Recently, Tang Yan's "Yan Yuntai" has caught fire, and now many of the dramas of the big heroines, some of which inevitably have exaggerated or even fictional elements, but in history, this Xiao Yanyan is really a person, and more importantly, Xiao Yanyan directly participated in a major battle related to the final fate of the Song and Liao, which is the famous alliance in history.
The Alliance of Liaoyuan is very familiar to everyone, and the thing you know is this, in the autumn of 1004 (the first year of Emperor Jingde of Song), Empress Xiao of the Liao State and Emperor Shengzong of Liao personally led a large army south into the Song Realm.
Song Zhenzong, under the strong persuasion of the chancellor Kou Zhun, and even a little kidnapping, encouraged him to reach the Imperial Conquest of Liaozhou, which greatly increased morale and eventually led to the conclusion of a contract between Song and Liao.
There is nothing wrong with such a statement, but a large number of preconditions are missing, especially why the Liao State would be willing to sign this treaty, all of which say that the Song Dynasty is weak, but the peace treaty is never signed by the weak side.
What finally led to the conclusion of the contract here is the strength of both sides, this is the Great Liao's southern invasion, how can it be in this place of Liaozhou, and the Song Dynasty reached a certain balance of strength, there are a large number of early achievements of the Song Dynasty army, the typical representative figure is the Yang Liulang we are familiar with, that is, Yang Yanzhao, it is the Song Dynasty warriors who fought bloody battles on the eve, and finally the Liao State had to reach an agreement on the withdrawal of the two sides in Liaoyuan.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (01) The feud of the Yang family general</h1>
In the novel, the Yang family will invent many stories, as well as the relationship between the characters in it, but the main characters in it really exist in history, especially Yang Ye and Yang Yanzhao, who are the famous border generals in the early years of the Song Dynasty, which does not have any exaggerated elements.
The folk pipe Yang Yanzhao is called Yang Liulang, but in fact Yang Yanzhao is Yang Ye's eldest son, but why is it called Yang Liulang, there is a saying that the Khitan people believe that the sixth of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, youyan North, is their nemesis.
Yang Yanzhao is the Liulang Xingsu (general star) under the fan, specifically used to restrain the Khitan people, so called Yang Liulang, this statement is interesting, but also in line with historical facts, because in history Yang Yanzhao and his father Yang Ye have always been the town guarding the border pass, and Yang Yanzhao actually participated in the last Song-Liao decisive battle, and personally severely damaged the Liao army, which can also be regarded as revenge for killing his father many years ago.
Speaking of this Xiao Yanyan can also be regarded as the feud of the Yang family general, when the Yongxi Northern Expedition of Emperor Taizong of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, Xiao Yanyan, as the empress dowager, took her young son with her, and the imperial conquest, this battle caused the entire Great Song Dynasty to be seriously injured and completely defeated.
It was also in this battle, because of Pan Mei's command mistakes, Yang Ye killed Chen Jiagu, and the Great Song not only lost a general who guarded the border pass, but also dimmed Pan Mei, the second soldier of the Great Song, and from then on, the entire northern military was completely in passive defense.
After Yang Ye's death, his eldest son Yang Yanzhao inherited his father's business and continued to fulfill the heavy responsibility of guarding the frontier, becoming a brave and good warrior on the frontier of the Song Dynasty.
In the autumn of 1004 (the first year of Emperor Jingde of Song), Xiao Yanyan and Emperor Shengzong of Liao, after a long period of preparation, used the recovery of the land of Guannan as a pretext to raise the strength of the whole country to invade the Song Dynasty.
When Yongxi Northern Expedition, Xiao Yanyan and Liao Shengzong were typical orphans and widows, Xiao Yanyan resolutely decided to take the initiative with her young children, and finally defeated the Song army, and now Liao Shengzong was in the year of the fight, they wanted to take advantage of their strongest strength to eliminate the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, as for what they said about the land of Guannan, it was the territory that Chai Rong had laid down during the Northern Expedition.
