Because there are two official duties to report to Shang Cheng in person, and thinking about the military meeting of the Admiral's Mansion, Huo Shiqi is still repeatedly telling himself to get up early before going to sleep, but he should work tirelessly under Ge Ping's upper branch, and this trip back to Yanzhou is more than 100 miles of travel fatigue, and then talk to his wife for half a night, as soon as he lies down in the bed, he feels sore and sleepy, and when he wakes up, it is already the right time, and the window lattice has long been white. He was served by his beloved mother and changed into an official uniform, and complained that Aunt Seventeen didn't know anything and didn't know how to wake him up, so he hurriedly went out and got into the car after pulling two bowls of noodle soup.

After all, he got up late, and when he arrived at the west courtyard of the Admiral's Mansion, there were already four or five officials sitting in the side room waiting to be seen. It seems that Ge Ping's matter cannot be said before the meeting. He had no choice but to go to the council chamber first.

There were already a lot of people in the council hall, and it was all the generals and captains in scarlet green. Because Shang Cheng hasn't come over yet, there are no rules for more than a dozen generals in the hall, some people are looking around on a high seat, some people are smiling and whispering together, some people gather in front of the handsome case to talk and laugh, and another guy is probably getting up early and rushing to the road at this time, so he took two seats to one place in the ventilated place at the entrance of the hall, and the head rests and arms are forked and the legs are snoring like thunder.

The council hall was full of guard generals, and it was obviously a bit nondescript for Huo Shiqi to squeeze in a civilian official. He thought, anyway, it was still early before the time, so he simply went to the West Cross Courtyard to find a side room to sit and rest for a while......

"Uncle Seventeen?"

He heard someone shouting at him. When he looked back, he saw two chairs in the shade under the big tree in the left wing, and the two officers stood up and bowed their hands to him. The person who wore a light green Rong regular uniform was Zheng Qi, the battalion captain stationed in Yanshui, and another person wearing a dark green robe with a moon white scribe was also a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for the time being.

"Uncle Seventeen, come and sit here. It's cool here. Zheng Qi greeted and said.

Huo Shiqi didn't refuse, raised his hand and returned the salute, walked over and said, "You will hide cleanly." Why didn't you sit in the hall? Zheng Qi smiled and said: "Wang Bao's bastard snoring is too noisy, similar to thunder, and it is not refreshing to speak." One by one you sit. He gave up his chair to Huo Shiqi, and pointed to the good-looking captain next to him and said, "This is Captain Shao Chuan, the former brigade commander of the B Brigade of the Chinese Army, who also followed the general back from Mogan." ”

Huo Shiqi remembered. This Shao Chuan, the former brigade commander of the B Brigade of the Chinese Army, was hit by a medicine arrow in the leg when Mogan broke through last year, and has been recuperating since he returned; In the spring, he also accompanied Shang Cheng to visit the Shao family once. He didn't sit in a hurry, and said to Shao Chuan first: "We've met." When I went to your house with the Governor that time, I was just in time for your mother-in-law to play the big drama of the Three Kingdoms melee, and even the Governor was smashed with a rolling pin. How about one by one, now Wei Shu Wu has no winners? ”

When Mo Gan broke through, Shao Chuan was also hit by an arrow in his face, and an arrow happened to be shot on his lip, even his front teeth were broken out in two and a half, and there was a not very conspicuous scar on his upper lip. Hearing Huo Shiqi mention the humiliation of that time, his white and pure face turned red, and he said with a toothless mouth: "A few country ladies are not sensible, so the governor and the seventeenth uncle laughed at them." After you were gone that day, I beat them all with a wicker on one limp leg, and they were all honest. Mother, I have only been lying down for a few days, and these stupid women don't have me as the head of the family in their eyes...... "Zheng Qi and he are old acquaintances, and they are very clear about the housework of this friend who is afraid of his wife, at this time, listening to him full of nonsense, desperately boasting to himself, he forced a smile and dragged his chair over his chair for Huo Shiqi to sit.

