What? Taking on a fake position?
Why does this sound so scary?
Yuan Chun and the group of pseudo-officials from Daming Prefecture and Yuancheng County below are not stupid, and pseudo-officials are not a good word! Generally, it is only used by officials who rebel against thieves. For example, the officials appointed by Fang La are fake officials. When the Song Dynasty invaded Yanyun in the north, they did not call the officials of Liao Kingdom pseudo-officials!
Yuan Chun still wanted to argue, but he saw the red-turbaned Song soldier who was about to wave his hand and follow him and put on his helmet (their helmets were all bought by themselves. They were very strong and heavy. Their necks hurt after wearing them for a long time. Therefore, they usually wait until they encounter the enemy before wearing them), insert the long-handled thing in their hands into the mud, then draw out the hand knife and straight knife, divide into two teams, outflank the officials and gentry who are welcoming the king's division outside Damingfu City. A circle.
This is about to arrest someone!
At this time, the officials and gentry of Daming Mansion were no longer calm. They all looked at the fierce-looking red scarf soldiers surrounding them in horror, and were trembling and speechless. The "former academic official" was still relatively calm and shouted: "I, Li Shiwen of the famous mansion, am a disciple of Mr. Huang Taishi (Huang Tingjian)! I have never held a fake position...I am different from them." Same, I am a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty!"
As soon as he said this, all the pseudo-officials around him cast vicious looks - you, a reclusive "celebrity", would have been chopped up by the Jinren long ago if you weren't supported by pseudo-officials like us!
"Not being a fake official does not mean that you are a loyal minister!" The general who prepared the plan still had no good expression at all. As he spoke, he said to the people around him, "Go and bring Li Jian, the fake leader of Lujiazhuang, and ask him to identify the fake official." official!"
Still want to identify?
When the pseudo-officials heard this, their calves trembled, but when they saw the leader Li of Lujiazhuang, their calves were not trembling, but their hearts were trembling.
Because Li Jian had several villagers from Lujiazhuang tied up and escorted here, and he was also beaten. His cute little face was beaten until it looked like a pig's head!
Wasn't Master Wang who came over this time too fierce?
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"The banner of Commander Yue Xuan!"
At the top of Damingfu City, several red-turbaned Song soldiers standing guard suddenly pointed at the flags that appeared on the horizon in the distance and shouted loudly.
On duty at the top of the city that day was an artillery general of the Ninth Army who also joined the army, named Meng Lin.
He happened to be patrolling nearby at that time. When he heard the shouting, he ran over from a short distance away, pushed aside a sergeant on duty, and reached the edge of the battlement. Then he took out his crystal telescope and looked into the distance.
What catches the eye is an inverted white tooth flag, which is a flag owned only by the generals along the route. Among the South Route Army, only Yue Fei owns this tooth flag.
"Finally here!" Meng Lin put down the telescope and exhaled. He was obviously looking forward to Yue Fei's arrival!
This young officer in Conglong, Hedong, now only has the title of doctor, but because he is a student of the first phase of the artillery school, he has received personal instruction from Zhao Kai, Yue Fei, and Huang Wubing, and also studied under Wu Meiniang, Ren Baolian and other women. My husband has studied arithmetic and physics, and his results are quite excellent, so he has been of great use.
Before the start of the Northern Expedition, he served as the artillery general and army officer of the Ninth Army - in today's Northern Song Army, the artillery generals are undoubtedly the elite of the elite. They themselves are young talents in the military, and they have also received at least two years of standardized new military education.
Meng Lin's Ninth Army was once again the vanguard of the South Route Army this time. It set out from Kaifeng Prefecture on the second day of March and occupied Damingfu City on the eighth day of March... However, such "super speed" made Meng Lin and others even more vulnerable. The senior officials of the Ninth Army, including Lin, were extremely worried!
Because through torture of the puppet officials arrested in Daming Mansion and inspection of Daming Mansion's warehouses, military camps and other facilities, military commander Wang Gui, military deputy commander Dong Xian and military officer Meng Lin all knew that the Jin Army had long been ready to abandon Daming Mansion. preparation.
Moreover, the gold thief Wei Bojun's town has also moved from Damingfu to Cangzhou, a remote place close to the sea... This clearly means that he is planning to cross the sea and return to his hometown in Liaodong at any time!
This is not possible! There are 30,000 people in the gold thief's Weibo town, why do they have to leave half of their heads before running away, right? Now that you are running away without even fighting, how can you take credit?
In addition, the Wei Bo Town of the Jin people may also be divided into two groups, with a partial force going east to Cangzhou to protect Qianliang and family members, and the main force going north to Zhongshan Prefecture to Yizhou area to join forces with the direct headquarters of the Jin Thief Marshal.
Moreover, if the Golden Thief wants to gather his army on Nanjing Road, then the troops from Ziqing Town, Guide Town, Datong Town and Hedong Town will probably go north to join forces with the troops directly under the Marshal's Mansion.
In this way, the gold thieves will be the first to gather a large number of troops in the Nanjing Road area!
On the Song Dynasty, the twelve armies were divided into two groups, and they were far apart, making it difficult to respond...
So Wang Gui, Dong Xian, Meng Lin and others immediately reported the situation of the gold thief Wei Bojun's escape and their speculations to Yue Fei, the commander of the military capital of the Southern Route of the Northern Expedition and the Xuanfu envoy of the Hebei Route, who was far away in Liyang.
