It was slightly cold in the mountainous areas of North China in winter, and Yue Fei, who felt uncomfortable in his heart, left Wang Yan's mountain stronghold alone. After walking for only a short time, he turned into a mountain pass and faced a cold wind, which made him feel much calmer.
By the way, there is no doubt that Yue Fei is a very talented person:
He is obviously from a traditional northern peasant family, and his two brothers have not been raised to adulthood, but when he arrived, he was born with supernatural powers, as if some gods and monsters descended from the earth. Once he got started with this martial arts, he made rapid progress, and soon he became the brave champion of the three armies today.
It cannot be said that he is a brave general who is unique among ten thousand!
It should be noted that Zhao Jiu over there can shoot a hard bow of one stone and five stones, and can already use it to boast of both civil and military skills, but Yue Fei can shoot a three-stone bow as soon as he gets started, and his waist crossbow can even shoot eight stones!
Not only that, he mainly practiced martial arts when he was young, and had to find time to help his parents with farm work. He only occasionally learned to read and read, but he also made rapid progress in this area. When he was twenty years old, he was kicked out of the Xiangzhou Archer's School for drinking and causing trouble.
As a result, at the age of twenty-four, I was able to write a thousand-word book for the government... Is it okay to write a thousand-word book these days?
And in a few years, he will still be able to write poems of that level, let alone say more.
In addition, the most terrible thing is that, facing the instability of his family and country, this young man's character has been growing rapidly... When he was young, his character was much more irritable and stubborn than now, but one by one,
After experiencing one thing after another, it is no longer the same as before.
It was just like now. In fact, Yue Pengju, who was looking at the Taihang Mountains in trance, vaguely understood that something was wrong with him and Wang Yan today.
Among them, Wang Yan's character was originally the same as his own before, stubborn, self-respecting, black and white, with both the heroism and shortcomings of a warrior, and the sourness and insight of a literati after reading some books, but the other party actually chose today
Tolerance and generosity, but I don’t know why.
In the same way, Yue Fei asked himself that he was really a person who was good at learning and reforming. Although his temperament was hard to change, he rarely let himself make the same mistakes again after being confirmed... For example, when it came to impeaching Li Gang, Yue Pengju had been away from the line all the way to this point.
He already understood how precious the existence of a prime minister like Li Gang was! And after crossing the river this time, he even vaguely realized that if he wanted to resist the Jin Dynasty, he must consider the overall situation, gather strength from the rear, and then use it in a grand manner.
Only by crossing the river and heading north can Hebei be truly revitalized!
In fact, this was the fundamental reason why he had a strategic conflict with Wang Yan and why he questioned Wang Yan today. Guerrilla warfare in the mountains is not impossible, but it is impossible to truly defeat the Jinren cavalry with this!
What Yue Fei wants is to give me back my country!
However, when things came to pass, he still lost his composure, was still full of resentment, and was still mixed with too many personal emotions!
However, compared with Wang Yan's abnormality, which is difficult to distinguish, the reason for Yue Fei's own abnormality has long been revealed by Wang Yan that this is Xinxiang, and the front is Xiangzhou!
Yue Fei has even been to the mountainous area at his feet. Tangyin is in the south of Xiangzhou, and this mountainous area is north of Xinxiang. The distance is only a hundred miles away. And more than a hundred miles away, Yue Pengju's mother, wife, and sixteen
The eldest son Yue Yun, who was born just after getting married, is there, but at this time, there has been no information about him for many years, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead.
With his hometown in front of him, but he was in such a difficult situation, it was no wonder that Lieutenant Wang felt sorry for himself!
However, returning to the present, Yue Fei had to make a decision. At this time, the Jin army was heavily outnumbered. Should he try to go to Xiangzhou?
"elder brother!"
Just when Yue Fei was standing on his horse with an expressionless face, staring at the majestic Taihang Mountains with his eyes wide open, his heart was filled with turmoil. Suddenly, two riders came from the other side of the mountain pass, and the leader saw only Yue Fei's figure and looked at each other from a distance.
call.
