The goshawk flaps its wings and flies a thousand miles in a day.

Except for Zhao Jiu, almost all the civil and military forces of the Song Dynasty believed that the Jin soldiers, who had just returned to the army for a few months, would not invade the south again in the short term. Their reasons were various, such as the long-term army will be exhausted, the logistics is not supported, and the general marshal II

After the death of the prince, there was an internal power struggle...but in the final analysis, they all used their own knowledge to trick the other party.

As everyone knows, since Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta launched his army against the Liao thirteen years ago, the Jurchens have repeatedly defeated the large with a small number and attacked the large with a small number. They swallowed up the Liao and destroyed the Song Dynasty. From a mere corner of Liaodong, they spread their military power to the Central Plains in thirteen years.

, shocking the world, this army of fishermen and hunters is probably at the peak of an old-era cold weapon army.

A general of the Western Army described the Jurchens, saying that in the past when the Song Dynasty and Xixia fought, both sides would often fight for the best, and one side would collapse once it failed to support itself. However, when fighting against the Jurchens, their side would still collapse as soon as they were defeated, while the other side would collapse.

But they can disperse and rejoin, go and come back again, often unable to defeat the opponent in a whole day of fierce fighting; even the Jurchens themselves boast that if the cavalry cannot charge more than a dozen times in one battle, how can they be called cavalry?

This kind of vigor and organization is not something you can imagine from the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, which would collapse without a reward... Think of the kind of famous general of the Western Army in the division, but his subordinates dispersed without reward after shooting a round of Divine Arm Bow.

This classic example can probably only happen in the Song army, right?

In addition, the Jurchens started from a fishing and hunting tribe and have won many battles in the past thirteen years. Naturally, they used the most barbaric methods to plunder and capture. It can be said that they support war by war. This army is constantly learning military technology.

We don’t stop using seizures to provide logistics and arm ourselves, so why worry about logistics?

As for the internal power struggle, this is an objective reality. The factional struggle within the Jin Kingdom is almost the same as that of the Song Kingdom. It can be seen at a glance.

However, the problem is that, on the one hand, Wanyan Wu Qimai (Wanyan Sheng), the brother of Aguda and the leader of the Jin Kingdom, is quite prestigious and can still make decisions; on the other hand, under the constant seizure and expansion, what internal contradictions are worth discussing?

What about mentioning?

In other words, it was precisely because of the internal conflicts that it was necessary to send troops south to plunder the incompetent Song Dynasty, and use one victory after another to alleviate the conflicts with countless wealth and middle-aged women!

In fact, a few months ago, the second-ranking figure in the Jin Kingdom, the second prince Wanyan Yibu (Wanyan Zongwang), the marshal of the Jin Kingdom who actually presided over the destruction of the Song Dynasty, fell ill and died as soon as he returned to the north. After his death, the Jin Kingdom

The country's military and political power mainly falls in the hands of three factions.

First of all, of course, the lineage of Wanyan Wu Qimai (Wanyan Sheng), the leader of the Jin Kingdom, later known as Taizong of the Jin Dynasty. This is the younger brother of Aguda. Surrounding him are the other brothers and cousins ​​of Aguda, such as

Wan Yan Ta Lan (Wan Yan Chang) and his ilk;

Secondly, there is the Jin Kingdom Marshal Wanyan Nianhan (Wanyan Zonghan), who was a great hero of the Jin Kingdom. As early as the era of the second prince Wanyan Yibu (Wanyan Zongwang), he had competed with him.

Let's say that this person is far away from the Aguda lineage, but he is the most inherited one in the Jin Kingdom, and has been Bojilie for generations (similar to a prime minister, but also has the flavor of clan politics in primitive society, and has much more power than a prime minister)

When the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, Aguda was the commander-in-chief of the Right Army, and when the Song Dynasty was destroyed, he was the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army. His qualifications and achievements were the highest in the entire Jin Kingdom after Wanyan Wanli's death.

At this time, this person was not only in charge of the Jin Dynasty's ever-victorious general Wanyan Lou's office, but also in charge of the Hedong war zone. He actually controlled most of the newly occupied areas in Hebei after Wanyan Wuli's death, and was considered the strongest in the country.

However, no matter what, Wanyan Wu begged for money or Wanyan Nianhan could not deny and infect Wanyan Aguda himself and his direct authority. Therefore, after Wanyan Aguda died, Wanyan Youli was not the golden one.

He was the commander-in-chief of the country and lived in seclusion above Nianhan. But now that Oli Buli is dead, after a short period of competition and exchanges, one person did his part and quickly inherited the prestige and part of the military power of the Aguda line.

This person is none other than Wanyan Zongbi, also known as Aguda Si Zi, Wanyan Wushu!

As for Wanyan Wushu, since he was in power as an important minister of the Jin Kingdom and was naturally the direct leader of Agu, he found that he was unable to compete with Nianhan in Hebei, and it was even more difficult for him to go to Youyan and Liaodong to find his uncle, the leader of the Jin Kingdom. So, then

In accordance with the simple thoughts of primitive tribes, they almost instinctively gave up internal fighting, and instead logically proposed a military strategy of going south again and plundering the Song Dynasty.

