Yao Duan was also in good spirits, smiled at Zhang Xian, and decorated his robe slightly, and then strode forward.

"General Fei!"

Zhang Xian took the lead and bowed to Fei Lun.

In the two battles of Yichuan and Pingyang, Fei Lun was both from the army and service, and the credit was naturally the first, and then the discovery of the Jin Bing conspiracy and the mobilization of soldiers and horses in advance for defense were all the credit of the pedestrian division. The Dengwen Division of the Political Affairs Hall and the Pedestrian Division of the Privy Mansion have always been parallel and important, and in this matter, the Pedestrian Division has far surpassed the Dengwen Division in military affairs due to the talent of Fei Lun, the chief official, and has been respected by the entire Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

Although Fei Lun is young, he is only a deputy general, and his status is not as good as Zhang Xian, and he is far inferior to Yao Duan. It's just that the power and efficiency of the department he controls are so great that they are no longer comparable to one army and one general, coupled with the identity of the imperial belt equipment, and these great achievements, everyone in front of them knows that the promotion of this person's rank and position is already a matter of the day.

"General Zhang is too polite, how dare the last general."

Fei Lun jumped off the horse, his face was full of humble and kind smiles, took Zhang Xian's hand, and said with a smile: "We have eaten with a horse spoon together, there are so many courtesies, one is not worthy of the position of the last general, and the other is too raw." ”

Zhang Xian was straightforward by nature, and he would say whatever he thought of in his heart, and when Fei Lun finished speaking, he shouted: "General Fei, this position of yours is just the love of His Majesty, I don't want you to be too young and raise your position too high, how can you really not succeed!" ”

Although Yao Duan was rude, he had already been the head of the first army, seeing that although this Fei Lun was full of smiles, he always taught people to feel a little reserved, knowing that this person had been in charge of the pedestrian division for a long time, and he couldn't look at it with ordinary generals, so he stepped forward at the moment, gently blocked Zhang Xian, and smiled at Fei Lun: "After more than ten days, I didn't expect General Fei to return to Chang'an." Coming back so soon? ”

Fei Lun knew that he was testing his trip to Chang'an, smiled slightly, and replied: "I walked back and forth for twelve days, day and night, changing horses without changing people, and I only stayed in Chang'an for half a day, and Your Majesty praised General Yao, General Zhang and all the generals of the front army. In front of the last general, he said that when the battle of Tongguan is over and the big reward is given, he should explain to the cardinal government and discuss it preferentially. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"

Hearing Fei Lun's relay of Zhao Huan's words, Yao Duan, Zhang Xian and others hugged their fists together, and they were all overjoyed.

No matter how loyal and righteous, fame and fortune are what people want, the emperor personally praised them, and made a wish that he would not treat the generals badly. This is much stronger than the cardinal's bounty.

Faeron smiled reservedly again. marched with Zhang Xian and Yao Duan, and said as he walked: "Your Majesty heard that I finished talking about the battles of Yichuan and Longkou, and then talked about the tense war in Pingyang. First joy, then moved. just said in a loud voice: Yao and Zhang, honest and loyal, resolute and resourceful, I only say that there are Han, Yang, Yue, and Wu brothers in the world who are good generals. Tell Yao and Zhang to do it, don't worry too much, I know them. ”

This is what I said. But it was more impressive than the words of the right talent, which moved Yao Duan and Zhang Xian even more.

Zhang Xian just replied, but he was proud of his reputation, but Yao Duan understood in his heart that the so-called "good work, don't worry too much." is the focus of this passage, Fei Lun must have said in front of the emperor that Yao Duan's department and Zhang Jun's dirty dispute, and what the emperor said. Naturally, let Yao Duan endure it first, and then deal with it in the future.

Thinking that the emperor was thousands of miles away, he was still concerned about the oppression he had suffered, and he dealt with it properly, Yao Duan only felt that his eyes were hot, and he almost burst into tears.

The grievances and injustices suffered in the past few days have been fully explained in just these few sentences.

Fei Lun and Zhang Xian should be reconciled, while squinting at Yao Duan, when he saw Yao Duan's expression when he heard that he relayed the emperor's words, he already knew it in his heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth at the moment, but he deliberately ignored Yao Duan, and still asked Zhang Xian about the situation of the war after he left.

When everyone returned to the big tent in the camp, the beginning and end of the Pingyang War were already clear.

Although he sat opposite Yao Duan's first Xian, everyone only looked at him and waited for him to speak.

Yao Duan was in a calm mood at this time, and looked at Fei Lun, only to see that half of his face was in the dark, and the lower half of his face was shrouded in light, although dozens of people were waiting for this person to speak, his face was as usual, and there was no abnormality in the slightest. He secretly praised in his heart, this Fei Lun is worthy of being trained by the emperor himself, acting in style, and he is already a top-notch figure among the generals of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fei Lun didn't know that Yao Duan was thinking about him in his heart, and when he entered the tent, he only groaned slightly, and then said with a smile: "Zhang Jun and Zhang Dashuai's military order is here, but it is generally the same as the envoy assigned to General Yao by the last general's holy order. In this way, it saves a lot of work. ”

Yao Duan Huo Ran got up and asked Fei Lun, "Does Your Majesty have an edict, or does the Privy Mansion have an order?" ”

The system of the Song Dynasty is not compared with the later Ming and Qing dynasties, in terms of military and government affairs, it is not that the emperor can directly issue an edict, government affairs must go through the political affairs hall, and military affairs must go through the Privy Council, the procedures are complicated

, the emperor's control over the army was no longer comparable to what it used to be.

