At the end of September, the Liao army entered the Song realm, and the first target was Baozhou. Late one night, Shi Pu, the vanguard officer of the Song army, and Yang Si, the governor of Baozhou, launched a night attack, but the Khitans had already prepared. A fierce battle, Shi and Yang gradually lost their support. But there is also Tian Shaobin, the chief vanguard of the Song army. He led his troops to respond and attack with all his might. The result of the battle was that the Liao army was defeated and retreated, and the first battle was forced back to China by the Song army!

But the Liao army came back right away. On 24 October, they turned to their second target, the city of Suicheng, a Weilu army northeast of Baozhou. This city is located in a critical area, but the city is very small, to put it bluntly, it is a super large logistics support station. But to the surprise of the Liao army, this small Suicheng actually stood no matter how they attacked it! If they continued to fight, they suddenly discovered that the defender of this city was actually Yang Yanzhao!

Yang Yanzhao asked for help from Fu Qian, the commander-in-chief of the front line, while trying his best to hold the city and drag the enemy firmly by his side. Let's take a look at an astonishing comparison of numbers: Yang Yanzhao's total number of people in the city is only 3,000. And the city is the main force of the Liao army, and the emperor and the empress dowager herself personally supervised the battle... But Yang Yanzhao didn't expect any reinforcements to come... Where is Fu Qian?

One night in late October of the lunar calendar, a cold snap hit. Yang Yanzhao took advantage of this opportunity to immediately gather all the old and young in the city, and everyone splashed the city with water. The next morning, the Liao army saw that the walls of Suicheng were shining with silver light, all of which were covered with thick layers of ice... The Khitan people sighed at the ice, this city can no longer be climbed.

This is the second generation of Yang Liulang of the Yang family! He was as loyal and tenacious as his father, but like his father, he fought alone and was abandoned by his comrades... After the first battle of Suicheng, Yang Yanzhao's prestige resounded in Song Liao, "Liulang" did not mean that he was the sixth in the family, but the Khitan people were superstitious, believing that the sixth main town in the Big Dipper, Youyan North, was their nemesis, and Yang Yanzhao was the human incarnation of that star.

So at the head of the city full of ice and snow, Yang Yanzhao proudly watched the Liao army retreat. But suddenly he was shocked! Because of the direction of the retreat of the Liao army... As the general of the Great Song Border Pass, he knew too well what that meant!

The Liao army suddenly penetrated deep into the Song territory... Right to the point! This is the most Achilles' heel of the Great Song Dynasty's defense system - the cities scattered along the border passes are just scattered strongholds, with huge gaps in between. They are not continuous Great Walls, as long as the enemy dares to intersperse, they will easily break into the interior of the Great Song Dynasty!

At this point, there is only one way! The field troops of the Great Song Dynasty! Where is Fu Qian? Where are his more than 80,000 field troops?

Not to mention Yang Yanzhao, even Song Zhenzong didn't know the answer! Fu Qian disappeared out of thin air, and the battle situation on Hebei Road deteriorated sharply. And at this time, the weather has turned into ice, Yang Yanzhao can freeze Suicheng, can't the Liao army freeze the Yellow River? Once the Yellow River is breached. Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, will be directly exposed to alien swords and guns!

In a desperate situation, Wang Jiying, the steward of the Privy Council, found the emperor and proposed the last trick to save the empire's safety - Your Majesty, there is no other way, please drive in person!

An official named Liu Kai also wrote a letter suggesting that the new emperor follow his three predecessors, Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhao Guangyi, each of whom had been to the front line to resist the invasion of the enemy country!

Perhaps this was the fate of the emperors of the early Song Dynasty... Zhao Heng had no choice, on November 16, he ordered to go to the front line in person the following month!

30th. Ordered Prime Minister Li Xin to stay in Tokyo. On December 2, Zhang Yongde, the oldest former general, was appointed to take charge of the security of the Jingshi. On the 5th, the emperor led 200,000 forbidden troops from the capital to march for the first time!

15th. The army came to the Daimyo's Mansion. At this time, there was finally news of Fu Qian, which made Zhao Heng's face turn blue with anger, and the whole army was in an uproar. I can't believe that he was the vanguard officer of the First Northern Expedition in the era of Zhao Guangyi. The famous general who won the field battle with the Khitans actually became so cowardly and shameless!

He led an elite army of 80,000 and has been stationed in Dingzhou City safely and securely, without any losses. Watching his compatriots outside the city being wantonly slaughtered by the Khitans. But no matter who came to ask for war, they all scolded and drove away directly after scolding. Just like what a shameful and humiliating thing it is for him to go to war as a soldier!

