After finishing the marriage of his subordinates, it was already early the next morning.

Several generals who got married still did not return at this time. Du Du considered that these generals were newly married Yan'er, and it was when they were in love, so he also gave them a five-day vacation. And Li Yanzhao, the head of the battalion, does not have this kind of treatment.

In his position, Li Yanzhao naturally has awareness. On the first day, he went to a few houses to celebrate the generals under his command, and those generals naturally did not let him go, and they poured him drunk with mash rice wine.

Therefore, as soon as he sobered up the next day, he went to Liu Zhongkang's house, looked at Ni Congyun again, and forced a bag of money to Liu Zhongkang, saying that he was in the army, and he was inconvenienced, and he did not take good care of this little lady, and asked Liu Zhongkang to take care of Yunyun on his behalf.

After that, Li Yanzhao returned to the camp on his own. Now, a sense of uneasiness grew more and more urgent, and he intensified the training of his soldiers day by day. Even if his subordinates occasionally made mistakes, he often stopped teaching with gentle words as before, and his words became more and more harsh.

Song Qing has been practicing hard since he was impressed by the skills of 100 people on the school field that day. Even the soldiers under his command were with him, and after the end of the daily drill, he still stayed in the school field for most of the hour. It wasn't until it was dark and before the rice drum was started that he led his troops back to the camp.

The consequence of this is that several veterans in the camp who are in charge of mules and horses come to Li Yanzhao, saying that the consumption of horse materials is now a lot more than before. There is horse material left in the warehouse, and it is seen that it will not be enough. When Li Yanzhao learned about it, he naturally reported it, and bluntly said that the recent training has been hard and consumes a lot, so please transfer more horse material.

In any case, the summer grain crops harvested in late autumn have now been concentrated in the county warehouse, and the county has hired enough craftsmen to start extracting these beans from oil. It is sold by the county government and Soxhlet to all counties in the state. It is said that the sales are not bad, and it can be said that the supply exceeds the demand.

The soybean cake and so on left over from oil extraction are good horse fodder for the army. Anyway, there is no shortage of these now, and the consumption of mules and horses in the army also saves the county government the trouble of disposing of these waste materials, which can really be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Song Qing led his troops to practice hard, but it caused Liu Jiwu to feel a little uneasy. He once asked Li Yanzhao for advice, and he didn't know if it was necessary for his department to be like Song Qing, and he would also practice for a while after daily practice. And Li Yanzhao's answer surprised him.

"The art of battle formation is the ability to kill the enemy and save your life, and you can do it yourself." Li Yanzhao's fluttering words made Liu Jiwu scratch his ears and cheeks, and he thought about it for a long time. He himself hit four targets in the martial arts drill, and he was also one of the few outstanding skills in the army. However, for Li Yanzhao's words, he still pondered for a long time.

A few days later, Liu Jiwu had several carpenters rush to make a large number of dummies. And then after the daily practice, those with poor grades will stay and practice, anyway, there are many dummies. If you practice well, you will return to the camp on the spot, and if you don't practice well, you will continue to cut dummies with Song Qingbu. Whoever can't do it will practice.

In this case, two months later, the soldiers of the Liu and Song divisions have made great progress in their battle formation skills. On the other hand, the performance of the 100-person team led by Li Yanzhao was a little unsatisfactory.

Li Yanzhao acted as a shopkeeper at this time, and although he saw the training of these soldiers under his command, he unusually ignored it. This uncle became the shopkeeper, and the two team leaders under him, Shao Lei and Cao Jian, could no longer remain calm.

The two knocked on the side many times and asked Li Yanzhao how to arrange the after-school training of the soldiers. However, Li Yanzhao only dropped a sentence: "You wait for yourself." Then he kicked the ball back to Shao and Cao. The two couldn't help but feel very anxious in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say much about the hundred generals.

So after Song and Liu, Shao Lei and Cao Jian also led the soldiers in their teams who did not perform well in training and began to practice after school. The two have been following Li Yanzhao for a long time, and their style of leading troops has gradually moved closer to Li Yanzhao himself. Even though the two of them have excellent skills, they are also personally leading these unsuccessful soldiers under their command to practice in addition to formal exercises.

As a result, in the Guangwu Army, today's paradoxical situation has been formed: the infantry battalion and the shooting battalion have returned to the camp for a long time after the drill, and there are only sparse figures on the side of the cavalry battalion. And the new school field of the cavalry a few miles away from the big camp was an endless stream of shouts and killings. It wasn't until the rice drum was opened that it came to an end.

