"General Yue!"
"I am here." Yue Fei seemed to have expected this. He simply reined in his horse, turned around and bowed.
"Do you know what I want to ask?" Zhang Jun's face turned pale.
"I can roughly guess it."
"Tell me about it." Zhang Jun's breathing gradually became unstable.
"The Prime Minister has many doubts in his mind, but for now, the small doubts are probably why they didn't seize the county seat of Yuanjiang, but instead deliberately indulged and allowed Yang Yao to move freely in Yuanjiang? The big doubts, which are also what the Prime Minister has been patient with, are that the rebels are so vulnerable and can be crushed with ease, but why did the front troops of the imperial camp remain idle? Why didn't they quell the rebellion from the beginning, and why did they waste their time trying to appease them? In my opinion, these two..."
"Did you know that too?!"
Before the other party could finish, Zhang Jun was completely furious. "I have already seen it. It doesn't matter if it's ten days, five days, or even a month. The key is that the rebels are so vulnerable, why is there any need to appease them? When they are defeated, you can just ask for a pardon document. Why do you have to submit a special petition to change it to appeasement? If you had directly entered Huxi and Hunan at that time, this rebellion would have been over years ago! The emperor has been very kind to you. In the past few years, you have been promoted from a criminal to a military governor. Is this what you did? I tell you, if you don't give me a reason that convinces me today and return to the central government, no matter how you, Yue Fei, use your great victory to shut up the people of the world, and no matter how the emperor is biased in favor of you, I, Zhang Jun, will not want this position as the central government, and I will drive you, who are playing with the enemy, out of the army!"
The soldiers around were all panicked, but Yue Fei was silent for a moment, but continued to bow and said frankly: "Prime Minister, I have never played with the enemy. As for the reason why we stopped in Hubei before, there was a reason... It was really that the government troops could not defeat the rebels! And forgive me for being presumptuous, not only the front troops of the Imperial Camp, but also the other troops of the Imperial Camp, I am afraid they can't defeat the rebels on the lake."
Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment. He didn't know if he didn't hear clearly, or if he was extremely angry. He grabbed the reins and said in a daze: "What did you say? Say it again."
"We can't defeat the rebels." Yue Fei reined in his horse and stood still, his voice clear and unmistakable, even saying it twice. "Prime Minister, I just said that we can't defeat the rebels!"
Zhang Jun was so angry that he simply waved his whip and scolded: "Wuling City was taken in one battle, Chenyang City was taken in one battle, Yiyang City was taken in one battle, and the seventeen villages in the west of the lake were razed in three days. Yang Yao's main force of 8,000 people was defeated by your 5,000 troops who were halfway through the siege. In addition, you went south from Xiangyang and won battles in various places in Hubei... Now you tell me that the government army can't beat the rebels, so you changed the military attack to appeasement... Do you think I'm blind?!"
"Prime Minister, please don't be angry." Yue Fei responded calmly, not afraid at all. "Prime Minister, please think carefully, in these battles, were all the lakeside forts really taken down by the government troops?"
Zhang Jun opened his mouth to scold, but suddenly he shuddered, then pulled the horse's head and circled in place. After he stood still, the thundering rage he had just shown was gone.
Yue Fei sighed when he saw the other side coming to its senses, and then spoke sincerely: "Prime Minister, you have seen clearly with the army that this battle went smoothly because the land battles were all fought by the government troops, and the water strongholds near the lake were all captured by the local rebels of Dongting Lake... Water battles and land battles are completely different. In land battles, whether it is capturing a city or a stronghold, or winning a decisive battle in the wild, I am sorry to say that it is a piece of cake for the government troops; but as for the water strongholds near the lake, I am sorry for my incompetence. Since I arrived at the lakeside last year, no matter how I think or see it, I have no chance of winning." "Even if we can break the fort for a while, we can't completely wipe out the bandits. If we can't wipe them out, and let them come and go freely in the lake, and set up water forts all the time, then we can't win, right? Therefore, I will say what I mean. If we can't win, we can't win! But there are too many people in the court and the local areas who don't know how to fight. They only saw that I conquered Hubei so easily before, so they naturally thought that fighting by the lake would be that easy. Little do they know that if you want to break the water forts along the lake, you can only use water forts to fight water forts, and use lake people to fight lake people. There is no other way!"
Zhang Jun said nothing, but after thinking it over for a while, he believed what was said completely.
Because there are so many intuitive examples.
The Jin cavalry was invincible on the plains, but was helpless against fishermen and merchant ships in Liangshan Lake and the Huai River respectively; the Western Army was chased like chickens by the Jin army on the wild plateau, so it turned around and held its ground in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, where it was able to defeat the Jin army with a great victory.
In the past few days, he personally followed Yue Fei along the lake and saw with his own eyes that the hundreds of miles of Dongting Lake had numerous forks, swamps, and ditches as the water level rose and fell, which was exactly where it was difficult to deploy troops. However, he was too tired to think about it in the first two days due to the continuous march, and the battle went so smoothly in the next two days that it was so dazzling that he ignored these things.
"In that case, you deliberately did not take Yuanjiang City in the hope that Yang Yao would rush in. Once he entered the city, it would be easier for your troops to surround and eat him?" After thinking for a while, Zhang Jun coughed dryly and asked tentatively again.
"Yes." Yue Fei answered sincerely. "If he can enter the city, it would be best if even Zhong Xiang stays with him, then God will help the government army."
"Although there were many battles in the past few days, the only crucial one was whether we could force Huang Zuo to surrender that day, and then let him lead his Lizhou rebels to attack the Dingzhou rebels? And whether it was the previous raid in the rain, the wandering for several months, or the driving of all the Lizhou rebels to the Huxi area, in fact, they were all intentional on your part. Why don't you work hard on him?" Zhang Jun continued to "awaken", or pretend to be awakened.
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