Du Chong, who had always had an excellent political image, was actually a little afraid of war, which surprised Yue Fei.
But then I thought about it, except for Zongze, which civil servant is not afraid of war these days? Even Li Gang advocated stabilizing first and then counterattacking. Moreover, this person originally escaped from Daming Palace, so he was a little timid and had nothing to say.
Of course, the most important point is that after Zongze fell ill, Yue Pengju supported half of the situation almost semi-independently. In the meantime, he experienced the chaos of Tokyo's war preparations, but Wang Yan's spirit and the gangsterism of Shitongzhi were still calm.
, obviously had enough psychological preparation to try their best to stitch up the crumbling Tokyo Remaining Department in an attempt to resist the Jin.
As for Du Chong, given his identity and status, as long as he doesn't drop the money, Yue Fei can't say anything... as long as he doesn't cause any trouble.
In fact, Du Chongqian stood for a while, thinking about it, but he could only order Yue Fei and Li Qiong to pack up the troops, horses, remaining food and supplies, and prepare to go south to gather the ten commanders.
As expected, there was nothing wrong with the action. Yue Fei had nothing to say. He just bowed down quickly and went out to work with Li Qiong.
He did not mention what Yue Fei and Li Qiong were thinking at the moment. He only said that under the overall situation, Du Chong had to send troops. However, after sending away two confidant generals who were from Xiangzhou Township, he sat in the back hall of Kaifeng Mansion.
Inside, I sighed for a moment.
At this time, when the affairs in the mansion were about to happen, his son Du Yan was qualified to come forward and greet him.
In fact, after experiencing the Jingkang Rebellion, Du Yan only saw his biological father again after a long time, and he was quite confused.
"Daddy."
Du Yan carefully served a cup of tea, then stood up and stood aside, carefully asking, "The officials appointed dad as the deputy left-behind officer. It is obvious that they want to entrust the 100,000 troops of the Tokyo left-behind department and the overall situation of Henan. Why is dad not happy?"
Du Chong was not unhappy at all, but sad and bored, but he couldn't express it directly as his son.
However, in front of the only flesh and blood person in front of him, Du Chong stopped showing off. He swallowed a sip of warm tea and kept his expression unchanged: "What's so gratifying? The situation is so bad, the officials and princes of Nanyang
You only know how to hide in a fortified city and talk about war on paper, but you ask me to lead the troops to fight. Isn't this putting your father and me on the fire?"
"But... there were discussions in the Privy Council, and I have heard some of them," Du Yan said quickly. "It is said that there are no soldiers who can be saved from the outside, but there is no city that must be defended from the inside... In the past, we were determined to defend Nanyang, Tokyo, and
The ministers of Wuhe relied on Han Shizhong's troops and horses to roam outside, and Han Shizhong was ambushed when he was rescuing Tokyo. Now that Han Shizhong was trapped in Changshe, he naturally had to try his best to gather an army to rescue him no matter what.
That’s right.”
"The art of war is good at memorizing it, but it's just talk on paper." Du Chong sneered. "You have already said that Han Shizhong was defeated by himself. In Nanyang's eyes, the originally perfect 'saveable soldier' was nothing more than that. What about me here?
Is the 'salvageable soldier' useful?"
"Dad, are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat him?" Du Yan suddenly realized. "That's 80,000 people!"
"It's weird if you can beat him!" Du Chong slammed the tea cup in his hand on the case in front of him, with a ferocious expression. "What 80,000 people? A bunch of defeated soldiers with different agendas, plus 20,000 people who escaped from the Taihang Mountains
The gangsters, that is, Yue Fei and Li Qiong's soldiers can be used...but Talan has a cavalry of four thousand households! What to fight?! How to fight?! In the past, the Western Army and the main force of the Tokyo Forbidden Army were hundreds of thousands.
Tens of thousands of people from the Jin Army were devoured alive under the walls of Taiyuan City. How can I fight two against one here?! Nanyang is asking me to die!"
Du Yan was frightened and dared not speak. The father and son were speechless for a while.
After a long time, seeing his father's breath gradually calming down, Du Yan thought for a moment, sighed in his heart, and then tried his best to say again: "It's not that I don't understand my father's difficulties, but in times of national calamity, it is difficult for everyone... After all, we are officials.
