Chapter XXVII

When Li Xuanqing arrived at the camp, Su Hezheng concentrated the selected 1,000 people in the open space in front of the camp, Xu Tianxiang and others were also standing on the side, and everyone in the original third team was also standing in all corners of the open space, with bright spears and torches lit one after another, vigilantly staring at the soldiers who were still a little restless at the moment.

When Su He saw Li Xuanqing coming, he hurriedly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, to be honest, this faced with a group of recruits really embarrassed him, a brigade commander who had long been accustomed to commanding the elite of veterans, so when he saw Li Xuanqing, he hurriedly stuffed the military book in his hand into Li Xuanqing's hand, and said with a smile: "Lvshuai Li, you are here." This is a soldier selected for you, look, this is specially ordered by Wei Zheng, and the quality is absolutely fine. I'll leave it to you, I'm going back to pack up my Fifth Brigade. After speaking, he walked out, and continued in his mouth: "I have already told the deputy Wei Zheng what is wrong and what is missing, and the baggage camp has been fully prepared, just in the back camp, you can send someone to fetch it, it is the best." The voice was still there, but it was gone early.

As soon as he left, Xu Tianxiang and the others stepped forward, and everyone was stunned by so many soldiers in front of them, only to hear Xu Tianxiang shout: "The third child, ah no, the team is positive, what's going on, why are so many soldiers suddenly divided." ”

Li Xuanqing waved his hand, signaling that this was not the time to say this, standing on the stage at the moment, and suddenly said to the below: "Everyone be quiet, listen to me." This sentence was sent out by Li Xuanqing using internal force, but the voice was not loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears, as if it was speaking in everyone's ears. This hand was exposed, and it immediately shocked everyone in the audience. These people are basically soldiers who have been trained for a long time in the Lingzhou recruit camp, except for those who have not been on the battlefield, the others are not much worse than the veterans, especially Li Xuanqing saw that these people in front of him were obviously big, and they were carefully selected at a glance.

"Welcome to the Fourth Brigade, I am your brigade commander Li Xuanqing, from now on we are brothers who eat in the same pot, please take a closer look, otherwise it will be a shame to go out and not know the commander of this brigade." Li Xuanqing's voice came slowly, as if a breeze was passing through his ears, eliminating the turmoil and embarrassment caused by the initial assignment, and the relaxed tone also made everyone relax, and some people laughed along.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Li Xuanqing took a step forward and continued: "It's not early today, so I won't make arrangements, everyone will follow the people I assigned to set up tents, and those who haven't eaten will go to the back camp to eat, and then everyone will have a good rest. In the end, the words "engaging in military law" exploded in everyone's ears like a thunderclap, and it also dispelled many people's different thoughts.

"All business is limited to half an hour. Half an hour later, all those who are in charge of the team and above will gather in my brigade commander's tent. After speaking, he gestured to Xu Tianxiang, who nodded, and hurriedly took everyone in the third team to direct everyone to get busy.

After Li Xuanqing finished arranging this, he returned to the brigade commander's tent, opened the military book handed over to him by Su He, and carefully checked the details of the soldiers assigned this time. Half an hour passed quickly, and Xu Tianxiang also came in advance with Chen Yu and other people with official positions above the commander of the third team, and sat on Li Xuanqing's right side after seeing Li Xuanqing nodded. And at this moment, five or six more people came in the big tent one after another.

Li Xuanqing's eyes froze, slightly surprised, and suddenly understood Zhang Tianhu's sentence that cleared the obstacles for himself, although this way to transfer the officers back seriously disrupted the formation of the troops, but the advantage is that it can reduce the pressure of reorganization, and it is much less difficult for ordinary soldiers to be reorganized. And the few people left in front of him, Li Xuanqing, are a little familiar, and they seem to be veterans of the Huzi Battalion.

Sure enough, as soon as these five people came in, they bowed to Li Xuanqing and said their original numbers. Sure enough, there are two teams and three team leaders of the Huzi Battalion, namely He Bing of the second team, Wang Yongnian, Zhang Cheng of the fifth team, and Qian San, the leader of the first team.

Seeing them saluting respectfully to him, Li Xuanqing secretly said that it was still a little beneficial to have a fight with Su Yang and them, at least the people in the Huzi Camp would not have any resistance to themselves, and under the suppression of their powerful force, these people would not have any other thoughts about themselves.

