Li Zhang

At the end of July, the two Xianbei, who thought they were going to fight to the death, suddenly stopped fighting as they did when they started the war.The Buyixi tribe retreated to the Taipu Temple, and the Kelubi tribe formed an alliance with Rouran and stayed in Yunzhong.

At the same time, the dark guard who had infiltrated the Aijun lost contact with his superiors. Bai Qi sent back a message afterward, but it was the Aijun who suddenly carried out a military cleansing, removing all the suspected shakers. The whole army is exhausted.

When the news was sent back to the capital, Jin Bai anxiously checked the information of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but found nothing relevant, and immediately became suspicious of the hidden guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion.He inquired carefully about the arrangement of the secret guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and it was even more strange to hear that Bailu was in charge.Among the ten hidden guards he personally trained back then, Bailu was the one with the purest and best character, and he has always been loved and valued by him.Although she was mentally injured on the way to escort Sima Yi back to Beijing, but because of Li Zhang's timely treatment, she recovered quickly after returning to Pingyang under the care of Bai Yi, and stayed in Pingyang to cooperate with Bai Yi to train newcomers.This time, because the Guoxiang Mansion is the key link of the entire Northern Xinjiang Dark Guard Network, Bai Yi did not believe in the newcomers, so he sent Bai Lu out.

Jin Bai immediately asked Bai Qi to investigate Bailu's situation, and at the same time rushed to Bingzhou himself.Soon, Bai Qi sent back the results of the preliminary investigation, and the secret guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion were all normal, which made Jin Bai feel that something was wrong, so he simply stayed.

After the Ai Army was reorganized, Jin Bai gave up his plan to continue infiltrating, and deployed all the escaped dark guards to the Yunzhong and Taipu Temple areas to act as eyes, and asked Baishan to select the dark guards that Bailu was not familiar with and transfer them to the Prime Minister's Mansion. In Jiuyuan, where he was located, he investigated the inside information of the Prime Minister's Mansion from multiple angles, and changed the contact information of the dark guard network in northern Xinjiang. Bai Qi was responsible for contacting the secret guard of the Prime Minister's Mansion for external information exchange.After Bai Qi lurked in the Prime Minister's Mansion for half a month, Bai Lu suddenly disappeared from the Prime Minister's Mansion. There were many masters of the rivers and lakes in the mansion. His whereabouts were quickly discovered and he had to return to Bingzhou.

Although Jin Bai couldn't figure out what happened to Bai Lu, he would not abuse resources for her.Jiuyuan's hidden guard system had already started a new set of operations when he began to suspect, so it was not affected more.

In mid-August, Bu Yixi rejected Cheng Xuan's further courtship, and instead admitted the new Shan Yu Tuoba Mian.Tuoba Mian accepted Buyixi's surrender with a high attitude, and gave many awards, and intended to marry Buyixi, but was rejected by Princess Muyun.

In September, all the Dingnan Army arrived in Youzhou, and the military posts on the front line of Youbin became busy again.Pingdu moved [-] left troops to Yangfangbao, echoed Zhang Yuan's Rong Huan, and supported Yanmen Pass at any time, which relieved a large part of Su Qingyang's garrison pressure.

Since then, the defense line in the northern border has been completed. Although Cheng Xuan has pulled in Kolubi, his overall combat effectiveness is still slightly inferior to that of Wei. Sima Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Zhang's life as an instructor in Rongjiazhuang was unexpectedly peaceful, and the contempt and provocations of the villagers did not affect him at all.In addition to making them complete long-distance running and language learning every day, he spent the rest of the time teaching them the role of terrain in combat, completely ignoring their various provocative armed confrontations.In the process of narrating, he picked up soil to form mountains, drew ditches to form rivers, and took the real surrounding terrain as an example. With a few words, he has turned the places familiar to the soldiers into battlefields, and spread out an idea in front of them. In the middle of the battle, so that they understand what the scout should do and where they are.

