Above the court of Goryeo.

From Wang Kai, the king of Goryeo, and Li Ziqian, the prince of Goryeo, all of them heard that several Goryeo soldiers covered in blood recounted their personal experiences not long ago.

After hearing this, Wang Kai, who was only fourteen years old and didn't have too many city governments, immediately panicked and said: "How is this good, why did the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao attack my Goryeo for no reason?" ”

Li Ziqian frowned and said, "It may not be the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao." ”

After thinking for a while, Li Ziqian explained: "Song Liao is at war, and it is a war to destroy the country, both sides will definitely go all out, there should be no time to invade our Goryeo, besides, isn't Da Liao dead, Da Song was also beaten by the remnants of Liao, they are still too busy to take care of themselves, how dare they come to provoke our Goryeo?" ”

Wang Kai said: "That...... Could it be the Jurchens? ”

Li Ziqian shook his head lightly and said, "The Jurchens swallowed most of the territory of Da Liao like a snake, and now they are not busy digesting these territories, but they are here to provoke us Gaoli?" ”

Without waiting for others to answer, Li Ziqian asked himself and replied: "It shouldn't be a Jurchen." ”

Han Anren said: "I'm afraid it's not the Great Song traitor named Cai Ying." ”

Thinking that there was no one else, Han Anren said again: "At the beginning, I said that I shouldn't respond to the call of the Jurchens and the Great Song Dynasty to be the enemy of that Cai, so as not to burn himself, but the Taishi didn't listen, what is happening now, people come to the door to take revenge, right?" ”

In the face of the pressing forces of the wealthy clan led by Li Ziqian, Wang Mata of Goryeo Ruizong was not completely unresistant—in those years, Wang Yu promoted a group of new bureaucrats such as Han Anren from the local government to fight against Li Ziqian and other wealthy forces.

The group of Wang Yu forces led by Han Anren and Li Ziqian and their wealthy forces can be said to have been fighting, from the Ruizong Dynasty to the current Renzong Dynasty.

And it is precisely because of Han Anren and others that Li Ziqian failed to take away Wang Kai's throne.

Li Ziqian glanced at Han Anren and said, "Are you so sure that the enemy is Cai Yi?" What if not? ”

Han Anren didn't dare to be sure that it must be Cai Ying's people who came, and then his momentum was weak!

Li Ziqian no longer looked at Han Anren, he looked at Wang Kai and said: "Your Majesty, no matter who the enemy is, we should beat it out of Goryeo with the momentum of thunder, so that the neighbors know that my Goryeo is not easy to mess with, and whoever comes to me Goryeo to be presumptuous will have to pay a huge price." ”

Although he disagreed with Li Ziqian's political views, Han Anren also said at this time: "It must be completely exterminated, otherwise how can we Goryeo be powerful?" If everyone follows suit, our Goryeo will be at peace forever. ”

Seeing that the two important ministers agreed to send troops to drive away the attacking enemy, Wang Kai said: "How many soldiers and horses are dispatched, and who will lead the troops?" ”

Li Ziqian thought for a while and said: "The enemy has at least 20,000 or 30,000, let's count more, count the enemy 50,000, and in this way, we will have to send at least 70,000 troops in Goryeo." ”

Wang Kai was a little uneasy and said: "Seventy thousand against fifty thousand, can you win?" ”

Li Ziqian said with a smile: "Don't say that the enemy may not really have 50,000 horses, even if the enemy really has 50,000 horses, it must be composed of the main army and the Wang army, let's not count the ratio of the main army and the Wang army is one to two, just according to one to one, the enemy will dispatch more than 20,000 regular troops at most, although our Goryeo only dispatched 70,000 horses, but it is mainly the main army, supplemented by the Wang army, the total strength must be far superior to the enemy, when it can win a steady victory." ”

Hearing Li Ziqian say this, Wang Kai also became confident, and he said: "In this way, in addition to the necessary guards of the Beijing Division, the Beijing army and the state and county armies can be dispatched. ”

Li Ziqian said: "Your Majesty Shengming. ”

After a pause, Li Ziqian said again: "As for the general of the army, the minister is the privy ......."

