Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 626
Zheng Wang Li Congshan rushed to the Caishiji Camp of the Tang Army with [-] imperial guards.

Caishiji, formerly known as Niuzhuji, got its name from a story about a golden bull coming out of Zhuji in ancient times.During the Chiwu period of the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, monks got five-color gemstones when they dug a well, so they changed their name to Caishiji.

This Caishiji, together with Yanziji in Jinling and Chenglingji in Yueyang, is known as the "Three Famous Rockies of the Yangtze River".

It is said that Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, drank wine and wrote poems here. It is said that he finally drowned because he was drunk to catch the moon in the water, adding to the mystery.It can be said that the poet Li Bai benefited from the famous mountain, and the poet lingered on the famous mountain. He visited Caishiji many times and left many famous poems.

The river here is wide and gentle, with steep cliffs, abrupt river currents, and buffered river beaches, not all high mountains and steep mountains. The gentle river beach of Caishiji is the most suitable place for large-scale mooring and landing. Therefore, here There is the big camp of Tang Jun Anzha, which is where the fortress is located.

In history, Fan Ruoshui, a native of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was very disappointed with the Southern Tang Dynasty after he was defeated, so he fished on the Caishi River for several months, loaded a small boat with silk rope, tied the silk rope to the south bank, and quickly rowed to the north bank for Calculate the width of the river, and test the depth of the water, the length of the river, and the situation of the garrison's river defense, and then enter the Northern Song Dynasty, and wrote a letter stating that the south of the Yangtze River is desirable, and Song Taizu awarded Shuzhou a military officer.

In the seventh year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song army went to the south of the Yangtze River. Fan Ruoshui led people to build a pontoon bridge at Caishiji, so that the Song army crossed the river smoothly and defeated the Southern Tang army.

There has been a slight gap in the historical trajectory.

Today, Zheng Wang Li Congshan entered the small camp of Caishiji, and he is about to step down and become the supervising army outside.

Commander-in-chief Ge Funing learned that the imperial court had sent Ge Fu over, and brought people to greet him personally. After all, Ge Fu is a relative of the emperor and the younger brother of the current official family. His status and status are much lower than his Wu Yuebing.

Ge Funing remained respectful, but he still knew what was going on, the imperial court would send Song Jun to follow in person.

All the generals came to the commander's tent, knelt down to listen to the imperial decree read out by Song Jun, and got up in amazement, thinking that Ge Fu had come to serve as the supervisor of the army.

Ge Fu and Li Jixun put up the imperial decree, and sat in the position of the commander without any politeness. Because of his low status, when he arrived at the barracks, he wanted to give Wu Yue soldiers a prestige, and he also established prestige, so that the generals present would know who was the best. Truly powerless people.

Wu Yuebing cares about this aspect. After all, if he competes with the Song army for the position, the relationship will become stagnant, which will benefit the internal division of the army. Besides, once it is passed to the court, the ministers will also feel that Wu Yuebing is in the eyes of Wu Yuebing. There are royal nobles who respect the Song army and violate the royal majesty.

Before Song Jun Ge Funing sat down, he looked around at the generals and princes of Yu in the account, and said: "In the past two or eight months, the western front has been defeated layer by layer. The small army of 17 now has only [-] left. Lost Xiakou Village, Chizhou, and Tongling City, do you want to give an explanation to the court? Let me also listen to how you defend the country!"

Before the generals finished listening, their faces were embarrassed, and they all heard the irony in Ge Fu's words; but some people dared to explain at will, touching the mold.

Ge Funing said without opening his mouth: "Going back to the Song Army Hall, Ge Fu came aggressively, and seemed to know little about our military defense situation, so in the next few cross-river battles, the way of sneak attacking the city forced our army to suffer from attacks on both sides of the Yangtze River. The attack was forced to advance strategically. But our army did not lose in the water battle. There were only 7 sailors behind Su Chen's eyes. They dared to confront our army head-on, and at least they focused on containment. The main force is still in the north. From Cao Bin, the number is about [-]. In the south, General Wulin and Li Congshan commanded [-] horse infantry to attack the cities along the river."

Ge Funing paused, and he had already thought up his speech on the way, and replied: "In this case, I suggest that the troops be divided into two groups, and one should be led by General Wuyue Bing. When King Zheng retreated to encircle and suppress Su Chen, and beat Ge Funing and Li Congshan's Su Chen, defend the two cities of Wuhu and Dangtu. The king sits in the small camp of Caishiji, commanding the navy, and resisting the retreat of Su Chen's sailors. In this way, Su Chen on the north bank will be helpless if the two attack at the same time. Lee, how do you feel?

Wu Yuebing firmly said: "In the future, it is better to defend than to attack. As long as we defend Wuhu and the seven cities of Dangtu like this, concentrate our forces to defend Caishiji, and block the river, we can hold back Su Chen's retreat to the east."

Song Jun said with a hot smile: "This king now understands why Zheng Wangli commanded the small army and was defeated all the way. Your thinking is too conservative, blindly passive defense, resulting in all the initiative in Su Chen's hands, and that's why you fell into this situation." Dilemma. Since Su Chen is like our army in terms of naval forces, he can stop the river, advance further, and even take the initiative to attack the opponent's anchorage. However, Su Chen of King Zheng has only [-] troops and travels from a long distance. Come on, it is inevitable that the terrain is unfamiliar, and there is enough food and grass. Our army should be flexible and look for opportunities to attack. We should blindly defend and be timid to Su Chen. When it is time to face head-on, we must show some blood, so as to lower morale!
"For example, the [-] troops of Ge Fu and Su Chen in the Yangtze River are not small. Instead of waiting for them to attack the city at night to attack our army, you should wait for the opportunity and take the initiative to attack. This king proposes that Zheng Wangli should lead [-] soldiers and horses." , go to cooperate with Wuhu and Dangtu two cities, and when Ge Fu is attacking the city again, they can raid Su Chen's small camp, beat Zheng Wang's Su Chen, and cut off their food and grass. Whether they can be wiped out depends on You have the ability of Zheng Wangli."

