Just when Zhao Kuangyin was at a loss, on May 2, there was finally good news that his tens of millions of sailors began to play a role. The water broke through a gap in the south gate and began to flow into Taiyuan City. Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly rushed to the scene, and sure enough, the turbulent Fen River water continued to impact the gap. Zhao Kuangyin seemed to have heard the exclamations in the city, okay, no matter how big the water is, it will break the confidence of the Taiyuan people! And the people in the city have come to their senses after the initial panic and have come to plug the gap. Zhao Kuangyin shouted: Quickly adjust the strong crossbow and shoot those people back! The force of the crossbow was strong, and the Taiyuan people began to retreat. Zhao Kuangyin looked at the rushing Fen River in front of him, that was his tens of millions of elite soldiers! With his hope, he can completely defeat the Northern Han people. And the only thing the Northern Han people can do seems to be to beg for help from heaven.

A dramatic scene emerges. A large pile of grass suddenly floated beside the gap where the soldiers could not get close because of the crossbow, and it seemed to be guided by magic to reach the mouth of the water. This pile of flying grass slowed down the flow of the Fen River, and became the soft hedgehog armor of the Northern Han people. The Taiyuan people took the opportunity to go up and plug the gap tightly, and the tens of millions of sailors just showed their hideous cannibalistic faces, and had to be rejected from the city in frustration.

Providence? Even God is helping Taiyuan people? Zhao Kuangyin's confidence is losing little by little. The Taiyuan people seemed to be encouraged by the pile of sacred grass and the stimulation of Guo Daochang's head, and went out of the city to carry out a big raid. Their goal is clear, not to kill the opponent, but to attack the siege equipment. Of course, the Song army, which had already suffered losses, would not be defenseless, and the Northern Han suffered heavy losses, and history says that they lost more than 10,000 heads. Can more than 10,000 people still be organized in Taiyuan City? I'm afraid there are a lot of people in it. And this sneak attack may be a serial plan, it is of course good to successfully burn the siege equipment of the Song army, if not, there is another plan.

In the middle of the night on this day, someone suddenly shouted in Taiyuan City: Our boss is going to surrender. Zhao Kuangyin woke up from his dream, and when he confirmed that the source of this sound was from Taiyuan City, he was ecstatic, didn't he wait for this day from the first day of departure from Bianliang? He jumped to his feet, ready for a solemn surrender ceremony, and ordered his own soldiers to put on formal clothes and open the gates. But Zhao Pu next to him said softly, "If you are surrendered, if you are surrendered, how can you believe it easily" Zhao Kuangyin had an epiphany, yes! How can anyone come to surrender in the middle of the night? It's so weird! He sent an envoy and received the frustrating news that this was a small plan by the envoys of the Northern Han to carry out a surprise attack at night.

Taiyuan people are not only as tenacious as a stone, but also play tricks and make progress. And Zhao Kuangyin is going to retreat, he is going to retreat.

The death of a man reminded him. The deceased Wei Renpu, the last prime minister of the year after Wednesday, his in-laws, old friends.

In early May, Wei Renpu died at Lianghou Yi near Tuanbai Valley. He didn't approve of this expedition in the first place. At a drinking party in Bianliang before the expedition, Zhao Kuangyin suddenly smiled and said, "My family, why don't you persuade me to have a cup" Wei Renpu raised his glass and moved forward, and when he arrived, Zhao Kuangyin did not change the habit of doing major national affairs in wine, drank it all, and said softly to Wei, "I want to use Taiyuan to make a drink, how" Wei shook his head, "I want to be quick but not reach, I hope Your Majesty will think twice"

After that, Zhao Kuangyin still chose to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty in person after thinking twice, and Wei Renpu went out with the army, but he suddenly became ill halfway, and has been staying at the post station to recuperate. Taiyuan City could not be attacked for a long time, and Wei Renpu's illness became worse day by day, and he died of illness in a foreign land.

