Today's Beiya Forbidden Army, although nominally only on duty at the North Gate and the surrounding areas, is much more detailed and rich in terms of specific functional divisions than the Nanya Zhuwei Shangfu soldiers. In addition, the country has military affairs, and the southern Ya armies went out to quell the rebellion, so at present, the northern government is mainly responsible for the defense of the province of Ouchi and Taiwan.

According to the different functions, the Beiya Forbidden Army is divided into war, police, patrol, tour, battalion, sentry and other types of guards. The so-called battle is the guard of honor, guarding the palace steps, and the line is the inner arch of the guard of honor. The police are on duty at the gates and passages of each palace, inspecting the walking instructions in the palace and eliminating evil spirits.

The difference is that the patrol is on a fixed route, and the range of activities of the patrol is larger, and sometimes it is even necessary to patrol the entire palace castle on horseback.

The battalion is the camp of the forbidden army, and if the soldiers are not on duty, they need to be concentrated here and be on standby at any time. Sentinels are secret sentinels that are fixed in the shade between the palaces and gardens, monitoring for lawlessness and monitoring whether the guards are responsible when they are on duty.

The hundred cavalry is the elite of the elite of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, both the quality of the soldiers and the armament are far beyond the rest of the armies, and even when the parade is on duty, the hundred cavalry is the only one who is allowed to carry a strong crossbow, each fire is equipped with a crossbow, which is in the hands of the soldiers who are the most proficient in archery, and the fire commander and the two army commanders judge when to use at their discretion.

The season is approaching September, the autumn cold is gradually thickening, the waning moon hangs high in the dark sky, and the fire and hundred cavalry sergeants walk solemnly on the road between the palace walls. As the palace guards, they patrol back and forth from the Thousand Step Pavilion to the Guiyi Gate, which lasts six hours and requires a total of three patrols. Since there is a detour south to the vicinity of the West Canal on the way, the actual walk is about three miles.

In the quiet of the night, the slightest sound would be amplified, so as not to disturb the secret guards, these soldiers just walked solemnly, not daring to speak at will.

It was only after the third patrol that the team bypassed the West Canal Covered Bridge, and the originally tense heartstrings gradually relaxed. Now that it is time to arrive, they only need to return to the guard office of Qianbu Pavilion to get the value sign signed by the captain, and the day's guard task is completed, and they can return to the Xuanwu City camp to rest.

The task was about to be completed, and the pace of the soldiers gradually relaxed, and suddenly one of the people in the team exclaimed, "Not good! One less ...... bolt from the crossbow"

Hearing this, everyone in the team was suddenly shocked, and the fire chief with a tiger's back jumped in two steps in front of the Wu Chang who was carrying crossbow arrows, grabbed the quiver and counted it carefully, and then raised his hand to choke the Wu Chang's throat, and roared in a low voice: "How could this kind of mistake happen? You're trying to kill everyone! ”

Although the hundred horses are licensed to hold crossbows, but they are not casually available, the crossbow arrows carried have a fixed number, which need to be carefully checked into the book when the value is replaced, if you need to use the crossbow, you need to carry out detailed preparation afterwards, and it is absolutely not allowed to lose the equipment for no reason. The special state is in the midst of a terrible incident at the moment, and once such a mistake occurs, it will definitely be severely punished!

Wu Chang was choked by the throat, his face quickly turned red, and his hands and feet trembled and struggled, but no one around him sympathized with him, if such a fatal thing happened, they would all be implicated, and now they also hate this sloppy Wu Chang to death!

When this kind of thing happens, the original relaxed atmosphere is suddenly gone, everyone is like ants on the hot pot, cold sweat flows, if they return to their lives, a group of them will suffer, maybe their lives will not be saved!

"Unload his armor and return to the camp to die!"

Although the fire chief was also extremely hateful, and he was worried that the other party would jump over the wall in despair, he ordered to capture this person, and then asked in a low voice: "Where is the crossbow arrow most likely to be left?" ”

The Wu Chang was already sweating like rain at this time, and he was extremely flustered, and he didn't have a clue in his mind at all, so he couldn't say clearly.

After pondering for a moment, the fire chief whispered: "Spread out and look carefully, whether you find it or not in half an hour, you must return here to gather!" ”

Everyone is greedy for life, and the fire chief knows that this move violates military law, but now he has to do it in order to get rid of his crime and live. Everyone thought the same way at the moment, and took off the armor knife in a hidden place near the West Canal, and then scattered in all directions, returning to the previous road to carefully explore.

Among them, there was a young sergeant who took advantage of his companions' bowed heads to grope for the way, rolled on the ground with his short body, left the fixed patrol route, and quickly sank into the bamboo forest outside the Renzhi Courtyard near Zuo.

He was in good shape, and soon touched the palace wall of Renzhiyuan, took out a hemp ball in his arms, raised his arm to gather momentum for a moment, threw the hemp ball into Renzhi Temple, and heard the muffled sound of the hemp ball falling to the ground, and then followed the road back, his face was filled with joy, and when he arrived at the location of the fire chief, he whispered: "The lost arrow has been found!" ”

"Well done Shiro!"

When the fire chief heard this, he couldn't help but applaud, took the crossbow arrow handed by the sergeant, carefully checked the carved lines on the arrow, and finally landed on his hanging heart.

