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Xiangzhou.

Tangyin County.

The name "Tangyin" has a long history.

As early as the Neolithic Age, humans had already lived here and gradually formed tribes.

According to the "Shan Hai Jing·Xishan Jing" records: "When the mountain is on the Shangshen, the soup comes out and flows eastward into the river."

In the second year of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, Dangyin County was established, and it was named after it was located in the Yin of Dangshui (Tanghe in later generations).

Dang was originally the name of an ancient country, and was named after the Dang River flowed through the ancient country.

In the second year of Tianping in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it was called Weide County.

In the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the water was slightly warm and changed to Tangshui into Tangshui, and Tangshui was originally Tangyin County.

This is the origin of the Yue Family Army and the cradle of the Yue Family Army.

The reason for saying that this is the cradle of the Yue Family Army.

First, Yue Fei, the soul of the Yue family army, was from Tangyin County.

Secondly, many of the main generals of the Yue family army, such as Wang Gui, Yue Yun, Xu Qing, Yao Zheng, Li Dao, Sun Ge, Yu Peng, Yue Heng, Guo Jin, Wang Wan, etc., were all from Tangyin County.

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The real Yue Family Army can also be said to be from Tangyin County.

The composition of the Yue Family Army is very complicated.

Strictly speaking, the real Yue Family Army was the soldiers of the former Tokyo Left-behind Division who first followed Yue Fei from the north to Jiangnan. Most of these people were from Hebei (not far from Tangyin County), among which Yue Fei's fellow villagers were mostly from Yue Fei.

In the early Southern Song Dynasty, social turmoil and political situations were turbulent, and soldiers and bandits were everywhere.

The small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was unable to control various military armed forces, but the soldiers were arrogant and difficult to control. To apply a passage that I don’t know who said at that time, it was: “All the troops would be defeated, if they were defeated, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, if they would be robbed, they would be robbed, and if they would be robbed, they would be robbed, and if they would be robbed, they would be robbed, and if they would be robbed, they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed, and they would be robbed."

The armed groups collapsed, and the incident of fire and merger often occurred, which was very similar to the warlords' melee during the Republic of China period - but at this time, there was an invasion of foreign tribes (Jin Kingdom), which was actually more similar to the anti-Japanese period.

The Yue family army led by Yue Fei is essentially one of such warlords.

But the difference is that Yue Fei mostly obeyed the leadership of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. The key is that he is known for his strict military discipline, so his Yue Family Army has always been relatively stable. Many disintegrated armed groups have defected to the Yue Family Army, making the Yue Family Army's team continue to grow.

He annexed bandits, puppet troops, and absorbed scattered people. Zhao Gou also let the troops from all over the country be controlled by Yue Fei because Yue Fei repeatedly won battles.

In a few years, the Yue family's army grew to 30,000 troops.

Later, Yue Fei led the 30,000 Yue family troops to wipe out Yang Yaojun and absorbed 50,000 or 60,000 troops from Yang Yaojun.

In addition, the troops assigned by Zhao Gou to Yue Fei after that, such as Qi, the commander of the Pacification Department of Jiangnan West Road, the commander of Gao Dao and other departments (about 8,500 people), and the commander Qiu Yun and other departments (nearly 1,500 people), later, the commander of the Pacification Department of Jinghu South Road, Ren Shi'an, Hao Lu, Wang Jun, and Jiao Yuan and other departments (about 10,000 people) were also under the control of Yue Fei, and the commander of Zhang Jun's left army, Du Zhan, changed to serve as the governor of Huangzhou under Yue Fei's command.

Yue's army has grown and reached its peak of 100,000 troops.

It is not difficult to see from the exhibition process of the Yue Family Army that the Yue Family Army is actually composed of less than 2,000 people who started Yue Fei and Yue Fei as the core. Many of the other people were mobs before joining the Yue Family Army.

It is not difficult to see that Yue Fei is definitely a first-class commander, and it is not difficult to see how elite the less than two thousand people who started Yue Fei are.

It was a pity for Yue Fei and his Yue family army. If it weren't for the soul of Yue Fei being harmed by Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and others, if it weren't for the conditions at that time that did not support the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei and his Yue family army might have really been able to attack Huanglong.

Whenever Cai thinks of this, he still feels regretful for Yue Fei and the Yue family army!

