Li Ce followed Song Jingang and others to the camp of the Zhending border army.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhending Mansion is the capital of Hebei West Road, is the political center of the entire Hebei West Road, and the nine counties of Zhending Mansion are: Zhending, Gaocheng, Luancheng, Yuanshi, Jingcheng, Houlu, Pingshan, Xingtang and Lingshou.

Because Zhending Mansion is in the northernmost part and belongs to the junction of Song and Liao, the border army of the entire Hebei West Road is mainly stationed in Zhending Mansion, and the opposite of Zhending Mansion is the capital of Liao - Xijing Datong Mansion.

At this time, the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty was about 600,000, of which 300,000 guarded the Beijing division, and the rest were scattered and stationed in various places, and there were about 20,000 forbidden troops in Zhending Prefecture, and the rest were all local recruited Xiangyong, which was called the Xiang Army in the Northern Song Dynasty. The number of forbidden troops and box troops on the entire Hebei West Road is about 50,000, and they are also scattered and stationed in various parts of the Hebei West Road.

The Song military camp in Zhending Mansion is located in the northeast of Zhending Mansion, next to the North City Gate. It was the first time Li Ce had seen the ancient military camp, and he felt that it was very majestic, and he could not see the surrounding wall at a glance, and behind the wall was very conspicuously four watchtowers connected together and made of sturdy logs, which were as high as the city walls, and there were seven or eight patrolmen standing on the wooden towers.

In front of the gate of the barracks is a row of crossed wooden fences, guarded by a row of Song soldiers. When the Song soldiers guarding the door saw Song Jingang, they hurriedly bowed their hands respectfully and said, "Song Du's envoy is back." ”

Song Jingang said: "Chen Shuai is still in the barracks? ”

The soldier guarding the door hurriedly replied, "I have never seen the commander go out." ”

Song Jingang turned to Li Ce and said, "My lord is still waiting, let's go." After speaking, he walked through the door with Li Ce.

Li Ce looked around all the way, and everything in his eyes felt very fresh, a scene that could only be seen on TV before, but he didn't expect to be in it now, and he really felt it.

He thought to himself, just now he heard the title of the officers and soldiers guarding the door, and called Song Jingang to call the envoy, but he didn't know what kind of official this envoy was in the army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Song Jingang himself called himself a captain.

In fact, this captain is also divided into grades, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the highest captain is called "Zhaowu Captain" for the five grades, and the lowest is the captain of the Rong Army, which is the ninth grade, this is not a captain and is divided into two grades, and the official rank corresponds to several grades and a few grades, but this is only a false position, that is to say, it is only equivalent to an honor.

Song Jingang's official position is Xuanjie Lieutenant, and his actual position is to command the envoy, which is the sixth grade.

Li Ce watched all the way, and was secretly sighing, Song Jingang said, "Mr. Li, it's here." ”

Li Ce turned his head, only to find that he had arrived at the Shuai's Mansion, and Song Jingang said to the Song soldiers on duty outside the door: "Go and inform Lord Chen, just say that Li Ce brought it." ”

The Song soldiers on duty answered, entered the door to report, and after a while, the person returned and said: "Song Due, Mr. Li, the general is already waiting in the front hall, let's go." ”

Song Jingang led Li Ce to the front hall quickly, and Li Ce found that a man nearly half a hundred years old was sitting on the chair facing the door, this person was wearing a white robe, a Chinese face, a white complexion, and a long beard, and he was holding a book to read, and he was indeed the fisherman of the day!

Chen Yaozuo saw that Song Jingang and Li Ce were outside the door, so he hurriedly got up and walked out, and greeted him: "Oh, Mr. Li is here, hurry, please, please." ”

Li Ce couldn't help but be embarrassed, it was just a reckless man like Song Jingang to call himself Mr., and it was a bit too much for a court official like Chen Yaozuo to call himself Mr., Li Ce had also mixed in a state-owned enterprise in his previous life, he was a person who knew how to advance and retreat, and he hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, adults can call me Li Ce, Mr. will never dare to be." ”

Chen Yaozuo waved his hand and said: "Deserve, deserve, you can turn the tide in times of danger and save the people of the city from disaster, this is a great virtue." And I see that you have a lot of research on the way of using soldiers, the battle of defending the city that day, your method of shooting in batches, I was deeply impressed, after I came back, I had seriously thought about the deduction, this method is very wonderful, if this law is implemented in the army, in the future, the Liao thieves will attack, the border cities can be based on this law against the enemy, and it will be able to frustrate the Liao people's spirit!

Chen Yaozuo said that his face was full of pride, and he continued: "Every time the Liao people come to attack, there is always a shortage of soldiers or arrows, which often leads to the defeat of the war. ”

Chen Yaozuo was talking excitedly, here Li Ce was thinking in his heart, this Chen Yaozuo is really a general, a small array of methods, after he discovered its effect, he quickly thought of how to play its maximum value, history has a high evaluation of this person, upright, not afraid of the powerful, brave and strategic, and sensitive, it seems that this person is indeed worthy of his reputation.

On the one hand, I thought that the times are really developing, and the society is progressing, and in the twentieth century, a very ordinary array method in the film bridge can play such a big role in ancient times, it seems that it makes sense that the saying is not what it used to be.

Seeing that Li Ce bowed his head and didn't speak, Chen Yaozuo pondered for a while, frowned, and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Fei is unwilling to offer this method?" ”

As soon as Li Ce heard that Chen Yaozuo had misunderstood him, he hurriedly said, "How could it be? This is not my original invention, and if you talk about things that benefit the country and the people, why not do it? ”

When Kou Guangzuo heard this, he was overjoyed and said: "Mr. Gao Feng Liang Festival, Xi Yuan admires it very much. Xiyuan is Chen Yaozuo's epigraph, and he uses it to address Li Ce, indicating that he has put down his status as a general and communicates with Li Ce on an equal footing as a scholar.

Li Ce didn't think about it so much, and he couldn't think about the twists and turns of the literati in ancient times. It's really awkward to hear Mr. Chen Yaozuo call himself like this, so he said, "My lord, this ...... This ......" Li Ce opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, Chen Yaozuo saw Li Ce hesitating and said: "If there is something, just say it, as long as I can help, I will definitely help!" ”

Li Ce wanted his words, and hurriedly said: "Okay, my request is very simple, that is, adults don't call me Mr. anymore, I really listened to it...... Forehead...... Awkward. ”

Chen Yaozuo was stunned when he heard this, then laughed, and then stopped after a while: "Okay, okay, I promise you, Li Ce, you are really interesting." Well, what do you call it? ”

"Uh...... There is no table word yet. Li Ce said embarrassedly, how can he know the words.

"Hey, you little show talent doesn't even have a word? It's weird. Chen Yaozuo was a little surprised when he heard that Li Ce hadn't written yet.

"Oh, how old are you?" asked Chen Yaozuo.

"Nineteen years old" Li Ce replied suspiciously, this Chen Yaozuo asked himself why he was old.

"Oh, no wonder, men's twenty crowns and words, women's fifteen words, you haven't reached the double ten, naturally there is no table word." Chen Yaozuo smiled and said, "Then I'll call you by your name?" ”

Hmm, there are so many exquisitenesses, Li Ce said secretly.

When this ancient man came of age, he no longer called him by his first name, but by his name, so as not to appear disrespectful, and his name was generally only for his elders and himself. When Chen Yaozuo saw that Li Ce didn't let him be called Mr., Chen Yaozuo wanted to ask about the name of the address, but he never thought that Li Ce didn't have a name, in fact, with Chen Yaozuo's status, it didn't hurt to call Li Ce by his name.