"Okay, everybody's here, I'm going to get straight to the point. Today, Lord Wei Zheng announced the reorganization of the troops, and our third team was expanded into the third and fourth brigades, under the jurisdiction of 1,000 people. Li Xuanqing ignored the shock caused by his words, and continued: "The commander of this brigade has thought about it and decided to reorganize the whole brigade into 20 teams. ”

As soon as this sentence was spoken, Rao was set off by the previous words, and everyone who was still shocked was shocked, Xu Tianxiang saw Li Xuanqing stop and look at everyone and knew that he was waiting for everyone's answer, so he arched his hand and asked: "Brigade Marshal, this is really great news." I don't know why this is happening? How can there be so many people in one brigade? And how much time do we have to regroup? ”

As soon as Xu Tianxiang finished asking, the eyes of the others were focused on Li Xuanqing, obviously these were also their problems. However, Li Xuanqing did not answer these questions one by one, but said directly: "The establishment of the Fourth Brigade is set by Wei Zheng, so everyone just do it." I'm going to say that we only have one day to reorganize, so I want everyone to be mentally prepared and I don't want anyone to hold back. Li Xuanqing's words made everyone's expressions collapse, but they didn't have the slightest chance to defend themselves, so they only heard Li Xuanqing continue: "Twenty teams, I plan to form a scout team alone," Li Xuanqing glanced at Hu Xiaosi and said: "Hu Xiaosi, you and Xu Tianxiang will choose people separately tomorrow, and whoever you pick will be given priority to enter your team, you will be responsible for forming the scout team of our Fourth Brigade, understand?" ”

Hu Xiaosi was suddenly surprised when he heard Li Xuanqing's words, and quickly stood up and bowed and said yes. Li Xuan cleared his throat and continued: "Xu Tianxiang is in charge of the selection and reorganization of the personnel of each team, from now on, I will appoint you as the deputy brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade and the head of the first team, responsible for assisting the affairs of the whole brigade and controlling the other teams. After all the personnel of the original third team were completed, they were used as the brigade headquarters personal guards, and they did not participate in other affairs, and they were temporarily under Xu Tianxiang's control. ”

This can be regarded as giving Xu Tianxiang permission, unlike in the past, when Li Xuanqing arranged Xu Tianxiang's affairs, many times it seemed unjustifiable.

"From now on, everyone must be in good spirits, war is not far off, and I don't want our soldiers to go into battle unprepared. I don't care what method you use, but by noon tomorrow, the twenty teams must be reorganized. Whoever disobeys or procrastinates will be killed. Li Xuanqing's cold tone also made everyone present shudder, and it was also the first time that he felt the oppression of the imminent war.

After saying this, Li Xuanqing waved his hand to let everyone withdraw from the big tent, the time is not early, we must rest well, tomorrow is the most critical day, this day is even related to the success or failure of this war, Li Xuanqing is not careful.

Early the next morning, Li Xuanqing appeared outside the big tent, although a sentry had been arranged, Li Xuanqing still got up early and checked it before he was relieved. The time had come for the 4th Brigade to assemble at the makeshift schoolyard.

The pro-guards were naturally the first to assemble, and Xu Tianxiang also allocated the best weapons and armor to them from the baggage camp last night, only to see that the black armor under the dim sky exuded an indescribable murderous aura, and the soldiers were silent, which brought great pressure to all the latecomers, and forced these people to be silent one by one.

Soon the hour came, and all the soldiers of the Fourth Brigade were gathered here. There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no shore, but the thousand people in front of him make Li Xuanqing feel this way. However, after Li Xuanqing glanced at the same, he began today's lecture:

"Soldiers, remember me, I'm Li Xuanqing. Today is the first and most important exercise of our 4th Brigade. Because we are facing the battlefield in front of us, maybe tomorrow we will have to charge into battle against the enemy's arrows and kill the enemy to serve the country. But what I want to say is that today is the most important thing, and only when we are well prepared can we hope to defeat the enemy on the battlefield and survive. Li Xuanqing silently mobilized the atmosphere of the soldiers present, and continued: "Everyone is the heroic son and daughter of Lingzhou, and the pride of Lingzhou, do you think we can win this battle?" ”

"Ten thousand wins, ten thousand wins." As soon as Li Xuanqing's words fell, the pro-guard team suddenly erupted into a dull roar, and the others followed suit, and the voices of the thousand people instantly overshadowed everything around them, and the torches that shook the scene were extinguished.

