Chapter 20 Resolving Confusion
"Qin Hui?" Everyone widened their eyes, completely disbelief.
Chen Wen had known this would be the result, because he was like this when he first read this history. "That's right, it was Qin Hui. At that time, Qin Hui was not as good as he was when he later, but people would change. No one was born to be a traitor, and this was entirely due to his choice when the disaster was about to happen."
"For example, in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the King's Army was defeated in the Battle of Songshan, and the head coach Hong Chengchou was captured. At that time, no matter whether he was close or close, the wise and foolish, everyone believed that Hong Chengchou would be righteous and do not humiliate himself. Even the Lie Emperor personally wrote the sacrificial text and gave it to the Nine Altars. But who would have thought that the Hong thief not only surrendered to the Tartars, but also climbed onto the bed of the Empress Dowager of the Tartars and became brothers with the slave chief Taiji."
Chongzhen commemorates Hong Chengchou, and later generations often use this to mock Hong Chengchou. However, Da Yuer's statement comes from unofficial history. Of course, the official history will not write this. However, after the baptism of the overwhelming Qing historical dramas in later generations, no one who has watched the braided drama in the TV series of Chen Wen's era knows the story of the three brothers on Xiaozhuang's bed.
However, this is sensational now, and what Chen Wen wants is this sensational because it is what they are willing to accept.
"Hong Chengchou slept with the Empress Dowager of the Tartars?" As Chen Wen expected, this explosive information directly blinded everyone.
Chen Wen said in a tone of course: "That was the Empress Dowager of the Tartars at that time, and the concubine of the slave emperor Taiji. I accidentally heard this news from the real Tartars in Northern Zhili, and they thought they were drinking in a tavern. I originally thought it was just a joke, but later I heard other Tartars say it a few times, and it was only a common word that I could believe it."
Such gossip is really more eye-catching than the story itself. The men actually started discussing themselves, and the fierceness of the debate between foreign parliaments in later generations was not as good as that of the later generations.
"Shut up my mouth!" Wu Dengke stood up all of a sudden with anger on his face. "You are accusing here. You can naturally ask clearly when you catch the Hong thief in the future!"
Have ambition!
However, Chen Wen knew that Hong Chengchou was not captured in history. Although he was condemned when he was alive and was sarcastic by the Qing government after his death, his former residence became a patriotic education base in the new society.
He probably never thought of such a thing.
Putting aside this obviously off-topic idea, Chen Wen thought secretly that he could not let them continue like this. He had to bring back the topic, otherwise his reputation of erudition would not be spread, and the reputation of a lust would be known to everyone.
After Wu Dengke stopped everyone's discussion, Chen Wen continued: "I remember that Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem like this: Giving you a way to resolve doubts, without drilling turtles or yarrows. The jade test will take three days to burn, and the material will be determined for seven years. Duke Zhou is afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang has not usurped the times. He will die in that year, and who knows the authenticity of his life."
"From now on, it is precisely the two dog traitors who don't want their ancestors."
Seeing that everyone was in deep thought, Chen Wen paused and continued, "At this time, Song Gaozong, who was still King Kang, was recruiting troops in Hebei to try to rescue Bianliang. Yue Fei, who had just broken through the Pingding Army, witnessed the murder and enslavement of the people after the Jin people invaded. Indignant, he wanted to join the army and drive out the Tartars. However, he was worried that his mother was old and her wife and children were weak, and it was difficult to settle down in troubled times, and he was hesitant."
"Seeing this, Yue Fei's mother Yao actively encouraged Yue Fei to "serve the country by joining the army", and also stabbed the four words "serving the country with loyalty" on his back as a teaching. Yue Fei kept his mother's teaching in mind, and left his relatives, so he went to join the army to fight against the Jin Dynasty. From then on, my Chinese history finally ushered in a hero who turned the world."
"To serve the country with all loyalty? Mr. Chen, shouldn't it be to serve the country with all loyalty?" New questions appeared again, and Chen Wen was happy to answer these questions, because the impression left by this would be more profound.
