Of course, Ma Butong would not agree to Tang Yuan doing this, and he also gave Tang Yuan a written order to supervise the army, asking Tang Yuan to sign it.

As long as Tang Yuan signed, Ma Butong would be able to explain to his superiors in the future, but he did not deprive Tang Yuan of his command.

Ma Butong is now with Tang Yuan?

Don't even think about it, it's impossible.

Ma Butong is a hardcore follower of the Queen Mother, worshipping the Queen Mother is like worshipping a god, but when Chen Bao walked in with a knife and looked at him, his first consideration was his own life.

Tang Yuan was able to sign the military supervision order, which was already very face-saving for him, and it would not be too embarrassing for him to have an explanation in the future.

"Were you two wooden people just now? Why not stand up? ”

Tang Yuan left, leaving a brigade for Ma Butong, and now he looked at Cao Fu and Zhang Gan with a nose and a face.

The two generals have followed Ma Butong for many years, and they can be regarded as born and dead, but when facing the second general Chen Bao with a white cloth wrapped around his body, the two of them were still too frightened to speak.

The second general's combat power is not blown out, he actually walked in with a big knife, what is his intention, it seems that there is no need to explain nonsense. Moreover, Tang Yuan himself is also extraordinary, if these two brothers do it together, the three of them will die so much that they can't even let out a fart.

What are the consequences of the general killing the prison army?

Whatever the reason, the general cannot kill the prison army, he can arrest it, and then hand it over to his superiors for interrogation, but the superior general has no right to kill the prison guards. No matter what the reason, as long as you kill the prison army, it is a rebellion.

But Ma Butong felt that Tang Yuan was an exception, everyone knew that Tang Yuan's backstage was not the queen mother, but the emperor and empress, and he was able to disobey the order to support the old handsome Zhang Yunlong, in fact, it was also expected by Ma Butong, but unfortunately he didn't have time to report to the director army Zhao Guangxu to stop this, Tang Yuan's troops had already set off. In this war, Zhao Guangxu is simply an invisible person, he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't start fighting, he doesn't catch deserters, you can fight as much as you like, anyway, he is here to be the uncle, compared to his eldest brother Zhao Guangda, the director of the Northern Expedition, the gap is not a little bit. It's a pity that Zhao Guangda, who was most valued by the Queen Mother, died in the hands of the rebels, which was actually self-defeating because of the Queen Mother's self-defeating, which was also the Empress Dowager Cao's biggest failure.

"Tang Yuan, this fox cub, is too cunning, leaving a wounded and sick brigade to hide people's eyes, but he ran away with the general's guard and two elite brigades. If this is known to the Empress Dowager Cao, will it be repaid? Even Ju Wusheng will find fault because of this matter. Ma Butong frowned.

"Well, then, we might as well go east." Cao Fu said: "Just follow Tang Yuan." ”

"Are you crazy?" Ma Butong looked at Cao Fu suspiciously: "If we also go, how will we explain in front of the Queen Mother?" Do you have a long brain? Let's not go, take this injured brigade on the road, even if these injuries all die on the road, but our direction and standing are fine, the Queen Mother will understand my distress. But if I follow Tang Yuan away, I can tell you clearly that after the Hanzhong War, not only will I not be rewarded, but I will also be pushed to the end. It's no longer a question of ability, it's a question of taking sides. The Queen Mother will suspect that I am moving closer to the emperor and empress, can't you even see this point? ”

——

Luoyang, Huaqingfang, Qi State Mansion.

Eight-thousand-year-old Tang Su came to his father's house, and glanced at Tang Zhen, the father of the old Longzhong, his father was almost eighty years old, and he still had the family business in his hands.

After a while, seeing Tang Zhen fall in the free chair and begin to close his eyes to recuperate, Tang Su dared to enter the house.

