Chapter 1853 Although I want to watch the fire from the other side, I can't stay out of it
Yang Yao, who was famous among various uprising leaders around the time when the two Song Dynasties overlapped, was no less famous than Song Jiang and Fang La. There were many legends about his deeds even after his death. After all, he should be an unruly and unruly leader.
A very courageous hero who was really dedicated to rebelling to the end. Song Dynasty and Puppet Qi Dynasty repeatedly sent envoys to surrender, but they were all beheaded and their heads were thrown into the river. They fought to break through until the last moment and fought to the end.
He is a ruthless person, but when it comes to his heroic appearance, Yang Yao's greed for pleasure and short-sightedness are also his biggest fatal flaws. Therefore, he may be able to make waves in the turbulent world of the court for a while, but in the long run, it is unlikely that he will become a leader.
After all, although Yang Yao was able to win the support of the people for a while in the name of resisting the tyranny of the government, his actions became unpopular over time. As the leader of the rebel army who gathered in the green forests and grass to cause chaos, he might not be as successful as Song Jiang in one thing. At least.
Although the one hundred and eight people on Liangshan Mountain in Water Margin were all good and bad, they almost really lived and died together. However, as soon as Shi Li Yuefei's crusade army arrived, Yang Yao's personality charm suddenly fell completely at a disadvantage. He should have been
The Green Forest brothers, who trusted each other with their lives, rushed to surrender to Yue Fei... What kind of Green Forest hero could he be with outstanding leadership skills?
However, now that Zhong Xiang, the leader who was the first to win the support of the green forest leaders in Hunan, is not dead, and Yang Yao, who was the youngest among the rebel leaders, does not have to take the position in his place, the situation is completely different.
According to previous inspections, Xiao Tang also knew that although the current Prime Minister Zhong also burned government temples and wealthy people's homes in the name of practicing law, he indiscriminately killed officials, Confucian scholars, monks, and fortune-tellers... as a means of rebellion.
He is really too fanatical and extreme. By eliminating all systems that he regards as evil laws and tyranny, he thinks that he can construct a set of order based on Manichaean teachings out of thin air to expand and expand. In the long run, I am afraid that he will be like Jiangnan La.
The eradication of annihilation, but at least at this stage, Prime Minister Zhong is still trying his best to maintain an egalitarian system where the rich and the poor are equal, and they are not subject to exploitation and oppression by official laws and decrees. Excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are exempted. Such an idea can still be favored by those at the bottom of society who have been stunned for a long time.
Enough of the corrupt officials and unkind gentry who oppressed and oppressed the poor people who enthusiastically supported it. Unlike Yang Yao who, after taking office, and some of his close leaders began to deviate from their original purpose and began to indulge in extravagance and pleasure, while other leaders and soldiers were still in poverty.
And of course the people looked at it and felt betrayed. In the end, people's hearts were scattered, and they could only repel the Song court's lax military discipline. When the elite officers and soldiers came to conquer, they saw that the momentum was not right, so they rushed to defect.
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Therefore, Yue Fei's original strategy of dividing and co-opting the enemy's internal forces against Prime Minister Zhong and Yang Yao's rebel army may not be very effective now.
In the first few battles, the elite Song army that Yue Fei pulled up showed invincible vigor. They defeated several rebel armies in a row, burned more than a dozen military villages along the Water and Land Margin, and successfully recruited and surrendered a rebel under Yang Yao's command.
Army leader Huang Zuo (the prototype of Wang Zuo in "The Complete Biography of Yue") successively recruited two to three thousand surrendered troops. He recaptured Yue and Chen prefectures and successfully curbed the trend of the rebels invading prefectures and plundering counties.
However, when the rebel leaders such as Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao, and Xia Cheng led the soldiers and horses to the Dongting Lake area, they took advantage of the danger of the lake's port branch and set up strongholds near the lake. More than 100,000 rebel troops gathered around them to continue fighting against Zhang Jun.
, when the Song army under Yue Fei was resisting, Yue Fei tried to lure the leaders of the rebel armies to surrender. Even though some of them were wavering, they still refused to abandon the "Great Sage of Heaven" Zhong Xiang that they supported.
The war has entered a stalemate stage, and although Yang Yao still doesn't know that his destiny has changed, even if he is not an unsuccessful uprising leader now, he is indeed a good leader in water warfare. In front of Zhong Xiang's tent
Still fighting to the death, the command tower was two or three stories high and could accommodate nearly a thousand people. Wheels were installed in the cabin, and the bicycles and boats hit the water and swam quickly on the water, joining several other water villages on the vast Dongting of 800 miles.
The flow of people coming and going is no less impressive than that of Shuibo Liangshan, which is guarded by Sanruan's water village.
Although Yue Fei led his elite troops to conquer Zhong Xiang's rebel army on land, they were invincible. However, according to the official history, the naval establishment of the Yue family army was originally selected and built after Yang Yao was put down and a large number of rebel troops were recruited. What's more?
