Counting Chinese history, the most prosperous military feats must be counted as the Han Dynasty, and the "wu" of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is really not called in vain. In particular, the famous general Chen Tang's sentence "Those who commit crimes against me strong men, although they are far away, they will be punished" has become a famous sentence for thousands of years, how domineering and domineering.
The second is the Tang Dynasty, the emperor Li Shimin used soldiers like gods, and beat all around him to cry fathers and mothers. Even in the later Ming and Qing dynasties, the military strength was not weak, and for the various forces around them, they were always tough in person, and in the heyday of the dynasty, they rarely spent money to buy peace.
There was only one alternative Song Dynasty, since the failure of the Northern Expedition of Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi Yongxi of the Song Dynasty, it felt like a changed person, and he was instantly instigated. The iron temperament that has been inherited from the five generations of chaotic times has been lost, and he has become a lord that everyone can deceive.
But this is no wonder the warriors of the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, since the founding of the country, a system of emphasizing literature over military force has been established, and the military will be tied up and unable to play a level. On the other hand, it is also blamed that the Song Dynasty was too rich, and human society has had a phenomenon since ancient times, the richer the country, the lower the combat effectiveness of the army. Rich people think the same thing, why bother with things that can be solved with money? Only those who are poor and horizontal will not be afraid to wear shoes barefoot, and will provoke war at every turn, fighting with their lives.
Therefore, starting from the third emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Zhenzong, the national strength has become richer and richer, but the external strategy has become softer and softer. The Alliance of Liaoyuan used 300,000 taels per year to win the Liao state, in exchange for a hundred years of peace on the northern border. This is emotionally acceptable, after all, the area of the Liao State is larger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is not shameful to give some money to serve soft. However, Xiang's national strength was far inferior to his own Xishanagong, which was a bit faceless.
Western Xia is a dynasty established by the Dangxiang people, and now the Dangxiang clan has disappeared in the long river of history, because there is no writing, so the history of Western Xia has also been covered with a mysterious veil, we can only understand the local hard-line regime that once existed from the side of the History of the Song Dynasty and the History of liao.
During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, Western Xia had always been the younger brother of the Song Dynasty, and he accepted the canonization and declared himself a vassal. When Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, things changed. Li Yuanhao's ambition was not willing to be directly ruled by the Song Dynasty, and he persuaded his people to establish themselves as emperors and become a country that coexisted with the Song Dynasty.
The younger brother wants to rebel, and the eldest brother is naturally not very happy. Song Renzong did not hesitate to send troops to suppress it. Unexpectedly, Li Yuanhao was actually a bottomless military genius, and under the frequent operations of various gods, he pressed the full head of the Great Song army and rubbed it on the ground several times.
The Battle of Sanchuankou and the Battle of Haoshuichuan were defeated in every battle, and there were countless casualties among senior officers and soldiers, and Song Renzong did not hesitate to admit it. Bowed his noble head to his former little brother, and returned to the routine he was most familiar with, taking money to buy peace.
After some bargaining, the Song Dynasty humiliatingly accepted the terms of the peace talks, not only to give a large amount of silver to the Western Xia every year, but also to use the word "Na" in the peace treaty, which can be described as disgraceful.
So did the Song Dynasty never "rise up" and be bullied by the Western Xia for a lifetime? This is really not, after the death of Song Renzong, during the reign of Song Yingzong, the Song Dynasty also briefly restored its domineering spirit and regained some of the dignity of the former big brother.
After Li Yuanhao received a large amount of tribute from the Song Dynasty, he also had no motivation for war, and every day he embraced left and right, seeking joy and pleasure, and his life was very happy.
Perhaps because life was too happy, Li Yuanhao did a magical thing, he made his eldest son Ning Lingge the crown prince, and then he helped him marry his daughter-in-law. As a result, at the wedding, because the new daughter-in-law looked too beautiful, Li Yuanhao's heart was great, and he simply became the groom's official himself, and successfully turned his daughter-in-law into a daughter-in-law.
Ning Lingge was naturally very unhappy, he inherited his father's courage, but did not inherit the brain, at the instigation of the Minister of State, he raised a knife and cut off his father's nose, as a result, Ning Lingge was killed by Wuzang Andi Pang, and Li Yuanhao lost too much blood and died. The throne fell into the hands of Li Yuanhao's younger son, Li Yuzuo.
This Li Yuzuo was completely different from his brother who had a simple mind and developed limbs, he was very scheming and scheming, and after several years of forbearance after ascending the throne, he killed the unzang blackmail pang who controlled the government in one go, and finally took power alone.
