Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

At present, it is absolutely impossible. There are no figures like the Sun family and his son in the whole south to integrate them, and the top leaders of all countries have no ambitions, sit and wait for death, and indulge in luxury and pleasure.

But facing the north, Da Zhou began to have more than enough heart but not enough energy.

Compared with the current state of Zhou and Liao, it can only be said that the difference is too far, whether it is military strength, economic strength, or even political strength.

The Northern Han Dynasty was actually insignificant, a single Li Yun could make them scream, the key was that there was a Liao father behind them.

The Liao Kingdom also understands that Taiyuan is their bridgehead and cannot be lost.

In history, Zhao Kuangyin fought twice in the Northern Han Dynasty, and each time he sent troops, the Liao Kingdom would send a large army to rescue quickly.

Later, there was basically no resistance for Zhao Guangyi to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty. Although Zhao Kuangyin sent troops twice and failed to capture Taiyuan, he frightened the reinforcements of the Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, it is temporarily unrealistic for Dazhou to take back the Northern Han Dynasty. Taiyuan and Youzhou (Beijing) are of equal value to the Liao Kingdom, and they are the two bridgeheads in the east and the west.

If you are not prepared to face the main Khitan army, don't think about destroying the Northern Han Dynasty.

However, it is still possible to take back the lands in the northern part of the Guanbei, such as Bazhou, Xiongzhou, Yizhou, Zhuozhou and other places, because the Liao Kingdom did not pay that much attention.

He remembered that in history, Guo Rong's Northern Expedition to Khitan, the Lord of the Liao Kingdom only ordered reinforcements from the Northern Han Dynasty, and did nothing. He indulged himself in hunting, fun and sex.

It was almost as if they were giving each other away. The leader of the Liao Kingdom was in a daze. At that time, it was indeed a good opportunity, and the elite soldiers of the Liao Kingdom's North Academy did not provide reinforcements.

However, it is not a long-term solution to expect the opponent's ruler to be fatuous.

No matter what, Shi Congyun tried his best to warn himself that he must quickly regain his senses from the joy of victory in the Battle of Huainan.

His achievements seem to be great, and he has captured the [-] states in Jiangbei, but it is nothing compared to many famous generals in history.

Such as Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Jing, Su Lie, etc., he can think of dozens of them at random.

Indeed, he was invincible against Southern Tang, but what about Khitan, Liao, which was several times stronger than Zhou?

At that time, it's not a joke. The further north you go, the flatter the terrain is, which is suitable for large-scale cavalry agitation, and the battle will become more complicated in an instant.

Thinking of this, he buried his face deeply between Zhou Xian's soft legs, thinking that after going back this time, where will the officials focus?

Attacking the south must be the focus of strategy. Many people in later generations were led astray by some messy hearsay, thinking that Guo Rong first went north and then went south.

In fact, they are all the same. Whether it is Guo Rong or Zhao Kuangyin, the strategy is to go south and north, and to be in Khitan.

It means to take the south first, and then the north. The biggest enemy is Liao.

But strategy is not equal to specific tactics. This is the case with grand strategy, and the implementation of specific arrangements must be flexible. Guo Rong just thought there was an opportunity between fighting in the south, so he made a sudden one.

It's the same reason that Zhao Kuangyin suddenly turned around and beat the Northern Han Dynasty in the middle of his attack on the South.

The strategic center of gravity is in the south.

To be honest, Congyun is willing to fight Southern Shi Congyun. All the way to the present, he is considered a veteran of hundreds of battles and has rich experience in war. If he is asked to fight Houshu, Southern Tang, and Southern Han, he feels full of confidence. not afraid.

But if he was allowed to fight Liao, he would still feel guilty.

It is certain that the Liao soldiers are better at fighting, because the Liao Kingdom has been working hard to wipe out the tribes on the northern grasslands, and some countries in the Liaodong land continue to fight against the Central Plains, Hedong and other places in the south.

For decades, they have been attacking from all directions and constantly opening up borders. The elites of the North Academy are all elite soldiers, most of whom are cavalry, and the generals are also experienced warriors. The country of China is completely different, and the tactics and methods of warfare will be completely different.

Once matched, he was actually not sure.

