Liu Zhubo asked someone to bring a gold cake, of course Zhao Junsheng would not pick it up himself, and raised his chin to Jiang Yanyao, the post chief who was bent over and trembling on the side.

"Thank you Master Liu!" Jiang Yanyao stepped forward to take the golden cake with both hands and thanked him, and immediately turned around and approached the post station to ask the post guards to clean up the house, prepare food, wine and meat.

Taking advantage of the free time before dark and before eating, the officials, including Wandugui, moved their muscles inside and outside the post station to relieve the fatigue of a long journey on horseback for a day.

At this time, a fast horse galloped from the northern road, and the soldiers who had set up barricades on the road to resist the horses saw the people and quickly removed the barricades, allowing the knights to rush to the front of the inn.

Zhao Junsheng was nearby at this time, and saw that the knight turned out to be Zhao Ting, a hundred generals, only to see Zhao Ting jump down from his horse and bow down to Wandu Gui, hugging his fists and saying: "General, there is a cavalry from ten miles from the north, the number is about 1,000 people, and the leading general calls himself the leading general of the tiger Ben, Tuoba Lang!" ”

Wan Du Gui said: "Is it him? It seems that this is a striker sent by His Majesty. Hey, this Tuoba Lang has always looked down on the soldiers and horses in other towns, and we can't let him look down on him. Someone came, and the order was given to the soldiers to speed up their camp, and after a cup of tea, they lined up on both sides of the road to assemble! ”

"Yes!" The herald immediately went to deliver the order to the men.

After Zhao Ting finished his report, he got up and took off the water bag from the side of the horse's belly and walked to the shade of the tree to drink water and cool off, Zhao Junsheng looked left and right, walked to Zhao Ting's side and squatted down and asked, "Big brother, what kind of official is this Tiger Ben leading general?" ”

Zhao Ting was startled by the sudden voice, turned his head and saw that it was Zhao Junsheng, knowing that he rushed into the officialdom, he was not familiar with many things in the officialdom, he was a typical officialdom Xiaobai, and said in a low voice: "Some of the soldiers are the Su Guards, which are divided into Yulin and Tiger Ben according to the title of the Han Dynasty, some of them are forbidden in the palace, and some are stationed in the place, and the highest generals of the two are the leading generals, so this Tuoba Lang is the boss of the Tiger Ben Army!" ”

"The head of the Tiger Army, travel, carriages and horses, Tuoba Lang led the troops to appear here, so Tuoba Lang is here to fight the outpost, and the emperor's imperial drive should not be far from here?" Zhao Junsheng said.

Zhao Ting nodded and said in a low voice: "It should be about the same!" ”

Not long after the assembly and formation of the Suiyang Town Army was completed, a trotting horse appeared in the distance of the road, and this cavalry trotted over, without causing much momentum, but all of them were tall horses, and the weapons and armor made a metallic impact sound from time to time.

When they got closer, Zhao Junsheng, who was standing in the ranks of officials, found that these soldiers of the Tiger Army were in good spirits and had high morale, and he didn't know if they were pretending to be in front of the Suiyang Town Army.

The generals on the side of the Suiyang Town Army have already received the order of Wandu Gui, and they are all in good spirits, and they can raise as much as their momentum can be, and they must not be compared to the Tiger Ben Army.

The idea of "no second martial arts" is deeply rooted in the minds of the generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which can be seen from this.

In Zhao Junsheng's opinion, the equipment of the Tiger Ben Army is really good, each of them is absolutely high-end goods and is well-made, but the equipment of the Suiyang Town Army seems to be rude and unruly.

Zhao Junsheng whispered to Zhao Ting beside him: "Big brother, you see that the armor on their bodies is much more beautiful than the ones on yours, they are both stylish and bright, and they can be used as mirrors!" ”

Zhao Ting said disdainfully: "You don't understand, the armor they wear is just a good thing, it is useless, even the armor can be split in half with a knife, although the one we are wearing is ugly, it is very thick, and it can jump out of the gap!" ”

Tuoba Lang, who came with the troops, was a bearded man with a somewhat bloated figure, but he looked very burly when he put on armor, but that beautiful appearance of the armor with his rough appearance looked a little nondescript, in Zhao Junsheng's opinion, the little white faces should be very stylish in such armor.

