The next morning, Li Yanzhao handed over the affairs of the camp to Song Qing and Liu Jiwu, two hundred commanders, and then ordered Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing to accompany him, and went to the county government to get the road guide, and then the three horsemen went out of the north of the county and went to Guzang.

From Guangwu County to Guzang, the road is about 400 miles. Along the way, there are mostly valleys between mountains, and even if the three of them travel non-stop, day and night, they will have to travel for nearly two days.

When he left the camp, Li Yanzhao had already gone to the dormitory to receive three days' dry rations. The three knights wore helmets and armor, and hung bows and knives at their waists, and in this way, they galloped out of the county town, along the relatively wide official road, all the way to their destination, Guzang.

At this time, the infrastructure of Liangzhou was still relatively simple. Because of its remote location, the climate is relatively dry. It has never been a region that many dynasties focus on developing and cultivating. However, the land also held the silk trade routes, and successive dynasties had to make great efforts to govern it and maintain the political and military presence of the Central Plains Dynasty in Liangzhou.

However, once the Central Plains was in turmoil, the place where Liangzhou was located was more embarrassing. If Guanzhong is still in the control of the dynasty, the situation is not bad. Once the pass is lost, Liangzhou will fall into the dilemma of internal and external loss.

The last time Liangzhou was divided was back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty decades ago. Liangzhou attempted to cause chaos and was quickly suppressed by the Eastern Han Dynasty. Then Dong Zhuo started his family, led the Liangzhou soldiers to recruit the Yellow Turban, and then coerced the emperor to move the capital, and burned Luoyang with a fire, which can be said to be infinitely harmful.

In this dynasty, with the rebellion of the Eight Kings, the situation of the five wasps was inevitable, and Guanzhong also fell with the fall of Emperor Chu. Emperor Yuan crossed to the south and built the capital Jiankang. He completely cut off contact with the Northland. Liangzhou became a semi-independent regime isolated from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Although this situation did not come from the original intention of the Zhang family, for the current situation, the Zhang family had to accept his fate and carefully manage Liangzhou, the last nominal Jin land in the north, and it was also the place where the Zhang family and many scholars in Liangzhou relied on to settle down.

Everyone knew in their hearts that although the northern Hulu was menacing, the invasion of Liangzhou was dangerous, and for the cavalry-based army of Hulu, there was no slightest advantage, but it had to fall into a lot of inconvenience. Because of this, Liangzhou's semi-independent political status has also been further ensured.

The three horsemen rode through the valley in the north of Guangwu County, which was composed of low mountain ranges. At dusk, Fang Xing arrived at the estuary circle of more than 100 miles according to the county seat.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao simply ordered to rest for a while, eat some dry food, feed some forage and bean cakes to the military horses, and then continue to move forward. Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing were also too tired, and when they heard that Li Yanzhao had ordered them to rest, they rolled the saddle and dismounted like a pardon, bolted the horse to the trunk of a tree by the roadside, and then took out a hard Hu Biscuit from the dry food bag they carried and nibbled on it.

After eating the Hu cake in their hands, Zhang Xing and Niu Erzhuang took out the horse feed and fed the horses, and then sat under the tree with Li Yanzhao to rest.

A quarter of an hour later, as Li Yanzhao spoke, the three of them stepped on their horses again and continued to march. Along the way, you can only find your way by relying on the existing signposts and asking the villagers.

Even when night fell, the three of them still galloped along the official road for most of the night. It wasn't until the end of the Yin hour that the three of them couldn't support it, and Li Yanzhao ordered to get off the horse and rest. So they led the horse to the side of the road and tied it to the trunk of a tree, and then the three of them took turns to keep watch, and the other two found a place to lie down and sleep.

After resting for less than two hours, when the sun was rising, Li Yanzhao, who was on duty, woke up two more subordinates. Niu Erzhuang went to find the mountain stream, filled the water bladder of the three people, and then returned to the edge of the forest, nibbled some dry food, fed the horses, and then continued on the road.

Because of the day and night of yesterday, the place where the three of them rested at this time was still about one hundred and fifty or sixty miles away from Guzang City. Li Yanzhao ordered everyone to rush to Guzang at three o'clock in the unitary hour, before the city gate was closed.

So all three of them drove their horses with grim expressions. Along the way, there is no time to enjoy the surrounding scenery. It's just galloping all the way, but these official roads from Guangwu to Guzang are also steep and difficult. It took a lot of effort for the three of them to reach Guzang at the end of the unitary hour, before the city gate closed.

When he came to Guzang for the first time, even Li Yanzhao, who took the lead, was confused, so he had to show Lu Yin to the soldiers guarding the city gate, and said that he and the others were messengers sent by Guangwu County. The gatekeeper was illiterate, so he had to call the gatekeepers. After a while, the city gate official in the green robe walked up and down from the city gate, looked at Li Yanzhao and the other three, and then took the road guide in the hands of the soldier and checked it.

The city gate official wanted to embarrass Li Yanzhao and the others, so as to suggest that they give them some money for the passage, but he took the road guide in his hand and looked around, and the seal letter on the road guide was readily available. The city gate officials had no choice but to return the road to Li Yanzhao, and then signaled for permission.

