Fu Song

Chapter 318 The vicissitudes of life
Even if they were reluctant, Xia Jie, who was the chief assistant of the Song Dynasty, and Chen Gui, the envoy of the Privy Council, had to start thinking about war.

If Li Xu was still a hungry wolf back then, then Xiao Ding is definitely a tiger now.

The core professional army under Li Xu's command is only [-] to [-] people, and the rest are temporarily recruited, with limited combat effectiveness.But Xiao Ding is completely different.

It is said that he controls [-] strings, he really has nearly [-] soldiers and horses.

Because for the past two years, Xiao Ding has been fighting.

First, Li Xu was tied, and his strength went up to a new level.Then he drove Li Xu to run to Qingtang, then destroyed Qingtang, collected Yuzang Huama, and his strength increased again.Then he drove Li Xu to the Western Regions. In more than a year, he wiped out more than a dozen city-states in the Western Regions, and the Uighurs and Xiren became his subordinates.

Li Xu was exhausted in the process of being chased, exhausted and died, his son Li Hao disappeared.Xiao Ding squeezed out the last trace of his use value.

Looking back, Xiao Ding started to have constant conflicts with the Liao people's Xijing Road, which made Yeluhuan complain incessantly.

According to the news that came just now, a large tribe under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, the Beizhubu people, was exterminated by Xiao Ding again.Xiao Ding's soldiers and horses have already passed Heiji, successively established the West Surrender City, and now they are building the Central Shou Surrender City.

If Xiao Yu didn't die, what a wonderful situation this would be!

Xia Jie only regretted it now, and did not try his best to stop Cui Ang's bad idea.

It was Cui Ang who suggested to the officials to imprison Xiao Yu under the pretext of King Jing's rebellion, and then coerce Xiao Ding to return to Bianliang, and use Xiao Ding's return in exchange for Xiao's innocence and King Jing's safety. Unpredictable people take advantage of opportunities.

Xiao Yu died, it is unclear.

The murderer has disappeared without a trace. No matter whether it is the Imperial City Division or the government offices of various places, the head of the imperial prison cannot be found. This person seems to have evaporated from the world.

In fact, Xia Jie knew that this person was probably already dead.

Even if he sent this person to do such a great thing, he would never tolerate him surviving.

It's hard to tell when a person is dead.

It has to be said that the enemy did a clean job.

The same problem happened again to Mrs. Xiao and Mrs. Han.

This time it was even worse.

Because Mrs. Han died in front of Quan Gong, the Chief Chief of the Inner Palace and Commander of the Imperial City Division.After an extremely chaotic fight, it is impossible to verify who shot that arrow. Everyone was arrested, even Quan Gong was no exception, but just like Xiao Yu's death, it was still There is no evidence whatsoever.

Just prepare to fight.

It's hard to say how loyal Xiao Ding is, but it's an indisputable fact that his parents are dead. He can't afford to take revenge with soldiers, even Xia Jie thinks it can't be justified.

More importantly, Xiao Ding's subordinates really didn't have many Song people, but there were mostly Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Uyghur people, Xi people and other mixed Yi people, and the army was also dominated by these people.

Do these people have any loyalty to Da Song?

Don't even think about it.

Like these elites of the Yi nationality, they would even dream of fighting against the Song Dynasty. Such a good opportunity came, how could they let it go?

Even if Xiao Ding still hesitated, they would definitely push behind Xiao Ding.

Get ready for war!
Fortunately, after Xiao Yu's death, he sent Zhang Chao out, although there was still a glimmer of hope at that time.

It now appears that this is a wise move.

The second piece of good news came from the southwest.

According to Li Fang's memorial, Xiao Cheng, the second son of the Xiao family, absconded in fear of crime and has disappeared, and is currently being searched vigorously.

Regarding Li Fang's words, whether Xia Jie or stereotypes, he didn't believe a single word.

However, both of them received what Li Fang had passed on.

Southwest will be fine.

This made both Xia Jie and Chen Gui breathe a sigh of relief.

At the beginning, the news that the eunuch Quanquan sent someone back and the situation that the Imperial City Secretary had inquired made everyone worried.

It was only a little over a year since Xiao Jiaerlang went to the Southwest, but his power has developed to such a degree that he can overwhelm the sky in Qianzhou and its subordinate Jimi Prefecture.

If there is a fight in the northwest, the huge amount of money and food that will be needed at that time must be transported from the south. If the southwest is also in chaos and the money and food cannot be transported to the northern front in time, wouldn't it be a disaster?