Therefore, Cai was still preparing to find Yue Fei, absorb the Yue family army, and then build a Jinwu army that is stronger than the Yue family army.

Here, by the way, the Yue Family Army was a common saying by the people at that time, and it was not an official name. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the rebels flocked to the scene, and later many of them surrendered to Yue Fei (although Yue Fei was not of the highest level, he had a high prestige among the people, otherwise he would not have been so well-known until later generations). Those troops who surrendered to Yue Fei called themselves the Yue Family Army, and this title was also recognized by the general public. Therefore, the Yue Family Army was only a verbal title, not a member of the organization, and it would not appear in formal occasions. However, at that time, it was accustomed to calling the commander's surname.

A certain army, such as Zhang Jun's army, can be called "Zhang Family Army", and Han Shizhong's army is called "Han Family Army". In addition, the number of Yue Family Army has changed many times, especially at the beginning, it changed at any time. Later, when it was called more frequently, it was "Shenwu Deputy Army", "Shenwu Hou Army" and "Hou Guardian Army". The people received information as quickly as the number of Yue Family Army, so the people simply called Yue Family Army. Some people mistakenly thought that the name of "Yue Family Army" has a private army nature, which was one of the reasons why Yue Fei was later killed. This is actually a kind of unfounded and meaningful word for the hope.

Of course, then again, it is not difficult to see from the name of the Yue Family Army and the formation of the Yue Family Army that the Yue Family Army actually has some warlord attributes.

But let me talk about it again. In that era, Emperor Zhao Gou only knew how to run away and survive with himself. He did not want to resist the invasion of the Jin people at all. Resistance was all up to the subjects. At that time, which Han army was not of warlord nature? Let's put it this way, if it weren't for these "warlords", the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty would have long been destroyed by the Jin people.

Along the way, he walked around the other counties in Xiangzhou. Cai still recruited nearly 2,000 new soldiers, plus his original 350 soldiers of the Jinwu Army and more than 100 small sects and soldiers Cai still dug out from other imperial guards, a total of more than 2,500 Jinwu Army. Then Cai still brought these Jinwu Army and 500 quotas to Tangyin County, preparing to make up for the vacancies here - although the first army usually has 2,500 people in the fifth battalion, generals who are usually at the command level can recruit some personal soldiers based on their own economic strength (their military pay is usually the generals who find a way themselves), and with some miscellaneous means of hiding soldiers, Cai still can probably recruit more battalions of troops.

After arriving in Tangyin County, Cai still went directly to meet the county magistrate Xu Bingzhe of Tangyin County.

Cai Jian’s identity is here, and Cai Jian is a member of the Cai family. Xu Bingzhe, who dreams of relying on the Cai family, can’t help but cooperate with Cai Jian to recruit soldiers?

Xu Bingzhe personally arranged for the yamen runners to take the soldiers of the Jinwu Army to post the recruitment brief of the Jinwu Army to various villages in Tangyin County, and read it publicly by the soldiers of the Jinwu Army. At the same time, the treatment and benefits of the Jinwu Army were also explained. As for the Tangyin County, it was posted everywhere.

Moreover, Xu Bingzhe also set up a very eye-catching recruitment point for the Jinwu Army at the two gates of the county town.

It can be said that Xu Bingzhe completely cooperated with Cai Shen to recruit soldiers.

In this case, callers gathered.

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Yue Fei liked to dance guns and sticks since he was a child and read books such as "Zuo Shi Chunqiu" and "Sun Wu War Art", so when he was very young, he became a disciple of the iron arm Zhou Tong and learned riding and shooting.

Unfortunately, Yue Fei had not studied with Zhou Tong for only a few years, and Zhou Tong died of illness.

Yue Fei and Zhou Tong have a deep relationship, so every day on the first day of the lunar month, they would go to Zhou Tong's grave to pay tribute.

Later, Yue Fei became a teacher in Chen Guang and learned the methods of swords and guns from Chen Guang.

Yue Fei had divine power. He was only seventeen years old and could pick up three hundred kilograms of bows and eight stones of waist crossbow. People at that time were amazed.

Nowadays, Yue Fei's martial arts skills are the best in Tangyin County. It can be said that everyone who practices martial arts in Tangyin County knows Yue Fei.

Yue Fei has great ambitions since he was a child, so he worked harder than his peers, practiced literature and martial arts uninterruptedly, and he was respected by his friends and brothers and sisters to become their "leader".

