Zhao Bing listened to Zhu Yu's talk and was thinking in his heart. His remarks could be said to represent the views of many people. He also deeply agreed with this in the past, but when he reached the high position and could see the changes in the wind and clouds more clearly, he also had different views.

"The Yellow Team is in a slow marching speed. Why are you still chatting? Go ahead and take a look!" But before Zhao Bing can discuss in depth with him, Xu Hong suddenly urged the horse to catch up and said with a stern face.

"Yes, commander!" Zhao Bing quickly saluted and replied. Then he gave him a blank look, turned his horse's head, knocked his heels off the horse's belly, and rushed forward.

He still had a lot of objections to Xu Hong's sudden interruption of his chat, but he couldn't blame him, and he was still a little depressed. You should know that it would be a serious crime to argue for the emperor, even the last emperor would not succeed. Zhao Bing was the emperor, and he could not talk about the wrongs of the last emperor, otherwise he would be very unfilial.

Maybe Xu Hong heard the two people's discussions involved sensitive topics, and his duty was not only to protect His Majesty's safety, but also to maintain his image. He felt that the emperor would definitely find it difficult to answer, so he simply gave up himself away to avoid taboos and avoid embarrassment. Everything was for the sake of the emperor's good, which made it difficult for him to blame him for his troubles.

However, regarding the Lizong launching the battle of "Duanping and Enlightenment to Luoyang", Zhao Bing did not deny that Emperor Lizong had selfish elements. Because no matter what was before the war, there was a detail that was easy to ignore, that is, even though he knew that the war was defeated, he still asked Meng Gong to send an iron cavalry guard to the imperial ministers who worshipped him in his ancestors to pay homage to the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb to pay homage to the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tombs, which shows that his purpose was not simple.

Let’s look at whether the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time could achieve the strategic goal of “resisting the Heguan Pass and recapturing the three capitals”. In fact, the so-called Heguan Defense Line was a must for some reason. The Jin Kingdom was defeated in Yehuling and moved the capital to Kaifeng. After the capital was moved, there was almost no danger to defend the north. The Mongols could gallop across the North China Plain and could only defend the Yellow River.

We all know that the Yellow River is hard to be called a natural danger in Chinese history. The so-called river-digging and control refers more to the Yangtze River. Because the Yellow River is prone to freezing, it is difficult to stop the army from crossing the river in winter. Even if it is based on Guanshouhe, Henan is still vast in plains. Faced with the Mongolian army with strong mobility, it must have a certain ability to win in field battles in order to truly defend the Guanhe defense line.

The Jin Dynasty was able to barely defend the defense line of Guanhe, because its military strength was still there, and more than 100,000 field troops still had the power to fight, and even had the possibility of winning the field with the Mongols; Wanyan Heda, Wanyan Chen and other generals had rich experience in fighting with the Mongolian army. The Jin army also built a large number of fortresses along the Yellow River line, and Hebei also had enclaves like Dingzhou to hold on; the second was that the Henan land of Jin was not destroyed by the war, with sufficient population, and normal agricultural production, and could barely support the situation.

But the Southern Song Dynasty did not meet these conditions. First of all, the Song army itself was insufficient. To put it bluntly, it would be good that the Southern Song army could defend the existing defense line of Jianghuai and Bashu. If we really wanted to seize the pass and guard the river and fight head-on with the Mongolians, with the Song army's field strength, the Mongolian army would probably have won several epic victories in Henan.

Secondly, the generals of the Song army were unable to support the important task of occupying the Guan Shouhe River. Although many brave and good generals emerged in the Song army during the anti-Mongolian process, most of them achieved results in the defensive operations between Sichuan and Sichuan or the Huai River. If you want to occupy the Guan Shouhe River and face the main force of the Mongolian army in the Central Plains, the Song army needs a truly independent general.

In addition, after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the Henan area was in ruins. The Mongolian army even pulled the Yellow River to build a yellow flood. When Quan Zi entered Kaifeng, he found that the once prosperous Bianjing was only deserted, with only more than a thousand households in the city. It was not easy for the Song army to enter the deserted land of Henan to start from scratch and rebuild the Jin people's defense line in a short time? Once logistics problems arise, the Song army alone would be unable to continue.

And the most funny thing is that the Song court was not in harmony. When Quan Zicai from Huaidong was ordered by the emperor to send troops in a hurry, Shi Songzhi from Jinghu area directly said that he would rather resist the order than send troops... The Song army in the Northern Expedition was also uneven. Zhao Kui and Quan Zicai were dissatisfied. Zhao Kui was eager to seek merit. He forcibly marched to Luoyang regardless of the consequences when the military rations were not enough, resulting in a great defeat.

In fact, Duanping and Lu Luo were looking for death in the end. The main force of the Mongolian army did not gather. Relying on some garrisons and Mongolian army, Quan Zicai, who was ineffective in logistics, fought Zhao Kui with Zhao Kui. Not only did he lose his troops and humiliate the country, but he also directly gave the Mongolians an excuse to start a war. The Song court's moral decency was gone.

But if you put yourself in your shoes, does military failure mean that everything Lizong did is wrong? Even if the Southern Song Dynasty did not attack the Northern Expedition, would Mongolia not invade the Southern Song Dynasty? If you were born in his time and sat in his position, Zhao Bing felt that he might not have done anything better than him.

