Chapter 52 Defeat the enemy in eight days

When the released captives returned to the water village, the news of the people's prosperity outside spread like wildfire, and quickly spread to every corner, and Yang Mo's army morale suddenly became a little sluggish. Yue Fei divided his troops to guard all the intersections, cut off the source of grain and rice in the water village, and stepped up the economic blockade of Yang Mo's water village. The inside of the water village is empty, and the outside world is so exciting, people's hearts are turbulent for a while, and people keep coming out of the village to surrender.

Yue Fei felt that the fire was almost ready, so he sent someone to Shuizhai to summon security with a letter of surrender. The lethality of this move is quite strong. Yang Qin led tens of thousands of soldiers in the water stronghold to accept the recruitment. Yang Qin was famous among the thieves for his bravery. He charged at the forefront in every battle and was Yang Mo's right-hand man. His surrender caused the morale of Yang Mo's army to drop rapidly. What's more, after Yang Qin surrendered, more than 10,000 men, women and children in his village all became prisoners of Yue's army, and all the thousands of warships under him became Yue's army's spoils of war.

Yue Fei used the young and strong as sailors, sent all the old and weak home, distributed them land, and let them cultivate with peace of mind. As a result, people in Yang Mo's army wanted to return, their morale was slackened, and more people began to prepare to flee or surrender. Only some soldiers headed by Yang Mo refused to surrender, relying on their own advantages of building ships. Yang Mo dispatched the boats and deployed the army, ready to fight in the corner and give it a go. In order to cheer himself up, Yang Me ordered all the building boats to move out, "floating in the lake". The boats use wheels to stimulate the water, and they travel like flying on the water. .Moreover, the official ships are shallow and small, while the building ships are tall. Feathered arrows and rolling stones are easy to attack the official ships. If the officers and soldiers want to fight, they can only look up and attack. They often only see their ships but not their people, which is very disadvantageous. .

However, under such a background of turmoil, Yang Mo is not far from failure. Previously, Yang Mo's fighting strategy against the officers and soldiers was "land farming and water warfare".At the turn of spring and summer, when the water in the lake was high, we planted land at home. Anyway, the army could not send troops at this time; and when the water fell in autumn and winter, when the army launched an offensive, I had already saved a lot of food and grass, so I ran to the lake to fight with all my strength. . Now, Yang Mo's weakness has been caught by Yue Fei, and Yue Fei will march in midsummer instead of giving Yang Mo time to farm.At the same time, a large army was sent to occupy the main roads and block all the main roads.

As for the waters that Yang Mo likes, Yue Fei ordered people to cut down trees on Junshan Mountain, and made giant rafts to fill up the various ports in the lake. Downstream, filling the shallow water section downstream. When everything was ready, Yue Fei selected more than 2,000 soldiers with loud voices, walked and cursed in the shallow water, and insulted the bandits in the village loudly. The thieves were furious and wanted to fight, but the boat couldn't get over, so they had to chase and throw them with tiles and stones from a distance. Unexpectedly, the vegetation, tiles, and stones piled up even more, and the boats couldn't move, and the boats were completely paralyzed.

Yue Fei came out of nowhere and attacked from all directions. The bandits rushed to the port, but were stopped by the huge raft that had been set up earlier.The officers and soldiers took a raft, spread the cowhide to cover the arrows and stones, and raised huge trees to smash the thief boat. Yang Mo had no choice but to dive into the water with Zhong Ziyi to escape. Niu Gao took off his armor, and with a sharp knife in his mouth, he jumped down from where Yang Mo escaped, and quickly swam forward, grabbed his right foot with his left hand, grabbed his head with his right hand, and dragged him into the water. After being half full, he picked it up, cut off his head, packed it in a box, and ordered someone to send it to Zhang Jun's governor's residence in Changsha.

The rest of the generals seized Zhong Ziyi's dragon boat, golden bed, golden saddle, dragon and phoenix mat and other valuables to offer. After cleaning the battlefield, Yue Fei led Huang Zuo, Yang Qin and others into the bandit camp. The bandits who were in charge of guarding the house were shocked and shouted: "Who is the man who came here?!" Shocked, they all raised their hands surrender. Niu Gao asked Yue Fei for instructions: "These thieves are harming one side, why not protest if they don't kill them?" Yue Fei shook his head and said: "These people are all villagers from the fields, but they were bewitched by Prime Minister Zhong's sorcery, so they got together to commit adultery. Now that Yang Mo has been punished, Zhong Ziyi is dead, and the rest of the party members are all court officials. Wouldn't killing them be a breach of divine grace? What's more, soldiers who surrender without fighting are the most valuable of military strategists. It's not a good thing to kill them blindly. , so they got together and thought they were traitors. Later, they were frustrated by the intention of the Cheng officials to punish the shame, so they were afraid and did not surrender. Over the past few days, they have cultivated Yuan Evil, but in fact they just want to kill their lives. Now Yang Yao has been exposed Punish, Zhong Yi will die, and the rest are the country's children, Goutu kills them, it is not the Lord's will.") After hearing this, Niu Gao was very ashamed.

The strength shown by some people is not based on violence, but a heart that loves the world. Before the war, someone once proposed to Yue Fei to use fire attack to deal with Yang Mo's giant ship. In fact, fire attack is indeed the best choice to use small boats to deal with big ships.In the battle of Huang Tiandang, Wu Shu escaped by choosing to attack at a critical juncture.Later Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought fiercely in Poyang Lake for several months, and finally a big fire sealed the victory.However, as soon as a general became famous, all his bones were destroyed, and all jade and stone were burned. Under the chaos, there was no distinction between good and evil. This was something Yue Fei couldn't bear to see, and he resolutely rejected this approach.

Now, once Yue Fei's decision was announced, the land of Huxiang cheered loudly, and many people admired him in addition to being grateful. The great achievements of the conquest have been completed so far, and the number of captured bandits is 50,000 to 60,000, their families number more than 100,000, and there are thousands of ships of all sizes.Yue Fei personally went to each camp and village to comfort him.Young and middle-aged are encouraged to join the army, and the old and weak are given rice and sent home.Then a fire burned more than 30 bandit villages. According to history, in the few days after the war, "traveling and farming, residents' farming, as if nothing happened."Counting from Yue Fei's claim in Changsha and Zhang Jun's claim of breaking the thieves in eight days, to Huxiang's complete pacification, no more, no less, exactly eight days.

Zhang Jun exclaimed: "Yue Fei really uses his troops like a god." Zhao Gou was full of praise when he heard the news, saying, "If the upper class is established, the situation in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jing, and Xiang will be successive, and the strength will be doubled." In just three years from the third year of Jianyan (1129) to the second year of Shaoxing (1132), Yue Fei went from fighting against Qi Fang, accepting Zhang Yong, defeating Li Cheng, beating Cao Cheng to capturing Yang Mo, Pinghuxiang, and Fan Liushi. In the five battles, the attack must be attacked, and the battle must be won. The military exploits are outstanding and will shine in the annals of history.