My family has promoted my father all the way to this point. As ministers, we, father and son, must always be grateful for God's grace, right?"
"How grateful?!" Du Chong originally picked up the teacup and was about to drink again. When he heard this, he simply sneered and threw the teacup directly. "Let me ask you, you have been here in the waste city of Tokyo for many days.
Say it yourself, what is the Tokyo Left Behind Department?!"
Du Yan was about to speak but stopped, and instead of waiting for his son to speak, Du Chong replied to himself:
"The Tokyo Liushou Division is basically a vassal town in the Tang Dynasty plus a begging army from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The reason why it is not a vassal town or a begging army is just because there is a Liushou with a decent background to guard the court. Now Zong Liushou suddenly
After he fell ill, the court naturally needed someone with a decent background to feel at ease, and those military thieves and bandits also wanted an acquaintance who was from Hebei and had experience here before they could feel at ease. So who else can be used besides your father?
Quan Bangyan? Quan Bangyan is fine, but isn’t Huazhou locked?”
Du Yan was in a daze for a moment.
"Even if Quan Bangyan is not trapped, according to his experience, he is from Hebei and was born as a defender. He abandoned the city and fled to Tokyo. What is the difference between me and me?" Du Chong continued to speak angrily. "I dare to ask, the same
His resume, qualifications, age, and official rank are not as good as mine. How can he be blamed for being a stay-at-home secretary in Tokyo?! So the grace is all in vain. Your father was originally a tinker arranged by the imperial court.
Quan Bangyan, on the other hand, is here to make up for your father's troubles... The princes in the court know it well! Whether the official understands it or not, what kind of grace is that?"
Du Yan shook his head repeatedly: "Since it is said that Deputy Quan (Quan Bangyan) is left behind, my son is presumptuous. He is also extremely difficult in Huazhou, but he is not frustrated and avoids the war. What I mean is that no matter what..."
"I've already told you, you know nothing." Du Chong suddenly showed his fatigue. "Are defending a city and fighting in the field the same thing? The former can just sit back and wait for success or failure, so why waste your energy? The latter wants you
Go make decisions in the wilderness and die!"
Du Yan was completely speechless, but anxious: "Dad...is it really impossible?"
"Field warfare is bound to be impossible." Du Chong shook his head and sighed, as if he had no confidence at all. "Actually, if I had been allowed to take control of the overall situation earlier, and when the water was strong in autumn and the Jin soldiers had not yet crossed the river, I might have been able to destroy the Yellow River embankment.
Although the main force of the Jin Army is already in Henan and the Yellow River is frozen, what chance do they have?"
"The embankment burst?" Du Yan was stunned. "What about floods..."
"How about the flood?" Du Chong sneered. "Which of those rebels didn't brutalize the people? Just because they were recruited, they became officers and soldiers, and then they were promoted to officers and nobles. As long as they can deal with the Jin people, what's the point of killing ordinary people? Besides,
How can floods offset man-made disasters? The Jin army cannot go south, and millions of people will die! Besides, Henan is already a white land."
Of course, Du Yan didn't know anything about hydrology. He didn't know that the Yellow River itself is just a watershed in the lower reaches and does not have its own large water system. Therefore, once the river bank is broken in the direction of Henan, it will invade the Huaihe River system and cause the Yellow River to seize the Huaihe River and flow into the sea.
, completely changing the hydrology of the lower reaches. Therefore, when the man heard his father's words at this time, and remembered the brutal massacre of the city he saw on the road, he was speechless for a moment, and even thought it was quite reasonable.
In fact, even if we look at it from the perspective of a latecomer, the bursting of the Duchong embankment in another time and space did lead to the subsequent Yellow River gradually diverting the Huaihe River into the sea, but this person only has at most two shares of responsibility. Because according to hydrological research, the real cause
It was in the late Jin Dynasty that the Yellow River completely took over the Huaihe River and entered the sea. The Jin Dynasty allowed the Yellow River to overflow and burst into Yangwu. At that time, the Yellow River completely took over the Huaihe River and entered the main channel of the Huaihe River. From then on, it was out of control, so that from then on, it was completely formed.
