Yanggu was defeated in less than two days, and blocked the shortest way for the Jin people to come to help in theory. These things are not known to Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin for the time being... Or, in other words, they did not even send a certain husband to Yanggu.
I don’t know anything about it, and I don’t even bother to know.
For Kong and Liu who set up a stronghold in the wilderness north of Pingyin on the southeast side of Jishui, they were just working hard and fighting conscientiously, trying their best to paralyze Zhang Rong on the opposite side, waiting for the so-called fatal blow from Li Cheng
one strike.
However, suddenly, Li Chenglai came, but he did not come from behind Zhang Rong, but passed by him from the other side of Jishui without stopping, and never returned.
In fact, at that time, Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin had already begun to be alert due to their military qualities. Kong Yanzhou had even ordered the frontline troops to withdraw from the front combat area and prepare to gather forces. However, no matter how alert he was, he could not stop Li Cheng. He just passed by the northwest of Jishui.
Yue Fei's troops then poured out from Mount Tai in the east, directly blocking the way.
The current situation is such that there is no way to turn around.
And since there is no way to save the day, everyone must find a way to survive.
However, there are some differences between Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin:
Liu Lin was the false prince, and he knew that once he fell into the hands of the Song army, he would only die... Even if the official in Tokyo really didn't take him seriously as rumored, Zhao Song Wenwu below would never be able to
Leave him alive.
Therefore, this person did not hesitate. Knowing that the situation was critical, he immediately gathered his troops, rewarded the soldiers, appointed officials and made wishes, as if he wanted to give it a go.
As for Kong Yanzhou, seeing how bad the situation was, he actually sent an envoy to Yue Fei to try to get a result.
This person's behavior seems to make sense.
First, it is a commonplace to say that Marshal Kong and Governor Li are essentially Hebei army thieves turned warlords living in Jingdong. And if Li Cheng still has some reasonable ambitions, then Kong Yanzhou is purely a warlord.
He acted for the sake of personal wealth and enjoyment. In the past, he could be won over by Liu Yu with the temptation of his official title, wealth and the separatist rule of Yanzhou. Now, he naturally has no burden to leave Qi in order to survive.
Secondly, although this person and Yue Fei did not have a deep friendship, and one was a scoundrel and the other an archer in his hometown, so they were not from the same place at all, but they were fellow villagers after all, and they could always find the right person to talk to.
Thirdly, Yue Fei's trip to the Wenshui River and over Mount Tai and the surrounding hills has basically cut off his home base of Yanzhou. Therefore, even if he is lucky enough to escape this time, it will be difficult for him, Kong Yanzhou, to keep Yanzhou. This is a good pair.
For Marshal Kong, who had only lived a wealthy life for a few days, it was a bit hard to accept.
However, people's ideas, worldviews, and values are all completely different. When Kong Yanzhou's surrender document was handed over, Yue Fei didn't even have the desire to scold him... because for him, Kong Yanzhou was the one who must be eliminated this time.
people!
It must be known that it was this fellow countryman who made a mistake that day, which caused the situation in Jingdong to deteriorate, and directly led to Zhang Suo's death in Nanjing. Do you dare to ask Yue Pengju, as a subordinate, doesn't he need to avenge his benefactor?
Moreover, this same guy, in Yanzhou, lured countless refugees from Hebei in the name of his fellow countrymen, and then forced them to surrender to Qi. Among them, Xu Qing and thousands of Xiangzhou's disciples came with heavy burdens, but had to leave in embarrassment. As a result, they were not able to successfully cleanse themselves.
In order to gain fame, he hurriedly died for his country under the city of Changshe. As a boss, shouldn’t Yue Pengju, as his superior, wipe away the regrets before his death for his subordinates?
Not to mention, Yue Fei came from Mount Tai in the past few days, so he didn't dare to attack other places in order to prevent his whereabouts from being leaked. However, the key point of Fengfu (today's Tai'an) must be removed first. After breaking Fengfu, Yue Pengju
But he knew what his fellow countryman had done in Yanzhou... It turned out that after Kong Yanzhou surrendered to Qi, he became the local emperor of Yanzhou, and the speed of his decline was simply astonishing.
