Chapter 26 206 The Yue Family Army Breaks Wushu

Yue Fei, who regained Jiankang, was a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty who fought against the Jin Dynasty and a famous national hero in the history of our country. Yue Fei was born in Tangyin, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin, Henan). In the year he was born, the Yellow River burst, and a flood occurred in his hometown. His family life was very difficult.Yue Fei studied hard since he was a child, especially the art of war.He is so strong that he could pull a three-hundred-jin bow when he was a teenager.Later, he heard that Zhou Tong, an old man from the same village, was highly skilled in martial arts, so Yue Fei worshiped Zhou Tong as his teacher.

Later, Yue Fei joined the army.When Jin Bing went south, he was a small officer in Tokyo.Once, he led more than a hundred cavalry to train troops by the Yellow River. Suddenly, a large group of golden soldiers came across. Know how strong our troops are. We can defeat them when they are unprepared." As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed to the enemy's position, beheading a general of the Jin army.Encouraged by Yue Fei, the soldiers also rushed forward, and they killed the Jin army to pieces. This made Yue Fei famous for his bravery.A few years later, he became a general under Zongze.Zong Ze thought highly of him, and said to him, "You are as wise and brave as you, even a famous general in ancient times is no more than that. However, it is not a way to always win by simply charging into battle." He handed Yue Fei an ancient formation map and said: "Take this and study it carefully."

Yue Fei took the formation map, thanked Zong Ze, and continued: "Fight according to the formation map, this is the conventional art of war. As for flexible use and adaptability, it depends on the general's good intentions." After hearing this, Zong Ze nodded repeatedly, appreciating the young general's opinion. Like Zong Ze, Yue Fei took it as his duty to resist gold.After Song Gaozong came to the throne, he immediately wrote a memorial, hoping that Gaozong could personally lead the Northern Expedition of the Song Army to boost morale and restore the Central Plains.He also criticized the propositions of Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other capitulators.

As soon as the memorial came up, Song Gaozong not only refused to listen to it, but also disliked the young general Yue Fei for meddling in his own business, so he was dismissed from his military post. After Zong Ze's death, Yue Fei returned to Tokyo to stay under the command of Du Chong.The Jin soldiers attacked on a large scale, and Du Chong fled to Jiankang; Jin general Wushu attacked Jiankang, and Du Chong shamefully surrendered to the Jin army.Du Chong's soldiers all dispersed, only Yue Fei's team still insisted on fighting near Jiankang.This time, when Wushu was withdrawing to the north, he cooperated with Han Shizhong and defeated Wushu.

After the Jin soldiers withdrew north, Song Gaozong returned to Lin'an from Wenzhou.The Jin Dynasty established a puppet emperor Liu Yu in the Central Plains, whose country name was Daqi, who acted as an accomplice of the Jin Dynasty and harassed the Southern Song Dynasty.Yue Fei led the soldiers to repel the Jin-Qi allied forces many times and established military exploits.By the time he was thirty-two years old, he had been promoted from an ordinary general to the status of Jiedushi, keeping pace with the famous generals Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun at that time. It was during this period that he wrote a poem "Manjianghong", which has been passed down through the ages, expressing his ambition to fight against gold.The first half of the word is:

Angry, leaning on the railing, the rain breaks down. Lift our sight, the sky and shouts, grand, vehement. Thirty fame and dust, eight thousand miles of road, cloud and moon. Don't wait to turn the boy's head white, empty and sad. Yue Fei focused on restoring the Central Plains, and he was very strict with himself.Song Gaozong once built a house for him, but Yue Fei refused. He said: "The enemy has not been eliminated, so how can we care about the family?" Someone asked him when the world would be peaceful, Yue Fei replied: "Civil officials are not greedy for money, and military commanders are not afraid of it." death, the world will have the hope of peace."

Yue Fei usually pays great attention to military training.When the troops were resting, he also led the soldiers wearing iron armor to rush to the hillside and jump into the trenches, and the requirements were as strict as when they were fighting.Once, when his son Yue Yun was riding a horse up a hillside, his horse slipped and fell to the ground. Yue Fei found out and beat Yue Yun severely.When the other soldiers saw that the general was so strict with his son, they practiced very seriously. In the Yue family army, the military discipline is particularly strict.Once, a soldier used a bundle of common people's hemp to bind firewood without authorization. Yue Fei found out that he immediately punished him strictly according to military law.The Yue family army marched through the village and slept on the roadside at night.The common people invited them to enter the house, but no one was willing to enter.There is a slogan in the Yue family army, which is called: "Don't demolish houses to death from freezing, and don't plunder to death from starvation."

