Chai Rong's move exceeded everyone's expectations. Because Chai Rong is the emperor of a big country, it is rare for him to be able to visit the enemy in person, and who would have thought that he would rush into the enemy formation with dozens of soldiers at the most critical moment of the battle, and fight those tigers and wolves with his body of ten thousand gold?

Just when the right wing of the Zhou army collapsed, Liu Chong, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, was overjoyed, because in this case, the Han army had no reason not to win.

This was the first major battle he sent out of his army, and if in this battle, he was able to defeat the main force of the Zhou army, the future would be bright.

It was only three years after the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, the founding emperor Guo Wei died, and the new lord Chai Rong had just ascended the throne, and he had no prestige in the country.

Once defeated, the whole country will be shaken on all fronts, and he can naturally lead the army out of Zelu, into Huaimeng, across the Yellow River, and then go straight to the Great Liang, reign over the world, and rebuild the Liu family's Zongmiao Sheji.

Therefore, at this time, Liu Chong was already carried away proudly, and even ordered a banquet to be set up in the army, and only waited for the battle to end before the banquet was held.

But Liu Chong never expected that in this seemingly good situation. But suddenly a small group of men and horses were killed in the midst of the enemy army, and they pierced through their own positions like sharp blades. What made Liu Chong even more unimaginable was that the person headed by this team would be Chai Rong, the new master of the Later Zhou Dynasty, whom he had never put in his eyes.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield was abruptly reversed. Not only Liu Chong, but almost all the Han army were overwhelmed by Chai Rong's unrivaled momentum. Wherever Chai Rong passed, the Han army was scattered and fled, and in the blink of an eye, the Han army's position had been rushed into chaos by him.

It is said that the power of example is endless. This is true. Immediately after Chai Rong, the left flank of the Zhou army. Another general named Zhao Kuangyin rushed out and fought horizontally into the Northern Han army.

This general is even more violent. An iron rod flew up and down in his hand, and all of them were invincible, and the enemy army was slaughtered in chaos.

At this point, the Zhou army has completely reversed the decline, Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde, Xiang Xun and other generals have ordered their subordinates to attack, and the soldiers of the Zhou army are even more inspired by Chai Rong personally going into battle to kill the enemy, all of them are reluctant to forget their lives, and they all pounce on the enemy like tigers in the mountains.

At this time, another incident happened that greatly boosted the morale of the Zhou army. It was when Chai Rong just rushed into the battlefield. The vanguard commander of the Han army made Zhang Yuanhui have the intention to make a miraculous achievement for himself, so he immediately turned his horse to meet Chai Rong, but he was knocked to the ground by the war horse carelessly, and was surrounded and killed by the Zhou army who had just rushed up on the spot.

Zhang Yuanhui was a famous general in the Han army, and his death made the Northern Han army even more disturbed. At this time, the Zhou army was at its most demoralized, and the situation was completely reversed. The entire army of the Northern Han Dynasty was defeated and was killed. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Chong desperately waved the red flag in the army, in a vain attempt to stop the rout.

However this time. The army of the Northern Han Dynasty was already in a mess, and it could not be contained at all.

The Liao general Yang Gon saw that the Zhou army was strong and did not dare to fight. At the same time, he hated Liu Chong for talking too much before, and he was unwilling to help him. Just took his subordinate Liao army and withdrew from the battlefield from one side. Liu Chong was not supported by the Liao army. There was no power to return to the sky, and it was not long before he was swept away by the rout.

Besides, Fan Aineng and He Hui, who fled before, led the rout to loot the heavy vehicles of the Zhou army along the way. Chai Ronglian sent a number of personal soldiers to summon them back to the battlefield, but it was useless, and many of his personal soldiers were even killed by the rebellious troops under these two men.

That's not all, Fan and He fled all the way, and spread rumors all the way, saying: "The Liao army has arrived, the front army has been defeated, and the rest have surrendered." ”

At this time, Heyang Jiedu made Liu Cizheng lead the rear army to the north, and happened to meet Fan Aineng and He Hui on the way, these two people persuaded Liu Ci to withdraw his troops, but Liu Ci did not believe it, and still continued to advance with the army, but in the evening, he suddenly encountered the remnants of Liu Chong's remaining more than 10,000 people.

