Hearing the news that the soldiers and horses dressed as soldiers were about to run to the city fortress, all the generals in the tent suddenly got up, "Let's go and see what the guys have to do first!" Xiao Tang said in a deep voice, he was also very surprised in his heart, and said: Now that Brother Cha is still in the hands of us, it is said that the enemy army does not dare to act rashly, and now he is in a hurry to the city, what happened to the Xia army? If the enemy army really has bad intentions, I am afraid that the soldiers who escorted the people to the south will be more than lucky!

When Xiao Tang and a group of generals climbed the watchtower, the military in the city had already spread out layers of bows, crossbows and arrows. Seeing that there was dust and smoke rising in the distance, as the generals of each battalion shouted orders one after another, the soldiers immediately filled the bows and arrows in their hands, and the arrows flashed with layers of cold light, and looked at the soldiers and horses of the Biaobo army.

I saw that many of the soldiers and horses under the city were either braided or wrapped in braided hair and ochre, and they were indeed dressed by the Qiang, Tibetan, Uighur and other tribesmen. However, the soldiers of the Western Army probably looked at the armor system on the soldiers and horses that came to Qingqing, but breathed a sigh of relief, among which Yao Pingzhong said to Xiao Tangbao: "Xiao Jieshuai, it is not the soldiers and horses of the Xia army who came, but the soldiers of the Western Fan Tribes in the border area of the Great Song Dynasty. There is nothing wrong with the livery flag. ”

As a local army composed of ethnic minorities in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, the Fan soldiers were also the border guards in the northwest of Rongwei. It is usually composed of Shaanxi, Ganxi and other areas bordering the Western Xia, which belong to the Qianghu households and the young and strong tribes of the Great Song Dynasty. These troops were usually given the title of leader of the tribe by the Song court. led the clan Erlang to guard the border, but there will also be Han generals from the northwest border to control the soldiers and horses. Like Kang Jiong, who was a deputy soldier and horse envoy in the soldiers, he was promoted and promoted after accumulating military achievements, and he could also be transferred to the forbidden army and reused. It's just that the Fan soldiers are only deployed in the northwest borderland, because in addition to the officers and men of the Western Army who have experience in some armies in various departments, the light cavalry of the surrounding sentinels still thinks that the Xia army is trying to do wrong.

At this time, from a group of soldiers of the Fan army, another cavalry general rode out, he rode his horse in a circle, and then asked loudly towards the city: "I am a general under the Xihe Road Military Division, and I am annoyed that the city is robed and passed on, and I don't want to see Liu Jingluo and Xiao Jieshuai." ”

Xiao Tang looked at the face plate of the official country, there was a pair of hanging eyes under the thick eyebrows like a paint brush, and he also had half a beard under his chin, and he was very powerful in the past, and he also said loudly: "I am Xiao Tang, Liu Jing will come in a moment, what is your surname, which minister sent you here?" ”

When the general of the Nafan army heard what Xiao Tang said, he immediately rolled the saddle and dismounted, and bowed to the head of the city: "The last general is the general of the Huangzhou army of Xihe Road, and Wang Yuan, the governor of Linzongzhai, has seen Xiao Jieshuai and Liu Jingluo!" ”

At this time, Liu Fa also went up to the watchtower with the support of the soldiers, Xiao Tang heard Wang Yuan report his name and ministry in the army, and subconsciously looked at Liu Fa's side, and said that Liu Jingluo had died on the battlefield according to his original fate, and naturally it was impossible to know that Wang Yuan under the city now died in the Miao Liu Mutiny launched by your son......

The scene that forced Song Gaozong to abdicate because of the Qing monarch's side, but in fact it was a mutiny in which the generals of the Song army fought for power, which seemed like an absurd farce according to Xiao Tang. Regarding Wang Yuan, who died at the hands of Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu in the mutiny, Xiao Tang was also very disgusted with him.

Although the Great Song Dynasty built a military fortress in the western border court and allocated heavy troops to guard it, Wang Yuan, the official of Linzong Village in Huangzhou, Xihe Road, was also much higher than the military power and status of the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, such as Qingzhou Qingfeng Village, Wenzhi Village, and Wuzhi Village, but only according to the current military position, in the final analysis, he was still a low-level general.

Later, the reason why Wang Yuan, who had a decent record but did not see how outstanding, was able to be favored by Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong, and even became a privy envoy with military and political power in his own hands as a military general, was also because after the Jingkang Change, the soldiers and horses of King Qin led by Wang Yuan were directly dispatched by Zhao Gou, King Kang, and became the descendant of Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty...... After Zhao Gou was proclaimed emperor, Wang Yuan was led by Zongze, Li Gang and other anti-Jin ministers, and most of the courtiers strongly recommended Zhao Gou to return to Bianjing, Wang Yuan was also able to cater to the holy will very early, admonishing Zhao Gou Linanbei is blocked by the Qiantang River, and it is also suitable for one of the favored ministers who moved the capital.

