Chapter 77 I want to cultivate a prince who is good at fighting.
Zhao Kai reported back to his father in high spirits, saying: "If any foreign enemy attacks our Song Dynasty, they will be punished no matter how far away they are!
My son, Zhao Kai, is willing to serve Huo Qubing of the Song Dynasty and lead the troops to fight for the Song Dynasty for my father!
Defeat the enemy and banish the wolf to Xu!"
"Haha..." Zhao Ji said with a smile: "Kaier is so bold!"
After Zhao Kai received the praise from his father, he looked at his thirteen-year-old ninth brother Zhao Gou, who was sitting on the dragon chariot with Zhao Ji, with some pride.
In fact, Zhao Ji thinks that the third prince, Zhao Kai, is quite high-spirited.
Of course he must praise Zhao Kai for his ambition to "defeat the enemy and make the wolf his son-in-law." Among the many princes, he is probably the most courageous one.
However, Zhao Ji knew that in history, two years later, that is, the fourth year of Xuanhe, that is, 1122 AD, the original owner of Zhao Ji's body really sent his favorite third prince, Prince Zhao Kai, and the eunuch Tong Guan as commanders to fight with
The Jin Kingdom formed an alliance and launched the Northern Expedition to attack the Liao Kingdom.
However, during the Northern Expedition when the Song Army attacked the Liao Kingdom, it was recorded in the history books: "The Northern Expedition, with (Zhao Kai) as the marshal, ended with the defeat at Huibaigou!"
In 1122, the situation in the Liao Kingdom took a turn for the worse. Xijing had been captured by the Jin army. Emperor Tianzuo abandoned his baggage and fled with his light cavalry into Jiashan Mountain for refuge (near the Daqing Mountains in Mongolia. It is said that this place is very hidden. Only the Liao clan knows about it and outsiders cannot.
Found.) Yanjing in the Liao Kingdom has actually become an isolated city sandwiched between the Song and Jin countries.
Seeing this great situation, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty were gearing up one by one. They were overjoyed and thought that Yanjing was already within easy reach. How long would it take if they didn't take advantage of it now?
In April of the fourth year of Xuanhe, the Song Dynasty officially tore up the 120-year-old Chanyuan Alliance between the two countries. Song Huizong issued an edict to declare war on the Liao Kingdom in the name of recovering Yanyun, restoring the Han Dynasty, and crusading against Wudao. Zhao Kai,
Tong Guan was the commander-in-chief and led 150,000 Song troops from the capital, using Zhongshi Dao as the capital to control all Song troops...
After Zhao Kai and Tong Guan led their troops to the front line, they sent people to Yanjing to persuade Tianxi Emperor Yelu Chun to surrender, but they were killed by Yelu Chun. This plan failed, so Tong Taishi made another plan, using high-ranking officials and generous salaries as bait to send people to instigate rebellion.
Shi Cheng, a strong man in Yizhou of the Liao Kingdom, surrendered to the city. As a result, the historian who was trying to return was arrested by Shi Cheng and sent to Yanjing, where he was also beheaded...
After trying to persuade Long and Ce to return, Zhao Kai and Tong Guanyi discussed it and led the Song army to prepare for a hard fight with the Liao army.
The various provocative actions of the Song army in recruiting surrender and accepting rebels on the border of Liao Dynasty angered Yelu Chun, the general left behind in Yanjing.
Yelu Chun gathered the refugees who fled to Yanjing from Liaodong, expanded his troops, and ordered generals Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian to lead the army to the border of Song and Liao to fight the Song army.
The Song and Liao armies fought in Baigou, and the Liao army quickly defeated the Song Dynasty's West Route Army. The Song army suffered many casualties, and the West Route Army retreated towards Xiongzhou. Later, it was pursued by the Liao army's elite cavalry, causing the Song army to collapse across the board.
, from Xiongzhou to the south to Zhending, the Song armies trampled on each other when they were defeated and fled, and many died. Bones can be seen everywhere for hundreds of miles...
The defeat of this battle not only made the Liao Kingdom despise the Song Dynasty, but also made the Jin Kingdom know the military strength of the Song Dynasty. After destroying the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom found an excuse for the Song Dynasty to betray its alliance, and used non-stop
The troops went south to attack the Song Dynasty...
Of course, in this Northern Expedition, the highest military commander was Tong Guan, who had been on the battlefield and had numerous military exploits. Zhao Kai was the marshal and was just a gold medalist.
However, Zhao Ji knew that the defeat in the Battle of Baigou in history would have serious consequences. Not to mention that Zhao Kai was young when he was the commander. Huo Qubing of the Western Han Dynasty defeated the Huns and was not very young when he sealed the wolf as Xu! In other words, in Zhao Ji's inherent concept, although the third prince, Prince Yun Zhao Kai, was very courageous and good at both civil and military affairs, according to historical records, he was not a natural military genius like Huo Qubing.
This reminded Zhao Ji, was there any military genius in our Song Dynasty?
Yes!
Who is it?
Yue Fei!
However, Zhao Ji calculated in his mind that Yue Fei should be only seventeen years old this year! He has not yet been recruited to join the army, but he will soon.
Regarding Yue Wumu, the famous military god and martial sage in history, Zhao Ji did not want to encourage him.
After all, people must have experiences to grow.
Just let nature take its course.
Zhao Ji looked at King Yun Zhao Kai again and felt that if he wanted to encourage others, he couldn't try it on the famous Yue Pengju, but he could try it on his own third prince Zhao Kai!
Zhao Ji thought to himself: "I want to train a prince who is good at conquering and fighting. Most of the princes of the enemy country Dajin are good at conquering and fighting!
Among the princes and relatives of the Liao Kingdom, there were also many who were good at fighting.
Even now, none of my relatives in the Song Dynasty can be accomplished in the military field.
Doesn’t this allow enemy countries to compete with each other?
How sad!”
Zhao Ji looked at Zhao Kai and said: "In recent days, I want to lead the army to put down the uprising in the southeast in the name of patrolling the south. Kai'er, would you like to go with me?"
Of course, at this time, even Zhao Ji had not received a military intelligence report on the Southeast La La Uprising.
However, before the Fang La Uprising, there had been many small uprisings in various parts of the southeast, most of which were small-scale uprisings like turning grass into bandits. The imperial court knew about these, and so did the third prince Zhao Kai. p>
When Zhao Kai heard that his father wanted to lead an army to quell the uprising in the southeast in the name of the southern tour, he immediately said happily: "My son is willing to go with my father to make great achievements and wipe out the remnants of the rebellion for our Song Dynasty!"