Tu Dan Hexi didn't know that Xixia's betrayal was not the most desperate for him.

The most desperate thing was the news brought by his deputy Zhang Zhongyan a few days later.

"Empress, there is news circulating in the territory of Xia State that Liaodong has been pacified by the Restoration Army, and the former staying in Tokyo, who was the emperor in Liaodong, died in the battlefield..."

Zhang Zhongyan ran to Tu Shan Hexi with a look of panic, which undoubtedly gave Tu Shan Hexi a heavy blow.

If Liaodong is over, then the Great Jin Kingdom will be left with only one hundred thousand troops in a mere corner of his place.

This is the last evidence of the existence of the Great Jin Kingdom.

He will lose all the possibilities of foreign aid, he will be completely isolated, and will only lose everything in the constant battle.

It's over.

So Tu Shan Hexi raised his head and said with a wry smile: "Caifu, we are completely alone."

Zhang Zhongyan swallowed and whispered: "Is there really no possibility of redeem?"

"What else is possible? Liaodong is over, and even the ancestral land is gone. How can I save it?"

Tu Shanhexi sighed: "Although we still have 100,000 troops, there is only 100,000 troops. Apart from that, there is nothing left. The Xia Kingdom has at least 200,000 troops that can be fought, and the Restoration Army can also take out 200,000 troops that can be fought. Together, it is 400,000.

Caifu, Guanzhong is a big land and a vast country. It is not fake. It is not fake. But can it resist the attack of 400,000 enemy troops? Can you? Or can I? I can't do it anyway. If 400,000 troops attack, I will resist for at most one month.

Even if all men are issued to join the army, how long can they last? The Restoration Army is a army of battles. No matter how many of us are, we are still a mob and cannot be hostile to it at all."

Zhang Zhongyan sat on the chair and was stunned for a while.

"It's really over?"

"Almost."

"Don't there be any foreign aid?"

"Who can still be a foreign aid? Xia State is despicable and shameless, and has defected to the Liberation Army. Song State... I wish we could die immediately! What else can we do?"

Zhang Zhongyan was silent for a long time and had nothing to say.

Although he was born as a general of Song, he was equivalent to betraying Song and surrendering to Jin after leaving Guanzhong. He could not survive anywhere and would not accept him anywhere. Like Tu Shan Hexi, he surrounded him with amazing isolation.

However, Tu Shan Hexi did not seem to have planned to give up, and he still had to fight.

"Although we have no way out, I don't plan to live a life of silence. I am a general. The general was born to die in the battlefield. Now he is just doing what I should do.

If the Restoration Army comes, I will fight against the Restoration Army. If the Xia army comes, I will fight against the Xia army. If the Song army comes, I will fight against the Song army. Until the last soldier, I will not retreat. In order to repay the emperor's kindness, I will never regret it!"

Tu Shan Hexi knew that he actually had no way out and would fail sooner or later, but at this moment when the Great Jin Kingdom had no hope, he hoped that he could do his best to retain a territory for the Great Jin Kingdom.

So his will is unshakable.

But Zhang Zhongyan did not have a similar will.

He prefers to find a way out for himself than to die in battle.

Zhang Zhongyan was born in the Western Army, strong and good at fighting but good at seeking benefits for himself.

The Western Army of the Song Dynasty can be said to be the only unit in the Song army with strong combat power after the destruction of the Imperial Army, but this unit is not a mere death warrior, but has many plans of its own.

In the long-term competition and cooperation with the civil servants of the court, the soldiers of the Western Army were scared and killed, so they passively mastered a lot of survival skills and were not absolutely loyal to the court.

They were skillfully deducted military pay by the court bureaucrats and Shangguans, skillfully betrayed the truth, and they refused to give the money to give, and the goods they promised to give were gone. The bureaucrats and Shangguans could not know the faces of the court.

They have been wandering on the brink of life and death for a long time, and are also people who lick blood from the edge of a knife, nor are they slaughtered by others. They have gradually learned how to seek benefits for themselves.

They learned to master the opportunity and seek benefits from Shangguan, such as starting to reward money when the three arrows were in the battle, otherwise they would not fire the fourth arrow.

Central civil servants and senior military officers were helpless about this. Although they were very unhappy with such behavior, they dared not take revenge. Otherwise, the army would not be led by, the war would not be fought, and they would not take their own lives.

