"Your Majesty is very pleased that you can hold Yuzhou City, I came here today, first, I want to see my apprentice daughter-in-law, since she has slept peacefully, I won't bother, and second, I came to issue a holy decree, Yang Liechen, why don't you kneel down quickly to receive the decree?"

Yang Liechen was indifferent.

Chu Hanlin smiled bitterly, "I know, you are angry in your heart, angry that I sent you out of the capital to be a local official, and then led to this tragedy, but you have to give the face of the saint." ”

Yang Liechen shook his head lightly, turned back in a hoarse voice and said, "Teacher, I'm not angry with you, everyone has their own destiny, and God is destined, this is something that no one can predict." Whether I've been thinking about Qinglian or the five thousand guards in Yuzhou recently, I'm thinking about a question, is it worth it? With Qinglian's life and the hard work of five thousand guards, in exchange for mine, is it only my ascension? I'd rather not, I've figured it out these days, it doesn't matter if Yuzhou can hold it or not, the important thing is to give Da Zhou a good start, and in the end it will be handed over. ”

"Are you angry about the Holy Lord's decision?"

Yang Liechen didn't answer directly, he said slowly: "Being able to hold Yuzhou is mostly due to General Yu's credit, to tell the truth, even General Tong didn't make much effort, and even a small horse spy under Yu Youjun did more than the two of us, I expected that there would be a holy decree, whether it was promotion or deprecation, I didn't deserve it, it should be Yu Youjun." ”

Chu Hanlin smiled after hearing this, sat on the side of the recliner, touched Yang Liechen's hair, and said: "Yu Youjun's side, naturally there is King Huai'an to arrange for him, don't you have to worry about it, don't you want to sit on the Yingchuan County Festival Envoy, this is a two-level promotion, four grades to three grades, and the right to speak is heavier, don't you want to govern the world and be a national soldier?" Now it's just a small setback and you're disheartened? ”

Yang Liechen pursed his lips, not knowing what to say, Guoshi...... But in the face of a world full of holes, can it be filled? For the first time, he had doubts about himself.

Chu Hanlin wiped away the tears along the cheeks of his proud protégé, and he said softly: "Liechen, you have entered a dead end, there is a huge problem behind you, and you are very confused in front, you shouldn't think about how to solve them all in one go, there are many problems in this world, you can't rely on you alone, you say that this kind of thinking is good to listen to is to care about the world, to say that it is difficult to be ambitious, not in its position and not to seek its own politics, you should prescribe the right medicine one by one, instead of driving yourself into a dead end step by step, what you have to do, is the last envoy of Yingchuan County, only when your rights are great, can you be qualified to think about some general directions. ”

Yang Liechen nodded as if he didn't understand.

"As a teacher, I don't want to say so many heavy things when you are sad, I just want you to understand, just like this pavilion, I let you go to the top of the pavilion now, can you do it? You can't do it. The most you can do on tiptoe is to touch the eaves of the pavilion, but if you build a ladder, you can stand on top of the pavilion, if your ladder is high enough, it is not a problem to climb to the roof, and if you stand on the ground, don't think about the top floor. ”

Yang Liechen breathed a long sigh of relief, what the teacher said was right, he was just a small civil official, and the outside world said that the Confucian generals were more suspected of killing, so that he was really trapped, and he was bent on making meritorious contributions and doing a great career. Until the death of his wife, he experienced an unprecedented sense of frustration, a person who wants to become a peerless national warrior, he can't even protect his relatives, and a little person still wants to touch the sky.

He realized himself again, he got up and made a gesture, "The teacher's words are like an initiation, after the student takes up the post of Jiedu Envoy, he must only do his part well, and go back to the clouds, step by step." ”

Chu Hanlin glanced at his proud protégé with satisfaction, on his old face, the wrinkles were a little more abundant, he patted Yang Liechen's shoulder, "Let's go, don't let General Tong wait, he is much more active than you, he came to greet me as soon as I entered the city, looking at him like that, it's like a New Year, so he can go back to the general's mansion and wait, see how sad people are about being promoted and getting rich, if you have his kind of free nature, it won't be in vain." ”

Yang Liechen smiled, "People and people, after all, are different. ”

Chu Hanlin also smiled, with a somewhat meaningful look, it is true that literati are light, but literati are lighter generals, and his grandeur as a student is finally gradually revealed.

On both sides of the river, there are no less than 100,000 soldiers stationed on both sides of the river, on one side is the whole army of the Southern Dynasty wearing black armor, and on the other hand is the Great Zhou soldiers wearing white armor, from a distance, it looks like a black dragon and a white python, opening teeth and dancing claws to cholera river.

To the north of Huaishui, there were no less than 1,000 people in a school field of the Great Zhou army armed with long wooden short sticks, practicing the skills of chopping and stabbing in front of the straw men tied under the scorching sun.

At the back of the school field, Gongsun Jian held a wooden stick and slashed at the straw man, at this time he was sweating profusely, he had been practicing non-stop for half an hour, he had long lost much strength, and his speed was much slower.

Seeing this, a burly man behind him squatted on the ground and shouted to him, "Gongsun Tunchang, haven't you eaten?" Can you make some effort, you can keep chopping off the straw man's arms? ”

This burly man is none other than him, he is the one who was almost killed by Lin Yu and saved his life when he was fighting at the side gate of Yuzhou. His name is Yue Xunyi, he is Zhou Ying's subordinate, and later after Gongsun Jian followed Yu Youjun back to the Huai'an Army, the rest of the horse spies returned to the scouts one after another, and Gongsun Jian's more than 180 people were instantly reduced by 50 people, only Yue Xunyi continued to stay in the foot soldiers to follow the new commander.