Huo Shiqi didn't refuse, sat down and asked Shao Chuan: "Is the injury on your leg good?" ”

Shao Chuan sat down, pulled his left leg that was a little disobedient, and said, "You have seen it all." That's it. At that time, I was able to save my life and come back alive, even if my ancestors accumulated great virtues, good legs and bad legs were all manifestations of my ancestors, and I didn't dare to pick and choose. ”

Huo Shiqi smiled and asked again, "Are you still delaying medical medicine?" ”

"What?"

Zheng Qi, who was squatting on the edge of the stairs of the corridor next to him, sneered and said, "Uncle Seventeen is asking if you are still asking the doctor to see a doctor." He said to Huo Shiqi again, "Uncle Seventeen, don't be deceived by his white face. He doesn't have any other skills in his life, so he relies on this scholar's face to make a living, and no matter how poisonous the sun beats him to death, he won't be black. The former General Li Wei also fell for this, and thought he was a scholar, so he was promoted to six levels in a month, and he was promoted from a big-headed soldier who was nothing to the battalion deputy. In fact, he didn't know a basket of Dou Da characters. If you don't believe it, ask him, how many do he know about the seven words on the flag of the general outside the gate? ”

Shao Chuan didn't blink his eyes and said, "That is written on it: 'Admiral Shang of Great Zhao Yanshan'." ”

That's right, these seven words are written on the big banner outside the Admiral's Palace. Huo Shiqi couldn't help but glance at Zheng Qi. He had seen Shao Chuan once, and he didn't stay for a long time because it coincided with the Shao family's "civil war", so he didn't know the details of Shao Chuan at all, and he couldn't tell if this was a joke between the two or something real.

Zheng Qi dragged a handful of grass in the crack of the stone steps and threw it over, and scolded with a smile: "Foodie who has suffered from the plague!" You still need to say that! The wild dogs in the city know what the words are on it! He jumped over in two steps, stepped around and didn't see the stones and sticks, so he simply wrote the word "mention" on the mud floor with his fingers, and squinted at Shao Chuan and asked, "What do you pronounce this word?" ”

Seeing Shao Chuan's two slender black eyebrows tightly grouped together, his white face swollen red, scratching his ears and cheeks, and looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, Huo Shiqi knew that Zheng Qi was probably right, and he was smiling secretly in his heart and was about to talk about it to cover up Shao Chuan's past, Shao Chuan suddenly smiled: "Uncle Seventeen, don't listen to Lao Qi's nonsense." Although I don't read much, I still know the word 'Yan'......"

Huo Shiqi burst into laughter, pointed at Shao Chuan with a trembling finger, and laughed breathlessly: "...... General Shao, General Shao really ...... Sure enough, it's ......"

Zheng Qi squatted on the ground and stared at the word "mention" left and right, and praised it with words in his mouth: "It's always an eye-opener!" Damn, it turns out that this word is pronounced 'Yan'. This is to remember, next time it is good to teach others. General Shao said, dare not pronounce the word 'Yan', and fight to the death! ”

Shao Chuan also knew that he was probably embarrassed, so he laughed dryly.

Huo Shiqi soon realized that he was doing something wrong. No matter how Shao Chuan says it, he is a meritorious military general of six or seven grades, and it is a bit too much to joke about him about such a thing. He stopped laughing and hurriedly apologized to Shao Chuan. Shao Chuan didn't care at all. He is the one who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and if he can survive, even if he can survive it, even if he chooses a life from Lord Yama, these jokes are not even a fart in his eyes, and they disappear as soon as the wind blows, where can he be angry and turn his face because of this?