The meaning of Fei Lun in front of him is obviously that the emperor has some measures for military affairs, so in this way, he is actually putting the cardinal government aside, but it is no wonder that Yao Duan asked.

Fei Lun hurriedly waved his hand and smiled at Yao Duan: "The general doesn't have to be like this, it's not a formal edict from His Majesty, it's just a matter of secrecy, and the fewer people who know it, the better, so he doesn't issue a formal edict from the cardinal's mansion." ”

"Oh? Ask General Fei to pass on the holy order on his behalf. Yao Duan did not relax with Fei Lun's words, as the other party said, the more confidential the matter, the more difficult it may be. It's just that things have come to this point, and it is impossible to retreat.

Seeing Yao Duan and the others standing up, looking like they were in the middle of a big guest, Fei Lun smiled and said, "Your Majesty's words are to be given to me, and I am acting according to the holy order, so the generals don't have to be like this." ”

He stood up, pointed to the sand table wooden map in the corner of the tent, and said: "Linzhou is close to the Great Wall, adjacent to the Xia State, the Zhejia will guard the three states for many years, most of the wars are here, there are not many troops against the Liao State, but there are a lot of vicious battles with the Xia people, these things, the generals must know better than me?" ”

The generals in this tent, except for Zhang Xian, were all from the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and before the death of Jin Xingliao, the older ones were still fighting with the Xia people, and they didn't know how the Song and Xia wars were.

At the moment, Yao Duan replied: "The ancestral home of the Zhe family is Yunzhong, it is a local clan, since the time of the fold from Ruan, it is Shi Jingtang's festival envoy, the general of the town, resisting the Khitan for the country, before my Taizong destroyed the Han, the Zhe family neither returned to the Han nor the Song, the folk called the king of Zhe, and later Taizong destroyed the Han, and the Zhe family returned to Shun, which was the three states of the Great Song Dynasty. Yu Taijun in the folk book is actually a Yang Lianyan to fight against the Khitan. The two families are famous generals, but the Yang family often breaks the dynasty, and the famous generals of the fold family continue, whether it is to fight the Khitan or the Western Xia, it is better than not to suffer. Nicknamed: The reputation of the family is Hebei, and the loyalty and courage are crowned in Shanxi. ”

He was talking about the rise, but Fei Lun interjected: "It's a pity that there is a setback." ”

"Exactly!" Yao Duan's face was bloody, and he said angrily: "The Folded Family, the Seed Family, the Yang Family, and the Liu Family, known as the Four Masters of the Western Army." These families in Hedong and Guanshan are all loyal and brave heirlooms, how did they expect that this generation of the family had to die early, and they became the head of the family, and the war was still the same, how did they expect that this scum was taken hostage by the Jurchens for their son, so they surrendered to the enemy, and the reputation of the family for more than a hundred years was all ruined on this person. ”

Zhang Xian also said: "What a hero! Cavalry and archery are omnipotent, 100,000 Xia soldiers entered, and 8,000 soldiers were used to meet the battle, breaking the enemy army, going to the stream to kill countless people, and the river was cut off. It's a pity that he died young, so that an unvirtuous villain like Zhe Keqiu became the head of the family. Fortunately, both the fold can be saved and the fold Yan quality continue to work for the Great Song Dynasty, so they can not fall into the family's reputation. ”

Having said that, everyone in the tent was a top human spirit, and they already vaguely felt that the emperor and Fei Lun's move in front of him must not be an order to attack Linfu Feng Sanzhou, but there was another way, so they acted so strangely.

Fei Lun waited for everyone to finish speaking, and then said: "You think well, you really deserve to die, but Your Majesty is also very sympathetic when he mentions this person." The eldest husband died in battle, and the enemy caught him as a threat, even if he was hard-hearted, it was inevitable that there would be a time when he was confused. His Majesty said that he was not to blame for surrendering, but to blame him for serving the Jin people and fighting for the tiger after he surrendered. That's what I won't take from him. ”

Yao Duan sneered: "He surrendered at the beginning because he was unwilling, and after surrendering, he lost face, but he had to serve wholeheartedly in front of the new master to save his prestige and face." In fact, the folded family has served the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years, how can it be so that they can sit firmly in the position of the head of the family? I heard that in the past few years, there has been continuous civil strife in the Zhe family, and it is all Zhe Keqiu who has pressed it with an iron fist, hey, if I capture this person, I have to let him apologize in front of Emperor Taizong's imperial appearance and the ancestors of the Zhe family, and then behead him. ”

"The first sentence you said was right, it was not the intention to surrender. Your Majesty's intention is to start from this point. Long before the Jin soldiers' action, His Majesty had the first move, sent someone to Linzhou to contact the Zhe family, a few months later, Zhe Keqiu has been moved, His Majesty wants to forgive him for his land crimes, and he is not to blame for his attack on the Jinning Army and Yan'an Mansion, as long as the battle is correct, he can restore the former glory of his Zhe family. ”

He raised his hand, stopped Yao Duan, who was about to speak, and said with a stern face: "Your Majesty's pardon has a saying: ruthless may not be a true hero, how can a poor son not be a husband?" Please think carefully about it. ”

In fact, everyone is tired of asking for it, but nine times out of ten it is for their own sake to get rid of it, not only is it closed that day, but the overall situation of the whole world is erosive, and everyone in the field, except for a few people, most of them may not have the intention of surrendering. Today, this Fei Lun relayed the emperor's words, but it also hit everyone's hearts, but taught people to be silent again.