In the next ten days or so, Ren Ning fulfilled his promise except for necessary horse training and physical exercise to recover his functions.
Almost every afternoon he spent time in the Eighth Cavalry Battalion helping the cavalrymen write letters home.
So much so that the cavalrymen of the eighth battalion joked with him affectionately and persuaded him to transfer from scouting to the cavalry battalion.
Ren Ning chuckled and didn't take it seriously.
The fortress is a military camp, a place with rules and regulations.
You can't just switch arms if you want to. Unless someone above values a soldier's talents, he is basically a lifelong employee.
On this day, Ren Ning was still writing hard in the eighth camp.
The queue in front of him was no longer too long.
Fortunately, soldiers cannot move around at will unless there are special circumstances. Otherwise, once the soldiers from other battalions knew that someone in the eighth battalion was helping write letters home, they would rush in and ask for help.
If that's the case, even if Ren Ning is smart, he still won't be able to fulfill the promise he made.
Towards evening, Ren Ning finally wrote the home letter of the last soldier.
He stood up refreshed and was about to stretch.
Wow.
The alley outside the Eighth Camp suddenly became noisy.
"Back!" Someone shouted excitedly, "The soldiers who went to the grassland last month have returned in triumph. Everyone, go and see."
"Really? Did we win the game? Where is the team now?"
"It's true. It is said that the leading team will return to the fortress soon. Many people have already received the news and have already rushed to the west city to grab the position. If we don't go, we will have no position."
"I'm sorry, let's go quickly."
Ren Ning perked up.
He declined the offers of other soldiers from the Eighth Battalion to stay, quickly returned to the scout camp, and reported to Gao Deming.
Then he took the identity badge, turned around and ran towards the tall west city wall not far away.
At this time, the top of the city was already crowded with cheering soldiers, all of them looking westward with smiles on their faces.
Although they did not participate in the expedition, military merit and other achievements have nothing to do with them. But as long as one of your own wins, it is always a great joy.
Especially when the soldiers are rewarded tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the entire fortress can have a delicious meal.
They almost vomited after eating rough rations every day these days.
When they reached the top of the city, Ren Ning silently glanced in the direction of the Yuma camp and then forgot about it.
Relying on his flexible body, he managed to get a good position with a wide view and followed the crowd to look west.
The sun was setting in the west, and the endless grassland was still quiet at this time, with not a single person in sight.
But the sky further away was filled with overwhelming smoke and dust, which said it all.
Less than half an hour later, the ground beneath my feet began to tremble.
Suddenly there was a layer of murderous cavalry on the horizon in the distance, holding countless flags of different colors, overwhelming them towards the east.
Wow!
"It's the brothers who are back!"
"Welcome home!"
"Yun Chui will win! Die West Wolf!"
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The atmosphere on the top of the city became even more intense. Those with flags waved their flags, and those without flags shouted loudly. A scene of Chinese New Year.
Ren Ning took a deep breath and suppressed his desire to cheer.
He estimated the number of cavalry with his naked eyes and smiled silently.
It seemed that Yun Chui had indeed won the battle, at least he did not lose too many cavalry and horses.
After counting the number of cavalry, he couldn't help but look behind the team.
However, the queue was long and the dust raised was huge.
The high-spirited cavalry in the lead had returned to the foot of the fortress, accepting the cheers and shouts of the crowd. The infantrymen at the rear were still shrouded in thick smoke and dust, making it difficult to see what was going on.
Almost another hour passed, and the situation at the rear finally appeared vaguely in front of Ren Ning's eyes.
It was densely packed with livestock and grain.
He wasn't too surprised and just calculated it silently.
The number of livestock, large and small, is estimated at over fifty thousand. There was relatively little food and grass, but it was enough to last the entire fortress for several days.
What a great harvest.
The Yunchui Empire is known as a state of etiquette. When doing things in the court, people usually pay attention to etiquette first and then soldiers, and persuade people with virtue.
But this is a fortress, an iron-blooded military camp. The talk was left to the court at the rear, and the generals who defended the fortress were more accustomed to conquering people with battle.
The army marched westward, in addition to driving away the Xiliang people, it was natural that they would not be lenient if they could also take material supplies from the enemy country.
Not only are the people of Xiliang proficient in using war to support war, but the Yanjie Fortress has also mastered the essence.
Soon Ren Ning's eyes flickered.
He noticed something strange.
There was so much smoke and dust behind just now that I couldn't see the situation clearly for a while. At this time, the situation became clear. It turned out that there were many long teams mixed in with the dense crowd of livestock behind.
Ren Ning Dingqing couldn't help crying or laughing when she saw it.
It turned out that they were all caravans traveling between Yunchui and Xiliang.
He counted the caravan emblems, and there were as many as fifteen.
If some of the livestock are goods brought back by the caravan. There were not many livestock left in the fortress.
Ren Ning's heart suddenly moved.
When he encountered a fire in the grassland, he accidentally broke into the territory of the Lanmang tribe and lied to Youmeng that he was the guard of the Gu family's caravan.
Subconsciously, Ren Ning looked down from a high position, but he didn't find the business flag with the word "ancient" on it, so he gave up.
Ren Ning didn't stay any longer. He quickly got off the city and ran back to the scout camp.
Generally speaking, except for bandits, whether it is the regular army of Yunchui or Xiliang, they usually do not attack caravans coming and going.
On the contrary, it is possible to go out and do business with caravans when they pass by.
It was getting late at this time, and the caravan could not enter the fortress, so it had to sleep outside.
In this case, the fortress will allow the soldiers to go out and trade with the caravan to exchange what they have.
In the past ten days or so, Ren Ning has been helping the cavalrymen of the Eighth Battalion write letters home, and has harvested a lot of useful and useless sundries.
He looked through them one by one, preparing to take some out to see if he could exchange them for something with the caravan.
squeak!
There was light behind him.
Striker Gao Deming opened the door and walked in with a cold face.
"Good boy," he walked up to Ren Ning in a few steps and patted him heavily on the shoulder, "Xizuo caught him."
Ren Ning was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed when he realized what he was doing, "So easy? Who is it?"
In the afternoon, when he came back from the Eighth Cavalry Battalion, he once asked Gao Deming to remind him of something.
Now most of the soldiers in the fortress were watching the soldiers returning in triumph, and everything was deserted. Someone may take the opportunity to do something against the horses in the stud camp.
Although Gao Deming was not in charge of the details, he had also heard about the situation in the breeding camp.
Not afraid of ten thousand, but just in case, Gao Deming reported Ren Ning's idea.
The breeding camp has never found anything unusual, and the fortress almost thought that the reason for the mare's tire slippage was the hot weather and the lack of care by the tanker.
When I heard this, although I had already sent people to monitor the breeding camp, I quickly sent more people to keep an eye on it secretly.
Sure enough, we caught a sneaky guy and found relevant physical evidence on him.
"As for who it is, you don't need to know." Gao Deming snorted roughly.
He gritted his teeth, "But the fortress will definitely not forget your contribution to Ren Ning. It will be tallied up in a while and it will be charged to you."
"Yes, General." Ren Ning narrowed his eyes and stopped asking.
Gao Deming nodded, turned around and disappeared into the background with a cold back.
Ren Ning watched him leave thoughtfully,
Obviously, the person who was caught was an unexpected person, and even Gao Deming was so angry that he lost his composure.
Maybe it wasn't a good thing that he knew.
It's just a pity that I can't avenge Zhui Feng with my own hands.
