From the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the final conquest of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's Southern Front War took a total of 16 years, which is not a short time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But let's review his results, the destruction of Jingnan soldiers is not bloody; It took a month to destroy Hunan; It took sixty-six days to destroy Hou Shu; The destruction of the Southern Han Dynasty has just been half a year; The destruction of the Southern Tang Dynasty is only one year, and it is less than two years when these times are added together, which can be said to be a rapid progress.

And in the process of these wars, the Song army was also smooth sailing, and every time it began to win the battle from the first time it was dispatched, until the other side had no power to fight back, and then the war ended.

On the surface, such a war is not exciting enough, because the strength of the two sides is too far apart, the war process is all one-sided, and not even a thrilling battle appears, which makes people feel unpleasant. However, fighting a war kills people, and the larger the battle, the more people die, and that kind of thrilling battle can indeed attract readers, but it cannot move the parties.

Modern society has put forward a concept called "zero casualty war", the starting point of which is based on the value of human life, and strive to reduce the number of casualties in the war and make the war more humane.

The prerequisite for a "zero-casualty war" is to create irregularities and asymmetry, and the two belligerents must have a huge disparity in strength, so that the superior side can use unmanned fighters, high-precision missiles, and other advanced weapons to strike at the enemy, so as to avoid its own casualties as much as possible.

In the era of cold weapons, unless one side surrenders directly, a "zero-casualty war" is impossible, so how to minimize the number of casualties? It is also necessary to maximize the military strength of both sides and create irregular and asymmetrical wars.

If Zhao Kuangyin had started to wage foreign wars uninterrupted since he became emperor, he would not necessarily be unable to eliminate those separatist regimes, and it was even very likely to accelerate this process. However, such a war will definitely not go so smoothly, the number of casualties will inevitably increase significantly, and the national strength will be seriously depleted.

Therefore. Zhao Kuangyin did not make such a choice, every time he sent troops, he had to find a proper name for himself first, after every battle. They had to rest for a few years, and by the end of the Southern War, not only would their own country become stronger and stronger, but even the occupied areas would not be seriously harmed, which was still rare in the entire history of Chinese wars.

Of course. Although Zhao Kuangyin's ability to capture fighters was very strong, and he could be said to be cautious before each war, he was not able to draw his sword and see blood, for example, he suffered certain setbacks in the war against the Northern Han.

Zhao Kuangyin has no weaknesses, Li Shimin is a little degenerate in his later years, and he says that his palace has been repaired too much, but Zhao Kuangyin has never had any major problems from beginning to end, and he is not worse than anyone else.

Personally, I feel that although the five strong emperors in Qinyuan Spring, Genghis Khan and Qin Shi Huang are brutal, they all occupy the first place. Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin have no problems, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seems to have made up the numbers, although he won a few battles against the Xiongnu, but the population consumption was 50 percent, and the sea was wasted, and the Western Han Dynasty also turned from strong to weak. Even if there are some achievements, there is nothing to brag about, it should not be as good as Zhu Yuanzhang's contributions, so it should be reasonable for Emperor Qin Mingtai and Tang Zong and Song Zu to be called together.

Lao Zhao's overall strategy is very good, and he is very solid step by step. There are almost no direct mistakes. This is very rare. With his strength at the time, he kept himself from making mistakes and won the final victory. But many people realize it, but they can't do it. It is not uncommon to realize that you have an advantage and become proud of your enemies. A lot of military politicians have fallen at this juncture. Although the war between countries is a clash of national strength,

But once the war starts, the lives are ruined, and the unfortunate ones are the soldiers at the front and the people in the rear. The longer the war, the greater the impact on people's lives. Being able to achieve strategic goals in a short period of time is very successful. The same is true of the modern United States, which wants to win the battle in a short time. In this way, we will have enough strength to control the whole situation and not give potential opponents the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the fire. That's the real sense of strategy. Therefore, with the international environment in which Lao Zhao lives, it is indeed commendable to be able to do this.

The origin of the Northern Han Dynasty has been mentioned many times before, so I will not repeat it here. However, there is one point that must be emphasized, and that is the feuding relationship between this country and the Central Plains.

Liu Chong, the founder of the Northern Han Dynasty, was originally the younger brother of Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty, and Guo Wei seized the rivers and mountains of the Later Han Dynasty. Naturally, he formed a deep enmity with Liu Chong, not to mention that Guo Wei also killed Liu Chong's son Liu Yun before becoming emperor, which added revenge to hatred, so from the founding of the Later Zhou Dynasty, he formed an indissoluble enmity with the Northern Han Dynasty.

