Chapter 258: The Emperor of Compassion (5)

Yang Yanlang's earth-shattering words stunned Song Zhenzong, and he looked at the second generation of the Yang family in front of him, who was 10 years older than him; I don't know if it's anxiety, fear, worry, anger, helplessness, or frustration......

Zhao Heng couldn't say anything about his complicated thoughts, he looked at Yang Yanzhao and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

Could this be the way of the Emperor of Compassion? Zhao Heng has been on the throne for six years, and his six years of governing the country are also remarkable; But in the face of the pressure of the Liao army, it seems that it has long lost the spirit and vigor of the tiger and tiger five years ago; All that remained in my heart was a wave of sorrow and fear.

Zhao Heng is still scared? I don't know when it began, Zhao Heng complained from the bottom of his heart: "The agricultural people are not the opponents of the grassland peoples, and the iron hooves of the Liao people are the devil; Instantly leveling the cities and fields of the Song Kingdom effortlessly! If the country wants to stay for a long time, it must avoid its Mangfeng and move its capital to Jiangnan, and block the horse team of the Tielin Army with the water of the rolling Yangtze River! ”

Such a retreating and cowardly mood was not Zhao Heng's original intention, it seemed to be the result of Wang Qinruo, Chen Yaosuo, and other southern ministers arguing in his ears all day long.

The three of them are tigers, which is clearly demonstrated in the invasion of the Liao.

However, when Zhao Heng first ascended the throne, he was not like this at all, he was a bloody man at that time; There is hot blood flowing in the chest.

September of the second year of Xianping, that is, the second year of Zhao Heng's accession to the throne; Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu and his mother Emperor Chengtian Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan, saw Song Taizong pass away and the cowardly Zhao Heng ascended the throne; Bullying him for being too young, he took the opportunity to send a large army south, trying to destroy the Central Plains regime, which seemed to be weak, in one fell swoop.

Zhao Heng fought back, Zhao Heng was 31 years old that year; It is no longer the age when the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, but the flame of revenge in his head is burning.

The Great Song Kingdom was orthodox in the Central Plains, inheriting the great foundation of the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties; A foreign Yi Di of the Liao State has repeatedly attacked the orthodox dynasty, which is tolerable or unbearable!

beat Xiao Xuan and Yelu Longxu back to their hometown and recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun; Accomplish what your parents didn't do.

And a bit of a coincidence is that the Song army was defeated in the Gaoliang River that year, that is, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty saw the death of Yeluxian of Liaojingzong; The enthroned prince Yelu Longxu and the orphans and widows of the Empress Dowager Xiao were easy to bully, and sent a three-way army to try to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun; But the shrewd woman Empress Dowager Xiao relied on Hanchen Han Derang to beat Song Taizong almost only one pair of pants and fled back to Bianjing, and since then the strong Song Taizong has never mentioned the matter of cutting Liao.

Time passed, and Empress Dowager Xiao and Yelu Longxu wanted to repeat the mistakes of the past, and led the army to invade the south soon after Zhao Heng ascended the throne; Zhao Heng wanted to avenge his father.

At that time, Zhao Heng's hand was waving into the air: "Kill the Tartar!" Those who offend my Great Song Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away! Therefore, in November of that year, the pro-conscription edict was officially issued.

On December 5 of the second year of Xianping (999 AD), Zhao Heng led a large army from Bianjing to the north to resist Liao.

In front of the palace, Wang Chao and Zhang Jin, the Marquis of Yu, the capital of power, were the "vanguard array", and the head of the horse infantry army Hu Yanzan and the head of the horse infantry army Wang Qian were the "vanguard"; Binzhou defense envoy Wang Rong, Ma Bujun deputy capital army leader Wang Jizhong as the vanguard, privy envoy Wang Xian, deputy envoy Song Di to divide the rear, the army across dozens of miles to Hebei territory.

In this campaign, Song Zhenzong arranged the formation according to the map; Set up a pro-conquest camp formation. However, in the third year of Xianping, after the Song and Liao armies began to enter a head-to-head confrontation, some generals of the Song army did not abide by some rules of the formation map and went out of the division.

What is particularly odious is Fu Qian, who is deployed as a battalion on the three roads of Zhen, Ding, and Gaoyangguan; The commander of the army of 80,000 but retreated to Dingzhou and did not fight, which completely violated the principle of mutual offensive and defensive formations.

The Liao army attacked Yingzhou (Hejian, Hebei), and Fan Ting summoned Fu Qian; Since Dingzhou led the army to the east to aid the enemy, he left on his own, leaving the Kangbao descendants who came to help in a desperate situation; The violation of the rules of joint rejection of the enemy led to the complete defeat of the Song army in the Battle of Pei Village.

In view of this failure, Shinshu considered it several times; Some changes have been made to the formations; Set up the "front array" before the "big array" to echo with the "big array"; In anticipation of the enemy's movements, the "front line" took the initiative to launch the "Qice" tactics according to the enemy's situation.

In the rear of the "big array", in order to prevent the Liao cavalry from stealing the rear formation; cut off the grain and grass, and set up the "palace cavalry" to protect, called the "rejecting the rear formation"; In this way, there are tighter opposing guards in front and back of the "big array".

In October of the following year, the two countries re-clashed, and by virtue of the heavy rain from the sky and the opportunity of the Liao soldiers to give full play to their strength in cavalry and archery, the troops of the "front formation" and "vanguard formation" of the Song army were defeated by the Liao army.

