Shang Yilin shook his head and said! "Then you should say that you must know more about the details of the pregnancy, so that we can decide how we deal with them in the future." ”

Du Wenhao said: "Okay." After that. Our army faced off against the Liao army. There are few victories. In the Battle of Qigou Pass, after the Liao army tasted the sweetness, it invaded the south again in the winter of that year, and met the Song army in the Junziguan, our army was surrounded by the enemy, tens of thousands of people were annihilated, and only the commander escaped. The Liao army took advantage of the victory and drove straight in, after plundering several states. Only then did the victorious class go back. Subsequently, the cavalry of the Liao army took advantage of the degree and quickly gathered troops, saying that before I could react, they invaded the south to attack the prefectures and counties, and after conquering them, they immediately retreated after looting, and did not give us the opportunity to gather troops to encircle and suppress. In the second year, the Liao army invaded south again, and after capturing several of our states, it was repulsed. Until Emperor Taizong died and Emperor Zhenzong ascended the throne, the two sides did not organize a large-scale battle. This stage is mainly in the Liao army's southern invasion and disturbance war and our army's defensive war duel, although there are also mutual victories and defeats, but on the whole, our army is still at a disadvantage, and the ratio of defeat to victory is also 37 open. ”

Gao Didi sighed: "Yes, the enemy's cavalry has an advantage, and it can quickly concentrate its forces in a certain place. Hit and run, we are passive defense, we must have suffered. And then? ”

"Later, it was the last battle of Song Liao, the Battle of Yiyuan. Our army has learned a lot from several years of defensive warfare, and the border defense capability has been greatly strengthened. Not a single city was breached, but neither side suffered much damage. ”

Hearing this, Gao Jiutao finally smiled reluctantly: "After suffering so many losses, you should learn to be obedient." ”

"Yes, we don't suffer in the battle ahead. However, when the news of the Liao army's 200,000-strong invasion of the south reached the central government, the ministers of the central court were in a panic, most of them advocated moving the imperial capital south, and some even said that they fled to Chengdu.

The main battle faction with Kou Zhun as the main battle faction argued with reason, originally, Emperor Zhenzong also wanted to escape, under the bitter pleading and forced by Kou Zhun and others, Emperor Zhenzong decided to drive the expedition in person, came to the Yuanyuan, and trembled and climbed the tower"

Gao Taozhi looked at him strangely: "Where did you get this from?" ”

The alliance is very famous in ancient Chinese history, and the middle school history teacher explained it very carefully. Du Wenhao's words are actually some exaggerated descriptions by the teacher, including mockery of the ancient emperors. Du Wenhao and Gao Yizhi are lovers again, and they speak a little casually, so they say it casually, and now when they listen to Gao Tao's words, they know that it is a big disrespect to ridicule the emperor like this.

Du Wenhao hurriedly laughed, hugged her waist and incense: "I'm sorry, I can't count these details." It's me talking nonsense, don't you mind. In fact. Emperor Zhenzong is very brave! There are few emperors who dare to drive the expedition in person, and there are few since Ran. Our Emperor Zhenzong personally came to the front line to command, so that the Liao army would stop fighting, and he would not dare to invade the south for half a step, which can be called a real hero! Hey hey"

Du Wenhao's apology and a series of sycophants, Gao Yiyi finally laughed: "Your previous words." It was also said in front of me, if you let others listen, but it is very inappropriate, you have to be careful in the future. ”

"Got it!" Du Wenhao hugged her and kissed her, "I also came so casually in front of you, if I was someone else, even if it was my own family wife, I wouldn't say it." ”

Gao Huojiu listened to him put himself above his family. Talking to himself is obviously, and the intimacy between the two is more important than all family members. I was even happier in my heart. Wan Er smiled: "Okay, pay attention in the future, you can continue." ”

"Good. Our Emperor Zhenzong personally drove the expedition. The morale was greatly boosted, and seeing that there was a yellow-robed general in the Liao army who was arrogant and pointing fingers in front of the battle, and seemed to be a big official, he reported to the Emperor Zhenzong. Emperor Zhenzong ordered a volley with a bed with a long range, and the arrows were like locusts, and the Liao army general was immediately shot to death. Later, I learned that this person was the vanguard of the Liao army! ”

Gao Taojiu stroked his palms and smiled: "Good shot!" ”

