Hedong Road Taiyuan, west of Killing Bear Ridge, Qingyuan Mengshan area.

The night had already shrouded, and a rapid sound suddenly broke out in the darkness and stopped, and a group of Song soldiers with grass, horses, and iron hooves of their mounts under their crotch were also wrapped in sackcloth, rushed straight into the company camp, but there was no trace of the enemy. And Yao Pingzhong, the general of the Western Army who commanded this group of daring soldiers, looked around the empty camp in front of him, and also felt that his heart was empty, and his desperate expression couldn't help but be written on his face again.

Originally, according to the battle report, there were also the main soldiers and horses of the Jin army here, Yao Pingzhong had already come to attack the enemy camp at night with the heart of death, that is, he risked his life to behead the head of the general of the unified army, so try to ask the court Hanxuan to reactivate his father-in-law Yao Gu Dai for meritorious service, but before that, he only killed the two small handfuls of the Jin army composed of Zahu and Han people. He only rode his horse and stood in the camp in a daze.

At this time, a commander urged the cavalry to Yao Pingzhong's side, and reported: "Yao Xianggong, since the Tartar general is not here, let's evacuate quickly, and we will make plans after we find out." ”

"Teach the brothers to withdraw first, and I will be alone for a while, and I still have to think about something."

When Yao Pingzhong turned his head and breathed a sigh of relief to the crowd, and the soldiers of the Song Army who had turned their horses back to look at the general, he couldn't help but smile bitterly again, and secretly said in his heart: I just go back, but what can I do? Originally, I came to the camp with the intention of death, but the Jin army had already withdrawn from here, and the court may not want to cover it up so in the end, so I could only let the court accuse me of being afraid of war, and I was humiliated by those guys for no reason?

Stepfather Yao Gu, was reprimanded by the imperial court for being afraid of war in the season of national crisis, and he almost killed the prince of a small race without sending reinforcements, and he had stripped off all the official bodies and was assigned to Guangzhou Sanyuan Yao Jiajiangmen, who had accumulated several generations of lords and reputation in the Western Army with his military exploits, and now he was burdened with such an infamy and was once abandoned, which was even more difficult for the arrogant Yao Pingzhong to accept.

However, Yao Gu did not wave his troops to help according to the urgent military order issued by the seed division, and was defeated by the Jin army separately, and the court surrendered to him, which is not considered to have wronged him, but if it is said that Yao Gu is pure and wants to put the small race to death, he has really suffered a great injustice.

Originally, the children of the Yao family have always been competitive with each other, and the old Xianggong was the leader of the Western Army, although Yao Gu and Yao Pingzhong would mumble in their hearts, they would still try their best to help each other on the battlefield. But when it comes to the military power of the Western Army, the old breed was held accountable for the fiasco of the Yanyun War, and the prestige accumulated by his father-in-law Yao Guguan Ju Xihe Jingluo sat in the side court, and it was also the turn of the Yao family to take charge of the military and political affairs of the Western Army.

Rushing to the east of the army, Yao Gu was the envoy of the Hedong system, and the deputy envoy of the Hedong system was in the seed division, and the imperial court reprimanded and urged the generals to enter the army, not only ordering the seed division to rush into battle, but also ordering Yao Gu. And they all thought that it was not suitable to fight head-on with the Jin army at any cost, Yao Gu thought that it was still necessary to state the interests with the imperial court, but the old and strong seed master was stimulated by the unwarranted accusations of the imperial court, so he rashly sent troops to take danger, and only sent fast horses to inform Yao Gu to march into the army together, and he did not discuss with his Hedong envoy, how could he have ever paid attention to Yao Gu's own considerations of the war situation?

According to Yao Pingzhong, the previous war experience is somewhat similar to the situation of Yongxi's Northern Expedition during the first Song Dynasty. The small kind of Xianggong is similar to Yang Lao Linggong, who was forced to send troops and was defeated and captured to death without rescue, while those radical courtiers in the court played the role of Wang Yu, the rigid courtier who coerced Yang Lao Linggong to send troops at that time, and his father-in-law Yao Gu was also in a somewhat similar situation to the famous general Pan Mei, who did not send troops to rescue back then. Failed to send troops to coordinate with colleagues and horses, and successively defeated the army, although it is difficult to escape the blame, but how could it not be because of the interference and coercion of the imperial court to disrupt the original battle situation deployment of Yao Gu and the seed division? If the father-in-law is guilty, why should he suffer such a serious punishment and not even give him a chance to turn over?

However, this time, I attacked the enemy camp at night, sacrificing my life to kill a few Jin army generals, but I didn't succeed, and it was really difficult to fight with the Jin army with the military strength of these daring soldiers

Yao Pingzhong was disheartened, and thought about it, thinking about what kind of character he was back then? Dare not be afraid to face the arrogant Tong Guan head-on, and the soldiers of the Western Army are all praised for his so-called "little captain", thinking that he was under the tent of Xiao Tang to conquer Tianhu and Xia Kou, and fought bloody battles with the army of Chage, the king of Fan, in the western border pass, crusading against Jiangnan, encircling and suppressing the Muzhou thieves and the Kou army is the crown of the whole army.

However, it is very easy to break, the more Yao Pingzhong is strong, and the more he feels discouraged after suffering such a major setback this time, when his heart is lonely, he can't help but look at the past in the empty and silent mountains around him, and a thought suddenly sprouts in his heart:

In the eyes of the imperial court, the prince of the small species was almost defeated and died in Xiongling, and he finally won a reputation for dying for the country, but his father-in-law was slandered by the guys and accused him of being a colleague in the army, and he was really greedy for life and afraid of death, and there was no hope for reinstatement. I have already been tired of this battle, so I simply left all this behind and just lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests to be an idle person

As soon as the thought was born, Yao Pingzhong even imagined that if he left the army like this, wouldn't the imperial court punish him for the felony of fleeing without permission? But why should I be at the mercy of the imperial court again, and escape from Wuguan to the west, whether it is the Ganlong Border Court, the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and how many inaccessible mountains and Daze? I can always find a place where the imperial court can't find it, but can teach me to live in seclusion

It's just that it seems that because of Yao Pingzhong's sudden association, the war horse he was riding under his crotch suddenly snorted, and then restlessly raised his hooves and stepped on. Yao Pingzhong came back to his senses in shock, hurriedly grabbed the reins, and looked at the iron armor he was wearing with several gaps due to the cutting of the knife and axe, and the spear in his hand that had drunk the blood of countless enemy chieftains, and couldn't help but think: Although I can finally hope to have a quiet time after leaving everything, I don't have to be disturbed by those pickled mundane things, but after all, the world will think that I am just a cowardly and war-fearing person.

Yao Pingzhong gritted his teeth fiercely, but even the most prestigious figures in the Western Army, such as the prince of the small race and his father-in-law Yao Gu, were constrained and interfered with one after another, and they were defeated and ended up being punished by the court for serious crimes. This time, I thought that there was also the main force of the Jin army gathered here, and he risked his life to rob the camp, but because of the pressure from Bianjing, it was all imposed on his head, urging and persecuting tightly, and he was bound to give an explanation to the imperial court?

Either I have to go to the dangerous place as if I know that I am more than lucky, or I will be punished by the crime of defeating the army like my father-in-law Yao Gu, or I will also suffer the humiliation of deposing and overlapping, if I don't want to fall into that situation, I will have to abandon everything and go into hiding

No, there is another way.

Yao Pingzhong suddenly looked in the direction of Taiyuan to the east, and clenched the spear in his hand, when he remembered the senior officers in the army who had fought side by side with him, Yao Pingzhong was determined and had already made a choice.

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