Li Chengqian and the others returned to the main hall of the Hongjiao Hall while drinking tea and talking, while waiting for the Jiade Hall to reorganize the army.

After about three quarters of an hour, the guards shouted outside the hall that the army had been completed, Li Chengqian heard it and got up and walked out, and when he walked in front of Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian, he said to the two: "This assembly speed is too slow, you train him according to the training method of the lonely king, and the assembly cannot exceed a quarter of an hour in the future." ”

"What kind of training method is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince talking about?" Xue Rengui has not yet seen Li Chengqian write a training strategy.

"A training strategy written by the Lone King is in the covenant." Keeping the contract is Pei Xingjian's word, Pei Xingjian heard Li Chengqian's strategy for training soldiers, and hurriedly took it out and wanted to hand it to Xue Rengui, but he took it back halfway, and said with a smile: "Brother Xue, the younger brother will copy a copy of it for you when he turns around, and I will collect this copy." ”

Xue Rengui was puzzled: "It's better to show me the covenant first, and I'll just copy it and then return it to you." ”

Pei Xingjian hesitated for a moment and said, "Then you are not allowed to fight with me?"

"What's the point of contention here—" Xue Rengui didn't finish his sentence, and the thin gold body full of paper opened his mouth in shock, thinking that there were such beautiful words!

Pei Xingjian looked busy and said: "Brother Xue just came to the capital, and the younger brother will give Brother Xue a drink alone at night......

Li Chengqian still wanted to explain Xue Rengui two more sentences, but when he looked back, the two were in a relationship.

Dissatisfied: "You two are walking slower than the Lone King!" After hearing this, the two hurriedly ran to Li Chengqian to confess, but Li Chengqian ignored it and continued: "Go back and train the four guards in detail with this training strategy, and then you can't find any deficiencies and correct them, so that you can train more troops in the future." Li Chengqian walked as he spoke, and Xue Rengui had to bend down and follow him very hard.

Pei Xingjian followed on the other side, listening to Li Chengqian's words about finding out the deficiencies in the training strategy, and said busily: "His Royal Highness the Prince's training strategy is very subtle and has no shortcomings. ”

Li Chengqian glanced at him angrily and said, "I asked you to come to Xieyou Rengui to train the army, not to let you pat yourself on the back." You haven't even used this training strategy, so how do you know that there are no shortcomings. ”

Pei Xingjian just scratched his head and laughed dryly when he heard this, looking at him as a very honest young man, Li Chengqian knew that this guy must be pretending. But you can't demolish him, this is also a way for superiors and subordinates to get along, if the superiors say a little heavier, the people below will make a big red face, how to get along in the future?

Li Chengqian led everyone directly through the Jiade Hall to the square in front of the Jiade Palace, at this time the crown prince's throne has been set up in front of the Jiade Palace, the left and right guards of the East Palace and the left and right divisions of the imperial rate have been arranged according to the system of the crown prince's guard of honor, thousands of people each holding axes, axes, swords, halberds, flags, umbrella covers, and ceremonial staffs are lined up left and right. More than 20 generals, including the chief and deputy leaders of the six rates of the East Palace and the Zhonglang generals and Lang generals of the Yifu of the Qinfu Xunfu, are all wearing armor and holding swords, and are listed on both sides of the prince's seat.

The winter sun was warm, and the generals on both sides of the throne were wearing silver bright light armor and standing there majestically with cold and shining weapons, and the entire square was solemn.

However, today Li Chengqian wants to reorganize the left and right prison and left and right internal rates, except for the remaining 2,000 people who are still standing guard at the gates of the East Palace, they are standing in the square in front of them, talking about something, and when they stand under the porch, they can hear the buzzing in the square.

Li Chengqian walked to the throne and sat down, and everyone who did not hold a ceremonial staff in the vicinity saluted him.

The guards in the square also knelt down in a panic when they saw it, and shouted unevenly: "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chengqian walked down from his seat with an expressionless face, walked step by step to the stone platform prepared in advance with his cane, and looked back and forth in the crowd with his eyes facing the square, and the sound in the square gradually became quieter.

Li Chengqian cleared his throat and said, "Let's all be flat." After everyone got up, he continued: "Seeing you standing loosely like this, the lonely king is very sad."

You are the personal guards of the Lone King, and it is the Lone King who usually did not train you well to make you what you are now, so the Lone King is ready to find someone to train you again.

Have any of you volunteered to come forward and retrain the Four-Rate Praetorian Guard for the Lone King?" Li Chengqian stopped after speaking, and his eyes scanned the crowd to find that no one stood up.

"Then you elect a few people to come out, the Lone King will give you a quarter of an hour, you quickly select a few people to come up, and the Lone King will choose from among them." After that, Li Chengqian walked back to the throne directly and sat down to elect.

The people brought by Li Chengqian also stood on either side of Li Chengqian, standing closer than the others.

Looking at Li Chengqian, who was expressionless, Zhao Jie couldn't help but ask: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you can't just let Rengui take over, why do you still let them elect?"