Liu Ci saw it, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack, at this time, it coincided with the new defeat of the Han army, and the morale was extremely low, and it was suddenly robbed and killed by the new force of the Hou Zhou, how could it still have the heart to resist the enemy, and it was another big defeat. And this time the defeat was even worse, and was chased and killed by the Zhou army all the way to Gaoping County, almost the entire army was annihilated, the mountains were full of Han soldiers' corpses, and the discarded weapons and baggage were countless.

Liu Chong took only a hundred cavalry, took off his dragon robe, changed into coarse cloth clothes, and fled north along the mountain road. As a result, he didn't know the road, so he had to catch a villager as a guide on the way, and he deserved to be unlucky, and the villager didn't know the road, and he didn't dare not give him directions, and finally walked forward for more than a hundred miles, and led him to Jinzhou of Zhou's subordinates in a daze.

Seeing that he was about to enter the city, Liu Chong suddenly realized that something was wrong, so he had to kill the guide again, turned around and fled to the rear, and finally escaped back to Jinyang with great effort.

The first battle of Gaoping ended so far, and the result ended in the crushing defeat of the Northern Han Dynasty, which made its tens of thousands of troops wiped out and no longer able to invade the Central Plains. Chai Rong, on the other hand, won the battle almost perfectly with his superhuman courage and resolute style, thus breaking the doubts of the government and the opposition about his military ability in one fell swoop, and completely consolidating his dominance in the country.

The victory in the Battle of Gaoping undoubtedly belonged to Chai Rong, but in addition to him, there was another person who also became the winner of this battle. It was through the battle of Gaoping that the name of that person was remembered by history for the first time, he was the general who rushed into the battlefield after Chai Rong, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty - Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty.

Feng Dao is about to die, and there is still a long analysis, so let's not talk about it for the time being. In fact, the reason why I judge this is not because I think his ethics are high, but because this person has a very flexible mind.

If a person has always slipped his head, it can only mean that he is a small slippery head, and the real big slippery head needs to see people and talk nonsense.

Feng Dao didn't speak out, for example, he dared to speak in front of Li Siyuan, because there was no problem with this kind of person, on the other hand, although Shi Jingjiao respected Feng Dao very much, Feng Dao also didn't say a word, because it was easy to get into trouble with this kind of person, it can be said that his experience in politics has reached a very high level.

Although Feng Dao's words to Chai Rong were very direct, Chai Rong had never killed anyone because of his outspokenness, and he couldn't help but admit that Chai Rong had Li Shimin's demeanor in this regard. And Feng Dao is also quite accurate in seeing people.

When it comes to Zhao Kuangyin, the problem becomes simple. All biographical briefings and modifiers can be removed, and subject, predicate, object, and afterword can also be omitted. Because this is a big-name political star who doesn't need any hype and packaging at all, and he is also a superstar who will be popular for a thousand years and will never be out of fashion.

On February 26 of the second year of Tiancheng of the Later Tang Dynasty (March 21, 927 AD), this day was less than a year before Li Siyuan, the emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne. Li Siyuan, an old man, has been modest and cautious all his life, never suffered disasters, and never thought about fighting for power and profit in the past, but he didn't expect that when he was old, he would become the emperor in a daze, and he felt very embarrassed in his heart. Therefore, every day in the palace, the incense table should be set up, the incense should be burned, and the words should be recited: "O heaven! O earth! God and God! The ministers are not enough to rule the world! The world has been in turmoil for a long time, may the heavens give birth to saints as soon as possible, and be the lord of the people! ”

Li Siyuan recited these words several times almost every day, and the people in the palace were accustomed to it, so they didn't feel strange. And yet on this very day. When Li Siyuan had just finished reciting these prayers, suddenly a pillar of red light rose from the camp outside the palace, followed by a loud cry, and a great man was born.

When Zhao Kuangyin was born. "The red light surrounds the room, and the strange fragrance does not disperse." And "the body is golden, and it does not change for three days".

Accounts like this. As long as you are interested in history, you will not be surprised. So could this very peculiar natural phenomenon be real?

This is not necessarily completely unfounded, for example, he has a "golden body". Probably because Zhao Kuangyin was born with too much jaundice and was not in good health, but fortunately, three days later, the jaundice disappeared, and Zhao Kuangyin recovered his health.

As for the "red light around the room", this may be because Zhao Kuangyin was born in the spring, the spring cold is steep, the temperature is not high, and the mother is afraid of the wind cold, so the fire in the house is relatively prosperous, in fact, it is a very common natural phenomenon caused by the fire.

