Chapter 541: The jade belt around his waist

There are always many places in nature that people can't understand, across a wolf milk mountain, the northwest of Dasui is cold in the early winter and can't take it out, and peeing slowly may frostbite the baby. But the winter on the west side of the Wolf Milk Mountain is not as cold as bizarre, and it is actually quite comfortable on a windless day.

In addition to cultivating, Fang Xie spent the rest of the time supervising the soldiers to get used to the horseback as soon as possible. This is the most chaotic time ever, but it is also the most opportune time ever. Otherwise, if the Han people want to live so comfortably on the grassland, eating beef and mutton and riding Mengyuan war horses is tantamount to a fantasy. The veterans of the Shanzi Battalion were particularly proud because they were all masters now, and each of them had to take dozens of apprentices to practice riding.

As long as the war horses, cattle and sheep are sacrificed, Fang Xie will not embarrass those weak tribes, so the grassland and the Han people get along well, and even some brave herdsmen will sit on the high slope and watch those Han soldiers clumsily climb on horseback and then simply fall down and laugh.

Although they gave a part of their wealth, it was not for nothing. Because of this powerful Han army, the horse thieves who became more and more rampant a while ago have become much more honest.

Wherever Fang Xie went, the white male lion would follow him. Fang Xie had gradually become accustomed to having such a behemoth as his entourage, and those herdsmen saw the legendary fierce white lion following the Han general, and they became more and more in awe and even fear of this Han man named Fang Jie.

The influence of Buddhism has been on the grasslands for thousands of years, and the herders believe in the rumors of the ominous white lion. By the way, they also confirmed that Fang was the one who was the murderer. Some people even swear that this solution is the reincarnation of the great demon who was suppressed by King Ming thousands of years ago, and his appearance is to take revenge.

At first, the herdsmen thought that such a vicious and cruel man would cause a bloody storm on the grassland, but later they found that this young and handsome man had a good temper and was always very easy-going.

"General, the soldiers are still not used to riding and shooting."

Sun Kaidao pointed to the soldiers who were training and said: "Shoot a bow and arrow on the back of a bumpy horse, and shoot the target accurately, the men of the grassland have been practicing since they can climb on horseback, and they are skilled in bowing horses before the age of ten." But most of our people still climb on the war horse at a time, and it is not possible to become a qualified light cavalry in a short time. ”

Fang Xie knew what Sun Kaidao meant, smiled and walked down the high slope, rode the white lion to the cavalry training ground, he asked for a hard bow and a pot of feather arrows, stopped in front of everyone and said loudly: "It only took me one month from the first time I touched the bow to hit the bull's-eye fifty steps away, and then it took three months to easily hit the target on my galloping war horse." So don't tell yourself from your heart that you can't do it...... Everyone is the same, Mengyuan people also have two arms and two legs, can they do it? ”

Fang Xie pointed to his head and said, "What's more, the Meng Yuan people here are even worse than you. ”

The soldiers burst into laughter.

Fang Xie urged the white lion to fire seven arrows in a row during the run, and the arrows hit the red heart.

"I know you're used to shooting arrows at the enemy once you're on your feet. But now that you are cavalry, wouldn't it be a shame if you didn't know how to shoot arrows on horseback? First of all, you must know what the advantage of cavalry is, and when we return to the Central Plains and have to fight with the enemy, when you ride like a war horse and sweep the flank of the enemy's army and overturn them with feather arrows, the arrows they shoot will not be able to catch up with your speed at all. ”

"You have to remember one thing, the better you practice, the better your chances of surviving on the battlefield, and the more likely the enemy is to die."

"From now on."

Fang Xie said loudly: "Those of you who are the commanders of the army and the commander of the brigade should be careful, if you are not the first batch of people who are good at riding and archery, your place will be replaced by someone stronger than you." You're all starting from scratch, playing fair, and if you want to keep your position, you'll need to be familiar with horseback before your men. And soldiers, each of you has a chance to become a new Captain and Brigade Leader! ”

The soldiers immediately erupted in cheers, while the junior officers looked worried.

Fang Xie saw their expressions and said, "What, are you scared?" If you're afraid, you don't have to compete, just find the captain who leads the team and say that you're quitting! If you do this, will you look down on yourself in the future? You became officers because you did better than your soldiers in foot combat! But now that you are no longer infantry, if you are not good enough, then why do you still occupy the position of officer? ”

"Let's go"

Fang Xie said loudly: "After three months, I will personally supervise the competition of each battalion. When the time comes, whoever performs the best will be promoted to lieutenant directly! ”

"The Great General is mighty!"

The soldiers cheered, and the atmosphere became especially enthusiastic.

Fang Xie got down from the white lion and strode up the high slope. Sun Kaidao said with a smile: "In this way, those Wu Changshi Chiefs below are afraid that they will not feel comfortable in their hearts." ”

Fang explained: "If you want to be comfortable, you can take out your own skills, everyone under my command has the opportunity to become an officer, it depends on whether you work hard." ”

"Where are the Northern Barbarians?"

He asked, after throwing the hard bow to the soldiers beside him.

"The scout came to report, the Northern Barbarians entered the grassland from the north of the Wolf Milk Mountain, and now in the Sele Banner, the Sele Banner is the northeasternmost grassland of the Mengyuan Dynasty, because of the remoteness, it has not been affected by the Mengyuan Civil War, the main leader of the Sele Banner led the troops to obey the dispatch in the royal court, but there are many soldiers left in the banner, and the Northern Barbarians want to gain a foothold on the grassland by relying on the stone hammer and wooden stick in their hands, it will not be easy."

