On the eighth day of the second month, Hui'an Mansion Tribute Courtyard.

On the south courtyard*, four pieces of yellow paper were neatly erected, and the * side was full of examinees who took the exam, some were ecstatic, and some looked up to the sky and sighed.

Lu Yuan also mixed in after changing his appearance, beside him, Sima Rui frowned, as if he was a little dissatisfied, but Lu Yuan could tell from his clenched fists and the corners of his mouth that his displeasure was faked.

He was the forty-sixth in the imperial examination and had the opportunity to serve as an official in other places.

The real tragedy is Wang Hui, his name is not on the list, he has a sluggish look, and he looks a little trance.

Zhang Shouliang was full of smiles, he was the third place, he couldn't help but be unhappy, next to him, Su Qingzhe, who won the first place, was very bland, at least Lu Yuan couldn't see his qi ngxu.

There was a young scholar with a serious face next to Su Qingzhe, he didn't look at the gold list much, and said to Su Qingzhe and Zhang Shouliang: "Brother Su, Brother Zhang, let's go to the restaurant for a drink together." ”

He was the second place in this imperial examination, Fan Yuping, and after seeing Zhang Shouliang and Su Qingzhe's literary talents in Pingle Fang, he took the initiative to get acquainted with the two.

Zhang Shouliang glanced at Lu Yuan and the others, and arched his hand: "I'm sorry, Brother Fan, my friends didn't do well in the exam, I want to accompany them." ”

Su Qingzhe also refused: "I'm sorry, I have some personal matters to deal with." ”

"It doesn't matter." Fan Yuping didn't seem to care too much: "Then let's see you tomorrow at the banquet in the festival." ”

As he spoke, he turned and left.

Su Qingzhe arched his hand to Zhang Shouliang and left quickly, Zhang Shouliang walked over slowly, and comforted Lu Yuan and Wang Hui: "Brother Mu, Brother Wang, there will be a chance next year." ”

Lu Yuan nodded with a bitter face, he was originally the eighth, but he crossed out his name, so in the eyes of others, he was as miserable as Wang Hui.

Wang Hui also felt so, he patted Lu Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Brother Mu, I plan to go to Hangzhou in a few days to relax, do you want to go with me." ”

Lu Yuan hurriedly shook his head: "I won't go, there is still something at home." ”

Wang Hui sighed, said goodbye to Lu Yuan, ignored Sima Rui and Zhang Shouliang, and went to take care of himself.

Zhang Shouliang saw Wang Hui's attitude, and felt a little sentimental in his heart, Wang Hui was bold and generous, he actually regarded the other party as a good friend, but it was a pity that this friend Qi Ng seemed to end here.

Then, Zhang Shouliang heard Mu Xuan also arch his hand and said: "There is something in my family, so I will leave first." ”

Zhang Shouliang sighed, it seems that the relationship with Mu Xuan is over, originally he was still very curious about Mu Xuan's identity, and he was going to have the opportunity to go to his house to have a look, it seems that there is no such opportunity.

"Brother Zhang, why don't you go to my house and sit down." Sima Rui invited Zhang Shouliang.

"It's fine." Zhang Shouliang nodded.

On the other side, Lu Yuan hurried back to Fuzhong, he did have something, a few days ago he received a report from the Western Route Army, the Tang Army had captured Jiujiang Port, and met with 20,000 water troops in Fenghua, and now 70,000 troops have surrounded Chizhou City and are attacking fiercely.

His heartstrings tightened suddenly, if he wasn't interested in the title of the gold list, he wouldn't have changed his appearance as Mu Xuan at all.

Although even if the Tang army attacked Hui'an Mansion, he was confident that he could hold it, but after all, the other party had 70,000 troops, and he could not tolerate his carelessness, and he had already ordered the transfer of 5,000 people from the Mengxiao army to strengthen the defense of Qimen County.

As for the southern Xinzhou side, although there are more than 30,000 Anhua troops and thousands of soldiers under Jiang Huai, but now that Qingyuan has bordered Xinzhou, most of their troops have gone to guard against Qingyuan, so the south of Hui'an Mansion is now the most stable.

……

Chizhou City.

Li Hongyi's army has besieged Chizhou for seven days, but it has never been able to take the city, above the city*, Lu Weiyi patted the cloud crossbow and sighed: "What a good thing, if we had this thing in Tongling City, we would have been able to reduce many casualties." ”

Xie Rang said with a smile: "When the Tang army retreats, we will ask for more from Hui'an Mansion." ”

Lu Weiyi shook his head: "If you want to fight for the world, you can't rely too much on this thing, this thing can only be defended, if you want to attack the city and grab the land, it is more useful to have a war horse." ”

Xu Da hesitated for a moment and said, "Marshal, I asked the quartermaster, these crossbows are running out. ”

"What? Isn't Hui'an Mansion equipped with more crossbows? Lu Weiyi was shocked and angry.

"They distributed 10,000 crossbow arrows, but this kind of repeater is very powerful, but it consumes too much crossbow, almost fifty at a time, and the five repeater crossbows at our north city gate are two hundred and fifty crossbows if they fire a salvo, which is only enough for about forty salvos."

"Then let the craftsman make it immediately!" Lu Weiyi said loudly.

"But these crossbows are traitive, and the craftsmen say they can't imitate them." Xu Da had already asked.

Lu Weiyi smiled coldly: "Then tell them, either make crossbows or die on the spot, I believe someone will be able to make them, and now these crossbows are equivalent to the lives of the brothers, do you understand?" ”

Xu Da glanced at the Tang military camp tent in the distance below the city, and took a deep breath: "My subordinates understand. ”

In the tent of the Don military camp.

