Ma Kuo went to recruit Northern Liao, and it took seven days to leave.

During these seven days, there was no message from Ma Amplification.

Tong Guan can't sleep because of this!

Tong Guan said to the left and right: "I think Ma Kuo is more than lucky, since he has killed three of me in a row, how can he only let Ma Kuo go?" ”

Li Zongzhen advised Tong Guan: "Don't worry, Taishi, He Zhizhou has not received a secret report, which means that Ma Kuo is still alive, if he is really beheaded by Yeluchun, the news will definitely come out." ”

As soon as Li Zongzhen's words fell, He Xu hurriedly walked into the house, and then said as he walked: "There is news, Ma Kuo has been placed under house arrest by Yeluchun!" ”

Tong Guan took the secret letter and looked at it, and asked, "Is your news reliable?" ”

And replied: "It should be reliable." ”

Tong Guan listened, and his serious face was slightly soothed.

Tong Guan thought to himself: "There is an excuse, it's time to send troops." ”

Thinking of this, Tong Guan said to Liu Tao: "Issue military orders to the eastern and western route armies, advance to the border according to the original plan, and strictly order all armies not to cross the border to kill, not to cross the border to loot property, and not to fall in love with war if they encounter resistance from the Liao army." ”

For the Song army gathering on the border, Northern Liao has actually made deployments.

Yelu Chun sent Yelu Dashi to serve as the commander of the southwest road, with Xiao Helu, the supervisor of the Niulan, as his deputy, and led more than 2,000 Xi and Khitan cavalry to be stationed in Xincheng.

(At this time, if the Song army attacked decisively, the Northern Liao would definitely be defeated, because the Liao army only had more than 2,000 horses in the south at this time, and even if Guo Yaoshi's victorious army was added, it would only be more than 10,000 horses.)

It's not that there are really no soldiers and horses in Northern Liao, but all the soldiers and horses in Northern Liao are deployed in Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Gubeikou and other places to defend the Jin army in the north and the Jin army in the west.

Pity!

Just like the surrender list issued by the Northern Song Dynasty, "It has been ordered that soldiers must not kill a person, and if there is a violation, the military law will severely punish them." "As he said, Zhao Jijunchen thought about picking up this cheap for nothing, and wanted to get Yanjing and all the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction without killing anyone, and he didn't think about fighting with the Liao army at all. ）

Yelu Dashi is the eighth grandson of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, tall, dignified, talented, fly in the ointment is a bit of a slope.

Yelu Dashi was originally a literati, who had participated in the imperial examination of the Liao State and won the first place in the palace examination, and entered the Great Linya Academy as Linya, so people called him Linya Dashi.

Lin Ya is the official name of the Liao State, the official in charge of Wenhan, which is equivalent to the Hanlin of the Song Dynasty.

Yelu Dashi is proficient in Chinese and Khitan languages, and is also good at riding and shooting, which can be described as both civil and military.

After the loss of Liaoshangjing, Yelu Dashi abandoned his pen and followed Rong and asked Yelu Yanxi to serve as the envoy of the Xingjun Festival.

After Yeluchun ascended the throne, he trusted Yelu Dashi very much and handed over the southwest road to him to command.

On this day, Yelu Dashi received a report from Tanma that a cavalry of the Song army had entered and was heading in the direction of Zhuozhou.

Yelu Dashi asked, "How many people are there in the Song army?" ”

Tanma replied: "It seems to be the vanguard of the Song army, about thousands of men. ”

Yelu Dashi thought to himself: "I only have 2,000 men and horses in my hands, and my troops are obviously insufficient. ”

Thinking of this, Yelu Dashi sent people back to Yanjing to report to ask for reinforcements on the one hand, and on the other hand, he pulled his own people to Langoudian and ambushed them.

Langoudian is in the southwest of the new city, which was originally a river valley, but has dried up into a north-south road, and the road is flanked by long slopes with large pine forests.

Leading the vanguard of the Song army into the Liao realm was Yang Keshi, the deputy commander of the capital and the commander of the former army of the Western Road.

