The reason why Guo Wuwei has to establish Liu Jiyuan as the emperor should be said to be related to Liu Jiyuan's gentle character, this person has read poetry and books since he was a child, especially likes Zen learning, and he is still very generous with people, and he is not Liu Chengjun's biological son, Guo Wuwei will naturally think that such a person is easier to control. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, the final result shows that this time Guo Wuwei is completely blind.

Liu Jiyuan had just ascended the throne, the Song army had already entered, at this time he and Guo Wuwei were still in the honeymoon period, the two were still able to share the same hatred, and there was no difference, so after learning the news of the Song army's entry, he hurriedly asked for help from the Liao State in the name of Liu Jiyuan, and sent the guards to wait for Liu Jiye and others to lead troops to guard the Tuanbai Valley (now southeast of Qi County, Shanxi). However, as soon as Liu Jiye sent out his troops, he was defeated by the Song army led by Li Jixun, and was beheaded more than 2,000 ranks, and the Tuanbai defense line was also lost, and the Song army immediately crossed the Fen River and reached the city of Jinyang.

Liu Jiyuan, as the king of a country, is naturally unwilling to surrender, and Guo Wuwei is just a courtier, who is called a minister, it is the same, and he wants to surrender, so after receiving the edict, he repeatedly persuaded Liu Jiyuan to accept the land and return to the court, but Liu Jiyuan always refused, and the contradictions between the two became more and more serious. Fortunately, it didn't take long for reinforcements from the Liao State to arrive. The Song army was not prepared for this, so it had to withdraw immediately. The tension between Liu Jiyuan and Guo Wuwei was temporarily eased.

However, after the withdrawal of the Song army, Liu Jiyuan and Guo Wuwei had new contradictions. This is mainly because after Liu Jiyuan became the emperor, his personality suddenly changed drastically, changing his past style of talking about scriptures and Zen and being gentle and elegant, becoming violent and impermanent, and then going on a killing spree. The ten sons and some close children left by Liu Chong, the founding emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, were almost all killed by him, and the ministers of the court were slightly resentful, the light ones were killed, and the heavy ones were destroyed, and even his adoptive mother Guo was strangled to death by him. This style of work made Guo Wuwei, who had always been good at government politics, unacceptable, so he was even more confident and wanted to surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Just in the second year (969), Zhao Kuangyin was very dissatisfied with the results of the Song army's previous crusade against the Northern Han, so he intended to launch a comprehensive and decisive large-scale war against the Northern Han, and then began to prepare. Shen Yilun, the privy deputy envoy, deployed for the interior, and still ordered Zhaoyi Jiedu to make Li Jixun deploy the front army of the Hedong camp, and go to Hedong first, and lead the Chinese army as the successor.

March of that year. Zhao Kuangyin's car arrived in Luzhou and was stationed there for 18 days, just as the former army captured a Northern Han spy. Zhao Kuangyin immediately summoned him to the front of the car to ask.

This spy is also very capable of fooling, and as soon as he came up, he said loudly: "The soldiers and civilians of the Northern Han Dynasty have been poisoned for a long time. Looking at the car day and night, I hate its late ears. Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately gave a heavy reward, and then passed the decree to drive the camp and go straight to Jinyang.

At this time, the former army of the Northern Song Dynasty deployed Li Jixun to have launched a siege on Jinyang, after Zhao Kuangyin arrived, he further intensified the attack, requisitioned tens of thousands of people from neighboring states and counties, dug trenches around Jinyang, and ordered Li Jixun, Zhao Zan, Cao Bin, Dang Jin and other four generals, respectively, to lead the army to camp in the south, west, north, and east directions of the city, showing a trend of advancing on all sides, and began to build embankments to divert the water of the Fen River to prepare to flood Jinyang City.

At the same time, the Liao rescuers had come to the rescue of the Northern Han in two ways, one of which attacked Shiling Pass (now the north of Yangqu County, Shanxi) from north to south, and the other set off from Youzhou and went straight to Dingzhou (now Dingxian County, Hebei).

However, the progress of these two reinforcements was not smooth, Zhao Kuangyin had expected that the Liao State would send troops from Youzhou before sending troops, and contain the main force of the Song army by attacking Hebei's Zhen, Dingzhou and other prefectures, so he appointed Han Chongyun, the envoy of Zhangde Jiedu, as the northern capital of the deployment, and ordered him to fortify in the area of Dingzhou.

As soon as the Liao soldiers entered, Han Chongyun led the army to meet the attack, broke the crowd, and directly drove the Liao reinforcements out of the country. As soon as the other Liao army arrived at Shiling Pass, Zhao Kuangyin summoned He Jiyun, the defense envoy of Dizhou, personally granted him the strategy, and allocated him thousands of elite soldiers, and ordered him to go to Shiling Pass to resist the enemy. At this time, it was summer, the temperature was relatively hot, and before He Jiyun left, Zhao Kuangyin specially ordered someone to make him a bowl of sesame pulp powder (about a kind of food to relieve the heat).

