The Northern Song Dynasty lacked generals and the Southern Song Dynasty lacked prime ministers. Although this sentence is not very correct in Zhao Huan's eyes, to be honest, the period from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty was indeed the last glory of the Song Dynasty.
Although the hundreds of years from the Five Dynasties to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty completely turned the entire Central Plains into a mess, turning it into a pot of porridge.
But I have to say that our ancestors have a good saying: prosperity will inevitably decline, and everything will reverse when it reaches its extreme.
When the Song Dynasty reached the point where it could no longer be rotten, Heaven opened a hole in the world.
Just like the famous Tubo general Lun Qinling who pinned Xue Rengui and Wu Zetian to the ground in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty also saw the emergence of Wanyan Aguda and Nianhan, an alternative among foreigners.
But at this time, the famous generals of the Jin people gradually withered away, and the old generals of the Song people gradually came to an end, but the world became more exciting.
Needless to say, Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, and Han Shizhong are now supported by Zhao Huan.
In addition, the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, which was once the most powerful in the world, finally ushered in its own new vitality after being almost destroyed.
After Liu Zhongwu and Liu Qi, father and son, and Li Yanxian, who went against the trend, the Wu brothers finally embarked on their own path.
Wu Jie was originally from Longgan County, Deshun Army. Because his father was buried in Shuiluo City, he settled there in order to let his father rest in peace and to be able to honor his father.
Wu Jie is definitely not a general, but because he is located on the border, his family background is not bad either. Wu Jie has been a resolute character since he was a child, advocating integrity, knowing the art of war and being good at riding and shooting, and he can understand justice when he is studying.
....Well, that’s how his family brags about him.
Of course, when Wu Jie was under twenty, Wu Jie enlisted in the army on Jingyuan Road as a son of a good family.
When Zhao Ji was still in power, Xixia repeatedly invaded the country. At this time, many generals who were able to fight appeared and opportunities were given to many people, such as Liu Zhongwu, Han Shizhong, and Yao Gu.
Of course, there are also Wu Jie and Wu Lin among the Wu brothers.
Wu Jie was the first to join the army and led the army in a fierce battle when Xixia invaded the country. Because of his bravery, he was promoted to Jinyi deputy lieutenant and Quan Ren captain.
After that, the brothers joined forces to make a splash on the border, both being famous for their bravery.
Then, after gaining the qualifications, they did not continue to fight on the border to the end, but chose to follow Tong Guan to suppress Fangla's Manichean rebellion.
He defeated Fangla's partial army and promoted one of his chief generals, and then defeated the bandits in Hebei. After his achievements, he was promoted to Zhong Xunlang and Quan was appointed as the tenth general of Jingyuan, and then in the past few years.
Xixia attacked Huaide's army. Wu Jie led more than a hundred cavalry to pursue and beheaded 146 people. For this meritorious service, he was awarded Bingyilang and the second deputy general Jingyuanlu with merit!
Then he deviated from history. When choosing the candidate to be transferred back to Luoyang to garrison Chang'an, Zhao Huan chose Liu Qi, who had a better relationship with him and whom he trusted more.
Wu Jie was transferred to Bashu to suppress civil unrest.
Since Emperor Guangwu, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, there has been a saying in Bashu: before the world is in chaos, Shu will be in chaos first; when the world is in peace, Shu will be in peace.
That place was too easy to be occupied and defended. Coupled with the war and the Jiaozi system completely collapsed, although the entire Bashu was not ready for anyone to cede territory and become king.
But it needs one person to guard it, and at the same time, it also needs to continuously provide food to the Central Plains and other places.
The Wu brothers became the inevitable candidates.
Now when the Chang'an generation is in crisis, the Wu brothers have finally left the land of Bashu again.
This Tubo was a being that could stand up to the Tang Dynasty, but in the end it was beaten by the Tang Dynasty and fell apart like the third grandson.
But there is still some strength in those who have been separated for so many years without getting together, and who have never been dead.
This time they were persuaded by the Jin to directly cooperate with the Xixia people to attack, but they forgot.
The Tubo of today is not the Tubo of the past. In its heyday, the Tubo occupied a large area of land in Longxi and Hexi. The land of Yongliang was almost occupied by the Tubo.
In addition, he gathered a piece of fertile land in Qinghai Lake and gathered countless Qiang and Hu people. After occupying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he directly reached the border with Xichuan.
But they have long declined over the years. Not long after the founding of the Song Dynasty, a descendant of a tribal leader from Tubo, Xisiluo, established a new country in the Huangshui River Basin of Qinghai Province centered on Miaochuan and Qingtang. Its main body was Tubo and Qiang people.
