When it comes to Yue Fei, a national hero during the Southern Song Dynasty, his popularity can be described as a household name. In order to resist the invasion of the Jin soldiers in the south and wash away the shame of Jing Kang, Yue Fei organized a disciplined Yue family army and defeated the Jin soldiers many times. The Yue family army is also one of the few units in Chinese history named after a general.
Under Yue Fei's strict management, the Yue family army pursued the military discipline of "freezing to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without plundering", and was deeply loved by the people. As for the soldiers who violated discipline, Yue Fei basically showed no mercy. Interestingly, when Yue Fei executed more than 40 deserters once, he let one go because of his soft heart, and as a result, the person who survived by chance later became a world-famous general. What's going on?
First, he defected to Yue Fei and fled in a scattered manner
After the disgrace of Jing Kang, the Second Emperor Hui Qin of the Song Dynasty was captured by Jin soldiers, and the Kang king Zhao Zhao fled to the south to establish the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the brutal Jin soldiers entered the central plains and burned and plundered everywhere, causing the rebellion and struggle of the central plains benevolent people, and Li Bao was one of them.
Li Bao was born into a peasant family in Puzhou, Shandong Province, and although he came from a lowly background, he was "dignified and courageous." After hearing and witnessing the atrocities of Jin Bing, Li Bao stepped forward and organized the Ding Zhuang youth in the township to rise up and resist Jin Bing.
Due to the isolation of the situation, the rebel army organized by Li Bao was eventually defeated by the powerful Jin army and was forced to retreat south. After hearing about the prestige of the Yue family's army, Li Bao led the rebel army to defect to Yue Fei's tent and became a member of the Yue family army.
However, unlike the poorly disciplined rebels, the Yue family army was strictly disciplined and trained, and it was strict with every soldier. Although they also had the ambition to resist the Jin soldiers, Li Bao and others could not stand the strict discipline of the Yue family army, and Li Bao and others, who were accustomed to a free life, finally retreated and wanted to escape from the Yue family army.
One night, Li Bao, who had a loose personality, took advantage of the night to escape with more than forty soldiers under his command, hoping to escape back to his hometown. However, not long after Li Bao and his party left the barracks, they were discovered by the guards in charge of patrolling the camp in the Yue family's army, and they were immediately captured. What will happen to these deserters?
2. The death penalty for criminals shall be spared by crying
Yue Fei was indignant when he learned that there were deserters in the army, and once he sat idly by and ignored this situation, it would inevitably cause a chain reaction and affect the morale and combat effectiveness of the entire unit. In order to punish Qianyi, Yue Fei ordered the execution of Li Bao and a number of other deserters to set an example.
Therefore, with Yue Fei's order, Li Bao and others were escorted to the military judge one after another to carry out the decision. Seeing that the 40 subordinates in front of him had been executed for desertion, Li Bao, who still cherished his homeland, came from it and cried loudly, regretting that he regretted that he could not die on the anti-Jin battlefield.
Yue Fei, who witnessed the execution, heard Li Bao's crying and saw that Li Bao was a heroic man with a dignified appearance, who was soft-hearted for a while and had a heart of love for talent. Therefore, Yue Fei ordered the execution to be suspended and asked Li Bao to come and ask questions.
After learning that although Li Bao did want to flee from the Yue family's army, he never forgot his hatred for Jin Bing, but hoped to return to his hometown to continue to resist, Yue Fei weighed it up again and again, decided to let Li Bao go, and also provided him with some combat readiness, hoping that he would fulfill his promise after returning to his hometown and continue the struggle in the rear of jin bing.
Therefore, Li Bao, who survived the disaster, left the Yue family army and returned to his hometown in Shandong to organize people and horses to continue to fight against the Jin soldiers. Under the leadership of Li Bao, the rebels recovered their vitality and actively cooperated with Yue Fei's military operations, dealing a heavy blow to the Jin soldiers.
Third, the water war broke through gold and became famous all over the world
With Yue Fei's forgiveness, Li Bao survived death and re-emerged on the anti-Jin battlefield. Li Bao has always been grateful for Yue Fei's grace of not killing, so he will cooperate with the actions of Yue Jiajun quite actively. However, with the conspiracy of Emperor Gaozong of Song and the traitorous chancellor Qin Ju, Yue Fei died unjustly, and the cause of resisting the Jin Northern Expedition also fell into a low ebb.
A few years later, the Jin people tore up the peace treaty with the Southern Song Dynasty, invaded the south in a large scale, and divided the army into seven roads. Among the seven golden soldiers heading south, one of them was a naval army with as many as 600 warships, trying to take Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, by sea. At this time, Li Bao had become a general who could stand alone and volunteered to meet the Jin people's water army.
Li Bao led his troops to defeat the vanguard of the Jin bing before Haizhou and other places, and dealt a blow to the impermissible arrogance of the Jin bing. Subsequently, Li Bao decided to preemptively take the initiative to lead the army north to find the main force of the Jin army' water army, and completely buried the Jin people's water army in a battle.
Li Bao's troops and the size of their warships were far inferior to those of the powerful Jin soldiers, but Li Bao was keenly aware that the nomadic Jin people were not good at water warfare, and that although the Jin people's warships were huge, they were not equipped with sophisticated firearms like their own troops. Li Bao led his army north and found the main water force of the Jin soldiers near ChenJia Island.
Therefore, Li Bao took advantage of the weakness of the Jin army's poor water warfare and the flammability of the oil sails of the warships, and suddenly launched a fire attack on the Jin soldiers, using rockets, artillery and other weapons to use the wind to carry out a fierce attack. After a fierce battle, Li Bao destroyed the main force of the Jin people's water army in one fell swoop.
After this battle, the Jin soldiers could no longer organize a decent water army, and their attempt to annex the Southern Song Dynasty was in vain. Since then, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty have either fought or made peace, and have fallen into a stalemate for decades. The struggle with the Southern Song Dynasty and the inability to escape eventually left the Jin people with no time to look north, and objectively laid the groundwork for the rise of Mongolia.
Because of this, Li Bao was selected to be included in the "One Hundred Battles That Affected the World" with fewer victories and more victories, and Li Bao became a world-famous general. Perhaps Yue Feiquan knew about it, and he would certainly be pleased with Li Bao's impressive achievements. Li Bao did not live up to Yue Fei's expectations and became a famous general who saved the Southern Song Dynasty from danger.
brief summary:
The Yue family army, commanded by Yue Fei, was known for its strict discipline and made great contributions to the fight against the Jin soldiers. Although Li Bao became a "shameful" deserter in the Yue family's army, it was precisely because of the so-called shame and courage, Li Bao finally proved his worth with practical actions, and also proved Yue Fei's vision of forgiving him.
Having said that, Li Bao destroyed the main force of the Jin soldiers' water army in the First World War, saved the country, and even affected the historical trend of the whole world, so it can be seen that although Li Bao was a deserter of the Yue family army, in front of the home country, Li Bao always stood on the front line and did not become a shameful deserter.
References: History of the Song Dynasty, Compilation of the Northern League of the Three Dynasties
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