After the incident of Ridak Muzi, Liangzhou Wei was very busy for a while.
After the recruits who died in the war were buried and erected, they had to register their names in the military register, and when they returned to Shuojing in the future, they had to pay out funeral money for the families of the recruits. The dead recruits were sentinels, mostly young. He died in battle less than a year after he came to Liangzhou Wei, and his friends who got along with each other on weekdays were also very depressed for a while.
But the depression returns to depression, and the days still have to go on. Especially after this time, Liangzhou Wei was not as safe as before. Xiao Jue instructed Chief Instructor Shen to start a new formation drill - if you really encounter an enemy, the recruits can only defeat the enemy and win if they learn the layout of the military formation.
The soldiers from Nanfu did not all arrive in Liangzhou. When Xiao Jue rushed back from Qingnan, he brought 10,000 soldiers from Nanfu. The Nine Banners Battalion remained in Qingnan and never followed. Now that Liangzhou City has become the target of public criticism, it is really not suitable to be in the limelight.
The daily training of the Nanfu soldiers is different from that of the Liangzhou Guards. If Xiao Jue said, the daily training time and total amount are three times that of the Liangzhou Guards. The recruits of Liangzhou Guard could not help but sigh and admire every time they saw the energy of the Nanfu soldiers in daily training.
For a time, the originally empty martial arts field became lively. At the foot of Baiyue Mountain, by the Wulu River, soldiers are always present.
He Yan's injury is also getting better day by day.
Lin Shuanghe's medical skills are better than Shen Muxue's. At first, he thought that such an injury would not be better if he didn't lie down for a year and a half. Now, at this speed, in two months, He Yan feels that he can still go to the martial arts field to jump around. .
Song Taotao put the soup in front of He Yan, and after watching He Yan drink it up, he went out with the bowl. The little girl didn't know how to cook herself, so she went to Hootou Bing's place to robbery, relying on her identity as the eldest young lady, to feed He Yan. He Yan sometimes has the illusion that he seems to be eating soft rice, but he was a little embarrassed at first, and he has become accustomed to it after more times.
After all, the soup is delicious. It would be better if the little girl didn't look at her like her baby.
At the other end of the room, there was a faint voice of a person, which seemed to belong to Liang Ping, and was a little excited.
He Yan thought about it on the bed, then got up and got out of bed with a stick.
She took out the silver wire from her sleeve and stabbed it into the lock. After a lot of lock picking, she was familiar with it. Fortunately, Xiao Jue turned a blind eye to her behavior, and never replaced the lock with a more complicated "shi" shape. Most of Xiao Jue's important official documents are not in this room, so he is so loose.
He Yan pushed the middle door open a little, and saw a person kneeling in front of Xiao Jue, it was Du Mao, who had not been seen for a long time. Since the incident of Zida Muzi, Lei Hou's spy's identity has been exposed. As a relative of Lei Hou, the original sponsor, Du Mao, disappeared. After hearing Cheng Lisu say that Du Mao seems to be locked up, He Yan can also understand that since Lei Hou is a traitor, no one can guarantee Du Mao's innocence.
Now that Du Mao is here, his grievances are probably cleared up.
In addition to Du Mao, who was kneeling, there were also a number of instructors standing in the room. Seeing Liang Ping take a step forward, He Yan begged: "The Governor, Du and Lei Hou haven't seen each other for many years. He really doesn't know that Lei Hou is a traitor. Please also ask the Governor to open up."
"Yeah, Governor," Ma Damei couldn't help but say, "Teacher Du has been in Liangzhou Wei for ten years, and he has never made a mistake. For the sake of so many years of hard work, Teacher Du will be punished lightly."
The teachers all agreed and pleaded for Du Mao.
Du Mao came to Liangzhou Wei when he was in his twenties, where he stayed for ten years. There is nothing to play around in the guards all day long. At most, during the festivals, the instructors gather to drink and drink. What I do on weekdays is not training troops or defending the ground.
The instructors had a deep friendship, and naturally they didn't want to see Du Mao's life being implicated by Lei Hou, and they couldn't bear it, so they came to intercede.
