Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 633 Duanping enters Luo
"Even if I am not told in advance the fate of the Jiangnan Song Dynasty, I can still predict it."

"If you enter Luo at this level, you will definitely lose!"

In the Bianliang Hall, Zhao Kuangyin also shook his head repeatedly and came to almost the same inference.

Zhao Kuangyi on the side took half a step back, and then sneered cautiously:

"This Lizong is the blood descendant of his elder brother. It may not be too heartless to say so."

Zhao Kuangyin turned his head to see Master Kongjiong's move, and couldn't help being speechless. He immediately said with a hook:
"Why are you so far away? I won't beat you."

Zhao Kuangyi breathed a sigh of relief and stood back as he was told.

Then he received a blow on his bare head.

So the anger filling his heart made him glare at Zhao Song Guanjia, and then he looked at him and said slowly:

"This is to teach you that in battle, you never tire of deceit. This is called a soldier who never tires of deceit."

This is simply unreasonable!

Master Kong Jiong couldn't help but clenched his fists in anger... and then moved his rosary beads two minutes faster.

"What? Not convinced?"

Zhao Kuangyi's eyes lowered again, and soon he heard his brother's slow voice coming from above his head:
"Do you think that Mongolia can sit back and watch Emperor Lizong live in peace?"

No need to answer, Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said:

"Never will."

"As soon as Khwarezm started to gain momentum, Mongolia found a way to destroy its country."

"In order to destroy his country, he even chased him as far as Tianzhu and pursued him relentlessly."

"As future generations will say..."

When Zhao Kuangyin thought of those words, he couldn't help but admire the freedom of speech in later generations:

"This Temujin is a man who can bite each other with dogs without getting hurt."

"The virtue of a meal may not be repaid, but the resentment of Jizhan will definitely be repaid."

Zhao Pu also came back from his reverie about those powerful officials who had taken power one after another, and agreed:
"Just like Xixia, which has no blood feud with Mongolia, it still sends women, wealth, and soldiers and horses to encourage them."

"However, it can be seen from the fact that the Mongols did not distinguish between their looting and plundering, the intention of destroying Xia has been there for a long time."

In his view, the temporary ceasefire between Xixia and Mongolia was not so much a peace negotiation as a bloodletting plot by Mongolia against Xixia.

Even if Xixia honestly did not take any money from Mongolia to encourage them, it would not be able to escape the result of self-destruction due to lack of national strength.

Therefore... "Rather than saying that Song and Mongolia worked together to destroy Jin, it is better to say that the Jiangnan Song Dynasty was forced to destroy Jin."

Zhao Pu couldn't help but sigh as he said:

"However, due to this series of wars, I don't know how many people in Henan and Hebei are still alive. Moreover, the Yellow River has changed its course and flooded for thousands of miles. I'm afraid there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles."

"As a result, the amount of food and grass needed for the Northern Expedition is simply countless."

"If... during the Battle of Caizhou, Mongolia was given 300,000 shi, it is impossible..."

At the end, Zhao Pu also shook his head, obviously not optimistic about this battle. Zhao Kuangyi spun the rosary in his hand two minutes faster, thinking in his mind that no wonder most of the ministers and officials in the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty followed the example of Zhao Pu, who was "the most eloquent".

However, he would not say this, he just wanted to see how the Song Dynasty would be destroyed next.

We are already in such a situation, what other famous generals can there be? Can you defeat Mongolia, which is destroying the country?
[Duanping into Luo is the most straightforward name for the Northern Expedition in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 1234, the Kingdom of Jin was gone, and so was the authoritarian Shi Miyuan.

For Lizong, the mood at this time was like a toad jumping into a well, a wild donkey entering a deserted beach, a big fire roasting fish, a big pot letting birds stew, highlighting a sense of comfort.

So this year the title was changed to Duan Ping, and the greatest achievement of this Northern Expedition was also written on it: entering Luo.

