Broken spears and broken knives, flags were folded in the field, corpses were ambushed for hundreds of miles, and blood flowed like rivers.

A great battle did not gradually die down until the evening, the cold autumn was desolate, the west wind was fierce, and the scene could not bear to see.

The smell of fish in the air is pervasive, and it does not dissipate for a long time, and the afterglow of the sunset is sprinkled, and the light shines on the front of the pass, and it is as red as blood.

The complete victory was almost a process of mountain collapse and sea cracking, and the Western Xia army in Guannan was attacked from both sides, and completely collapsed in a short moment.

Although Qin Ming and Hu Yanzhuo only brought 3,000 light horsemen, they were the elite of a hundred battles, and then they covered up behind their backs, and they were caught off guard, which was to directly kill and kill the Western Xia army!

Luda and Li Yanxian in front led forty or fifty thousand horses, which was not much less than the Western Xia army, charging head-on, the Western Xia army was in confusion, and it was difficult to take care of the head and tail, and it was still possible to barely hold on under the command of Mangfeng, but the Liangshan cavalry behind was too powerful, and it was directly chiseled in.

Even if the Western Xia army has been on the battlefield for a long time, it is panicked at this time and does not know where to deal with it, both places are fierce, and they are suddenly defeated.

In this battle, more than 30,000 Western Xia troops were annihilated, about 20,000 were captured, and thousands of them ran away without realizing where they went.

Originally, he couldn't capture so many people, and many of them had already fled to the south, and they could see that they would be able to survive, but they didn't dare to meet Song Jiang and lead the infantry army over.

Song Jiang was overjoyed when he saw this scene, knowing that it was a credit, and immediately ordered to be intercepted, pitiful of these Western Xia troops, who were already tired of attacking the city, and were attacked from both sides by surprise attacks......

Xiakou Guannan won a complete victory, and Xiakou Guanbei did not continue to confront, and the Western Xia army of Guanbei did not know the news of Guannan, so they gave Zhao Ta a chance.

As soon as the war in the south calmed down a little, Zhao Ta immediately sent someone to send a letter to Du Yan, ordering him to lead his troops out of the city to attack and kill, regardless of the cost, but also to destroy the soldiers and horses led by Richard in the north.

After Du Yan received the order, he almost poured out of the nest, and got Zhao Ta's strategy, and shouted loudly while rushing to kill: The Xia soldiers in the south are annihilated, surrender quickly, if you don't surrender, you will kill no one!

Originally, Brother Richard brought these people, although there were remnants of the previous defeat, and some of them were temporarily dispatched by the Xiangqing army, but they were all elites, no worse than the soldiers in the pass, and they could fight hard.

But as soon as Du Bai shouted that Guannan had won a big victory and killed the Xia soldiers over there, the team led by Brother Richard panicked.

Even Richard began to be suspicious, because if the war in the south had not been calmed down, how could the north be so desperate to kill? This is unreasonable military situation!

Then there was a fierce battle, but unexpectedly, more and more people poured out of the Guannai, it turned out that Guannan had all the empty manpower to come to support, so at a glance, the situation was clear, it is very likely that the Song army did not lie, and the Guannan side may have really been defeated.

In this way, people's hearts are even more at a loss, not long after, the Xia army in the north of the Guanbei was defeated and fled, Du Yan was naturally unwilling to give up this great opportunity, led the army and horses to chase all the way, until the sky was dark, still on the ancient road was poor, and did not return to the city.

Zhao Ta sat in the lobby of the military mansion at the mouth of the Xiakou, at this time the lights inside and outside were bright, half of the pass was full of torches, hanging lanterns, as if it was daytime.

The four doors were opened, Zhao Ta sat in a handsome chair, and Song Jiang took people to meet him.

After the ceremony, the demeanor was neat, each standing on both sides, Zhao Ta looked at them one by one, looking at the eighteen people in Liangshan, at this moment, the dust was served, and the blood stains on the body of the enemy had not dried, except for Li Kui who looked up in a few stunned eyes, all the rest bowed their heads respectfully, and they did not dare to come out.

Zhao Ta's gaze swept back and forth a few times, and finally fell on Song Jiang, sighing: "I haven't seen you for a few years, Gongming has lost weight." ”

When Song Jiang heard this, he fell to the ground with a "plop" sound, burst into tears, and sobbed: "My subordinates are grateful to the prince for their concern, and my subordinates have fought against Tian Hu in Hebei all these years, and they have never forgotten the teachings of the prince back then, and they always want to be able to listen to the teachings of the prince again, but I didn't expect that there will be another chance in this life, and it is really a great fortune for the subordinates to come to the prince again." ”

Zhao Ta smiled and said, "Gongming, get up and speak." ”

Song Jiang got up from the ground: "The prince did a major summer event, the world shook, the people cheered, although his subordinates have no special skills, but they also ask for orders to beg to be the pawn of the prince's horse, follow the work of dogs and horses, stick knives in both ribs, and never give up." ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Gongming is serious." ”

waved his hand and asked him to go back, and then his eyes fell back, eighteen people in Liangshan, and standing at the back was Song Qing, the iron fan.

