A large grave was erected on the hill next to the Tuoyun Castle, and in front of the grave stood a wooden tombstone with seven names engraved on it, whose owners had been alive a few days ago, but now lay under the mound, a lifeless corpse. Zhao Ziliang knew that his position as temporary acting captain was exchanged for his life by the robes lying under these tombs, and if he wanted to be promoted to a general by virtue of his military exploits, the number of dead people would definitely not be a small number.

Zhao Ziliang stood in front of the tombstone for an hour with an expressionless face against the cold wind, Sangouzi was always by his side, and he didn't say a word, because he knew that Zhao Ziliang didn't want to speak now, and he didn't want to speak.

With a sigh in his heart, Zhao Ziliang took off his helmet with both hands and clamped it under his left armpit, pressed his right hand into a fist on his chest, and slowly lowered his head towards the tombstone. Seeing this, the three dogs immediately did the same.

After a long time, Zhao Ziliang put on his helmet again, subconsciously held the handle of the horizontal knife with his left hand and turned back and went down the mountain, and the three dogs also followed. As a soldier, he was a soldier in his previous life, and he is also a soldier now, and it has become his instinctive habit to never leave his weapon in his hand, but the weapon in his previous life was an automatic rifle, and the current weapon is a horizontal knife.

Back in the fort, Zhao Ziliang took the three dogs to the school field, and now he temporarily took the position of the leader of the third group, and his third group was conducting routine drills in the school field.

In the past, the soldiers were very leisurely, and there were many soldiers who walked around at will in the fort, but after the battle a few days ago, the chairman of the fort, Yunqing, learned from the mouth of the envoy of the Turk Cavalry that the Turk was now in chaos, and immediately raised the alert level of the Tuoyun Fort by two levels, and the garrison strength at the northwest and southeast gates increased from one to two, and the sentry posts were also added to the city tower, and the patrol area was advanced to the northwest for about twenty miles, so now there are few people who move freely in the fort, and it seems a little empty.

Two soldiers came up to him, and when they saw Zhao Ziliang, they greeted him: "Captain Zhao, go to the school?" ”

There are only one hundred and sixty-eight people in the entire Tuoyun Castle including the chairman of the fort, Yun Qing, although Zhao Ziliang can't name these two soldiers, but he also knows them, knowing that they are Xi Yunqing's guards, he nodded with a smile: "Yes!" ”

After walking past Zhao Ziliang, one of the two guards whispered to the other, "Do you know? The castle lord's family has a letter, Mrs. added a little son to the castle owner, the front has given birth to three thousand gold, this time finally happy son, the Xi family has a successor, the castle owner was very happy after seeing the letter, just now also ordered us to add vegetables! ”

Another guard said, "I see, I said why is the castle lord so happy today."

Zhao Ziliang's heart moved when he heard this, but his footsteps did not stop, and he walked directly to the school.

"Hack!" "Hah!"

"Cut!" "Hah!"

"Tease!" "Hah!"

"Thorn!" "Hah!"

A commander stood in front of fifty soldiers holding the hilt of his sword and shouting a trumpet, and the soldiers kept yelling and making slashing attacks, this was Zhao Ziliang's third group. Although there were only 50 people, they created a lot of momentum, which shows that the Tang army also attached great importance to drills. In addition to these fifty, there are another fifty people practicing on the other side of the school field.

The person who shouted the trumpet was the first Shishi, the eldest Wei Meng. When he saw Zhao Ziliang coming over, he hurriedly stopped, and then saluted Zhao Ziliang and said, "Guy! ”

Wei Meng's ten standard big men, this guy is at least 1.95 meters tall, but he is skinny, so although he is big, he was not called by Xi Yunqing to be a guard, but just a small chief.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Keep practicing!" ”

"Yes, man!"

Observing the drills of the robes, Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but think of the battle with the Tucai cavalry a few days ago, although it was only a small-scale encounter, but Zhao Ziliang still found that in terms of cavalry archery and cavalry warfare, the Tang army did not have much advantage over the Tucai cavalry, that day he was able to take nine cavalry to kill the opponent's thirty cavalry, nothing more than a well-equipped advantage, his cavalry were all wearing bright light armor, and the defense was much stronger than the leather armor of the Tucai cavalry, and the opponent's arrows and arrows were all beast teeth, not iron arrows, The penetrating power is naturally much inferior to the iron arrows of the Tang army. If he had asked his cavalry to change into the same leather armor, weapons, bows and arrows, his cavalry squad would definitely be pressed by the other party, and finally the whole army would be annihilated.

Zhao Ziliang also knew that there was no way to do it, after all, Tuqi Shi was a nation on horseback, and in horse archery and horse warfare, it had an incomparable advantage over the Han people in the Central Plains. As he watched the soldiers drill, he thought that it seemed that training in cavalry archery and cavalry warfare should be strengthened, as well as training in discipline and physical fitness.

However, the food in the fort is not rich, in order to save food, under normal circumstances, each soldier only eats one meal a day, so the amount of training of the soldiers is limited, if the amount of training is too large, the physical fitness of the soldiers can not bear it, so if you want to increase the amount of exercise, you can only add one or two meals, but if you increase one meal a day, you have to double the amount of food, where does this increase in food come from? The fort will definitely not give it, so you can only figure it out yourself.

