Not far from the inn, some villagers on the side of the road ran from the city gate from time to time with hurried expressions.

Qi Lin and the others noticed that one of them ran to the tea shop sitting on the side of the street, drank a few sips of white water, and then said to the few people who were still sitting there with a panicked face: "Don't sit here, let's go, there is a strange army outside the West City Gate." ”

One of them was immediately panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Isn't it the Yellow Turban Thief who has attacked?" ”

However, there are obviously people who came from the West City Gate before, and when they heard the conversation between the two, they shook their heads and retorted: "I don't think so, not to mention that their number is only two thousand, and there are no siege weapons in the troops, just look at the armor they are all wearing neat armor, and they are also escorting a lot of baggage, it is estimated that they are sent by the imperial court to increase the troops." ”

When the first person to speak heard this, he retorted: "Maybe that, but I saw that those soldiers were wearing iron armor, and most of the troops of the imperial court were leather armor, and that style was very different from the armor of the imperial court!" ”

The latter retorted again: "If this is the case, then it is even more unlikely that those Yellow Turban thieves, although those Yellow Turban thieves are now like a flood, I heard that those thieves are actually just a group of people with straw forks, but the number is huge, and the imperial court did not have enough troops to suppress them for a while to make them arrogant, and they don't even have a single coat, where does the iron armor come from."

Maybe it's an elite unit sent by the imperial court, but it's just that it doesn't often be sent out in normal times, so we don't know. I think that now that the thief soldier is so powerful that the ordinary troops can't suppress it, they sent this elite out. ”

"That's what you said......" Hearing him say this, although the others didn't understand it, they also felt that it seemed to make some sense, and nodded their heads one after another.

These people didn't deliberately lower their voices when they spoke, and they were listened to by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei who passed by them, and remembered Qi Lin's words to go first. I vaguely feel that the army that these people are talking about is the one that my lord said before.

"Two thousand soldiers are all iron-armoured?" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei secretly thought about what those people had said, and they were even more curious about their lord's army.

The curiosity of the two did not last long, as they soon followed Qi Lin to the front of the troops.

Zhuojun Taishou Wenshu was also alarmed by this army of troops coming to the city, and hurriedly asked people to call the county soldiers in the city and gather at the city gate. Fortunately, at this time, a small yellow door suddenly came out of the army...... Of course, at this time, this little yellow door is here to convey the holy decree of Emperor Han Ling, and it seems that it should be called an angel.

I saw an angel ascend to the city gate, open a scroll in his hand, and read it. Then hand it over to Wen Nu.

"It turned out to be a reinforcement sent by the imperial court......" Listening to the little eunuch in front of him finish reading the holy decree, Wen Nu finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the army in front of him really had no intention of entering the city.

When the little eunuch saw that the first decree had been delivered, he went down to the city gate, and he had brought two decrees with him, and now that the first had been completed, he had to go to the 'master' of the second decree.

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After a few moments, Qi Lin and his party rode their horses, wearing armor and holding weapons. With a group of servant guards, he came to the city gate.

"Good boy, my lord, this is the troop you went to talk about first?" As soon as Zhang Feicai saw the army in front of him, he exclaimed. Immediately attracted the attention of others.

However, Qi Lin didn't care about this, nodded and smiled: "Exactly, what does Yide think?" ”

"It's really elite!" Zhang Fei gave a thumbs up and praised, and even Guan Yu nodded his head. There was excitement in his face.

At this moment, the little yellow gate from before walked down from the city gate tower and came to Qi Lin and the others. He raised something in his hand that looked like a legendary decree.

After reading out and receiving the decree, Qi Lin's identity was directly promoted from the previous county with no real power to the captain, and he was just in charge of the 2,000-strong army under his command.

Of course, it is impossible for Qi Lin to be promoted so inexplicably, and the reason why this is the case is due to the contribution of Zhang Shiping, who was sent to Luoyang before.

That Zhang Shiping went to Luoyang not for anything else, it was precisely to give Qi Lin a reason to justifiably be a mercenary in Zhuo County.

And in the face of the greedy Emperor Han Ling and the first Zhang Rang of the Ten Standing Servants, there is nothing better than a lot of real money.

In addition, Zhang Shiping, who specializes in businessmen, also has persuasion skills no less than Qi Lin, and after a flicker, coupled with the gold and silver smashed down, Emperor Ling of Han and Zhang Rang gladly accepted the bribe and promised Qi Lin a temporary foreign lieutenant position.

However, the condition was that he must take this force to Jizhou to assist Lu Zhi in quelling the Yellow Turban Army that was causing rebellion there.

That's what Qi Lin originally meant, and he gladly accepted this condition.

After receiving the holy decree, Qi Lin did not hesitate to give the little yellow door some money.

For these little eunuchs who are disabled and don't know whether they are strong or not, Qi Lin still sympathizes with them in his heart.

is already physically disabled, without the most fundamental thing to be a man, and has to suffer all kinds of contempt and white eyes from others, and in literary works and film and television works, he has to play various villain roles for the protagonists to fight monsters and upgrade, which is simply miserable......

Of course, these have nothing to do with Qi Lin.

He just watched the little eunuch do something for himself, so he paid him a commission.

The little eunuch received the reward, shook it in his hand, smiled with satisfaction, and then turned around and left with a confession to Qi Lin.

And Qi Lin then took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to the camp of his troops.

After entering the camp, Qi Lin went straight to the point and assigned 400 mixed infantry and 100 cavalry to each of them.

Seeing that Qi Lin really gave himself 500 elite soldiers, and there were 100 cavalrymen among them, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were pleasantly surprised, but also moved by Qi Lin who valued and trusted him so much.

At the same time, a trace of shame rose in my heart.

You must know that Qi Lin did not marry the two as brothers like Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms, it was just an ordinary recruitment.

Therefore, Qi Lin is just a master-servant relationship for the two.

In addition, Qi Lin is not Liu Bei's poor sour seller of straw shoes, and the money for recruiting troops and horses has to be bought by brothers.

From beginning to end, Qi Lin not only did not let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei spend half a copper, but bought armor and weapons for the two of them one after another, and even gave each of them a Wusun Tianma.

As the so-called merit is not rewarded, the two of them were treated like this before they made an inch, which suddenly made the two of them feel guilty, and at the same time, they were more eager to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield to repay Qi Lin.

So he immediately confessed to Qi Lin, left the Chinese military camp, and came to his own battalion headquarters under the leadership of two personal soldiers, wanting to seize the time to familiarize himself with the soldiers and horses in his hands, so as to be able to better command on the battlefield in the near future.

However, Qi Lin did not have enough time for them to get acquainted with the soldiers, and the next morning, two heralds came to the camp of the two and said loudly: "The lord has an order, ordering the Guan (Zhang) military marquis to complete the assembly in an hour, and the army will be marched in an hour later to go to Jizhou to support General Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang." ”

"No!" (To be continued......)