The villagers were stunned, and when they went out to run around, they would deliberately go to the area that Li Zhang had explained. Looking at the real scene and thinking about the battle that Li Zhang said, they suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment. With a preliminary understanding of the image.When Li Zhang continued to talk about the judgment of the enemy's movements, he invited Rong Xie over, and he explained the situation in actual combat and what he learned in the book, which also played a simple and clear teaching effect.Although the soldiers in the township still had some doubts about what Li Zhang taught, they finally felt a little in awe, and no one continued to have the idea of ​​making him look ugly.

Rong Xie was originally worried that Li Zhang would make excuses because of the contempt of those town soldiers, so he warned him in private, and even came to attend lectures with them whenever he had free time on weekdays.He is no stranger to what Li Zhang said, but he is amazed at the sharpness and boldness that often flashes in it.He couldn't help evaluating Li Zhang again, vaguely saw his amazing explosive power behind his plainness, and felt more pity for him.

After the Dingnan Army arrived in Youzhou in September, Li Zhang’s course was over, and he was about to bring Zhiqing back to Yanshan. Rong Yuan suddenly gave birth prematurely. Although the mother and child were safe thanks to the efforts of Zhiqing and the midwife, the situation of the excessively wasted parturient Unfortunately, Zhiqing was caught by the patient again, and Li Zhang had no choice but to stay.

Since Li Zhang lifted the restriction imposed by Mu Yan, he has never practiced the mind method taught by Mu Yan. Usually, he only practiced physical fitness according to the method taught by Wu Zijun at the beginning, and practiced sword for a while at most.After finding the library cave, he carefully looked through the books related to martial arts, picked out a set of footwork that he felt suitable and easy to practice, and practiced it every day.This set of footwork is in harmony with the inner breath when walking, and the inner breath after a set of walking is exactly for a whole week. Although it is not as vigorous and grand as the Mu family's mental method, it is continuous and delicate, but it is more in line with Li Zhang's heart. I have been practicing diligently.

After living in Rongjiazhuang, Rong Xie arranged for Li Zhang to live in his own courtyard, and every morning they practiced kung fu in the courtyard.Rong Xie's courtyard was built quite spacious for him to practice martial arts, and the two of them each occupied a corner, so it didn't affect their practice.

Rong Xie's kung fu is fast, fierce and straightforward, straight forward, like the Yellow River bursting its embankment.Li Zhang seems to be strolling in a courtyard, light and elegant.He has integrated footwork and swordsmanship, the sword is not fancy but also light and steady, seemingly erratic, but in fact it is strong and strong, and there are needles hidden in the cotton, which contains countless sharp killing moves.Rong Xie, who was a young teacher with a famous teacher, naturally had a good eye. He applauded at the first glance, but he also saw that Mu Yan's fierce kung fu was completely different from Mu Yan's, so he couldn't help being a little curious.

"What a beautiful sword technique! Could it be that Brother Li has other famous teachers besides General Mu?"

Li Zhang was stunned when he heard the words, looked at the long sword in his hand, shook his head with a smile and said: "Back then, in the guard camp, Brother Wu saw that I was not in good health, and I couldn't use the kung fu of Commander Mu, so I poured out the sword skills passed down from my family You should be regarded as my master indeed."

"Guard Wu? It seems that Rong Xie is arrogant and thinks he has some knowledge. After all, he is still a frog at the bottom of a well!"

"Master Rong is too modest!"

"Brother Li likes to use swords?"

"I'm just used to it."

Then Rong Xie went back to the room and took a dagger with an ancient and elegant scabbard, he pulled it lightly, the light of the sword spilled like cold water.

"Good sword!"

Li Zhang couldn't help saying hello.

Rong Xie put the sword back into its sheath, and handed it to Li Zhang with both hands: "This Hanguang is a crowning gift from my master. I'm not used to using swords. It's like a bright pearl cast by my side. Why don't I hand it over to Brother Li? Can make it shine again."

