Chapter 55 Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both

In February of the sixth year of Shaoxing (1136), Zhang Jun "deliberately made a big move" and held a military meeting of the governor's office in Zhenjiang Mansion. The purpose of the meeting was to let all the senior management personnel have a unified understanding and re-plan the strategic deployment. , Adjusting the original defense against Jin and Puppet Qi to offensive. According to Zhang Jun's original idea, the five armies of the battalion and battalion would advance side by side, attack separately, support each other, and take care of the beacon fire to launch a large-scale northern expedition.

Yue Fei put forward his own idea at the meeting, that is, Xiangyangfu Road should be restored to the old name of Jingxian Road, "to say that the imperial court is responsible for the name and the truth, not forgetting the meaning of the Central Plains", waiting for the opportunity, and launching the Northern Expedition. This proposal was passed unanimously. Not to be outdone, Han Shizhong claimed that he could raise troops from Huai'an, Jiangsu, attack the Huaiyang Army (now southwest of Pizhou, Jiangsu), and then regain Jingdong. Seeing the cooperation of the two military commanders, Zhang Jun was secretly delighted.Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, however, were moaning and chirping, and couldn't tell the reason for a long time.It seems that these two masters are hopeless.

The final strategic deployment formulated at the meeting was that the two armies of Han Shizhong and Yue Fei took the offensive, and the two armies of Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi took the defensive: 1. Huaidong Xuanfu made Han Shizhong station his troops in Chengzhou and Chuzhou to map the Huaiyang Army on Jingdong East Road in Huaiyang. 2. Liu Guangshi, the Xuanfu envoy of Huaixi, recruited the Northern Army and stationed in Luzhou; Zhang Jun, the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangdong, trained troops to build Kang, and entered Xuyi; rear wing. 3. Specially ordered Yue Fei to station in Xiangyang to get a glimpse of the Central Plains.

The meeting was dissolved, and Zhang Jun talked to Han and Yue respectively. He fully affirmed Yue Fei's work achievements in the previous stage and encouraged him to make persistent efforts to regain the Central Plains as soon as possible.When he left, he patted Yue Fei's shoulder vigorously, and said earnestly: "This gentleman's original ambition is also, encourage it!" Zhang Jun placed high hopes on the two: "With Han Shizhong's loyalty and Yue Fei's calmness, it is enough to achieve great things!" Han and Yue returned to the defense area and started to act.

Let's talk about Han Shizhong first. Han Shizhong took the lead in defeating the enemy in Suqian County (now Suqian City, Jiangsu Province) of the Huaiyang Army, and entered the heavily defended Huaiyang City. Ignoring it, Han Shizhong was forced to return with his entire division. On the way back to the division, I met Jin Bing on a narrow road. Han Shizhong held a big knife in his hand and reined in his horse to go out. All the generals were shocked, fearing that he might make a mistake, they all tried to dissuade him. Han Shizhong said awe-inspiringly: "I'm not out of battle, not enough to boost morale." Then he sent the military academy to call out to the Jinren to show his identity.

The military academy yelled at the Jinren: "The one who wears a brocade robe and rides a horse standing in front of the battle is my family, Mr. Han!" Jin Jiang had heard of Han Shizhong's name for a long time, and knew that he had met the main force of the Song army, so he wanted to retire. Sensing the enemy's intentions, Han Shizhong took the opportunity to charge his cavalry, but the Jin soldiers resisted for a while and fled in a hurry. When Yue Fei returned to Ezhou, he acted vigorously, summoned all the generals and aides, started active discussions, and carefully studied the route, policy, and strategy of dispatching troops.

However, a sudden incident completely stunned Yue Fei. Yue Fei's old mother, Yao Shi, worked hard all her life. She was frightened and tortured because of the Jin invasion, and was forced to leave her hometown and go to the south.On March 26th of this year, he was finally devoured by illness and closed his eyes forever. Yue Fei is a filial person, he has always been obedient to his mother, no matter how busy the military affairs are, as long as he is at home, he will serve the bedside morning and evening, mix medicine and change clothes, and take care of everything. Two years ago, the six counties of Kefu Xianghan and Han returned to Ezhou. Yao's family was seriously ill for a time. To take care of Yao's family, Yue Fei begged to take care of his relatives. Begging to serve relatives Zhazi" handed down from generation to generation.

Now his mother passed away suddenly, Yue Fei was so sad that he looked up to the sky and wept bitterly, crying until he couldn't breathe, and then he fell down and vomited, even vomited jaundice.After that, for three days in a row, the water did not stick to it, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and the eye disease recurred, which was worse than before. Sigh: "I have heard about the sword and the bow, and I have run out of plans to avoid loving relatives. Loyalty and filial piety can really do both. Goro is a hero after all." Yue Fei, Yue Yun and others spread their feet and said, "If you don't wait for the report, you will leave the official and help Zi to Lushan."