He couldn't even imagine the scene of tens of thousands of cavalry duels, because fighting in the south, even if the two sides invested 10,000+ troops, that kind of situation would not happen.

But it would be completely different if they started a war with the Liao Kingdom. Fighting cavalry and fighting infantry were completely different things. The huge cavalry army was not only different in tactics, but also in strategy.

A large-scale infantry march can be considered a well-disciplined army if it can walk fifty miles a day.

However, if the nomadic cavalry go all out to attack, it is not difficult to walk one or two hundred miles a day, which will create a huge gap. To put it bluntly, they have complete control over the battlefield. If you don't want to fight, you can't run when you can't fight.

Fighting with the southern army, if you can't fight, you don't have to worry about it. At most, you just run away. Most of the time, everyone has two legs. What else can you do?At that time, as long as the hearts of the people are not scattered, the remnant soldiers can be gathered to fight again.

But it is not that easy to fight against the army in the north. If you are not careful, it will become a war of annihilation!A man cannot run a horse...

This is an important reason why soldiers and generals are more afraid and careful of the threat from the north.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Xian's voice suddenly came from next to his ear, Shi Congyun came back to his senses, turned over, looked at Zhou Xian's pretty face, and said, "I'm thinking about some ancient generals."

"Ok?"

After talking with his father, Zhou Xian probably looked away and didn't resist him so much anymore.

"I was thinking about people like Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Su Lie, how they fought against large-scale cavalry in the first place. Sometimes when I think about it, I feel scalp numb. The defense is good, and it seems that there is no reason to win.

In particular, they are still fighting on the Gobi grassland, cavalry against cavalry?Wei Qing and Su Lie also have quite a few infantry..."

Zhou Xian frowned beautifully, "I don't understand what you said."

Shi Congyun laughed, "I'm just complaining, thinking about things that I can't get away with."

He was comforting Zhou Xian, and he didn't want her to worry. In fact, he knew in his heart that this was not an impossible matter. Maybe in a year or two, the officials would attack the Liao Kingdom. Conflict with Khitan.

It is useless to escape from many things, and there is no way out for a shrinking turtle.

Daliang was getting closer and closer, Zhou Xian asked him suddenly, "That...the Chongyang Ci..."

"What double ninth word?"

"It's 'Life is easy and the sky is hard to grow old, every year is the Double Ninth Festival. Today is the Double Ninth Festival, and the yellow flowers on the battlefield are extraordinarily fragrant.

The annual autumn wind is strong, not like spring.Better than the spring, the boundless river and the sky are covered with frost. '" Zhou Xian read slowly, his eyes full of different emotions.

Shi Congyun sat up straight immediately: "I'm not sleepy if you say this, did you listen to Luqiu Zhongqing and the others?"

"Hmm..." Zhou Xian blushed and said, "I didn't eavesdrop on purpose, I... I didn't know you had such a talent for writing, really... .You can't judge people by their appearance."

Shi Congyun's face turned dark. What is it to say that people should not be judged by their appearance? Does Lao Tzu look like Li Kui?

However, he finally had the opportunity to pretend to be aggressive, and he didn't have time to worry about it. He even told Zhou Xian how he had clever calculations and strategies when he was attacking Shu, so that the Shu army ran away, and when the flag was victorious, his poetry flourished. This is a famous word through the ages.

Of course, it was he himself who left his name through the ages. Zhou Xian's eyes were blurred when he heard it, his face was flushed, and the way he looked at him was different from before.

"Actually, I have been a good reader since I was a child. I hope that people who are literate and ink-speaking will have great talents in my heart! It's just that I grew up in the north, and I am used to seeing wars and the disintegration of countries. I feel emotional in my heart. , A manly man will benefit the people of the world, pacify the sea, clean up the world, and create a peaceful and prosperous world for future generations!

So I abandoned literature and turned to martial arts, and followed my father to fight everywhere. In fact, I also have a heart to study hard, but outsiders don't know it. "Shi Congyun said with emotion.

"Well..." Zhou Xian saw that his eyes were full of light, Shi Congyun was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Thinking about world affairs all day, I'm almost exhausted, so take good care of me at night." .”

Zhou Xian blushed, not enough to refute.