Huo Shiqi asked Shao Chuan: "In this way, your injuries have healed?" Going back to the Guard? ”

"It couldn't be better. Usually walking to do a thing can still be done, but it is a root of the disease, and it hurts when it is cloudy and rainy. Shao Chuan beat his leg and said, "I have already gone to the Wei Mansion to sign an errand and receive an errand, and in two days I will go to Liuzhen to replace Sun Zhongshan and continue to be my brigade commander." ”

"That'...... What about Sun Zhongshan? What does he do? ”

Shao Chuan said: "He is about to lead his troops into the steppe to fight against the Turks. When he is gone, I will take his lack and stay in the town. I don't know what the situation will be when this battle is over. Zhang Shao didn't say, so I didn't ask. It is estimated that when the war is over, he will either partner with me, or transfer back to guard Yanshui or Yanzhou. "This person is a self-cooked guy and a straight intestine, Huo Shiqi didn't ask, he told everything he knew." But I can't say for sure. In the past two days, I vaguely heard that there will be a big war in the year after tomorrow, and Sun Zhongshan may also be transferred to the east after the battle this time. Li Shen has a big heart, he can't wait to catch all the soldiers who can fight in his hands, and he wants to make some great contributions with his breath...... "He finally remembered what the relationship between Huo Shiqi and Shang Cheng was, and when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, and didn't say what Li Shen wanted to use his merits to grab the governor's seat.

Huo Shiqi nodded, turned his head and asked Zheng Qi, "What about you?" Why did you come back? ”

Zheng Qi said: "This time I went to the grassland with Sun Lvshuai. No, the general called back several of the captains of the cavalry battalion whose stations were close to Liuzhen, probably to give us a face-to-face lecture or something. As he spoke, he winked at Huo Shiqi and smiled, signaling that there was nothing more to say. He was much smarter than Shao Chuan, and he figured out that this military meeting was because Shang Cheng was afraid that Zhang Shao would not be able to serve the public without really leading the army, so he called all the generals and colonels of all the departments participating in the war back for a meeting, and helped Zhang Shao Liwei by the way.

Huo Shiqi is not a member of the military, and he knows a lot about many things in the guards, so he can't think that far at all. Since Zheng Qi didn't want to say it, he didn't ask around, and pretended to look at the courtyard in front of the council hall with a light smile on his face. He has been to this place countless times, and every grass and tree has long been ripe, in fact, there is nothing to see at all, but he is not too familiar with Zheng Qi and Shao Chuan, and he can't find a topic, so he has to find something to do to show that he is not deliberately snubbing the two of them.

Because the time of the meeting is approaching, the Admiral's Mansion has been under martial law, and you can see the sentry soldiers with guns and knives in several corridors, moon caves, and stone paths as far as the eye can see; Bao Kan, the guard of the Admiral's Palace, was also dressed in a dark green robe, standing by the corner gate and talking to Suza, looking up at him, smiling and saluting from a distance, but did not come, and left after telling Suza...... Hearing Zheng Qi ask him about Ge Ping's hard work, he really wanted to speak with a smile, so he heard a burst of laughter in the conference hall, and then heard a rough voice say: "You guys laugh!" One by one, Cai Ba of the Weisheng Army is the virtue of the dead dog. In the fourteenth year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, I went to the military department to do something, and I didn't know what was going on, so I had a grudge against Xiao Jian, who was the old marshal Xiao Jian, whether he was an eighteen-year-old or a twenty-one-year-old horseman when he broke the Xuanhua bureaucratic village. He said that it was twenty-one horses, I said that it was eighteen horses, and neither of them was convinced, and a few guys next to him poked the fire and coaxed, so they simply went to the military department to transfer the battle report of the year and compare it. As a result, as soon as the war report from decades ago came out, everyone was dumbfounded, and it was clearly written that when Xiao Laoshuai broke the eleventh branch village of Xuanhua, he used thirteen battalions from Jiazhou, Qiongzhou, Fanbian and Lizhou, and also transferred a brigade from Chengdu to garrison Jiangshui......" There was a buzz in the hall again, and many people were talking about it again:

"Isn't it really eighteen?"

"Eleven wingmen must have at least two or three thousand soldiers. Eighteen rides can be broken? Who can believe it? This story also coaxed the people who had never been on the battlefield. ”

"Maybe it can be broken. Xiao Laoshuai was majestic when he was young......"

