Before the time passed, Meng Hao came to the root and said: "The whole battalion has a total of 1,215 people from the thousand cavalry generals, all of whom have arrived. None of them were late. ”

"Good! Mi Long, let everyone gather in the school according to the formed team! Montenegro said.

After a while, the assembly was completed, and more than 1,000 people in the audience were silent. Montenegro stood on the point and shouted loudly:

"Nanyang's township party, my name is Black Mountain, your thousand cavalry generals. In three days, I will take you north to the bitter cold of Shangjun.

Why did you come to be a soldier? Some are for dozens of acres of tuntian; Some glorify their ancestors for meritorious service; More people are soldiers sent by the government, and most of them don't want to be this soldier in their hearts, let alone go north to the bitter cold land. I'm not wrong, am I? But can you not go? Can you escape? Everyone knows very well that if you don't want to go, you have to go, and you can't run away, because each of us has a home behind us. Not going and running away means that the parents, brothers and sisters, wives and children at home will be disgraced and become other people's subordinate concubines! Yes and no?

"So, whether we want it or not, we have only one way, and that is to put on our armor and take our sword to face the murderous enemy and fight them. A few years later, we will either be bloodied on the battlefield or we will be knighted for meritorious service.

"Since we can't choose whether to go or not, we can choose to kill your enemies as much as we can, and cut off their heads in exchange for your titles! We are fortunate to be the soldiers of Great Qin, because Great Qin and Qin Law do not discriminate equally, a first-class knighthood, and the credit is clear. The ten people in front of you were the same as you a month ago, and now they are already the Qin Army's Ruishi Meritorious Heroes. Surely no one wants to stain the battlefield with blood! Are you willing to cut off the enemy's head in exchange for a knighthood?

"The fierce slave cavalry we will face is known as invincible in the world of cavalry and shooting, will they stretch their necks and wait for you to cut them? With our current skills, I am afraid it will be difficult to protect our heads. So what to do? From today onwards, I will take you to train hard, and we must train ourselves to be fiercer, fiercer, and stronger than the enemy, so that we can have a chance to survive and have a chance to let our parents, wives and children live a better life. Answer me out loud! Would you like to? ”

"Yes!" The crowd was already enthusiastic and replied loudly.

"I didn't hear it! Answer out loud! Montenegro shouted again.

"Yes!" The crowd shouted louder.

But Montenegro is not satisfied! Shouted loudly, "Have you not eaten enough? Are you still gentlemen? Answer me in the loudest voice, would you like to? ”

More than a thousand people shouted loudly at the same time, like thunder.

"Good! This is my soldier! Montenegro shouted loudly, "In the future, we will gather in the morning to start practicing martial arts, and in the evening we will start to learn culture." It was time to rest. Tomorrow, the whole body will be iron-armored and saber-swords, and the acting hundred-hundred-thousand, handsome, and cavalry commanders with excellent results will be attacked. After that, those who get up with the first drum every morning and fail to assemble on time after the second drum is finished will be punished by military law. Now disband, each ready to go! ”

On the second day, more than 1,200 warriors were all gearing up and eager to try, and the previous 50 subordinates of Montenegro were all wrapped with leggings on their calves, and about 30 people such as Montenegro Baturu and Dead Fat Man were carrying 80 catties according to the standard of Qin army sharps. Since the hundred commanders and commanders were to be selected today, the county lieutenant also sent a military judge to supervise it.

At the end of the hundred miles, more than ten people passed the Ruishi assessment, and several people such as Montenegro and Na Bu, Carpenter, Mi Long, Dong Jian and others then participated in the Iron Eagle Ruishi assessment, and only Montenegro passed the assessment and became the Iron Eagle Ruishi. Montenegro's current physical state has been restored to and in the afterlife

The county lieutenant personally put on the Iron Eagle badge for Montenegro and said: "Congratulations to Montenegro, you are the third person under the age of seventeen to obtain the Iron Eagle Badge since the Great Qin Shangjun changed the law!" ”

Montenegro was very curious and asked, "I wonder who the other two are?" ”

"The first is General Che Ying when he was filial piety, he won the Iron Eagle Ruishi at the age of sixteen, and became the chief general of the cavalry at the age of eighteen. The second is King Huiwen's son Yingdang, who later became King Wu, who won the Iron Eagle Ruishi at the age of fifteen, and joined the army under a pseudonym at the age of sixteen as a pawn of Bai Qi. When Bai Qi was long, there were eight Iron Eagle Rui soldiers under his command, and it is still a good talk. The lieutenant replied with a smile.

