Shang Zhongxin carried the official document of the Scholar's Mansion to conquer Lingzhou and Yan Yuan to revise the "Zhuangzi Collection Explanation". Liang Zuoqiu read a letter from Yan Yuan to discuss and seek teaching, and gave birth to a heart of love, originally wanted to let this son go to Shazhou Academy to study, this time the new Wu Yingying Bachelor's Mansion Governor History, led the compilation and collection of hundreds of classics, remembered that Yan Yuan seemed to have a lot of insight into Lao Zhuang's learning, so he repaired a book, and asked him to temporarily bend to his own shadow, to the Bachelor's Mansion to be a subordinate first, if there is an achievement in the future, he can also be promoted to a bachelor. Since Wu Yingying entered the Longyou of Hexi, he has broken countless tribes, and those broken former nobles and some people who are not afraid of death have wandered to various states and counties for evil, although the armies have gained a harvest, but it will take time to completely wipe them out, in order to ensure safety, Wu Yingying ordered the military governments to escort these scholars to enter Shazhou.

Bang——, the loud sound of the wood dragged by the two horses hitting the gate shook the walls of the stone school hall and trembled slightly, but Yan Yuan could only do nothing behind the battlements on the roof, and he couldn't even lean up a little to take a look, the arrows of the two horse thieves who were in charge of monitoring him were like having eyes, as long as he raised his head slightly, he would swish an arrow, and if he hadn't fallen down quickly, Yan Yuan would have become a dead man. "This is just a school, and there are poor scholars in the lower ranks, and there is really nothing," Yan Yuan shouted cautiously, "It's worth all the trouble of all the heroes." ”

The sound of banging on the door stopped for a moment, Yan Yuan just wanted to probe to see what was going on, when an arrow almost pierced his throat, and the horse thief slammed the door again, and a sharp voice scolded at the bottom: "If you don't have money and food, you will be roasted and eaten by a Han scholar, isn't there a child in the school? Another hoarse voice said, "I must kill all the schoolchildren in it, so as to dispel the hatred in my heart." Yan Yuan felt a chill in his heart, only hoping that these horse thieves were falsely threatening, and his intention was still not to believe that he was a poor scholar, and wanted to blackmail some money, food, and the like, but it was more likely that they really wanted to rush in and kill, these horse thieves have been wandering on the grassland for a long time, and their thoughts and thoughts are different from ordinary people, and they have long been accustomed to killing for fun.

Yan Yuan was worried when he heard a loud roar from afar: "The hussars are still loyal here, where did the thieves come from so arrogantly!" Yan Yuan poked his head out, and no one shot him with an arrow. I saw ten hussars scattering into two lines, front and back, and rushing towards the mountain. The thief seemed to be a little alarmed, and threw the sass on the ground, and the five men rushed down the hill with their horses, trying to break through the hussars' interception in one fell swoop. Yan Yuan clenched his fists and said secretly, "You must intercept them." But seeing that the horse thief was charging downwards with great vigour, not only that, but also shooting arrows downwards as he charged, the sergeant of the hussars, though not weak in horsemanship, suffered from the loss of the terrain, and had to constantly turn their horses to avoid the arrows that came from above.

The gentle slope of the ascent is not wide, and it is bordered by steep walls full of gravel that horses cannot drive. The horse thief fell into the hands of the hussars as if life was worse than death, and he also had the heart of the same end, and charged desperately from top to bottom, seeing that the two groups of men and horses were about to collide together, and suddenly heard Shang Zhongxin shout loudly, "The thieves are powerful, let them go!" The ten hussars each divided their horses to the side, as if to get out of the way.

