In the war that turned the tide of war in history, the army could not resist any longer, and petty officers came to subvert the war situation. No matter how strong a person is, he will have an opponent who is similar to his own strength, and this opponent is forcing himself to work hard and telling himself that others are also very good.
This is true not only of people, but also of countries. In ancient mainland China, no matter how strong the Han rule, there would still be invasions by ethnic minorities, such as in the Song Dynasty, when the opponent of the Song Dynasty was the Liao State.
Although the Liao state was founded by ethnic minorities, its strength is still very strong. At that time, the economic strength of the Song Dynasty was very strong, but the military strength was very scarce, so that the Song Dynasty, which was so powerful at that time, always failed when it fought against the Liao State.
However, in the early years of Jingde, a miracle occurred, when the garrison was Li Yanwo, and under his leadership, the Song team defeated the Liao for the first time, and even when the king of the Liao state personally attacked for twenty days, he still did not succeed.
So what is the reason why it can be overcome, let's take a look at it slowly. The first reason is that Li Yanwo has been influenced by the environment in which he has always been, his father is a founding general, he has been influenced by his father since he was a child, and he has been exposed to everything about the military aspect since he was a child, so he still has his own unique view of the military aspect, which is one of them.
The second point was that because the geographical conditions of the place he was guarding at that time were very superior, and that place was on the border, it was necessary to attack the Song from here, so when Li Yanwo came to this place, he had been closely following the dynamics of the Liao state. How can such a knowledge of oneself and the other not succeed?
He was also the first to know the news that the Liao was preparing to attack the Song Dynasty, and after he learned of this news, he began to think of countermeasures, he first rebuilt the Great Wall to have a good "protective cover" and stored a large amount of grain in the city, just in case, and so on. When the news reached the emperor, the emperor also took a series of defensive measures, so the two of them defended together greatly increased the chances of success.
In fact, the reason for the failure of the previous times is that in the previous wars, they were commanded by the emperor in the palace and then transmitted to the ears of the soldiers on the front line, which was time-consuming and wasted, and the soldiers on the front line did not have the power to decide for themselves, so they could not even think of countermeasures, even if they already had countermeasures, they could not act at will, so that the Song Dynasty, which had such a strong economic strength, would always lose under the hands of Liao.
However, in this successful battle, their strategy was still improved, very thorough, when the Song Dynasty army was about to be unable to hold on, it was a petty officer like Li Yanwo who boosted the morale of the soldiers and told the soldiers that they must persist in surviving, and the war lasted for more than ten days, and finally ended with success.