Chapter 553 Crossing the River, Northern Expedition

Li Shimin's eyes were filled with undisguised admiration, and Li Jing was also slightly relieved. He stroked his beard and smiled:

"Although the king and his subjects of Song were alienated, Jin also felt that the Song people were weak and could be bullied, so they were careless.

In the end, Li Shimin temporarily put aside his thoughts and pointed to the light curtain and said:

"Don't say too much, just wait and see."

Then he followed up with a sentence:

"I have been depressed for a long time, and it is time for a great victory to make us feel relieved."

...

In the Bianliang Palace, Zhao Kuangyin's hands were shaking a little:

"If there is no criticism from others and no ministers to stop me, do I really have to kneel down to the captive minister?"

"Really be a slave to me! ”

When Zhao Gou repeatedly petitioned for peace during the search of the mountains and seas, but the Jin general refused. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin was relieved and felt that at least he had saved his few faces.

But he didn't expect that he was waiting here?

Seeing this, Zhao Pu hurriedly moved another armchair from the side so that the emperor could sit down steadily.

After sitting down, Zhao Kuangyin cursed a few more times, and finally burst into tears, which shocked Zhao Pu:

"Why is the emperor so bad? If you really don't like it, I will go to find the King of Jin..."

Zhao Pu's face was full of undisguised cruelty, and his words made Zhao Kuangyin understand what this prime minister wanted to do.

Shaking his head, Zhao Kuangyin rejected Zhao Pu's unclear suggestion, and instead lamented:

"Zhe Ping and I should work hard. If we violate the etiquette and have a son like this, you and I might as well hit our heads against this imperial pillar. "

"This way, we can save ourselves from the anger of such unfilial descendants. "

Zhao Pu shut up and just watched the official nagging and lamenting about the division of the Song Dynasty into north and south.

In the end, all the words were condensed into two short sighs:

"Alas, Hebei."

"Alas, Youzhuo. "

Liu Han also understood what Zhao Pu meant, and was a little horrified for a moment:

Now that he knows all these secrets, he does not have the ability to take notes and quickly copy paintings like the eunuchs.

He also does not have the ability to take care of the Song Dynasty with ease like Prime Minister Zhao Gong.

After looking at it, it seems that if he is not silenced, there seems to be no better choice?

[In May 1140, Jin Wushu's troops were divided into two groups, one led by him to the south, and the other attacked Shaanxi.

Zhao Gou may have known Jin Wushu's attitude clearly from the previous search of the mountains and seas, and with the new and old hatreds of becoming a useless man, he was forced to choose to delegate power to the generals.

In early June, Zhao Gou promoted Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun to the positions of envoys of pacification, and concurrently the envoys of Henan, Hebei and other routes, and promoted them to junior officers. Bao, Taibao, Shao Shi, all the troops were dispatched.

This expedition was of great significance to Yue Fei. It was not only the first large-scale northern expedition of Yue's army, but also because after ten years of training, they finally fought against the Jin invaders.

The situation changed faster than anyone expected in this collision between Song and Jin. Although Wu Jie, the commander of the Western Army, died of illness a year ago, his old subordinates were still there, fighting the Jin army in Guanzhong, preventing the Jin army from advancing an inch.

Han Shizhong, the commander of the Eastern Army, ordered Wang Sheng to capture Haizhou. Although Han Shizhong did not gain much in the battle, he fortunately stopped the Eastern Jin Army.

The first line of defense of the Central Army was Liu Qi, who was stationed in Henan. After leading the army to retreat to Shunchang Prefecture, he took advantage of the hot weather and the advantages of the city and successfully delayed for half a month until Yue Fei joined the battlefield.

Although Yue Fei was both civil and military, he was actually very good at using troops. On the contrary, Yue Fei preferred a valiant style of fighting. Seeing that the three routes of the Jin army's invasion to the south were all defeated, adhering to the good habit of taking advantage of your weakness, without the help of the court, Yue Fei brazenly launched the Northern Expedition.

