Hearing the sergeant's announcement that Xiao Jing had arrived outside the city, he didn't care about saying more, Han Zigao hurriedly walked out, went out of the big 'gate' and took the reins handed over by the guards, and Han Zigao rode away on the Qinghai skull given by Chen Qian.

Han Zigao rode this Qinghai skull, which is also a rare divine horse, and it is said to be a high-grade war horse bred by the Xianbei Tugu (pronounced 'jade') Hun tribe west of Liangzhou in the pastoral areas around Qinghai Lake.

Since the land of Yiliang Erzhou has now fallen into the hands of the Northern Zhou, Nanchen has already cut off the channel to obtain war horses from Tuyuhun, and this Qinghai horse was still 'traded' from Tuyuhun before Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos'.

Since the severance of the channel to obtain war horses from the western plateau region, coupled with the military blockade of the Northern Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties, even if these Qinghai Horses are already a little old, they are still rare good horses in the Southern Dynasties.

Han Zigao galloped in front, and more than a dozen personal guard cavalry behind followed closely behind, and when Han Zigao rode to the riverside, the riverside was already full of thousands of soldiers.

In addition, there are dozens of 'elite' soldiers wearing 'fine' leather armor and dressed differently from Chen's equipment, and Xiao Jing and the old general Zhou Wenhua in the middle are talking and laughing.

Xiao Jing's experience under Wang Ze over the years, he no longer looks down on military generals as much as he did in the Southern Dynasty, plus he has read a lot of books as a member of Xiao Liang's clan, and he is the same age as Zhou Wenhua, but the two have a lot of common language.

This old general of Zhou is nominally the younger brother of the fierce general Zhou Wenyu, but in fact he is not a brother with Zhou Wenyu, Zhou Wenyu's natal item Mengnu is the adopted son of Zhou Wenhua's father Zhou Yun.

Although he did not have the courage of his brother Zhou Wenyu, and his 'sex' has always been cautious, Zhou Wenhua has not made great achievements, but because of this, Zhou Wenhua's leadership has rarely returned defeated, at least it can ensure that the whole army retreats, and he can be regarded as a rare general.

When the two were chatting happily, they saw Han Zigao galloping from the city, so they both stepped forward to greet them, and Han Zigao restrained the war horse under them.

Without waiting for Xiao Jing to get in front of him, Han Zigao jumped off the horse, and said with a laugh while bowing to Xiao Jing: "Mr. Xiao is down there, but I see you again!" I don't know where Xiahou is here? ”

Seeing Han Zigao again, Xiao Jing secretly admired a beautiful man in his heart, only to see Han Zigao's eyes like autumn water, natural moth eyebrows, and his head was full of green silk and black shiny, just simply combed it up and fixed it with a purple crown, setting off the white skin more and more white and delicate, just like the Western Regions Khotanese mutton fat 'jade'.

Han Zigao just went out of the city without wearing the official mansion or armor, but just changed into a moon-white and green 'flower' tiger stripe suit, which was the same as Chen Qian's clothes from a piece of Qingzhou silk rewarded by Chen Baxian, and a soap 'colored' belt tied Han Zigao's thin waist, which became more and more long.

It's just that the pair of leather boots under Han Zigao's feet, how does Xiao Jing look at it and feel familiar, isn't that a copycat product of all these years? Of course, it belongs to the kind of leather boots with excellent workmanship, and it seems that Wang Ze's business has been doing well over the years.

It's not the first time Xiao Jing has seen the beautiful man in front of him, last year Xiao Jing came to the Southern Dynasty to meet Chen Baxian and persuade Chen Ba to go on the Northern Expedition first, that is, he met Han Zigao first.

Then he met Chen Qian through Han Zigao, and finally met Chen Baxian through Chen Qian's relationship, but this time Xiao Jing was still intimidated by Han Zigao's appearance, how could there be such a beautiful man in the world!

However, although Xiao Jing thought so in his heart, after all, he was a person who had lived for most of his life, and waved his hand quietly and said with a smile: "General Lao has gone out of the city to greet him, my family Xiahou has led the army to defeat Hou Baoying's land and water army at sea, and captured Hou Baoying and all the officers and soldiers of Jian'an County below him, and now he is behind with Captain Chun Yu of your department, and I think I will arrive later!" ”

As soon as Xiao Jing finished speaking, Han Zigao saw a fleet of ships in the distance appear on the surface of the Minjiang River, Wang Ze is here!

