introduction
Outside the mountain Qingshan Building, the West Lake song and dance for a few hours. The warm wind smoked tourists drunk, straight to Hangzhou as a beizhou. —— (Song) Lin Sheng
I believe that many people know the Song Dynasty very well, although the historical Song Dynasty has been retreating in foreign wars and the territory has been shrinking, but in fact its economic strength is very strong, and the degree of prosperity is unprecedented in ancient history.
The reason why the land will continue to be plundered is more caused by the inaction of the imperial court and the careful thinking of some soldiers and courtiers, believing that their strong national strength can at any time take back the lost land from the hands of the foreign yi, indulging in the internal struggle of the left and the right, and it is precisely this arrogant mentality that led to the eventual demise of the Song Dynasty, which was unprecedentedly strong in the economy.
Although there were intrigues and intrigues within the imperial court, the soldiers who fought outside did not have such a mind, in order to protect the people behind them, under their stubborn will to resist, the Song Dynasty's victory rate in foreign wars was as high as 70%, compared with the Tang Dynasty, which was unprecedentedly strong in national strength, only about 50%. So why did the Song Dynasty, which had a very high victory rate, continue to plunder its land and even the Son of Heaven captive?
In fact, this depends on the location of the war, although the Tang Dynasty's victory rate is not high, but it belongs to the side of foreign expansion, losing does not have much impact on the country, winning is to expand the territory; and the Song Dynasty is different, the Song Dynasty belongs to the invaded side, although it maintains a very high winning rate, but once defeated, it means the loss of territory, so even if it has a winning rate of up to 70%, the Song Dynasty is still going to collapse.
The door will be born, and the tiger will be tailed
Although the history of the Song Dynasty has made many people feel sad and lamentable, there are also many heroic martyrs who are admirable, such as Yue Fei and Yang Jiajian, who are very familiar to everyone, who are all admirable heroes. The protagonist of today's article, Liu Shiguang, may not be familiar with him, but he is one of the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" who was equally famous with Yue Fei during the Southern Song Dynasty.
After Liu Shiguang was born as a general, because of the shadow of his father's generation, Liu Shiguang did not experience too many twists and turns and was promoted all the way to the envoy of the State Army, and later he was promoted to the post of Du Yuhou of the Guards Ma Jun, and became a general in charge of the forbidden army.
I thought that he would continue to write his brilliant and respectable military life, but he did not expect that his flash moment in history would come to an abrupt end, and in the subsequent campaign to attack Liao, Liu Shiguang did not complete the transfer in time, delayed the military aircraft, and led to the failure of the Song army in that battle, and was finally demoted.
Do not fight and self-defeat, do not think of enterprising
However, in a later rebellion, Liu Shiguang completed the suppression and was reinstated. After the shame of Jing Kang, the Jin army only relied on 500 cavalry to run rampant in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and even more directly at the feet of Tianzi, Song Gaozong Zhao Zhao Cang panicked south, Liu Shiguang was very active in leading 3,000 troops to qin wang, but his follow-up behavior made many people feel disdainful, 3,000 elite soldiers had not yet made contact with the Jin people, and they fled all the way south.
However, Emperor Gaozong of Song remembered his goodness and later promoted him to the rank of Marshal of the Five Armies. As soon as he took office, Liu Shiguang, who was full of pride, began to open a banquet on a large scale, and reveled for three days and three nights, but the result was that the Jin army crossed the river under his eyes, and after hearing the news, Liu Shiguang immediately led his troops to flee south.
Liu Shiguang was not only militarily inactive, but after he fled south to Huainan Town, he also shifted his attention to the local rich people, and the history books recorded that "sitting on 30,000 acres of anointed paddy fields" was chilling.
On a par with Yue Fei, he was ranked among the "Four Generals of ZTE"
Although there were many generals under his command, Liu Shiguang repeatedly retreated in the face of the Jin army, and led the army to retreat without engaging in many battles, and his inaction was also seen by many patriots in the DPRK and china, and they felt disdainful of it, and after many petitions for dismissal, Song Gaozong finally agreed to depose him as a "savior".
Although Liu Shiguang's subordinates can be called a large number of generals, most of them are the rogues and rebels he collected on the way, which may be the reason why Liu Shiguang repeatedly fled although he seemed to be a large number of generals, although these people were attached to Liu Shiguang's command, they were very afraid of the imperial court and feared that the imperial court would surrender.
Without Liu Shiguang's leadership, his soldiers and soldiers, instigated, quickly rebelled. In desperation, Emperor Gaozong of Song could only re-appoint Liu Shiguang as an envoy to Shaanxi Xuanfu, and after Liu Shiguang's death, he was posthumously honored as the King of Yan, along with Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei, as the "Four Generals of Zhongxing".
brief summary
Although Liu Shiguang's deeds made many later generations feel disdainful, I believe that he could become a famous general with Yue Fei at that time, and he also had his own superiority, perhaps just buried in the dust of history.
Xiaobian believes that the country, no country has a home, in the face of national difficulties, if you can not rise up to resist together, you can only usher in the end of the demise, with such a bloody lessons, in the future, if you encounter difficulties, even if you can not contribute to the country, you must not become a member of the hind legs.