"I spent a long time looking up history books and asked many scholars I knew. The final conclusion was the story of my mother-in-law's tattoo. In fact, there were no related records in the Song Dynasty, and even Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke's works. The first time this incident happened was in the "History of Song" compiled by the Yuan Dynasty. As for loyalty to the country, you can check it. It was a saying that became popular in the novels of this dynasty, and it was even more unreliable."
"On the first day of the fifth month of the second year of Jingkang, King Kang ascended the throne in Shangqiu, Guide Prefecture today. He changed the reign to Jianyan for Emperor Gaozong of Song. During this period, Yue Fei successively participated in the battle against the Jin people at the Grand Marshal's Mansion of Hebei, Zhang Suo, the Western Road of Hebei, and Wang Yan, the famous anti-Jin general, and fought a great victory in Xinxiang."
"Later, Yue Fei and Wang Yan were in conflict with military strategy and led their troops to accept the leadership of Zong Ze, the left-behind Tokyo. Zong Ze was outstanding in his ability and quickly stabilized the situation. Yue Fei also relied on his courage, strategy and courage to constantly kill thieves and make meritorious contributions, thus gaining promotion."
"But the good times didn't last long. Zong Ze wrote to Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, 24 consecutive times, and insisted on returning to Tokyo, and formulated a strategy to recover the Central Plains, but it was not adopted. Because of his ambitions, he became sick due to his worries and anger. Finally, on July 12, the second year of Jianyan, he died three times and called for "crossing the river" and died. Later, Zong Ze's son and Yue Fei brought the coffin to Zhenjiang together."
"By the way, this old hero Zong Ze and Brother Wu are fellow townsmen and people from Yiwu County, Jinhua Prefecture."
"Ah?" Wu Dengke was not surprised by Chen Wen's surprise, but it was not only Wu Dengke who showed a look of surprise, but at least half of the forty people present were like this.
This made Chen Wen laugh and cry. No wonder Wu Dengke was so concerned about this matter. He said that most of these forty people should be his fellow villagers. He bought it in front of him and added friendship with his fellow villagers. It was really a killing two birds with one stone.
"However, Zong Ze's successor Du Chong did not have the ability of him. Not long after, the Song army, which had just begun to stabilize the situation and tried to fight the Northern Expedition, began to suffer consecutive defeats, and lost two major cities, Bianliang and Jiankang. Jiankang is today's Nanjing city. Shortly after Jiankang lost, Du Chong surrendered to Jin."
"During this period, some generals had the idea of throwing gold in the mood of failure, so they recommended Yue Fei, who was already famous at the time, to join the gold in the head coach. Yue Fei pretended to agree, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to fight with him, and even killed dozens of people. All the troops who were preparing to throw gold were frightened. Then Yue Fei admonished him and the army was at peace."
After hearing this, many people on the field expressed their sincere admiration for Yue Fei's courage and resourcefulness. After the threshing ground calmed down again, Chen Wen's tone gradually became aroused.
"In February of the fourth year of Jianyan, after chasing Song Gaozong for 300 miles, the commander of the Jin army, Wanyan Zongbi, found that he could not escape the long-legged emperor, so he led his troops to plunder Lin'an, Mingzhou and other places, preparing to return to the Jin Kingdom to enjoy the blessing. As a result, when he was passing through Changzhou, he was blocked by Yue Fei. In this battle, Yue Fei won four battles and captured eleven Jin people, including Wanhu, alive. Well, that Wanyan Zongbi was the second-digit Jin Wushu in the Romance."
"Then, who is that number one?"
At this time, the man who was called Yin Ergou by Wu Dengke immediately sarcastically said, "Idiot, the number one must be Qin Hui's dog thief." Then, he turned his head and asked Chen Wen, "Yes, Mr. Chen."
“That’s exactly that.”
After receiving Chen Wen's confirmed answer, the man raised his eyebrows and his face was full of arrogance as if he was saying: "Look, you Ergou Brother, I am also a knowledgeable person."
