Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Yue Fei and "Zhongxiang Yang Yao Rebellion"

It is said that the U.S. military sweeping the world today, every year at the recruiting ceremony, the recruits with hairless mouths must gather in a whole team, solemnly accept the guns, and shout the same slogan in unison: Never shoot at unarmed civilians.Every time at this time, the American recruits of various skins in formal attire shook the sky in unison, resounding loudly, very solemn, very touching, very... Very unreliable. It doesn't make sense to be reliable.Uncles in Afghanistan and Iraq, if they feel depressed, abuse them if they want to abuse them, beautiful girls from Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, rape them if they are happy, and pat their buttocks and say VERY SORRY and leave when they are done.oath?human rights?Belief?Let the children go.

What about Chinese soldiers? How about going to Wuling County, Changde City, Hunan Province, looking for clues in the laughter and laughter under the clear blue sky, and seeing the military disaster that burned civilians 1,000 years ago? This is a county town with beautiful mountains and clear waters, a land of fish and rice rich in products, described by the great writer Tao Yuanming, this is the peach blossom garden that all the creatures under the flames of war linger in their dreams.The villagers, who are indifferent to the world, feed the horses, chop firewood, and take care of their homes, just like the appearance in Haizi's works. In the peaceful age of spring and flowers, they are happy people from generation to generation.

However, the tragedy in the second year of Song Jingkang (AD 1128) completely ended their happiness.With the thunder of the Jingkang Incident, the Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty in the Northeast ravaged the Central Plains like a pack of wolves. Homeless refugees, soldiers fleeing with their heads in their hands, and dignitaries who did not give up, all fell under the sharp sabers of the people of the Jin Dynasty. Generally flocked to the south of the Yangtze River. This matter seems to have nothing to do with Wuling. This is Xiangxi, far away from the front line. The Jin Dynasty people’s war can’t burn the happy life of Wuling people. The Song Dynasty was replaced by the Southern Song Dynasty, Huizong Qinzong was replaced by Gaozong, and the capital Bianliang was replaced by the capital Lin’an Yes, but the people who are in charge don’t have to pay food and taxes, right?There are quite a few refugees from the north who have fled the disaster. Every family is struggling to save money and planting a few acres of land.

But the people of Wuling finally found out that this day will not go on anyhow. First, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were cut down layer by layer. The country is in a difficult period, and everyone is united in the war of resistance.Then a large number of refugees poured in, and half of the mountains and rivers disappeared. Why should we share our fate with the refugees.Then the battle on the front line was tense. It is said that the central army and the local army were beaten up in a few strokes, and the people along the Yangtze River died terribly.Folks, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, so hurry up and support us.

If you say that Wuling people are very enlightened, the elderly and children stay at home, live frugally and pay exorbitant taxes, the young and middle-aged leave their wives and children, and go to the front with high spirits. Those who are lucky join the regular army, and those who are unlucky organize militias spontaneously. Fight the invaders.The small Wuling, with its weak shoulders, supported the heavy burden and sacrifice of protecting the country during the Anti-Japanese War, just like the countless lands of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River in those days, suffering in the years of fighting and fighting.

After suffering until the third year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1130 A.D.), the Jin Bing’s first southward invasion finally came to an end. Song Gaozong, who was chased to almost jumping into the sea to feed the bastard, became the emperor in Lin’an in a glorious manner. Jianghuai, Jiangnan In the Central and South battlefields, thousands of heroic spirits who died in battle have long been dug and buried in random places.The young men who survived were casually sent home. The emperor was the emperor who only wanted to be the master of half the country, the ministers were the ministers who only wanted to be the ministers of the half country, and the generals were the generals who only wanted to defend half the country.Among the red walls and green tiles in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were feasting, feasting, singing and dancing.Occupied areas, national humiliation, the emperor who was a prisoner of war, and the foundation of the ancestors, life must be happy to be happy, so let's just turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

When the emperor pretends not to see it, what do the common people look at?The reinforcements from all over the frontline have already been sent back to their original places, and half of the country has to live. It’s not our business to worry about whether there is a war or not. It’s time to get out of these hard times. Let’s go home and continue to live a happy life. But it was only at this time that Wuling realized that this happy life was really gone forever. Because when those soldiers who fought the enemy with their lives on the front line and were sent home casually with scars and yearning for their loved ones' homeland, when they set foot on the land of Wuling, what they saw was not hopeless His wife and children, his father with drooping gray hair, not to mention the familiar scenery of curling up cooking smoke and fishing boats singing at night.What they saw was the village burned by the fire, the ground trampled by horseshoes, the corpses floating on the muddy Dongting Lake, and the bones between the ruined walls...

