Chapter 1708 At the moment of national disaster, the infighting is even more fierce
Although he wanted to boast in front of his family members, the Song court in Bianjing sent envoys to test each other. Xiao Tang must also deal with it carefully. After all, it won't take long, and it is very likely to cause trouble.
Today's situation has undergone tremendous changes.
However, on the eve of the envoys sent from Bianliang in Tokyo arriving at Daming Mansion, Xiao Tang heard a few more news. Among them, the news that he paid attention to and sighed the most was: Lao Zhongjing Lue Xianggong Zhongshi Dao, in
Unfortunately, he also passed away from illness a few days ago. At any rate, the court officials came to pay homage in person and issued an imperial edict as a posthumous gift to the third division of Kaifu Yitong. Of course, on the day of the funeral, many generals of the Western Army held memorial ceremonies to commemorate him. Mr. Lao Zhong gave birth to two sons one after another.
He died young during the war with the Xia Kingdom, so his nephew Zhong Lie and his grandson Zhong Yanchong helped bury him, the leader of the Zhong family.
Compared with other descendants of the Western Army generals who had long since died on the battlefield, as well as those defeated generals who lost their divisions due to the defeat and were dismissed and replaced repeatedly without even taking a look at the situation in the court, Mr. Zhong was in his seventies.
He died on the couch at an advanced age and was honored by the imperial court with all the courtesy and respect. This is already an excellent destination. However, according to the funeral ceremony, Zhong Shidao's coffin should have been buried with the Zhong family in Jingzhao Mansion for ten thousand years.
The tomb of the county god Heyuan's family, but now although the Song and Jin countries have temporarily suspended their armies and negotiated a peace treaty, at the time Wanyan Loushi, Nianhan and other generals of the Jin Kingdom had after all taken Yan'an Prefecture, Jingzhao Prefecture and other fortresses in the west of Kansai.
In the area, the local Song armies were still on guard against each other. They wanted to teach Mr. Zhong's remains and his coffin to be returned to his family's ancestral mausoleum for burial, but they had to be sent to a nearby area that was still under the control of the Jin army.
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Another thing that Xiao Tang, a direct teacher, sighed with regret was that compared to his brother, who was still able to be granted a posthumous title by the court and buried in great glory, Xiao Zhong was killed and rescued by the rebel troops near Xiong Ling near Taiyuan.
After all, Mr. Xianggong's body and bones were also punished by the defeat and he was old because of his serious injuries. However, he was ordered by the court to retire. I heard that the body and bones of Mr. Xianggong are also getting worse day by day. Although he is slightly younger than the old Mr.
My husband is, after all, over seventy years old. Even if he is hired by the capricious official Zhao Huan one day, he may not be able to achieve much.
After all, Zhong Shidao, who has always been the leader of the Western Army, is sitting in the army. No matter how old he is, most of the generals of the Western Army obey him.
Shi Yao only wants to be a big influence among the Western Army and monopolize the military power, but Zhong Shidao can still compete with the opponent based on his reputation among the generals of the Western Army. But compared to his brother's reputation and prestige, Zhong Shidao
The division was indeed not enough to deter the remaining generals of the Western Army, especially when Lao and Xiaozhong lost power but were reactivated during the national crisis. Yao Gu, Yao Pingzhong and his son had already begun to secretly confront the two kinds.
(Although Yao Gu and other senior generals of the Western Army could not absolve themselves of the blame, they could only allow the civil servant faction in the court to be demoted to the end. This also taught Yao Pingzhong, the most outstanding young general in the Western Army at the time, to leave the country without hesitation.
Song Ting’s thoughts).
And now that the old Mr. Zhong has passed away suddenly, and the Xiaozhong has completely lost power... Xiao Tang sighed deeply, saying that if he had no choice but to do so, he would not want to teach the Jin people to gain the throne because of the intensified internal strife with the Song Dynasty.
However, according to the current situation, the undercurrents among the factions within the Song Army will become more and more intense. No matter how much I sympathize and respect those loyal ministers who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country and the imperial court,
A martyr, but as the current situation progresses, it seems that he will gradually transform into the Song Dynasty court, the beneficiary of the internal strife in the army...
As if to confirm Xiao Tang's thoughts, brothers Shi Xiu and other brothers who were watching the military confrontation between Jin and Song in Guanxi from the Hedong Road looked at it: Among the few remaining elite generals of the Western Army, they were
Qu Duan, the commander of the Economic and Strategy Department of the rebel army led by Li Xiaozhong who had occupied Huazhou and fought desperately against the Jin army, had refused to send troops to support him. Although he had defeated the Jin army's invasion several times on the eve of the temporary peace talks between the Song and Jin Dynasties, he was increasingly relying on
He was so arrogant that he not only resisted the commander's orders several times, but also threatened that "although the court official Li Gang summoned all the troops to rush to the east of Hedong, he went there without restraint, so he failed and rebelled against Commander Xiao's rebel army to occupy the first place of garrison in Taiyuan."
