Early the next morning, He Zhangqi took more than a dozen people out of the village and went to the Black Wind Village. The rest of the people, some of whom Huang Zide personally led, went to the mountains over there to cut wood and use it to build more houses; The rest of the people followed Liu Jiexuan and Xuan Yi to learn the mandarin duck formation.

In Liu Jiexuan's opinion, although Xuanyi Daoist took out the formation diagram, he may not be very clear about the real application. Because of the matter of fighting, people who have never been on the battlefield, no matter how smart they are, will always have shortcomings.

However, Xuanyi's performance was completely beyond Liu Jiexuan's expectations, and when conducting the formation drill, Xuanyi Daoist seemed to be particularly familiar with the battle formation, especially the tactics of the Jokhang official army. In many cases, he can even point out some details that people don't notice during the drill. In addition, those who are still following Huang Zide now are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and their own quality is good. And now those who have been selected to practice this mandarin duck formation first are selected from among these people. Before the Battle of Tongguan, Huang Zide claimed to have 150,000 troops, of course, in fact there could not be so many, but the real number was close to 50,000, of which there were about 20,000 people who could go to the battlefield except for the old, weak, women and children. In the battle of Tongguan, Huang Zide was almost wiped out, but the people who could run out with him could be said to be one in a thousand heroes. So they performed very well in the drill, and in just one morning, their mandarin duck formation already had some basic appearance.

"Dao Chief, after practicing for a few more days, you can go down to the school field and compete with others." At lunchtime, Liu Jiexuan took a cake and walked to Xuan Yi's side.

"Well, General Liu, sit here." Xuan Yi hurriedly swallowed the cake in his mouth.

"Well," Liu Jiexuan sat down, opened his mouth and took a bite of the cake fiercely, swallowed it twice, and then said, "Dao Elder doesn't have to be so polite, just call me Lao Liu, be so affectionate." Well, Daoist, have you worked in the army before? I see that you are very familiar with the things of the battle array, many very delicate places, my old Liu has not noticed, Dao Chief, you have noticed them. ”

Of course, it is impossible for Xuan Yi to say, "I am reborn, and I have fought with you in my last life", let alone "In my right hand, there is a monster with thousands of years of war experience", so he thought about it and replied like this: "My division responded to the call of Governor Hu and organized personnel to participate in the war against the Japanese. Some of my predecessors, including my master, once went to the battlefield with Qi Dashuai and killed the Japanese invaders. After they returned to the mountain gate, they also brought back some martial arts in the army and taught them to our juniors. When they have nothing to do, they often talk to us juniors about fighting on the battlefield. I grew up listening to them talk about this, so I remember a few of them. ”

Liu Jiexuan looked at Xuan Yi fixedly, and only said after a while: "Dao Chief, those elders of yours are very real, they are all telling the truth!" You may not know that one of the favorite things that those who serve in the army, including my old Liu, like is bragging. Nine out of ten sentences are unreliable, and it's not easy for those elders of yours to be like this. ”

When Xuan Yi heard this, he couldn't help but think of the words that suddenly came out of the day before yesterday when Liu Jiexuan talked to him about the ambush in Qiutou Town: "The mouth of the veteran, the water of the sea." ”

"General Liu, those elders in the poor path are all monks, and they have precepts, and they can't tell lies." Xuan Yi replied.

"Well, I see." Liu Jiexuan said with a smile, "Daoist, you are true Taoists, unlike the empty monk on Zhang Jingxuan's side, that product is a monk full of flowers and wine, and he can blow better than Lao Tzu!" ”

Xuan Yi, a monk in the sky, knows it, and Xuan Yi has also had some dealings with him in his previous life. This person is a monk on the surface, but in fact, he is the heel of the White Lotus Sect, and his magic skills are also very good, and he is also quite valued by Zhang Jingxuan. This person is practicing the exercises of the Demon Dao, and if you want to practice, you need to kill a lot, Zhang Jingxuan is easy to kill, and there is quite an influence of empty monks. Now that Zhang Jingxuan has been recruited, he will not kill people for the time being, and most of this person is not very satisfied. If you want Zhang Jingxuan to raise troops again, this person can use one or two.

No drills were scheduled for the afternoon. The reason is simple, because military training requires a lot of nutrition. To ensure a full day of drills, even in formations that are not particularly high-intensity, you also need to ensure a large supply of calories and protein. To put it more clearly, it is not only necessary to have enough food, but also to have meat to eat. Now that the rout is over, there are not many people left, but there is a lot of silver brought out, and there is no problem in the supply of food in a short time, but it is not easy to eat meat. In this poor and remote country, even if there is money, there is nowhere to buy meat. This is also the reason why there is a popular saying among the people that "the poor learn literature, and the rich learn martial arts", because a poor family cannot provide the protein needed to practice martial arts.

However, the absence of military training does not mean that there is nothing to do. In the afternoon, the rest of the people either went to the river beach to clear the wasteland or built a cottage. Xuan Yi was not originally arranged anything, but he knew that when everyone was busy, if a person was too idle, it would be easy to be rejected by the group, so he also followed Huang Zide to build a house and watch feng shui.