At this time, Song Qing was still holding a little boy in his hand, not very old, only three or four years old, looking at Zhao Ta cutely.

Song Qing saw Zhao Ta coming over, hurriedly bent down and saluted, Zhao Ta said, "Gongliang come here." ”

The Song and Qing Dynasty are bright, and among the people of Liangshan, there are not many words, even less than half, and generally speaking, those who have not studied in the school have no words.

Even Luda doesn't have a word, so Zhao Ta has always been commensurate with his law name Zhishen, and Wu Song doesn't have a word, so Zhao Ta calls him Erlang.

Most of the teachers give this word, if it is a scholarly family, there are also families to take, or the elders to take it.

The Great Song Dynasty is not compared to the previous dynasty, the age of taking the word is earlier, generally twelve years old, Sima Guang changed the "Rites and Rites", and placed the crown ceremony at the head of all the rites, "the beginning of the crown ceremony", "men can be crowned from 12 to 20 years old".

Song Qing immediately walked forward when he heard this, and Zhao Ta said again: "Take Anping and I'll see it." ”

Song Qing turned around and took his son Xiao Anping, and went over to salute again, Zhao Ta looked at the little boy and said, "Is there enlightenment?" ”

Xiao Anping was puzzled, and immediately looked up at Song Qing, Song Qing said ashamedly: "Lord, the dog has been living in Tokyo, and he has just received it not long ago, and he has not yet opened his studies. ”

Zhao Ta touched his chin, this Song Qing son is very good at reading, he originally developed normally, and he also won the imperial examination, and he was still a leader, and later became a bachelor of Hanlin.

"It's not small, you can read." Zhao Ta said: "What do you think of Mr. Kaimeng?" ”

"This ......" Song Qing couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, it turned out that there were also people who read poetry and books on Liangshan, such as Xiao Rang, a holy hand scholar, but when Xiao Rang was in Hebei, he was killed by Tian Hu's stealing camp.

Now there are only people left, and Wu Yong and Zhu Wu have read more, so they can be enlightenment teachers for Xiao Anping.

Wu Yongzi pedant, nicknamed Zhiduoxing, and Mr. Jialiang, was originally Mr. Dongxi Village Private School, Yuncheng County, Jeju, Shandong, and was born as a teacher, so there must be no problem in being enlightened.

Although Zhu Wu also studied, but never became a teacher, Zhu Wu was born as a scholar, his parents died when he was a child, and he worked with the rich Wang family, and later read with the two sons of the Wang family.

He was born smart, read hard, the second son of the Wang family has not yet read well, he can recite it, and there is a good strength, and like fists and feet, privately with the teacher on the Zhuangzi and learn to use guns and sticks, to the twenties, not only proficient in poetry and books, but also practiced a body of martial arts, good at double swords, more than a dozen people can not get close to him.

Later, Zhu Wu experienced some rights and wrongs, went away for several years, and Chen Da and Yang Chun were like-minded, became brothers, and then put up a lawsuit, even if he was resourceful and decisive, but the lawsuit was to settle the matter with a lot of money.

To be honest, although these two people are both literate and can be regarded as their own brothers, Song Qing doesn't want these two to enlighten their sons.

The reason is very simple, he knows Wu Yong too well, and he sees Wu Yong's temperament too thoroughly, Wu Yong is a thoughtful, insidious and ruthless person, and his personality is not lenient, eager for quick success, and unscrupulous means to achieve his goals.

Such a person is not suitable to be a teacher, especially not to be enlightened.

It's not that he is disgusted and opposed to Wu Yong's methods, there are really few people on Liangshan who are completely clean, even if it is him, his subordinates are not clean and pure, but he doesn't want his son to be contaminated with this character.

Since you want to study and take the road of a gentleman, you can't find such a gentleman to be enlightened, the so-called close to Zhu is red, and close to ink is black, Song Qing still knows this truth.

His eldest brother Song Jiang has been running around all these years, for what? Isn't it just to change one's background and achieve a leap in identity, then the best way out is naturally to study, not to fight and kill, and to find a good gentleman and a gentleman from the beginning of reading, not Wu Yong and others.

As for Zhu Wu, it was just the opposite, not because he understood, but because he didn't understand it.

Although he knocked his head on the ground in Liangshan, he also knew Zhu Wu's origin, but Song Qing didn't know anything about this person, he didn't talk much on the mountain before, and he was always happy and angry, and no one knew what he was thinking.

What's more, Zhu Wu is a person who knows martial arts, although it is said that martial arts can defend oneself and also keep fit, but to be honest, Song Qing doesn't want Xiao Anping to learn.

On the one hand, he knows the principle of single-mindedness and refinement, and often learns too much and miscellaneous, but none of them can be the best, and there is also the principle of chivalry and forbiddenness.

After learning martial arts, you are bold, you always want to try your skills, and it is inevitable to go out and cause trouble, whether it is a violent fight or a war of bullying others, it is not beneficial to study, and it is even easy to lose yourself.