Now Qin Han, the superintendent of the army, and Fan Ting, the chief general of Dingzhou, have been summoned. It's useless, Fu Qian still can't fight. was so angry that Fan Tingzhao scolded in the handsome tent, "Fu Qian, you are a coward, you are just a girl", but Fu Qian still said: I didn't hear anything, let's disperse... Fan Tingzhao and Qin Han had nothing to say, so they could only walk with their legs raised. Finally, Deputy Marshal Zhang Zhaoyun couldn't sit still. He is the deputy marshal, and after this matter is the most embarrassing, it is not Fu Qian's alone, he will also be responsible (and then it turned out), so he came to ask Fu Qian what this is for. Fu Qian smiled and said, "The enemy is too rampant. At this time, we will go out of the battle and our sharp spirit will be bruised..."faint!" If this Song army still has sharp energy, it would have been bruised by himself a long time ago, right?

In the end, Fu Qianqian gave in to the call of the whole army for battle. He allowed Fan Tingzhao to go into battle with 8,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, and promised to respond later. In this way, the Song army finally began to counterattack...

On January 4, 1000, the 3rd year of Xianping, Fan Tingzhao led his army to Pei Village, southwest of Yingzhou City, the center of the Liao army. But he knew that his 10,000 men would not be able to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army. For this reason, he asked for help from Kang Baoyi, the general of Gaoyang Pass, and the two agreed to join forces in the early morning of the next day to challenge the Liao army...

Historical accounts diverge here. One theory: Late at night on the 4th, Fan Tingzhao suddenly and quietly withdrew for unknown reasons (the biography of Kangbao). Another version: On the evening of the 4th, Fan Tingzhao's troops were tightly entangled by the Liao army, so they failed to appear at the appointed time the next day (actual record). But the final result was that in the early morning of the 5th, Kang Baoyi and his incomplete army suddenly found themselves isolated and surrounded by the Liao army...

On the line of life and death, his subordinates persuaded Kang Bao to change his clothes and escape. Kang replied sharply, "There is no need to avoid difficulties, this is the day I will die" rushed back and forth for dozens of rounds, and the Song army was shot with all the arrows in the end, and Kang Baoyi and his subordinates were all drowned in the Liao army... There was no one to support them.

All this made the emperor stationed in the daimyo's mansion extremely angry. He ordered Gao Qiong to replace Fu Qian as the commander-in-chief of the front, and ordered Fu Qian to immediately go to the imperial camp to meet him. As early as December 27 last year, many officials were negligent about Fu Qian's beheading! But on the 7th, the verdict was unexpected: coach Fu Qian and deputy marshal Zhang Zhaoyun were pardoned for capital crimes, stripped of their official positions, and exiled from their homes, one to Fangzhou and the other to Tongzhou.

The Song army regrouped and prepared for a general offensive. But they found that the enemy was gone. The Liao army suddenly retreated. Walking on the way back to Youzhou with a large number of looted supplies...

There was no time to speculate on the reason for the withdrawal of the Liao army, so Zhao Heng sent Wang Rong to lead 5,000 elite cavalry to pursue quickly. But Wang Rong was as timid as Fu Qian, but he followed the Liao army that crossed the river, and did not dare to pursue... But don't forget, there's also Fan Tingzhao!

Fan Tingzhao suddenly activated and led his troops to kill more than ten times the enemy. Finally caught up with the Liao soldiers in Mozhou. At this time, Fan Tingzhao's troops were full of more than 10,000 people, but his record was actually more than 10,000 Liao troops, and countless captive civilians and saddle horse weapons were recaptured...

On the 12th, Fan Ting summoned an envoy to report the victory. Zhao Hengyu wrote "Xijie Poem" and rewarded meritorious soldiers. But Li Chonggui, the deputy general of Kangbao's ancestry, sighed, "The general is dying, and my generation is calculating, what kind of face is it?"

The reason for the withdrawal of the Liao army has become a mystery. The answer will not be revealed in more than 4 years, but this time the war is over...

On the 16th, Zhao Heng drove back from the Daimyo's mansion and arrived at the Deqing army on the same day, and the emperor received an astonishing news: just when he was driving his own expedition, Shuchuan rebelled again. And this time the danger factor suddenly increased, because it was no longer the starving riots of Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun and others, but the sudden mutiny of the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty stationed in Chengdu.

Not to mention Zhang Yong, the most capable magistrate has been transferred to Hangzhou. At this time, the governor of Yizhou was called Niu Mian. In contrast, the army director at this time was a high-ranking cadre. Fu Zhaoshou, the son of the famous Fu Yanqing.

Chengdu Jinguancheng has become a large-scale catwalk for Fu Dagongzi to show his unique beauty. He was obsessed with Shu brocade... A general doesn't care about any military affairs. Spend all day searching for skilled brocade weavers, gather them together, and weave them in different patterns. As for the raw materials, he carried forward the glorious tradition of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty in Chengdu. Never shell out...

Fu Gongzi has 2 Du Yu Hou under him: Dong Fu and Wang Jun are in charge of the army. Dong Fu led his troops very strictly, at least on the surface, his soldiers were disciplined. Code of Conduct. And Wang Jun is different, he belongs to the type who has no official frame and mingles with his subordinates, so it is inevitable that people will feel that military discipline is lax...

