Qian Song

Chapter 254 Second Conquest of Song Dynasty (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

Chapter 254 The Second Attack on Song Dynasty (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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Not long after Xiao Zhonggong left Bianliang City in Tokyo, Zhao Huan suddenly remembered the matter of rescuing Taiyuan City, so he issued an imperial edict to the Zhao Song generals on the front lines of Hebei and Hedong, such as Zhong Shidao, Liu Wei, Jie Qian, Zhang Hao, and ordered them to immediately Send troops to rescue Taiyuan.

in fact--

Regarding how to rescue Taiyuan, the frontline generals had already planned, that is, Liu Fan set out from the Pingding Army, Wang Yuan set out from Liaozhou, Xie Qian and Zhe Yanzhi set off from Weisheng Army, Zhang Hao and Zhe Keqiu set off from Fenzhou Departing, the Fourth Route Army marched towards Taiyuan from the east, south, and southwest directions.

This matter was still a plan made by Liu Wei, Xie Qian, Zhang Hao and other Song army generals on the front lines of Hebei and Hedong with the Zhao Song court before Zhongshi went north.

Now, Zhao Huan urged the generals on the front lines of Hebei and Hedong, such as Liu Wei, Xie Qian, Zhang Hao, etc., to immediately follow this plan to rescue Taiyuan City.

Regarding this, Zhong Shidao, who was the commander-in-chief of the front line, was completely unaware of it.

——All the generals of the Song Army are directly under the direct command of the Zhao Song court, and the Zhao Song court also takes care of everything, which makes Zhong Shidao, the apostle of Xuanfu, well-known.

Zhong Shidao felt that this was not possible, so he wrote a letter to Zhao Huan, saying: "Although the Xuanfu Division has the name of temperance, it has a special stationery ear. If it is not temperate, it may mislead the state affairs."

After Zhao Huan received the memorial to cultivate the teacher's way, how could he not understand that the meaning of planting the teacher's way is: since the imperial court is in charge of everything, why do you want me, the front-line commander-in-chief?

Seeing Shidao Zhong complaining that the court meddled in everything and made him empty, Zhao Huan was a little hesitant!

From an ideological point of view, Zhao Huan also understood that the command authority had to be delegated to the front-line commander-in-chief. He and the other ministers only needed to give the front-line commander-in-chief a big strategic direction.

But Zhao Huan was also worried that the power given to the teacher was too heavy.

You know, Hebei and Hedong are now gathering most of the people of the Zhao Song Dynasty. In this case, if a kind of teacher takes these people to vote for the Dagan Dynasty, wouldn't the Zhao Song Dynasty be cold?

After hesitating again and again, Zhao Huan issued a not-so-strict imperial decree, requiring all troops and horses to obey the command of the Xuanfu Division.

However, the generals of the Zhao and Song Dynasties all wanted to show themselves in front of the new emperor Zhao Huan and pave the way for their official career, and Zhao Huan was very diligent and gave positive feedback to all the generals on the front line. respond.

In this way, no one paid much attention to the front-line commander-in-chief, Zhong Shidao, and the armies were still directly under the direct command of the Zhao Song court, and even the emperor Zhao Huan.

Now Zhao Huan strictly ordered all the armies to send troops to rescue Taiyuan City immediately. The generals on the front line did not dare to neglect, and they did not say to discuss with Zhong Shidao, the front line commander, and organized the troops separately.

Wu Lin discovered that the Song Army was coming to rescue Taiyuan City again, so he immediately withdrew his troops, lured the enemy deep, and prepared to attack the Song Army in various ways.

The first main force of the Song Army to be targeted by Wu Lin was the Jieqian Department.

Wu Lin organized a group of generals and said: "Xie Qian, going north from the Weisheng army, must go to the South Pass first. After he arrives, our army will flee..."

The development of the matter did not meet Wu Lin's expectations. After Xie Qian led his troops to the north, he took the Nanguan Pass and went straight to Taiyuan through this necessary place to enter Taiyuan.

Xie Qian was well prepared to rescue Taiyuan City this time.

——His army has a large amount of food and grass, and he is going to transport it to Taiyuan City to support Taiyuan City, which must be short of food and grass, and is even ready to fight against Taiyuan City for a long time.

Xie Qian sent rangers to the Nanguan to inquire and learned that there were only a small number of soldiers guarding the Nanguan.

Therefore, Xie Qian personally led the army to take Nanguan directly.

