After the original subordinates left, Li Yanzhi was sleepy and was about to lie down to sleep, but he suddenly heard the sergeant guarding outside the tent enter the tent and say, "Sima." The cavalry pottery team asked for a meeting with Dou Shichang. ”

Li Yanzhi had no choice but to suppress his sleepiness and said to the sergeant, "Please let them in." As soon as the words fell, the curtain of the tent had been lifted, Tao Heng and Dou Tong entered the tent, and the sergeant Tong withdrew from the tent. The two of them walked to the tent quickly, clasped their fists and knocked on the ground: "The cavalry team led Tao Heng/Shichang Dou Tong, and I have seen Li Sima." ”

Li Yanzhi got up from the Hu bed, walked down quickly to help the two of them up, and then heard the words: "It's so late, the two of you came to my tent, but what is the urgent military intelligence report to me?" ”

When Tao Heng heard this, he knocked on the ground and said: "I heard that Li Sima will be transferred to Lingju, and the last general will come, please accompany him!" The twenty-three Longxi soldiers under the command of the last general are willing to go with Sima! Tao Heng's voice fell, and Dou Tong also looked directly at Li Yanzhi, and said earnestly: "Sima's life-saving grace, Dou Tong has nothing to repay." Now that Sima is transferred, Tong is also willing to accompany Sima, saddle before and after the horse, and swear to die! ”

The private friendship between these two people and Li Yanzhi is not deep. Li Yanzhi never expected that these two people would also come to ask for orders to accompany him, and he hesitated for a while. Seeing that he did not say anything, the two knelt down together.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhi had to hurriedly help the two of them up and said, "Since this is the case, you two will just go with me." It's just that the new Sima has not yet arrived, so please return to the camp and wait for a few days. Before I depart, I will ask for an order, and then I will summon you to come with me. We are all lifelong friendships, and Tongze who was killed in the sea of corpses and blood. Transferred to Lingju, he can get the help of all the kings, and he is also very frightened. ”

The two of them got Li Yanzhi's promise, their faces were happy, and they said one after another: "Don't blame you for coming here without permission and disturbing Sima Qingjing." ”

Li Yanzhi laughed heartily for a while, then patted the two of them and said: "You are willing to go to the thorny road with me, I am not in a hurry to be moved in my heart, how can I bear to blame." After I go back, pack up my bags, and when the successor Sima and I are handed over, I will have Lao Zhujun with me! ”

Seeing off the two, Li Yanzhi walked back to Hu's bedside, rubbed his eyes, and then fell down and thought about everything, and then fell asleep unconsciously.

In the early morning of the next day, after the opening of the meal drum, Li Yanzhi was beckoning his subordinates to line up and prepare to take them to the room for dinner, but he saw that on the galloping road divided in the camp, a soldier was rushing in his direction. Li Yanzhi fixed his eyes and saw that it was the guard beside Pang Du.

The guard rushed to the front, and when Li Yanzhi saw this, he knew that Pang Du had something to find him, so he waved his hand to a hundred generals who led those sharp soldiers. The hundred men understood, and they took the sharp soldiers and went in the direction of the house.

After the team was gone, Li Yanzhi turned to look at the guard and asked, "But what is Pang Du's urgent military affairs to find me?" ”

The guard bowed down and clenched his fists and said, "Pang Du asked Sima to go to the Chinese army's tent and said that he had important things to explain." ”

Li Yanzhi nodded and said, "Since that's the case, please lead the way." ”

The guard nodded, then made a gesture of please, and then turned to the front, and Li Yanzhi followed closely behind, heading straight in the direction of the Chinese army's big tent.

Before arriving at the big tent, the guard directly lifted the curtain and invited Li Yanzhi inside. Li Yanzhi entered the big tent, but saw that Pang Xi, the current military leader of the Guangwu Army, was sitting down after a few cases in the tent. Seeing the curtain opened, Pang Xi raised his head and met Li Yanzhi's slightly suspicious gaze.

Li Yanzhi entered the tent and bowed. Pang Xi nodded, then spoke, and said to Li Yanzhi straight to the point: "Dingdong, I already know about your transfer to Lingju. Now that the governor has given the order, the successor to the post of Sima has also been determined. I summoned you here this time to invite you to go and bring the new Sima to the camp. ”

When Li Yanzhi heard Pang Xi's words, he was also relieved. Although he was transferred to Lingju before. However, although this matter had been confirmed a long time ago, he had not seen any substantive orders and actions from Shangfeng, which also made him feel uneasy in his heart. At this time, when he heard that Pang Xiyan said that his successor was about to take office, he himself also had a sudden sense of relief.