Du Wenhao also smiled: "Exactly! The Liao army went deep alone, and continued to attack the city, and now the vanguard was shot to death. I was scared in my heart. Propose peace. Emperor Zhenzong drove on the road. I saw that the people on our border have suffered from the disaster of war for more than 20 years. With pity in his heart, when he heard that the Liao army wanted peace, he was far-sighted, and took pity on the suffering of the border people of the two countries for more than 20 years, and finally decided to spend some money to buy peace. Quell the fighting. Through consultation, the two sides became a country of brothers, and Liao Shengzong respected Song Zhenzong as a brother. Song Zhenzong called the Empress Dowager Chengtian Xiao an uncle; My Great Song Dynasty gives 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk as New Year's coins every year; The two sides exchanged envoys. History is known as the Alliance of the Abyss. ”

"So, did we lose or win this battle?"

"This battle should be described as a win-win. In the early stage of the battle, neither side suffered significant losses. In the end, the battle of Lanyuan did not start. The amount of coins promised by the Yuanyuan Alliance is not large, this amount of money is a drop in the bucket for our Great Song Dynasty, but it is a big pie for Da Liao. They were naturally overjoyed, and they didn't have to risk going south to plunder, and they could live a more prosperous and healthy life with this money, so they no longer sent troops to invade the south, and the two sides lived in peace without any more fighting. The common people also lived a prosperous and healthy life. Emperor Zhenzong was far-sighted, and exchanged such a small amount of money for decades of peace on the Song-Liao border, and the military salary expenditure saved alone was far greater than this figure. The most important thing is to save us from thousands of bloody battles on the battlefield, and the lives of the people on the border will be ruined. Thanksgiving. The Emperor Zhenzong has a broad mind that pities the common people, and it is not Wu Cao's heart and can be compared to it."

Du Wenhao's series of horse sets made Gao Taodi smile when he heard it, but he couldn't understand the last sentence, and said strangely: "Bird raw fish soup? ”

This sentence is Wei Xiaobao's mantra, and Du Wenhao said it casually, with some ridicule. Hearing her ask, he hurriedly changed his words: "I'm sorry, it's Yao Shunyu soup, I said it too quickly, I didn't make it clear, hehe." ”

Gao Yidi said with a smile: "You! Mess around! ”

"Hehe, the main thing is that what I said earlier is too heavy. Spice up your mood. ”

The smile on Gao Taojiu's face disappeared, and he sighed: "Yes, I heard you say that in so many battles with Da Liao, we won at most thirty percent, and seventy percent lost." In the end, we have to spend money to buy peace, why don't we let them spend money to buy peace from us? In the end, I still can't beat people, alas! It's really heavy

Du Wenhao said bitterly: "What is this." After you listen to the several battles with the Western Xia, these are nothing. ”

"Huh? Fighting with Xixia, will we lose even more? ”

"Not really. Fighting with Da Liao, we have just built a country. The soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, although they suffer losses, but they are not too big. And when fighting with Western Xia. We've been through too long of peace. Although we had a huge army far superior to the Western Xia, the result of the war was a complete defeat! ”

"Won't it?" Gao Jiu smiled forcefully, "I've heard that the fight is okay before."

"Listening to the propaganda of those literati, then our record is definitely good. To know. Western Xia turned out to be our territory. We can't make it surrender with the strength of a country, but we have suffered a great loss. How can such a thing be said? After all, the face of our Celestial Empire is to be kept. ”

"And how do you know?

Du Wenhao said: "Don't forget, more than a month ago. You promoted me to be the commander of the Sanyadu, and the Sanya is in charge of the army, and there is a lot of information about previous wars.

It's abundant. I waste no time these days. I spent almost all of my spare time in our Sanya's military intelligence cabinet. I can naturally see the truth from the original sources, but you can only hear white lies from the mouths of propagandists. ”

Gao Taojiu stood up and walked to the edge of the pavilion with his hands behind his back, the rain outside the pavilion had stopped for some time, and the haze had gradually dissipated, and even a few small stars were blinking between the clouds.