Susiluo repeatedly sent envoys to pay tribute to the emperor of the Song Dynasty and beg for official positions. Song Renzong named Susiluo "General Ningyuan, Training Envoy of the Aizhou Regiment" and gave him a generous salary.
Its purpose is to appease the border area, to make the border area more stable and not to cause trouble for itself.
Later, in the second year of Kangding, Renzong granted many official positions such as "Inspector of the School, Taibao, Baoshun, Hexi and other military governors", etc. After that, the descendants of Susiluo, Dong Xiang and Ali Gu, were granted the title by the Song Dynasty for generations. He held an official position, and the place he ruled belonged to Qinfeng Road among the 26 roads in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the sixth year of Zhenghe's reign, all the areas in the Tubo area were changed to counties of the Song Dynasty. It can be said that this was the foundation laid by Emperor Renzong, and Tubo was completely destroyed silently.
By the way, a huge amount of land was recovered.
In those years, the Song Dynasty distributed bows, arrows and other weapons to the Tubo tribes in Hexi Corridor and other places, and recruited Tibetan archers. It seemed like a nonsense to support the enemy, but it was actually a good plan.
The Song Dynasty established a military system similar to the Song Dynasty militia among the Tubo tribes to jointly defend against the invasion and harassment of the Xixia people.
Wang Shao, the general of the Song Dynasty, opened up a large amount of land on the border of Shaanzhou near Tubo, recruited more than 300,000 Tibetans to work on cultivation, and a rudimentary tea-horse mutual trade emerged.
This was also a major reason why Tubo finally agreed to assign a large area of its land to the Song Dynasty and accept the care and rule of the Song people with peace of mind.
This action of nearly a century is also called "literary killing without blood".
It's just that Zhao Ji has some pitfalls, and the good situation was lost, and Ali Gu was given a chance to encircle him.
When Aligu began to rebel and cooperate with the enemies of the Xixia people and even the Jin people who temporarily posed no threat to him, they wanted to seize the Shaanzhou and Guanzhong of the Song Dynasty and make them their land.
Restore the glory of your ancestors.
But as their immediate boss, the eldest brother of Qin Feng Road, Wu Jie was not someone who could sit back and watch them do this. Although he was in charge of Bashu, he opened the way for Bashu to enter the hinterland of Qinghai.
That was the ancient road used by Li Jing when he defeated the enemy on three routes. After bypassing Mang Mountain, there was a brand new road that could run through the back of Bashu and Yongliang in Guanzhong.
When Aligu rushed into Guanzhong, Shaanzhou, Wu Jie also rushed directly behind Jisiluobu and started the raid without mercy.
His younger brother Wu Lin is famous for his bravery, and is even stronger than Wu Jie in this regard. He wears three layers of armor and leads the warriors who also wear three layers of armor to fight first in every battle. He fights several times in a row and makes 150 raids. Ten miles.
Completely pierce the back of the body, and then use the magnet and compass to move all the way behind Aligu, leaving no one alive wherever he passes.
Relying on this kind of courage and speed, he finally appeared behind Ali Gu when he intercepted and attacked Liu Qi.
"You guys tell General Liu Qi that as long as my Wu brothers are here, no one can harm his rear army at all!"
After Wu Jie rushed to the battlefield, he immediately informed Liu Qi of his whereabouts, and then began to encircle and suppress Ali Gu.
As the leader of the Zushiluo tribe, he can also be regarded as the king of the new Tubo Kingdom. He is the third generation king of the Qingtang Zushiluo Kingdom. He is the adopted son of Dong Fei, the third son of Zushiluo, the governor of Liangzhou.
When he was just an adopted son, he often followed his adoptive father on expeditions to the Xia Kingdom and conquered dissidents, and made many military exploits.
In the tenth year of Shenzong Xining's reign, he was awarded the title of Songzhou Governor. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he was awarded the title of Suzhou Defense Envoy.
In his later years, Dong Felt asked him to act as state agent and wanted to pass on his position to his adopted son, who was quite satisfied with him. After Dong Felt's death, Ali Gu became the king as he wished.
However, due to political disputes, it was not until the first year of Zhe Zong Yuanyou's reign that he reported his funeral to the Song Dynasty court. It had already been a full four years before he announced his surrender.
At that time, Zhezong also understood that his heart did not seem to be so pure, so he gave him a generous reward in order to appease Tubo and let them continue to be his vanguard in attacking Xia.
He was named the Champion General, the Right Jin Wuwei General, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Communist Party of China, Sikong of the Inspection School, an envoy to control the military affairs of Liangzhou, a governor of Liangzhou, a member of the Hexi Army Jiedu, a member of the Liangzhou Administration Bureau to observe and deal with the exiles, etc. The envoy, the leader of Miaochuan in Xibo, and the founding Duke of Ningsai County, also gave the gift to Dong Zhan.
