In ancient China, there were two invincible armies named after the surnames of the main generals, one known as the "Qi Family Army" and the other known as the "Yue Family Army", in addition to the abilities of the two main generals Qi Jiguang and Yue Fei, strict military discipline was a necessary condition for their success. Friends who love to watch costume dramas must have heard the general punish his subordinates, and every move is "Come on people!" Military law disposition. ”
In real history, "military law disposal" is very cruel, in Qi Jiguang's team, let alone escape, but anyone who dares to lose his weapon in the front will be beheaded immediately, you dare to take a step back, first behead the captain of your team, and then behead you; similarly, in Yue Fei's team, deserters will die.
The protagonist in today's story not only became a deserter himself, but also took a group of people with him as a deserter, it is reasonable to say that this kind of person is "killed without forgiveness", but Yue Fei let him go with a soft heart, who is he? Why would Yue Fei, who had strict military discipline, let him go?
His name is Li Bao, is an authentic peasant, compared to the famous soldiers in the history of the Song Dynasty, he is indeed not very famous, but in the eyes of foreigners, "Li Bao" 2 words can be described as thunderous, let's first look at his family history.
Li Bao has a nickname called "Splash Li San", look at this nickname, everyone can guess what kind of person he is, Li Bao has a hot personality, especially loves to fight unevenly, bold and confident, everyone especially likes to play with him. In 1139, the iron hooves of the Jin army stepped on Li Bao's hometown, and Li Bao was furious and directly gathered a group of brothers to prepare for a direct battle with the enemy.
They were not afraid of life and death, facing the enemy, but after all, they were ordinary people, they could not defeat the well-trained Jin army at all, they died and fled, Li Bao was unwilling but could only save his life first, and he could not calm the anger in his heart after successfully escaping, so he took the remaining brothers around to defect to the Song army, looking for Yue Fei and han Shizhong. But no matter where he was, his determination to li bao had never changed, and he was going to die with Jin Jun!
Yue Fei's eyes were poisonous, and he soon discovered Li Bao's potential and decided to temper him well, this person will one day become a great weapon, so he arranged Li Bao and his party to train in the most ordinary military camp, and after a long time, Li Bao felt that he had been ignored by Yue Fei, and he had no chance to go to the front line to kill the four sides, and even took advantage of the night to run away with his brothers.
As mentioned above, deserters must be killed, Yue Fei quickly arrested their group of 40 people back, watching the brothers beheaded one by one, Li Bao was not afraid, shouting that he would soon go down to accompany them, but unfortunately he could not die on the battlefield, he wanted to die here, Yue Fei looked at Li Bao, and suddenly his heart softened.
Asking Li Bao what else to say, Li Bao loudly stated his views on counterattacking Jin Bing, as well as some of his own plans, Yue Fei further strengthened Li Bao's idea of becoming a great weapon, so he made a breakthrough decision - to leave Li Bao. But at the same time, he was severely punished and asked that he must make meritorious contributions to the crime of the state in the future, and Li Bao agreed.
The following year, Li Bao cooperated with Yue Fei and repeatedly attacked the Jin army in Shandong, and then from Han Shizhong's army to guard Haizhou (haizhou ( southwest of present-day Lianyungang , Jiangsu ) , galloped on the battlefield, made great achievements, and became a famous general of the water army that made the Jin army feel frightened.
In 1161 AD, Li Bao made great achievements and left his name in the history books. In that year, the Jin Emperor completed Yan Liang's army and attacked the Song Dynasty in four ways, of which 70,000 troops were sent by sea and more than 600 warships were sent, so on such a scale, Yan Liang was bound to take Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in one fell swoop.
Li Bao took the initiative to fight to Emperor Gaozong of Song, saying that he only needed 3,000 men and horses, 120 warships to block the attack of the Golden Soldiers, and made a military order on the spot, if he could not complete the task, he was willing to follow the army's rule of law, and the suicide note was written, and he vowed not to break the Golden Soldiers and never return it! Looking at Li Bao, who was so determined, Song Gaozong, who had originally hesitated, agreed. Suddenly, the Song army was high in momentum and followed Li Bao to the battlefield.
Although Li Bao was a hot-tempered person, he was by no means a reckless man, he had thought of a countermeasure early on, he knew that the Jin Army was not good at water warfare, and the tank sails of the warships were extremely flammable, he only needed to "borrow" a gust of south wind, and then launch his "secret weapon" to easily kill the Jin Army.
His "secret weapons" are thunderbolt cannons, felt cannons, and fierce fire oil tanks (similar to today's rocket injectors), which are the world's earliest gunpowder-driven heavy weapons, and even the largest wooden ships can burn you up.
Saying that it was late and fast, the south wind came, Li Bao and his brothers launched a shot at the Jin Jun's ship, and the other side's more than 600 ships carrying 70,000 people burned up at a very fast speed. The dead diving of the dead completely shattered the dream of the Jin army invading the Song Dynasty from the sea, saved the Southern Song Dynasty in crisis, and left its own page in the annals of history.
The British knew about this battle and directly included it in the "100 Most Significant Battles Affecting Mankind", and praised Li Bao vigorously, calling him a world-class famous general. If Yue Fei hadn't had the wisdom to see the pearls and killed Li Bao, I'm afraid that history would have to be rewritten.
References: "Song Hui To Compile", "History of Song"