Chapter 431 The war initiated by a coward is commanded by a fool

In the early winter of the second year of Xuanhe, the Song army set out from Bianliang City. Tong Guan and Cai You brought 150,000 Western troops and gathered 200,000 Hebei troops to arrive in Xiongcun. That night, the Xiongcun was earthquakes, and turtles and snakes were rampant in the hall of the General Administration. Cai You, who was as timid as a mouse, was frightened to the face without blood when he saw this scene. He asked Tong Guan: God's will is unlucky, what should I do?

Tong Guan comforted: Don’t worry, my life is in my place or not, you just wait to intimate your Majesty’s two beloved concubines.

In November of winter, heavy snow fell from the sky, and more than ten days were spent. Tong Guan and Cai You held a military meeting in the wind and snow, convening generals such as Zong Shidao, Yang Keshi, and Zhe Kecun to discuss the advance. When he said that he planned to attack the Liao Kingdom, the generals were in amazement. The veteran general Zong Shidao said in surprise: "Zong was ordered by the emperor and only said that he was patrolling the border to protect the people. He had never heard of an order to attack the Liao Kingdom."

Tong Guan said impatiently: "I am following Your Majesty's secret order to look at the border and conduct a joint effort to destroy the Liao Dynasty. The government orders of the Government Affairs Hall have been issued, and the army has gathered now, and the arrows are on the string, so I have to send them?"

Zhong Shidao turned around and looked at Yang Keshi, Zhe Kecun Yao Xingzhong, Liu Guangshi and others, and asked, "Did you know you were going to attack Liao before you left the capital?"

The generals bowed and replied: "I don't know!"

Zhong Shidao asked tightly: "So, can you prepare the weapons to attack Liao?"

The generals were so respectful to Zhong Shidao that Tong Guan was furious. These people had no sense of organization at all and forgot who was the boss present. Tong Guan interrupted angrily: "I fought in battles across the country and north, and I was invincible everywhere, but I didn't know what special weapons needed to attack Liao?"

Zhong Shidao opened his mouth for a long time and said in surprise: "Didn't the Liao people live in the city? Since they want to attack Liao, how could the entire army be lightly equipped... I have never seen the siege equipment carried by the army."

Tong Guan replied with a sneer: "The people of the North have longed for the king's army. When the army arrives, they will see the scenery... Besides, the Jin people will also attack from the back. Now the Liao Kingdom is empty. What kind of siege equipment should we need - do we still need to siege the city?"

Zhong Shidao was also angry and replied loudly: "The current situation is like a robber entering the neighbor's house and we don't go to rescue each other. Instead, we are partnering with the robber to grab the neighbor's property. We actually expect others to warmly welcome you to rob. Is there ever such a fool in the world?"

Zhong Shidao had fought for the rest of his life. As soon as he showed his might, Tong Guan immediately felt a cold current that had a head raised from his tail vertebrae. He felt that he wanted to speak a few more words. Maybe the martial artist was angry and wanted to spit out a mouthful of foam. Tong Guan shook his mind. He remembered his magic weapon and quickly turned around to obtain the imperial edict. However, because of his movements too flustered, he knocked the imperial edict to the ground. The scroll was rolling over and down at Zhong Shidao's feet, Zhong Shidao stood in place, looking at Tong Guan contemptuously.

It was a bit of a loss to go to Master Zhong to pick up the imperial edict. Tong Guan hesitated. At this time, Cai You didn't dare to say with great confidence: Mom, this martial artist is so rude.

Yang Keshi quickly went to Zhong Shidao's feet to pick up the imperial edict and respectfully handed it to Tong Guan. When Tong Guan received his magic weapon, he suddenly felt a warm current that his heart and waist were no longer sore, and his back was no longer painful. He was as fragrant as he ate. He stood up, and he launched the imperial edict with a serious expression, reading the imperial edict: "The king's army is in the north, and he is the purpose of restoring the Han and Tang dynasties to suppress the crimes. The old people in Yan must welcome the slurry pots, and it is advisable to entrust the holy virtues and not to kill them...one riders!"

After saying that, Tong Guan held the imperial edict and bent down to Shi Dao, saying: "Tomorrow, I will ask the veteran general to patrol the position to encourage the morale of the three armies!"

Zhong Shidao was silent for a moment and asked, "The generals didn't know that this battle was an attack on Liao. Have the soldiers ever known that this trip was not a patrol, but a war to attack Liao?"

Tong Guan choked for a moment, and the horse said, "The veteran general Zhong rode his horse and walked in front of the army, and the soldiers would know?"

Mr. Zhong raised his beard and replied resolutely: "I am old and can't bear to see the young and strong children ignorantly sending them to death."

Tong Guan only felt angry... But when he saw Master Zhong's anger, Ma swallowed the breath quietly. Cai You, the deputy coach next to him, saw Tong Guan sitting back with anger in his arms. When he saw Tong Guan holding his breath, he felt relieved and suddenly felt that his feet were wet, and he quietly turned into a state of motion. He found that when he relaxed just now, he had actually wet his pants.