Yue Fei had been preparing for this battle for too long, so he basically followed the rhythm of the friction with Jin Wushu.

First, he ordered his elite soldiers to cross the Jin people and go deep into the rear to fight guerrilla warfare and contact the rebel army to destroy the Jin army's food supply.

Secondly, he sent troops to Guozhou to fight together with the local anti-Jin rebel army.

Finally, Yue Fei personally led the main force to advance head-on and seek a decisive battle with the main force of the Jin army.

Yue Fei named this method of attacking the joint forces of the army and the people behind the enemy as "Linking Heshuo", which proved to be quite effective, and Jin Wushu was directly stunned.

Vanguard army, main force, local rebel army, multiple routes go hand in hand Under this, the Henan area of ​​the two routes west of Beijing was basically recovered in just two months.

For Yue Fei, there was almost no need to hesitate about the next choice.

In this life, I must fulfill Zong Ze's ambition and teach the warriors to cross the Yellow River!

Before this, relying on the plan of "connecting Heshuo", Yue's army had already connected with the Hebei righteous army early on. The Hebei righteous army was controlled by Yue's army and obeyed the orders of General Yue.

Yue Fei also ordered without hesitation: "Cross the Yellow River, kill the Jin thieves, and seize the prefectures and counties."

The righteous army, which was difficult to confront the Jin army head-on, crossed the river one after another, and joined the local Han people in Hebei to attack the Jin officials and soldiers.

In two months, the righteous army in Hebei grew to more than 100,000 people, and the Jin Dynasty "no longer issued orders" from the south of Yanshan Mountain.

It can be said that this grand occasion is similar to the scene of Guan Erye flooding the seven armies, making the bandits receive the seal and shock China from afar.

Even their situations were very similar:

Han Shizhong and Wu Lin were in a stalemate with the Jin army in the eastern and western battlefields and could not help;

Zhang Jun hurriedly returned to the battlefield after recovering Suzhou and Bozhou; Liu Qi took his troops and stayed in Shunchang, neither attacking nor retreating south.

Even though he was actually isolated, Yue Fei never considered withdrawing.

After all, thirty years of fame and honor are dust and dirt, and eight thousand miles of journey are clouds and moon.

For this northern expedition, Yue Fei had been fighting for too long since he was sixteen years old.

Now, even if there is only one army, he will attack Huanglong directly! 】

"A good man should do this!"

The low table in front of Zhang Fei had been broken before, so it was no surprise that he slapped Ma Chao on the back, which made the latter grin.

So Kong Ming saw Ma Chao said with a proud attitude:

"I just regret that I can't attack Huanglong Mansion with Yue Wumu, capture the enemy chief and recover the country!"

As he said that, he slapped Zhang Fei's thigh firmly, but there was a dull sound instead, and Ma Chao covered his hand and grinned again.

Zhang Fei's apology came belatedly:

"Ah, I was so angry at the incompetent Zhao Gou that I went out and fell twice with my personal soldiers, so I wore leather armor... Is Mengqi okay?"

Liu Bei had long been accustomed to it, and turned his head to Kong Ming and said:

"The story of Yue Fei should be compiled and sent to Jingbei. If my second brother knew that Yue Fei followed his example, he would be very happy."

Perhaps knowing that Yue Fei grew up listening to the stories of the three brothers when he was young, or cherishing the similar situation between Yue Fei and his second brother, Liu Bei sighed with a slightly gloomy expression:

"It's a pity... We have been sympathized by future generations, and we will not let Yunchang fight alone to restore Yanhan."

"But Yue Wumu is more than a hundred years away from Zhao Dashi..."

"Then we will urge and help Zhao to unify China."

Kong Ming laughed:

"The Central Plains is stable and Hebei is safe, armor is covered with dust and precious swords are rusted, how can it not be a blessing?"