Only the phrase "the fragrance does not disperse" is difficult to understand, and it seems to be beyond the scope of physics and physiology that we currently master.

But Zhao Kuangyin's nickname is also called "Xiang Boy", and I don't know if there is any inevitable connection with this matter.

Zhao Kuangyin's father, Zhao Hongyin, was originally a fierce general under the command of Wang Rong, the famous warlord Chengde Jiedu in the early five dynasties.

In the era of the Liang and Jin Jiahe Wars, Wang Rong sent Zhao Hongyin to bring 500 men and horses to support Li Cunqing, and then Li Cunqiao was left in the Jin army. Feijie's command envoy is under the command of the guard Ma Junsi, who is a middle-level cadre in the forbidden army, and the oil and water are not large.

For many years afterward, although there were frequent civil strife in the Central Plains and successive dynasties, Zhao Hongyin never seized the opportunity to greatly improve his social status, so Zhao Kuangyin's entire adolescent years were basically maintained at the level of the middle class, and he was not able to enjoy any privileges.

However, fortunately, although Zhao Kuangyin's father's official position is not high, his martial arts are not low, and history calls him "less brave and brave, good at riding and shooting", which laid a good foundation for Zhao Kuangyin to eventually become a generation of martial arts masters (Zhao Kuangyin once created his own Taizu Changquan, which is now one of the six famous boxing in China).

Zhao Kuangyin's birthplace, the horse camp, should be the camp of the forbidden army, in addition to Zhao Hongyin, there are many generals who have their homes here, Zhao Kuangyin of course does not worry about no friends to play with him.

In fact, Han Lingkun, who later became the founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty, met Zhao Kuangyin here and became friends with him.

Zhao Kuangyin spent all day with these children, practicing martial arts, drinking and gambling, and was still very happy. In addition, after Zhao Kuangyin is a little older, he looks "majestic, open-minded", and has a great talent for martial arts, whether it is horseback riding, archery, wrestling, or fighting, his grades in all subjects are far better than those of children of the same age, so he seems to have become a child here.

Once, I don't know who got a fierce horse, and his personality was very hot, and he was not allowed to wear the halter or the reins, and no one could subdue him.

happened to be seen by Zhao Kuangyin, but he didn't expect his temper to be even hotter than this horse, and he didn't talk to anyone much, so he jumped on the horse's back.

This fierce horse knew that this was Zhao Kuangyin's intention to tame it, and secretly thought that this would not allow him to succeed, so he immediately galloped wildly, rushing out like a storm and lightning.

The fierce horse ran forward desperately, rushing all the way out of the city, Zhao Kuangyin grabbed the horse's mane tightly, and always sat firmly on the horse's back as the horse's height fluctuated.

However, just when he was about to leave the city, Zhao Kuangyin was not careful, his head "banged", and he hit the lintel of the city gate hard, and immediately fell him down. The people next to him were all frightened, thinking that Zhao Kuangyin would definitely die this time, but they didn't want him to jump up as soon as he fell to the ground, and then jumped on the back of the fierce horse, and finally succeeded in subduing it.

This incident made Zhao Kuangyin famous among his group of friends, and made his position as the "child king" more stable.

Zhao Kuangyin was also proud of this, leading the children to do some games of arranging troops and fighting all day long, dreaming that when he grew up, he could also become a majestic general, leading the army, charging into battle, and winning the battle.

But until he was twenty-one years old, he learned a good martial art in vain, and he couldn't get mixed up with an official position, and he was still unemployed.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin had already married a wife and had children, and it stands to reason that he should have set up his own door a long time ago, but he didn't even have a penny of income, and he even had to ask his family for money to buy milk powder for his children, and his mood was very depressed. In the end, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't bear this boring otaku life anymore, so he resolutely left his wife who had been married for three years and the child who had just been born, and bravely embarked on a journey to the rivers and lakes.

The time of Zhao Kuangyin's trip was roughly in the summer of 947 AD, that is, around the time of the founding of the Later Han Dynasty Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan, so the purpose of his trip this time cannot be simply understood as going out to find opportunities, or simply to go out to eat a bowl of rice.

Because in the past few years, wars have occurred frequently in the Central Plains, and it is when a hot-blooded man like him is working hard, it stands to reason that the Central Plains is the place with the most opportunities.

But Zhao Kuangyin chose to start from here and walked all the way to the west, so that his footprints reached as far as Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei and other provinces, so that he was far away from the political center at that time and came to a relatively stable place. (To be continued.) )