After returning to the Huai'an Army, Gongsun Jian also knew that he had more strength but less skills, so he let this burly man who was three years older than himself and only three or four days older than himself teach him fighting skills.

As for why he was chosen, this guy swore that he learned a few tricks from a master of the rivers and lakes before joining the army, and it was clear from his mouth that he admired that person very much, saying that that person could fly and do anything.

Of course, these Gongsun swords don't believe it, if there are really immortals in this world, then he is the king of heaven Lao Tzu in charge of the immortals, but looking at Yue Xunyi's yearning in his eyes is not like a fake, plus he does have some tricks, just let him teach himself a few hands, it's better than nothing.

This practice is two months, this guy squatted on the ground all day long, staring at himself, shouting a few words whenever he was slack, and buzzing in his ears when he was not slack, saying that he had become a tun commander when he joined the army late, and that his luck was bad or something.

Gongsun Jian didn't bother to pay attention to him.

But don't really say it, although I still haven't understood the difference between the two swing and slash styles in the past two months and the slashing taught in the army, Gongsun Jian feels that his physical strength and endurance have improved significantly.

Gongsun Jian wiped the sweat that seeped into his eyes, threw away the wooden stick in his hand, and grinned at the strong man, he scolded: "You still have the strength to slash for half an hour, and you don't have back pain when you stand and talk." ”

Yue Xunyi smiled, "Tun Chief, you are wrong, I squatted, squatted and said...... Ouch! Which rabbit cub kicked Lao Tzu! ”

Before the strong man finished speaking, he slid directly seven or eight feet away in the posture of a vicious dog pounced, he got up and cursed habitually, and then after seeing the person who kicked him, he rubbed his buttocks and whispered: "Kick well, my old waist disease has been kicked well." ”

Gongsun Jian greeted respectfully, "General Yu, why do you have time to come to the school." ”

Yu Youjun smiled, "Naturally, I have something to do with you, that ...... Who's that, what's your name? ”

The burly man ran over again, with a smile on his face: "The little one's name is Yue Xunyi, what advice does General Yu have?" ”

Yu Youjun slapped him on the head, and directly pressed the huge head into the sand, "His grandma, you are the first pawn who dares to call himself Lao Tzu in front of me." ”

Yue Xunyi didn't dare to raise his head under the sand, but he still made a gesture begging for mercy.

"Gongsun boy, how fierce are you on the battlefield? You are now in charge of more than 100 people, and this guy bullies you so silently? ”

Yu Youjun didn't believe it, the Gongsun Jian, who was covered in blood, covered with bloody knife wounds, dislocated one arm, and still insisted on going to the city tower to report the military situation, was like a shy little boy on weekdays, and he could only smirk.

Gongsun Jian really smiled at him: "How can there be a tun chief who is not a tun chief, I am a tun chief on the battlefield, and I am a comrade and brother on the battlefield, it is understandable to make a few jokes, Yue Xunyi also taught me the skills of fighting the enemy." ”

As he spoke, Gongsun Jian picked up the wooden stick on the ground and slashed at the straw man again, the straw man's arm finally fell off this time, and he wiped his face, "Look, it's still very useful." ”

Yu Youjun was a little helpless, these tricks, everyone knows how to do these tricks, but Gongsun Jian was transferred to Yuzhou when he joined the Huai'an Army, and he didn't know if he didn't catch up with the three-day training of the new army, it can be said that Yue Xunyi pit Gongsun Jian once in order not to train.

Now those foot soldiers are practicing stabbing, all of them are deadly tricks, on the battlefield either you die or I die, the two armies rush to kill, which one is not for human life, so as to mention some heads in exchange for military merits, how can there be such a person who only unloads people's arms? If you cut off someone's arm here, someone else can slash you in the neck over there.

Yu Youjun kicked the man who was still lying on the ground, and he scolded: "That's how you taught your tun chief? Get up for Lao Tzu, run ten laps around the school field, when to finish and when to rest! ”

Yue Xunyi moved his buttocks, still pretending to be dead.

"Twenty laps!"

Yue Xunyi suddenly stood up straight like a corpse, and ran around the school yard.

"It's not cheap, if you don't run ten laps, you have to run twenty laps."

Gongsun Jian re-placed the straw man's arm, don't look at the straw man just tie one, but the straw man in the army is much more valuable than the straw man outside, these things that are not their own can not be thrown away, if they are lost, it is equivalent to the crime of betraying the military situation, and it will be dealt with directly by military law.

Gongsun Jian said: "Maybe I'm afraid that General Yu will add it again, twenty circles are too heavy, it's almost noon, the sun is extremely hot, he won't be able to stand it." ”

Yu Youjun rolled his eyes, this kid probably doesn't know the behavior of those old oilboys, let them run ten laps, if they don't guard it personally, they will run three or five laps at most, and they won't be out of breath when they come back.

"You are just too kind, I tell you, show me the appearance of a tun commander in the future, otherwise your group of subordinates will disobey you more and more, plus you are young, and in the end you don't listen to you on the battlefield, but it's a bad thing."

Yu Youjun continued in a deep voice: "This is not your business alone, no link can go wrong when marching and arranging troops, otherwise it is likely to lead to a total loss, and you don't know the truth that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill." ”

Gongsun Jian nodded.

"Don't practice with that guy in the future, I'll teach you some basic skills in a while, and after practicing solidly, killing people and saving lives is not a problem."

"Thank you, General Yu!"

Yu Youjun waved his hand and said, "I haven't seen you for more than a month, have you finished reading the two military books I gave you?" ”