After resting in the camp for two days, Liu Ze led the team back to Phoenix Valley. Liu Ze summarized the action:

"First of all, I would like to congratulate the 500 members of the Heavenly Team who participated in this operation, you carried forward the spirit of being afraid of hardship and not afraid of death, overcoming all difficulties, and successfully completing this mission. The wilderness survival training, is a test, in the extremely harsh survival conditions, your survival skills, will and character for a comprehensive assessment, all team members in the face of difficulties did not have a bow, in the face of hunger and death, brave to take the lead without hesitation to move forward, I am proud of you!

"Secondly, the team spirit embodied in this operation is also commendable, the captains showed excellent organization and command skills, 500 team members, after 400 miles of arduous journey, not a single team member left behind, no one died, this is a miracle! Many team members were injured or sick, but they were supported by their teammates or even carried on stretchers to complete the task, everyone for me, I for everyone, without the team's full cooperation, no one could complete the operation alone, unity is strength.

Of course, no matter how good the results are, they can't hide their mistakes, and most of the teams made the wrong mistake when they first entered the forest, killing wild beasts wantonly, throwing food indiscriminately, and failing to deal effectively with the embers, the consequences and dangers of which are self-evident. It is precisely because of your extensive use at the beginning that you later led to a lack of food, and even caused forest fires, which not only destroyed the thousand-year-old primeval forest, but also threatened to fall into a place of no return. You should keep in mind that nature is not inexhaustible, and cherishing and rational use is the best policy.

"In this regard, I would like to commend Feiyan, the captain of the ninth team. You may be very unconvinced, why can she win the top spot as a woman, maybe you may think that it is her luck and wrong! Success is always for those who are prepared. She was keenly aware of the hardships of the journey that followed when she first entered the forest and had plenty of food, and when others discarded the leftovers, she collected them, cut them into strips with a knife and roasted them over the fire to make jerky. On the way back, when you were struggling to survive eating bark and grass roots, the members of the 9th team were able to eat three sticks of jerky per day, and it was with these foods that the 9th team was able to lead the way through this 'journey to hell'. ”

Everyone's eyes were projected on Feiyan sitting in the first row, but Feiyan looked a little shy at this time, and her white face was flushed, not as heroic as when she acted.

Liu Ze stood up, handed a dagger in front of Feiyan, and said, "This dragon scale dagger, cut gold and jade, extremely sharp, as a reward for winning this mission, I will give it to you!" ”

As soon as he heard the dragon scale dagger, the crowd immediately let out a low exclamation, the dragon scale dagger, more than half a foot long, surrounded by red gold dragon scales, single-sided blades, double blood grooves, the blade under the moonlight was blue and bright, the cold air was pressing, weird and unpredictable, indestructible, from the hand of Ou Yezi, a famous swordsmith. This dagger was seen by Liu Ze in the Luoyang market, and he liked it very much at the moment, so he bought it with a thousand gold, and he knew that it was a dragon scale dagger.

Feiyan stood up and arched his hand: "Such a precious thing, how can Feiyan dare to accept it." ”

"Feiyan, you deserve this dagger." Liu Ze's eyes showed a look of approval.

Feiyan knelt down on one knee, took it with both hands, and said, "Thank you, lord!" ”

The "Journey to Hell" has come to a successful conclusion, but for the Sky Team, the brutal and demanding training has only just begun. High-intensity physical training, intensive course arrangement, even the team members who have just been reborn from the "Hell Journey" are very unbearable, fortunately, no matter how hard the training is, there is no need to be hungry anymore, Liu Ze ordered to improve the food standard of the Heavenly Team, from two dishes and one soup to four dishes and one soup, and the food of other personnel remains unchanged.

Summer is quietly gone, the autumn cicadas are chirping vigorously, and the harvest season is here again. Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping sent several batches of good horses, each time or thirty or fifty, or one hundred and eighty, and the cavalry of Phoenix Valley gradually became large.

Under Liu Ze's guidance, the blacksmith shop built a bellows with better performance, and with the use of high-quality anthracite, the temperature of the furnace fire was greatly increased, and more high-quality weapons could be created. For the weapons of the cavalry, Liu Ze designed a narrow and narrow knife tip slightly bent sabre, basically similar to the Japanese samurai sword in later generations, the handle is long, you can hold the knife with one hand, you can also hold the knife with both hands, it is convenient for the cavalry to chop on the horse, the unilateral blade blade back is thicker to ensure that even if you slash vigorously, it is not as light as the sword, and the narrow blade of the knife does not use the ring head knife to feel bulky, the lightness of the sword and the sharpness of the knife are combined, Liu Ze named it "lancet".

Takahashi's saddles and bilateral saddles were improved and all of them were fitted into the cavalry. Compared with the saddle horse pedaling built for the Gongsun family in western Liaoning last time, it is naturally much more advanced. Liu Ze changed the wooden horse pedal to an iron horse pedal, which greatly improved both practicality and durability.

Having witnessed the demeanor of the white horse, Liu Ze had an expectation in his heart at this time, and it has always been his biggest dream to create an invincible cavalry in the world.

