Chapter Twenty-Nine: Garrisoning the Howling Wind Frontier
Xiaofeng Frontier is located in the northwesternmost direction of the imperial court, is one of the most marginal territories of the one hundred and eight territories of the Xia Dynasty, there are many mountains in the territory, the people here have been fierce since ancient times, the management of the imperial court is not easy, and several governors have died of exhaustion in their posts.
The current governor of the territory is named Lu Liufeng, it is rumored that this person is mediocre and incompetent, after taking over the post of governor of the territory, he knows all day long to write poems and paintings, open altars and lectures, and now ten years have passed, and the atmosphere of Xiaofeng Xinjiang has not changed at all.
Baishi Province is located in the north of the Howling Wind Frontier, the geographical area is wide, over the years, all kinds of bandits in the province have occurred frequently, disturbing the local residents are miserable, the original war guards have sent troops to clear up several times, but the effect is not obvious.
Half a year ago, Lu Liufeng personally wrote a book of the Great Governor of the United Front of the Territory and the General Commander of the Military Aircraft, accusing the two of dereliction of duty, conniving at banditry, pampering soldiers, and dereliction of duty, and demanding that the imperial court dismiss the two.
After receiving the report, the emperor sent officials to verify the authenticity, and the officials who were responsible for investigating the matter returned to the court after checking it, Lu Liufeng's words were true, hearing this, the emperor ordered the military department to withdraw the military power of the two people, and sent troops to exterminate the bandits.
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After Xiang Kunlun's 10,000-strong team integrated with the other two 10,000-strong troops from the official road, under the leadership of the division commander Fu Qingyun, they marched rapidly towards Baishi Province.
Advancing one hundred and fifty miles a day, Ling Xia and these horseback riders were about to fall apart, not to mention the soldiers who were rushing on foot below, and in the process of marching, the Tiger Division was also running in and exercising with each other.
During this period, the Tiger Division completed the formation of each 10,000-person team, and the Xiang Kunlun 10,000-man team ranked the 10,000-man team according to the physical fitness of the soldiers of each 1,000-person team, the physical strength of the march, and the ability to coordinate operations.
The strength of the 10000 team is the strongest, the 2000 team is slightly second, and so on, the 1000 team is the weakest, and the 100 team to which the 1000 team belongs also uses this method to rank, Ling Xia currently belongs to the 1000 team under the jurisdiction of the 1000 team.
Just today, the 100-person team held a ten-person team strength competition, and as a result, Ling Xia and they lived up to their expectations and became the tenth-ranked ten-person team in the 100-person team.
As soon as the competition ended, a strong man riding a jujube red horse, with a body as strong as an iron tower, a face full of flesh, and wearing bronze armor and chest protection came to Ling Xia, this person's name was Nangong Yue, and he was the centurion of the hundredth team.
As soon as they met, Nangong Yue glared at Ling Xia with an unhappy expression: "What's going on with your ten-person team?" Did you play to your strength? Why did you finish 10th? Deliberately releasing water? ”
"I didn't deliberately release water, it's really inferior." Ling Xia replied, stepped forward with a smile, patted the body of the jujube red horse, and asked with a smile, "My lord, how is this horse?" It's still amazing, right? ”
After Ling Xia and their thousand-man team divided into ten hundred-person teams, he deliberately paid attention to his top boss, and when Yi Haojie announced that Nangong Yue was the centurion, Ling Xia immediately came to Nangong Yue who was marching on foot, and presented his war horse without saying a word.
If Ling Xia sent something away, Nangong Yue might still shirk or refuse, but when he saw the vigorous and well-shaped war horse, he couldn't take his eyes off it, and he didn't even hesitate, Nangong Yue rode it directly.
After accepting Ling Xia's war horse, Nangong Yue issued his first order: "Ling Xia's ten-man team can march on horseback." Hearing this order, the nine ten-person teams around them who were advancing on foot booed and expressed their disdain for Ling Xia's actions.
After giving his war horse to Nangong Yue, Ling Xia asked Shangguan Hui's war horse over and asked her to ride a horse with Qu Qinshi, both of them are slender, and together they are not as heavy as Nangong Yue, so they can ride a war horse together.
Since receiving Ling Xia's war horse, Nangong Yue has taken care of Ling Xia and them openly and secretly, and Ling Xia also took this opportunity to get close to Nangong Yue, and after dozens of miles of work, Ling Xia and Nangong Yue began to call each other brothers.
"Shift the subject less." Seeing that after he finished asking, Ling Xia said a perfunctory sentence casually, and then wanted to change the topic, Nangong Yue glared at Ling Xia depressedly: "In the marching competition, the ranking is determined by the speed and time of the soldiers' marching.
It's such a simple and direct race, you actually lost, the ten of you actually lost to those soldiers, the point is that all ten of you are riding horses, and those soldiers are running forward, and you still lose.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed all this, were you riding a horse or walking a horse to go shopping? You can't even afford to swing the whip, especially your horse, why are you still walking back? Alas------- don't say we know each other in the future. ”
"My lord is angry, I will practice hard in the future, this is a new horse, I just took over, I was a little raw when I rode a horse, you can rest assured, I will definitely not let it run back in the future." Ling Xia responded with a grin.