In the following years, the Northern Han Dynasty invaded the Central Plains twice. But all ended in failure, after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, Liu Chengjun, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, also joined forces with Li Yun to go south with the Zhaoyi Jiedu of the former Later Zhou, but it was also only in exchange for a fiasco.

After the end of this war, Zhao Kuangyin intended to solve the Northern Han problem by peaceful means, so he sent a letter to Liu Chengjun and said: "Xiao Liu, you and Hou Zhou are feuds, so you refuse to give in, which is understandable. But I have no grudge against you, so why should I be trapped by the people? If you are really interested in China, it is advisable to go out to Taihang to fight it out. After receiving the letter, Liu Chengjun immediately sent someone to reply, saying: "Lao Zhao, don't tease!"

With the first soldiers of the land in Hedong, it is not enough to be the eleventh in China, so as to defend the land, I am afraid that the Han family will not have blood food (sacrifices), and I dare to go south! Zhao Kuangyin mourned, so he smiled and said: "Speak Liu Jun for me, Kaier makes a living all the way!" So far, in Liu Chengjun's life, Zhao Kuangyin has not sent troops to the Northern Expedition.

Of course, the above dialogue is just a cliché used by the two sides in diplomatic occasions, and has no practical significance, Zhao Kuangyin will never pity Liu Chengjun, Liu Chengjun is not willing to always be in a corner of peace, as long as the time is ripe, the speed of the two sides to turn their faces will definitely be faster than turning the book. However, after the end of the Battle of Zhaoyi, Liu Chengjun was unable to find a fighter to wage war against the Northern Song Dynasty until his death.

The basic national policy of the Northern Song Dynasty was to first the south and then the north, and there was no rush to make a move against the Northern Han Dynasty, so in the following years, the two countries were really at peace with each other, of course, this situation is destined to be impossible to maintain forever.

In July of the first year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (968), Liu Chengjun died of illness in Jinyang, at the age of forty-three, because he himself had no children, so he set up his adopted son Liu Jien as the emperor before his death, which left a very unstable factor in the political arena of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Liu Jien's biological father is named Xue Zhao. Originally, he was just an extremely ordinary sergeant, and he didn't want the ancestral grave to suddenly rise into green smoke one day, Xue Zhao was somehow caught up in Liu Chongxiang, and actually married his daughter to him. Later, she gave birth to a son, Liu Jien. It didn't take long for Liu Zhiyuan to open the country as emperor and establish the Later Han Dynasty, and Xue Zhao suddenly became a relative of the emperor again, so naturally he would not go to the army anymore. Later, he was directly transferred by Liu Zhiyuan and entered the management class, and was suddenly worth a hundred times.

In the eyes of outsiders, this incident can really make people envious of their nosebleeds, but they can't just watch thieves eat meat and not see thieves being beaten.

Xue Zhao himself has no ability, Liu Zhiyuan completely gave up after using him for a period of time, and only let him receive an empty salary, Miss Liu was from a high background. Therefore, I look down on him very much, often do not meet him, and my husband and wife life are not guaranteed. In this way, Xue Zhao was both lost in his love career, his mood was extremely depressed, he had to borrow wine every day to kill his sorrows, his personality became very manic, and finally one day he couldn't control his emotions, and even raised a knife to kill Miss Liu.

But this person's ability is really not big, a big man who has been a soldier. Unexpectedly, Miss Liu was not killed, so she had to commit suicide, but fortunately this time she succeeded, but Miss Liu became a widow because of this

。 After Xue Zhao's death. Miss Liu remarried a man surnamed He and had a son named Jiyuan, but soon after, the couple both died, and Liu Jien and Liu Jiyuan were orphaned again, and Liu Chong saw that this grandson had no one to support. happened to see that Liu Chengjun had no children, so he asked him to adopt these two children, but he didn't expect that the two brothers would become emperors later.

After Liu Jien grew up, he was born long and short, with a big belly and many beards, and his appearance was very funny, but he was extremely filial to Liu Chengjun, and he never violated it in the slightest, and he was impeccable in terms of filial piety. Liu Chengjun also liked this child very much, so he appointed him as Taiyuan Yin early and trained him as a successor.

However, Liu Jien still inherited his biological father's genes in politics, although he became a big official, he was very incompetent, and he couldn't do anything, Liu Chengjun couldn't help but be very worried when he saw it, so he had to consult Prime Minister Guo Wuwei: "Jien, this child, is very filial, but unfortunately he has no talent to govern the country, I'm afraid he can't keep my family business, how can this be good?" Guo Wuwei listened to this but did not answer.