The basis of the Khitan population is that these lands were given to them by Emperor Shi Jingyao, and Chai Rong had a little land that was not easy to recover, and the Song Dynasty could not give it up no matter how weak it was.
Because of this, the small-scale conflict between the Song and Liao lasted for 25 years, this time the empress dowager of the Liao State and the emperor marched in person, which was obviously a decisive battle with the Song Dynasty.
The Great Song Dynasty was in danger, during the era of Emperor Taizong of Taizu, the force was not enough to deal with the Khitans, and now the Song army has been passively defending for many years, and has never encountered such a large-scale Khitan people going south, and the quarrel in Kaifeng City has become a pot of porridge, many people have advocated that Song Zhenzong escape, the only difference is to run to Jinling or Sichuan.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (02) repeatedly created the Khitan</h1>
History books often say that there is no danger to defend north of Kaifeng, and the North China Plain is very conducive to the rush of war horses, etc., but in any case, the Song Dynasty still deployed a large number of troops on the border line, and the Khitan attack first had to face these scattered strongholds.
Khitan invaded the south, the first thing to face was these seemingly inconspicuous strongholds, the first battle was fought in the weiyu military city at the forefront of the border, the general who defended the city was called Wei Neng, this person had a good name, and indeed he was very capable, small-scale contact, the Liao army could not take advantage of anything, so it turned to attack another stronghold, Beipingzhai.
The name of this kind of stronghold, when you hear it, you know that it is not a big city, but it is these front-line military strongholds, the warriors inside are the most worthy of being remembered, it is their perennial battles with the Khitan that keep Kaifeng City prosperous.
Guarding BeipingZhai is called Tian Min, he is a fierce character, out of the city to take the initiative to fight with the Khitans, and after dark there is no intention of retreating, leading a small number of troops to sneak into the Khitan camp at night, the Khitan Emperor feels that this bone is a little hard, simply change the breakthrough, this time the Khitan people have a clear goal, do not want to waste too much time in these small places.
So they chose another place, called Baozhou, which was Yang Yanzhao's territory, which completely allowed the Khitan people to see what was called the disadvantage of the division.
Yang Yanzhao took the initiative to attack, early ambush in the Khitan marching grove, the Khitan army was walking well, suddenly encountered a random arrow, because the forest is too dense, after a period of chaos, the war horses can not carry out the action, so this time the Khitan people can only withstand the Song army's most powerful weapon in three hundred years, the bow and arrow non-stop attack, and finally died in the woods of countless Khitan people.
At this time, the Khitan people were completely angry, we came to eat the Song people, how could we be so embarrassed at the beginning, so we ordered the whole army to attack baozhou city fiercely, and must crush the ant in front of us.
Yang Yanzhao, who had only 5,000 elite soldiers, could only defend Baozhou City in an all-round way in the face of the Khitans with an army of 200,000 troops, but with Yang Yanzhao's Baozhou City, it was by no means an ant, but a copper pea that could not be crushed or swallowed.
Yang Yanzhao strictly guarded against it, and for a purely military defense point with many years of experience in defensive operations, once it was fully defended, under the attack of the Khitan people in the dream of 200,000 people, it actually did not move at all.
At this time, facing a great armageddon between countries, a military village could not be defeated, the Liao army quickly chose to give up, before leaving Yang Yanzhao taught the Khitans a harsh lesson, at the same time in the Hanguang Ridge Liao army encountered an ambush, the leading general called Gao Jixun, simply became the nightmare of the Khitan people, more than 10,000 dead and wounded, the momentum of the Liao state at the beginning of the war, has been suppressed by the Song army.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (03) The Secret of the Abyss</h1>
But soon the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's system began to be exposed, and these generals mentioned above were all front-line defensive strongholds, and they had full autonomy, but when it came to the first big city of the Song army, Dingzhou, the commander-in-chief at this time, Wang Chao, would be completely controlled by Song Zhenzong's formation map.