Ge Fanging talked about it with exaggeration, talking on paper, thinking rightly, and saying very rightly.

Some of these generals were members of the Song Party. At this time, a deputy commander named Xu Ruo immediately echoed Song Jun and said: "Song Jun is right, these days have made us feel bad. Blindly defending passively gave up the initiative to Su Chen. We were beaten every step of the way, and we were defeated. If we find an opportunity to wait for the opportunity to dispatch, we may be able to severely injure Su Chen, regain the two cities, and continue to push back the western defense line to the west. "

"That's wrong, that's the reason. Attacking is the best defense. It's also said in the book of war. Because we are afraid of Su Chen, we can use defensive methods. It's a constant advance and give up any chance to take the initiative to attack." , Song Jun came here, representing the intention of the imperial court, encouraging the Eighth Army, suspecting that if they can take the initiative to attack, they may be able to wipe out Ge Fu's Su Chen." A Du Yuhou followed suit.

"That's right, if we wipe out the [-] young Ge Fu in the south of the Yangtze River, regain the lost Chizhou and Tongling, and severely damage the small army of General Lin and Li Congshan, we will have no chance to turn defeat into victory. Instead, we will have no strategy as we do now. Defensive, see is the hope of failure."

Some generals of the Song Party, as well as the generals who were climbing Yan, were like grass on the wall at this time, and they all voiced their support for the decision of the Song Army. After all, the status of the Song Army was lower, and it was obvious that the court had already treated General Wu Yuebing Trusted.

Therefore, they chose to stand in line and favor the Song army!
Anyway, these few people were in the army and they were highly valued by Ge Funing. At this time, if they joined the Song army, they would not have a better chance to be promoted and reused. This was their big plan.

Before Song Jun listened to these people, he was very satisfied with these people. He felt that what he said had won the hearts of the army and was in line with the current battle situation. He was not complacent in his heart.

He looked at the rugged and burly Wu Yue soldiers, and said: "Since the few generals support this strategy, it shows that it is in line with reality, and it can solve our urgent problems! This king is in charge of how to formulate it later. Strategically, since it has been passive to such a situation, and there is no hope of victory, this shows that it has loopholes.

"You have also seen that the border gates on the eastern front were lost, the city of Changzhou was broken, and Wang Shenqi's small shop was pushed back. As a result, he was ambushed by Ge Fu's troops in the Danyang area. Wang Shenqi was caught by surprise and wiped out. The enemy has seven 8000 people. Before that, Wuyue's small army came to Runzhou City, retreated day and night to attack the city, but was attacked by the South Bank several times before, and wiped out [-] enemy troops, resulting in heavy losses for Wang Shenqi. Another [-] small troops were transferred from the front to form a siege of Runzhou.

"Do you know that Ge Funian was in his seventies, a number one scholar, never enlisted in the army, he had experience in the army, but he didn't have the guts, the courage to take the initiative to ambush Wang Shenqi. The number of enemies annihilated has exceeded 8. It is worthwhile for all generals to learn from the fact that they are in Runzhou and try their best to protect the city of Runzhou.

"As for you generals, since the confrontation with Ge Fu, you have made many mistakes. With a small army of 17, the food and grass consumption is huge. If you fail in a few games, how will you boost your morale? How will you hold the western defense line and give the court confidence? , Give me hope for the people of Tang Kingdom?
Xu Ruo nodded in agreement: "That's right, what Song Jun said is too true, don't tell me that we military generals who have experienced battles are still as successful as Wenqiang scholars?"

"That's right, look at Jiangyou Sulang, he dared to attack the enemy in person, don't I dare to wait for my daughter?"

Some generals became excited and wanted to resist Su Chen and make meritorious service.

Song Jun Ge Funing was very satisfied with their reaction, and said in a persuasive way: "So, you should be too pessimistic, build up the ambitions of others, destroy your own prestige, and also look for opportunities to beat Su Chen hard, do you understand?"

Major General Xu stood up and cupped his fists, "Understood!"

"Ge Fu is right!"

Sitting aside, Wu Yuebing smiled wryly in his heart. The current situation was as complicated as Ge Fu thought, but he strongly refuted it, because the Song army came with an imperial decree.

In this case, if you express your approval, you are obeying the will of the Song army, and you will fall into disrepute, leading to peace in the army, and tearing up the defense that comes up.

Therefore, the Wuyue soldiers planned to compromise and focus on the small situation. It is also a strategy to lead troops to encircle and suppress Ge Fu in the south of the Yangtze River and cooperate with the officers and soldiers defending the city.

"Zheng Wangli, what do you think, please express your opinion?" Li Jixun asked enthusiastically.

Ge Funing turned to the former, clasped his fists and said: "Song's army has no orders, and it represents the intention of the imperial court. I, Ge Funing, must set an example and act according to the imperial court's will. I am willing to accept Ge Fu's suggestion and personally lead troops to attack Su Chen's small camp in the south of the Yangtze River. and the city, and strive to destroy this horse infantry."

Ge Fu nodded slightly: "I feel that Wu Yuebing is still a low-ranking soldier, whether you followed the military order when we met for the first time, somewhat relieved Li Jixun's hostility.

In this first step, he has already seized power and split successfully; the next step is to gain a foothold and gain prestige in the army, and then secretly investigate whether Wu Yuebing has no personal relationship with Song State, find evidence, and find out the truth!
(End of this chapter)