Xiahou Zhongqing is asking Meng Lan for the knowledge of Zichou, for example, there are saints who look at the heavens, and when they go down to inspect the peasants, the sunrise and sunset are set as one day, 365 days a year, and they are divided into four seasons, spring planting, summer busy, autumn harvest and winter storage. Each season is divided into Meng, Zhong and Ji, January is Mengchun, February is Zhongchun, and March is Jichun.

Zichou even formulated 24 solar terms, two festivals per month.

Meng Lan knew everything, said everything, and the two talked happily. The matter of stealing jade is not trivial, and Yun Liang said goodbye to Meng Lan first.

The wish has been fulfilled, Meng Lan was about to say goodbye to Xiahou Zhongqing, and someone came to herd the sheep on horseback.

"Lord Xiahou." The person who rode the horse and shepherded the sheep was the official and pastoral doctor of the Song State, Si Jie, who waved to Xiahou Zhongqing from afar.

Xiahou Zhongqing hurriedly glanced at Si Jie, Si Jie got closer, saw a lifetime person, and finally recognized this as Meng Lan after a closer look.

Of course, he knew about Meng Lan's name, and he had also seen it in Luoyi Academy, after all, he was a high-ranking disciple of Zichou, a great master of Dali, how illustrious. It's just that for some reason, Song Xiao just left the Mangyuan with his front foot, and Meng Lan arrived with his back foot.

Si Jie has always acted cautiously, first saluting Meng Lan, and Meng Lan returning the salute.

"Why did the Master come to the land of the plug?" Si Jie asked.

Meng Lan and Si Jie are not familiar with each other, not to mention that Si Jie is now working under Song Xiao, so naturally he will not explain his intentions, so he replied: "I was entrusted by someone to find someone."

Si Jie didn't ask carefully, the two politely greeted Meng Lan for a while, and then said goodbye, after all, his wish had been fulfilled, and there was no point in staying in Mangyuan.

"Lord Xiahou, Meng Lan is here to find you?" Si Jie couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he asked.

Xiahou Zhongqing shook his head, not wanting to dwell on this matter anymore, and asked Si Jie: "Have you seen Ou Yao?"

Si Jie nodded, and was silent for a long time before he said: "Lord Ou said that although Song Xiao worships him as a commonplace, he deliberately avoids him in everything, the cunning fox Song Xiao is too vigilant, and Lord Ou is weak, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do anything."

"Well," Xiahou Zhongqing asked again, "When does Song Xiao want a horse?" ”

"On the sixth day of the first month of March, there is still half a month," Si Jie said with a serious expression: "I'm afraid Song Xiao has a big move."

"Song Xiao is hypocritical, what year can't he afford to fight?" Xiahou Zhongqing snorted coldly and asked, "Where does Song Xiao want to cut down this year?" ”

"Song Xiao should be crowned a hundred generals today, and then he will go north, either a small country in Jizhou or Zhongshan." Si Jie only noticed some signs and was not sure.

Xiahou Zhongqing thought about it for a while, it was not unreasonable, the Song State occupied the land of Yuzhou, and the land was vast and fertile. However, the fertile soil of the Central Plains is the land of four wars, with Lu in the east and Housai in the west, Qiang Chu in the south and northern countries in the north. As for Zhongshan, Xiahou Zhongqing felt that it was unlikely. After all, Zhongshan and the Li family are in the same breath, and Li Tianzi is also the nominal co-ruler of the world; Putting this layer aside, that hidden dragon is suspected to be a native of Zhongshan, and with the experience of Xiao Guo, Song Xiao should not dare to follow Xiao Guo's example.

Song Xiao wants to attack the countries of Jizhou!

Song, Wuyi.

The earth is rejuvenated, Song Xiao is rejuvenated, in good spirits, and is discussing with Zou Gu and Shi Hui. The matter of discussion is naturally the matter of enclosing a hundred generals.

Huthi has a greedy wolf guard, 18 brave people, 300,000 iron horses, invincible.

Chu has a tyranny's husband, four expeditions and four towns, hundreds of thousands of heroes, unmatched.

