On the eighth day of October, outside the city, the rain stopped and the weather turned clear.

In autumn, everything withered, the battlefield seemed very open, and the ground was shaken by the sound of artillery from early in the morning.

After the sky cleared, the Song army kept bombarding the Liao army's camp. Because the Liao army was not good at defending the city, they built two barracks along the embankment outside the city between the rivers, and set up artillery on the second barracks to bombard the Song army. Li Ruoxu asked Yue Shuai to serve in front of the Hejian army, he rode a horse, and when he met every team of generals along the way, he showed his waist card to ask about the military situation, and each one made it clear. At dawn on the eighth day of October, Li Ruoxu arrived at Zhang Xian's former army camp, where the Song and Liao artillery could already bombard each other.

Zhang Xian was supervising the battle at the front of the river, and only a staff officer named Zhou Ding greeted Li Ruoxu.

Zhang Xian is humble and cautious, even his subordinates. Zhou couldn't help but apologize for the poor conditions in front of the Hejian army.

Li Ruoxu hurriedly told him that he did not need special care. However, Li Ruoxu himself was born as a champion, the brother-in-law of the Marquis of Wuchang, and one of Yue Shuai's valued staff, and his treatment was different from that of ordinary officers. Although the tent was crowded with people, Zhou Ding still vacated a single hut for him, and sent him two personal soldiers to protect and take care of him. Because of his busy military affairs, after Zhou Ding settled Li Ruoxu, he told him to rest carefully and wait for Zhang Xian to return, and he hurried to do other things.

Li Ruoxu finally rushed to the front of the army, where could he sit down, and immediately took his own soldiers to observe the military situation.

The Song army swore an oath from the daimyo to the Northern Expedition and advanced all the way to the city of Hejian, and apart from a skirmish with the Liao army, there was no real large-scale engagement. However, after the Liao army retreated to Hejian, it seemed that they did not intend to abandon the city and leave, so the two sides faced off here. At the rear of the Song barracks, there was a large area of even more modest sheds. In order to prevent the Minfu from disrupting the main formation, Zhang Xian carefully placed the Minfu in the range of the artillery of the formation, and if the Liao cavalry wanted to bypass the Song army's main formation and trample on these people, they would have to risk being cut off by the Song army's artillery. Behind the simple and crowded Song army barracks, you can see everywhere a group of foot cavalry passing through, and artillerymen dragging ammunition boxes and fighting . The artillery hurried to the new artillery fort, and an artillery battalion officer even shouted at Li Ruoxu to give way.

"Presumptuous!" The pro-soldiers just wanted to scold him back, but Li Ruoxu raised his hand to stop him, and pulled the two pro-soldiers to avoid the side of the road.

"Humph!" The artillery battalion officer glared at the soldier and beckoned his men to continue their work.

A large number of carriages and ammunition trucks rumbled past in front of Li Ruoxu, I don't know if it was intentional, mud splashed all over his body. The soldiers who drove the car didn't care, shouting and waving whips, and there were gunners on both sides of the sports car who kept running back and forth, working together to push out the wheels that had fallen into the mud puddle, and when it was time to go downhill, they asked everyone to pull the car hard together to prevent the ammunition trucks in front and behind from colliding together. Huge wheels jolted up and down from stones in the mud, and heavy gun and ammunition wagons kept making a tooth-aching creaking sound, as if they would fall apart in the next moment. The soldiers all worked with frowns, and most of them didn't look at Li Ruoxu, only a few greeted this "shabby little official": "This little brother, get out of the way a little more." ”

"The military situation is urgent, so it will be in such a hurry." Li Ruoxu muttered to himself.

The great war was imminent, and not only did he not fear it, but he felt a kind of joy of liberation in his heart.

Since Bianliang won the command, Li Ruoxu, as Zhao Xingde's brother-in-law, has been a little embarrassed in the position of the Tokyo Left-behind Division.

If he is excluded because of this, he can hang up his crown and leave, but Yue Shuai attaches great importance to Li Ruoxu, Yue Fei respects scholars very much, and he is respected by the dignified privy deputy envoy, and sometimes he is called Mr. Li. Cao Liangshi also took great care of Li Ruoxu because of his guilt, so that in the Zhenguo Army, which had strict military discipline, Li Ruoxu was as detached as a guest.

It's okay to be so embarrassed, Ezhou forcibly gave Zhao Huan to marry Zhao Xingde, which made him want to break his heart.

When he learned the news that day, Li Ruoxu only felt like a thunderbolt in the clear sky. At the beginning, the few faces with Zhao Huan came to his mind like a tide, and he suddenly realized that it seemed that the person he longed for already belonged to him. He could only forcibly suppress his emotions and desperately bury himself in military affairs. Only battle and blood can dilute that meaningless resentment.

Li Ruoxu looked around the Song army camp, and he was nervously preparing for battle everywhere, which confirmed what he expected.

"Looks like this trip came at the right time." He couldn't help but feel a little excited. Because the camp of the Song army is quite large, this road stops and stops, and it is too late to rush back to the camp at noon, Li Ruoxu sent a personal soldier back to report the news, and he and another personal soldier shared two flour cakes with clear water outside, until the sun set, he took a rough look at the terrain distribution of the confrontation between the two armies of Song and Liao, and then returned satisfied, but there were five or six guests in his residence, one of whom offended Li Ruoxu's artillery battalion officer during the day, although he was unhappy, still came forward with a tea bowl to apologize to Li Ruoxu.

"Lord Li, during the day, I don't know Taishan, I collided with my lord, and I look at my lord Haihan."

"Where did Commander Huang say, come, let's replace wine with tea, and Li will give you a bowl."

Li Ruoxu picked up the tea bowl and said, casually glancing at the pro-soldier who went back first.

