Qian Song

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Li Cun repeatedly deduced for a long time with a group of resourceful and highly professional civil and military officials and a group of counselors.

In the end, Li Cun decided to adopt Chen Kuutong's proposal and send an elite team of no more than 300 people to sneak into Xingyuan Mansion to instigate rebellion against Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other soldiers of the Song Army who participated in the mutiny, and then sent people to lead Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan, etc. Liu Zhengyan and others detained Zhao Gou and the leaders of the Western Song Dynasty, leaving the Western Song Dynasty without a leader. At the same time, they sent troops west again to destroy the Western Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

This strategic strategy is actually very risky, especially the elite team sent to Xingyuan Mansion, they can be said to be full of dangers.

Like, can they sneak into the Xingyuan Mansion in the hinterland of the Western Song Dynasty smoothly and in time?

For example, after they sneaked into Xingyuan Mansion smoothly and in time, could they recruit Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other Song Army soldiers who participated in the mutiny smoothly and in time?

The point is, after recruiting Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other Song Army soldiers who participated in the mutiny, can they lead Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other Song Army soldiers who participated in the mutiny to defend Xingyuanfu City (which was renamed "Lin'an City" by Zhao Gou)? Song Capital)?

The key point is, after defending Lin'an City, can it persist until the dry army penetrates the Sichuan-Shanxi area.

Undoubtedly, every member of the elite team must bear huge risks. It is not an exaggeration to say that their trip was a narrow escape.

Chen Kuutong was the first to stand up, saying that he came up with the idea and that he was willing to lead a team to sneak into Xingyuan Mansion.

Li Cun considered that Chen Kuutong was cautious and resourceful, with high qualifications and prestige. More importantly, Chen Kuutong was decisive and decisive in situations, so he was a very suitable candidate to lead the team.

Li Cun and Chen Goutong have been inseparable for so many years, so they naturally know Chen Goutong very well, knowing that since Chen Goutong offered to take this trip, it means that Chen Goutong really wants to go to his counselor Career draws a successful conclusion.

Therefore, Li Cun was not hypocritical, and directly agreed with Chen Kuutong to lead the team.

Chen Kuutong must have no problem instigating the brainless soldiers of the Song army who participated in the mutiny such as Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, and fighting wits with Zhu Shengfei and other civil and military officials of the small court of the Western Song Dynasty to preside over the overall situation of Lin'an City.

But what about commanding troops to fight?
That's not what Chen Houtong is good at.

Professional things have to be done by professional people.

Therefore, Li Cun could let Chen Kuutong take charge of the affairs of Xingyuan Mansion, but the soldiers of the Song Army who led Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other Chen Kuutong to surrender would guard Xingyuan Mansion and turn Xingyuan Mansion into at least Lin'an City. The nail was firmly nailed to the heart of the Sichuan-Shanxi area, making the hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in the Western Song Dynasty leaderless, and persisted until the dry army penetrated the Sichuan-Shanxi area. This kind of thing has to be done by professional generals, and It must be the best general to do it.

Li Cun has many generals who are good at defending.

Like Zhao Han'er, Zhang Goudan, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, Chen Yun, Wang Bao, Zhan Du and so on.

Even if it is only currently in Bianliang City, Tokyo, there are many generals who are good at defending, and there are even many generals who are both offensive and defensive.

Moreover, as soon as Li Cun asked who was willing to go to Xingyuan Mansion, nearly a hundred generals stood up and asked for orders.

This includes Wu Jie and Zhao Li, two absolute generals under Li Cun's subordinates.

In order to be able to obtain this glorious and arduous task, many generals expressed that if they could not complete the task of defending Xingyuan Mansion, they were willing to come to see Li Cun.

This is actually bullshit.

If they can't defend Lin'an City, those who sneaked into Xingyuan Mansion will either die or surrender. How can they go any other way?

Therefore, Li Cun will not look at the determination they are showing now, but Li Cun will look at which of them has the ability to be both wise and brave and unswerving willpower.

In this way, there are only five people left in Li Cun's eyes, that is, people who Li Cun thinks are qualified for this task.

And among these five people, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Han'er and other top generals in Li Cun's hands were not even included.

These five people are Wang Zhi, Chen Yu, Zhan Du, Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian, who are the main generals who presided over the five major defense battles during the Song Dynasty.

in history.

During the defense of Taiyuan, the food in the city had already been eaten up, and even the bows, crossbows, leather armor and chaff and hay were all eaten up. However, under the leadership of Wang Zhi, the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City were still running out of food and desperate for help. Nine out of ten casualties, while the Jin soldiers continued to reinforce Taiyuan City, Taiyuan City still held on for nine months before it was breached.

During the defense of Zhongshan Mansion, under heavy siege by the Jin army, Zhongshan Mansion persisted until after the food was exhausted, the Song army guarding the city began to eat each other.

In the end, Chen Yu and 17 people in his family were all killed by the rebel generals. The Song army lost its main general before someone opened the city gate and surrendered. The Jin people finally occupied Zhongshan Mansion!
If counting from the time when Chen Yun took over, Zhongshan Mansion lasted for a full seventeen months, and if counting from the period of Zhan Du, it lasted for two years and two months.

