Song Emperor Jiangshan

Xiao Shan left the capital, intending to go north, to Zhenjiang to join Han Shizhong's former troops.When resting on the way, I opened the stack of manuscripts left by Yue Fei, and after looking at it, I couldn't restrain my heart.

As Han Shizhong said, the manuscript was definitely not an ordinary art of war, but a detailed record of more than two hundred battles of Yue Fei's ten years in the army.From the day when he followed Liu Hao's army King Qin in Xiangzhou to the subsequent northern expedition of the army, there was nothing missing.There are not only the battle records of encountering more than a dozen small groups of golden soldiers, but also the details of the assessment of internal rebellion, and how to dispatch the [-] troops, all of which are clearly written.

There is not a single word about the art of war; it just uses the simplest language to describe how to find the enemy, how to organize the battle, how to pursue, and why not pursue.It is better to say that this is the art of war than it is a collection of battle cases between the Song and Jin Dynasties.

The time, location, deployment method, use of troops, planning in advance, midway changes, and final results of each battle are all included.

Xiao Shan remembered very clearly that when he was in the military academy, there was a set of similar battle examples in the textbooks issued by the school.When the instructor was teaching these battle examples, Xiao Shan's memory was especially fresh when he said something: the theory of war must be combined with reality to be useful.To become a qualified commander, one must master at least two hundred battle cases.What we want to train is not scholars who engage in war theory, but officers who can really command battles.Serious study and mastery of these battle examples will distinguish you from those theorists who talk about wars on paper.

Yue Fei's manuscripts were written in neat lowercase at the beginning, but later became cursive script. It must be that he himself felt the urgency of time and wanted to leave more things.

Each battle case is marked with time, location, and surrounding terrain.Although Xiaoshan is no stranger to Chinese maps, after more than 1000 years of changes, many place names are different, and mountains and rivers have also been diverted.

When he was on the way, he had already changed his mind, and wanted to go to the places Yue Fei had mentioned and take a look for himself.Go live to experience how this famous general, in different locations, faces different terrains and different enemies, how to deal with it.

As soon as he said it, Xiao Shan didn't go directly to Zhenjiang, but crossed the river secretly, followed the location where the first article in Yue Fei's manuscript was located, and went to observe the scene.

After he had this idea in his mind, he didn't continue to read the manuscript. Instead, after arriving at a certain place, he first observed the terrain he took out, and then thought about where to arrange checkpoints in his heart. After he had arranged in his mind, Just compare the manuscript left by Yue Fei to see the difference between what I observed and what Yue Fei observed.Why did he set up checkpoints in some places he couldn't think of.

Then, according to the enemy's strength described by Yue Fei, I went through it in my mind now. If I was on the scene, how would I choose, whether to run or fight, whether to raid or besiege.

After I thought it over in my heart, I went to take Yue Fei's manuscript to prove my thoughts, and then pondered why he would do this, and why I chose a different way.Will there be a better solution?

In this way, while walking and looking, he turned straight for more than half a year, from Bianjing City to Jiangxi, from Jiangxi to Fujian, and then to Jiankang, Ezhou and other places.The more he looked at it, the more he admired Yue Fei in his heart.There are many battles, in Xiao Shan's eyes, they are all battles that must be lost. If he was, he would never meet the enemy, but Yue Fei was able to save himself from danger in the face of adversity with his own bravery and inspired morale. , this is absolutely impossible for very people to do.

Especially in Yue Fei's early battles, he fought in person many times, and with his excellent martial arts, he reversed the defeat.Xiao Shan asked himself that if he was surrounded by hundreds of people, he would have no choice but to surrender and run away.

It was only after reading these that Xiao Shan deeply realized a problem that he had neglected before - in the era of cold weapons, how important personal martial arts are!