Due to the Tang River outside Dingzhou, it flows from northwest to southeast in an important strategic position; Therefore, the "Great Array" was deployed along both sides of the Tang River, and the two rivers of Xushui and Baoshui from the north of the Great Array to the vicinity of Baozhou also flowed from the northwest to the southeast; Therefore, Zhenzong set up a formation to lure the enemy according to the convenience of the terrain and water potential, and arranged the "front formation" here: with 6,000 cavalry Tun Weilu, 5,000 Tun Baozhou, and 8,000 Tun Beiping Zhai as the "front formation" in order to defend the "big array", and with 10,000 Tun Mozhou, 8,000 Tunning border army, and 5,000 Tun Xingzhou, forming the depth of defense on the eastern front; The rest of the army was stationed in Tenxiong as a reserve army to support the front.

Although Zhenzong did not have enough military talent to enable the Song army to defeat the Liao army, his change in the "formation map" and his trust in the generals changed the direction of the war to a certain extent.

Compared with Taizong, Zhenzong has a certain degree of trust in the generals who lead troops outside; Able to grant the commander full command of the war.

In the Battle of Pei Village, Fu Qianzhen, who was deployed as the capital, defended Dingzhou, but insisted on the tactics of "fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness"; All the generals who dared to invite the war were scolded by him, and the court repeatedly urged him to go out to meet the enemy with the soldiers, but he ignored it.

Even Zhenzong's adventure did not change his strategy of not going to battle; And sit back and watch the friendly forces fight hard and fall to the enemy.

After Song Zhenzong's first personal expedition, the two armies of Song and Liao on the Hebei front stopped fighting; Both armies have their own victories and defeats.

The continuous mushroom war situation made Song Zhenzong, who was originally cowardly in temperament, fearful of the Liao army; Yang Yanzhao returned to the capital for thousands of miles to report an emergency, and the bottomless drum in Zhao Heng's heart rang out.

When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not afford to look back at the moonlight.

The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. How sad can you be? It is like a river flowing eastward.

This is a poem by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was detained in Bianliang by Lao Zhao Laosan; At first, he was still treated, but later Lao Zhao Laosan launched an offensive against Li Yu's wife; brutally took possession of other people's bodies, and Xiao Zhou always cried when he returned to Li Yu later.

Xiao Zhouhou is Li Yu's beloved, she is Da Zhouhou's sister; In order to get Li Yu, her sister Da Zhou was also angry to death, but Lao Zhao Laosan actually took Li Yu's love.

Li Yu is also a man, but he lost his country and became the prisoner of Lao Zhao's third step; can only accompany Xiao Zhou to cry silently.

Such a scene is no different from Zhao Ji, the descendant of Lao Zhao's third son, Huizong Zhao Ji, Jin Bing escorted Song Huizong to bully Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan's wife and concubine when he returned to the north; Huizong, Qinzong and Li Yu have the same virtues, and they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak.

History is so similar that the evil deeds of our ancestors are repaid in the hands of our descendants.

Lao Zhao and Lao San were rogue emperors, not only violating Xiao Zhouhou; He also came to Mrs. Hua Rui, the concubine of Meng Chang, the lord of Houshu, but was scolded by his brother Zhao Kuangyin.

may be because of Zhao Kuangyin's scolding, and Lao Zhao Laosan made "candlelight axe shadow"; The scene of the bloody seizure of power has been flashing in Zhao Heng's mind.

However, the emergence of the "Golden Alliance" made Lao Zhao and Lao Sanming rightfully ascend to the emperor's throne; That's because there is a dog-like prime minister, Zhao Pu, to help.

Prime Minister Zhao Pu is actually not a member of the Zhao family, Zhao Heng's hometown is in Zhuozhou, Hebei; It is still the territory of the Liao people.

Zhao Pu's hometown is in Jizhou, which is divided according to the administrative regions of later generations: Zhuozhou belongs to Hebei Province, and Jizhou belongs to Tianjin City, which is not far from each other but there is still a distance.

Yan Zhao has had many assassins since ancient times, such as Jing Ke, a strong man who assassinated Qin Shi Huang, "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone and will never return" is still prevalent; Zhao Pu was originally going to be an assassin for Lao Zhao Laosan, but he came to a literary judgment instead of a martial stab, and got a box that said that the Empress Dowager left it when she was dying; What is it called, "Brother to Brother and Brother to the Golden Alliance".

Zhao Heng was nine years old when Lao Zhao Laosan assassinated his brother Zhao Kuangyin, and he seemed to know the reason; But he is cowardly; can only say in my heart that the box is fake, but the "Golden Kui Alliance" can't help but let Lao Zhao Laosan sit on the throne; Zhao Heng was also stained, and he had to be grateful to the "Golden Alliance".

However, Lao Zhao Laosan killed Li Yu, and the reason why Lao Zhao Laosan killed Li Yu is self-evident; It was after Xiao Zhou was raped that Li Yu chanted a broken poem: When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not afford to look back at the moonlight.

The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. How sad can you be? It is like a river flowing eastward.

Li Yu, isn't this looking for trouble? Lao Zhao is the emperor, and if you get your wife, you will be counted as a bird; The hairy words you groaned about...... Zhao Heng thought like this before......