The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 842 The Northern Expedition
The article is not only very close to reality, but also reveals the bright prospect of this emerging thing, pointing out a new way for the future of Confucianism, which was never thought of before, and made many people suddenly enlightened.

Confucian masters studied Chen Zhao's classic articles, while ordinary scholars sang Chen Zhao's magnificent lyrics. In a short period of time, Chen Zhao's reputation soared. The resistance of scholars to Chen Zhao gradually weakened, and they were willing to work for him. There are also more and more taxis.

At this point, there is almost no resistance among the literati. In the north, Zong Ze and Li Gang began to flaunt their praises. Confucians far away in Jiangnan, Sichuan and Shu also began to study Chen Zhao's works, and even speculators began to Writing articles such as "Reading Master Zhu's Masterpieces" should be used as a stepping stone.

After the political situation was settled, Chen Zhao began to turn his attention to the north.

Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan led an army of 15 to the south, but only returned with [-] remaining soldiers. All the gold, silver and cloth they captured were lost. It can be said that they suffered heavy losses and directly interrupted the rising Jin Kingdom.

Although the generals of the Jurchens were still brave and good at fighting, the shortage of troops forced them to shrink their forces.

As a result, the Mughal, Xi, and Shiwei people who were brutally oppressed by them, as well as the remnants of the Liao Kingdom under the command of Yelu Dashi who fled to the northwest, immediately became active.

Chen Zhao ordered Li Gang and Zongze to lead the army to retake Taiyuan, approach Yanjing, and use Yanyun and other places as a basis to contact the forces of various ethnic groups, and at the same time hinder the Jin Kingdom.

At the same time, he also sent envoys to the Huanglong Mansion, nominally to negotiate peace with the Kingdom of Jin and to return to the former official family Zhao Huan, but in fact he secretly bewitched the then emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Wu, to beg and buy: Great Song Zhu Taishi supports you to pass on the emperor's inheritance. Located in your own son, the premise is that you have to clean up your tiger and wolf brothers and tiger and wolf nephews.

The Kingdom of Jin implemented the Bojilie Assembly system, that is, the slave military aristocratic system. Although the country was established and proclaimed the emperor, the emperor could not dominate his family, and he could not even inherit the throne independently.

Whether it is the deceased Taizu Wanyan Aguda, or the current emperor, Aguda's younger brother Wanyan Wu Qimai, they are all just the most powerful leaders.

If you insist on implementing the Central Plains system of passing on sons but not younger brothers, I'm afraid that if Wanyan Agu is killed, Jin Guo itself will perish in civil strife.

Wanyan Wu Qimai was very sober and rejected Song Envoy's provocation, but other forces in Jin Kingdom had people who were not sober and started jumping up and down.

In this way, with the support of the Song Dynasty, various ethnic groups made troubles one after another, and even the brain-dead people coveted power. Even the King and ministers of the Jin Dynasty were all smart and wise people, and they were in a hurry.

As a result, after two or three years of tossing, after finally eradicating various rebel forces, it was found that the people were poor and lacked in supplies, and they almost retreated to the time of poverty before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

At this time, Chen Zhao decided to launch the Northern Expedition.

Now the power of the Kingdom of Jin has declined greatly. Even though those generals are still brave and good at fighting, it is hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and their army is already exhausted.

After two or three years of development, Chen Zhao not only replicated Yanggu's industrial system around Bianliang, cultivated a large number of talents belonging to his own class, but also thoroughly cultivated Lin Chong, Yue Fei and others as his direct descendants.

Among them, Yue Fei has been trained in the martial arts hall and has practiced many times in the army. He is already familiar with firearms and can lead the army in a battle.

So Chen Zhao appointed Yue Fei as the marshal, leading [-] musketeers, carrying [-] cannons, [-] long spear troops, and [-] logistics troops to lead the northern expedition.

Yue Fei clasped his hands and said: "Don't worry, Grand Master, I will definitely capture Wanyan Wu to beg for money, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zonghan to present in front of Grand Master."

Chen Zhao said with a smile: "Pengju, this battle is not about destroying the country, but about continuing to weaken the power of the Jin country."

Looking at the many generals who looked confused, Chen Zhao explained:

Although the power of the Jin Kingdom has declined, they were able to suppress the internal rebellion. Obviously, their strength is still there. The main purpose of our Northern Expedition is to greatly annihilate the vital forces of the Jin Army and plunge them into civil strife again.

If outsiders kill them, they can be twisted together.

But after the outsiders left, they, who were accustomed to eating meat, found that there was less meat, so they would naturally fight themselves, not to mention the escalation of civil strife.

The soldiers worked so hard on the battlefield, how many tens of thousands of enemies could they kill?

If the enemy gets into internal turmoil and kills himself, he is afraid that he will kill or injure hundreds of thousands or even millions of his own people.

The next time we are in the Northern Expedition to the Kingdom of Jin, we will be able to do so without breaking a sweat.

In this way, the most enemies can be eliminated with the least cost.

Everyone was amazed when they heard this.

Xu Guanzhong, Wen Huanzhang, and Wu Song, who had achieved success in studies, also remembered the old story that Cao Cao did not attack Liaodong, which led to the killing of Yuan Shao's two sons, and they couldn't help but admire deeply.

"The focus of this battle is to make our soldiers familiar with firearms and weaken the Kingdom of Jin, so don't worry everyone. We still have places like Mughal, Xixia, and the Western Regions to recover. There will be wars, and there will be promotions and fortunes." Chen Zhao was relieved. Everyone knows.

"Willing to die for the grand master!" All the generals were overjoyed and shouted together, clasping their hands.

After some preparations, when the auspicious day came, Chen Zhao personally offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, then ascended the altar to worship the general, handed over the tiger talisman to Yue Fei, and wrote a poem on the spot:
"The mountains are high, the roads are far away, the pits are deep, and the army is galloping. Who dares to stand upright with swords and swords, but I am General Yue."

Yue Fei's blood boiled when he heard this, and he said loudly: "The final general will live up to the grand master's high expectations, and he will return with a great victory."

Hearing the sound of trumpets and cannons, the army set off from the school field one by one. Chen Zhao stood on the high platform and watched the army go out. The people in the capital rubbed their shoulders on both sides, shouting in unison, "Tianshi Wansheng!"

Yue Fei was originally a talented military strategist and Chen Zhao's sworn brother. He was also very good at winning people's hearts. Therefore, the Yang family, Zhong family, Zhe family and other military children did not make a fuss, but listened to his orders with peace of mind.

The army marched all the way to the north, and Jin Guo had few soldiers. It was already difficult to occupy the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and Li Gang and Zong Ze continued to harass the situation. The strong man broke his wrist, gave up Yanyun, and fled back to Liaodong.

Since then, all the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have finally returned to the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty. By this time, it has been nearly 200 years since Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun to the Khitan in accordance with the Khitan's request in the third year of Tianfu.

The news spread back to Bianliang, Tokyo, and the whole world was shocked. It has been nearly 200 years since the Central Plains never forgot to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. Unfortunately, many attempts have ended in failure. I didn’t expect how long it would take for the third brother of Zhu Taishi, Yue Fei, to lead the army. , All sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were captured.

For a time, Grand Master Zhu's reputation reached its peak in the Central Plains.

However, taking back the Yanyun Sixteen States was not the end, because the Jin soldiers retreated quickly and did not cause any major damage to them at all, so Yue Fei continued to advance northward according to Chen Zhao's previous subordinates.

(End of this chapter)