When he arrived at the door of the guest room, after Ding Da Crab greeted him, he opened the door and invited Zhao Ta to enter.

When Zhao Tan entered the house, he saw Zhu Xiuniang painting again, two maids, lotus fragrance and green apricot, one was washing the pen and the other was mixing colors.

He walked closer and saw that it was a picture of a hibiscus brocade chicken, not how good it is, but it is not bad, and the nature painted by Emperor Daojun cannot be compared, not to mention the present, even Emperor Daojun has been regarded as the ceiling of the calligraphy and painting world throughout the ages.

Watching the two maids go out to make tea, Zhao Ta smiled and said: "Xiuniang, although I didn't kill Fang La this time to take revenge completely, I also broke one of his arms, which can be regarded as collecting some interest." ”

Zhu Xiuniang raised her head, her face was a little pale: "Zhao Tan, you didn't send troops to Huzhou?" ”

The news of the big victory in the city had already spread, and Zhao Ta never let people hide it from her, so Zhu Xiuniang knew what happened yesterday.

Zhao Ta looked at her with deep meaning, and said: "Xiuniang, you are the lady of this king, since you are under the same roof, you must consider each other, you can't play some tricks and fool around, you should focus on the overall situation when you talk and do things." ”

Zhu Xiuniang's face instantly became more snow-white, she dropped the pen and took a step back, as if a kitten stealing food was suddenly discovered, and she covered up her clumsily and said: "Zhao Ta, I don't know what you are talking about, where did the tricks come from, don't spew blood here!" ”

Zhao Tan's face was pale, and he looked at her and shook his head: "Xiuniang, you are a smart person, do you need me to say it carefully?" Wouldn't you think that Fang La's most likely trip was Hangzhou? actually asked this king to send troops to Huzhou to ambush, Fang La is the culprit who harmed your whole family, in this kind of matter, you don't have to be confused. ”

Zhu Xiuniang gritted her teeth when she heard this: "Zhao Tan, don't be a villain, spend the belly of a gentleman, I'm just a woman, I don't understand the military, and I don't understand the overall situation, if you want to kill me, just start directly, find less high-sounding reasons, and pour some dirty water on my head!" ”

Zhao Ta stared at her for a moment, suddenly smiled, shook his head and said: "How could I kill Xiu Niang, you are my Zhao Ta's woman, it's too late for me to pity you, how can you do such a ruthless thing!" ”

Zhu Xiuniang looked at Zhao Ta and said hatefully: "Zhao Ta, don't say these hypocritical words to deceive me, what kind of person are you, I know in my heart, you are hypocritical and fickle, ruthless, human-faced and animal-hearted, and evil......"

Zhao Ta narrowed her eyes and interrupted her with a sneer: "Xiuniang is self-respecting, don't forget your identity, you are now a person from the Qin Palace, insulting others and yourself, smiling and generous, don't you even have a brain?" You are also a well-read lady, have you even forgotten the basic etiquette! ”

Zhu Xiuniang's eyes were cold, a pair of jade hands were clenched tightly, her knuckles were bloodless, and she glared at Zhao Ta angrily: "You ......"

Zhao Ta snorted, flicked the sleeves of his robe and turned to leave, and looked back when he arrived at the door: "You are married to a woman now, remember to take the overall situation into account in everything!" ”

With that, he slammed the door and left.

Zhu Xiuniang looked at his back, stood there for a long time, and finally returned to the table, pushed all the paper and pen to the ground, lay on the table, and cried in a low voice......

On the second day, Zhao Ta summoned everyone to discuss how to march next.

Tong Guan means that the army pushed all the way over, first went down to Muzhou and Shezhou, dug Fang La's lair, and then went all the way south to crush, recover the land of eastern Zhejiang, and sweep away Yu Kou.

However, Yao Pingzhong put forward a different idea, advocating the division of troops to advance, all the way to Muzhou, Shezhou, and the other all the way to the southeast, to collect Wuzhou, Quzhou, Yuezhou, Taizhou and other places.

His statement immediately caused Tong Guan to stare angrily, the two were originally a little suspicious when they were in the northwest, Tong Guan felt that Yao Pingzhong was deliberately targeting him at the moment and embarrassing him.