"After the Changzhou blocking battle, Yue Fei was ordered to regain Jiankang with Han Shizhong, who was stationed in Zhenjiang at that time. At this time, Han Shizhong's decisive battle with Wanyan Zongbi in Huang Tiandang. In this battle, Han Shizhong's wife Liang Hongyu personally beat the drums to help the battle. The Song army, with great morale, finally defeated the 100,000 Jin army with 8,000 soldiers, which greatly hit the arrogance of the Tartars."
"good!"
"Mr. Chen said it very well, Liang Hongyu is a hero."
"King Han Qi also has a keen eye for recognition."
Seeing Han Shizhong's limelight being completely suppressed by his wife here, Chen Wen was not surprised at all. Almost everyone has a curious mentality, and Liang Hongyu is indeed worthy of the four words "A Female Hero".
"In fact, the name Liang Hongyu was first named by Zhang Siwei during the Wanli period of this dynasty. Previous historical books only said that it was Liang's family, and there was no record of the name."
"oh."
"After the Huang Tiandang victory, Wanyan Zongbi was blocked by Han Shizhong in Huang Tiandang for 48 days. He was hungry and cold. Finally, he relied on the traitor to dig through the Qinhuai River and tried to burn the sails of the Song army ships, so he barely escaped."
Hearing this, everyone in front of him seemed a little regretful. As a modern person, Chen Wen could not judge what would happen if the Jin army was blocked in Jiangnan under the circumstances at that time, but this did not prevent him from adding more fire to this.
I saw him change his subject. "There are actually many such examples, such as the bloody battle in Hunhe that occurred in this dynasty, and the same is true."
"In March of the first year of Tianqi, on the banks of the Hun River in Shenyang, in order to cover the Zhejiang army comrades behind him, three thousand Sichuan Baigan soldiers resolutely crossed the Hun River from the floating bridge and lined up on the north bank."
"At this time, when the Tartars besieged Shenyang saw the king's army arrive, they immediately sent the Zhengbai Banner to fight. To the Tartars' surprise, the Zhengbai Banner, which had always been fierce, was defeated in front of the Sichuan Army. Seeing this, the old slave had to send the Zhenghuang Banner he personally to fight, and they were also defeated. After two attacks, the Tartars suffered more than 2,000 casualties."
"If things continue to develop according to normal circumstances, the Sichuan Army will cover the Zhejiang Army to form a formation and the two units will merge, and the Tartars will not be able to hold on. If the old slave withdraws his troops, he may only lose some of his troops; if he strongly rushes to the large formation, it is still uncertain whether he can survive."
"However, just when the Tartars had no choice but to deal with the Sichuan Army, the traitor Li Yongfang bribed the captured gunners in Shenyang, fired fire at the Sichuan Army's large formation, and then the Tartars rushed forward, and the Sichuan Army was defeated. In the end, only a small number of Sichuan Army retreated back to the south bank."
"After defeating the Sichuan Army, the Tatars crossed the Hunhe River to fight the Zhejiang Army's chariot formation that had just been formed. The chariot formation was a weapon used by Qi Shaobao to fight against the Mongolian Tartar cavalry, but in the case of the Sichuan Army's defeat, the Zhejiang Army's chariot formation seemed to have a small number of hand-to-hand combat troops."
"But even so, the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army remained standing still, and repelled the Tatars' attacks with the chariot formation. So the Tatars continued to draw reinforcements, and later even the defending troops of Chenyang City were all drawn, and then the Zhejiang Army had no ammunition and arrows broke through the chariot formation."
"When they broke through the chariot formation, the Tartars cheered, but when they saw the situation behind the chariot formation, the excitement of being about to win immediately disappeared. Because after the chariot formation, there were one mandarin duck formation after another composed of surviving Zhejiang soldiers in units of sentries."
