"Jing Kang shame, Yu Wei Xue." When will the courtiers hate, when will they be extinguished! Drive a long car and step through the Helan Mountain. Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat, laughing and thirsting for the blood of the Huns." ——Southern Song Dynasty Yue Fei, "Manjiang Hong, Writing Nostalgia"
In ancient China, many vivid figures emerged in history, including national heroes who defended their families and the country; there were also corrupt courtiers who perverted the law. If a person does not have a bottom line, mutilates loyalty and harshness, then the annals of history will leave an infamy for eternity. If a person is loyal to the army and patriotic, and sacrifices his life for righteousness, then people will continue to praise him. Speaking of famous patriotic generals in history, Yue Fei is one of the indispensable ones.
Yue Fei was loyal to the country all his life, leading the Yue family army to defend the Song Dynasty, but the ending was tragic, and he was framed and killed by a traitor in the Fengbo Pavilion. It is said that the Yue family army led by Yue Fei has a very strong military quality, which is inseparable from Yue Fei's strict requirements for the Yue family army. But once, when Yue Fei was dealing with deserters, he spared one of his men. In the end, this person turned out to be a generation of famous generals, so who is this person?
"Po Li San" took his brother to Yue Fei
Qi Jiguang, a famous qi jiguang who fought against the Wukou in history, led the Qi family army can be said to be very elite and has strict military discipline. He was Yue Fei's idol, and Yue Fei also trained Yue Jiajun with strict discipline, and Yue Fei was also a good general who was loyal and patriotic, and was very famous at that time, and many people came to join Yue Fei, including Some people called Li Bao of "Splash Li San".
The Yue family army was founded in 1129, when Yue Fei served as the commander of the Tokyo Left Behind Division, at first the Yue family army only had about 10,000 soldiers, until 1135, Yue Fei led the Yue family army to defeat the rebellious Yang Mi, and Incorporated Yang Mi's army into the Yue family army, Yue Fei suddenly gained 50,000 or 60,000 people, after which the Yue family army grew rapidly to more than 100,000 people.
Although the Yue family army grew a lot of people, but Yue Fei still strict requirements, everything where the Yue family army went, will be praised by the people, if there is a discovery of bullying the people, the local army will be dealt with, if there are deserters, there will be no mercy, so no one dares to cross the thunder pool half a step. Yue Jiajun was trained by Yue Fei to be very brave and fierce, and it was a very strong army of the Song Dynasty, and jin soldiers were very scared when they heard that Yue Jiajun was very afraid.
Li Bao is a native of Shandong, born in an ordinary peasant family, but he has been a person who is not afraid of heaven since he was a child, and now the words are a thorn, and he also pretends that he is a person who can achieve great things, so the local fathers and fellow villagers call him "Splash Li San". One day, his hometown was attacked by Jin Bing, who burned and looted without evil, all of which was seen by Li Bao, and Li Bao made up his mind to sweep away Jin Bing, so he launched his usual brothers to fight.
Li Bao formed a small team of more than 40 people, and soon had some small fame in Shandong, but the relatively small team was relatively small, and there was not much money to maintain the lives of the brothers for a long time, this was not a long-term solution, in the face of the strong Jin Soldiers was still insignificant, so Li Bao led 40 brothers to yue Fei.
Yue Fei spared the deserter Li Bao
After Li Bao defected to Yue Fei, he found that the well-known Yue Jiajun was no more than this, watching the turmoil outside, the Jin soldiers running amok outside, Li Bao was very anxious inside, but he could only obey Yue Fei's orders. And when Li Bao was placed under Yue Fei's account, he was not used by Yue Fei, but stayed in the military camp all day to practice his moves like other ordinary soldiers. Li Bao thought to himself that the Yue family army were all people who sold their fame and reputation, which was far from the rumors, so "Li San" led 40 brothers to secretly leave the Yue family army.
Li Bao's behavior is undoubtedly a deserter, and we all know that deserters are bound to be executed according to the law. His behavior was soon discovered by Yue Fei, and he did not go far before Yue Fei caught him and his group of 40 brothers. Li Bao saw that yue fei could not be reached, so he shouted that he was just trying to kill Jin Bing. Yue Fei felt that he had superiority and was loyal, so he forgave him with a soft heart.
