"What is this?" Yang Tiexin asked the head of the intelligence department suspiciously in front of the courtyard where he lived not long ago.

The section chief did not speak, tied his horse at the door, and took the lead into the courtyard. Yang Tiexin followed closely behind the section chief, he had lived here, and of course he knew that the former residents here had run away. The more he walked in, the more frightened Yang Tiexin became, and he even felt that his feet were a little weak. Could it be that someone found the place where his wife's bones were buried here?

The two stopped behind a room, and Yang Tiexin searched the ground diligently, trying to see where there were traces of excavation. Let the section chief of the intelligence department say: "Can Master Yang recognize the name painted on the wall?" ”

Yang Tiexin was stunned, and only then did he notice the graffiti on the wall. Looking at the immature strokes, it should be the work of children. There is painting in graffiti, there is writing. Looking at the past, there are three words in several places. After looking at it carefully for a while, Yang Tiexin asked tentatively, "This is the clue you found?" ”

"Yes." The section chief replied, "This is a lead." After we got the news, we asked the surrounding villagers, and we also asked the staff of the drawing department to paint portraits according to the villagers' introductions. ”

"Didn't you find the bones of the slain?" Yang Tiexin hurriedly asked.

"It has nothing to do with bones." The section chief hurriedly replied.

Yang Tiexin covered his eyes, raised his head to the sky, and muttered to himself: "Thank God!" ”

The section chief wanted to say something, but seeing Yang Tiexin like this, he also felt that tears couldn't help but want to come out, and he couldn't say it for a while. Waiting for Yang Tiexin's mood to recover, the section chief, who wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, continued: "Senior Commander Yang, the sketch portrait in the drawing department should be about the same. Let's take a look. ”

Song Jun's drawing department needs to master sketching techniques, and in reality, sometimes it is necessary to depict the terrain described by others, and some peripheral techniques have been developed back and forth. Sketching a portrait based on other people's descriptions is one of these techniques, and officers and soldiers who have mastered this skill will be assigned to the public security department after retirement.

At this stage, there is a drawing department in the unit of hot spring repair, and there are also professionals in this field. The comrades of the intelligence department went and put the sketches drawn by three different personnel in front of Yang Tiexin in turn. His eyes swept over the picture, Yang Tiexin nodded again and again, but did not speak.

"Is it like the person Senior Yang is looking for?" The section chief asked.

"Very much like that."

"Senior Commander Yang," even though there was no one else in the room, the section chief of the intelligence department still lowered his voice, "According to our investigation, this woman is the wife of the Mongolian nobleman Haoren Haoren. Hao Ren once participated in the war of aggression in the south......"

Listening to the introduction, Yang Tiexin didn't say a word. The section chief was also not very comfortable in his heart, so he could only shorten his speech as soon as possible, "...... Villagers said that after the main Mongolian force fled from the capital, the woman stayed here with her three children. When Haoren returned to Hebei, she left under escort. ”

When he finished speaking, the room fell silent. The section chief wanted to say a few more words, but looking at Yang Tiexin's expression, he was speechless. In the end, the section chief pushed a file bag and three sketches on the table in front of Yang Tiexin, and then got up to leave.

Walking to the door, the section chief heard Yang Tiexin ask, "What did you say...... The man has been fine, right? ”

"Yes. She's been fine. After the section chief finished answering, he saw Yang Tiexin fall silent again. The section chief didn't say much and turned to leave.

Yang Tiexin's mind was in chaos, and various thoughts and thoughts triggered many feelings at the same time. Yang Tiexin felt that he should be happy that his wife was still alive. He could also feel that there was indeed joy in his heart, but it was not enough to overpower the other feelings.

The next morning, Yang Tiexin hesitated to the wall of the house. Among those children's doodles are dads, moms, partners, and puppies. After watching in silence for a while, Yang Tiexin left silently. Out of the door, Yang Tiexin got on the horse and rushed back to Dadu. The few people who knew the relevant information were silent, and for those who didn't know the inside story at all, Yang Tiexin didn't say a word. The back and forth back and forth of Youzhou City only took more than a day, and most of the senior commanders of the Hebei Military Region didn't even know that Yang Tiexin had left Youzhou City. Back in Youzhou City, Yang Tiexin continued to attend military meetings as if nothing had happened.

The upper echelons of the Hebei Military Region have their own work, and some people have suggested that they should simply march in two directions and simultaneously implement the strategy of the east and west directions. Li Yun had to explain his basic point of view, "People's energy is limited, do you think that adding a different thing is the energy needed to multiply by two." No, it has to be squared, and the square of two is four, and it takes four of the original strength. To do three different things at the same time is to have nine times the strength. We can't do it. ”

"How do you know you can't do it if you don't do it?" Immediately, someone sang the opposite.

