"Why don't you go back and rest?"

Yang Congyi chased after him and saw that the other party was a low-level officer, in his twenties.

"I'm not tired, I can practice for another hour." The officer replied with a gun.

"What's your name?" Yang Congyi's heart moved, it is rare to work so hard.

"Villain Zhang Dulin."

Zhang Dulin? Seems to have heard it there?

As soon as he heard this name, Yang Congyi suddenly had a strange appearance in his heart, as if he was very familiar, but it was very ethereal, and he couldn't touch it if he wanted to.

"Where are you from?"

"People from Taihu County."

"Taihu?" Yang Congyi was shocked, he was familiar with that place, and he ran all over the mountains and rivers there back then.

"Adults also know about Taihu County?"

"I've lived in Taihu County for nearly a year, so how could I not know." Yang Congyi shook the reins, and the war horse under him walked slowly.

"Did you be an official in Taihu Lake before?" Zhang Dulin shook the reins lightly and followed, half a horse behind.

"It's not an official, it's a yamen chores." Thinking of the past, Yang Cong couldn't help but smile.

After a while, he asked, "Where is your home in Taihu County?" ”

"My home is far away from the county seat, adults should not have heard of it, Lotus Village." Zhang Dulin replied.

"Lotus Village? I went to that place and went there on a mission on a snowy day, but I got injured and stayed there for half a month. It's been fifteen or sixteen years now. Yang Congyi was embarrassed.

Time flies, it seems that fifteen or sixteen years have passed in just a blink of an eye, and he has changed from the stubborn and enthusiastic young man to the middle-aged man who is about to enter the year of confusion.

"Adults have been to Lotus Village more than ten years ago?" Zhang Dulin asked in surprise.

"Yes, at that time, I went to track down the clues of a fugitive, but I didn't want to be injured by a thief. At that time, you should have been a child, and now it is fate to meet in the army. Taihu County is also his hometown, where he met a lot of people, and when he saw his hometown again, he was relieved, Yang Congyi chuckled.

Zhang Dulin was thoughtful, and after a moment, he suddenly asked, "Is the injury suffered by the adult in Lotus Village on his back?" ”

Yang Congyi suddenly turned his head, stared at the person in front of him and looked at it seriously, and said, "Yes, it is indeed in the back, it seems that we should have seen it in Lotus Village before." ”

"Your Excellency was wounded on the mountain, and the bandit who slashed your adult was assassinated by your adult with one shot, and a very heavy knife was seized." Zhang Dulin looked at Yang Congyi and said slowly, his eyes were a little hot.

"You are the kid named Zhang Dulin back then?" Yang Congyi was very surprised.

"It's me, my lord, it seems to be a little different from back then." As soon as he was recognized, Zhang Dulin suddenly felt a little restrained.

"Hahaha, it's different, it's been more than ten years, and I'm old! It's you, who have grown up. Yang Congyi laughed and said, he was really an acquaintance, he was injured by a thief back then, if he hadn't been on the side to help, maybe he would have died at the hands of a thief at that time.

"No, no, no, adults are not old, they are still young!" Seeing that the meeting was wrong, Zhang Dulin hurriedly argued.

"How did you get here?"

"Last year, the enemy invaded Huaixi, burned and looted, the Anqing garrison ran away before seeing the enemy coming, and the local people spontaneously organized a team of men, I heard the news that I defected to them, and fought several battles with the enemy in Tongcheng, Lujiang, and Shucheng, and many people died. Last year, the enemy suddenly retreated, we chased all the way, from Luzhou to Shouchun, and then chased across the Huai River to Fengtai, and chased to Yingzhou, when we broke through Yingzhou with the official army, I heard that the official army would continue to go north to seize Chenzhou, so they joined the official army, followed General Su, and then captured Chenzhou, Yuncheng and Bozhou, have been following General Su's troops, not long ago through the selection to the Jingwu army camp, I didn't expect to see adults here. Zhang Dulin was a little excited.

"Rare! All these feats of yours were obtained from Su Zhong? Yang Congyi looked at his armor, it was definitely not easy to be promoted from an ordinary soldier to a general.

"It's not all, in the righteous army, I have already led a hundred and ten people, and when I got to General Su, after a few battles, I also made some military achievements." Speaking of his exploits, Zhang Dulin was quite proud, and involuntarily danced the spear in his hand.

Yang Congyi swept his eyes and exclaimed, "You are an iron gun?" ”

Zhang Weilin replied: "This is what my master gave me. Soon after my lord left Lotus Village, I worshipped a master in a neighboring village, and learned martial arts from his old man for fifteen years. As he spoke, he glanced at the iron spear, full of affection.

"Yes, I remember that you are very good at archery, but I didn't expect to see you for more than ten years, and you also learned marksmanship. With this body of martial arts, sooner or later the elite army will come out. Although he is an old man, Yang Congyi does not mean to promote him immediately, how many catties and taels there are, let's see how many catties and taels, there will be opportunities in the future.

