Chapter 21 The peak is followed by the downhill road

In the vast land of the north, when swords and bandits were rampant, the land of Hebei, which was close to the Liao State, had already felt the breath of troubled times. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info two successive defeats, the Song State lost more than half of the elite troops in Shaanxi and Hebei that could fight in the field, lost a large number of armor and baggage, and lost countless money, food, and grass.

For the first time, the court of the Great Song Dynasty could brazenly say that it was because of "hail from the sky" that they lost the battle. The second time, the army of more than 200,000 was defeated by the remnants of the Liao State of less than 10,000 people, and the whole army was wiped out.

This kind of record is really jaw-dropping......

Despite the defeat of the war, Song Huizong still favored Guo Yaoshi, "Enter the Anyuan Army to undertake the Xuan Envoy, and in December, worship the Wutai Army Festival Envoy." (Xuanhe) in the first month of the fifth year, the inspection school was added to the Shaobao, and the Yanshan Mansion was known. "In June, he was summoned to the court, given to the concubine of the house, and personally summoned him in the Yanchun Hall of the Houyuan," the pharmacist worshiped the court and cried: 'The minister is in captivity, and when he hears that Emperor Zhao is in the sky, it does not mean that he has to look at the dragon's face today. The emperor praised him deeply, entrusted him with Shouyan, and said: "I am willing to die." He also ordered Tianzuo to take the hope of the Yan people, and changed color and said: "Tianzuo, the minister is the master, the country is broken, and the minister is surrendering." His Majesty's envoys are ordered by him, and he does not dare to resign, if he rebels against the master, His Majesty is willing to pay others. Because weeping is like rain. ”

Guo Yaoshi's performance was deeply appreciated by Huizong, who gave him two gold basins and a royal bead robe, and the official inspected the school master. In the eyes of the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and those civil officials, the so-called martial artist should be a style like Guo Yaoshi. For them, as long as the generals can fight, they must not have brains, once people have their own ideas, they will probably not be so easy to control.

But how can a man win a battle if he does not have a mind of his own? Brainless pig suddenness can be reckless, and if you can't get busy, you have to sit and wait for death..... However, from Zhao Ji, the emperor, to Cai Jing, the prime minister, and the ministers in the court who have been going down, they all feel that things are under control, and they will always have a way to clean up those warriors and obey them anyway.

In March of the fifth year of Xuanhe (1123), in accordance with the provisions of the original Song and Jin "Maritime Alliance", Jin handed over Yanjing and six nearby states to the Song Dynasty, and Jin "returned the foreign households of Songting and Yuguan to the country, and demanded more than 8,000 households such as Guo Yaoshi, the commander of the Changsheng army, who were originally from Liaodong". The Song Dynasty believed that by returning the Yan people to the gold instead of the Changsheng army, not only could the Changsheng army be retained, but also the land and land of the Yan people were used to support the Changsheng army, and the state did not need to pay for food, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

The Song people's brains are not small, killing two birds with one stone, killing two birds with one stone. What a good idea to stay and get out, and it must be an interesting person to come up with such a good idea. It's just that good ideas don't look good until they get rancid.

At the same time, after Yanjing was broken by the Jin soldiers, Xiao Gan proclaimed himself the Divine Emperor of the Great Xi State and changed his name to Tianfu. In June of the fifth year of Song Xuanhe, Xiao Gan led his troops out of Lulongling due to lack of food and attacked Jingzhou. He defeated the victorious army Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren in Shimen Town and captured Jizhou. At that time, the situation was very critical, and Tong Guan moved from Beijing to reprimand Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi. In July, Guo Yaoshi and Xiao Gan fought in the waist shop, defeated Xiao Gan, and pursued Lu Longling with victory, killing more than half of them. Xiao Gan was killed by his subordinate Bai Dege, and his head was sacrificed to Song. In August, Guo Yaoshi defeated Xiao's cadres and captured Alu Taishi alive, and obtained the honorific title of Yelu Deguang of Liao Taizong and painted the gold seal, relieving the threat of the remnants of Liao to the Song.

At this time, Pharmacist Guo had reached the pinnacle of his life. There are hundreds of generals under his command, tens of thousands of soldiers, and hundreds of miles of land, which has wiped out the remnants of the Liao State, which can be said to be in the limelight for a while. During his tenure in Tongzhi Yanshan Mansion, he relied on the grace of Huizong, did whatever he wanted, and flew high.

And the prefect Wang Anzhong "can't make it, and the first song is intended to be followed". All the weapons, armor, staff, and horses that Guo Yaoshi wanted, the imperial court tried to supply them as much as possible. He sent his subordinates to the states within the Song Dynasty to do business and earn money. He also summoned the craftsmen of Emperor Tianzuo to make all kinds of rare things and make friends with the powerful. At this time, there were 50,000 victorious troops, and the township soldiers were claimed to be 300,000. However, Guo Yaoshi and his subordinates did not change their "left clothes", that is, they still wore Liao clothes instead of Song clothes.

Guo Yaoshi understands very well, the elite of the Song Dynasty who can pull out field battles have almost been wiped out, and the newly formed army has not been able to exert any combat effectiveness because of the exploitation and suppression of civil and military officials.

The "maritime alliance" of the Song and Jin was only a short-lived alliance based on the attack on Liao, and once the Liao died, the Song and Jin directly bordered, and war was inevitable. Despite this, for the Jin soldiers at that time, they had already laid enough territory, and there were countless resentful people behind them, and there were still many places that needed to be suppressed, and there was also a lot of debate among the upper echelons of the Jin State about whether to start a war against the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Aguta himself didn't want to go south to attack the Song State, firstly, he was old, although he was invincible, he also suffered a lot of injuries on the battlefield, he knew that his time was short, and after completely destroying the rule of the Liao State, he didn't want to go to great lengths to fight against another huge empire.

Anything can happen in a war, even if the Song State looks like a big fat pig, but its population and land area are all there, is there really not one or two heroes? Their Jurchens said that they destroyed the Liao State like a bamboo, but in the course of the war, the Liao State showed signs of turning around several times.

It's just that the Mandate of Heaven is not on the side of the Liao, most of the elite soldiers who can fight are killed by each other and lost, and those heroes are either killed by their own people, or they suddenly die, as if God is helping the Jurchens.

There are so many heroes in the Liao Kingdom, so the Song Kingdom, which is ten times the number of the Liao Kingdom, isn't there more heroes lurking in the countryside? Troubled times are the best stage, and you can know if the mule is pulled out and slipped. Just saying that the guys who don't practice will definitely die in the first wave, and those who can survive are those who have both strength and luck.

Wanyan Aguta is already very satisfied with the current territory of the Jin Kingdom, such a vast land, there are still many places that have not been developed, and there is no need to fight with the huge empire in the south. Moreover, there is still a person in the Liao Kingdom who went to the west under the leadership of Yelu Dashi, which may not be a hidden danger to their Dajin Kingdom.

Therefore, keeping peace with the Song Kingdom in the south is also a matter of interest to their Jurchens, anyway, there are so many New Year's coins to get every year. It's just that the Song Kingdom in the south doesn't seem to think so.