Wei Renpu died, and his words echoed in Zhao Kuangyin's ears again, "Hurry but not reach" The emperor began to examine his personal expedition again: Maybe he was too anxious, but Liu Chengjun, who had been fighting with the Central Plains for more than ten years, died, Guo Wuwei, the first minister of Taiyuan, was willing to use it for his own use, and the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty changed faster than changing clothes. Aren't these all great opportunities? And the Northern Han has been divided and weakened and suppressed for more than ten years, has it not yet reached the time when the melons are ripe?

Continue to attack, there should be a chance to take Taiyuan, but the price is too great, how many bones does a Taiyuan city have to be exchanged? Li Huaizhong, another high-ranking general of the forbidden army, was almost shot dead during the siege of the city. The other situation has also deteriorated, the pioneer has been coming to Taiyuan for more than 4 months, and he has been coming to Taiyuan for more than 2 months. In the leap May, the summer came, the rain came, and the warmer weather bred bacteria, and the Song army garrisoned the licorice field, and the humid and warm weather had made the camp diarrhea epidemic. I am afraid that if I am not knocked down by the enemy, I will also be defeated by disease. Not to mention, after the Liao State set up Xiao Yanyan as the empress in May, the second batch of reinforcements has come to Taiyuan. What are the chances of winning against the Khitan Iron Cavalry with a sick and tired division?

In any case, it's time to consider retreating. But the bigwigs of the forbidden army are gone, it's too embarrassing. They are known as the first army in the world, but they can't take the projectile Taiyuan. How can you brag to others when you return to Bianliang in the future? Led by Zhao Tinghan, they went to the emperor to ask for battle, asking for another attack, and were willing to die in exchange for victory. Zhao Kuangyin once again showed his superb emotional intelligence to convince people's hearts, and helped those generals up, his face was full of pity, "You are all trained by me, and you can all be a hundred." Today I would rather not have Taiyuan, than let you take any more risks and go to the place of death" The voice of ten thousand years resounded throughout the camp! I've seen a dash, but I've never seen a retreat so chic.

At this time, the second batch of reinforcements from the Liao State had arrived in the west of Taiyuan City under the leadership of their northern court king, Yelu Wuzhen. Instead of attacking, they beat drums and raised fire. sent messages to Liu Jiyuan and Zhao Kuangyin inside and outside the city at the same time. And there are signs that the king of the Southern Courtyard of Liao, Yelu Xian, has also been dispatched and is rushing to come. The Liao State sent such a high-level king of the two courts, leaving Zhao Kuangyin with only one choice: withdraw the army immediately! Li Guangzan and Zhao Pu persuaded him in this way.

On May 7, Zhao Kuangyin finally made up his mind to withdraw his troops. On the 16th, we departed from Taiyuan. On June 18, he returned to Kaifeng.

Zhao Kuangyin originally thought that Taiyuan was like a big rooster, and he crowed on it every day so that he couldn't live in peace, so he rushed into the chicken coop to snatch the big rooster, but he didn't expect to meet the resistance of the big rooster who would rather die than obey. There was no way, he had to retreat covered in bruises. But Zhao Kuangyin didn't do anything good, he stole the gentle hen away, so that the big rooster lost the hen, and he couldn't lay eggs to maintain the offspring, and the destruction of the big rooster was doomed.

The gentle hens are more than 10,000 households of the Northern Han Dynasty. On the 14th, Zhao Kuangyin sent 17 messengers in a row, moving more than 10,000 households near Taiyuan to Shandong and Henan. All right! Please follow me to the Great Song Dynasty to enjoy the blessings, give you food, land, houses, and protection. In order to show goodwill, the generous Zhao Kuangyin also gave each person a piece of cloth, and sent the forbidden army officers to recruit soldiers among the people. Zhao Kuangyin is knowledgeable, and the people of Taiyuan have proved their iron and blood, and recruiting these people to come in can supplement the great blood loss of the forbidden army, and they can be merged in the future.

Zhao Kuangyin left, with a wave of his hand, took away the lifeline of the Northern Han Dynasty, 10 years later the Northern Han surrendered, the then emperor Zhao Guangyi conducted a population census, the whole territory of the Northern Han Dynasty only 35,230 households, 30,000 soldiers. Later Jin Shi was already poor with 7 households raising 1 soldier, and the Northern Han Dynasty, which raised 1 soldier in 1 household, was even poorer......