When Yao Pingzhong was eighteen years old, he fought with the Western Xia army in the Zangdi River, that battle killed a lot of Western Xia soldiers, the Western Xia was difficult to resist and finally defeated and left, Tong Guan summoned him at that time, and talked with him to show goodwill, who knows that Yao Pingzhong did not know whether he really had backbone, or the newborn calf was stunned, and he did not follow Tong Guan at all, Tong Guan was very unhappy, lowered his reward, and did not get promoted, but after that, the heroes and heroes in Guanzhong respected him because of this matter, and called him "Little Taiwei".

Although this is a trivial matter, it made Tong Guan lose face, and Yao Pingzhong became famous in Guanzhong, and in terms of the result alone, it can be regarded as stepping on Tong Guan to become famous.

Seeing Tong Guan glaring at him, Yao Pingzhong hurriedly smiled and said, "Lord Taiwei, the lower official is just talking about his thoughts, and the Taiwei doesn't care, don't take it seriously." ”

Tong Guan sneered: "Yao Xiyan, with you here, where does the old man dare to call him a captain, who doesn't know your name as a lieutenant!" ”

Yao Pingzhong clicked his lips, after all, he was not eighteen years old, and he didn't dare to speak, his eyes were wandering, and he turned around Liu Yanqing and Xin Xingzong, and the two of them frowned.

Zhao Ta knew that Tong Guan was cautious, although according to the normal trajectory of development, Tong Guan Jindian ordered the generals of the Western Army to conquer Fang La, and also ordered Yao Pingzhong to accompany the army, but afterwards he was rewarded for meritorious deeds, and he was suppressed again, did not let him come out, and did not even let him participate in the celebration banquet to meet Emperor Daojun.

Zhao Ta could only play a round at this time, and said with a smile: "Xiyan, don't offend Tong Shumi, don't you know that Tong Shumi is looking for a disciple to inherit right now?" I can't say that you have a clear bone, you are a martial arts wizard who is unique in ten thousand, and he will take you back to the past and practice that peerless martial arts. ”

Yao Pingzhong shrank his neck in fright when he heard this, and even Liu Yanqing and the others didn't dare to look at it.

Tong Guan looked at Yao Pingzhong and snorted: "Don't think about peerless martial arts, I heard that there are a few people in charge of the East Kitchen and Dining Room, but it is a poor oil, water and fertilizer, the old man can recommend you to go over there, and the day is easy." ”

Yao Pingzhong's face twitched immediately, but he just sneered, and used a pair of boots to slam the ground, and couldn't help scolding his mother in his heart.

Zhao Ta shook his head secretly, where is there still an atmosphere of discussion, it can be seen that in the past, Tong Guan led the army, and most of them were in the same word, and they did not allow others to speak.

He said: "It's better to get down to business, no matter how the troops are combined and divided, they must come up with a charter, how to distribute, how to march, and where to go first, all of them will be told and heard." ”

After he opened his mouth, he started to talk again, but he said everything, and there were some other strategic tricks, but most of them were some useless schemes, and Zhao Tazhi frowned when he heard it.

After drinking three bowls of tea in a row, Zhao Ta gradually stopped talking, Zhao Ta tapped the table with his fingers, and said slowly: "This king thinks that it is okay to divide the army, and there is no big difference, it is this ...... of the army."

When Zhao Ta said this, he looked at Tong Guan with a smile.

Tong Guan was puzzled and said, "Lord Wang......"

Zhao Ta shook his head: "This combined army is going south, but it is mainly based on Tong Shumi, or is it mainly based on this king?" ”

Well? Tong Guan was stunned when he heard this, and then he thought that he had ignored this matter, almost all of the soldiers in the past were mainly led by him, so he never thought about this this time, but now it is negligent.

He naturally didn't want to let go of his military power, not that he wanted to hand over the hundreds of thousands of the Western Army to Zhao Ta, after all, this was the official holy decree for him to take with him, but when the time came to join forces, everything would definitely have to be decided by Zhao Ta, but this was something he was unwilling to accept.