Because Wu Lin had given an order in advance, the officers and soldiers guarding the Nanguan saw the arrival of the Song army from the potential army and immediately pretended to flee.

Xie Qian didn't expect that this was Wu Lin's trick to lure the enemy in. He thought that the army had really escaped, so he sent people back to bring all the food and grass, and prepared to continue northward.

Not long after, the Submarine Relief Department escorted a large amount of food and continued northward. As a result, the dry army who had been ambushing for a long time suddenly rushed out and was caught off guard, causing chaos.

Wu Lin, who personally commanded the battle, saw that the Song army was so easily disrupted by his own side, so he decisively ordered the drums to advance.

The three fronts of the dry army attacked at the same time, with the horse army in front and the infantry behind, the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

But the Song army became more and more unable to resist, and finally collapsed across the board. Even the Chinese army where Xie Qian was located was defeated by the dry army. In the end, there were only dozens of cavalry soldiers left around Xie Qian, protecting Xie Qian and fleeing all the way from the mountain trail Lund House.

Since then, the combat effectiveness of the Song Army under Xie Qian's command has basically been lost.

Wu Lin left an army to clean up the battlefield, and then quickly led his troops to the city of Weisheng Army, knowing that Zhang Yaozuo of Weisheng Army surrendered without a fight.

The Song Army of the Liberation Department has more than 5 horses and is one of the three main forces to rescue Taiyuan.

Wu Lin defeated the Department of Dispelling the Potential, which had a great impact.

——Hearing that the main force of the Song army was defeated, a large number of pro-Song people (mainly officials and gentry in the Hedong area) helped the old and the young to cross the Yellow River and head to the Central Plains, and even to Shaanxi.

At the same time, Li Cun sent Zhao Li to fight Liu Fan of Bangyang.

Zhao Li, who was like a tiger out of the cage, gave Liu Fan all the means he could use. In the first battle, Liu Fan's [-] Song troops were defeated and fled.

——If Zhao Li hadn't pulled out the three nails in the three towns of Hebei, and didn't dare to go deep alone, the main force of Liu Bian's department might have disappeared.

Master Zhong who was still in Huaizhou knew that after Jie Qian and Liu Fan were defeated, he was in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do, because the armies didn't listen to him at all, so he couldn't control the overall situation. What he can do is to present his suggestion to Zhao Huan, and point out the disadvantages of restraint and lack of professionalism.

At the same time, Zhong Shidao pointed out to Zhao Huan the problem of the imperial court's deployment, that is, advancing troops in separate routes, which is actually tantamount to going deep alone, because the separated armies lack coordination, and it is easy to be dismissed by the army. The strong cadres will concentrate their efforts to defeat each one.

Zhong Shidao suggested that Zhao Huan immediately gather all the Song armies to Huaizhou, let him deploy them in a unified way, and then go to rescue Taiyuan City from one direction.

Zhong Shidao still stated in his memorial to Zhao Huan that if the court adopted his suggestion, he would personally lead the assembled Song army to the front line after the army was assembled to fight to the death with the Qian army.

But Zhong Shidao never expected that the situation on the front line was so critical, and it did not affect the political struggle of the Zhao Song Dynasty's high-level leaders in the rear.

——At the time when the battle situation on the front line was the most tense, the two prime ministers of the Song Dynasty, Xu Churen and Wu Min, were dismissed by Zhao Huan, and Xu Han, who originally supported the way of teaching, was also dismissed by Zhao Huan. Know the duties of the Privy Council.Then, Tang Ke was promoted by Zhao Huan to Shaozai (Tang Ke was the only prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty when there was no Dazai), He Li was promoted by Zhao Huan to Zhongshu Minister, Chen Guoting was promoted to Shangshu Youcheng by Zhao Huan, and Nie Shan Being promoted by Zhao Huan to be a member of the Privy Council, the top management of the Zhao Song Dynasty almost underwent a complete reshuffle.

Xu Churen passed the Jiake Jinshi examination during the Yuanfeng period of Song Shenzong, and then became the magistrate of Dong'an County in Yongzhou. The barbarians rebelled, and Xu Churen entered Dongzhai.

Later, Xu Churen served as a stay-at-home in Daming Mansion in Beijing, promoted to supervisory censor, and moved to the palace, Youzhengyan, and Gishizhong.When he acted as an agent for the government of Kaifeng, the verdicts were handed down, and the prisons were often empty.Afterwards, he became the Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, followed by Fengzhong Doctor and Shangshu Youcheng.