"Relying on the Yuanyang Formation passed down by Qi Shaobao, the Zhejiang Army soldiers, who were at an absolute disadvantage in number, fought bravely. Wherever the Yuanyang Formation went, the Tartars were full of flesh and blood. However, the two consecutive days of rapid march and fierce battles caused the physical exhaustion, causing the Zhejiang Army soldiers to fall down and fall forever on the cold black soil in Liaodong."
"Until the end, from the beginning, the Zhejiang Army, which had only about one-small part of the Tartars' strength, was left with only the general Tong Zhongkui and Qi Shaobao's nephew Qi Jin, and dozens of wounded Zhejiang soldiers. At this moment, the sun set, and the exhausted Tartars could no longer have the courage to rush forward and fight. At the order of the old slave, thousands of arrows of the Tartars were fired at once, and General Tong, General Qi and others died for their country, and none of them surrendered to the captives."
It is not enough to just have regrets, only hatred can be impressed.
The Zhejiang Army that participated in the bloody battle in Hunhe came from the new Qi family army that General Qi Jin re-engraved according to Qi Jiguang's training method. Most of these people came from Dongyang and Yiwu counties in Jinhua Prefecture, and most of them had the same hometown relationship with most of the people in front of them. In Chen Wen's opinion, this would be more likely to cause the sadness of the rabbit and the fox.
"During this period, General Tong Zhongkui asked for help from Li Bingcheng, General Fengji Fort, who had already approached the battlefield, Zhu Wanliang, General Huspian Post, and Yuan Yingtai, and the governor of Liaodong, who had already approached the battlefield, but no one even arrived at the battlefield."
"Are the Tartars strong? Very strong. Are they really invincible? I don't believe it! At least the loyal and wise men who died on the banks of the Hunhe River have proved to us that the Tartars are also human beings. If I stabbed them in, he would die!"
"If there were no traitors who blasted the Sichuan Army formation, if there were only one of the Liaodong governors and reinforcements, even if there was only one of them to stand up to meet these Zhejiang soldiers, the Battle of Chenyang would not have been like this. If not, the world would not have developed to this extent today."
"But it was these dog traitors and cowardly Liao army that caused the entire army to be wiped out by the Zhejiang army. It was these dog traitors and cowardly that ruined state affairs and made more people pay the price of their lives because of their greed, selfishness and cowardice. But after they did all this, they lay down on the feet of the Tartars like pugs and licked them and dropped the leftovers."
Chen Wen knew very well that he was actually very one-sided to say this.
Since the Liao incident, countless Liaodong soldiers have died in battle to recover their hometowns, but more Liao troops have been constantly betraying their teammates for their own interests. The outcome of the Sichuan and Zhejiang troops in the bloody battle of Hunhe, the Qin troops in the Battle of Songshan, and the Ming troops in various units that aided Liao were bloody examples.
Among them, as the masters of selling teammates, the uncles and nephews of Guanning, Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, the leaders of the Iron Cavalry, were not even spared their relatives. After they sold all the money, the scumbags shaved their heads without hesitation and went to be slaves for the Qing slave owners in a regular manner.
Thinking about Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and becoming emperor later, it is really a pity. It is also a strange story for a person to become a winner in life by selling his teammates. However, if he thinks about his defeat, it is obvious that he will not be able to play the game if he doesn't sell his teammates.
Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Wen, who had originally planned to use Yue Fei to recover the six counties of Xiangyang as the end point of today, had to give up this idea.
The plan really cannot keep up with the changes.
However, the people in front of him were still sitting on the ground in silence, without any of the anger he had when he told the shame of Jingkang and the excitement he had when Huang Tiandang won. This made Chen Wen doubt the effect of today's speech.
However, things in the past cannot be restored. Since today is like this, let’s look at tomorrow.
"It's getting late today. Please go back first. It's late at night. If you want to listen more, each person will bring a firewood tomorrow and lit a bonfire, you won't be hurt by the mountain wind at night."
After saying that, Chen Wen bowed his hand and walked towards the Sun family on his own, as if he had no intention of paying attention to everyone's plans.
Chapter completed!