Its original intention was to attack the North Jing Road (Shaanxi-Luo area) and the Jingdong Road (Shandong area), which were of great significance to the Central Plains, and finally see if they could take advantage of the situation and attack the Central Plains, defeat the new official family of Zhao Song, and plunder the wealth.

Children, craftsmen, ordnance.

If possible, he actually has the intention to compete with Nianhan who occupies the Central Plains and Hebei!

And even if this attempt to conquer the Central Plains fails, after controlling both wings, they can turn around and launch a large-scale public security war against Hebei and Hedong, completely digesting these two fertile soils that are the foundation of the country.

Therefore, this wave of invasion is actually inevitable!

No matter what happened, since Jin Wushu had this idea, the leader of the Jin Kingdom Wanyan Wu Qimai and the marshal Wanyan Nianhan had no reason to object whether it was due to political considerations or military considerations, so they just returned to the north.

Within a few months, the highest levels of the Jin Kingdom adopted the strategy of sending the main force southward for the third time to invade the Song Dynasty.

According to the plan, Wanyan Nianhan was named as the commander-in-chief, but Wanyan Lou, the ever-victorious general of the Jin Kingdom, was asked to lead the original Western Route Army that invaded the Song Dynasty and went south again. The Jurchen soldiers, the Liao Kingdom surrendered, and even the Song Dynasty

The country surrendered its troops, totaling 100,000, and crossed the river to the south, crossing the river to attack Luoyang and Shaanzhou!

Wanyan Wu begged to buy his cousin, that is, Jin Wushu's cousin Wanyan Ta was too lazy to lead an army of 50,000 as his deputy commander, and A Gu, with four characters, was Jin Wushu himself, a vanguard in name, and also led an army of 50,000.

The combined force of the two is to take the Jingdong Road, which means the Shandong area in later generations.

Of course, the layout of the Jin Army is actually divided into two, with Nianhan as the main one, Wanyan Loushi as the deputy, Jin Wushu as the main one, and Wanyan Talan as the deputy... It's just that Jin Wushu is also the deputy.

Wanyan Zongbi was young after all, that is, in his thirties, so he had no choice but to be given the position of pioneer.

Back in front of us, the entire Jin army mobilized 200,000 troops to go south. The cavalry was crisscrossing and roaring back and forth. The first movers were naturally the Nianhan tribe who were originally in Hebei and Hedong. However, those who bore the brunt did not feel that the Sishui Pass was tight.

Deputy Marshal Zong Zezong was not the defenders of Luoyang and Shaanzhou, but a partial army of the Song State that had just achieved a great victory in Hebei.

The leader of this army is called Wang Yan, and his military position is the commander of the capital. The strength of the army is 7,000. There is a commander under his command, named Yue Fei and Yue Pengju. He is twenty-four years old this year and is from Xiangzhou, Hebei. He is seven feet tall.

, his appearance is ordinary, but he is born with supernatural power and is brave enough to win the three armies.

Why Yue Fei is here is naturally related to Li Gang.

Let us also say that Yue Pengju used to be Wu Yilang in Nanjing (Shangqiu). When he heard that the traitor Li Gang, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan each insisted on going to Nanyang or Yangzhou, they seemed to have given up on the idea of ​​fleeing southward for the people of Hebei Province.

As an exile in Hebei, he was naturally dissatisfied, so he sent letters to the new officials one after another, asking them to get rid of the three traitors, mobilize the Sixth Army to cross the river, establish an army in his hometown of Xiangzhou, fight against the Jin Dynasty, and regain Hebei.

However, Li Gang and the others were in great power. How could they tolerate such nonsense? They immediately dismissed this little military minister and expelled him from the army.

However, Yue Fei was determined to fight against the Jin, so he was not discouraged, so he took only a few of his close brothers and crossed the river to his hometown to prepare to fight against the Jin.

Unexpectedly, when he walked to the river and was about to cross the river, Yue Pengju met Zhang Zuo, the recruiting envoy on Hebei West Road who was promoted by Li Gang. After the recommendation of an old friend, Zhang Jiuling, who worked under the recruiting envoy, Yue Fei was able to meet Zhang.

However, Zhang Suo, a direct descendant of Li Gang, admired Yue Pengju greatly. Within a few days, he promoted this mere man in a white body and promoted him all the way... In just over a month, he first served as a "caller in front of the account", and then as a "borrower in a white body".

He repaired Wulang', and then was promoted to commander, and finally, he was promoted to commander!

Poor Han Shizhong next door joined the army at the age of eighteen, beheaded the prince-in-law, captured Fangla, fought in the Liao Kingdom, and defended Hebei. It took him twenty years to catch up with Zhao Laojiu and get into control. In comparison, Yue Pengju's official position

Although it is a bit fictitious, the official route is really like cheating.

In short, when the imperial emissary gathered 7,000 soldiers and horses, Yue Fei became one of the main generals of this army as the commander, and then crossed the river to the north with Wang Yan, the commander of the capital! And immediately started fighting in Xinxiang, Hebei Province

A victory and the successful recovery of this important town!

