Zhang Yan's subordinates Wang Dang and Du Chang led many bandits to conduct a careful search of the nearby mountains, but there was no result, so they had to return to Zhang Yan's hiding place in a huff.

"Dashuai, the person who came was clever and good at concealment, and we didn't catch it. Wang Dang reported to Zhang Yan with some guilt.

Zhang Yan waved his hand, and he had expected that he had not caught the assassin. "How can someone who comes with high martial arts skills be easily captured. They will not go to other cottages again, this time they came only to retaliate for Montenegro's repeated attacks on the state, presumably by the subordinates of Zhao Xing, the general of Zhenbei. ”

"Qiqi Dashuai, the nine small villages on the outskirts of Montenegro have been slaughtered, and the person who reported the news said that it was a few days ago!" Du Chang's report added a lot of pressure to Zhang Yan's heart.

"That Zhao shaved his head really viciously, and he actually killed four or five thousand of our brothers. Dashuai, we might as well sneak into the pottery, and return the body of others in the way of others!" Wang Dang said angrily with red eyes.

"Don't mention this again in the future! Then Yu Poison, Peng Zai and others are also to blame, and Yuan Shao's subordinates are clamoring, so they don't know whether they are alive or dead to rob the state's property, which provokes Zhao to shave his head and come to retaliate. Just by virtue of today's hands, how many of you go will be a dead ending, but it will make Zhao Shatou hate the Montenegrin brothers even more, if they come to encircle and suppress us, no one will be alive at that time!" Zhang Yan immediately stopped Wang Dang's crazy thoughts.

"Let's bury the brothers of the poison tribe first, in the future, which tribe will not know whether they are alive or dead, and go to Bingzhou to make trouble without my consent, without waiting for Zhao Xing to make a move, we will clean up this black sheep first!" Zhang Yan finally said.

But he said that Zhao Yun could have killed Zhang Yan with one arrow, so why did he have mercy on his subordinates? Just because Zhao Xingzhuan had been with Zhao Yunjiao, he wanted to spare Zhang Yan's life and stabilize the situation of the bandits in Montenegro. If Zhang Yan unfortunately dies, the bandits in Montenegro will inevitably fall apart, and they will fight separately in the future, which will affect the stable environment of the state. Zhao Xing is currently trying his best to maintain the stability and unity of the state, that is, he is desperately accumulating economic strength, otherwise when he competes with the princes of the world in the future, he will have no follow-up, so he can only watch others grab land and stare at himself.

After the mountain special combat team left Montenegro, they came to the village stronghold where they had originally left, changed into the clothes of the peddlers' pawns, sorted out and classified various weapons and equipment, packed them, and Li Jinsi led people to transport them back to the city under the guise of the goods they had received. The team members left behind the remains of their seriously injured brothers and sacrificed teammates, and Li Jinsi and the Shadow Team members found a way to send them back to Bingzhou for burial or treatment, and they sneaked back to the pottery in groups of three or five.

After Zhao Yun, Hou Cheng and Xue Lan left Montenegro, they did not follow the special combat team together, but went to Huguan to pick up the New Year's gift convoy escorted by Zhao Xing, and then took a very large convoy to Xiatao. After the Black Mountain thieves were repaired so ruthlessly by Zhao Yun, no one dared to come to block the road and rob the convoy in and out of Huguan now.

By the time Zhao Yun led the convoy slowly and leisurely to the city of Xiatao, the time had already reached the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and it would be Chinese New Year's Eve in a few days.

Zhao Xing's New Year's gift to his two brothers and his subordinates was naturally not light, it was quite rich! Because considering that the more than 10,000 soldiers stationed in Jizhou could not reunite with their families, Zhao Xing's gift was also ingenious, fully taking into account factors such as feelings, durability, and benefits.

First of all, Zhao Xing provided 16,000 soldiers with standard long warm leather boots and gloves, each of them also had a coat lined with a sheep-long M-O, and a large amount of silver, as for the other jī duck fish r-u and Changhe Daqu.