Under such hard practice, good results have also been achieved. By the middle of May, the cavalry in the battalion had basically achieved above the level of skill. Although there is still a lot of distance from the goal set by Li Yanzhao in his heart. However, in such a short period of time, he also felt impeccable in his heart to achieve such results.

The affairs of the county government are now on the right track. Nowadays, there is basically no need to second, and the sergeants and soldiers of the army are fully involved. However, out of his own considerations, Li Yanzhao still took a few days out of his own time to ask for orders to lead the soldiers to the fields to help the households take care of agricultural affairs. Most of them are around the county capital, and occasionally they go to Lingju and Yongdeng counties. However, when he led the soldiers to Yongdeng, he could always see Su Xuan and Su Xiaoniang.

Because they are busy with their own affairs, although the two see each other for a moment, they can usually only salute each other from a distance and greet each other. However, every time he sees Su Xiaoniang, Li Yanzhao always feels a little more cheerful in his heart.

Those days didn't last long. At the end of May, Guangwu sent the cavalry to cross the river and send back a shocking news: Chen An, who had retreated to Shangqi and had been silent for almost a year, suddenly gathered a vote of the leaders of the Diqiang tribe near the left, and raised 100,000 people from Diqiang.

Li Yanzhao, who got the news from the sentry cavalry, immediately fed back the news to the military lord and Xin Taishou in the county government. However, before Guangwu County could deploy and actively prepare for war, another urgent letter was sent to the camp of the Guangwu Army the next morning.

This urgent letter was sent by Sima Han Pu of Taifu, which ordered the Guangwu army to step up the training of soldiers and prepare materials for the war that may come in the near future. At the same time, the county government also received another letter from Han Sima, but it was ordered that Xin Taishou continue to prepare weapons and ordnance, and transfer a group of craftsmen to Jincheng to provide support for the army of Jincheng County.

For a while, whether it was the county government, the workshops in the city, or the Guangwu army, they were all busy at this time. Not long ago, the county had just harvested the winter wheat that had been planted in late autumn last year. At this time, the tax revenue between the various acres of land can also be collected. However, before the tax revenue could be delivered to the state, it suddenly encountered such a big change.

Xin Tai kept his word and made a decision on the spot, and withheld all the grain taxes that he wanted to transfer to the state. He also sent a letter to the governor of the state, saying that the war ahead is urgent, and the county is the first to bear the brunt, so it is necessary to take precautions and be prepared.

In the army, the treasurer and military officials were busy transporting grain, grass and ordnance every day, and stockpiling them separately, or sending people to Jincheng County. Except for a small number of soldiers who were responsible for escorting grain, grass and ordnance back and forth between the camp and Jincheng County, the rest practiced hard every day.

Now it is no longer a battalion of cavalry battalions for non-commissioned soldiers. Rather, basically the whole army has to drill every day until the start of the meal and drum. Thousands of people supervised Du Jie and Sima Pangxi, and from time to time during the drill, they went to each battalion to check the drill.

In each battalion, the generals have been harsh with their subordinates, and at this time, even if the generals are angry and beat some poorly trained soldiers, these two are not surprised. However, when they walked to the left of the new school field outside the camp, these two high-ranking officers in the army saw an unforgettable scene for them.

More than 300 horsemen occupy a two-mile radius of open space. There were many wooden dummies erected by the horsemen in the clearing, and these hundreds of horsemen galloped back and forth in this vast land, each wielding swords, guns, bows and arrows, and launched a continuous attack on these imaginary enemies that had been placed.

The movement of hundreds of horsemen galloping, coupled with the shouts of the horsemen from time to time, was like a storm crashing on the shore, and it could be clearly heard from miles away.

Du Jie looked at the scene of these horsemen practicing in full swing in front of him, glanced at Pang Xi beside him, and said in a slightly dull tone: "Now that the battle clouds are thick, we have to be fully prepared." ”

Pang Xi also looked solemn: "The situation in Longxi this time may not be good." After a year, Liu Zhao is afraid that he has exhausted the elite in his hands, and once Chen An is defeated, our state will be in danger. ”

After that, the two watched the drills of the cavalry, and each thought about the unoptimistic situation in front of them, and looked at each other with a wry smile.