"Xingtian, are we almost at Beitong Pass?" asked Li Qiutong, who was already bored, weakly.

Ren Xingtian also shook his head helplessly.

"Okay God, are we on the wrong track? That's not even half a person. Even Deng Zhanxuan couldn't help but ask.

Since they left the last city two days ago, so far, the surrounding area has been a wilderness, not to mention people, not even a few birds.

Ren Xingtian, who was questioned, didn't have much strength to refute at this time, and just explained to the three of them in a low voice: "Beitong Pass is almost already located in the land of chaos, relatively far away from the mainland of the Tang Kingdom, and not far from the city of chaos. It can be regarded as the northernmost fortress of the Tang Kingdom. The geographical location is not too good, and it is directly bordered by Mongolia to the west, although it is not the first line, but it may be attacked at any time. To the northeast is the Han City of Shu of the Han Kingdom, which is under the control of Liu Bei, the king of Shu of the Han Dynasty, with strong soldiers and strong horses. And directly north is the city of chaos, and the surrounding battles are everywhere, large and small. ”

After hearing this, Yang Ruiyun thought for a while and said, "Then Beitong Pass should be a military stronghold, otherwise it is impossible to build a small fortress in such a dangerous place." ”

Ren Xingtian raised his hand and shook it, and continued: "Ruiyun, you are wrong. According to the information I have just learned, Beitong Pass is not a military location. The main strongholds of the Tang State in the Chaotic Lands were Kaiyan Pass in the west and Beiting Pass in the east, which was led by Xue Rengui, a general of the dynasty. And Beitong Pass is sandwiched between them, there are not many troops, and they are not elite, and they can have an ordinary army of 10,000 at the top of the sky. ”

"Then what is the meaning of the existence of Beitong Pass?" asked Li Qiutong, the righteous general of Zhenbei, with a blank expression.

"Didn't General Qin tell you?" Ren Xingtian asked in shock.

Looking at Li Qiutong's stunned expression, Ren Xingtian felt that his heart was about to cool. In desperation, he could only explain: "At the beginning of the establishment of Beitong Pass, it was to imitate the iron triangle of the Han Kingdom and build a third large fortress, on the one hand, to resist the mercenaries of the chaotic land, and on the other hand, to support the other two cities at any time. It's just that there's a big problem with the location, and that's that it's too far away. The transportation of materials consumes a lot of money because of the distance, and it is simply impossible to raise an army as large as Beiyan Pass and Beiting Pass. Therefore, the size of the army can only be reduced, so as to unilaterally watch the movements of the chaotic lands. This is the meaning of the current existence of Beitongguan. ”

"Then what should we do?" Li Qiutong then asked.

Before Ren Xingtian could answer, Yang Ruiyun said first: "We didn't plan to serve the Tang State at the beginning, and now we have been arranged to be far away from Chang'an, basically out of their gaze. Naturally, we can take advantage of the basic conditions of Beitong Pass to build our own army more conveniently. ”

Ren Xingtian also nodded and said, "Ruiyun is right, we are on the basis of Beitong Pass. You can expand the army on your own, which is basically the same as the practice of building a mercenary group, the only difference is that we are a regular army, and in the name of the Tang State, the enemy and the enemy will not dare to trouble us casually. In addition, there are not many affairs in Beitongguan, and we have enough time to develop. ”

Li Qiutong was overwhelmed by the explanations in large paragraphs, so he could only shake the pot directly and said: "Then I don't care about this, just call me if you want to fight." ”

In the end, the two of them rolled their eyes for a while, and Deng Zhanxuan nodded and said that he agreed very much with Li Qiutong's idea, after all, he didn't understand much just now.

"I have a bold idea for this. Ren Xingtian suddenly said.

When the three of them all turned their heads to look at him, Ren Xingtian said slowly: "I have been studying Brother Tong's martial arts for the past few days. ”

"What did you come up with?"

"Brother Tong's martial arts belong to a very rare martial arts of the martial arts of the martial arts fusion and promotion class, generally this kind of martial arts is divided into several parts and practiced by different people, and then several people are fused and improved together, but this kind of martial arts is very difficult, such as the yin and yang sword of the heavenly kingdom, and it is even more difficult than some top martial arts. It's just that Brother Tong's gossip boxing is not particularly profound. What did you think of?" Ren Xingtian asked mysteriously.

"Why are you so serious today?" asked Li Qiutong with a serious face.

Ren Xingtian's high passion when he heard this question was instantly extinguished, and he looked at Li Qiutong helplessly.

"Is it a military formation? This seems to be very similar to a military formation?" Fortunately, Yang Ruiyun was a little more reliable and said an idea that did not deviate from the topic.

Hearing this thought, Ren Xingtian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that there are still people who understand." That's right, it's a military formation. Generally speaking, there is no such thing as the fusion of martial elements in the military formation, they just condense all the martial elements together to achieve a maximum degree of cohesion. Therefore, there is a limit on the number of people in the military array, and if there are fewer people, the cohesion will not reach the limit, and if there are more people, it will cause the Wu Yuan condensation to be unbearable and collapse. ”

What Ren Xingtian is describing now is the biggest limitation of the military array on the mainland, too simple martial arts have a low degree of cohesion, they can't withstand too many people's martial arts, and too difficult martial arts, although the degree of cohesion is high, it is difficult to popularize, and it cannot be used in an army dominated by ordinary soldiers. Therefore, after several generations of practice, today's military array has controlled the difficulty of martial arts and the number of people in a balanced state, under this balance, if you want to improve the power of the military array, you have to reduce the number of people, and if you want to increase the number of people and improve the staying power, you have to reduce the power at the expense of reducing the power.

