After Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, established the Song Dynasty, after asking Zhu Wenwu to determine the strategy of "first the south and then the north", after the reunification of the south, the northern Han dynasty became the first pass of the "northern expedition unification".
Emperor Taizong of Song launched an attack on the Northern Han Dynasty on the tenth day of the first month of the first month, and Emperor Jingzong of Liao immediately sent people to ask for his guilt. Song Taizong said very domineeringly: Liu Jiyuan violated the Mandate of Heaven, and he should be punished. If you do not help him, the friendly relations between our two countries will continue to exist, and the treaty will remain the same. Otherwise, our two countries will only meet on the battlefield.
Zhao Kuangyin
In this regard, the Liao State sent troops to aid and answered. On March 16, the two sides defeated the Liao army in the battle of Baima Ridge (north of YangquanLu County, Shanxi) in the south of Shiling Pass, and the main general of the Liao army was killed. After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty (the sixth day of the first month of May 979 in the fourth year of the Taiping Revival), Emperor Taizong of Song decided to take back Youyan with a single blow.
Gaoliang River was defeated, and Emperor Taizong of Song's first Northern Expedition failed
On May 29, 979, Emperor Taizong of Song marched north (from Zhenzhou, i.e., Zhengding, Hebei) and successively captured Yi County and Zhuozhou in Hebei. In early July, the Song army of 150,000 soldiers besieged youzhou city, after which the Song army and the Liao army of 60,000 fought a decisive battle on the Sorghum River southeast of Beijing. During the decisive battle, the Song army was in a dominant position, but just when victory was in sight, the Liao reinforcements suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Song army from the left and right flanks. The Song army was defeated.
After the great defeat of the Song army, the Liao army followed the south, and the Song army took the initiative to abandon Song Taizong's strategy of "dispersing the enemy" in the defense of Mancheng in Hebei Province, and changed the strategy of assisting the former and rear and luring the enemy with the former army, and defeated the Liao army.
Zhao Kuangyi later avoided the secret and changed it to Zhao Guangyi
The failure of the First Northern Expedition was mainly due to the poor military level of Song Taizong in terms of military confrontation, the most important of which was to lightly attack the enemy and not listen to the opposition of many generals. However, the level of the Liao army at this stage was not high enough, and both sides were ultimately defeated by a light enemy. The two sides are in a stage of strategic balance. In October of the following year, Emperor Jingzong of Liao and Emperor Taizong of Song each led their armies to launch a campaign at Waqiao Pass in the southwest of Xiong County, Hebei Province, and the result was a draw.
After the failure of the First Northern Expedition, the Liao state marched three times to the south as revenge.
In a word, forced Zhao Dezhao to die
After the defeat of Sorghum and the fiasco, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi (formerly known as Zhao Kuangyi), abandoned the Song army and led his loyal troops to escape first, so that the military generals could not find the emperor, and this was chaos.
"The country cannot be without a monarch for a day", the emperor is likely to die in the rebellion, what can be done? Some of the generals discussed the establishment of a new monarch. This kind of thing has been staged many times since the fall of the Tang Dynasty. The generals in charge of the army were outside, and they elected the new king back to Beijing, and the gods blocked the killing of the gods and the Buddhas blocked the killing of the Buddhas.
Some people think that the eldest died and the second elder inherited, and when the second elder died, should the third Zhao Tingmei (formerly known as Zhao Kuangmei, Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne and changed his name to Zhao Guangmei, and Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne and changed his name to Zhao Tingmei)?
Zhao Kuangmei was successively changed to Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Tingmei for avoidance
Some people think that when the boss dies, the eldest child should inherit the world, who is the most suitable? Orderly, Zhao Dezhao- King of Wugong County!
Who has more supporters? Zhao Dezhao!
