Chapter 36: God's Darling
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Lu Qingqing hoped that her husband could spend the New Year at home before leaving, but Yun Zheng just smiled and shook his head, it stands to reason that the head of the family can go to guard the border pass, and he can take a concubine, even if Lu Qingqing is very unwilling, he still plans to send Ge Qiuyan to Yanmen Pass, this matter was rejected by Yun Zheng, and women are not allowed in his army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is Yun Zheng's bottom line, he found that the role of the chief general in the Great Song Dynasty is very obvious, if he is not afraid, his army will not be afraid, if he rushes forward, his subordinates will rush forward, if he does not take women to the battlefield, other generals will not dare to take women to the battlefield, if he does not show favoritism, others will not have the courage to show favoritism, once he enters the army, thousands of pairs of eyes are staring at him, even if his own force is low, when the whole army needs to attack, he still has to go into battle, no one can replace him.
In the past, Yun Zheng thought that it was a very stupid behavior for Di Qing to wear a mask and rush to kill in the army, and the commander should sit in a safe place to command the battle, until he went to the battlefield to fully understand that if he couldn't solve the battlefield communication problem, he would not want to rescue the commander from the front line of the battlefield.
The commander Ren Fu died in Western Xia, this is a senior military general of the third grade, Zhang Zhong of the Guangnan East Road and Jiang Kai of the Guangnan East and West Road are also the three military generals, but they did not run away and died in the hands of Nong Zhigao. As for Xiao Dalin, the general of the Liao State, not to mention, as long as there is a fateful war, it is not surprising that some high-ranking officers will die.
Yun Zheng didn't like to go into battle in armor at all. He likes to wear a light coat and stand behind to watch the battle, but it is a pity that the military soil of the Great Song Dynasty does not allow such a thing to happen, which is also why those civilian officials who command the army can often only achieve small victories. But the reason for not being able to get a great victory, but as long as it fails, it will often be devastating, and if you want to gather the army in the chaos, there is no way for the main general not to be in front of the army.
Yun Zheng has charged the battle twice in total so far, both times when the enemy army has been defeated, even so. Coming down from the battlefield, his legs shook like he was playing a lute. Fortunately, Yun Zheng's self-control is still good. Such scenes usually only occur when the blood is washed......
There are many widows in the gate, so the Yang family will not talk about it, as long as it is those generals who are being used by the imperial court, there are no widows or two in the family. Even the Shi family, which is useless, the Cao family, is no exception, when he conquered Qingtang, Shi Zhongxin's nephew died there, and when he came back, the Shi family only asked Yun Zheng's nephew if he was able to do it on the battlefield.
Born in Jiangmen, if it was a big accident to die in Tokyo, his family would definitely chase after him. But if you die on the battlefield, no one will ever ask, even if the best junior in the family dies. No one will ask.
When the monkey left, the little worm cried to death, and the wedding dress on her body had not yet faded, and the monkey was about to go on the expedition, and the Han Niu was much happier in comparison, and he went out with a roar at his wife, and then he held his hands and watched the monkey's jokes with others.
Lu Qingqing bit his lip and didn't say a word. Instead, Luoluo grabbed his father's shirt and cried and didn't let his father leave. provoked Yun Zheng to waste a lot of strength to appease his daughter.
When he left, Yun Zheng waved lightly at Lu, and it was only three months since he went home. This is about to leave, somewhat guilty, Su Xun can't go to Yunzhong Yanmen Pass this time with a foot attack, but Su Shi was sent into the army by Lao Su, and now he is saying goodbye to Yun Er and Su Zhe triumphantly, and promised to make more military poems for them.
"I want authorship!" Yun Er waved to Su Shi, a little regretful, he also wanted to go to Yanmen Pass, but unfortunately as a hostage, he couldn't go there, so he was depressed for a long time.
Just as Yun Zheng was leaving, Yelu Hongji also left Linhuang Mansion and began to move towards Tokyo Road.
It's not that he likes hunting, but because it's an ancestral system, and it's called "Bowl." "捺bowl" is a Khitan language, which is equivalent to the Chinese word for "Xing in" which indicates the place where the emperor traveled. But it is very different from the "line in" of the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty. The emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty usually lived in the imperial palace in the capital, and "Xingzai" was only used as a temporary residence when traveling. And the Khitan Emperor "every year at four o'clock, the cycle repeats", patrolling the bowl. Obviously, the bowl was the permanent residence of the Khitan court.
"Between heaven and earth, the atmosphere is different, and life is suitable for each other." This is the Khitan people living in the vast steppe, and gradually formed a nomadic custom of moving with the seasons.
After the founding of the Khitan, although they learned from the Great Song Dynasty everywhere, the nomadic life tradition of "living by water and grass" was not abandoned. Even the emperor who is the monarch of the country has to "resist the cold in autumn and winter, escape the heat in spring and summer, and fish with the water and grass", migrate in all seasons with the changes of seasons, climate and water plants, and deal with national political affairs at any time, so the Khitan four-season bowl system was born. The Khitan people generally refer to the place of the spring and autumn bowl as "spring water" and "autumn mountain", and later generations refer to the spring water and autumn mountain to refer to the four seasons of the bowl.