But fortunately, Zhao Kuangyin didn't seem to want to kill them all, and he later left 300,000 stone grain and tens of thousands of tea silks. This may be regarded as a little comfort to the bullied Northern Han. And the Northern Han is more like a poor man who has been robbed, after being robbed of everything, the robber suddenly turned around and dropped a hundred yuan: leave you some taxi money.

The Northern Han finally won the Battle of Taiyuan, which was their second victory over the Central Plains powerhouse after repelling Chai Rong. Of course, this victory belongs to their strong character and indomitable soul, but it is more like there is an element of luck in it. If it weren't for the Song Dynasty agents who suddenly had a seizure and killed the weak Liu Jien, how could they have ushered in the big-nerve Liu Jiyuan? If it weren't for the anti-bone boy Guo Wuwei who was too selfish, maybe the high-level leaders of the Northern Han Dynasty would have surrendered, and if it weren't for the fact that Han Zhifan happened to be in the city, there would be a big question mark over whether Taiyuan City could be defended. If it weren't for the pile of god-like grass, Taiyuan City might have become a pool dragon palace. When the Song army retreated, the Taiyuan people rebuilt their homes and began to divert the river that had surrounded them for more than a month. When the water receded, the walls that had been soaked for a long time could no longer support them, and they collapsed one after another. The Liao envoy Han Zhifan pointed to the collapsed city walls everywhere and sighed, "The Song army led water to flood the city, knowing one and not knowing the other, if it was soaked first and then drained, Taiyuan would have been finished long ago."

Han Zhifan was sighing that he was lucky, a Han man was looking at this Khitan man with a cold gaze behind him. Liu Jiye, a national hero who is not indebted and righteous and not confused! In the small righteousness, he is loyal to the Lord, and he spares no effort to protect Taiyuan and the emperor, but in the general righteousness, he can think about the problem from the perspective of the whole nation. We have seen many heroes who stand up to the sky and the earth in righteousness, but are slandered in small sections, such as the foolish and loyal Yue Fei. I have also seen many people who are cautious in small sections and confused in righteousness, such as Feng Dao, who has been scolded so far.

Liu Jiye was different, this would make his gaze look beyond Han Zhifan and fall on the camp outside Taiyuan City, where the Song army had just withdrawn, which was Yelu slanted tens of thousands of late Liao reinforcements. They're late, but can they get paid less? I'm afraid that it won't be long before they will relapse into their old ways and go around fighting grass valleys.

Liu Jiye found the emperor Liu Jiyuan, and put a bold idea out of the tray, "The Khitan is greedy for profit and abandons the letter, he will break our country one day, today is a good opportunity, they are arrogant and unprepared, they can take the opportunity to attack, rob their horses, and then return to China with the land east of the river, then the Jin people will be free from charcoal, and His Majesty will enjoy wealth and nobility for a long time" Like a little unkind, people come all the way to help the war, you still want to eat black and black? But if you think about it, the Liao State came to aid each other, and if you stick to morality, you can only say that it is too pedantic (Chinese have suffered too many pedantic losses, and what to convince people with virtue is the most typical summary.) We forget that sometimes we should retaliate with a tooth for a tooth) Liu Jiye This is a bold and wonderful idea, so the plan can be successful, the Khitan and the two kings will be captured, the Liao State is bound to be weak, and the Great Song Dynasty will get the Northern Han Dynasty, and then tens of thousands of war horses, Yanyun lost ground will be recovered soon. This is a plan that can be inversely proportional to Shi Jingtang's betrayal of the country. A merit in the millennium, a clever plan to enrich the people.

It's a pity that this plan was not approved by Liu Jiyuan, the supreme ruler of the Northern Han Dynasty. It is too dangerous, if successful, it is also cheap Song Dynasty; If it fails, and the enemy is in front of you, isn't that the disaster of extermination? This plan was abandoned.

