The generals of the Song Dynasty were brave and able to fight, but they were defeated by these incompetent civil servants in the end

November 18, the fifth year of Jingyou of the Song Dynasty, Bianliang, Imperial City, Zichen Hall, Tokyo.

Song Renzong and the Manchu Dynasty had a lot of civil and military resources together. They were reading a "diplomatic note", specifically, the "national letter" given to Song by the largest rebel group in the northwest, because this warlord in the northwest actually claimed the title of emperor. Li Yuanhao said in the letter of state:“ I have proclaimed myself emperor and founded the country on October 11, and my country name is Daxia! Now we hope that the Song Dynasty will recognize the Great Xia State.

Song Renzong is disgusting. What are you? You Zhao Yuanhao (people in the Song Dynasty have always called Li Yuanhao Zhao Yuanhao) dare to stand alone, but still Da Xia, why don't you call Da Dong? What qualifications does Da Xia have to keep pace with the Song Dynasty? After discussing with the courtiers, Da Song started the general mobilization of the whole country and immediately launched a major military adjustment in the northwest, For this reason, he invited the Tibetan leader Tuansilao to attack the Western Xia Dynasty, and began to hunt down the Dangxiang scouts in the Song Dynasty. If he caught one, he would be rewarded ten thousand yuan. The Song Dynasty really had money.

At this time, the war between Song and Xia seemed imminent, but the Song Dynasty shouted loudly. It was thundering but not raining, and there was no sign of sending troops. The reason is that Song knew that he could not defeat Xixia by force, After all, two previous deployments ended in failure The Ministry of Rites found after carefully studying the letters of the Western Xia Dynasty, Although Li Yuanhao arrogated the title of emperor, he still claimed the title to the Song Dynasty.

In this case, Song Renzong sent envoys to Xixia, Zhao Yuanhao must get lost, and the Song Dynasty can let bygones be bygones 。 It's just to find a step for yourself. But your great Song Dynasty didn't send troops to send a letter to your ally Tubo. In June of that year, Tubo leader Tuo Siluo sent troops to attack Li Yuanhao as agreed. But the Song Dynasty stood up to others. In this case, Yuziluo had to withdraw.

Soon, news came from the Western Xia Dynasty that Li Yuanhao refused to revoke the imperial title, so on June 23, Song Renzong issued an imperial edict, To deprive Li Yuanhao of all his official positions in the Song Dynasty Is it useless? People have become emperors. How rare are you to be an official in Song Dynasty? Stop the trade between Song and Xia, and issue a reward in the name of Zhongshu Province: Who will take off Li Yuanhao's head and add the title of Difficult Army Commissioner 。

In the leap December of the second year of Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao returned all the official keepsakes awarded to him by the Song Dynasty, such as imperial edicts, imperial edicts and banners, to the Song Dynasty, formally drawing a line with the Song Dynasty. A letter of state was sent again, which said: I am Fan, you are Han, our relationship is equal, and I am now the nephew of Liao.

The last bottom line of the Song Dynasty is that the Western Xia submitted himself to the Song Dynasty. Now Li Yuanhao doesn't even admit it. Big Song has to fight if he doesn't want to. But at the beginning of the war, the Song Dynasty did not make any war plan, which was purely a defensive situation, At this time, Li Yuanhao found the loophole in Song Dynasty's prevention and decided to take the initiative to attack.

On the first day of the third year of Baoyuan, the Northwest Front of the Song Dynasty was celebrating the Spring Festival.

Just here in the Yamen of Yanzhou Prefecture, the great Song Dynasty Fu Yan and Huanqing Jingluan pacification envoys, who also know Fan Yong of Yanzhou, received a letter sent by Li Yuanhao. It means that he agreed to the request of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, He decided to withdraw the imperial bugle and surrender to the Song Dynasty. Fan Yong is convinced of this At this time, a large group of Dangxiang people fled across the border to the Song Dynasty to live a good life. Fan Yong placed these people in Jinming Stronghold in the northeast of Yanzhou. Although his subordinates repeatedly prevented them, Fan Yong refused to listen.

At this time, news came that the Western Xia army seemed to have violated the border. Fan Yong was skeptical of the news, but he still wanted to be on the safe side, Order Liu Ping, the chief general stationed in Qingzhou, and Shi Yuansun, the security guard stationed in Qingzhou, to lead 5000 troops to Tumen on the Song Xia border To stop and monitor the Western Xia army.

However, it was late.

