Chapter 87 Siege(1/2)
Yue Fei is busy these days, dealing with matters of all sizes and coordinating the relationships between various departments. He has lost several pounds and finally prepared.
After the troops arrived at Dongting Lake, they did not act rashly. Under Yue Fei's order, the soldiers began to cut down large trees and accumulate military supplies.
Zhao Jiu took charge as an official. Even if he gave Yue Fei the greatest help, Zhao Jiu did not interfere in the military.
These days, when I came to the front line for inspection, let the soldiers of the Song Dynasty know that the Zhao official family was also on the front line, and the Zhao official family advanced and retreated with them, which was enough.
Inside the tent.
Zhao Jiu and Yue Fei are alone.
Zhao Jiu sat at the head of the desk and said:
"Pengju, maybe after another thousand years, some people will comment on me, some people will comment on you, Yue Fei, and we are all cookies, and cruelly suppressed the peasant uprising.
Look at the masterpieces of the two on the other side:
After many years of military growth, all the salaries are paid to the people. If there is no house, the tax on houses is responsible, the tax on the house is responsible, the tax on the timely needs of the tax on the unknown, and the tax on the nameless collection is almost empty, so they are robbed.
"As long as the noble and humble are all rich and poor", protect "husbands holding plows" and "fishing and woodcutters", and focus on attacking officials, Confucian scholars, monks, Taoists, witch doctors, Bu Zhu and other people who harm their careers. These are their slogans and programs of action.
He was full of moral words, but he did a lot of things like robbers and stealing."
Yue Fei said bluntly:
"The official family also read some books, and the saints praised the rule of Datong, but how could there be a day of Datong in the world? "When the noble and the humble, the rich and the poor" is the ridiculous thing.
Otherwise, why is there only one King of Chu in this state of Chu? Instead of everyone being Chu, why are some people wearing rich clothes and food, while others can only eat simple food?
The food they ate, the King of Chu, could be the same as the soldiers below? It was just a joke."
"As long as the high and low are both rich and poor"...
Zhao Jiu looked at this kind of nutritional political slogan speechlessly. The group of people in Sichuan used this slogan as early as the rebellion, but in the end, they were suppressed.
"Tuanzi, I will conquer the best text-written talents in the world and collect them and write books and biography for me."
...
So there are many excellent books in the world.
There are even many excellent authors valued by the royal family.
For example, an excellent translation:
When people talk about peasant uprisings, people think of sympathizing with these people, but who knows that as long as these people are placed in high positions, they will do the ugliest things in human nature.
Some people think: when talking about peasant uprisings, they are just.
It is believed that in feudal society, the ruling class has suppressed the uprisings held by the peasants against the cruel exploitation and suppression, which are all reactions to history.
Those who participate in this repression, whether they are the policy makers or specific executors, cannot escape their guilt.
For example, during the second and third years of Xuanhe in Huizong, each of them had a peasant uprising led by Fang La and Song Jiang.
At that time, Huizong, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and Wang Fu and his gang established the "Xicheng Kuotian Site" and occupied the people's land; established the "Made of Construction", "Yingfeng Bureau", "Yixian Life Office", and "Zhangliu" to provide extravagant and enjoyment of the royal family. The imperial treasury had a monthly expense of 360,000 guan, but during the Huizong period, it increased to 1.2 million guan.
At the same time, in order to search for rare birds, animals, and famous flowers and trees across the country, we have launched the "Flower and Stone Group".
On Cai Jing’s birthday, he will also have to make a big "birthday gift".
"The people who are in charge of the service will sell their land and houses to provide them with their children, so that the people can move hard all year round, and their wives will be frozen and they will not be able to get enough food."
The rulers were extravagant in life, but were incompetent in politics, and had almost no defensive ability to invade the Western, northern borders of Xixia and Liao.
The Northern Song Dynasty's suppression of peasant uprisings like Fang La was undoubtedly a counter-attack on history, and it needed to reflect on its own faults. If it could not self-purify and correct, it would not take too long to destroy the country.
But the Song Dynasty's actions this time were different.
The Emperor Song intended to revive Zhong, actively fight the Northern Expedition, restore the Central Plains, and be the most wise man.
But in the heart of the Song Dynasty, there was also the existence of China. As Taizu said, lying beside the bed, how could others sleep soundly?
Therefore, what the Song Dynasty wanted was to concentrate its strength and rise up to resist the barbaric and brutal Jurchen invaders, so that the vast majority of people of this dynasty were protected from enslavement and slaughter, which naturally became a completely just act.
Emperor Shizong quelled the rebellion and the whole country celebrated.
It is just because it is in the highest interest of the people.
This is the cause that the Holy Emperor Zhao Gou and Yue Fei have always adhered to and practiced through their own lifelong struggles.
Regardless of subjective motivation and objective effect, the various struggles Yue Fei made to fight against the Jin Dynasty were in line with the interests of the people at that time.
... "Manuscript of Professor Liu Dan's Research on History of the Song Empire".
Zhao Jiu didn't care about the positive image of the characters at all. He mainly did not want the descendants of later generations to be deceived. He had not studied the history of his country for five thousand years, so he went to study foreign history and save some fun.
He really doesn't value it because he is not famous.
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The arrival of the main force of the Song army began to alarm the Chu army.
But it was just a shock.
