Jingnan was originally only interpreted as pacifying the chaos, and it was not until Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, launched the Jingnan Battle in the name of "Qing Jun's side and Yasukuni Disaster" when he was still the king of Yan, and after his nephew Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen was ousted from power, the meaning of the word Jingnan to the emperor and leading the army to savior seemed to become more profound.

Now that the strongmen and thieves in Hedong are being ravaged by Tian Hu's roaring gathering, they already have the strength to break through the state capitals, counties and towns, causing a large number of people to suffer greatly from military disasters and bandits, and the establishment of the new army in Hedong, where the disaster is in the depths of the disaster, is indeed very consistent with the name of this army.

As for Xiao Tang's actual thoughts in his heart, he naturally also hoped that when the fertile soil of Shenzhou faced the catastrophe in the official history, and the people under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty would also fall into dire straits, this army would be able to complete the mission of the national soldiers in Jingping and resisting foreign humiliation.

And Wang Huan nodded again and again after hearing that Xiao Tang intended to ask the imperial court to name the Hedong New Army as the Jingnan Army, and felt that this number was very appropriate. After the main generals who had played martial arts in the school field were slightly rectified and rested, Luo Jian, Xiao Jiasui, Guan Sheng and others had also rushed to the mansion, and Xiao Tang summoned the generals and confidants who had gathered in Tongqi County to the hall to discuss the next step in the conquest of the thieves in Hedong.

At this time, Xiao Tang sat on the chair of the Taishi at the head of the hall, and saw that such as Xu Guanzhong, Xiao Jiasui, Hua Rong, Wang Jin, Shi Xiu, Niu Gao, Pang Wanchun and other brothers were sitting on the right, while Wang Huan, Han Cunbao, Xu Jing, Luo Jian, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and other court officials and generals who were dispatched by the imperial court to assist him in his business in Hedong were all sitting on the left. Moreover, there are two groups of officers and soldiers in one division, and they will not send troops to fight against the thieves who are making trouble everywhere, and they will still have various concerns such as being overstretched and lacking skills to break up.

Now Xiao Tang is listening to the military academy report returning from the sentinels from all over the world, since the thief army suffered another big defeat in Longshu Mountain, the area where the thieves who obeyed Tian Hu's orders had frequent activities has shrunk a lot, and now they are mainly concentrated in Gaizhou, Jinzhou, Longdefu, Fenzhou and the eastern region of the Weisheng Army, these areas are also roughly consistent with the geographical location of the five states and fifty-six counties occupied by Tian Hu in the original book when he pretended to set up civil and military bureaucrats, internal and external generals, and dominated one side.

However, the current situation is that Tian Hu invaded the county and seized the town, but he did not dare to openly attack the big cities of the state capitals in various places, after all, although the thieves have always planned to cede the land and govern themselves and build a country independently, but now that Xiao Tang led the army to Hedong in time, and there is the support of the whole country behind him, Tian Hu is still a little scheming, and he should know that even if he can defeat any state capital, he may not be able to defend it.

But for Xiao Tang, this is both good news and bad news.

Because according to the actions of Nakata Tiger in the original book and the current situation, it seems that the ambitious Green Forest Hero does not intend to accept the court's recruitment. What's more, even if it is feasible to recruit An, like Tian Hu's situation, the reason why he gathered in the mountains and forests and gathered the outlaws everywhere to confront the imperial court was not because he was forced to be cornered by traitorous officials and evil officials, and had no choice but to throw himself into the green forest. In order to satisfy his own selfish desires, he used a butcher's knife against ordinary people to be more cruel than any bully and corrupt official, and because of this, Xiao Tang would never let people promote the recruitment of Tian Hu, but let him, a fierce bandit leader, become a court official.

Just like a proverb that was widely spread in the Song Dynasty: If you want to be rich, you must sell wine and vinegar. If you want to be an official, you will be recruited to kill people and set fires. For Wang Huan, Mei Zhan, Yang Wen, Zhang Kai and other heroes who were forced to fall into the grass for a while, but they also asked themselves to be honest and frank, even Song Jiang, who led everyone in Liangshan to take refuge in the imperial court, the strategy of recruiting peace can be used, if you teach those unscrupulous Kou heads to wear official robes...... In the official history, Kong Yanzhou, who was a rogue thief and killed the people when the Song army was under the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses, and later became the general of the Dragon and Tiger Guard of the Jin State, but now he has been killed by Xiao Tang a long time ago is the best example.

So if Tian Hu didn't plan to compromise and negotiate with the imperial court, and now that the war situation is gradually falling into passivity, what will he do? Xiao Tang scrutinized Tian Hu's temperament, for an outlaw murderer who is brutal and dares to take great risks for profiteering, I am afraid that in this situation, his typical psychological thoughts will be: Even if Lao Tzu dies, I will have to pull a few more burials, if I am not happy, then no one will think about it.