Yue Fei didn't need to look or ask, he knew that this was Zhang Xian, the liveliest among his brothers. He could even guess that following Zhang Xian there must be the cold-faced, warm-hearted, taciturn Tang Huai.
Zhang Xian, Tang Huai, and Wang Gui, who must be in charge of the military camp at this time, are the closest brothers to Yue Fei. They all come from Tangyin County, a hundred miles away to the north, and they were together when they were young.
He learned the art of riding and archery from his mentor Zhou Tong. When he grew up, he started as a local archer and moved around, always supporting each other and never leaving.
They say they are right-hand men, but in fact they are basically brothers.
"Brother!" Zhang Xian rode up to him, but he was still nervous. "Then Taiwei Wang has a bad temper. Didn't he embarrass my brother?"
"No." Yue Fei turned around and said with a smile. "Instead, he promised us a document, allowing us to lead our troops and go anywhere else we want."
"Why are you so easy to talk to?" Even Tang Huai, who had always had a cold face, was shocked.
"We thought that Lieutenant Wang was going to harm our brother!" Zhang Xian was even more lively. "If so, doesn't it mean that we can go home? When will we leave? After picking up my aunt and sister-in-law, and our
After becoming relatives, do you want to come back?"
"Listen to brother." Tang Huai calmly calmed Zhang Xian. "This matter is not that simple. The golden soldiers in front are densely packed, and they are all cavalry. However, we only have seven or eight hundred soldiers, and three hundred of them are the ones who just surrendered.
How can Ji Qing's bandits be used?"
"It's not just something that can't be used." In front of his brothers, Yue Fei didn't make any attempt to hide it. "The key is that these people are all good men who are willing to fight against the enemy. How can we ask others to do it just for the selfishness of our brothers?
Delivery on the way north?"
"What kind of selfishness is this?" Zhang Xian immediately became anxious. "Does it mean that going to Tangyin is not a fight against gold? If that's the case, then Zhao Guan's family fooled our brothers and more than 7,000 good men across the river, and suddenly they were
If we don't care about us, and we end up like this even though we won the battle, wouldn't it mean that 7,000 of us were sent here for the selfish reasons of the Zhao Guan family?"
Tang Huai wanted to reprimand Zhang Xian, but he was reluctant to say it: "Brother, it is Tang Yin in front of you after all! Your Yue Yun is eight years old, don't let him not recognize you when he sees you!
"
"I'm just hesitant." Yue Fei confessed frankly on the horse. "The key is that before, Lieutenant Wang sent a message to all the counties, which made the Jin soldiers think that we are the main force. Now there are too many Jin soldiers in the north..."
Tang Huai nodded immediately, it was just as he thought... Why didn't he want to go home? But with his mature personality, he was more concerned about whether he could really get there.
"As for you idiot." Yue Feifu glanced sideways at Zhang Xian again, his expression a lot more serious. "Are we the same thing as the Zhao Guan family? The Zhao Guan family has selfish motives, but their selfishness can mobilize the public mindedness of the people in the world.
, and only by relying on the selfish motives of the Zhao Guan family can we really drive away the golden man and go home peacefully! Don't talk nonsense like this in the future."
Zhang Xian felt dissatisfied... It should be noted that the words about Zhao Guan's selfishness were originally words pulled out by his elder brother Yue after he came out of the industry, just like the traitor Li Gang. However, as before, not long after, his elder brother Yue came again.
A set of truths struck him as a phrase he made up, but as a younger brother, he couldn't refute it.
Of course, Zhang Xian just felt aggrieved and did not dare to talk nonsense in front of Yue Fei and Tang Huai.
Now that the three brothers had gathered together and roughly understood the situation at hand, they stopped talking and turned out of the mountain pass together, and then joined a group of seven or eight bodyguard cavalry waiting outside, and they went together.
Returned to the camp (Jiqing's bandit's lair) which was also in the mountains.
It was a cold winter, and the mountain roads were difficult to walk. There were even scattered Jin cavalry scouts on the road. Yue Fei and the others worked hard all the way, and only returned to the camp with only a few hundred people in the evening.