In March of this year, when the Jin Kingdom was destroyed and the war between Mongolia and Song Dynasty was undecided, Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty ordered Meng Gong to escort Zhu Yangzu, Lin Tuo and others into Henan to visit and briefly repair the imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Meng Gong became famous as early as when Jin Aizong was crazy about Nan Gong, he rescued the siege of Zaoyang and defeated the Jin general Wuxian one after another until the opponent's entire army was annihilated.

In Meng Gong's lineage, his grandfather Meng Lin and great ancestor Meng An were both generals of Yue Fei, so they can also be called standard generals.

In the Battle of Caizhou that destroyed the Jin Dynasty, Meng Gong was in charge of the Southern Song Army. However, this battle was a near miss. Escorting two ministers to the north to visit the imperial mausoleum was even more thrilling. It was a bit like riding a thousand miles alone. the taste of.

In short, for Lizong, the Ancestral Temple has been dedicated and the imperial tomb has been worshiped. It would be a fool not to take advantage of the emptiness in Henan to regain the old land!
On a deeper level, Duanping's entry into Luoyang also has a political significance.

After all, as we all know, Song Lizong was able to ascend the throne entirely because of the irreconcilable conflict between Shi Miyuan and the former prince, so he took advantage of Song Ningzong's death to make an edict.

After Lizong ascended the throne, some people even rebelled and launched a mutiny, hoping to support the former crown prince on the throne. Although they were put down, it was well known to everyone.

Therefore, for Song Lizong at that time, there were foreign enemies in the north, foreign relatives at home, and party disputes in the court became increasingly fierce. It can be said that there were many contradictions. In this case, Song Lizong had to first preserve the legitimacy of his throne and legal authority.

That’s why there was a scene where Meng Gong traveled thousands of miles alone to escort ministers to pay homage to the imperial tomb, but this was only the first step.

The Northern Expedition to regain the old capital was the second step that Song Lizong had to take.

Therefore, although the timing of this Northern Expedition was not very appropriate, at the time it was seen as necessary and unavoidable.

After all, even if you didn't go on the Northern Expedition, would Mongolia still let you occupy Jiangnan and Huaihe, which was one of the top prosperous places in the world at that time?
Therefore, Duanping enters Luo has never been a question of whether to fight, but a question of how to win.

In this regard, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty consistently committed the same problem, that is, the decision-makers did not know the tactics.

Whether it was the scholar-bureaucrats during the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, or the general soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lizong of the Song Dynasty, they all regarded the life-and-death battle for the survival of the country as a joke.

Let’s not talk about the ridiculous attack on Liao and Yan in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since the Southern Song Dynasty wants to fight, they should be united and determined to win.

As a result, 60,000 elite troops from the Lianghuai War Zone moved northward. Shi Songzhi, the supreme commander of the Xiangyang War Zone, and Zhao Yanna, the top commander of the Sichuan War Zone, were still trying their best to reduce their opposition. They believed that provoking Mongolia was unwise.

In the end, Shi Songzhi even gave up his job, resigned and went home.

The army was on the road in a hurry, with different internal opinions, and even the preparations before the war were extremely inadequate.

As a result, the Northern Expedition faced the white land of the Central Plains after the Mongolian-Jin War, and the Yellow River dug again by Mongolia to prevent the Song army.

The army of the Northern Expedition first had to eat five days of food for seven days. After the vanguard was attacked by the Mongols, they had to eat this food for thirty days. In the end, half of the 60,000-strong army came back hungry. The magnificent Northern Expedition ended up being a joke.

But for Mongolia, it was just what they wanted. In the autumn of a year later, Wokuotai used Duanping to enter Luo as an excuse to move southward from Lianghuai, Jingxiang and Sichuan.

Among them, the Sichuan Router, who was numbered 500,000, led the army with his second son Kuo Duan. At Yangping Pass, he encountered a Song general who led Beiwei's army to rush to the front of the formation and shoot from left to right. He also sent his elite troops to divide their forces to attack in a pincer attack, giving the Mongolian army a crushing defeat. , and successfully recaptured Xianren Pass, which led to the hasty end of the Mongolian invasion.

After the war, Kuoduan's name became known: Cao Youwen, the governor of Lizhou. 】

(End of this chapter)