Taking advantage of the respite that the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty had finally begged for, Fan Zhixu wanted to gather all the troops and horses in the west together to form a large corps under the direct command of the Ministry of Temperance, so as to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army in the future.

Therefore, Fan Zhixu ordered all roads to pacify and send troops to assemble in the Yaozhou area.

However, the pacification divisions of the various routes did not actively obey Fan Zhixu's orders, and each of them only sent a small number of people to Yaozhou.

After the Song army barely completed the assembly, Qu Duan began to blackmail Fan again.

At that time, the imperial court did not consider Qu Duan's actual strength at all, and still appointed Fan Zhixu, who had no prestige, to act as the Shaanxi envoy, and appointed Qu Duan as the capital commander under the Control Division.

Qu Duan was indignant about this, so he excused himself to submit a resignation report to the imperial court and was inconvenient to command the battle, and did not listen to Fan Zhixu's orders.

Fan Zhixuan was so anxious that he had no choice, so he simply announced that he would be relieved of his position as the commander of Quduan's temperance division.

Qu Duan saw that Fan Zhixu was not coerced, but came to the hard, and some regretted losing the military power, so he finally had to swallow his anger and write to Fan Zhixu, saying that he had changed his mind and now had arrived in Yaozhou and served in front of the army.

Fan Zhixu was helpless, so he had to revoke Qu Duan's dismissal.

Unexpectedly, after Qu Duan re-grasped the handle of the soldier, he didn't listen to Fan Zhixu's words again.

Not only that, Qu Duan also used force to bomb away Fan Zhixu and drove away the former Hedong Economic Envoy and Zhifengxiang Mansion.

Then, Qu Duan sent troops to attack the rebel general Shi Bin, and he himself led troops to attack the rebel army led by Zhang Zong, who was active in the Chang'an area.

Shi Bin was quickly defeated by Qu Duan, Zhang Zong was also killed by Qu Duan, and the two of them were also incorporated by Qu Duan.

Due to Qu Duan's unscrupulous expansion of his own power, the Jingyuan army naturally stood above the Song army of Zhulu, and the existing in the west praised Qu Duan: "Qu is great with literature and martial arts." ”

Quduan has become the de facto controller of the western region.

It was at this time that Zhang Jun's entry into Shu was officially finalized.

Different from the earliest Zhang Jun proposed to help Zhao Gou leave a way back, Zhang Jun at this time had already put forward a specific proposition, that is: the strategic position of the west is very important, it is not only an important military source base in the Southern Song Dynasty, but also can directly threaten the Hedong and Central Plains regions, if the Southern Song Dynasty can ensure the Jianghuai and the western region, then it will form a situation of pincering the Central Plains, and it can take the initiative strategically.

In addition, in Zhang Jun's idea of running Sichuan and Shaanxi, the Southern Song Dynasty could set the capital Xingyuan Mansion (later Hanzhong, Shaanxi) in the future.

To put it mildly, this is a "hegemonic" concept.

To put it mildly, this is still a "partial security" concept.

However, whether it is partial hegemony or partial security, after Zhang Jun put it forward, after the Southern Song Dynasty ministers discussed, most people thought that Zhang Jun was very reasonable.

So, after full preparation, Zhang Jun led a group of people from the newly established Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Division to set off from Lin'an and march to the Sichuan-Shaanxi region.

Soon after, Zhang Jun and his entourage arrived at Xingyuan Mansion.

In Xingyuan Mansion, Zhang Jun presided over a military meeting to discuss the issue of unified command of the army.

At the meeting, Tianzhang Pavilion was to be informed of Tang Zhong in Tongzhou, and said: "The existing five roads in the west are slightly pacified by the division and department, the command is not unified, and the relationship between the soldiers is not harmonious, so it is not appropriate to force themselves to gather together to hold a general battle, if it is reluctant, if there is an unfavorable, then the five roads will be lost, it is better to temporarily garrison Li, Lang, Xing, and Yangzhou, and strengthen the defense of Sichuan, so as to stabilize the foundation, if the enemy army comes to attack. Then send the troops of the five roads to help, so that even if you don't win, you won't be defeated. ”

Zhang Junxin is sharp, how can he follow Tang Chong's conservative advice?

Not only that, Zhang Jun is also very disgusted with Tang Chong!