The training of the Heavenly Team has also been regularized, Liu Ze finally breathed a sigh of relief, and calculated that it has been more than a year since he left Zhuo County, and he didn't know how good his parents were doing, and his eldest brother Liu Bei followed Gongsun Zhan away, and he didn't know how he was doing now.

Quyang is only one or two hundred miles away from Zhuo County, and it can be reached in one day, but Liu Ze is so busy every day that he can't even spare the time to go home in the past two days.

Liu Ze and Zhang Fei planned to go home, but Zhang Fei had no heart or lungs, his parents died, he had no brothers and sisters, and his family property had already been sold out, according to his words, he couldn't go back. But if the eldest brother wants to go back, he will naturally follow.

On the eve of their departure, there was bad news from Yangquan, a group of unknown people came to the coal mine, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, sabotaging production, the miners argued with them, and many were beaten.

Winter is about to begin, and there are people making trouble at this juncture, clearly trying to occupy the coal mine. Liu Ze didn't dare to slack off, and hurried to Yangquan with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. The plan to go home to visit relatives could only be shelved, but Liu Ze still ordered someone to send the prepared gifts and a few hundred taels of gold back to Zhuo County.

Hurry up, but in two days, Liu Ze came to Yangquan. As soon as I entered the coal mine, I could hear the voices of people inside, noisy and shouting. But seeing Hu Liu and a few guys who stayed behind, desperately guarding the coal pile, and on the opposite side were many people wearing market clothes driving carts and shovels to grab coal.

Zhang Fei was furious, and without waiting for Liu Ze to speak, he rode his horse and galloped over, picked up the horsewhip, and "snapped" a few whips, beating the few coal-grabbing rats, he scolded while beating: "The bastard things from there, dare to spread wild on your Grandpa Zhang's territory!" ”

Liu Ze jumped off the horse, stopped Zhang Fei, and said to those people: "Who are you, you dare to loot wantonly in broad daylight, is there no royal law?" ”

A man in his thirties walked over from behind, dressed as a ruffian, squinting at Liu Ze and said, "Wang Fa? Sue you, Lao Tzu is the king's law! Look at you, it's the master here, uncle, I'll inform you now, within three days, all the rolls will be rolled up, otherwise—" He reached out and pulled an iron pickaxe, snapping the pickaxe into two pieces, "See, this is the end!" ”

Zhang Fei was furious, rolled up his sleeves and was about to go up and give him two big slaps, Liu Ze stopped him unhurriedly, and said without humility or arrogance: "This mountain was bought back with real money, with real money and silver, and the title deed is evidenced. ”

The thug pointed at Liu Ze's nose with a finger and said: "It's okay to sue you, we are also acting on the orders of Lord Zhang, you kid had better get acquainted, don't toast and don't eat and drink!" ”

Liu Ze suddenly understood, daring to love these guys with fearlessness, so arrogant, it turned out to be the backstage support of Zhang Rang, he sneered twice in his heart, and stretched out his hand to grab the gangster's wrist. The thug was taken aback and wanted to break free, but Liu Ze's hand was like a steel hoop, and he moved there slightly, and said hurriedly: "What do you want to do?" ”

Liu Ze sneered: "What is a pickaxe, I want to see if your arm is strong!" ”

As he spoke, the gangster's arm made a crisp sound, followed by a scream like killing a pig, and the gangster shouted and begged for mercy: "Uncle spare your life, the little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, offended the uncle, spare your life!" ”

Liu Ze kicked him to the ground and said: "No matter what your background is, no matter who supports you, you can't stop everything if you can't make it, and I can't let him eat and walk around!" Get out! ”

Seeing that Liu Ze and the others were not easy to mess with, those scoundrels were so frightened that they hurriedly ran away.

Zhang Fei laughed and said: "I can't see that the eldest brother is usually gentle and elegant, and he is no worse than me when he starts a fire, I just whip him a few times, big brother, as soon as you make a move, you will break someone's arm into two, which is ruthless enough!" ”

"If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone offends me, I will offend!"

"Listening to what the scoundrel said, it seems that these people still have a backstage, but I'm afraid that it will be difficult to give up." Guan Yu felt that things were not so simple.

"Yes, listen to him, the backstage boss is the big eunuch Zhang Rang."

"But that Zhang Rang, the regular servant who even the Son of Heaven respects as his father?" Guan Yu had also heard of the evil deeds of the Ten Standing Attendants.

Liu Ze nodded, and Zhang Fei hated again and again: "This guy is very long, and he actually stretched out to this poor and remote country." ”

"Ten permanent servants and friends are treacherous, occupying the land, fish and meat people, rampant, presumably last year's coal was in Luoyang, Zhang Rang and others have long been red-eyed, so they snatched it."

"I'm afraid that if he can't make a plan, he will use treacherous tricks again." Guan Yu frowned slightly, and said with some concern.

Liu Ze smiled lightly: "The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, wait and see what happens." "Now it's time to clean up the site and start production again.