At noon two days later, a long procession came from the official road in front of the city gate of Hezhou, everyone was in white robes, spears in hand, and the short and capable mountain-destroying crossbow on the waist was particularly eye-catching. [No pop-ups. 】

The pedestrians on the road consciously avoided the roadside, but they were not as afraid as they were when they saw the officials and soldiers in the past, on the contrary, their eyes were full of respect, and some young people were still full of longing, yearning for themselves to be among them.

This is the Kuizhou soldiers, and their origin can be recognized at a glance by their iconic white robes. Everyone in the eastern Sichuan provinces knows that the Kuizhou soldiers do not oppress the people and good people, and often organize to help the villagers in the garrison to grab farm work, without charging the slightest remuneration, except for the heavenly soldiers and generals, everyone does not know what words can be used to describe them.

Riding on a tall horse, the general who led the troops, looking at the patches of fertile fields on the side of the road, and the people who were smiling and cheering at him on the side of the road, exhaled softly, a trace of smile appeared on his face, he raised the iron helmet on his head, revealing his face, only to see that on the big face covered with wind and frost wrinkles, a beard took up almost half of the area, one eye on the bridge of the high nose flashed with essence, and the other was covered by an eye patch.

Wang Huan stood in front of the city gate, saw it from afar, hit his horse forward, and went straight to the leader of the troops, and the bearded general also saw it, and he rolled his saddle and dismounted from a long distance, and hurried up to meet him.

Wang Huan also jumped off the horse, and when he landed, he almost didn't stand firm because he was too anxious, and stumbled a few steps, and the bearded general ran a few steps and helped him.

The three eyes met, Wang Huan looked at the old face and the black blindfold, and his eyes turned red.

"Lady Lee......"

Before Wang Huan finished shouting, Li Tingyu retreated, knelt on one knee and shouted: "Li Tingyu, the general of Kuizhou in the Ming Dynasty, meet the general soldier!" ”

Wang Huan was stunned, and hurriedly reached out to pull it, but Li Tingyu didn't move as if he had taken root on the ground, just slowly raised his head, looked at Wang Huan with one eye, and said softly: "Wang Huan, there is a difference between the upper and lower levels and the inferior, you are now a general soldier, you have to have the appearance of a general soldier, you and I will talk about it later, don't mess up the law in the army!" ”

Wang Huan woke up like a dream, and quickly straightened up and said, "General Li gets up quickly." ”

Li Tingyu shouted respectfully: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Then he stood up and arched his hand: "The last general is ordered by Shizhu Qin Xuan's consolation envoy to order the three thousand tigers to hand over to Lord Wang, and return to Lord Wang. ”

After that, he presented a general order tiger talisman with both hands, Wang Huan took it, it was correct, and put it in his pocket, this set of military order procedures came to an end, he called Ma Xintian and ordered him to take three thousand white-robed soldiers to the barracks to settle down.

At this time, the only one who could restrain his excitement was the stereotypical Ma Xintian, and the others, such as Zu Bian and others, all looked eager to rush up and hug Li Tingyu immediately, standing behind Wang Huan with a red face.

Wang Huan looked at Li Tingyu, only to feel that he hadn't seen him for nearly half a year, Li Tingyu had lost a lot of weight, his face was full of vicissitudes, the unkempt beard became more and more messy, like a pile of weeds piled on his face, the furrow on the forehead that was already wrinkled was even deeper, and a long scar began to extend downward from a little above the right eye, crossed the right eye socket, and fell straight to the lower jaw.

"General, ...... your eyes" Wang Huan asked in shock, and before he could finish asking, Li Tingyu said: "It's okay, I was just slashed by a Tartar, I can't die, I am missing an eye, I can see things more clearly, it is harmless!" ”

Everyone sighed for a while, they were very sentimental, and copied a glance, how could it be as easy as Li Tingyu said.

Li Tingyu didn't care at all, looked Wang Huan up and down happily, and laughed: "General Wang hasn't seen him for many days, and he is becoming more and more burly, where is there still the bleak appearance in Yangzhou City, good!" It is worthy of being the person who can command me Li Lao to run for three thousand miles, Li Tingyu can do things under the hands of adults in the future, and he is convinced, and in the end, this life was saved by adults, and it will be handed over to adults in the future, in the fire and water, as long as the adults give an order, there is no second word! ”

After speaking, Li Tingyu bowed deeply again and bowed down.

Wang Huan contained tears, he couldn't care about anything else, he held Li Tingyu with both hands, he knew in his heart that Li Tingyu deliberately did this in front of the public, just to establish Wang Huan's status, lest Wang Huan miss his previous experience, and he couldn't let go of his hands and feet after he came, and the gap between the top and bottom was not beautiful.

Now he took the initiative to lower his body and show his attitude, the meaning is very clear, I, Li Tingyu, are willing to bow to Wang Huan's seat, who else is older than me? I've taken it all, who else can disagree?