Li Yanzhao was also clever, seeing that the city gate official did not do much trouble, his right hand took the road guide and stuffed it into his arms, and the small hanging money held in his left hand had quietly slid into the sleeve of the city gate official, and he felt a small heavy copper coin in his hand, and the city gate official also showed a rare smile.

"Since the three of them are here for official business, and they walk along the city gate to the end of this street, there is a Fulai Inn, but it is the place where the state government receives public officials, and the accommodation fee is free by virtue of the road." The city gate officials no longer had the arrogant posture they had at the beginning, and they smiled sheepishly at the trio.

Li Yanzhao bowed his hand, thanked the city gatekeeper, and then led the two subordinates along the avenue to the inn pointed by the city gatekeeper.

At this time, it is already the time to hold the lights, and the shops on both sides of the street are ready to close. Li Yanzhao and his two subordinates walked around, looking at the peaceful scene on the streets of Guzang, the state governor.

Go to the inn, first lead the horse to the back trough, Li Yanzhao gave the back trough groom a few small hanging money, told him to be good to feed, and then went to register the accommodation, the innkeeper checked the three people, and sure enough, he didn't mention the cost of accommodation, just called the shopkeeper and led the three to an empty room upstairs. Li Yanzhao followed the shopkeeper and went upstairs step by step, creaking the somewhat dilapidated wooden staircase.

Xiao Er led the three of them to a room, and then opened the door, and said to Zhao and the others: "Three guest officers, how about staying here?" ”

Li Yanzhao entered the house and saw that although the facilities in this inn were simple, there were five Hu beds on the ground in turn. However, this room was next to the window, so he nodded and agreed.

Xiao Er was also relieved when he saw Li Yanzhao agree, and then bowed to the three of them and withdrew from the room.

The three of them put down their packs, but their bellies were growling uncontrollably. The three of them looked at each other and smiled awkwardly. Li Yanzhao beckoned to the two subordinates: "Let's go, go out to eat." The two of them immediately got up, followed Li Yanzhao out of the inn, and walked down the street.

Not long after walking, the three of them saw a little remote alley, but there were many people in and out, and they were strange, but they took a closer look, but saw that more than 20 steps away from the entrance of the alley, there was a shop, which was full of customers. Li Yanzhao took two subordinates and approached the noodle shop.

I saw a rather large signboard hanging above the noodle shop, with the words "Xiao Zhang Soup Cake" written on it, but it was smoky all year round, but those four words now look a little bleak. At the door, beside the clay stove, there were two people. One stood beside the stove and rubbed the noodles in his hands quickly, while the other squatted on the ground, pushing and pulling the bellows beside the stove vigorously.

Seeing Li Yanzhao and the others approaching, the guy who was rubbing noodles next to the stove greeted him warmly: "Come on, come on, what do the three military masters want to eat, and please inside." ”

"What do you have here?" Niu Erzhuang came to the stove, swallowed his saliva in a big gulp, and asked the guy in the shop.

"There are mutton soup cakes and vegetarian soup cakes, mutton soup cakes are 12 yuan a bowl, and vegetarian soup cakes are 8 yuan a bowl. What does the guest officer want to eat? The guy at the shop replied with a smile, but the movement of rubbing the dough with his hands did not fall at all.

"Three bowls of mutton soup cakes." When Li Yanzhao heard this, he smiled at the guy, then took out the money bag, and with a wave of his hand, three small hanging coins and a few scattered copper coins were already put into a porcelain jar full of copper coins next to the stove.

The guy who was kneading the noodles skillfully kneaded the noodles, and then called the three of them into the house to sit down. The guy squatting on the ground continued to skillfully pull the bellows, and the somewhat muddy soup in the pot boiled in a blink of an eye, bubbling in large streams, and the noodles in the pot were happily turned over, like a fish play in the river.

Soon, three bowls of mutton soup cakes were brought to Li Yanzhao and the three of them, and the three of them each took bamboo chopsticks, took mutton or noodles, and ate them with hula hula.

Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing have not been touched with meat for a long time, how can they not be hungry at this time when they see the big bowl of noodles in front of them with a large piece of mutton? Three times and five divided by two, the soup cake in the bowl has gone down more than half.

And although Li Yanzhao was eating hula and hula, he was thinking in his heart that this was far worse than the noodles in later generations......

The three of them ate the soup cakes with their hearts, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the three bowls of soup cakes had bottomed out. Li Yanzhao stroked his full belly, and looked at Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing, who had drunk not a drop of noodle soup in the bowl, in surprise.

"Man, another bowl of mutton soup cakes!" Seeing the two who were still unsatisfied, Li Yanzhao got up and shouted, and then stepped forward to pay. After a while, the shopkeeper brought another bowl of steaming mutton soup cakes to the table.

The two of them unceremoniously shared the bowl of soup cakes and ate them cleanly, before stroking their round belly and exhaling happily.

After the two of them rested for a while, Li Yanzhao got up and called the two out of the store together. When he went out, the shopkeeper who was cleaning up the stove warmly said goodbye to the three of them.

With these two incomparably edible rammed goods, the three of them began to wander aimlessly, exercising their digestion after eating.