Looking at Ling Xia's hippie smiling face, Nangong Yue shook his head unhappily, and then, he rode away from Ling Xia and walked towards the front of the team, when Nangong Yue left, Yang Lucai and Lao Cui rushed over:
"Captain, why did you make us lose to those people on purpose? With our ability, even if we walk, we can throw those people a few streets, not to mention that we are still riding war horses, if you don't have to let us release water, we will definitely be the number one ten-man team. ”
"What's so good about being number one?" Ling Xia turned over and rode on his war horse, looked at Yang Lucai and the others, and said meaningfully: "Our trip is to suppress bandits, since we are to suppress bandits, the stronger the team, the more likely it is to be dispatched into battle."
We are now the weakest ten-man team in the whole division, and even if we really go to the battlefield, the chance of being transferred is very small, but if we are the strongest ten-man team in the whole division, it is estimated that we will be among the first batch of teams to go to the battlefield.
Although you are all full of curiosity about the battlefield, but war is cruel, we have no combat experience, and we used to talk on paper at best, if you really rush forward recklessly, you will be glorious at any time.
Since I brought you out, I have to bring you back alive, in order to save your lives to the greatest extent, everyone must learn to hide their strength, and until the last resort, we try not to show our strength. ”
"Oh, I see, Mingzhe protects himself, right?" Originally, Yang Lucai didn't understand Ling Xia's deliberate move to admit defeat, but now after hearing Ling Xia's thoughts, they all understood Ling Xia's hard work, chatted a few words, and everyone began to march in line.
After a march full of stars and moons, the Tiger Division really performed a miracle, they marched 5,000 miles at full speed in only 30 days, and at noon on the 31st day, the Tiger Division and the other two divisions successfully joined forces.
The Tiger Division, the Iron Division, and the War Hammer Division were officially reorganized into the Aegis Legion, and the commander of the regiment was named Nangong Bo, who had three long beards, starry eyes and sword eyebrows, elegant appearance, and great physique.
After the regiment was reassembled, Nangong Bo held a cooked copper dragon stick, wore copper armor chest guards on his chest, wore a copper battle skirt, stepped on cooked copper combat boots, hung copper armor arm guards on his shoulders, and wore a copper chain neck guard under his head.
I saw Nangong Bo riding a white horse, a majestic patrol legionnaire, after looking around, he briefly introduced himself, and then, Nangong Bo pointed to the boundary monument behind him, and said in a loud tone:
"After this monument, it is the boundary of Baishi Province, from now on, this is the place of protection of my S.H.I.E.L.D. legion, the military department has transferred all the original soldiers and horses of Baishi Province, and we will immediately enter a state of readiness after we are stationed.
In view of the fact that the suppression of bandits is a big matter, in order to be able to act cheaply, the special order of the military department will temporarily take the post of general of the war guard, and in case of trouble, he can directly report to the governor of the territory. ”
After reading these words, Nangong Bo drove his horse and led the legion into Baishi Province, and after coming to the garrison, Nangong Bo went to the provincial governor's yamen to go through the registration procedures, while the commanders of the three divisions led their respective men and horses to the camp of the battle guards.
Because the previous battle guards were all transferred, so there were only some soldiers left in the camp of the war guards guarding the gate, after entering the barracks, the three divisions and regiments selected a camp according to the terrain, and they had just set up the barracks, and the envoy of the governor yamen sent supplies to reward the soldiers.
I saw that there were truckloads of food and wine parked outside the barracks, and these supplies were unloaded into the middle of the camp, and the other party's representative of the governor gave condolences, and then set off for home, and when the other party left, the three division commanders ordered these things to be divided equally.
Baishi Province is located in the northwest edge, the climate is perennially low, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, although it is spring at this time, but it is as cold as winter, Ling Xia and they have just built a camp, the centurion sent someone to send quilts and cotton clothes, and told everyone to dress warmer.
After Ling Xia and the others received the clothes, they took the cotton clothes of Shangguan Hui and the three of them to the women's camp next door, handed them the clothes, and instructed the three of them to have a good relationship with the female soldiers of other teams, saying that they would not suffer a loss.
Because today is the first day of camping, at the time of lunch, the beef stew in each canteen was uniformly stewed, and the soldiers each had a big bowl, eating fragrant beef, and the soldiers talked and laughed, and did not feel nervous at all.
Just as the soldiers were enjoying a delicious meal, Ling Xia stared at a three-story small building next to the barracks to observe, which was the battle command post of the Battle Guards.
"Captain, what are you looking at?" Lao Cui came over and asked Ling Xia.
"Old Cui, when you were eating, did you see the centurions?" Ling Xia asked rhetorically.
"Nope." Lao Cui shook his head: "When I was feeding the horses before, I saw that Lord Nangong and several other centurions were called away by the commanders. ”
"That's right." Nodding thoughtfully, Ling Xia turned around and whispered to Lao Cui: "After lunch, let our people collectively pretend to be sick, the more powerful the better." ”
"It'--------- okay." Although I don't know what medicine is sold in Ling Xia's gourd? But Lao Cui still went to carry out Ling Xia's orders.