The so-called formation map is also a strange thing, it was invented in the Taizu period, in order to prevent the army from disobeying orders, the front-line generals marched to fight, they must be carried out in accordance with the formation map, how to arrange the troops and lay out the fixed position is clear, the general has no right to decide independently.
This is definitely an overcorrected approach, but when Taizu was born, the drawbacks were not very obvious, after all, Zhao Kuangyin was born and knew how to fight, and by the time of Zhao Guangyi, the formation map had seriously restricted the combat effectiveness of the Song army, and in the era of Song Zhenzong, it was even more fatal.
Born in the deep palace, grown up in the hands of women, this person has listened to all kinds of big truths since he was a child, no matter how hard he tries subjectively, he has no idea what is going on when it comes to fighting.
As a result, Dingzhou was quickly bypassed, and even the Daimyo Mansion was in danger, and by this time, Kou Zhun knew that No matter what, His Majesty the Emperor himself must go on the expedition, so as to save the Great Song and the city of Kaifeng.
The Khitan people seem to be breaking through the bamboo, but they have committed a big taboo of soldiers, they have cavalry, they can indeed move quickly, but the reason why such things as the city are important, he is reasonable, for example, the current situation is that the Liao army has indeed invaded a lot of the south.
However, behind them were Wei Neng, Tian Min, Yang Yanzhao, Shi Pu and other song army border guards, as well as 150,000 people in Dingzhou, who did separate these Song soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty's capital, but correspondingly, these horses also separated them from Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
The Song Dynasty finally used the veteran General Li Jilong, which is the treasure of the Great Song Dynasty, but at this moment it has been hidden in the snow for a long time, this is a big treasure, but why did the Song Dynasty only allow it to be used at such a critical juncture.
The reason is very simple, because Mrs. Niu, he is not only a strong fighter, his identity is more powerful, he is Song Zhenzong's uncle, his sister is Empress Li, in other film and television dramas this is simply the best candidate to go out with a heavy army.
But not in the Song Dynasty, as a top foreign relative, no matter how versatile you are, involved in the internal struggle of the royal family, you can only hide it, but fortunately, not long ago Empress Li fell ill and died, this time the country has difficulties, Li Jilong was finally enabled.
In a short period of time, Li Jilong took over the defense, and the morale of the Song army increased greatly, but inadvertently a small incident occurred, which completely changed the entire battlefield, but the Song side did not know it, and the whole secret was not discovered until the end of the war.
This time, the military commander of the Liao army going south was named Xiao Taorin, who was also a man with outstanding military achievements, and no one expected that he was actually shot by the ultimate weapon of the Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow.
The crossbow has always been the ultimate weapon of the Song Army, how powerful this crossbow is, you can see from the way of operation, he can not rely on human power to happen, after the string, can only use the hammer to hit the spring hard to launch.
A small soldier at the head of the city, in line with the principle of beating the rabbit with grass and whether there was a stick first, looked at the other side from a distance and seemed to have an unusually dressed person, no matter how many people came first and then said, just like the frozen soldiers who were shivering, they hit the crossbow in front of them hard.
After a period of confusion on the other side, there was no news again, because the news was tightly sealed by Empress Xiao, and their commander Xiao Taorin was shot to death, but the Song army was completely unaware of this matter, but the war could not be fought at this point.
The rest is the sword-rattling and vigorous negotiation between the two sides, after which Kou Zhun and the emperor have come, and the emissaries of the negotiations have also come, and Kou Zhun is indeed very powerful, but it is precisely because of the heroic killing of the song dynasty soldiers before that there are chips on the negotiating table.
The merits of Kou Zhun are indeed great, but we must not forget the efforts of Yang Yanzhao, who fought in the early stage and made a full preparation for the entire negotiations.
So how much is the credit of Kou Zhun in this national war that is a life-and-death battle, and we will talk about it in the next chapter, this Kou Laoxi.