On the history of the Huanghuang Song Dynasty, there is a country that has always been regarded as the greatest enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, and there have been wars and turmoil for a hundred years, and this country is the Liao State established by the Khitans. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since 916 A.D., Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji unified the Khitan tribes called Khan, the country name "Khitan", the capital of Linhuangfu, to 947 A.D., Liao Taizong led the army south to the Central Plains, defeated the five dynasties of the Later Jin, changed the country name to "Liao", and changed to "Great Liao" in 1066. Finally, in 1125 AD, the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty.

The 150-year-old Guozuo, a country established by a nomadic family, has also added a strong stroke to the history of China.

The Great Song Empire, in terms of administrative attitude, has always treated the Liao State as a great power on an equal footing, and did not feel that they were inferior to the Central Plains because this country was established by barbarians.

The reason why the Great Song Dynasty had this attitude was because of the high degree of sinicization of the Liao State, which liked to appoint Han officials, learn the etiquette and culture of the Han Dynasty, and integrate with its own national culture to produce a unique civilization similar to the Han culture.

But in their bones, the Liao State is still a nomadic people, and the biggest feature of the nomadic clan is plunder.

The most distressing thing for the Great Song Dynasty was also the looting of the Liao State.

Forty years ago, since the sixteen states of Yanyun were ceded to the Liao State by the emperor Shi Jingjiao, the Central Plains lost the most relied on the Great Wall defense line, and the Liao State began to implement the rule of "rule according to customs" to the sixteen states of Yanyun, and implemented the system of officials in the north and south, dividing the Han and Khitan. It also changed Youzhou to Nanjing and Yunzhou to Xijing, and built the 16 prefectures of Yanyun into a base for further southward expansion.

However, the nature of the Liao people in their bones doomed them to be unable to truly adapt to agricultural civilization.

"Plundering the millet with the army; including people's private property; For the sixteen states of Yanyun that caused the people of the Central Plains to revolt, the rulers of the Liao State finally gave up the way of ruling like the Han people, and returned to their old business: robbery.

Every autumn and winter, the Liao State, which had no food, would send a large army to harass the border areas of the Great Song Dynasty, rob a large amount of grain, cloth, tea, salt and other materials, and then return with a full load, waiting for the next year's harvest

Liao State, Linhuang Mansion, Liao Imperial Palace.

A seductive-looking woman dressed in red knelt beside a dragon chair on a high platform and handed a grape to the mouth of a man dressed in a black and white dragon seal costume.

The man looked like he was in his twenties, but his complexion was not very good, and his somewhat pale face made this powerful emperor look a little weak.

"Your Majesty, this year, you not only named the Han Gao Xun as the envoy of the Southern Privy Council, but also crowned him as the King of Qin, and also named the son of the original Han official Han Zhigu, Han Kuangsi, as the Shangjing Guard, the ministers of the court and the central government have a lot of criticism, they all think that this dynasty is outstanding people, and I have countless Khitan capable people, why use those Han people to rule the world." The bewitching woman said as if she was casually mentioning something.

"Ahem." The young emperor coughed, raised his head and looked outside the main hall, and said with bright eyes: "Within three generations, my Liao State cannot completely control the land of Yanyun, and the people here have a lot of resistance to the national policy of my Great Liao. ”

After hearing the young emperor's remarks, the bewitching woman was obviously attracted by the meticulous thinking of the man in front of her, and she looked at the emperor with admiration and said: "The concubine thought she was smart, but under Your Majesty's long-term vision, she actually looked quite blind. ”

The young emperor smiled slightly, "Concubine Xiao doesn't have to be too humble, you are indeed a thousand times smarter than those faint birds in the palace." ”

The bewitching woman sneered, but she had a smile on the exotic atmosphere of the city, and the young emperor who looked at it was stunned.

The bewitching woman also sensed the emperor's appreciation, and the smile on her face became even bigger, only to hear her say delicately: "Your Majesty, there is still something I want to ask about the concubine." ”

"Oh? Concubine Xiao doesn't have to be formal. "The young Emperor of Liao was obviously very fond of his Empress Xiao.

"Your Majesty, in previous years, at this time in my Liao country, the army has gone down to Cangzhou, and the grass is almost over, why has there been no movement on the border this year, some time ago, the concubine also heard that Yelu Xiuge was still training in Yingzhou at this time, is he afraid that those Han troops will not succeed?"

Speaking of this question, Emperor Nian's face suddenly became serious, he straightened up, and said solemnly: "Concubine Xiao doesn't know, this year the Han people did come out with a strange thing, this thing is extraordinary, even Brother Hugh's generals dare not despise this thing." ”

"Oh? Is it a new type of trebuchet? Empress Xiao asked, she remembered that in the ninth year of the Ying calendar, the Great Song Dynasty improved a batch of new trebuchets, which caused some trouble to the Liao ** team that went south to grass.

"No, no, no." The young Liao Emperor shook his head, "This thing is a bit incredible to say, but it really exists in the front line of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"What the hell is it?" Empress Xiao's curiosity has been completely aroused.

"It's an invulnerable piece of armor."

"Invulnerable armor?" Empress Xiao repeated this sentence, obviously there were a hundred people in her tone who didn't believe it.

The young Liao Emperor also sighed, "Originally, I didn't believe it, but the front-line spies spent more than 2,000 lives to get back a set of this kind of armor. ”

"The concubine wants to see what this kind of armor looks like."

Yingzhou, half-phase house.

In a large tent, several Liao officers were in a meeting, all of them were wearing white fur hats, mink coats, and strong figures, and they looked like battle-hardened people.

"Yelude, can the visiting officer find out, how many pieces of stainless steel armor are there in the Song army around Cangzhou now?" A bearded man sitting in the middle of the tent asked the people below.

A man under the account hurriedly replied: "Lord Yelu Huge, after more than a month of investigation, the visiting officer finally confirmed that at present, on the Cangzhou border of the Song Dynasty, the Song army is only equipped with at most a thousand pieces of stainless steel armor. ”

"A thousand" The bearded officer muttered silently, and then he slapped his thigh as if he had determined something, "A thousand pieces of stainless steel armor, I don't have to put it in my eyes, I ordered the whole army, plastic surgery and preparation for war, and tomorrow we will go south to fight grass!" ”

When the man under the account heard this, the joy on his face suddenly overflowed, seeing that winter was coming, but he had not grabbed anything from the Han people this year, and the army was already full of dissatisfied voices, but the general was always afraid of the invulnerable steel armor of the Song people, and he delayed the battle order, and everyone did not dare to disobey the general's order, so they had to endure waiting.

And now, I can finally go and loot those Han people

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