Xu Huizu took a pen and paper, wrote a letter, tied it to an arrow, and shot it into the camp. After a while, an arrow was shot from the lookout post, Xu Huizu sent someone to pick it up, opened the letter and looked at it, and said, "We enter from the northwest corner, and we can't ride horses." ”

When everyone reached the northwest corner, the guards took a broom and swept the thistle to both sides, and when everyone walked by, the guards restored the thistle. When they entered the camp, they found that there were two bed crossbows on both sides of the camp gate, and if they did not get permission, they would surely die if they entered from this direction, and they could not dodge, because there were thistles all around. And the hearts of the people said, What a wicked heart.

King Yan and the others entered the camp gate, Qu Neng and the others were already waiting at the door to greet them, and a cadre of people just gave a military salute, Chen Heng and the others were just about to ask, Xu Huizu hurriedly made a round and said: "This is also the order of His Royal Highness, even if His Royal Highness is in the army, he will only salute." Chen Heng immediately stopped talking, and his face turned red. Although he served King Yan, he didn't dare to say that King Yan's status could be higher than that of His Royal Highness Taisun.

King Yan's face was as usual, and he said, "General Qu, can you take this king for a walk in the army?" ”

"Yes, lord."

By this time it was already dark, but the camp was still full of torches. Qu Neng led King Yan to inspect the camp, and Zhu Di saw that the barracks were full of soldiers, with shield soldiers in front, pikemen in the middle, and archers in the back, while the soldiers in the inner camp were still resting, so he said, "General Qu, how is this arranged?" ”

Qu Neng arched his hand and said: "Lord, I guard the military system, and set up one or two zhang high lookout posts every ten zhang, with two sentries on them, one shift every hour, and eight permanent soldiers in rotation. Fireballs are fired every two quarters of an hour, and if the sentry finds an enemy appearing, they will blow a warning post, and each guard has at least a thousand soldiers who are not disarmed, and must be lined up in the present formation for defense within a hundred and fifty snaps of the fingers, and each soldier will set the position of the guard before going to bed at night to avoid standing in the wrong position. Other soldiers are deployed according to the actual situation. ”

"What if you need an inner battalion to fight?"

"The soldiers of the inner battalion are in a group of three, and one person is assisted in armor piercing, and they will go into battle immediately after armor piercing, and so on, to ensure that combat effectiveness can be formed in the shortest possible time."

Zhu Di smiled in surprise: "Do all the guards have armor?" ”

Qu Neng smiled and said, "Your Highness Hongen, all the guards are wearing armor. ”

Zhu Di was silent for a long time and said, "Very good." ”

Zhu Di and his entourage walked around the camp, constantly asking this and that, Qu Neng patiently explained, making Zhu Di's guard generals full of envy, but Zhu Di's face seemed to be a little gloomy.

When the time came, the wake-up whistle was blown in the camp, and the camp was lively, and the soldiers of the inner battalion got up and went to the center of the camp to line up to receive food, and after a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of the inner battalion began to take over the work of the guards, and the soldiers of the outer battalion began to eat and rest.

Zhu Di looked at it and said, "Why didn't the guards take down?" ”

Qu Neng said: "The prince's army is within one mile, and the guards cannot be withdrawn, at least they must stay five miles away." ”

"Your military rules are too rigid, how can such a soldier stand it."

"It's a little, but His Highness said that sweating is better than bleeding, and the last general thinks it makes sense."

"Okay," Zhu Di got up and said to Xu Huizu: "Wei Guogong, this king is going to go out, come over at three o'clock in the morning, and conduct a review, how about it?" ”

"Lord Wang, I will send you at the end."

"No, you can prepare."

......

Zhu Di returned to his army, summoned all the officers of more than 1,000 households, and first asked Chen Heng to introduce the situation inside the barracks, and said, "What do you think, let's discuss it." ”

Everyone thought for a while, and Zhang Yu, the commander of the left guard, said: "Lord Wang, the grandson's guards are well-equipped and well-trained, and it is impossible to break through the camp of the guards head-on. ”

"Why?"