Guo Wuwei is also a very important figure in the history of the Northern Han Dynasty, he was originally an old man who was unwilling to be lonely on Wudang Mountain, I don't know what the spell is, but his eloquence is still quite good.

In the early years, when Guo Wei served as the privy envoy of the Later Han Dynasty, he went to Guanzhong to seek Li Shouzhen, Guo Wuwei took the initiative to find the door, analyzed the general trend of the world for Guo Wei, and said that he was foaming at the mouth, and he really fooled Guo Wei, and wanted to include him in the account, but Guo Wei's people persuaded him: "The public is the minister of the court, and he has a heavy army, if you use this vertical and horizontal person, I am afraid it is not the way to prevent the slightest consideration!" ”

Guo Wei immediately woke up when he heard this, so he refused to admit him. Guo Wuwei had no choice but to retreat, and then lived in seclusion in Baobelly Mountain (now in Jiexiu City, Shanxi), until Liu Chengjun succeeded to the throne, only under the recommendation of Duan Chang, the privy envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty, re-emerged from the mountain, and with his eloquent eloquence, Liu Chengjun was completely conquered, until Liu Chengjun was appointed as the prime minister, and took charge of the government in the Northern Han Dynasty.

After Liu Jien became the emperor, Guo Wuwei despised him very much because he saw that he was an adopted son and incompetent. And Liu Jien also knew that Guo Wuwei "listened but didn't answer" Liu Chengjun's questioning back then, so he hated him very much in his heart, and the contradiction between the two was extremely sharp, which was of course a very good opportunity for Zhao Kuangyin.

At this time, three years have passed since the Northern Song Dynasty conquered Houshu, and the battle of the Southern Han has not yet begun, the national strength is very abundant, and it is fully equipped with the conditions for launching a large-scale foreign war.

At the same time that Zhao Kuangyin was dispatching troops to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty, there was indeed a civil strife in the Northern Han Dynasty due to the discord between the monarch and the ministers, and the reason was that after Liu Jien succeeded to the throne, because he hated Guo Wuwei's autocratic government, he blamed him for "listening to and not answering" Liu Chengjun's question, so he had the intention to kill him.

At that time, because Liu Chengjun had just died, Liu Jien lived alone in a room for his funeral according to the system, and some cronies suggested that he could take this opportunity to summon Guo Wuwei to kill.

Although Liu Jien was anxious to get rid of Guo Wuwei, he did not approve of this plan and hesitated. At this time, someone suggested that he hold a palace banquet and get Guo Wuwei drunk and then kill him, Liu Jien felt that this suggestion was very feasible, so he immediately agreed.

On September 10, Liu Jien feasted the ministers in the palace, preparing to take the opportunity to get rid of Guo Wuwei, but because the secrecy work could not be implemented in place, Guo Wuwei received the news in advance, so he did not show up, and the plan fell through.

Liu Jien was also helpless, so he had to return to the dormitory to rest after the banquet, but just when he was lying down, Hou Barong, the worship official, suddenly led more than ten people to break in with knives and slammed the door. Liu Jien got up and ran when he saw that the situation was not good, but as soon as he ran behind the screen, he was chased up by Hou Barong and stabbed to death. At this time, it was only more than 60 days since Liu Jien ascended the throne.

However, this matter is not completely over here, just when Hou Ba just assassinated Liu Jien and failed to leave the palace, Guo Wuwei suddenly led a large team of men and horses to rush over, and killed Hou Barong and others without saying anything.

This behavior, of course, cannot escape the suspicion of killing people, and the government and the opposition in the Northern Han Dynasty are also secretly rumored that Guo Wuwei sent someone to kill Liu Jien, but no one has any evidence, so naturally Guo Wuwei is helpless.

After Liu Jien's death, the Northern Han Dynasty still needed to set up a new monarch, and some people put forward such a view at that time, thinking that Liu Jien was not Liu Chong's bloodline, so the throne could not last long, and if a new monarch was to be established, it was necessary to choose among Liu Chong's grandsons. Liu Jiwen, who was hostage in Liao at that time, was Liu Chong's grandson, so it was better to take him back and establish him as the emperor, so that the throne could be inherited in the Liu family, and secondly, he would get the support of Liao, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds!

This statement is actually very reasonable, but Guo Wuwei refused, but strongly advocated to establish Liu Jien's younger brother Liu Jiyuan as the emperor, at this time the power of the Northern Han Dynasty was in the hands of Guo Wuwei, since it was a matter he decided, of course, others were powerless to object, so Liu Jiyuan was made the new emperor. (To be continued.) )