In the previous day's battle, a batch of trophies of the Turgish were captured, and in addition to the horses, a sum of money could be obtained after the sale of other things, but this money could not be touched, it was bought by the robes with their lives and blood, and this money must be counted as a pension for their families.

Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while, and then he had an idea in his heart, now he is just a gang leader, and he can't be the master in Tuoyun Fort, if he wants to increase rations for the soldiers, increase the amount of training on this basis, and increase the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, he must find another way.

Zhao Ziliang remembered what he heard the two guards say before he came just now, and suddenly had an idea in his heart, and after explaining to Wei Meng, he took the three dogs and went straight to Xi Yunqing's residence. Sangouzi was originally the first group of soldiers, and after Zhao Ziliang was promoted to the position of the third gang leader, he asked him from the first gang leader Huo Kan, after all, he was also a gang leader and a colleague, Huo Kan also gave face, and promised to transfer the three dogs to Zhao Ziliang as a guard.

Coming to the residence of Yunqing, the chairman of the fort, Zhao Ziliang met one of the two guards he met earlier, and asked: "I heard that the lord of the castle is happy to have a son, I am here to congratulate, is the lord of the castle?" ”

The guard was very happy when he heard this, and said repeatedly: "Yes, Captain Zhao, please come in."

Zhao Ziliang nodded and walked into Xi Yunqing's residence.

Xi Yunqing was practicing martial arts with a horizontal sword, Zhao Ziliang didn't bother after he walked in, just stood aside and watched quietly, and when Xi Yunqing finished practicing, he immediately arched his hand and said loudly: "The castle master is really good kung fu!" ”

Xi Yunqing wiped his sweat, turned his head when he heard the sound, he still admired Zhao Ziliang very much, and said with a smile: "Ziliang is here, go and sit in the house!" ”

The two of them came to the house and sat down, and a pot of water was boiling on the stove. Without waiting for Xi Yunqing to pour tea, Zhao Ziliang said: "I heard that the castle lord has a new little son, and the Xi family has a successor, Ziliang came to congratulate, congratulations to the castle owner!" ”

"Hahaha!" Xi Yunqing laughed, obviously happy, and said with a smile: "I didn't want to publicize it around, and I also instructed the guards not to say it in private, but I didn't expect to let Ziliang know!" ”

Zhao Ziliang took out a few pieces of gold and silver jewelry seized a few days ago and put them on the table and said with a smile: "The castle owner is happy with the son, and the subordinates and brothers don't have anything good to give to the son, this is a little bit of the subordinates and brothers' thoughts, it's not worth a few dollars, it's a gift from the brothers to the little son, and I hope the castle owner won't dislike it."

Xi Yunqing didn't want it when he saw it, but when he heard Zhao Ziliang say that it was given to Xiao'er, he couldn't refuse with a straight face, so after thinking about it, he accepted it, and said with a smile on his face: "Ziliang has a heart!" ”

Saying that, Xi Yunqing thought about how to give back to Zhao Ziliang, how to say that he received a gift from others, and he also wanted to give Zhao Ziliang a little return, he quickly had an idea, and said to Zhao Ziliang: "By the way, Ziliang, the envoy of Mohe Dagan has been sober after treatment, after all, this matter is very important, I pondered that I will send someone to send him to Shule tomorrow, and report to General Fumeng about the battle with the Tuqi Shi cavalry the day before yesterday, you are the party concerned, I want to send you to bring a man and horses to send Mohe Dagan's envoy to Shule is the most appropriate." Besides, didn't you capture a batch of loot? Just drop by and take it with you! ”

The soldiers can't leave the station without an order, if they can't go out, the captured loot can't be sold, with Xi Yuanqing's order, it's different, Zhao Ziliang knows this, this is all the credit of those pieces of jewelry just now.

He hurriedly thanked: "Thank you Lord Castle for your care!" ”

After speaking, he said: "Castle master, now that the Turks are in civil strife, I am afraid that we will often be harassed by the Turkish cavalry here, and my subordinates think that the training of our soldiers is too little at present, and we must strengthen the drills!" ”

Xi Yunqing sighed when he heard this: "Hey, you think I don't want to, but you also know that we have limited grain and grass here, and if we increase the amount of exercise, I'm afraid that the soldiers' bodies won't be able to bear it!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "That's right, but the castle master, if the Turquoise cavalry attack, we have too few troops, so we can only retreat in the fort to defend, so we will only be beaten passively, you see if we send a team of people to be stationed outside the fort, on the one hand, we can expand the scope of reconnaissance, on the other hand, if there is really a Turquoise cavalry attack, a team of men and horses stationed outside the fort can surprise the flank of the Turquoise cavalry, and catch them off guard!" ”

Xi Yunqing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he said: "Your idea is quite novel, very good!" I'm going to think about it, so let's talk about it again when you get back from Shule."

"Yes!" Zhao Ziliang said, got up and hugged his fist to Xi Yunqing and said, "Then I'll go back first to prepare for going to Shule Town tomorrow!" ”

"Well, go ahead!"