Wen Yanbo spent a sleepless night. He had a thick stack of reports from his residence for more than half a year. Not only did he take away the military reports from far away, he even took away the safety reports from Yanmen Pass. In this way,
, he took away a large camphor wood box.
At night, when Yun Zheng finished his patrol and was preparing to sleep, he heard Wen Yanbo's long roar. The roar was extremely desolate.
So he shook his head, then got into the duck cup prepared by his wife and fell asleep comfortably. When he was about to fall asleep, he was still thinking about whether he should comfort the sad Wen Yanbo.
When Yun Zheng got up in the morning, he was still struggling with this problem. When he mixed the willow branches with green salt in his mouth, he thought clearly.
Taizu of the Song Dynasty said that he shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, so two very obvious power groups emerged in the Song Dynasty, one was the royal family, and the other was the scholar-bureaucrat class.
Wen Yanbo had a very high self-esteem. He never considered himself to be anyone's subject, but considered himself to be the master of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, when it came to the issue of the succession of the Song Dynasty, he cared more about it than anyone else.
It seems that while protecting the imperial power, he is also protecting his own power from being affected. Perhaps he is trying to ensure the correctness of the saying that the royal family and the scholar-bureaucrats share the same world.
Yun Zheng knew very early on that Zhao Zhen had the desire to reform judicial power. It was unfair for everyone, including him, the emperor, to have an administrator concurrently serve as a judicial officer. Zhao Zhen wanted to
Maintaining the absolute majesty of the imperial power, this point was clear to Yun Zheng after several conversations with Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen dealt with Yun Zheng again and again, just to test whether the imperial power had any binding force on Yun Zheng, a courageous person.
With the help of Bao Zheng's memorial before his death, Yun Zheng was sent to Doushaguan to reduce the contact between him and the army. This was a disguised restriction of Yun Zheng's influence. After all, Yun Zheng rose from a famous general who was victorious in every battle.
Becoming the God of War in the Song Dynasty was a very big threat to Zhao Zhen, the only god in the Song Dynasty.
As long as Yun Zheng wins a battle, he will be severely suppressed. This has nothing to do with the impeachment of other ministers, and has nothing to do with the mistakes Yun Zheng made. After all, the death of a monk from Dali has nothing to do with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Yun Zheng knew very clearly that after regaining the sixteen states of Yanyun, his mission would be completed. Even if it was not completed, the emperor would not allow him to continue to sweep across Liuhe.
This is a very dangerous situation, and Yun Zheng doesn't want to fall into it alone. Although he has arranged an escape route for his family in Tokyo, he still feels that it is not safe enough.
Coming to the location of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun has nothing to do with Yunzheng's personal wishes. Regardless of whether he is willing or not, Zhao Zhen is pushing the general trend of the world from behind, forcing him to get on this chariot.
The emperor made it very clear that the recapture of Yanyun should be thanked by the king, but he did not say what kind of punishment he would receive after the failure of the Northern Expedition.
A heavy reward must be accompanied by a heavy punishment. This is an eternal truth. The emperor cannot make mistakes. So, who makes the mistake? It can only be the ministers.
Yun Zheng had no choice but to participate in the Northern Expedition, and the more resolute he was, the better. Otherwise, Pang Ji, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Di Qing, Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gongliang, Fu Bi, and Zhong E, who strongly supported the emperor's Northern Expedition, would not end up.
It would be great.
Once such a situation occurs, the elite class of the Song Dynasty will be wiped out. Figures like Zhang Shangying will take the opportunity to enter the stage of history, and then lead the Song Dynasty all the way to destruction.
The victories won by Yunzheng and Di Qing in foreign wars made Zhao Zhen's ambition expand to an almost uncontrollable level. Not only did he want the Sixteenth State of Yanyun, he also wanted to take advantage of the extremely stable political situation in the Song Dynasty.
Make a small change in civil servant politics, or put a tight spell on the forehead of civil servants that can gradually shrink with the spell.
This tight curse is the punishment department that is completely controlled by the royal family!
