The flag was lowered on the king's city, and I learned in the palace that 140,000 people were all disarmed, and not one of them was a man! This is a poem written by Mrs. Huarui in front of Zhao Kuangyin in the early Song Dynasty.

The flag was lowered on the king's city, how could I know about it in the deep palace? 140,000 people were all disarmed, and not one of them was a man! This is a poem written by Mrs. Hua Rui in the early Song Dynasty in front of Zhao Kuangyin. Mrs. Huarui was originally a beautiful woman in Shu. She was born in the troubled times of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty. Later, she was collected into the harem by Emperor Meng Chang of Houshu (field) who only knew luxury and pleasure. She was favored and given the title of The imperial concubine, also known as Mrs. Huarui. In the late period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhao Kuangyin accelerated the process of "dividing for a long time and must unite" on the basis of and later Zhou Dynasty, and sent tens of thousands of people to attack Shu. There are still 140,000 Shu soldiers under Meng Chang, which is several times the number that came to attack the Song army, enough for a battle! Unexpectedly, the Hou Shu army, which was only greedy for pleasure and weak FB, did not dare to confront the Song army head-on. So 140,000 people from Meng Chang on down undressed their armor and surrendered quickly. As a trophy of the Song army, Mrs. Huarui was escorted to Kaifeng Mansion like the gold and silver treasures in Shu, and became Zhao Kuangyin's private property. It's like a former "noble concubine" has actually instantly become a female slave who can be disposed of at will. Zhao Kuangyin heard that Mrs. Huarui was not only beautiful but also very talented, so he ordered her to write a poem in person.

So there was this: 140,000 people were all disarmed, and not one of them was a man! famous historical quotes. This poem profoundly reveals that the top and bottom of the extremely corrupt Hou Shu regime were not as manly as a weak woman in the harem; Zhao Kuangyin greatly appreciated the poem after hearing it; he praised Mrs. Huarui not only for her outstanding appearance, but also for being a talented woman with great integrity. In fact, in the process of annexing various heroes in the early Song Dynasty, Hou Shu was not the only local separatist force that surrendered without a fight. For example, the famous and of Southern Tang Dynasty also went down without a fight. Therefore, Li Yu also has a famous saying: How many times have we known war, and shed tears to Gong E. However, Li Yu, the successor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, did not meet Zhao Kuangyin, who was somewhat heroic, but met Zhao Guangyi, who had a despicable character. Therefore, the fate of Li Yu and his concubines was far worse than that of Meng Chang and Mrs. Huarui. It can be seen that in the early Song Dynasty, it was not an isolated phenomenon to split the political power in places that did not know how to fight and were on the verge of collapse. So during the decades of chaos in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, why did some local governments with “completely devoid of any fighting capacity” emerge?

Hanhai Langshan and Xiongnu Langshan believe that this has a lot to do with the overall historical pattern of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were a split and separatist situation that lasted for sixty or seventy years after the disintegration of the Tang Dynasty and the basic unity of the Northern Song Dynasty. To a large extent, it was also the result of the suppression of the Huangchao Uprising and the Huangchao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. The greatest damage caused by the Huangchao Uprising basically occurred in the northern core areas from Guanzhong Chang'an to the North China Plain. The person who deposed the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty and established the Liang Dynasty was the rebel general Zhu Wen who separated from the Huang Chao Uprising; and the long-term competitor with Zhu Wen was Sha Sha who entered the mainland to participate in suppressing the Huang Chao Uprising. Tuo people. Its leader is called Li Keyong . Li Keyong's son established the post-Tang Dynasty; and in the north, there was the phenomenon of cross-change of regimes in the post-Jin, post-Han and post-Zhou dynasties. The main wars during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period basically took place in the Five Dynasties in the north where the "Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou" were located. There are 9 " ten countries " roughly the same time, distributed in Jiangnan, Sichuan and other places. Starting from the mid-Tang Dynasty, Jiangnan and Sichuan have been fully developed and have become densely populated and economically prosperous. At the same time, there were not as many wars in Jiangnan and Sichuan as there were in the Central Plains, and there were only some small merger wars. During the Anshi Rebellion in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and the Huangchao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty took refuge in Sichuan twice; Du Fu's family also took refuge in Chengdu. After the Tang Dynasty fell due to the Huangchao Uprising, the subsequent major wars and conflicts were mainly concentrated in the north; while Jiangnan and Sichuan were basically preserved.Therefore, most of the so-called "founding emperors" in the "Ten Kingdoms" were actually envoys appointed by the Tang Dynasty to the vassal towns in Jiangnan and Sichuan, or generals assigned to manage the local areas. When they saw that the Central Plains and Chang'an were in chaos, and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty no longer existed, they simply proclaimed themselves emperors and became local little emperors. In essence, there is both the idea of ​​"protecting the environment and the people" and "carpe diem". This kind of thinking is not only held by the local grass-head kings who established the Ten Kingdoms, but also by the local upper-class scholar-bureaucrats, who all want to find temporary stability and strive for timely enjoyment in troubled times. If the "founding emperors" who established the Ten Kingdoms had more or less political and military capabilities, then the second or even third generation after them were basically pure and powerless. "Artistic Youth". In addition to being very proficient in romance, poetry, and poetry, he is basically frightened of war; naturally, it depends on the propagation. It can be seen that most of the ten countries have only been at peace for a few decades and have completely forgotten what soldiers and armors are. There is a saying: There is nothing new under the sun; similar history keeps repeating itself. Look at the current European map. Is it similar to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms? Of course, the total number of European countries is larger, indicating that its geographical plates are more divided. There were more than 40 countries in Europe during the Cold War era, and today there are nearly 50 countries, and there are even signs of further "subdivision". However, Europe is still somewhat different from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were basically divided into north and south. In Europe, the differences between east and west have been greater than those between north and south since ancient times. The Cold War confrontation line after World War II basically ran from Eastern Europe to Southeastern Europe . After the Cold War,