Yang Keshi was ridiculed as a coward by He Shu at the Xiongzhou Conference, and he had been holding back a fire in his heart, and he really wanted to wash away the name of this coward through war.

Tong Guan ordered the army to press the border, the original purpose was to give Yeluchun some pressure and intimidate the newly established Northern Liao government, not really to cross the border to attack the Northern Liao.

But Yang Keshi is eager to seek merit, or he may believe that He Shu said, "Yan people have long wanted to be attached, if the division enters, they will eat pot pulp to welcome", and he actually led thousands of light horses straight into the Liao realm.

When the Song army entered Langoudian, Yang Keshi, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, immediately felt that the situation was a little bad, so he wanted to order the troops to retreat!

Pity!

It's too late!

I saw that the slopes on both sides of the river valley were shot with arrows, and the arrows were like rain!

The Song army was caught off guard by the Liao army led by Yelu Dashi, and thousands of military horses crowded in the narrow river valley, rushing from east to west and trampling on each other!

Yelu Dashi, who was standing on the top of the mountain to observe the battle situation, saw this and decisively ordered a general attack!

The cavalry of the Liao army hidden in the pine forest rushed to the river valley like a tiger descending from the mountain, and then killed the Song army!

The dust in the blue ditch was flying, the sound of killing shook the sky, and a bloody battle lasted for nearly half an hour before it ended.

As a result, the Liao army defeated the Song army with fewer victories, and Yang Keshi led the remnants of the defeated army to open a bloody road, rushed out of Langoudian, and fled back.

Thousands of casualties are nothing in the war between two countries.

But—

The defeat of Langoudian made Zhao Jijunchen's dream of peacefully recovering Yanjing completely come to naught, and also opened the prelude to the defeat of the Song army, and the face of the puppet power of Zhao and Song began to be revealed.

Historically, this was the prelude to the shame of Jingkang, and Yelu Dashi also became famous by this battle, and eventually became a generation of famous generals, creating the Western Liao Empire, which was not inferior to the Jin State.

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Knowing that the Song army suffered a defeat in Langoudian, Cai was still embarrassed and a little heartbroken!

This defeat, seemingly accidental, was just an ordinary ambush battle.

In fact, in Cai's view, this is inevitable.

Although Cai Jing's economic reform temporarily alleviated the financial crisis of the Northern Song Dynasty government and satisfied the extravagant needs of the supreme ruler, it also intensified social contradictions - although Cai Jing succeeded in economic reform, this success did not translate into the driving force of the country's prosperity, but the huge wealth accumulated stimulated the corruption of the ruling group and accelerated the decline of the entire empire. Let's put it this way, in the case of limited levels of productivity, increasing government revenues through reforms is, in the final analysis, competing with the people.

However, focusing only on the present and ignoring the long-term, it consumes the people's power prematurely, and at a certain time, it will inevitably bring bad consequences.

The military geography and political pattern formed by the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty more than 100 years since the founding of the country made the Northern Song monarchs and ministers bear unspeakable psychological humiliation in addition to the tremendous pressure of national defense.

In the era of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, in the face of the excellent opportunity brought by the decline and fall of the Liao Dynasty, the desire of Zhao Jijunchen to recover the lost land of Yanyun was aroused.

However, Liaophobia and the corruption of the Northern Song Dynasty's military and government made Zhao Jijunchen less confident in recovering the lost territory, and they changed the original decision to send troops alone to recover Yanyun to join Jin to destroy Liao, and signed a "maritime alliance" with the Jin Dynasty.

From the entire process of the Northern Song Dynasty's implementation and operation of the Lianjin to destroy the Liao, it is not difficult to see the power struggle within the ruling group and the impact on the Lianjin and Liao annihilation incident.

Because Tong Guan had achieved military exploits in the Northwest Battlefield, he further came up with the idea of recovering Yanyun.

Cai Jing also had interest and confidence in recovering Yanyun, but because of the struggle for power with Tong Guan, Tong Guan was hindered from time to time.