Song has hundreds of generals, millions of soldiers, and is unstoppable, and only lacks a martial saint.

Most of the Song Guobai generals are shrouded in horse leather, and now it is the best opportunity to enshrine the hundred generals.

Five people are in the team, and there is a military chief; Ten people are the tithes, and the she's the chief; 100 people for a team, set up a centurion; 1,000 people for the department, set up a thousand commanders; 10,000 people are the army, and the main general is set up.

The Song Dynasty has a million soldiers, and naturally there are 100 generals, so the matter of enthronement is not cumbersome. It's just that the last time Zou Gu was sealed, he said that he would have to divide the generals and fiercely compete with each other.

Therefore, the Song Guobai generals had to be divided into three categories, mainly examining force, strategy, and use of troops.

The next day, in the Wuyi martial arts field, hundreds of generals gathered, and today is the first item of the competition - force.

A group of ten people, divided into ten groups, ten people in the group play in pairs, a total of nine games, this is scored. Ten groups play each other at the same time every day, one game in the morning, noon and evening, for a total of three games.

Three days later, the top 10 in the group will be decided, and then the first group will compete for the top 10 places, and so on.

The ranking is tentatively set on the sixth day, and Song Xiao is worried that the strong will be divided into a group, so Zou Gujin said that if he is not satisfied on the seventh day, he can challenge it, and if he wins, he can replace it.

Han Ze looked at the muse with a provocative look on his face, he was bound to win the top spot in this hundred generals, and the biggest opponent in the military investigation was the muse.

It's a pity that the two didn't get into the same group, but they will always meet, and Han Ze is not in a hurry.

In three days, Han Ze won nine games and won nine games, first in the group; The Muses won nine games and won the group; Long Li also won nine games and finished third in the group.

The three are the top three candidates, which is naturally reasonable.

However, many new generals have emerged, which makes Song Xiao feel very good, and the Song country is full of talents, how can there be more than 100 generals?

In addition to Han Ze, Muse, and Long Li in the top ten, most of them are some new faces, which is also the cleverness of Shi Hui's army, as long as there are military merits, they can stand out, and civilians can also be among the scholars, so the Song people are still martial.

"Muse, Ben will be more than ten years old for you, and I will not let you be the leader." Han Ze spoke.

"General Han is extremely powerful, and this leader naturally belongs to you." Long Li said with a smile.

"General Long is like a god with soldiers and has the demeanor of a Confucian general, I'm afraid he is a dark horse." Han Ze was telling the truth, Long Li should not be underestimated.

The drums beat and the fourth day of the contest began. Song Xiao and the Wuyi clan naturally set their sights on the top ten competition, and every general here is a figure in his own right.

The opening battle is Han Ze's battle muse, one of the two is ranked second among the old hundred generals, and the other is the successor of Jianling.

"Who do you think will win?" Song Xiao asked.

"Although the muse is a descendant of Miao Sheng, he is still young, and I am afraid that he will not be defeated, and the minister thinks that General Han has a small victory." Shi Hui sat on the high platform, he was Sima, and he was most familiar with the details of the generals.

"Muse once practiced swords in the school palace, although the second son won less and lost more when he was young, but he was resilient, the first saint praised him as a sleeping tiger, and the muse went out of the mountains in the past two years to set the three kingdoms in the north, rejected the Housé in the west, and attacked Liangzhou in the south, and the force was not inferior to Han Ze." Zou Gu is obviously more optimistic about the muse.

Only the new Sikong Ou Yao did not answer.

Song Xiao asked Ou Yao: "What does Sikong think?"

"The minister didn't dare to assert." Ou Yao replied.

In the field, the two of them have already started to make moves, both holding wooden swords, the two of them are fierce, Han Ze is a veteran general, he naturally has his confidence, and the muse is the heir of Jianling and his pride.

Han Ze took the lead, sword after sword, as magnificent as Daze waves. Han Ze is also a person, the second of the hundred generals of the Great Song Dynasty, defeating Wei Shang in force and not losing to Tian Tian. Han Ze was good at attacking, and the offensive continued wave after wave, gaining the upper hand.