"I have more than 1,200 talents and three Iron Eagle Warriors, and there are eight Iron Eagle Warriors from ten people in Baiqi, it seems that I have to work harder." Montenegro secretly thought, give me another year, and I will also train more than 100 Iron Eagle Warriors!

In the afternoon, according to the results of the Bailila exercise, Montenegro announced the newly selected officers at all levels. At this time, the title of Iron Eagle Ruishi Baturu was already a seventh-level public doctor for the marching Sima, Shi Fatzi, that is not too fake for five hundred long, the carpenter cavalry battalion for two hundred long, Meng Jie for the military order hundred long, and Brother A Hei for the short soldier hundred long (chief guard). The rest of the sharp soldiers are each appointed as a hundred generals and commanders. The commander of the rider shall be appointed by the general himself according to the merits. Only meatloaf is unwilling to be a hundred chiefs and insists on being a short soldier in Montenegro. Montenegro made him the commander of the twelve short cavalry of Dahe Township, who was responsible for passing orders.

Everything quickly got on track, and every morning when I got up, the dead fat man was responsible for teaching everyone to stand on the pile, Sima was in charge of the golden drum queue, and Meng Zhao was in charge of literacy at night. Brother Ahi teaches everyone to sing in between training! Thanks to the previous fifty people, everyone learned quickly.

On the afternoon of the third day of the ninth month, it was not reported that "this afternoon, all the horseshoes of the war horses can be nailed!" ”

"Good! Meatloaf, call all over 100 leaders to a meeting! Montenegro ordered.

In a moment, everyone arrived. Montenegro said: "There are two roads from Nanyang to Shangjun, one first goes west to Wuguan through Xianyang, and then to the north can go directly to Daying City in the north of Shangjun, and the other goes directly north through Sanchuan County, and then goes northwest to Shangjun through Hedong County, and travels 500 miles a day to reach Daying City in about seven days. The first route is the hinterland of Qin, and the second is through the border of Wei and Zhao. Which way do you think you should go? ”

The marching Sima Batulu said: "Let's take the first one!" Our army has not yet completed its training, and in case of a conflict with Wei and Zhao, it will definitely suffer. When they heard what Baturu said, they all agreed.

"In that case, I'll go to the county guard mansion to go through the procedures for transferring troops! You should make separate preparations, and you must stress again and again that the matter of the horseshoe nailing the horseshoe is a state secret, and no one is allowed to talk about it in private, let alone tell outsiders in private. After Hei San finished explaining, he immediately walked towards the county guard's mansion.

Teng Yue, the county guard, summoned Montenegro in his study. Montenegro has great respect for this county guard who is kind to him, and bows his hand and says: "Now everything is ready, ready to start going north tomorrow, and I have come to say goodbye to the strong hand!" And come to the marching order. ”

The county Shouxiang inquired in detail about the march plan of Montenegro. said: "If you go west through Xianyang and go north, travel 500 miles a day, with the strength of the horse's feet nailed to the horseshoe, you can." If you take the three rivers to cross the river to the northeast, it must not be feasible. In order to tie the lives of thousands of people, marching on the side, there are many accidents, if you travel 500 miles a day, people and horses are tired! A small ambush can kill you. Remember, you need to think carefully about everything. If you take the second path, you must have a scout in front of you to explore the road in detail, and then there will be a rear army to break off! 200 miles a day is already the limit! ”

When Montenegro heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat and bowed deeply: "Today, Montenegro has been taught, and it is in danger of causing a catastrophe." Keep that in mind! ”

"Remember, war is not child's play, carelessness is the life of thousands of people. Don't take any risks when you don't have to, and don't be shy away when you should take risks! Teng Yue said.

