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Liu Kun Shunchang won a great victory, Yue Fei's northern expedition to the Central Plains, and Yucheng defeated Yan Zongbi's main force, but was blocked by Huihe.
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In 1140, Emperor Yan launched another attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Song army also launched a defense and counterattack in 3 battlefields.
On the western front, Wu Xuan restrained the Shaanxi forces and blocked the sharp offensive of the Jin army; on the eastern front, Han Shizhong captured Haizhou (Lianyungang, Jiangsu), and Zhang Jun advanced to Suzhou and Bozhou in Huaixi, but the main battlefield of the war was on the middle road, and Yue Fei and Liu Kun fought against the main force of the Jin army of Yan Zongbi.
Liu Kun was a famous general in the northwest, with more than 10,000 people in the original Eight Character Army, and he was originally appointed as the deputy retainer of Tokyo, who was going to Kaifeng to take up his post. Halfway to Shunchang (Fuyang, Anhui), I heard that the Jin Dynasty broke the treaty and reoccupied Tokyo, and immediately decided to gather the army, together with the shunchang prefect, it took only 6 days to strictly deploy the city defense of Shunchang, and decided to resolutely defend Shunchang.
When the forward troops of the Jin Army arrived, he took advantage of the heavy rain in the night and sent 500 death squads to slash and beat the Jin Army in all directions. However, when Yan Zongbi's 100,000 main troops arrived, they did not pay attention to Liu Kun and his Shunchang City at all, claiming that they could kick down Shunchang with the tip of their boots.
The next day, Yan Zongbi led an army to attack, and also dispatched his aces "Tiefu Tu" and "Kidnapped Horse".
This is two kinds of cavalry, "floating tu" is originally a Buddhist term, is the meaning of "tower", that "iron floating tu" is actually a heavy armored cavalry, people and horses are covered with heavy iron armor, just like the tower, and every 3 horses are connected together like a wall, the impact is stronger. This class is equivalent to the ancient super heavy tank.
The "kidnapper horse" is the light cavalry of the Jin Army arranged on both wings, generally arranged with the infantry of the Chinese army to form a formation against the enemy. Yan Zongbi's formation is the configuration of these two cavalry, which is equivalent to the tank cluster of heavy tanks with strong destructive power and light tanks with strong mobility, and the huge power can be imagined.
However, Liu Kun had his own method, he first insisted on not being able to do so, and quietly sent people to the upper reaches of the river outside the city to poison the water. It was summer, and the people and horses of jinguo were thirsty for a long time, so they had to drink water, and many of them were poisoned, and their strength was greatly reduced.
Liu Kun did not just defend and not attack, he divided his troops into several teams and took turns to attack the flanks of the Jin army. The Jin people wanted to encircle the attacking Song army, but the Song army fought bravely, and the Jin army was never able to succeed. As for the "Iron Floating Massacre" of the Jin Army, Liu Kun's method was to form a group of two soldiers in front of the battle, one of them holding a long javelin with a thorn in the tip of the gun, and specially picking the helmets of the enemy cavalry; the other person took a long-handled axe and cut off the heads of the enemy whose helmets were plucked off.
After several days of fighting, Liu Kai inflicted great casualties on the Jin army, and finally won the victory in the defense of Shunchang with a weak victory, and Yan Zongbi was forced to withdraw to Kaifeng.
After the great victory in Shunchang, the Song army turned to a strategic counteroffensive. At this time, the Southern Song Army already had the combat effectiveness to confront the Jin Army in an all-round way, especially the Yue Family Army led by Yue Fei, and it was even more courageous.
Yue Fei is a Xiangzhou Tangyin person, that is, Henan Tangyin, born of a farmer, but his strength is superior, his martial arts are strong, he can pull open a 300-pound hard bow and an 8-stone crossbow, and he can open a bow left and right, and a hundred shots. We can't measure how strong this is now, according to research in the Song Dynasty, this is the top of the military.
After Jing Kang, he enlisted in the army, fought bravely, and became a junior officer because of his military achievements. However, because he was dissatisfied with the Southern Song Dynasty court's flight to the south, he wrote a letter criticizing it, and as a result, he was expelled from the military. Yue Fei, who was full of enthusiasm for serving the country, turned to Hebei Road to recruit Zhang Suo, and was promoted by Zhang Suo all the way to the commander-in-chief, even if he was an officer at the level of a general. Later, he defected to Zong Ze, where he was heavily valued by Zong Ze and made many military achievements.
