Author: Xu Yunhui
When Liu Bao, the pacification envoy of Huaidong Road, was leisurely sipping tea in Chuzhou (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu), he suddenly received an urgent letter of help from Wei Sheng, the governor of Chuzhou, from forty miles away: "The Jin soldiers took advantage of the opportunity of peace talks to invade Chuzhou with warships full of weapons and grain. He has personally led the loyal rebel army to fight it to the death at the mouth of the Qinghe River, and hopes to quickly send reinforcements to rescue troops! ”
Liu Bao cocked Erlang's legs, and yin and yang replied to the messenger with a strange qi: "The 'Shandong Wei Sheng' that shocks the enemy is so capable?" Was it a waste of time to stick to Haizhou City for many years? A small group of golden soldiers at the vanguard of the army left him helpless? I have mobile units at hand, but I must take into account the overall situation and take responsibility for the safety of the entire Huaidong Road. I can't send a single soldier out!" Please go back and tell General Wei that since you are loyal rebels, you should be loyal to the country at the crucial moment! I wish General Wei a triumphant song as always, and I will definitely prepare a celebration banquet to invite him to do his work! ”
Wei Sheng led his troops to fight with Jin Bing for nearly 12 hours, "The victory or defeat was undecided. "After inflicting heavy damage on the Golden Soldiers, they were in a desperate situation because they ran out of ammunition and food and the reinforcements did not arrive. Wei Sheng regarded death as a homecoming and encouraged his subordinates: "I swear to coexist and die with this place today, and ask the survivors to report to the Son of Heaven on today's battle situation!" He ordered the infantry to charge forward, behind the cavalry hall, to kill a bloody road", to the eighteen miles east of Huaiyin, the middle arrow, fell on the horse and died, forty-five years old. ”
A generation of famous generals, blood spilled on the front line of anti-gold. How fierce was Wei Sheng that made Liu Bao jealous enough to borrow a knife to kill people?
(1) The banner of righteousness is raised
Wei Sheng was "multi-wise and courageous, good at riding and shooting", both literary and martial, and was recruited as an archer in the Song army. After Chuzhou fell into the hands of the enemy, he broke away from the team and hid in the local area, spying on the Jin army at any time. When it was discovered that the Jin lord Yan Liang had torn up and discussed a large-scale invasion of the south, Wei Shengzhen called out, gathered three hundred civilian righteous soldiers to form a loyal army, unexpectedly attacked Haizhou City, captured the county guards alive and annihilated "more than a thousand state soldiers", and successfully recovered haizhou City occupied by the Jin State.
He announced that the people of Haizhou would be exempted from the tax, "releasing prisoners, sending warehouses, and treating soldiers." At the same time, according to local conditions, vigorously develop urban trade, levy taxes on special material liquor and salt, and persuade the rich to supply the loyal rebels with affordable grain. Under his painstaking management, Haizhou City became an enclave behind the lone enemy of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Wei Sheng vigorously recruited loyal soldiers, and in just ten days he "won thousands of troops." Because the loyal rebel army belonged to the civilian spontaneous armed forces, "there was no state and county grain payment, no prefectural treasury warehouse storage", empty-handed. In order to solve the problem of shortage of weapons and armor, Wei Sheng led more than a thousand people to attack yizhou, the logistics base of the Jinbing Army, "killing more than 3,000 of its defenders and non-commissioned officers, and the crowd surrendered, and tens of thousands of armor were obtained." ”
The loyal rebel army was armed, and the morale of the army was greatly encouraged. In the first battle with the Jin soldiers, he killed the "thief and defeated", achieved the killing of the Jin general, and "cut off the enemy's left ear to count the merits) of a thousand people, and dropped three hundred people", which played the prestige of the Haizhou loyal rebel army and greatly encouraged the anti-Jin fighting spirit of the rebels throughout Shandong.
(2) Gorgeous turn
Hundreds of thousands of people in Yizhou spontaneously fought against Jin in Cangshan And were besieged by Jin soldiers for a long time. After Wei Sheng received the letter of distress from The Head, he resolutely "raised troops to rescue him." He commanded the next way to break through the ambush of the golden soldiers, and after riding the temple alone with his own sword, the golden soldiers who set up an ambush "with a large knife" unfortunately fell into the siege of five hundred golden soldiers.