She turned around and said to Du Wenhao: "Wenhao, you have to know more about the truth in the future to tell me, I want to know the truth, not a lie, whether it is good or not, I just want the truth!" To govern the country well, it is necessary to grasp the real situation of the country! ”

"Okay!" Du Wenhao hurriedly got up and went over and hugged her gently, "Don't worry, I will definitely help you govern the country well, rectify the army, and build a brave army that will win all battles!" ”

"Hmm!" Gao Jiu Yiqiao's face finally bloomed with a smile: "With you, I feel very solid in my heart." ”

"Hehe, but the first emperor once said that my ideas are often unbelievable and find another way. You won't necessarily adopt. ”

"I know! The first emperor said. But as long as you make sense, what's the point of being creative? ”

"That's good. Then I'm relieved. I'm going to talk about the war between the Song and Xia sides

"The food is cold, I ask them to remove the meal and reheat it." Let's talk while eating

Du Wenhao said: "Okay, just let them serve on the side, anyway, the two of us are only talking about war now, and nothing else."

Gao Taojiu's originally pale face flushed, glanced at him, and said angrily, "Something else? What else do you want to do?

"What do you say?" Du Wenhao hugged her tightly. Kiss her red lips. Reaching out to hold her towering breasts and rubbing them, she slid her mouth open, ** her soft earlobes, "Now you know what I want to do, right?" ”

Gao Tao Jiujiao gasped and slapped him lightly: "Don't make trouble, sit down and talk about the war, we lost so badly, you still have the heart to tinker with this."

"Hehe, these defeats are all in the past, next time we will win them happily, they can't turn over if they fight, won't they even get it back with profits?"

"Then it's up to you. My Great General". Gao Jiuyi kissed him, pulled him to sit down, called Jiao Gonggong in, and asked them to remove the food and replace it with a new one. The two had some food and a few glasses of wine. Du Wenhao then continued.

Du Wenhao said: "At the same time as my Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao, the Western Xia Party Department raised troops against the Song Dynasty many times, because at that time, my Great Song Dynasty was fully engaged in dealing with the Great Liao, and had no time to take care of the Party Item. During this period, the Western Xia army was invincible, and the Great Song Dynasty did not use many troops, and the two sides were roughly tied. Forty years ago, Yuanhao of Western Xia rebelled against the Great Song Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor. After the establishment of the Western Xia Kingdom, it has fought five major battles with us

"Needless to say, we lost badly again!" Gao Yijiu smiled bitterly.

Du Wenhao smiled and said, "The first battle is called the Battle of Sanchuankou. The Western Xia army attacked first and surrounded Yanzhou. The Great Song border general misjudged the situation, thinking that it was just a small-scale attack of the Western Xia army, so he mobilized 10,000 soldiers to rush to reinforcements, who would have thought that this time Yuan Hao was prepared, the number of troops reached 100,000, and the strategy of encirclement and reinforcement was adopted, and the reinforcements of 10,000 Song troops were surrounded at the mouth of the Sanjiang River. The Song army fought a bloody battle to break through the old Xiaocheng, except for a few breakthroughs, the Song army was almost completely wiped out, and the Western Xia army was unable to conquer Yanzhou, so it collected its troops and went back

Gao Yijiu sighed: "The enemy situation is unknown, so it's strange to go rashly and be undefeated." ”

The palace maid and eunuch Du Wenhao was serving under the pavilion, and he didn't dare to call him by his name anymore, so he patted his thigh and praised: "The Empress Dowager is so right!" In fact. Before breaking into the other party's encirclement, our army had already seen a lot of Western Xia troops, and it was not a small group to attack and disturb. But it did not cause alarm.

And the commander in charge of the operation is a literati, and he doesn't know anything about military affairs at all, so he leads the troops to fight. Laymen lead insiders, it's no wonder if you don't lose! ”

Gao Taojiu glanced at him: "The civilian officer leads the troops." This is the legacy of Taizu. ”

Du Wenhao was about to say that such a relict could only lose the battle. I saw the palace maid and eunuch standing next to me. Then he changed his words again: "Yes! Weichen went on to say that the next battle was called the Battle of Shuichuan. My Da Song lost even more. The battle was born in the second year of the Battle of Sanchuankou, when the 100,000-strong army of Western Xia invaded south again. However, he ambushed the main force in Haoshui, "using a small number of troops to lure the enemy into a feint." Our army met with more than 10,000 troops, the enemy feintmed, our army was in the middle of the plan, long-distance pursuit, fell into the enemy's pocket formation, more than 10,000 soldiers, only more than 1,000 people broke through the bloody battle, and the rest of the army was annihilated. ”

"Hey! Again, the whole army was wiped out". Gao Jiuyi sighed, "Can't we let the Western Xia army be wiped out?" ”

"The Empress Dowager, when the two armies fight, it's like two people fighting, those with great strength and good martial arts will definitely be able to fight with Li Maobu, and those with poor martial arts."

