Half a year.

When the vigorous renovation of Beitong Pass was completed, Tang Guo ushered in a thorny problem.

Chang'an City, Daming Palace.

"Your Majesty, news is coming from the front. The Mongol Khan personally led 10,000 steppe cavalry and 150,000 troops to attack Kaiyan Pass, and General Xue barely repelled the first wave of attacks, but suffered heavy losses and asked for assistance. ”

"What, Mongolia can't bear it. Tang Zong said with a grim face.

The military strength of Kaiyanguan is 5,000 Shenwu troops and 50,000 defenders, and the gap is still very large compared to the well-prepared Mongolian army. And once the Yanguan is broken, just like the Yueming Pass, the Mongolian cavalry who are good at rapid attack will inevitably take Chang'an City directly.

"Do you have any thoughts on the ministers?"

A general wearing black gold bright light armor stood up and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the last general feels that we must send troops from Chang'an to aid Kaiyan Pass as soon as possible, and snipe the Mongols directly outside the pass. ”

Tang Zong just nodded, as if he was thinking, and did not make any comments.

"Your Majesty, the defenders of Chang'an can't move. A minister stepped forward and said.

When the black-armored general saw that someone was against him, he immediately said angrily: "If the Mongolian cavalry is allowed to break through the Kaiyan Pass, it will be at stake, haven't you seen the current situation of the Han Kingdom." ”

The white-bearded minister did not show weakness, "Once the defenders of Chang'an City are transferred, what will happen to Your Majesty's safety?"

"Silence. ”

Hearing Tang Zong's words, the two also quieted down.

"General Qin, you are the supreme general of the Chang'an garrison, what do you think should be done?"

Qin Shubao stepped forward and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the defenders of Chang'an City really can't be adjusted. But we also have to assist General Xue, so with the idea of the last general, we might as well transfer about half of the Longwu army from Beiyanguan to support General Xue, and then form another ordinary army from Chang'an to Kaiyanguan. ”

"Your Majesty, Wechen feels that it takes too much time to recruit a new force. Orders were not given to the lords of the various cities in the country to transfer thousands of men from their respective convoys, so that an army of tens of thousands could be formed at once. Prince Ming, who had been silent, suddenly followed Qin Shubao's words and said.

Tang Zong nodded and said, "What General Qin and Uncle Huang said is good, so let's do it." General Qin, you are in charge of the mobilization of the Longwu Army. Uncle Huang, you are responsible for summoning the armies of the cities, the prime minister, and the transfer of materials will be handed over to you. ”

"Obedience"

"Alright then, retire today. ”

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live. ”

Beitong Pass.

"Brother Tong, regarding the equipment training of the Bagua Army, I have probably perfected it, just waiting for your exercises. Ren Xingtian reminded Li Qiutong, who had just gotten up.

"Alright, it was all revised last night. Li Qiutong yawned.

"That's good. As he spoke, Ren Xingtian spread a few drawings on the table.

Pointing to the picture above, he said, "This is my vision for the military." It's pretty much the same as what I told you before. You see, first of all, the Zhenlei Army and the Lihuo Army, collectively known as the Green Dragon Army. This army has the strongest comprehensive capability and the strongest protracted combat capability. Equip a halberd and a sword as offensive equipment. The armor is currently determined to be cyan Mingguang armor, and the military branch is a fully armed cavalry, like the Qin State Iron Cavalry, which is suitable for various combat scenes. ”

"What about this?" asked Li Qiutong, pointing to a drawing covered in armor.

"This is the Xuanwu Army, which is composed of the Kundi Army and the Genshan Army. This is a heavily armed hoplite. It is characterized by absolute defense. Equip a giant shield, and then the giant shield is modeled after Ah Xuan's battle axe, equipped with a blade, so that it also has a certain attack power. And the armor is the whole body of heavy black hammer plate armor. This is a simple heavy shield soldier that no one has ever dared to try. ”

"What about the offense?"

Ren Xingtian picked up the other two drawings and said, "Of course there are preparations, this is the Suzaku Army composed of the Qiantian Army and the Duize Army, which is a lightly armed cavalry archer." Armed with bows and arrows, long swords, and light mountain armor, it combines flexibility and fierce offensive power, and can be completely paired with the Xuanwu army to form a kind of battle formation that was once very popular. ”

"What is the battle array?"

had already guessed that Li Qiutong didn't know, Ren Xingtian patiently explained: "The battle array is the army with the strongest actual combat ability on the battlefield before the appearance of the military array. However, due to the emergence of the military array, the advantages of the battle array were gradually weakened, and the requirements of the military array were unified and the breath was consistent. Therefore, the military array cannot use the idea of the battle array. But ......"

"But our gossip army doesn't have that concern, right? Li Qiutong understood.

"That's right, so that's another advantage for us in addition to numbers. ”

"And what about the White Tiger Army?"

Ren Xingtian picked up the last drawing and said, "The White Tiger Army is composed of the Xunfeng Army and the Kanshui Army, and I have also added Ruiyun's Silver Lancers to it, because their martial arts attributes are very similar. ”

"No wonder you asked me to modify these two boxing techniques according to the second brother's martial arts, it turned out that I had this plan. ”

Ren Xingtian nodded and continued: "That's right, in this case, the main force of the White Tiger Army is composed of silver lancers, who have the ability to fight alone, and can fight together with the other two forces. ”

"Are you sure it's feasible? After all, the martial arts condensation of the two martial arts are different. ”

"Of course you're sure, do you think I've learned books for so many years? As long as I said before, modify some details of Xun Quan and Kan Fist, when these two martial arts are added to the heroic soul condensation of the silver lancer at the same time, they can be fused with each other and condensed into the White Tiger Martial Yuan. Ren Xingtian explained confidently.