Son of Zhao Kuangyin, the first heir to the throne
While everyone was discussing it, suddenly someone said that they saw that the emperor was still alive and fled south in a donkey cart. yes? As soon as the people discussing things listened, they quickly shut up and went their separate ways. However, the matter of the people discussing the establishment of a new king could not be known to Zhao Kuangyi. Therefore, Zhao Guangyi was very angry after hearing this. He was not a fool, and he could not have been unaware of what others were talking about him in private. His cronies, who were afraid after pushing Zhao Dezhao, were likely to be secretly informed.
He knew that if Zhao Dezhao was really established, would his children be well? What he did to Zhao Dezhao, he himself was not unaware. Zhao Dezhao should have been crowned king a long time ago, but he had been dragging on unsealed, and in order to block the mouth of Youyou, he had to be crowned the king of the county. Usually, I didn't embarrass him less. Therefore, he had already thought that Zhao Dezhao must die.
Zhao Dezhao
Zhao Dezhao, too, had to crash into the muzzle of the gun (of course, he probably couldn't run without colliding). After the defeat of the Northern Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of Song never rewarded meritorious personnel. Although the first Northern Expedition failed, but the matter was one yard to one yard, the award was still awarded. But Zhao Kuangyi may not have mentioned this matter because he was in a bad mood.
Once, when Zhao Dezhao saw that Emperor Taizong of Song was in a good mood, he mentioned the matter of rewarding the meritorious personnel of the Northern Han Dynasty. After all, after the failure of the First Northern Expedition, many generals were in a bad mood. The more this time comes, the more rewards should be given to the military generals. Otherwise, these big bosses must be displeased.
Who knows, When Song Taizong heard it, he was furious, "Wait for Ru to do it for yourself, and it is not too late to reward it!" When I die and you become emperor, it will not be too late for you to be rewarded. What are you in a hurry! (Song Shi Liechuan III)
Seeing Song Taizong's sudden anger, Zhao Dezhao was immediately frightened and panicked, and hurriedly confessed his mistake. Song Taizong had a resentful expression that made Zhao Dezhao very afraid. For so many years, uncle's attitude towards himself, he was not unaware. For this reason, Zhao Dezhao committed suicide in October.
epilogue
On October 20, 976, Zhao Kuangyin died, and Zhao Guangyi hurriedly ascended the throne and immediately changed his yuan, which had already made people in the world talk about it - as for being in such a hurry? Another month and a half is not coming. Wan did not expect that just three years after Zhao Kuangyin's death, just as the death anniversary was approaching, the eldest son (Zhao Kuangyin's eldest son and third son died early, leaving only Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang's two brothers) committed suicide! Is this really an indictment of anything?
When Zhao Guangyi saw that Zhao Dezhao had committed suicide, he was really happy with a hint of panic. Why panic?
Because, before her death, her mother, Empress Du, asked her brother Zhao Kuangyin to set the rule of "establishing the elder as a king". After Zhao Kuangyi's death, Zhao Kuangyi (赵光義), zhao Kuangmei (赵光美, 赵廷美), zhao Kuangmei (赵光美, 赵廷美), Zhao Kuangyi's son Zhao Dezhao (born 951) or Zhao Defang (born 959) after Zhao Kuangyi's death.
After that, things are complicated: Zhao Guangyi's eldest son Zhao Yuanzuo was born in 965, the second son Zhao Yuanzuo was born in 966, and Song Zhenzong was born in 968. However, Zhao Degong, the eldest son of the third zhao Tingmei, was born in 962. If we really follow this "standing up for the king", it is the same as the way saudi Arabia passes the throne today.
So, according to the first batch of order, that is, Zhao Tingmei took the throne, and now that Zhao Dezhao is dead, what will Zhao Tingmei think? To this end, Zhao Guangyi hastened zhao Tingmei as the king of Qin, which is used to make the heart of the third brother (in fact, the fourth brother, the eldest died early. Zhao Kuangyin is the boss).
After busy with this matter, Song Taizong focused his main energy on how to deal with the three southern expeditions of the Liao State after the failure of the Northern Expedition!