.......

At the beginning of September, the weather turned cold, and the mighty army had returned to Henan. Shi Congyun also saw a tributary of the Yellow River.

From a distance, I can see the majestic Daliang City in the distance.

Compared with its immediate neighbors, it is less delicate and more majestic. The armies from all walks of life began to stop advancing dozens of miles outside the city, and officials and generals sent by the Privy Council came to arrange their garrison.

At this time, Shi Congyun held the military talisman in his hand, and Huainan's duty of recruiting was not relieved, so the army was returned to him for dispatch, and the officials from the Privy Council directly handed over to him first.

The two sides solemnly handed over the garrison map of the Privy Council. At the same time, Shi Congyun summoned the generals and opened the wax-sealed garrison map in front of everyone to show that it had never been opened before.

Then he checked with everyone, and made arrangements in front of the officials of the Privy Council, and asked all the troops to garrison at the arranged garrisons.

After all these arrangements were made, he sent the officials of the Privy Council out of the big account. The other party was flattered and told him, "Shi Zhaojuo should not enter the city today, but stay outside the city for the time being. The officials have ordered that tomorrow he will personally lead all the civil and military officials." , and Chen Qiaoyi to greet the general in triumph, and officials from the Ministry of Rites should come later."

"The officials are here to welcome you!" Shi Congyun was a little nervous: "How can someone receive such a big gift!"

The official said with a full face of admiration: "Shi Zhaozhuo won the fourteen prefectures in Jiangbei within half a year, which greatly increased the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the officials are also doing this because of their great achievements. People inside and outside Beijing are discussing this matter. "

Shi Congyun thanked him for telling him the news, and then sent him out of the tent.

After a while, officials from the Ministry of Rituals came to look for him. Compared with officials from the Privy Council, the officials from the Ministry of Rituals were more submissive. They probably didn't talk about the scene in the barracks. After meeting him, they also said that the officials would welcome him in a grand way tomorrow. .

At the same time, teach him some cutscenes and etiquette. If he is at a loss, it will be embarrassing. He also said that there will definitely be people from Daliang to watch, so he should not be rude.

This official from the Ministry of Rituals was submissive at the beginning, teaching and teaching, probably because Shi Congyun obeyed, but then he became more flamboyant, and he was not so good at speaking, and he would point fingers from time to time.

Shi Congyun frowned, and put the knives on his waist on the table, and he woke up suddenly, knowing what kind of person he was facing, and immediately became submissive again.

Shi Congyun shook his head, he was never stingy with respect for others, even if the other party was a small official, after all, everyone was just responsible, so there was no need to show off.

But there are some people, if you give him some sunshine, he will be so bright that he will forget himself...

Chapter 171, Shi Congyun's Award

At night, occasionally unknown strange birds could be heard crowing outside the big tent, and Zhou Xian couldn't fall asleep.

She slept alone tonight, that guy drank with his generals, and consciously went to sleep next to her.

He said carelessly that he would go crazy when he was drunk. He said that once he was drunk, he smashed the baby of his favorite girl. Since then, he has been very self-conscious, and he dare not go to a woman as long as he drinks.

Hearing this, Zhou Xian felt an inexplicable feeling in his chest, stuffy.She knew who the girl was. She had heard it when she was staying at the station on the road. It must be an ordinary person who can make a villain like Shi Congyun change. There are people singing in Chenzhou, Zhengzhou and other places.

"Xianyun is clever, flying stars spread hatred, and Yin Han is dark.

As soon as Jinfeng Yulu met, they won but countless on earth.

The tenderness is like water, and the good times are like dreams.

If the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the morning and evening. "

She could even imagine such a situation, two people who love each other, love each other, but have to separate because of family and country affairs, and military expedition. If the love lasts for a long time, how can it be in the day and night" lingering emotion.

Zhou Xian has mixed tastes. In her previous life, there was the wind, the moon, her own small world, plain and unremarkable, and her own elegance. She firmly abided by the things she learned from elementary school, and never crossed the threshold.

In her original perception, her husband Li Congjia was an excellent person, gentle, respectful and frugal, the two respected each other like a guest, he was like a gentleman, elegant and coquettish, he did everything well, just like the literati and poets she admired since childhood.

