Zhao Heng boasted about his personal expedition in the second year of his ascension to the throne and the defeat of the Liao soldiers.

There is no doubt that Zhao Heng belongs to the emperor of the talented type; Chess, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, drum music, proficient in everything; But he has a cowardly personality and likes to bluff and be flashy.

Zhao Heng, formerly known as Zhao Yuankan, was the third son of Song Taizong, who died unexpectedly due to his brother Kaifeng Yin Xu Wang Zhao Yuanxi; He picked up a leak and became the crown prince of Kaifeng Mansion.

After Zhao Heng ascended the throne, Khitan soldiers and horses continued to attack Hebei County; This made Zhao Heng, who had a cowardly personality, fight his head into a fight.

the second year of Xianping (999 AD), that is, the second year of Zhao Heng's accession to the throne; Liao Emperor Chengtian Empress Xiao Sui and his son Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu led a large army to invade the south, and Yelu Longxu's younger brother Yelu Longqing led the Tielin army to invade Song Zhenzhou, Dingzhou, and Gaoyang Pass.

Song Tingzhen, Ding, and Gaoyang Pass all deployed Fu Qian, who had heavy troops but was afraid to fight, and retreated to Dingzhou City to wait for the Liao army to retreat.

The soldiers of the Song army asked for battle, but Fu Qian refused to resist on the grounds that the Khitan soldiers and horses were sharp.

The Dingzhou camp deployed Fan Tingzhao's force to meet the enemy, and Fu Qian had no choice but to allocate 10,000 steps to ride to Fan Tingzhao; Fan Tingzhao knew that it would be difficult for 10,000 horses to repel the Khitan iron cavalry, so he deployed Kangbao descendants to Gaoyang Pass to ask for help to jointly attack the Khitan soldiers and horses in Yingzhou.

Kangbao is a native of Luoyang, and his grandfather and father were killed on the battlefield; He inherited Shiyin as a leading general, and participated in the Battle of Shiling Pass in the Taizu Dynasty; Taizong Dynasty was promoted to Marquis of Ma Jun Du Yu because of his military merits, and led the Liangzhou Observation Envoy.

Kang Bao is a good soldier and very bloody; In peacetime, he loves soldiers like sons and is deeply supported by soldiers; He received Fan Tingzhao's request for help and immediately led 10,000 people to reinforcements.

The Khitan soldiers have broken through the wolf cottage and cut off the road to Zhending and Ding; Kang Bao decided to attack behind the Khitan army.

On the one hand, he led his troops straight to Yingzhou, and on the other hand, he sent someone to summon a letter to Fan Ting, asking him to send troops to attack the Khitan soldiers before and after.

After the Kangbao descendants arrived in Yingzhou, Fan Tingzhao's soldiers and horses did not arrive, but the Khitan soldiers came first; By this time, it was getting late, and Kang Bao ordered his troops to choose a place to camp and prepare for another battle the next day.

At dawn the next day, Kang Bao came out of the camp to watch the battle, and suddenly saw that the camp was surrounded by enemy soldiers; Overnight, the Khitan soldiers actually surrounded the three layers of the Song camp and the outer three layers, and the Song army fell into the heavy encirclement of the Khitan soldiers.

The enemy was outnumbered, and some people suggested that Kang Bao lead his own soldiers to fight out of the encirclement.

Kang Baoyi said sternly: "This marshal has experienced a hundred battles since he led the troops, which of you has seen me retreat?" The ancients said: There is no need to avoid difficulties, and since we are under siege today, it is the day to die for the country; How could you leave the soldiers and run away by yourself! ”

Seeing that the commander was impassioned, all the soldiers were greatly encouraged, and they raised their arms together and shouted that they were willing to follow the marshal to fight to the death with the Khitans; Let them know that Song Jun also has people who are not afraid of death.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while, and the time has come to serve the country." Kang Baoyi waved his knife and shouted, "Brothers, if you are not afraid of death, follow me to kill the enemy......"

Kang Baoyi rushed out of the camp and entered the enemy formation, and all the soldiers rushed to kill him with a roar when they saw that the commander was taking the lead.

