General Meng?

Jia Sidao looked back at Shi Xiang in confusion. He seemed to know General Meng when he heard the meaning of this guy's words.

"Mr. Zong Sheng mentioned that General Meng was the one who had just been promoted to the Hubei Road Pacification Commander and defeated Caizhou City to destroy Jin Jin?" At this time, Yu Ci suddenly interfered.

"Brother Zisheng also knows General Meng? That's right, if it's not bad, this must be General Meng who returned to the capital to meet the saint." Shi Xiang looked at Yu Ci in surprise and said seriously.

Meng Gong? It turned out to be Meng Gong?

Hearing the conversation between the two, Jia Sidao was shocked involuntarily.

The history of the Song Dynasty after the transition to the south was neither long nor short. However, when it entered the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially after the outbreak of the Song and Meng Battle, one person could never be avoided if he wanted to study the Southern Song Dynasty, and that person was Meng Gong.

Today, Jia Sidao is clear about the general historical trend of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he is far from reaching all the details. Only Meng Gong can be said to be the person he is most familiar with.

Strictly speaking, Meng Gong, a military strategist, commander and famous general who made the contribution to the Song Dynasty was no less than Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, and his reputation was far less than that of the two men who had previously, especially Yue Fei, who were coming.

In later generations, he first knew that Meng Gong was from a Russian.

Unlike his reputation in China, Meng Gong has a great reputation abroad and has a large number of loyal fans. There are even many countries and many military historians who specialize in studying Meng Gong's tactics when dealing with Mongolian cavalry, and have published many books on this.

Later generations Meng Gong's title of "Master of Mobile Defense" was first awarded by foreigners.

From the early to the middle of the 13th century, the Southern Song Dynasty, which had crossed southward through the Jingkang Incident, successively fought fierce national wars with the declining Jurchen Jin Kingdom and the emerging Mongolian Khanate.

In this magnificent and magnificent history of more than a hundred years, Meng Gong can be said to be one of the most representative figures of the Song Dynasty during this period.

He started as an ordinary lower-level officer, and with his father Meng Zongzheng step by step became a famous general in the anti-Jin resolutely through military achievements. Finally, he led his army to capture the capital of the Jin Kingdom, captured the remains of the last monarch of the Jin Kingdom, and washed away the Jingkang shame that was pressed against tens of millions of people from all over the Song Dynasty.

During the early ten years of the Battle of Song and Mongolia, Meng Gong even dominated the war on the two-thirds of the Southern Song Dynasty with one man, leading the Song army to fight bloody battles and resisted the Mongolian cavalry that had swept across the Eurasian continent at that time, ensuring that the Southern Song, which was already extremely weak, survived the first ten years of the Song-Mongol War.

It is precisely because of Meng Gong's large-scale integrated defense system based on Jingxiang that the national destiny of the Song Dynasty was once again extended for half a century.

In this half century, on the Eurasian continent, world powers such as the most powerful Arabs (Hualazimo and other tribes), and the Persian Empire was destroyed one after another under the horse hooves of the Mongols. Only the Southern Song Dynasty, which lived in a corner, resisted the Mongolian army for half a century.

It can be said that without Meng Gong, the Southern Song Dynasty might not be the opponent of the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army that had swept across the Eurasian continent for one round.

In later generations, the most widely circulated story about Meng Gong may be the "Take the Old Picture".

In 1234, Meng Gong led his army to capture Caizhou City, captured the body of Jin Aizong Wanyan Shouxu who hanged himself, and captured the queen who had not had time to commit suicide. Since the Jingkang Incident, the century-old shame that had been pressing on the Song people was washed away.

This "Take the Queen" is said to be a picture of Meng Gong and a group of Song Meng soldiers, traitorizing the last queen of the Jin Dynasty.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that Meng Gong's reputation is far less famous than that of Yue Fei and even Han Shizhong in China. Judging from the thousands of years of thinking, insulting the queen, although she is the queen of the enemy country with deep hatred, she is still a little disrespectful and transcendent.

But no matter what, this cannot conceal the reputation Meng Gong deserves as a national hero. What's more, in addition to the matter of the empress of the Jin Kingdom, Meng Gong was a well-deserved great national hero to the Song people and even the Song Dynasty, both in terms of morality and military achievements.

Jia Sidao never expected that he would meet such a legendary figure who was about to become a pillar of the Song Dynasty and supported half of the country alone.

In order to resist the Mongol invasion, the Southern Song Dynasty set up four major war zones from north to south, namely Sichuan, Jingxiang (also known as Jinghu), Huaixi, Huaidong war zone, and Hubei Pacification and Control Envoy belonged to Jingxiang, which is Jinghu war zone.

Before Meng Gong took over as the Hubei Pacification and Control Envoy, the position of Jinghu Pacification and Control Envoy of the Jinghu Pacification and Control Envoy of the Central Theater Command was vacant after Shi Song stepped down from the wilderness two years ago. Therefore, Meng Gong, the Hubei Pacification and Control Envoy, was already the de facto head coach of the Jinghu Pacification and Control Envoy.

However, if you remember correctly at this time, it should be the second time when the Mongols launched a large-scale invasion of the Song Dynasty. As the commander of the central battlefield of the Song Dynasty, could Meng Gong leave his post and return to Lin'an City without permission?

"Aren't General Meng leading troops to fight against the Mongols at this time? Why did he return to Lin'an City at this time? Could it be that he was not him?"

Thinking of this, Jia Sidao said in confusion.

"Haha, Brother Shi Xian doesn't know anything. Last year, the Mongolian Sect King Wen Buhua, General Zhang Rou besieged Huangzhou City. General Meng personally led his troops from Ezhou to rescue and entered Huangzhou City. He won the great victory in Huangzhou. The Mongols, who had one hundred casualties and injured, had already retreated at this time. General Meng returned to Lin'an City to present a war to the saint. Zong Sheng had heard his father's words a few days ago, so he was so sure."

Shi Xiang explained to Jia Sidao with a smile.

Shi Songzhi was Meng Gong's old boss, and he has always been extremely appreciative and friendly to Meng Gong. This is not a secret in the Song Dynasty. Later history books have also mentioned it.

When Shi Songzhi was appointed as the commander of Jinghu, it was the time when the Song Dynasty alliance destroyed the Jin Dynasty. At that time, Meng Gong was already a general under Shi Songzhi and was deeply appreciated by Shi Songzhi. This was also the main reason why Meng Gong was able to lead troops into Caizhou City.

Now that Shi Songzhi is the deputy governor and deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he is naturally very clear about major events in the court. Since Shi Songzhi said that Meng Gong would return to Lin'an City, he thought that he was not wrong.

"Brother Zong Sheng..."

"call out!"

A sharp and harsh whistle suddenly rang through the noisy Yu Street, interrupting Jia Sidao's words and swallowing them back.

Jia Sidao looked in confusion in the direction where the whistle came, but did not notice that Shi Xiang and Yu Ci around him had already changed their faces when they heard the whistle.

"not good……"

Before he finished speaking, more than ten black shadows in the attics on both sides of the noisy avenue suddenly burst out. In the originally bustling crowd, there were also countless black shadows dragging the cold light and silently exploding towards the moving forward Meng Gong team.

The sword lights in the sky reflected a dazzling and cold light under the sunlight.

Although it was crowded, noisy but orderly roads were instantly chaotic.

The next moment, the sad blood flowers suddenly bloomed...
Chapter completed!