Xue Shao and Lu Siyi went to the Beiya School Yard together, where many Yulin Army guards were setting up drums and horns, planting flags, and building a martial arts platform.

After Li Zhi came to power, he renovated the Daming Palace, and in order to strengthen the defense of the forbidden palace, he added the urn city outside the Xuanwu Gate to build the heavy Xuanmen, so that the Yulin Army garrisoned the urn city, and the military yamen was also located here. "Beiya" became the headquarters of the imperial soldiers and horses directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction.

Xue Shao saw that there were two different kinds of armor among those sergeants, so he asked Lu Siyi how could this be?

Lu Siyi said that there should be a "thousand horses" among them.

It turned out that in addition to the Yulin Army in the North Ya, the military yamen of the "Thousand Horses" was also set up here. The predecessor of Qianqi was Baiqi, which was specially selected by Li Shimin after he ascended the throne to be a hundred children of a family with excellent martial arts, as his personal companions and henchmen for hunting and archery. Two years ago, Wu Zetian ordered the expansion of 100 cavalry to 1,000 cavalry, and defended the Daming Palace with the Yulin Army. Since then, in addition to the Yulin Army, Beiya has another military force that cannot be ignored - a thousand horses.

It was already lunch time, and the Huotou Army of the Yulin Army brought food. Lu Siyi and Yulinjun's people seemed to be very familiar, and after a few words of conversation, Huotoujun enthusiastically sent a meal to each of them. Knowing that Xue Shao was going to participate in the Thousand Cow Martial Arts Conference, he also deliberately added a large bowl of stewed mutton to boost his strength.

Xue Shao had a big meal, the fire food of the Imperial Forest Army was really good, and such a standard could catch up with the average wealthy family.

It didn't take long for the stage of the martial arts meeting to be erected. There was also a viewing seat in the north, because the emperor was going to come in person, the umbrella cover and the flag were bright, and the snare drum and big horns stood in a forest. One after another, the Yulin Army and thousands of cavalry gathered here, standing in a neat train ready to watch the battle of Qianniu and talk about martial arts, and soon gathered thousands of people, all of whom were full of interest.

This is really a bit unexpected by Xue Shao, it seems that what they said about Qianniu talking about martial arts is a "grand event in the palace", which is not false at all.

Later, a group of people drove neatly to the podium. Look at the armor is obviously more glamorous and dazzling than that of Yulin Jun and Qianqi, especially the group of people in the front row are tall and handsome, wearing Huadian embroidered clothes and high-grade Mingguang armor, standing out from the crowd and radiant, just like a group of top male models who have walked on the runway.

Feng Chenwei's people came.

"General, Zhonglang General Li Xiantong is here with all the brothers of the Wei Mansion, and the one in red armor and red robe is Li Zhonglang." Lu Siyi whispered, hugging his fists, "The last general should also pass." ”

Lu Siyi trotted forward and stood in the train, and Xue Shao walked over and looked at the Li Xiantong from a distance.

Zhonglang will be a fourth-grade minister, so Li Xiantong's Huadian embroidered clothes are made crimson according to the standard of officials above the fifth grade, and a bright light armor is also decorated with gold and indigo based on red, which is extremely dazzling and beautiful. This suit of armor alone is not good.

Li Xiantong is about thirty years old, and his appearance is unconventional, and he has a pair of mustaches. As the saying goes, the Tao is born from the heart, and he looks a little gentle, not as flamboyant and fierce as Zhou Jitong.

Li Xiantong saw Xue Shao coming over, and arched his hand first with a smile, "General Xue, look up for a long time, look up for a long time!" ”

"My subordinates have seen General Li." Xue Shao returned the salute with a fist.