(Other sources claim to have persisted for three years)
The defense of Hejian Mansion lasted longer than the imperial court. Even the emperor had surrendered, but they hadn't surrendered yet.

If counting from when Chen Yu became the magistrate, he also persisted for [-] months.

(Other sources claim to have persisted for two years)
In the battle of defending Shanzhou, the Jin people besieged Shanzhou many times in order to open up the connection between the eastern and western armies, but they were all defeated by Li Yanxian. The siege of Shanzhou, divided the army into ten armies, and took turns to attack the city. The battle was extremely tragic. The words in the history books are described as: "The Jin people are full of strength, and the dead and wounded are all over the ground, but they dare not look back."

Later, because Li Yanxian couldn't wait for the reinforcements, there was no food and no reinforcements in the city of Shanzhou, and the Jin army finally broke through Shanzhou.

Even so, Li Yanxian still led the remaining Song army and the people in the city to fight to the death.

Wanyan Loushi, who usually seldom gets angry, was driven into a rage by Li Yanxian and ordered the massacre of the city.

As for Li Yanxian, his whole family was killed by the golden man, and he was seriously injured, and finally died by throwing himself into the Yellow River.

The defense of Shanzhou lasted for a year and a half, with more than 20 battles of different sizes, causing heavy casualties to the Jin army. It was also for the Xuanfu of Sichuan and Shanxi that Zhang Jun assembled nearly [-] Western troops to counterattack and won the victory. precious time.

During the Chuzhou defense battle, Wan Yanchang led the main force to go south to cut off the Chuzhou grain road. After the Song army ran out of food, they could only eat weeds, aquatic plants and bark to satisfy their hunger, and even the tragic situation of "changing sons eating each other" appeared.

The Jin army stepped up the attack on the city, and Zhao Li commanded the battle from the city wall, but was hit on the head by a flying cannon (catapult) and died.

After Zhao Li was martyred, the Jin army thought that Zhao Li was killed by bombing, and dared not take the opportunity to attack. It was not until more than ten days later that they entered the city.

The soldiers and civilians of Chuzhou led by Zhao Li persisted for thirteen months, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Jin soldiers, and even prompted Wan Yanchang to gradually transform into the main peace faction of the Jin Kingdom.

Today, these five generals who are extremely good at defending are all in the hands of Li Cun, even in Bianliang City, Tokyo, there are four of them.

And three of these four were also in the ranks of asking for a fight - only Wang Teng did not ask for a fight.

Among Zhao Li, Zhan Du and Li Yanxian, Li Cun first ruled out Zhan Du.

Does Zhan Du have the ability?

The answer is yes, he, like Chen Yu, is the kind of comprehensive talent with both civil and military skills.

But one of the foundations of the political system established by Li Cun is the separation of civil and military affairs. The literati are not allowed to join the army, and the generals are not allowed to participate in politics.

Zhan Du was born in a scholarly family, a family of officials in the Zhao and Song Dynasties. His grandfather Zhan Jiong was a minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of Guanwen Palace, and was named Duke of Qi. His father Zhan Wen was a bachelor of the Imperial Academy and opened the third division of Yitong.

Zhan Du with this kind of background can only choose the same in civil and military affairs, Zhan Du must be elected as a civil servant.

in fact--

It's not that the separation of civil and military affairs is completely inflexible, Chen Yun doesn't care about both civil and military affairs.

However, the situation at Chen Yu's place is too special.

First of all, the Annan and Dingnan roads are really too far away, so far away that the Daqian Dynasty is really beyond reach.

Secondly, Li Cun, who was poor and white at the time, really didn't have so many talents, and was anxious to go back to the fire to get chestnuts, so he could only hand over Annan and Dingnan to Chen Yun for management.

The key point is that Chen Yun has been in charge of the southern frontier for the Daqian Dynasty for seven years. Not only did he not let Li Cun worry about everything, but he also listened to Li Cun's dispatch and Li Cun's instructions in everything.

In this case, Li Cun really had no reason to force Chen Yun to choose a side between civil and military.

But now, the situation has not reached the point where Li Cun has to let Zhan Du straddle civil and military affairs, and Li Cun has a lot of talents in his hands, so there is really no need to create a second Chen Yun.

More importantly, Zhan Du's performance on the battlefield is indeed good, but in the final analysis, he is not like Chen Yu, Wang Tian, ​​Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian, who were desperate for food, desperate aid, or even cannibalism. Therefore, whether Zhan Du can resist pressure like the other four, Li Cun is not very sure.

So Li Cun's favorites are Zhao Li and Li Yanxian.

In the end, Li Chuan chose between Zhao Li and Li Yanxian, and chose Li Yanxian.

This is not to say that Zhao Li is inferior to Li Yanxian, but that Li Cun does not want one of his generals to get too much limelight.

If a general gets too much limelight, it is actually not a good thing for himself or the court.

