Leaning on the carriage, Fang Xie rested with his legs closed and his eyes closed, but he looked very good. The big dog sat on the side to catch the car, and from time to time pinched a piece of extremely hard dog meat from the oil-paper bag on the side to eat. This big bag of stewed dog meat, as well as the dozens of dog meat buns wrapped in the carriage, were specially made by Du Hongxian, the proprietress of Yunji, and it was this thing she carried in her hand that night, and she was going to give it to Fang Xie Lu to make dry food, but who would have thought that Fang Xie would rest heavily for a few days before making the trip.

However, don't expect the food to be bad in the cold weather of this place, as soon as it is heated in the stove, it will immediately smell fragrant.

Fang Jie's carriage walked at the back of the convoy, and the seven carriages in front of him were all beautiful girls with red sleeves. The car at the front was the guard with red sleeves, the second car was occupied by Aunt Xi and Xi Candlewick, and it was the old lame man who drove the car.

"At this rate, it will take about four months to get to Chang'an."

Fang Jie, who was pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, suddenly spoke, his tone a little helpless.

"I can't miss your exam."

The big dog chewed the dog meat, because it was already cold, so it was a little laborious to chew: "The exam of the Martial Arts Academy is the end of June, and it is only the first month now, even if you walk for five months, you can't miss it." The Great Sui Performing Arts Academy holds an examination every three years, and each time the examination starts a year ago, it begins to be selected one after another, because the Great Sui is too big, and the candidates in the southernmost Yongjun County will be on the road before the year, and they will have to walk for at least six or seven months. ”

"I'm always afraid of delays, and I have to run to the yamen of the military department, the household department, and the official department, and I don't know if I will be troubled."

Fang Xie said with some concern: "I heard that the officials in the imperial capital are all over-eyed, and the people they look down on the most are people outside the imperial capital. It seems that the world of the Great Sui is divided into two parts, one is called the imperial capital, which is unattainable. One piece is called the other place, and the same is inferior. ”

The big dog persuaded: "You are a candidate in the army, so the military department will naturally not be embarrassed." Fifty percent of the students recruited by the Academy of Martial Arts are from the army, and fifty percent are from the people, and the military department hopes that the people in the army will do well in the exam, and they will be ashamed if they are robbed of the limelight by the civilian candidates. Besides, Fan Gucheng has only produced such a person as you for decades, so will he brush you down without taking the exam? Besides, don't we have silver in our hands, it's a big deal that each yamen stuffs a big red envelope of one hundred taels. ”

"Phew!"

Fang Xie took a sip and smiled: "Do you think the officials of the imperial capital are earthen buns who have never seen the world?" A hundred taels of silver are going to be bought? ”

"How much more money will it cost?"

Fang Xie pondered for a while and said, "Why do you have to get three hundred taels?" ”

The big dog was suddenly startled, and couldn't help but scold: "Do you want to drink human blood!" ”

The two of them had never seen the prosperous soil buns of the Great Sui Imperial Capital, because three hundred taels or one hundred taels argued, and their faces were red. Mu Xiaoxiao, who was sleeping in the carriage, turned over impatiently, and said in his heart Isn't it just silver, it's a big deal to stuff it in, what's the trouble to steal it back at night?

The same has never seen the world......

"Big dog, when you come to the imperial capital in the future, you have to call me Gongzi."

Fang Xie opened his eyes, looked at the floating clouds in the sky, and said seriously: "I also have to think of a word with some deep meaning, Juexiao, Juexiao...... I thought of this myself, it's too cheesy. I have to think of a more elegant name. Big dog, can you help me think about it...... Forget it, I know from your name that you can't help much. ”

The big dog smiled and simply didn't answer.

After thinking about it for a while, Fang Xie couldn't think of any good names, so he opened the curtain and got into the carriage. Seeing that Mu Xiaowaist was asleep, she sat down and shook her arm and asked, "Sister Xiaoxiao, I want a watchword." ”

Mu Xiaoxiao suddenly woke up and sat up straight, looked at Fang Xie with straight eyes, and said, "...... You want a? I'll just say...... You can't go with the people with the red sleeves! ”

"What's the matter?"