Although wars are all about the quality of the army and the strength of the country, due to the different war techniques, the focus is also different. The wars of later generations put more emphasis on the application of science and technology. With high martial arts, a single nuclear weapon can solve everything.No matter how strong the individual soldiers are, if there are planes bombing in turn, even Dongfang Bubai can only stare blankly.

However, in the era of cold weapons, the personal quality, martial arts, coordination and bravery of soldiers in the army are the most important.Fighting on the battlefield, especially when facing the enemy head-on, the probability of desperate hand-to-hand combat will be very high.At this time, if the martial arts are low, they can only be used as cannon fodder.

Another thing that is very different is that the army in the cold weapon era is extremely easy to collapse, and Yue Fei has encountered it several times.In this kind of army composed of criminals and refugees who live on their salaries and use tattoos, how to gather the combat effectiveness of the army and maintain a high-spirited fighting spirit when they suffer losses is a difficult problem. matter.

When Xiao Shan saw Yue Fei's writings, most of them relied on the way of making friends, building a good relationship with his subordinates, caring about soldiers, and not deducting military pay, etc.But Xiao Shan believed that the strength of an army united in this way is also very limited.Because as long as the leading general is replaced, the army that has been shaped with great difficulty will easily deteriorate.

Just how to solve this kind of problem, Xiao Shan will not have any good solution for a while.After all, he hasn't even seen the situation of the Southern Song army yet.

Only one thing is certain, that is, the army at this time is by no means a people's army, and its discipline is even more messy.What Xiaoshan encountered along the road was mostly the common people's hatred for the local garrison troops, because they often harassed the people without telling them, and would kill people indiscriminately.But it is also obvious that the people respected the army that Yue Fei led at that time. The reason is very simple, because the military discipline is strict and they will never disturb the people.

When Xiao Shan arrived in Huaixi, it was already the summer of that year.He found his adoptive parents first, and when he learned that his adoptive parents opened a new oil shop in Zhenjiang, he was a little dumbfounded.Of course, the name of the oil shop has been changed, and it has been renamed "Qingbo Oil Shop".It was because of the name of this oil shop that Xiao Shan found his parents who had changed their names.

In order to avoid trouble, Qin Chong simply followed Xiao Shan's surname and changed his name to Xiao Chong. Wang Meiniang did not need to change her name, but no one knew her real name, and everyone called him Xiao's wife.After the three members of the family met, they naturally cried for a while, and each told about their experience of escaping from Lin'an, Xiao Shan took Han Shizhong's name card and went to Shao Hongyuan, Han Shizhong's former subordinate stationed in Zhenjiang, without mentioning it.

Zhao Yuan has been waiting for his wife's return since he left Lin'an and went home to observe filial piety. He wrote three times to Lin'an, asking Zhao Gou to help send his princess here so that his biological mother could also meet his daughter-in-law.Unexpectedly, when the third letter passed, Zhao Gou also wrote back: The princess is pregnant, and the distance is inconvenient, so it is better to wait for delivery in Lin'an.It won't be too late to go after the birth of Lin'er, mother and child are safe in a year.

When the news came, Zhao Yuan and his biological mother, Mrs. Zhang, were very happy. Naturally, they didn't mind that their daughter-in-law stayed in Lin'an and didn't come back in time to honor her father-in-law.

But the good times didn't last long. Just when Zhao Yuan was expecting his wife to give birth, bad news came from Lin'an.

The concubine Guo has been depressed since entering the palace. She was pregnant with Liujia but her health went from bad to worse. After giving birth to a son, she died of illness before confinement.

This news was a big blow to Zhao Yuan, who was keeping his filial piety. His father hadn't passed his filial piety at home, and his wife died. Even because he was at home according to the order to keep his filial piety, it was difficult to even go back to Lin'an to see his dead wife for the last time.

Not only that, Empress Wu's adopted son has also turned 16 this year. Zhao Yuan is the eldest son and entered the palace for two years first. He made his adopted son Zhao Zhuo the king of Enping County, and he was ranked first when he went out. All the rankings were the same as Zhao Yuan's, as if they were equals.For a while, people called it the East and West Second Mansion, but Zhao Yuan was not in the capital, and his adoptive mother Zhang Wanyi died early, everyone could see that the new king of the county might be even more sacred.

