For the matter of cutting Liao, it is no longer a matter of the court, and now the people are also excited, thinking that the Western Xia has been beaten by the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty and paid compensation, and now the Liao State is not a problem. In Zhao Ta's view, this kind of fanaticism between the government and the opposition is very dangerous, they do not know the truth of the matter, but they are full of hope for victory, and there is no way to deal with defeat.

Everyone is a father who wipes his son's buttocks, but Zhao Ta has to think about how to wipe his father's buttocks, who let him be such an unobtrusive father! Zhao Ta also considered the matter of the Liao War, if he swore to the death to stop the Liao War, I am afraid that his father, who was sleeping on the hot kang head, would have to kick him into the Jinshui River to take a bath, not to mention the Hedong Xuanfu Envoy, if he didn't make it, even the prince had to give him a lurd, but now this prince and the Xuanfu Envoy are still very important to him, otherwise what is the use of a prince who is trapped in the capital; But if he didn't say a word and watched his father walk step by step to Liaodong to sleep on the cool kang, he felt unbearable, after all, his father had treated him well over the years, and the important thing was that he didn't want to see the Central Plains go through war again!

In the midst of the contradictions, Zhao Ta thought about it, or decided to make preparations with both hands, first give his father a recital, the beginning of course is to praise his father's decision to recover the sixteen states, how great it is to complete the last wishes of the ancestors of the past dynasties, and then it is a 'hammer' This paragraph is extremely numb, and it is extremely successful in the past and present, after writing it, Zhao Ta vomited several times, and he didn't know the taste of meat for three days. After the end, he tactfully put forward his own opinions, persuaded his father to postpone the preparations for the invasion of Liao, and at the same time asked to be the vanguard of the invasion of Liao and go out for his father.

Zhao Ta wrote to ask for battle, but he himself understood that the possibility of letting him go on the expedition was a hundred decimal places. But now he is like a paranoid, fantasizing that his father can take the wrong medicine, put the wrong tendon in his head, or be full of food, and can agree to this, so that he can be a pioneer to save the Great Song Dynasty from the catastrophe

There was mostly a desert between Youzhou and Xiazhou, and the marching team increased its speed, and they arrived in Xiazhou five days later. In order not to disturb the residents, Zhao ordered the army to camp outside the city, and he himself did not enter the city. When the prince arrived, the new Xiazhou prefect and Zhao Yan could only go to the camp to send some condolences and a few words of greeting. After each reported the situation, the prefect returned to the city, and Zhao Yan stayed in the camp in order to discuss the withdrawal of the army with the prince.

"Alas, Brother Ren and they are all gone, and Brother Yong is nowhere to be found, and there are only a few of us left in the lively group of people back then!" According to the rules of the past, everyone gathered in the prince's tent for dinner, and looked at the table with only Zhao Zhi, Zhao Xiao and himself, plus Zhao Yi and Zhao Li who stayed in Taiyuan. The ten people who followed the prince to join the army back then had a big table for dinner. Now that there are only three people left, it is inevitable that they will be deserted, Zhao Yan grabbed a sheep bone and sighed.

"yes, they're all going their separate ways, they're all things that don't count!" Zhao Xiao took a sip of water, and now that there is a shortage of food in the northwest, the prince ordered that wine should be banned in the northwest, and the army also issued an order to limit wine, and the guests can only use water instead of wine. He remembered that last year, the prince had told everyone about staying after the war, and everyone swore to follow the prince at that time. But now it's halfway through.

"Lord Wang, I still don't believe that Zhao Xin will betray Lord Wang, there is no reason?" Zhao Zhi looked at the prince and said puzzled, Zhao Xin ran away from the master, and the prince ordered to chase and kill, everyone was very puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask what was going on. Today, Zhao was ashamed, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Do you suspect that I forced Zhao Xin away?" Zhao Ta looked at the three people on the table and smiled, threw the gnawed bones in his hand on a few and asked rhetorically.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates don't dare. I just have doubts in my heart, and I want to know where he went, and there has been no news for so long! This statement is not only Zhao Zhi, but a few people here will not believe it, the prince's trust and favor for Zhao Xin is obvious to all, and the prince has now become nine fingers, which shows how sad it was to order the hunt to kill the prince.

"Alas, see you and have some wine!" Zhao Ta smiled bitterly and sighed, looked back and said to Jianxi who was waiting on the side.

"Lord, don't drink it, it's easy to hurt your body, and besides, your body has not recovered, let's change the day!" Seeing that Xi glared at a few people and said, what did Zhao Xin say to them, and hooked up the sad matter of the prince again.

"We haven't been together for so many days, and I'm a little hungry after banning alcohol for so long!" Zhao Ta grimaced at Jianxi and said,

"Yes, but the prince doesn't drink much!" Seeing that Xi had no choice but to order someone to bring a jar of wine, pour it into the pot and warm it for the prince.

"You may not know Lu Dao, Zhao Xin is a Khitan!" Zhao Ta looked at the small wine glass that Jianxi put on him, smiled helplessly, took it up and drank it.

"What, Zhao Xin is a Khitan?" After hearing this, a few people sounded like a thunderbolt in their ears, how did they also think that the brothers who grew up together were actually Khitans.

"Hmph, open your mouth so wide to eat people, drink!" Zhao Tan looked at a few stunned subordinates and snorted coldly, "Zhao Xin has now fled back to the Liao State, and now he has become an official residence in Yuanzhou and has become an enemy of our Great Song Dynasty, maybe you will meet on the battlefield one day." ”

"Ah" The mouths of several people opened even wider, and if they hadn't had ears to block them, they would have grinned to the back of their heads.

