The long queue is followed by Tong Guan's official sedan chair, not that Tong Guan is not good at riding, but the twilight is deep, not to a special occasion, Tong Guan is also exempt, on both sides of the official sedan chair, the civil and military two people each ride a horse and stand still, one is dressed in black armor, is the Shengjie army commander Wang Yu, and the person on the other side is Zhao Liangsi that Yang Ling has seen before.

Tong Guan has arrived in Xiongzhou, should he meet the Jurchen envoy and the Liao envoy next? I don't know which side of Tong Xuanshuai, who is notorious in the legendary interpretation and has mixed achievements in history, should fall?

Yang Ling expected that before he appeared in time and space, Tong Guan chose the Jurchens, and there was a second Northern Expedition to Youyun, but in the face of the two generals Dashi Linya and Xiao Gan, they were still miserable, and finally had to ask for help from the Jurchens.

In the final analysis, Yang Ling's approval of the Northern Expedition, whether it was the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao State in front of it, and the Jin State in the back, their occupation of the sixteen states of Youyun caused great passivity to the strategic position of the Song Dynasty, and south of Yanyun was the endless North China Plain.

Hebei and Henan are both natural battlefields for cavalry, except for the Yellow River, the entire empire has almost no other terrain to rely on for defense, and the cavalry of Liao and Jin is undoubtedly the strongest in the entire history of China.

Especially the Jurchen Tiefutu cavalry, to say an extreme word, the Jurchen Tiefutu is the most powerful throughout the world, up and down for five thousand years, there is no one, although the later Mongolian iron cavalry attacked Europe, but compared to the Tiefutu, I thought it was still a lot worse.

Ordinary people who dare to fight, in the battle between the two armies seven or eight times is extremely strong combat power, at this time the physical strength is also a little difficult to support, but the Jurchen was born in the white mountains and black water bitter cold land, in the history books, the history can check the Jurchen in the array and repeatedly rushed to kill more than 20 times.

This kind of combat power, coupled with the excellent iron armor of the Liao and Song dynasties, Tiefutu can be said to be the most cavalry, but the Jurchen population is extremely scarce, and the combat power it has is only tens of thousands, of which the real Jurchens are very few.

A hundred years after the founding of the country, the Jin State has been peaceful for a long time, and it is inevitable that the combat power will decline sharply, which is why the Mongols have risen, but even during the period of Genghis Khan, if the Jurchens can pull out an iron floating slaughter, it will be enough to deter them.

Since the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, the Han nationality has flourished in literary style, and the martial arts are slightly weaker, so the geographical advantage and the excellent armor have become the biggest advantage, the land of the clouds is lost, the momentum of the high house is no longer at once, and the cavalry can not defend when it goes south, and even in winter, the Yellow River freezes, and the cavalry can directly penetrate the heart of the Great Song Dynasty within a few days by virtue of mobility, and the "shame of Jingkang" is the catastrophe of the Chinese nation that occurred in this extremely unfavorable strategic situation.

After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, retaking Yanyun became the basic national policy of the northern war, Song Taizu, Song Taizong Province was frugal, prepared military salaries, and coerced the elite soldiers who created the Great Song Dynasty to attack the north again and again, trying to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun.

There is no other reason, this is a strategic point for the life and death of the Chinese nation, but in the face of the condescending impact of the northern cavalry, the infantry-based Central Plains army is still inevitably defeated in the end, and the defeat after failure makes the Song Empire disheartened to recover the lost land in the north, and has to build a large number of fortified cities on the North China Plain, forming a million forbidden troops to resist the invasion of the northern iron cavalry, according to historical records, the number of the Song army is as high as 1.2 million at the time, for this reason, the Song State does not hesitate to fall the root of the redundant army.

Zhao Song did not hesitate to promise, "The one who recovers Yan is the king!" Zhao Song even thought of the North China Plain, the water into a lake, planting trees to block the cavalry activities of the strange tricks, the sixteen states of Youyun are gone, the strategic disadvantage will never change, the later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di in view of this, this is from Nanjing to Beijing, that is, the current Yanjing, it is precisely because of the realization of the strategic position of the land of clouds, the Ming Dynasty is staged a song that has lasted for more than 200 years The Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the king died in Sheji.

Yang Ling can say more to Tong Guan, the land of clouds must be recovered, but it cannot be recovered by the hands of the Jurchens, the children of the Han family are not without people who dare to fight, although the Great Song Dynasty no longer has the strong combat power of hundreds of thousands of elite forbidden troops at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it needs to be known that the Liao State has been sinicized for a long time, and it is even more Jurchen to beat the elite There are few left, if the entire Great Song Dynasty is united, it is no longer as mutually constrained as before, if the land can no longer be recovered, a certain Yang Ling will write the word Tian upside down.

Yang Ling shook his head and sighed, after all, his strength is still too weak, if one day, it would be great to have the ability to change the world, this is the first time Yang Ling has such an idea.

That night, after Yang Ling took care of Ma Xiaoying and the child to sleep, he got up with his clothes.

It has been two months since I came to this world, but I am watching history run towards a predetermined trajectory, and I can't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in my heart.

Yang Ling held the wine jug in his hand, but he sat on the haystack and was speechless, pouring a mouthful of tasteless rice wine from time to time, it really didn't have the same taste as in later generations, and the straight thief was similar to a drink.

"I came out to breathe, but I didn't expect Yang Dutou to be interested in drinking here." At this moment, Yelu Dashi came over and sat beside Yang Ling.

"It turned out to be a noble envoy!" Yang Ling politely hugged his fists and greeted.

"It's a noble envoy, it's ugly, I'm not a character worth climbing, if Yang Dutou looks down on me, then change my brother." Yelu Dashi laughed.

"Brother Haidong." Yang Ling paused, "I have no sleep this night, but because I am depressed in my heart, I came here to have a good time, why are you?" ”

"A certain brother is the same, you also know our situation, now we just want to have no war, but the mission is arduous, and it is inevitable that there will be a sense of gain and loss." After Yelu Dashi finished speaking, he just untied the wine bag on his waist, "The wine of your southerners is really tasteless, come, take a sip of the mare's milk wine of our children of the grassland." ”

Yang Ling didn't say much, just took the wine bag, and looked up to drink, this wine will feel spicy in the throat with a strong milky taste and a touch of sweetness, and then a hot feeling, this heat from the tongue to the stomach.

"Haha, but I borrowed Brother Haidong's good wine!"