The repeated victories on the front line gradually aroused the confidence of the monarch and the ministers.

In fact, it was not until Song Jiu came back in the summer of the third year that the real reason was revealed.

And put forward a new tactic, which will be an enhanced version of the shallow attack tactics of Zhang Qi.

Then Song Jiu introduced another tactic, which was an extended version of the shallow attack tactic with an offensive nature in the chain.

Now Song Jiu does not have this ability, the Northeast has given Song Jiu room to grow in the past two years, and from the consideration of economy and people's livelihood, the military thinking of the last two years has gradually matured.

However, now Song Jiu is in Liaodong......

For what the Song Dynasty will win these battles, maybe others will say that Zhao Yanjin and Li Jilong dare to take responsibility, and several main generals cooperate perfectly, and Pan Yang is a first-class famous general. But that's not the root point.

The first one happened on the border, when the terrain was human, and the Song Dynasty was not at a disadvantage.

The second is that the troops it uses are the local garrisons, and there is no need for the rear to provide grain and grass materials, let alone the people who escort the grain and grass, at most the imperial court will pay some rewards and pensions, and the combat cost is small, and it will not seriously harm the people's livelihood.

Third, because the troops used are stationed in the local area, they are familiar with the terrain and the weather, so their combat effectiveness is stronger.

But compared to the Song Dynasty defenders, the Khitans were the opposite. Compared with the border defense war, the army of the Song Dynasty in the Gaoliang River was also the opposite. It can be ignored if it has an absolute superiority in military strength, but it cannot be ignored when the two countries have similar military strength. Such as the next Jerushuge.

It is this premise that hurts a person, a homesick person.

Hou Renbao has a good life for most of his life, first of all, he has a good father. His father, Hou Yi, was originally a martial artist and was brave in battle. became a general of the Later Tang Dynasty, and Hou Yi betrayed the Later Jin Dynasty successively. Later Han, relying on a keen political vision. Every time, he looked at the master, and after the most reluctance, he threw himself into the arms of Hou Zhou and gained a prominent political status.

Later, the status of the rivers and lakes is not shallow. Including Zhao Kuangyin, he also gave him the status of prime minister. Hou Renbao has a good fate and a good brother-in-law. After Zhao Pu's career, Hou Renbao married Zhao Pu's little sister as his wife. From then on, his happy times came.

However, life is not always easy.

With Zhao Pu's loss of power, Lu Duoxun was trusted by Zhao Kuangyin, and at Lu Duoxun's suggestion, Hou Renbao was appointed as the governor of Yongzhou.

Put it in the history of the previous life. It's not too sad, after Fan Yu's governance, Yongzhou has become the most prosperous place on Guangnan West Road, and it is better than Guizhou. It also had a name, Nanning, which became the capital of Guangxi in the future.

This life is even less tragic, under the governance of Song Jiu, the entire Guangnan has changed with each passing day in recent years.

But when northerners go to the south, they always have some discomfort.

A year or two. Three or four years is enough.

Hou Renbao has done well in the past few years, at least he can't be regarded as a faint official, but he has always become a forgotten corner, and he has been staying for nine years.

Seeing that he is going to run for seven. Homesick, there is actually another way, that is, to resign and return to the hometown. Then it was Ludosun. People are in their sixties and are completely ready to retire. This is the Song Dynasty. Not the dark Ming Dynasty.

But Hou Renbao didn't want to quit officialdom like this, so he thought hard about a good strategy.

Here's your chance.

It happened that the Jiaozhou Festival made Ding Lian die. Li Heng was in power, Hou Renbao wrote a memora to Zhao Kuangyi, Your Majesty, the current situation of Jiaozhou is chaotic, and the imperial court can conquer Jiaozhou with a small number of troops, I hope to take a stagecoach to quickly rush back to the capital, and describe the specific strategy to you in person, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Let's talk about the situation in Jiaozhou.

At that time, Song Jiu withdrew, and Pan Mei also agreed, for her own reasons. At that time, the number of troops in Quang Nam was relatively small, and because some barbarians did not submit to the rebellion, they had to divide their troops to suppress it. If Jiaozhou is calm, maybe Song Jiu and Pan Mei will also occupy Jiaozhi. However, the resistance of the local people is fierce, coupled with the complex terrain, there are many tropical rainforest terrains. It's still easy to occupy, and without the assistance of the imperial court, Jiaozhou can be occupied, but Pan Mei and Song Jiu both hesitated. If you want to occupy it, you must suppress it for a long time, Liu Gang burned the treasury, plus Zhao Pu was in power, and there were some small contradictions with Song Jiu. The imperial court was unlikely to support it. Then troops must be requisitioned from Quang Nam and materials must be mobilized. The whole of Quang Nam is no longer benevolent, but has become a harsh government in Quang Nam. And this dozen, at least for several years, because of Zhao Pu, the variables are too great.