Yun Zheng's "National Defense Shu" only gave Zhao Zhen a reassurance. When military generals no longer had the ability to subvert the country, Zhao Zhen had too many methods at his disposal for literati.
When Yun Zheng was sitting high up observing the battlefield, his mind was still racing. At this moment, he felt that human nature was extremely subtle.
The emperor, prime ministers, generals, ministers, and concubines formed a delicate balance under the pressure of the Northern Expedition. This balance will definitely end with the victory of the Northern Expedition.
Yun Zheng was not sure whether the young emperor had the ability to control the political situation in the post-Northern Expedition era. Anyway, he did not intend to get involved. Once the royal family, harem, and courtiers of the Song Dynasty began to fight against each other, inaccurate planning would accidentally cause harm.
Very many people died.
No matter what, there is no possibility for the Yun family to survive this strife. Instead of doing this, it is better to flee overseas and leave an empty house in Tokyo. At least this way, they can advance, attack, and retreat.
The roar of the artillery continued. Under the power of the artillery, the simple fortifications of this era soon turned into ruins as the artillery gradually extended.
Zhao Min's cavalry were constantly circling around the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation, and their mission was to kill any Liao army that escaped from the formation.
The cannon roared, and Jiang Zhe led the front army, slowly advancing under the protection of tower shields and sidecars. Today's plan is to advance three miles.
The Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation is not a solid formation. In order to cope with various changes, there are many invisible murderous intentions hidden in this killing formation.
Traps, flaps, crossbows, stones, and even fire bull formations with long knives and spikes tied to their horns. Everything here is designed to disrupt the tight military formation of the Song Army in the shortest possible time.
Only in a chaotic situation, the Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation can form a superior force in a small area and eat up the huge Song army group one by one.
It is said that Yang Wudi, Yang Wenguang's grandfather, was trapped in an unknown military formation and had to fight his way out, and the Yang family paid a heavy price for this.
Today is different from the past. Yang Wudi's tragedy will not happen again to Yunzheng. Artillery, a sharp weapon that should not appear in this time and space, can break through the Liao people's formation as easily as a hot knife cutting butter.
Those vicious traps were unable to hide under the overwhelming bombardment of artillery. The Song army advanced slowly, but never stopped for a moment.
The cattle with their tails on fire rushed out with red eyes from behind the low wall that was half a man high. Under the hoarse shouts of the Song Army Marquis, the crossbows, powerful crossbows and cyclone cannons attacked as many cattle as possible, each time
Everyone wants to get rid of these crazy cows on the road.
Yelu Yixin overestimated the madness of the cattle. Any creature would naturally feel fear in the face of gunpowder, especially after discovering that this thing can tear everything in front of it. The cattle whose tails are on fire are no exception.
The cattle, whose flesh and blood were blown by the gunpowder bombs, had long lost their sense of direction. The raging fire in front of them blocked their way, so the cattle began to run towards a place without flames.
If you look down from the sky, people will be surprised to find that in Nuoda's eight-door golden lock formation, there are thousands of cattle running wildly in circles along the low wall.
Finally reaching the limit of the artillery range, the military leader put the ranging arrow on the bow, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the colorful ranging arrows squeaked to the farthest point it could reach. This distance was the distance that the Song army tried its best to defeat the Liao army.
The safe distance maintained by the military.
Just after the war ended, the civilians began to dismantle the complex structures of the low walls, and then relocated the location and direction of the low walls according to the arrangements of Sima in the army. The focus of defense was on the east and west sides. At the fifth watch last night, the Liao people launched
Although they did not break through the defense lines of Li Dongchu and Lang Tan, it also reminded the Song army that the war would not be won as easily as they expected.
In Yunzheng's plan, the fiercest battle should take place on the fifth day, that is, when the army rushes into the center of the Liao Army's Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation. At that time, Yelu Yixin will either have a decisive battle with the Song Army or watch.
The military formation he had worked so hard to build was completely destroyed.
During dinner, Yun Zheng received a military report from the Young Army, saying that a group of Liao cavalry had moved behind the Song Army. Those people were carrying fire starters. If nothing else, their targets should be those
The artillery that made them suffer. (To be continued)