"If we meet on the battlefield, I really don't know how to face it!" Zhao Zhi drank a glass of wine, suppressed the shock before he breathed down, and said with a solemn face, looking at the serious appearance of the prince, he knew that the prince was not joking anymore.

"I must have scolded him when I saw him, he lied to us all!" Zhao Xiao said indignantly, his brother's betrayal made him angry.

"If Zhao Xin really becomes our enemy, it will be a big disaster, he is familiar with our tactics, and he is also the best among us, except for the prince, I am afraid that no one can deal with him!" Zhao Yi said with a gloomy face, he is still self-aware of this, Zhao Xin has participated in the planning of several major battles in the west by the side of the prince for a long time, and his judgment and organizational ability are obvious to all.

"So the prince has issued a hunt and kill order, he is too much of a threat to us!" Zhao Zhi also understood the hard work of the prince at this time, but his subordinates who were dedicated to training had defected to the enemy country, and the blow to the prince was too great, "But I don't believe that Zhao Xin dares to use a knife against the prince or his brothers, he doesn't miss the old days at all!" ”

"You just have to understand what's going on, and you are not allowed to scold me behind my back in the future!" Zhao Ta waved his hand to stop their argument, but he didn't notice that Jianxi behind him secretly pouted, the prince still said half hidden half, if everyone knew that Zhao Xin was still a woman, they would really understand why she was leaving, but the prince didn't dare to mention it if he didn't say it, so he could only slander himself.

"Brother Shame, Brother Yong has no news yet?" Zhao Zhi asked Zhao Zhi again, Zhao Zhong went to Beijing to attend the wedding of the prince, because Xiazhou was important, so Zhao Yan was transferred to temporarily preside over the overall situation, and Zhao Yong was in Xiazhou at that time to organize and surrender the army, and when he was ordered to go north, the whole army disappeared.

"No, after learning that he was missing, I also sent people to search deep into the desert, but I didn't find a single body, or even a relic of it, more than 10,000 people disappeared without a trace, and he still doesn't know if he lives or dies in the past few months!" Zhao shook his head sadly and said, he knew that according to common sense, if Zhao Yong or there were survivors among them, there should have been news back a long time ago, although Zhilu Dao had little hope of survival, but there was still a trace of luck in his heart.

"Lord Wang, don't you have any news of Brother Yong'er and them elsewhere?" Zhao Zhi asked the prince again, and after learning that Zhao Yong was missing, the prince only ordered all the armies and places to let them search quickly, and then there was no follow-up, which was not in line with the prince's temper and did not conform to the practice of the loyal army.

"Don't guess a few of you, I was going to tell you when I got to Taiyuan, but I will simply tell you all when I see your sad faces!" Zhao Ta nodded at a few people and said with a smile, "Zhao Yong has nothing to do, he is also in Liao State now!" ”

"Zhao Yong led the army to defect, what does he want to do?" The chopsticks in Zhao Xiao's hand fell to the ground, and he said in a trembling voice, what's the matter, they all ran to Liao Country one by one, is it better than the Great Song Dynasty!

"Don't talk nonsense, I think you have been playing with cannons for too long, and people have become cannon barrels, and your brain won't turn around, Brother Yong'er must have been ordered by the prince to go to the Liao Kingdom!" Zhao Yan picked up the chopsticks, rubbed them on his body, and stuffed them into Zhao Xiao's hand.

"Then he is going to hunt down Zhao Xin, but Brother Yong and Zhao Xin are the best, how can he do it!" Zhao Xiao looked at the prince again, and his face couldn't help but show blame in a hurry, he thought that the prince must have felt that the people who were loyal to the army had something to do with Zhao Xin, so he ordered Zhao Yong to take those who surrendered to hunt down Zhao Xin.

"Saying that you are a cannon barrel, you really become a cannon barrel, Zhao Yong went to Liao to hunt down Zhao Xin? Listen to the prince! Zhao Zhi slapped Zhao Xiao and said, if the prince really wants to kill Zhao Xin, he will not send a brigade of 10,000 people, that is really a matter of asking the teacher.

"Hehe, Zhao Yong was ordered by me to go to the Liao State to fight the front station, first, to take advantage of the chaos to occupy a foothold in the Liao State and provide support for our future intervention in the war in the Liao State; The second is to find out the combat characteristics of the Liao army and the Jin army, and find out their real strength, so that we can not figure out their path when we fight with them! Zhao Ta said with a smile, there are very few people who know about Zhao Yong's entry into Liao, Zhao Ta has been blocking the news out of secrecy, looking at the performance of these people today, knowing that they have a deep brotherhood, if they hide it again, these boys will definitely have doubts about themselves, and it will not be a long time to go on with such a pimple, so it is better to reveal some truth to them.

"Lord Wang, why do you say that these barbarians are always eyeing our Central Plains and want to dominate the Great Song River and Mountain?" When Zhao Yan learned that Zhao Yong had entered Liao to participate in the war, he knew that the prince had made up his mind to use troops against the Khitans and Jurchens, but he was puzzled in his heart, could it be that these barbarians were naturally warlike?

"To be able to live!" The wind rose again, and Zhao Ta listened to the sound of the wind blowing sand against the tent and said, the most primitive thing about waging war is to survive

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