So the troops were hastily withdrawn.

There are still changes, weakening the strength of Jiaozhou, making Jiaozhou more impoverished, and at the same time supporting several large tribes close to the Song Dynasty in the Langshan area, resulting in Jiaozhou still not taking the northwest mountainous area.

However, it is a country after all, if it is so easy to occupy, Pan Mei will also occupy it at that time, and there are also famous generals such as Yin Chongke and Wang Ming in Guangnan, why wait until today.

Of course, now that the situation in Quang Nam has improved, no matter the economy, the number of people, or the number of troops that can be used, it is not comparable to that of Quang Nam at the beginning. However, where is the general who can get his hands on Quang Nam? Hou Renbao?

Speaking of the situation of the states and counties, except for the ministers who have a good relationship, the first place to arrive is in the Zhongshu, not the palace.

Hou Renbao folded it to the middle book, and several prime ministers presented it to Zhao Kuangyi, who was very happy and decided to summon Hou Renbao back to Beijing as soon as possible.

But as long as he comes back, can he let the old man in his sixties go to Quang Nam again?

It seems that Hou Renbao is looking home.

However, it is not Song Jiu who handles government affairs in the DPRK and China, if Song Jiu is at most witty and ridiculed, your years are getting higher and higher, and you want to return to the Central Plains to support your days, you can just speak plainly, why bother to put state affairs at a disadvantage?

Then Hou Renbao will come back, at most he will be demoted, and the imperial court will not rush to crusade against Jiaozhou. But Song Jiu was not there. There is one more person who understands, Pan Mei. But Pan Mei is in Hedong and has no right to interfere in national affairs.

At this time, Lu Duosun spoke: "Your Majesty, the civil strife in Jiaozhou is indeed a godsend, the imperial court should be taken by surprise and lead the troops to raid, if Renbao is summoned first, Jiaozhou will be measured and prepared, and it will be difficult for us to capture Jiaozhou at that time." It is better to let Renbao be the transfer envoy of Jiaozhou, prepare grain and grass in advance, and at the same time select generals to lead 120,000 Tunjinghu soldiers to go together, so that the conquest of Jiaozhou is like destroying the withering and decaying. ”

Zhao Kuangyi agreed to Lu Duoxun's request, with Hou Renbao as the water and land transfer envoy in Jiaozhou, Sun Quanxing launched an attack by land from Yongzhou, and Liu Cheng set out from Guangzhou to launch an attack by water. wants to replicate the tactics of Song Jiu and Pan Mei......

It will take several months to prepare for this battle. However, Hou Renbao was dumbfounded after receiving the edict.

This victory over the Song Dynasty could not occupy Jiaozhou, and the troops were too small. There is no name general. The defeat of the Song Dynasty will not hurt the muscles and bones, but there will be some trouble later. Actually, it's still the north. If there is no containment from the north, and even as long as Li Jiqian is not given a chance to rise, Jiaozhou is nothing.

However, this edict had a far-reaching impact, and finally made Zhao Pu wipe his face and conscience, and it also became Lu Duoxun's funeral. But Jiaozhou did not put Zhao Kuangyi on his heart, and after the edict was issued, he did not ask again.

A country is strong, not only military, but also civil.

Since the crusade against Taiyuan. The war continues, but the people do not complain, this is the credit of governance.

First, the embankments of the three states of Zhiwei, Lan and Pu, and then the embankments of the three states of Ji, Bei and Zheng. Then chisel the new river at the boundary of Wei's county ninety miles, and it is finished in a few decades, and the residents benefit it.

Cheng Neng wrote that the civil servitude in the state capitals was not graded, and there was an unevenness, and it was hoped that it would be divided into nine grades. The upper fourth-class households are ordered to be enslaved, and the lower fifth-class households are exempted. That is, the original fifth class was classified as the ninth class, and it was clearly stipulated that poor households below the fifth class were exempted from military service. It can't really be fully enforced, but it can be put forward in feudal countries. There is undoubtedly a positive significance. Zhao Kuangyi is allowed.

Zhuzhou Ma Duo died, and Li Ge sat in prison to prescribe Xuzhou, and stole 250 stones. 1,500 horses were killed, and the machinery was sent to His Majesty. and the chamberlain Liang Shouzhong and the three officials were killed in the city. beheaded the eunuch Feng Yanchen, and sat on the ministry to repair the military base and entered the official tile wood without permission. Yangwu County ordered Zhang Xiyong to sit with Zhao Zan, the chief official, and steal 234 official money from Xianyu and himself. It was verified that both of them were killed with rods.

The first case may have been the death of 1,500 horses, the second case was a grieving eunuch, and the third case was a true scholar. After embezzling only 234 times, he was beheaded for public display. Later, I learned that Song Jiu was at a loss, Zhao Da killed corrupt officials, and Zhao Er killed corrupt officials, so where did Zhao Da's punishment come from?

