Military generals like Yue Fei naturally want to lead soldiers to fight for the emperor, and only those civilian officials should stay with the emperor to deal with the government. However, after he was unjustly killed, there was a Wupin civilian official who stepped forward in a dangerous situation and took on the heavy responsibility of defending his family and defending the country like Marshal Yue. Although it seems miraculous to stage the retreat of students from the enemy, it always makes people feel that they are not doing their jobs. But for the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, they were ashamed and sighed!
If you want to know the reason, you need to have a simple understanding of the situation at that time. Because the Jin Dynasty experienced a period of turmoil, the Southern Song Dynasty ushered in a brief period of peace. However, after the ascendant Yan Liang was in power, he launched an attack on the Song Dynasty, and Yangzhou and Hezhou fell into the hands of Jin Bing one after another, and for a time the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians were in a hurry, and Emperor Gaozong was helpless, and if he continued like this, he could not even save his life, let alone become an emperor.
For this reason, he sent The Minister to the front to supervise the battle, but the Minister was also a greedy person who was afraid of death, and only assigned his secretary, that is, the protagonist we are going to talk about today, Yu Yunwen, to go on his behalf. Although what he had done before had nothing to do with fighting the war, when he received the order of his superior, he still did not prevaricate and came to the Yangtze River without hesitation, while the 600,000 troops of the Jin State on the opposite side were already preparing to cross the river.
What is even more bizarre is that there are only more than 10,000 soldiers facing the enemy on this side of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the newly appointed main general has not yet arrived! It is reasonable to say that as a civilian official, his main responsibility is to supervise the battle. However, the situation was so critical that he refused the good advice of his friends and resolutely took over the mess that everyone was afraid to avoid. Although he had never been on the battlefield before, he was prepared to deal with it with his superior military talent.
He believes that although there are many golden soldiers, the shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, they are not used to water warfare, so maximizing the advantages of the Song army's good water nature has become the key to determining the outcome of the war. Under the head-on attack of the Song army led by him, the Jin soldiers were beaten to the ground, and with the help of the ancient tactics of fire attack, the Jin army suffered countless casualties. The victory in this battle did not make him complacent, because he knew that the other side would definitely find another way.
Sure enough, Yan Liang could not cross the river here, so he led his army to rush to Guazhou in the starry night, trying to avoid his army to complete the crossing of the river. However, this was completely expected by Yu Yunwen, when the war broke out again, the two warring sides did not change anything, only the location of the engagement changed.
Seeing that the Jin soldiers who had no chance of winning this battle actually started infighting, Yan Liang was also killed by his subordinates! Jin Guo did not want to fight any more, and withdrew in embarrassment. It is precisely because of the great victory in this battle that the Southern Song Dynasty can be regarded as turning the crisis into safety, and he can also be called the first famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty after Yue Fei.