Wei Sheng had no fear, like the god of war possessed, and repeatedly charged and killed the Golden Soldiers with a single knife, "He was shot by dozens of shots and risked his blade out of the siege." After the warhorse was shot down by the Golden Soldiers, he marched into the camp with a sword, killed the Golden Soldiers "who did not dare to be", and successfully broke the siege for the people of Cangshan.
When the Jin soldiers besieged Haizhou City from all sides, Wei Sheng went out of the city to meet the battle in order to boost morale, and in the fierce battle, he was shot in the nose by a stray arrow through the teeth. He endured the pain of "inedible" and still went to the front line to direct the battle. "For seven days, the golden soldiers were killed and wounded and fled."
In order to remove Wei Sheng's fleshy thorn, Jin Bing divided tens of thousands of troops and besieged Haizhou City. Jin soldiers attacked the sand lane pass north of the city and sent people to persuade them to surrender. Wei Sheng retaliated with tit-for-tat:
"Lord Ru rebelled against the alliance and broke the trust, and for no reason raised an army, I will come to restore the old frontier with the division of benevolence and righteousness, and Lord Ru will be defeated when he crosses Huaihuai." If you come home early, you will be rewarded. ”
After the Jin people attacked the damaged soldiers in a frontal attack, they tried to circumvent Guanhou. Wei Sheng gathered his troops and returned to Haizhou City, where they were pursued by Jin soldiers. Wei Shengyi was bold, and after the palace alone, he turned his horse's head to kill Jin Bing and shouted, "Wei Sheng is here!" Scared to chase the soldiers, "Don't dare to chase." ”
After Wei Sheng covered the withdrawal of the whole army to Haizhou City, he once again single-handedly repelled the pursuing soldiers, "Da Lingzhi, the five hundred Jin soldiers are all looking forward to retreating. Win and chase for ten miles. After this war, Shandong Wei Shengwei became famous. At this time, the Song court knew that the city of Haizhou was still under the control of the loyal rebel army, and was overjoyed, and appointed Wei Sheng as the commander of the Zhongyi army in Haizhou Zhizhou and Shandong Road. Wei Sheng's transformation from the leader of the loyal army to the official of the imperial court also laid the root of the envy of the people.
(3) Wisdom and courage are both complete
Wei Shengshan made a large knife, which could open the bow left and right, and the arrows were not false. He embroidered the four characters of "Shandong Weisheng" on the battle flag, causing Jin Bing to "retreat when he sees it." He made more than a dozen of the same banners and secretly handed them to the generals, causing them to suddenly display them during the battle with the Jin soldiers. This move had an immediate effect, and when Jin Bing saw the banner of "Shandong Weisheng", he was in chaos and had no intention of fighting, "Avoid leaving." ”
In actual combat, Wei Sheng created hundreds of Ruyi chariots and dozens of artillery vehicles that defeated the enemy. This freely defending chariot inflicted a large amount of casualties on the Jin soldiers, and Wei Sheng drew a map of it and reported it to the imperial court. The imperial court attached great importance to it, and ordered all armies to imitate it.
Under Wei Sheng's insistence, Haizhou City was like a sharp dagger, firmly inserted into the soft ribs of jin guo. In order to relieve the worries of the southern invasion, the Jin State once again took turns to besiege Haizhou City on all sides. Wei Sheng commanded Ruo Ding, "Fierce soldiers, try their best to defend the emperor, and hand over the stones." The city was filled with gold liquid, and the fire bull was thrown", and finally the "golden soldiers returned to the north".
Wei Sheng seized the opportunity to strengthen combat readiness and trained an iron army that was "elite for everyone.". He gave preferential treatment to the captured Jinguo spies, "treating them with wine and returning them with generous bribes." For those who returned to the Southern Song Dynasty from the north, he calmly "slept with them, ate and ate together, and showed no doubt." "He generously funded the poor converts," making them grateful. Therefore, the righteous soldiers of Shandong and Hebei enthusiastically returned to Wei Sheng. They quickly informed Wei Sheng after discovering the jin state intelligence, and Wei Sheng immediately reported the information to the imperial court without reservation, so that the military top brass knew the movements of the Jin soldiers very well. The governor Zhang Jun was extremely appreciative of Wei Sheng and took him back to Jiankang to consult military affairs. At the recommendation of Zhang Jun, Wei Sheng was awarded the honorary position of "Xuanzang Sheren of the Gate of The Gate (a close minister in charge of matters such as the Edict and the Submission of cases)" by the imperial court, and was promoted to the commander of the Shandong Road Zhongyi Army and the former military commander of the Zhenjiang Prefecture.
"Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind!" Wei Sheng was born into death and made military achievements, which inevitably caused jealousy and dissatisfaction among some generals. The small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was in a quiet corner, did not think of making progress, and was quiet and martial. Wen Chen was busy negotiating peace, and the military generals were passive and sluggish. For the military generals, Wei Sheng's becoming a rising general star was the greatest irony for them. Therefore, the jealous people who were jealous of Xian's ability all suffered from pink eye and hollowed out their minds to tear down Wei Sheng's platform.
During the period when Jia Hezhong led his troops to Haizhou to assist in the defense of Hebei Road in Shandong, he first tried his best to try to bribe Wei Sheng's subordinates, and after failing, he tried every means to provoke Wei Sheng's relations with his subordinates. Wei Sheng was not accustomed to this kind of villain behavior, and quarreled with Jia Hezhong in person. Jia and Zhong's evil men first filed a complaint against Wei Sheng's dictatorship and dictatorship against the Governor's Office. The governor's office listened to the partiality of the faith, and took Wei Sheng to the end and moved him to Jiankang. After the truth came out, Wei Shengguan was reinstated and re-led his troops to garrison Haizhou.
(4) Tearful farewell to Haizhou
The Jin soldiers "sent more than 200,000 soldiers to attack Haizhou", and Wei Sheng adopted a flexible and mobile strategy and tactics, first "leading the crowd to fight, killing thousands of people, and Yu all fled." "Then cooperate with the brother troops" to fight with the Jin Army, beheading countless, chasing for tens of miles, the rest of the soldiers are gone. ”
Wei Sheng's stubborn resistance completely smashed the Conspiracy of the Jin Soldiers to go south. He "soothed one side of the town and secured the government of the people" in Haizhou, and was regarded as a serious problem by Jin Guo.
In 1164, the Song and Jin dynasties negotiated peace, and the city of Haizhou was transferred to the Jin state by the Song court. Wei Sheng tearfully abandoned this bloody anti-Jin base area and led the Shandong Zhongyi army to retreat to Chuzhou, under the command of Liu Bao, the pacification envoy of Huaidong Road, and was responsible for the military affairs of Qinghekou (present-day Qingpu District, Huaiyin City) until the blood was spilled on the battlefield.
After Wei Sheng was martyred, the surviving soldiers were sad and indignant, and after escaping death, they collectively reported to Liu Bao that "Liu Bao did not come to the rescue." After Emperor Xiaozong of Song found out the truth, he was furious and sent Liu Bao to "cut two towns and lose money to his family, and degrade Qiongzhou to death." "When Liu Bao first saw death and did not save and tried to kill people with a knife, he did not expect to dig a grave for himself! Harm others and harm yourself, and there is more than enough to die!
For Wei Sheng, dying in battle and martyrdom is the true color of a boy, and death is not a pity. However, it is indeed a stifling to die of jealousy and jealousy who kill people with a knife.
"Gentlemen are frank, and villains are long-standing." The gentleman and the villain are as opposed and unified as day and night. Without the high righteousness of a gentleman, it is difficult to show the despicableness of a villain. No matter at what stage in the long river of history, or in a certain unit in real life, there are always gentlemen and villains coexisting. Although the villain is a loach that cannot turn over the big waves, the energy of the villain must not be underestimated! In real life, even if we have been tempered, we cannot cultivate into gentlemen admired by all, but at least we can not be a jealous and jealous villain who is scolded by a thousand people!
【About the author】Xu Yunhui, male, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Yunnan Normal University in 1984 and is now a senior lecturer at Baoshan No.1 Middle School Education Group in Yunnan Province. He has published two monographs and published more than 600,000 words in literary journals at or above the provincial level.
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