeat, and its strength declined sharply, and it was no longer possible to organize a large army to help him. It was more than enough to ask him for help, but not enough.However, in order to encourage him to continue to fight against the Song army, the Jin people still sent a golden general named Liu Hebojin to lead thousands of gold soldiers to help the battle. Said to be a cheerleader.Liu Yu's heart felt cold. The golden man is hopeless, but life has to go on.Moreover, in any case, the Six Counties of Xiangyang, which were acquired not long ago, could not be lost.Liu Yu forcibly confiscated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shaanxi and Hebei, claiming 300,000, and handed them over to Li Cheng, who sent them to Xinye City on the north bank of the Xiangjiang River, preparing to fight Yue Fei again and regain Xiangyang. At the beginning of July, Li Cheng integrated the army, stationed in more than 30 places, and made a decisive battle. Facing an enemy several times larger than his own, Yue Fei didn't panic. In his eyes, Li Cheng was just the captain of the transportation brigade delivering military supplies for the Yue family army.He ordered Wang Gui and Zhang Xian to start from Guanghua Road and Henglin Road respectively, approach the enemy camp from the left and right sides, and "join forces to cover the attack".In addition, Dong Xian and Wang Wan were arranged to "surprise assault" from the front with cavalry. On July 15th, the great war broke out, and Yue Fei's army was flying everywhere. Several armies launched repeated charges against Li Cheng's camp. More than 200 generals under Yang Desheng "won battles, armors, and tens of thousands of horses", and took advantage of the victory to recover Dengzhou. Dengzhou is located at the intersection of Shangshan Ancient Road and Nanxiang Pass Road. The Shangshan Ancient Road is the traffic line from Chang'an to Nanyang in the west; Nanxiang Pass Road is the transportation hub between Nanyang, Xiangyang and Fancheng.Once Dengzhou is acquired by the Southern Song Dynasty, it can become "the barrier of Xianghan and the throat of Jingchu", and it can be regarded as "the south gate of the Central Plains and the gate of Guanzhong" if it is occupied by the puppet Qi. In the Battle of Dengzhou, Yue Yun was the first warrior to climb to the top of the city. It is said in history that "Dengzhou's recovery is the first."But Yue Fei considered that Yue Yun already had the meritorious service of Suizhou, so he withheld the military exploits and no longer reported them.How many people can do this?Yue Fei's bearing and mind are really admirable! The puppet Qi's large army was ruined twice in Li Cheng's hands, and the military strength was greatly reduced. The Tangzhou and Xinyang troops were basically unable to defend.On July 23, these two places were easily pocketed by Yue Fei, and the Northern Expedition's military operation to recover the six counties of Xiangyang came to a successful conclusion. When Zhao Gou received the good news, he couldn't believe his ears, and exclaimed repeatedly: "I have heard that the flying army is disciplined, but I don't know how it can defeat the enemy." This Northern Expedition, with only a little more than 17,000 troops, Yue Fei marched like a rainbow all the way. The reason, in addition to the strong combat effectiveness of the Yue family army, also benefited from the commander's reasonable and accurate strategy and tactics. The Battle of Xiangyang was the first time since the Southern Song Dynasty that the lost territory was regained from the enemy on a large scale. From Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty down to ordinary people who suffered from the war, they all believed that the restoration of the country was hopeful and rejoiced.Soon after, Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty conferred on Yue Fei the military envoy of Qingyuan and the envoys of Hubei Road, Jing, Xiang, and Tanzhou. Hu, give a gold belt. (Jiedushi is an official name, from the second rank, the highest military position in the Song Dynasty, and the status is respected, which is the highest honor for a general in the Song Dynasty. Zhizhishi is a real difference set up in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to the Jinglue appeasement envoy in the Northern Song Dynasty. State military and political power, that is to say, the three states of Jingzhou, Xiangzhou, and Tanzhou on Hubei Road are controlled by Yue Fei. Founding son is the eleventh rank of title.) This year, Yue Fei was only 32 years old, and it is said in history that "after crossing the river, there is no one who is as young as flying".Yue Fei was the fifth founder of the festival among the generals traveling to the south after Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong and Wu Jie.