Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

From the beginning to the end of the copy of Jingkang's Shame, the one who received the most ridicule was naturally the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Da was lucky to escape the ridicule, because none of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were his descendants.

Many people believe that with Zhao Da's own military talent, if Zhao Guangyi hadn't been killed under the shadow of a candle with a jade axe, the Northern Song Dynasty would definitely be able to regain Yanyun.

Zhao Da did suppress generals, but after all, Zhao Da was born in the army, step by step from a small soldier to a general with tens of thousands of troops.No matter how much he taboos the generals, he releases his military power with a glass of wine, but he will never give the generals on the front line a map, completely trapping the generals' hands and feet.

On the battlefield, things change rapidly, and generals must adapt to the situation on the battlefield.These are military common sense.

Zhao Guangyi didn't think so.

In fact, many people ignore Zhao Guangyi's background.Zhao Guangyi is a typical literati.

Before ascending to the throne, he had never led an army in battle.

Therefore, the frivolity, impetuosity, talk on paper, rhetoric, and running away in danger are basically the common faults of most literati.

In fact, not only did Zhao Guangyi personally command the two expeditions to Liao, but they all failed disastrously.Even other generals, as long as they fight according to Zhao Guangyi's imperial formation plan, they will definitely suffer a disastrous defeat.

In the rare few big victories, it was the frontline generals who lost their formation and played freely, which defeated the Liao people.

Of course, even if Zhao Guangyi didn't grant the map, with the strength of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, at most he could recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.It is absolutely impossible to push Daliao flatly on the grassland.

The first is the lack of enough horses.The second is that the Liao people are also in the reign of Mingjun, and there are many powerful generals.

Whether it is Brother Yeluxiu or Han Derang, in terms of fighting skills, they are definitely no worse than Cao Bin and Pan Mei.Xiao Yanyan's strategy and tactics can even push Zhao Er to the ground and rub repeatedly.

After the copy of Jingkang's Shame ended, Zhao Guangyi was most annoyed not by the ridicule of Zhu Di and others, but by Zhao Ji's shout when he was given the drug.

"Retribution, retribution. Zhao Guangyi, you old bastard, accumulate virtue for your descendants."

Even if Zhao Guangyi had a thick skin, Zhao Guangyi felt his face burning hot when he was called by his descendants by name.

Unfortunately, he is irreparable.

Because when the dungeon was opened, Empress Li had been poisoned by him for three years, and the grass on the empress's grave had withered for several stubbles.Of course, what shocked Zhao Guangyi even more was the tragic ending of the Zhao Song royal family in Jingkang's Shame.

Many emperors died worse than dogs.

The royal family that has been subjugated in the past dynasties has never experienced such a tragic experience.

But Zhao Guangyi couldn't change all this.

Because the copy of Jingkang's shame was spread all over the world, no matter the officials in the court or the people in the world, they all had a strong contempt for Zhao Er.

In order to keep the throne, Zhao Guangyi could only hold the imperial army firmly in his hands.As for foreign wars, are you kidding?Zhao Guangyi would not go to war against Liao.

However, Zhao Guangyi ignored one person.That is his third brother Zhao Tingmei.

Zhao Tingmei was expelled to Luoyang by him and placed under surveillance. It can be said that he is a powerless vassal king.

However, on the seventh day after the end of the dungeon, Zhao Tingmei played the banner of the Qing emperor, and led [-] soldiers who belonged to him, and went straight to Kaifeng.

Knowing that Zhao Tingmei raised troops, many veteran generals who were dismissed by Zhao Guangyi, such as Gao Huaide, Feng Jiye, Zhang Mei, etc., raised troops to respond.

As for the border general, he kept silent in a very tacit understanding.

When Zhao Tingmei set off from Luoyang, there were only 5 soldiers. When he arrived in Bianliang, the number of soldiers had reached [-].

These soldiers are not mobs, but the powerful soldiers of Zhao Da who were sent back to their hometown.

