Everything was just as Zhang Qian had said. On the fifth day after Cheng Jinhou led the troops eighty li past Stone Gate to build the new military camp, Shen Hao received an order from the Daoxing Chief's Office.
The order was simple: Shen Hao was to set out immediately upon receiving it and return to Wu Lake Central Army.
Unlike when he first arrived, Shen Hao felt extremely relaxed during his journey back. Even when anxious cavalry squads occasionally dashed past, he did not become tense.
After experiencing a real, hard-fought battle, his nerves had naturally become tougher. Getting jumpy was not the reaction of an old soldier like Shen Hao, who prided himself on his composure.
Before leaving Stone Gate, Shen Hao wrote down all his ideas about forming a unified structure between the rescue squad and physicians, ideas he had managed to scrape together from his own mind.