"The muse is too slow to draw the sword, and every step is dangerous." Shi Hui made an evaluation.

"The muse is too quick to draw his sword, and he has repeatedly turned danger into danger." Almost at the same time, Zou Gu spoke.

Song Xiaorong has been riding horses all his life, how can he not see the fame? Muse's sword skills are strange, whether they are extremely fast or ridiculously slow, Song Xiao can't tell the difference. Heavy and elegant, should be opposed and repulsed, but was mixed together by the muse, so he was in danger every step of the way, and repeatedly turned danger into relief.

Han Ze couldn't feel it in the game, he had the upper hand on the surface and suppressed the muse everywhere, but in fact, he completely entered the rhythm of the muse, and if he was not careful, he would lose, and he had to be faster and more powerful than the other.

Han Ze became more and more depressed the more he fought, when did the muse become so strong? He couldn't help but think of the same feeling when he fought against the evil and good of the Houthi Eighteen Warriors. Wei Xiu personally said that evil and good are the first people under the Martial Saint, and he has touched the bottleneck of the Martial Saint. In that battle, Han Ze lost completely, facing evil and good was like facing a god, and mortals were like moths to fire in front of him, like mantis arms as cars.

Han Ze didn't believe that the muse could grow to this point at the age of less than twenty, and he suddenly remembered that the muse said that fear is a seed, and the more you are afraid, the more it will nourish the growth of fear, and finally grow into a towering tree.

Illusion, no matter how strong the muse is, it will not be strong to this point, so Han Ze held his breath and stared, trying not to be affected by the muse.

So the battle situation changed again, and Han Ze and Muse were evenly matched.

The muse naturally noticed Han Ze's change, and made a move quietly and aggressively, Han Ze really noticed it, and seemed to be surprised that the muse still had enough strength to spare.

The muse still has power to spare, and Han Ze is not a mediocre person, his sword skills are already perfect, and he has gotten rid of the influence of the muse, no longer attacking at once, but both offensive and defensive.

In the field, hundreds of generals played in pairs, and there were already forty-nine duels of winners, leaving only Han Ze and Muse.

"How long?" Song Xiao asked.

"It's been more than an hour." Zou Gu replied.

As soon as the words fell, the muse abandoned his sword and conceded defeat.

It is a fact that he gave up his sword and admitted defeat, and it is also a fact that Han Ze won, and the morning competition finally came to an end.

Long Li ended the competition early, unexpectedly defeated, the opponent is a rising star, named Tang Xu, less than thirty, similar in age to Long Li, but Long Li has been famous for a long time, Tang Xu has only joined the army in the past two years.

Long Li is not good at force, he is good at using soldiers, and he is the most loved by soldiers, but he is not much better than Han Ze in terms of force alone.

All-rounder, Long Li is the most liked by Shi Hui, and over time, he will definitely be a Song Guozhu minister, but his heart is too kind.

Han Ze defeated the muse in a daze, he just made a sword and hit the muse's elbow, and the muse abandoned the sword and admitted defeat. But he doesn't care too much, after all, the victory or defeat is between one move and one style.

After the six-day competition, Han Ze won the championship in eighteen battles and eighteen wins, Muse only lost to Han Ze once, Long Li lost to Tang Xu, Muse, Han Ze only ranked fourth, Tang Xu only lost to Muse, Han Ze ranked third.

On the seventh day, the people who were at the bottom of the rankings felt that they were not in the right group challenged the top players, and in the end, four or five people moved up the rankings, and most of them still lost.

The second is strategy, no need to compete, by Shi Hui to inspect the generals to lead the army to fight the merits, Longli town to defend Yangguan retreat Husei, conquer the fang country to attack Qidu, the siege of Jiangcheng to save Han Ze, muse, strategy should be the first.

Han Ze's strategy is only second, although he has been the main general many times, but he was captured under the help of the battle of Yangguan, and the siege of Jiangcheng was mostly Long Li's strategy, so he only ranked second.

