It was not until the afternoon when the sun was in the west that Zhao Ta left the 14th Battalion.

Big cars and small cars, full of loads.

Two thousand soldiers, all smiling, with bulging clothes on their bodies, and their shoes and boots were also stuffed with hard goods, even if they couldn't walk with their legs, and even worse, they were all in their armor and hats, and they couldn't lift their heads.

There are more than a dozen chests, almost all of which are gold and silver, and even copper coins are rare.

Zhao Ta sent someone to send two boxes to his family, and the rest were all taken to Wang Qing's palace.

Today, he killed someone in the fourteenth battalion, and this matter must be played, and as for the silver money collected, in addition to appeasing the soldiers below, he cannot swallow it alone, and the big head is transported to the palace.

Wang Qing was overjoyed when he saw this, it didn't matter how many people he killed, he didn't understand the matter of killing chickens and monkeys, as long as he suppressed the following, as for receiving so much silver, he didn't expect it.

Zhao Ta told Wang Qing about today's events, including knocking Pan Zhong off his horse with one punch.

Wang Qing suddenly smiled and said, "Haven't you even made a move?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "Your Majesty, it's just that General Pan is drunk, otherwise the minister would not be able to use weapons, and he defeated General Pan with only his fists." ”

Wang Qing shook his head and said, "Gu knows Pan Zhong's martial arts, even if he is not drunk, he is not Aiqing's opponent. ”

Zhao Ta said a few more modest words, and then left, and when he returned to the mansion, he saw two people coming to give gifts.

He wondered in his heart that he realized that he was the leader of the Fourth and Fifth Armies.

One of these two leaders is called Wu Shun, and the other is called Liu Heihu, and they each brought 5,000 taels of silver, which means that Li Fei should not go to his own small army to inspect it, and as for the soldiers below who violate military discipline, they will strictly control it.

Zhao Ta understood as soon as he heard that these two people must have also collected a capitation fee, so they had to protect the soldiers below, and protecting the soldiers below was equivalent to keeping their own future income.

The silver was naturally accepted, and the people were politely sent away, and there was nothing else to say, it was all for the sake of the money.

In the next few days, people came to give gifts from time to time, Zhao Ta knew in his heart, these people are the same as Wu Shun and Liu Heihu, they don't really can't control their subordinates, greed for money is the real character, and their subordinates are strict, which one will give them money? They can't go and grab it for no reason.

After Zhao Ta received the money, the inspection was carried out selectively, and when he met a general who was not satisfied, he would fight, and this was what the thief army ate, as long as you were ruthless and strong in martial arts, no one cried and went to Wang Qing to complain.

At present, Wang Qing's uprising is not too long, many rules have not been erected, any rebellion and uprising has such a process, the initial chaos is chaotic, only when the royal power is stable and has many soldiers, the Central Plains is expected, and all kinds of people come to vote, the rules will be truly established, and the rules at that time will have real binding force.

Zhao Ta walked a lot of military camps, the silver was soft, and there were several fights, not to mention the killing, he fell into a ruthless name, and was nicknamed King Li Yan by the thief army below, and he was all afraid to mention it.

As for the silver, Wang Qing also sent some more from time to time, and even Wang Qing trusted Zhao Ta more and more.

In private, Zhao Tan had nothing to do with Du Zhu to drink, knocking on Li Zhu's swordsmanship, but he knew a lot of information, according to Du Yan's statement, Li Zhu's sword speed was the only one he had seen in his life.

Li Zhu is nicknamed Mr. Jin Jian, and uses a golden long sword, this sword is fast, it is like a lightning bolt in the dark sky, the color and momentum are almost the same, the only difference is the size.

According to Du Bai, Li Zhu's swordsmanship is called a one-word electric sword, and he was defeated by this swordsmanship at the beginning, as for Li Zhu's other swordsmanship, Du Bai didn't know.

Zhao Tan pondered, Li Zhu and Zhou Tong competed, and shared nine kinds of swordsmanship, but it is very likely that there are more than these swordsmanship, but now even Du Yan only knows this one, and almost no one under Wang Qing knows it, so there is no place to further understand.

Zhao Ta couldn't think of any other way to do this, and he couldn't deliberately approach Li Zhu to investigate, so he could only make a plan to slowly figure it out.

That night, Zhao Tan set up a small banquet in the mansion and invited Liyana to come over, there were not many dishes on the table, and now the ingredients in Luzhou City were scary, if he hadn't recently gotten a lot of silver taels, I was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to invite this small banquet.