For Zhao Xing's generosity and compassion, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao are no longer surprised, and even a little accustomed to it. The idea they were instilled by Zhao Xing was: For those who may give up their lives at any time, if we are reluctant to let them live a better life in life, then why should we let them resist swords and guns for us when the enemy rushes up!

Zhao Xing has always believed that the soldiers he raised should not be ruffians or bandits, just like the Xiliang soldiers under Dong Zhuo, although they have superior combat power, they do all kinds of evil, and they don't deserve to be called "warriors" at all. What he wants to raise is a soldier who can be loyal to his duty and can shed every drop of blood for the state and the people, only such an army can have a military soul, and it will not collapse and rebel at any time.

Zhao Xing's governance of the army, what he hated the most was the matter of "deducting military salaries and drinking soldiers' blood", and in terms of material guarantees, he definitely did his best. The military divisions of all armies shoulder an important responsibility, that is, to supervise whether the officers at all levels are in full terms of military pay and food, and whether they have the imagination of having enough money, and once they are discovered, they will be dealt with by the most severe military law. Zhao Xing said that there were no rats in his army.

The New Year's gifts were given to various companies by Zhang Liaoru, and the sensation caused among the soldiers can be imagined. When their current company commander and battalion commander wore the same boots and gloves as themselves, the emotion and warmth in their hearts immediately turned into heat. With the strong and mellow fragrance of Changhe Daqu, the soldiers turned their strong homesickness into a loyal heart without regrets. For the sake of General Zhenbei and the fathers and villagers of Bingzhou, even if they were allowed to die generously at the next moment, the vast majority of them would not frown.

The 4,000 Jizhou recruits who were coaxed and abducted by Zhang Liaolian were envious after seeing the treatment enjoyed by the big-headed soldiers who were officially naturalized and merged with the state, but they had nowhere to put out the fire. Zhang Liao said clearly: Don't think that arresting you to be a soldier is a grievance, just you bear goods, if you don't train well, you can't be compared with the veterans under my command at all, if you are not convinced, you can find a few veterans to practice, they are sure to fight you and you can't even recognize your mother!

Some were unconvinced to go to the dragoon camp to challenge, but one by one they helped each other back to the training camp with blue noses and swollen faces, and since then, everyone has been practicing hard in a down-to-earth manner, just hoping to change into the military uniform of the regular dragoon army as soon as possible, instead of wearing the clothes of the reserve.

Zhao Xing, who has always been good at buying people's hearts, has not forgotten the 4,000 recruits recruited by Zhang Liao without authorization. He also asked people to send gifts to these Jizhou soldiers, but they were all detained by Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao didn't want to keep himself, right? Of course not!

As the commander of the Dragoons, Zhang Liao had the right to do so. He just adjusted the form of the gift, that is, the hardest training every day, the most capable of fighting in the ring, and the clever brain during the tactical C-O performance, so that he could enjoy the gift given by General Zhenbei, which is a means of encouragement, which can mobilize the enterprising spirit of the soldiers in the shortest possible time.

Among the gifts sent by Zhao Xing, there were two separate gifts for Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao.

The gift to Zhao Yun was a shoulder sewn by the Wulan Zhuan M-N people who collected the finest and softest velvet m-o and jīng hearts from hundreds of sheep. Since marrying Zhao Yun, Ulan has lived in the Zhao Mansion that has been uninhabited for a long time in Crouching Tiger City (this Zhao Mansion was built by Zhao Xing for Zhao Yun's brothers and sisters, not Zhao Xing's mansion), and put on the full demeanor and momentum of the NV master, so that his brother Yu Fuluo sent a large group of young clansmen, and the entire Zhao Mansion was crowded and lively.

Zhao Yun often leads troops outside, and his sister Zhao Yu is now in Wuyuan with Guo Jia ho;n, and it is really difficult for Wulan to be a foreign NV, so he did not interfere, and let him train the clansmen in the mansion every day.

The gift to Zhang Liao was a little weird, it turned out to be a good set of NV jewelry, but Zhao Xing didn't say anything else, which made Zhang Liao blush. The third brother gave this thing to himself, definitely not to laugh at him for looking like an NV person, but to suggest that he hurry up and take Zhen Mi down!