Chapter 279 Inscription
The battle of Tuling was successful, but not complete.
On the second day, Yue Fei sent Zhang Xian's troops to cross the river and join forces with Fu Xuan to pursue Li Dunren, the last rebel who had fled into the mountains in the east.
However, Li Dunren's case was not that troublesome.
The reason why this man fled eastward in desperation, even sinking the ferry and harming his neighbors, was because he was counting on a natural barrier called Gushi Cave at the junction of Xingguo and Yudu counties. There was a mountain stronghold in front of the Gushi Cave, and behind the stronghold was a cave. The other three sides were cliffs, with only one way in and out. At the same time, there was enough space and water in the cave to station troops.
According to Li Dunren's idea, it was impossible to defeat Yue Fei's powerful army, but the enemy was destined not to stay for long, so as long as they stayed in the cave for a while, they would have their own reasons in the future... Therefore, as early as after Yue Fei broke through the Five Ridges and entered Guangdong for the first time, Li Dunren prepared a retreat in Qianzhou. He chose Gushi Cave early, and then communicated with and bribed the Miao village in front of Gushi Cave many times, and transported a large amount of rice and grain supplies into it.
To use his original words to the messengers sent by Zhang Xian and Fu Xuan: "With such a natural barrier, if the government troops can break through the mountain stronghold, what regrets will there be in death?"
In other words, if he was really conquered, he would deserve to die and he would accept it!
However, is there any natural barrier in the world that is truly impregnable?
Although the leaders of the Miao village on the mountain, the three Miao girls of the Liao family, were very trustworthy, and Sister Liao even said the famous phrase "Except for those who fly here", in the overall situation, it would be meaningless to resist stubbornly.
On the first day, Fu Xuan, Zhang Xian and others tried a battle, but naturally they achieved nothing.
On the second day, Fu Xuan and Zhang Xian's troops went out in full force, divided into more than a dozen teams, and besieged the stronghold from three sides with plenty of ladders. They climbed up all the short parts of the cliffs at the same time, but retreated when they encountered danger. They took turns to move forward. It was more of a consumption of arrows, stone balls and other supplies in the stronghold than an attack.
On the third day, Fu Xuan's troops continued to feint, but Zhang Xian suddenly sent Yang Zaixing, who had been incorporated into his own army, and Guo Jin. The former led some newly reorganized Miao soldiers, and the latter led Zhang Xian's personal guards. Both of them wore double-layer iron armor and climbed up the cliff from the side and rear of the mountain stronghold where the view was dangerous but narrow, and unexpectedly won the battle.
Li Dunren and the three Liao sisters were all beheaded, which meant they "died without regrets". Their followers also surrendered. From beginning to end, Yue Fei did not "fly over" in person.
In fact, in the past few days Yue Fei has been reorganizing the more than 100,000 surrendered bandits in Xingguo County on the other side of Pingjiang.
Dealing with the leaders of the four hundred heroes was only the first step. Next, the front army of the imperial camp repatriated and resettled more than 40,000 elderly, weak, women and children, pardoned more than 30,000 able-bodied men who were forced to flee, and sent some troops to escort tens of thousands of captives headed by Li Dongtian to various places in the surrounding areas. Only a small number of people such as Peng Tieda and Yang Zaixing, along with a group of selected soldiers, were directly appointed and given official positions.
After receiving the news that Li Dunren was executed, Yue Fei, in accordance with the previous agreement with Jiangxi Governor Liu Hongdao, asked Fu Xuan to lead 5,000 troops to deal with the aftermath in Xingguo County. At the same time, he personally gathered the troops and urged them to march north.
On the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Yue Fei entered Jizhou for the third time, preparing to follow the original division of the Privy Council and go north along the Gan River, preparing to return north as soon as possible. This time, the army was in high spirits, without any fatigue from months of fighting. Even Yue Fei himself was somewhat complacent. He even wrote an inscription in person at the official post station when passing through Fuzhou.
The book says:
"Yue Fei, the commander of the front army of the imperial camp, was ordered to fight against the bandits. He went from Dongting Lake to Guiling Mountain and wiped out their nests, bringing peace to Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Xiangxi. I feel sad that the two emperors were hunting in the desert, and the world was in turmoil. The shame of Jingkang has not yet been avenged, so I swear to be loyal and filial. Thanks to the power of the country and the wise emperor, one day we will wipe out the barbarians and return to our homeland, and relieve the emperor of his worries at night. This is my ambition. But how can a group of bees and ants be enough to achieve this?"
It was obvious that Yue Pengju really felt a little bit overwhelmed.
But there is no way, this battle was fought so beautifully.
From the perspective of this era, the mountains, miasma, Miao villages, and countless bandits who have taken root in the local area and caused trouble for many years are simply an unsolvable problem. Even at the beginning, few people who knew the situation had absolute confidence in this crackdown... This is because the Qian bandits are not a thing of the past few years. It just happened to encounter the Jingkang Change and the subsequent war, so the scale of the rebellion has become larger. As early as the so-called prosperous times before, the Qian bandits were a special term, a chronic disease in the south.
The imperial court at that time could only suppress this rebellion in the mountainous area.
However, Yue Fei won the battle so easily.
This battle was, of course, essentially a rebellion to suppress bandits. Compared with the battle against the Jin people, it had a lot of the flavor of the regular season versus playoffs in the later NBA. But the problem is that 13 points in 35 seconds is still more worthy of bragging than the runner-up.
This battle is probably the same.
Back to the present, Yue Pengju, full of pride, led the main force of the army along the Gan River all the way northward. At first, the local officials in Jiangxi along the river could hardly believe it, but when they saw countless prisoners being settled in various farming and mining sites in Jiangxi, and the main force of the government army showing off their might, with flags fluttering in an orderly manner, and as the troops gathered from the settled prisoners gradually merged, the size of the army became increasingly large... they dared not disbelieve it.
It can only be said that as the news from the south caught up with the army's marching speed, the attitudes of the officials along the way changed three times a day.
However, it was too late to change. Within the borders, the army was marching down the river at a very fast speed. Moreover, Yue Fei had some problems with the Jiangxi officialdom because of the previous matter of Fuzhou prefect, so he was too lazy to deal with it. He simply did not stop and went straight north... By mid-May, the front army of the imperial camp had passed Poyang Lake and entered the territory of Jiangzhou, which belonged to the Jiangnan East Road. At this time, Yue Fei had just stayed in Jiangzhou for a while, waiting for the military supplies from Jiangxi and Jiangdong before continuing to march north.
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