We all know that the Song Dynasty was a militarily weak dynasty that was suppressed and beaten by the nomadic regime from the very beginning of its establishment. But in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei formed a very fierce Yue family army, which fought all the way from Zhejiang to Henan, and even the enemy lamented that Han Sanyi and the Han Yue family army was difficult. So why is Yue Jiajun so fierce? You are a small citizen of the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and you have known since childhood that the army is not a good place, and that it is full of criminals and unemployed vagrants. After Ke Jingkang's change, your family was destroyed, and the displaced people caught in the southern capital wandered to the capital of Lin'an at that time, joined an army, hoping to eat and avenge your family. Sure enough, as you know, the living environment in the army is very bad, and the generals hold the power of life and death, and often beat and even kill 4 soldiers casually.
You are a personal soldier of an officer, because you are clumsy and did not serve the commander well, you have also been beaten several times, and what is more fatal is that the military food is withheld layer by layer, and you are bound to not get much food, sometimes it is difficult to even eat enough, and you can only rely on robbing the common people to survive. Every time they marched and fought, the soldiers did everything evil, robbing them all the way, not only robbing property and food, but also killing people at will, cutting off people's heads, pretending to be the heads of enemies to cheat rewards. You don't want to bully the common people and can't stand this hellish life, so you start to doubt life.
With such an army, can you avenge your family? Can you regain the land in the north and return to your homeland? Taking advantage of a defeat, you decisively broke the current, became a deserter, and fell into the tide. But as soon as you went up the hill on your front foot, you and your bandit brothers were surrounded by an army. After a fierce battle, you and many bandits became prisoners and were taken to the school grounds of a military camp. You are so frightened that you think you will be executed, but in your burning fear, it is not the executioner who appears in your field of vision, but a god-like general. He is a burly man, his voice is like a flood bell, and he tells you with awe, do not turn your blade at your compatriots, and if you have the ability, go into battle to kill the enemy, drive away the prisoners, and restore the rivers and mountains.
This general's name is Yue Fei, and the army he leads is the famous Yue Family Army. From the day you were released, you became a warrior in the Yue family's army. Compared to those generals you followed before, Yue Fei was simply a clear current in the military world. The officers and soldiers under him did not tear down the people's houses and make fires when they were cold, did not rob the people of their food when they were hungry, and robbed the people in Yue Fei's army had only one end, death.
Remember the first time you and your comrades spent the night in the homes of ordinary people, and before leaving, your comrades told you that you must not pat your ass and leave, you must help the people clean the pots and pans, make the beds, and do not take anything away. Even if the people want to give it to you, even if you take a rope and lead the horse, if Marshal Yue knows about it, you will behead it. Before following Yue Fei, the common people saw that the army you were in was hiding, and after following Yue Fei, wherever you and your comrades went, the people welcomed and cheered. You have lamented countless times that such strict military discipline is what the imperial court army should look like, and such an army is the destination you are looking for.
Although the military discipline is strict, as long as you abide by discipline and fight heroically, Marshal Yue will never treat his soldiers badly, and under his iron fist, officers never dare to withhold military salaries, and you can eat most of the time. Marshal Yue has also always shared happiness and hardship with the soldiers, and the rewards he received were equally distributed to the soldiers, which paid out his pocket to buy weapons for the army and subsidize the families of officers and soldiers killed in the war. For the first time, you feel that being a soldier can also be dignified.
So you have more and more motivation to fight, and the comrades around you are just like you, going into battle to kill the enemy and fighting hard. Soon, you accumulated battle merits and became an officer. Under the leadership of Yue Fei, you fought all the way to Henan, and you fought successively. In order to turn the tide of the battle, the defeated Jin Guo army made a killer move and sent a team of hoplites.
The soldiers and war horses were covered in heavy armor, and for the infantry-dominated Song army, this cavalry was an eternal nightmare. Before joining the Yue Family Army, you had been ravaged countless times on the battlefield by the enemy's hoplite cavalry, even in your dreams. So this time, as soon as you see the enemy's hoplites appear on the horizon, thinking of the previous defeat, you can't help but shiver. But at this time, Marshal Yue told everyone that the joints of the war horse could not be protected by armor, that was the largest landing of the hoplites, and if you looked at the place, the victory would definitely belong to us.
In this vicious battle, your mission is to take a team of soldiers and use a long-handled axe to cut the knee joint of the war horse, and the horse's leg is cut off, and the disease is severely damaged, and it is impossible to move forward, and the subsequent troops can rush up to kill the enemy. The war drums thundered, the swallow dust soared into the air, and the great war began. Seeing the enemy's heavy disease gradually approaching, your hand holding the axe oozed sweat, you instinctively wanted to escape, but remembering Marshal Yue's instructions, you forced yourself to calm down, stared at the enemy without turning around, silently calculating that they were traveling fast, the enemy rushed in front of you, driven by the national hatred and survival instinct, you gritted your teeth, used all your strength, swung the axe, and just hit the knee of the war horse.
With the anguish roar of the warhorse, an amazing cavalry falls before you. The moment you swing your tomahawk, your soldiers also descended with a thousand axes and saw the golden cavalry rushing in the front row. The cavalry behind did not have time to slow down, and they fell to the ground one after another, and the people were in chaos when they shouted their horses. At this time, the hoplites of the Song Army preparing for battle behind you stepped forward and rushed towards the enemy army without hesitation, chopping melons and cutting vegetables, and killing the Jin soldiers on their backs. In this battle, you have gained a lot and almost destroyed the elite of the enemy army. Historically, this battle is known as the Great Victory of Haocheng.
The battle is won, you have also made great achievements, and you have once again been given the opportunity to be promoted. However, there are things that make you happier than promotions and rewards. You believe that if you continue to fight at this rate, you will soon be able to recover your old capital, restore the rivers and mountains, return to the land where your ancestors have lived for generations, and pay tribute to your relatives who died in the war. But you didn't expect that Marshal Yue's battle exploits brought him bad luck, Zhao Shu suspected that he had a heart of disobedience, and Qin Hui hated him for his high merits. Soon, in the frame of the unconscious monarch's tendency, Yue Fei was recalled by the 12 gold medals of the imperial court, arrested and imprisoned, and the minions of the adulterous Qin Hui found you, coerced and lured, and wanted you to frame Yue Fei for perjury.
Your conscience does not allow you to do such a thing, but you do not dare to explicitly refuse either. So, one night, you quietly packed your bags, and quietly escaped from the barracks with guilt, helplessness and grief. Later, you took root in the strange land of the south, married a wife and had children, but you can never forget the bloody years that Yue Jiajun respected. Years later, when your children grow up, you tell them about the prosperity of the northern capital of the past, and the children ask you why we were beaten by the golden people and only half of them remained. When will we be able to return to where Daddy grew up as a child? You can't bear to tell them that maybe there will never be this day, you can only leave your children with a hope, telling them that a long, long time ago, there was a general who was both stern and warm to his soldiers, and that the army he led was invincible and invincible.