Tang Ji stood on the edge of the barracks and watched the soldiers inside conduct drills.

This is an army armed to the teeth.

The equipment is so good that Tang Ji, who has been in the army for a long time, is also staggered. When he was still in the Lu Long Army, he fought against many Wuwei armies, and he also fought head-on with Li Ze's personal guard battalion, but the equipment of the army in front of him was even better than Li Ze's personal guard battalion. Although there were only five hundred people, in Tang Ji's eyes, these five hundred people were enough to deal with an enemy ten times their size, if their enemy was at the level of Lu Longjun.

"Li Xiang said that what he can do is to make this army have the most powerful combat effectiveness in the world." Li Hai smiled: "So, they have the best equipment in this world. ”

Reaching out to summon the soldier closest to them, he suddenly reached out and pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist, and slashed at the soldier with a snort.

The arms of the knives intersected, and when there was a sound, Tang Ji watched the soldier have a sinking and deflection movement when the arm armor touched the blade, and he couldn't help but nod secretly. Where the swords and armor intersected, sparks flew everywhere. The soldier had already taken a few steps back, and as Li Hai put his knife into the sheath, the soldier kept shaking his arm, apparently numb from the shock.

"This knife, I used six or seven points of strength, which is equivalent to an ordinary person's full strength!" Li Haidao, motioned to the soldier who had been inexplicably stabbed to come over, grabbed his arm and raised it in front of Tang Ji, and the arm armor cracked a crack.

"Go get a different armour." Li Hai commanded.

Seeing the soldier flying away, Tang Ji couldn't help but feel distressed. If he used to carry a bag on the dock, he was afraid that he would not be able to buy a pair of them for a month's salary, and now, in order to show it to himself, he would have destroyed it pennilessly.

Seeming to understand Tang Ji's thoughts, Li Hai said with a smile: "This arm armor is not as expensive as you think, our Wuwei has a unique secret in smelting steel and weapon making, this arm armor costs about ten taels of silver, and the main cost is still on the polishing in the later stage." ”

"Ten taels of silver is cheaper?" Tang Ji felt a little itchy in his teeth.

"It's the latest style, and when we mass produce it, the price will come down." Li Hai didn't care about it. "Later, you can get your gear, it's better than theirs."

Tang Ji nodded, his heart was better than these soldiers', wasn't he invulnerable?

Yuan Chang said slowly: "No matter how good the equipment is, it must be competent, Captain Tang, these soldiers, but selected from the troops directly under Li Xiang, are all official members of the Yixing Society. ”

"Yixing Society?" Tang Ji was a little dazed.

Yuan Chang smiled: "I forgot that you don't know about this yet." Everyone in the Yixing Society is absolutely loyal to Li Xiang, and Li Xiang will not hesitate in the slightest if they let them die. So you don't have to have the slightest doubt about the loyalty and combat effectiveness of this force. Even if there is only one man left, they will fight to the end. ”

"Ambassador Yuan, General Li, you are also members of the Yixing Society?" Tang Ji asked.

"I am." Yuan Chang said: "General Li can only be regarded as an activist now, right?" ”

Li Hai smiled: "It's this activist, and it's still Pei Tingshi's guarantee, but when this trip to the Western Regions comes down, I will probably be able to become an official member." The level can't be said to go up one liter. ”

"I'm not a member of the Yixing Society, these soldiers, will listen to me?" Tang Ji asked.

"They listen to your orders, they don't care if you are a member of the Yixing Society, they care that you are the general designated by Li Xiang." Yuan Chang said: "Of course, if you are interested in joining, along the way, I will slowly introduce you to the origin, purpose and goal of Yixing Society, if you feel like-minded, Yuan can also become your introducer." ”

"Captain Tang, don't underestimate this referrer, once he introduces you to join the Yixing Society, he will be responsible for you for life, and if something happens to you, he will also be jointly and severally responsible." Li Haidao.

"Got it!" Don Ji Dao.

Li Hai handed Tang Ji a booklet and said, "Captain Tang, this is our military discipline of Wuwei, both infantry and cavalry. The 500 men we commanded were cavalry when they got on their horses and infantry when they got off their horses. ”

"Military discipline?" Tang Ji was a little puzzled.