What I am most afraid of is that the Liao people took the opportunity to collude with Xiao Ding to attack Hebei Road at the same time, and the Song Dynasty would be in danger.

Naturally, Xiao Cheng will not disappear, and his people are still in Qianzhou, but he has reached an agreement with Li Fang.

Take a look at the candidates for the magistrate of Qianzhou and the Tiannan Army submitted by Li Fang, as well as the formal formation of the Tianwu Army and Tianwei Army that Xiao Cheng made up, and the candidates for the command of these two armies. I know what's tricky here.

But as long as there is no chaos in the southwest, these are all tolerable.

"Xiao Erlang is a scholar after all." Xia Jie sighed very much: "He should have seen clearly that if the world is really in chaos, only the Liao people will benefit."

"Now we can only kill Xiao Dalang first, and then talk about Xiao Erlang." Chen Gui said helplessly, "It's just Zhiyan. Do you think Zhang Chao has a chance of winning against Xiao Ding?"

Xia Jie was expressionless: "If you want to have a chance of winning, you have to recruit Liao people."

"With the greed of the Liao people, I'm afraid this price is unbearable for us."

"We don't want the Great Northwest, as long as they can take Xiao Ding, it's theirs. We only want the Hengshan line!" Xia Jie took a deep breath: "In addition, it is also acceptable to add more old coins. "

"What if the other party puts forward more territorial demands on Hebei Road?" Chen Gui asked. "For example, Xiongzhou, Bazhou!"

"It's impossible!" Xia Jie shook his head: "Let's talk slowly, Yelujun is not without enemies in the country, he needs to get enough benefits so that he can ascend to the throne of God without any obstacles, so he must be I hope the negotiations can be successful, not collapse. The succession of the throne of the Liao Kingdom has always been a bloody storm. As long as we overcome the current difficulties, in the next few years, both of us will be able to calm down for a few more years. With us The recovery ability will naturally recover soon."

Xia Jie said it seemed very easy, but Chen Gui let out a long sigh, how could it be so easy?

First, there was a disastrous defeat on Hebei Road, and tens of thousands of elite frontier troops were wiped out. More importantly, those experienced frontier generals were also slaughtered because of some people's selfishness.

The soldiers are gone, but the generals are still there. It may only take a few years to train an elite soldier, but now, there are no more experienced generals, which is very difficult.

As the saying goes, blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. At this moment, Xiao Ding made another big mistake.

Such a big deal fell into Yelujun's hands, how could he not make full use of it?

The other party will definitely maximize their interests.

He looked at Xia Jie, and found that there was actually no relaxed expression in the other's eyes.

If Zhang Chao could stand up to Xiao Ding on Shaanxi Road, it would be much easier for the court to negotiate with the Liao people.

However, can the soldiers and horses on the Shaanxi Road really withstand the experienced Western Army like wolves and tigers?

As if he had seen through the outdated ideas, Xia Jie said: "Jing Sheng, don't forget, there is Li Du on Shaanxi Road, and he has tens of thousands of Dingnan troops who are capable of conquering and fighting well, and he also owns Siwu Pass."

"I'm afraid Cui Ang won't be able to come back!" Chen Gui said, "He might be killed by Xiao Ding to sacrifice the flag."

"Do you want him to come back?" Xia Jie said with a smile: "A lot of things happened because of this person. It was a good game, but it turned into a devastated place now. Cui Ang, a sinner, died in Xiao Ding's hands. The imperial court will give him a pension in the future, and give him a posthumous name, which is really cheap for him."

Chen Gui didn't make a sound, took a few steps outside, and turned to look at Xia Jie: "Zhi Yan, when you used this incident to achieve your goal of returning to Bianliang, you didn't expect that today would happen, did you? "

Xia Jie closed his mouth and looked at the other party with piercing eyes.

"I'm not the only one who saw it, Zhi Yan, if you still think that everything is under your control like you were ten years ago, then you are not far from being defeated again in Maicheng. " Chen Gui said coldly.

"If I knew what happened today, I would rather stay in Hebei forever and never come back!" Xia Jie sighed, "I never thought King Jing would rebel, and Xiao Yu and his wife would die. Jing Sheng, I don't want you as bad as that."

After a moment of silence, Chen Gui nodded and strode out.

"I think so!" His voice came from afar.

"What is it?" Luo Song's voice came from outside.

"Feng Chen is here?" Xia Jie felt a little headache, the last thing he wanted to see now was Luo Song, but as a political counselor and the second in command of the East Mansion, how could he avoid Luo Song?
He knew why Luo Song came to him at this time.