Shen Han moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything. It's not that he doesn't have a deep relationship with Du Mao, but that even though they have only been together for less than a year, Shen Han knows that the second son of Xiao in front of him is definitely not someone who will change his mind for the sake of others.
Sure enough, Xiao Jue ignored what others said, looked at Du Mao, and said, "What are you going to do?"
He Yan still remembered that when he first came to Liangzhou Wei, the coach named Du Mao had a good relationship with Liang Ping, and he often raised the bar with Liang Ping. Among the coaches, he was considered young. In just a few days now, he seems to have aged ten years, with sporadic strands of white hair on his temples, and his expression is much older.
Du Mao opened his mouth with exhaustion that could not be concealed: "Du Mao is willing to accept punishment."
"Du Mao!" Liang Ping urgently called his name.
"I didn't know Lei Hou's current identity and rashly recommended him to enter the guardhouse. This is dereliction of duty." Du Mao said, "I should be punished by the superintendent."
"You are indeed dereliction of duty." Xiao Jue said calmly, "Because of you, a lot of recruits have died in Liangzhou Guard."
The instructors who still wanted to continue to persuade them moved, but did not dare to speak.
"The dead will not be resurrected." Xiao Jue said, "Do you understand?"
"Du Mao understands."
The room was silent, and Liang Ping looked at Du Mao with despair.
"I won't take your life."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was stunned, and He Yan was also stunned.
Xiao Jue said, "Let's go."
"The Governor..."
"From today onwards, you are no longer the instructor of Liangzhou Wei." Xiao Jue stood up and walked out of the house, "You don't have to come back in the future."
His figure disappeared outside the room, and after a moment of silence, Ma Damei came back to her senses and went to pull Du Mao, who was still kneeling on the ground: "Okay, okay, the governor can be considered open to you, get up quickly."
Du Mao stood there dumbfounded, and suddenly started howling.
The comfort of everyone in the room was accompanied by Du Mao's crying, which made He Yan's forehead hurt a little. She grabbed the clothes and draped them around her body, and followed them out the door with a stick. As soon as she went out, she was shivered by the wind and snow outside.
What about Xiao Jue? He Yan looked around, this person went out just now, and is now gone? Will it fly
"Looking for me?" Someone's voice came from behind, making He Yan gasp in fright, almost not grasping the stick in his hand.
She turned around and saw Xiao Jue standing behind her, raised her eyebrows and stared at her, and asked, "Is something wrong?"
"No, it's fine." He Yan looked up at the sky, "The weather is fine, I'll go out for a walk."
Xiao Jue glanced at the sand-like snow particles outside, and mocked: "I thought you just didn't overhear enough, and you want to ask me if you have something."
He actually knew he was eavesdropping? This is embarrassing. He Yan scratched his head, "The Governor's ear is really good."
Xiao Jue curled her lips, "Not as good as you."
"Well," he asked, "what do you want me to do?"
What to do with him? He Yan didn't know either, but just followed him subconsciously. She was at a loss for words, thought for a moment, and said, "Captain, you are still showing mercy to Teacher Du."
It's one thing for the instructors to have a close relationship with Du Mao, but it's another thing for Du Mao to make mistakes. He Yan thought that with Xiao Jue's temperament, Du Mao could not escape death, but he didn't expect that in the end, he would just be expelled from Liangzhou Wei.
Xiao Jue laughed, as if she thought her words were funny, "Be merciful?"
"Yeah, if it were me..."
"How about you instead?"
He Yan was suddenly unable to speak.
What would happen to her instead? She went from a soldier to a lieutenant to a general, and it is not that she has not encountered such a situation. In fact, under the rule of General Feihong, he was not much kinder than Xiao Jue. But most of the time, others subconsciously ignore it, just because she usually fights with her subordinates, and she doesn't have the inhumane "great achievements" like Xiao Jue.
If it was her, would she order Du Mao's life to be taken
"If it was me, I wouldn't." He Yan said: "Taking Du Mao's life seems like a strict military order, but it actually hurts people's hearts. Liangzhou Guard has just passed the incident of Rida Muzi, and if people's hearts are scattered, Liangzhou Guard will Like a plate of loose sand, it is difficult to stand up."
