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

In autumn, everything withered and the battlefield seemed very open. Starting early in the morning, the ground was trembling with the sound of cannons.

After the sky cleared, the Song army kept firing and bombarding the Liao army's camps. The Liao army was not good at defending the city. They built two camps along the river embankment outside Hejian City, and set up artillery on the second camp to bombard the Song army. Li Ruoxu asked Yue Shuai to serve in front of the Hejian army. He rode his horse and met every team of soldiers along the way. He showed off his badge to ask about military information. Each one should make it clear. At dawn every day on the eighth day of October, Li Ruoxu arrived at Zhang Xian's front army camp, where the scene of Song and Liao artillery bombarding each other.

Zhang Xian was supervising the battle at the frontier of Hejian, and only one staff officer named Zhou Ding welcomed Li Ruoxu.

Zhang Xian was humble and cautious, even his subordinates were like this. Zhou Ding couldn't help but apologize for the simplicity of the Hejian Army.

Li Ruoxu hurriedly told him that he did not need special care. However, Li Ruoxu himself was the top scholar, the brother-in-law of Wuchang Hou, and one of the aides that Yue Shuai valued. His treatment was different from that of ordinary officers. Although the tent was full of people, Zhou Ding still made a separate thatched hut for him and sent him two personal soldiers to protect and take care of him. Because of the busy military affairs, Zhou Ding settled Li Ruoxu and told him to rest carefully and wait for Zhang Xian to return. He hurried to do other things...

Li Ruoxu finally arrived in front of the army and could not sit down. He immediately took his personal soldiers to observe the military situation.

The Song army swore arriving from Daming to the northern expedition and advanced all the way to the city of Hejian. Apart from a small-scale conflict with the Liao army, there was no real large-scale battle. 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 fought against each other. Behind the Song army camp, there was a large area of ​​simpler slums. In order to prevent the civilians from storing the formation, Zhang Xian carefully placed the civilians in the range of artillery fire in the formation. If the Liao cavalry wanted to bypass the Song army's formation and trampled these civilians, they had to risk the retreat of the Song army's artillery cut off by the Song army's artillery. Behind the simple and crowded Song army camp, teams of infantry and riders could be seen everywhere, and the artillery dragged ammunition boxes and fired. The cannons rushed to the new artillery fire, and an artillery officer even shouted at Li Ruoxu to give way.

"Rareless!" The personal soldiers were about to scold them, but Li Ruoxu raised his hand to stop him and pulled the two personal soldiers to avoid the road.

"Hmph!" The officer of the artillery camp glared at the personal soldier and asked his subordinates to continue working.

A large number of carriages, ammunition trucks rumbling past Li Ruxu. I don't know if it was intentional, mud dots splashed all over him. The soldiers who drove the car didn't care, shouting and whip. There were gunners running back and forth on both sides of the sports car, working together to push the wheels that were trapped in the mud pit. When it was downhill, everyone asked to hold the car hard to prevent the ammunition trucks from colliding with each other. The huge wheels were bumping up and down due to the stones in the mud, and the bulky gun trucks and ammunition trucks kept making sour creaking sounds, as if they would fall apart in the next moment. The soldiers frowned and most of them didn't look at Li Ruxu. Only a few greeted this "sweet little official": "Brother, get out of here."

"The military situation is urgent, so it's so hasty." Li Ruoxu said to himself.

The war was approaching, and not only did he not have fear in his heart, but he felt a joy of liberation.

Since the capture of the commander of Bianliang, Li Ruoxu, as Zhao Xingde's brother-in-law, has been a bit embarrassing in the Tokyo Left Office.

If he was excluded, he could leave, but Yue Shuai attaches great importance to Li Ruoxu. Yue Fei respects scholars very much. He is the dignified deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor, and sometimes calls him Mr. Li. Because of his guilt, Cao Liangshi took great care of Li Ruoxu, so that in the strict military discipline, Li Ruoxu was as reincarnated as a guest official.

It’s okay to forget that Ezhou forced Zhao Huan to marry Zhao Xingde, which made him feel heartbroken.

When Li Ruoxu learned the news that day, he felt like a thunderbolt in the clear sky. At that time, the few sides with Zhao Huan rushed into his mind like a tide, and he suddenly realized that the person he longed for had already belonged. After this, he realized that his heart seemed to be suddenly hollowed out. He could only forcibly suppress his emotions and bury himself in military affairs. When he learned that the Hejian War was about to come, he volunteered to serve in front of the army. Only battle and blood could dilute the meaningless resentment.

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

"It seems that this trip is just the right time." He couldn't help but feel a little excited. Because the Song army's camp was quite large, he stopped and stopped all the way. At noon, Li Ruoxu sent one of his personal soldiers to report the news. He and another personal soldiers had two breads outside in clear water. Until the sun set, he roughly looked at the terrain distribution of the confrontation between the Song and Liao armies, and then returned with satisfaction. Unexpectedly, there were five or six guests in his residence, one of whom had offended Li Ruoxu, the artillery camp officer during the day. Although he looked unhappy, he still came forward with a tea bowl and apologized to Li Ruoxu.

"Mr. Li, Bai Tianbeizhi has no idea about Mount Tai. He bumped into the Lord. I hope he can forgive me."

"What are you talking about in Commander Huang? Come on, let's use tea instead of wine, Mr. Li toast you a bowl."

Li Ruoxu picked up the tea bowl and inadvertently stared at the personal soldier who was going back first.

