All put on cotton uniforms, it looks neat, there is a little bit of the taste of the regular army, but the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, it looks complicated, in order to look more regular, the vanguard with newly made weapons in the front, the soldiers without weapons gathered into a bloated team, singing military songs and walking behind.

Why do you have to walk like this, Tang Yuan's answer is: morale, a team can have no weapons, but it can't be without morale, morale is the most fundamental thing in a team, if morale is zero, even if you are given a good weapon, it is the number of ways for all to surrender.

As soon as he walked out of the revolving door, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and Tang Qing came again.

Tang Yuan said: "What do you plan to send this time?" ”

Tang Qi was so angry that he blushed and his neck was thick, but he didn't have a rut, after all, out of Luoyang Baguan was not a place where their Tang family forces could take care of, although Tang Yuan's situation was not good, but after all, he was the leader of 10,000 people, offended him, suddenly caught a stick, and framed you for disrespecting the emperor, or some other messy reason to beat you, you really didn't have a problem with him.

In the army, there is such a little bit of "cut first and then play".

"Grandpa is coming to see you."

"Huh?"

The Prime Minister will be eighty years old soon, and he chased him so far to see him?

Tang Yuan suddenly felt a little uneasy, so he took a few people and ran back with Tang Qing to greet the old prime minister Tang Zhen.

Tang Zhen sat in a four-wheeled cart, pulled by four horses, and his frame could be seen from afar.

"Son-in-law Tang Yuan, meet your grandfather."

"No need to be polite, get in the car and talk."

The follow-up was to prevent Tang Yuan from being too distracted, Tang Zhen asked the maid to open the door curtain, and they all got out of the car, leaving Tang Yuan alone to come in.

"Actually, if you have today, I have been calculating it for a long time. Qi Dongyang betrayed the Tang family, this was not his intention, but my intention. ”

"Oh? Why would you want to do this? ”

"Soldiers don't get tired of deceit." Tang Zhen sighed and said, "It's a pity that the changes later exceeded my expectations. almost made me lose everything, but fortunately Meng Danyang died at this time, and his son was so unlucky. That's why the Queen Mother attacked Meng Zong first, and at this time, Simon Zhensen also made a ruthless move, which was not in my plan. The first consideration between me and the Queen Mother was that after Qi Dongyang recaptured Hebei, he would take refuge in the Queen Mother, and this time there was an illusion that the Queen Mother and my Tang family completely tore their faces, and then my Tang family army entered Luoyang, in fact, I wanted to go south with the Shence Army to settle the Meng family. But later, Qi Dongyang rushed in, Xiangzhou was lost, and our plan was completely disrupted, and later, the Queen Mother acted on her own, and I didn't know about her wooing Huo Zizhen. But when I found out, I also guessed the Queen Mother's thoughts. As for Tang Qi, she was educated by Qi Dongyang since she was a child, she grew up with a mission, when I asked her to lead troops to Hebei, in fact, I planned to let her rebel with Huo Zizhen, but what makes me strange is that she didn't do that. ”

"In other words, you didn't regard my team as the Tang family's team at all."

"Not really." Tang Zhen said: "I think you are still a member of my Tang family." But nominally, it's not anymore. From now on, on the surface, you and I have nothing to do with each other, but in the future, if there is a decisive battle between the Tang and Zhao families, if the Tang family is defeated, I hope you can show mercy to my Tang family and leave a way back for my Tang family. But if my Tang family wins, I will also leave you a way back. What do you think? ”

"Don't worry, uncle, even if you don't say this, Tang Yuan will try his best to leave a way back for the Tang family."

"Wonderful."

Tang Zhen left a large box of gold and silver for Tang Yuan, and then took Tang Qing away.

It can be seen that Tang Zhen's thoughts have never been told to Tang Qing, and Tang Qing still looks like an enemy of others.

Tang Zhen's approach was not unexpected by Tang Yuan, and he also thought that Tang Zhen, Meng Danqing, and Ximen Zhensen's batch of old fritters were really difficult to deal with. They have managed not to be controlled by their emotions, and conversely, they are the ones who control their emotions. They have worked all their lives for the sake of their families.

In the seventh year of the month of Zhide, he finally came to Xiangcheng, the land of Jingbei.

After several years of recuperation, Xiangcheng has returned to prosperity.

Although Xiangcheng doesn't look very big—this is for the sake of war, after all, it's hard to defend—but the various businesses here are well developed, and the streets and alleys are a little crowded and lively.

Relying on this scene, Tang Yuan suddenly felt a sour nose, thinking of Lin Qiao'er, who liked this lively scene the most, but at this time, Si Ren had passed away, and he felt empty in his heart.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Tang Yuan folded some paper with his own hands, wrote the names of the two deceased wives, and came to the city to burn paper.

"Hey, who is General Tang burning paper for?"

How could it be so coincidental, Cao Dingbang, the general of the Jingzhou garrison, had just gone to check the appearance of the army, and when he came back, he passed by here and saw that there was a fire here, so he took a horse to see.

Cao Dingbang is different from ordinary generals, if he is replaced by another general, it would be good to let his subordinates take a look, but he ran over to see it himself.

Although Cao Dingbang is also a member of the Cao family, he is by no means a drunken and rice bag gentleman, he followed Min Yue to Jiaohe City at the age of sixteen, and stayed for forty years, climbing step by step from a small soldier, and finally became a school officer.

Emphasize once that the generals who have climbed up from the small soldiers step by step, there is no mischief, they must have gone through countless tests. It is often said in the army that if you can be a captain, you can be a general. Of course, the lieutenant here refers to the lieutenant who worked hard from the small soldiers, not the gentlemen sent by the gate lord.

"Mourning for the two deceased wives."

"Oh, I see." Cao Dingbang is forty-nine years old this year, and his physique does not look tall, but has a literati temperament, "I'll wait for you here, and after the burning, we will go to the Crane Tower to drink." ”

"The general can go first, and I'll be there later."

"Okay, that's a deal."

This was actually the second time they had met.

The first time they met, it was when they first came to Xiangcheng, at this time Cao Dingbang's hands had expanded to 80,000 people, how many people he wanted to expand, the Queen Mother didn't give him a quasi-number.

However, Cao Dingbang was very strict with the expansion of the army, and the recruitment of troops must conform to the regulations on recruitment, and only elite soldiers were recruited, and some who were too thin, too short, could not run, were too stupid, and had no energy on their bodies.

After burning the paper, he took Chen Bao, Tang Hu, Nalan Xin, and Qi Cheng to the Crane Tower, at this time the Crane Tower had been wrapped up by Governor Cao, and there was a small colonel standing at the door.

"What people!"

"Trouble report to General Cao, Tang Yuan is here for the banquet."

"Password!" The little school didn't know Tang Yuan, and said seriously.

"Password?" Tang Yuan was stunned.

"Hey, Hugh is rude, let General Tang come in." At this time, two familiar figures walked out, and it turned out to be Han Dang and Ju Fan: "General Tang is not our Flying Tiger Army sequence, how can there be our password." ”