Fu Gongzi, who pays attention to aesthetics, decided to divide them into layers. Giving benefits to the Dong Fu Corps, especially the wearing of armor, made it more beautiful and vigorous. As for Wang Jun's ruffian soldiers...

On the same day that Zhao Heng's army arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, on December 15, 999, Chengdu City also held a military exercise. The common people are crowded with people watching the excitement. One of the 2 corps is vivid, and the other is grizzled... I'm not afraid that everyone is poor, but I'm afraid that the rich and the poor will be big... The day's military exercise ended with an angry scolding from Wang Jun's subordinates. But Fu Zhaoshou, Niu Mian and others didn't care at all, they were thinking about how to spend the 1000-year-old Spring Festival...

On this day of the Millennium New Year, Wang Jun's subordinate soldiers named Zhao Yanshun rebelled, suddenly killed Fu Zhaoshou, and then rushed into the arsenal fully armed, killing the high-ranking officials who were drinking in the yamen at this time... Niu Mian and Zhang Shi escaped in an instant... Only one named Liu Shaorong was organizing the suppression. The rebel soldiers, led by Zhao Yanshun, wanted to elect Liu as their leader, but Liu Yanci refused... Also present at this time was the prison army Wang Duo. History has proven that this person was the most crucial figure in making this soldier take shape. He yelled at Wang Jun: "Your soldiers have rebelled!" It's up to you to settle it."

Wang Jun had no choice but to clean up the mess. As soon as the two sides came into contact, Zhao Yanshun immediately proposed that General Wang be our leader, and we support you! Wang Jun's mutiny happened like this...

On the 3rd, Hanzhou fell, and Niu Mian and others fled to Dongchuan... Next, Wang Jun attacked Mianzhou Buke, and personally led people to kill the throat of Shuchuan, the key point of Jianmen Pass...

The above is the news that Zhao Heng got in the Deqing army on the way back to Korea. Quickly appointed Lei Youzhong as the commander of the rebellion, Li Hui, Shi Pu, and Li Shoulun as generals, and led 8,000 forbidden troops into Shu to quell the chaos. He also sent Shangguan Zheng, Li Jichang, Gao Jixun, and Wang Ruan to follow up and cooperate.

Diligent. First of all, Lei Youzhong is a civilian official. Let the civilian officials lead the troops as the commander, this is the first time in the history of the Song Dynasty. This idea kills two birds with one stone, first of all, to avoid the crisis that if you enter Shuchuan, you may close the door and become an emperor. Second, I can also take the opportunity of domestic counterinsurgency to see the achievements of civilian officials in the war...

And Wang Jun was confronting Li Shiheng, the guard of Jianmen at this time. On the 18th, the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty had not yet arrived, and Yang Huaizhong, the governor of Shuzhou, wanted to take advantage of Wang Jun's absence to make the first contribution. He is ready to attack Chengdu and take out the rebels' lair. But he probably forgot that the Chengdu garrison was the most elite in Shu, and he actually dared to come to the door to fight? Wang Jun's subordinates went out of the city directly, and in the Jiangdu Temple outside the city, the two sides fought solidly for a whole day. The winner is clear, how did Lord Yang come here and how to go back...

On the 22nd, Zhao Heng returned to Kaifeng. On the 27th, Wang Jun returned to Chengdu.

In February, Zhang Sijun recovered Hanzhou and joined forces with Lei Youzhong, officially starting the counterinsurgency.

On the 15th, the privy envoy Wang Xian was dismissed for shielding Fu Qian. It was succeeded by Zhou Ying and Wang Jiying.

On the 19th, the four gates of Chengdu City were opened, and the people were all inside. Li Jichang said that this city could not be entered, and it was obviously an empty city plan. But Lei Youzhong, Shangguan Zheng, Shi Pu and others were disdainful. So the army entered the city, and after entering the city, the old problem flared up. The army scattered in a hurry and attacked from all sides, targeting every luxury store in Chengdu plus the beautiful Sichuan girl... Suddenly, the gates of the city closed, and Wang Jun's rebels appeared. Li Hui was killed on the spot, and Lei Youzhong walked down the rope from the top of the city to barely save his life and retreat to Hanzhou. Wang Jun arrested the common people who had escaped from Chengdu, and dismantled their entire families on the street, in order to scare everyone. Then he gathered all the young and middle-aged people in the city and gave him to serve as soldiers. To ensure his loyalty, he first tattooed on their hands, then cut off their hair, tattooed words on their faces...

On April 3, Zhao Heng's great benefactor and former prime minister Lu Duan died.

On the 9th, Wang Jun made a sneak attack on the official army, but was defeated by Lei Youzhong. Wang Jun fled back to Chengdu on his own.

On the 25th, Niu Mian and Zhang Shi were cut off. One was exiled to Danzhou, and the other went to Lianzhou to join the army... (To be continued......)