In 20xx, early autumn.

Several SUVs were lined up, galloping on the wide national highway. Above the vehicles, two drones were also carrying high-definition cameras to capture and enter the process of the convoy. When they entered the next fork, they turned down the flat road and drilled straight towards the narrow and rugged village road.

At this time, the host's magnetic voice sounded in the front row: "Dear viewers, welcome to this episode of "Seeking Ancients". I am the host Xiao Cai. What we are going to today is the archaeological site of a war that changed the history of the entire Chinese nation - the Gubaigou River after the war site. The guests we invited today are Professor Mei Cirenmei, who is extremely familiar with the history of the Song and Liao dynasties and has dozens of related monographs."

As the camera entered, a young man in his heart first came first, and then he turned to an old man in his fifties, with half-sparse hair and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He smiled and nodded at the camera, and said quickly: "Hello everyone on the Internet, I am Mei Ciren. I don't know how much you know about the history of the Battle of Baigou River in Song and Liao, which has just been discovered recently, but in my opinion, for every Chinese who loves our country and our nation, we should have a certain understanding of the cause and effect of this battle. Although the scale of this battle is not as large as imagined, its importance is not under any large-scale battle that we are familiar with. In a sense, it has indeed changed the entire historical process of the Chinese nation."

Afterwards, host Xiao Cai spread the background of the battle between the Song and Liao dynasties that took place thousands of years ago for the audience and netizens who watched the show. After these introductions, the vehicle finally stopped near a large dirt pit in front of him.

After everyone got off the car, the host quickly introduced the topic and began to visit Mei Ciren. Mei Ciren was also energetic. While checking the nearby geographical terrain, he responded patiently and further explained the statement he mentioned before: "... Many historians have mentioned that although the Song Dynasty had manifestations of illuminating ancient and modern times in all aspects of culture and economy, it also had the biggest problem, that is, the military preparations were not prosperous, and therefore he was always passive in the face of the invasion of the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia.

"The Battle of Baigouhe here has magnified this problem to the extreme. According to my understanding of history at that time, this battle can be said to be related to the life and death of the Song Dynasty. If this battle is really defeated, the Song Dynasty, which has been established for a hundred years, will completely collapse. Even if the Liao Kingdom does not take the opportunity to invade the south, the extremely powerful Jurchen Jin Kingdom would inevitably go south after destroying the Liao Kingdom. By then, the Song Dynasty after the defeat will definitely be unable to resist them."

"So that's the case, why did the history of the future not develop as you said, the professor?" Xiao Cai asked quickly as a host, like a supporting actor.

Mei Ciren smiled and circled the ruins of the ancient battlefield in front of him: "That's because the Song Dynasty was not defeated in this battle."

"Didn't you say that based on your inference, the Song Dynasty was already in a very bad situation?"

“Yes, but sometimes history is written by heroes.

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.Because of a person's sudden rise changed the trend of this battle, Xiao Cai, do you know who this person is?"

Xiao Cai laughed: "Professor Mei is still keeping him in hiding, but he can't help me, who have already prepared me, is it Sun Tu right?"

"Yes, it's Sun Tu. A Song Dynasty military officer who was actually not very prominent at the time and had even his military power cut off." Professor Mei nodded with satisfaction: "It was because he suddenly stood up and raised his arms and shouted at him when he was in danger that the main force of the Song army, who had already chosen to be a wall, was involved in the battle. He joined forces with the Western Army of Song, which had been fighting with the Liao army for a whole day, and withstand the attack that the Liao army was bound to win!"

The voiceover immediately rang out, and the origin of the title of the Western Army and the various situations of the Western Army at that time were introduced. By the time these background information were introduced, several people had already appeared on the edge of the battlefield ruins that had just been excavated. There was still a lot of silt piled up below. In addition to some weapons that had already rusted, there were also a large number of corpses of people and horses under the silt, telling the people of later generations the tragic battle.

"Hey, there are still many traces of food here..." Xiao Cai's eyes were very poisonous, and he quickly identified some different things in the mud below.

This also made Mei Ciren's spirit revive: "It seems that the process of the war recorded in historical books is completely correct. Judging from our current location, this should be the rear of the Song army's Zhongjun Dazhai, and on our left is the ancient Baigou River..." After fingering the wasteland ahead, he continued: "And the silt that is several meters thick here is affected by the Baigou River water. It is precisely because of this river that this ancient battlefield ruins have been completely preserved."

