Talk about the love and killing of Yang Ye and the Song Dynasty

When Zhao Kuangyin was winning the battle to consolidate the foundation of the country, there were also a number of new officers growing up in the army, and one of the representative figures, Pan Mei, was like Yang Ye, who was originally a strong enemy of the Great Song Dynasty and became the main combat strength of the Great Song Dynasty, today I will briefly talk about Yang Ye.

In Li Jixun with Jing Si to attack Liaozhou, which tested the Northern Han Dynasty, Yang Ye's name appeared a little, but unfortunately it was suppressed by Jing Si throughout the whole process, in fact, there was no way to think about it, Yang Ye's talent belonged to the handsome general who took into account Zhi Yong, the Northern Han Did Not Have enough Troops to Let Him Deploy, and Now He Encountered the Top Fighting General Jing Si who was capable of hundreds of people, it is no wonder that some people could not resist, but no matter what, in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Ye was still promoted to the Jianxiong Army Festival envoy by military merit, and several major events occurred in the Northern Han Dynasty in succession this year. The first is that Liu Chengjun, the Ruizong of the Northern Han Dynasty, died, Liu Chengjun was childless, in order to ensure that the state had a long king, he passed the throne to his righteous son and nephew Liu Ji'en, but Liu Ji'en and the chancellor Guo Wuwei were at odds, so Guo Wuwei launched a coup d'état, assassinated Liu Ji'en, and instead supported his half-brother Liu Jiyuan as a new spokesman, but during Liu Chengjun's reign, he released the Liao state pigeons several times against the strategic deployment of the Northern Song Dynasty, resulting in the Liao state's attitude towards the Northern Han Becoming increasingly cold, and all these news reached the ears of Song Taizu, and his own family expanded its territory. The other side's national politics were chaotic, once again full of confidence, and immediately Song Taizu, like Zhou Shizong, threw away the "first south and then the north" and "first easy and then difficult", and then sent Li Jixun to attack the Northern Han, that is, Yang Yezheng cat in Tuanbai Valley to prepare to resist the Song army, did not want to face the black pressure of a strong man, it is estimated that he can faintly see the smile of the old acquaintance Jing Si in the crowd, Yang Ye thought that his troops were thin, and the hard was to send military merit, so he immediately made a decision - retreat is also a strategy.

Liu Jiyuan had been waiting for Yang Ye's war report, not wanting the brothers to run back first, and then follow the Song army brigade directly to Taiyuan City. In a fit of rage, Yang Ye was directly relieved of his military power, fortunately, there was no danger in this battle, the Liao state immediately sent reinforcements regardless of the previous suspicions, the Song army was forced to retreat, and the Northern Han army also took this opportunity to follow the Liao army to plunder the Jin and Dai Prefectures on the border of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Kaibao, in the strong opposition of Zhao Pu, Song Taizu ordered the soldiers and horses to go to Taiyuan. This attack was prepared very thoroughly, requisitioning several states of Heshuo to support the front line, after reaching the city of Taiyuan, Song Taizu directly spent two months to build a long causeway, diverting fenshui to irrigate the city, when the embarrassment, Yang Ye regained Liu Jiyuan's trust, led hundreds of cavalry to raid the Song army camp, but unfortunately was repelled by the Song army's fierce generals, Yang Ye suffered heavy casualties, was chased by the party to Taiyuan City, only to return to the city by climbing the rope blue, but Yang Ye did not give up, and then led thousands of troops to attack the Song army, resulting in the warhorse wounded, broke through to half, and was forced to retreat. In general, although Yang Ye showed amazing will in this battle, but the northern Song Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty had a huge disparity in strength, Yang Ye could only be beaten all the time, so the Northern Han Dynasty was in danger, and what was Daliao doing at this time?

At that time, the situation in Daliao was also embarrassing, Emperor Muzong of Liao was assassinated by his entourage, and Emperor Jingzong of Liao, Yelü Xian, took the throne, but even so, the State of Liao still sent two armies to rescue Taiyuan, but Song Taizu had already obtained the news through espionage, and sent He Jijun and Han Chongyun to garrison Shiling Pass and Dingzhou Jiashan respectively, Taizu personally taught the art of war, and the second general did not fail in his mission, breaking the Liao army, which was 20 years later, the Central Plains Dynasty once again defeated the Liao army in a field battle. The Song army was excited, song Taizu asked the soldiers to break the Liao army's booty and head, put it under Taiyuan City to declare the military and people in the city, in order to cut off their hopes, but did not expect that the Northern Han army was determined, still stubborn resistance, the Northern Han Dynasty Prime Minister Guo Wuwei has always had an inexplicable relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty, wanted to take this opportunity to surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty, but was preemptively attacked by Liu Jiyuan, hanged at the head of the city, the result of the entire siege war lasted for more than three months, even if the Song army paid a heavy price, it was still unable to break through Taiyuan City. Just at this time there was a sudden epidemic in the army, and there were Liao reinforcements attacking again, thinking about it again, Song Taizu finally decided to retreat, but under the hasty retreat, he still left a large amount of materials for the Northern Han, Taiyuan was blistered for several months, the wall began to fall off, the Northern Han was the end of the crossbow, but the Song army's hand of materials, directly took a bite of blood, watching the rescue of the Liao army also came to Taiyuan City, Yang Ye, who had been stationed in the north for many years, had mixed feelings. This time against the Song army, although he was hindered by loyalty and fought to the end, he already knew the direction of the general trend of the world, and Yang Ye persuaded Liu Jiyuan to sneak up on the Khitan and then surrender to the Great Song, but unfortunately he was rejected.

After Song Taizu returned, he changed the strategy of attacking the Northern Han Dynasty and began to adopt the method of slow attack, one was to continuously forcibly relocate the people around Taiyuan City, and then to build bunkers around the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty, blocking the road of the Liao State to the south, and later the population of the Northern Han Dynasty was only more than 30,000 households, and the population was sharply reduced to unable to support domestic production, the Northern Han State had to ask the Liao State again and again to borrow grain to survive, the Liao State on the one hand hated the Northern Han More and more cumbersome, on the other hand, it was jealous of the rise of the Northern Song Dynasty's national strength, especially in the third year of Kaibao, the Song general Tian Qinzuo was on the Song-Liao border It may be exaggerated to defeat the 60,000-strong army of the Liao state with 3,000 men and horses, but after that, the Liao state did pay more attention to its relations with the Song Dynasty. It was not until the seventh year of Kaibao that the Song and Liao signed peace agreements, and the previous military reforms of the Northern Song Dynasty also had remarkable results during this period, and then attacked the Southern Han and Southern Tang. Everything was ready, so in August of the ninth year of Kaibao, Song Taizu again sent Dang Jin, Pan Mei, Guo Jin and other generals to attack the Northern Han, thinking that this time it could be taken, but unfortunately Song Taizu died, and the later matter was handed over to Song Taizu's brother Zhao Guangyi.

It is precisely because of the disdainful efforts of Song Taizu and Song Taizong that Yang Ye's handsome ability can be discovered, although his previous deeds have not been passed down, but it is also a good life to live to see the unification of the world and return to stability.