Late at night.

At the castle owner's residence, Xi Yunqing and Zhao Ziliang sat face to face, with a few plates of exquisite side dishes and a small jar of wine on the low table in the middle, Xi Yunqing picked up the wine jar and poured wine for Zhao Ziliang, and greeted: "Come on, come on, Ziliang, let's have a few cups!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was "flattered", and hurriedly said politely: "Oh, how can you let the castle master pour wine and torture me!" ”

"What's polite, Ziliang, when you came a few years ago, my brother and I knew that you kid was not a thing in the pool, these years have passed, you have been bland, I thought there was something wrong with my vision, but I didn't expect that you really impressed my brother these two times, it seems that my original vision was right!"

"Thank you Lord for your appreciation!" Zhao Ziliang said and remembered something, took out an official letter from his underwear and handed it to Xi Yunqing, and said: "Castle master, this official letter was originally sent by someone, but General Fumeng saw that I would go back to Tuoyun Fort today, so he asked me to bring it by the way!" ”

"Oh?" Xi Yunqing responded, took the official letter and said quite embarrassedly: "Ziliang, I'm not afraid of your jokes, my brother is illiterate, and I can't read this official letter, you wait, I'll call someone to come and read it again."

Zhao Ziliang hurriedly said: "Castle master, it's late at night, everyone else is asleep, don't call." The subordinates still know a few words, if the castle owner does not dislike it, and the subordinates read it to the castle owner, how about it? ”

Xi Yunqing was a little surprised, "Oh? I can't imagine that Ziliang is still a scholar, so Ziliang will read it to my brother quickly."

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang opened the letter, and then read it out word by word.

After hearing this, Xi Yunqing exclaimed: "I didn't expect Ziliang to go to Shule this time to experience so many things, you have made such a great contribution, and it is also appropriate to be promoted to Renyong Captain, Deputy Fort Lord, and Deputy Team Leader, tomorrow morning I will gather the soldiers to announce the appointment above." Come, brother, congratulations, have a drink".

"This has to be recommended by the castle master, if it wasn't for the castle lord's recommendation, how could I be promoted so smoothly, I salute the castle master!" Zhao Ziliang drank it all after speaking.

Xi Yunqing saw that Zhao Ziliang was promoted and did not forget his recommendation, he was very happy in his heart, and he drank it dry, and said with a smile: "Ziliang, you kid is very kind of to me, in the future, in this Tuoyun Fort, our brothers will work together to run Tuoyun Fort like an iron bucket, and never let the Tuqi Shi people step into my Tang border, so as to live up to the great kindness and trust of the imperial court to me!" ”

Zhao Ziliang heard this, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart for a moment, although Xi Yunqing has a small problem of giving grace and retribution, and he likes to be greedy for a little cheap, but he has a loyal heart, and in front of this loyal heart, other small problems on his body can be ignored.

"What the castle lord said is very true, if the castle lord sends him in the future, Ziliang will definitely take the castle master's horse as the leader!"

Zhao Ziliang drank another bowl with Xi Yunqing and began to change the topic, "Castle Master, you see that we already have enough food now, do you want to strengthen the drill from tomorrow?" In addition, I told the castle lord a few days ago about setting up a peripheral stronghold outside the castle, I don't know how the castle lord is thinking? ”

Now that there is enough food and grass, Xi Yunqing also has confidence in his heart, he nodded and said: "Yes, now we have enough food and grass, and the Turgish side may come to raid at any time, and the drills of the soldiers must be strengthened, so we will strengthen the drills from tomorrow." As for your suggestion to set up another outlying stronghold outside the fort, I have thought about it in the past few days, and I think your method is good, setting up a outlying stronghold outside the fort, as long as it is secret, once the Turgish army comes to attack Tuoyun Fort, the outlying stronghold can sneak attack their backs, or attack their cattle and sheep, this idea is very good, I agreed, then it is necessary to consider who will lead the outlying stronghold! ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Fort master, Ziliang please lead the third group to camp by Qingshui Lake twenty miles outside the fort, and strengthen patrols, and at the same time build a beacon tower on the nearby mountain, once there is a turquoise cavalry attack, his subordinates will immediately send someone to light the beacon tower to warn the fort!"

"Led by you, I'm relieved, your kid is not only brave, but also very clever, I'm not worried about your reckless actions, and I'm not worried that you will be attacked by the Turks, but you set up camp by the Qingshui Lake and are easy to be discovered by the Turks, right?"

