Seed master Dao Huan sea ups and downs for decades, worship the great sage Zhang Zai as a teacher, although the ancestors on the meritorious service to make up for the three classes of service, but after the examination, successively served as a magistrate, general judgment, promotion and other civil official ministries have also made extensive achievements, is a general into the phase of the virtuous, and he was once suppressed by the Cai Party to classify it into the party, was dismissed and abandoned and then made a comeback, looking at the treacherous officialdom and political struggle, the people's hearts and ghosts of the city government The vision is also very spicy, so the seed master can also see that Xiao Tang's words are sincere, and he does not make a false posture at all.

He glanced at each other again, and then thought of his brother's evaluation of Xiao Tang when he returned to the border court after going to Bianjing on business, and after he repaired a book and made a special trip to Xiao Tang some time ago, this rising star in the army immediately understood his pertinent advice, and even drew inferences from one case to another, annihilating a large number of soldiers and horses in the eastern part of Xia State...... It was a kind of teacher, and at this time, he also had a teachable mind about Xiao Tang.

And Xiao Tang has always had the heart to make friends with the Taoist and the teacher, and he is also good. The two sides were polite again, and the master Dao introduced to Xiao Tang the Huazhou Observation Envoy and the Jingyuan Road Soldiers and Horses, Yang Keshi, and Qu Ke, the governor of the Jingluo Mansion, and other generals of the Western Army. And Xiao Tang listened to the words of the seed master and Qu Duan transferred to Jingyuan Road Tong'an Village soldiers and horses to prison, and now with Zhi Yanye, Zhi Yanzhi and others were ordered to repair the barriers in the west of the Drinking Ma Chuan Shrimp Toad Village and the Camel Society, and the embankment was committed by the Xia army.

At this time, Yao Pingzhong also stepped forward, and after Xiao Tang said a few words to him, he was invited to the company camp commander tent by the planter and the planter. Waiting for the public to enter the account, the seed master Dao Zuo was at the head of the handsome case, and sent the military officials to put a few more seats next to him, Xiao Tang and the seed division sat side by side with him, and the left and right sides were also full of Western Army troops and the generals and officers who came with Xiao Tang, each sitting in danger and not squinting.

The Seed Master Dao was also straight to the point, and when he sat down, he discussed with Xiao Tang about the trend of the Song and Xia border court wars. Speaking from the heart, if you talk about the qualifications of the unified army of the scale of the war such as the border court national war, Xiao Tang is indeed just a fledgling posterior boy, and the seed master dao has been sitting in the border court for more than ten years, and he is an authentic handsome and famous general, and he is far more familiar with the border pass Song Xia fort and the terrain than Xiao Tang.

"In recent years, the Xia army has also followed the strategy of our army relying on the barrier to slow down the map, and used the dangerous land of Hengshan to rely on the fortress pass to build layers of defense and strengthen the rectification, and the land in Hengshan is fertile, rich in products, and the Qiang people of Hengshan are familiar with the terrain, although our army has the upper hand for a while, but if the army moves northward again, if there is no good strategy to break the enemy, I am afraid it will be half the effort."

After some military discussions, Xiao Tang listened to the words of the seed master again, and said in his heart that it was time for him to be honest, so he immediately nodded and said: "What the old seed has said is very true, and now the soldiers and horses of the Shenyong Military Division, Xiangyou Military Division, and Jianing Military Division of the Left Wing of the Xia Kingdom are falling, and now they only want to resist the enemy and our army outside the border wall, and they are unwilling to fight hard. Even if our army conquers several military states such as Yin, Long, and Shi, the enemy army in the rear can still rely on the mountain barriers and use the arrow tower crossbow platform to defend to the death, and our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties if it rashly attacks, and the terrain of the Hengshan Mountain in the northwest is even more steep and steep, and it is impossible to use large instruments and equipment.

What's more, the military state walled cities in the area of Mingtang River and Wuding River changed hands several times in the past years when our Great Song Dynasty and Xia Kingdom attacked each other, even if they did not hesitate to lose a large number of military sons and conquer those military states now, the enemy army is easy to fight from the oblique side of the mountain range and take it, and it is inevitable that the gains will outweigh the losses by forcibly attacking......"