Fang Xie snorted: "Fan Gucheng should have sent the news today, why hasn't it arrived yet." ”

Sun Kaidao thought for a while and said: "The emperor recruited troops to expand the army in Jinyang, and sent people to Fan Gu three times to ask the defenders to bring a message to the general, you go to Jinyang to face the saint. The general has not replied, estimating that the emperor will send someone to obstruct the transmission of news between Fan Gucheng and us. ”

"The means are getting worse and worse."

Fang Xie shook his head.

Sun Kaidao snorted: "It's just a disgusting method, and the emperor doesn't dare to easily provoke a war now." The longer he delays in the Northwest, the more unfavorable it will be to him. Luo Yao had already entered the south of the Yangtze River, and Gao Kaitai's men and horses occupied Hedong Road and then attacked Suyuan Road, approaching the hinterland of the Central Plains. The emperor was able to drag his sick body to hold on until now, not because he was worried that the young courtiers of the crown prince would mess up the government and wanted to rush back to help......"

"After the winter, it is estimated that the emperor will use troops against Gao Kaitai. But ......"

Sun Kaidao thought for a while and said: "Chen Xiaoru's flying fish robe inquired about the news that the emperor's body has almost collapsed these days, and he can't even walk by himself, so he relies on Su Buxing to push him in a wheelchair. Maybe...... The emperor simply can't wait for the spring to be warm. ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "Sometimes I think about it, the Yang family's world is so stable, how can it be said that it is chaotic, and it is scattered?" ”

"Stability is just what it looks like on the surface......"

Sun Kaidao sighed: "The Great Sui has only been established for more than a hundred years, and the attitude of the Yang family towards the people below is to allow them to target each other and weaken each other, and there is no trust between the courtiers, so there are few things to slander each other in secret." For more than 100 years, the contradictions between the old and new aristocrats were provoked by the Yang family, with the help of the meritorious ministers of the founding of the country to suppress the famous families of the previous dynasty, and with the help of the families of the previous dynasty to balance the meritorious ministers. ”

"The contradiction has always been there, but the Yang family is strong enough to suppress it. The successive emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty did not produce a single weakling, and they were all at ease in balancing the forces of all parties. But now, the emperor is seriously ill and dying, the prince is young, and the few people who the emperor trusts the most can be regarded as ministers who can be regarded as orphans are actually unreliable, let alone others? ”

Fang Xie nodded: "How does the military advisor think it can be solved?" ”

Sun Kaidao shook his head slowly: "My subordinates only know how to be a minister......

Fang Xie sighed, thinking in his heart that it was so hard to be an emperor, not to mention that he had to deal with so many complicated affairs every day, just how to balance the ministers under him, and he might not be able to do it well if he racked his brains.

He sat down on the high slope and watched the soldiers below in a daze, thinking about such a question that he would never have considered before. Maybe it's because I'm a little bored, but I think about it a lot. The more he thought about it, Fang Xie found that he had to admire the people of the Yang family.

From the founding of the country to the present, with the means of the Yang family to check and balance the courtiers, if there is a waste emperor, I am afraid that the government will already be in a mess.

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Because the days were comfortable enough, the soldiers realized that it was time for the New Year before they realized that time had flown by. The months passed so quickly, their lives were full and fun, and they went back to the camp to rest after training every day, so they didn't have to worry about what kind of enemies they were facing, so they were extra relaxed.

When it comes to Fang Jie's cultivation, there is no need to care about the alternation of cold and warm.

The soldiers wore thick cotton clothes, but he remained only a single robe. Therefore, it looks even more upright.

Over the past few days, the people in the flying fish robe have been trying to infiltrate the royal court, but because of their appearance and language, it is so difficult to do it. And Chen Xiaoru's status in the Ouchi Guards was not high, only a hundred households, so he didn't know how many people had been arranged in the Ouchi Guards to lurk in Mengyuan. Zhuo Buyi's position is not low, but he is the kind of person who will never ask Luo Weiran about such a thing.

So now, the people in Mengyuan who are in the Ouchi guards can't use any of them.

Those people may have known that he was in Manduqi, but because of their worries about the situation, none of them wanted to expose it. The chaos of the Great Sui and the civil war in the Mengyuan Dynasty made them see an opportunity to be ordinary people. As long as they don't stand up on their own, they can maintain the life they are already familiar with. They can put aside the identity of the flying fish robe, and they don't have to worry about it anymore.

There is no reliable news, not even a message.

Fang Xie couldn't predict what kind of outcome Prince Zhong and Xiang Qingniu would have when they went to the Great Snow Mountain, he knew that King Ming was seriously injured, but an old monster with a thousand years of cultivation, did he really have no means to save his life? If King Ming is such a person, how can he be the only one for thousands of years?

That's right, the current Buddha sect is the weakest Buddha sect in history, and the current Ming King is the weakest Ming King in history.

But Fang Xie always felt that Prince Zhong's road to killing King Ming would not be so smooth.

There is also the mysterious Dazi Tianzun, it is said that he is the first person under the Ming King if he does not come out of the Great Wheel Temple. But this is too vague, Fang Xie doesn't know how strong King Ming is, so he can't guess how strong Dazi is.

More and more people were sent out, but still nothing.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, when the soldiers were ready to spend their first Spring Festival on the grassland, the rangers patrolling thirty miles outside the camp noticed a black spot in the distance, which was moving slowly. They were immediately alert and fanned outflanked.

When they got closer, they realized that it was a fat man with a somewhat dull face.

He walked like a machine, his lips chapped and his clothes tattered. The boots were gone, and the feet were black and dirty. His face was very bad, and he didn't know how many days he hadn't taken a shower. A few meters away, an unpleasant smell can rush into a person's nose. The hair is messy, like a chicken nest.

But there was a clean-looking jade belt around his waist, and he held it with one hand.

Decent and upright.