I don't understand.

"You want a, won't you go to the front carriage yourself and ask for it? What did you come in and tell me? You have at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in your package, even if the woman with red sleeves is expensive, she can't buy a for tens of thousands of taels? Leave me alone! I'm going to sleep! ”

Fang Xie was surprised: "Don't I just want a table word, why are you so angry?" ”

"Where you have to go, where you have to go! Don't bother me! ”

"Let me pay for the watch...... How cheesy? ”

Fang Xie muttered, turned around and came out again. Mu Xiaoyi behind him said angrily: "-son doesn't need money, do you still plan to do it in vain?!" ”

Fang Xie was thinking about the words and names in his mind, where did he think that Mu Xiaowaist would be wrong. Thinking that when I arrived in the imperial capital in the future, I couldn't behave too shabby, so it would be better to be more elegant in terms of words and names. Although he has memories of two lives, he has no understanding of this strange world. He didn't even know that the words in this world were different from the history he knew. In this world, only fathers can take table characters for their children, and even teachers are not qualified to do so.

"Forget it, the word Juexiao has entered the military, and I can't change it if I want to."

He sighed, and then asked the big dog beside him, "How about I call myself Xipo Jushi?" ”

"Why is it called West Slope?"

"Because there is a very famous person named Dongpo. Besides, we are indeed from the west, the wolf milk mountain range west of Fangu City, in my opinion, is a dirt slope, from the soil slope west of the Great Sui, so that the west slope monks also respond to the scene. ”

"You are suspected of plagiarism!"

"Plagiarism...... He copied from the east slope and I copied from the west slope? ”

"Or what?"

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Fan Gu

On the fourth day after Fang Xie left, a group of about 200 elite cavalry rushed along the official road to the east gate of Fangu. Although the armor of this cavalry was covered with a layer of dust, it could still be seen that it was exceptionally well-made. It's not leather armor, it's real chain mail. Not only the chain mail, but also the chain mail wears a layer of iron armor that is not too heavy but extremely strong. This body of armor is at least sixty or seventy pounds.

Most of the knights on horseback are burly and strong, which shows that the horses they sit on are not mortal. Those knights were strong and tall, and none of them weighed less than one hundred and fifty pounds. Coupled with such heavy armor, weapons, bags, and clothing, if it weren't for the heavy burden of a really good horse, it would not be able to run at all!

Heavy armor, Mo knife, iron helmet, red cloak.

Coupled with the golden embroidered dragon battle flag of the Great Sui that glowed in the sun, this group of cavalry looked particularly majestic and solemn. Although the number of people is not large, it has a magnificent temperament like thousands of troops.

It is not easy to see a pure cavalry team in the Great Sui, and it is even more difficult to see such an elite heavy cavalry. Because of the blockade of the Mengyuan Empire, not only were the tribes on the grassland not allowed to sell to the Great Sui War Horse, but even those small countries in the Western Regions could not have a single war horse circulated to the Great Sui. And although the Great Sui is rich in land and resources, it is the lack of horses that makes the emperors of the Great Sui want to scold their mothers.

So since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, cavalry has always been the dream of all generals.

The sixteen guards of the Great Sui maintained about 50,000 men each. Even if they are now transferred to defend Chang'an City, they are known as the Left Guard, Right Guard, Left Guard, Right Guard, Left Guard, Left Leading Guard, and Right Leading Guard, among the more than 300,000 elite soldiers, there are no 20,000 cavalry.

The light cavalry is still like this, not to mention the heavy cavalry, which is extremely difficult to build.

In the entire Great Sui, except for the six armies of the Son of Heaven, only the Right Xiaowei had a heavy cavalry of 500 people, even if it was a mere 500, it took almost five years for Li Yuanshan, the general of the Right Xiaowei, to establish. The Great Sui was not short of money and food, and it was not difficult to build heavy armor, but it was difficult to find five hundred war horses that could carry heavy cavalry to fight and kill.

