Song Dynasty

Chapter 57 The Great Change
Picking up the two letters that Chen Lanruo threw on the ground, Wang Shen looked at her leaving back, with a thousand feelings in his heart, his lips moved, but he couldn't speak.

He was not in a hurry to read Li Cheng's emergency military report, but unfolded An Niang's personal letter.

This was the first time he saw An Niang's writing, but he saw that the letter paper was written in neat and elegant lower case script, which was really like the characters, obviously good at it, which made people's eyes brighten.

As far as he knew, Yue Fei was born in an ordinary peasant family in Tangyin, Henan. In an era of illiteracy, it is really amazing that a peasant girl can write such a good handwriting.

Thinking about it again, Grandpa Yue Feiyue is capable of both literature and martial arts, and the "Man Jianghong" he said is even more famous through the ages.As for his calligraphy, judging from the four characters "return my rivers and mountains" that only survive in the world, it is vigorous and powerful, and he is a master of a generation.With such a father, the daughter's handwriting can be worse.

"Brother Wang: Words are like faces..."

Her letter was very simple, about three things.

One is that Li Cheng suddenly abandoned Pingyuan Town and led the army back to Sizhou.Before leaving, he released Lu Can, Gu Lie and other Huaixi Army officers and soldiers to stay or stay as they please.

The second is that Lu Can and others received an emergency military order from their superiors, ordering them to go south to join the main force and withdraw to Jiankang Mansion.

The third is that Yue Yun's dysentery has completely healed, but he was seriously injured in the first battle in Pingyuan Town, his lung meridian was damaged, and he coughed non-stop day and night, coughing up all the blood.In the past few days, he had a high fever and could not move in bed.However, Pingyuan Town lacks medical care and medicine, so there has been no way to treat it.Lu Can suggested that they go to Jiankang with the army to take care of them and invite famous doctors for diagnosis and treatment.

An Niang said that after thinking about it, she felt that brother's injury could not be delayed any longer, and that he might still be saved if he went to Jiankang Mansion.She is just such a younger brother, if something goes wrong, how will she explain to her grandmother and father in the future?
What's more, she also heard from Lu Can that the entire Jiangbei army is now gathering in Yangzhou, Jiangdu, and Jiankang. If they go there, they might be able to find their mother and bring her back to her hometown in Hebei.

At the end of the letter, this usually thin-faced little girl boldly said that she missed Brother Wang very much and asked him to go to Jiankang to find her and Yue Yun as soon as possible.

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After reading the letter, Wang Shen sighed in his heart, Yue Yun has been really unlucky for the past month, and he has been fighting with illness all the time.The dysentery is gone, but now I have a high fever.If I guessed correctly, it should be caused by inflammation of the wound on my body.In ancient times when medicine was backward, once wounded on the battlefield, the wound was easily infected by bacteria.In fact, at the end of each battle, ten times as many soldiers died from infected wounds than died on the battlefield. Hopefully he can survive this.

Hey, I also forgot to tell An Niang, her mother is now in Han Shizhong's army, so why go to Jiankang?

In the real history, Yue Fei's first wife's wife had a very bad character, to put it bluntly, she was promiscuous.After Yue Fei joined the army, the woman couldn't stand her loneliness and hooked up with a soldier, and finally left her children and mother-in-law to elope with someone.

This is also a big stain on the life history of the great hero Yue Fei, and a disgrace to the Yue family.

Later, after Han Shizhong knew about this, he told Yue Fei that Mrs. Yue Fei married a lower-ranking officer in his army.Yue Fei is also open-minded, not only did not retaliate, but gave his ex-wife a lot of property.

After all, she is the child's mother. For the sake of the children, Yue Pengju naturally couldn't do that cruel thing.

The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized. When An Niang and Wang Shen talked about this matter, she mentioned it vaguely.As it was about the privacy of the future mother-in-law, it was naturally inconvenient for Wang Shen to speak out to her.

Now, after receiving the letter, he could only smile wryly besides regret.

In addition, my heart is full of question marks. Now that Li Cheng has withdrawn to Sizhou, the Huaixi army is retreating south of the Yangtze River, and the entire Song Dynasty army is moving south. Is this going to abandon the Jianghuai area?
This is already a strategic rout, how did it all happen?
Putting An Niang's letter back into his sleeve, he picked up Li Cheng's emergency military bulletin, just glanced at it, and there was a buzzing sound in his head.

The Jurchens are here!
……

The three years of Jianyan in the Great Song Dynasty and the nine years in Jin Tianhui were turbulent years for the reborn Song Dynasty.

