At the end of the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties, Emperor Yelu Deguang of Liao supported Shi Jingjiao to defeat the Later Tang Dynasty and called the Later Jin Emperor, and seized the land of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun from the Shi Jin Dynasty and used it as a base to continuously raid the Central Plains. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the founding of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Liao supported the Northern Han regime to divide Hedong as a vassal to shield Yanyun. After the seventh year of Zhou Xiande, Zhao Kuangyin was inspected in front of the palace on behalf of Zhou as emperor, and after the Northern Song Dynasty was built, Liao continued to support the Northern Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

At that time, there were still independent secession regimes in the south, such as Wuyue, Southern Tang, Jingnan, Southern Han, and Houshu. In order to achieve unification, Zhao Kuangyin in the process of implementing the strategy of first marching south and then north, he once sought an opportunity to divide his troops to capture the Northern Han Dynasty, trying to eradicate the Liao vassals in order to recover Yanyun, but each attack was blocked by Liao reinforcements and failed.

Zhao Guangyi has experienced these things, as Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother, he is also very eager for the lost land of Yanyun, if he can recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, then the emperor who recovered the lost land is enough to leave his name in the annals of history, no matter what stains he has in politics, the credit of recovering Yanyun is enough to offset.

Zhao Guangyi poisoned his eldest brother, and he also knew that people in the world would definitely have some gossip about it, so when he first came to power, he was also diligent and diligent in government affairs, he just wanted to be like Li Shimin, even if he killed his brother and took his father, but if he can govern the world very well and recover Yanyun, at that time, it is estimated that no one will doubt his orthodox status.

People will praise him as a wise monarch, after all, the people do not pay attention to the emperor's personal affairs, they are interested in whether the emperor can lead them to live a good life.

But the plan is beautiful, and the reality is often cruel.

Since Zhao Guangyi poisoned his eldest brother with poisoned wine that night, everything has fallen towards the abyss of unknowability.

That night, Zhao Guangyi thought it was the brightest night in his life, took over the throne from his eldest brother, became the second orthodox lord of the Great Song Dynasty, and stood at the pinnacle of power, which was the position that Zhao Guangyi thought about day and night.

And after that night, he finally got his wish and sat on the throne of the emperor, and he was the only one in the world!

But happiness comes and goes very suddenly.

Within a few days of his ascension to the throne, the "New Song Daily" was scattered in various states and counties throughout the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi even felt as if he had fallen into a huge conspiracy.

After all, in that kind of newspaper, he actually described all his plans in great detail, and at the same time accompanied by a photo of himself poisoning his eldest brother.

If it weren't for the fact that the whole world knew about it, Zhao Guangyi almost thought that these were just nightmares.

But the nightmare of reality is just the beginning.

Under this provocation of the New Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi was naturally furious, and he ordered to mobilize troops from Bianjing to carry out a northern expedition against the New Song puppet dynasty that had absconded to Cangzhou to suppress bandits.

In this first Northern Expedition to suppress bandits, Zhao Guangyi sent 20,000 soldiers and horses, and Yang Jiushu sent troops to fight, but 20,000 soldiers and horses disappeared mysteriously after entering the border of Cangzhou, and finally the spies in Cangzhou came with news, saying that they saw Yang Jiushu in Wazi City in the New Song Dynasty, and saw him and the deputy general Fu drinking in Wazi City, looking like a happy state.

At that time, Zhao Guangyi realized what kind of anger betrayal was.

In the same year, after a few months, Zhao Guangyi formed a large army, an army of 80,000 people, with cavalry and eight oxen crossbows, known as 100,000 people, in front of this military force that even the Liao State had to look at, Zhao Guangyi also believed that the new Song Dynasty puppet dynasty would be bulldozed at one time.

These 80,000 people, with the veteran Pan Mei as the commander, as well as the three generations of generals in the DPRK, China, the old and the new, there is almost absolutely no reason to fail.

However, after the expedition to the New Song Dynasty, these 80,000 soldiers also entered the sea with mud cattle and disappeared, and Zhao Guangyi could not accept the fact that these 80,000 soldiers surrendered for a long time after learning about this incident.

It wasn't until later that a spy saw Pan Mei and Pan Shuai in the New Song Kingdom, and after many inquiries, it was confirmed that the person was indeed Pan Mei and was correct, that Zhao Guangyi was completely dead.

He didn't understand, what kind of ability could such a small judgment court have, which would make these capable commanders and generals under his command surrender without warning?

If you don't understand, you don't understand, the loss of nearly 100,000 troops at once has greatly damaged Zhao Guangyi's vitality, even if it is the Great Song Dynasty, it is no longer possible to organize a large-scale war of this scale in a short period of time.

After all, it costs money to go out on a large army.

Military rations, military rations, weapons, armor, shields, and banners all need a large amount of military expenses to fill them, and if there is no money, the army will not even be able to travel 300 miles.

Fortunately, although the 80,000 soldiers of the Second Northern Expedition to suppress bandits were missing, the grain and grass team following them was not missing, and after the quartermaster transported tens of thousands of grain and grass to the front line, he found that he could not find any front-line soldiers, stayed for half a month, and then set off back to the Great Song Dynasty with grain and grass.

This is already a blessing in misfortune, if all the grain and grass are lost, Zhao Guangyi is really worried that he will go crazy with anger.

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After the lessons of these two Northern Expeditions to suppress bandits, Zhao Guangyi also understood that this New Song Kingdom was very strange, and he began to send more spies to the New Song Dynasty to seek information.

However, the most news from the spies was that the business prosperity of the New Song Dynasty was that they did not mention the military and political affairs of the New Song Dynasty.

Although he suffered the first two defeats, for the powerful national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, a population of 100,000 people was not a big deal, and Zhao Guangyi soon raised an army from all over the country that had always been more numerous.

This time, the total number of troops exceeded 150,000, and this year was a bumper harvest year in the Great Song Dynasty, so when there was a surplus of grain in mass production throughout the country, Zhao Guangyi also shifted his financial inclination to armaments.

This group of troops of the Great Song Dynasty introduced many excellent horses from Qingtang, and the army was also equipped with large catapults.

In June of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, Zhao Guangyi in order to test the army under his command, but also unexpectedly launched an attack on the Northern Han, this time Zhao Guangyi learned a lesson, and adopted the tactics of first sending troops to block reinforcements, clearing the periphery, and then attacking Taiyuan, and sent troops to attack the Northern Han again. ordered Guo Jin to deploy troops at Shiling Pass to block Liao reinforcements; ordered Xie Hui to capture the important places around Taiyuan; and ordered Chen Chuan and other generals to lead troops to besiege Taiyuan.

In just half a month, this batch of newly formed armies of the Great Song Dynasty showed strong military strength, and after besieging for half a month, the city of Taiyuan was broken, and the Northern Han Dynasty was declared extinct.....