Xiao Jue looked at her with a bit of surprise: "Not bad."
He Yan said proudly, "I said earlier, I'm the number one guard in Liangzhou. I'm very smart. How about it, Governor, can you let me enter the Nine Banners Camp?"
Xiao Jue bent the corner of his mouth: "No."
This guy is really stubborn. He Yan was about to argue a few more words for himself when he saw him turn around and continue walking. He Yan followed with a stick and asked, "Where is the Governor going?"
"The martial arts field."
"Do you want to go to the training?" He Yan said, "I'll go too!"
After she was injured, she naturally couldn't follow the daily training. In addition to lying on the bed every day, he just walked around with a stick outside the house twice, which was really boring. Even though Song Taotao and Cheng Lisu followed the gap and came to talk to her, one of them only remembered the trifles of which girl in the capital was born beautiful and which lady was happy with Lin'er, and the other did nothing but eat, drink and have fun. You know, He Yan was struggling to talk to them. Lin Shuanghe, the only one who could still say a few words, was also invited by Shen Muxue to the hospital to help prepare medicine for the wounded soldiers.
Therefore, as soon as Xiao Jue said he was going to the martial arts field, He Yan was a little bit eager to move.
It's snowing less, and it's not as cold as before. He Yan couldn't walk fast with a stick, and complained, "Commander, wait for me!"
With such a confident tone, Xiao Jue couldn't help but pause, and he asked, "Am I your servant?"
"No," He Yan came back to his senses and explained: "I mean, we can walk slowly and talk about other things by the way, ahem, did Lei Hou say why Ridamuzi came? Are we trying to find fault in our guardhouse? Didn't the Western Qiang Rebellion have already been quelled by General Feihong, where did the Qiang people come from so many soldiers?"
Tens of thousands of soldiers, the current Qiang people, really have so many people? When He Yan fought against Ridamuji at the beginning, he was very familiar with the situation of the Qiang people, but he always felt that something was not right.
"It's not the Qiang people," Xiao Jue rarely answered He Yan's question, "It's a Utuo."
"Uto people?" This time, it was really beyond He Yan's expectations.
Xiao Jue glanced at her, took in her surprised expression, and said indifferently, "What do you think?"
Is this testing her? He Yan asked, "Is Rida Muzi a Utuo?"
Xiao Jue was speechless for a moment before he said, "He is not from Uto, but apart from Zida Muzi and a few cronies who have fought with you before, the rest of the soldiers are all from Uto."
"Can the Governor be sure?"
Xiao Jue walked forward unhurriedly: "OK."
"If it's really a Utuo man," He Yan's voice was already dignified, "Then what the Utuo man wanted is not just a Liangzhou guard."
"how do I say this?"
"In recent years, the Utuo country has been raising troops and has strong forces. It has always harassed the people at the border, and it has always been tempting. Now it comes to Liangzhou Wei, but it is because of the Qiang people that it hides itself in the dark. Taking advantage of the name of the Qiang people, he did something wrong in the Great Wei."
"The governor might as well think about it, if you really went to Zhangtai at that time, and you couldn't save it in time, when the Utuo people occupied Liangzhou Wei and then seized the city, Liangzhou city was occupied by the Utuo people, just like tearing at the Great Wei border. They can go all the way west, drive straight in, follow the river, and go all the way to the capital."
Xiao Jue raised his eyes: "That's all?"
"Great Wei is afraid that there is a traitor and traitor to the enemy," He Yan said: "This person has a private relationship with Utuo, and he is an old acquaintance with the governor."
Xiao Jue: "Go ahead."
"He can unwittingly place a trusted confidant in Liangzhou Guard, and he can also spread false news in Zhangtai. This person has a high status and a wide network of contacts. Knowing that the governor is in Liangzhou Guard, he is invincible. First, he will lead the governor to Lishan. Go, this person must be very afraid of you. So," He Yan looked at Xiao Jue: "Maybe there is such a person, who has a high status in the court, and has fought with the governor in the past but did not get any benefits, if there is such a person , Nine times out of ten, he did it."
Xiao Jue stared at her and said simply: "Then why don't you tell me, who is this person?"