In 1064, Song Renzong died, Song Yingzong succeeded to the throne, according to international practice, Western Xia and Liao, as "friendly neighbors", naturally sent people to congratulate.
After the envoys of the Liao State came, the two sides met each other in friendship, after all, they were all big countries, the land was almost the same, the national strength was half a pound and eight two, and coupled with many years of peaceful coexistence, face always had to be given.
After the Western Xia emissaries came, they were completely different, they used to be slaves, but now they have become a level, and they have to give money and things every year. This breath is not so good to swallow. It just so happened that this time, the Song Dynasty's envoy was still a person with a flood of patriotic feelings, so he mixed his mouth with the Western Xia envoy. What the Song Dynasty said here we don't know, probably you are a piece of in my eyes and other garbage words, anyway, you come and go, the more noisy it is, and finally the Song Dynasty this jumped out of a super domineering sentence, comparable to although the offender of my strong man will be punished from afar, he directly came to the sentence: When a million soldiers are used to drive into helan's lair!
This sentence completely angered the Western Xia emissaries, and the two sides dispersed unhappily, and after returning to China, the emissaries brought the words to Li Shuzuo unchanged. This paid off, Li Yuzuo was furious, and as soon as his mind was hot, he rushed into the border states and counties of Qin, Feng, and Jingyuan in the Song Dynasty.
The purpose is simple, I want to vent my anger and regain my dignity. I could do what my father could do back then. However, the reality is very bone-chilling, Li Yuzuo snatched some things and killed some civilians. But the loss is more, since the Western Xia unilaterally tore up the contract, the Song Dynasty naturally did not give the old coins, and also closed the border farms.
The market was a goods trading market opened by the government on the border, which was dispensable for the Central Plains Dynasty, after all, it was rich in products and there was no shortage of anything. For Xixia, it is the root of life, there is no field, where to go to change tea, silk, spices. Li Yuzuo looked at the small advantage, in fact, this loss is to eat Dafa.
After returning home, the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became, and in the next two or three years, Li Yuzuo devoted himself to one thing, fully exerting the ancestral rogue spirit and harassing the border of the Song Dynasty every three to five years. However, the Song Dynasty, which was noisy and had a big family, really did not take him seriously, after all, Li Yuzuo was not his father Li Yuanhao, and he did not have excellent military ability. No matter how noisy it is, it can't make a few splashes.
After making a fuss like this for a while, Li Yuzuo himself felt bored, and he planned to come to the next big one. In 1066, Li Yuzuo personally led a large army to attack the border town of Dashun. After attacking for three days and three nights, the result was very funny, and he almost died under the city.
Li Yuzuo, who had been shot several times in his body, became even more angry, and he swore that he would never collect troops without defeating the Song Dynasty, threatening to say: First get the Song Dynasty's gifts, and then attack the Song Dynasty's cities.
This sentence is very arrogant, so it also reached kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, at the first time. The Manchu dynasty civil officials were panicked for a while, fiercely afraid of horizontal, horizontal afraid of not dying, this Li Yuzuo in case he really desperate, then what to do.
At that time, Song Yingzong was seriously ill and bedridden, and he could not get up. In desperation, he found the most trusted subordinate Han Qi and asked how to deal with this matter?
Han Qi was dismissive after hearing this, a hard-line official who had been stationed on the border of Western Xia for a long time, had dealt with Li Yuanhao for many years and knew everything about Western Xia. He said casually: The emperor is not panicked, Li Yuzuo, this bear child is simply under-pumped, let's send an emissary over, tell him to close the field permanently, after scolding, he will be honest.
Song Yingzong thought that he was hallucinating, and Xiang Xiangwen Yanbo was also a little flustered, the other party was the Emperor of Western Xia, how could he treat it so playfully, or pay compensation.
Han Qi interrupted him categorically: Listen to me, just do it! You can't go wrong!
Therefore, the emissaries of the Song Dynasty came to the border with the edict, and miraculously, Li Yuzuo really instigated, he had never seen such a tough Song Dynasty, the words left by the old ancestors really did not deceive us, people are good to be deceived, blindly retreating in exchange for peace, fists and strength can only be. Li Yuzuo actually obediently retired to China without a word, and when he arrived home, he honestly wrote an apology letter, indicating his good wish to be friends with the Song Dynasty again.
The news spread into Kaifeng, and the sick and weak Song Yingzong took the letter, looked at Han Qi at the head of the bed, and said only one word: "As expected."