Not to mention anything else, according to the account of Jiang Ren who witnessed it with his own eyes, Marshal Kong now has twenty or thirty young and beautiful maids for a normal meal at his house... What are they doing?
Holding the plate, just holding the plate.
In addition to this, it seems a bit easy to understand how falling in love with a beautiful woman led to the destruction of the family, forcing local officials to collect taxes for more than ten years in advance, and putting local wealthy businessmen in jail in a planned and organized way for oil extraction.
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Could Yue Fei allow such a person to return to Yanzhou?
"It's not impossible."
In the hastily set up camp, Yue Pengju, the imperial commander and former military commander of the imperial camp, looked quite calm after listening to the visitor's narration in his native accent. "But in the past, he turned against Zhang Zhenfu in battle, resulting in Zhang Zhenfu's defeat.
The governor is now across the street, so it's hard to explain. Moreover, the whole court is very angry about his surrender to Qi. If you want to return to Yanzhou this time, you must make a great contribution to the sky...capture Liu Lin and come to see the town.
What about Yanzhou?"
The envoy was obedient, but was not surprised. He agreed and immediately retreated.
As soon as the envoy left, everyone else knew that they had different feelings and held back their words. Only Li Zhang, who was facing the sky and had a straight temper, asked him on the spot: "The captain really wants to let this person go?"
Yue Fei was equally straightforward. He just sat where he was and looked at him coldly: "It's just a lie. If you can coax him into civil strife with just one word, wouldn't it save a lot of energy? It will also save you a lot of soldiers and horses... and don't care.
Whether it succeeds or not, we will continue as usual, be prepared, and the soldiers will come to cover up the water and earth, and when the time comes, we will attack it."
Li Zhang and other rough and straight generals all woke up, and many of the other generals in the tent were also in such a state.
Not to mention how Yue Fei had made up his mind and planned a general attack. On the other hand, Kong Yanzhou got the message in his tent. Before he took the initiative to do anything, he was invited by Liu Lin. However, this man actually had no grudges and directly led Baiba.
Ten personal guards braved the heat and went to the opponent's tent.
At noon, the weather became more and more anxious and dull, and it seemed that there was a bit of summer rain again. Kong and Liu, two young and promising generals from the Jingdong area, met at that moment. Perhaps because they were at a critical moment of life and death, both parties were extremely candid.
"marshal!"
The two sat down across the table and after holding the fruits that had been hidden in the deep well, Liu Lin couldn't wait to hold each other's hands. "I heard that you sent an envoy to Yue Fei's tent. What was your intention? And what was the result? Could it be that the marshal thought that
Can Yue Fei still tolerate you? In the current situation, even if they allow you, they are just deceiving you."
"He did promise me, but I just deceived him. Prince, don't think too much." Kong Yanzhou took out his knife from his seat and cut open the melon on the table. When the knife went down, the juice overflowed, but another part was cut.
Wei Er broke off a piece of the crispy melon and pushed it to the other party. "I turned against Zhang Suo that day and directly killed Zhang Suo. I also defended Nanjing for several months. In addition, Zhang Rong also hated me to the bone. Why should he, Yue Fei, do it again?"
Are you able to tolerate me just because I am a fellow countryman? But the current situation has reached a point where it cannot be worse. A dead horse is used as a live horse doctor to deceive..."
"How to cheat?" Liu Lin didn't want to be fooled, he was just tempted for a moment.
"Prince, think about it, whether it's true or not, since he promised me, I can always slow down for half a day to gather the troops and horses, right? Then I can walk forward for a few miles without any hesitation, and if I wait until Yue Fei arrives in front of the camp
He still had the idea of dealing with me without any use of force..." At this point, Kong Yanzhou took a bite of the crispy melon, and the juice overflowed from the corner of his mouth, but he couldn't stop laughing. "I will let him know what it means to be careless in Jingzhou in the book.