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The fleet slowly approached the shore, although he couldn't bear to see the legendary male queen as soon as possible, but Wang Ze had to wait until the end to get off the ship.

When the Blue Wolf Battalion and the Iron Armored Battalion got off the boat, Wang Ze took Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing on the boat to look at Xiao Jing and the others not far away, and Wang Ze saw Han Zigao on the dock at first sight.

There is no way who makes the family a peerless beauty, so that the surrounding crowd gives up a large piece of open space, and the slender man is so eye-catching in the crowd on the shore.

Although Xiao Jing is also 'quite tall', he has also lost all his luster in front of Han Zigao, as if all the brilliance has been taken away by Han Zigao, Wang Ze finally understands what it feels like for Tang Shi to write Yang Guifei's 'Six Palaces Pink Dai Colorless''.

But then again, after experiencing this from a man, Wang Ze felt that it was still 'very' awkward, and then looked at the two 'girl' children around him, his eyes widened one by one, and he couldn't believe that it was a man.

"Da Lang!" Cheng Xueying shook Wang Ze's arm and asked, "Do you say that he is really a man, not a 'woman' dressed as a man like 'Hua' Mulan?" ”

At this time, the Northern Dynasty began to have a poem about the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was about the story of the 'flower' Mulan that everyone knew in later generations.

Cheng Xueying had such questions, and Zhu Qingqing next to her also looked at Wang Ze's little head and nodded violently, and it seemed that she was also very suspicious of Han Zigao's 'sex'.

Wang Ze smiled helplessly: "People are 100% men, but they have a close relationship with Chen Qian, the king of Linjiang, don't talk 'nonsense' later, it will ruin the reputation of others!" ”

Zhu Qingqing was unconvinced and said: "Sister Cheng and I are not stupid, we just talked to you on the boat, and we won't talk 'messy' when we get off the boat!" ”

"Okay, okay, it's all my fault!" Seeing that it was almost time for him to get off the boat, Wang Ze urged the two of them to get off the boat while accompanying the two 'girl' children.

Although Wang Ze usually doesn't care about his pomp, but anyway, he is now nominally the head of a small country, so he naturally has to have some pomp.

As the so-called Xiahou, naturally someone helped Wang Ze 'worry', according to Xiao Jing's previous arrangement, first nearly 1,000 soldiers from the Blue Wolf Battalion got off the boat, then more than 100 soldiers from the Ironclad Battalion went ashore with their bodies draped, and finally Wang Ze, Cheng Xueying, and Zhu Qingqing got off the boat.

After the soldiers of the blue wolf battalion got off the ship, they formed a phalanx on the dock, and then lined up to go ashore under the leadership of the officer, which made Zhou Wenhua praise what a good soldier!

When Liu Wancheng led the ironclad battalion ashore, he saw the one-zhang long horse-chopping sword in the hands of the soldiers of the ironclad battalion, Han Zigao exclaimed: "These horse-chopping giant swords are longer than the horse-chopping swords of the former Han Dynasty, I'm afraid they can't get down without forty or fifty catties, they are really peerless murder weapons!" I hope to equip our army in the future! ”

As a pair of good friends, Han Zigao and Chen Qian naturally have a good relationship, and they also hope to increase the military strength of the Chen Dynasty in order to compete with the Northern Qi and Zhou dynasties and Wang Lin in the upper reaches.

Zhou Wenhua, who was next to him, heard Han Zigao's words, and replied distressedly: "There are too many craftsmen needed to make these giant swords, and I don't know how they are made." The most important thing is that these giant swords are too heavy, and the people of the Southern Dynasty have always been weak compared to the people of the Northern Dynasty, and I am afraid that they will not be able to make such a heavy sword of chopping horses, if they are lighter, they will not be able to restrain the cavalry of the Northern Dynasty! ”

Han Zigao smiled faintly and said: "Old General Zhou, now that Your Majesty's Northern Expedition has recovered Huainan's hometown, there are mostly places where the northern refugees live in peace, and there are more 'elite' soldiers.

