By the time Cang Yi returned to his camp, everyone had already fallen asleep in silence, and the candles had been extinguished for a long time. But lying on the bed, he didn't feel sleepy, fantasizing that if he really did what Liu Baiqing and Kang Kui said in the future, then he would have at least five hundred super strong soldiers who existed like modern special forces in this era.

The more Cang Yi thought about it, the more excited he became, before the crossing, he was a military fan full of angry temperament, often browsing various military websites, and also loved to discuss with other military fans in various forums, post bars, and Zhihu plates, and sometimes discuss with them how to improve the combat effectiveness and combat quality of an army in the era of cold weapons. In addition to the formation of the team and the tactical play, it is more about discussing how to train.

For the Song Dynasty, which had many famous historical generals such as Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Han Shizhong, Gao Huaide, Cao Wei, Di Qing, Yue Fei, Yang Ye, Wang Jian, Li Jilong, Wang Shao, Yue Fei, Wu Jue, Yu Yunwen, Meng Hui, Yu Jue, Zong Ze, Liu Qi, etc., but lost the jade seal of the country twice because of the death of foreign enemies, many military fans were heartbroken when they mentioned it, and they expressed their opinions and discussed how to improve the combat effectiveness of the armies of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties. On the premise of lacking excellent war horses, how to use infantry and what kind of weapons to fight against the iron cavalry of Liao, Jin and Mongolia.

In fact, Cang Yi also had no good impression of the Song Dynasty in his previous life. Because it failed to achieve a counterattack against the nomads like the Han and Tang dynasties, it lived in the shadow of the northern barbarians from beginning to end. In history, the Song Dynasty failed to recover the sixteen states of Youyun from beginning to end, and Zhao Kuangyi of Song Taizong failed to conquer Youzhou twice, so in later generations, many people felt that the Song Dynasty was very poor in military strength to lead to this, and could not attack the Xiongnu and Turks like the Han and Tang dynasties, and establish a large empire across the north and south.

Now Cangyi has crossed into the world of the Great Yan Dynasty, which replaced the Song Dynasty, and coincidentally, it is also Zhao Kuangyi who is the emperor, and the same first imperial expedition ended in failure, and the second imperial expedition has not yet begun. At this time, he was lying on the bed, because he couldn't sleep, and he thought in his heart that this Great Yan Dynasty could get rid of the fate of the Song Dynasty in history?

Cang Yi had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and he thought that the Song Dynasty was unable to eliminate the external barbarians in history, not only because of its weak military strength, but also because the international environment and domestic situation during the Song Dynasty and the Han and Tang dynasties were very different. After thinking about it carefully, I found that the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty had a striking similarity: both dynasties were built on another unified dynasty, the Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms and ended the long-term division of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period; The Sui Dynasty pacified the north and the south, ending the situation of chaos and long-term division between the north and the south. Both the Qin and Sui dynasties ended in the second dynasty, and the problem was the succession of the second emperor.

In the last years of the Qin and Sui dynasties, the world was once in turmoil, but fortunately it did not last long, and the country's political structure was not significantly damaged. Although it has gone through several years of war, the Han and Tang dynasties have obtained a relatively complete empire, and this empire is the belongings that Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wen of Sui fought for decades, and the Han and Tang dynasties can be said to have gained a great bargain!

In contrast, the Song Dynasty did not have such good luck.

The Later Zhou dynasty it replaced was nothing more than the largest secessionist regime of the time, and the process of establishing the state was not like receiving the legacy of a great empire like the Han and Tang dynasties. On the contrary, when the Song Dynasty was founded, it was in the midst of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the world was in turmoil, and local forces had been operating for a long time, and had already formed an independent state that was not unified with each other. The unification of the country is not as simple as the decisive battle between Chu and Han and the completion of the battle in one battle, nor is it like the separatist forces in the late Sui Dynasty that were broken by the Tang Dynasty before gaining a firm foothold.

National unification requires a long war like the Qin and Sui dynasties. More importantly, the international environment of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties is different.

The main enemy of the Han was the Xiongnu, the main enemy of the Tang was the Turks, and the main enemy of the Song was the Liao, Jin, and Western Xia. The problem is that the Xiongnu and Turks are not really states, they are just a powerful tribe, nomadic people, who have no fixed place to live and depend on the sky for food. Tribal management is still at a relatively primitive level, the organization is militarized, highly mobile, and comes and goes. These two nomads were truly cosmopolitan peoples, with an indefinite range of activities and no interest in producing materials. When the desert is smooth and the cattle and sheep are fat, they will not pose any threat to the Central Plains, and when natural disasters such as drought make their lives unsustainable, they go to the Central Plains to grab food is the only choice for them to survive.

Most of the people in the Central Plains are agricultural, and their settlements are scattered, which is convenient for plundering. If they encounter resistance, they often fight if they can beat it, and run away if they can't. Therefore, after several relatively large wars, the Han and Tang dynasties basically solved the Xiongnu and Turkic problems, partly submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty, and partly migrated to Central Asia and Central Europe.