"Master Li, don't blame him," Zhou Ding explained on the side, "I interrogated him, it is good that you are magnanimous, but if you neglect the distinguished guests, I can't pay the difference with Zhang Tongzhi." He glared at Commander Huang and said with a smile, "You don't know each other, adults are handing in, Lao Huang, what are you doing with a tight face?" Master Li was born as a champion, but he is the best star in the world, and he will make way for you with kindness and drink tea with you, will he insult you? ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Huang Bin, the commander of the artillery battalion.

The artillery battalion has a special status in the army, and even Zhang Xian was polite to him as the commander of Huang Bin. But Li Ruoxu must not entertain good guests, so when Zhou Ding reported the matter to Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian was busy with military affairs and it was inconvenient for him to come forward, so he told Zhou Ding to appease Li Ruoxu and Huang Bin. It really didn't work, so he brought Zhao Xingde, the most convincing person of the artillery battalion officer, out to suppress Huang Bin, but Zhang Xian told Zhou Ding that he should not mention Zhao Xingde's name unless he had to. It's not that Zhang Xian is jealous of his ability, but because Yue and Zhang are one, and he feels somewhat guilty about winning the handsome.

While Huang Bin was still hesitating, several other generals were gossiping. "Master Li is really magnanimous!" "Master Li doesn't say anything, Lao Huang, why are you still with a tight face?" "Master Li, don't dislike it, I'll have a cup of tea with the old military leader!"

"What's the noise?" Huang Bin's face flushed, he raised the tea bowl and said, "Master Li, this bowl!" ”

Although Huang Bin is usually not arrogant, he is always a little arrogant, and when he talks like this, everyone laughs. In order to make peace with Li Ruoxu and Huang Bin, Zhou Ding took great pains to bring officers who were familiar with Huang Bin this time, and there were also two or three staff officers with good knowledge, so as not to make Li Ruoxu unable to talk to them. However, after drinking a bowl of tea, Zhou Ding soon found that he was too worried. Li Ruoxu has no champion at all, he was really accepted as his own by the officers in a very short period of time, although because of Yue Shuai's strict military regulations, alcohol cannot be drunk in the army, and everyone replaces wine with tea, when Li Ruoxu is not an outsider, the atmosphere is not bad. Li Ruoxu is a man of temperament, drinking tea while beating with the officers and singing new songs in the army.

Xiao Xiao Yi was cold to the bone, and Yan Yun was not angry. Hu Chenxuanhe invaded Middle-earth and worked hard to repay Guowei's husband......"

After the tragic tone was roared, an officer pinched his throat and babbled and hummed a small tune: "...... Luo shirt is half-dissolved, refusing to enter the quilt, Ying Yingyu back, but only Dao Lang ......sleeps first" The sound of the rough voice pinched out, there is no such thing as a hilarious taste, Li Ruoxu and several staff members also clapped and laughed with the officers, and they couldn't see that he was actually a jinshi.

"Is Master Li really the champion?" Huang Bin asked secretly, "I see ......?"

"Is that fake?" Zhou Ding glared at him and said in a low voice, "Be careful." ”

"Understood." Huang Bin nodded, he raised his voice, and said a sentence that made Zhou Ding almost fall, "Li Zhuangyuan went to the Qinglou, are the top ladies all upside down?" Everyone's eyes focused on Huang Bin, and Li Ruoxu was also stunned.

"What do you see me doing?" Huang Bin touched his stomach and muttered, "Script, isn't it all made up like this in the play?" ”

"Isn't Li Zhuangyuan a few upside-down friends?" He said this with confidence, but instead shifted his gaze to Li Ruoxu. Several staff members also looked at Li Ruoxu with a smile, and the scholar's suave demeanor is also a good talk, but he usually doesn't talk about these things with the peddlers' pawns, since Li Ruoxu behaves like the officers, let's see how he copes.

"Well, there is no blessing in being born later." Li Ruoxu hesitated for a moment, and said with some shame.

He has a heart, except for Yaji's singing, he rarely goes in and out of the Qinglou, and now that he thinks about it, he can't help but feel a little sour.

"Cough-" Huang Bin shouted, waking Li Ruoxu up from his distraction, Huang Bin said with a disappointed face: "Either Master Li doesn't treat us as brothers, or the words are all made up." While making trouble, he squeezed his eyes at several other people, these people can mix well in the army, and they are all like Spiegel in their hearts, since Li Ruoxu is willing to hand over the joints, they are also willing to get closer to him, and the most common practice in the army, a good friendship is to do something together, Yue Shuai has strict military rules, and everyone dare not try the law, so they can only retreat to the next best thing, and force some private things from Li Ruoxu's mouth.

Huang Bin made up his mind, and after Li Ruoxu said it, several of them also said one or two things each, and everyone's friendship was even deeper.

As soon as he made a look, several other officers immediately understood, and when they were about to shout together, Li Zhuangyuan spoke.

"I don't know." Li Ruoxu lowered his voice and said with a mysterious expression, "I've heard of it in Taixue in my late life......

"What?" Zhou Ding asked curiously, Taixue is a mysterious existence full of attraction to most scholars.

"At the beginning, Chen Xianggong and Zhao ....... Well, the two of them are classmates in Taixue, and when they go to that place, they never use money, Bai ...... What is that," Li Ruoxu looked at the officers who were engrossed, and said intentionally vaguely, "Well, as for ...... Upside down and the like, you see, Chen Xianggong, Zhao ..... Hmmm...... They, merry, tsk, that's it......"

"Oops!" Huang Bin slapped his thigh, pointed at Zhou Bing and said, "Did you say that?" The ones in the script can't be made up! ”

"Yes!" Discussing the private affairs of important officials in the court, although it is not considered a violation of military regulations, is also a very exciting thing.