After receiving the cheers and praise of the people in the county, the Guangwu cavalry returned in triumph, and then left the county and returned to the camp ten miles west of the city.

At this time, the camp has been built again, and the wall, watchtower, ditch, etc. are all available, but the more than 1,000 foot soldiers who stayed in the county town before are still busy setting up tents in the camp at the moment. Li Yanzhao led his ten men through the busy and bustling camp and came to the stable on the west side of the camp. At this time, the horsemen returned to the camp one after another, and naturally led the horses to the stables. Li Yanzhao led everyone forward, led his horses to the stables and tied them, and took the reins from the hands of the riders one after another. Today, no one in the army dares to despise this stableman in their eyes anymore, and everyone handed over the reins of the horse, and their words were very polite. Li Yanzhao accosted everyone amicably, and at the same time handed over the reins of the horse to the stable to be taken care of by the people around him.

Soon after, a soldier came straight to the stables from the tent of the captain. When he saw Li Yanzhao, he hugged his fists and said, "Li Shichang, Ma Duwei called you to go to his tent and discuss something." ”

Li Yanzhao hugged his fists and saluted the soldier, then turned to Cao Jian beside him to say a few words, and then rushed to Ma Duwei.

Li Yanzhao entered the tent under the leadership of the soldier, but saw Ma Ping sitting next to the desk in the tent in a short shirt, holding a pen in his hand, but staring at a blank piece of paper on the desk in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"My subordinate Li Yanzhao has seen the captain." Li Yanzhao walked to the tent and said respectfully with his fists clenched.

"It's just in time, come and help us think about how to write this battle report." When Ma Duwei saw Li Yanzhao, his face couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he hurriedly said.

The soldier who led Li Yanzhao into the tent saw that the people had been brought, so he hurriedly retired to Ma Duwei and went out of the tent by himself.

Li Yanzhao stepped forward and walked to the side of the case, and his face was naturally embarrassed. This Ma Duwei is also, what kind of battle report is written in a good manner, even if he writes a war report, who is not good to shout, call himself to help him. There is also no shortage of civil servants in this army, who let themselves be human beings for two lives, but they are all rough men who play these pen and stick kung fu, isn't it nonsense.

Although he was slandered in his heart, Li Yanzhao's face was still respectful. Walking up to Ma Duwei, he saw that the paper was still blank. It's just that a few drops of invisible ink appear at the top of the page, presumably Ma Duwei has also thought about it for a long time and hesitated, but he can't write it.

"Dare to ask the captain, who is this war report for?" Li Yanzhao thought for a moment, and then asked.

"Naturally, it is the governor of a thousand people in this army." Ma Ping said lightly.

"In that case, let the lieutenant write as I read." Li Yanzhao thought for a while, and then said: "Thousands of people supervise Junjian." ”

Ma Ping wrote these words at the top of the white paper.

"On August 12 of the ninth year of Jianxing, more than 400 cavalry soldiers of our department went out of Lingju and went to Xiping for three days. and 500 cavalry soldiers of the Xiping Division. Attacked the enemy camp that day and night, and set up an ambush in the forest, and beheaded the thieves at the head of 227 ranks. After our department crossed the Huangshui, westward to the upper reaches of the Huangshui, coincided with the flood season, the thief army poured out of the nest, the strong attack on Xiping failed, our department surrounded the water and built a dam, released the water when the thief army crossed the river, washed away the thief army pontoon bridge. The thieves were divided into two, and the defenders of Xiping attacked, defeated the bandit army on the south bank, and the capture was not counted. On the 19th, we sent Sima Fanting, a cavalry soldier, to lead the cavalry to raid the thief army's lair, capture 10,000 thieves' dependents, and go to Changning at night, which coincided with the arrival of the rest of the thief army on the north bank. More than 6,000 thieves were forced to land in our department, and the head of the thief was bald and orphaned. The rebellion was put down. ”

Li Yanzhao recalled the process of quelling the chaos and listed the main points one by one, but the kung fu of a stick of incense has become a good news. However, looking down, Ma Duwei's good news was written crookedly, and Li Yanzhao felt that it was like the font of a primary school student that he had seen in his later life.

However, Ma Duwei did not care at all, and after the payment was made at the end of the good news, he put the brush aside, and immediately shouted outside the tent: "Someone! ”

In a short time, the curtain was lifted, and two tent guards had entered the tent, clasping their fists and obeying the order. Captain Ma Du picked up the good news, saw that the ink stains had not yet dried, blew it with his mouth, and then ordered a soldier to say: "Go, give this good news to the governor of the thousand people." ”

The soldier took the order and left. When the two soldiers came out of the tent, Ma Duwei immediately looked at Li Yanzhao beside him, but he smiled: "Unexpectedly, your kid is not only full of wisdom, but also can be a scribe." ”

Li Yanzhao bowed his hands again and again and said humbly: "The fool of my subordinates, thanks to the captain's refusal to give up, I am very grateful." ”

"Okay, don't say more, you don't have to raise horses anymore, tomorrow the Japanese lieutenant will send someone to hand over to you, and before the military merit is rewarded, you will take your men to my account to listen to it."