Sure enough, Luo Song's buttocks were not yet settled, and he had already opened his mouth: "Zhi Yan, what's going on? Have I lost even a little bit of face? Xiao Yu and his wife are dead, I don't want to say anything more, because It's useless. But Mrs. Xiao San is the daughter-in-law of my Luo family. Don't worry about releasing her and handing her over to me?"

"Fengchen!" Xia Jie was a little annoyed: "If Xiao Ding raised his flag to rebel, it would be treason and he would be punished by the family. You still have to protect this third lady Xiao at this time. This kind of loyalty, I, someone Xia Admired, but as a political adviser, you can't be confused about this matter."

"A married woman is the water that is poured out. Even if Xiao Ding rebelled, he would not be able to catch up with the married daughter." Luo Songdao: "Zhiyan, what is the official plan? Detain Xiao Sanniang What's going on in the palace?"

"Don't worry, Mrs. Xiao San has not suffered any grievances with Concubine Pang."

"Father and mother died in such a short period of time, but her mother still died in her arms, did you feel wronged by her?" Luo Song said angrily.

"Okay, this matter, the officials have their own considerations. Since you are here, let's discuss the allocation of money and food. The current third division is in a mess. Li Guang is not the material, and you should master it. It's about the stall." Xia Jie waved his hand.

Shanxi Road, Jingzhao Mansion, Yamen of the comfort envoy.

Li Du and Li Dan sat together, laughing and talking about something.Li Dan didn't like this person, and even hated him a little bit, because a few years ago Li Du led his troops out of Siwu Pass, and the whole Suide suffered a catastrophe.And Li Dan, at that time, was Li Du's opponent.Caught off guard, but suffered a big loss, although the final winner is Li Dan.

But it seems that Li Du doesn't care about this.

Li Du has always been very happy these days, and he is in high spirits every happy event. He even feels that he is many years younger.

Because the Xiao family is finally going to be unlucky!
King Jing rebelled!

Thinking of this incident, Li Du couldn't help laughing.

Such a thing still happens.

Even better, this matter involved the Xiao family.

Accompanied by Cheng Gui, Cui Ang went to Xingqing Mansion, saying that he was trying to persuade Xiao Ding to return to Bianliang, but in fact he was threatening Xiao Ding with the Xiao family members.

When Xiao Ding went back, based on what he had done in the past two years, the imperial court would inevitably settle accounts after the fall, and the Xiao family would not be able to please.

If Xiao decides not to go back, it will be tantamount to treason, and that would be even better.

The world is such a mystery!

From Li Du's point of view, Xiao Ding would definitely not go back, because if he didn't go back, the Xiao family members still had hope of being alive, and if Xiao Ding really wanted to go back, the whole family would die.

A few years ago, the Li family was rebellious. Xiao Ding led the army to put down the rebellion. In two years, everything that the Li family had managed for more than ten years was destroyed. The elder brother died, and the nephew fled to the Western Regions. Got the audio.And he had to surrender in the end.

Now, it's my turn.

When Xiao Ding raised his flag to rebel, he could justifiably avenge his elder brother's family.

Footsteps came from the back hall, Li Du and Li Dan both stood up.

The first person to come out was Lan Sixin, the appeasement envoy of Shaanxi Road, but the person who followed Lan Sixin out made both Li Du and Li Dan dumbfounded.

Zhang Chao.

Taiwei Zhang Chao.

Why is he here?

Li Du and Li Dan looked at each other, and a few big words appeared in their hearts at the same time: "Something has happened!"

However, the mood of the two people is completely different.

Li Delirium was panicked.

Li Du was happy.

Why did Zhang Chao come to Shaanxi Road?What is it worth for a Taiwei who is the only soldier in charge of the dynasty who has just made great achievements on Hebei Road to quietly arrive at Shaanxi Road?
Of course it was because of Xiao Ding from Hengshan.

"Xiao Yu is dead!" Lan Sixin looked at the two of them with a very bad expression on his face: "You two generals, I'm afraid there is going to be a war."

Xiao Yu is dead!

It was as if a heavy hammer had been struck on the heads of two people. Before Li Dan could react, Li Du took a big step forward and said, "Li Du is willing to be sent by the pacifier and the Taiwei to serve the imperial court." Work hard, do your best, and die!"

Lan Sixin nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The official decree, the military on the Shaanxi Road, from the date of Zhang Chao Zhang Taiwei's arrival, Zhang Taiwei will be fully responsible."

(End of this chapter)