Chapter Seventy-One: Destroying the Northern Han Dynasty
Even Jiang Yin didn't expect that Zhao Guangyi, an old poison, would play such a game. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
There is almost no big difference from history, also in the early years of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, Zhao Guangyi sent a large army to besiege the Northern Han Dynasty, and the Northern Han Dynasty did not even have time to ask for help, so it was served by Zhao Guangyi.
After two consecutive defeats in the use of troops against the New Song Kingdom, Zhao Guangyi obviously restrained a lot, although he continued to organize a large army and select troops, but he no longer said such a thing as blatantly sending troops to suppress bandits.
Jiang Yin thought that he just wanted to wait for an opportunity to make a move, but he didn't expect that Zhao Guangyi was not a rigid person, he couldn't hit a blow, he was thousands of miles away, and the two failures did not make him angry and continue to fight with the New Song Kingdom, but instead used the newly formed army to besiege the Northern Han, and first used the Northern Han as a sword test.
There is no doubt that this sword trial was a success.
On June 12, the siege of the city was assembled. On June 22, he entered the city to surrender, in a real sense, the battle of attacking the Northern Han Dynasty was only these ten days, and a country was destroyed in ten days, and this country was still blessed by the Liao State, so even Jiang Yin was a little surprised by the efficiency of the Great Song Dynasty this time.
The Northern Han Dynasty died, which was actually a significant event in history, and the unification war of the Northern Song Dynasty ended with the elimination of the Northern Han Dynasty. Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the dictatorship of the warriors and the division of feudal towns have kept China in turmoil for a long time.
After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, China was still in a divided situation of eight secessionist regimes. In order to unify China, the Northern Song Dynasty adopted the strategy of first the south and then the north, and launched a war to unify the whole country with the eight separatist regimes in the north and south. After the elimination of the seven separatist regimes in the south, the final battle of the unified national war was launched with the Northern Han.
The victory of the Song Dynasty in the War to Annihilate the Northern Han Dynasty put an end to the split of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and basically realized the great cause of the Northern Song Dynasty to unify China, which was of great significance to the establishment of a highly centralized and centralized state power, the stabilization of the political rule of the landlord class, and the restoration and development of the social economy.
But all this joy still can't dissipate the stone that the New Song Dynasty pressed on Zhao Guangyi's body, it can be said that if the New Song Dynasty is not removed, Zhao Guangyi will not be able to sleep peacefully for a day......
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Great Song Dynasty, Bianjing City.
The road of Bianjing City is full of lights, all the way to the end of the imperial city, the people are happy, celebrating another victory of the Great Song Dynasty, in their simple world, the Great Song Dynasty is still a paradise like singing and dancing.
But who knows, the current situation in this world is already turbulent, and only the last straw is needed to crush everything.
The lanterns led all the way to the imperial city, and along the red palace lanterns all the way to the vast palace, on the Liangyi Palace, Zhao Guangyi wore an imperial casual dress and talked and laughed with several ministers, a little less solemn, a little more casual.
Sitting on the Liangyi Palace, there are Prime Minister Zhao Pu, Cui Liang, the general of the Left Prison Gate, Cui Yanjin and others deployed in the southern capital, since Pan Mei and other generals surrendered to the enemy, a new batch of young generals have been activated, like Cui Liang, Cui Yanjin These young generals have been promoted several levels one after another, filling the vacant positions of the previously demoted generals.
"Your Majesty, this time to eliminate the Northern Han Dynasty, to solve my Central Plains for more than 100 years, today, except for the small New Song Dynasty, Your Majesty has truly unified the Central Plains, nearly a hundred years of war and chaos, it is really a blessing for all the people, a blessing for the world." Zhao Pu, as an old cadre, patted his ass on the back, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, which made people feel like a spring breeze.
"Your Majesty's dragon travels the world, strategizing, the little Northern Han, it only takes ten days to wipe it all out, it is really a true dragon emperor, unparalleled in the world." As a military general, Cui Liang naturally speaks not as well as a civil servant like Zhao Pu, and there is always a strong taste of a general between his words.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, recovering the Central Plains is really a blessing for the world." Cui Yanjin is not good at words, but he only expressed it slightly, but he should have contributed the most to the siege of the Northern Han Dynasty.
Zhao Guangyi smiled slightly and accepted everyone's congratulations, he nodded and smiled: "You are all meritorious ministers in this expedition to the Northern Han Dynasty, your merits, I see it in my eyes, remember it in my heart, my Great Song Dynasty can have you and other capable ministers and good generals, it is really the blessing of my Great Song Dynasty." ”
"The minister doesn't dare to be, but he begs to do his best for His Majesty, and then die." Zhao Pu was the first to thank him, and then the two generals reacted.
"Don't dare to be..."
After this politeness, Zhao Guangyi suddenly looked worried, he sighed, but stopped talking.
Zhao Pujiu followed Taizong, and when he saw Zhao Guangyi put on this posture, he immediately knew how to react, only to see him look at Zhao Guangyi, and said in a worried tone: "Now that the Northern Han Dynasty has been removed, I don't know what Your Majesty is sighing about?" ”
Zhao Guangyi also continued his performance, only to see that he didn't blink, tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, which really shocked everyone, Zhao Guangyi, Cui Liang, and Cui Yanjin hurriedly knelt down.
"I don't know why Your Majesty is worried, the ministers are willing to go to the soup for Your Majesty, and they will not hesitate." With his enthusiasm, the young Cui Liang couldn't help but think and said directly.
Zhao Guangyi seemed to have been waiting for this sentence, but I saw him slowly wipe away his tears with his sleeve robe, and said in a sad tone: "I think that I love the people like a son, and I complement each other with the ministers. ”
"That's true." Cui nodded in agreement.
"But...," Zhao Guangyi's mouth said that this turn of events was quite natural, "But I never thought that even if I believed in such important generals as Pan Mei and Pan Zhongqing, one day they would betray me and betray my Great Song Dynasty." Speaking of this, Zhao Guangyi burst into tears again, I don't know if it was because he was really sad or pretending.
As soon as they saw His Majesty the Emperor crying so much, Zhao Pu and the others couldn't talk and laugh anymore, so they could only kneel on the ground, bang their heads on the ground, and said firmly: "The ministers swear allegiance to Your Majesty to the death, and they are willing to share your Majesty's worries." ”
Zhao Guangyi seemed to be talking to himself: "Originally, a group of bandits based on a city in Cangzhou, burned, killed, plundered, did all kinds of evil, betrayed the Great Song Dynasty, established themselves as kings, and remembered the virtue of a good life in heaven, and the bandit leader had contributed to my Great Song Dynasty, so he sent troops twice to capture him alive and escort him back to Bianjing to punish the crime. ”
Everyone knelt there and continued to listen, although they had already learned about these things from various information, but these words came out of the emperor's mouth and were a little different.
"My kindness has not been reciprocated, the rebels of the New Song Kingdom, not only do not know how to restrain themselves, but they have intensified, and what makes me even more sad is that those generals I once trusted actually betrayed my Great Song Dynasty and fell under the command of the New Song Dynasty." Speaking of this, Zhao Guangyi gritted his teeth a little, and the feeling of being betrayed was a little unbearable when he thought about it.
"Now that my Great Song Elite Army has been completed, and the Northern Han Dynasty has been destroyed, the morale is in full swing, and the military situation has been established, and in the next step, I plan to lead this army to attack the new Song Dynasty and the puppet dynasty." Zhao Guangyi's eyes stared at the burning palace lamp, revealing a flame of hatred, "I plan to make you the deputy general, and I will personally conquer the army!" ......”