"! When you were a teenager, you didn't count as a broken bureaucracy, what year did it happen? That year, the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, and I was enrolled in the military in Taizhou to eat food, and it has only been 20 years now. Xiao Dashuai is not seventy this year, but he will be sixty-five, right? Is there a fifty-year-old teenager in Juvenile One by One? ”

"If others don't succeed, Xiao Laoshuai may not be able to succeed. Xie Bald, you seem to have been stationed in Jiazhou, one by one, you said that the eighteen horsemen can break the bureaucratic village? ”

“…… I can't tell. Anyway, the village where I am stationed is not even a road, and it is impossible to ride a horse. I haven't seen anyone riding a horse. But Xiao Laoshuai may be able to cross the horse ......"

There was a mess in the hall, Huo Shiqi could already listen to it, and asked Zheng Qi casually: "Who was the loud voice just now?" Zheng Qi shook his head and said he didn't know. Shao Chuan was also listening to the discussion in the hall, and he didn't look back and said, "It's Sun Dazui, who was just transferred to the Chinese army as a captain." One by one, it's Sun Huan. This person has always had a loud voice, and it is also because of this rough voice that General Li has taken a fancy to, and he is not afraid of hearing the wrong thing or something before shouting a message or something before the battle. "He is one of Li Wei's confidants and favorite generals, and he knows a lot about the anecdotes and affairs of some generals in the Yanshan Army. Sun Huan was the head of General Li when he defended the West Iron Tower of Jin in the second year of the Eastern Era. He was still a small soldier at that time, and a team of people went to transport food to Tieta Village, and on the way he happened to meet the outpost of the Tuqi people, and he didn't know how to get behind the Tuqi people while fighting and retreating. The dead and wounded of the officers who led the soldiers were either scattered, and more than 20 living people nested in a ravine and did not dare to move. Sun Huan had a frizzy temper, and with seven or eight brothers who were not afraid of death, he took advantage of the night to move behind the back of the Tuqi people, and shouted that the army was coming to give him courage. As a result, the general believed it to be true, opened the gate of the village and came to an internal and external attack, and cut off the heads of only 100 people in the first battle, retreated from the enemy, and relieved the siege of the stockade. The general became famous in the first battle, and Sun Huan was also appreciated by the general at that time......"

Like the story of Xiao Jian's big destruction of the bureaucratic village, this is also an old thing ten or twenty years ago, people say that I heard word of mouth, the scene of the year has long been changed beyond recognition, like Zheng Qi, he heard that Sun Huan saved Li Shen's life when he was in the third or fourth year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, and he also said that he saved Li Shen's life, so he was promoted and reused. However, it is a fact that Sun Huan has a loud voice, once he went to Duanzhou on official business, and he was still commanding the yamen, and he heard Sun Huan speak across several courtyards.

He didn't argue with Shao Chuan, and went back to listen to the people in the council hall.

“…… This time, Cai Ba came to Yanzhou on a business trip, and I said that I would invite him to a banquet, and that little thing back then would pass. Who knows that this old man doesn't want to give face, how did Xiao Laoshuai break the bureaucratic village, but he didn't talk about it, and he was foaming at the mouth with his mouth, saying that the Yanshan Guards couldn't go out of the drill queue, which was far inferior to the Liyuan army. I was on fire at the time, one by one, when will it be the turn of our Yanshan Guards to point fingers at the Liyuan Forbidden Army? As a result, in less than three sentences, he screwed up with the bastard again, and the two of them smashed the basin and bowl on the wine table, and they had to compare the highs and lows. The bastard said that the forbidden army is to protect the Jingshi and the royal family, and everyone in the world will see it if it is okay, but the Yanshan Guards can't say it clearly; The soldiers brought out by your Sun Huozui are even more distant in Duanzhou, and I don't know if I have any blessings in this life. I was also in a hurry, and slapped the table to tell him that there was a brigade of the Chinese army ten miles outside the city, and it was too far away to Duanzhou, so go there to see!