The battle of Muse Yangguan lost several people in a row, and the Song army's heart was greatly boosted, and it could barely be regarded as a strategy, after all, no matter how good the strategy is, it must be supported by a record of performance. Although the muse was defeated by Wei Xiu in the end, it is an indisputable fact that he won in the face of Wu Ke and Sha Poison, one of the Houthi Eighteen Warriors. As for the five-nation alliance formed by Wei, Chen, Liang and Meng Jiao in the north to attack the Song Dynasty, the Muses pacified the Three Kingdoms, and even captured more than ten cities and expanded the land by one point. Therefore, Muse's qualifications are still shallow and he can rank among the top three, only losing to Long Li and Han Ze, two veteran celebrities.

The third item is the use of soldiers, not surprisingly, Long Li is the first, on the use of soldiers, Song will have no one to stand out, that is, the heart is arrogant and arrogant, such as Han Ze is also happy and convinced.

After a comprehensive investigation, 100 generals will be drafted, the first Han Ze, the second dragon li, and the third muse. The three of them are the most outstanding of the Song Guobai, which is expected.

The fourth is Tang Xu, a dark horse that is black to the extreme, all the way to surpass the old hundred generals to win the fourth, whether it is force, strategy or the use of soldiers, it is not inferior to Han Ze and Long Li, what is lacking is only qualifications, and the future can be expected.

Song has 100 generals, why worry about hegemony? Song has millions of heroes, who in the world can stop him?

Different from other countries, the Song State was different from the civil and military forces, the civil servants governed the people, and the military generals governed the army, and the two were clearly distinguished. This is naturally Zou Gu's idea, which is the first of its kind and has remarkable results.

After the hundred generals were sealed, it was the time when the army's spirit was excited, and Song Xiao would naturally make a move, so he worshiped Han Ze as the main general and Tang Xu as the deputy, leading 100,000 troops to the north, and the destination was to plug Mangyuan.

Long Li still guards Yangguan, Muse guards Jianling Pass, and as for the eastern border, Zou Ping, the veteran general of the fifth hundred generals, guards against Lu.

Song has a land of a hundred cities, but it is not only a land of four battles, it is simply a land of a hundred battles.

The strength of the strong Chu in the south is not inferior to that of the Song State, and the good marriage is not worth mentioning in the face of the hegemony. Song also married three generations of the Li family, but Song Xiao is coveting the Li room, and the Li room is also wary of Song Xiao.

The Western Houthis have never stopped moving eastward, 300,000 iron horsemen have stepped on the bad land west of Pingyang Pass, Qiang and Dog Rong have all surrendered, and Wei Xiu, the land of Yongzhou, covers the sky with one hand.

Since Xiaobai succeeded him, Qingzhou Lu State has changed its national policy of not supporting the people, swept away the surrounding small countries, and is now conquering Laiyi by force. In the land of Qingzhou, the Lu family is dominant.

As for the small countries of Jizhou, most of them are close to the Li room, starting from the five-nation alliance, the small countries began to report to the group for warmth, collectively known as the Northern Alliance, with the Wei, Chen, Liang, Tang, Sang, Wei, and Fu Seven Nations Alliance.

Song Xiao naturally knew that the Seven Nations Alliance was brokered by Qin Huai, the remnants of Qiao State, this thief who was destroyed and exterminated was not dead in vain to restore the country, and after the defeat of the Five Nations Alliance, he actually united with the Seven Countries to form the Seven Nations Alliance, not for the purpose of recovering the country.

The signs have already risen, how can a cautious Song Xiao let it go?

At the end of mid-spring, Han Ze and Tang Xu led the army to the Mangyuan Plain. Tang Xu was cautious and cautious, and noticed that the Mangyuan was empty and empty, and there was no official or pastoral doctor, so he ordered to rest in place and sent scouts to investigate.

Soon scouts came to report that bodies had been found in the camp. Han Ze and Tang Xu understood and went to the camp, and sure enough, half of the Mangyuan garrison was killed, which should have been done recently.

"Where is the official pastor?" Han Ze asked.