Li Hai nodded: "Not bad." This is the biggest difference between our Wuwei army and the army you were in before. Whether it is the former Tang Army or the Lu Long Army, the army has the bright colors of its own generals, killing pigs and tails, each with its own way of killing. But Wuwei's army is different, all Wuwei troops use this code, and all tactics, passwords, etc., are strictly regulated. And the personal characteristics of generals can only be built on a unified code of conduct. In this way, an army, even if it is a change of generals, will not be hindered in command. At the same time, our Wuwei army is constantly reassigned, and the generals are not changed, and the army is not changed. ”

Tang Ji felt a pang in his heart, this is not only a unified order for the army, but even prevents the army generals from staying in a certain team for too long to cultivate their own system, after you have been in this army for a few years, transfer you to another army, and everything will be fine.

"I'll memorize this code as soon as possible." Don Ji Dao.

"This time, in addition to the regular army of 500 men, there were another 500 men, some of whom were also armed men, but the most of them were all kinds of technicians, such as the maintenance personnel of the carriages, the repairers of armor and weapons, and the people who knew how to draw, those who knew civil engineering, and a whole medical team, all of whom were treasures, and although they also had a certain combat ability, on the whole, they could not be compared with the soldiers. In this process, we will do everything in our power to keep them safe. "Yuan Changdao." Our specific division of labor is like this, I am responsible for the general affairs and commercial transactions, Li Hai commands the army, you are Li Hai's deputy, and at the same time responsible for the command of the other five hundred people, after entering the map of the Western Regions, you also need to be responsible for contacting the local remnants of our Tang Dynasty, and even negotiating with the people over there, you are more familiar with where than us. ”

"Got it."

"Let's go see our baby!" Li Hai proposed: "As the third-in-command of this team, Captain Tang needs to know everything in his heart. ”

The three men arrived at the side of the barracks. Where there are warehouses one by one, walking to the most marginal one, Yuan Chang motioned to the soldiers guarding the door to open the door, even if it is in the barracks, it is heavily guarded.

Pushed open the door and walked in, but Tang Ji was stunned, because in the huge warehouse, there were only two large boxes in the middle, and what made him a little curious was that the outside of these two boxes was actually wrapped with iron plates.

Li Hai opened the box, and there were small grids inside, and in each small grid, there was a bottle tightly wrapped in cotton cloth, the mouth of the bottle was sealed, and a twist hung down.

Carefully taking out a bottle from the small compartment and holding it in the palm of his hand, Li Hai said, "Do you know what this is?" ”

Don Ji shook his head.

"How do you know about Zhang Zhongwu's defeat on the banks of the Yi River?" Li Haidao.

"Heavenly Thunder!" Tang Ji's face changed greatly, and he blurted out that he also participated in that battle, but he was not Zhang Zhongwu's descendant, he was just pressing the formation in the rear, but because of this, he escaped that catastrophe. But the scene of hell that day has always been deeply imprinted in his mind.

"His name is Thunder!" Li Haidao: "It was with this that Li Xiang defeated Zhang Zhongwu on the bank of the Yishui River. The one you see now is much more powerful than the explosion on the banks of the Yishui River that day. These two boxes, a total of 100 coins, this trip, there are ten people in charge of this thing, this is absolutely impossible to happen, if something really happens in our camp, this 100 coins, enough to make us lose a lot. They are our housekeeping skills, and they must not be used until the last resort. ”

Tang Ji took a deep breath, "I see. ”

Watching Li Hai put the bottle back into the box and close the lid, Yuan Chang smiled: "Okay, now the three of us are grasshoppers on a line, this trip is either completed, the three of us are not only famous in the annals of history, but also can rely on this to rise to prominence and become a pivotal figure in our Tang Dynasty, or, we will fail and die, bury our bones in a foreign land, then naturally there is nothing to say." ”

He stretched out his hand, "Brothers, in ten days, we will set off, and from now on, we will share honor and disgrace, life and death." ”

Li Hai stretched out his hand, Tang Ji also stretched out his hand, three people, six hands, clasped tightly together.

"Let's make history! The Western Regions belong to the Tang Dynasty and belong to Li Xiang! Yuan Chang said sharply.

Ten days later, a team of more than 1,000 people, escorting nearly 200 carts, set off quietly at dawn, and only Gongsun Changming and Tian Bo, who came to see him off, came on behalf of Li Ze.

For Li Ze, sending out a team of more than 1,000 people to carry out an operation with an unpredictable future is just a chess piece laid out in his spare time, if this trip fails, there will naturally be a second team, and the third team will continue to go. Naturally, he would not pay too much attention to this, and at this moment, his attention had shifted to another matter.

After the autumn harvest, the autumn tax has been basically put into storage, and at the end of the month, the first scientific expedition after the emperor Beijia Zhenzhou will officially begin.