A few people scattered and returned one after another, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the lost arrow had been recovered. In the end, it was the fire chief who made a decision: "No one is allowed to leak this matter tonight!" You all remember to the death, if anyone leaks the secret and implicates the robe, no matter what life or death is in the future, there are several families but there are more than a few people, and this perverse thief will be killed! ”

When everyone heard this, they all whispered their promises. If this matter leaks out, they will inevitably suffer from the fire of the sergeants, but because they have lost their arrows and found them, they will not be guilty of death. If anyone betrays his comrades and invites a good general, in addition to violating morality, he also has to worry about retaliation, and naturally no one will do such a stupid thing.

A group of people equipped their weapons again, and returned to Qianbu Pavilion as usual as usual, and returned to Xuanwu City along the passage of Qianbu Pavilion after handing over the weapons for value. waited until he returned to the camp tent in Xuanwu City before the fire chief gave the missing arrow a punch to the captain, and said angrily: "Such carelessness almost hurt me." In the future, you don't have to go out to work again, and Guo Shilang will serve as the consular officer! ”

Regarding the arrangement of the fire chief, Wu Chang did not dare to have the slightest complaint. He is the main culprit, and if it weren't for the missing arrow and the recovery, he himself would be sure that his life would not be guaranteed. Now that he has picked up a life, he has no face to continue to serve as the commander of the army, and after receiving this punishment, he sincerely thanked Guo Shilang who found the lost arrow.

The young man known as Guo Shilang had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and thanked Wu Chang and his comrades peacefully. No one knew that this person had done the work of this person in the turmoil tonight, and this young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes who looked like a simple man was really bad.

waited until everyone returned to sleep, and another older hundred cavalry sergeant came to the bunk on the left side of Guo Shilang to lie down, and asked in a low voice, "Shiro, did you really do it?" ”

Guo Shilang bowed slightly: "Half of the period is over, and if you don't do it, you won't have a chance." ”

"It's so presumptuous......"

The man sighed faintly: "The noble man cherishes his life, but I am afraid that I will not die as you and me." ”

"It's just a death, even if it doesn't work out in the end, I have to tell the world that I am not a coward! How can you not avenge the revenge of killing your father! ”

Guo Shilang looked like a dream, and said viciously. At this time, there was a sound of a robe turning over and coughing from the other corner of the tent, and he signaled the other party to stop talking and fell asleep with his head covered.

Li Tong had no way of knowing about this small crisis in the Hundred Cavalry Guards. He couldn't sleep all night, and after the palace maids were asleep, he changed into a dark robe and squatted outside the pavilion in the west corner of the Renzhi Temple, patiently waiting for the change to happen.

After Ma Tuan was thrown in from outside the wall, because he didn't have a watch, and he didn't have the life experience of looking at the moon, he didn't know if the other party had agreed to be ugly, so he didn't rush forward to see what was going on.

I pinched my pulse and counted it for more than an hour, but there was no major change in my hand, and my patience was close to the limit, so I sneakily left the hiding place, walked into the bamboo forest pavilion and glared and groped, and then I felt the hemp ball that was thrown into the wall, put it in my hand and pinched it, and then put it in my arms and carefully returned to my house.

The hemp ball was opened, and a smaller paper ball was wrapped inside, Li Tong approached the candlelight and carefully opened the paper ball, only to see that it was densely covered with small characters.

The information on this regiment is much richer than the previous cloth message, and it is a self-reported letter from a hundred cavalry sergeants. After Li Tong finished reading it, his face suddenly became exciting.

The other party explained his identity and Li Tong's most concerned intentions in the letter, according to his own statement, this hundred cavalry sergeant is named Guo Da, originally a Luozhong household slave, because of his skill in arching and fighting skills and selected for the hundred cavalry.

His heart is towards Li Tang, and he can't bear to see the heroine in trouble and insult King Yong's family, so he wants to rescue him and assist the king to flee and raise troops and set things right.

probably felt that he was a soft-spoken person and could not be believed, and this hundred cavalry sergeant named Guo Da also gave a detailed account of his life experience. His father was a wealthy family in Chang'an City, and he was imprisoned for being a wealthy man in Chang'an City.

At that time, it was during the reign of Gaozong Yifeng, there was a famine in Guanzhong, and Gaozong wanted to tour Luoyang east for food. Wei Yuanzhong found out that his father was extraordinary, so he recommended an escort to accompany him.

His father also completed this mission very well, all the way east, the thieves looked at the wind, and after arriving in Luoyang, the tens of thousands of people accompanying him did not lose a single coin. Because of this, his father was awarded the title of Lieutenant of Cigi County, and he was in charge of arresting thieves.

But in the fourth year of Yifeng, Ming Chengyan, a Taoist priest who was close to the Second Sanctuary, was killed in Luoyang. In order to arrest the murderer, Empress Wu strictly ordered the counties to solve the case within a time limit, because many innocent people were also arrested and imprisoned. Guo Da's father was already brave and righteous, and he often corresponded with Duyi rangers, and he was unwilling to wronged his friends and fight for wealth, so he simply resigned and returned to the wilderness.

It would be nothing if things were just such an ending, but a few years ago, Wei Yuanzhong, who once had the grace of knowing Guo Da's father, was framed by the cool official Zhou Xing, and Guo Da's father ran to the rescue, but he didn't expect to be implicated.

In the end, Wei Yuanzhong was sent to Yuanyi, and Guo Da's family was reduced to a criminal family, his father died unjustly in prison, and the family withered, only Guo Da was rescued by the old to become a household slave, and the year before last he was selected as a hundred horsemen because of his bravery.

In order to win the trust of others, this sergeant named Guo Da explained his life experience very clearly, and confessed that the reason why he wanted to help King Yong's family was not only because he had Li Tang in his heart, but also because he hoped to take revenge and kill Zhou Xing, the cool official who framed his family.