The officialdom of the Song Dynasty was extremely long, and Ali Guna's official position was definitely the longest in the entire Song Dynasty.
It's just that Ali Gu had his own ideas. He took away the rewards and rewards from Song Ting and immediately changed his national policy to fight against Song in Yixia!
First, they united with Liang Yibu, the Prime Minister of the Xia State, to attack the six states of Xihe. Later, they sent troops to occupy Taozhou with the generals Guizhang and Zijie. They personally led an army of 100,000 to cooperate with Guizhang to besiege Hezhou. They were defeated by Song general You Shixiong and others, and they never recovered. As a result, the Jiaosiluo tribe went from prosperity to decline.
Later, he changed his attitude towards Song Dynasty and Xixia Dynasty, and sent people to bring valuables to "apologise to the Song Dynasty." Although the Song Dynasty listed his crimes, he still granted him an official title and granted him military supplies such as copper and iron as an exception.
After that, they had been very honest. He would vomit as much as Song Ting gave him.
After that, he introduced the word "vassal" to the Song Dynasty and asked to establish a literary agreement with the Song Dynasty and never violate each other. It can be said that he became the most loyal lackey of the Song Dynasty.
But Ali Gu, who was supposed to have died of illness in the third year of Shaosheng, didn't know how he was still alive and kicking. However, Zhao Huan didn't notice this, and it didn't matter even if he did.
Today's Tubo is nothing to worry about.
"Tian Sheng, go to the left wing and kill the Tubo ghost. Why is this old guy still jumping around here when he's almost seventy years old!"
"Wu Lin, stop fighting with a group of Tubo soldiers here. If you see if Ali is dead, tell him to go see his wild father!"
Wu Jie issued orders repeatedly, and he led all the soldiers and horses directly to charge into the Tibetan army.
This time, Ali Gu was fighting to the death. He knew that he didn't have much time left, so he wanted to rush over and give Tubo...or give himself a chance.
But this really became his last battle.
During the fight, Tian Sheng rushed directly to kill the Tubo general Gui Zhang, who was also old and frail. After a few hard fights, the young and strong Tian Sheng found an opportunity and stabbed him through the heart with a knife, and then took off his arm. head.
Wu Lin, who was on the other side, rushed in front of Ali Gu, ignoring the Tibetan soldiers and horses in all directions, and shouted directly.
"Ali Gu, your biological father is here!"
This voice did not frighten Ali Gu to death, but it almost made him angry to death. He had fought for Tubo all his life, and until his death, many of the Tubo people under his command refused to acknowledge his identity.
He even said that he had led Tubo into the abyss, not thinking that if it hadn't been for him, Tubo would have already belonged to the Song Dynasty.
Where is the current strength?
"Kill!" Ali Gu roared and led his soldiers and horses to surround him, relying on his superior numbers to kill the ungrateful boy in front of him.
At the moment when the two sides were fighting, Wu Lin dodged the charge of several soldiers around him, rushed in front of Ali Gu with a tiger pounce, turned around and jumped directly onto his horse, with the knife in his hand and a ferocious smile on his face. All appeared in Ali Gu's eyes and became his last scene.
"kill!"
The knife flew across, and the head ascended to the sky.
At the same time, there was a roar coming from Liu Qi's place.
"The enemy general is dead. If you don't surrender, how long will it take?"
Under the setting sun, Liu Qi, covered in blood, held up the head of the intruder, completely resolving his embarrassing situation of being surrounded on three sides.
In the distance, Liu Zhongwu was lame. After losing another son, he also lost his other intact leg, but in exchange, the head of Xu Wen, known as the fierce general, appeared in his hands.
For this battle, Liu Zhongwu gave up Li Gang's step-by-step approach, and all the troops pounced directly on him, one for one, two for one, or even five for one.
They had a large number of soldiers and horses, and they were not cowardly people. They relied on their large numbers to directly encircle and suppress them. All the generals and their families were sent to the camp by him.
The general goes first, and if he wins the battle, whether he lives or dies, he will be rewarded heavily.
If they lose, all their family members will die before them, regardless of whether they can come back.
This is Liu Zhongwu's method. The General's Death Squadron will be Liu Zhongwu's unique method. How can the hope he has waited for so easily slip away from his hands, how can he slip away, how can he give up.
After the battle, the veteran general walked up to Li Gang, who was supervising the battle, holding two spears, holding his head high and shouting loudly.
"Xu Wen is dead, and the generals of the Song Dynasty will never retreat!"
Behind him are countless soldiers of the Song Dynasty who fought bloody battles and were the hope of the Song Dynasty in the future.
This time, Li Gang took the initiative to bow to Liu Zhongwu.