It can be said that Xu Churen rose to the position of prime minister step by step, and he has a high reputation in society.

Before Xu Churen became the prime minister, it was generally believed that Xu Churen was mature, upright, and rich in political experience. It can be said that everyone in the Zhao and Song Dynasties had great expectations for him.

However, after Xu Churen really became the prime minister, he achieved nothing and did not contribute any good ideas at all.

Therefore, from Zhao Huan down, everyone was very disappointed with Xu Churen.

And Xu Churen became the prime minister at the beginning of March, and it was exactly five months until he was dismissed by Zhao Huan.

These five months were the most precious period of time for the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Politics, military affairs, diplomacy, everything urgently needs the Zhao Song court to make a wise decision.

However, although Xu Churen has rich political experience, he seriously lacks the wisdom and political foresight needed to deal with national crises. In addition, many complicated political, military, diplomatic and other issues were thrown at him, which completely confused Xu Churen.

This made Xu Churen either not deal with a series of issues related to the national destiny of the Zhao and Song Dynasties in a timely manner, or make major mistakes.

For example, Zhong Shidao concluded that Li Cun would definitely lead his army to attack the Song Dynasty again this autumn and winter, and suggested that the Zhao and Song courts should gather all the troops of the whole country and arrange defensive lines along the natural danger of the Yellow River, so as not to let the dry troops cross the river.

But Xu Churen felt that this was too much work and waste of money, and he had a fluke mentality, thinking that Li Cun might not come back, and it was not appropriate to disturb himself first to show weakness, so he did not accept it.

From this we can see Xu Churen's ability.

Xu Churen was recommended by Wu Min to Zhao Huan.

Originally, Xu Churen and Wu Min were fairly harmonious, and they could fully communicate about everything.

But then Xu Churen and Wu Min fought for power, and the relationship became worse and worse.

Moreover, Xu Churen is incompetent, and Wu Min is also incompetent. When others come to Wu Min with government and military affairs, the sentence Wu Min said most is "It's still possible."

Wu Min even suggested to Zhao Huan Shangzuo that scholars should add a "Spring and Autumn" course during this urgent period, and said that Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Meanings" are all heresies, etc...

In short, many of the things that Wu Min advocated were not urgent matters—he took this critical time as a peaceful and prosperous time, and he would either engage in useless things or fight for power and profit.

Wu Min racked his brains to seize and seize power, which seriously violated the power of Xu Churen, the prime minister.

This made the two start to tear each other down, slander each other, and keep fighting each other.

Not long ago, Wu Min recommended his relatives to be officials to the Ministry of Officials.

When Xu Churen reviewed the list reported by the Ministry of Officials, he unceremoniously crossed off the names of Wu Min's relatives.

After Wu Min learned of this, he came to Dutang angrily to find Xu Churen, and asked Xu Churen what this meant, did he forget how he became a prime minister?

The two immediately quarreled fiercely.

In a rage, Xu Churen threw the brush in his hand onto Wu Min's face, causing Wu Min's lips and nose to turn black.

It didn't take long for this scene to spread, and it had a very bad influence.

Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Shan and others had long wanted to replace Xu Churen and Wu Min, so they seized on this matter and ordered Yushi Zhongcheng Li Hui to impeach Xu Churen and Wu Min.

Zhao Huan felt that Xu Churen and Wu Min did not help him much, so he dismissed Xu Churen and Wu Min together.

At this time, in Bianliang City, Tokyo, there was a "Ten No Matters", that is: regardless of Taiyuan, it was in charge of Taixue; in spite of Hedong, it was in charge of Chen Dong; …

Xu Churen and Wu Min didn't pay enough attention to the urgent frontier defense, and they couldn't deal with it. They wasted the great opportunity of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and made the common people in Bianliang City, Tokyo anxious, and made up jokes to satirize them.

And if Xu Churen and Wu Min did nothing politically and militarily, then in diplomacy, they are simply as stupid as pigs.

Foreign affairs are no small matter.

However, Xu Churen and Wu Min not only did not treat the diplomacy with the Dagan Dynasty cautiously when the Zhao Song Dynasty was weak, but also supported and even encouraged Zhao Huan to use the Dagan Dynasty's envoy Xiao Zhonggong to instigate the old Liao ministers and the old Song ministers to rebel Daqian Dynasty, this is simply treating diplomacy like a child's play.

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As soon as Xiao Zhonggong returned to Yanjing from Bianliang City in Tokyo, he immediately handed over the affidavit and imperial pen given to him by Zhao Huan to Li Cun.