"Listening to your words today is better than reading a book for ten years!" Montenegro bowed again.

"I'm going to send military documents to all the counties and counties along the way today, and ask them to arrange forage and camping in advance, so that you can let your horses go north tomorrow!" Let the Xianyang gang see, only the cavalry with the horseshoe nailed is called the flying army! Teng Yue said very proudly.

Back to the barracks, Montenegro ordered: "The battalion will make food tomorrow, the men and horses will be full, and the whole army will go west, enter Wuguan and go north through Xianyang." ”

On the fourth day of the ninth month, more than 1,200 horsemen of the whole army set off in the early morning, went to Neixiang County at noon to rest their horses, and set off again in the afternoon.

Wuguan and Hangu Pass, equivalent to the two east gates of Xianyang, Guancheng is built on a relatively flat plateau between the canyons, the north is dependent on the high Shaoxi Mountain, and the south is endangered. The circumference of the city is about four miles, and the city wall is built of earth and slightly square. A door was opened in the east and west, and the roll hole was covered with bricks and stones. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were four characters on the west gate of "Sanqin Fortress", and the word "Wuguan" on the east gate. The terrain of the western part of the Kanto is relatively flat, only out of the east of the Guan, the mountainside is winding through, the cliff is high and the valley is deep, narrow and difficult to walk, so Wuguan is the place where the soldiers must fight. There are 30,000 elites stationed here all year round. The elites in Guanzhong heard that a group of old Korean cavalry soldiers passing by had come, and they all ran over curiously to see the excitement. They were all arrogant, and they looked down on these new Qin troops from the bottom of their hearts. Discussion:

"Koreans are all soft eggs, they have been surrounded for more than half a year in vain, and they surrendered without fighting."

"Birds! These horses are not bad, it's just a pity that these people are cheaper! ”

"With so many heads, it would be nice if they could be cut off for military merit!"

"When you get to the north, don't pee your pants when you see the Hun cavalry! Don't make the old Qin people lose face. ”

More than 1,000 people, most of whom returned to Qin with Teng Yue, where could they stand this anger. When Hei San saw his subordinates, they were all filled with righteous indignation, their fists clenched, and they swallowed their anger out of awe of the strict military order. If you continue to scold like this, I'm afraid there will be chaos. I suddenly wanted to teach this group of elites a lesson. He took off his tiara and the Iron Eagle badge and stood up. said: "How many of you dare to say this, you must be a master in the army, I have only been in the army for more than half a year, I would like to ask you for a few tricks, do you dare?" ”

"Bird, if you fight in the army, you will first hit twenty military sticks, and then you will be punished." A strong man said in a Guanzhong dialect.

"School competition is not a fight, as long as you don't hurt the other party, it's okay!" Montenegro replied, whoever informs the military judge will say that we want to communicate with each other and learn from each other! ”

"Da Niu, you go and teach this Korean a lesson, let them know what a wise choice it is to surrender to Daqin, save yourself from being unconvinced, I will call the military judge to testify!" A tun chief said.

After a while, I heard that the two armies wanted to compete. More people come to the school to see the excitement! The people on both sides formed a circle around the school yard with only the middle remaining.

After a while, a black-clothed military officer came over, and the military judge was in the middle of the country, and he said unhurriedly: "It's okay to communicate with each other, but if one side is seriously injured, it still has to be punished!" ”

"You're all watching! I know it's not a small idea to get you up an hour earlier every day and stand up! Today I'm going to let you know the benefits of standing on a horse! Montenegro said to the Nanyang cavalry behind him.

The big man called Da Niu was angry when he heard it, this was obviously not taking himself in his eyes and was regarded as a sparring partner. Suddenly, a kind of slighted shame made him furious, and when he saw Montenegro standing in the middle and signaled that he would strike first, he slammed the black tiger into Montenegro's chest!

Montenegro saw that his recruitment was exactly the same as that of Instructor Sun Meng before, but his next plate was not as stable as Instructor Sun. Then he turned sideways, stumbled on his feet, and pushed the big cow with his backhand. The big bull immediately stood unsteadily, fell into the crowd, and almost fell into a dog eating.