At the end of the banquet, the two discussed the military situation, and Wang Qing reported that the Song army in Haozhou had traveled halfway, and many people were going to play and plan to send someone to intercept it, not waiting for the Song army to come to the city of Luzhou.

Liyanaza said: "Is Song Jun about to turn to the direction of Shouzhou?" ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Tomorrow at the latest, if there is no accident, it is estimated that I will rush to Shouzhou today." ”

Liyan Nazha said: "Then what will Wang Qing do here?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "It is certain to send troops to rescue, but no matter whether Shouzhou is lost or not, the war is on the verge of breaking out." ”

Liyan Nazha said: "I'm afraid that the soldiers here haven't arrived yet, and Shouzhou over there has already been taken." ”

Zhao Ta smiled and said: "Isn't that just using your three-way strategy to send troops to Luzhou?" ”

Liyana frowned and said: "I thought about this matter again, if there are too many reinforcements in Luzhou, I am afraid that the road will be blocked." ”

Zhao Ta smiled and stretched: "Then it doesn't matter, anyway, I don't have to worry about the coach over there, I'm too lazy to worry about it, everything is improvised." ”

Liana looked at him: "The big war is coming, you don't think much about it......"

Zhao Ta shook his head and said: "It's useless to think too much, improvisation, by the way, don't you open the scriptures tonight?" ”

Liyanaza said lightly: "You still want to open the scriptures? has been changed three times, thousands of people have been rotated, and everyone only recognizes the right envoy of light, and even the prestige of me, a holy aunt, is not as high as yours. ”

Zhao Ta smiled: "What about each other? It's not Uighurism. ”

Liyan Nazha stared at Zhao Ta with a pair of bright eyes, and said, "What do you want to do, I know that you are not the prince of Song Kingdom, don't you want to...... This was also common in the Uighurs. ”

Zhao Ta shook his head and sighed slightly: "It's just self-preservation, you will know in the future." ”

Liyanaza was puzzled: "Now that you are in power, you will win this battle again, and your prestige will be higher, so how can you talk about self-preservation?" ”

Zhao Tan said with a smile: "The Great Song Dynasty is different from the Uighurs, it is always complicated, and you can't figure it out for a moment. ”

Hearing this, Liyanaza was silent for a few breaths and said, "If there is really a time, you can go back and forth." ”

Zhao Ta laughed and said: "Why is this the case, don't you have to be a door-to-door person?" ”

Liyanaza suddenly said in shame: "What about coming to the door, you said that you will protect yourself." ”

Zhao Ta said twice, and suddenly said: "When I first saw me that day, I heard music in the small courtyard, and then asked Dia, what kind of pipa is being played?" ”

Liyanaza said: "It's called a seventy-two-string lute, which is actually a kind of piano, which is somewhat similar...... Your zither has seventy-two strings, a wide body, and a pleasant and wonderful sound. ”

Zhao Ta said: "I've never seen this kind of piano, but after listening to it for a moment that day, I felt like a yellow oriole, and I never forgot it." ”

Riyanazar looked at him and said, "Do you want to hear it?" ”

Zhao Ta smiled: "Isn't it lucky? ”

Liyanaza said, "You...... Come with me. ”

The two of them went out to the next house, and walked to the door of a small hall in a moment.

Liyanaza opened the door, Zhao Ta's eyes couldn't help but light up, the layout in this small hall was quite elegant and exquisite, many things were in the Uighur style, it looked unique, even the floor was spread with a large and bright blanket, clean and tidy, until the front of the door.

Zhao Ta looked into the hall, his eyes glanced at Liyan Naza's little white boots, and said, "This...... Do you want to go in barefoot? ”

Liyan Nazha was stunned when she heard this, and said, "Li Fei, what do you want to do?" ”

Zhao said: "I have heard that the Uighurs are good at singing and dancing, especially the ...... A dance with a string of small bells hanging barefoot. ”

Liyanaza looked at him suspiciously, "Where did you hear that?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "Naturally, I heard it in Longyou, and where did the Central Plains know this, after all, across Longyou Xixia, no matter the temple market, I don't know much about it." ”

Liyanaza said softly, "Barefoot...... Still dancing with little bells? ”

Zhao Ta said: "That's it, if you move it a little, the little bell will make a pleasant sound." ”

Liyanaza suddenly said in a soft voice, "Do you want to see it?" ”

Zhao Ta hurriedly nodded.