Li Yun was already very unhappy, and he couldn't help it at this time, he said loudly: "Eat more and occupy more, that's a poor idea." Because I didn't have it, I thought that more was better. ”

Hearing that Li Yun actually used 'poor thoughts' to describe his comrades-in-arms, the president of the society looked at Li Yun with burning eyes. Zhu Hongwu's eyes lit up, and he asked Li Yun happily, "Commander Li, how do you talk about this poor idea." ”

Li Yun dared to say this, and he didn't regret it, he said loudly: "Poverty means that you don't have it." You tell me that before you saw Youzhou City, except that you didn't see Youzhou City with your own eyes, you didn't know anything about Youzhou City. ”

Zhu Hongwu frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he smiled: "Well said." In the training, everything that can be talked about has been talked about, and there are many sketches and pictures of Youzhou City. After I arrived in Youzhou City, I only felt that this city was not unfamiliar, and it seemed familiar. ”

Many commanders nodded slightly, the pre-war training of the Song army was not a formality, it was systematic training. Pictures, text, people narrated, simple sand table. The more you know about Youzhou, the less likely it is that you will be helpless in battle.

"These are all given to us by others. All we have is the way to learn, and how much we can learn. It would be a mistake to think of these as our own. Whether it is eastward into Liaodong or westward into the desert, we don't know what we will encounter, and we don't know how to solve those problems. Since I don't know, I am using all my strength on one thing, and I am afraid that it is not enough. If you open two things at the same time, you will inevitably be overstretched. ”

"To be poor is to be nothing. Interesting! Zhu Hongwu said with a smile, and it could be seen that he was very interested in poverty.

"The most terrible thing about being poor is that we don't know that we don't know, and that's a very bad state. When we are fighting, who doesn't know that we can die in battle. An arrow, a bullet can kill us. But when it comes to fighting, there are still a few people who are afraid of this. But seeing a mountain road that might have hidden the Mongol cavalry, a few of us did not feel a chill in our backs. Probably the most frightening of our commanders who didn't know what kind of mountain roads they were afraid of. ”

Li Yun talked about the problems that senior commanders had to face, and most of them really understood this standard. Just when they felt convinced, Li Yun continued: "But we know that others are unreliable, but we often don't know that we are also unreliable in many places. This is because the heart is poor. I, like everyone else, have come from this path, so I feel that we must first get ourselves out of poverty. It's knowing exactly what you don't know. ”

Yang Tiexin also understood this truth, but while he understood, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and clench his fists. For a few days, he knew that he didn't know how to face his wife's weak situation, but Yang Tiexin just didn't have the courage to face the current situation.

In the past, Yang Tiexin knew that his wife Bao Xiqiao was taken captive by the Mongols. wanted his wife to return to his side, Yang Tiexin joined the army without hesitation. It was the war that made his wife snatched away, so use the war to get his wife back.

When listening to the instructor of the school club talk about the truth of 'carving a boat for a sword', Yang Tiexin also thinks that the world is changing, and the guy who carves a boat for a sword is wrong, and even needs to be ridiculed. The world is constantly changing, the Song army has changed from a cold-weapon army to a hot-weapon army, and the Song army's combat effectiveness has changed from inferior to the Mongol army to being able to overwhelm the Mongol army. Now Yang Tiexin has to adjust his mentality and thoughts according to the changing status quo, and maintain the previous mentality and view of fearing the Mongolian army, which is to make the mistake of carving a boat and seeking a sword.

Yang Tiexin firmly believes that his wife is waiting for him in a distant place, and as long as he remains single, when he regains his wife, the once broken family can be reunited. The Song Kingdom, the Mongol Army, the Song Army, and the Mongolian Army are all constantly changing, and Yang Tiexin thinks that it is all someone else's business. Until the evidence confirmed that the wife had undergone a great change after being taken away, Bao Xiqiao had become someone else's wife and the mother of someone else's child.

Yang Tiexin, who had to face this reality, felt the great pain from his heart, and the pain from his heart made Yang Tiexin unable to escape, unable to speak, unable to open his eyes, and unable to even breathe. It wasn't until he pressed his hand his shoulder that Yang Tiexin was barely liberated from his inner state. When he opened his eyes and looked over, it turned out to be Li Yun standing beside him. Li Yun was not angry or contemptuous, and the thirty-year-old general only had sympathy in his eyes. But this kind of sympathy is precisely what Yang Tiexin cannot accept the most. He reluctantly stood up and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm taking a leave of absence." ”

Pulling away Li Yun's hand, Yang Tiexin didn't care about the surprised glances of others. Somewhat staggered out of the conference room, Yang Tiexin got on the horse outside the door, and then rode away. He galloped through the streets, through the city gates, and into the wilderness. I don't know how long I ran, Yang Tiexin suddenly found himself alone in the wilderness. Looking around, in the midst of great despair, this man finally cried helplessly.