Presumably, Tian Hu will be forced to fight the trapped beasts, instigating strongmen from all walks of life in Hedong to be more cruel and crazy to rob the villages and towns under the rule of the state capitals. Some time ago, the troops under the command of Xiao Tang were limited, so they could only fight step by step, steadily, and now that the reinforcements have arrived and the supplies are sufficient, the strategy of conquering Tian Hu does not have to be as conservative as before, but it is advisable to hurry up and not delay, and it is also necessary to eradicate those fierce thieves and evil parties that exacerbate the internal friction of the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

Everything is ready, and now only the six battalions of soldiers and horses transferred by the Western Army are needed.

"Brother, Tian Shi, the son of Tian Biao, the head of the Kou captured by Yu Longxishansheng, turned out to be a strong and middle-class bird, and I just used a little skill, and the guy answered when he asked, and it was simple."

In the hall, Shi Xiu reported to Xiao Tang again: "That Tian Shi said that Tian Hu seems to be afraid of seeing our soldiers and horses, and has led five or seven thousand thieves to flow straight to the Taigu area of Taiyuan Prefecture, Jinzhou, Weisheng Army and other places There are still a few thieves looting around, Tian Hu sent his henchmen to Gaizhou, which is adjacent to Jingbei Road and Hebei West Road, and it seems that he wants to persuade the local strongmen to join the gang and contain our soldiers and horses from the south side. The movements of the rest of the thieves, Tian Shi's gang really doesn't seem to know. ”

Xiao Tang nodded and said: "Originally, the thieves in Hedong relied on the geographical advantage, wandered around, and created evil in one place, and it was inevitable to take care of one or the other if they were easily captured, but now with the strength of our army, they can not only cooperate with each other to flank the enemy, but also control and choke the key places of the Weisheng army, and at the same time divide the troops to break the thieves from all walks of life in Hedong. If Tian Hu really led the crowd to the north, our army just sent troops and horses to calm the thief army that was in the south of Hedong Road, and immediately waved his army to the north, swept away the murderers, captured the thief Tian Hu, and ...... with An Zhaomin."

Speaking of this, Xiao Tang paused, and he thought in his heart that the officers and soldiers sent by the Western Army to support them were also going north through the south of Hedong Road, and when they joined forces to clear the thieves in the south of Hedong Road, they could also send reinforcements one more way. And since the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty was rumored to be the cradle of the Northern Song Dynasty's generals and strong armies in later generations, Xiao Tang had also seen many people from the Western Army such as Seed Division, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Qu Duan, Zhi Yanye, and Zhi Yanzhi, and left their names in the history books, so is the general who commanded the Western soldiers to come to the aid of the Western Army is also a famous general whose name and deeds have been spread?

Xiao Tang also thought that Wu Song is also serving in the Western Army now, so this time the Western Army sent troops to help, does he have a chance to reunite with Wu Erlang?

It's just that Xiao Tang is thinking about it, Wu Song is now just a foot army leader, and the Rongwei region he belongs to is the Great Song Dynasty that has just been captured from Western Xia for more than ten years, and is located in Pingxia City, which is at the border of Song and Xia, and that military fortress is also far away from Hedong Road. At present, it is the critical season for the Western Army to use troops against the Western Xia, and the bandits in Hedong are not as troublesome as in the official history of the southern part of the Yangtze River, forcing the imperial court to mobilize the strong fighting force in the northwest of Rongwei to go to other state capitals, so the possibility of Wu Song accompanying the army to Hedong is also very small.

After thinking in his heart, Xiao Tang said again: "Since the reinforcements of the Western Army have reached the boundary of Jiangzhou, and there are still a large number of thieves flowing around with the neighboring Jinzhou and Gaizhou, I am afraid that the thieves will see that there are few officers and soldiers and have a plan, so we must also go to pick up the soldiers and horses of the Western Army as soon as possible...... It's just that I don't know if the generals who led the army to help can be of great use. ”

Originally, the soldiers and horses sent by the Western Army this time were partial divisions, with only six battalions of men and horses, and the rank of the generals who came to the aid under the order to lead the troops was not high, so the military officials did not report the name of the main general to Xiao Tang. However, in the hall, Han Cunbao also accumulated military exploits in the Northwest Frontier Court back then, and reached the official position of Xu Da, because he knew a lot about the faction generals in the Western Army, and when he heard Xiao Tang's question, he replied:

"The general who was ordered to lead the six battalions of the Western Army to come to the aid is the grandson of Situ Yao Wuzhi (Yao 兕, the word Wuzhi), the second Yao Zhongjian School in Guanzhong, and the nephew of Yao Xiong, the envoy of the Xihe Jinglu, who has been a general in the West for generations, and I also respect it very much.

Although I don't know much about the descendants of the Yao family, but when the old friend of the Western Army Pao Ze Zhijing Shi and I talked about the old time, he said that it was not only the Yunzhong Zhe clan, but also the Yao clan of the Western Army's general Sanyuan..... Yao Pingzhong. ”