What Xiao Zhonggong said to Wu Min cannot be said to be all false, at least a large part of it is watery.

For example, Xiao Zhonggong told Wu Min that there are a large number of Liao people in the army.

This is not a lie.

However, the problem is that among the generals in command of the Dagan Dynasty, there is currently not even a Khitan.

——The generals in charge of the Gan army are all Han Chinese, and it is impossible for the Khitan people to gain real military power.

Moreover, Li Cun has always been controlling the number of Khitans in the dry army so that no more than ten percent of any army will be in it.

As for other Xi, Zub, Jurchen, Shiwei, Bohai and other clans.

What is the difference between accepting the rule of the Dagan Dynasty and accepting the rule of the Liao Dynasty?

No.

There is a difference.

When they were ruled by the Liao Dynasty, these people were displaced, hungry, and couldn't even live happily.

However, under the rule of the Daqian Dynasty, these people can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no longer a time of cold and hunger.

The key is that as long as they accept the rule of the Dagan Dynasty, the Dagan Dynasty can basically treat people of all ethnic groups equally.

Under such circumstances, what reason do people of other ethnic groups have to resist the rule of the Dagan Dynasty?

Moreover, although there are many Khitan, Xi, Zub, Jurchen, Shiwei, Bohai and other people in the Gan army, Li Cun has always demanded that no matter what army, even the Ma army, the Han people must occupy it. to more than [-]%.

More importantly, those who are not safe, such as the royal family and clan of the Liao Kingdom, have long been relocated to the south by Li Cun, and the people from the original Liao Kingdom who can still mix in the Yanyun area are almost all against them. A person who surrenders 100% to Li Cun.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the current rule of the Dagan Dynasty in the Yanyun area is as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can reverse it.

In addition, what Zhao Huan, Xu Churen and Wu Min didn't know was that one of Xiao Zhonggong's younger sister and two daughters had entered Li Cun's harem. In the harem.

In other words, even in the Daqian Dynasty, Xiao Zhonggong was definitely a relative of the emperor, so why did he have to restore the impossible Daliao Dynasty?

After Li Cun read Zhao Huan's oath and imperial pen, he smiled disdainfully, and then decreed to reward Xiao Zhonggong, and promoted Xiao Zhonggong's sister and two daughters to one level each.

After sending Xiao Zhonggong away, Li Cun called Li Gang directly, and then handed Zhao Huan's imperial brush to Li Gang.

After reading it, Li Gang said very calmly: "But all living beings will be full, and they will never give up on the weak and sick. Even if the years are cold and the journey is far away, this ambition should be hard to win."

Li Gang used the last two sentences of his own poem "Sick Cow" to say that he would not hesitate to eat for all sentient beings, even if he was sick and lying under the setting sun. He also said that even if the road is difficult, He will not change this ambition.

Li Gang did not explain to Li Cun that this matter had nothing to do with him, nor did he expect that Zhao Huan would send someone to instigate him, nor did he assure Li Cun that he must be an absolutely loyal minister of the Daqian Dynasty. He just took this opportunity to tell Li Cun He has expressed his own ambition, that is, he hopes that everyone can have enough food and live and work in peace and contentment.

Li Gang believed that as long as he explained his aspirations to Li Cun clearly, with Li Cun's wisdom and wisdom, he would definitely understand him.

really!

After listening to Li Gang's words, Li Cun said: "It is difficult to use a talent that is ancient, and it is more taboo if you have a lot of merit; you are loyal to the sun and the moon, and you are slanderous."

When Li Gang heard the words, he bowed to the ground.

The monarch and his ministers kept everything in silence.

The next day, Li Cun issued an edict: the second attack on the Song Dynasty, with Li Gang as Yanyun Xuanfu envoy, Yanyun stayed behind, in charge of Yanyun's guards, repairs, suppression, and affairs such as money, valleys, soldiers and civilians in Yanyun area...

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　I should have suffered from a relatively serious stomach flu, nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, and trembling last night. I didn’t take my temperature at that time. I guess I must have a fever.

I took Norfofloxacin, drank Huoxiangzhengqi water, and did moxibustion, using both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

It should be said that my situation is much better now, but I still have a stomachache, difficulty concentrating, and being out of shape.

Having said so much, what I actually want to say is that I really can’t write what I promised to add to everyone today. I finally wrote this chapter before 12 o’clock.

Feel sorry!

(End of this chapter)