In addition to being an anti-gold hero, Yue Fei is also a wise man with a discerning eye, among the anti-gold generals, there is a person from an ordinary background, who was a deserter, and later made great achievements. If it weren't for Yue Fei's openness to him back then, there would have been no contribution to the war against Jin later. From this point of view, Yue Fei does have something extraordinary.
In the Yuejia army, some people came from the military forces of the uprising that year, these people were originally active in the local area, and later voluntarily joined the Yuejia army and became one of the important forces against the Jin soldiers.
In particular, the generals represented by Li Bao, under the guidance of Yue Fei, switched from land warfare to water warfare, and became the army on the river and sea that later defeated Wanyan Liang, and it was they who held the water defense line of the Southern Song Dynasty. But Li Bao is unruly, often works against people, and even organizes deserters.
Under the leadership of Yue Fei, the naval army of the Southern Song Dynasty developed rapidly, successfully suppressed Yang Mo's army in 1135, and incorporated all these people who were familiar with water into the army, becoming a part of the Southern Song Dynasty naval army, including thousands of enemy ships, including heavyweight ships, which once became the most powerful naval formation. Among the generals of this naval army, there are Li Bao, Cao Yang and others from the north.
Li Bao was originally a scoundrel in the township, but fortunately, this person has a lot of backbone, affection, and integrity. After the Jin army occupied Jingdong Road that year, he organized a group of people to assassinate the Jin people, but it was unsuccessful. The imperial court wanted him to go to Han Shizhong's army, but he was unwilling, he originally admired Yue Fei, and later got his wish and became Yue Fei's subordinate Ma Jun.
Li Bao is a nostalgic person, he always thinks about those good brothers in his hometown in the army, so he and more than 40 people seize the boat and want to secretly cross the Yangtze River to go back, but they were discovered and everyone was arrested. At that time, Li Bao stood at the bottom of the stairs and said, This is my sin, and I will bear it all alone. Yue Fei was moved by his backbone, so he did not put him to death, but only imprisoned him.
Later, Li Bao wanted to make meritorious contributions, so he confessed to Yue Fei that he would go back to his hometown to gather a group of loyal and righteous people to fight against Jin together. Yue Fei trusted him and let him go. Sure enough, Li Bao brought more than 800 people back to the Yue family's army and was reused. In the tenth year of Shaoxing, in the first battle of Caozhou, Li Bao led the soldiers to seize the ships all the way, attacked the Jin soldiers downstream along the river, and cooperated with Cao Yang, Wang Jing and others to kill the Jin soldiers.
He was brave all the way, and he did not flinch when he encountered the Jin soldiers, and he fought all the way to Chuzhou. When he arrived at Han Shizhong, his heart was still towards Yue Jiajun and wanted to go back, but Yue Fei thought that it was all for the country, and he didn't have to be obsessed with who he was subordinate to, so Li Bao would stay there.
Yue Fei attaches great importance to Li Bao, has high hopes for him, and has given him important tasks many times. At that time, it was Li Bao who was in charge of naval operations, he had very good military ability, he was originally from the army, but he soon became familiar with water operations and had a very good performance.
In 1139, he won a great victory in the battle of Dengju, a key maritime fortress, not only to train the navy in combat capabilities, but also to contribute to the route and technology of maritime communication along the way. Twenty years later, Li Bao once again commanded the Battle of Chenjiadao along this route.
In 1160, the thirtieth year of Shaoxing, Li Bao was already the deputy governor of the Liangzhejiang West Road, the Pingjiang Mansion stationed and the deputy admiral, and later independently established a naval army, and at the same time sent people to detect the enemy's situation. In the second year, Wanyan Liang 600,000 soldiers and horses attacked, and Wanyan Zheng Jianu and others led the naval army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty.
Li Bao planned the battle, and with the information obtained from the reconnaissance, he knew that Wei Sheng had won Haizhou and was besieged by the Jin army. He took advantage of the wind direction and took the opportunity to march quickly. Taking advantage of the rest of the golden soldiers, they attacked each other with rockets and won a complete victory. In this battle, Li Bao's men were only more than 3,000 people, and the enemy army was 70,000, which was an excellent battle in which fewer won more. Li Bao also became the envoy of the Jing Navy, and Gaozong also personally wrote the words "Loyal and Brave Li Bao" as a banner, and after Li Bao's death, he was posthumously presented to the inspector of the school.
At the moment when the Song Dynasty was facing a crisis, a batch of heroes emerged, the most famous of which was Yue Fei. But in addition to him, there were many people who made great contributions in the campaign against foreign enemies. Li Bao went from an ordinary rebel army to become the leader of the navy and led the navy to defeat the Jin army, making great achievements.
Li Bao also attached great importance to the feelings and righteousness in the army, and did not forget the soldiers who fought with him bloodily, so in 1162 he also reported a list of more than 3,000 people. He himself is also a hero of loyalty and strategy, and while Yue's army has become a household name, he has also become a legend.