This bowl of sesame pulp powder is not valuable, but it is full of Zhao Kuangyin's affectionate care and earnest entrustment to He Jiyun, He Jiyun drank it in his mouth, warmed his heart, and was moved by tears, Zhao Kuangyin took the opportunity to add a fire, and said to him with a smile: "Tomorrow at noon, I will wait for the good news you send back!" He Jiyun didn't have a second word, immediately patted his chest at Zhao Kuangyin, packed the ticket, and said a few words like "If I am here, there will be a position, and I will never live up to the emperor and the people's entrustment to me", and then flew on the horse and whipped away.

To say that this bowl of sesame pulp powder, it is really worth a million soldiers, He Jiyun only felt a hundred times more energetic after eating, and there was inexhaustible strength all over his body, leading the troops to the north of Yangqu County, just met the Liao soldiers, He Jiyun immediately waved his army forward, and really won a big victory, beheaded thousands, captured more than 700 war horses, and captured a cadre of generals such as Wang Yanfu, the assassin of Wuzhou in Liao, and then ordered his son He Chengrui to go back to Zhao Kuangyin to report the victory.

In fact, after He Jiyun left, Zhao Kuangyin was also bottomless in his heart, and the next day he boarded the north platform early and waited for the news ahead, waiting left and right to wait for no one to come, and when he was anxious, he suddenly saw a fast horse flying in front of him, from far and near, galloping, it was He Chengrui who came back to report the victory.

Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed after receiving the report, and then ordered the captured Liao army armor and flags to be moved to the city of Jinyang.

By this time, both reinforcements from the Liao State had been repulsed by the Song army. The Northern Han Dynasty had no foreign aid, so it could only be trapped in a lonely city. The situation is even more crisis, under such tremendous pressure. The relationship between the monarch and the minister, which was already extremely tense in Jinyang City, was on the verge of breaking out. As early as after Zhao Kuangyin sent the edict of surrender to the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Jiyuan and Guo Wuwei immediately became inseparable.

Guo Wuwei was bent on surrendering, not only repeatedly admonishing Liu Jiyuan, but also secretly correlating with spies sent by the Northern Song Dynasty.

Previously, Zhao Kuangyin had ordered a person named Hui Luan to falsely claim to be the commander of the Song Army, and defected to the Northern Han Dynasty because of his guilt, this trick was used by Huang Gai as early as the Three Kingdoms period, and naturally he couldn't hide Guo Wuwei, who was from an old way, and he was recognized by him on the spot. However, although Guo Wuwei saw Hui Huixuan's true identity, he still appointed him as an enshrinement officer, in order to use him as a secret channel to contact the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the Song army entered the country, Hui Ling rushed to defect, but unfortunately this person did a very failed spy, and was arrested before he ran far, Guo Wuwei didn't want to investigate deeply, so he made an initiative to release him, but there was an official named Li Chao in the Northern Han Dynasty. is still very principled, and even reported this matter to Liu Jiyuan as it was. As a result, Guo Wuwei was no longer able to protect Hui Luan, and he was annoyed and angry. actually killed Hui Lan and Li Chao together.

This incident can be regarded as the first superficial contradiction between Guo Wuwei and Liu Jiyuan, but not long after this incident. The Song army began to withdraw, and the situation in the Northern Han eased slightly. Guo Wuwei's surrender mood was not so urgent, and he had a decisive effect on Liu Jiyuan. and held military and political power, Liu Jiyuan did not dare to easily turn his face with him, so he pretended not to know about his killing of Li Chao, and the relationship between the two could still be maintained.

But in the blink of an eye, the Song army came back again, this time it was Zhao Kuangyin who drove the expedition in person, and the situation in the Northern Han Dynasty was critical again, and Guo Wuwei could no longer sit still. One day in March of that year, Han Zhifan, the envoy sent by the Liao State to canonize Liu Jiyuan, arrived, and Liu Jiyuan also specially summoned a very grand court reception the next day, inviting all the leading figures from all walks of life in China to come over to wash the dust for the Liao envoy, and the atmosphere was very warm.

But at this time, Guo Wuwei, who was the chief prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty, suddenly cried in public, and then drew his sword and stabbed himself.

Seeing this, Liu Jiyuan hurriedly ran down and grabbed Guo Wuwei's hand and said, "Old Xiangguo, what are you doing?" Today we are hosting a banquet to entertain the envoys of the kingdom, and your approach is very discordant! Guo Wuwei cried: "The Song army and the city are under the city, why should they fight millions of troops in a lonely city!" Liu Jiyuan was immediately silent when he heard this.

This incident completely intensified the contradiction between Liu Jiyuan and Guo Wuwei, because Liu Jiyuan, as the king of a country, would never surrender easily, and Guo Wuwei made him unable to step down in front of the Liao envoy, which made him hate Guo Wuwei to the core, but he did not attack on the spot.