As soon as Tuoba Lang and his Tiger Ben Army stopped, Wan Dugui stepped forward, obviously very familiar with him, and said sarcastically directly: "Tuoba Lang, I know that you like to pretend and don't want to lose face, do you think it's interesting for you to let these sons pretend to be serious?" After all, the appearance of goods is the appearance of goods, and they can't be pulled on the table! ”

Tuoba Lang had just jumped down, and when he heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Wandugui, your mouth is still so damaged, you look down on the tiger athletes under my hands, and I also look down on the miscellaneous beards under your command!" There is a kind of you and I pulling people out to practice? ”

Wandu Gui was not to be outdone: "Practice and practice, I'm afraid you won't succeed?" ”

A civilian official immediately came down from Tuoba Lang's side, and this person hurriedly dissuaded: "Hey, why bother with the two generals? Pinched as soon as we met, how many years have you been pinching? Okay, okay, you all stop, let's discuss and determine the matter of welcoming the car, and our family has to rush back to report to Your Majesty! ”

Wan Du Gui and Tuoba Lang each snorted coldly, and when they died down, Wan Dugui invited Tuoba Lang and this person to enter the post station to rest and discuss the matter of welcoming the car.

Zhao Junsheng whispered to Zhao Ting: "The voice is weird, eunuch? ”

"Well, I heard that it's Zongtai, the eunuch next to the emperor!"

The Tiger Ben army began to set up camp, just opposite the Suiyang town army, the camp of the two armies was separated by a road, and the farmland next to it was occupied by them, and a large area of newly sown seeds was wasted, but the owners of these fields would not receive any compensation.

Dinner is not sumptuous, nor delicious, it is wishful thinking to expect the post soldiers at the post station to make delicious food, and the overall cooking level of the Northern Wei Dynasty cannot be compared with later generations.

As one of the main officials accompanying him, Zhao Junsheng was fortunate to receive a piece of boiled meat, two plates of boiled vegetables, a mantou (steamed bun) and a steamed cake (steamed bun), while the officials' entourage could only eat large pots of vegetables and steamed cakes.

Speaking of the food of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Zhao Junsheng is also very helpless, whether it is the style or the cooking method is too little, most of the dishes are cooked, there is no stir-frying, the pasta is mainly mantou (steamed cakes), steamed bread (steamed cakes), pancakes, soup cakes, etc., there are few people who eat rice in the Central Plains, and most of the rice is eaten by Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty.

There were too few houses in the post station, and they were all occupied by those big officials, and officials like Zhao Junsheng could only get a small tent outside the post station, and their entourage had to live together.

There were many mosquitoes at night, and as soon as Zhao Junsheng and his entourage Han Qian were about to close the camp tent and fall asleep, there was a shout outside: "Zhao joins the army, General Wan wants to see you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was helpless, so he had to get up again and enter the post station to see Wandugui.

When they arrived in the lobby, Wan Dugui, Tuoba Lang, and the eunuch Zong Tai were sitting, and Zhao Junsheng stepped forward to salute the three of them: "I've seen the general, I don't know what the general has ordered to summon his subordinates?" ”

Wan Dugui said: "The general has discussed with General Tuoba and Gong Zong, the itinerary of the imperial driver is like this, around the end of the afternoon tomorrow, the imperial driver and the entourage ministers, palace personnel, and entourage miscellaneous personnel will arrive at this Gexiang Station, and they will camp here that night, so they must prepare meals for the army and all the entourage." The next day will continue in the morning and camp at Liangzhuang Station in the afternoon. In addition to His Majesty the Emperor, all the generals, officials, entourage, and palace personnel are responsible for arranging the food, and all the men in the garrison of this town are all at your disposal. ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a bitter face: "General, this errand can't be done by subordinates!" ”

Wandu Gui lost face in front of Tuoba Lang and Zongtai, his face was very bad, and he asked, "Aren't you quite good at things in the yamen?" Isn't it quite a toss-up? Why can't this be done? ”

Zhao Junsheng spread his hands: "General, it's difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice!" The Facao Department has no money, and it can't afford to eat, drink, and Lazar for 15,600 people! ”

"Money, money, money, you know you want money! I think you're dead asking for money! Wan Dugui's whole face darkened, and he shouted: "Master Liu, give him money!" ”

How did you know that Master Liu stood up and said with an extremely embarrassed face: "General, the subordinates thought that the imperial driver and the accompanying army, officials, entourage, and palace personnel would be responsible for their own food and lodging, so they only brought three thousand men and horses for two days' food and lodging expenses!" ”