Reborn Yue Feizhi returns my rivers and mountains

Just when the civil and military disputes between the DPRK and the DPRK were endless, an urgent report was delivered to Emperor Gaozong. It turned out that when the Jin army was disrupting the Jianghuai River, rebel generals and bandits from all over the country attacked the city and captured the stronghold, occupying the territory in all directions.Among them, Kong Yanzhou occupied Wuling, Zhang Yong occupied Xianghan, and Li Cheng was the most powerful, occupying more than ten states in Jiang, Huai, and Huxiang, with tens of thousands of soldiers, and was known as a 30-strong army, with the intention of sweeping the southeast.

Although Li Cheng was frightened back by Yue Fei's magic arrow in Panzhou, he quickly gathered his remaining troops and started anew, but his ambitions have not been curbed at all.Someone once asked Li Chengdao: "When will the world be settled?"

After listening to this, Li Cheng recited a poem by Cao Song of the Tang Dynasty and replied: "Don't talk about the matter of ennobling a marquis because of the king. One general will make thousands of bones wither." It can be seen that he does not care about the people, but only wants to separate one party, as in the Five Dynasties. story.

At first, Emperor Gaozong tried to win over Li Cheng with the governor's envoy, but unexpectedly he pretended to accept the order in order to paralyze the Song court. Instead, starting from September of the fourth year of Jianyan, he divided his troops into three groups. The capital commander Hu Xuan stationed troops on the Huaixi Road and invaded. Chizhou; the deputy commander Ma Jin led his troops across the river, attacked Jiangzhou, and then turned south to plunder the prefectures and counties west of Poyang Lake; he himself led his troops to continue crossing the river, using Jiangzhou as his camp, and continued to attack Hukou County, and finally completed Serious trouble.

Emperor Gaozong passed this news to the courtiers, and Fan Zongyin came out and said: "The thieves are in great numbers. Please send an order to send generals to attack them." So Emperor Gaozong ordered Zhang Jun to recruit envoys on the Jianghuai Road to attack Li Cheng. .The Jiang and Chi roads were also divided into Jiangdong and Jiangxi roads, and the prefectures south of the Jinghu River were divided into the Jinghu east and west roads. An appeasement department was set up to govern the four prefectures of Chi, Jiang, E, and Ding.Jiangnan East and West Roads each have a transshipment department, while Jinghu East and West Road transshipment departments are in charge of the wealth of both roads.Lu Yihao was the pacification ambassador for Jiangdong Road, and Zhu Shengfei was the pacification ambassador for Jiangxi Road.

When the edict came to Zhang Jun, he was in a dilemma. Now that he was in a high and powerful position, and he led his troops into battle, if something went wrong, wouldn't all the previous efforts be in vain?So he went to the palace to join Emperor Gaozong, and asked to resign from the post of envoy on Jianghuai Road. He told Li Cheng that the soldiers would not miss the big event.

After hearing this, Emperor Gaozong asked contemptuously: "With the strength of your entire army, how long will it take to attack a city for me?"

Zhang Jun didn't know what he meant, so he replied: "I can come in at night when the court is coming."

After hearing this, Emperor Gaozong sneered and said: "Li Cheng tried his best to attack Jiujiang, but he couldn't do it for two months. How can he do anything even though he has many people?" Seeing that Zhang Jun was silent, he added: "Today, among the generals, you alone have not accomplished anything. "

Zhang Jun quickly asked: "Why do I have no merit?"

Emperor Gaozong snorted coldly and said: "If Han Shizhong captured Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, his achievements would be remarkable, and he would not be as good as Qing." After hearing this, Zhang Jun sweated profusely and was afraid of his fate.

Just when Zhang Jun was ordered to mobilize his troops and prepare to send troops to attack Li Cheng, Jiangzhou was besieged by Li Cheng's general Ma Jin for nearly a hundred days. All the food in the city was exhausted, and people were bartering for food. The thieves attacked the city day and night.Commander Liu Shaoxian led his army to resist, but the soldiers and people in the city were hungry and had no fighting spirit.The imperial court successively sent Lu Yihao, Yang Weizhong, and Ju Shigu to lead troops to help, and they fought fiercely with Ma Jin outside Jiangzhou City.Unexpectedly, the rebels were fierce, but the officers and soldiers had no fighting spirit. They were all defeated by Ma Jin and returned home.Therefore, the officers and soldiers were not allowed to go near the city, and the city did not know that the officers and soldiers were in the suburbs.

Seeing that the city was destroyed, Yao Shunming, the governor of Jiangzhou and the pacifier along the Yangtze River, discussed with Liu Shaoxian to abandon the city at night and flee. Liu Shaoxian also knew that it would not be saved, so he set fire to the city in the middle of the night, took advantage of the commotion to seize the west gate and retreated to Ruichang County, while Yao Shunming He fled out of the east gate to the Nankang Army.