He ordered the envoys of Guanxi to come forward and allow the imperial court to kill Shangguan and his concubines, annex his army, forcibly detain the generals and officers, seize the seal of Shangguan Jieden, and even the Bianjing court recalled Qu Duan because of repeated troubles with his colleagues.
When he was promoted to the imperial camp secretary, Qu Duan still used excuses to shirk his duties and refused to comply with the decree...
According to the news from the west, Qu Duan was also an official in the Xiaotang Dynasty. During the Song-Xia national war, he obeyed his orders and fought to the death. Now he is finally being used more and more in the Song army.
Wu Jie completely turned against each other, and they were even on the same page, and began to write letters of impeachment to each other. Zhang Jun, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Envoy in the Song Dynasty, who was in charge of the war in the west, seemed to have developed a gap with Qu Duan.
Except for Liu Qi, who also relied on each other's lives during the battle with Xiao Tang, and who has now been promoted to the post of Jingyuan Road Economic Envoy, only a few Song Army generals can survive alone. Colleagues and comrades who originally had to help each other, Xi
The few remaining generals in the army seem to be at war with each other, fighting each other...
The scene when I got along with Wu Jie, who was indeed brave and courageous, and even compared to the many powerful generals under his command now, was only capable of commanding troops in combat, but he was indeed ruthless and decisive in order to achieve his goals, is still vivid.
At this moment, Xiao Tang also thought about the fate that Qu Duan met in the official history because he had repeatedly made enemies and wanted to die. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the vitality of the Western Army's defeat in the fight against the Jin was severely damaged due to the war against Yan.
, but up to now, the internal fighting among the top generals is not only still endless, but has become more and more blatant due to the fall of Lao Xiaozhong. Under the general trend of the current situation, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty was originally known as
The remnants of the Western Army, the cradle of famous generals and strong armies, will inevitably decline.
However, now Xiao Tang also understood that instead of sighing because of the internal fighting between the Song army, from his own standpoint, he might not be unable to take advantage of it. After hesitating for a while, Xiao Tang immediately told Yan Qing beside him
Said: "Teach Sanlang to pay attention to the movements of Zhang Jun, Wu Jie, Qu Duan and other generals of the Song Army to the west. Now that Mr. Lao Zhong has passed away and Mr. Xiao Zhong has lost power, Qu Duan doesn't know how to restrain himself, nor does he behave like one."
Although we and the imperial court have long been estranged from each other, we were able to work together for a while because of the great cause of resisting the invaders... In fact, we still have to be controlled by the imperial court, but we have made such troubles that the generals turned against each other and made enemies again and again, even if they ended up bringing disaster on themselves.
It can also be said that he brought it upon himself... But he was indeed a brave general who worked hard to resist foreign humiliation, even at the risk of death. As for the fact that he caused a quarrel between the generals of the Kansai and Song armies, for me
Wait, maybe we can’t profit from it.”
Yan Qing saw the opportunity and knew the end. After hearing Xiao Tang's words, he immediately said: "When I first met Naqu Duan in Bianjing, my brother was shocked by how unreasonable Na Qu Duan was.
. However, the current situation in the side court is still uncertain. Even if the Song army in the west is really at war with each other, if any of his colleagues have the intention of harming him, let alone the Jingnan army brother Li Xiaozhong deeply hated Qu Duan for refusing to send reinforcements in the first place. He is a human being.
You are headstrong and stubborn, but you really think you can be used by us?"
"Human nature is indeed complex, and it cannot be said clearly in one sentence. He often relies on his talents and arrogance, despises others, violates restraint, and is often prone to enmity and enmity with his colleagues. This is certainly his shortcoming, but he treats his soldiers and people well.
As for his fellow Shangguan, he was highly respected by the soldiers and civilians in the court, and because of his ability to command troops and generals, how many national generals who could not have been accepted by the Song court were able to be reused by us? This is also a precautionary measure, and Naqu
Duan Zhemo also has another great use..."
Xiao Tang said in a long voice, and he suddenly thought about the subsequent records in the history of Song Dynasty about Qu Duan being unjustly killed by Zhang Jun, Wu Jie, Wang Shu, Kang Sui, etc. He successively made enemies and conspired to kill him.
Later, the scholar-bureaucrats in Shaanxi did not hesitate to do it, and both the army and the people were dejected. Many people rebelled and invested money in the matter... Until Zhang Jun was later convicted, Qu Duan had to pursue Duan Xuanzhou as the observer, and his posthumous title was Zhuang Min.