"Ah? Is it because the river water is diverted?"

"It can be said yes, or no. To be more accurate, it is artificial river water diversion, that is, diversion of water underwater. This is a common trick used to break the enemy on the ancient battlefield." Professor Mei smiled and explained.

"So, was this flood initiated by the Liao Kingdom? After all, we are now standing in the camp of the Song army."

"That's it, because it belonged to the Liao Kingdom at that time, and they were more familiar with the local terrain and water profile and were easier to arrange relevant strategies. Moreover, according to historical records, Yelu Dashi, the deputy commander of the Liao Kingdom, was also a powerful figure who was very good at using strategies to win."

The host imagined the scene of the flood, and exclaimed: "It seems that the Song army is really dangerous. Under such circumstances, Sun Tu is really amazing to be able to turn the tables with the weakest official army in history!"

"Sun Tu is indeed amazing, but sometimes, a person's success or failure is really related to luck. If he hadn't raised his arms and shouted at that time and then led countless people and horses in the barracks to go forward, I'm afraid that the Song army would have completely collapsed when the flood came. After all, the Western Army had already fallen into absolute danger at that time, and they were the strongest combat power among the Song army! If the Central Army camp was washed away by the flood, it would have been even worse. I guess I don't need to say much about the final consequences?" Mei Ciren said with emotion: "But Sun Tu's rushing army not only saved the Western Army in front, but also saved the Song army in the camp. When the flood came, what could be done

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The damage is not as great as before."

"I'm so lucky. There's always a saying on the Internet, saying what kind of plane the founding emperor Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty is. Now it seems that Sun Tu is not inferior to that." Xiao Cai sighed.

"Haha, this statement is really interesting. I have seen it on the Internet. But I always think that everything cannot be attributed to external factors of luck. After all, they can succeed due to their unremitting efforts. Isn't there a saying that success is reserved for those who are prepared. Whether it is Sun Tu or Liu Xiu, they can do things that others seem to be unable to do, just like cheating, because they have made full preparations before that.

"I won't say much about Liu Xiu, just talk about today's protagonist Sun Tu. It was because of his many years of silent efforts in the lower-level army that he had a powerful influence at that time, and then there was a battle like turning the world around the Baigou River."

"Professor Mei said it well, so we should have such a spirit in our daily study and work. We should prepare more and achieve success when fate is favored." Speaking of this, Xiao Cai felt that it was a bit too preaching to go on, so he quickly pulled back to the topic: "But even so, Professor Mei, I still can't understand it, that is, why did the Song army, which has always been known for its weakness and cowardly fight suddenly burst out with such strong fighting spirit? Also, why would a Song Dynasty official army be incited by Sun Tu to break the order by a few words?"

"You are just two questions, but to sum it up, it can be considered a common problem." Professor Mei smiled and said, "But this is a bit long to say. We have to talk about the system of the Song Dynasty, especially the various systems of the army..."

This column is to popularize historical knowledge, but only let the host and guests go to some archaeological sites to increase the fun. So when Professor Mei was about to go deeper, Xiao Cai, as the host, had no intention of dissuading him, but instead became a supporting actor again with interest.

Therefore, with the cooperation of the two, various policies of the Song Dynasty since its founding were introduced in an easy-to-understand manner. Finally, Mei Ciren said with a serious expression: "Everything can be found in the relationship between causality and the cause and effect in this battle was actually buried as early as the national policy of focusing on culture and over military forces when the Song Dynasty was founded.

"Over the past century, military generals and soldiers have suffered too much and suffered too much, which has accumulated their dissatisfaction to a critical point, waiting for the emergence of a catharsis port. Just like water control, you are always blocked, and something will happen in the end. It is like a spring, and you press it too hard. Once it rebounds, the power is also extremely amazing!

"In the past, no one dared to stand up, or no one could have such a high reputation. However, Sun Tu's appearance changed all this, so there was the Yi Shuai who was in the battle of hundreds of thousands of Song troops. This was a miracle in the history of thousands of years of war in China! But this was a coincidence, and ultimately saved countless Song troops and reversed the entire situation..."

Speaking of this, the old professor's eyes shone brightly and suddenly looked forward, as if he could penetrate thousands of years and see the battle that changed the entire process of the Chinese nation...

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