"Come again!" Montenegro said, his feet are in a two-shaped pincer, his right fist is turned into a palm, his wrist is flipped, so that the palm is facing right, the fingers are up, and the shoulders and elbows are exerted, and the strength is on the outside of the palm, and the horizontal is slapped to the left front side - both eyes look at the big bull.

The big bull suffered a loss, and this time he put on a posture and slowly moved towards Montenegro. Montenegro doesn't attack either, just waiting to see the move! Da Niu smashed directly into the black mountain with a fierce fist, and the black mountain did not dodge, did not blink his eyes, and gently flicked the palm of his hand, and opened the big bull's fist. Da Niu didn't stop, and then hit with a hook punch with his left hand, and Montenegro's right hand blocked upward, and he gently blocked it again! Daning was furious, his hands danced wildly and punched wildly, hitting Montenegro, Montenegro did not move at all, his hands blocked left and right, no matter how many punches the big bull made, he just couldn't hit Montenegro. Montenegro looked at a vacancy, took half a step forward with his feet, and pushed his hands into the front chest of the big bull! As soon as the upper body of the big bull was forced, he took several steps back and sat on the ground with his butt.

"Your fists are weak, and your game is unstable! Not my opponent! Forget it! Montenegro said, "I just pushed you down with the palm of my hand, if I hit you with the palm of my hand, you will definitely be injured and won't be able to get up!" ”

Da Niu was not convinced at all, his face was flushed, he was also a master in the army, today he was said to be weak with his fists and unstable, he really couldn't swallow this breath, but it was hard to say anything.

Seeing that everyone was not very convinced, Montenegro said, "Let me show you what strength is." Saying that, he walked to an old willow tree next to him, when you were two or three steps away, he rushed forward with a lunge, forward, and slammed his palms on the willow trunk, and suddenly the yellow leaves of the tree fell like snow, and several dead branches also fell, and everyone was stunned.

"Good!" "Color!" The soldiers from Nanyang raised their eyebrows and cheered! The Qin army in Wuguan was all depressed, knowing that it was not Montenegro's opponent. I'm embarrassed to want to go!

"How? I usually think that I am invincible in the world, and there is no one in my eyes. Now I was taught a lesson by a recruit! Shame on you? Tomorrow all 100 miles of training! An officer reprimanded loudly and walked towards Montenegro again.

"Haha, this brother is very capable! In Bai Tao, Xiamei County, Wuguan Commander! "A young man with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, eight feet tall, with a big waist and a round waist, dressed in black armor and a crown on his head, was bowing to Montenegro.

"In the Lower Black Mountain, a thousand horsemen, fortunately!" Montenegro also returned the salute and said.

"It's better to meet by chance, please come to my account and talk about it, how about it?" Bai Tao invited.

"The Tao is water, the white water is black, and you have to do three bowls of the name!" The Black Mountain laugher replied.

Black Mountain and Bai Tao came to the barracks where Bai Tao worked, and Bai Tao instructed his military officials: "Roast a fat sheep and prepare wine and rice." The two of us want to drink against each other in the same case. ”

"No!" A military officer responded.

The two sat on the floor in the same case. Each talked about his past.

It turned out that Bai Tao's grandfather was Bai Qi of Megatron, and after Bai Qi committed suicide that year, his son Bai Tao's father Bai Zhong was serving as a commander in the army. King Qin Zhaoxiang did not kill Bai Qi's descendants, but asked people to secretly summon Bai Zhong and said: "Wu Anjun has repeatedly disobeyed orders, and the widow is very angry. The original intention of giving the sword to Wu Anjun was to force him to comply. I don't want Wu Anjun to be too strong, and he will kill himself with a horizontal sword! It's too late for the widow to regret it! If you go to Qin, give a thousand gold, if you stay in Qin and give the lord a long appointment as the general of Xianyang, this king will not be embarrassed! "King Zhaoxiang is an immortal hero, although he did not publicly admit his mistakes in the court, but it is not easy to admit his mistakes to future generations in person. So the Bai clan people all stayed in the Qin State again.