Of course, Zhao Kuangyin had no way of knowing that the Taiyuan city wall would fall down by itself, and if he knew it, he would definitely make a comeback. I won't know Liu Jiye's wonderful plan. If he knew that he would be willing to drink three cups with Liu Jiye. Zhao Kuangyin is sad at this time, and Taiyuan has become his sad place. He had to reconsider his unifying strategy. Yes, it's time to dig out the textbooks of the predecessors and take a look. He revisited the order written on Wang Puping's side strategy: first to the south, then to Yanyun, and then to Taiyuan.

On October 25, Zhao Kuangyin once again invited people to drink in the palace. Zhao Kuangyin is the emperor who brought Chinese wine culture and money culture to the extreme. Eating people's mouths is soft, and other people's wine has never been so delicious, especially Zhao Kuangyin's. Such embarrassing things as seizing military power and dismissing official positions, Zhao Kuangyin has always done it on the wine table.

Zhao Kuangyin frequently raised his glass and praised several festival envoys for their diligence and love for the people in the local area, and made outstanding contributions to the stability of the country and the happiness of the people. Earnestly study the new national policy, deeply understand and unswervingly support and cooperate. Everyone is very moved, these days have suffered a lot of grievances, and have suffered a lot of general judgments, transfer envoys and other civil official exclusions. But it turns out that the emperor still has us old people in his heart. Moved, these people said: I want to thank the emperor and the Great Song Dynasty for their brilliant achievements, and after the last, they said: My parents gave birth to me and raised me, and I also want to thank my parents.

Soon, the amount of alcohol was up to say something unacceptable. Lovers like to say they love you when they're drunk and then say they don't love you when they're sober. And politics is the opposite.

Zhao Kuangyin's congratulatory speech "The people of the motherland will not forget you, and the emperor and I will not forget you" This sentence made some knots make me a little confused, how can it sound like a farewell to the body?

Of course, this is not a farewell to the body, this is to let them say goodbye to their official position. Zhao Kuangyin said, "You have been working in the local area for too long and too tired, I can't bear it, you are all transferred to the capital to enjoy Qingfu." For the common people, it is impossible to ask for it, but for civil servants, it is impossible.

These knots make it clear that the emperor wants them to be laid off! Fengxiang Festival made Wang Yanchao understand that "the old minister has no merit, but he has received so many years of honor." Now that I'm old, it's time to make way for the youngsters. Retirement, I want to be "Wang Yanchao is so sensible, not for no reason. When Zhao Kuangyin defected to him when he was in the dragon, he sent this future king like a beggar. Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, he didn't blame him, he was already thankful, of course he didn't dare to occupy the official position anymore.

Of course, there are also ignorant ones. People can have something out of nothing, and they can't have something out of nothing. Let these vested interests and rights holders let go at once, and they are reluctant: Anyuan Jiedu makes Wu Xingde, Protecting the country makes Guo Congyi, Anguo Jiedu makes Bai Chongzan, and Baoda Jiedu makes Yang Tingzhang. They all talked about the past like children fighting for merit, what I had done in the Jin Dynasty, and what great achievements I had made to the people of the country. What I have been innovative and successful in the political affairs of the Zhou Dynasty. Some even complained bitterly, I used to fight, I was a dung ball, to show how difficult it is for me to have today, how can I easily dismiss the office? The emperor felt a little cute, and even a little annoyed: Isn't it as ridiculous and ridiculous as taking the sword of the former dynasty Shang Fang to behead the officials of the court? Besides, Shi Shouxin's gang of founding heroes can let go, why are you still obsessed with the past? The emperor waved his hand lightly, and wiped out all their past, "This is a different generation, what is enough" Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand again, and these first thanked the emperor, and then thanked their parents for all the envoys who were laid off. Of course, Zhao Kuangyin is generous, and he has left them a good position to support the elderly. Gone are the golden age of the festival.

Following the last time the military power of the forbidden army generals was collected, this time it is known as the second time that the military power was released with a glass of wine.

From then on, the Great Song Dynasty was the world of literati.

Slow! The world has not yet been decided, and you literati are seizing power too fast, right? At present, the Southern Han Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty, and Youyan are everywhere where our generals play a small universe.