In ancient Chinese history, there were many strict military disciplines, and the "Yue Family Army" was one of them. Under the command of Yue Fei, the Yue family army "froze to death without demolishing houses, starved to death and did not plunder", so they were not only extremely strong in combat, but also deeply loved by the people. Once, more than 40 deserters were captured, and according to military law, they should have been beheaded, but Yue Fei was soft-hearted for a while. Unexpectedly, this person later saved the Southern Song Dynasty. What the hell is going on? Listen to the editor to give you a slow talk.
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, northern China was occupied by the Jin. Unwilling to be enslaved, the people of the north raised the banner of resistance to Jin and fought with the Jin army, and Li Bao was one of the righteous soldiers who resisted Jin. Li Bao, nicknamed "Splash Li San", was a native of Heze, Shandong, from a peasant family, who was a man of great righteousness and courage. When the Jin occupied the north, Li Bao gathered a crowd in Puzhou to resist jin. However, due to the low combat effectiveness and poor equipment of the peasant rebel army led by him, it was eventually defeated by the Jin army. In desperation, Li Bao led his troops to defect to Yue Fei.
Yue Fei accepted Li Bao's rebels, but Li Bao was not used seriously. As the saying goes, "It is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail", after being frustrated in Yue Fei's army, Li Bao was reluctant to contact his compatriots when he came, and planned to sneak back to his hometown. The Yue family's military discipline was strict, and they quickly arrested more than 40 deserters. Originally, Li Bao and others were going to be beheaded, but he argued that he was going back to his hometown to organize a rebel army to resist Jin in the north. Yue Fei was momentarily soft-hearted, so he let Go of Li Bao.
After Li Bao returned home, in the name of Hebei Road commander Zhongyi Army Andma, he contacted the anti-Jin rebels in Shandong. Ten years after Shaoxing, the Jin army turned its back on the alliance and went south, and Li Bao cooperated with Yue Fei to launch a counter-offensive, repeatedly clamping down on the Jin Dynasty's southward division in Shandong. Later, at yue fei's recommendation, Li Bao followed Han Shizhong to guard Haizhou. After Yue Fei was murdered on trumped-up charges, many of his subordinates were implicated, and Li Bao survived because he was subordinate to Han Shizhong. This led to his later deeds of saving the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing, the Jin Emperor completed Yan Liang's army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty in four ways. Among them, 70,000 troops were sent by sea and more than 600 warships were sent in the intention of capturing Lin'an. Li Bao, who was then the deputy commander of the Horse Infantry Army on Zhejiang West Road, adopted the tactics of preemptive attack, surprise, and fire attack, and defeated the Jin Army's marine division with only 3,000 sailors and 120 warships, and completely destroyed the Jin army fleet. In this battle, the reason why Li Bao was able to defeat the strong enemy was that weapons such as "rockets" and "artillery" played an indispensable role. It was also the first large-scale naval battle since firearms were used in the military field.
This battle had a major impact on the political situation of Song and Jin and the process of world navigation, so it was included in the "100 Most Important Battles Affecting Mankind" by the British, and Li Bao also left his name in history. Just think, if Yue Fei had insisted on killing Li Bao at that time, would he have changed the course of history?