Zhao Gou learned that he "given one thousand taels of silver and one thousand pieces of silk" to express his understanding. When Yue Fei was grieved, he changed his usual frugal style, distributed the family wealth, and held the funeral in a grand manner. For a while, "the crowd was full of spectators, and the mountains were like a city."After burying his mother generously, Yue Fei asked Zhao Gou for "Ding You" to stay in Lushan Mountain Temple for three years in accordance with the etiquette and refused to come out. "Ding You" three years?Zhao Gou took a deep breath and resolutely rejected it.

Zhao Ding, Zhang Jun, Li Gang and others also objected together.Especially Li Gang, he also wrote to Yue Fei alone, advising him to focus on his career and not to abolish public affairs for personal reasons. Zhao Gou issued three consecutive edicts in his own handwriting, strictly ordering Yue Fei to leave the mountain immediately. Immersed in grief, Yue Fei didn't seem to have heard Zhao Gou's call. His eyes were swollen like two peaches, and he couldn't see at all. All day long, he knelt before his mother's spirit and sobbed bitterly... It wasn't until the news that the puppet Qi captured Tangzhou came from ahead that Yue Fei just woke up like a dream, dragged his sick body by force, returned to Ezhou, and sent his army out of Xianghan.Only then did Zhang Jun let out a long sigh of relief.

Wang Yan, the former commander of the deputy guard stationed in Jingnan Mansion, was critically ill. Zhang Jun worried that his eight-character army would not be able to control Wang Yan after his death. . It should be said that Zhang Jun's starting point for this arrangement is good, but he doesn't understand the personal grievances between Yue Fei and Wang Yan.Although Wang Yan is a hero of the generation, he is short of heroic spirit after all, unable to accept the fact that he obeys Yue Fei's control, and flatly refuses.Zhang Jun had no choice but to order him to transfer the army to Lin'an Prefecture.In this way, the two famous anti-gold generals lost the opportunity to cooperate again forever. After receiving this transfer order, Wang Yanqiang took his sick body and led tens of thousands of troops from Jingnan Mansion to sail a warship down the river eastward. Feeling very regretful, Yue Fei specially sent someone to invite Wang Yan, inviting him to come to his house as a guest on his way through Ezhou, as a landlord. Wang Yan agreed. In July, when maple leaves and grass flowers are rustling in autumn, Yue Fei and all his staff will come to the Ezhou River early in the morning, waiting for Wang Yan to visit. In the afternoon, Wang Yan's fleet finally appeared on the river. Yue Fei gave an order, and the sound of gongs and drums along the river and colorful flags fluttered.Seeing the ship getting closer and closer, Yue Fei waited happily, waiting for that historic handshake... However, Wang Yan deliberately let the navy hang up the sails, speed up and leave. Yue Jiajun was dumbfounded from top to bottom. Yue Fei didn't mind being treated so rudely, and still expressed his admiration for the generals and staff who described Wang Yan's past friendship. Wang Yan's eight-character army not only failed to enrich the Yue family army, but was transferred from Jingnan to increase the defensive burden of the Yue family army. However, Yue Fei decided to go north from Xiangyang and Dengzhou to attack according to the plan proposed by the Zhenjiang meeting a few months ago. Use offense instead of defense. He convened all his generals and advisers to participate in the discussion and formulate an action plan, and drew up a perfect plan: Yang Zaixing led 3,000 people to march into Changshui County, Xijing, and do a good job of propaganda along the way. , regain Heluo".And Wang Gui, Hao Hao, and Dong Xian were sent to attack Lushi County, Guozhou (now Lushi County, Henan Province) with 13,000 people. Once they succeeded, they would use this as a base and divide their troops into three groups. Hao Hao attacked westward. Shangluo (now Shangzhou, Shaanxi), Shangluo (now Shangluo Town, southeast of Shangzhou, Shaanxi), and Luonan (now Luonan County, Shaanxi) in Shangzhou; Dong Xian went east to capture Yiyang (now Songxian, Henan); Gui went north to capture Guolue County (now Lingbao City, Henan), Zhuyang County (now Zhuyang Town, southwest of Lingbao City, Henan Province) and Luanchuan County. Both Guozhou and Shangzhou are strategically important places, strangling the Yellow River in the north, overlooking the Henan Prefecture of Xijing in the east, and connecting Guanzhong in the west. However, once the Yue family army took it down, it would be like a sharp knife cutting the puppet Qi's territory in half, and at the same time cut off the connection between the puppet Qi army in Henan and the Jin-Qi coalition forces in Shaanxi. It can be seen from this that Yang Zaixing's march into Changshui seems to be just a suspicious soldier. In fact, Yang Zaixing was not just a simple bluff to confuse his opponents. His real purpose was to lure the puppet Qi army into battle and annihilate the enemy in the field.Because the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army led by Yue Fei followed closely behind. This strategic deployment includes main attack, auxiliary attack, and feint attack, attacking in separate directions, and when the time comes, you can attack in three directions, seamlessly, without any loopholes! Once the plan is made, the next step is action.