It was not the invaders of the Jin Dynasty who ran rampant in northern China. Wuling was too far away for the sabers of the Jurchen cavalry to reach here.The person who committed the crime was a man from Henan named Kong Yanzhou, the authentic general of the Song government army, and the Song government army led by him. They were raised by the people of the Song Dynasty who tightened their belts, and they were counted on to defend their homes and the country. The authentic government army. This group of people has a popular name in history - rebels. From the moment of the Jingkang incident, they knew to run like Forrest Gump. Officials ran faster than soldiers, and soldiers ran faster than ordinary people.Running but not idle, killing and grabbing wherever he ran, robbing all the way, scrambling and calling the uncle when encountering invaders, wielding sabers and looting indiscriminately when encountering his own people.What kind of foreign enemies have invaded and put charcoal on people's lives, let me paint it for you first.

Kong Yanzhou, the leader of the crime, is also worth mentioning.At that time, he was recruiting envoy along the river, an official with a big black hat, and half his life in the army was considered "great military exploits".When Jin Bing was fighting in Shandong, he took the lead in slipping away, and when Jin Bing was fighting in Henan, he put oil on the soles of his feet, and his legs ran faster than Bogut every time.While running and looting, there is no grass growing in the places he passes. He is an "advanced model" on the work front of beating, smashing, looting and burning.

This time he was "typical" in Wuling, a rich land of fish and rice, where the old and young, women and children gather together, wanting money and money, women and women, a plate of fat meat, of course, he doesn't want to grab the white or the white.With a big wave of his hand, the flames immediately shot up into the sky, and the grinning "soldier soldiers" brandished steel knives. The small Wuling County, which had no dispute with the world, groaned in pain amidst the brutal killing and looting. Faced with ruined walls and piles of bones... However, Kong Yanzhou, who was so proud of his money, never thought that what was more blazing than the fires of those killing nights was anger, the anger of Wuling people.