Gonggong Cao on the side felt that Du Wenhao's words were too unpleasant, for fear that the Empress Dowager would be unhappy, so he interjected with a dry smile: "The general's words are wrong. I am a great Song Dynasty, a big country, millions of heroes, is it difficult to become a weak martial arts person? The barbarian state of Western Xia, with a rabble army of one or two hundred thousand, is it strong and martial arts? ”

Without waiting for Du Wenhao to speak, Gao Yiyi said first: "Xiao Jiaozi, you don't understand this!" What's the use of having more of my Great Song Army? It's like a big yellow cow and a hungry wolf, and the big yellow cow is bigger than the wolf. He also has a lot of strength, so how can he be the opponent of a wolf? I am a great country, and there is no army that is brave and good at fighting. It's like a big scalper with no fangs and no horns, only a portion that is eaten! ”

Father-in-law Jiao smiled and said, "That's right, the Empress Dowager is right." The Great General is an expert in this area. The commentary is very in place, very accurate, thought-provoking, and sobering. Hey hey"

"Alas, that's right, General Du's words really made the mourning family wake up suddenly! General Du. You go on to say. ”

When Du Wenhao heard Gao Huoyi's words, he was secretly happy in his heart, and his words were not in vain, and he said, "Okay." The latter battle is called the Battle of Dingchuansai. The Western Xia army attacked in two directions. Our army also divided its troops to meet the attack, and Dingchuan Village was defeated after engaging all the way. trampled each other back into the city, and the main general was almost trampled to death by the rebel army. After the enemy army cut off the water supply, there was no hope of defending the city, and the main general could only order a breakthrough. As a result, they were ambushed, and nearly 10,000 soldiers were wiped out. ”

"Alas! Annihilation again! Forget it, let's have a drink! ”

Du Wenhao hurriedly said: "Empress Dowager, we also won a small victory, the other army of Western Xia was stubbornly resisted by our army, and it was also lost, and the Western Xia stopped the army." ”

Gao Taojiu smiled: "Yo, we also have a time to win?" ”

"Yes, hehe, so after the third war, Xixia reached an agreement with us. To us to call the minister, said to be a minister, in fact, the Western Xia has been completely independent, and they have to give it 130,000 horses of silk, 50,000 taels of silver, and 30,000 catties of tea every year. ”

"Lose power and humiliate the country! Shame". Gao Yizhi stood up with a sigh, his face was a little pale from anger, his silver teeth were clenched, and his pink fists were clenched.

Du Wenhao sighed: "Alas, this is also a way to spend money to buy peace." It's good that we have a lot of money, and we don't care,"

"No matter how much money you have, you can't use it on it, it's not spending money to buy peace, it's spending money to buy shame."

Du Wenhao was even happier when he saw her so angry. There was a sad look on his face. nodded again and again: "Yes, we can't beat others, what can we do without spending money?" As the Empress Dowager said, a big scalper with no fangs and no horns can only be bullied by a hungry wolf."

Gao Taojiu was stunned for a moment, staring at Du Wenhao for a moment. Slowly sat down: "Do you have something to say?"

Du Wenhao glanced at Gonggong Cao and the others next to him, and sighed slowly: "The battle is like this." Even if there is something to say, it can only be speechless. ”

Gao Ditao nodded, picked up the wine glass, drank it all, slowly put it down, and said, "You go on first, just pick the important one and say it." ”

"Yes! After the two sides negotiated peace, the border remained calm for more than 30 years, after which the war resumed."

Gao Tao said: "The last two battles are the battle of "Ling" and the battle of Yongle City, right?

"Yes"

"Then needless to say, I have heard a lot from the first emperor in these two battles, and I know that we have lost both battles. However, the specific losses are not clear, you can just briefly talk about it

"Okay, in the first battle of Lingzhou, our army sent 300,000 troops. Preparing to destroy Xia in one fell swoop, the net began to triumph all the way. More than 10,000 enemies were annihilated, and the Western Xia army was defeated and retreated. Attack the enemy territory for hundreds of miles. The enemy forces began to close in. Attacked from all sides, our army was forced to retreat, and the loss of troops amounted to tens of thousands! ”