Cai You was about to hide it, but he heard the head Tong Guan hold his breath and issued an order: The art of war says: "Soldiers and Strikes", this war must become a classic in the history of war. In order to achieve the supreme state of "a war that will defeat others without fighting", the envoy sent an envoy to surrender to the new emperor of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Chun, and told him not to be the emperor, and come here to enjoy "being represented".

Tong Guan's order was issued, and Master Zhong looked at Tong like an idiot... Next, it was Yelu Chun's turn to look at Tong Guan's envoy like an idiot. Yelu Chun felt very depressed. Although I can't beat the Jin Kingdom, you can't send such a stupid person to fight me with your heart. Zhao Ji, you are too bullying!

Lao Ye lost interest in even the conversation, and directly pushed the envoy out to behead him, and immediately ordered the gathering of civilians in Yanjing City...the civilians!

At this time, the situation in the Liao Kingdom was indeed not good, and the city of Yanjing was almost an empty city. The Liao general Yelu Dashi recruited 10,000 refugees, most of which were Han people - they formed a mob and handed them over to Xi Gan to command and face the Song army.

Such a civil self-defense force, a mob, took a lot of effort to gather together. During this period, Tong Guan learned that his envoy was beheaded by Lao Ye, and was still unwilling to accept it... Since the route of the class cannot be understood, it is okay for us to go to the middle and lower classes? Some people always think that being represented is a kind of happiness... So Tong Guandun soldiers to the border and sent people everywhere to lobby for the Liao Kingdom.

The first thing he found was Shi Cheng, a tyrant in Yi Village, who sent a message to Shi Cheng, and asked him to find a way to hijack the local magistrate and surrender. On the day the city was destroyed, not only could the Shi family's property be protected, but the court also had other official positions rewards... In fact, Shi Cheng also thought Tong Guan was very idiotic and was not interested in talking to the envoy. He also "cracked" and cut off the envoy's head.

Tong Guan, who was on the border, couldn't figure out if he wanted to break his head. Are these Khitans crazy? The Liao Kingdom has reached this point, why don't we let us go in and "represent" their interests? You must know that once you are "represented", you will immediately be "five times better" than the United States... Why do you think these people don't want to be "happy"?

Tong Guan thought for a month, and 400,000 troops were sitting at the border with him and thought together. A month later, Tong Guan finally realized that it is very likely that the Liao people despised their rewards were not generous enough and their promises were not solemn and authoritative enough... So he ordered Ma Zheng's son Ma Kuo to bring the handwritten letters of Emperor Daojun to surrender generals at all levels of the Liao Kingdom and promised them: If you sacrifice the county town, then you will be the county magistrate; if you sacrifice the state, then you will be the village chief. If you can sacrifice the Liao Kingdom, the king of Liao Kingdom that you did not say will be yours... As for whether you believe it or not, it will be up to you!

Does Tong Guan have the right to appoint the king of Liao?”…The people of Liao didn’t believe it. As a result, Tong Guan shouted for another month, and 400,000 troops accompanied him on the border, waiting for the Liao people to come over and cry and call for "representatives". As a result, no one paid attention to it... Tong Guan was a little angry: This is to give you shameless face, so don’t blame me for turning against me. At the end of December of the second year of Xuanhe, Tong Guan ordered Zhong Shi to say: The army crossed the border to attack the cities along the country!

Zhong Shidao informed Tong Guan, who was "no siege equipment", held a strict reprimand: Your Majesty ordered "No one person or one horse to be killed...", What should we do if we want siege equipment? Isn't that hurt the feelings of the people of Liao and inciting the confrontation between Song and Liao...?

The senior official level was crushed to death. Zhong Shidao had no choice but to lead the troops across the border between Song and Liao. He could not control the Shaanxi generals, so he had to secretly order his nephews and the generals of the Zhe family to gather the Hebei army to have a bad momentum and run away quickly.

The Song soldiers crossing the border looked sluggish, and the Hebei soldiers were always ready to leave their companions and run away; the Shaanxi soldiers had just finished fighting Fang La, and the approved number of heads was cut by the court by two-thirds. The court has not issued a bonus yet... The money has been misappropriated by Emperor Daojun to celebrate his birthday. On the one hand, the Shaanxi soldiers who had just washed the dust felt that they had been deceived to come to the border of Liao, and on the other hand, they felt that Song and Liao had been harmonious for more than a hundred years. Recently, they have caused disasters and caused trouble, but we have to take advantage of the fire to attack such a harmonious neighbor. It is really unpredictable to face.

In this case, there were orders not to fight, so the entire northern elite of the Song Dynasty became a "Song-Liao border tour group".

Unfortunately, the mobs of the Song army and the Langou Dian who were equipped with Yelu Dashi did not expect that the other party's army did not welcome the Song army. They tried to kill the Song army... The vanguard Yang Keshi discarded the military supplies and fled all the way. Behind him, the bodies of the elite Song army were paved along the way to Baigou. Then, the mobs of the Liao Kingdom picked up the swords, guns, armor and thunder bullets that the Song army had discarded in Langoudian, and chased the shocked and suspicious Yang Keshi in Baigou.

The Song army was defeated again!