It's long overdue, I've been hanging myself in the air, and I've been slow to see any movement, what is this like! Li Yanzhi secretly slandered himself in his heart, and then bowed down to receive the order. After straightening up, he said, "Since you ordered me to go and pick up the new Sima, where is the new Sima?" ”

Pang Xi smiled rarely, and then said: "Speaking of this new Sima, you still have some connections with Dingdong yourself. This new Sima is the Su clan Xiaolangjun that you rescued from Longxi last year. Now it is in Yongdeng County, and its human uncle is now Su Xuan, the commander of Yongdeng County. ”

Pang Xi's words opened the floodgates of memory for Li Yanzhi. Last year in the Longxi Mountains, that scene appeared in front of his eyes again. He suddenly said: "It turned out to be Su Xiaolangjun!" Su Xiaolangjun defended himself in the martial arts fort and fought bloody battles with the thieves for several years, and he was indeed qualified for the position of Sima. ”

Pang Xi nodded and said, "That is the case, after Dingdong has breakfast, he will gather people to go to Lingju." Receiving Su Xiaolangjun as soon as possible, Dingdong can also go to Lingju as soon as possible. ”

Li Yanzhi thought deeply of Pang Xi's words, so he nodded and said, "I will follow Pang Du's instructions, I will go to have breakfast first, and then go to Yongdeng to bring Su Xiaolangjun here." With that, he turned around and walked out of the big tent under Pang Xi's gaze, and then went straight to the room.

Li Yanzhi hurriedly had breakfast, and then called Liu Jiwu and ordered him to gather a team of 100 people, and then one person and two horses, and went to Yongdeng with him. Although Pang Xi did not say it explicitly, Li Yanzhi already understood the deep meaning behind the appointment of Xin Fujun of the county government.

In the past, there was a surplus of manpower, and the composition of the county soldiers were all the world soldiers who had been stereotyped earlier. Whether it is the Taishou of the county government or the Zhang envoy of the state government, in order to strengthen the control of these directly subordinate troops and county soldiers, it is inevitable to use the children of Hanshu to enlist in the army. These children of the poor served as middle- and lower-level officers and ordinary non-commissioned officers, and they did not have strong political influence, so they could only obey the orders of the higher-ranking officials. This composition also allows Taishou to command the army under his command.

Now, however, in the sudden war that ended not long ago, all the divisions suffered heavy losses. Manpower is already starting to show signs of strain. In this way, if the children of the Han Shu continue to be recruited as world soldiers, the production capacity of agriculture and handicrafts in the county will undoubtedly be greatly reduced due to the loss of labor.

In such a situation, the prince had no choice but to use these children of the scholar clan and take their family soldiers to the army as officials. Although Li Yanzhi also saw the drawbacks of such methods. However, at the moment, Liangzhou, which is short of manpower, really has only one way, which can barely alleviate the dilemma of shortage of troops.

Li Yanzhi took Liu Jiwu and led the hundreds of horsemen to Yongdeng County. Although the road from the county government to Yongdeng is not far, it is not easy to walk because it is blocked by mountains. It took more than three hours for the cavalry to arrive at the outskirts of Yongdeng County.

Li Yanzhi saw that he had reached the outskirts of Yongdeng County, so he dismounted and led the reins. Seeing this, the horsemen behind him also dismounted. At this time, many farmlands near Yongdeng County have already been harvested. Li Yanzhi looked at the wheat straw vines piled up in the ground and accumulated manure, and he also felt a lot of emotion in his heart. He pointed to the field near the left and asked Liu Jiwu, "Ji Wuke still remembers the matter of me waiting here to reclaim wasteland?" ”

Liu Jiwu took the reins of the horse, and also laughed: "Naturally, I still remember that at the beginning, Sima used a bag of money as a lottery head, and to see who cultivated more land, he would get money, and the group of people who cultivated the least would be sentinel." Unexpectedly, one day later, Sima not only contributed money, but also increased the whistle, and was laughed at by the brothers below for a while......"

Li Yanzhi heard Liu Jiwu tell this past, and a look of embarrassment flashed on his face, but he quickly returned to normal. He also laughed and said: "Skills are not as good as others, willing to bow to the wind!" Ha ha...... I've never farmed before, and if I lose this time, I'm not wronged, I don't ......."

The two joked, and the soldiers next to them all laughed when they heard it.

And they had gone more than two miles, and the hundred or so horsemen had come to the gate of Yongdeng. The gatekeepers saw this group of horsemen leading their horses, but they were all in Guangwu military uniforms, and their expressions were a little confused. It wasn't until Liu Jiwu stepped forward and negotiated with the city gate officials that the city gate officials suddenly realized, and then ordered the soldiers to get out of the way and let Li Yanzhi's troops enter the city.

Li Yanzhi inquired about the city gate officials, confirmed the location of the Su family's residence, and then led his subordinates to stride in the direction guided by the city gate officials.