Understand the concept of yellow flood zone.
However, even Jin Zhangzong's decisive battle with Yangwu was responsible for at most four percent of the entire hydrological change.
Because another fact that cannot be ignored is that before Duchong and Jin Zhangzong, the Yellow River burst its banks, but they could all be repaired and cleaned up in time. However, between Duchong and Jin Zhangzong, the Song and Jin Dynasties had the Huaihe River.
As a boundary, years of war and uncertainty have resulted in the Huanghuai water conservancy line becoming increasingly desolate.
This is also a practical reason that must be faced squarely.
And if it really needs to be washed, both Du Chong and Jin Zhangzong can do it, because these two people are unlikely to have such sufficient knowledge of water conservancy anyway, and they are also unlikely to know that the Yellow River burst will cause such a serious hydrological disaster.
Changes are expected.
So if you use this as a reason to go to the international court, you can also plead ignorance and reduce the sentence by a few years in the name of intermittent mental problems.
Then, we condemn these two people from a moral level. One took the initiative and the other was laissez-faire, both of which were in vain to care about the lives of the people in Huanghuai... The only thing that is lamentable is that during this period, the so-called lives of the people are probably the most important thing in the world.
The least valuable thing.
However, if you think about it this way, eight or nine hundred years later, I really don’t know what happened when the embankment burst. It can’t be said that that person has no historical experience, right?
Back in front of him, Du Chong lamented that his excellent strategy missed the right time and opportunity, and then continued to sigh:
"Actually, being a father does not mean resisting the imperial decree. If I resist the imperial decree, why would I let Generals Yue and Li prepare to send troops? I am just angry with the officials and the Nanyang princes. Since the Jin army has crossed the river and marched south, I can safely defend the city.
That is, why are they sitting in the city, but they just use Gang Chang's righteousness to suppress me? In front of you today, as a father, I have nothing to hide. From my perspective, the entire Song Dynasty is hopeless!
We are just taking one step at a time!"
Du Yan remained silent.
As for Du Chong, he wanted to continue venting, but when he looked back at his son's description and gesture, he realized that he had not been in front of him for many years and did not completely believe him. However, he suddenly became discouraged and simply got up and left.
As soon as Du Chong left, Du Yan felt relieved, as if he had escaped something.
In this way, no matter what, Du Chong, who was full of pessimism, was self-defeating. He originally wanted to use the Eight-Character Army to delay the dispatch of troops, but unexpectedly Wang Yan received the document and arrived so quickly. He had no choice but to send troops.
In fact, at this time, almost everyone on both sides of the Song and Jin Dynasties was caught off guard by the sudden march of the 20,000 Eight-character Army to the south, but they all looked down upon it. Then they did not notice that these 20,000 people had been fighting with the Jin Army for many years.
The troops have actually played a subtle role in the strategic balance in Henan.
On the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, after Yue Fei had arranged for Tang Huai, Zhang Xian, and Xu Qing to lead their own troops, with a total of 10,000 troops guarding Tokyo City, Du Chong had no choice but to first join Wang Yan's 20,000 Eight-Character Army, and then directly led four
More than ten thousand troops marched south.
However, Yue Fei, Li Qiong, and Wang Yan's troops were well restrained and marched at a very fast pace without stopping. Yelu Mawu from Zhongmou in the middle came to take a peek, but he was stunned and did not dare to take action. It was really disappointing for Deputy Du to stay behind. Therefore, after only two days,
The troops then arrived at Weishi, an important town in the southwest of Kaifeng City.
Let us say that Weishi is a big city, and it is only 80 miles away from Tokyo, only 100 miles away from Changshe, only 30 miles away from Zhujiaqu Town, where Han Shizhong was defeated that day, and only 50 miles away from Yanling, the frontline city controlled by the Song Army.
It's only fifty miles away from the Fugou area where the Ten Commands gather... It's really a reliable and complete place.
As a result, Deputy Du stayed behind and did not dare to neglect. On the one hand, he gave up his original plan to go south to Yanling to gather the ten commanders and strictly requested the ten commanders to come here to gather.
After taking control, he immediately went south to Yanling.