For example, the strongest military formation force today, the Overlord Iron Cavalry, is only composed of 3,000 people. Excluding the Qin Iron Cavalry, which used mysterious methods, the largest number of military formations was the Mongolian Steppe Wolf Cavalry, with a total of 10,000 people, but they were numerically advantaged, and the strength of other military formations was very different from the same number.

Li Qiutong, who finally understood Ren Xingtian's meaning, said tentatively: "Is that why we can find more people to learn a punch separately, and then fuse and improve." ”

"That's right, we can establish a military formation based on Bagua Boxing, which is initially divided into eight troops, respectively, to learn a boxing technique, and the condensation limit of a boxing technique is about two thousand people, and then there are four Sixiang troops, composed of people with stronger martial arts talents, and the cohesion of a boxing technique is about five thousand people. Then I calculated that we could reach the maximum size of the Bagua Army divided into five teams, one team of 2,000 people totaling 10,000 people, and the Four Elephant Army of 5,000 people, divided into five teams, which could achieve the flexibility of being divided into battles and being able to fight. And all of them can reach the number of horrors of 100,000 people. Ren Xingtian said this grand idea a little excitedly.

But Yang Ruiyun, the only one who knows something about the military formation, raised a question, "Not to mention that there are also types of military types in the military formation, including combat methods, weapons and armor, etc., which will affect combat effectiveness, I can't understand why there are so many people in the Bagua Army, and won't the Wuyuan Condensation form collapse?"

Ren Xingtian was still unsteady, it could be seen that he had already considered these problems, and immediately explained: "Don't worry about the army's combat equipment, I have studied the operations of the mainland's military formations, and I can completely synthesize the current situation and come up with the most suitable thing." In addition, I carefully calculated the number of people. Each Bagua Army is divided into five 2,000-strong troops, which form a force with the other opposite Bagua Army, led by a four-elephant army of 1,000 men. In this way, the army of 100,000 people can be divided into twenty troops of 5,000 people, each of which can complete the four elephant condensation under the guidance of the Four Elephant Army, and have the ability to fight alone, and then there is a powerful warrior as the commander, which can condense the five identical four elephant condensation into one again, and then the cohesion can reach the peak. In addition, if Brother Tong can go one step further and fuse and improve the Four Elephant Fists again, the cohesion of the army can still be improved, which is what I call dividing and fighting. At that time, our military array will surely sweep the world. ”

Li Qiutong, who was still angry with the Qinglin Army, asked, "Can you win the Qinglin Army?"

Ren Xingtian replied helplessly: "You can sweep the world, what else are you talking about the Qinglin Army, can you be more ambitious?"

"If that's the case, we're going to have to put all the effort into building this army. Yang Ruiyun also secretly compared in his heart, his white-armored silver spear cavalry can at most be in the forefront of the current military array, while the Bagua Army may surpass all military formations, in contrast, he can only give up the idea of rebuilding the white-armored silver spear cavalry for the time being, after all, the investment in building a military array is not small.

Looking at the trace of loneliness in Yang Ruiyun's eyes, Ren Xingtian smiled instead: "However, in the early stage, let Ruiyun rebuild the Silver Lancers." The Bagua Army is just an idea at the moment, and like you said, there are still a lot of problems to be solved. We can't put all our hopes on that. ”

Yang Ruiyun looked at Ren Xingtian's expression and guessed that he had actually seen through his thoughts, so he could only smile and say, "Thank you, Xingtian." ”

"Thank you, you still see it like this, just say it directly. ”

In fact, Ren Xingtian still didn't say one thing, that is, he had actually added the silver lancers to the queue of the Bagua Army in his imagination.

Along the way, several people talked about their future ideas and chatted happily.

Finally, when it was approaching evening, the four of them finally arrived at the gate of Beitong Pass. A city sits alone on top of this wilderness, with nothing around it, a desolate landscape.

"Hey, what are you doing, this is Beitong Pass of Tang Kingdom, please leave if you are idlers. The soldiers on the wall of more than twenty meters shouted to the four people.

Li Qiutong stood at the front, waved his hand and shouted to it: "I am the new Zhenbei general who has come to take office, let your boss come out and speak." ”

The soldiers above muttered for a long time under the gaze of the four, and finally one of them left the city wall.

After a while, the gates slowly opened. A tall figure walked out, and a woman half a head taller than Li Qiutong appeared in front of everyone.

The long black hair was tied into a ponytail and fell behind him, and the small melon seed face was full of heroism, and the aura was much stronger than that of ordinary men. The light armor not only did not wrap her graceful curves, but made her long, plump and well-proportioned legs more eye-catching.

Biluo walked up to Li Qiutong domineeringly and asked in a slightly magnetic voice, "What about the appointment order?"

Li Qiutong took out the appointment order in a beautiful cloth bag from his bag and handed it to the woman.

The woman took the order and looked at it carefully for a while. Then he returned the appointment order to Li Qiutong, and at the same time said with a smile: "Welcome, General Li, I am Biluo, the deputy general of Beitong Pass." ”

Li Qiutong looked at this unfriendly smile, and could only say politely: "Hello, General Bi." Thank you for your hard work. ”

"Biluo is my name, not my surname, you can just call me Biluo. With that, Biluo took a few people into Beitong Pass.