"Father, the seventh brother has withdrawn to Chang'an, but his soldiers have not withdrawn, Zhang Pan and Li Liang with thousands of people plan to sneak attack Guan Xiong's rear, which can be regarded as supporting Lin Chongyang."

"Oh, I see." Tang Zhen's old voice sounded, and his eyelids were still closed.

"The slow march of Zhang Yunlong of the Eastern Route Army, could it be the meaning of the Queen Mother?"

"No, it won't."

"You believe in the Queen Mother like this?"

Tang Zhen opened his eyes, "What I believe is not the Queen Mother, but the Guozuo of the Liang Dynasty." Although Cao Fadi competed with me for power, but in the face of foreign enemies, he never restrained, when Meng Danqing and Simon Zhensen were there, the four of us were like this, it was just the tradition of our four families, otherwise how could the Liang Dynasty persist for two hundred years? The infighting tossed Liang Chao apart. ”

Tang Su smiled bitterly: "It is really a miracle that the Liang Dynasty can hold out for two hundred years. ”

"It's all the result of checks and balances. The patriarch of each family is a chess player, although he occasionally has an advantage, but as long as he does not reach the inevitable victory, he will not make a move, now that I think about it, I will help the Empress Dowager Cao eliminate the Meng family, that move is too risky. At the same time, he forced Simon Mason to rebel, and almost put our Tang family in. Tang Zhen stood up and looked at the map of Guanzhong, his gaze fell on the vicinity of Yunting Mountain.

"Zhang Yunlong is dead this time." Tang said.

"Not necessarily." Tang Zhen stroked his beard and said, "Are you a reckless man when Zhang Yunlong is a man?" Hehe, in my opinion, he is getting older and more demonic, and it is really wise for him to deliberately give up command to Zhang Zhikui. In this way, even if the support is not timely, he Zhang Yunlong has something to say. ”

"But he is surrounding Guan Jinglin and Guan Jingyun like this, guarding the grain road, isn't he sending him to death?"

"I guess Tang Yuan will go and save him."

"It's that traitor again." Tang Su said with annoyance.

"Traitor?" Tang Zhen smiled bitterly: "It seems that there are some things that should be told to you." Tang Yuan is not a traitor, but my move, and I asked him to find a way to break away from the Tang family. ”

"Oh?"

"This matter is absolutely highly confidential, and I didn't tell you or Tang Xiao."

"Father, are you even hiding this from our brothers?"

"I don't hide it from you, will you act like it?" Tang Zhen coughed twice: "I'm too old, I'm worried that I won't be able to wake up if I fall asleep one day, so I'll tell you, don't tell Tang Xiao for the time being, Lao Qi is anxious, and it's easier to show the horse's feet, Cao Fadi's woman's eyesight is not simple, and she will see through the slightest horse's feet." ”

While Tang Zhen was speaking, Tang Su fell into deep thought, and began to recall Tang Yuan's series of behaviors little by little, at this time he somewhat understood why Tang Yuan suddenly sued the Dian Han in a good manner, and took this opportunity to make it clear that he broke with the Tang family, it turned out that this was his deliberate action, which provoked Tang Xiao to be angry, confiscated his equipment, and expelled the Shence Army.

It turned out that this was a plan by his father, and the father even calculated his own son, and the calculation was extremely accurate, which really made Tang Su feel admired.

"Father's trick is really clever." Tang Su smiled and said, "Now, everyone thinks that Tang Yuan is neither a member of the Tang family nor the queen mother, but a person of the emperor and empress. So..., father, Tang Qi now..."

Tang Zhen waved his hand and said: "Failure, she is the joint failure of me and Empress Dowager Cao, and at the beginning, we all felt that she was our masterpiece." We didn't expect her to support the emperor without a bottom line, and now that she's isolated, I really don't understand what she thinks. ”

There was a pause: "Maybe it's possible." ”。

"What is possible?"

"Her layout is bigger than me and the Queen Mother, she has accumulated a lot of money, maybe I will not be able to see the clues until I die."