Liana Zha smiled: "Think beautifully!" ”

After saying that, she walked into the hall, and Zhao Ta touched her chin and followed in.

There was a piano against the flower wall in the hall, and Zhao Ta could see at a glance that it was the seventy-two-string pipa.

I saw that the piano was wide, similar to the big head of the zither cut off from the side, and the strings on it were dense, and I didn't know what law to play.

Liyanaza walked to the back of the piano and flicked her fingers, and the piano suddenly made a pleasant sound.

Zhao Ta smiled: "Sure enough, it was the music of that day, but there was the sound of birdsong." ”

Liyanaza smiled: "General Li doesn't know what song he wants to hear? ”

Zhao said: "I don't know Uighur music, so I don't want to be sad and sad, and I feel depressed when I listen to it." ”

Liyanaza made a Uighur salute to Zhao Ta, and then said with a smile, "General Li, please take a seat." ”

Zhao Ta sat down on the chair, and saw Liyan Nazha also sit down gracefully, raising her hand to reveal her slender and white jade fingers, stroking the piano surface, and contemplating her breath.

Suddenly, as soon as her fingers moved, she listened to the beautiful and smart sound of the piano instantly flowing out from her fingers, like a thin stream flowing through her heart, soft and quiet, soft and comfortable.

As time slowly passes, the sound of the piano becomes more and more beautiful, like the tinkling of the spring water of the stream, jumping happily, and like the valley of the orchid, walking horses and silver bells, and then suddenly a hundred birds chirp in unison, the tone is clear and cheerful, intoxicating, as if in the spring forest, like a dream......

After playing the song, Zhao Ta reminisced for a moment, stroked his palm and said: "It's really a good song, it's fascinating, if you play it in the beautiful place of the landscape, its sound is even better!" ”

Liyanaza looked at him and said, "There are many beautiful scenery in the Uighurs, the mountains and rivers are picturesque, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. ”

Zhao Ta said with a smile: "I yearn for it, but there are many miscellaneous things, and I don't know when I saw it." ”

Hearing this, Liyanaza's expression darkened slightly, and then she became cold, and said, "Even Longyou is no longer going?" ”

Zhao Ta looked at her and paused before saying, "General Shangguan thinks that with my identity, why do you go to lead the desolate and barren Longyou Protectorate?" ”

Hearing this, Liyanaza frowned slightly, and the next moment suddenly exclaimed, "You...... What you just said about self-preservation? ”

Zhao Ta smiled slightly and said, "If there is really a day, I can go to Longyou, the sky is high and the earth is far away, and there is a basis for advancing and retreating." ”

"But ......" Liyan Nazha hesitated: "Li Fei, shouldn't your so-called self-protection come from the Song Imperial Court?" That being said, there is a Western army over there......"

"The Western Army, ah......" Zhao Ta thought for a while: "The Western Army is indeed a problem, but I'm afraid that when there is a real day, the Western Army will already be too busy to take care of itself." ”

Liyanaza's eyes sparkled, and she said, "The Uighurs are beautiful, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the people are beautiful. ”

Zhao Ta glanced at her and said with a smile: "Yes, so the army that has been fighting in that place since ancient times is not only for grape wine and cantaloupe." ”

"Li Fei, what do you mean!" Hearing this, Liyanazha's face turned slightly red, and she said softly.

Zhao Ta got up and walked in front of Liyan Nazha, bowed his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Dance for this king, you have to hang a small bell barefoot." ”

Liyanazha's face was pink, and she said: "Li Fei, don't dream, I won't dance for you, I haven't seen any kind of dance in Tokyo, you don't want to see dancing!" ”

Zhao Ta wondered: "What do you see if you don't watch dancing?" ”

Liyanaza said softly, "You know it yourself! ”

Zhao Ta smiled, suddenly stretched out his fingers to pick up the pointed snow-white chin, and said, "What does this king know?" ”

Liyana's eyelashes trembled, her eyes were a little misty, Zhao Ta looked at her peach-like cheeks, and couldn't help but lean down slightly......

At this moment, suddenly Dia's urgent voice came from outside: "General, is the general here?" ”

Liana Zar immediately realized: "Dia? ”

Zhao Ta let out an "um" and looked up.

Liyan Nazha stood up and went out to look, and saw Diya calling around in the courtyard, and when she saw her going out, she hurriedly said: "General, King Huai has issued an order, let the general and General Li enter the palace immediately!" ”

"Enter the palace to discuss the ...... At this time? Zhao Ta looked at the sky, it was already slightly dark, and there were clouds gathering, as if the wind and rain were coming.

