The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

In November of the fifth year of Qingli in the Great Song Dynasty, Song and Liao took advantage of the domestic turmoil in Xixia, and when the national power was declining and the winter was famine, they jointly launched an attack.

The Song Dynasty took the Northwest Army as the main force, mobilized Lizhou Yongning Army, Bazhou Xingrong Army, Wenzhou Zhangxin Army and other frontier armies under the Northwest Army

Su Jin was awarded the rank of Zhenbei General to command the whole army. The left and right vanguards commanded the generals respectively Jingtai and Panjiang, each with dozens of generals under their command, forming a 20 army and marching northward along Weizhou and Yanzhou in two routes to advance into the Xixia Kingdom Huiju and Yuju, the southernmost fortresses

At the same time, the Liao Kingdom entangled 22 cavalry on the northwest border of the Xixia Kingdom. Liao Xingzong Yelu Zongzhen personally led [-] cavalry out of Jinsu City to the south, and Emperor Taidi Chongyuan led [-] cavalry out of the southern entrance of Helan Mountain; Xiaoyou led the division as a backup; Xiao Hui, the privy envoy of the North Academy, led [-] troops out of the north entrance of Helan Mountain;

Yeluzongzhen is sure to win this time, and the people he leads are all the elites of the Liao Kingdom, mainly cavalry. Naturally, the purpose is to seize a large area of ​​Xixia land with a thunderous force, and quickly occupy the Xia capital Xingqing Mansion; It seems that this battle cannot actually be regarded as a real contest. Under the premise that the Song State is restraining the main force of the Xia Army in the south, what the Daliao cavalry has to do is to destroy the sporadic resistance forces along the way and reach Xiadu as soon as possible.

There is another reason why the elite 20 troops were sent here. These 20 cavalry were not used to deal with the Xia army at all, but became a sharp weapon against the southern Song army after occupying Xia.

The monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom have done a demonstration. The 20 troops of the Song Kingdom will attack from south to north, and they will take the lead in fighting against the Xia army. The defense center of the Xia Kingdom is in the southwest area, and most of their limited troops are deployed in the southern cities. Although the Xia Kingdom is in trouble, the Xia army with a large number of cavalry will still make it difficult for the Song people to move; the two armies will fight or fall into a tug-of-war, and the consumption will be huge. Even if the Song army can win in the end, at least 20 troops will suffer casualties. More than half, and at that time the Daliao cavalry had already occupied Xingqing Mansion, and then sent troops southward to grab more fruits of victory

Xiao Hui, the privy envoy of the North Court, said it well at the pre-war meeting: In terms of the distribution of benefits after the war, Song Human Rights bargained with us, because they didn't even have an inch of merit, and they might not even be able to defeat Xia Jun's city and pool. , if they still have the face to ask for benefits, we will simply turn against them and directly defeat the remnants of the Song Army and go straight to Bianliang

For a long time, the Liao Kingdom had a complicated feeling towards the Song Kingdom. On the one hand, they envied the Song Kingdom for its vast and rich land, magnificent mountains and rivers, and they never coveted the luxury of the Song Kingdom. The more people go to the Song State, the more they will lament the prosperity of the Song State when they come back; but on the other hand, they have the weakness to despise the Song State, a country so rich that even a small Xixia in the northwest can handle it Insufficient, really do not deserve to have such a rich life

But at the same time, due to the limited national power and the power of the Three Kingdoms, the coveting heart of the Liao people has been hidden very well. After the Chanyuan alliance, the two countries are about brotherly countries, and the Song people are submissive. It made the Liao people hesitate to reach out and not hit the smiling face

In the spring of the second year of Qingli, there was a chance. When Li Yuanhao and the Song Kingdom were in full swing, he invited the Liao Kingdom to send troops to destroy the Song Dynasty. This move contained evil intentions. He wanted to use the power of the Liao Kingdom to contain the troops of the Song Dynasty, and his plan to go straight to Bianliang was seen through. In the end, the 20 troops only gathered at the border and waited for orders, and did not really attack.

Liao people did not want Song to be strong, nor did they want Xia to be strong. In some respects, Xia was even more of a threat than Song. Li Yuanhao's border guards continued to cross the border to burn and plunder the border residents of the Liao Kingdom, and even instigated the "rebellion" of the "Dai'er Department" in Montenegro, and finally took the Dai'er Department into custody. This incident alone made Liao Xingzong sick for several months

Of course, Song people are not good birds. When they sent Liao envoy Xiao Temo and deputy envoy Liu Liufu to Song State when the 20 army was gathering at the border, the idea was that even if they did not intend to help Yuan Hao attack Song country, but also take advantage of this opportunity

