Chapter 257: The Emperor of Compassion (4)
Liu E saw that the emperor was a little carried away, and warned euphemistically: "The emperor must remember the sentence of being prepared for danger in times of peace!" Liuliu is worried that the court will solve the dispute between the two families of King Kou, which will cause the north and south factions to attack and fight the party! The bitter fruit planted by the ancestors is a bit unreasonable for the emperor to come up and eat it! ”
Chun Yu Wanyun didn't agree with Liu E's point of view, so she straightened up and said bluntly: "My sister is alarmist!" Paper can't contain the fire, and it's true that Taizu Taizong also planted bitter fruits when he laid down the country; But the abscess has to be picked up as soon as possible, and the scar will only heal when the concentrated water is squeezed out; The true sect is the king of sages and sages to solve the party disputes left by the ancestors, and it is time for the puss to be rotten......"
Before he could say anything, he saw Zhang Di hurriedly walk in and report: "Holy Lord, Gaoyang Pass has deployed Yang Yanlang to ask for a meeting at night!" ”
The capital deployment of the Song Dynasty was the supreme commander of the front, and later generations were called marshals; Marshal Yang Yanlang personally rushed back from the front line, and there must be an urgent military situation.
Song Zhenzong trembled when he heard this, so he stood up and pointed his finger at Zhang Di and said, "Please...... General Yang...... Meet ...... living room"
Zhang Di trotted out, and Emperor Zhenzong, Liu E, and Chun Yu Wanyun walked out of the Whispering Pavilion and rushed to the living room.
Yang Yanlang was the son of Yang Ye, an invincible general of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Yanlang was followed by Yang Wenguang; The three generations of the Yang family have been working hard to protect the country for the Great Song Dynasty.
The first generation of Yang Ye of the Yang family was the most famous, and Song Taizong saw that Yang Ye had rich experience in defending the Liao State; He was sent to Daizhou to garrison the soldiers and horses of Sanjiao, and deployed them as Pan Mei moderation.
The Liao army attacked from Yanmen, and Yang Ye led hundreds of cavalry from the small road to the back of the Liao army and attacked the Liao army with Pan Mei's troops; Kill Xiao Du Li, the envoy of the Liao State Jiedu, and capture the horse infantry army to command Li Chongzhu; captured a lot of armor and war horses, and Yang Ye was promoted to Yunzhou as an observer because of his merits; The Liao army saw Yang Yejing's banner and left without a fight.
The main general guarding the border was jealous of Yang Ye's prestige and repeatedly wrote to Song Taizong to slander him; Song Taizong sealed the performance and handed it over to Yang Ye to show his trust in him.
In fact, the person who slandered Yang Ye in the book was Pan Mei, and Pan Mei had long been jealous of Yang Ye; This kind of psychology eventually caused Yang Ye's final death.
In the third year of Yongxi, Song Taizong sent a three-way army to conquer Liao; Pan Mei is the chief general of the Western Route Army, and Yang Ye is the deputy general.
At first, all roads went smoothly, and Yang Ye seized the four states of Huan, Shuo, Yun and Ying of Liao all the way; However, Cao Bin, the main force in the middle of the road, lost, and Song Taizong ordered all walks of life to divide the division; Later, he ordered Pan Mei and others to lead a large army to move the people who had recovered the four states to the interior.
At that time, more than 100,000 troops of the Liao State had already counterattacked and broken through Huanzhou; The Liao army had a great advantage in strength, and the task of Yang Ye and others was only to move the people and did not need to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.
Yang Ye suggested to Pan Mei: adopt the method of showing the form in the east and serving in the west to avoid the attack of the Liao soldiers; Protect the safe retreat of the military and civilians.
Yang Ye's suggestion was strongly opposed by the prison army Wang Xian and Liu Wenyu, who insisted that Yang Ye confront the Liao State; and ridiculed Yang Ye with cowardice.
As the main general, Pan Mei is also an experienced general, and should know what strategy to adopt when the enemy is outnumbered; And the task of this trip is not to confront the enemy, but only to move the population.
But Pan Mei did not support Yang Ye's opinion due to jealousy, and in the end, Yang Ye could only take a risk if he tried to succeed; He made an agreement with Pan Mei and asked Pan Mei to deploy infantry and crossbows in the main road of Chenjiagu to respond.
Yang Ye knew that it would be difficult to win this trip, and Pan Mei set up an ambush in Chenjiagu to meet him and still had the hope of a successful retreat.
After Yang Ye led the crowd to attack, Wang Xian and others did not get news from the front for a long time; thought that the Liao army was defeated and retreated, and led the troops to attack in order to compete for power; Soon after advancing, he got the news of Yang Ye's defeat and retreated, and hurriedly retreated.
As the chief general, Pan Mei did not abide by the agreement with Yang Ye, let alone stop the unauthorized actions of his subordinates; Hearing the news of Yang Ye's failure, he walked away, obviously ignoring Yang Ye's life or death.
Yang karma fought all day and moved to Chenjiagu; I didn't see the people who answered and were very sad and angry, and then led my subordinates to fight; suffered dozens of wounds, left and right; still stabbing hundreds of enemy troops,
Yang Ye was exhausted, and his horse was seriously injured, and he was finally captured alive by the Liao army.
Yang Ye's eldest son Yang Yanyu, as well as his generals Wang Gui and He Huaipu, all fought to death; Yang Ye was captured and died of hunger strike for three days.
After Yang Ye's sacrifice, the people of Song and Liao were very sad, and Yang Ye's memorial day also became a day of common memorial for the people of Song and Liao.