No one answered, and there were only hundreds of dead bodies in the station.

"General Han, I'm afraid Si Jie will be treasonous." Tang Xu expressed his guess.

"I know, how can the Houthis be trusted? It's just that the 26,000 horses, a full 26,000,000," Han Ze said angrily, "Look at the corpse, it shouldn't have gone far, chase west." ”

"General Han, if Si Jie wants to commit treason, it doesn't have to be to defect to the Housthis, besides, how can Si Jie pass the Yang Pass in a grand manner? Twenty-six thousand horses are not twenty-six thousand grains of grain. Tang Xu made a guess.

"Between General Yitang, Si Jie defected to another country?"

"Don't forget that there is a big man here besides the official pastor." Tang Xu reminded.

The big man is naturally Qiao Guo Situ Xiahou Zhongqing, this stubborn big man was banished to Shepherd the sheep, and the news back to Wuyi is that he is drunk in wine and meat, drunk and dreaming all day long, no different from an ordinary old sheepherd.

"General, catch a herdsman."

The herdsman trembled, where had he ever seen such a formation. Tang Xu asked kindly: "Old man, do you know about the official pastor Sijie?"

The old herdsman nodded.

"Where did he go?"

The old herdsman pointed north.

"Chase, this Si Jie will definitely collude with the old thief Xiahou to join Qin Huai," Han Ze ordered, and called the herald again, "Quickly return to Wuyi to report." ”

Tang Xu led 10,000 light cavalry first, and Han Ze led 90,000 troops to follow, only hoping that the northern garrison could stop Sijie.

In the land of Jizhou, Wei and Chen fell to ten cities, and the Luling fortress held the northern border of the Song Kingdom, and the defender was Qi Ying. Qi Ying did not enter the list of 100 generals, not a general, but more than enough to guard the northern border.

Tang Xu led Wan to ride through the Mangyuan and arrived at the Luling Fortress. At this time, the Luling Fortress was in a mess, and it could be seen that it had just experienced a fierce battle, and there were hundreds of defeated troops wandering outside the fortress.

"Where's the guard?" Tang Xu grabbed a defeated soldier and questioned him.

"Dead."

"20,000 people in Luling Fortress are dead?" Tang Xu asked again.

"They're all dead."

"Are you still alive?" Before the words fell, Tang Xu's sword rose and fell, and he was killed.

The situation is bad, Ou Yao has treasoned, and the Luling Fortress has been lost, I am afraid that the Seven Nations Alliance has formed troops and is waiting for the Song army to enter the tiger's mouth.

The more Tang Xu thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and he took over the Luling Fortress, only hoping that Han Ze would come soon, otherwise once the Seven Kingdoms of the Northern Territory attacked, how could he hold on with these 10,000 horses?

When Song Xiao heard that Si Jie had committed treason, he almost vomited blood, and the entire 26,000 horses were gone, so he invited the third prince to discuss the matter.

"Your Majesty, Si Jie is simple-minded, this matter must be inseparable from Xiahou Zhongqing." Zou Gu said.

Song Xiao looked at Ou Yao with gloomy eyes, gritted his teeth and asked, "What does Sikong think?"

Ou Yao was sincerely frightened, and replied on the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister and Xiahou Zhongqing have broken up, and they have never corresponded, let alone know about it."

"Wang, Qin Huai has repeatedly offended and should be punished." Shi Huijin said.

"Hmph, what about the Seven Nations Alliance?" Song Xiao snorted coldly, "Order Han Ze and Tang Xu to capture Qin Huai alive, and if you can't do it, you will come to see you." ”

Song Xiao was furious, and the 100,000 male division galloped to the north again, together with the 100,000 army led by Han Ze, a total of 200,000, like a black cloud covering the sun, like a big river bursting its embankment.

The game between the Seven Nations Alliance led by Qin Huai and Song Xiao kicked off, this round of the game was Qin Huai's first move, and the two chess pieces made Song Xiao hurt his muscles and bones, how could Song Xiao be the one who suffered? Only Song Xiao has always taken advantage of it.