In addition, after the Jingkang Rebellion, Wang Yuan's camp prostitute in Bianjing was close to the Zhou family because of the Great Song Dynasty's son Zhao Shujin, and he framed Zhao Shujin for fornicating with thieves, and then hinted that he was still his confidant at that time, and even sent people to kill Zhang Jun, who was one of the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty, with Yue Fei and Han Shizhong...... What's even more bizarre is that when Wang Yuan tried his best to kill Zhao Shujin and regained his old friend, he immediately changed hands and wanted to reward her to Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun just killed Zhao Shujin who robbed his concubine for Wang Yuan, and naturally did not dare to accept the woman who had a "close relationship" with his Shangguan, and the Zhou family changed hands again, and was rewarded by Wang Yuan to Han Shizhong, who was indeed his henchman at that time......

When thinking of this section, Xiao Tang couldn't help but complain that Han Wu was indeed a unscrupulous habit of splashing skin, and he was also very laissez-faire in the affairs of men and women, and among his wives and concubines, in addition to the original Bai family's accident, whether it was a generation of heroic female Liang Hongyu, or Mao's, Zhou's and others were all prostitutes when they were photographed by Han Shizhong, but later these women who had fallen into the dust were also successively named Mrs. Qin, Mrs. Yang, and Mrs. Jiguo because of Han Shizhong's outstanding military exploits, and they can also be said to have a good home.

In the final analysis, although Wang Yuan was able to find out that Han Shizhong, who should have been suppressed in the army, was a general when he was conquering Fang La, and then planned to encircle and promote him, which can be regarded as some talent, but he is narrow-minded, not to mention that later Wang Yuan and the eunuch Kang Lu took care of each other, and when the Jin army invaded the south again, he was responsible for breaking off, but he used the warship to cross the river to transport his treasures, causing tens of thousands of Song soldiers to fall into the enemy army and other evil deeds...... How could Xiao Tang have a good impression of this guy?

When Xiao Tang looked at Wang Yuan again, there was a little more indifference in his eyes, and he said in a cold tone: "Previously, this commander led the soldiers of all departments here to protect the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, and fought with the Xia army with blood. The tribes of Xihe Road and Jingyuan Road must have also known that the Xia army was moving south, taking advantage of the situation to burn and slaughter the military village all the way, and presumably the soldiers and horses of all the troops had already received the news. But the commander led the Erlang in the city to fight alone, and there was no reinforcement to rescue, as soon as the Xia army retreated, you came, but I don't know who Wang Zhizhai was assigned to come, what is the matter with looking for the commander? ”

Although Wang Yuan was born rough, he was also a character who was good at figuring out Shangguan's thoughts, and listening to Xiao Tang's tone on the watchtower, he could already hear that he was very displeased. Wang Yuan immediately lowered his head, and couldn't help but secretly slander in his heart: I also know that you are leading the army to resist the Xia army here, and you will inevitably be angry in your heart if you are not rescued by the rest of the troops, but Xiao Jieshuai, what kind of anger are you and I spreading? Tong Xuanshuai issued a military order, ordering the soldiers and horses of Rong Weixihe Road and Jingyuan Road not to act rashly, and violators must be dealt with by military law. I'm just a magistrate who commands the Tibetan army, and in the eyes of several ministers in the Western Army, it can't compare to an official position the size of a mustard seed, whether it's Tong Xuanshuai, you and Liu Jingluo, I don't have a grudge against me, how dare you disobey the commander's order? And what can I do with these menshalt men and horses under my command?

It's just that although he resents and slanders in his heart, with Wang Yuan's personality and current status in the army, he definitely doesn't dare to make trouble with Xiao Tang. Wang Yuan was also afraid that Xiao Tang would be angry with him when he came to receive the army without reinforcements, so although it was usually not possible to kneel in the court army in the Song Dynasty, Wang Yuan still knelt on the ground, and bowed his head and said: "It's not that the last general avoids the sword and fears the sword, but the military commander has an order not to move." And the last general was responsible for patrolling the border, and the Xihe Road Military Division had Tong Xuanshuai's decree coming, reporting to Xiao Jieshuai that the matter of leading the troops to fight to the death and capturing the king of Xia and Jin was spread to the people who moved south to resettle, and Tong Xuanshuai also knew that Tong Xuanshuai called to escort Brother Cha to Xining Prefecture...... And Liu Jingluo violated the commander's order to be moderate, and he also asked Xiao Jieshuai to take him with him and wait for the Bianjing Privy Council. ”