Chapter 272: Old Seed Xianggong and Yang Lao Linggong!
Of course, Wu Ming also knew that if there was a war, whether it was in the era of cold weapons in ancient times or in the era of hot weapons in modern times.
Then be sure to fight outside your borders. This is the least common sense, because if you let the war take place within your own country.
Where is there no dead in war, even if you are careful, if there is a war within your own borders, it is the common people who suffer if you lose.
If you win, it is the common people who suffer, and if you keep the war outside your borders, it doesn't matter if you win or lose the war.
The least thing that can be guaranteed is that the people of their own country will not suffer unnecessary losses because of the war.
We will not let the people of our country suffer the hardships caused by war. Everyone understands this truth, and Wu Ming is only worried about the little race Xianggong and his seed army now.
In history, the Seed Army was a very capable army, and they fought against the Tangut many times, and it can be said that they lost less and won more.
It is the Western Xia people who can be said to be frightened by the family army, Wu Ming wondered, in history, this famous family army can fight better than the Yang generals.
Why is there no place for the family army to excel in various romances, after thinking about it carefully, Wu Ming finally figured it out.
The reason for all this is that the founder of the Seed Family Army, Chong Shiheng, does not have the founder of the Yang Family, Yang Lao Ling, to give birth to the public.
Although Chong Shiheng also has many sons, he has eight sons like Yang Lao Linggong. But there are not many famous generals among them.
It's just that only the old breed and his son the little breed are named in the romance.
As for the other famous generals of the Breed Army, although they were loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and most of them died in battle.
But why don't they shine, it's because they've been separated by too much time, in real history.
During the 168 years of the reign of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were many heroes in the family army: the Shiheng, the Shiyi, the Pu, the Dao, and the Shishi were all generals.
The children of the family have served in the army for five generations, and dozens of people have died on the battlefield. These people who sacrificed their lives for the country are at least three generations apart.
But Yang Lao Linggong is different, Yang Lao Linggong Golden Knife Yang Jiye also gave birth to eight sons, but his sons are more competitive.
After Yang Jiye returned to the Song Dynasty, he led his seven sons to a godson, that is, the "Seven Lang and Eight Tigers" to fight in the south and the north, killing in the east and west.
For the Song Dynasty to make a contribution to the Khan horse! For the Yang family, the biggest credit can be regarded as the "Golden Beach Double Dragon Club".
There is a cloud in the storytelling that "there is nothing higher than saving the driver, and there is nothing more important than cutting off the grain"! At this banquet, Da Lang dressed up as Song Taizong.
Erlang dressed up as the Eight Sages King, and all seven sons went to the banquet. You must know that it is often said in the book commentary that "there will be no good meeting, and there will be no good banquet".
Yang Jiye didn't leave any sons, and all of them were sent out, this loyalty can be shown every day! The ending was tragic.
The banquet of the Yang family was almost wiped out, Da Lang and Erlang suffered in front of the banquet, San Lang was trampled like mud by horses, and Shiro and Hachiro wandered in Fanbang.
Gorou became a monk, so Rokuro and Shichiro fought their way out of the encirclement. As a result, he was finally killed by the traitor Pan Hong and Pan Renmei.
A generation of loyal and righteous Yang generals only ended up with lonely widows, this is the story of the Yang generals' seven wolves and eight tigers out of Youzhou.
The reason why the Yang generals were written about in the romance was because their loyalty was the most in line with the ruler's loyalty to the monarch in that era.
Under the promotion of the emperor intentionally or unintentionally, and under the praise of those literati and writers, the Yang family will be deified in the historical romance.
And the sense of existence of the seed army, which is not much different from the Yang family, is relatively weak, people like to follow the crowd, and what people can remember is always the first.
When everyone is talking about the Yang family generals, how many people will come forward to complain about the seed family army?
If it weren't for the old race and his son Xiao Xianggong, the achievements of the master were too rebellious.
has left a strong mark in the real history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and I am afraid that Mr. Shi Nai'an will not write these two people into the Water Margin when he wrote "Water Margin".
The "old breed in "Water Margin", when he first entered the official career, he served as the magistrate of Qingjian County, Shaanxi.
At that time, the border counties implemented the integration of military and government, and he had soldiers and horses in his hands, so he adopted a strategy of combining division and inducement to deal with the Western Xia army.
At that time, Suizhou (now Suide County, Shaanxi) had the leader of the Western Xia tribe, Wei Mingshan, who often led people to harass the boundaries of Qingjian County.
However, Wei Mingshan's younger brother Wei Yishan secretly asked to surrender to the plant. He agreed, and he immediately lured Weiming Mountain in the name of Weiyi Mountain.
He said, "I am willing to reconcile with you, and I have prepared a golden basin for you, please laugh at it." Regardless of whether Wei Mingshan was willing or not, Chong Mo led the army to surround the camp of Wei Mingshan.
Wei Mingshan had no choice but to lead more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians to submit to the Song Dynasty. He did not injure a single soldier, and only used a golden basin as bait to recover Suizhou, an important town in northern Shaanxi.
There was also a time when he led his troops out of Suizhou to attack Mizhi, but the initial battle was unfavorable and did not fall for three days. The Western Xia army mobilized 80,000 soldiers and horses to come to the rescue.
What should I do if I am outnumbered? He planted an ambush on the Wuding River outside Mizhi City. When the enemy arrived, the ambush soldiers came out in all directions.
Cut the Western Xia army into two sections, so that they could not take care of each other. As a result, the 80,000 Western Xia army was defeated, and the Mizhi guard general Ling Jieyu was captured.
When the good news came out, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the prestige of the seed quickly spread throughout the country. Wu Ming remembered the description in "Water Margin": The blue-faced beast Yang Zhi was on an errand under the planting of the beast at that time.
Later, he roamed the rivers and lakes, and he was always proud of having worked under the "old breed of economic and slightly related officials", and flaunted that the "Sprinkle Family" was originally a soldier.
It is the grandson of the three generations of generals and the five commanders, and the marksmanship is an ancestral tradition. There are also Wang Jin, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, and Shi Jin, the nine-tattooed dragon.
It was also after he couldn't get mixed up on his own territory that he traveled thousands of miles to go to the "old seed and the old man", which shows the prestige of the seed.
In fact, in the real history of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is another army that is also proud of its achievements, and they are the discounted army.
But if there is no instruction from the top, how many literati will write books and biographies for these generals, after all, it is typical that only one Yang family general is enough.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, military generals have always been a relatively embarrassing existence, although military generals fought for the country, regardless of their lives.
However, the social atmosphere at that time was top-down, emphasizing literature over military force. Even if the generals have made great achievements in the battle outside.
When they return to the court, they will also obediently hand over their military power, and pretend to be the same as turtle grandsons in front of those civil officials.
This was the great social environment of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, and it was also one of the reasons why the Northern Song Dynasty was able to defeat several neighboring countries despite its large number of soldiers and generals.