Human nature cannot be determined simply by good or bad, and it is not suitable to be labeled only one label in a lifetime, and this sentence can also be reflected in Yao Pingzhong's body to a certain extent. And judging from the deeds of the first half and the second half of his life, it is completely like two people.

The former Yao Pingzhong was not only a calm and brave general, but also arrogant, and he was not used to some of Tong Guan's behaviors, so he made it clear that he did not want to be restrained by him. But Yao Pingzhong also had selfish intentions, when the Jin State decided to invade the south, when the people of the world and the division were ordered to unify the army to resist the enemy, Yao Pingzhong also had the same behavior of being monopolized by the seed clan because he did not want to make his own claims, but the plan failed.

Especially later, when Yao Zhongping's uncle and adoptive father Yao Gu led the troops in Taiyuan Mansion on Rongwei River East Road with the small seed master, when the imperial court sent envoys to supervise the two armies to fight quickly, Yao Gu's department was overdue and missed the opportunity. It also led to the enemy in the middle of the division, and he was still defeated and died after having to withdraw from the army.

Although the reason for Yao Gu's delay in the fighter plane has to be pondered, combined with the competition between Yao Pingzhong, Yao Gu and other Yao generals and the Chong clan, Pan Meidu, a famous general in the early Song Dynasty, failed to lead the army to help in time, resulting in Yang Lao Linggong, a martyr of the Yang family, being captured and killed by the enemy, and he was scolded and belittled by later generations as Pan Renmei, a traitor with a bad stomach in the opera.

Later, Yao Gu, who guarded the Weisheng army on Hedong Road, retreated without authorization because he did not find out the enemy's situation, thinking that the Jin army was overwhelmed and unable to resist, and Li Gang, a famous minister who organized the defense of Tokyo, was held accountable, not only beheaded Yao Gu's cronies, but Yao Gu, who barely kept his head, was also demoted to Lingnan Guangzhou, and has been in a state of collapse ever since. This is also quite ironic, the Yao family does not want the seed clan to dominate the Western Army, but when the old and small races have become heroic and benevolent, the Yao family of the Western Army not only did not reproduce the glory of the Western Army, but left an unconcealable stain in history.

Perhaps it was also to see the miserable fate of his adoptive father, and after many years of bad battles, he was tired of being tired, and Yao Pingzhong, the young lieutenant of the Western Army, who was high-spirited and dared to scold Tong Guan in the border court, failed in a sneak attack on the enemy army (only the Jin army had withdrawn first, and his own soldiers and horses were not lost). The Southern Song Dynasty court issued edicts to find him many times to no avail, and it was not until the reign of Song Xiaozong that Yao Pingzhong, who was already over eighty years old and had a strong body and flying steps, appeared in front of the world again.

Xiao Tang now sees that Yao Pingzhong's expression is majestic and calm, he is completely a young and strong general who is about to show his strength in the army and make a big splash, and he can't associate it with a mountain old man with some fairy spirit at all. However, only for now, Yao Pingzhong has begun to show his strength in the confrontation with the Western Xia army, although the six battalions he commanded are not many in number, but seeing that they easily killed a group of thieves, the reputation of the Western army for good fighting is indeed not false.

"It turns out that you are the little lieutenant in the army, Yao Zhongping, the tiger son of the Sanyuan Yao family, I have also heard of your name, and this time I am also fated to be able to fight side by side with you." Xiao Tang first bowed his hand and said to Yao Pingzhong.

After all, now Yao Pingzhong is only a military supervisor, and the rank of military attache is far lower than Xiao Tang, who signed the Privy Council and worshiped as the envoy of the Xin'an Army, so he also saluted Xiao Tang with courtesy and courtesy, and returned: "Don't dare, I haven't heard the name of Xiao Jieshuai for a long time, but the commander of the Jieshuai led the army to garrison Tongba County of the Weisheng Army, and the last general led my troops and horses to go to the county seat to converge, why did the Jieshuai personally lead the army to the boundary adjacent to Jiangzhou and Gaizhou?" ”

Xiao Tang replied: "Now the bandits in Hedong are making trouble everywhere, and there are also a large number of thieves in Gaizhou. The thieves and cunning people will not take advantage of the fact that several officers and troops have not yet assembled to attack them, and some thieves tried to intercept the officers and soldiers of our department who were escorting grain and grass in Longxi Mountain, Xiangzhou, and it was inevitable that the people and horses of the Yaodu Prison Department would fall into the siege of the thieves, so I led a group of soldiers and horses to come to pick them up. ”

Shh It's just a bunch of thieves, but it's also making such a fuss?