"Well, then the training can begin. ”

"I've already started the initial training, and when the martial arts are distributed, I'll arrange the positions according to everyone's progress. If someone can master two martial arts at the same time and fuse the Four Elephant Martial Arts, then they can be arranged into the Four Elephant Army, and the others will be the Bagua Army. Then, the daily military training was handed over to the chief instructor Ruiyun, and then Yang Hu, Zhu Yan'er, Biluo, and Deng Zhanxuan were the deputy instructors," Ren Xingtian preliminarily introduced. Although Ren Xingtian is very clear in theory, Ren Xingtian really doesn't have much experience in specific and practical training, so he can only hand it over to Yang Ruiyun, who grew up in the army.

"Big brother, what are you talking about?" Yang Ruiyun, dressed in silver armor, walked in.

"Second brother, we are talking about the specific training of the Bagua Army. Why are you here?" Li Qiutong turned around and asked.

After Yang Ruiyun approached, he saw the drawings on the table, and there was not much surprise. Apparently he had already seen the rough design.

"Big brother, it seems that our 100,000 army formation is on the right track. Yang Ruiyun said happily.

"It's still early before the actual battle, how are your silver lancers training?"

"Good. Two thousand cavalry were recruited from the Western Military Camp before, and after half a year of training, they were able to complete the fusion of Wu Yuan. Now it's time to run them in on in real combat. Yang Ruiyun replied confidently. In the past six months, he has devoted almost all his time to the training of the silver lancers, practicing from dawn, practicing the tacit cooperation of the army at noon, and practicing the fusion of martial arts and yuan at night, and there is almost no time to rest. It is said that many people who joined later wanted to give up, but from Yang Ruiyun, Yang Hu to the original hundreds of people in the Yang family, they never stopped, and under their encouragement and influence, more and more people persevered and became a qualified silver lancer.

Ren Xingtian once said that this is the spirit of the military array, and only with the military array of its own spirit can it exert unimaginable combat effectiveness on the battlefield.

Li Qiutong patted Yang Ruiyun's shoulder and said, "Hard work, second brother." ”

Yang Ruiyun smiled lightly: "It's not hard, I want to see the silver lancers gallop on the continent again more than anyone else." This is my wish. ”

"Okay. By the way, did you come to me for something?"

This question, Yang Ruiyun thought of the matter, "There is an envoy from the imperial court outside, I don't know what to do?" I asked Ah Xuan and Biluo to leave him at the southern military camp, I heard that something important was announced, so I came to find you." ”

Li Qiutong was also puzzled: "The envoy from the imperial court at this time won't be aware of something, right?"

Ren Xingtian also frowned and said, "Let's go and have a look." ”

So, the three of them quickly went to the southern military camp where the envoy was.

When Li Qiutong arrived, a somewhat familiar eunuch was standing with Biluo and chatting about something.

The old eunuch saw Li Qiutong running over, turned around and said respectfully: "The general hasn't seen you for a long time, I don't know if you are satisfied with this life?"

Although he hasn't recognized who this person is, since the other party knows him, he must be a person who is often in the court. Li Qiutong still replied politely: "This environment is very good, I am very satisfied." ”

That's right, this military fortress, which is far away from Chang'an and is not taken seriously, provides much convenience for Li Qiutong's development. It's a pity that the old eunuch didn't hear the true meaning of Li Qiutong's words.

Immediately continued: "That's good, the prince is still worried that the general doesn't like this remote place, and he regrets it for a long time." No, I heard that I came here, and I had people send a lot of good things to the general, and they will be there in a while. ”

Li Qiutong kept searching in his brain for who this prince was, and after he came here, he didn't have much contact with the people in Chang'an, so he occasionally wrote a few letters to send to Qin Shuyu. How can you remember Prince Ming, who has only met once?

However, Li Qiutong was not stupid enough to say this directly, but just smiled and said: "Let the prince worry, I am all good." ”

After the two chatted for a while, Li Qiutong asked straight to the point: "I don't know if my father-in-law is here?"

"It's not a big deal, isn't this a sudden and large-scale attack on us by the Mongols a few days ago? Therefore, His Majesty ordered that all the cities in the country should send an army of no less than 3,000 men to form a large army to the west to support Kaiyan Pass. I'm here to inform General Lee. The old eunuch explained slowly.

"The Mongols have launched an attack on the Tang Kingdom, and how big is the scale?" Ren Xingtian on the side suddenly stepped forward and asked.

The old eunuch looked at this Taoist priest who didn't know what came out, and didn't want to deal with it, but seeing that Li Qiutong didn't stop it, but also looked like he wanted to know, the old eunuch could only continue: "I don't know very well, but it is said that there are no less than 100,000 troops." However, with General Xue here, they can't make much waves. It is enough for the general to send a few thousand people to the front at will. ”

And Biluo on the side obviously knew about it for a long time, and was looking at the silent Li Qiutong and the two at this time.

Now, the training in Beitongguan is about to begin, and the personnel of each unit are arranged, and suddenly sending thousands of people to support the front line will inevitably affect the plans of several people. But the imperial decree has arrived, and if you don't send people to a small fortress that doesn't fight much, it will definitely arouse suspicion. Therefore, Li Qiutong had to fall into silence, and at the same time looked at Ren Xingtian, who was also thinking.