After the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhang Xiaowu really regrouped, he first put forward his hand in hand, for everyone to add officials to the knighthood, and rewarded gold and silver, the generals were overjoyed, and then Zhang Xiaowu announced the promotion order:

promoted Wen Ruyu to the deputy general of the ghost guard, responsible for the training of the whole army;

promoted Hu Sanwan to the deputy general of the ghost guard, and concurrently served as the lieutenant of the left near colonel of the confidential battalion;

promoted Li Yuan to the deputy general of the Ghost Guard, and concurrently served as the captain of the cavalry battalion;

promoted Guan Cheng to the left lieutenant of the Ruishi Battalion;

promoted Li Chuncheng to the left lieutenant of the Jianshi Battalion;

Jin Sheng was promoted to the rank of lieutenant of the left near of the Dead Soldiers Battalion;

promoted Zhang Tongming to the rank of lieutenant of the left near the security battalion;

promoted Cao Li to the rank of lieutenant of the first sergeant battalion;

promoted Ni Erchun to lieutenant of the baggage battalion;

promoted Xia Ming to captain of the guard battalion;

At the same time, Chen Guanxi was promoted to the school assistant of the confidential battalion, Feng Kui was promoted to the school assistant of the Qinwei battalion, Wang Huaili was promoted to the school assistant of the baggage battalion, Peng Biao was promoted to the school assistant of the Ruishi battalion, Xun Bu was promoted to the school assistant of the Jianshi battalion, and Pei En was promoted to the school assistant of the dead soldier battalion.

Although the four good generals were transferred, there was no shortage of strongmen in the Ghost Guard, Cao Li, Guan Cheng, Li Yuan, Ni Erchun, Zhang Tongming, Wen Ruyu and others all had their own strengths and were not mediocre. After Xiao Kai and the others learned about the personnel in the barracks, they also relaxed their hearts, it turned out that all the big and small things in the army were in the hands of the generals, but they were cranky.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhang Xiaowu ordered Wen Ruyu to supervise the training of the whole army, and the ghost guards who had been grounded for a winter were finally released, but the first day of running exposed the weakness of many people, only half of them successfully ran around the wooden city for twenty miles, and the other half of the people were all tired and lying down.

Zhang Xiaowu did not reproach them, but the next day he lowered the standard slightly, turning the 20-mile run into a 10-mile run, and gradually increased in the following days. After February, the Ghost Guard reorganized the army, the army was reduced to 10,000 people, and most of the soldiers who were dismissed were physically unqualified or originally Jincheng soldiers, and they did not complain after being dismissed, but just became ordinary people again.

On the eighth day of the second month, the official document of the Ministry of War came belatedly, asking Helanzong to lead the Qinglong army to immediately rush back to the Longdu forbidden army camp and rebuild the Qinglong army. In the plague village, there were less than 1,000 soldiers left under Helan Sect, who had spent a long winter and carried the plague, and suddenly received an order from the military headquarters, and they were overjoyed.

Helan Sect immediately discussed with Chen Qing in the city, Chen Qing was overjoyed, he still had 3,000 direct subordinates and other 5,000 wounded soldiers, if you add Helan Zong's 1,000 people, it would barely be enough to equal about 10,000 people. And these 10,000 people are the seeds of the Green Dragon Army, and the heavy task of rebuilding the Green Dragon Army falls on them.

However, when Chen Qing gave the order, he was stunned to find that less than 2,000 of the 8,000 wounded soldiers were willing to go back to Longdu with him, and even his own soldiers were unwilling to return to Longdu with him, and as for rebuilding the Qinglong Army, many people were not interested. After experiencing life and death, after years of war, these soldiers have become less optimistic about the future, and they have chosen a dull life.

Chen Qing was furious, pulled over a lieutenant who had been heavily weighted before, and said angrily: "Why did you abandon me? ”

The lieutenant cried: "Wait, the Qinglong Army is over, the Qinglong Army, there will never be any more." When we go back to the Central Plains, it's just another Xuanwu legion, guarding the walls of Longdu City all day long. Let's discuss, stay, marry a wife and have children, continue the descendants, and defend the northernmost territory of our Holy Han. My lord, we all want to take root here, and we are all willing to stay and live. ”

"Stay and live?" Chen Qing sneered, "Stay in this land of four wars? Stay in this Saibei? ”

Nadu Wei said: "My lord, let me tell you the truth, we are staying here because there is the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu here, with him, the wooden city cannot be broken, and the north cannot be chaotic." Back in Longdu, we were all worried about being ostracized and wounded by hidden arrows. We...... After all, he was once a prince. ”

Chen Qing was dumbfounded, they were all once the prince's confidants, but now the emperor is the prince's rival of the fifth prince, he can't even guarantee that he will end up in Longdu well, so he can only cry and laugh and turn his head away.

The lieutenant knelt on one knee and cried: "I wish the army and the lord, peace, and wealth!" ”

The wealth and peace are unknown for the time being, but the six thousand Qinglong Army soldiers would rather stay in Saibei as civilians than go back to continue to be the forbidden army, which brought a shadow to Helan Sect and Chen Qing's road back to the south.

There are 1,100 people in the Helan Sect Division, 2,100 Jincheng soldiers in the city, 3,200 soldiers, and the ghost guards subsidize their grain, grass and horses, 8,000 stone of army rations, 200 war horses, and 100 pack horses. Helan Zong expressed his gratitude to Zhang Xiaowu and others, and said: "I am already grateful for the many things I have taken care of before, and now the general is still so generous, which really makes Helan very grateful in his heart. ”

Zhang Xiaowu also met Helan Sect for the first time, although the two had been neighbors for four months, but because of the plague, the two sides did not meet until the farewell time. But this did not prevent Zhang Xiaowu from appreciating this red-faced man, and only felt that this Helan Sect was a man worth befriending. He took out a letter from his arms, stuffed it into Helan Zong's hand, and said in a low voice: "Helan Junhou, I have a piece of information here, if Murong Yan does not let go of the soldiers of the Qinglong Army when you pass through the Two Wolf Pass, you may be able to use it." If he lets the 7,000-odd soldiers go, you will burn him. ”

Helan Zong frowned and said, "Why? ”

Zhang Xiaowu waved his hand, didn't say anything, turned to look at Chen Qing, Chen Qing stepped forward and said, "General, thank you for it." ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said, "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law." ”

After Zhang Xiaowu turned around and left, Helan Zong opened the letter and read the letter with Chen Qing, and the two were taken aback, this news was no less than a shocking earthquake, because the letter recorded the secret of Cao Yan's death. In order to monopolize the power of the Wolf Guard, Murong Yan colluded with the Heavenly Fire Sect and poisoned Cao Yan.

"This news, could it be that he framed Murong Yan with our hand?" Chen Qing muttered.

Helan Zong said: "There is this reason, but another reason should be to help us, you see that behind this letter, they are all industries in the Two Wolves City, and eighty percent of the industries in the city are his Murong family, this Yingchuan Marquis really regards the Two Wolves Pass as his own family business, and in the long run, the Two Wolves City will become the kingdom of the Murong family, he is the king, and the residents in the Two Wolves City are his people." ”

Chen Qing said: "No wonder he wants to poison Cao Yan, no, even if it's not Cao Yan, as long as anyone comes to be the guard of the two wolves, there is only one end, death!" ”

Helan Zong said: "This information, unless it is a last resort, you and I can't use it, otherwise it will lead to death." Chen Qing thought so.