Therefore, Song Qing didn't want Xiao Anping to study with Zhu Wu.

"Lord Wang, this subordinate has not yet decided, and the subordinate plans to talk about it when he is stable......"

Zhao Ta smiled slightly when he heard this, thought for a while, and said, "Don't you know the truth that you don't listen to things outside the window and only read the books of sages?" Reading has nothing to do with peace and stability. ”

"The prince's lesson is ......" Song Qing heard Zhao Ta's words, so he had to take it hard, originally just wanted to prevaricate in the past, but at the moment it was not good to talk about it, and secretly thought in his heart that if he offended people, he would offend people, after all, the lesser of two evils, King Qin could never be offended, and others could only be put second.

"Lord Wang, it's just that there is no suitable gentleman at the moment, so my subordinates didn't plan to enlighten Anping."

Hearing Song Qing say this, Zhao Ta's eyes narrowed, the corners of his mouth curled, and his gaze swept over Wu Yong and Zhu Wu, "There is no suitable gentleman?" ”

"Yes, it's the prince's ......" Song Qingne said authentically, saying that today he completely offended Mr. Jia Liang and the Shenji Military Division, both of whom have always regarded themselves as scholars, but they said that there was no suitable enlightenment teacher, and the two of them were ugly, and they had to hate them.

I only saw that Wu Yong lowered his eyebrows slightly at this time, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his mouth, and his mouth looked at his heart, and he didn't make any moves, but his face was a little darker.

Zhu Wu reached out and touched his beard, and his smile became stronger.

Zhao Ta tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Xiao Anping with a smile: "Do you want to read?" ”

Xiao Anping doesn't really know what it means to read at this age, but if you ask him if he wants it or not, he will naturally say anything.

"Yes, you want to read!"

"If you want to read, ......" Zhao Ta nodded: "Do you know what it means to read?" ”

Xiao Anping blurted out that it was delicious, but when he heard that the name didn't look like cake candy or anything like that, he looked up at Song Qing.

Song Qing took a hard breath, then arched his hand to the sky, and said: "The Holy Emperor of Zhenzong Zhang has a saying, the rich family does not need to buy good land, there are thousands of Zhongsu in the book, there is no need to raise the hall to live in peace, there is a golden house in the book, don't hate no one to go out, there are many cars and horses in the book, don't hate to marry a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, the man wants to follow his life, and the six classics are diligent to read in front of the window!" ”

Zhao Ta narrowed his eyes, showed a meaningful smile, and looked at Song Qing.

Over there, Song Jiang looked surprised, and also looked at Song Qing, only to see that this brother's face was deferential and pure, but there was a faint and incomprehensible meaning in it, which was dark and difficult to understand.

When did Shiro memorize poems? Or is it the poem of the former emperor?

Song Jiang's eyebrows trembled, although his brothers and sisters had both read, they didn't read well, and they couldn't get famous, among them, he was even stronger, at least he could write and calculate, and he could also compose two crooked poems, otherwise he wouldn't be able to be a powerful official like the Charge.

But Song Qing has been naughty since he was a child, not to mention writing, he can't even memorize the simplest poems, how can he suddenly memorize it at this moment? Ever since I grew up, I've never seen him read a single page of a book.

Song Jiang was a little puzzled, and his expression was puzzled.

Zhao Ta looked at Song Qingdao and said: "Gongliang, this is not yours, since you remember this persuasion to learn poetry, why don't you teach your son and let him open up earlier?" ”

Song Qing suddenly sweated and said: "Lord Wang, it was his subordinates who neglected this matter, and I will teach the dog to know when I turn around." ”

Zhao Ta looked at Xiao Anping in front of him, and saw that this little boy was very generous, and he didn't flinch, and couldn't help but say: "I have a son named Zhao Xi, and Gongliang is like your son's age, and after returning to Xining in triumph in the future, you might as well go to the house to study." ”

Song Qing couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and Song Jiang hurriedly said, "Shilang, don't hurry up and thank the prince!" ”

Song Qing hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Lord Wang, the dog He De, he was able to accompany the prince to school, my subordinates thank you for the prince's lift, thank you for the prince's kindness!" ”

At this time, everyone next to him showed a look of envy, in the eyes of these people, they have always thought that Song Qingping is not very useful, if it is not for Song Jiang's younger brother, I am afraid that he will not have the qualifications to rank in Liangshan, and he can neither give advice nor fight on the battlefield, everything depends on fate.

But this good life is also a skill, and the children of their own family can accompany the son to study, which is afraid that only the treatment of the relatives will have.

Zhao Ta raised his hand to call Song Qing to get up, and at this time, Du Yan brought people back, and after entering the lobby to meet the salute, he began to report the military situation.

He and Zhang Xian led people to chase down Richard's team all the way, beheaded countless people, and almost exterminated each other, but it was a pity that Richard was fast, and under the protection of all his relatives, he escaped.

Zhao Ta pondered for a moment and said: "Straighten out the soldiers and horses, hurry up and surrender the prisoners, and prepare to march to Shunzhou at any time!" ”

(End of chapter)