If the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it; when it is piled up on the shore, the current will be turbulent; if the walking is higher than the people, the crowd will not be against it.

Zhao Li has made great achievements over the years, and Zhao Li is also Li Cun's fellow villager.

In this case, if Li Cun didn't let Zhao Li stop and slow down, it might hurt Zhao Li.

This is just like how Li Cunxue hid Yue Fei back then, it was a kind of protection for Zhao Li.

What's more, Li Cun also has to give those reliable newcomers some chances to stand out.

Otherwise, this is not a good thing.

What's more, Zhao Gou's monarch and ministers used "unnecessary" to mess with Liu Kai and Li Yanxian.

Under this premise, if the Western Song Dynasty died at the hands of Liu Kai and Li Yanxian, combined with the fact that the Mutiny of Miao and Liu was also caused by Zhao Gou, the world would say that the Zhao Song Dynasty should die, and Li Cun used the right to defeat the innocent. This will make Li Cun stand on the moral high ground, and it will also make it easier for people in Sichuan and Shaanxi to accept Li Cun's rule over them. The key point is that this can disintegrate the will of the Western Song army to a large extent.

You think about it.

Liu Kai and Li Yanxian were also soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty, and they were soldiers who made great contributions to the Western Song Dynasty.

As a result, how did Zhao Gou and his ministers treat Liu Qi and Li Yanxian?
Not only did meritorious deeds not be rewarded, but he also framed Liu Kai and Li Yanxian in order to seek peace with the Daqian Dynasty, and even tortured Liu Kai and Li Yanxian, trying to beat them into tricks, but he almost beat Liu Kai and Li Yanxian to death.

When the rabbit dies, the fox is sad, and things hurt its kind.

How could the encounter between Liu Kai and Li Yanxian prevent the soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty from being chilled and even rebellious.

Therefore, Liu Kai and Li Yanxian themselves are the two big killers against the Western Song Dynasty.

Many people stood up to express their opposition to Li Cun letting Li Yanxian take charge of the military and defense work of Xingyuan City.

There is no need to ask why these people objected. Li Cun also knew that the reason why these people objected to Li Yanxian's presiding over Xingyuan City's military and defense work was because they were worried about Li Yanxian.

Yes.

During the time when Li Yanxian surrendered, he performed well.

But Li Yanxian's so-called performance was good, but when he was fighting the Jin people and the Xixia people, at most he wiped out some pro-Song armed forces. From the beginning to the end, Li Yanxian never really faced the Song army.

Who can guarantee that Li Yanxian can really hold up the butcher's knife when facing the Song Army, especially his former comrades-in-arms in the Song Army?Just like Guan Yu guarded Huarong Road in history.

Li Cun didn't let these opponents say that they would definitely hurt Li Yanxian, and then directly appointed Liu Kai as the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan and Shanxi, the commander of the Song Dynasty army, and made Liu Kai the commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty.

Seeing that Li Cun not only asked Li Yanxian to preside over the military and defense work of Xingyuan City, but also asked Liu Kai, who was in a similar situation to Li Yanxian, to be the commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty.

Many people who felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Daqian Dynasty to complete the great unification must not make any mistakes, and came forward to persuade Li Cun:
"Your Majesty, this is a big matter. Please think twice before making appointments!"

"The minister recommends Zhao Dutong to go to Xingyuan Mansion, and Wu Dutong to serve as the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi!"

"The appointment of the coach is not in a hurry, why don't I discuss other matters first?"

"..."

Li Cun understood the distrust of Liu Kai and Li Yanxian from his group of civil and military ministers.

Let's not talk about Liu Kai and Li Yanxian's identities that they joined the Daqian Dynasty not long ago.

It’s just that, except for Li Cun, no one else knows that Liu Kai is a general who can be compared with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Wu Jie. They also don’t know that Li Yanxian defeated the No.1 general of the Jin Kingdom in history, Wanyan Loushi. A brilliant defense of Shanzhou was fought.

Therefore, it is normal for them to worry about Li Cun handing over such a heavy burden to Liu Kai and Li Yanxian.

Understandable is understanding, but Li Cun will not change the decision he has made because of this.

This is not because Li Cun is conceited, but because Li Cun has confidence in Liu Kai and Li Yanxian. At the same time, Li Cun also firmly believes that Liu Kai and Li Yanxian are the best choice to give the Western Song Dynasty a final blow.

In addition, Li Cun did not completely subdue Liu Qi and Li Yanxian, two generals with unlimited potential.

Therefore, after patiently listening to the suggestions of all the ministers, Li Cun still said: "Okay, dear friends, don't discuss this matter any more. My heart has been resolved, let's discuss the next topic."

All civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty knew that Li Cun was not a dictator easily, but once Li Cun became a dictator, it was unquestionable.

Many generals looked at Liu Qi and Li Yanxian with envy or even jealousy, wondering what they could do to make Li Cun look so favorably on them, and even willing to bet on them the great unification of the Daqian Dynasty...

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