Seeing that Yue Fei was fine, the officers and soldiers of the headquarters, who had already been subdued by this general with high martial arts skills and strict military management, let out a sigh of relief and secretly said they were lucky. When they found out that Lieutenant Wang did not pursue him, he let him go.
The whole camp was filled with joy even more after the hands and feet.
However, the matter was not over yet. Under the mist in the mountains at night, Yue Fei, who had just entered the tent, had not had time to have some hot food. Wang Gui, the brother whom Yue Zong trusted and relied on the most, the most capable and the highest official, suddenly suddenly
Transfer it to the account again, as if you have something secret that you want to tell privately.
"My brother caught the gold to save his life, but he actually took the initiative to reveal many secrets." Wang Gui told him in a low voice.
"Since the first year of Jingkang, this is the first time I have seen such a naughty golden general." Yue Fei put down his rice bowl and was stunned for a moment. He opened his eyes. He didn't know whether he despised the golden general or didn't believe in his brother.
mean.
"This is not a serious golden general." Wang Gui couldn't help but sneered. "Although this man looks like a Tatar, he is actually a Tatar from the Liao Kingdom. And doesn't my brother know the nature of the Tatars from the Liao Kingdom?"
Yue Fei also laughed.
It is said that their brothers had rich military experience. In the early years, Zhang Xian was still young and could not keep up. However, Wang Gui and Tang Huai enlisted with him to recruit brave warriors designed to conquer Liao Dynasty, and served as soldiers under the famous minister Liu Kai.
, I have indeed seen a lot of Liao generals, and I know that those people are as sluggish as they were in the Song Dynasty, but now that they have a new master, they can't help but become trembling again.
"Then it's believable. Let's talk about it." Yue Fei picked up his rice bowl again and motioned to Wang Gui to elaborate.
"Two things!" Wang Gui continued to talk in a low voice. "Firstly, this time the Jin army went south, it was not a hasty encounter, but the whole army went south, divided into two groups, east and west..."
Yue Fei was slightly startled before taking a bite of rice.
"He made it clear here in the west that Nianhan was the generalissimo and sent a total of 100,000 households and 100,000 soldiers, followed by 100,000 households and hundreds of cavalry generals. It is said that he wanted to attack Shaanzhou and Luoyang.
, sweep the east of Hebei, and even attack Guanzhong... He doesn't know about the east side, he only knows that it is roughly analogous, it is to sweep Daming Mansion in Hebei, and then attack Qingzhou, and maybe even attack Nanjing Xingzai! "
"How many soldiers are there?" Yue Fei, who had no idea that Zhao Guan's family had fled south and then stopped, could no longer swallow his food, so he put down his rice bowl and asked seriously.
"Only more." Wang Guiye replied seriously. "Because although there is no marshal there, there are eleven thousand households! The vanguard who leads the army and the deputy commander who holds the battle are the biological sons of Aguda, the old emperor of the Jin Kingdom.
With cousins.”
It was cold in early winter, but Yue Fei rarely felt stuffy and hot in his chest. After spending a lot of effort to digest these things, he spoke again: "What about the second thing?"
"The second thing is that Wang Taiwei was very satisfied with his ambition before and spread the message to the counties in Hebei and Hedong. In the end, the Jin army was a little panicked and thought it was a serious army. Therefore, the Jin army here got the order and must kill Wang.
Only the Taiwei can go south..." I don't know why, but under the dim candlelight in the tent, Wang Gui stood on one side wearing armor, exhaling from his mouth, and the white mist shrouded him, as if he had other intentions.
"That's a good thing."
Yue Fei stared at his brother's face, thought about it for a moment, and then he came to his senses, and then he felt a lot more relaxed. "The Jin people's strength lies in their cavalry. They can't use it at all in this mountain. But in this mountain, Wang Taiwei's success or failure does not depend on the strength of his troops at all."
There is a huge disparity, and whether we can suppress the people in the mountains...but we can help Zong Liubei and Shaanzhou, and Luoyang involves a lot of soldiers and horses!"