"Because of thistles, fireballs, lookout posts, it's almost impossible to sneak attack. And the frontal attack, with shield men in front and pikemen in the middle, their spears are two feet long, set up on the fence, and they cannot rush through at all, they will only be shot dead by the archers behind. ”

"So how can you defeat the Guardians?"

"It's also very simple, get the convoy out of the camp and defeat it on the plains."

Everyone suddenly realized that they were frightened by the equipment of the Taisun Guard, in fact, as long as it was infantry, it was easy to be defeated by cavalry. Then everyone was talking about the tactics of cavalry defeating infantry, and the discussion was in full swing.

Seeing that everyone's emotions were raised, Zhu Di asked everyone to rest for a while after eating, and gathered at the end of the day to visit the exercises of the escort army.

At two o'clock, a cannon rang out, the camp gate opened, and the cavalry rushed out, like a stream flowing down the plain, and quickly lined up in a phalanx on the plain; After that, the infantry wore armor, the shield men in front, the pikemen in the back, the musketeers in the back, and the archers in the back, in a phalanx of five thousand men.

On the hastily built platform, Zhu Di, Xu Huizu, Qu Neng and others reviewed on the stage. When the phalanx was formed, Qu Neng asked, "Lord Wang, can you start?" ”

"Yes." Zhu Di nodded.

Qu Neng gave the order, the herald waved the flag, and a column of military drums in front of the high platform sounded, and the drums were far-reaching and melodious, resounding throughout the four fields. With the sound of the drums of the musical instruments, the infantry phalanx began to move, and the whole formation of the ten-zhang phalanx marched once every time, and then continued to march, Zhu Di and the others silently counted in their hearts, and when they saw that the infantry phalanx marched a hundred zhang and still remained unchanged, their faces changed a little. Then the drum beat changed, the phalanx began to turn, the shield soldiers on the side turned to the right, and then the shield soldiers formed a situation in front of the shield soldiers and continued to advance.

The drum beat changed again, the phalanx stood still, with the sound of the horn, the three columns of musketeers walked in front of the shield soldiers, and began to shoot in three stages, after the soldiers shot, they immediately stepped back and reloaded, and the soldiers behind stepped forward and continued to shoot, and so on, the sound of gunfire was like the sound of running water, and the targets in front were broken in rows. Then the musketeers retreated behind the shieldmen, and the spears stretched out, forming a two-foot-long forest of guns, and the musketeers began to shoot between the shields.

Then the flag flashed, and the cavalry began to move around the infantry phalanx, only as they moved, the infantry phalanx just had to turn to the left, to the right. After a few turns, Qu Neng signaled to Mingjin that the exercise was over.

Qu Neng faced King Yan and said, "Please give me instructions." ”

Zhu Di smiled and said: "The exercise of the escort army is very good, well-equipped, well-trained, and the king will be rewarded in a while." In addition, when he came to the palace at noon, the king was to give a banquet to the generals. ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

......

At the banquet at noon, Zhu Di made a lot of effort, not only called the officers of more than 1,000 households in his escort army, but also called his princess and son to appear together, and he was also very enthusiastic about Qu Neng and others. Zhu Di is concerned about how the guards are trained, and Qu Neng knows everything about this, because there is no secret, just hard training. Zhu Di pondered for a while, and found that it was similar to what Zhang Fu said, so he made up his mind and supported Zhang Fu's training plan.

Zhang Fu didn't notice this, he had a thousand glasses of wine with his confidant, and he was drinking with Tan Yuan and others, talking about the other party's troubles in martial arts, and he was extremely happy......

Zhang Fu was drunk and carried back to Zhang's mansion, muttering: "Who has written history for 10,000 years, looking for the marquis three thousand miles away, looking for the marquis......"