"General Xue's new official took office, and the general would not have been surprised, so please don't blame." Li Xiantong smiled kindly, and said, "I heard that General Xue is going to participate in the Qianniu Martial Arts Lecture, and the general will immediately bring the brothers of the Wei Mansion to watch the battle." General Xue has to show his real skills, let me and other brothers open their eyes! ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Xue has a small skill in carving insects, and he has to be ugly." At that time, General Li and his brothers should not laugh at it. ”

Li Xiantong smiled, raised his hand and pointed at the Fengchenwei train standing in Lu, and said: "While the brothers are here, General Xue will pick a good personal follower first, and when he talks about the martial arts meeting later, there will be someone to serve General Xue." ”

"Okay." Xue Shao nodded and looked at Feng Chenwei's train, except for Zhou Jitong who was still guarding the Hanbing Palace, the grassroots military attachés and ordinary soldiers and civilians from all over the house came, a total of more than 500 people.

Li Xiantong waved his hand, "Except for the clerical duties, some of you have already made personal entourage, standing on the left." If you don't have a personal follower, stand on the right. Let General Xue choose. ”

The five hundred people moved and quickly divided into two shifts, and some six-grade cattle on the left each brought their ten relatives together to watch the excitement. The remaining half of the people stood on the train, like neatly arranged potatoes and corn in the vegetable market, for Xue Shao to choose.

"General Xue, pick it yourself!" Li Xiantong said with a smile.

Xue Shao nodded, walked over to the team on the right and looked at them. When I first came to Chadao, how did I know the details and thoughts of these people, and what if I picked him but I was not happy?

So Xue Shao said: "If any of you want to be my personal follower, step forward." ”

When these words were spoken, there was silence. All the sergeants, you look at me, I look at you, as if they are all hesitating.

Xue Shao frowned, I'm afraid that good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, these people all know that I want to "challenge" Zhou Jitong, so they are worried that if they follow me, they will make enemies against Zhou Jitong.

The scene was awkward, and there were already people snickering maliciously in the group on the left.

Xue Shao looked at Lu Siyi and raised his voice, "Anyone who wants to be my personal follower, step forward!" ”

Lu Siyi gritted his teeth, walked out of the train and stood in front of Xue Shao, "Prepare Lu Siyi, I am willing to follow the general!" ”

"Okay." Xue Shao nodded, "Anything else?" ”

No one moved.

Xue Shao frowned, it seems that Zhou Jitong's prestige in Zuo Fengchen's guard is indeed very high, and I have almost been isolated by them.

"I'll say the last time, if anyone wants to be my personal follower, take a step forward!" Xue Shao said in a deep voice, "If you don't come at this time, it will be difficult in the future!" ”

"I am willing to follow General Xue!"

"I do, too!"

Two young men dressed in ordinary guard uniforms stepped forward.

The audience resounded with a commotion of ridicule!

Lu Siyi scratched his head with an ugly face, and said in a low voice: "General Xue, Qianniu's personal entourage has always been as long as the officer who prepares and is the main battle, and no one has ever recruited ordinary pawns. Otherwise, it would be too faceless to bring the generals out! ”

Listening to the laughter of the audience, the two young men turned red and retreated.

"What is your name, and what is your official position?" Xue Shao pointed at the two young men and asked loudly.

The two young men had no choice but to stand up, clasped their fists and replied:

"The end of Tang Zhen!"

"The end of Pan Yi!"

"I'll wait...... It's all white! ”

"Good, stand here. For the time being, I just need the three of you to follow. Xue Shao nodded, squinted at the people in front of him with his hands on his back, and said word by word, "Tang Zhen, Pan Yi, I guarantee that you are no longer white!" ”

The audience was in an uproar!

Many pawns regretted it and wanted to take another step, but Xue Shao had already said that he would not accept people for the time being. There are also people who sneer, this person is so big!

Li Xiantong was still smiling, walked to Xue Shao's side and said, "General Xue, don't be in a hurry for a while, it's not too late to go back to the Wei Mansion and recruit relatives to follow." The martial arts meeting is about to start, take your people to stand in the class! ”

Xue Shao nodded indifferently, "Okay."

Noon was approaching, and the emperor and Zhou Jitong and others had not yet come. There were two or three thousand guards gathered here on the podium. Except for the viewing seats in the north, they were densely packed with people.