"
Liu Lin realized in his heart that the other party was trying to use the opportunity of false surrender to move his troops as close to the opponent's camp as possible, and then launch a surprise attack.
how to say?
The plan was naturally hasty, and it was just a life-threatening surprise attack. Normally, only a fool would do such a thing, but as Kong Yanzhou said, the situation has now reached a point where it cannot get any worse, and this is how you should risk your life.
right.
It can only be said that no matter what his character is, Kong Yanzhou is called Xiao Yue Fei, which is not false. If nothing else, although he is young, he has been in the army like Yue Fei for many years, and his minimum military ability is still the same.
some.
Returning to the present moment, Liu Lin carefully asked, "How will the marshal plan to act specifically?"
"I was about to say this to the prince." Kong Yanzhou put down the half-eaten crispy melon, wiped his mouth, and faced him proudly. "Yue Fei means to ask for the prince. In this case, I want to invite the prince to join our army and pretend to be
I captured him and used it to deceive Yue Fei. Then when we get to Yue Fei's camp, we can work together again. If we succeed, we will succeed. If not, we will go our separate ways. How about that?"
"..."
"What do you say, Prince?" Kong Yanzhou held the melon in his hands and couldn't hurry up.
"It's not good." Liu Lin, who had come back to his senses, greeted him cautiously. "Yue Fei's army numbered no less than 30,000, and we only had 30,000. But once we broke through, Zhang Rong would have his entire army behind him to pursue him, so we should have gone all out.
It's only right to go... But now there are 30,000 soldiers and horses, the marshal has 10,000, and I have 20,000. If I go to the marshal's army, wouldn't those 20,000 Jinan soldiers and horses be vacant?"
"That's right..." Marshal Kong said thoughtfully. "Then what is the prince's plan?"
"Just find someone, pretend to be me, tie them up and fool Yue Fei. I will lead 20,000 Jinan soldiers behind the marshal." Liu Lin said sincerely. "Just wait for the marshal in front to exert his force, and I will attack the Jinan army from behind.
Press hard! Maybe you can escape!"
Kong Yanzhou immediately abandoned the case and said: "The prince is indeed the prince, how could he come up with such a good plan? If so, let's not delay and break out today!"
After saying this, the person directly grabbed the knife and walked away, simply reaching the extreme.
And Liu Lin stared blankly at this person's leaving figure. He didn't realize it until he disappeared... He wanted to win over this person by promising the land of Zizhou, but he didn't have time to say it?
But now, it was really too late to think about it. The Prince of Daqi, who had extensive escape experience, knew the importance of emotional decision-making and immediately prepared.
In the afternoon, as soon as the hottest day passed, Kong Yanzhou sent the envoy to Yue Fei again, saying that he had deceived Liu Lin into the camp and captured him alive, but he had no control over Liu Lin's 20,000 Jinan soldiers, so he only invited
For the sake of his fellow countrymen, Lieutenant Yue opened the camp gate to welcome him.
Then, he mobilized his troops and gathered four to five thousand troops who had defended Nanjing in the past to serve as the front army. He also told these people that Yue Fei wanted to kill them all because of Zhang Suo, so they should fight hard.
Immediately, Kong Yanzhouwu took the front army with him, casually sent a group of generals to lead the rear army, and went directly to Yue Fei's camp in the northeast.
On the plain, after two days of testing and pushing and pushing, the two sides were actually not far apart. So as soon as Kong Yanzhou was dispatched, there were scouts from Yue Fei and Zhang Rong from a distance who saw the situation clearly and went to report. On the other side, Liu Lin's army
The camp was also in a state of excitement, but the 20,000 men were closely divided, with the central army on the left and right marching simultaneously, and the rear army at the same time.
For a time, in the scorching summer heat, these 30,000 pseudo soldiers and horses actually seemed to be in danger of sinking the ship.
