When taking stock of Ming Taizong at the beginning, Lao Zhu was stunned!

Chapter 44 If we don’t send troops now, when will we wait?
Song Dynasty, the first year of Kaibao.

Zhao Kuangyin took a breath of air, and the temperature of the entire hall seemed to have dropped a bit.

He choked for a long time, but could not utter a word. At this time, his heart could not calm down for a while.

What's happening here?
A replica of the Chenqiao Mutiny?

And it just happened that not long after the founding of the Song Dynasty, during the reign of Zhao Guangyi, this seems to have some meaning!

Zhao Kuangyin felt like this was a silent mockery of him.

At this time, the hall was quiet, and even brothers Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang had shut up and reduced their presence.

Who doesn’t know about his own emperor and father?

It's just that everyone usually understands it tacitly. Now that a very similar thing has been brought out by a miracle, they can only turn a deaf ear and remain silent.

[Although Zhao Guangyi had previously learned that Jiaozhi was in turmoil and the Ding Dynasty was in chaos, he never found a suitable excuse to send troops. He just made some moves. He didn't expect Jiaozhi to have such a big reaction, but this is a good thing! 】

[Finally he no longer had to think of excuses. The dragon robe was worn by a foreigner. Now he had an excuse to send troops. Naturally, it was Qingjun! 】

[How long will it take if we don’t send troops now? 】

[In the fifth year of Taiping and the rejuvenation of the country, Zhao Guangyi sent water and land transport envoy Hou Renbao to lead the navy, and asked Sun Quanxin and others to begin the deployment of land troops]

[In the end, they attacked Jiaozhi from both water and land routes, which was absolutely foolproof. The previous defeats left a shadow in the hearts of the Song army. This time, they must be absolutely foolproof. 】

[However, accidents always happen so inadvertently. When the Song army arrived in Jiaozhi, they won a great victory on the first day, defeating more than 2000 enemies and beheading more than [-] people. 】

[In the spring of the sixth year of Taiping and Xingguo's reign, he once again defeated the enemy army, beheaded more than a thousand people, captured hundreds of warships, and countless soldiers. 】

[Up to this point, the attack on Jiaozhi had gone smoothly, but at this moment a turning point occurred. 】

[Hou Renbao led the army ahead, preparing to join the army, but Sun Quanxing stayed in Huadi for more than seventy days, just to wait for Liu Cheng. Hou Renbao urged him many times, but he did not move forward. 】

[After Liu Cheng arrived, Sun Quanxing finally set off. After some twists and turns, the water and land merged, and they arrived at Duoluo Village together. 】

[As a result, they were stationed here for several days without encountering any enemy troops. In addition, the climate was not suitable, so Sun Quanxing led his troops to retreat to the flower field without permission. 】

[At this time, Li Heng, who had taken advantage of the location and was hiding, appeared again. He sent soldiers to pretend to surrender to Hou Renbao, and took the opportunity to sneak attack Hou Renbao. Hou Renbao died on the spot. 】

[The Song army naturally fell into chaos after losing its leader. Li Heng took advantage of the situation to attack the leaderless Song army, and finally won a great victory. 】

[The Song army returned to the court in embarrassment again. Zhao Guangyi was naturally extremely dissatisfied with this battle. This time, there was another problem with the cooperation between the Song army, which ultimately delayed the opportunity to fight. 】

[So he decided to punish everyone. Liu Cheng naturally couldn't run away, but he didn't expect that he died of illness before receiving the order. Hou Renbao, the general in charge of the waterway, also died on the battlefield, and the others were only demoted. . 】

[As for Sun Quanxin, the person in charge of the land route, there was no special situation. He was first taken to the capital and imprisoned, and then executed. The rest of the people were demoted one after another. 】
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Song Dynasty, the first year of Kaibao.

Zhao Guangyi was not doubtful about this defeat. The miracle had already been said before. Zhao Guangyi would encounter setbacks in Jiaozhi. Since he was going to attack Jiaozhi again, there was no need to think about it. The result would naturally be defeat.But he was well aware of the problems of the Song Dynasty's army, and delayed his stay time and time again, competing for credit and guarding against the opponent.

When he was in power, these generals just disobeyed discipline. Although each had his own ideas, it was not a big problem.

But under the leadership of Zhao Guangyi, when they lead troops to fight, they not only have to think about the enemy's army, but also their own people!
This will inevitably tie us up and make it difficult to make a difference.
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Ming Dynasty, Yongle 16th year.

Zhu Di was quite emotional. As a horse-riding emperor, he knew very well the discomfort of such teammates not cooperating.

Naturally, he always dislikes generals who don't know how to cooperate, and his solution is to go on stage himself and let them all be impressed by him and obey him!

But this is only temporary. The fundamental solution to this problem is actually not difficult. The main thing is to strengthen the training and teaching of generals.

The most important thing is to rely on the supervision mechanism of the court, and more importantly, the emperor must take the lead.

It is a pity that it must be precisely because of the wanton style of the military generals in the early Song Dynasty that the later emperors of the Song Dynasty were extremely wary of military generals.

The continuous suppression of military generals for many years, advocating the use of civility to control military affairs, eventually led the entire Song Dynasty to a path of no return.

Zhu Gaochi on the side nodded and agreed very much: "Thanks to the perfect supervision mechanism of our Ming Dynasty. Under the leadership of my father, both civil servants and military generals were obedient, so this situation did not happen."

The Ming Dynasty did not cling to one policy and go to extremes like the Song Dynasty!
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Han Dynasty, the fourth year of Yuanshou.

Seeing Sun Quanxing and others retreating to the flower field because they couldn't find anyone, Liu Che felt like he had seen them before and sympathized with them.

He recalled the embarrassment of the Han Dynasty's attack on the Huns. The veteran Li Guang was nearly sixty years old and longed to die in battle with the Huns and finally win a good posthumous reputation, but in the end he lost his way in the vast desert and could not find the Huns in the end.

After returning to the court, he chose to kill himself with a knife because he did not want to face the questioning of officials with swords and pens. This incident has always made him regretful.

It's not that the generals don't obey orders, make their own decisions, or are incompetent, but that they really can't find the enemy. It's probably God's will. There are many risks in not fighting on your own away field.

Fortunately, there was Wei Qing later. He also lost his way in the desert, but he was able to move forward hard in the wind and sand, and happened to meet the Xiongnu.

In the end, he beat them until they begged for mercy, so that the big man's majesty was not wiped out and something went wrong.
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Song Dynasty, Dazhong Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, these military generals are arrogant and arrogant. They do not obey orders and act recklessly. They have made our Song Dynasty repeatedly defeated and miserable!"

At this time, His Highness's civil servants had begun to complain.

The ridicule of the national policy of using civility to control military power mentioned in the previous miracle actually gave Zhao Heng some ideas that he wanted to change.

But now that he saw that the generals in the miracle still did not obey the command, and the officials around him tried their best to persuade him, he decided to put the matter aside for now and slowly change it later.

But he didn't know that later emperors of the Song Dynasty also thought the same way:
My generation suppressed it, and when it was almost over, the next generation began to change. Unfortunately, generation after generation, there was no way to change it.

(End of this chapter)