I was so busy until the evening, and it was almost time for dinner. Everyone packed their things, left the river beach, and returned to the stockade. As soon as he sat down, someone came to report that he had seen a large group of people coming this way.

"Big ...... The owner of the village, it must be the flag with the two tigers who are here! Liu Jiexuan stood up suddenly, "I'm going to pick them up!" ”

Huang Zide also stood up and said, "Let's all go and see!" With that, he took the lead and walked out. Xuan Yi also followed them out.

When I walked to the door of the cottage, I saw two sentries running over, and when I saw Huang Zide and the others, they stretched out their hands from a distance and pointed behind them, and shouted excitedly: "King, it's General Liu and them, General He is back with them!" ”

Huang Zide looked over there, but saw a team of people coming slowly from the valley mouth. Although they were far away, Huang Zide still recognized them at a glance from their movements, and the two people who walked in front on horseback were He Zhangqi and Liu Erhu.

"Double happiness, prepare the horse!" Huang Zide shouted happily.

"My lord, I'll go and prepare the saddle right away." The king of the horsemen replied with a happy cry and ran back.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Huang Zide anxiously urged.

"Let Xiao Wu also lead my horse over!" Liu Jiexuan also shouted from behind.

"Hey!" Wang Shuangxi answered while running.

After a while, Wang Shuangxi and another groom came over with two horses. Huang Zide and Liu Jiexuan turned over and got on their horses, and ran down the mountain as soon as they raised their whips.

Xuan Yi stood by the gate of the village, and saw Huang Zide and Liu Jiexuan catching up with the team from a distance, and then a few people seemed to laugh, and Huang Zide also reached out and patted the other person's shoulder. Then the group came towards the cottage.

After a while, the group arrived at the gate of the village. Huang Zide jumped off the horse first, laughed, pulled a big man to Xuan Yi and said, "Dao Chief, this guy is Liu Erhu that I often mention to you." This guy is a lucky general, blessed with a great life, how many times, I just said that others are okay, and the second tiger must be fine! ”

Then he turned around and said to Liu Erhu: "Erhu, this is Xuanyi Dao Chief!" The Taoist is a master, I think he is as tall as Zhuge Liang! ”

Liu Erhu hurriedly stepped forward, clasped his fists and saluted Xuan Yi: "The young general has seen the Taoist. ”

After the two greeted each other, Huang Zide smiled and said, "This is not the place to talk, the second tiger hasn't eaten yet, right?" Let's go in and eat and talk! ”

The group entered the hall and sat down in turn, Liu Erhu saw that Xuanyi Taoist was sitting under Liu Jiexuan, and the position was still above He Zhangqi, so he was secretly taken aback in his heart, but he was faintly not convinced. It's just that he knows that this is not the time to reveal this idea.

After a while, the wine and food came up, and Huang Zide first brought himself a bowl of wine, stood up with it in his hand and said: "Since the battle of Tongguan, this is the first time we have drunk. If it weren't for the Taoist, we would have been trapped in that valley, and now we don't know whether to live or die. ”

Xuan Yi also hurriedly stood up and said: "This is the great king Hongfu Qitian, not the work of the small way." ”

Liu Jiexuan also stood up with the wine bowl and said, "Dao Elder doesn't have to be too humble, your credit is not only to bring us out of that valley." You also pointed out the way you can go in the future, and the first bowl of wine of the king is indeed something that should be given to you! Brothers, do you say? ”

After Liu Jiexuan said this, the others also stood up and toasted to Xuanyi. Liu Erhu originally thought that this bowl of wine should be for himself, but now seeing that everyone supports Xuanyi so much, he wondered in his heart: "This demon Dao doesn't know what skills he has, everyone actually obeys him!" However, when he saw that everyone stood up to toast, he also got up, and also raised the wine bowl and said, "Dao Chief, please!" ”

When Xuan Yi saw it, he was no longer humble, picked up the wine bowl, turned around left and right, and said, "Thank you, king, thank you brothers for your love." He drank the wine in one gulp, and then lit up the bottom of the bowl for everyone to see. Everyone applauded, drank the wine in their bowls, and then sat down one after another.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Huang Zide poured himself another bowl of wine and stood up and said with a smile: "This second bowl, don't give us the second tiger brother." It's not easy for our Erhu brothers to stand out by themselves, and what's even more difficult is that Erhu also brought more than 50 brothers to stand out! Erhu, you have made a great contribution, let's toast Erhu together! ”

Everyone stood up with a laugh and applauded Liu Erhu with wine bowls. He Zhangqi stood beside Liu Erhu, holding a wine bowl in one hand, patting Liu Erhu's shoulder with the other and laughing: "Erhu wants to get it, I want to get it!" Liu Erhu also grinned, raised the wine bowl in his hand and drank dryly: "Brothers, please!" The others applauded and drank the bowl of wine. Liu Erhu squinted his eyes, and caught a glimpse of Xuan Yi also drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and then his face suddenly turned red, and he knew that he was actually not very good at drinking, and said in his heart: "But he is still a cool person, but I don't know if he is really so capable." ”

After everyone finished drinking this bowl of wine, Liu Jiexuan asked, "Erhu, how did you stand out?" Do you know the news of your sister-in-law? ”