Later, Yue Fei withdrew to Jiankang with Du Chongnan, and when Du Chong surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, Yue Fei not only controlled his own troops, but also took in many defeated soldiers and turned to the Jianghuai region. It was during this period that Yue Fei shared weal and woe with ordinary soldiers, strictly restrained the troops, and achieved the goal of "freezing to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without plundering," and shaping an anti-Gold force with strict discipline, bravery in battle, and no offense against the people.
Later, Yue Fei's troops were ordered to eliminate bandits and rebels in Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, and a large number of soldiers were collected from them to strengthen their own ranks. In recognition of his merits, Emperor Gaozong of Song personally wrote down the four characters of "Jingzhong Yue Fei" and embroidered it into a banner to give to Yue Fei.
Later, the puppet Qi army captured Xiangyang and Yingzhou, and the Song Dynasty's defense line in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was broken, Yue Fei took the initiative to ask for battle, defeated the puppet Qi army, recovered 6 counties of Xiangyang, and then recovered part of Henan territory to the north, which was the first time that the Song Dynasty recovered a large area of lost land.
Although this was only a partial victory, it changed the image of the Southern Song Dynasty as weak and greatly encouraged the anti-Jin fighting spirit of the Southern Song soldiers and civilians, and the 32-year-old Yue Fei was awarded the Qingyuan Army Jiedushi Envoy, becoming the youngest Jianjie military general of the Song Dynasty.
As we said, the Song Dynasty's Jiedushi envoy was the honorary title of a military general, and being able to establish a festival was the highest achievement of a military general, and Yue Fei was later awarded the title of Zhenning and Chongxin for his military achievements.
Later, Yue Fei quelled the Yang Shu rebellion that lasted for 6 years in Dongting Lake, and incorporated the elite warriors among them, plus the people and horses allocated by the imperial court, and increased the strength of the army to 100,000, becoming the front army with the largest number of troops in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he also became one of the "four generals of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty.
After Liu Kun defeated Yan Zongbi at Shunchang, Yue Fei implemented the policy of "linking Heshuo", that is, to send people to contact the anti-Jin rebels in the Heshuo area and open up guerrilla areas behind enemy lines to cooperate with frontal battlefields. With the goal of recapturing Kaifeng, he personally led his army into the city of yǎn (漯河郾城城, Henan), and sent his troops to camp in Yingchang (Xuchang, Henan), thus forming a strategic encirclement of Kaifeng.
After Yan Zongbi discovered Yue Fei's attempt, he rested for more than a month after the defeat of Shunchang, personally leading 15,000 elite cavalry to attack The city directly, he wanted to use the plain terrain to eliminate the main force of the Yue family army in one fell swoop.
Yue Fei also did his best in this Battle of Haocheng, casting various ingenious tactics that greatly limited the cavalry superiority of the Jin Army. As for the "iron floating slaughter" of the Jin army, the soldiers of the Yue family army, with great spirit of sacrifice, armed with short knives, axes, and other weapons, rushed in and cut off the legs of the horses regardless of their personal lives and deaths.
In the face of such an iron army that sacrificed its life and forgot its life, the Jin Army could not help but sigh that "it is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army", and Yan Zongbi also said with emotion: Since I started my army, relying on such a cavalry fighting style, I am invincible, and it seems that today is the end of the day. And the arrogant Yue Fei said to the generals: Go straight to the Huanglong Mansion and drink with the princes.
Later, Yan Zongbi attacked Yingchang again, but was also severely damaged by the Yue family's army, and he stationed 100,000 troops in Zhuxian Town, 45 miles outside Kaifeng, in an attempt to block Yue Fei, but was defeated as soon as the battle was fought. At this time, the northern rebels also responded one after another, and the good news in the north and south of the great river was frequently reported.
However, just when the situation was very good, and it was about to be restored to kaifeng, the capital of the country, a surprising scene appeared, Yue Fei actually received 12 gold medals from the imperial court in succession, asking him to withdraw from the south, because the imperial court wanted to negotiate peace with Jin Guo again.
Yue Fei watched as Emperor Gaozong and Qin Ju buried the most promising Northern Expedition, and cried out in sorrow: "It is difficult to revitalize the Country; the Qiankun world, there is no reason to recover!" ”
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