However, Deputy Du Liushou originally thought that Shitongzhi would start a fight because of his change of heart, but unexpectedly, the messenger over there probably hadn't arrived in Nanyang yet. When the Shitongzhi received the urgent message, they unanimously stated that since it was Du Dayin
They did not dare to disobey the military orders, and then under the leadership of Ma Gao, they ordered the remaining soldiers and horses and took the initiative to come to Weishi.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the fourth day of dispatching troops, not long after Nanyang received the letter from Du Chong, the Wei family had successfully joined forces, and at one time they had gathered a solid 80,000 people!
Moreover, in order to give a good impression to Du Chong, the future left-behind man, the commanders of the Tokyo Left-behind Department actually asked Mrs. Yi Zhangqingma to personally escort the grain, grass and goods collected in Fugou to the Wei family at the same time.
Come and show your obedience.
Du Chong never expected that he had such prestige... As soon as the soldiers and horses arrived, they even replenished food, grass, money and silk, and documents had just been sent from Nanyang... Helpless, Du Chong set off again with his troops the next day, heading for
Leaving Yanling.
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the remaining soldiers and horses of the Tokyo Remaining Division and Yue Fei's and Wang Yan's troops all crossed the Mishui River and gathered at Yanling. The troops had their backs on the frozen Mishui River and the company camp was more than twenty miles away.
Yanling and Xuchang are forty miles apart, but there is no river obstruction between the two cities. In addition, the camps on both sides naturally extend, so the actual distance is far less than forty miles. Sentinels are often released early in the morning, following the old days of the two cities.
The road leads to the other side's camp, and you can return to the camp at noon. It can be said to be the last safe distance.
For a time, the entire Henan battlefield was shaken, and almost everyone focused their attention on this.
Naturally, the Jin army had already mobilized troops and generals to gather as many troops and horses as possible. However, after seeing the scale of the Song army's camp with his own eyes, Wanyan Talan changed his strategy and took the initiative to send a letter of request for help to Wanyan Wushu, asking the other party for help.
Appropriate support for ten thousand households is obviously like facing a formidable enemy.
On the other side, as the huge army gathered and advanced, the Song army was in a state of excitement and their morale gradually increased.
However, no one expected that Deputy Du Chong and Du stayed behind, but he had already made up his mind that he would not move even if he lived or died, because he did not want to die in vain.
Of course, in response, he still sent a message to Nanyang, saying that the troops were nominally large, but their morale was low, there were very few armored men, and their combat strength was insufficient. Moreover, they had to divide their troops to block the Nanjing enemy behind them.
It is really difficult to guard against being flanked.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Nanyang had just received the message and before it had time to respond, the troops supporting the west under Zhang Jun's command were divided into two. Tian Division guarded Bozhou in response to the enemy of Nanjing, while Liu Bao led
Seven to eight thousand troops were assembled and arrived at Fugou. They immediately sent letters to Yanling and Nanyang, and took charge of the task of isolating the enemy forces in Nanjing.
After receiving the document, Du Chong was so overwhelmed that he could only write a second time, saying that the enemy's situation was unclear and he was contacting the remaining soldiers in Ruzhou behind the enemy for safety.
But on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, suddenly a group of four to five thousand soldiers and horses came from the west. It was none other than Liu Bao, the commander of the Tokyo left-behind department who had escaped from Wuyang, and a man named Niu Gao.
The local commander of the prefecture... saw some changes in the Jin army on the western front. After careful investigation, he found out that the officials on the eastern front had sent Du Dayin as marshal to mobilize all the remaining troops in Tokyo to rescue Taiwei Han.
After confirming that the military situation was correct several times, in Ruzhou, Liu Bao and Niu Gao, who were originally planning to work together to support Lu Qing in Xiangcheng, had a good discussion. They both felt that rescuing Lu Qing might not be able to save Han Shizhong, but rescuing Han Shizhong would definitely shake up the overall situation.
Qing was able to get back to safety. So he simply took advantage of the Jin army's deployment of troops. In addition, the weather had become warmer in the past few days and the river ice was gradually thinning. It was an opportunity to avoid cavalry in certain sections of the river. Together they took the risk and passed through the enemy's gap.