He Yan felt that it was really inexplicable now. Although she and Xiao Jue had classmates, it was only a year. After that, we haven't seen each other for many years, one is in the south and the other is in the north. Xiao Jue was trapped in the vortex of the court because of Xiao Zhongwu's affairs, but she was innocent and was promoted by military merit. She stayed in the border camp every day, so she didn't know much about the mess in the court. How could she guess who that person was
Even if it is an exam, it is too difficult, and not everyone is like him, and they can sleep in the first place in Xianchang Hall.
Thinking of what happened to Yuan Baozhen before, He Yan said casually, "Xu Jingfu?"
Xiao Jue was startled.
Seeing his expression, He Yan moved in his heart: "It's really him?"
Xiao Jue did not answer.
"Xu Jingfu actually cooperated with the enemy and treason?" He Yan was shocked, "He's crazy! He is the prime minister of the dynasty, what good is it for him to do such a thing!"
"You can be louder," Xiao Jue said calmly, "If there is no evidence, I can sue you for slandering the court officials at any time."
He Yan thought to himself, who is not a court official anymore? When she was General Feihong in her previous life, she also ate imperial food.
"But, but..." She wanted to say something else, Xiao Jue had already stopped and moved forward. Not far away, there was the sound of soldiers lining up in low voices.
Before they knew it, the two of them had already walked to the martial arts field.
The martial arts field used to have only the daily training of recruits from Liangzhou Guards, but now it is divided into east and west. At this moment, the two sides are training at the same time, and the gap comes out.
The deputy commander-in-chief of the Nanfu Soldiers is practicing foot siege, and they don't need anyone to command, and looking at it makes people feel that they are brave and invincible. As for the Liangzhou Guard recruits, who had just started to learn to form formations, it was inevitable that they would be in a hurry. Standing on the high platform, Shen Han roared with all his strength.
He Yan looked at it and said hesitantly, "Is this practicing... fish scale formation?"
Xiao Jue glanced at her sideways and asked, "You know?"
Come, come, he came to test people again. Although He Yan was a little confused about Xiao Jue's questions from time to time, he thought that maybe he was preparing to test whether he could enter the Nine Banners Camp, so he had to answer seriously: "The echelon distribution, the front end is slightly convex, and the center is assembled. The main force is divided into several small square formations in the shape of fish scales. When facing the enemy, you can concentrate your forces to launch a fierce attack on the center of the enemy formation, but the weakness lies in the tail side. If the enemy army breaks through from the tail side, this formation can be broken. This is the fish scale formation. That's right, it's just..." She said, "They're too loose."
Too loose! If they were to line up so slowly, they would have been beaten to death five times.
Xiao Jue looked at her thoughtfully, and suddenly hooked her lips: "Not bad."
He Yan was very proud. Efforts are still rewarding in the end. Who would have thought that the Xianchang Pavilion was the bottom of the year, and now he knows the art of war by heart, and even if he is faced with the question of the first Xianchang Pavilion, he can easily answer it. In these years, there is no white hair in the battle, and no white practice in the book, which is enough.
"Have you studied the art of war?" Xiao Jue raised her eyebrows.
"A little bit."
"Do you know how to set up?"
"Don't dare, don't dare."
"Okay," Xiao Jue looked at the soldiers who were practicing under the stage, and said, "If Damuzi came to Liangzhou Guard that day, you were not locked in the dungeon, and Shen Han handed over the military power to you to command, what will you do in this battle? beat?"
Is it coming up so soon
He Yan thought for a moment, then said slowly: "Those western... Utuo soldiers are strong, brutal and tyrannical, Liangzhou Wei's recruits have not yet been on the battlefield, their morale is low, and it is difficult to compete head-on, and it will not be solved in a short time. It's me... I'll hang in my car."
Xiao Jue looked at her quietly: "Go on."
"As the main general, I will be in the center of the formation, and the outer troops will be deployed layer by layer. Disperse the troops outside and form a roaming formation. During battle, rotate in the same direction and attack the enemy's formation in turn, like a turning wheel. In this way, you will always face the enemy. The first part of the army is constantly exerting pressure, the Uto people will collapse due to exhaustion, and our own side will be replenished and repaired by taking turns to attack, and restore the combat strength.”