Wang Gui nodded repeatedly: "Brother is right, that's exactly what I think! Besides, I thought about it privately today. It's none of our brothers' business that Taiwei Wang has become a target. It's none of our business if we stay here."
It's useless, but Wang Taiwei is not only helping Zong stay behind this time, but also dragging down the troops... Brother, why can't we take advantage of the main force of the Jin army to go south, and when the Jin army here wants to surround Wang Taiwei first, we can take the opportunity to attack from outside.
How about returning to Xiangzhou around the road?!"
Yue Fei's heart moved, and he was also surprised for a moment. He opened his mouth to agree, but when the words reached his throat, he couldn't say it for some reason.
Wang Gui was surprised when he saw this, but like the other two, he had always admired this 'brother' who was the same age as him, so he didn't dare to say anything.
The two brothers stood and sat together for a long time before Yue Pengju spoke slowly, using the tone of an ordinary military order:
"We can't take advantage of this and go to Xiangzhou! We have to return to Henan quickly, tell Zong Liushou what happened, and then help Zong Liushou guard Tokyo!"
"elder brother?!"
Wang Gui was stunned for a long time before he figured out the other party's order, but found it difficult to understand. "It's not that we did anything bad. The Jin people wanted to go south, and Wang Taiwei wanted to show off, which ended up attracting the main force of the Jin people nearby. Why did I
Can’t you take advantage of this?”
"It's not about whether we can take advantage of this." Yue Fei stared at Wang Gui, his injured eyes twitched again, but he spoke extremely seriously. "It's about understanding the truth..."
"How can there be no reason not to return home when we are in front?" Wang Gui completely lost control.
Yue Fei had mixed feelings in his heart, but he suppressed his emotions and explained sincerely to Wang Gui, the second person in the army:
"Brother, when you go home, you will be divided into real ones and fake ones! If you go back at this time, you can certainly get home, but you will definitely not be able to gain a foothold. On three and five days, March and May, you will have to be driven out by the golden people like chickens and dogs, and then
Are you willing to cause the countrymen to be massacred by the Jinmen?"
When Wang Gui heard this, he cried when he thought of the two years of wandering around. But after all, he knew the truth and managed to answer: "Of course I don't want to!"
"So if we good guys want to go home, we must really go home!" Yue Fei stood up and held his shoulder and said. "But if we want to really go home, there is only one way, and that is to drive the Jin people out completely, and even to
In turn, attack them at home! But if you really want to drive the Jin people away, as you have seen and heard, you must have a regular king master who can force an army of 100,000 or 200,000 people like the Jin people.
! And if you want to have such a large army, the Song Dynasty must not fall, and the government must be in peace! Otherwise, we will not even have anywhere to find weapons! So if we want to go home at this time, we can only go south! This principle
, Zhang Xian is a bastard, he definitely doesn’t understand, but you and Tang Huai must understand no matter what, otherwise I, Yue Fei, will be really armless!”
Wang Gui was already convinced in his heart, but he just felt uncomfortable in his chest. Hearing these words at this time, he suppressed the sour feeling in his nose, agreed to Yue Fei, agreed to help him restrain the army, and immediately crossed the river before the Jin people completely moved south.
Go south.
Now that Wang Gui had left the tent, Yue Pengju was sitting alone in the tent. He just mechanically picked up the rice bowl and put a mouthful of rice into his mouth. This young general, like Wang Gui, had a sore nose and burst into tears, but he quickly wiped it away.
He took a handful of it, raised his head and endured it.
The mountain wind howled at night. For some reason, Yue Fei, who could no longer remember his son's appearance, thought of what Wang Yan said to him during the day... The sun is shining brightly! The sky is shining brightly!
But how difficult is it?!
ps: Yesterday's chapter hurt me. I beg for mercy for the sake of yesterday's big chapter. Let me adjust it on Friday night. There will be no update tonight. I hope you guys will understand.
By the way, I would like to recommend the book "Xiao Tu of the Song Dynasty", a new book by a big brother in the same period, a new book in the same period of history... I recommend it with 40,000 words and 160,000... If you think this is too young, you can give it a try.