The representative of the second generation of the Yang family is naturally Yang Yanzhao, Yang Yanzhao was silent when he was a child, but he always likes to play the game of marching and fighting; Yang Ye looked at it and said, "This is like me." "In the future, I will definitely take Yang Yanzhao with me.
Yang Yanzhao grew up in a war environment and became a professional soldier as an adult; Yongxi's three-year Northern Expedition, Yang Yanzhao went out with his father and brother; When attacking Shuozhou, Yang Yanzhao was shot through the arm by a stray arrow as a forward attacker, but he insisted on fighting bravely on the battlefield.
After Yang Ye's death, Yang Yanzhao was promoted from the worship officer to the deputy envoy of Chongyi, and later served as the inspection envoy of the border capital of Baozhou, serving on the frontier front line in Hebei.
In the second year of Xianping of Song Zhenzong, the Liao State invaded south; Yang Yanzhao is in Suicheng. Suicheng was small and unprepared for defense, and was fiercely besieged by the Liao army; The people in the city were panicked, and Yang Yanzhao summoned the strong men in the city to give weapons to cooperate with the Song army; Hold on to it with all your might.
At that time, it was the middle of winter, and Yang Yanzhao ordered people to carry water and pour it on the city wall; Frozen to solid ice overnight, the walls were smooth and difficult to climb; The fierce offensive of the Liao army could not be continued, so it had to retreat; The Song army seized a lot of military equipment abandoned by the Liao army.
Yang Yanzhao made a surprising plan to preserve Suicheng, showing his military talent; Therefore, the merit was awarded to the history of the Mozhou Thorn.
The Liao State invaded southward, and Fu Qian, who was deployed to calm Gaoyang Pass, led a heavy army stationed in Zhongshan and did not passively avoid the battle; And Yang Yanzhao, Yang Si, Shi Pu and other generals repeatedly asked Fu Qian to send additional men and horses to take the initiative to attack, but Fu Qian did not obey and cowered in Zhongshan without moving; Even if his generals attacked and won, Fu Qian covered up their exploits, and Song Zhenzong sent Fu Qian into exile after receiving the report.
After the defense of the city, Song Zhenzong summoned Yang Yanzhao in the capital and asked him about the border defense strategy; Very satisfied with Yang Yanzhao's performance; praised Zhao for his father's demeanor in battle, and gave him a very generous reward.
In the fourth year of Xianping, the Liao State went south to attack the Song Dynasty; Yang Yanzhao ambushed elite soldiers in Yangshan and led his troops to confront the Liao army; Lure the Liao army in an ambush circle and flank the ambush soldiers together.
The Liao army was defeated, and Yang Yanzhao beheaded the general of the Liao State; Because of his merit, he was crowned as the training envoy of the Mozhou regiment, and he was called Eryang together with the border defense Xiao.
The outstanding achievements of Yang Yanzhao and others also aroused the jealousy of some people in the imperial court, this person was Wang Qinruo; What a coincidence!
Back then, Pan Mei was jealous of Yang Ye and defeated Chen Jiayu by the old general, and now Wang Qinruo is jealous of Yang Yanzhao; But this time it was Song Zhenzong, and Song Zhenzong believed in Yang Yanzhao; He said to Li Xin, the prime minister at the time: "The heir and Yanzhao, and out of the outside, with loyalty and courage to serve themselves, the court and the jealous of the people, I force to protect this!" ”
In the fifth year of Xianping, the Liao State attacked Baozhou, Yang Yanzhao and Yang Si led the troops to support, but before they could line up, they were raided by the Liao army, and the troops suffered great losses.
Song Zhenzong was known for their loyalty and bravery, and forgave their sins; Yang Yanzhao still serves as the training envoy of the Mozhou regiment.
In the first year of Jingde, Song Zhenzong increased Yang Yanzhao's soldiers and horses to tens of thousands; Once the Liao State invaded, it was stationed in the east of the Jingrong Army (into Xushui County, Hebei), and allowed Yang Yanzhao to act cheaply, and did not listen to the command of Wang Chao.
Song Zhenzong's trust in Yang Yanzhao is a glimpse of the whole leopard.
Yang Yanlang found Yishu Yuan at night, unless there was an urgent military situation.
What a coincidence! Yang Yanzhao knew that Yang Yanzhao returned to Beijing that year; The two of them chatted happily here; It's like a pair of brothers.
Song Zhenzong's civilian behavior made Yang Yanlang grateful, and the bravery and resourcefulness of the children of Yang Yanlang's family also made Song Zhenzong really feel what it means to be a general......
Zhenzong, Liu E, and Chun Yu Wanyun came to the living room to sit down, and Zhang Di led a bloodied person to staggered in; It was Gaoyang Guandu who deployed Yang Yanlang.
Emperor Zhenzong saw that Yang Yanlang was covered in blood, and shouted in shock: "General Yang...... Brother Yang ......: "Yang Yanzhao was born in 958 AD, 10 years older than Song Zhenzong.
Yang Yanlang stumbled and walked to Zhenzong and bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister was besieged by the Liao army at the border pass; sent people back several reports for help, but did not see a single soldier for reinforcements, so he had no choice but to bring more than a dozen personal soldiers back to the capital to ask for help; But all the soldiers were martyred, and the minister single-handedly broke out of the siege to see the emperor! ”
Yang Yanzhao choked up as he spoke, and said, "The emperor quickly increases troops to the front line to rescue the trapped Song army, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty will ......be in danger."