The next week was almost able to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, why couldn t the Song Dynasty

Because the military strength of the Song Dynasty was too weak. It's hard to defend and you can't beat anyone else at all.

Because the Khitan had already gained a firm foothold in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, if Zhao Kuangyin followed Chai Rong's strategy of first north and then south, the Song Dynasty could also do it, but he did not do so.

Because the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, in order to prevent the generals from rebelling, they did not pay enough attention to the generals, so the military strength was very weak.

The three endings were not very good, and they also encountered a lot of difficulties in the process, mainly because they still lacked a certain amount of strength in the process, so if they want to start a war in this case, then they should have very strong strength.

The first war was waged in 979 A.D., but the final result was no victory and no successful recovery. In 986 A.D., the second war was fought, and this time the result was very regrettable, and it was finally lost. The two countries signed the Covenant of the Abyss, and finally reached a truce.

In 1120 AD, the third war was fought, and although it was victorious, it still did not take back the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The three wars did not meet their expectations, all ended in failure, and in the end they were not recovered, and the morale of the army at that time dropped at once.

In the end, it was a failure to do so, there was no way to succeed, and the opponent was very strong at that time.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangsheng failed to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, mainly due to several reasons:

1.At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the main focus was to unify the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and there was no time to take care of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun.

2.At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the national strength was weakened, and it was difficult to defeat the Liao State.

3.Song Taizu died too early and did not have time to implement the plan.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were originally the territory of the Central Plains, but in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords divided the territory, and in order to get the support of the Liao State, Shi Jingjiao ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Liao State, so that if he wanted to take it back at that time, he needed to fight with the Liao State. After the establishment of power in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, attached great importance to the sixteen states of Yanyun, and he once set up a special department to redeem the sixteen states of Yanyun, but in the end he died too early, and his successor failed to implement his plan, and there was no way to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun. <>

1. At the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, he was busy unifying the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and had no time to take care of the sixteen states of Yanyun. The Song Dynasty was Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin usurped the power of the Later Zhou, at that time belonged to the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the first task of the Song Dynasty was to unify several other countries, and then recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, if the sixteen states of Yanyun were recovered first, it was likely to be attacked by the enemy, resulting in the collapse of the regime, so Song Taizu chose to go south to attack several other countries, and did not immediately recover the sixteen states of Yanyun. <>

Second, the national strength of the Song Dynasty was weak, and it was difficult to defeat the Liao State. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the division of feudal towns led to warlord scuffles, and Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao State for his own interests, and was protected by the Liao State. The Song Dynasty was weak in the early days of its establishment, and it was very difficult to fight against the Liao State, so the Song Dynasty did not want to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun immediately, but wanted to redeem the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun with money.

3. Song Taizu died too early, and he did not have time to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun. Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, analyzed the situation at that time and believed that the Liao soldiers were strong and strong, and the Song Dynasty would not have good results if they were hard, so he set up a department and prepared to redeem the sixteen states of Yanyun with money, but he died suddenly before he could achieve it. After his death, Song Taizong did not inherit his ideas, but directly chose the Northern Expedition, but the two Northern Expeditions failed, resulting in the Song Dynasty's lack of troops, and in the later period, Song Taizong emphasized literature and light military force, resulting in the Song Dynasty's inability to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.