Li Yan has lived in Jiuquan City for nearly a month, during which time Li Yan has met with Song Miao and Ling Huyi, and they are pleased with Li Yan's achievements over the past year.

For more than a year, Song Miao and Ling Huyi have sheltered themselves from the wind and rain in the court, and Li Yan is also very grateful in his heart. There are two elders in the court, at least Li Xin does not dare to deal with himself blatantly.

Song Miao warned Li Yan that he must be cautious and not take it lightly. Now the Hun army is deployed in the area of Wuwei and Guzang to confront Nanliang, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while.

Xiliang can only reorganize the army to fight now, otherwise once the Hun army attacks Jiuquan, the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in the Lechuan battalion will not be the opponent of the Huns at all, and the top priority is to step up the recruitment of troops to expand the military strength.

Over the years, a large number of displaced people have poured into Hexi, making it relatively easy for Xiliang to recruit troops, otherwise Xiliang itself is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no sufficient source of soldiers.

In this month, the Lejun camp has raised 5,000 young people, but it is impossible to form an army without more than half a year, so the Lejun camp is now shouldering a heavy responsibility.

And Li Yan's Xihai has just been defeated by the Wei State, and the new khan has succeeded to the throne, so he will not have any thoughts about Xihai for the time being. A few days ago, news came back from Xihai that Hu Lu sent someone to discuss with Li Yan, and he is still in Xihai City.

When Li Yan came out of Linghu Yi's mansion, he exhaled deeply, and finally passed Ling Huyi's test, and abducted Ling Hu Dezhao by the way.

The long history of the Zhenbei Army was transferred to the Lejuan camp by Zhang Jing, and now the Zhenbei Army needs to recruit 5,000 soldiers, and Li Yan himself does not have that energy. It happened that Hu Dezhao had been at home since he came back from Gaochang, and Li Yan felt that the long history of the Zhenbei Army made Hu Dezhao competent.

Li Yan originally thought that Li Wei would not agree to Ling Hu Dezhao as the chief of the Zhenbei Army, but to Li Yan's surprise, Li Wei agreed without saying a word.

Today is the day when Li Yan is ready to return to Xihai, and his wedding will take more than half a year, and now there is a large backlog of affairs in the Xihai Sea, and Lei Ming does not dare to call the shots of many things.

"Yue'er, I'm leaving." Li Yan hugged Linghu Mingyue tightly and let go for a long time.

"Brother Yan, you have to take care. Yue'er is waiting for you to come back. Linghu Mingyue looked at Li Yan affectionately and said reluctantly.

"Yue'er, my mother is weak and sick, you come over to accompany your mother and talk to her to relieve boredom." Li Yan told before leaving.

"Brother Yan, don't worry. Go ahead, you see big brother, they're all urging you. Linghu Mingyue looked at Li Yan with a crimson face, and Linghu Dezhao and Han Qian in front of them waited for Li Yan to prepare to go to the West Sea.

"I knew Yue'er was the best. Ha ha! Li Yan said and took advantage of the situation to kiss Linghu Mingyue on the cheek, and walked towards Linghu Dezhao and them.

Li Yan and his entourage went straight to Xihai City after leaving Jiuquan City, and two days later, Li Yan and his party finally arrived at Xihai City at nightfall in Xihai City.

Lei Ming and the others knew that Li Yan had returned to Xihai today, and all the military captains and above of the Zhenbei Army were all gathered at the Zhenbei General's Mansion.

"Generals, I have something important to announce today." Li Yan sat on the handsome platform, and everyone in the tiger hall said.

"Please show me the general."

"The prince has an order, from now on, the Zhenbei Army will be led by this general, General Lei Ming will be in charge of the cavalry of the Zhenbei Army, and General Iron Hammer will lead the infantry army. In addition, the Zhenbei Army recruited 5,000 new sergeants, which was completed within half a year. Li Yan said in a deep voice.

"Obey the general's orders." The generals clenched their fists and said.

"Generals, now Lord Shi Zhao, the commander of the Zhenbei Army, has been transferred to the Lejun camp by General Zhang Jing, and this is the new Changshi Linghu Dezhao." Li Yan looked at Linghu Dezhao who was next, and nodded.

"I've seen Lord Changshi." When the generals heard this, they saluted Linghu Dezhao.

"The generals are gracious." Linghu Dezhao looked at the angry generals in the hall saluting him, and hurriedly got up and said.

"In the future, Linghu Changshi will be responsible for the recruitment of new soldiers in the Zhenbei Army, and the generals will need to take care of the affairs of the army to assist Linghu Changshi in managing the Zhenbei Army. Is this clear to you? ”

"Yes! Checkmate. ”

The banquet did not disperse until midnight, and now Li Yan returned to the Zhenbei Army, the generals were very happy in their hearts, most of these people were selected from the Chengbei camp in Jiuquan City at that time, and they beat the Huns in Xihai for a year, and they had already regarded Li Yan as the main general of the Zhenbei Army.

After everyone left, Lei Ming walked up to Li Yan and whispered, "General, the Rouran envoy is here again." ”

"Oh? Where are the people? Li Yan replied.

"General, the last general is worried that the news of the Rouran people will leak, so he will arrange it in the inn, and the last general will arrange a meeting with the general tomorrow morning."

"Good. You're doing it right. Li Yan patted Lei Ming's shoulder and whispered.

Early the next morning, Lei Ming took Li Yan to a remote inn in Xihai City, where there were few contacts on weekdays, and all the people who lived here were some long-distance merchants.

Li Yan and the others entered the inn, and the shopkeeper stepped forward with a flattering face when he saw Lei Ming, "General Lei is here, I don't know what is important?" ”

"Get out of the way. Whoever dares to come up and disturb is at their own risk. Do you understand? Lei Ming reprimanded.

"Yes, yes, the villain understands." The shopkeeper's chick nodded like a peck of rice.

Lei Ming walked in front and took Li Yan to the door of a room in the inn, patted it gently, and after a while, someone opened the door. Inside was a man dressed in Han clothes, but if you look closely, you will see that he is not a Han at all.

"General Lei, you're here." The man whispered. After the man finished speaking, he looked at Li Yan beside Lei Ming, and then said excitedly: "General Li, you are finally back." ”

Li Yan and the two entered the house, the man cautiously closed the door, listened to the door for a while, and walked to Li Yan with peace of mind without finding anyone coming.

"General Li, I am Ashina Muli, the envoy of Hulu Khan, and I have come to Xihai to discuss with General Li on important matters at the order of the Khan."

"Oh? I don't know what's going on? ”

"General Li, last year the Khan and General Li reached an agreement, you and I will not offend each other, do you remember the matter of the general exchanging pig iron for war horses?" Ashina Mu bowed and said in a low voice.

"This matter should have been remembered, but there would have been important things in the past six months, so it was delayed for a while, as long as Hulu Khan had enough war horses, I, Li Yan, should fulfill my promise." Li Yan banged on the table and said in a deep voice.

"Is General Li serious?"

"That's natural, as long as Hulu Khan's war horse is sent, I will never break my word."

"Good. General Lee was delighted. We have enough war horses, we just don't know how much pig iron General Lee will be able to provide? Ashina Muli sat aside and asked.

"At the beginning, I would have discussed with Hulu Khan that I would exchange 50,000 catties of pig iron for 3,000 war horses every year, and I would have given you 50,000 catties of pig iron."

"Khan means 100,000 catties." Ashina Muli leaned over to Li Yan's ear and said.

"What? Lakh? ”