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he just clenched his fists and knocked on the ground, thanking him more than once. This military journey originated in the stable, and now that I want to leave that place, I really don't know whether to be happy or uneasy. After all, I was used to raising horses before. Now I'm about to leave there all of a sudden, but I really feel a little reluctant in my heart.

Ma Duwei seemed to see the reluctance in Li Yanzhao's eyes, and said: "Ma still remembers that day, you tasted and said: 'Although we are not old men, we are willing to follow the example of that thousand miles of horses!'" Hearing this, Ma really sighed, and now you have proven yourself. Not to mention that a horse herd in the army is entrusted with the position of centurion, Ma feels that he has buried you. Why don't you wait for the reward to come down and then make a plan. The ten men under your command are all good men. In time, everyone can take on a big role. However, at present, the right is under Ma's account. ”

"Subordinate Xie Duwei cultivates the grace of lifting!" Li Yanzhao was already clenching his fists and knocking on the ground, grateful again and again.

"Hurry up, but you can't do it." Ma Duwei hurriedly got up and helped Li Yanzhao up, and said: "This expedition is hard, and Ma wants to give the soldiers a three-day vacation." Tomorrow, after the handover, you can go home and rest for three days, and then return to the camp in the morning after three days, can you? ”

"Subordinates must obey the military orders of the captain!" Li Yanzhao clenched his fists again and thanked him.

After saying goodbye to Ma Duwei, Li Yanzhao walked back to the stable, looking at Liao Rulong, Zhang Xing, and Wang Qiang, who were still busy carrying basins back and forth between the stable and the horse storehouse.

"What's the matter, what's so happy?" Zhang Xing looked at Li Yanzhao, who was smiling, and couldn't help but ask.

"What a good thing! From tomorrow, I won't have to feed the horses anymore! Li Yanzhao smiled at the three people.

"Huh? Really? Liao Rulong, who had just finished pouring horse material into the manger, was also happy and asked.

"Of course it's true, can I still fool everyone?" Li Yanzhao looked at the three of them, still smiling.

"Then don't feed the horses, where will I go later?" Wang Qiang looked at the basin in his hand, then at the two people beside him, and couldn't help asking.

"The lieutenant said, before the reward comes down, let me wait until he is ready to use it." Li Yanzhao said lightly.

As soon as these words came out, the three of them were excited, and they ran straight to the horse storage with a basin in one hand, and reported the good news to everyone. Li Yanzhao smiled and looked at their backs, and only after a few people ran back to the horse storehouse and disappeared behind the library door did Li Yanzhao turn around and return to the tent where everyone lived. Tomorrow, his own horse herd army will come to an end. Li Yanzhao sat on the stool in the tent, but he couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.

Speaking of joy, it is nothing more than finally getting rid of the errand of raising horses, and no one can be called a "stable" in the future. Speaking of sorrow, this change undoubtedly made him and his subordinates immediately get rid of the life they were used to before, and there is no doubt that the rest and training arrangements of everyone in the future will definitely be difficult to follow Li Yanzhao's arrangements and plans.

Li Yanzhao was worrying about these problems by himself, and suddenly the curtain was lifted. A ray of light shone straight into the face of Li Yanzhao, who was sitting on a stool in the dim tent. Li Yanzhao hurriedly raised his hand to block the somewhat dazzling light, but he heard a somewhat unfamiliar voice at the door of the tent and said, "Li Shichang, it's been a long time." ”

As the curtain was lowered, the dim light that Li Yanzhao was used to in the tent was restored. Li Yanzhao put down his hand and looked at the person standing at the door of the tent, but it was Song Xiaohu, the tyrant of the Guangwu Army who was beaten with him that day.

Thousands of calculations, but I never expected that it was this person who came to visit him. Seeing Song Xiaohu sit down on a stool, Li Yanzhao felt a little disgusted in his heart, but he still asked with an unchanged face: "What are you doing here?" ”

Song Xiaohu laughed and said: "I heard that Shi Chang went out on an expedition and returned triumphantly, so I came to congratulate him, but it didn't seem that Shi Chang was not very welcome, so I said goodbye." ”

"I'm not far away!" Li Yanzhao rolled his eyes and said mercilessly to Song Xiaohu, who stood up and was about to leave.

