Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Kong Ming stood up and looked carefully at the map behind him.

The slender fingers slowly moved up from the east of Luoyang, and finally pointed at Youzhou:

The Liao cavalry's long drive points to the capital of the Song Dynasty, and it can arrive in the morning and in the evening.

Without Youzhou, Song Zuo will be in trouble.

When talking about this matter, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao both became serious.

We took Youzhou three ways and tried to achieve great things with cleverness, but we failed.

Zhang Fei also walked over, made two gestures on the map with his palms, and finally made a shallow stroke on the Taihang Mountains and said:

Shanxi's soldiers are not something to be afraid of. Whether they win or lose, die or live, it will not harm the situation in Hebei.

On the contrary, Hebei is a place where cavalry can move freely.

After a while, he lowered his head and thought for a while before continuing:

Or, if we can garrison a large number of troops and form a fortified city, keep watch and help each other to make the Liao cavalry unstoppable, and spend two or three years building the camp step by step, then Youzhou can be leveled as far as Hebei.

Or, if you spend all your wealth and wealth into the pass to seek good horses and build fine cavalry, and use the cavalry on foot to coordinate with the fortified city as bait, and destroy the fine cavalry of Liao, then the offensive and defensive momentum will be different.

Zhang Fei's words did not surprise Kong Ming, who smiled and waved his feather fan and nodded in recognition.

Liu Bei was particularly gratified. He watched his third brother conquer Hanzhong from Pang Tong and pacify Yongliang, and a few months ago he suppressed the rebellion alone.

In the past, when he was impatient in military affairs, he could say that it took two or three years of hard work to build a camp step by step. It can be seen that at this time, the third brother is increasingly far away from the drunken Zhang Fei who was said by later generations to be a whipper. How could Liu Bei not be happy?

Maybe it doesn't need to be so troublesome.

Not to be outdone, Ma Chao also simply measured the Yongliang area he was most familiar with on the map, so as to get an idea of ​​the size of Hebei, and then started from the angle he was most familiar with:

The Song Dynasty was able to push forward with horses and infantry to Youzhou, which shows its suddenness.

To seize the opportunity and try to be a suspicious enemy is to take advantage of others. It is better to place an army at the Taihang Pass and make loud noises to think that the enemy is a suspicious enemy, and then the whole army will go out with all its strength.

Put all your efforts into Youzhou. As long as the city is destroyed, Hebei will be conquered.

Ma Chao's simple and crude style of play that made full use of huge troops also made Kong Ming nod frequently.

But why does this method of making soldiers shout loudly on the mountain to make soldiers suspicious look so familiar?

Zhang Fei didn't care so much and asked Ma Chao directly:

What if Youzhou can't defeat it?

How is that possible? Ma Chaoda shook his head:

Youzhou has been a Han nation since ancient times. Why should you work for the Khitan people?

Ma Chao has been scolded as a bastard since he was a child. Now that he has led the army, no one dares to mention these two words in front of him, but there is no doubt that he is also aware of Han'er's unity:

A heavy army is besieging the city. If the Khitans are suspicious of Han'er in the city, the defenders will be stretched thin.

If there is no suspicion, just connect the inside and outside, and Youzhou City can be conquered in one go.

Zhang Fei was silent. Although this was the case, he always felt that it might not be that simple.

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In the Ganlu Palace, Wei Yu's incident of causing violence to the prince when he was admonishing him made the ministers involuntarily think of the current prince, well... and the Duke of Lu whom they had not seen for a long time.

Everyone had vague guesses about Hou Junji's whereabouts, so there was also a lot of sadness.

After all, everyone could see the importance His Majesty once attached to the old man of Prince Qin's palace.

If nothing like that happened, the Western Region should have been the place where Duke Lu could show off his talents.

Moreover, at Li Yaoshi's age, it is not suitable to stay in the Western Region for a long time. In theory, Hou Junji is the most suitable candidate to be the future general guardian of the four towns of Anxi, but it is a pity...

As for what Li Cheng is doing, he is only twelve years old now, and the former officials of the Qin Palace have watched the prince grow up, so it is difficult for him to have any harsh words.

The ministers did not dare to say anything, but Empress Changsun had no such scruples. With a hint of worry in her eyes, she looked at her husband and said softly:

How about your Majesty taking some time to instruct Cheng Qian in martial arts in the next two days?