There's a reason for that.

Because Fan Zhixu wanted Tang to take his place more than once.

In other words, Tang Zhong is a potential competitor to Zhang Jun.

Tang Zhong could see that Zhang Jun hated him, so he could only take the initiative to ask to be stationed in Jinzhou, away from the core area in the west.

After Zhang Jun inspected the site in Hanzhong, he gave Zhao Gou a chapter and invited Zhao Gou to come to Xingyuan Mansion to "patrol".

Zhang Jun's recital reads:

Eavesdropping on the real situation in Hanzhong, the ministers are serving the curtains, hearing the jade sound, and saying that the Central Plains must be based on this. Therefore, the ministers are not afraid of thousands of miles, donate their lives for self-efficacy, and flatter the holy will in case. I would like to accumulate money in Xingyuan, waiting for the good fortune, and I hope that Your Majesty Luan Yu will make a plan for the westward journey as soon as possible. The division of the six roads in the front, the chestnut of the two rivers in the back, the wealth of Jingxiang on the left, and the horse of Qinlong on the right, the general trend of the world can be determined!

It is not difficult to see Zhang Jun's intention from this letter of Zhang Jun, that is, to invite Zhao Gou to come to the western region to set the capital.

The ambitious Zhang Jun soon led his staff to Qinzhou and set up the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Envoy here.

Soon after Zhang Jun arrived in Qinzhou, he undertook to build an altar to worship the generals, and appointed Qu Duan as a mighty general, an observer of Xuanzhou, and a Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu disposal envoy to control the division and know Weizhou.

Previously, Zhang Jun was kind to Qu Duan.

When Qu Duan expelled Fan Zhixu by force, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was very shocked, and even suspected that Qu Duan had the intention of rebellion, so he appointed Qu Duan as the promoter of the imperial envoy, wanting to use this as an excuse to transfer Qu Duan to Jiangnan.

Qu Duan was naturally reluctant and did not dare to leave Shaanxi.

This makes it even worse.

The ministers of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty discussed a lot, and they all said that Qu Duan would be the opposite.

At that time, Zhang Jun was very calm in this matter, and he guaranteed the lives of his whole family to guarantee that Qu Duan would not rebel against the imperial court.

Because Zhang Jun vouched for the lives of his whole family, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty revoked the order of the tune to go to Jiangnan.

Qu Duan was very grateful to Zhang Jun for this.

After Zhang Jun opened the government in Qinzhou, he regarded Quduan as the main military pillar, and Quduan also changed his problem of being difficult to control, actively supported Zhang Jun, and obeyed Zhang Jun's command.

Thanks to Qu Duan's support, Zhang Jun changed the chaotic state of the Song army in the west in a short period of time, and gathered the army in the west together, and the army in the west really began to have a unified command.

Hearing this news, Yue Fei, Wu Jue and others were not worried but happy!

What they are most afraid of is that the western army is scattered in various dangerous places to hold on, because if this is the case, then they want to conquer the west, especially Shudi, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it will be difficult.

And the most beneficial to the big is that the Song army is willing to fight a direct decisive battle, so that it is possible to capture the western region in one battle, and the worst can recover many areas in one fell swoop, a big step forward.

Feeling that the situation in the western region was almost touched, and everything that should be arranged was arranged, Yue Fei immediately got up and went back to the eastern front to make final preparations for the upcoming war of Song.

In June of the third year of the Great Unification, Yue Fei reported to Li Yan secretly: Wang Yuan, the commander of the imperial camp and the privy envoy, gathered money in Zhenjiang and looted the people's fat and ointment, which caused the local people to complain, and Zhenjiang's defense was lax and suddenly attacked, but he could go down to Zhenjiang in a battle.

Li Yan understood that Yue Fei was ready to cut down the Song Dynasty and wanted to do it.

There is a saying that the opportunity cannot be lost, and it will not come again.

Therefore, Li Yan soon announced on the grounds that "the Southern Song Dynasty has not paid the annual tribute for several months" and that "the "Great Unification Peace Conference" has been signed for nearly two years, and the people are still in turmoil in the Southern Song Dynasty, and countless Jiangnan people have died in the war".

As soon as Li Yan's announcement came out, the Chinese army launched an attack on the eastern and western fronts at the same time, and the war against the Song Dynasty officially began......

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