When Zhao Guangyi learned that Zhao Tingmei had rebelled, he hated him so much.

Zhao Tingmei had just arrived in Bianliang, and his foothold was not stable. Zhao Guangyi sent his trusted eunuch Wang Jien and his favorite general Pan Mei to lead [-] forbidden troops to attack Zhao Tingmei's camp.

The imperial army at the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty was indeed the best in the world.Relying on the sharp armor, they quickly defeated Zhao Tingmei's army.

Seeing that a complete victory is in sight, Zhao Tingmei said before the battle that Pan Mei was surrendered.

Zhao Tingmei's rhetoric is very simple.

"General Pan, do you want all your descendants to be taken captive by the golden soldiers, with the men as slaves and the women as prostitutes?"

Pan Mei certainly does not want future generations to fall into that fate.

He led his two sons, hundreds of relatives under his command fought back, beheaded Wang Ji'en, and led [-] forbidden troops to surrender to Zhao Tingmei.

Zhao Guangyi, who was sitting at the head of Bianliang City watching the battle, saw this scene, and his eyes turned black with anger.

"Pan Mei, that bastard, how dare you betray me? Come, send someone to Pan's residence, and kill all of Pan's family."

It's a pity that killing dozens of members of Pan's family still can't change the ending of Bianliang's siege.

Pan Mei's surrender made Zhao Guangyi suspicious. He no longer believed in any generals around him, and instead handed over the ruling power of the imperial army to the eunuchs.

As a result, the military generals in the city became even more dissatisfied and began to collude secretly.

On the 17th of Zhao Tingmei's siege, Zhang Ping, the most trusted general under Zhao Guangyi's command, launched a mutiny in the middle of the night and led thousands of people to open the east gate of Bianliang to welcome Zhao Tingmei into the city.

And those favored eunuchs also failed Zhao Guangyi's trust.

When Zhao Tingmei's army entered the outer city of Bianliang, not only did the eunuchs not fight with Zhao Tingmei, but they all revolted before the battle and became the vanguard to attack the inner city.

The inner city was quickly conquered.

Zhao Guangyi knew that the situation was over, so he wiped his neck at the gate of the palace.

After Zhao Tingmei ascended the throne, all descendants of Zhao Guangyi were wiped out by very vicious means.

"Zhao Guangyi's branch is a disgrace to our old Zhao family. It can be killed but not kept."

However, Zhao Da's descendants were given a high degree of favor.In addition to not being able to contact the army, he can do almost anything he wants.

Zhao Tingmei's policy of administration imitated Zhao Da, emphasizing literature, but not lightly fighting.Both civil and military are important.Military generals can play freely in battle, and don't need to be bound by the formation map.

Facts have proved that as long as the military generals at the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty were not tied by the imperial power, their combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the generals at the founding of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Although Cao Bin is old and Yang Ye is dead, those new generals who have just emerged are extremely brave.Li Jilong's Jingsai Army, Yang Yanzhao's Tianxiong Army, Yuan Jizhong's Dingzhou Armored Cavalry, and Yin Jilun's Heavy Armored Infantry are all the elites of the world that make Liao people headaches.

Because Zhao Tingmei ascended the throne in a mutiny, coupled with the influence of the copy of Jingkang's Shame, the frontier fortress also did not trust him very much.But Zhao Tingmei is smarter than Zhao Guangyi.

He knew that the frontier general did not trust him, and if he was forcibly deprived of his military power, it would only lead to another mutiny.Therefore, he made the best use of the situation and gave these frontier generals full autonomy, allowing them to decide their own defense.

In the next few years, Li Jilong and Li Yanzhao repeatedly entered Yanyun, killing the people of Liao with fear.Yeluxiu, the god of the Liao army, led 5000 cavalry to besiege Li Jilong's [-] Jingsai army, but was defeated in one fell swoop, beheading [-] people.Brother Yeluxiu fled back to Yanjing in a panic.