ate a full meal, which made Zhou Lin and his party almost burst into tears.

God knows how long it had been since they had a hot meal, and since that noodle stall, there had not been a single shop willing to sell them food, and most of the food they themselves had brought with them was dry food.

Helplessly, all the way down, gnawed dry food until I vomited.

My throat and eyes are about to be hurt, and now I finally have a hot meal again, how can I be moved?

It's just the most common gnocchi soup in the north, the most disdainful food in the past, but today it almost made them swallow their tongues.

For the first time, this group of pampered officials felt that this ordinary meal was so delicious.

After eating, I soaked my feet and slept beautifully, and the group was not missing, and they slept for a whole day and a night, and Zhou Lin was the first to wake up in the early morning of the next day.

Rubbing his somewhat swollen head, Zhou Lin walked out of the tent arranged for him by Li Dingguo.

As soon as I came out, I saw rows of soldiers of the Pingwa Army practicing morning exercises.

The movements were uniform as if they were a person, and they sounded like thunder with the shouts of Heha.

This is a foot soldier practicing hand-to-hand combat.

Looking further away, not far away, on the school field that was specially leveled, one after another scarecrows were placed in the school field irregularly, and a group of black-armored cavalry of the Pingwa Army rode on war horses to form an arrow formation, and rushed straight into the scarecrow!

The slanted curved blade saber in the galloping hand of the war horse only poured slightly, and the scarecrows were easily divided into two halves and scattered on the ground.

The cavalry team that formed the arrow formation rushed into the scarecrow for a while, and then skillfully divided into small teams to pass back and forth among the scarecrows, cutting the scarecrow's formation.

Just looking at this scene, you can imagine that if it is really on the battlefield, if the enemy does not block the charge of this cavalry, I am afraid that it will not be long before it will be cut into pieces and unable to organize a military formation, and can only be devoured by the enemy one by one, and finally completely defeated!

And this is the main role of the cavalry on the battlefield, looking at the proficiency of this cavalry, I am afraid that it has already been on the battlefield for actual combat, otherwise even if it is skilled in weekdays, it will not be so silky when it enters the battle to change the formation, and there is no obstacle at all.

Obviously, the problems that will be encountered in this have already been encountered and solved by them on the battlefield.

This is the elite!

Not weaker than the elite cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty border army!

Even with the same number of Huns, I am afraid that it may not be the opponent of this cavalry, because Zhou Lin noticed that this black-armored cavalry was actually fully armoured!

It looks like the back of the armor is still flexible, it should be just light armor, but even if it's just light armor, it's also armor, and this is a great advantage to be able to crush the opponent on the battlefield!

"Zhou Shilang, how are my brothers? Can it be the elite? ”

Suddenly, a clear voice sounded in Zhou Lin's ears, and Zhou Lin turned his head to see that the person who spoke was Li Dingguo.

It turned out that Li Dingguo didn't know when he suddenly came to him, and he watched the drills of the soldiers together.

Zhou Lin immediately arched his hand and said, "General Li! ”

Li Dingguo also bowed back and asked with a smile: "How did Zhou Shilang sleep last night?" ”

Zhou Lin nodded slightly: "Play chess with Zhou Gong to a hearty time!" ”

"Hahahaha, Zhou Shilang's statement is interesting!"

Li Dingguo immediately burst out laughing when he heard this.

Then he asked the question just now: "What does Zhou Shilang think of the soldiers of my Ping Japanese army?" Maybe it's an elite division? ”

Zhou Lin nodded heavily, and said with a serious face:

"No more forbidden troops!"

Then he looked at the black armor on the cavalry and said:

"I'm afraid it's even better! The iron of Yunzhou County has become so rich? ”

Li Dingguo snorted, waved his hand and said, "Barely enough, barely enough." ”

Zhou Lin's face was full of disbelief, if you are barely enough, how can you be willing to wear all the original armor?

But he didn't say much on the subject.

The topic changed and said:

"General Li, you have been here for nearly half a month before me, I don't know if there is any news about this embankment?"

Speaking of business, Li Dingguo restrained the casualness on his face, stretched out his hand to the side, and walked towards his big tent with Zhou Lin, and said: "Although our army came half a month before you, we haven't gotten too much other news.

However, during the exercise, we made a rapid march around the embankment, and found that the embankment along the way had been built for a long time, and there were cracks in many places, and in some places there were even some gaps, resulting in many small streams in the vicinity.

It's just that it's all under control.

But Ben Jiang heard that didn't the imperial court send the former Ministry of Works Zuo Shilang to repair and strengthen the river embankment last year?

However, we did not find any reinforced foundations along the way, but in some places some of the newly added soil was not compacted, and after a year's river erosion, it had long since been washed away. ”

Zhou Lin was originally a little prepared for the lack of optimism about the river embankment, but when he listened to what Li Dingguo said, the anger in his heart was even worse!

The fists creaked, and he originally thought that Lin Yue was a native official of Bian'an County, and this was also his hometown, although some of the money, food, and materials allocated by the imperial court would definitely be lost, but at least some of them could be used to strengthen the river embankment.

But now it seems that it has not even been strengthened at all, but it has only been tamped with soil, and it has not been tamped!

This Lin Yue is so greedy!

Damn it!

It's a pity that the person has already died, otherwise Zhou Lin would have wanted to have a fight with the other party offline!

With a heavy heart, Zhou Lin followed Li Dingguo to the big tent of the Chinese army, where two tables had been set up, and a steaming breakfast was placed on the table.

Li Dingguo pointed to the table and smiled at Zhou Lin: "The army is simple, that's all, I hope Zhou Shilang won't dislike it." ”

Zhou Lin shook his head and arched his hand: "How come, Zhou has General Lao Li's hospitality." ”

The two sat down at separate tables.

Zhou Lin saw the breakfast on the table clearly.

Two large meat buns, plus a bowl of white porridge with pickles, these are just right to eat in the morning.

"Zhou Shilang, please!"

"General Li, please!"

After a few polite words, the two of them immediately began to eat.

When Li Dingguo was in Yunzhou, although Yunzhou did not have this rule due to Zhao Jun, but now in Guannei, Li Dingguo still obeyed the rules of following the customs.

After breakfast, after the sergeant put away the dishes, the two continued the conversation just now.

"Zhou Shilang came to repair and strengthen the river embankment by His Majesty's order, where do you plan to start first?"

Li Dingguo asked.

Zhou Lin shook his head and said, "Let's not mention where to start for the time being, the top priority now is manpower."

The total length of this section of the Bianhe embankment in Bian'an is nearly 100 miles, although it is only reinforced and repaired, but the manpower required is still a huge number, the imperial court can support money, food and materials, but the manpower still needs to be found from this county.

Now that there are only two months left before the arrival of the spring flood, we are very short on time.

Originally, the official wanted the local government to gather the people on the spot, and the imperial court would provide money and food supplemented by forced labor to make up these manpower.

But now, the Zhao family's power is huge, and it may be difficult for us to gather enough people in this county. ”

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(End of chapter)