The two told each other about their experiences, and when a large fat sheep was gnawed clean, the two had become inseparable friends. Bai Tao taught the three-three battle method created by Bai Qi to Montenegro. Montenegro taught Bai Tao the basic practice method of Yongchun White Crane Boxing.

Bai Qi's self-created three-horse cone combat method, with three horses as the smallest killing unit, covering each other and fighting together. At the same time, Bai Qi also created a set of "three" system cavalry tactics: three three-horse cones plus a flexible strategy of the chief is the ten cavalry, the three cones cooperate with each other to kill, and the ten cavalry can become a small battlefield of its own. Expand it again, 33 three-horse cones together, plus a centurion, can form a hundred cavalry team, and so on, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, the cavalry corps on the vast battlefield is a strong force of iron flow with free receipt and smooth advance and retreat! Later, the heavy armored infantry battle formation also improved this combat method, and from then on, the heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army had no opponent on the battlefield!

The two met late and cherished each other. Until the rooster announces.

"Brother Bai, the younger brother will go north after dawn! If he meets again one day, we will talk all night long! Montenegro took his leave.

"Brother Montenegro, how old am I! May I be a brother with you! What do you think? Bai Tao said reluctantly.

"Just as I am! We use the crescent moon as a witness to become brothers with different surnames! Montenegro said, pointing to a crescent moon hanging from a tree outside the door.

The two went to the camp outside each other and bowed to the moon: "Brother Bai Tao and brother Heishan, with the bright moon as evidence, they became brothers with different surnames, and they did not seek to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but only wanted to die on the same day and month of the same year." The emperor and the queen of heaven, learn from this heart, betray righteousness and ingratitude, and kill heaven and man together! ”

"Big brother!" Montenegro bows to Bai Tao!

"Second brother, please get up quickly!" Bai Tao helped up Montenegro, and the two laughed! Bai Tao took off a jade pendant from his neck and asked Montenegro to wear it. said: "You should take this jade pendant with you when you are in the north, if anyone recognizes this jade pendant, that person is my sworn brother!" That is, your big brother. Remember. ”

"Big brother, you just tell me who he is, can't I just go to him?" Montenegro said puzzled.

"Tell you directly, it's not time yet, but when the time comes, I'll tell you!" Bai Tao said.

Montenegro didn't ask reluctantly, and only when he saw that Dongfang was white did he say goodbye and leave.

On the evening of the second day, more than 1,000 flying horsemen rode west to the Lantian camp to rest for the night, and on the third day, they headed north. On the fourth day, when they entered the territory of Shangjun, more than a dozen horsemen began to be unable to keep up, so Montenegro let them rest for a day, and the group continued northward. On the fifth day, the brigade arrived at Shangjun City (now Suide County, Yulin City), and more than 30 horsemen were left behind to rest. On the sixth day, the brigade continued to go north to reach the destination, the northernmost city of the Qin Empire, marching more than 3,000 miles in six days, and only fell behind less than 100 people. Absolute miracle in this day and age.

Daying City is just a small square city built of stone, less than two miles long and wide, mainly garrisons, and civilians are mainly merchants engaged in border trade and some family members.

More than 100 years ago, the Beidi County and Shangjun of the Qin State garrisoned 100,000 troops to defend the northern Xiongnu. Later, King Zhao Wuling of Zhao State attacked the murderous slaves in the north, and killed the murderous slaves in a war with 200,000 yuan. Occupied a large area of grassland north of the Qin State, and set up Yunzhong County and Jiuyuan County. Looking at the map, between the Qin State and the Fierce Slave are the Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County of the Zhao State. In fact, Yunzhong County and Jiuyuan County are just two lonely border cities in the vast grassland. It is exactly the same as the Beidi City and Daying City of the Qin State to form a defense line from the west to the Beidi City, Jiuyuan City, Daying City, Yunzhong City, Daicheng and the border city of Yan. It guards the safety of the entire Central Plains of China. No matter how the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao, and Qin fought each other in the Central Plains, there was never the slightest friction in the north. The border armies of the three northern countries recognized only one common enemy, the Xiongnu.