Why did the "Huaixi Army Rebellion" suddenly break out?

Why did the "Huaixi Army Rebellion" suddenly break out? What influence did Huaixi Army Rebellion have on the Southern Song Dynasty?

The mutiny in Huaixi was a major emergency in the Song and Jin Wars. Let's talk about the defensive war zone in the Southern Song Dynasty. In those years when the Southern Song Dynasty was at war with the State of Jin, the State of Jin had been adhering to the concept of "Song people ruling the Song Dynasty" and supporting a puppet regime.

This is the "Daqi regime" that we often hear.

The emperor of the Daqi regime was Liu Yu. Liu Yu's Daqi regime is just in the middle of the war zone between Song and Jin, which can provide a strategic barrier for Jin. The five defense war zones in the Southern Song Dynasty were Jinghu, Sichuan, Huaidong, Huaixi and Chizhou.

Among these five defense war zones, except Sichuan war zone, the other four war zones are located on both sides of the Yangtze River defense line to consolidate the Yangtze River defense line and cover the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, the war between Song and Jin was suspended for a period of time, and the rebellion of refugees who made trouble in Jiangnan was completely eliminated in the Southern Song Dynasty. Comprehensive reform of the military system has also begun to become an important issue.

Liu Guangshi, located in Huaixi Theater, became the first military general to be completely defeated. Yue Fei, Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun were the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, and more than half of the military power in the Southern Song Dynasty was in their hands.

The Huaixi theater defended by Liu Guangshi is close to the Jianghuai defense line, which is at the forefront of Liu Yu's southward attack. However, every time there is a war, Liu Guangshi often quits without a fight.

Not only that, as the head of military and political affairs in Huaixi, he plundered the essence of people's wealth, and the people in Huaixi suffered from war and their lives were in dire straits.

The current administrative team in the Southern Song Dynasty is roughly as follows:

Emperor: Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, head of the central military and political affairs: Zhang Jun, four generals of ZTE: Yue Fei, Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun.

After Liu Guangshi was gloriously laid off, the military commander-in-chief became the biggest problem. The armies of Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi all had large and small frictions. According to the truth, Yue Fei seems to be the most suitable candidate.

But at this time, Yue Fei was already in charge of Jinghu Theater. Once the Huaidong Theater is handed over to Yue Fei, Yue Fei's power will become more and more huge.

Let's not talk about Yue Fei's loyalty and patriotism. The two major war zones are concentrated in the hands of Yue Fei, and this power is indispensable for Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou.

Song Gaozong is an emperor, not an ordinary person, nor a philanthropist. There are two experts in Huaixi Army of Liu Guangshi: Li Qiong and Wang De. Later, regarding the jurisdiction of Huaixi Army, the court came up with a compromise: Lu Zhi, the minister of the Ministry of War, was appointed as the military supervisor, Wang De was promoted to the commander in chief, and Li Qiong was appointed as the deputy commander. In this way, Li Qiong was directly disrupted, and so was Liu's accounting department. Why did Wang De become Commander-in-Chief? Where did that come from?

Seeing that the two men were about to fight, Wang De was transferred to Beijing. Li Qiong, who can stay, is still determined because he doesn't listen to Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi intends to directly replace Li Qiong, so that he doesn't even have the qualification to be an official. The news was widely circulated in Huaixi troops.

Li Qiong simply led 40,000 troops from Huaixi and took hundreds of Huaixi people to the north to take refuge in Emperor Liu Yu of Daqi. This incident affected the Southern Song Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty respectively. The sudden emergence of a vacuum in the Huai theater in the Southern Song Dynasty was a huge defensive crisis.

After Liu Yu accepted the Huaixi Army, two generals of Xu Jin suddenly went south and demanded the dissolution of the Huaixi Army. In fact, the reason is very simple. It is certainly good for Liu Yu to accept and hand over the 40 thousand Huai army, but what if he defected?

Jin generals Wan Yanchang and Wan Bi rushed to Kaifeng, Henan. They took the lead in deceiving Liu Yu's son Liu Lin to Wucheng in the name of discussing military affairs, and relieved Liu Lin of the command of Kaifeng government forces.

Later, Wan Yanchang and Wan Bi rushed to Kaifeng, and in the name of reading the army, they ousted Emperor Daqi from the throne. The two of them were stationed in Kaifeng and qi zhou respectively, and completely took over Henan and Hebei.

The Southern Song Dynasty has already faced a huge military crisis, but this contact was cleverly avoided because the two military commanders of the State of Jin were busy relieving Liu Yu of his actual command over the Central Plains.

While Xu Jinguo successfully received the land of the Central Plains by thunder, the commander of Cai Zhou garrison also led more than 20,000 soldiers to surrender to Yue Fei. The locals also fled south for fear that the Jin people would rule the Central Plains.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, because of the rebellion of Huaixi Army, the strength of a war zone was lost, and the military strength was greatly reduced. From then on, Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou began to give up the Northern Expedition, and Yue Fei's dream of the Northern Expedition also became a bubble.