Han Anren rushed to speak: "The minister Bao promoted my Goryeo general Wu Yan to be handsome!" ”

Li Ziqian looked at Han Anren and said, "How can that sinner take on such a heavy responsibility, and he is nearly sixty years old, how can he ride a horse and hold a knife again?" ”

Han Anren did not back down and said: "Everyone knows that the battle was not his fault, he was just eager to rescue, and he caught up with the front line and suffered a defeat, only to be exploited by the enemy generals. ”

Han Anren said again: "Taishi, this is a national war that determines the fortunes of the country, and it is related to the national system and interests of my Goryeo, you ask yourself, not to mention that the old general once assisted Marshal Yin to draw the boundary and build nine cities, only to say that in addition to the old general, who else in my Goryeo has commanded tens of thousands of troops and horses, can your brother be up to this important task?" ”

In the Battle of Lazy Dian more than ten years ago, Wu Yanzhong was Yin Qiang's deputy marshal.

Although he was named Deputy Marshal, the actual situation was that many important battles of that battle were fought under the leadership of Wu Yanzhong.

It's just that, like the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo also emphasized literature over military force.

To what extent has it emphasized literature over military force?

Wu Chen's grade and treatment are far lower than Wen Chen, not to mention.

Although the Tian Chaike stipulates that the military can be allocated military land, in practice this kind of land distribution is rarely carried out. Even if the land that had already been allocated, it was sometimes taken back and redistributed as a field for the literati.

Military households have to go out on wartime and serve hard labor in peacetime, and their status is not much better than that of those who bear lowly labor.

Some had to flee to avoid military service, leaving their homes and becoming tenants or slaves.

In fact, in history, after this period, Goryeo Zunwen light martial arts were more serious, Jin Fushi's son Jin Dunzhong used a candle to burn the beard of a military minister named Zheng Zhongfu, and Han Anren's nephew Han Lai actually dared to slap the general Li Shaoying.

Later, the literati of Goryeo went too far and provoked a rebellion by the Goryeo warriors.

At that time, Zheng Zhongfu, Yi Yifang, and Li Gao Gao escorted Goryeo Yizong through Buhyeonwon, on the outskirts of Kaesong, and took the opportunity to incite a mutiny and call for the execution of all those who wore civil robes.

Soon, many civil servants such as Jin Dunzhong and Han Lai were killed.

Later, the military ministers also deposed Goryeo Yizong and appointed his younger brother Goryeo Myeongjong to succeed him.

Three years later, Kim Fudang failed to support the restoration of Goryeo Yizong, and before his death, he confessed that all the ministers were involved in the premeditation, which led to the killing of a large number of the moonministers who survived.

That time was definitely a nightmare for the Goryeo ministers.

But then again, if it weren't for the Goryeo Moonlord forcing the Goryeo Warrior so hard, he would never have ended up in such a miserable end.

In fact, Goryeo has been showing signs of this for a long time, and even some official positions that should be held by military ministers in principle are actually controlled by civil ministers.

For example, the position of marshal of the Battle of Haoladian should have been held by the military minister Wu Yanzhong, but in the end, he got a Wenchen Yin Qian to suppress Wu Yanzhong, and as a result, everyone in the world knows Yin Qiang, but little knows Wu Yanzhong.

For example, the position of marshal of the national war with the Jinwu army this time should also be held by Wu Yanzhong, the most experienced veteran in Goryeo, but after the group of Wenchen jumped up and down, they actually put a marshal on Wu Yanzhong's head, that is, Zheng Zhichang, a scholar of Hanlin Bachelor, served as the marshal, and Wu Yanzhong only got the position of deputy marshal.

