Why was Yue Fei able to flow through the ages? He not only made the enemy feel frightened and defended the country with iron blood, but also had the merit of chivalrous tenderness and cherishing the people. There will be no so-called foolish loyalty, Yue Fei is only loyal to the country and the nation.
In the middle of July of the tenth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1140 AD),
The sternly worded Banshi edicts issued by the Southern Song Dynasty court were also sent to Yue Fei, who was forced to withdraw his troops from Zhuxian Town on July 21.
During Yue Fei's Fourth Northern Expedition in the tenth year of Shaoxing, the soldiers of the rear guard army (commonly known as the Yue family army) of the camp went out to fight the Jin army in many ways in the Central Plains, defeating the Jin army one after another after several major battles, and the people of the Central Plains who were already in the occupied areas contributed to support the rear escort army (Yue Family Army) after the camp, and the various rebel armies north of the Yellow River also attacked the city strategically in the rear of the Jin soldiers, cutting off the heavy transportation of the Jin army and cooperating with Yue Fei's frontal battlefield. Fathers and ordinary people all over Hebei also scrambled to lead the bull and pull the car, "to feed the rebel army", for a time the Jin Kingdom from the south of Yanshan "order not to repeat", "Hebei Zhongyi more than 400,000 people, all with the banner of Yue character, may the public cross the river early!" If Yue Fei secretly communicated with Emperor Qinzong, this would be a heavenly opportunity to order the world to support the restoration of Emperor Qinzong, but Yue Fei resolutely chose to retreat under the commandment. ~~《Loyalty Discussion》
Under the excellent situation that Guangjing was about to cross the Yellow River and continue to advance northward, the Stern-worded Banshi edicts issued by the Southern Song Dynasty court one after another were sent to Yue Fei's hands, and Yue Fei was forced to summon the Banshi, causing the Yue family army to "waste ten years of merit" in one fell swoop, which not only seriously damaged the morale of the generals of the Yue family army, but also shook and seriously damaged the morale and spirit of the entire Southern Song Army and people in resisting the enemy. ~~Song History Volume 365
When Yue Fei withdrew, the people of the Central Plains were greatly disappointed, and many people rushed to hear the news and stopped in front of Yue Fei's horse and cried: "I wait for the incense pot and transport grain and grass to meet the officers and soldiers, and the prisoners know about it." Today, Xiang Gong went here, and so on did not leave a message], yes, if Yue Shuai withdrew, how could the cruel and unmerciful Jin people spare the people of the Central Plains who greeted and supported Yue Fei and the Song army? Yue Fei had no choice but to take out the Song court's edict to withdraw his troops, and the people stubbornly grabbed Yue Fei's horse reins and refused to let go.
The army withdrew to Cai Prefecture (蔡州, in present-day Runan, Henan), and hundreds of people flocked to the outside of Yamen, including scholars, monks, and scholars, and a scholar led the crowd to kowtow to Yue Fei and pleaded: "A certain kind of fall will be more than twelve years. Fu Wen Xuanxiang reorganized the army to the north, aiming to recover, and a certain kind of disparity looked at the voice of the car and horse, taking the day as the age. Now that the voice has arrived, the ancient frontier has gradually returned, the ugly beast has run, and the people's family Xu Qing has been lucky to get rid of the left side. Overhearing Xuanxiang's class master, he sincerely did not tell him that Xuanxiang did not take Zhongyuan Chizi as his heart, and he also endured the merits of the fallen success, and the cries and cries of the people made Yue Fei extremely painful: "The imperial court has an edict, I must not stay without permission!" Then Yue Fei tearfully took out the Banshi Edict and showed it to everyone, so the cry was tremendous.
How Yue Fei could bear to leave zhongyuan's father and elders to the Jin army to ravage, so Yue Fei decided to play Emperor Gaozong's "Stay in the Army for Five Days" to protect and assist the people of the Central Plains to retreat, [so that the south is like a city, and it is urgent to play the six counties of Hanshang idle field].
In the Central Plains of the Pingchuan River, thousands of former Song people retreated south with the old and young with the Yue family army, and hundreds of thousands of Central Plains people on the road cried and shook the heavens, slowly looking back at their broken hometowns and ancestral lands, and resolutely returning to the Song.
This led to a great slowdown in the march of the Yue family's army, the generals followed the people to tears and sighs, even the flag was twisted and twisted, the army was not in order, more than 100,000 soldiers waited for Dan Ezhou, only to restore the Central Plains to save the people from water and fire, the momentum was like a broken bamboo all the way north but was forced to retreat, morale was suddenly scattered, and people's hearts were suddenly lost.
What was even more dangerous was that once he was caught up by the fast Jinguo cavalry, Yue Fei would definitely suffer great losses. Being forced to be called to the squad not only caused the Yue family army not only to be demoralized but also to march slowly, which undoubtedly gave the Jin army an opportunity to take advantage of it.
When Yue Fei withdrew, what was the commander of the Jin army, Yan Zongbi (Jin Wushu), doing? Why not catch up and fight the autumn wind to win back some face from the Yue family army and the people?
The marching speed of the Jin army, which was mainly cavalry, was very fast, as early as early June of the tenth year of Shaoxing, when Yan Zongbi (Wu Shu) led the Jin army from Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan) to Shunchang (present-day Fuyang, Anhui) for reinforcements, "from Tokyo to 1,200 miles, not more than seven days away." In addition to the time of light horse rescue, the distance from Tokyo to Shunchang was six hundred miles, and the main cavalry of the Jin army arrived in six days.
Yingchang (present-day Xuchang, Henan), where the Yue family's army had gathered a large force, was less than two hundred miles away from the Jin army's stronghold of Tokyo Bieliang (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), and the town of Zhuxian was only more than forty miles away from Tokyo. The base camp of the Yue family's army, Ezhou (鄂州, in modern Wuchang, Hubei), was more than two thousand miles away from the front line of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition. Yue Fei had asked Emperor Gaozong to "stay in the army for five days" before his return to the south, plus he was carrying tens of thousands of people, so the speed of the march was bound to be greatly slowed down, as long as Zong Bi wanted to pursue the large army of the Yue family, his time was sufficient!
However, Zong Bi did not send elite cavalry to pursue the large troops of the Yue family army that marched slowly and demoralized, what made the Marshal of Jin Guodu, who had experienced hundreds of battles and was slightly superior in military talent, cry into a big snot and had to give up this favorable fighter?
There are only two possibilities:
First, whether it was unable to fight again or not daring to fight again, it showed that the main force of the Jin army commanded by Zong Bi was seriously damaged by Yue Fei.
Second, in the face of the military might of the Yue family's army, Zong Bi fled north too fast and too far to kill a return rifle.
Obviously, after the great victory of Chencheng and the bloody battle of Yingchang, the strength and weakness of the Yue family army and the main force of the Jin army commanded by Zong Bi had been decided.
~~《Jin Tuo Continued Volume Ten Orders To Hurry to The Province of Song Shi"
~~《Compilation of the Three Dynasties Northern League, Volume 207》
~~《Jianyan since the year of the department to record volume 137 Shaoxing ten years of July 壬戌》
