Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

德芳42岁王妃43岁长子惟叙25岁次子惟宪23岁幼子惟能21岁

Wei Ling is 19 years old and Zhenzong (Zhao Heng) is 33 years old

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At the beginning of March in 1002, the fifth year of Xianping, Li Jiqian assembled heavy troops to besiege Lingzhou, a border town in the Song Dynasty. Pei Ji, the magistrate of Lingzhou and the training envoy of Shunzhou, asked the imperial court for help with a blood letter, but the imperial army did not arrive, and Li Jiqian was surrounded by Lingzhou City. , cut off the grain roads, continued to attack the city, Lingzhou finally fell, Pei Ji died in battle, the court and the prime ministers asked for blame, and Zhenzong issued an edict to appease. [Pei Ji worked in Lingzhou for two years, pacifying the local area, building water conservancy, and reclaiming farmland. The people respected him very much. 】The imperial court decreed to appoint Wang Chao as the deployment of the Yongxing Army in Bobo, and Shi Pu as the deputy capital; Kang Jiying was transferred to Qingzhou to be stationed in Boqian, so that they could take care of each other with the troops stationed in the southwest border; Qin Han was assigned to Huanqing and Jingyuan Under the jurisdiction of Lu Junqian, he and Wang Hanzhong and Li Yunzheng jointly handled military affairs, so as to strengthen the defense against the party item Li Jiqian.

In the same month, the Liao Kingdom also took the opportunity to send Xiao Jiyuan, Prime Minister of the Northern Mansion, and others to lead troops to invade the south, and Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty arrived in Yuanyangluo to supervise the battle.In April, Wenban Taibao Dalidi fought fiercely with the Song army at Liangmen. Xiao Talin, the commanding army of Nanjing, divided his troops to attack Taizhou. The Liao army won two victories. Liao.

Zhenzong in the main hall was very unhappy, sitting on the dragon chair without saying a word, the officials didn't know what to say at this time, after a long time, there was still no sound in the hall, Zhou Huaizheng, the chief servant, looked at Zhenzong and then looked at Zhenzong again. Looking at the Eight Worthy Kings, Defang signaled to Zhou Huaizheng to say something to the officials. Zhou Huaizheng nodded, and stepped forward and shouted, "If you have a book, you will play, and if you don't have a book, you will retreat!"

At this time, he heard a sound of "Huh!", Zhenzong slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and got up and went back to the inner palace. The officials looked at each other and discussed in a low voice. The battle situation is not stable, you adults should be cautious." Then he signaled Zhou Huaizheng to withdraw from the court, and he followed to the inner palace.

Zhou Huaizheng shouted "Back to the court!" and then hurried to chase Zhenzong.

Zhenzong returned to Chongzheng Hall angrily, picked up a book and threw it at the door. Defang was almost beaten when he entered the door. Zhenzong looked up and saw that it was Defang, and sat on the chair with his fists clenched. He said, "Your Majesty, the situation of the battle is like this, please take care of the dragon body."

"How can I take care of myself? The Liao people are too deceitful! Siege the city and plunder the land, and kill the people of the Great Song Dynasty indiscriminately, but my generals who guard the pass are retreating steadily, and they did not support each other properly. I am heartbroken for this fiasco!"

"The battle between my Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom has been going on for nearly 30 years. There have been no fewer than a hundred battles. The soldiers and horses were exhausted, and the guards suffered heavy casualties. The Liao army must also be like this. In recent years, the Liao people have mostly used surprise attacks. The intention is to plunder property, and the minister believes that the people in the border towns should be moved to the south, so that the soldiers will be fully deployed and the front line of the Liao army will be lengthened."

"What the emperor said is also a solution, but the current situation is very unfavorable, and it seems that it will be difficult to solve it in the short term." Zhenzong sighed

"The barrier to the north of my Great Song Dynasty lies in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. However, the important places that affect the battle situation are not in the hands of our army, so my Great Song Dynasty is always invaded by the Liao army with iron hooves. But the Liao people in the north are good at attacking, but our Central Plains Soldiers are good at defense, the land of Yanyun is easy to defend but difficult to attack