Chapter 5: Pawns

In the golden morning light, the gate of the majestic stone castle slowly opened, and a team of black elite cavalry galloped out, holding high the black dragon flag in their hands, running to the grassland in the distance, expelling those Turkic herdsmen who crossed the border to graze, in order to show the martial might of Great Qin. Looking at the distant riding shadows, Leon walked outside the fort and began his daily routine of exercise.

"Those guys are so useless." On the city tower, looking at the team like a turtle crawling, several hundred cavalry commanders scolded in unison. When the soldiers ran back to the castle, they all fell to the ground as if they had broken bones, gasping for breath, until the officers beside them cursed, and then reluctantly got up.

For the soldiers, in fact, life is not difficult, they only need to clean the stone fort every day, and then graze the horses, cattle and sheep, maintain the armor and weapons of the soldiers, and do some handymen by the way. It's just that in this day, the march of killing a thousand knives really makes them choke, although the excellent ones can be exempted from miscellaneous labor and serve in the army, but they are no better than that crazy boy, in less than a year, they can wear forty pounds of iron armor, run back and forth for twenty miles, and they don't even breathe, they still have to save their old lives and go back alive to reunite with their wives and children at home.

By the time the soldiers went about their work, Leon had already stood under the sun with his bow and sword, and with the other soldiers; Standing on the city tower, looking at the sweaty young man, the top military commander of Jade Dragon Castle, Hou Junji, raised the corners of his mouth lightly, he liked this desperate young man who practiced alone every morning and evening, and felt that he had a ruthlessness that was not afraid of death, just like he used to. After watching it for a while, he was looking forward to the competition in the future.

In the afternoon grassland, the sun was scorching, and the naked Li Ang was holding a weighted wooden knife, and confronted the hundred horsemen on the opposite side, and the two moved their feet carefully; At this moment, a drop of sweat dripped from the forehead of the hundred horsemen and slashed across his eyelids, and at the moment when he blinked, Li Ang stepped forward sharply, and the long knife stabbed obliquely into the chest of the hundred horsemen.

This knife was fast and ruthless, although the hundred horsemen parried this stab, but he knew very well that if the sword was really stabbed, I am afraid that he would have been slightly injured, although it was not enough to be fatal, but if he fought for a long time, he would definitely be defeated.

"I'm defeated." The Hundred Riders happily admitted defeat, stuck the wooden knife in his hand on the ground, and stood aside. The soldiers around were a little dumbfounded, although they had never regarded Li Ang as a teenager, but in only two years, they could defeat a hundred cavalry commanders in a competition, which was too powerful.

"I'll come." The horseman, who was provoked by Leon's swift sword, stepped forward, drew his wooden knife, and slashed it like a raging wind. Looking at the wooden knife that came quickly, Li Ang's eyes became sharp, and he swung the knife violently to meet it.

Looking at the two people who were constantly fighting knives in the field, the soldiers and the hundred cavalry commanders applauded, but for the victory or defeat, it was obvious that they were all optimistic about the amazing horse army, but Hou Junji's opinion was different from that of his subordinates: compared with the terrifying and thunderous horse army, although the young man seemed to be in a bad situation, he was obviously hiding clumsy. "It's not that simple, is it?" A smile appeared on his lips as he whispered.

A few sharp-eyed hundred cavalry commanders were puzzled, but after looking at the young man who was forced by the attack of the horse army in the field and had no power to fight back, they felt that their commander might have lost his eyes this time, and he knew that the horse army's sword skills, even if they encountered it, they would only be chopped.

With the passage of time, seeing that the winner has not yet been decided, the soldiers and cavalry commanders who are watching finally noticed that something is wrong, and at this time the horse army is also very bored, after fighting for so long, Li Ang has not been real at all, just fighting with him, but when he is not paying attention, from time to time to come a few ****, in his eyes, that is, those rangers in Dunhuang City who were born in bad battles are not so difficult.