A large number of vehicles and ships are ready to go.
Before, they easily defeated the main force of the Song army, which was known as the 100,000 army, which also added countless confidence to these rebels.
Eat, drink, and enjoy what should be enjoyable. When the Song army arrives, it will be ready for war.
A society that is always robbing the family and robbing the mountains and becoming kings is not a normal society, except for some "continuous revolution" in mind,
The revolution of "revolution to the end" was not appreciated by the general public at that time.
So Yue Fei asked the surrendered old and weak in Yang Yao's uprising army to return home and return to their fields, so that they could live a normal life, nothing more in their interests than this.
At the same time, after the Yang Yao uprising, the leadership of his peasant uprising army had long betrayed the purpose of "just as high and low, equally rich and poor".
They were full of extravagant food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even their beds were inlaid with gold and jade. However, their subordinates and the people under their rule were in poverty. Yang Yao lost the hearts of the people, so that when Yue Fei's army arrived, Yang Yao's subordinates rushed to join the Yue family army.
Yang Yao not only enjoyed himself, but also used his military power to burn countless houses and temples, killed officials, scholars, monks and Taoists, and called killing innocent people "practice" and conflated the brutal burning and killing with the oppression of the court, causing great damage to the Dongting Lake area and causing people in the Dongting Lake area to live in poverty.
On the other hand, in the early years of Shaoxing of the Emperor Song Dynasty, the country was in difficult and extraordinary times when foreign enemies continued to invade and attack and kill, and the country was in a difficult and difficult situation.
Most of Yue Fei's troops were from the northwest and were not used to water wars. Compared with Yang Yao's army, which had long been entrenched in Dongting Lake, it had a natural disadvantage.
Yang Yao's warship was two or three stories high, and could accommodate more than a thousand people. It was full of institutions and had more than 80,000 troops. It occupied a natural water danger, and the troops of the Song Dynasty were simply inaccessible.
I didn't fight this battle and I lost three points.
This is also the confidence of Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo. Yang Mo even boasts at banquets:
"If the people of Song Dynasty want to cross the natural danger, they must fly across the lake."
The first thing the Song army cleaned up was the water camp by the lake, and some prefectures captured by the thief army, such as Tanzhou Prefecture. These so-called Chu army were also very thief.
When the main force of the Song army arrived, they gave up a large area of territory and retreated into Dongting Lake. As a result, the Song army only caught big cats and two or three small fish.
But Yue Fei did not have any gains. Finally, he went through a lot of hardships to block a general under Zhong Xiang.
In a water camp, the bandits were still resisting fiercely, but unfortunately they were facing a fully armed cavalry, surrounded by countless soldiers wearing armor on the outside.
The so-called Chu army was easily cut down by the Song army in a pool of blood. Wearing armor and not wearing armor are two concepts.
In ancient times, we received relatively little punishment for hiding weapons, but if we had hiding crossbows and armor, I'm sorry, we don't know each other, and we can't do anything with brothers.
Of course, the Song army was not everyone wearing heavy infantry armor, most of them were wearing zither armor. Even so, the armor rate in the army reached more than 30% and was considered elite.
The terrain of China is complex, and those big armors may not be suitable for certain special terrains.
For example, in Lingnan, it is a nightmare to wear such a big guy all year round. Therefore, the development of military equipment is mainly based on adapting to the situation.
Generally, lightweight and flexible equipment was put on the historical stage during the Sui Dynasty.
Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun followed the Beiwei army into the bandit camp. Although they did not go to the front line in person, they still helped cut down several bandit soldiers.
The Song army was unstoppable and had proper tactics. This Beiwei Army was well-trained and helped the infantry to tear a hole just by relying on a cavalry charge.
Then there is the scene of a large army killing.
Zhang Jun said with a serious expression:
"Han Powu, this Beiwei Army is not like a flowery army. Do you know that your subordinates are not as good as you? I guess you two are 55."
Han Shizhong blushed and shouted loudly:
"Don't slander me, how can you curse people? Yue Fei's people just killed some "water bandits", but I have fought head-on with elite soldiers. How can I talk to each other?"
Moreover, the Zhao Guan family often talked about Jin Wushu, saying that he and Jin Wushu's winning rate were 55, but he was lucky to win every time.
Han Shizhong understood in his heart that the so-called "55" is just a Zhao Guan family who made fun of other people's Jin Wushu. The gap between us is only a billion points, and only a hundred and eight thousand miles away.
Jin Wushu, who has been defeated frequently, has a famous general ceiling, and the god of war in the Jin Kingdom. His prestige is so low in front of the generals of the Song Dynasty. He can even tell that he and Jin Wushu can be separated by any general.
When Han Shizhong heard Zhang Jun say that he and Yue Fei and Wuwu were willing to practice him?
Although the two were joking, they had other opinions about Yue Fei's troops. For now, Yue Fei's subordinates dealt with these rebels in a very good way.
The orders are enforced, unified dispatch, and strict military disciplines are considered elite.
Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhao Jiu and Zhang Jun have long talked about the direction that the Song Dynasty focuses on.
Yue Fei’s future plan can be summarized into three points: First, to fight against foreign countries, to stabilize the country first; second, to have enough food and then to have enough troops; third, to protect the people, to be able to defeat the bandits. The countermeasures are mainly concentrated in the first two points.
To be continued...