This Zheng Zhichang is the champion of liberal arts and the first born, bold and open-minded by nature, good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, proficient in easy learning, Buddhist scriptures, and loves natural and unearthly Lao Zhuang thoughts.

Naturally, it is no problem for such a person to compose poems, draw pictures, and write calligraphy, but isn't it a joke to fight? Especially in this great battle that decided the fortunes of Goryeo.

But such an appointment is really a fact, and Zheng Zhichang also wore a set of armor to take office.

Wu Yanzhong, who is nearly sixty years old this year, saw Zheng Zhichang's funny and ridiculous appearance, and really felt sad for Goryeo, the party struggle has reached the point of treating the national war as a child's play, even if you send a Wenchen to serve as the marshal, you should also send a Wenchen like Han Anren who knows the importance and responsibility, why do you want a young descendant who likes Lao Zhuang, and chant scriptures in the war?

But Li Ziqian's relatives just didn't give Han Anren a chance to stand out from the royal family, so they even didn't hesitate to throw this pie to the two classes in Xijing, and this Zheng Zhichang made an impassioned speech at the most opportune time, and as a result, he picked up such a big pie.

Faced with this situation, the veteran Wu Yanpet has no choice.

First of all, Goryeo respected the civil and light martial arts, and the military ministers had no say in Goryeo at all.

Secondly, in the later stage of the battle of Holadian, the Jurchen faction can conquer the battle of Sai Hu led the troops to Ho Lazidian to relieve the crisis, the Jurchen army led by Sai Hu and the Goryeo army in the Lazy Dian for more than a year, although the two sides have each other's victories and defeats, but the Goryeo army has lost more than the victory, the consumption is particularly large, the Goryeo communication lines and communication networks are often plundered by the Jurchen army in ambush, in a key battle, Yin Qian sent him to lead the army to rescue Jizhou, near the Gongyi Ridge was covered by the Jurchen army, and then the whole army was defeated, the soldiers were scattered in, the cities fell, and the dead and wounded were innumerable, Since then, the Goryeo army could not afford to fight anymore, so he could only be forced to sue for peace, and he became a sinner in Goryeo and was thrown to the end.

In fact, the reason why the Goryeo court sent Zheng Zhichang to serve as the marshal like child's play was not completely nonsense, but also because they had the bottom:

First, sending Zheng Zhichang, a civil minister, to serve as the marshal just didn't want to break their rules of Goryeo's Wenzun and Wuqing, and it was not really to let Zheng Zhichang come to lead the army to fight, and the matter of the war naturally had the old general Wu Yanzhong, the veteran general of a hundred battles.

In other words, they sent Zheng Zhichang, a great poet and great painter, to let him come to collect wind and find inspiration, and it is best to compose a few famous poems that can be passed down through the ages or paint a few paintings that can be passed down through the ages.

Second, the whole of Goryeo agreed that this time it was necessary to crush the invading enemy with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai, so that they would never dare to peep into the territory of Goryeo again.

Based on this strategic purpose, Wang Kai sent out all the troops in the main force of the Beijing Army, the Sixth Guard and the Second Army, except for the Jinwuwei, Qianniuwei, and Prison Guards, namely: the first leader of the Yingyang Army, the second leader of the Dragon and Tiger Army, the ten leaders of the left and right guards, the three leaders of Jingyong, the five leaders and the two leaders of Jingyong under the Shenhu Guard, the seven leaders and the five leaders of Jingyong under the Xingwei Guard, the six leaders of the Jinwuwei Jingyong and the first leader of the service leader. In addition, there are forty-five leaders of the state and county armies.

Total: Goryeo sent a total of about 40,000 Baosheng (infantry troops) and about 30,000 Jingyong (horse troops), a total of 70,000 troops.

In Wang Kaijun's mind, 70,000 troops against 50,000, maybe not even 30,000 enemy troops, is it not a victory in a battle?

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Three days later, 70,000 troops gathered in Kaegyung, and the Goryeo royal court announced that it had sent 300,000 troops......

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