"What the gentleman said really surprised the boy." Le Yi said, "Listening to the meaning of the adults, it seems that they are not optimistic about the Wei State. ”

Gongsun Yan looked at the people coming and going on the street, they had bitter faces and walked listlessly. In stark contrast, on the carriages coming and going, some gorgeously dressed Shiqing's children, although their expressions were noble, they couldn't hide the smell of copper all over their bodies.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said slowly: "Since Zhou Tianzi moved eastward, the world has always taken changing the law as its business, and only then did Li Kui and Wu Qi and Shen Zi Shang Ying, and for a time the princes rose together and divided the world. But if you look at these law changers, which one of them has the authority of a country, but how many of them have a good death in the end? ”

"Ugh." Le Yi groaned slightly, and nodded again.

"Looking at the monarchs of various countries, the intellectuals are outstanding, the King of Qin bears the brunt, the King of Qi and the King of Zhongshan have reached the twilight of their heroes, and the successors are obscure and difficult to judge. However, King Zhao can definitely be regarded as a talented person. To tell you the truth, I was also used by them and put on a table. Now that I think about it, I was indeed too gullible at the beginning. Hehe, who would have thought that at such a young age, the city government is so deep? ”

"What did you say?" Le Yi obviously didn't know about this. Gongsun Yan then told the matter of listening to Zhao Yong's words and stirring up the relationship between Qi and Zhongshan. Let Le Yi also hit the knot.

"The smell of decay has begun to waft in the air of Wei. The brilliance of Li Kui and Wu Qi has left this land. If you want to restore the glory of your ancestors, you might as well go to Zhao Kingdom. Here, you don't stand a chance. Otherwise, in the battle of Xiangling, you and I would not have been excluded from decision-making, so that the Wei State would have been defeated. Gongsun Yan said regretfully. In fact, in the battle of Xiangling, he once recommended Le Yi to the king of Wei, but the king of Wei and the ministers of Wei thought that this person had lived in Zhongshan for a long time, and he was afraid that he would defect before the battle, so he reassigned others. But the result, as Le Yi expected, was almost identical. It can be seen that Le Yi really has some ability.

"But what about my lordship?" Le Yi said.

Gongsun Yan smiled slightly, "Zhang Yi just came here, and I haven't talked to him yet, how can I leave?" ”

Le Yi looked at Gongsun Yan and didn't know how to respond to him.

Zhao Guo, acting as Wangcheng.

Lou Jian and Zhao Gu stood on the city wall, looking at Zhao Xi with a serious face not far away, and Li Yan behind Zhao Xi who also looked serious. They looked at each other, but they didn't say anything to each other, and at the same time looked at the new cavalry under the city, which was being trained.

According to Zhao Yong's explanation to Zhao Xi, Li Yan and Lou Huan, through Zhao Gu's support, recruited a group of nearby Hu people to teach all the cavalry horse movements, especially manipulating horses to do all kinds of evasion and archery to maintain balance.

Not only that, but he also required all cavalrymen, in addition to wearing Hu clothes, to live in tents, and senior officers to understand basic Hu language and living habits. At the same time, Lou Xuan also recruited a group of Hu people to enter the cavalry team of Zhao State nearby, but soon, they found that the Hu people did not obey the generals of Zhao State, and even rejected them. Later, Li Yan included the Zhao people and the Hu people in the team respectively, forming a thousand Hu cavalry team, with the Hu people as the generals, its combat effectiveness rose gradually, almost a Hu people's team, able to fight against two or three thousand Zhao cavalry.

Just like now, the two opposing groups of cavalry were trained to shoot immediately, and everyone circled the field and hit the ten bulls' eyes in the center of the square. Everyone is required to shoot on the move, and they must hit the bull's-eye to be qualified. Not only that, but there is also a time limit, and after that, it is still not qualified.

A Hu cavalry team roared into the square, and as soon as the training officer's command sounded, a leading Hu man whipped his horse fiercely, and the horse was in pain and ran quickly. The rest of the Hu soldiers did the same, followed him and beat his own horses, and rushed into the field. But he never overtook the Hu man who took the lead.

The leading Hu man held the reins in one hand and observed the arrow target with the other, only to see that when the arrow target was directly in front of him, he tightened his horse's belly with both legs, trying to maintain his balance, and then bent the bow with one hand, and took out the bow and arrow from the quiver in the horse's belly with the other, pulled the string, and shot, all in one go, without the slightest pause. The bow and arrow also drove towards the target, hitting the bull's-eye. The other soldiers who watched the battle applauded. You must know that the current Zhao people can shoot arrows on horses at most, but it is impossible to say that they can complete such an action in one go.

The Hu Ren team behind him also followed him, clamping the horse's belly, bending the bow and shooting arrows, and the movements were also clean and neat, but some of them completed it perfectly, and some of them missed the target.

Soon, people's eyes were drawn to the leader again, and seeing that there were still two targets in place, which could be completed in the scheduled time at his current speed. However, he suddenly accelerated and slapped the horse's ass a few times. Are horses so easy to get along with? The sturdy four hooves sped up and ran.

In this way, when crossing the bull's-eye, the difficulty of the Hu leader increases. But he seems to like this way, this time passing by the bull's-eye, he not only quickly and neatly completed the action of archery, but also hit the must, without looking at the result. But the truth is that the bow and arrow can still hit the bull's-eye perfectly. The cries around were much louder.