Li Hongyi sat on the main seat, looking at the map and muttering. There were several generals sitting upright on the left and right, they were all very young like Li Hongyi, but they did not have the frivolous appearance of young people, all of them were full of seriousness, and there was a solemn atmosphere in the entire camp tent.

After a long time, Li Hongyi spoke: "Let's talk about the troops everywhere first." ”

Li Wenxuan, who served as the 'left vanguard of the rebel army' this time, was the first to speak: "Marshal, our ambush at the junction of Hui'an Mansion and Chizhou encountered the Hui'an army, and our army suffered a small defeat, losing more than 1,000 people, but Hui'an Mansion did not continue to march after the victory, and returned to Qimen City. ”

Li Hongyi's eyes froze, and the meaning of the other party's generals was obvious, although he did not plan to rescue Chizhou for the time being, he did not allow the Tang army to block the passage to rescue Chizhou.

"How many people are there in Qimen?"

"According to reports, there are about 15,000 people, including more than 10,000 cavalry." Li Wenxuan replied.

"How many sorties?"

"Ten thousand cavalry."

Li Hongyi nodded secretly, Wu Yun's subordinates are five thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry, the other party is all cavalry, and a small defeat is understandable, this battle can be seen that Hui'an Mansion is indeed difficult to deal with.

He said lightly: "Go on." ”

Li Sheng, the commander of the rear army, said: "On the northern side, the Zhou State is still preparing troops and horses, and it seems that it has indeed made up its mind to attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. ”

Li Hongyi rubbed the back of his neck and said lightly: "That old man Guo Wei is indeed much stronger than His Majesty in our family. ”

Hearing him say this, the current emperor, all the generals have not changed their faces, and they seem to be accustomed to it.

The vanguard on the right side said: "There has been no movement on the Qingyuan side recently, and it seems that they want to stabilize Ting and build Erzhou first, and then attack our country." ”

"They have patience." Li Hongyi calmly evaluated, but his heart was a little more dignified, Qingyuan was so rational, and the difficulty of exterminating it continued to increase.

Zhang Kai continued: "The army in Langzhou is very fierce, and General Bian can't stand it. ”

Li Hongyi finally smiled: "Ben Shuai likes this kind of ferocity." ”

Li Wenxuan was taken aback: "Marshal, do you have to ......"

……

Hui'an City, Jiedu Mansion.

In the side hall, a grand meeting was presided over by Lu Yuan himself, and the object of celebration was naturally all the candidates in this examination, but due to the limited space, only the top fifty candidates were invited to the banquet today.

Lu Yuan sat in the first seat and looked at Su Qingzhe, Zhang Shouliang and Sima Rui who were sitting below, Su Qingzhe looked at him for a moment and lowered his head, Zhang Shouliang and Sima Rui quickly bowed their heads, but Zhang Shouliang had a little more doubt in his eyes.

"You must have heard about the fraud in the imperial examination this time, and Ben Shuai has only one expectation for you, that is, to become a pillar of Hui'an Mansion like Zhang Shaoyin, not a corrupt official like Lu Zhi!" Lu Yuan raised his glass and said.

Suddenly various voices came from below:

"The words of the marshal, keep them in mind."

"Xiaosheng's wish since he was a child is to become a person like Master Zhang Dezhong!"

"Lu Zhi, that scum, I can't wait to spit on him!"

Lu Yuan raised his eyes and found that it was Sima Rui who was going to spit on Lu Zhi, it seemed that he still remembered that Lu Zhi crossed out his name, at this time Lu Yuan noticed that Zhang Shouliang was secretly looking at himself, he immediately looked over, smiled slightly, Zhang Shouliang quickly lowered his head.

It seems that he seems to have doubted his identity, but Lu Yuan doesn't care, the imperial examination is over, and even if he knows, it's nothing.

After having another drink with the examiners, Lu Yuan left the side hall, and then Zhang Dezhong, Yuan Chi and others presided over it.

Leaving Jiedu Mansion, Zhang Shouliang and Sima Rui walked on the street together, Sima Rui said excitedly: "I heard that Lu Jieshuai was very young, but today I saw that it was true." ”

After a long time, he saw that Zhang Shouliang didn't speak, turned his head to look, and saw Zhang Shouliang with a thoughtful look on his face, and said strangely: "Brother Zhang, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhang Shouliang frowned and said, "Brother Sima, do you think Lu Jieshuai looks a little familiar?" ”

"Nope."

Zhang Shouliang shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and said, "Brother Sima, I want to go back to Qimen County a few days before I take office. ”

"When is Brother Zhang going to leave?"

"After breaking up with Brother Sima, the younger brother went back to the inn to pack his things."

Sima Rui arched his hand and said, "Then I wish Brother Zhang a smooth journey!" ”

After saying goodbye to Sima Rui, Zhang Shouliang returned to the inn, he lived in an inferior room in the inn, twenty yuan a day, the money he came to take the exam this time was given by Uncle Wang, although there was still some leftover, he was unwilling to waste it anymore, which was one of the reasons why he was in a hurry to return to Qimen.

Of course, the most important thing is to tell Xiaoyue, Aunt Xue and Uncle Wang the good news that you like the third place as soon as possible.

The only pity is that he has not yet inquired about the identity of the general who gave him five steamed buns in Chizhou that day, although he has been secretly inquiring in the past few days, but this is a matter in the military camp after all, how can ordinary people know, so there is nothing to gain.

However, he is not in a hurry, since he has become an official of Hui'an Mansion, he will have more time to inquire in the future.

After packing up his salutes, he went out of the city from the west gate and strode towards Qimen County, thinking about the apprehension when he came, thinking that he could give Xiaoyue and Aunt Xue a good life in the future.

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