Song Xiaohu suddenly sat back on the stool like a deflated ball, and said sadly: "I didn't expect that I, Song Xiaohu, was rampant in the Guangwu Army, and I would enter the big tent of the Thousand Governors casually." When you get to your little long tent, you can't even drink saliva! Alas! ”

Li Yanzhao laughed: "The water tank is outside the tent, you can drink it and scoop it casually." It doesn't matter who you are, I can't care if you fly in the tent of a thousand people, but when you get to my tent, give me some rules, it's the dragon you give me a coil, it's the tiger you lie down for me, my temple is too small to accommodate your dragon and tiger leap! Li Yanzhao recalled the mantra of the company commander in the training company in his previous life, and he said it easily, and he realized that he had learned a seven-eight-point image. After finishing the sentence, he added: "In my flying and domineering, be careful that I beat you!" ”

Hearing the word "beat you", Song Xiaohu couldn't help but shudder. He silently observed Li Yanzhao's expression again, and saw that his expression was as usual, and he was not angry, and his heart may be a joke, so he breathed a sigh of relief, but his sitting posture involuntarily straightened a little.

"Listening to the words of those cavalrymen who returned from the expedition, you attacked the thief army camp in the middle of the night, set fire everywhere, dug pits and ambushes, and killed the thief army. Then he also built a dam to store water in the upper reaches of the Huangshui, and rushed the thieves who built a pontoon bridge to cross the river to feed the fish and shrimp. It's a good calculation, a good calculation! Song Xiaohu felt that the silent atmosphere in the tent was a little embarrassing, so he flattered Li Yanzhao.

"A little bit of effort, not enough." Li Yanzhao waved his hand and said humbly. He didn't pretend to be pretending, but he also felt that this expedition was actually just in time, and the leader of the thief army was too stupid. When encountering a scumbag-like opponent who sends his head wildly, he is naturally not proud of his achievements. To put it bluntly, he thinks that whoever goes is the same as taking credit, anyway, the opponent is so piggy, and he won't lose much if he fights casually.

Song Xiaohu is too modest because Li Yanzhao is too modest. After listening to this series of glorious deeds, he could already hear the stars in his eyes. In his heart, he naturally regarded Li Yanzhao as a promising potential stock. Although his family has a huge power, it is only a matter of time before he gets out of the army. However, young people who are not frivolous will more or less have some thoughts of earning merit by their own ability, rather than relying on the shade of their family. In Song Xiaohu's eyes, the man in front of him, who has reached out his hand, is full of wisdom, and has exhausted all his calculations, and is undoubtedly a big thick leg worthy of his own hug so as to seek meritorious service.

"Anyway, congratulations to Li Shi for growing up. With such meritorious deeds, he was rewarded one day, and it was not difficult to ascend to the sky in one step. Song Xiaohu smiled and congratulated Li Yanzhao.

"Thank you so much, I borrowed your auspicious words." Li Yanzhao also smiled and gave up his hand, then got up and went to get a bowl of water from the water tank outside the tent, and then brought it in and put it on the stool next to Song Xiaohu.

Song Xiaohu saw that Li Shichang personally got up to fetch water for himself, and hurriedly thanked him again and again, held the bowl with both hands, and drank it carefully.

After drinking, Song Xiaohu put the empty bowl back on the stool, got up and said to Li Yanzhao: "Li Shichang, there is one thing I won't hide from you, my Song family has been a general for generations, and my father is Song Ji, a general of Yanglie, who took office in Guzang, and all the uncles are also in the army. ”

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he looked at Song Xiaohu fixedly. Seeing Song Xiaohu's hair in his heart, he couldn't help but lower his head, and after a moment, Li Yanzhao opened his mouth and said slowly: "I had a private fight with you that day, and then I was sent to Pang Sima's tent. And Ling Zun is mostly busy with military affairs and neglects to discipline you, right? ”

Song Xiaohu was shocked, but said that this horse herd really has extraordinary eyesight, and between his words and deeds, he has already seen himself as a hundred or nine. But there is only a promise on the lips.

"It is precisely because of this that I spoke out in Pang Sima's tent that day, so that Pang Sima let you go." Li Yanzhao said calmly: "I believe that the lesson given to you that day is profound enough. If you can realize your mistake and change your ways, it will not be in vain that I will save you. ”

"Sure enough, what I expected was good, your family is actually a martial arts family in Liangzhou. However, the man's deeds should be fought with his own knife and gun on the battlefield, so that he will not be criticized by others! I also hope that you will keep in mind that in the future, you will rely less on the shade of some families, and rely on your own ability to make contributions to yourself. ”

When Song Xiaohu heard this, his face suddenly showed a look of joy and confidant, stepped forward to hold Li Yanzhao's hand, and said excitedly: "Shi Chang's words are very much in line with my wishes." In the future, I will not dislike him and teach me a lot. Li Yanzhao said calmly: "That's nature." ”

So far, the two have a sense of sympathy for each other. Li Yanzhao was secretly glad that he had met a second generation, and Song Xiaohu was also excited to hug the potential thigh in his eyes in front of him.