Yesterday, Yue Fei's cavalry sent by Marshal Yue Xuan had arrived in advance and informed Yue Fei that he would personally lead the Second Army, the Fifth Army and the entire Xuanfu Division to Daming Mansion. Later, the Sixth, Seventh, and Twelfth Armies will also arrive at Daming Mansion one after another. Moreover, Yue Fei also ordered Wang Gui, Dong Xian and others to collect civil servants, military rations, chariots and horses in Daming Mansion... The more, the better!
This shows that Marshal Yue Xuan has made up his mind to go north to Youyan to fight the golden thief!
Is this the main force to use six armies to fight against the golden thieves?
It seems a bit risky...but once you win, the credit will be huge!
So when the generals in Daming Mansion heard that Yue Fei was coming with the main force, they all geared up and couldn't wait to fight the gold thief.
When Wang Gui and Dong Xian learned about the arrival of Yue Fei's army, they were fighting with Yuancheng County, Wei County, Neihuang County, Koushi County, Guantao County, Linqing County, Cheng'an County, and Qincheng County under Daming Prefecture. Waiting for officials from eight counties to discuss the issue of sharing civilian labor, carriages, horses, money and food.
These eight counties are not all "Jinzhan counties". Among them, Wei County, Neihuang and Cheng'an counties were located to the west of the old course of the Yellow River, so they had long been occupied by the Song army and were managed by Xiangzhou. Moreover, the Luoyang court also set up military mansions in the three counties and ordered people to build a large number of fortresses there.
Now the officials of these three counties and the corresponding three military prefectures are all lucky - they have been transferred in large numbers to the Daming Mansion territory east of the old route of the Yellow River, and have become agents of the "Five Counties in the East of the River East", and have also formed a temporary daiming Fu Yamen (the prefect is concurrently served by Dong Xian).
In addition, some "underground officials of the Zhenfu Division" and "anti-golden righteous people" (people like Lu Xiaoliu) in the five counties also got positions and took office one by one.
And Professor Li Shiwen of Daming Palace, who promptly drew a clear line with the pseudo-officials, also became an official, but he was no longer a professor, but became the chief registrar of Yuancheng County - not because he could meet the wind, but because He had "twelve filial sons" who followed Zhao Kai to Xiangzhou. Now four of them are gone (died of illness or in battle). The remaining eight all have the rank of sergeant or staff sergeant. Among them, the highest official is still Become a lieutenant general.
Since the "red scarf army dependents" are of course our own, we sent a chief clerk to select a group of people from among his students who had no "historical problems" and who had never had any false officials in their families to serve as the five officials. Although the Song Dynasty of County Affairs Officer Zhao Kai was reopened, his status as the Song prince and "legitimate heir" still helped him win over a large number of capable people, so the Luoyang court's construction of local political power was still orderly. Wherever you strike, you can take root!
Now that they heard that Yue Fei and Xuanshuai had finally arrived, Wang Gui and Dong Xian stopped holding meetings and immediately led everyone out to meet Xuanshuai.
When they left the south gate of Damingfu City, Yue Fei's army was already approaching. On the horizon, there were already heavy black cavalry, all tall and powerful, wearing red robes and red scarves, with red flags flying. Even a layman who doesn't understand military affairs knows how powerful they are!
It turned out that Yue Fei arrived first with two generals and cavalry. After he received a joint report from Wang Gui, Dong Xian, and Meng Lin, he immediately realized that his original plan to attract the main force of gold thieves to go south for a decisive battle had been ruined.
Because the gold thieves can even give up a "capital" level city like Daming Mansion, what else can force them to go south?
Therefore, the golden thief must be trying to concentrate his main force this time, luring the enemy deeper, and then engage in a decisive battle.
The place where the decisive battle may take place must be north of Baigou River, or even under Yanjing City!
A decisive battle north of the Baigou River would definitely be more unfavorable to the Song Army than a decisive battle near Dama Mingfu - but precisely because it was unfavorable to the Song Army, the chance of winning a decisive battle was greater.
And Yue Fei also knew that if he did not go north for a decisive battle, the army led by Zhao Kai would be at a disadvantage... Letting the official brother take risks is not something Yue Fei, a "younger brother", would do!
Therefore, before leaving Liyang, Yue Fei had already made up his mind to take advantage of his plan and march north to Yizhou, Fanyang, and even Yanjing City to find the main force of the gold thieves for a decisive battle!
In Yue Fei's view, the closer the decisive battle is to Yanjing, the better... Because the closer the Song army is to Yanjing, the more difficult it will be for the gold thieves to dispatch - because the gold thieves' family members and supplies in Yanjing cannot be easily transferred. If that happens, the morale of the military will be completely shattered, so why fight a decisive battle?
If the family members and supplies were still in Yanjing, then facing the approaching Song army, the gold thieves would have to deploy troops in Yanjing City to prevent the Song army from attacking Yanjing.
In this way, when Zhao Kai's army attacks Datong, the Jin soldiers will not be able to divert troops from Yanjing to rescue them!
Once the main force of the gold thieves was nailed to Yanjing, Wanyan Zongqian could only watch helplessly as Yelu Dashi marched towards Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing of Daliao...
Therefore, before Yue Fei left Liyang, he sent a memorial to Zhao Kai who was still in Hedong, asking Zhao Kai to continue to act according to the original plan and not to worry about the Southern Route Army because of the changes in Hebei.