Zhao Ziliang said: "The castle owner doesn't have to worry, we are just temporarily stationed by the lake, if the patrol finds the Turgish cavalry, we will immediately evacuate to a safe place and hide."

Xi Yunqing himself is a brave and resolute person, and after listening to Zhao Ziliang's words, he was not ambiguous, and immediately said: "Okay, since Ziliang is willing to lead the team to set up a peripheral stronghold outside the fort as the external barrier and support of Tuoyun Fort, Ziliang will lead the third group to take charge of this matter, and report the amount of grain, grass and ordnance needed as soon as possible, and you will act immediately after I allocate it!" ”

"Yes, Ziliang will live up to the castle master!"

Back in his room, Zhao Ziliang was still excited and couldn't sleep, he would be alone from tomorrow, although he only had fifty-three people under him, but it was his dream to be alone.

Since he couldn't sleep, Zhao Ziliang turned over and got up again, he took out all the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry he had harvested from Shule Town from the wrench space and put them in the room to start cleaning, counting all the gold ingots, silver ingots, and jewelry one by one and placing them in different alleys.

"What is this?"

Zhao Ziliang took out the parchment scroll and unfolded it on the table to take a look, only to see that there were dozens of pictures of various attacks made by villains riding on horseback and holding a horse lance, and there were text annotations next to each picture, which turned out to be the great seal of the Qin Dynasty.

Zhao Ziliang was dumbfounded, and then became excited, "This is actually a set of lance methods?" And the method of annotating the moves and exerting the force? Great, great, it's been more than two months since he traveled here, and he learned from the memories of his predecessor that the generals of this period generally have martial arts, and how can they lead the army without martial arts? How to fight the enemy in front of the battle? With this set of lance methods, as long as you learn it and practice it perfectly, won't you be able to become a real military general in the future? ”

After being excited for a while, Zhao Ziliang was a little puzzled, the use and popularization of horse lance only began to rise in the Sui and Tang dynasties of the two Jin Dynasty, and the text annotations next to these illustrations used the big seal, which is the text of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Zhao Ziliang looked left and right, left and right to think about the key to this, Zhao Ziliang touched his chin, and took nearly an hour to write down all the drawings and annotations on the parchment scroll, in his previous life, his father was a high school Chinese teacher, and he had some research on ancient characters, and he also learned some under the rendering of his ears and eyes, so he knew the meaning of these text annotations.

He put down the parchment, picked up his spear from the wall, and began to practice in the room according to what he had written, and there were eighty-one drawings on the parchment, and this set of lances was also the eighty-one lances.

It took him nearly two hours to reluctantly practice the eighty-one lance method, and he didn't forget to follow the text annotations to practice the qi luck.

But after two hours, Zhao Ziliang not only felt extremely tired, but also felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and his whole body was extremely uncomfortable.

"This ・・・・・・ shouldn't be, after practicing for two hours, the body is tired, but the chest tightness and shortness of breath and the whole body are a little abnormal! There must be something wrong with this exercise! ”

Zhao Ziliang put down the spear, walked to the side of the dwarf and sat down, and studied the parchment roll again, "What is the problem?" The person who created this set of lances would definitely not write such a set of harmful lances, could it be that the lances on this parchment roll are framed, and the real lances are hidden in it? ”

Thinking of this, Zhao Ziliang carefully studied the parchment scroll again, he picked up the parchment scroll and approached the oil lamp so that he could see it more clearly, and after a while, there was actually a ghosting of handwriting on the parchment scroll.

"What's going on, this, what's going on?" Zhao Ziliang was shocked.

Then a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he brought the parchment closer to the oil lamp, and kept moving it so that the parchment was evenly heated.

After a few moments, it was found that the original annotations on the parchment scroll were gone, and all of them were small letters.

"Sure enough! This is the real method of practicing qi and luck, if there is no method of practicing qi and luck, or according to the method of practicing qi and luck recorded by the previous Great Seal, it is likely to be practiced and crippled, no wonder when he caught Negro that day, that guy looked sick, as thin as dry firewood, and it is estimated that he is cultivating according to the annotations of the Great Seal on the surface! Luckily, I noticed something was wrong in time and stopped it in time, otherwise I might have become crippled! What a blessing! ”

Zhao Ziliang felt scared when he thought about it, and at this time his vest was scared into a cold sweat, he stabilized his mind, and hurriedly found a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to transcribe the real Qi Luck Method.