Yue Fei's master Chen Guang knew very well about this, and Chen Guang even knew that Yue Fei's appeal was definitely above him.

In order to strengthen his power for himself, Chen Guang, who wanted to join the Jinwu Army, came to Yue Fei's house in person this day.

Before the person entered the door, Chen Guang shouted: "Pengju! Pengju! Are you at home?"

Yue Fei, who was reading a book in the room, heard that it was his master Chen Guang calling him, and immediately greeted him.

As soon as he saw Chen Guang, Yue Fei respectfully said, "Why is the teacher here? If you have something to do, please send a junior brother to say something, and I will definitely visit you."

Chen Guang waved his hand and said happily: "I'm here, not just looking for you, but looking for your fellow brothers one by one. I've brought you good news that you can make a name for yourself."

Yue Fei asked: "What good news is it that makes the mentor so happy?"

Chen Guang didn't keep it a secret and said directly: "General Cai is here to recruit soldiers in Tangyin."

Yue Fei didn't react for a moment and asked, "General Cai? Which General Cai?"

Chen Guangdao: "Of course it is General Cai Shancai of the Jinwu Army."

Yue Fei suddenly realized and said, "Is it the General Cai Jiancai who led 500 Jinwu Army to defeat 500 Song Jiang's rebel bandits?"

Chen Guang said: "Yes, it's him. I have an apprentice, your senior brother Gao Hailong. He was recruited into the Jinwu Army not long ago. Before he joined the army, he came to see me and told me a lot about General Cai and the Jinwu Army. After hearing this, I felt that going to join the Jinwu Army should have a chance to make a name for myself, so I want to take your senior brothers to join the Jinwu Army together."

Yue Fei knew that his master Chen Guang had all his skills, but he joined the army three times, but because no one was taken care of, he was not treated fairly and could not make a breakthrough. In the end, he had to leave the army sadly and return to Tangyin County to open a martial arts hall.

Now, Chen Guang is already thirty-five. If he can't find a chance to make a comeback, he will probably be like this in his life.

Therefore, Chen Guang was so active when he saw the Jinwu army coming to Tangyin County to recruit soldiers.

Compared with Chen Guang, Yue Fei, who is only seventeen years old this year, has time to choose. So, facing Chen Guang's enthusiasm, Yue Fei asked calmly: "My mentor has confirmed that this Jinwu Army will definitely make a difference?"

Afraid of Chen Guang's misunderstanding, Yue Fei explained: "This Jinwu Army is affiliated with the Central Imperial Army. If there weren't Song Jiang and his gang rebelling, the Jinwu Army should not have a chance to fight, right? So, instead of going to join the Jinwu Army, it would be better to wait for the right opportunity to accompany Yue Fei to join the Western Army. Yue Fei has been studying the situation between Song and Xia recently, and thinks that there should be a big battle between Song and Xia, which is the opportunity for us to make achievements."

It cannot be said that Yue Fei is not sure. Yue Fei is just a downward young man now. There is too little information he can access. It is already rare to analyze that there will be a big battle between Song and Xia.

Unexpectedly, Chen Guang shook his head and said, "You have never been in the Western Army. I don't know how heavy the gateway there is and how fierce the factional struggle is. I am not from the Western Army, or even from those major military sects. It is difficult for me to survive in the Western Army. Take me as an example. You know my skills, but I went to the Western Army twice to join the military. It was because they only promoted their own people and did not receive any rewards, so I had to leave the Western Army again and again."

After pausing, Chen Guang said again: "But the Jinwu Army is not like this at all. General Cai abandons literature and follows the military, and his family is not a large military clan. Therefore, General Cai certainly does not have so many people available. In addition, the Jinwu Army has just experienced a major war, and not counting as the capital of the horse, and more than half of the casualties are already in danger. It can be said that it is extremely short of talents. In this case, if we go to the Jinwu Army and show our abilities, we will definitely have the opportunity to make a name for ourselves."

Before Yue Fei could speak, Chen Guang said again: "The reason why I am optimistic about the Jinwu Army is not only because the Jinwu Army has many opportunities, but also because you, Senior Brother Gao Hailong, and I have carefully investigated the various actions of the Jinwu Army, and then confirmed and affirmed that the Jinwu Army would definitely be a strong army..."

Next, Chen Guang told Yue Fei about the Jinwu Army he knew one by one...
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