When mentioning the Song Dynasty, people first think of it in their minds, in addition to some elegant and gorgeous Song words, there is also the relatively weak posture of the People of the Song Dynasty in the military, as if most people do not want to fight, so even if they win the opponent, they must sign a treaty such as the "Alliance of the Yuanyuan" in exchange for sending gold, silver and grain to the opponent in exchange for not fighting.
In fact, this idea of "not fighting a war" mainly comes from the emperors of previous generations, among the generals and even the common people, there are still many people who want to recover the lost land through fighting, and the big poet Xin Abandoned Disease once organized his own armed forces to fight the Jin people, and Yue Fei led the Northern Expedition many times and recovered many lost lands, and many of the ordinary people also went to the Yue family army because of this.
Li Bao, a farmer in Puzhou, Shandong, hated the Jin people to the bone, so he organized a team of several hundred people in his hometown and began the process of armed resistance to the Jin, but due to the small scale and weak strength, their armed activities were quickly suppressed by the Jin people. Just at this time, Li Bao heard about Yue Fei's reputation, so he led the remnants of his own forces to defect and became a small soldier in the Yue family's army.
Li Bao originally wanted to kill the Jin soldiers in the Northern Expedition of the Yue family army, but after coming to the Yue family army, he found that Yue Fei had been sweeping away mountain thieves and bandits in the south for a long time, which made Li Bao, who only wanted to go north to kill the Jin people, feel very bored, and quietly deserted in terms of ideology, and finally decided to lead his 39 brothers to escape at night and continue to resist Jin.
However, Li Bao obviously underestimated the disciplined Yue Family Army, who were caught before they could get out of the camp, and 40 people, including Li Bao, were treated as deserters and all had to be executed, but Li Bao was arranged for the last execution. When it was Li Bao's turn to execute, he said a word to Yue Fei, and was therefore released, saying: "The great cause of resisting Jin has not yet been accomplished, so why did the general kill the righteous soldiers first and cut off his minions?" ”
This means that the great battle against the Golden Kingdom has not really succeeded, so why should the general first kill the righteous soldiers who are interested in this and cut off his sharp claws? This sentence made Yue Fei fall into contemplation, thinking that Li Bao was indeed different (Fei Qizhi), so he pardoned him for a moment and asked him in detail about his specific plans after leaving the Yue family army.
Li Bao replied that in the future, he would take people to jinguo to fight guerrillas and kill a few, and Yue Fei said that such a practice could only be in vain, so he recommended it to Han Shizhong. Li Bao worked hard under Han Shizhong, and by 1142 he had become the deputy commander of the Horse Infantry Army in Zhejiang West Road, and during this year he creatively pioneered a tactic, thus becoming a world-class general.
In that year, Emperor Yan Liang of the Jin Dynasty led more than 600,000 troops to attack the Song Dynasty, sending 70,000 troops from the sea, with a total of more than 600 warships, and wanted to directly capture the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou). Li Bao led three thousand men and horses in the sea near Chenjia Island in Jiaoxi, using rockets, artillery and other advanced weapons to attack, because these weapons have a long range and the fire is not extinguished, and the ships of the Jin army are mostly flammable, so most of the Ships of the Jin Army are burned out, and the soldiers are completely annihilated.
Li Bao won this battle very beautifully, and was listed by the British in the "100 Most Significant Battles Affecting Mankind", which was the first large-scale naval battle in the world to use firearms.