"Po Li San" and Li Bao, who according to their original trajectory should have defected to Yue Fei's command, were first-class naval generals. They had already defected from Xiao Tang and became Qi Dynasty naval generals... Therefore, even if Yue Fei is
He was well versed in strategy, and his attempt to forcefully seize the rebel army's chain water stronghold still failed. Instead, it was in vain and cost the lives of many soldiers who were not good at water warfare, so he couldn't help but feel disappointed.
The imperial court learned that the water stronghold set up by Zhong Fan's army on the islands near Dongting Lake was difficult to break, so it also supported Zhang Jun and Yue Fei's expeditionary army, and ordered minister Wang Yu to build a system for Jingnan and Tanding Liyue.
The envoys were in charge of Cui Zeng, the commander of the Imperial Army, and Gao Jin, the commander of the Shenwu Army, who commanded more than 30,000 people; the commander of the navy in Jingtan, Wu Quan, led hundreds of warships, and more than 10,000 soldiers also went to Dongting Lake to suppress and sweep. The rest were under Yue Fei's command.
They advanced by land and water to encircle and suppress the rebel water strongholds. However, when Yue Fei reached the rebel stronghold on land, the strongholds were already deserted. On the water, the navy commanded by Wang Yu encountered the main force of the rebel car and boat navy commanded by Yang Yao.
They retreated, and then Yang Yao used a trick to lure the army navy to the Yangwukou bank of Dongting Lake. Treadmills and giant ships came out to encircle them and ran rampant, ramming and sinking all the Song navy boats and annihilating Cui Zeng and Wu.
The entire Song army, which totaled more than 10,000 people, immediately launched a counterattack on the lake, and then arrived at Yougang. The fleet of vehicles and boats completely defeated the main force of the navy and killed the officers and soldiers under Wang Yu's command.
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Whenever Yue Fei encountered rebel troops on the road, they were extremely aggressive and would almost always push the enemy to the ground and rub them against each other. Unexpectedly, the water troops under Zhong Xiang's command on the Dongting Lake also pushed the Song Ting navy into the water and poured water back and forth. There were several water battles.
After the great victory, Yang Yao's reputation was completely established. He became famous for a while, and some people compared him with Xiao Tang's naval army such as Hun Jianglong, Huo Yanluo, Langli Baitiao and other water squad masters...
However, even if the rebel leader Zhong Xiang failed to be captured, most of the main troops of the Hunan rebel army could still be saved by relying on the Dongting Lake Chain Village. At any rate, Yue Fei had repeatedly won great victories in previous battles and recovered Yue first.
Chen's second military prefecture, and forcing Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao's rebel army retreated to the waters of Dongting Lake to defend it. They did not dare to fight the Song army on land for the time being. Presumably, they could also gain access to Ding, Li, and Tan previously occupied by Zhong Xiang's rebel army.
Three prefectures and most of the counties. At least during this period, the commander-in-chief of the Song Army Zhang Jun was pleasantly surprised by the leadership ability of Yue Fei, a rising star in the Song Army. Therefore, when commenting on the merits and demerits of the lieutenant generals, he went to officials to commend Yue Fei for his great contributions. Therefore, Yue Fei not only won
The imperial court promoted him to the position of envoy of the Three Prefectures System of Jinghu North Road, and granted him the title of Viscount of the Founding of Wuchang County. This attracted the attention of many civil and military officials in the Bianjing court, including the official Zhao Huan.
According to the latest trends of the Song army under Yue Fei, it seems that after being rewarded and reorganized, they will be mobilized to the south. It seems that they are going to conquer and quell the army that also has more than 100,000 people and occupies various military states under the rule of Guangdong and Lingnan.
Cao Cheng's troops rebelled. The Song Dynasty also dispatched various military commanders and horses on Jinghu Road to guard the corner of Litan Dongting and be on guard against Prime Minister Zhong. Yang Yao's rebels took advantage of Yue Fei's southward movement to suppress the bandits and came back again.
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No matter how long it takes for Yue Fei to lead his direct troops to Lingnan and Guangxi to conquer Cao Cheng, as long as Prime Minister Zhong, Yang Yao's forces still exist, and they can still contain Yue Fei's Song Dynasty.
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Of course, Xiao Tang was happy to sit back and watch as the rebel forces such as Zhong Xiang, Cao Cheng, Yang Jin, and Wang Shan dragged the Song army into massacres. However, he also knew very well that he was still the biggest scourge in the eyes of the official Zhao Huan. As long as Song Dynasty
If Ting was able to free up his hands, he would inevitably launch a military operation to test the now unified territory under his rule, or to recapture a large area of the original Song territory in one fell swoop. Only two days later, as expected, Xiao Tang returned
According to the military intelligence from the Jingdong Road exploration, the official Qin appointed Chen Que, the Suzhou pacifier envoy, as the imperial camp envoy. All the six armies were unified as the Jingdong pacifier envoy, and ordered 50,000 troops and horses to go and fight with the troops who had retreated to the Huainan Army area.
Liu Guangshi's Song army gathered together, and it seemed that they were still going to the north to regain the lost territory, and then headed straight to the central state capital that controlled the two roads east of Jingdong under Xiao Tang...