Li Zhang refused in astonishment: "No! How can Li Zhang accept what Master Rong gave as a gift! Li Zhang is not hypocritical, but the sword is in my eyes, no matter how good it is, it is just a murder weapon. It can be used as long as it can be used. An ordinary long sword It is no different from the famous sword handed down from generation to generation. Besides, as a hunter, I shouldn’t wear such a precious sword, it will definitely attract people’s suspicion, right?”

"Brother Li is still unwilling to stay?"

"Young Master Rong is kind, and Li Zhang appreciates it. It's just that Li Zhang prefers to be free."

Rong Xie stared at Li Zhang for a long time, and finally nodded with a sigh: "Since that's the case, Rong Xie can't force it. It's just that my mother likes Miss Song very much and intends to recognize her as a righteous daughter. The names of brother Li and Miss Song are undecided. She It's against etiquette for a girl's family to always show her face outside. How about treating Rong's house as her natal family and marrying later?"

Li Zhang was stunned again, looked at Rong Xie's serious look, and replied hesitantly: "Well, I have to ask Zhiqing what she means."

Rong Xie nodded and said: "My mother has mentioned it to Miss Song, and Miss Song also said that she wants to discuss it with Brother Li. Although my family is not aristocratic, I still have some respect and status here. If Miss Song can really become my righteous sister, then You and I will be happy!"

Li Zhang glanced at him quietly, saluted and left.

After Li Zhang moved into Rongjiazhuang, meeting Zhiqing was not as easy as before.Zhiqing lives in the backyard with the Rong family members, while Li Zhang and Rong Xie live in the front yard. Due to his identity as a man with a different surname, Li Zhang can't go in and out of the backyard at will, and Zhiqing is busy taking care of the patients, and the same is teaching Li Zhang of the course can only be together at dinner time, and it is time to go back to the room after the last conversation.

Therefore, even though Li Zhang was upset that day, he did not see Zhiqing until evening.

Zhiqing was also eager to see Li Zhang, and the two of them couldn't wait to speak together when they met: "Brother..."

"Zhiqing..."

Then they were stunned for a moment and laughed together again, and the chaotic mood suddenly calmed down.

"Brother heard about it, too? Mrs. Rong wants to recognize me as a foster daughter."

"Well, I heard from Master Rong in the morning. What's your sister thinking?"

"Although Mrs. Rong really treats me very well, I always feel that she wants to recognize me because of my brother."

Li Zhang looked at Zhiqing, but didn't make a sound.

"Brother feels it too, right? Young Master Rong is really desperate to keep his brother!"

"Then—should I stay?"

Zhiqing laughed: "Whatever brother wants to do, Zhiqing will follow you!"

Li Zhang looked at her quietly, and stretched out his hand to take her into his arms.

"I want to see what he wants to do, but I don't want to involve you."

"Zhiqing and elder brother are in the same heart, so there is no connection."

"Having said that, if..., there will be a possibility of being taken hostage after all, how can I rest assured..."

"My brother should also trust me and not become a burden to my brother."

Li Zhang didn't speak, but hugged Zhiqing tightly.

Zhiqing listened to his unsteady breathing, and said with a light smile, "Brother is good at handicrafts, please make some hairpins for me, the kind that want to hide things."

Li Zhang was stunned for a moment, then understood, and rubbed her hair with a smile: "Okay."

"Then I will promise Mrs. Rong tomorrow."

"Zhiqing..."

"Ok?"

"Feel sorry……"

Zhiqing slightly pushed Li Zhang away, stared into his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Zhiqing was in the same heart with brother in the morning, so why does brother need to apologize to himself?"

Li Zhang sighed and hugged her into his arms again.

At the end of September, Li Zhang received a message from Zhang Yu and left Rongjiazhuang for Bingzhou.Rong Xie didn't stop him, he personally prepared the horses for him, and took out Hanguang before leaving.

"Brother Li is so talented that he really doesn't need to rely on famous swords. However, Hanguang is short and sharp, which is really a sharp weapon for self-defense. Since Brother Li has people he doesn't want to meet, he should always be prepared."

Li Zhang couldn't refuse, so he had to put it in his arms.Say goodbye to Rong Xie and go to Bingzhou in a radial direction.