First, during the Liu and Miao Rebellion in March, Zhao Gou was captured by the rebels.Finally, under the leadership of Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun set off from Pingjiang to hunt down the thieves.The war lasted for two months, and the rebellion between Liu and Miao was finally put down, and the two were also captured alive by Han Shizhong, sent to Jiangning, and lived together in the city.After this incident, the court of the Song Dynasty was really turbulent. Zhao Gou escaped from the dead, and his spirit was always in a state of panic.Considering that Hangzhou is the hometown of Liu and Miao, there may be some followers.Not daring to stay in Lin'an anymore, he moved from Hangzhou to Jiankang Mansion in the name of Qiufang.

At the same time, wars are raging in Huaibei, and there are bandits everywhere. This year's taxes have not been settled, and the country's finances are also on the verge of collapse.

Now that Li Yu has given the leadership, the Huaihe River Basin has finally settled down.

But the autumn grain in the field had just been harvested, and before it was put into storage, the Jurchens went south.

Li Cheng, Liu Guangshi and others don't know how many Jurchens have come because of the backward communication conditions of this era. They only know that the leading general of the Jin Kingdom this time is the fourth prince Wanyan Zongbi, also known as Wushu.As for him, I don't know at all.

At this moment, Jurchen Qingqi was everywhere on Huainan East Road. Everywhere was shocked three times a day, and a large number of soldiers and civilians fled south frantically. The order could not be more chaotic.

The entire Jianghuai area has been completely wiped out.

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Suddenly there was a surge of grief and indignation in Wang Shen's heart: "From the second year of Jingkang to the present, in the four years, under the leadership of Li Gang and Zong Ze, many people with lofty ideals threw their heads and blood, wrapped their corpses in horse leather, and only then did they guard the road from Henan to Huaibei. Frontline and Jurchen are facing each other across the Yellow River. Now that the Huaibei armies have withdrawn, so many people's blood has been shed in vain."

"This Song Jun really suffers from a terrible fear of gold, he doesn't even have the trace of blood in his bones?"

With a clang, he drew out his waist knife, Wang Shen wanted to cut down everything that stood in front of him.

But at this moment, suddenly, his heart trembled: "Wu Shu is coming soon, if I don't leave, I'm afraid I will die in this Huaixi battlefield, and I won't be able to reunite with An Niang again."

"I traveled to this world alone, and only An Niang is my only relative."

It turned out that just now, he suddenly remembered the records in the real historical materials.

The scale of this battle was unprecedented, and the Jurchen's deployment was: with Wushu as the commander, continue to use the cavalry's large-scale lightning raids, go straight to Jiankang Mansion, use beheading tactics against Zhao Gou, and destroy the command center of the Song Dynasty.

This time in the battle against the Song Dynasty, Jurchen used all the troops of the whole country and divided them into two groups: Marshal Wan Yanchang of the Kingdom of Jin, also known as Ta Lan, was in charge of sweeping the Huainan battlefield; while Wu Shu was in charge of Jiangnan.

After crossing the river, the Wushu Department divided its troops into two groups again. The West Route Army was commanded by Wanyan Ba ​​Lisu and Yelu Mawu, while the East Route Army was still composed of Wushu cavalry marching forward triumphantly, and soon captured Hangzhou, Yuezhou, and Ming Dynasty. states etc.

Fearing the enemy like a tiger, Zhao Gou fled all the way. When there was no way to escape, he took a boat and floated on the sea for three days and three nights.
This time the Jurchens brazenly invaded the south for a year, and the vanguard army even reached northern Fujian.

It was not until the end of next year that the Jin army was exhausted, so it withdrew to the north. It was called "searching the mountains and checking the sea to catch Zhao Gou" in history, and searching the mountains and checking the sea has become an idiom in Chinese.

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At this time, the Jurchen is at the peak of its national power, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong. The Jurchen Iron Cavalry is very likely to be the strongest army in the history of cold wars.

The cavalry unit led by Wu Shu traveled hundreds of miles a day, coming and going like the wind, and it was like entering the land of no one in the small half of China.

I roughly predicted that Wanyan Zongbi's fast horse should have bypassed Chuzhou and killed Jiangdu and the fat land of Yangzhou.

If those two cities fall, Wang Shen's road to Jiangning south will be cut off.

At the most terrifying time, Jiang Ning will also be taken down by Jurchen.

After the Jurchens entered Jiankang, they carried out a tragic massacre. The Anniang siblings and the brothers from the supply camp were trapped in the city. At that time...

Cold sweat broke out on Wang Shen's body, he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Suddenly the general put away the newspaper, and gritted his teeth: "I'm leaving now, An Niang, Paoze brothers, wait for me, I'll go to Jiankang right away, I'll take you away, we want to live in this troubled world go down."

(End of this chapter)