Tong Guan prides himself on using soldiers like a god, and he has always been a man of his word in the army, he doesn't want others to have the final say, and he is even more afraid that if he gets used to it, he will also use himself as the boss, and offend Zhao Ta by saying the wrong thing and doing the wrong thing, then the two are not beautiful.

But at this time, the words had already been said here, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Naturally, the prince is the main one, and the ministers obey orders." ”

Zhao Ta laughed when he heard this, and said: "Tong Shumi, you want to steal leisure, but this king should not bring so many soldiers, the day after day of fighting, this king is tired and tired, and the more than 30,000 people under his command are too lazy to bring it." ”

Tong Guan heard the meaning of Zhao Ta's words, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said tentatively: "Then the prince means that he plans to divide his troops to fight the thieves?" ”

Zhao Ta thought for a while: "It's not easy to divide the troops, after all, at the moment, although Fang La retreated to Muzhou, it was impossible to judge whether he planned to stick to this place or continue to retreat to other cities. ”

Tong Guan said: "Although it is said that the lair of this thief chief is in Muzhou, since he has been called a puppet emperor, where will he take care of such a place, I am afraid that it will not be a safer place in the rear." ”

Zhao Tan groaned: "This king thinks it might as well be like this, Tong Shumi led an army of 100,000 to the southeast to recover Yue, Taiwan and other places, and if Fang La continues to retreat, he will definitely go to Yuezhou, the capital of eastern Zhejiang." ”

Tong Guan nodded yes, and Zhao Ta continued: "Here, let Liu Dutong lead the rest of the Western Army to attack Mu and She, so that Fang La will have nowhere to escape." ”

Tong Guan said cautiously when he heard this: "But Lord Wang, if the minister takes away 100,000 troops, then the remaining Western Army will be more than 20,000 troops, Muzhou is the borderline, I am afraid that there are many soldiers and generals, and Liu Dutong is ...... here."

Zhao Ta waved his hand: "This king is acting from the side, Tong Shumi doesn't have to worry!" ”

Tong Guan nodded, Liu Yanqing is a person he understands, it's okay to fight a steady battle, if you fight something to win more with less, or a surprise attack or something, he is not good at it, to put it bluntly, he is decent, and he is not good at being good.

However, with Zhao Ta echoing on the side, he was relieved, after all, this King of Qin has a remarkable record, what he said before is not a boast of breaking ten with one and shaking the past and the present, but this also relatively proves that King Qin is good at making surprise soldiers, because only strange soldiers can play such a victory against the sky.

In this way, there should be no problem in taking Muzhou, and more importantly, no matter which side Fang La is, he will not be able to run away from the credit.

If Fang Lazhen retreated to Vietnam, Taiwan and other states, once he was captured or killed, he would have a great success.

If Fang La stays in Muzhou's lair, or retreats to help Yuan, then since Liu Yanqing is his subordinate, the credit belongs to him and Zhao Ta, and he can also get half of it.

Thinking of this, Tong Guan stood up and saluted: "Then there is Lord Lao!" ”

Zhao Ta knew that Tong Guan was calculating, and smiled: "How can Daofu still be polite to me, it's all a state affair, what is hard work." ”

This is quite a lot of intimacy, but it is measured, Tong Guan hurriedly said: "What the prince said is very true. ”

After the deliberations were completed, the soldiers and horses were reorganized for two days, and then Tong Guan ordered 100,000 western troops, and went straight to the southeast to kill.

And Liu Yanqing took the remaining more than 20,000 soldiers, cautiously all the way, and went to Muzhou to investigate the truth and truth.

The Western Army came with a total of 150,000 people this time, Tong Guan gave Zhu Ruli 6,000, and his own family took away 100,000, and Liu Yanqing only had more than 20,000 left, that is, about 20,000 were lost in Suzhou alone.

This war consumption is actually very large, after all, this is the Western Army, it is an army that has grown up to fight with the Western Xia, although there are many soldiers in Suzhou, but this kind of loss is also amazing.