A series of accidents made Zhao Yuan a little frustrated. As soon as he came to Xiuzhou, he sent people to inquire about Xiao Shan's whereabouts, but every time he waited, he was disappointed.

Zhao Yuan's mother, Mrs. Zhang, felt distressed when she saw that Zhao Yuan had only grown in stature but not in body during the year at home.The son was getting thinner day by day, and the mother was secretly worried, but she didn't know how to make him happier.

This day Mrs. Zhang saw Zhao Yuan offering incense to his father, so he persuaded him beside the coffin: "Yangyang, you have been filial for more than a year. I see that you have been depressed all the time. Is it because of the death of your wife?" How about this, the mother will tell you another marriage?"

Zhao Yuan said: "Where is there any reason to renew the strings if you are still observing filial piety? Besides, this matter has to be reported to the Holy Majesty before it is known, and it will not cause people to discuss it again, so don't worry about it!"

Seeing her son like this, Mrs. Zhang felt even more distressed, and said: "Since you can't continue the string during the filial piety, you might as well go out for a walk to relax. You've lost a lot of weight by being bored at home all day!"

Just as Zhao Yuan was about to reject his mother's kindness, he heard Zhang say again: "The word filial piety does not lie in these things. Our clan is far away from the capital, and no one cares so much! Your father is in the spirit of heaven, seeing you like this, It's hard to be safe!"

Seeing his mother say this, Zhao Yuan couldn't say anything more.The series of things that happened to him this year really made him feel depressed, and it would be good to go out to relax, so he agreed to it.

Seeing that Zhao Yuan agreed, Mrs. Zhang let go of her heart and went to prepare clothes for her son to go out. Because it was the filial piety period, colored clothes were not allowed, and pure white didn't seem very good, so she specially prepared clothes. Tiao's light brown robe with dark flowers looks exactly the same as a plain dress from a distance.

Unexpectedly, when Zhao Yuan saw this, he insisted on not allowing him to wear plain clothes. Mrs. Zhang couldn't hold back her son, so she had to change his clothes inside and out into plain white.He also ordered two servants at home to follow each other.

Zhao Yuan didn't want to bring other people to go with him, he just insisted on going out alone to relax and be nearby, at least three to five days, and at most ten or so days before returning.Mrs. Zhang only asked her son to go out to play and not be bored at home, so she agreed.

Early the next morning, after Zhao Yuan kowtowed in front of his father's spiritual tablet, he rode his horse and walked leisurely.

At this time, a year and a half had passed since the wedding night, the weather was in autumn, the clouds were high and the air was crisp. Xiuzhou was the place where Zhao Yuan lived since he was a child, and the surroundings were very familiar to him. Feeling much more comfortable, I rested in a rural wild shop that night and prepared to return home tomorrow.

The shopkeeper in the small shop saw Zhao Yuan's attire. Although he was wearing plain clothes and no decorations, but his appearance was imposing, he was not an ordinary person at first glance, so he led him to a separate "elegant house" and served him. Served with good drinks.

Zhao Yuan first took a sip of Xiaoer's so-called high-quality Huadiao, and almost didn't spit it out. Not to mention that it was mixed with water, it was very unpalatable, almost no different from poison.

Just when Zhao Yuan was frowning and drinking "good wine", he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside. He turned his head slightly and looked outside, only to see more than a dozen burly men coming in, naked to the waist and waist Pei stepped forward, with a tattoo on his face, Zhao Yuan could see clearly that the tattoo was the word "Jiankang".

Seeing the tattoos on the faces of these people, Zhao Yuan knew that they were soldiers from the "Jiankang" mansion.