The two got up together, looked at each other and laughed, the laughter was joyful and heroic, and the joy of reuniting after life and death was undoubted, and everyone who heard it was moved.

"What about Li Yan? Didn't he come to you? Wang Huan remembered someone and asked urgently.

"My lord, the end will be here." Behind Li Tingyu, a member of the elite took off his iron helmet, revealing a young face, it was Li Yan, Li Tingyu's personal guard, grinning happily and responding.

Wang Huan went up to be a bear hug, Zu Bian and others also stepped forward to greet each other, hugged each other and sighed, especially Zubian Li Yan, who had experienced that hardship together, hugged each other and cried and laughed, and made trouble for a long time before it stopped.

Wang Huan led everyone directly to the military camp outside the city, and along the way, Li Tingyu recounted his experience of escaping death.

It turned out that day after Li Tingyu was jumped off the cliff by the Qing soldiers, the cliff was full of dense jungle, branches and vines were horizontal, blocking the trend of his fall a lot, and when he landed, he happened to fall into a puddle of mud, although he fell half dead, but he was lucky to have no big problems, and was able to get up and walk on his own, so he endured the pain, stumbled in the woods and fled in the direction of sparse people, running all the way, relying on grass-eating roots and insects and ants to find more than ten days in the mountains, but did not find a way out, and got lost in the vast forest and sea. Just when he passed out, he was rescued by a few villagers in the mountains who avoided the disaster.

The villagers were kind, picked herbs to wrap him, conditioned for more than a month, and finally recovered seven or eight vitality, just when everything was getting better, the soldiers and horses of Sule Soshan found the village where the villagers were hiding, and they were about to slaughter the village directly, Li Tingyu saw that the situation was not good, took advantage of the chaos, killed two Qing soldiers, and escaped, because the body function was not fully recovered, the action was not sharp enough, and the face was also stabbed, cut an eye, he bandaged it with his clothes, and broke into the mountains again.

This time he identified the direction, all the way to the south, walked among the mountains for half a month, until he came to Wuchang, and found an old department that Zuo Liangyu had a friendship with in the army, that person had defected to the Qing army, but he also had a bit of righteousness, hid him, grabbed medicine to heal the wound, but the injury at the eye had been purulent and inflamed, and could not be treated, so he had to scrap his right eye. After a few months, when his injuries had recovered as before, he was given some coils and sent him home. When he walked to Xiangyang, he met Li Yan, who was looking for him here, and the two cried bitterly when they saw each other, at this time Li Tingyu knew that Wang Huan had returned to the stone pillar with the rest of the people, so he hurried back, and happened to meet Qin Liangyu who sent troops to Wang Huan, so he simply asked him to bring someone over.

Wang Huan and the others sat in the conference hall of the barracks, and they couldn't help but sigh when they heard it, such a thrilling process is worthy of a legend, and it has to fight with the escape experience of Wang Huan and the three of them.

"No matter what, we will not die in a catastrophe, it seems that God has his own arrangement, the ancients will have a blessing for those who do not die in a catastrophe, and they should cook wine and celebrate today." Wang Huan got up and shouted, arousing a burst of cheers from the soldiers present.

The sergeants put food and wine on the table, and everyone picked up the bowls and shouted: "Congratulations to the chief soldier and the general!" "Drink the wine from the bowl.

Wang Huan poured another bowl, and said to Li Tingyu solemnly: "The second bowl of wine, I salute the dead comrades in the robe on the way from Yangzhou to Sichuan for thousands of miles, and hope that their heroic souls will rest in peace and sleep in the ground!" ”

The crowd shouted in unison, "As it should be!" Li Tingyu also nodded silently, and everyone spilled the wine in the bowl on the ground together to avoid the heroic spirit.

"The third bowl of wine is far away from the thousands of compatriots who died in Yangzhou City." Wang Huan's eyes were red, and he said hatefully: "Yao Ji died under the Tartar knife countless souls, there are gods in heaven and earth, good and evil are reincarnated, we are the generals of the Ming Dynasty, but we can't reject Hu Lu and internal security bandits, we are ashamed, I hope that the gods and Buddhas can help me, recover China, and return my Hanjiang!" After that, he spilled wine and smashed his glass, and his eyes were angry.

Li Tingyu also stood up, the scar on his face shook and shook, spilled the liquor in the bowl on the hall, smashed the bowl and roared: "Okay, I, Li Laosan, swear to follow the chief soldier to the death!" ”

"Swear to follow the commander-in-chief!" The crowd roared and threw their bowls all over the floor.

Looking at a room full of excited generals, Wang Huan laughed: "Okay! Today we gather together to celebrate the return of Lord Li, not to mention anything else, come and come, and then drink, drunk heroes, drunk gentlemen, let us not get drunk and not return! ”

The generals laughed again, and the smell of wine accompanied by heroic laughter rushed up to the roof beams and resounded in the sky.

(End of chapter)