Xiao Tang paused for a moment, and then said: "But if our army has been slowly advancing with deep ditches and high bases, in order to consume the sharp energy of the summer thief, I don't know how long the war will be delayed, and the war will drag on for a long time, and the transportation of grain and grass, and the salaries of the servants and soldiers will be extremely laborious and costly...... Now that our army has chosen a place to build a city in the Hulu River and Wuding River Basin, the eastern Xia army does not dare to move, and the younger generation thinks that while garrisoning the strong wall of the East Road, he can also lead the soldiers and horses all the way out of Xiao Pass, and Tong Xuanshuai's men and horses to take the cool land of the Xia State, bypass the dangerous place of Hengshan in a roundabout way, go deep behind the enemy, and point the sword at Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xia State. ”

He also knew that Xiao Tang's proposition was that although the Song army had won several big victories in northern Shaanxi, and the Xia army had lost a large number of troops and had to retreat to defend it, it was very difficult for the Song army on the middle and east roads to cross more than a thousand miles and drive straight into the dangerous Hengshan area. Although the Hengshan region connected the Ningxia mountains, it was still able to attack the western territory of the Xia state from the Hehuang valley. And Tong Guan also had such thoughts, so he led the Song army on the West Road to take Longxi to attack the Xia army.

It is said that Xiao Tang's battle plan is also very desirable, and then send a partial division out of Xiao Guan to respond to the Song army on the west road to force the territory of Xia State, which can also use all available troops to the blade. But after listening to Xiao Tang's words, the expressions on the faces of some of the generals of the Western Army led by Feng Shidao in the handsome tent became a little strange.

Xiao Tang is also too eager for quick success.

This is just a day after the heavy defeat of the Xia State's Left Wing Army, this Xiao Tang is impatient to lead the Song army on the East Road to the west, thinking that he is just a deputy envoy appointed by the official family to supervise the army, and he wants to be in the limelight, do you really think that there is no one available under the old minister's account?

What's more, Xiao Tang proposed to the old clan to divide the troops and march westward, which also involved the open and secret struggle between Tong Guan and the military power factions within the Western Army.

Originally, the three generations of the family were in charge of the military power in the Western Army, and the forces in the Shaanxi Zhuxiang tribes were intertwined, but since ten years ago, Tong Guan has been involved in the military affairs of the border court and installed his own cronies in the Western Army. As the leader of the Western Army, although the seed master Dao was silent to Tong Guan's means of dividing the generals in the army, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and to this day, the status of the seed family in the Western Army is still divided with Tong Guan, and no one can completely bring down the other party.

But now that the war in the Song and Xia Dynasty has resumed, the generals of the Western Army in the Shuai Tent are also very aware that this war not only conquest of the enemy state, but also involves the power struggle between the breeder and Tong Guan. But Xiao Tang, at this juncture, you proposed to divide troops to help Tong Guan, but did you ever put the old breed in your eyes?

The faces of many of the generals of the Western Army in the tent were ugly, and their eyes became more and more unkind when they looked at Xiao Tang. And Xiao Tang looked calm, he didn't want to get involved in the military power struggle between Tong Guan and the seed family, the reason why he proposed to the seed master Dao to lead the army westward was not only to see if there was a chance to save Liu Fa, a famous general who would be besieged by the Xia army according to the original fate trajectory and hated on the battlefield, but also out of consideration for the current Song and Xia war situation.

Although it is said that Tong Guan is a great achievement, and will eventually split the Western Army into pieces, but now if the generals of the Western Army have their own selfish intentions, even at the expense of passive slackness, and the opponent who wants to fight for power will not come to power, in the end, it will only cause the Great Song Dynasty, the army with the strongest combat effectiveness, to gradually disappear and collapse.

In the official history, the elite of the Western army was exhausted, but it was defeated by the remnants of the Liao mourning army in the Baigou River and other battles against Liao, which is the best example.