Later, the Central Army Liu Guangshi was defeated in Fancun... At this point, the last 150,000 elite troops in Shaanxi and the last 150,000 elite troops in the Western Army of the Song Dynasty were ruined. The land of Yanyun was blood flowing into a river, and within a hundred miles, the bodies of the elite soldiers of the Song army could be seen everywhere. Only the old generals preserved the last 100,000 elite troops in Hebei in the Northern Song Dynasty at the cost of self-destruction.

This was the last key capital of the Song Dynasty. If this army could be fully protected, the Jingkang disaster would not have happened... Unfortunately, Tong Guan and Emperor Daojun refused to let them go.

Tong Guan and Cai You, who were on the border of Liao, were immediately panicked when they heard that the front army was defeated. Lian Sheng urged Zong Shidao to escort them back to their country. The two commanders showed amazing courage and rushed day and night until they stepped into the border of Song. Fang was shocked... Ma, Tong Guan's court claimed that the crime of defeat in this battle was not his, but Zhong Shidao relied on his seniority and did not listen to his correct command, delayed the opportunity to fight, and could not bear to use it...

Emperor Daojun was like a stream of good deeds, and ordered Zong Shidao to retire. His position was replaced by Liu Yanqing, the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang and Tong Guan’s confidant... The last 200,000 elite troops in the Song Dynasty were also under his command... After dealing with this matter, it happened that the Genyue, the royal garden of the Song Dynasty, which lasted six years, was finally completed. Emperor Daojun was happy and threw the defeat in the north aside and focused on celebrating the achievements of his garden.

In August of the third year of Xuanhe, Emperor Daojun of the Song Dynasty ordered all heaven to celebrate the same rank, of course, not to celebrate the 200,000 Western soldiers of the Song Dynasty, but to celebrate the completion of Genyue.

Genyue is not only a giant garden building, but also a giant botanical garden and zoo that is unique to the entire earth in this era. Officials in the capital and the people in the city are rewarded and can enter this unparalleled garden to enjoy the royal scenery. Officials from other places do not have the same horizon, so they have to look for other scenery at home. For example, the people in Haicun can visit the rose garden, while the people in the village can only visit... Huangxian Diaolou Group.

Emperor Daojun spent six years building an unparalleled garden, and ten months building the Beijing-East Road Road, as well as the water city, docks, warehouses, and watchtowers in some key strategic locations. In other words, these watchtowers are not interesting, Emperor Daojun strives to be exquisite in the construction of gardens, while the fastest sign only requires quality. Most of the buildings are stupid and sturdy, full of typical Soviet-Russian styles. So far, its only highlights are: mystery and novelty.

At the end of the second year of Xuanhe, the construction of Gen Yue was coming to an end. The three-star class could gradually withdraw manpower. Shi Chuan simply contracted the project he was going to build. The construction craftsman team, which was mainly engaged in the three-star class, contracted most of the projects. Later, Lu Da and others recruited disciples on Beijing East and West Road, and countless construction teams defected to the three-star class. For a moment, Lu Da actually had rumors of "descendants of Lu Ban".

Under the guidance of Lu Da and others, the architectural teams inherited from major families on the east and west roads of Beijing quickly gained the secret of brick and stone construction. Subsequently, various projects were fully launched. Many buildings that were personally participated in by the three-star team were built under the name of gunpowder storage warehouses, armories, and "Online Road Construction Command Posts". The latter has always been open. During the road construction, people have been coming and going, and they have always been the command center for the coordination of civilians and food distribution. Those military buildings have been fully enclosed.

In this era, even Penglai Pavilion was made of wooden buildings, and some huge stone buildings suddenly appeared. Even though their architectural style was very rough, they could not withstand people's curiosity, not to mention that those watchtowers were indeed unique in style.

These special-style watchtowers were first built in the name of civil servant dormitories and xiangjun residences. Tens of thousands of civil servants had to build temporary dormitories nearby. So Shi Chuan took out the drawings of the watchtowers and suggested building a group of circular blockhouse-like three-story buildings, which covers a small area and has a large storage space.

Of course, some people continued to question: Since it is a temporary dormitory, why is it so firm to build it? It is better to spend a few money or build a few temporary shacks, and then demolish it afterwards. But Shi Chuan immediately retorted: No matter how small the money is, it is still money. Even if it is demolished later, the money is a waste. It is better to build it more solid. After the road is repaired, the civilians evacuated and the watchtowers are sold in packages and recycled, and maybe how much money can be made. Because this is on the side of the official road, no matter who buys it, it is a business to build a tea village hostel.

The money raised from everyone when building roads and ships was used. Although Shi Chuan was good at operating, he had organized the fleet to travel to Japan several times. After the money he earned was not only not lost money, but was profitable. However, because the project became larger and larger, the amount of funds was obviously insufficient, so Shi Chuan issued additional shares twice, until he finally raised 2.5 million chunks. When the third time he raised funds, not only were all wealthy businessmen on Jingdong East Road involved, but even the wealthy businessmen drove carriages to Jingdong East Road Yamen to buy shares in Bianliang City. Now everyone knows that Shi Chuan can make money, but everyone was also frightened by Shi Chuan's fierce spending.
Chapter completed!