The Song army rushed into the enemy formation with the determination to die and rushed left and right, although with a courage to kill the first layer of encirclement; But in the second layer of encirclement, he was trapped by Khitan soldiers.

From sunrise to sunset, people are already sleepy and tired, although they have killed thousands of enemies, the Song army has also lost more than a thousand; Seeing that he could not break out of the encirclement, he had to retreat to the camp.

The Khitan soldiers were tired after a day of fighting, and both sides paid their own troops.

After a night, the two armies fought again, and the Song army desperately rushed to break out of the encirclement; The Khitan soldiers tightened the encirclement and wanted to annihilate the Song army.

The two armies fought desperately to the death, and the sky was dark, and the sun and moon were dark; There were 100,000 Khitan soldiers, who died in the front wave, and the next wave was continued.

The Song army was less than 10,000 people, and the lone army fell into the enemy formation, without reinforcements, and one wave of dead was one wave less.

From sunrise to sunset, all the soldiers in the mountains were exhausted, hoping for help but nowhere to be seen; Kang Bao took the lead, rushed left and right, but the enemy was helpless, and I was shot several times and became a bloody man; Most of the hundreds of soldiers who followed him were also wounded and could not afford to fight again.

Kang Baoyi looked at the remnants of the soldiers around him and said to everyone with tears in his eyes: "Stop, stop, stop!" I'm going to die, so run for your lives!" Anyway, he took the last breath of true qi and swung his knife to kill the place with the most enemy soldiers, although there were dozens of enemy soldiers in his hand, but there were many enemy soldiers, and the poor general of the Song Court died in the chaos like this (Liao Shi said that Kang Bao was captured and surrendered).

After Kang Bao died in battle, his troops were completely wiped out.

Fan Tingzhao learned that Kang Bao had led his troops to Yingzhou, and asked himself to rush to Yingzhou to attack the Khitan soldiers; He led 10,000 Song troops to rush there.

As soon as the army arrived in the west of Yingzhou, it was blocked by the Khitan soldiers; The two armies engaged in a life-and-death struggle.

Fan Ting summoned the first soldiers, and the Song army all took one as ten, and everyone fought bravely to be the first; Although there were many Khitan soldiers, they had never encountered such a deadly style of fighting; There is already cowardice in the heart of the war.

Fan Tingzhao seized this fleeting opportunity to kill the enemy soldiers in one fell swoop and clean up the battlefield; Killed 20,000 enemies, but also wounded 2,000 yourself.

After repelling the Khitan soldiers, Fan Tingzhao immediately ordered his generals Zhang Ning and Li Chonggui to lead 2,000 elite soldiers as the front, and rushed to Yingzhou to support the Kangbao army.

Seeing that Yingzhou was approaching, the front army suddenly reported that Kang Bao was killed in battle, and the 10,000 Song troops led by him were all wiped out.

Fan Ting summoned the news and did not dare to enter again, so he had to choose a favorable terrain in the southwest of Yingzhou to set up camp and temporarily station......

Song Zhenzong was very alarmed when he received the report that the situation in Hebei was unfavorable, and the ministers led by Prime Minister Zhang Qixian advocated that he personally conquer.

Song Zhenzong was a little afraid of tigers at this time, and decided to go to the Hebei front line to command the armies to resist the enemy.

Therefore, he ordered the Xuanhui North Courtyard to make Zhou Ying deploy for the army before driving; Yongzhou observation envoy Liu Zhixin was deployed as the deputy capital, and Yang Yongzun was the chief supervisor of the formation; Captain Ma Du and Baoping Army Jiedu made Shi Baoji deploy for the vanguard of the northern camp, Kang Tinghan deployed for the defense of Cizhou as the deputy vanguard, and Shangguan Zheng was deployed for the regimental training of Zhaozhou.

The prime minister Li Xin stayed in Tokyo, and the confidant general Zhang Yongde was the inspection envoy inside and outside the capital, guarding the capital.

Song Zhenzong's brigade slowly arrived in Shanzhou, and received an envoy from Zhiji Prefecture Zhang Min to report the victory: more than 1,000 Liao soldiers were killed and 100 horses were captured......