Arrive at Yanling.
After participating in the battle, these two generals also arranged the Jin army they saw along the way, with approximately 100,000 troops.
After listening to the report, the four generals Yue Fei, Wang Yan, Ma Gao, and Li Qiong who were in charge of the daily work of the military camp all felt that Liu Bao and Niu Gao were trustworthy and had clear military information. They could fight... at least they could move forward or attack some weak areas.
place, forming a partial relief state.
Therefore, it was rare for the four generals to report to Du Chong together, asking for an opportunity to go into battle.
This request was naturally rejected by Du Chong. Not only that, after this meeting, Du Chong only felt that everyone in the world was against him, so he didn't even make any pretense. Instead, he simply hid in Yanling City to celebrate the New Year.
He drank and drank tea all day long and never saw the generals inside or outside the city. The only time he showed up was on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when he personally received Wanyan Talan's envoy, accepted his gift, and gave
Return gift.
But to be honest, even up to this point, everyone still understands it. After all, it’s the Chinese New Year, it’s civil servants, it’s the family tradition.
In fact, there were more civil servants in Jingkang who were more outrageous than Duchong. For example, during the second siege of the Jin army that directly led to the Jingkang Incident, according to the rules, a civil servant must be assigned to "lift" the city walls on all four sides. Yuan Shengshen
Li Zhuo, a close minister, was in charge of Nancheng, but he spent all day drinking and holding poetry meetings in the city. He actually sat back and watched the Jin army fill in a mile-long moat outside Xuanhua Gate. Finally, it was Yuan Sheng (Qinzong of the Song Dynasty) himself.
When I went to the city, I was stunned to discover this fact.
So compared to those people, Du Chong's current actions are nothing. Even the way he handed over the daily military affairs of the camp to Yue Fei, Wang Yan, and Ma Gao, and handed over the military affairs of Yanling City to Li Qiong, it made him look very reliable.
Spectrum.
Again, not everyone is Zongze, and no one expects everyone to be Zongze.
But, so say but.
After the New Year, for three days in a row, Deputy Du stayed behind, even as he should not have done so, and remained locked up. At this time, the whole army became panicked... At this time, the whole army suddenly woke up, and they
Everyone knew that Deputy Du was afraid of fighting when he stayed behind, but no one expected that this person was actually afraid of fighting and stubborn to this level.
In the third year of Jianyan, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Yue Fei, together with Wang Yan, Ma Gao, and Li Qiong, with the help of Du Yan, broke into the city of Yanling where Du Chong lived. They knelt down and cried together, asking to go to war, but there was no one.
Effect.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Nanyang obviously couldn't bear it for a long time, but someone quickly delivered the order and specifically asked Du Chong why. Vice Du stayed behind and immediately wrote a reply, saying that it was his subordinates Yue Fei, Wang Yan, and Ma
The three generals of Gao were at odds with each other, so that the three families were at odds with each other, and the three generals were quarreling with each other. The three armies were constantly attacking each other and almost regarded friendly troops as enemies. He was forced to have no choice but to hide in Yanling City to prevent fire.
and.
At the same time, he also emphasized that at this time, it is not impossible to force the battle, but if it is thrown carelessly, the last batch of available kings in the world will repeat the story of Taiyuan and be completely ruined, so Nanyang should be careful.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month in Jianyan, the news was quickly spread to Nanyang, which shocked everyone...because, except for one person, almost everyone in Nanyang chose to believe Du Chong unconditionally.
If you don’t believe Du Chong, who can you believe?
You can't trust those three warriors, right? Moreover, everyone in the world knows that Wang Yan and Yue Fei have a grudge. How can we expect these warriors to tolerate each other for the sake of the country and the overall interests of the country?
In fact, even the Zhao Guan family, who had doubts about Du Chong, was a little panicked at this time, because even if he was willing to believe Yue Fei, and even firmly believed that Yue Fei would take the overall situation into account and would never cause trouble at this time, no one could guarantee that Wang
Will Yan and Ma Gao tolerate each other for the sake of their country?
What if these two people are unable to restrain themselves and attack Yue Fei, triggering a counterattack?
Hundreds of miles apart, who knows what the situation is over there?
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