After Yue Fei captured Li Bao and asked him to tell him what he thought about resisting the Jin soldiers, Li Bao boldly expounded his views and said that he was determined to drive the Jin soldiers out of the Song Dynasty. Yue Fei was very happy to hear this, and felt that Li Bao still had some strategy, that is, his temperament was too urgent and needed to be slowly tempered.
After the two discussed the soldiers together, Li Bao found that Yue Fei was indeed very powerful, he paid attention to excellence, realized his shortcomings, and decided to follow Yue Fei. Yue Fei discovered that Li Bao was good at water combat, and then analyzed the advantages of water combat with Li Bao, allowing Li Bao to stay under Han Shizhong's command, and li Bao did not fail to live up to Yue Fei's cultivation of him.
With less to defeat the widow, the big defeat of the golden soldiers
Not long after, Yue Fei was killed in the Fengbo Pavilion due to Qin Juniper's frame-up. Li Bao was very sad, and without Yue Fei's Jinbing, he was even more fearless of the Song Dynasty, and Li Bao vowed to fight against jinbing like Yue Fei. At this time, Li Bao had just taken over the water army when he returned to Shandong, but there were only more than a hundred large and small ships, and only more than three thousand crossbowmen. In the face of the attack of the Golden Soldiers, Li Bao created his own set of playing styles, and trained the water army very well, which made the Golden Soldiers very headache. After the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty completely broke with it, the Jin soldiers began to violently attack the Song Dynasty.
In the absence of someone like Yue Fei to lead the army into battle, the territory from the Huai River to the Yangtze River was all captured by Jin soldiers. Moreover, the Jin Dynasty also had a powerful navy, with 600 warships, 70,000 sailors and soldiers, and the troops in Jiaodong. Jin Bing wanted to take the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop from Shandong, and the Song Officials were frightened, at this time, Li Bao took the initiative to fight, but how could only three thousand sailors resist the Huge Navy of the Jin Dynasty? Only let Li Bao fight.
The disparity with the strength of the Jin Bing was too great, and Li Bao did not have much confidence to defeat the Jin Bing, but he also had to fight for it, shouting towards the sea: "Heaven test Li Bao evil? The heart is like an iron stone. Li Bao, who was determined to fight jin bing to the end, led 3,000 sailors to Shifang Island in Shandong.
Li Bao took advantage of the south wind blowing in winter to prepare to attack the huge navy of Jin Bing with fire. He prepared torches and rockets in advance to hide in the warships, and then led the warships to attack the Golden Soldiers, the Golden Soldiers were many of their own people, let down their vigilance, thought that li Bao would be victorious by surrounding Li Bao, but did not expect Li Bao to let the soldiers light torches and fire arrows with fire at the Golden Soldiers, the Golden Soldiers' warships were ignited, due to the influence of the south wind, the fire was difficult to extinguish, it is said that the fire continued continuously, burning for four days and four nights. This is the famous Battle of Chenjia Island.
epilogue:
Li Bao defeated the 70,000 water army of the Jin Dynasty with 3,000 water troops. This battle made Li Bao praised by posterity, and the British also collected this battle into the "100 Most Significant Battles Affecting Mankind". Li Bao grew from a reckless and wayward "Splash Li San" to a generation of famous people who will be remembered by posterity, which is inseparable from Yue Fei's earnest teachings, Li Bao adhered to his ambitions, and finally defeated Jin Bing with few victories and great defeats, inheriting the famous generals after Yue Fei.
In other words, Yue Fei did not have a soft heart to let Li Bao go when disposing of 40 deserters, and there may not have been this famous battle in history, and it was Li Bao's misfortune to be born in a chaotic world. It was Li Bao's good fortune to meet Yue Fei, who was able to bravely face more than 70,000 enemy troops without timidity, which proved that Yue Fei did not look at the wrong person.
References: The Fifth Volume of the New Chronicle of Yuzhao, and the 129th Biography of the History of Song