"When it comes to this, you have to look at it even if you don't see it. A group of people got on their horses and went out of the city. The cool breeze on the horse's back made me realize that when the words were full, things were going to be bad. At that time, I had only been in office for three days in the Chinese army, and my ass was not hot, and the people in the command yamen could not recognize it all, and if I indiscriminately pointed to the place and lost the face of the Yanshan Chinese army, I was laughed at for being a trivial matter, and I was afraid of losing the face of the Yanshan Chinese army; At that time, the general didn't speak, and I didn't have the face to stay in the guards.

"But fear is fear, and what is said is water spilled, and there is absolutely no reason to pick it up. I stubbornly led them to the North Fence Village, and as soon as the order was issued, the three drums sounded, and the seven battalions of the C Brigade were listed......"

Zheng Qi smiled and turned around and said, "I'm afraid that Sun Dazui hasn't seen that formation before." A phalanx of four hundred people, seven phalanxes, rumbling around the playground twice, I was afraid that the general of the Liyuan Forbidden Army would be scared to pee his pants. ”

Huo Shiqi smiled knowingly. At the beginning of April, various units of the Chinese army near Yanzhou conducted a joint exercise, and he accompanied Shang Cheng to see that the 13 battalions had formed 15 phalanxes of 400 men in the large school yard of Beili Village, advancing, retreating, dividing, attacking, arraying, and drilling...... He couldn't remember the content of the drill clearly, and the only feeling was dazzled and shocked and trembling from the depths of his soul. Thinking back to the scene now, he still can't help but be fascinated, and his hands and feet are still shaking involuntarily. He couldn't say what kind of experience he had at that time, but he only remembered what Zhang Shao said at the dinner table after he came down: The world is the strongest and invincible......

The strongest in the world, invincible......

“…… From the beginning of the formation, I didn't look at Cai Ba's old. Speaking of which, I am also an old soldier, and I have fought a lot of battles with General Li and Li Shen, what scenes have I never seen? But that day, the formation on the school field of Beili Village really hadn't seen a single drum beat, and the large phalanx tightly condensed into a group spread out in all directions in a row, and in a moment it walked out of the crane wings, and then gathered again, and then walked out of the vertebrae, circle, and phalanx...... Fuck it! I'm not afraid to tell you, I'm almost scared to pee my pants when I stand on the handsome platform......"

There was a burst of laughter in the hall, and there were two or three sentences in the middle of it, "The last round of was really a civil official who was so scared that his pants were wet".

“…… After watching the exercise, he came out of the North Fence Village, and then returned to the city, and Cai Ba didn't even fart along the way. I could see that he was shocked by the drill of the C Brigade, and even his eyes were a little confused. Of course, I guess I was the same dead guy I was. To tell everyone, after watching the drill, until two or three days later, as soon as you close your eyes, all you see in front of you is what you see in the North Fence Village......"

There was another burst of laughter in the hall. Huo Shiqi and Zheng Qi, who had seen similar scenes, glanced at each other, and both nodded and shook their heads slightly. How could they not be like that?

The strongest in the world, invincible......

"I didn't sleep all night, thinking over and over how General Duan Xiu trained as a soldier, and before dawn I ran and knocked on his door, and asked him to teach me this hand. …… Don't laugh, I really didn't know it was the general's handiwork. Sun Huan said in the hall, "General Duan instructed me and asked me to go to the general for advice." Do you know what the Great General said? General Yiyi said that this is all fancy things that scare people, and the real strong army is fought out, who has ever heard of a strong army that has been trained? As for what crane wing cone, it is a last resort, and all the wars are about attacking the heart and attacking the city; Seeking war is the top, and field fighting is the bottom; Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements, and they pay attention to the soldiers who surrender without a fight......"

He relayed what Shang Cheng told him endlessly, and the generals and lieutenants in the hall listened attentively, and even a few more sentry posts in the courtyard where the council hall was located were also paid attention to, and suddenly shouted:

"General Xuanwei has arrived!"

With this shout, even Huo Shiqi, the dozen or twenty generals inside and outside the council hall all stood solemnly as if they had been lifted from the machine spring......