But Song Jiu admired Zhao Er's approach.

It's okay to have a high salary, but if you are greedy with a high salary, you must be killed.

The eighth section made Duan Renzhi major in Tiansi Prison, built a courtyard wall, invaded Jingyangmen Street and residential houses, and the people denounced it, which was for the public service, but Zhao Kuang was angry, and Duan Renzhi was demoted to Chongyi's deputy envoy.

The three divisions made Wang Renzhen play secretly, and the close ministers and relatives sent many cronies to the city of Zhumu and Qin Longjian, and connected the giant raft to the capital, and did not pay taxes.

Zhao Kuangyi sent people to investigate, and Fan Yu, the deputy envoy of the Third Division and one of Zhao Kuangyi's cronies, was demoted to Fangzhou, Du Zai, the judge of the household department, was demoted to Guizhou, and Cheng Dexuan, the minister of the Sifang Pavilion, Liu Zhixin, the envoy of Wude, Du Yanqi, the envoy of Hanlin, Dou Renbao, the deputy envoy of Wude, the deputy envoy of Wude, Zhao Yanpu, the commander of the four compartments of the Japanese cavalry, and Qi Tingxun, the general of the left guard, were all condemned to surrender. Wang Chengyan, Shi Baoji, and Wei Xianxin were each fined one year. Liu Zhixin is also the son of Empress Dowager Du's sister, and Du Yanqi is Du Xianqiong's son. Zhao Kuangyi's confidant minister Cheng Neng was demoted to a general because he sat on Cheng Dexuan and smuggled bamboo forests and did not tell him.

There is another person, Lu Duan, who once asked for a deacon for Zhao Yanmei's confidant Qiao Lian, and he was even more sad, not only settled in Shangzhou, but also put a heavy flail on him, and walked more than a thousand miles to Shangzhou.

Lu Duan's is not counted, it is Zhao Yanmei, and the others are Zhao Er's attention to the officialdom.

But don't forget that behind these good governance, there is another person, Lu Duoson.

If there is no Hou Renbao, maybe he can really re-examine Lu Duoxun.

Song Liao fought again.

After the defeat at Yanmen Pass, Liao Jingzong was furious, but this time the revenge came a little slowly, until the winter moon.

The reason why this is so is because of the Khitan forces and the result of military manufacturing.

The military system of the Song Dynasty is not complicated, the ban on the box soldier system, after the real power of the festival is removed, the forbidden army is in rotation, and the box soldiers have completely become auxiliary troops, escorting two taxes, building bridges and paving roads, and guarding the prison city......

However, with the expansion of the territory of the Song Dynasty and the scale of warfare, the forbidden army rotation system could not meet the requirements, so there were village soldiers, Tibetan soldiers, native soldiers, as well as strong men, archers and other types of military or disguised military service.

The Khitan military system is simple and complex, and the core strength is the Huluduo system, followed by the permanent troops stationed in each country, and the temporary troops drawn from various tribes when the war comes.

The garrison was divided into five major theaters, the Yanyun theater, which was dominated by Han soldiers, and became more and more important as the situation in Song and Liao deteriorated.

The Northwest Pacification Division was mainly used to deal with the Ugu, the enemy and the Tatars, these tribes rebelled and obeyed, and the war was continuous, and a strong army was necessary to deter them.

The southwest road is mainly to deal with the party, and now it is not very important, mainly to take care of the Datong army.

Tokyo Unification Division, defense of Goryeo, about 10,000 garrisons,

There is also the custody of the Jurchens in the Northeast, and this army is divided into two places, Huanglongfu and Xianzhou. After the abolition of Huanglong Mansion, it was changed to Tongzhou. This force is not much, about five or six thousand soldiers and horses.

Taken together, these forces did not exceed 300,000 soldiers.

However, everyone in the Khitan is a soldier, and theoretically more than one million soldiers and horses can be raised immediately, such as the rise of Wanyan Aguta, the Liao State is desperate, and almost a million soldiers and horses have been gathered to fight.

However, this is only a theory, if it is true that everyone is a soldier, and the huge supply cost, not to mention the Liao State, even the Song Dynasty will be dragged down and the country will die.

Yanmen Pass was defeated, and Liao Jingzong saw that it was not enough to take revenge on the Song Dynasty, so he requisitioned 200,000 soldiers and horses.

This was almost the limit of the Khitan attack on the Song Dynasty, so it was very difficult to operate, and it was delayed until the winter moon, when 200,000 soldiers and horses were assembled, starting from Youzhou and going straight to Waqiao Pass.

And there was a famous general Yelu Hugo in the 200,000 army, and the sky over Hebei was cloudy for a while. (To be continued......)