At that time, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, Liu Jinu, relied on the Beifu soldiers composed of the northerners recruited in Jianghuai, which was able to resist the Northern Dynasty and finally replaced the Jiangzuo Sima clan.

Therefore, our dynasty only needs to recruit a group of strong and strong homeless people in Huainan to form an army, which can naturally deploy these weapons, and can better resist the cavalry of the Northern Qi. ”

Hearing Han Zigao's words, Zhou Wenhua realized that Nan Chen's strength was no longer the small imperial court that was thousands of miles away from Jiankang when the decree was established at the beginning of last year.

Now taking advantage of the opportunity of various countries to besiege the Northern Qi, Chen Baxian led the army to recapture the hometown of Huainan, and it can be said that the strength of Southern Chen has increased several times compared with last year.

In addition, because of the halo of the Northern Expedition on their heads, many families began to move closer to Chen Baxian, and even some small separatist forces have begun to surrender to Chen Baxian.

If it weren't for the existence of Wang Lin's army in Huancheng, many of the separatist tycoons who occupied the prefectures and counties were unwilling to 'hand' over the rights they had in their hands, and now I am afraid that Chen Baxian would be able to unify the forces of the entire Jiangnan.

Nan Chen's current situation is very good, and it is all due to the ten-year-old Xiahou in front of him, thinking of this, Han Zigao and Zhou Wenhua's evaluation of Wang Ze in their hearts is 'This baby is too demonic'.

Considering that the horse sword that he and others want has a large demand for steel, and the requirements for steel quality are very high, and Nan Chen's iron production has always been relatively low, which means that the horse sword still needs to be purchased from Wang Ze, Han Zigao has higher expectations for Wang Ze.

When Wang Ze got off the boat, Han Zigao and Zhou Wenhua's eyes widened together, and they showed an unbelievable expression, although they had already heard some things about Wang Ze from Xiao Jing and other channels, but how could what they heard compare to the shock of what they saw with their own eyes.

Looking at Wang Ze in front of him, he was only ten years old, although he looked more mature than his peers, but he was only twelve or thirteen years old.

Since Xiao Jing and the others had begun large-scale trade with Wang Ze five years ago, Wang Ze was probably less than five years old at that time, which means that the rumors that Wang Ze had been ignited by the gods still seem to be very credible.

The speculation about this made Han and Erren break out in a cold sweat, and they looked forward to Wang Ze's arrival even more, and even Han Zigao no longer waited on the shore, and ran directly to the side of the boat to see Wang Ze.

In fact, at that time, the lords of some small countries in Nanyang came to the Chen Dynasty to pay tribute, and they may not have the status of a county guard in the Chen Dynasty, Wang Ze was at most a small lord, and this time Han Zigao and the others gave Wang Ze enough face.

"The last general, Han Zigao, has seen Xiahou!" Just when Wang Ze, Cheng Xueying, and Zhu Qingqing secretly looked at Han Zigao in front of them, Han Zigao took the initiative to come to salute, and Wang Ze was embarrassed this time, after all, he was rude first.

After some greetings, Wang Ze, accompanied by Xiao Jing, entered Jian'an City with Han Zigao and settled down in the courtyard let by a wealthy businessman.

More than 1,000 soldiers who disembarked with Wang Ze, except for the 50 'elite' elites of the wolf tooth and nearly 100 cavalry who followed into the city, the rest of the soldiers were stationed outside the city.

The first thing to do when you settle down is to take a good bath, after all, fresh water is limited at sea, and drinking water is guaranteed, but don't think about bathing.

After taking a bath, Han Zigao personally came to invite Wang Ze, Cheng Xueying, and Zhu Qingqing to the banquet together. Wang Ze also wanted to have a good look at the scenery of the Southern Dynasties, so he happily went.

Along the way, Han Zigao kept introducing some of the customs and customs of Jian'an County, but there was also talk and laughter, after some contact, Wang Ze found that Han Zigao's 'sexuality' was warm, modest and polite, but it was very easy to get along, and the two became acquainted with each other after a while.

It's already time to arrive at the county guard's mansion in front of you!