On the second day of Liu Yanqing's departure, Zhao Ta called Zhe Kecun and Yao Pingzhong, and asked the two of them to lead 10,000 horses each, and they responded from the back, and they could discuss with Liu Yanqing when they encountered things.

Before leaving, Zhao Ta saw Zhe Kecun again, and said, "Chief, if you see that Po Han Wu, bring it back to this king." ”

He remembered that when he first came to Beijing, he went to report to the Guards and Military Division, and Zhao Ta asked Han Shizhong, but he didn't know where he knew, and now he asked again, which shows that he attaches great importance to it.

However, Han Shizhong was originally his subordinate, and there was no problem with bringing him over, but why didn't Zhao Ta ask Liu Yanqing directly before?

It is impossible for Zhao Tazi to ask Liu Yanqing, Han Shizhong is not a high official now, no matter what his military position is, his official rank is only a lieutenant in the martial arts.

This lieutenant is an eight-rank military officer, and he is not even as big as Zhou and others in Zhao Ta's mansion, and the three commanders of Su Shi, Zhou, and Qian Wenxi in the palace not only have military positions, but also are military officers, that is, they are sent, and Wu Xiaodao and others below also have official ranks, not in vain, and they are only bigger than Han Shizhong.

Therefore, Zhao Tan couldn't ask Liu Yanqing about it, the difference in identity was too great, lest others think too much, if there was no discount to save, then he would ask in desperation, there was a fold to exist, and Han Shizhong in the Western Army was a subordinate who could be saved, so there was no need to do it like that.

After sending two people, Zhao Ta was not idle, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left in the city, so let Du Yan and Zhang Xian train every day, every time these soldiers and horses can't stand the hardship and can't hold on, they say that there is countless money in Fang La's army, and now they are all with the army, and once they win the battle, they will all be searched out and distributed to everyone.

As soon as the soldiers heard this, they all came to the spirit, the reward money sent to them last time was not a few, enough to cover the military salary of a year, if you come a few more, after returning to Tokyo, you can buy a house if you don't have a house, you can marry a woman who doesn't have a mother-in-law, and you can go shopping around the fence casually if you have anything.

But what they didn't know was that Zhao Ta had given three times as much reward to the commander of the Dragon Guard.

There is no way, these two commanders are the descendants of Zhao Ta, and Zhao Ta has poured too much effort into the thousand cavalry under these two commands, although the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army is not of great use, but the big one among the short ones, this thousand people are the best among them.

Zhao Ta not only focused on cultivating all aspects of these two commands, but also had very strict requirements for supplementing battle damages.

The kind of military household that sits on the ground is not wanted, it is best to be a person who joins the army from outside, although this kind of outsider can only enter the box army or the township soldier at the beginning, but after Zhao Ta is selected from it, if he meets the conditions, he will be directly promoted to the forbidden army.

There is also the fact that Gaotang's parents are alive and well, and the relatives at home are intertwined, although this sounds harsh, but it is actually the easiest, because many outsiders are homeless or unable to eat to come to Tokyo to beg for a living, and there are no relatives here at all, and most of the parents in their hometown are gone.

There are still some side requirements for the rest, and then there is the screening of quality and temperament, physical courage, strength and speed, and only when everything is met, it will be added to the command of the first nine picks.

These two commanders want to be like the Scarlet Pioneer Regiment, it is not enough to be a descendant, but he must slowly build himself into his own person.

In the evening, Zhao Ta went to the guest room at the back of the house to eat, Zhu Xiuniang was silent, Zhao Ta did not speak, and left after eating chopsticks.

For the next few days, he was like this every day, and he had the posture of eating here from now on, Zhu Xiuniang first saw him coming, so he avoided it directly, not sharing the table with him, but then he didn't know what to think, and he didn't leave anymore, but he still refused to speak.

On this day, Zhao Tan came over to eat as usual, and halfway through the meal, Ding Da Crab outside suddenly knocked on the door and said, "Lord Wang, urgent military situation." ”

Zhao Ta said: "Take it to me!" ”

The maid Qingxing went out to take the secret letter and held it to Zhao Ta, Zhao Ta opened it and saw that it was Tong Guan, and Wuzhou was recovered......

(End of chapter)