Zhao Bing has also been controversial since he ascended the throne, and has been troubled by the orthodox Song for a long time. His situation is better than that of Lizong. After all, no one denies his own son of the late emperor, and he has received strong support from Empress Dowager Yang. However, the doubts have not stopped yet, and there are still people who use this from time to time to say this. By judging others by oneself, you can imagine the difficulties of Lizong's situation after he ascended the throne. It is not difficult to understand that he wants to justify himself through a war.

Zhao Bing also knew that among the emperors of the Song Dynasty, Lizong Lizong had the shortcomings of enjoying himself and getting close to traitors in his later years, but when it comes to matters, Lizong was never considered a fool. Lizong at least understood that as the emperor of the Song Dynasty, he should avenge his shame, recover the Central Plains, and fight against the Jin and Mongols.

Although Lizong was suspicious of Meng Gong, he was able to always trust and use him. So what about Song Renzong's reign against Di Qing and Song Gaozong's reign against Yue Fei? He was not upright in his position, but he knew how to do what he should do as a descendant of Hui Qin to prove himself, and united the dispersed Southern Song people's hearts. Although he was not a rival to Mongolia, he did his best to win a territory for the Southern Song Dynasty.

As for the blame for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing thought that Li Zong should not be blamed. Emperor Gaozong missed the opportunity and only saved half of the country. It was wrong to start and end with the tiger. Emperor Xiaozong was unfair and used Zhang Jun in the wrong way to attack the Northern Expedition. Ningzong recognized Emperor Jin as his uncle and lost three million yuan. What should he do when he came to Li Zong?

At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty not only had external threats, but also had hidden internal civil strife. It should be said that Lizong had tried his best to this point. If someone else faced his situation, I am afraid that the Mongols could not stop him, and his throne would not be guaranteed, and he was overthrown. Therefore, he was able to overcome the difficult situation of his improper position, unite the dispersed hearts by his side, and continue the Southern Song Dynasty for two generations, and drag the country to his nephew and grandson to destroy the country. Of course, it was already unusual. I can't wait for Zhao Bing to show his power today...

On this day, Xu Hong may have intentionally avoided Zhu Yu from "worrying" the emperor again, and always sent him away, making it difficult for them to speak again. Zhao Bing was also an idle person. He occasionally "get out of the team" along the way and talked to the people he met on the way. Or he would take advantage of the opportunity to play the top to ask about the situation with the return transport team, and even chat with a few refugees for a long time.

Faced with such a reckless emperor, everyone was also worried, but they could not blatantly block it, and they dare not offend it. Because this had been taught a lesson, their immediate superior Commander Ni Da had something to say: the guards in front of the imperial guards are the emperor's personal guards, and the guard camp is especially very good. As His Majesty's close servants, he must obey the emperor's orders unconditionally. Even if they violate the orders of the imperial ministers and concubines in the palace, they will never be allowed to violate the orders.

Simply put, the task of the Guard Battalion is to obey the emperor's will and protect its comprehensiveness with its own life under whatever conditions. This is by no means just a statement. Tan Fei, the former commander of the Guard Battalion, is an example. He was only replaced because he forcibly took His Majesty from the battlefield in the last Northern Expedition to Yangzhou.

The situation on the battlefield was very critical at that time. Many people in the guard camp experienced this battle personally. His Majesty personally led the team to fight with a gun and a knife, fighting with the enemy in close combat. In order to protect the emperor, Tan Fei forcibly took His Majesty away from the battlefield. Everyone knows that this is also for the safety of the emperor and is also fulfilling his duties, but Tong Ni Dutong thought he was disobeying and insisted on replacing him.

Therefore, everyone in the guard camp knew that the emperor should not disobey or question it. Even if they were in danger, they could only keep their true nature and use their own lives to protect the emperor until they died in battle. Therefore, the emperor acted like a childish person and insisted on going to the front line to comfort the army. Xu Hong did not persuade him, but just silently planned for this to ensure that the emperor did not make any mistakes in his journey.

When facing the uneasy emperor, everyone can only try their best to isolate the dangerous people without any trace, carefully prevent their identity from being exposed, and silently guarding them like a little transparent. The most pitiful thing is the brothers of the Operations Team of the Bureau of Affairs, who have to constantly change their identities to spy on information and take preventive measures against those suspects.

Zhao Bing seemed to be unaware of the hardships of the people. Their next stop, Neiqiu County, the closer they were to the county town, the village gradually became denser and gradually became more and more fireworks. The people who saw the fear of not seeing the war were overwhelmed with uncontrollable joy. If they had not seen the traces of the battle that were still left, they would never have imagined that this place had just experienced a change of dynasty and a decline of territory.

Zhao Bing found an opportunity to chat with an old man on the way, and realized that the reason why they were happy was not because they returned to Song a hundred years later, but because the yamen canceled his status as a serf, distributed land and houses to his family, exempted the taxes that had been owed over the years, and wrote off the lamb money owed to the Otu people. In addition, the yamen also distributed relief grains and distributed seeds for farming next year.

This made them feel extremely satisfied, but they were not nostalgic for the defeated Mongolian Yuan, and only thought that they would never come back. For the new dynasty that returned, they only wanted to avoid the heavy taxes as heavy as the Mongolian Yuan, so that their families could have some surplus food after the autumn, and that there would be no powerful people rob the land they allocated to their families...
Chapter completed!