On the eighth day of the first month of the third year of the Great Song Dynasty (1130), when the sky was still bright early in the morning, the south gate of Liaoyang City was also opened early.

More than 100 carriages with carriages lined up along the South Gate Street, and at least thousands of people were crowded at the city gate, waiting for the roll call in an orderly line. Then he saw that the officials in charge of roll call at the gate of the city checked the household registration documents and identity plates one by one, and when they had counted enough twenty people, they instructed them to board a carriage with a box, and gave each person on the carriage a cooking cake the size of an adult's face plate and a leather bag of water, which was regarded as dry food for the day.

It took more than an hour to see that more than 100 carriages were filled with 20 people per cart before they ran out of the south gate, and at this time, on the side of the official road at the south gate, there were already thousands of cavalry of the Song army waiting for them.

It is said to be thousands, because the number of people is indeed too many to be counted for a while and a half, and these cavalry are not "light horses" (referring to single horses), but in each team of about 50 cavalry squads, in addition to the war horses riding under the crotch of the cavalry, there are also dozens of pack horses of different sizes, carrying bags of different sizes or weapon racks on horses, and some are covered tightly with canvas, so that no one knows what they are carrying.

Therefore, because there are many people and horses, it is really unclear how many cavalry there are in this group for a while. But after seeing that more than 100 carriages left the city, they also marched south along the official road, and the cavalry of the Song army also began to escort them on both sides of the road.

In front of the city gate, Huang Jie was wearing winter clothes, but he was also smiling at Yang Keshi, who was fully armed and ready to accompany him, and many acquaintances who followed Yang Keshi.

I saw Huang Jie smiling and saying to Yang Keshi: "It's good for General Yang to stay in Liaoyang, why bother competing with the little ones for some military exploits?" ”

Yang Keshi laughed when he heard this, and then replied: "The king of the county said it lightly, how can the old man compete with the brothers for war merits?" It's just that the king of the county made that plan to train the eagle and the dog to the marshal of the Jin Kingdom in Liaoyang, but the old man was so choked that he was about to fade out of his mouth, and he didn't allow the old man to find something to do? ”

Huang Jie had to smile awkwardly, and then he also talked to Sun Xin, who was following Yang Keshi, and Shi Jin, Zhou Tong, Li Zhong and others, who are now officers in the Dare Warrior Army: "It's okay!" General Yang wants to find some fun, you just have to cover the general's flanks. ”

Sun Xin, Shi Jin, Zhou Tong, Li Zhong and others, although they joined the Imperial Che Army as the head of the army early in the morning and served as instructors in the training camp of the Royal Che Army, after the preparation of the Northern Expedition in Hebei by the master Dao and Huang Jie, they were unwilling to continue to stay in the teaching camp and wait for death, so they asked Huang Jie to fight.

Later, as Yang Zongbao gathered all the heroes and heroes in the Heavenly Dao Alliance and came to Hebei to join the army to form the Dare Warrior Battalion, Huang Jie simply transferred them all to be officers of the Dare Warrior Battalion, so that they could have a place to use.

Hearing Huang Jie's explanation, everyone laughed, and naturally agreed without a mouth. After a few more greetings, Yang Keshi also set off on the road, and everyone went with him, leaving Sun Xin at the end.

Huang Jie came to help Sun Xin's horse reins, and said in a low voice: "Second brother is going, take care of your body!" ”

I can also see that Sun Xin now also has a big beard under his chin, his face is slightly jaundice, and he looks far less energetic than before. Come to think of it, Sun Li and Sun Xin's brothers are already more than fifteen years older than Huang Jie, and now Huang Jie is in his early thirties, and his brothers are naturally in their forties and halfs now, how can they be as strong as they were back then.

This time it was when Sun Xin landed in Yaozhou with the troops, he suffered a cold at sea, and after arriving in Liaodong, although Huang Jie also took medicine with him to rectify, but after all, people are old, once the disease invades, if you want to heal, it is not as good as when you were in the prime of life.

Originally, Huang Jie wanted Sun Xin to raise in Liaoyang for a few more days, but now the dare warriors must go to the Jiaodong Peninsula to infiltrate the task by themselves, and he, as Yang Keshi's adjutant, is also the core figure of Huang Jie's family among the dare fighters, so naturally he can't be absent.

Hearing Huang Jie's explanation, Sun Xin smiled loudly and said: "Da Lang is too worried, have you forgotten that the life wish of me and your eldest brother back then was to recover the land of Yanyun." Now that victory is in sight, how can I be willing to give up the horse leather shroud, I must survive to watch the Great Song Dynasty regain the lost territory and welcome back the second emperor! ”

Huang Jie smiled when he heard this, and said: "It's good that the second brother has such an idea, stay in Ningzhou and say hello to Brother Zongbao with me." ”

Sun Xin smiled and agreed, he wanted to leave with a horse, but after thinking about it, he stopped and said to Huang Jie: "Da Lang, do you remember my third brother?" ”

Huang Jie thought about it, but also remembered that the third brother (Sun Xin's third son) was born to Sun Xin's third mother-in-law after Sun Xin's family settled in Huangzhou, and asked a matchmaker to hire a local family in Huangzhou.

Saying that, Sun Xin took out a small bronze medal from his arms and handed it to Huang Jiedao: "This is the medal that my third brother won in Longshan Academy, he was a little careful about Dalang's Qiniang (sister-in-law, biological mother Qinghe), and he handed it over, but he never had a chance." ”

Huang Jie took a look, but he also saw that it was the medal of the first prize of the archery competition in the six arts competition in the school of Longshan Academy in October of the first year of the main road.

At that moment, he also nodded solemnly and smiled: "Second brother rest assured, I will definitely transfer it to my sister-in-law, and also ask the third brother to learn art hard, it is easy to be my son-in-law, at least I can beat my daughter!" ”

Sun Xin laughed when he heard it, and naturally agreed, so he also patted his horse to keep up with the team and chased after him.

Looking at Sun Xin's distant back, Huang Jie didn't know why his heart suddenly tightened, and his eyes flashed in a trance The scene when he and his eldest brother Sun Li rode over from afar in Huangzhou, and was introduced to him by his senior brother Gongsun Zheng.

In a trance, Huang Jie's back of Sun Xin, who was seen in the distance, seemed to turn around and beckoned to him, so he also raised his hand to say goodbye.

Huang Jie studied under Zhu Taozhi, and all kinds of secretaries in the Daomen were more or less involved, so he naturally understood the way of heaven and man induction, so he immediately reacted, but he was afraid that Sun Xin would be in trouble if he went, maybe it was where his limit was, so he had this explanation. Although Huang Jie immediately wanted to send someone to recover him, but thinking of what Sun Xin said that recovering Yan Yun was his flat wish, he could only stop his thoughts.

In the end, he could only watch Sun Xin's back merge with the three thousand daring soldiers from afar, and gradually drifted away.