As soon as the horse thieves saw that there was a gap, they all shouted proudly, and while shooting arrows, they approached each other to pass through the middle of the hussars, but when the horse thieves passed through the middle of the hussars, they said that it was too late and that was too fast, and Shang Zhongxin shouted violently: "Get down for grandpa." Five hussars on each side raised their hands together, and actually pulled up several ropes, just to stop the neck of the galloping horse rushing down from above, and the horses ate this block in the high-speed running, and they were going down the mountain, and they lost their front hooves, neighed and rolled and fell to the ground, Shang Zhongxin laughed proudly, and beckoned the sergeants to shoot the four horse thieves who rushed ahead, leaving a good torture confession. Unexpectedly, the horse thieves were also stubborn, and although they fell off their horses, they still struggled to release their arrows, and finally had to shoot them all.

"The general is truly brave. Yan Yuan took the official document of the Bachelor's Mansion and praised it. Shang Zhongxin was not modest, and grinned: "Wait for a few horse thieves, it's easy to say, it's easy to say," he approached Yan Yuan with a mysterious expression, "Have you heard of the Chengying Battalion, the two centurions are willing to bow down to me." Shang Zhongxin had a smug look on his face, Yan Yuan, the great name of the Chengying Battalion, had also heard about the business trips in the past, so he was naturally in awe of him. At this time, there were three or three households riding grass horses to come to the rescue, seeing that the sergeant had already defeated the thief, fifty or sixty households surrounded Shang Zhongxin and other sergeants to thank him, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Only the twenty or so children learned that Yan Yuan was leaving, and they were all a little reluctant. The life of reclamation on the border land is extremely hard, and the farmers have little leisure to discipline the children, but this teacher Yan Yuan spends a lot of time with the children of these farmers, and he is humble and interesting, which is deeply liked by the children, and even Huo Bihao, who is not very hard-working, is reluctant to let him leave.

After thinking for a while, Yan Yuan made up his mind, and said to Shang Zhong with some embarrassment: "General Shang has worked hard, Lord Liang's good intentions, I have understood it, but if I leave, these children who have just been enlightened will have no one to teach them to read and write, and I can't bear to abandon them," he paused, with a guilty look on his face, and said, "The Yan family has been cultivating and reading heirlooms for generations, if Lord Liang agrees, Yan Yuan is more willing to continue to stay here." After these students were taught by the Master, if Lord Liang did not give up, Yan Yuan would go to Shazhou to ask Lord Liang for his guilt. ”

He said this quite entangledly, Shang Zhongxin thought for a while before he understood, looked at him with wide eyes, and only after a while did he stomp his feet and say, "What a good gentleman," shook his head and sighed: "If the Xiucai in my village was not in a hurry to go out to be an official, Lao Shang would not have known three hundred words until today." ”

Many years later, Huo Bihao, the captain of the Longya Military Academy, once mentioned that Yan Yuan, a university scholar, was his teacher, and the robes actually laughed and scolded him for boasting, and Huo Bihao didn't talk to them, but couldn't help but recall General Shang's words. "The envoy of Wu Yingying said that if you turn the enemy into a friend, you can give us 5,000 war horses, in addition, every year you also send 2,000 Xia swords, 500 pairs of armor, these materials are delivered in the desert in the Xia country, we can report to the court that it is the capture of the income, if you need the head, the Xia army kills thousands of horse thieves every year, you can also send us to invite merit to the court. Hujie Military Academy Captain Cheng Chang Anyu reported. After Zhao Pu and Wang Yu successively hinted to Cao Han that they did not want him to make a big move in the northwest, Wu Yingying's envoy also came to the door.

"Pretend to be generous, if they don't give it, won't we come to the door to get it?" Captain Zhu Bochao scolded, and Captain Wang Zhi echoed him, "Yes, Xiazhou and Lingzhou have been defeated, what do you want!" The two of them had a grudge against the Anxi army in Taiyuan, and they wanted to take revenge for a long time.

Cheng Changan glanced at the two of them and continued: "The envoy said that if General Cao insisted on going to war, they would have to hold on to the city, and there would be a large desert sea between Xiazhou, Lingzhou and the mainland, and only the rangers would cut off the food route of our army. If General Cao is sure of victory, he will be waiting for him. As soon as his voice fell, all the henchmen and captains around Cao Han were scolded, but no one could really say what to do.