The defenders in the city had retreated, and the soldiers and civilians had no intention of resisting, so Ma Jin led his troops into the city and looted and killed them wantonly.Jiangzhou fell, but the news never spread to the outside world. On the night of the city's fall, the imperial supply rice ship broke through the blockade and arrived at the city, only to find out that the rebels had occupied Jiangzhou.When the horsemen in the city heard the news, they set up a large army to get it. The grain officer hurriedly untied the cable and lowered the rice boat to Hukou County.Ma Jin also led his bandits to pursue him all the way to Hukou. Fortunately, Lu Yihao stationed his troops there, and Ma Jin returned in despair.

Li Cheng was overjoyed when he heard that Jiangzhou had been captured by the horse attack, so he crossed the river into the city, took charge of the prefectural government office, and massacred about 200 officials in Jiangzhou city.Then Li Cheng unveiled the list and asked the people in the state to identify the captives. From then on, all the captives were recognized by their relatives and left.They also allowed people to buy and sell whatever they needed, and from then on the merchants gradually started doing business, and they all built nunneries to live in.

After conquering Jiangzhou, Ma Jin led his troops to invade Hongzhou southward and camped in Xishan.Li Cheng's general Shao You captured Junzhou again, and the prefect Wang Tingxiu abandoned the city and fled. At this point, the bandits and soldiers were roaming the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, and the officers and soldiers were unstoppable.

An urgent message was sent to the court, and Emperor Gaozong ordered Zhang Jun to mobilize troops as soon as possible to put down Li Cheng's rebellion.At this time, Yue Fei wrote a letter to punish him for losing Taizhou and stationed troops in Jiangyin.Zhang Jun knew Yue Fei's abilities and wanted to take the opportunity to support him, so he asked the court for orders to let Yue Fei join him in attacking Li Cheng.The imperial court approved what he said, so Zhang Jun led generals Zhao Mi, Yue Fei, and Yang Yizhong to rush to rescue Jiangxi.

During the march, Zhang Jun discussed the military strategy with the generals. Zhao Mi wanted to separate the troops and encircle Li Cheng. Many of the generals below agreed.But Yang Yizhong said: "The thieves are so powerful, and the troops are divided, they are weak, and the generals are evenly matched. Unless they are recruited to supervise them, they will not be useful to each other." Yue Fei believed this, and Zhang Jun accepted the suggestion, so The unified army went to Yuzhang County to camp and rest.

That night, Yue Fei came to Zhang Jun's tent to discuss the march.Zhang Jun gave him a seat and said with a smile: "Pengju, you did a great job in Chuzhou's rescue that day. Moreover, the Jin army was powerful. It was not easy for you to keep the people of the two states crossing the river in the midst of the chaos." . Who would have expected that you would go up to plead guilty on your own and not be rewarded? It’s a pity.”

Yue Fei smiled bitterly and said, "It's just a joke to recruit you. General Tian was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Tong and Taizhou, but he couldn't protect the territory and the people. Instead, he was chased by the Jin army and fled in embarrassment. It's a great favor for the Holy One not to blame me for losing the land. An Dare to try to award a reward."

Zhang Jun sighed: "I made a suggestion to the Holy One that day. The land of Chuzhou was besieged by the Jin army and it was difficult to rescue. It would be better to abandon the city to the Jin army and make further plans, but they were not adopted. It's just a pity for Zhao Li, a good general." It is so sad to die in the city."

Yue Fei thought to himself, if you and Liu Guangshi were not afraid of fighting and stood still, watching Chuzhou's reinforcements, how could Chuzhou not be saved, and how could Zhao Li die in the battle.But what has happened is that it is useless to say more, and these two people still care about their friendship, which is not bad.After the bloody battle in Nanbatang that day, his army had no food, so he relied on Liu Guangshi's support to tide over the difficulties.Therefore, it is inconvenient to say more. He just said sternly: "Zhao Li used his army to cover the rivers and Huaihe Rivers, making the Jin soldiers difficult and guarding Chu. He was the only one in modern times. Since the Jin people invaded the south, most of the famous cities they passed have been false. They threatened to surrender, just like searching the bag to get it, but Taiyuan held on for more than two years, Puzhou city was destroyed, and the killings were equal to that, which were all frightened by the Jin people. However, Zhao Li was famous for his military exploits, and he was so outstanding that his body and righteousness were incompatible, and righteousness was incompatible. Although he is still alive, he may die, but this ancient and heroic husband is dedicated to serving the country with loyalty and filial piety, and he died without regrets. We should all respect him."

Zhang Jun sighed again and said: "Having said that, as long as the green hills are still there, why worry about not having firewood? I have always placed high hopes on you, but you should also remember that if something cannot be done, you should put your own safety first, and then Picture it later.”

Yue Fei bowed and said, "Thank you very much, Master Zhao, for your advice. I will keep it in my heart."

Zhang Jun waved his hand and said: "There is no need to be polite between you and me. Let's talk about how to defeat the bandit army."

Yue Fei thought for a moment and then came up with a plan.