He simply dismounted, picked up the wine sent by the Hu soldiers and drank it in a big gulp, and fell to the ground after drinking, causing cheers from the people around him.

Li Yan was on the city tower, looking at the reckless scene of these people, he didn't have any other feelings, but quietly glanced at the old handsome Zhao Xi beside him, lest this old handsome man rise up and say something like a military order. Li Yan himself can tolerate the character of these Hu people, and he has an agreement with the Hu people that unless he nods, he is absolutely not allowed to drink, otherwise their food will be deducted. This made this group of thorny people change their temperament, but they are hardly convinced of Li Yan.

"Is there still training for the Zhao cavalry?" Zhao Xi turned his head and said to Li Yan.

"Yes, it's the same way the Hu people are trained." Li Yan hurriedly responded.

"How's it going?"

"There is a gap." Li Yan didn't dare to tell lies, the training results of the Zhao cavalry were really big different from the Hu people.

"Hmm." Zhao Xi stopped talking, and continued to turn his head and look at the playground.

Indeed, as Li Yan said, when the soldiers of Zhao appeared on the stage, their performance had proved that the gap between them and the level of the Hu people was too big. In particular, some units that have been transferred from infantry to cavalry, many of them have extremely low equestrian skills, and even fell off their horses and were trampled by the troops behind. If it weren't for the timely response of both sides, these soldiers would have died before they could have been killed, and they would not have been able to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Zhao Xi looked at Zhao Ren's clumsy performance in the playground, and then looked at Hu Ren who was watching the joke on the side, he was already laughing and leaning back and forth, unable to close his mouth, and kept shaking his head, obviously expressing dissatisfaction with this situation.

"Lieutenant Li, this kind of training is not good, if it is on the battlefield, it is definitely a chaotic position, and before the enemy has solved it, we ourselves will fail, how can this work?"

"The last will be convicted." Li Yan hurriedly pleaded guilty.

The military reform formulated by Wu Guang and Pang Cong was finally temporarily implemented in Daidi after covering up the cover-up. According to the principle of direct transfer of generals and above, and re-evaluation of commanders and below, Zhao Xi still became the highest-ranking general in Zhao's current military merit system. And after Li Yan was reassessed, he was still a lieutenant, but he was a lieutenant in the middle of the third-order lieutenant rank. There are still two orders away from the captain, and Zhao Xi, a general, has a bigger level. According to the new system, a general can behead his subordinates below the rank of lieutenant, and if it is in wartime, as long as the evidence is conclusive, he can behead the subordinates below the general Zuo. So Li Yan was afraid that this uncle would be unhappy and cut himself off.

"This crime is not counted for the time being, you have to plan carefully, how can you blend the Hu people and the Zhao people together." Zhao Xi patted the city wall and said bitterly: "The king has promised that in the next one or two years, the cavalry of Zhao State will replace the equipment, eliminate backward weapons, such as bows and crossbows, and purchase exquisite bows and crossbows from South Korea, and each cavalry is equipped with double horses, and canopies, dry food bags, bedding, etc., all silk fabrics are replaced with leather products, and each cavalry is equipped with forage masters, horse breeders and even slaves. Even when I came, I even saw that in Zhao Guo's workshop, some weapons suitable for cavalry were being forged, do you know what this means? ”

"It means that the king is supporting the training of cavalry with the strength of the whole country." Li Yan's face was scorched by Zhao Xi's words, and all along, he relied on his love for cavalry and his hatred of the Hu people to diligently train the cavalry of Zhao State. But for more than a year, I didn't expect it to have little effect. Hearing that Zhao Yong was so vigorously promoting the formation of cavalry, infinite guilt rose in his heart. With tears in his eyes, he said tremblingly, "General, you... Stop it. ”

Zhao Xi bent down and helped the young lieutenant up, in fact, he had always had a good impression of Li Yan, and also believed that the cavalry he trained could become the trump card of Zhao State, so he knew him reasonably, and moved him with affection.

"The training of cavalry is only one step, and how to combine the chariot and cavalry into one is our goal. General Li, the king has written many times, emphasizing that time waits for no one. If you and I repay you with such achievements, it will be a great sin. ”

"Yes."

Zhao Xi pointed to the Hu people and the Zhao cavalry under the city wall and said: "Whether it is the Hu people or the Zhao people, in my opinion, they are all usable people." I still insist on integrating the Hu people into the ranks of the Zhao people, and bring the old with the new. In particular, the general military officers of the Hu people asked them to strengthen the training of the Zhao people. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Xi looked at Li Yan and said with a smile: "What you said last time, the issue of the same treatment as the Zhao people for the Hu people's officers, the king has agreed, and there will be angels from Handan in the near future. ”

At first hearing this, Li Yan's face was overjoyed, and he said happily: "Passed?" That's great. But didn't you say last time that the opposition from the government and the opposition was particularly loud, and even if the monarch had a heart, he was a little indecided? Why did it pass so quickly this time? ”

Zhao Xi didn't say anything, patted him on the shoulder, and sighed slightly: "Thank you, this time, he has taken on a great responsibility for us again." ”