"Don't worry, no matter how difficult the battle is, I will not be a deserter and will not embarrass the Taihu people!" Zhang Dulin replied in a positive voice.

"Okay, remember what you said, those who retreat from the battle, my military law does not tolerate personal feelings!"

"I remember."

"You've been in the Jingwu Army for some days, let's take the Vortex River as the boundary to see how much you have learned in riding."

"Okay."

"Drive!"

"Drive!"

Two riders, one in front of the other, galloped away in the afterglow of the sunset!

A quarter of an hour later, the two horsemen were no more than a foot apart, and almost at the same time came to the edge of a river.

The reins were pulled and the two horses stopped.

"Yes, it seems that you are learning very quickly these days." Yang Congyi said with a smile.

"The adult has won the prize, I just spent some more time practicing."

"Okay, do it well, you should fight hard while you're young!"

After resting for a while, turning the horse's head, the two of them went one after the other, and then went straight back to the camp.

It was an unexpected joy to see Zhang Dulin, the child back then is now a martial arts warrior who kills the enemy and makes meritorious contributions, and from now on, he can also find someone who can chat and talk well in the elite army.

These days, Yang Congyi leads the Jingwu Army as the commander of Suzhou, and the ordinary soldiers in the entire Jingwu Army are all good, but there is one problem, that is, there is a shortage of officers, not to mention the generals, even the deputy generals are not one, the highest position that can be found is only the general, and the number is scarce to single digits, due to the great difference in positions, the disparity in status, there is no common language at all, you can only listen to his orders, when it comes to the discussion, no one speaks, he is like a lonely person, not to mention how awkward!

Usually walking in the battalion, whether it is an officer or an ordinary soldier, everyone respects him, and when he rests, he sees the soldiers chatting happily, as long as he gets closer, they immediately lose their voices, which makes Yang Congyi very uncomfortable, as if he is isolated.

In the past, he led the army like this, and the soldiers would not deliberately avoid it, and in his spare time, he could often chat with ordinary soldiers.

It may be that the official position has suddenly risen, and the soldiers he is familiar with are scattered among the 60,000 troops, and all he can see in his eyes are strangers, and he is a high-ranking adult to these soldiers, so he does not dare to approach easily.

Now that he has met Zhang Dulin, Yang Congyi's mood has suddenly improved a lot, and after training every day, he can still compete with him on the school field.

The first time I tried martial arts on the school field, it attracted the attention of many soldiers.

After a marksmanship contest, no matter who of the two keeps their hands, in the eyes of the onlookers, the two are indistinguishable from victory or defeat, of course, it is not excluded that there are people with higher martial arts who can see the trickiness in it.

The contest between ordinary soldiers and the rulers of the capital spread throughout the Jingwu military camp overnight, and for a while, Yang Congyi and Zhang Dulin became the topic of conversation in everyone's leisure time.

The topic of discussion is not far from the relationship between Zhang Dulin and the Lord of the Metropolitan Rulers, which of the two is better in martial arts, and who else can beat them.

After sunset the next day, the two competed in the school field, and the soldiers who attracted them surrounded the school field.

The two of you come and go, compete for hundreds of moves, and are evenly matched, regardless of victory or defeat.

After this scene, Yang Congyi announced on the spot: If anyone can defeat Zhang Dulin or tie with him, ordinary soldiers will be awarded the post of team general, team general will be awarded the rank of preparation general, preparation will be awarded to the general, and the general will be awarded to the deputy general!

As soon as this order was issued, the number of applicants reached 100.

For the next half month, every evening and sunset, the school was surrounded by soldiers who seemed to be still tireless after a day of training, because they all wanted to know who would be promoted today.

There are five battles every evening, Yang Congyi is the judge, and all the battles are pointed to the end, and no one is allowed to hurt.

After half a month, Yang Congyi knew that the army was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and three of them were obviously higher in martial arts than Zhang Dulin, but they seemed to be afraid of the other party's face, or his identity, they had reservations, and they didn't do their best, and there were sixteen people whose martial arts were on par with Zhang Dulin, and there was no distinction within thirty moves.

Subsequently, Yang Congyi announced another news to the whole army: In the future, the elite army will hold various competitions and competitions from time to time, and those who perform well will have the opportunity to be promoted and conferred!

As soon as this news came out, the morale of the officers and men of the whole army increased greatly, and everyone wanted to get this hard-won promotion opportunity.

After half a month of competition and selection of generals, the generals and lieutenant generals soon figured out the force, let them show their faces, increased their fame, and also shortened the distance between them and him, and the most important thing is to reserve nearly 20 officers, maybe in the near future, they will become the backbone of the army.

During the period when the whole army vigorously trained in cavalry warfare, Yang Congyi took advantage of the evening rest time to hold several competitions and selections one after another, covering the art of war, strategy, hidden spying, cultural level, horse domestication, etc., and selected more than a dozen people.

Then, according to their different abilities, they were awarded official positions.

In this way, the newly formed elite army can be built.