Liyanaza said in a low voice, "I'm afraid it's not what you said......"

Zhao Ta nodded: "Most likely, I will go back to change my clothes and enter the palace immediately." ”

After a long time, the lights in Wang Qing's palace were bright, and the civil and military classes stood above the main hall.

I saw Wang Qing sitting on the top with a blue face, and suddenly threw down a fold, and scolded: "Zhao Ta'er is cunning, the Song army didn't come to suppress Luzhou at all, but turned around halfway and went straight to Shouzhou." ”

Everyone below was surprised when they heard this, and Fang Han said: "Your Majesty, Shouzhou can't afford to lose, and the ministers should send troops to rescue them immediately." ”

Gong Duan also said: "What Fang Shumi said is very true, Shouzhou and Luzhou are horns of each other, if Shouzhou is lost, then Luzhou will lose the defense of the northwest direction, and all will be exposed in front of the Song army." ”

Fan Quan frowned and said: "The Shouzhou army is the largest except for Luzhou, with more than 6,000 people, and the city is high and the river is deep, so it will not be lost so quickly." ”

Duan Er opened his mouth at this time and said: "What's the use of the city high and the river deep, don't forget how we laid Shouzhou at that time!" ”

Fan Quan shook his head and said: "How can it be compared to today, although Shouzhou had the Song army defending the city before, it was like nothing, my army only feinted twice, and those Song troops were so frightened that they didn't dare to defend the city, and directly abandoned the city and fled, and now Shouzhou is defended by my Huai army, and there are generals like General Yuan Lang, which will not be lost for a while." ”

Duan Er said: "Since this is the truth, we must hurry up and go to the rescue." ”

Wang Qing looked at Li Zhu at this time and said, "What does the prime minister think of this matter?" ”

Li Zhu said: "The Song army did not dare to directly attack Luzhou, it was for Luzhou to have many generals, and they were afraid that Shouzhou would not be able to fight for a long time and then attack from behind. ”

Wang Qing shouted "Okay" when he heard this, his eyes swept downward, and said: "Yutai and Liu Yuan, give you three thousand soldiers and horses each, and you will be the vanguard, and you will rush to Shouzhou immediately in two ways!" ”

The two immediately shouted "Minister's order" and then left the palace.

Wang Qing said again: "Gong Duan! ”

Gong Duan hurriedly went out of class and said, "The minister is here!" ”

Wang Qingdao: "Seal you as the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses, Du Yi as the deputy marshal, Li Xiong, Bi Xian, Pan Zhong, Qiu Fei, Shi Jun, Zhu Qi, Liu Yijing, Shangguan Yi, Gong Gang, Xi Sheng as the generals, immediately organize 30,000 troops, and set off at dawn tomorrow!" ”

Gong Duan shouted for orders, and took Du Yanren and others out of the hall, and then Wang Qing looked at Li Zhu and said, "Prime Minister, do you think this arrangement is appropriate?" ”

Li Zhu said with a smile: "The king's arrangement is very good, and there is nothing wrong with it, even if Luzhou is here, it is necessary to step up the defense, and be careful that the Song soldiers are divided into two ways to sneak attack." ”

Zhao Ta stole a glance at Li Zhu when he heard this, and thought that if it was really an old fox, he didn't know what Zong Ze would arrange, whether he would go all out to attack Shouzhou, or if it was really as Li Zhu said, he would divide a part of his troops to harass Luzhou.

However, there is no problem with how to do these two, each has its own benefits, and there are not many things that can be killed face to face directly on the battlefield.

Wang Qing thought for a while, looked down and said again: "Li Fei! ”

Zhao Ta hurriedly came out of the class and said, "The minister is here!" ”

Wang Qingdao: "At the moment of the war, temporarily remove you from the post of internal and external inspection, and appoint you as the left defense envoy of Luzhou, supervise the internal and external defense, and take office immediately!" ”

Zhao Ta said: "The minister receives the order!" ”

Wang Qing said again: "Zhuo Mao, let you be the right defense envoy of Luzhou, supervise the internal and external defense of Luzhou, and take office immediately!" ”

After appointing the two, Wang Qing mobilized some generals and arranged the city defense, and then announced the dissolution of the dynasty.

Everyone left the palace, and it was already raining lightly outside.

Zhao Ta can't return to his house at the moment, he has already taken up the post of the left defense envoy, and now he has to inspect the city defense with Zhuo Mao.