In the Song Dynasty, there were three types of military sources. Among them, the lowest rank, the least salary, and the most complicated source were called soldiers. Most of them were composed of bandits and refugees. In order to prevent them from escaping sentence, they had tattoos on their faces.The soldiers of any prefecture will stab the name of that prefecture.These more than a dozen big men have "Jiankang" tattooed on their faces, they must be soldiers of the Jiankang Mansion.

It's just that this place is not under the jurisdiction of Jiankang Mansion, and I don't know why these soldiers left the army and came here.

When Zhao Yuan was wondering, he heard those soldiers sitting carelessly in the shop, one of them got up, pulled out the big knife from his waist, and drove away the rest of the customers in the shop.The place where Zhao Yuan was working was in a remote corner, covered by curtains, the soldier in charge was very careless, he just glanced at it and thought no one was there, so he didn't come over.

Zhao Yuan watched and shook his head inwardly, these soldiers are so domineering, just because they want to eat, they don't allow others to eat, and they don't know whose subordinates they are.

But saw that more than a dozen big men sat down on their own, and after ordering wine and meat, they began to talk. One of them said: "Is your news true? The boss will pass this way?"

Another thin and tall man nodded hurriedly: "It can't be true anymore! The monsters in Xuanzhou are making a mess, and it's very difficult to deal with it. The officers and soldiers went there several times, but they couldn't calm down. They went to Zhenjiang Mansion to borrow the boss to put down the chaos! This is the only passage, we are waiting here, we promise to wait!"

After listening to the conversation of these people, Zhao Yuan thought to himself that it was a few soldiers who were left behind, probably Jiankang and Zhenjiang prefectures jointly quelled the rebellion, no wonder these soldiers from Jiankang prefecture were here.In the past two years, there have been many refugees and many bandits. The troops stationed everywhere did not fight against Jin, and most of their energy was used to quell the civil strife.If it weren't for Qin Hui's perverse actions and Zhao Gou's cowardice and stupidity, the country should be prosperous and the people safe after the peace talks, how could it be like this!

When those people mentioned the "boss" in their mouths, they couldn't help spitting. One said that he wanted to chase down the tea bandits, and as long as he reported his name, the other party would be captured without a fight; A beautiful female thief; one said that she would not beat and scold the sergeant, and would not deduct the military salary;

A crowd of people was spitting all over the place, and Zhao Yuan was secretly curious when he heard it. He listened for a long time, but he still didn't hear who the "boss" was in those people's mouths. After listening for a while, he couldn't help but walk up Go forward and ask: "Everyone, what is the name of the person you just mentioned? Where does he work?"

Those ten or so men were speaking frankly, when they turned around suddenly, they saw a young man in white standing behind them, they were all startled, and one of them shouted, "Kill him to silence him!"

One person yelled, "No, the whereabouts have been discovered!"

There was only a burly man in his twenties, who seemed to be the leader, raised his hand and pressed it, looked Zhao Yuan up and down, and asked, "You look like a scholar, so you don't have to ask about us?" What are the soldiers doing?"

Zhao Yuan said: "I see that all of you are soldiers of Jiankang Mansion, but this is the boundary of Zhenjiang. So I am curious to ask, and there is no other meaning. If there is something about Meng Lang, please don't take offense."

Seeing Zhao Yuansheng's gentleness and handsomeness, and his gentle and polite speech, all the people liked him, and they didn't want to silence him, the leading burly man said: "You don't look like a bad person, so it's okay to tell you! We can't stay in Jiankang Mansion any longer, I heard that there is a good general here, so we are going to come and join us!"

Zhao Yuan was taken aback when he heard this, and also understood why these people were clamoring to silence them in the first place.Soldiers everywhere are not allowed to run around in private, let alone lead their troops to go elsewhere.Even if your own people go to your own people, it won't work.When Song and Jin were at war, there were many situations like this. Some people were dissatisfied with their superiors, so they led their soldiers to join other generals. Whenever this happened, their superiors would kill them on the spot.