In the books she read since she was a child, those stories are all so admired, the literati have a strong character, and the Wei and Jin Dynasties are romantic.Originally, I also thought that this life would pass like this, until the army of the Northern Dynasty came to the Yangtze River.

Her husband, Li Congjia, trembled in fear in front of those soldiers, and did not dare to resist and disobey at all.

The father he admired since he was a child was submissive in front of Zhou Jun's envoys, and he did not dare to neglect him at all.

Her father, who made her feel aloof since she was a child, the incomparably majestic lord Li Jing did not dare to resist at all, fawning in front of Shi Yanchao...

She explained to them in her heart, it's not their fault, it's the same in the whole Southern Tang Dynasty. Woolen cloth.

Husband is a man of culture, he doesn't know how to wield a spear and stick, he has his own talents, and he is not comparable to a martial artist like Shi Congyun.

She was so relieved in her heart, but it couldn't change the fact that Tang was forced to cede land for peace and wag her tail to pray for survival. The court officials, ministers, and even her father said to themselves, "This is for the sake of the overall situation..."

"It is for the benefit of the people in the south of the Yangtze River..."

"It's not that our army is not good at fighting, but because Shi Congyun is too powerful..."

"It's not our fault, but heaven treats us poorly..." and other words, trying to find out all kinds of reasons and excuses, but they can't change the naked facts.

Jiangbei was lost, Shi Congyun flaunted his power in Jinling, paid a lot of indemnities, the king lost his honor and went north to worship, and she was also bullied and taken away by Shi Congyun.

On the way, she also figured it out. She had to face the reality. Excusing her husband, father, and monarch was just to make herself feel better and not feel that they were so bad.

There is no need to directly face the fact that it is hard for me to accept for a while, her husband, father, and monarch are actually not capable at all...

Especially compared with Shi Congyun, the villain who kidnapped her.

......

The many things she saw and heard all the way to the north subverted her cognition, and she gradually discovered that Shi Congyun had been lying to her, and that this person was completely different from what she had originally thought.

He did not know how many people he killed in Huaibei, everyone said he was vicious and cruel, and there were rumors in Jiangnan that he liked to serve wine with children's hearts.

But in fact, he is a man with a heart and a conscience. Outside Jinling City, he reflected on himself and said, "Success or failure, success or failure, is all a joke..." In that case, he ordered the army Do not disturb the people, do not kill prisoners.

In Huainan, he personally went to each village to talk to the people, asking them to submit to the Zhou Dynasty, exempting them from taxes, and pardoning their sins.

Even to himself, he always lied to others. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to think about it, so he always found a lot of reasons for her, and he didn't hesitate to call himself a heinous villain.

This is different from the rumors.

He is obviously good at fighting, making the whole country fearful, but he also has a side of talent that is rarely known, and his words shocked and fascinated her.

Unlike Tang Guo's mildly sad and petty poems, his words are not so particular about neatness and confrontation, but full of grandeur and pride. Everything is just a matter of jokes", even if you talk about love, it is not so lingering, but "if the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the same day and night".

There is no euphemism, no lingering sentimentality, just so straightforward, rampant, full of momentum.

This is in line with his style, Zhou Xian blushes a little, he is not even willing to cover up for his oblique actions, and he does not cherish his reputation, he is a strange person, a strange person, and a person who cannot see through.

But one thing's for sure, he's actually quite capable... very charming.

Listening to the birdsong, Zhou Xian thought to herself that she had given up struggling, maybe it was because of her father's instructions, maybe it was because of Shi Congyun's threat, and she also looked away a lot if she didn't want to seek death anymore.

When she heard that Shi Congyun had a wife and a concubine, she felt uncomfortable and worried. She was robbed and his spoils of war. How should she deal with herself?His wife and concubine would treat her like this, and everything made her feel upset and uneasy.

........

The next morning, when she woke up from the post station, Shi Congyun found a middle-aged old woman in Chenzhou to take care of her and help her wash and dress. Before she finished, she heard the noise outside.

She opened the window curiously and saw that soldiers were standing on both sides of the road in the distance, and a large number of people came from all directions inside and outside the city.