But the actual situation is that the Song people played tricks and deceived Xiao Temo and Liu Liufu, falsely claiming that they had developed a powerful musket and cannon, which scared Xiao Temo not only to give up the request to increase the year coins, He also canceled the old coins set by the Chanyuan Alliance, and what he got in exchange was a blueprint of that kind of firearm

The people of Liao thought that they had made a huge profit. If they developed the same firearm with this firearm blueprint, then the Daliao cavalry would be the enemy of the world. But after thousands of trials, the firearm was "shot" iron sand The soft force 'couldn't penetrate Lulu', or it was shot randomly before and after the bomb burst, causing a lot of casualties; Xiao Temo, who was in charge of the development, was also blinded by the iron sand of the blast gun during an experiment. Binocular, become a useless person

At first, the Liao people thought that their technology was not good enough, but gradually they felt that something was wrong. Since the Song people had such powerful firearms, why didn't they see their large-scale equipment for the frontier army?Even in the several small-scale conflicts between the two armies, there was never a shadow of this kind of firearm

The people of Liao felt that something was wrong, so they ordered Xizuo to collect information on this in the Song Dynasty, and the results made them pissed off. They didn't have any powerful firearms at all. All this was just a trick by the Song envoy Su Jin who was in charge of the negotiation. , deceived the clumsy Xiao Temo to voluntarily give up the old coins and further demands, and ran back with a forged blueprint; now the storyteller in the teahouse in the capital of the Song Dynasty is still spitting and flying around taking This matter is a joke to the people of Liao, and the envoy of the Liao Kingdom this time is an out-and-out joke in the eyes of the people of Song

This kind of IQ suppression made the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom feel humiliated when they knew about it. At the same time, they also felt more hatred towards the Song Dynasty. The joke of the world, so they had to swallow this disgusting breath, and at the same time, they remembered the name they hated: Su Jin!

However, Su Jinfei, who was shrouded in hatred, was not unlucky because of the curse of numbers. On the contrary, he won the number one prize and became the prefect of Weizhou in the northwest. The big reason for Li Yuanhao is that Su Jin is the magistrate of Weizhou, and he wanted to use Yuan Hao's hand to kill this guy who humiliated the Liao Kingdom.

The sky did not fulfill people's wishes, Su Jin did not die, and Weizhou did not break. On the contrary, Li Yuanhao came back in a feather. good news

Xia Guo’s national power was deteriorating, so Li Yuanhao had to agree to many harsh conditions from the Liao people in exchange for food aid from the Liao Kingdom, but after Li Yuanhao’s death, the newly-in-power Empress Dowager Yeli immediately announced that all the terms promised by Yuan Hao were null and void, and Yelu Zongzhen finally launched an attack The idea of ​​Xixia, but the only obstacle is not whether Xia can be conquered, but whether the Song Dynasty will stand still

After careful deliberation, an ingenious plan to drag Song State into the water came out. From the Liao people's point of view, Song State must hate Xixia deeply. There is no peace in the northwest. In the hearts of every generation of Song emperors, Xia Guo is a fishbone standing in the throat. If this fishbone can be pulled out, the Song people will definitely support it with both hands.

Facts have proved that the speculation of the Liao people is reasonable and correct. The secret letter reached the Song Emperor Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen quickly gave an affirmative answer. , the situation is under control

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, it was a foggy and gloomy day. The [-] troops led by the Privy Councilor of the North Court of Liao Kingdom and King Xiaohui of South Korea crossed the Helan Mountain Pass and formally set foot on the land of Xia Kingdom. After that, Xiao Hui ordered his army to camp on the vast Gobi. He was not in a hurry to go south. He was waiting for the latest news. Once the news came, he could send his troops south and flatten any town where he went.

In the evening, the messenger came galloping from behind. Xiao Hui, who was drinking and sitting alone in the big tent, hurriedly ordered someone to bring the messenger into the tent, and immediately asked: "Is there any news?"

The messenger's face was black and purple from the cold wind, his lips were chapped, and he opened his mouth without speaking.

Xiao Hui picked up a bowl of wine and handed it to him, saying: "It's done."

The messenger took it and gulped it down, wiped his lips with his hand, thanked him in a hoarse voice, took out a secret letter from the lining of his close-fitting sheepskin jacket, handed it to Xiao Hui, and said, "This is the letter sent by the emperor." The secret letter sent by the villain to the king, the emperor asked the little one to bring the message to the king, from today on, the king can gallop on the Xixia horse as much as he wants, and the army of the emperor and the crown prince will support him on both sides of the rear, closely following the king's footsteps."

Xiao Hui opened the letter and read it from the beginning to the end, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly and said: "Okay, okay, it really started, this time the people of Song Dynasty have suffered a lot, pass on the order to kill cattle and sheep tonight, and the soldiers will eat well Have a good night's sleep, and from tomorrow onwards we will wield our sabers and chop off the noses of Xixia people."

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