After a brief discussion, the two each allocated half of the city, and then led the troops to check it out under the light rain.

At this time, the entire Luzhou military camp moved, and Yu Tai and Liu Yuan had already ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses each, and rushed to Shouzhou in the light rain.

These two generals and 6,000 soldiers did not have any baggage, but each carried two or three days of dry food, but they begged to go into battle lightly, catch up with the Song army as quickly as possible, and then drag it for a while, waiting for the rear army to arrive.

As for Gong Duan's army of 30,000, he couldn't go into battle lightly, and he couldn't leave immediately, all kinds of preparations had to be complete, grain, grass, carts and horses were all indispensable, and they were busy until the sky was about to dawn, and they were almost safe.

Zhao Tan patrolled all night, and finally came to the north city gate, which is the place where Gong Duan's army gathered, at this moment the light rain is not clear, the cooking smoke rises, the camps are crowded, the noise is not stopped, obviously eating.

After about half an hour, the sky was bright, and the soldiers from all over the village gathered, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and there were not many people, looking at the bright armor and bright armor, and the swords and guns were cold.

As military orders were handed down, flags were opened, horses' hooves were slowly sounded, followed by the sound of hurried strides, and then various vehicles "squeaked" and began to move forward.

Zhao Ta had been watching the army leave, and just turned his horse's head and wanted to go back to the house for dinner, when Zhuo Mao led people over, saw Zhao Ta and said: "General Li, please stay, Zhuo has something to discuss with General Li." ”

Zhao Ta looked at Zhuo Mao, this Zhuo Mao is also a famous general under Wang Qing, and Li Zhunai is a fellow villager, both of whom are from Jingnan.

Zhao Ta said: "What is General Zhuo discussing?" ”

Zhuo Mao said with a bitter face: "General Li, you and I, the defense envoys of Luzhou, are not as good as fighting in front of the battle, so how can there be half a minute of rest for daily inspections, I think it is better to discuss a way, not only not to delay the defense, but also to be more relaxed with each other." ”

Zhao Ta glanced at him, and saw that his face was gray and the smell of wine in the night, and he knew that he was lacking patience, so he said in his heart: "I don't know what General Zhuo can do?" ”

Zhuo Mao said: "It was precisely because I couldn't think of a way that I came to General Li to discuss." ”

Zhao Ta pondered for a moment and said, "I have a way here, I don't know if it's suitable or not?" ”

Zhuo Mao was overjoyed when he heard this: "General Li, please come and listen." ”

Zhao Ta said: "You and I patrol back and forth in half of the city, don't say it, waste time and energy, both of them are still tired, I think it's better to divide the day and night, one person patrols for six hours, and then changes to the next person to patrol again, so good?" ”

Zhuo Mao just thought about it when he heard this, and said happily: "General Li's method is feasible, not only does not delay things, but also has time to rest, so I don't know who will patrol the day and who will patrol the night?" ”

Zhao Tan smiled and said: "But General Zhuo is convenient, I have nothing to do here, day and night." ”

Zhuo Mao thought for a while and said with a smile: "Then brother, I'm going to take advantage of it, Brother Li, you don't know, brother, I'm willing to drink a few sips at night, and I'm afraid of getting drunk and making mistakes at the moment, so it's better to patrol during the day, and trouble Brother Li to patrol at night?" ”

Seeing what he said politely, Zhao Tan also smiled and changed his title: "Brother Zhuo, where is this, the younger brother has nothing to do, just patrol the night, but today I have to trouble the old brother to stick to the day." ”

Zhuo Maoxi said: "It's okay, it's okay, but it's a lot of daytime things, then it's decided, Brother Li will go back to the house to repair, and come to me at night." ”

Zhao Ta nodded and said goodbye to the other party, and then arranged for his soldiers to change their guards, and went straight back to the mansion.

After he went back, he took off his armor, Yao Pingzhong came over to lead the horse, this yellow horse has changed his temperament a little since the battle with Pan Zhong that day, and he is no longer so abrasive, but he is still a spiritless appearance, especially after walking outside all night, he is drooping his head at the moment, as if he can't open his eyelids, and Yao Pingzhong frowns.

Zhao Ta ate less and went back to the house to rest, and slept until the evening, and after getting up to clean up, he went to change the guard with Zhuo Mao.

After three days like this, there was finally a battle report from the front, and it was actually the loss of Shouzhou, and the battle ahead was unfavorable!

(End of chapter)