?The cold air in Yumen Pass in the middle of winter is so cold. The dry and cold northwest wind whistles by, and it blows yellow sand from time to time, covering the low and yellow city walls with a layer of gauze made of soil.

The Xiliang army stationed in Dunhuang City and the Canglang army in the mainland of Longle City, which is not far away, were not scared by the bad weather here, but still maintained strict discipline and neat military appearance, and patiently awaiting the arrival of a legendary figure.

During the day, the soldiers would go out to walk their horses and stretch their muscles and bones when there was no wind and sand. When the cold wind whistled, they would go into the low adobe barracks and wipe the blades in their hands, or gather in groups of three or five to drink and play cards in canned yellow croakers.

In order to avoid the soldiers being bored and having trouble during training, Zhao Xing thought about all the games he could play in the military camp in his previous life, and then found that playing cards were the most economical and playable, so he asked the Commercial Press and Bookstore to produce a large number of playing cards and distributed them to the soldiers as standard game props in the army.

From the "eighty ten" of one deck of cards, "digging holes", "black a", "trailer", "double buckle", "double landlord", "four-level", "Qingdun", and "Prince", all the poker gameplay that Zhao Xing could think of patiently and meticulously recorded the rules of the game on paper, and went to the military camp to teach a group of senior generals to first learn how to play poker cards. Of course, there is no gambling gameplay such as studs and blackjacks in Professor Zhao Xing's poker game.

Playing cards well can greatly alleviate the resistance and confrontation between grassroots soldiers towards the boring military camp life, and even enhance mutual friendship and trust. But if the gambling trend is popular in grassroots troops, it will completely destroy a powerful force in a very short period of time. This is something that Zhao Xing absolutely does not allow, so from the beginning, he issued a very strict gambling ban order. Once someone finds that he violates the order, he will be expelled from the military at the least, and executed at the worst!

Nowadays, in the Xiliang Army and the Canglang Army, there are a level-level competitions where six people and four decks of playing cards are popular. This three-to-three game is warmly welcomed by grassroots soldiers. Outside of normal class hours, everyone gathers together for a short time, which can pass the boring waiting time well. Those who lose playing cards either wash clothes for the winner or take out the canned beef they hide out to share. In short, everyone is trying every means to enjoy the map and distract their misses of their family and women.

When I was waiting for the arrival of the Taifu, because of the playing cards invented by the Taifu, I didn’t feel that it was too difficult to go from generals to soldiers.

Finally, news came from the direction of Wuwei, saying that the Taifu led the team himself and escorted the 10,000 Han military divisions and cavalrymen, bringing a large amount of logistics supplies to Canglang and the 50,000 soldiers of the two and two armies of Xiliang. They have arrived in Guzang, Wuwei, and are expected to arrive at Yumen Pass in half a month.

Upon hearing this news, the two armies were in a state of excitement, and the soldiers began to look forward to the arrival of the Taifu every day.

For the vast majority of ordinary soldiers, there are really not many opportunities to see the legendary Zhao Xing with his own eyes in this life, let alone Zhao Xing personally escorted the car to the front line to inspect and condolence the troops.

The Taifu is a real person. He doesn't like to just slap his mouth in front of the team to comfort the officers and soldiers. He said that where to visit the soldiers would definitely bring unexpected surprises to the soldiers. This is Zhao Xing's style of conduct. He has always been like this for more than ten years.

This time, in view of the fact that 50,000 soldiers of the Western Expedition were about to stay away from their hometown and fought abroad for a long time, Zhao Xing brought them mainly the top-level Changhe Daqu (can drive away the cold, disinfect and sterilize, and create fire in the wild); individual first aid medicines and company first aid medicine boxes (the medicines inside were personally prepared by masters Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji, and have a good effect on stopping bleeding, resisting wind and cold, detoxifying, etc.); a large number of high-energy compressed and dehydrated foods (the best yellow beef jerky, black pork jerky is easy to carry and can quickly replenish energy); a hundred firearm devices that can launch "a swarm" and "flamingo", as well as one hundred firearm use coaches; there are other necessary supplies for expeditions, etc. In short, it makes people feel that Zhao Xing seemed to have moved half of the good things in the Jin treasury to Yumen Pass.

The reason why Zhao Xing made such a big fuss was because he attached great importance to this Western Expedition. As long as 50,000 soldiers could keep sending back good news, these materials were nothing, and Zhao Xing didn't mind selling national bonds to the whole country again.

Such a huge amount of logistics equipment and materials is certainly impossible for two cavalry troops to carry with them. They only need to carry a certain amount of materials to go to war. The Dunhuang City in Yumen Pass will serve as a base for advance to store most of the materials brought by Zhao Xing this time. The 10,000 Han cavalry division brought by Zhao Xing will have 5,000 people who will stay at Yumen Pass specifically to guard this batch of extremely important military materials.

Once Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu have gained a foothold in the Western Regions, subsequent supplies can be replenished from the local area. In addition to some special equipment and materials, such as "Botian Thunder" and military arrows, other daily necessities can be taken from the fertile and fertile southern and northern Xinjiang.

When Zhao Xing arrived at Yumen Pass, the Spring Festival was approaching. He ordered the two armies to prepare for the New Year with peace of mind before the fifth day of the first lunar month to maintain normal combat readiness and alertness.

Next, accompanied by the beautiful and charming Jinbao beautiful reporter Miss Cai Yan, Zhao Xing gave condolences one division after another, and was filled with passionate soldiers every day. Even if Zhao Xing drank the 25-degree Yaxiang River mixed with water, he still couldn't resist the enthusiastic urgency of the grassroots officers from the division commander to the regiment commander to the battalion commander, and even the company commander-level grassroots officers.

In any case, Zhao Xing had to drink this wine. Because many soldiers who had touched him with may soon fall on the road to the Western Expedition. They set out to realize the dream deep in Zhao Xing's heart, so every soldier should be remembered by Zhao Xing, and every bowl of wine filled with sincerity and passionate blood needs to be drunk by him.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, flags were waving under Yumen Pass, and thousands of horses were silenced. Zhao Xing stood above the gate and waved his hands over and over again to the soldiers passing by the gate in an orderly manner. Every time the soldiers shouted, "The Taifu is mighty!" Zhao Xing would respond loudly: "The Western Expedition will be won!" Until he finally shouted so that his throat was congested and he could not speak out, Cai Yan snatched the loudspeaker from his hands without hesitation and shouted at the soldiers under the city: "The Taifu is mighty, the Western Expedition will be won!"

As a result, I don’t know which snarky ghost under the city shouted first: “Madam is beautiful, the Grand Tutor is mighty!”. Then the soldiers who had not yet left the customs actually felt that this shouting was more catchy than “Taitor is mighty”, so everyone went viral, and Cai Yan, who was locked up, blushed.

On the night after sending off the Western Expedition Army, the mighty and arrogant Taifu Zhao was sadly shocked.

Yes, everyone read that right, it’s not that they lose their voice, but that they are **…~
Chapter completed!