Li Yuanhao leads his army across the Tumen Gate and directly attacks Jinming Stronghold. The fatal thing is that the previous group of false surrender Dangxiang people occupied all the key points of Jinming Stronghold. On the 18th of the first month, Jinming Stronghold fell, and 100000 soldiers and civilians were destroyed.

Jinming Stronghold is the last defense line of Yanzhou City. The fall of Jinming Stronghold opened the door of Yanzhou and completely exposed the front of Xixia troops. Looking at the party members outside the city, Fan Yong didn't have any measures or methods except crying, This is the virtue of the highest military officer in the northwest.

Li Yuanhao is besieging Yanzhou. Everyone knows that Li Yuanhao is besieging the city for help! He will set up a tight net on the way that reinforcements must pass, and make a soup. At this time, Fan Yong began to actively cooperate with Li Yuanhao. Fan Yong was the pig teammate of Song Dynasty, and Li Yuanhao was the god assistant. Fan Yong ordered his troops to rush to Yanzhou! Both Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun are veterans of the battlefield. They both know that this is a disorderly life, but they dare not refuse to listen.

It snowed heavily on the night of the 22nd day of the first month. The rescue troops arrived at Sanchuankou, and Yanzhou City was close in front of them. At this time, in order to prevent the Xixia people from sneaking into the city, Fan Yong, a smart little man, ordered the team to break up into 50 teams, to ride first and then step into the city in batches. At this time, Several rescue forces have joined together in Sanchuankou, with more than 10000 people. The 150000 troops ambushed Li Yuanhao on the east bank of Wulongchuan have been waiting for a long time, and the war started. The first time the war started, the eunuch Huang Dehe escaped.

Li Yuanhao issued a death order. If the Song army is not completely annihilated, it will never retreat! After a day of bloody battle, The whole Song army was destroyed, and Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were captured due to serious injuries The battle of Sanchuankou came to an end. However, Li Yuanhao did not take advantage of the victory to attack Yanzhou, which was easily available. Instead, he ordered the troops to withdraw and return home.

On the 28th of the first month, Fan Yong submitted the war report to the imperial court, and blamed Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun for the defeat. Huang Dehe, who fled at the moment, also made a false accusation against Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun for treason. Song Renzong sent soldiers to arrest Liu Ping's family, and wanted to kill people to vent his anger 。 But Xia Shouyun, the Deputy Envoy in Council, stood up and argued against the pollution! So Song Renzong sent Wen Yanbo to Shaanxi to investigate the truth. After Wen Yanbo's investigation and evidence collection, Liu Ping finally cleared his grievances. Song Renzong cut Huang Dehe's back. The Song Dynasty thought Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were killed in battle, and gave Liu Ping the posthumous title of Zhuang Wu as the envoy and servant of Shuofang Army. All the descendants were granted Yin Feng.

In October of the fourth year of Qingli, after the Song and Xia reached a peace agreement, Li Yuanhao suddenly sent someone to send Shi Yuansun back to the Song Dynasty who had been calling for his return. Only then did the people of the Song Dynasty know that they were not martyred. This is embarrassing, The honored martyrs became captives, and the great Song Junchen lost face!

The ministers were filled with indignation and advocated that Shi Yuansun should be beheaded at the border to wash the national humiliation. The prime minister Jia Chang took Li Ling of the Western Han Dynasty as an example to oppose the killing of Shi Yuansun. In the end, although Shi Yuansun was not killed, he was supervised until he died of depression. This is the end of being captured for Song's fierce battle. How can the generals not be cold hearted.

At that time, Liu Ping refused to return to the Song Dynasty, He saw through the virtues of the great Song monarchs and officials Liu Ping knew better that once the fallen courtiers who had been captured in previous dynasties returned home, even if they were loyal to Suwu, they would never have a good end and would humiliate the family. Finally, Liu Ping died of depression in Xingzhou. If Liu Ping did not return home, the Song Dynasty would be difficult to deal with. There was no way to punish him. For the sake of the court, it was announced that Liu Ping was dead, and the officials who rewarded the Liu family were not deprived.

As for Fan Yong, who was the culprit of the defeat in the battle of Sanchuankou, he still had a high official position, high salary and great power. In the sixth year of Qingli, Fan Yong died of illness, and his posthumous title was Zhongxian. He is still a famous official of the Song Dynasty. Just pity the soldiers of the Song army.

I am Qingshui Ajiao, the watcher of history. We look forward to your attention and comments.