"You as the general?" Xiao Jue mocked.
"What I mean is, I'm temporarily serving as the main commander. The one who really wants to fight is the Governor. The reason why I chose the car suspension is to delay the time so that the Governor can come back for support." He Yan said very much. sincere.
Xiao Jue turned around, leaned over slightly, looked down at her, curled her lips and said, "Miss He has learned the art of war well, it's a pity not to be a general."
No matter what Xiao Jue said, his vision was still pretty good. He Yan nodded and said, "I think so too. I think I am born to be a general. Sometimes I even think that I was a female general in my last life."
Xiao Jue: "..."
"Don't you believe the Governor?" He Yan took a stick and poked a hole in the snow, "Or does the Governor think that women can't be generals."
"I didn't think so."
He Yan raised his head to look at him. Everyone in the world thinks that women should stay in the boudoir, embroidering eyebrows, waiting for the favor of their husbands, not to mention being a female general, even if they show up outside, be a female shopkeeper, female master, and female doctor. eyes.
There are very few who can take that step, and even if they do, they cannot be understood by others.
"You can do whatever you want," the young man said with a languid brow and twitched the corners of his mouth, "Just do it."
He Yan was stunned for a moment, staring at him without speaking.
His gaze fell on the martial arts field in the distance again, on the recruits who were training, and he did not see He Yan's gaze behind him.
"Thank you." He Yan whispered in his heart.
The snow gradually stopped, and the recruits led by Shen Han, after practicing a few times, became proficient, and they were not as flustered as they were at the beginning. Xiao Jue and He Yan also stood here for a long time after the initial success of the formation.
A familiar voice sounded from behind: "Huai Jin! He... brother!"
He Yan looked back and saw that it was Lin Shuanghe. Lin Shuanghe climbed up to the attic, brushed off the snow on his boots, and said, "No wonder I can't find the two of you everywhere, so I came here. What?" He looked at Xiao Jue and smiled narrowly, "Bring Is our sister He coming to see the training?"
He Yan: "... Doctor Lin, please don't call my sister outside."
"I'm sorry," Lin Shuanghe covered his mouth with a fan, and said apologetically, "I forgot it for a while. But there are no outsiders here." He glanced at the stick He Yan was leaning on, and asked again, "I can get out of bed and walk so far today. Is it? How is it, the wound still hurts?"
"It doesn't hurt much." He Yan said, "Doctor Lin has superb medical skills. I'm much better today."
"That's great," Lin Shuanghe shook his fan, "If I can't cure you, I will feel very guilty."
The two of them complimented each other, Xiao Jue watched from the side, as if he couldn't stand it any longer, and said impatiently, "If you have something to say, just say it."
Lin Shuanghe was stunned for a moment, and said, "Hey! I almost forgot about the business. Someone just arrived from the Liangzhou guardhouse. I wanted to find Teacher Shen, but Teacher Shen was not there. It took me a long time to find you here."
"who?"
"The people from the palace said that your Majesty will give you a reward for this Liangzhou Wei victory. By the way, there's that, that..." He didn't remember it for a while, and after a while, he remembered his name, and said: "Shi Jinbo Mansion Fourth Young Master, Chu Zilan! Yes, Chu Zilan is here too."
"Chu Zhao?" Xiao Jue frowned, "What is he doing here?"
Lin Shuanghe shrugged, "How do I know? People are waiting at the gate of the guardhouse now, why don't you go take a look?"
Xiao Jue paused and walked downstairs: "Let's go."
"Hey, Governor, what about me?" He Yan was busy leaning on a stick, trying to keep up, but he didn't know if he could follow in this situation. Looking at Xiao Jue's appearance, it doesn't look like an old friend reminiscing.
Xiao Jue glanced at her and said, "Go back, you don't have to follow."
"Oh." He Yan obediently agreed, Lin Shuanghe waved at her, and the two walked down the pavilion very quickly, their backs disappearing into the distance.
He Yan looked at the vast snow field with some doubts in his heart.
Who is this Chu Zilan