The place of the spring bowl is mainly in the area of Yuerluo in Changchun Prefecture and the Yazi River, a tributary of the Songhua River in the northeast, in the first month of each year, the emperor of Liao State sets off from the winter bowl camp, arrives at the spring bowl land and stays for about 60 days, until the middle of April "the end of spring". The activities of the spring bowl are mainly fishing hooks, catching swans, and receiving congratulations from the Jurchen chieftains. This year, because the Qin king Yelu Chongyuan was sick, Yelu Hongji left Linhuang Mansion in advance and marched to the Yazi River to pray for his imperial uncle.
The accompanying army has 60,000 iron cavalry, the Jurchen rebellion that began at the beginning of the year, so that Yelu Hongji made great efforts, continuous conquest for more than half a year, before the Jurchen rebellion was quelled, the Jurchen leader Wu Gu's head has been cut off by the brave Khitan warriors to make a wine cup, and the son of Wu Guqi Keribo escaped, burrowed into the vast forest and sea without a trace, I heard that Keri Bo cut off one of his ears and dedicated it to the gods, and swore revenge.
In order to appease the Jurchens in the East China Sea who had already rioted and not let this storm sweep the entire Jurchen tribe, Yelu Hongji planned to appease these Jurchens at the spring bowl this year and reduce the materials they had to sacrifice by ......, so this time the spring bowl could not tolerate any sloppiness.
Hooking fish is an important activity of spring bowl, after arriving at the spring bowl to catch fish, first set up a tent on the ice and chisel ice hook fish. Due to the lack of oxygen under the ice for a long time, "where the fish can come out of the water, they must also stretch out their heads and exhale, so a glance through the water will definitely cause fish".
Usually the first fish is hooked by the emperor himself, and the first fish is called the head fish. After getting the head fish, he set up a banquet in the big tent, and the emperor ordered the Jurchen chiefs who came to congratulate him to sing and dance in turn, and to live a long life. The general "head fish" is not an ordinary fish, but a ray fish, sturgeon and the like, with a large body weight, not easy to catch, the emperor's head fish in addition to entertainment, more to show its martial arts and majesty.
When the snow melts and the swans fly back, the spring bowl goose hunting begins.
The attendants were to wear dark green clothes, and each of them was prepared to have a hammer, an eagle food, and a goose cone, and they were lined up every five or seven steps around the water.
"The emperor's crown scarf, clothes and clothes, and a jade belt, look at it from the wind." If anyone spotted a goose, he held his flag high, and when the goose flew up, the attendants beat a drum and waved it.
At this time, the attendants who specialized in raising Haidongqing presented Haidongqing to the emperor, and the emperor released Haidongqing. Hai Dongqing flew into the sky and wrestled with the geese. When the goose and the eagle fell to the ground, the nearest attendant immediately stepped forward, picked up the spiny goose cone to kill the goose, and took the goose brain for Hai Dongqing to eat. After the emperor got the head goose, he first had to sacrifice to the ancestral temple, and then the ministers offered wine and fruit, drank and had fun.
Liao has a vast territory, and if you want to maintain a complete country, the emperor has to run around all year round, which is very hard, and Yelu Hongji's troubles are the same as Yun Zheng's, and there is a communication problem that needs to be solved.
If the Liao people want to run from the sea coast in the northeast to the distant Sticky Bage, the strongest war horses also need to run for half a year.
"The rebellion of the Hushui Jurchen caused Da Liao to miss an excellent opportunity to go south, or westward, which really made me angry, if it wasn't for the Hushui Jurchen rebellion, how could the Song general Yun Zheng have the opportunity to destroy the country, now that Zhao Zhen has a horse breeding land in his hands, I am afraid that there will be the idea of going north, in the final analysis, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is a steel needle in the hearts of the Liao and Song countries." Yeluhongki, who was sitting on the huge chariot, sighed softly.
A woman in a white fur said with a smile: "Your Majesty has always been brave, catching tigers and shooting wolves countless times, why is he suddenly afraid of Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Song Dynasty now?" Didn't you say before that he was a temperamentless emperor? ”
Yelu Hongji said with a smile: "That was before, today's Song Kingdom has changed a lot, when Nong Zhigao rebelled in the south, I still thought that this time the Song Kingdom could not turn over for many years, and I didn't expect that his generals Di Qing and Yun Zheng actually put down the rebellion in the shortest possible time, especially the Song general Yun Zheng, who had the courage and knowledge, led the army to go deep into the Jiaozhi country alone, and almost wiped out the Jiaozhi country in a war, and passed on the loss of the Song country to Jiaozhi, and when I wanted to increase the annual currency and silver by 100,000 taels and 200,000 horses of silk, Their army has returned to the Song Kingdom, but unfortunately, the opportunity is gone. ”
"Yun Zheng was unknown before, why did His Majesty praise him so much in a short period of time?" Xiao Guanyin, the woman in white, asked suspiciously.
Yelu Hongji said enviously: "The Song Kingdom is like this, they can always have the right talent at the right time to help them get through some insurmountable dangers, is it true that God is protecting them?"
I also worship God very sincerely, every year the fattest catch, the most robust and beautiful cattle and sheep to God, why we have no amazing and brilliant characters under our account, that person is not only a good general, his poetry is also superior. I have rummaged through the good men of our Daliao, and no one can match him. (To be continued)
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