Zuo Fengchenwei's two trains were the closest to the podium, and their shapes were the strangest. The train at the front was all brightly dressed and armored, with twelve thousand oxen and twelve reserves, each leading ten people and a fire to stand in a phalanx, which should have been the most neat. But there were only four lonely people in Xue Shao's column, like a neat square that had been cut off by a quick knife, and there were two pawns wearing khaki military uniforms, which looked very abrupt and dazzling.

Xue Shao stood at the head of the row, feeling that there were countless eyes poking his backbone behind him. Not far away, the Yulin Army and Qianqi also cast a lot of strange glances, full of surprise and ridicule.

Xue Shao took a deep breath and turned back to Lu Siyi and the others: "Are you embarrassed?" ”

"It's a little ......," Lu Siyi replied with an honest wry smile.

Tang Zhen and Pan Yi are only about twenty years old, they may have just enlisted in the army, their faces are quite thin, both of them are flushed, and they nodded embarrassedly.

"Hold your head up, keep your chest up, stand up straight!" Xue Shao shouted, "The more we are looked down upon, the more we have to prove that we are the best!" ”

"Yes!!" The three of them flicked their bodies like taut bowstrings and stood straight.

Xue Shao's shout was so loud that a group of people in the audience heard it, and there was a small boo in Feng Chenwei's train, and many people were sneering.

Zhonglang, who was dressed in red armor, stood Li Xiantong in front of the phalanx, and four other Qianniu in green armor gathered with him to talk and laugh, which seemed very intimate. Everyone was standing in order, but the five people seemed very idle, as if they were showing off their unique superiority.

Hearing Xue Shao's shout, the five people glanced back and casually chatted with themselves. "Who are those four people in green armor?" Xue Shao turned around and asked.

"General Xue, that's the four thousand cows with the Thousand Bull Imperial Sword!" Lu Siyi whispered behind Xue Shao, "The tallest one is Cheng Boxian, his father Cheng Chubi is the general of Sanpinyou Jinwu, and his grandfather is a famous general of the Kaitang Dynasty and Cheng Zhijie of Lu Guogong. Among the four thousand oxen in the body, his martial arts are the highest and his kung fu is extremely strong, and he is used to using the horse lance of the family heirloom! ”

Xue Shao glanced at Cheng Boxian a few times, he was extremely tall, definitely not less than 1.90 meters, and he really stood out from the crowd. His grandfather Cheng Zhijie is known to later generations of women and children as "Cheng Biting Gold", but "Three-plate Axe Cheng Biting Gold" is just an image in romance novels, and the real Cheng Zhijie in history is not a brainless reckless man with poor martial arts, but a famous general of the Tang Dynasty with outstanding achievements in the three armies, and the weapon is the horse lance.

"General Xue, the other three from left to right are Liu Mian, Cui Hejian and Cheng Qizhi." Lu Siyi said in a low voice.

Xue Shao squinted his eyes and looked at them, "Tell me a little bit about their details." ”

"Liu Mian is the grandson of Liu Renliang, the prime minister of the left servant, and he has followed Liu Renliang to fight everywhere since he was a child, and his kung fu was polished in the battle."

"Cui Hejian was born in the famous family of the Cui family in Qinghe, he has been diligent in martial arts since he was a child, and he has practiced a very powerful knife technique, and he also raised the jinshi before becoming a thousand cows, and he is a recognized talent in Zuo Fengchenwei. His uncle was Cui Zhiwen, the squire of the Yellow Gate and the prime minister of the third rank under the Tongzhongshu Sect. ”

"Cheng Qizhi's father is Cheng Wuting, the general of the current dynasty in the north, and his martial arts are passed down from his family, and his best weapon is also a horse lance. It is rumored that Cheng Wuting led the army to fight extremely bravely, like a fire burning the plain, unstoppable, known as 'the evil of the ancients', the Turks are most afraid of Cheng Wuting! Cheng Boxian and Cheng Qizhi both have the surname Cheng, and the horse war is very powerful and they both make the horse lance, so there is a saying in the army called 'lance is not the process'. ”

Xue Shao nodded with his eyebrows furrowed, these people all have great backgrounds! Compared with them, the "Lantian Son", whose parents have been dead for many years and has a romantic name, is really not a fart!.

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