Although it is said that he wants to boast in front of his family, but the Bianjing Song court sent envoys to come and test each other, Xiao Tang's side must also deal with it carefully, after all, it will not be a long time, and it is very likely that this will cause great changes in the current situation.

However, on the eve of the arrival of the envoys sent by Tokyo Bianliang to the Daimyo's Mansion, Xiao Tang heard a few more sounds, and the news that he noticed and sighed the most was that the old man had passed away some time ago. On the day of the funeral, of course, there were many Western army generals who set up sacrifices to mourn, and the two sons of the old man died early in the war with the Xia Kingdom, so his nephew Chong Yan and grandson Chong Yanchong buried him as the leader of the family.

Compared with other generals of the Western Army who died on the battlefield early, as well as those generals who lost their divisions due to the defeat of the army, and were deposed and matched without even seeing the situation of standing in line in the court, the old Xianggong died on the couch at the age of more than seventy, and was posthumously honored by the imperial court, which is already an excellent destination. However, according to the funeral rites, the coffin of the seed master was supposed to be buried in the tomb of the original family of Shenhe in Wannian County, Jingzhao Prefecture, but now although the Song and Jin countries have temporarily suspended the military and negotiated peace, but at the beginning, Wanyan Lou Room, Sticky Han and other generals of the Jin State unified army had taken important places such as Yan'an Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion in Guanxi in the west, and the local Song army was still on guard against each other.

And another thing that Xiao Tang sighed at was that compared with his brother who could still be posthumously sealed by the imperial court and buried in a beautiful manner, he was originally rescued by the rebel army in Taiyuan Zuo near Xiong Ling, after all, he also had to be punished for the crime of losing the army, and because of his injuries, he was ordered to retire by the imperial court. I heard that the body and bones of the current breeder are not as good as day by day, although the age is slightly younger than that of the old breeder, but after all, he is also more than seventy years old, even if he has to be used by the capricious official Zhao Huan one day, I am afraid it will be difficult to make any gains.

Anyway, he has always been the leader of the Western Army, and then he is old and weak, but most of the generals of the Western Army are also obedient to him. However, compared to his brother's reputation and prestige, the division was indeed not enough to deter the remaining generals of the Western Army, especially when the old and small races lost their power but were reactivated at the time of national calamity, Yao Gu and Yao Pingzhong's father and son had begun to faintly confront the two (although Yao Gu and other Western army generals could only let the Chinese official faction of the court fall to the end because of their difficult guilt, and also taught Yao Pingzhong, the most outstanding young Zhuang general in the Western Army, to resolutely have the mind of leaving the Song court).

And now the old breed has passed away suddenly, and the small breed has completely lost power... Xiao Tang sighed, and said in his heart that if he was not a last resort, he would not want to teach the Jin people to profit because of the intensification of internal friction with the Song court, but now according to the current situation, the undercurrent surging between the factions within the Song army will become more and more intense. I am sympathetic and respectful to those loyal ministers and martyrs who are loyal to the country and at the same time inevitably serve the court with all their might, but as the situation progresses, it seems that he will gradually become the beneficiary of the infighting in the Song court and the army......

It seems to confirm the thoughts in Xiao Tang's heart, and Shi Xiu and other brothers from the side of Hedong Road who paid attention to the Jin and Song armies in the western part of the country visited: Among the only remaining commanders of the Western Army's Jinghua Army, Qu Duan, the commander of the Economic Strategy Division of Li Xiaozhong's rebel army, who occupied Huazhou and desperately resisted the Jin army, although on the eve of the Song and Jin temporary peace talks, also thwarted the invasion and invasion of the Jin army several times, but also became more and more arrogant, not only resisted the commander's order several times, but threatened that "although the courtier Li Gang summoned the world's troops to rush to the aid of Hedong, Go without moderation, so it failed, and the rebel army of Xiao Shuai's department occupied the first merit of defending Taiyuan", and once told the envoys of Guanxi to enter the Yanrong court to kill Shangguan Wang Shu, annex his army, and forcibly detain the general's officials and subordinates, seize the seal of Shangguan's temperance envoy, and even the Bianjing court recruited him to return to the court to serve as the imperial camp secretary because of Qu Duan's repeated incidents with his colleagues, Qu Duan still used excuses to shirk and resist the decree and disobey the ......