Later, Cai Jing saw the potential crisis of the Northern Song Dynasty and categorically changed it to prevent the recovery of Yanyun.

This not only caused Zhao Ji's dissatisfaction with Cai Jing, but also gave Wang Huang an opportunity.

In order to compete for power with Cai Jing, Wang Hao strongly advocated the use of troops against Yanyun.

Tong Guan's initial attitude was enthusiastic, but when he really saw the state of the Song Dynasty's army and armaments, his confidence plummeted.

This also foreshadowed the defeat of the Song army.

However, the reason why the alliance with Jin and the use of troops against Liao happened was that Zhao Ji was interested in this.

Zhao Ji was cautious about the act of cutting down Yan at first, but later because of the fact that the Liao Dynasty was declining on the one hand, and on the other hand, out of the desire and impulse to establish immortal achievements, he established the national policy of seeking Yanyun.

And Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Hao and others, they had insight into Zhao Ji's intentions, in order to win Zhao Ji's favor, dictate and consolidate favors, and also in order to realize the good wish of establishing a meritorious career, they all threw themselves into this major event.

To be fair, it is Zhao Ji himself who insisted on recovering Yanyun and insisting on destroying Liao with Jin from beginning to end.

This is proved from the reuse and ups and downs of Tong Guan, Cai Jing's third resignation, and Wang Hao's use.

From the time of Song Shenzong to the era of Song Huizong, the imperial power of the Northern Song Dynasty was strengthened step by step on the original basis.

In the era of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, on the surface, the financial group was powerful and could do whatever it wanted, but in fact, it was Zhao Ji who was the sole power of the imperial power, whether it was Cai Jing or Wang Huang, Zhao Ji always firmly controlled them in his own hands, called to come, lingered, they never posed any threat to the imperial power, on the contrary, they could only rely on the emperor's breath to consolidate their own political and economic status - the emperor was happy to give them high lords; If the emperor is unhappy, a word can make them ruined, bankrupt, and have nothing.

Because of this, all the talents and abilities of Cai Jing and others can only revolve around the will of Zhao Ji, the emperor.

Under the hands of Zhao Ji, who was so happy and extravagant, the higher the talent of Cai Jing and others, the stronger the execution ability, the more effectively they could only push the entire country of the Northern Song Dynasty to a dead end.

After experiencing the political disputes since Yuan You and Shaofu, for Cai Jing and others, who have a strong desire for power, the profound experience and lesson left for them is the importance of relying on imperial power, and at the same time, they also recognize the uncertainty of power.

Since Cai Jing and the others understood that their position of power was not easy to come by, it was the most important thing to keep it, and the only way was to do their best to work for the emperor and make the emperor happy.

In the final analysis, the consciousness of Cai Jing and others is that the object of their efforts to serve is the emperor himself who holds the imperial power, not the country, let alone the people.

In this way, the promotion and demotion of a cadre of ministers represented by Cai Jing are essentially the manipulation of Zhao Ji's personal will.

The all-encompassing public power of government has exerted control over private interests and even the realm of thought.

And such a great power is effectively in the hands of Emperor Zhao Ji himself.

This can only lead to one result, and the officials have no choice but to take the road of currying favor with Emperor Zhao Ji.

In other words, the appearance of Cai Jing and a group of traitorous ministers at the same time was actually forced out by the wanton government power under the autocratic control of Zhao Ji's imperial power.

The ingenuity of Cai Jing and others has become marionettes under imperial power.

The key lies in Zhao Ji, if he is holy and clear, this government may really be able to do something.

But the problem is that Zhao Ji is not, he is poor and extravagant, happy with his achievements, and uses people as relatives.

In this way, in such Zhao Ji's control, it is bound to send the Northern Song Dynasty to the guillotine.

Therefore, the problematic Northern Song Dynasty is actually dead, even if there is no defeat of Langoudian, there will be a defeat of Honggoudian, the difference is only when this defeat will break out.

Cai is still clear about this......

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