Those militia soldiers who have experienced countless bloody battles on the front line, how can they face such a scene: countless moments of life and death fighting the invaders, their homes behind them are being brutally killed, and their wives and children are being brutally killed? Ravaged and tormented.The people who did these things were not the legendary alien invaders, but their nominal "comrades in arms", the upright "government army". This is the home I defended with blood?Is this the world where I am responsible for the rise and fall?This is our country? Anyone with blood, but one of them, has no reason not to be angry. What should I do if I get angry? People in Wuling are very responsible. They sue and complain everywhere, hoping that someone will make decisions for them.But what's the use? As soon as the rebels came, Hubei's appeasement envoy Tang Yu was scared to hide and seek. Hubei's governors Fu Yu and Kong Yanzhou were so good at wearing a pair of trousers that they were busy helping others get promoted and get rich.As for Song Gaozong, who is bored in the deep palace, eating, drinking and having fun-I am worried about how to recognize the golden man as the master, and let you make the decision? The government army can't count on it, the parents and officials can't count on it, and the emperor can't count on it. Do you count on God?In front of the devastated homeland, beside the scarred wives and children, those helpless men, their hearts are bleeding. At this time, a person stood up and told them seriously: Wipe off the blood, don't count on anyone, if you want to survive, you have to make decisions for yourself. This person is the "big thief" who has been scolded bloody by countless moral old masters in later generations-Zhong Xiang. But this big thief is not easy. During the Jingkang Incident, he began to organize the villagers to form associations to protect themselves and form a "joint defense team" to protect the safety of the people in one side.When the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty was chased all over the world by the invaders and fled for their lives, he stepped forward and sent his eldest son Zhong Ziang to lead 300 brave men to the front line and fought a lot of tough battles with the enemy.When Kong Yanzhou's rebellion was raging, he also led the old, weak, sick and disabled in his hometown to defend his homeland bravely. Then he appealed, sued, and called for grievances. The pillar of our beliefs. Now this pillar finally understands that the emperor is unreliable, the parents are unreliable, and only I can be reliable in defending my homeland. The reliable Zhong Xiang took action. With Wuling as the center, more and more villagers gathered under his banner. Without weapons, they made their own weapons. Next, they rectified their soldiers and horses, defended their homeland, and soon had a sufficiently elite army.Kong Yanzhou came again with a murderous look, but this time he was hit head-on. The men with fire eyes repaired them solidly, and the rebels were killed until their feet were oiled, and they kept shouting as they fled: "Rebellion! rebelled. Have you rebelled?The fact is that Zhong Xiang, the "leader of the peasant uprising", has done his part.After the war, it was time to plant the land, pay for food, and live a life. We did not overthrow the government offices of our parents, nor did we drive out all the "government troops".In fact, it is to tell the old men: We just want to live and live. You want to live, but the emperor sneezes.What, the government army was killed by farmers?It's the other way around?Repression, repression!Kong Yanzhou, who was defeated and fled, soon became Hu Hansan, and had a more resounding official position: envoy to catch and kill.He came back swaggeringly with the elite.To catch and kill, is not to catch and kill the invaders who occupy our lands and mountains, but to catch and kill those ordinary people who dare not let me bully them in order to live. As a result, just when Zhong Xiang and his soldiers thought that everything had returned to calm and they were farming and harvesting food as they did in peacetime, thinking about being happy people, Kong Yanzhou's returning home team made a surprise attack, and no one knew what to do. Zhong Xiang who prepared was defeated, and the whole family was killed after being captured.The paradise-like small Wuling county was once again devastated by the flames of war. The villagers who had recovered their peaceful lives, and the northern refugees who had settled down to their homes, all the good beginnings and hopes like soap bubbles were once again shattered in the war. The desire for a happy life is already a dream. The repeated ravages and endless military disasters finally ignited the angry hearts of Wuling people: If we don't let us live, then it's against the mother. Zhong Xiang's general Yang Yao finally stood up. He rectified the defeated troops and regrouped Zhong Xiang's old troops. The more than 100,000 peasant army finally became an insurgent army, wanting revenge and defending their homeland. On the surging Dongting Lake, Fighting to the death with the "government army" of the Southern Song Dynasty. This time it was a complete rebellion. Yang Yao took over all of Zhong Xiang's troops, and proclaimed himself the "Great Sage and Heavenly King", and the country was named Da Chu. We no longer trust this court, and the only thing we can trust is our own weapons.Beginning in 1131 AD, the fierce resistance of the Wuling people shocked the entire Southern Song Dynasty. The clever Yang Yao established a military-agricultural base in the depths of the Dongting Lake area, fighting against the government and the army while surviving.The government troops dispatched several times in the Southern Song Dynasty were all defeated. They built giant warships, mobilized elite troops, and used all the tricks they could, but they were disgraced every time. You can't win a civil war, and you can't take advantage of a foreign war.Just after Yang Yao pulled the flag in 1131, the Northern Jin State started a new round of military operations against the Southern Song Dynasty. From Henan to Shaanxi, and then to Sichuan, the Song army lost many important towns, and the situation was precarious. It can't be overthrown, how can the majestic Song government army be "in a mess". The affairs outside the nest are easy to handle, the golden man is nothing more than wanting more benefits, just kneel down and ask the uncle to save face, Yang Yao in the nest really wants Da Song's life.The fire in the backyard, how should I fight it?Who is going to pounce? The protracted war fought for 4 full years, and Song Gaozong, who was devastated, finally pinned his hopes on one person. This person is the great national hero, Yue Fei, the soul of the nation who has been celebrated and commemorated by the Chinese people for thousands of years. The Terminator finally came. The first thing Yue Fei did when he went to the front line was to warn the three armies that most of the rebels were "pure and good people" and "not to kill indiscriminately". A strategy of differentiation and disintegration was proposed.He successively instigated many of Yang Yao's cronies and generals, and then launched a general offensive with internal and external cooperation.The Yue Family Army, the elite troops that Yue Fei painstakingly trained to fight against the Jin soldiers and regain the rivers and mountains, easily defeated the Yang Yao uprising army that made several famous Southern Song generals utterly embarrassed-those who only wanted to live a peaceful life. farmer.Yang Yao, who fought till the end for this wish, threw himself into the water after refusing to surrender. With the face of the emperor, and the face of the Song government army, the next step is of course the emperor's grace. Under Yue Fei's insistence, the Southern Song government replaced the corrupt officials in western Hunan, exempted the rebels from being punished, and gave They distributed food and land to resettle them.Many generals in Yang Yao's army, such as Zhou Lun, Yang Qin, Liu Heng, etc., led their troops to join the Yue family army one after another, and made many military exploits in the Yue family army's anti-gold war in the future. It seems that everyone is happy with the result. Yue Fei, who was happy with everyone, left behind an inexplicable stain—the murderer who suppressed the peasant uprising.To this day, those who criticize Yue Fei always use this incident as evidence, while those who like Yue Fei also distort and vilify Yang Yao's uprising army.In fact, whether it is "foolish loyalty" or "rebellious ministers and thieves", there is one thing that only Yue Fei could see clearly at the time: Yang Yao's uprising spread to the entire western Hunan region, restraining more than half of the Southern Song government's troops, and invaded in the Jin Dynasty. Under the background of the continuous invasion of the south, the Southern Song Dynasty, which was deeply involved in two-front warfare, was bound to collapse. At that time, the entire Southern Song Dynasty would be finished. So Yang Yao's problem must be solved, and it must be fast.Encouraging security is also a good way, but how can the majestic emperor bow his head to the lowly grassroots?Then there is only a fight.After beating and calling for security, the problem was finally solved. It can only be said that Marshal Yue was in trouble. But there is a problem, which is enough to make people feel heavy: a group of people who have shed their blood to resist aggression, and a group of soldiers who are shedding their blood to resist aggression. Why should they fight this wrong battle? Many people have forgotten the fact that what was the trigger for this battle?It was a government army supported by a group of people who slashed their sabers at the people who supported them, but in the end it was up to the Yue family army, who did not take the people's stitches, to clean up the mess that almost pushed the Southern Song Dynasty to the edge of a cliff. Let me add the ending of the government army that lit the fuse: too late to be ashamed, too late to feel ashamed, and later they all followed their leader Kong Yanzhou as a traitor, ran to the north and sacrificed their lives for the Jin Dynasty invaders for several years. Nailed on the traitor's shame pillar.In fact, based on what they did in Xiangxi, it is enough shame not to be traitors.