As the sun set further to the west, dark clouds gradually gathered. As Pingyin and Zhang Rong's entire army was dispatched, on the narrow plain on the south bank of Jishui, it became increasingly clear that the city was about to be destroyed by dark clouds.
After all, no matter what, this was a battle involving nearly 70,000 to 80,000 troops, and it was destined to be recorded in history. Not to mention others, even Yue Fei in the camp was the first to independently preside over a battle of this scale.
nervous.
However, in the evening, after Zhang Rong's pursuit troops came into contact with the Qi army, things began to change towards an inexplicable situation - Kong Yanzhou's front army, which was approaching Yue Fei's camp, became more nervous, more excited, and even more nervous.
Fa seemed to cheer up, Liu Lin's army in the middle was still in good order, and Yue Fei's camp was still calm and calm, but Liu Lin and Kong Yanzhou's rear army collapsed after engaging Zhang Rong's pursuers and scattered.
No one is a fool, don’t you know that you are surrounded?
Don’t you know that you are being treated as an abandoned pawn?
People from Jinan, Yanzhou, and Dongpingfu are our neighbors, so why don’t we pray for our lives?
However, the collapse of his own rear army and Kong Yanzhou's rear army on the far right made Liu Lin in the middle a little panic at most, but Kong Yanzhou's front army did not know this.
In other words, since there was only two miles to go before Yue Fei's camp, he didn't care about those things and had no time to care about them.
Since the envoy sent for the second time never returned, Marshal Kong, who was resting here for a while, had to send a third fellow from Xiangzhou to be the envoy. As soon as the envoy set off, he ordered the preparation of the entire army, and then personally attacked
Immediately after reaching a hillock, they pointed at the dark camp under Yue Fei, which stretched for seven or eight miles, and announced the pre-war mobilization.
But before he could say anything, a muffled thunder exploded above his head, shocking Marshal Kong to the point where his liver trembled for a moment.
However, he was a figure in troubled times after all. He was just a little startled, then he was overjoyed, and then shouted with all his strength in the increasingly dense raindrops:
"Did you see it? My old Kong is a man with a destiny! Yue Fei fell into my plan and had no defense at all. God also rained at this time, so that he could not gather his troops... God's will is with me, and I will follow my old Kong.
Chong, after today, I want the world to know who is the number one hero in Xiangzhou?!"
After saying this, he immediately hit his horse, galloped down the hill, and led hundreds of his closest armored cavalry straight to Yue Fei's camp.
The rain began to drip thickly, but the clouds were extremely thin where the sun was in the west behind me. Although it was not half sunrise and half rain, it did not quickly enter a dark state due to the rain. Instead, it cast a strange feeling on the entire battlefield.
tone.
Turning around, Kong Yanzhou was riding in front, followed by hundreds of personal guards and cavalry. Thousands of soldiers and horses followed him. In a moment, they galloped a mile and even the fence of Yue Fei's camp could be seen clearly.
, Marshal Kong was alert, because there were obviously archers and flag bearers on top of some simple watchtowers made of wood, but they were just whispering to each other and showed no signs of panic or panic.
But there was no time to think too much, because at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
Suddenly, a red flag was erected at the camp directly ahead, and then the red flags of all the camps within a few miles were erected one after another. What followed was not the sound of drums as imagined, but countless people marching for seven or eight miles.
The whole camp shouted in unison.
The shouts were prepared in advance and could not be called uniform, but driven by the flag, they were similar enough to be clear and distinguishable.
What's more important is that tens of thousands of people shouted together, which was earth-shattering, like thunder, overwhelming the rain. The sound alone frightened Kong Yanzhou and his front army to the point where they lost their footing. They stopped for a moment and started their offensive.
It stopped instantly.
Kong Yanzhou was the closest and could hear the voice most clearly, but it was exactly:
"Kill Kong! Kill Kong! Kill Kong!"
ps: Thank you all for your concern. I’ll make up for what I did last night first and then talk about it... No matter what, I’m going to be a man this month.