And according to the sound of the west, Qu Duan and Wu Jue, who had also walked on the official face in the Xiao and Tang dynasties at the beginning, and fought to the death under his command during the Song and Xia national wars, and now they were finally more and more important in the Song army, completely turned against each other, and even became on the same page, and began to impeach each other. And the Song court, who was in charge of the war in the west, made Zhang Jun seem to have a gap with Quduan. It's just that Liu Qi, who also trusted each other with his life when he fought with Xiao Tang at the beginning, and now he has been promoted to the Jingyuan Road Envoy, and a few Song Army generals can be alone, and they also have to help each other......

At the beginning, he was indeed brave and resolute, and even compared with the leaders under his command who are like clouds of fierce generals, his ability to lead the army is also a handful, but the scene when he got along with Wu Jue, who was indeed ruthless and decisive in order to achieve his goal, is still vivid, Xiao Tang remembered that it was indeed his repeated enemies, and he wanted to die Qu Duan ended up in the official history, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the vitality of the Western Army was greatly injured because of the defeat of the Yan War and the defeat of the anti-Jin, but now the infighting between the high-level generals is not endless, but because of the old, The small species has become more and more blatant after the fall of the little princess, and under the general trend of the current situation, I am afraid that the remnants of the Western Army, which was originally known as the cradle of the famous generals and strong armies of the Song Dynasty, will still inevitably decline.

However, now Xiao Tang also understands that instead of sighing because of the infighting of the Song army, now from his own position, he may not be able to take advantage of it. After a little hesitation, Xiao Tang immediately instructed Yan Qing beside him: "Teach Sanlang to pay attention to the movements of the Song army generals such as Zhang Jun, Wu Jue, and Qu Duan in the west. Qu Duan is still subject to the control of the imperial court, but he has made trouble so much that the commander turns against him and repeatedly makes enemies, even if he wants to bring disaster upon himself and be harmed by his colleagues, it can be said that he is to blame...... But he is indeed a brave general who does his best to resist foreign humiliation, and as for the fact that he made trouble and lost peace among the generals of the Song army in Guanxi, it is not impossible for us to profit from it. ”

Yan Qing saw the opportunity, and knew the end, and after listening to Xiao Tang's words, she immediately said: "When I was equal to Bianjing and Naqu Duan for the first time, that guy was unreasonable, but I was shocked by my brother for a while. However, it is still uncertain what the current situation of the side court will be. Even if the Song Army in the west really fights in the same room, if there are colleagues who want to harm him, Hugh said that the brothers of Li Xiaozhong of the Jingnan Army hated Qu Duan's refusal to send rescuers at the beginning, he was just and reckless, but can he really be used by us? ”

"Human nature is indeed complex, and it is not possible to distinguish everything in black and white. This is of course his shortcoming, but he treats the soldiers and the people well and his colleagues are officials, and he is respected by the army and the people in the side court, and he is also the ability to command the army and the generals. It's also a rainy day, and that curved end cover Mo is also of great use......"

Xiao Tang said in a long voice, and he suddenly read in his heart about Qu Duan's conspiration to be unjustly killed by Zhang Jun, Wu Jue, Wang Shu, Kang Sui and others, and the follow-up record of this matter in the history of the Song Dynasty: After Qu Duan's death, Shaanxi scholars did not hesitate to do so, and the army and the people were also sad, and there were many people who defected to the gold because of this matter... Until Zhang Jun was convicted, Qu Duan had to recover the Xuanzhou Observation Envoy, and he was called Zhuangzhuang......

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