Now this group of people seems to have escaped and is waiting for new targets, so they don't have much scruples.

Zhao Yuan said: "So that's the case, but you have tattoos on your faces, I'm afraid the other party may not accept it."

The leader didn't take it seriously: "I heard that the new boss is going to exterminate the demons and thieves. He is a general with 300 soldiers. More than a dozen of us secretly followed behind his soldiers and killed the enemies with all our might , He has done meritorious service, and seeing our abilities, he is naturally willing to take it! You are a clean and gentle scholar, how do you know what we do, even if I tell you!"

Zhao Yuan thought to himself: As far as I know, if it wasn't for the court's strong backers, there really wouldn't be a young general with only 300 men who would dare to take in friendly troops.

But the dozen or so big men were obviously full of confidence and were in high spirits, Zhao Yuan didn't want to pour cold water on them, so he said: "You guys are really a good way, but I don't know, the new general you are going to defect to, What's your name? From your tone just now, it seems that the 'boss' has some skills?"

Just as the leader was about to answer, he saw a guard rushing in from outside in a panic. As soon as he came in, he shouted at the crowd: "Hey, here we come, everyone get ready!"

A few rushed out to have a look, and came back to stomp their feet: "Our clothes are different from those he brought, how can we get along?"

"Follow them, kill a few people, and steal the clothes, isn't it over?"

"Isn't it too good? The one who killed him before he went?"

"What's wrong? Killing two people is a fart! Hurry up and get ready!"

Zhao Yuan was quite displeased to see these reckless men doing things without considering the consequences, and they didn't take people's lives seriously at all, but he was alone at the moment, and it was inconvenient for him to conflict with them over such things, so he wanted to Get out of the store and don't go into the muddy water where the ministries eat each other.

None of the brash men in the shop cared about Zhao Yuan at the moment, they were just scrambling to cover the tattoos on their faces with their hair, and they were about to kill people and grab military uniforms, scaring the second shopkeeper who hid behind the counter trembling Shout out, even Zhao Yuan didn't dare to reach out to pick up the bill.

After Zhao Yuan threw a dozen or so copper coins on the counter, he walked out of the shop and saw a mighty procession on the official road not far away. many.

Three men who looked like generals rode their horses and walked at the front of the team. They were all wearing leather armor but did not wear helmets on their heads. One was about 30 years old, the other was in his 20s, and the other had his back to Zhao Yuan. , was talking to those two people.

Zhao Yuan stood at the same spot, looking at this team, feeling a little strange in his heart, some of the marching team walked sparsely, while others walked very neatly.Some of the troops are well-organized, while others are very scattered.

Zhao Yuan had never seen two completely different appearances in a team, he was secretly curious, and looked at the three leaders.

The general who had been carrying him all the time looked tall and tall, with his hair neatly combed and tied up behind his head. For some reason, Zhao Yuan always felt that this figure from his back seemed very familiar.

But at this moment, that figure suddenly turned around and looked towards Zhao Yuan.

The gazes of the two were intertwined at this moment.

For a moment, Zhao Yuan felt that his body was stiff, and he stood there blankly, looking at another stupefied guy on horseback.

The autumn sun shines at this moment, leaking through the shadows of the leaves, forming beams of light, and the dust dances in these beams, like dancing elves.

It seems as long as a century, and as short as the blink of an eye.

The general in leather armor on horseback uttered a syllable that no one could understand, and galloped over on horseback.

At a distance of three meters between the two, he jumped off the horse, then rushed forward, hugging Zhao Yuan tightly.

No one expected Zhao Yuan and Xiao Shan to meet again outside such a barren shop in a deserted village.

Both of them were speechless for a while, Xiao Shan let go of his hand after a long time, his voice trembling: "His Royal Highness? You...why are you here? You...you have changed a lot, almost lost recognize!"

Zhao Yuan also looked at Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan had changed a lot.