Ma Jun slashed down again, but to his surprise, this time, Li Ang did not dodge again, but swung the knife one by one, and then abandoned the knife and approached. Ma Jun was stunned, and when he was about to swing the knife and slash back, Li Ang had already wrapped his hands around his wrists, and then his body flicked, and his two legs twisted his neck, and suddenly the two fell to the ground together, only to see that the sergeants around were all stunned, isn't this a knife, why did he suddenly ......?

Ma Jun lost, but he was not annoyed, although Li Ang was a little out of line with the rules of the sword, but on the battlefield, who pays attention to those, he got up from the ground, stuck the wooden knife on the ground, looked at Li Ang, and laughed.

Looking at the laughing Ma Jun, Li Ang remembered the young man who clapped his hands when he first met, at that time, he couldn't have imagined that the cold-looking Ma Jun was actually a heroic man, and he also laughed when he thought of his days in the camp.

At night, looking at Ma Jun who was packing up, Li Ang quietly walked to his side, "Go in such a hurry?" ”

"The old man of our family sent a letter, saying that even if he died, he would die back." Ma Jun paused, "I hope to have a good fight with you next time we meet." With that, he fell silent.

"Got a war?" Looking at his friend who had quieted down, Li Ang asked suddenly.

"Yes." Ma Jun replied in a low voice, and then laughed, "It is the duty of a soldier to fight for the country. ”

"It's hard to fight?" After hesitating for a moment, Leon still asked.

"It's just a bit of a brute." Ma Jun shook his head, and said after a while, "But in the past 20 years, those people in the cabinet have been making a fuss about reducing armaments, and it is estimated that they are..." ”

"If your father hears this, he will have to beat you with twenty sticks." Suddenly, there was a voice outside the house. "Your Excellency." Seeing Hou Junji coming in, Li Ang and Ma Jun hurriedly stood up.

"Sit down!" Hou Junji smiled, looked at the two of them and said, "This time the matter in Anxi has not reached such a bad point, but maybe it will start a fight." "As a town guard, he naturally knows much more than Ma Jun and Li Ang.

"Great Qin Chengping has been thirty years old, and he has not used swords for a long time, and those civil officials in the court are restrained everywhere, but it makes people forget the majesty of my Han family, which is not a good thing, not a good thing!" Hou Junji laughed, stood up, patted Ma Jun on the shoulder and said, "Go back and tell your father, either you don't fight, or if you want to fight, you can beat harder, so that those people know that the knife in our hands is not blunt yet." As he said this, Leon clearly felt the ferocity in his eyes.

Hou Junji is gone, Ma Jun is also gone, in the dark, Li Ang fiddled with the copper in his hand, this is the coinage of Daqin, the craftsmanship is exquisite, the front is a roaring tiger head, and the back is engraved with a sentence, those who commit strong Qin, although far away, will be punished! Suddenly, with a flick of his fingers, Tong Tian slashed in an arc in the darkness and landed in his open hand, and he walked out of the house.

Looking at the vast grassland under the moonlight, Leon thought of the familiar and unfamiliar land behind him, whether it was in the past or

Now, it is all he has to protect with his life, "Hegemony is the rule of the world." Reading these words that Hou Junji often hung on his lips, he suddenly understood something.

In the era in which he once lived, although the country was strong, it had lost the domineering spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties, and most people were just immersed in the peaceful and prosperous times advocated by officials, businessmen, and scholars. Perhaps this is the sorrow of all the Chinese soldiers of his time, who shed blood and sacrificed for the country, but they can't shout this sentence loudly.

In the darkness, he closed his eyes, this era was very different from the world he used to be, he was no longer a soldier of the republic, and he no longer needed to bind himself with the creeds of the past. He is a soldier of the Great Qin Empire, and whoever he is, as long as he endangers the hegemony and rule of the Great Qin, he must be eliminated. In the night wind, his calm eyes suddenly opened, reflecting a light like a knife.