On the other hand, before the founding of the Song Dynasty, Liao was already a major power in northern China, and as early as the establishment of the Later Liang, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji had already broken away from the Tang Dynasty. When Abaoji became emperor, there were already Goryeo Uighurs and the southern Wuyue kingdom paying tribute. Shi Jingjiao cut off the "Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun" and the Khitan in 936 AD, at that time, Yelu Abaoji had died, and his son Yelu Deguang took over the position of the Khitan lord. Shi Jingjiao actually grovelled and called Yelu Deguang, who was ten years younger than him, his father, and when he played a chapter to the Khitan, he called the Khitan lord "Father Emperor" and himself "Son Emperor". In addition to paying 300,000 tributes to the Khitan every year, envoys are also sent to give gifts to the Khitan lord, the queen mother, and the noble ministers during the New Year's holidays.

At this time, the Central Plains was still in the era of warlord secession at the end of the Tang Dynasty, with frequent regime changes and wars. During the reign of the Five Dynasties, the longest period of power in the Central Plains was only 17 years, and the shortest was only 7 years. In 50 years, there have been five dynasties and more than a dozen emperors. The Liao State took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to turn its hands into clouds and turn its hands into rain. Sowing discord and then reaping the benefits of the fishermen, the Liao people usually played the role of helping the weak and resisting the strong, and this policy actually became the main magic weapon to divide and weaken the Central Plains Dynasty.

By the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Liao State had become the main enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty. And basically the Liao State is often the attacking side, and the Central Plains Dynasty is often the defensive side. Although Later Zhou Shizong had a northern expedition, he only defeated the Northern Han army, but did not conquer the Northern Han and regain the territory, let alone the recovery of the "Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures".

When the Song Dynasty was founded, Liao had been officially established for 50 years, and it was almost a Confucianized nation. Firstly, they are already an empire in the true sense of the word, and secondly, they are no longer nomads, but a country of agricultural civilization. Again, they monopolized the most important resource for warfare at the time: the horse trade. Therefore, whether it is the Song Liao or the later war between the Song and Jin, the war between the two countries is no longer a simple battle for food, but a struggle for survival resources and living space. Once it comes to the struggle in this regard, it is a matter of fighting for every inch of land.

Therefore, the Song-Liao War and the Song-Jin War were brutal, protracted, and indistinguishable from the outcome. It is not the outcome of a battle that can determine the fate of a war, but a battle in which all aspects are combined. On the other hand, in fact, the Song Dynasty can also learn from the Liao State and support the weak countries around the Liao State, so that the Liao State is tired of dealing with these countries and has no time to invade the south. The Song Dynasty could take advantage of this to recuperate. But if you want to go north to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, you must have a large number of cavalry.

Cang Yi thought at this time, what if the Song Dynasty had a large number of good horses? The outcome will be different! It's a pity that the current situation, Cang Yi couldn't help but sigh again when he thought of this.

Compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, the grassland area of the Song Dynasty was greatly reduced, and the grasslands that originally belonged to the Han and Tang dynasties were controlled by the Liao and Western Xia at this time, and the Hexi Corridor was also blocked by the Western Xia, so it was impossible to get the good horses of the Western Regions, so they could only import horses from Dali in Yunnan, but this kind of horses were inferior to those in the north, and it can be said that the Northern Song Dynasty was very backward in cavalry, resulting in his inability to expand his territory like the Han and Tang dynasties, and could only take a defensive position. This is for military reasons. There are also political reasons, as soon as the Northern Song Dynasty was founded, it formulated a set of methods to consolidate its own political power, releasing military power with a glass of wine, transforming the weak branches of the original system of moderation into strong cadres and weak branches, and emphasizing literature over military force, separating soldiers and generals, and remote control by the monarch, all of which weakened the combat effectiveness of the Song army.

At this time, the Great Yan Dynasty was a copy of a mold carved out of the Song Dynasty, the same emperor, the same international situation, the same domestic policy, if you want to reverse the current situation, then you can only settle the Western Xia first, either destroy it and bow down to the ministers, or let it open the Hexi Corridor and trade with it to obtain a large number of war horses. The second and most important thing is to change the domestic policy of emphasizing literature over military force, attaching importance to the training of military forces, and improving the recruitment system, but all of this, in the final analysis, is still controlled by the supreme ruler of the current Great Yan Dynasty, and he has the final say.

Cang Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, he is now just a son of an official eunuch who is not good at martial arts, unless he can become the emperor, he can reverse the current situation, replace defense with offense, and change the history of the Central Plains Dynasty being invaded by the northern barbarians in later generations. If you become an emperor, then you will ......

Cang Yi was lying on the bed at this time, and was suddenly shocked by the thoughts that came out of his heart at this time, and sat up, and a large amount of cold sweat began to break out on his forehead! I don't know if it's because I'm scared or because I'm too excited.

At this time, he was sitting in the quiet barracks in the dark, but the thoughts just now seemed to penetrate into his heart, and they became stronger and stronger with the beat......

After a long time, Cang Yi calmed down the excitement in his heart, and kept telling himself not to be cranky, to do the current things first, and then slowly fall asleep after a long time......