However, this does not mean that the Western Army is just a group of shameless people, but that the Song Dynasty court is too crooked, and the Western Army generally lacks trust in the Song Dynasty court. It is more important to believe in the money they actually get in hand than to believe in the court's blank checks.

If you want to blame this, you will blame the embarrassing and cumbersome rules of using literature to control martial arts, and you cannot fulfill your promises, so you lose the trust of your soldiers.

If you do such a thing, you cannot blame the soldiers for making a plan first and then the country.

Against this background, many generals in the Western Song army system believed that the Song State was about to fail before and after the Battle of Fuping, and chose to surrender to the Jin army for their own and family considerations.

It was at that time that Zhang Zhongyan and his brother Zhang Zhongfu surrendered to the Jin Kingdom - even though their father died in battle to support Taiyuan besieged by the Jin army.

It can be said that Zhang Zhongyan has never been a stupid person. Whether it was back then or now, he would never die for an unworthy goal.

The Song State had no hope, so he chose the Jin State. The Jin State had no hope, so he also had to find ways to choose other forces to maintain the survival of the family and his own high position.

Now, it's time to choose.

Who should I choose?

Southern Song Dynasty?

No, he also looked down on the Southern Song Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.

When the Jin Kingdom returned to Shaanxi and Henan, he returned to the Song Dynasty and was summoned to Lin'an by Zhao Gou. During that time, Wanyan Zongbi went south again to capture Shaanxi and Henan, and called on the Zhang brothers to go back.

So Zhao Gou really sent them back to the north according to Wanyan Zongbi's wishes.

Although the Zhang brothers did not reject them, can such an emperor in the court believe it?

That's asking for death!

Then choose Xixia?

No, it’s a remote country, a small country, which has no political reputation than the Southern Song Dynasty. It used to hook up with the Jin Dynasty, but now it has hooked up with the Restoration Army at the Speed ​​of Light - it’s faster than me, can you choose?

What a joke!

So Xixia was also excluded.

So what options are there next?

Go west, go to the Western Regions to join a certain tribe or simply join the Western Liao Dynasty?

Don’t know if you can hold on to this old bone, don’t die halfway and become a laughing stock!

Then, there is no choice, there is only one object to choose from.

Zhang Zhongyan looked at Tu Shan Hexi, with a hint of unbearableness flashing in his eyes.

Tu Shan Hexi took care of him and trusted him.

But these unbearable things were soon replaced by a firm desire to survive.

Nothing is more important than surviving yourself.

So, I'm sorry, old sir!

Zhang Zhongyan made up his mind to contact the Liberation Army in private, and planned to give the Liberation Army a convenience at that time in exchange for his own life and family future.

The Liberation Army and the Western Xia army set off troops on the border, eyeing Guanzhong.

The Jin army in Guanzhong was not willing to be outdone, and the soldiers confronted him on the border, showing that he could fight again.

The situation in Guanzhong is about to break out.

At the same time, in Lin'an, Zhang Jun was saying goodbye to the three or five friends who came to see him off.

A month ago, Zhang Jun submitted his resignation to Zhao Gou, begging for bones to return home. Zhao Gou refused three times, Zhang Jun insisted three times, and Zhao Gou agreed for the fourth time.

Zhao Gou made Zhang Jun's mistake but he had been conscientious in his consideration of the country. So he added Zhang Jun to the title of Taishi and was awarded the Liquan Temple free laborer, and he could receive a very generous monthly pension until he died.

Zhang Jun received the order and personally entered the palace to thank Zhao Gou. The king and his minister hugged their heads and cried for a while. Zhang Jun officially said goodbye to Zhao Gou.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Gou, Zhang Jun said goodbye to many of his friends, and invited them to visit his hometown in Sichuan if they had the opportunity in the future. His hometown is green and green, and the scenery is very beautiful. He is willing to travel with his old friends in groups of three or five to spend his life.

He said goodbye with a smile, but his friends really couldn't laugh, and some even came to say goodbye to Zhang Jun in grief.

For example, Chen Junqing.

"I really don't think that the sir needs to voluntarily resign. If the sir stays in the court for one day, then the sir is not allowed to open his eyes. If the sir says one more word, the sir is going to be shocked for a day. Once the sir leaves, there will be no one in the court again! Is this okay?!"

Chen Junqing held Zhang Jun's hand in grief and stared at him.

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Chapter completed!