Not long after this incident, the two reinforcements of the Liao State were successively repulsed by the Song army, and Guo Wuwei could no longer bear the urgency of surrendering, so he lied to Liu Jiyuan that he was going to go out of the city at night to rob the camp, intending to get rid of Liu Jiyuan and surrender to the Song army.

Liu Jiyuan didn't know whether to believe him or want this surrenderer to reveal his original form, so he agreed to his request, and allocated him 1,000 elite armor soldiers, and he even went to the city gate to see him off.

Originally, Guo Wuwei's trip was to surrender to the Song army, and at this critical juncture of the Song and Han wars, as long as Guo Wuwei could find the Song army, he would definitely be used by Zhao Kuangyin, and the plan to surrender would be considered a success.

It's a pity that this person's life is really not good, the weather was sunny that night, and it was very suitable to do the surrender movement, but when Guo Wuwei just walked to the north bridge, he was suddenly hit by night rain, it was a deep night, wind and rain, Guo Wuwei failed to get in touch with the Song army in advance, and did not dare to go any further, so he had to lead his troops back to the city, and he lost this excellent opportunity to surrender to the Song army.

Back in the city, Guo Wuwei felt very frustrated, but he didn't forget to persuade Liu Jiyuan to surrender, but he didn't know that Liu Jiyuan had already killed him at this time.

Soon after, Guo Wuwei entered the palace again to lobby Liu Jiyuan, but was suddenly taken down by Liu Jiyuan's order, and then announced in public the crime of secretly communicating with the Northern Song Dynasty and beheaded him.

Although the infighting between the monarchs and ministers in Jinyang City failed to cause great changes, because Guo Wuwei had been in power in the Northern Han Dynasty for many years, it still had a considerable impact on the situation in the city, but unfortunately the offensive of the Song army was also hindered to a certain extent at this time.

In May of that year, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the Fen River to be introduced into the new embankment, began to irrigate the city, and ordered the navy to launch a strong attack on the city by boat.

The day after Wang Tingyi's death, Shi Hanqing led the army again, but before he could get close to the city, he was shot into the water by an arrow from the Han army and drowned on the spot.

Within three days, two generals were defeated in a row, which dealt a considerable blow to the morale of the Song army, and Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to send an order to slow down the attack on Jinyang.

After a month of immersion, the southern city wall of Jinyang began to peel off a large area, which in turn led to the collapse of a section of the city wall, and the roaring water roared in, causing great disturbance in the city. Zhao Kuangyin heard the great joy and personally boarded the causeway to command the siege, at this time the crack in the city wall was washed away by the water more and more.

The Han army was blocked by the strong crossbow of the Song army and could not repair it, and it was about to break the city, but suddenly countless accumulated grass floated out of the city, blocking the water mouth, and the water potential was relieved at once, and the strong crossbow of the Song army was also blocked by the grass and did not work, and the Northern Han soldiers took this opportunity to repair the crack in a blink of an eye.

At this time, it has been nearly half a year since the siege of the Song army, the army is laboring on an expedition, the people are sleepy and the horses are lacking, and it catches up with the time to the middle of summer, the heavy rain for several days, the Song army is stationed in the grassland outside the city, and there are countless people suffering from foot disease and abdominal disease, and the internal consumption is very serious.

The Liao State sent Wuzhen, the king of the Northern Courtyard, to lead reinforcements to arrive, and the garrison was in the west of Jinyang City, and the beacon fire was raised with each other in the city, echoing each other from afar, and also causing certain pressure on the Song army. Zhao Kuangyin was also in a dilemma in the face of this situation, he wanted to withdraw the army, but he felt that Jinyang could not hold out for too long, and he had the intention to continue to attack, but he felt that the consumption was too great, and at this time, news suddenly came from the rear that Wei Renpu died of illness in the right servant.

Wei Renpu's qualifications are very old, as early as the Later Zhou Dynasty has been in the cabinet, to the Northern Song Dynasty after the founding of the country, Zhao Kuangyin is also very dependent on him, the murder report came, Zhao Kuangyin mourned for a long time, can't help but recall the conversation with him before the army. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin once asked Wei Renpu: "I want to conquer Taiyuan in person, how about it?" Wei Renpu replied: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, but Your Majesty will think about it." This is obviously against Zhao Kuangyin's sending troops, but Zhao Kuangyin was not unhappy because of this, but gave him ten jars of wine and a hundred sheep as a reward.

Now, Wei Renpu is dead, but the sentence he said is clearer in Zhao Kuangyin's mind, what does it mean to "be quick but not reach"? Is he just talking about conquering a small Northern Han, or pacifying the whole world? Is it really a bit too hasty for him to rush to send troops to the Northern Han without completely conquering the south? (To be continued.) )