What else could Li Shimin say? He could only nod in agreement immediately.

But in my heart, I also felt a certain amount of resentment toward Zhao Er:

How come you can’t even discipline your son well?

[Zhao Pu’s comeback is just as we said before, he came out to block Zhao Er’s gun.

In fact, looking at the history books now, half of the negative comments about Zhao Pu are concentrated on this three-time visit to the prime minister.

As mentioned before, Zhao Er never plays with small ones in his life, and he only plays with big ones.

In just two battles, the Battle of Gaoliang River and Yongxi's Northern Expedition, the Song Dynasty successfully lost all its wealth. At this time, the Song Dynasty was unable to fight anymore.

But a large number of the main combatants promoted by Zhao Er in order to create his image as a wise and powerful warrior are still in the court. What should we do? Let Zhao Pu come.

After Zhao Pu became Prime Minister, those who took the lead in the Song Dynasty, such as Zhao Changyan, deputy envoy to the Privy Council, Chen Xiangyu and Dong Yan, who were known as Chen Sangen and Dong Banye, were either demoted or released.

The attitude of the Northern Song Dynasty court towards the Khitan changed from war to peace, all due to Zhao Pu's efforts.

For this reason, after the Jingkang Disgrace, literati in the Southern Song Dynasty criticized Zhao Pu a lot. They believed that Zhao Pu's third visit to the prime minister was a strategic mistake of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Pu should also bear three-thirds of the credit for the shame of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

These were more of the angry words of the Southern Song Dynasty when they saw the national humiliation. After all, under the circumstances of internal and external difficulties, no matter who Zhao Er put in his position, he had to make a strategy of recuperating and temporarily stopping the war.

Moreover, the unified strategy that Zhao Pu gave to Zhao Dading in the early days was to go first from the south to the north, first from the easy and then from the difficult, rather than saying that we would shrink from pacifying the south.

It can only be said that Zhao Pu was indeed unlucky in some respects. Zhao Da, who they had planned strategies with, passed away mysteriously, and Zhao Er was a man with high ambitions and low abilities who completely ruined his family's fortune.

The literati and righteous men of the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to criticize Zhao Pu's eloquent strategy, but they were selectively blind to Zhao Er, who fundamentally led to the defeat of Gaolianghe and the failure of Yongxi's Northern Expedition.

This is not surprising. After all, the person in charge of Yongxi's Northern Expedition was Cao Bin, who did not even hold the post of Privy Councilor. How could he be the wise and powerful Taizong?

In addition, apart from the main strategy, Zhao Pu has indeed promoted many young talents in the five years since he became prime minister for the third time.

Lu Mengzheng, Zhang Qixian, Kou Zhun, Feng Zheng, Wang Jiying and other highly praised prime ministers and assistants were all recommended and promoted by Zhao Pu. In the early Song Dynasty, Wang Yucheng, a well-known hard-core civil servant, also received Zhao Pu's courtesy.

Therefore, it can be said that Zhao Pu did indeed do a lot of practical things for the Northern Song Dynasty, and he could be regarded as an official in any case.

As for Zhao Er? When he was brought to the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong criticized him for being ashamed of virtue, which simply meant that he was not morally good.

Our teacher once commented that he was unscrupulous and eager to get on stage and emphatically commented that he was incompetent.

It does not confirm or deny the authenticity of the sound of the candle shadow ax and the alliance of the golden chamber, but focuses more on Zhao Er's eagerness to seize the throne.

However, in comparison, Zhao Er himself is quite open-minded. For example, Zeng Rui commented on Erfeng:

... Seeing what Taizong did, he was just trying to build up a false reputation. Every time he does something, he must make a big splash... Isn't this natural!

In the Records of Taizong, he did not lag behind others in the slightest. When talking to his ministers, he believed that his merits were greater than that of the Qin Emperor, his talents exceeded those of the Han Dynasty, his virtues surpassed those of the Tang Dynasty, and his mental health was outstanding.

In addition, in terms of evaluation of Erfeng, Zhao Er and his sixth descendant Sun Wanyangou have a lot in common:

Taizong of the Tang Dynasty... can be called a wise king. However, he exaggerated to gain a good reputation. Although he listened to advice and accepted advice, he was not as sincere as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty.\