However, at this time, the treacherous prime minister Li Gang was dismissed, and Zhang Suo's Hebei West Road ambassador was also dismissed. When the 7,000-man army was panicked, they quickly went to Zongze to establish administrative relations.

At that moment, suddenly, the Jin army came up in dense numbers from the north. There were no less than fifty Jin cavalry generals with independent banners around them. However, just when the Nianhan tribe was about to go south to attack Shaanluo, they heard that Xinxiang

When they fell, they took advantage of the situation and surrounded them.

Faced with such a predicament, this army naturally could only suffer a complete defeat. Under the leadership of Wang Yan, the entire army broke out of the encirclement in embarrassment, fought and retreated, and headed for the Taihang Mountains.

Among the eleven generals of Wang Yan's tribe, only Yue Fei's tribe was the most able and daring to fight. Yue Fei himself was recognized in the army as a man of unworthy courage, so he was cut off from the rear, resulting in heavy losses.

When they arrived at the foot of the Taihang Mountains, one of the Jin army was captured alive by Yue Fei using beheading tactics. The other was that the cavalry was not good at marching into the mountainous areas, but they gave up the pursuit... But the battle situation slowed down a little, and Yue Fei thought that Wang Yan had been there before.

When he was cut off, he refused to save him, so that his sons resigned themselves to death one after another. They even felt angry and had other ideas, so they simply built a stronghold by themselves instead of joining Wang Yan.

At this time, the situation was already very critical. Wang Yan had only eleven generals under his command. Two died, two fled, three were surrendered, and the remaining four, including one Yue Fei, refused to obey orders. How could he endure it?

Therefore, as the commander of the capital, Wang Yan gave Yue Fei orders over and over again, asking him to bring his troops over, otherwise military law would be required. After several failed attempts, Prince Wang Yan simply issued an ultimatum, saying that if Yue Fei did not move the camp again

When he comes to the main force, he will publicly write about the deputy marshal of the remaining sect in Tokyo, so that all the heroes in Heshuo will know that there is a deserter in Xiangzhou named Yue Fei who does not obey orders!

However, the one who responded to Wang Yan was still not the remaining troops of Yue Fei's headquarters, but the single rider Baishan who controlled Yue Fei himself.

"Did you really come alone?"

In the large tent in the middle of the camp built in the Shimen Mountain Collapse of Xinxiang, the slightly tired Commander-in-Chief Wang Yan raised his head in astonishment.

By the way, Prince Wang Yan will be forty years old after the Chinese New Year, and he is sixteen years older than Yue Fei. When he was young, he participated in the Imperial Examination, and because of his outstanding talent in martial arts, he was personally nominated by the Taoist Emperor Taishang.

Later, he transferred to the Western Army and served under Zhong Shidao. He participated in many battles with Xixia and made many meritorious deeds. Later, the Jin people invaded the south and Hedong fell. As a member of the Shangdang, he had no obligation to refuse and immediately chose to join the army in Bianliang.

When Bianliang fell, he saw Zhang Suo organizing the troops to cross the river, so he rejoined the army to fight. As soon as he joined the army, he was appointed as the commander of the capital and became the commander-in-chief of the first army.

Such a person, whether it is his identity, status, reputation, current official position, or the importance in the mind of Zongze who stayed in Tokyo, is undoubtedly much higher than that of Yue Fei, who is almost like a general under his command.

However, Yue Fei refused to accept him!

"It is indeed a man, alone, who is standing in front of the stronghold." The person who answered was the soldier beside Wang Yan, who was called Fan Yihong. It turned out that it was Fan Zhongyan who came to join the army after seeing the mountains and rivers withered, and his family

Fame will naturally make people look at him differently, so even though he is only white and extremely young, he directly becomes Wang Yan's secretly joining the army.

"What does Xiao Fan mean?" Wang Yan naturally wanted to ask his think tank.

"Kill!" Fan Yihong answered simply with no expression on his face.

"Why?" Wang Yan sighed softly.

"Why?" Fan Yihong sneered. "The Taiwei asked him to move the army here, but he came alone, as if he wanted to resist the order to the end. We are alone outside, surrounded by Jin troops, but Yue Fei, as a subordinate, refused to obey the order.

, and even regard soldiers and horses as private property. If we do not uphold military law at this time, how can people deal with it?"

Wang Yan responded silently, but signaled to the small school in front of the door: "Take out the remaining jars of wine, and then call Commander Li and several military commanders who are nearby. I want to host a banquet for Commander Yue...

...But he is not allowed to enter the camp gate until the banquet is completed."

The primary school commander accepted the order but refused, and Xiao Fan hesitated to speak about joining the army, but could only stop.

After a while, everyone hurriedly held a banquet, and only two or three jars of wine were poured. Only yesterday, Xiao Fan joined the army to explore the surrounding terrain, and encountered a bear. It was early winter, and it was the time when bears were fat and strong.

At that time, he was shot to death by random arrows ordered by Xiao Fan to join the army. Yue Fei got an advantage today.

After everyone was seated, the drinks were poured, and the bear paws and bear meat were stewed, they saw a horseman coming to the tent, calmly disarming his troops, and then entering the tent with dignity.
To be continued...