"Mr. Li, don't blame him," Zhou Ding explained, "I asked you in a cross-examination. It's good that you are magnanimous, but I'm not allowed to pay any favors to General Zhang." He glared at Commander Huang and smiled, "You are not acquaintances. Lord Huang, why are you stinging with me? Lord Li is the top scholar and is the world's Kuixing Star. He gives way to you and drink tea with you. Will you still insult you?"

He said, and winked at Huang Bin, the commander of the artillery battalion.

The artillery battalion has a special position in the army. Even Zhang Xian was polite to him as the commander of Huang Bin. But Li Ruoxu must not entertain good guests. Therefore, when Zhou Ding reported this to Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian was busy with military affairs and he was not inconvenient to come forward, so he told Zhou Ding to comfort both Li Ruoxu and Huang Bin. If it really didn't work, he brought out Zhao Xingde, the person who was most convinced by the officers of the artillery battalion, to suppress Huang Bin. However, Zhang Xian also told Zhou Ding that unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not mention Zhao Xingde's name. It was not that Zhang Xian was jealous of the talented people, but because Yue and Zhang were one and seized the general, he felt somewhat guilty.

While Huang Bin was still hesitating, several other military generals said in a verbal manner. "Mr. Li is indeed magnanimous!" "Mr. Li doesn't say anything anymore. Why are you still having a tense face?" "Mr. Li, don't dislike me, have a tea with the old army!"

"What are you arguing?" Huang Bin blushed and raised his tea bowl and said, "Mr. Li, I've done this bowl!"

Although Huang Bin is not usually arrogant, he always has a bit of arrogance. He said this, which made everyone laugh. In order to make peace for Li Ruoxu and Huang Bin, Zhou Ding took great pains. This time he brought all the officers who were familiar with Huang Bin, and two or three well-educated staff officers to avoid Li Ruoxu from reaching an agreement with them. However, after drinking a bowl of tea for peace, Zhou Ding soon found that he was too worried. Li Ruoxu had no airs of the top scholar, and he was accepted as his own person by the officers in a very short time. Although because of the strict military rules of the Yue Shuai, he could not drink alcohol in the army, and everyone used tea instead of wine. When Li Ruoxu was not an outsider, the atmosphere was not bad. Li Ruoxu was a person with a temperament. While drinking tea, he played with the officers and sang new songs in the army.

"The cold water of Xiaoxiao Yishui is bone-blooded, and Yanyun is unable to calm down before he can regain his anger. Hu Chen invaded the Central Plains and served his great husband."

After the tragic tone roared, an officer snorted and hummed a little tune in the railing: "The Luo shirt is half-clear, and he refuses to get into the quilt, and he just wants to sleep first." The sound of the thick voice pinched out had a unique hilarious smell. Li Ruoxu and several aides also clapped and laughed with the officers, and it was impossible to tell that he was actually a Jinshi.

"Is Lord Li really the top scorer?" Huang Bin asked secretly, "I see."

"Then there is still a falsehood?" Zhou Ding glared at him and whispered, "Be careful."

"I understand." Huang Bin nodded. He raised his voice and said something that Zhou Ding almost fell. "Does Li Zhuangyuan visit the brothel? Do you pay the top ladies?" Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Huang Bin, and Li Ruoxu was also stunned.

"What do I do?" Huang Bin touched his stomach and muttered, "Isn't it all written in the storybook, the opera?"

"Does Li Zhuangyuan not have many lovers?" He said this with confidence, but instead turned his attention to Li Ruoxu. Several staff members also looked at Li Ruoxu with smiles. It was also a beautiful story for the literati to be so handsome, but they usually don't talk about these things with the peddlers. Since Li Ruoxu has acted without any grudges with the officers, let's see how he dealt with it.

"So, I have no blessings for a young man." Li Ruoxu hesitated for a moment and said with shame.

He has something to do with his heart. Apart from the songs and rewards of the elegant collection, he rarely goes to brothels. Now he thinks about it, he can't help but feel a little sad.

"Cough" Huang Bin shouted loudly, awakening Li Ruoxu from his distraction. Huang Bin said with disappointment: "Either Lord Li doesn't treat us as brothers, or the storybooks are all made up." While making trouble, he squeezed at the other people. These people were able to make peace in the army, and they all felt like a mirror. Since Li Ruoxu was willing to make friends with him, they were willing to bring their relationship closer. The most common way in the army was to commit some things together. Yue Shuai was strict in military rules and did not dare to test the law. He could only settle for the second best and forced some ** things to ask Li Ruoxu.

Huang Bin made up his mind and waited for Li Ruoxu to say something, and they all said one or two things, so that their friendship would be deeper.

As soon as he winked, the other officers immediately understood. Just as they were about to yell together, Li Zhuangyuan spoke.

"I don't know what's next." Li Ruoxu lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "I have heard of it in the Imperial Academy."

"What?" Zhou Ding asked curiously. The Imperial Academy is an attractive and mysterious existence for most scholars.

"At that time, Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhao, they were classmates in the Imperial Academy. When they went to that place, they never used money. What about that? "Li Ruoxu looked at the officers who were concentrating on him and said intentionally, "Well, as for the backward pay, look, Mr. Chen, Mr. Zhao, and others, romantic, tsk tsk tsk, that's it."

"Oh!" Huang Bin slapped his thigh and pointed at Zhou Bing and said, "Do you think so? You can't make up the things in the book!"
Chapter completed!