Right Xiaowei has been operating in the northwest for so many years, and it took these 500 excellent war horses from various channels to collect. Even at the risk of being blamed by the imperial court for causing a war, he robbed the envoy group of the Tusi Kingdom in the Western Regions to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui four years ago.

Li Yuanshan did this, and he knew that it was impossible to hide it from the emperor. In fact, when the emperor heard the cry of the prince of Natus, he understood what was going on. He was appeased and rewarded with a lot of satin porcelain. Then His Majesty the Emperor wrote a handwritten letter to scold Li Xiaozong, and Li Xiaozong laughed instead of panicking after reading it.

"Idiot! I finally tricked a few envoys from small countries in the Western Regions to come to the audience, and I was robbed by you the first one to come in, how dare the latter come in? You idiot, won't you wait for them to leave?! ”

These 500 heavy cavalry are the personal soldiers of Li Yuanshan, the general of the Right Xiaowei.

Therefore, when the defenders of Fangu City recognized these heavy cavalry, they immediately opened the city gate and let them go, without even looking at the token that was taken out for the first captain. Because the Mengyuan Empire lacked iron weapons, it was reluctant to build heavy cavalry. Besides, the steppe people have always thought that cavalry is fast, and although the cavalry wearing heavy armor is amazingly powerful, it cannot be compared with light cavalry in terms of speed.

The cavalry captain who led the team didn't bother to talk to the defenders at all, and went directly into the city to the general's mansion.

When they arrived at the gate of Li Xiaozong's general's mansion, the soldiers guarding the gate immediately stepped forward to stop them. The lieutenant didn't bother to answer, casually threw the waist card to the soldier guarding the door, dismounted and strode into the general's mansion. A heavy cavalry captain was arrogant and domineering, and it was rumored that all the people on the right guard were unruly.

Li Xiaozong heard the voice coming from the study, and glanced at the captain coldly: "Even if you are a captain under the command of the general, have you forgotten the military discipline of the Great Sui?" When you see General Ben, why don't you give a military salute? Before the punishment of the imperial court came down, this Fan Gucheng will still be me. ”

The lieutenant was stunned for a moment, then snorted coldly and casually gave a military salute: "Retreat, the general is here in person." ”

Li Xiaozong was shocked, and his heart suddenly tightened.

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The stove in the study was removed, because what the general Li Yuanshan didn't like the most was the charcoal ash that floated up. He has something wrong with his nose, and he feels uncomfortable when he smells it. This problem was not often committed in the imperial capital, and after arriving in the northwest, it became more and more frequent because of the cold weather. But I can't smell the charcoal ash, and I am in a dilemma.

Li Yuanshan, who was wearing an ordinary heavy knight's uniform, looked at the layout in the study, with a faint dissatisfaction between his eyebrows.

As the general of the Right Xiaowei, he must also be held accountable for leaving the imperial court without authorization. Although he is domineering, he is by no means reckless.

"Do you know why I'm here?"

He looked at a picture of a tiger descending from a mountain hanging on the wall, and asked in a flat tone.

"Because Wu Companion Sheng died."

Li Xiaozong, who was kneeling on the ground, answered very simply, but this sentence can already represent all the trouble. What kind of greedy ink, what kind of military opened a casino, these things are simply not worth mentioning compared to Wu Xiangsheng's death.

"That's not right."

Li Yuanshan looked back at Li Xiaozong, and there was a little more anger in his tone: "It's because you are not clean enough!" Since Wu Baisheng must die, he must die completely! There are so many people in the army who know about this, why don't you kill it? There is also that solution, why not get rid of such a scourge? ”

Li Xiaozong smiled bitterly: "I have lost my military heart. ”

"The military heart of 800 people is nothing!"

Li Yuanshan snorted and asked, "Do the people in the city know the truth?" ”

"I don't know."

"That's fine...... After all, there is some trouble in slaughtering the city. ”