Liang Dafa and Wang Shilin tore on the spot, but the 500 forbidden army still carried out Liang Dafa's general order; shouted to Zheng Shuang and the family members of the Prime Minister's Mansion to surround him.

Zheng Shuang looked at the forbidden soldiers, and saw that they were all over 5.8 feet tall - one foot in the Song Dynasty was 31.68cm in later generations, and 5.8 feet was 183 cm.

My father, a 183-centimeter soldier was the standard of honor guards in later generations; The forbidden army of the Song Dynasty was more than 183 centimeters tall, which was completely comparable to the tiger and wolf army of the Qin Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty's criteria for selecting the forbidden army were flawless, and Zheng Shuang admired it in his heart; He used this standard to select soldiers in Xuejiaying, and he also required the selected person to pull a hard bow of 1 stone and 5 buckets.

1 stone and 5 buckets are converted into strength, which is about 200 catties, that is to say, only a strong man who can pull a 200-pound hard bow can enter Zheng Shuang's team; The selection of the forbidden army of the imperial court is no different from Zheng Shuang.

Zheng Shuang pondered in his heart and looked carefully at the guards of the forbidden army who were getting closer and closer, and saw that they were not only tall and well-equipped; Everyone wore armor and helmets, and all rode horses and carried guns; There is no shortage of long and short weapons, bows, crossbows, and arrow clusters.

Such an army armed to the teeth probably did not have many opponents on the earth at that time, but the resistance to Liao and Yuxia were repeatedly defeated.

There is another point that makes Zheng Shuang even more puzzled - such a strong forbidden army is not sent to the front line but is guarding the capital, doing things for the emperor and ministers, which is really incredible.

Zheng Shuang was a surgeon in later generations, but he loved to read history books, and knew that the Song Dynasty and the Khitan fought many wars, the most important and fateful were the battles of the Gaoliang River and Qigou Pass.

In the battle of Gaoliang River, he almost lost his life due to the blind command of Song Taizong, and finally fled back to Tokyo in a donkey cart in embarrassment.

The Battle of Qigou Pass was a revenge battle for Song Taizong, and the Song court monarchs and ministers miscalculated the situation; thought that after the death of Liaojingzong Yeluxian, the new lord of Liaoshengzong Yelu Longxu was young, and the empress dowager Xiao Xuan was 30 years old, and it was difficult to support the world of Liaoguo; The time to destroy the Liao State and recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun cannot wait.

However, the Song army was defeated worse than Gaoliang River in the first battle of Qigou Pass, and what was even more tragic was the loss of the invincible general Yang Ye in this battle;

He was also defeated and captured in the Battle of Qigou Pass.

At the beginning of the Battle of Qigou Pass, Cao Bin's 100,000 troops on the East Road soon occupied Zhuozhou; It is only one step away from Youzhou (known as Xijin Mansion in Liao) occupied by Liao, and it is just around the corner to take Youzhou.

However, Cao Bin's 100,000 troops moved too quickly and fell into the encirclement of the Liao army, and the food and grass could not be helped.

Just when Cao Bin was wasting his energy back and forth between Zhuozhou and Xiongzhou, Xiao Xuan, the Empress Dowager of Liao Guocheng, and Yelu Longxu, the Emperor of Liao, had already led a large group of men and horses to 50 miles east of Zhuozhou City.

I can't help but talk about Xiao Xuan's military talent, a woman must go to the front line in person every time she fights and revise the battle plan according to the changes in the situation.

From this level, Xiao Xuan is many times smarter than the Zhao family's father and son.

Zhao Guangyi and his son Zhao Heng fought against the Liao army, and took it for granted that they sketched a battle map, which was called the "Pingrong Wanquan Array", and Song Taizong also created a super divine array composed of 140,000 people; I thought that this would stop the iron hooves from the north, but this was a foolish move.

The Song Dynasty was also a dynasty where soldiers did not know the generals and did not know the soldiers, and every time the emperor fought a battle, the emperor personally selected a general to fight on the front line with the Pingrong Wanquan Array Diagram - referred to as the Ten Thousand Arrays.

If the general who led the troops to defend against the enemy wanted to adjust the plan, he must first ask the emperor; And there was a general named Li Jilong who changed the Ten Thousand Formations in front of the formation and won the victory, but was scolded by Zhao Guangyi in other names and transferred from his original post.

This kind of bastard combat method even a three-year-old child doubts that he can win, but Song Taizong believes that the general and soldiers must carry it out without discount.

Zhao Guangyi, a stupid pig-like emperor, thinks he is a military strategist, and Xiucai knows the world without going out; Sitting in the palace to sketch the map of ten thousand arrays to the generals who went out, sitting in the palace waiting for the news of victory; As everyone knows, all that awaits is the tragic death of the generals and soldiers.

After Empress Dowager Xiao came to the front line, in order to further weaken Cao Bin's power, she ordered Yelu Hugo to send light cavalry to attack and harass Cao Bin along the road.

The weather was hot at that time, and when Cao Bin's army arrived in Zhuozhou for the second time, the soldiers were exhausted; The grain route was cut off by the Liao cavalry.

Just when Cao Bin was at a loss, news came: Empress Dowager Xiao led the main force of the Liao army to the south, trying to flank the Song army with Yelu Huge.

Seeing that the main force of the Liao army was pressing, Cao Bin completely lost his mind and decided to immediately abandon Zhuozhou and withdraw to Xiongzhou before the Liao army encircled.

On the one hand, he ordered his general Lu Bin to lead the people in the city to retreat south, and on the other hand, he organized the main force of his army to prepare for the break.

Because Cao Bin's soldiers have been out of food for several days, people are sleepy and lacking horses; As a result, the retreat quickly turned into a chaotic rout.

Seeing this scene, the Liao army general Yelu Xiuge immediately ordered the whole army to pursue.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Liao army caught up with the Song army at Qigou Pass near Zhuozhou, and the battle soon turned into a one-sided massacre.

The frightened Song army ventured across the Juma River in the darkness of the night, and was again overtaken by the Liao army when they were halfway through; Countless people drowned and were killed.

In the process of the Song army's retreat to Gaoyang, the Liao army gave full play to the advantage of cavalry mobility; Through the combination of tail chase and flank detour, the Song army was intercepted and killed many times, and tens of thousands of Song troops were corpsed on the battlefield; The materials and weapons and equipment that were finally collected were all taken away by the Liao army......