Xiao Tang's voice fell, and Yao Pingzhong had not yet spoken, but the soldiers of the Western Army behind him suddenly let out a few sneers. Xiao Tang saw that most of the officers and soldiers of those battalions looked arrogant, and he could vaguely guess why the other party made a playful expression again.

Among the henchmen and brothers who gathered with themselves, Lu Zhishen and Han Shizhong are also men from the Western Army, although the two of them are full of chivalry and the other have unchanging habits, they often reveal a sense of pride in being born in the Western Army. There is also the same mouthful of a "sprinkled family", and is also a descendant of the Yang family of the Western Army, Yang Zhi, a Kansai man, he switched to the Tokyo Palace Marshal's Mansion and only became an envoy after he has been bitter and bitter, once hollowed out his mind and wanted to go to the side court to win a sword and a gun to win an official fame, and he did not have a taste in his heart that he could no longer only feel that he was always a dwarf when compared with the soldiers of the Western Army.

Unlike the arrogant Wang Wenbin in the past, the soldiers of the Western Army do have the ability to be arrogant. Even among the military athletes of later generations, the soldiers will spontaneously feel a sense of pride in the fact that Lao Tzu is a soldier from a certain army and a certain company, not to mention that since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, this army has fought the most tragic and tough battles in all the wars inside and outside Jingzhou?

With such an army, relying on the powerful official position alone may not be able to suppress them, it is no wonder that Tong Guan has always wanted to hold the military and political power of the Western Army, but even if he exhausted his means, even on the eve of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tong Guan still had a big headache to suppress or win over the internal factions in the Western Army......

And Yao Pingzhong listened to Xiao Tang's words, the corners of his mouth were also slightly upturned, and he said: "Xiao Jieshuai has a heart, but as you can see, the mountains and wild grasses are not enough, and the number of people and horses who come to ambush our department is doubled, and I can't help my Western Army." Since the general has rushed to the east of the river with his troops and horses, although the commander is at ease, our department is willing to fight for thieves for the vanguard, so why worry about the rampant madness? ”

Although Yao Pingzhong's words were polite, there was also a sense of arrogance in his tone, and Hua Rong, Shi Xiu, Niu Gao and others behind Xiao Tang couldn't help frowning when they heard this. But Xiao Tang just smiled faintly and said: "If you are too much, you have to rely on Yao Dujian to do his best to share the country's worries." ”

Although I don't know the depth of Xiao Tang's ability, I think of Tong Guan's bad military and political affairs, and forced people to obey with coercion, which caused many spineless generals in the northwest region to bow down and bow down when they saw him...... He is a member of the second grade, and now he is in charge of the military and political power to suppress the bandits in Hedong, but he personally led a team to meet our people, but this alone is much stronger than that concubine.

After Xiao Tang and Yao Pingzhong had a few more words, Jun Jian had already escorted a small leader of the thieves who had surrendered to him, and after only a brief interrogation, the little leader beckoned: "The villain was originally under the command of the leader of Fang Xuedu, and the leader of the house and the leader of Fan went to Hedong to pick up strongmen from all over Gaizhou according to Tian Hu's instructions. Now that the leader of Fan has died, the leader of the house is looking for a mountain trail to go to the green forest soldiers and horses of the Taihang Mountain chain village to avoid the search and arrest of the officials and soldiers. ”

After Yao Pingzhong heard that the little leader confessed, he was also about to make a meritorious service, so he immediately said to Xiao Tang: "Xiao Jieshuai, since there are still a large number of thieves stationed in the Taihang Mountain Serial Village, and they are also the enemies of the Xiaoju Mountains and Forests and the Imperial Court, since we have been ordered to gather and sweep the thieves in Hedong, why don't we take this opportunity to also clear out the strongmen on the Taihang Mountain Serial Village?" ”