Before Li Chengqian could speak, Du He said: "What do you know, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to find the thorns in it again, and when they jump out, let Rengui teach them a hard lesson, so that Rengui can better grasp these people in the future." After Du He finished speaking, he turned to Li Chengqian and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, this trick is really clever?"

Li Chengqian smiled slightly when he heard this, but said, "Okay, go and prepare good horses and weapons for Rengui and ...... things to use for arrows later." ”

Du He and Zhao Jie personally led people to prepare, and Xue Rengui, who was standing behind Li Chengqian, was deeply moved by Li Chengqian's arrangement, while several civil officials looked at Li Chengqian with a little more appreciation and admiration.

But there are also some worries, is Xue Rengui really capable?

This side is ready, and four people are also selected in the square, and the first one in line is Hou Junji's son-in-law Helan Chushi, Helan Chushi is the Qianniu prepared by the left internal guard. In the original history, he served as the mouthpiece of Li Chengqian and Hou Junji, and later Li Chengqian and Hou Junji were arrested, and he took the letters exchanged between Li Chengqian and Hou Junji to expose and report to Li Shimin.

Although he only reported it after Li Chengqian's defeat, he kept the correspondence between Li Chengqian and Hou Junji that should have been burned to leave a way out for himself, so Li Chengqian did not like him very much.

Two of the remaining three are generals and deputy leaders of the left and right internal guard rates, and like the left and right prison guards, the generals of the internal guard rate are also meritorious children. The original Li Chengqian often hunted, drank and danced Turkic dances with them, but now Li Chengqian has not seen them since he woke up.

Li Chengqian looked at the four people standing in front of him, and said lightly: "The four of you were originally the generals of the left and right internal guard rates, and the left and right internal guard rates are so unseemly, do you still think that you can train well?"

When several people heard this, their faces immediately changed, and they didn't dare to speak for a while when they looked at Li Chengqian's expressionless face.

"Since everyone elected you, you think you have some ability, and the Lone King will find someone to compete with you, and the winner will be responsible for training these guards for the Lone King." Li Chengqian said lightly.

The four of them are not very capable, but they are all shrewd people who can be on an errand in the East Palace, and when they heard Li Chengqian's words, they immediately understood that they were asking him to be other stepping stones, and a wave of anger immediately rushed to the top of their heads.

"The last general commands." The four of them agreed, but everyone could tell that they were dissatisfied.

"Let's go down and prepare!"

Li Chengqian watched the four of them leave, glanced back at Qiu Shenji, and then said to Xue Rengui: "Just let them lie down for a few months and keep their lives." ”

Everyone in the corridor was shocked, but they all knew that this was already the lightest punishment.

Xue Rengui hugged his fist at Li Chengqian, and also turned around and went down to prepare.

According to the arrangement of Du He and Zhao Jie, the competition was divided into two games: one was mounted archery, and the other was a battle immediately.

First than riding and shooting.

According to Li Chengqian's requirements, the target was to wear a wooden suit and wear seven layers of armor, and no one else on the field knew except Du He and Zhao Jie.

When everyone saw the comparison, they all felt that it was the prince's nonsense again, because they felt that it would not affect the ending, so no one raised a different opinion.

Helan Chushi and the four of them wore silver bright light armor, rode a high-headed horse, and came to the field with carved lacquer bows on their backs.

The soldiers below had already heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was going to find someone else to train them, and they were a little dissatisfied in their hearts, and they were closer to Helan Chushi, so as soon as they appeared, the soldiers on both sides applauded.

At this time, Xue Rengui appeared in the square dressed in a white robe, riding a tall horse, and carrying a longbow behind him.

The soldiers here are all sons of rich families, and when they saw Xue Rengui wearing an old white robe and not even a piece of armor, they despised him very much.

There was even more frivolous shouting below: "Go back quickly, this is the guard of the East Palace, not where you should come if you are poor." Caused a burst of laughter below.

Although the generals who stood beside Li Chengqian did not smile, their eyes were clearly to see Li Chengqian's jokes, although these famous generals who did not leave their names in history, they were all veteran generals who had made military exploits on the battlefield, and they looked down on such a person who Xue Rengui was neither meritorious nor on the battlefield.

Li Chengqian said expressionlessly: "Let them start." ”

As the old ghost shouted, Du He waved the small flag in his hand, and the right internal guard led the deputy to ride out first.

I saw that he slowly increased the speed of his horse, and when he ran to a distance of two hundred paces from the target, he quickly drew his bow and arrows, and made a sudden effort, pulling the carved lacquer longbow in his hand into a full moon.

There was a "bang" sound, and the arrow was firmly nailed to the heart of the armor on the target post.

The soldiers on both sides applauded, and he raised two fists and howled on his horse, venting their joy.

After a while, Du He shook the small flag in his hand again, and the square gradually quieted down, and the general was about to shoot, but over there Zhao Jie led people to quickly walk to the target post to disarm the target post, and everyone asked the people around him in confusion, I don't know what Zhao Jie is doing?

Soon Zhao Jie's voice sounded: "Two hundred steps, the arrow penetrates two layers of armor." Then there were soldiers raised, two pieces of armor, and pointed to the arrow holes above.

After everyone on the field understood what was going on, they applauded loudly, and even the generals under the corridor applauded excitedly.