Yue Fei treats soldiers with strict requirements and caring care.When soldiers were sick, he often prepared medicines for them; when his subordinates and generals went to war, he asked his wife, Mrs. Yue, to comfort their families; when soldiers died in battle, he raised their children; Soldiers, don't leave anything at home. After such training and care, the morale of the generals of the Yue family was high and they fought bravely.Before Yue Fei goes into battle, he always gathers his generals together to discuss the battle plan before going into battle.Therefore, when we fight, we must win every battle, and we have never lost a battle.When the soldiers of the Jin army saw the Yue family's army, none of them was afraid. There was a saying among them: "It's easy to shake the mountains, but it's hard to shake the Yue family's army."

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were a group of famous generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, and with the cooperation of the rebels organized by the people from all over the country, it was conditional to repel the Jin soldiers.However, regardless of the objections of Yue Fei and others, Song Gaozong blindly sought peace from the Jin Dynasty. The land "repaid" the Southern Song Dynasty. In October 1140 AD, the Jin Dynasty tore up the peace treaty again, and mobilized elite troops across the country, with Wushu as the commander, to attack in four directions.In less than a month, all the land returned to the Southern Song Dynasty according to the agreement was taken away by the Jin army.The Southern Song Dynasty was in danger of collapse.Song Gaozong had no choice but to issue an edict, asking all Song troops to resist.

Yue Fei received this order, and immediately dispatched generals Wang Gui, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, etc. to split the troops, and at the same time sent people to Hebei to contact the rebel leader Liang Xing, asking him to lead the rebel army to outflank the enemy's rear in Hedong and Hebei.Yue Fei was in command in Yancheng. After a few days, several groups of people succeeded one after another, and successively recovered Yingchang (now east of Xuchang, Henan), Chenzhou (now Huaiyang, Henan) and Zhengzhou.When Wu Shu, commander-in-chief of the Jin army, heard Yue Fei's advance in Tokyo, he was terrified, and hurriedly summoned his generals to discuss countermeasures.Everyone was talking about it, saying that the other generals of the Song Dynasty were easy to deal with, but the Yue Family Army's offensive was difficult.But now that he's here, he has no choice but to concentrate on fighting the Yue family army.Then Wushu, King Longhu and King Gaitian led an army to attack Yancheng.

The army of Wushu came to Yancheng, and both Song and Jin sides set up a battlefield.Yue Fei first sent his son Yue Yun to lead an elite cavalry to fight in the vanguard. He said to Yue Yun: "This time, you can only win the battle; if you can't win, I will cut off your head first!" With a promise, Yue Yun took the lead and rushed to the battle, fighting bravely to kill the Song army and following Yue Yun, killing the Jin soldiers and leaving corpses all over the field. After Wushu was defeated for a while, he called his "Iron Futu" to attack. "Iron Futu" is a cavalry specially trained in Wushu. This cavalry is covered with thick armor, and three cavalry are formed into a team to charge in the center; Kidnapper horse". Yue Fei saw the weakness of the kidnapper horse, and ordered the soldiers to carry knives and axes when they went into battle.Wait for the enemy to rush, bend over, and cut off the horse's feet.The horse was cut down, and the gold soldier fell off the horse. Yue Fei ordered the soldiers to attack, and beat Tie Futu and the kidnapper horse to pieces.When Wu Shu heard the news, he cried very sadly, and said: "Since the beginning of the army, we have relied on kidnappers to win the battle, and now it's all over." But he refused to admit defeat, and after a few days, he personally led an army of 120,000 Attack the Song army.General Yang Zaixing of Yue Fei's department led 300 cavalry to patrol the outposts. When he saw the Jin soldiers, he immediately went into battle and killed more than 2,000 enemies.Yang Zaixing was also killed by an arrow. Song General Zhang Xian caught up from behind and killed the Jin soldiers, so Wu Shu had to escape. Wushu failed in Yancheng, and then changed to attack Yingchang.Yue Fei had expected this move early and sent Yue Yun to lead troops to rescue Yingchang.Yue Yun led 800 cavalry to charge back and forth, but none of the Jin soldiers could stop them.Later, the infantry of the Song army and the rebel army surrounded the left and right wings, and the Jin soldiers were defeated again. At this time, the Taihang Mountain Rebel Army led by Liang Xing and various rebel armies on both sides of the Yellow River also responded one after another.They raised the banner of the Yue Family Army, attacked the Jin Army everywhere, and cut off the Jin Army's grain transportation line.Jin Bing was terrified when he saw it. The Yue family's army was victorious and fought all the way to Zhuxian Town, which is only forty-five miles away from Tokyo. When the rebels in Hebei heard that Yue's army had reached Zhuxian Town, they all rejoiced and crossed the Yellow River to join Yue's army.The common people used bullock carts to pull food to comfort the Yue family's army, and some even came to welcome them with incense pots, all of them were so excited that they shed tears. Seeing this victory, Yue Fei couldn't stop his excitement.He encouraged his subordinates and said: "Let's work hard to kill the enemy. When we go straight to Huanglong Mansion, let's have a drink and celebrate the victory with brothers from all walks of life! "