with the gradual eastward expansion of NATO , this "line of instability" has obviously moved closer to eastern Europe. However, NATO's eastward expansion of also has an unexpected side result. This means that Western Europe and Central Europe have not had any wars or armed disputes for seventy or eighty years. Under this long-term peace, the overall trend of slackening of the land military strength of Western European countries is very obvious. Most people on earth have forgotten that Western Europe was once the main battlefield from World War I to World War II, with large-scale battles involving five to six million troops and hundreds of thousands of tanks and artillery. As for the size of the armies of today's Europe, especially Western European countries, it is really not an exaggeration to say that "140,000 people were disarmed". For example, and British Army , which once dominated the world, now have more generals than tanks. There are only slightly more than 200 tanks in the entire UK. The French Army was once known as the number one in the world and Europe before and after World War I; but today, the French Army only has more than 200 main battle tanks left. When the German Army was at its strongest, it once had tens of thousands of tanks. Once, one family could take on half of the world alone.

But today, there are less than 500 main battle tanks left in the German Army! Just ten years ago, the German Army still had at least 1,500 relatively advanced Panther tank equipment. The biggest problem for the German Army is not the sharp decrease in advanced main battle tanks. But as a traditional European tank and artillery production country, its production lines have basically stagnated. In the past 10 years, Germany's main battle tanks exported to foreign countries have basically been refurbished versions of older versions such as the Leopard 2A4 and A5; while new versions such as the A6 and A7 have almost completely stopped rolling off the production line. This situation has also caused some European countries to purchase new tanks from the southern part of a peninsula in Asia. Therefore, the armies of the three traditional European powers combined today. They can't even get 900 relatively advanced third-generation main battle tanks! Even if we add Italy, we can only collect a little more than 1,000 vehicles at most. Perhaps these traditional rich European countries believe that large-scale land wars will never happen again on the European continent? But the reality is that a large-scale land tank battle will break out at any time in eastern Europe!

This cannot be completely avoided by simply inputting hundreds of anti-tank missiles into the battlefield in advance. After all, large-scale land tank battles always start with firepower.In this combat mode, most of the individual anti-tank firepower points have been plowed eight times by the rocket launcher group and the howitzer group before they even see where the opponent's tanks are. It can be seen that large-scale tank cluster charges and sea, land, air and sky firepower groups cooperate with each other to attack and advance, which is still the standard mode of large-scale regular land mobile warfare today. In this regard, the major traditional European powers are basically in an almost completely abandoned state. Although the total tank armor strength of the main opponents across the front has been weakened a lot in the past 30 years; after all, there are still more than 3,400 active main battle tanks above the level of T64 and whiteboard T72. Compared with the standard of the "four major countries" in Europe, where the total number of existing equipment is less than 1,100 vehicles, there is actually a huge advantage of 3 to 1. Of course, in the general atmosphere of "disarmament" of the traditional European powers, there is one company that goes in the opposite direction. This is the Polish Army, which has long been despised in both the East and the West.

Today's Polish actually has about 2,000 more advanced Eastern and Western main battle tanks equivalent to the whiteboard T72 standard and Leopard 2A5! It is almost double the total armor strength of the entire Western Europe and the British Army! If the 2,000 Polish main battle tanks currently in service plus the 1,100 tanks from the four Western European countries were to deal with the 3,400 tanks on the opposite side of the front, it would be a tie. If coupled with the M1 series of the US military in Europe and subsequent emergency supplements, the traditional advantages of NATO ground forces can be maintained. And if the 2,000 main battle tanks of the Polish Army stay put and just sit on the sidelines in the future, then even if the US military sends emergency airborne reinforcements, it may be too late to maintain the land front east of the Dnieper River. If the situation is so bad, NATO will be disbanded. No one expected at the time that the Polish Army, which had always been looked down upon, would actually become the only "armored man" on the European continent who could basically fight?