"Okay, it's worthy of my Lingzhou Army, and I like everyone's courage. Now I order-" As soon as the words fell, everyone tightened their steps in unison, raised their heads and chests, and stared at Li Xuanqing in unison.

"The Fourth Brigade has been reorganized into 20 teams, and I announce that all teams are being selected, and all personnel must cooperate with each team to complete the reorganization. The Guards immediately supervised the entire field and enforced military law. As soon as the words fell, the pro-guard team divided into two parts, and quickly stood beside Li Xuanqing, the long knife was unsheathed, and the bright blade made everyone's hearts chill.

"Deputy Brigade Commander and First Team Zheng Xu Tianxiang" Li Xuanqing's tone was flat, "Immediately select the soldiers, complete the formation of the first team, and after completion, go to the front of the battalion to reorganize into a phalanx, and wait for orders." ”

"Whoa." Xu Tianxiang nodded solemnly, bowed, and went out to select soldiers.

"Hu Xiaosi, the brigade commander appointed you to be the head of the scout team, and the deputy brigade commander went to select soldiers together."

"The second team is Chen Yu, the third team is Chen Fan, the fourth team is Wu Huan, the fifth team is Yang Tiancheng, the sixth team is Li Tianyi, the seventh team is Liu Baoliang, the eighth team is Wang Houchun, the ninth team is Hou Yong, the tenth team is Chai Jia, and the eleventh team is Qian Lao Liu...... The 19th team is Zhang Cheng, and the 20th team is Qian 3. Li Xuanqing closed the military register and said, "All the above teams will complete the selection of soldiers under their jurisdiction within one hour." All affairs are under the unified responsibility of the deputy brigade commander, and the personal guard is controlled by the deputy brigade commander, and those who refuse to accept it are shocked and killed. Eat after an hour. Li Xuanqing slammed the soul gun on the ground, and the melodious sound of the gunfire was crisp and pleasant, "Now the reorganization begins." ”

As soon as the order was given, each team was under Xu Tianxiang's arrangement and immediately began to select soldiers, and the soldiers who were selected began to assemble directly in front of the camp according to the orders of each team, or to help select soldiers, and the entire school field suddenly began to be lively.

Li Xuanqing ignored these, after all, he was a recruit, and there were no soldiers in the forehands of each team, so it was already very good to be able to do this step now, so he didn't want to be too demanding, just stood quietly on the stage and watched everything that happened below.

As time passed, the sky gradually brightened, the burning torches began to be extinguished one after another, the soldiers on the school field were also rapidly decreasing, and Li Xuanqing's mind began to fly to Chang'an City in the distance. The Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty is no longer in later generations, but anyone who sees the high city walls and the soldiers waiting in the distance have a headache, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, all aspects of the city defense are designed according to the highest standards, there is no mistake, as long as there are soldiers to guard, it is really a master, ten thousand people do not open. How should we attack tomorrow? The coalition forces were under the fortified city, and for a long time, even if there were no enemy reinforcements, there would definitely be little morale left. If the commander makes another stupid move at this time, it really won't be good. I don't know what Han Zun is thinking at this time?

An hour passed quickly, and the neat twenty teams of men and horses were assembled in front of the camp, Li Xuanqing waved his hand and said a few words to the soldiers of the personal guard beside him, only to see this soldier quickly run out of the camp to find Xu Tianxiang to convey the latest order.

After a short time, the teams returned to the school field in an orderly manner under the leadership of the team. This time I have experienced a lot of neatness. Li Xuanqing nodded and began to arrange for everyone to eat, and everyone began to follow the rules of the previous third team to start a meal and a vigilance method, and everyone was ordered to stand in the designated position when they ate.

Seeing all this, Li Xuanqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, there were too many things to do in his own planning, watching Xu Tianxiang do this under his constant guidance, and finally let himself have a person who could share the burden.

Half an hour later, everyone gathered in the school yard after receiving the latest weapons and armor from the baggage battalion under the leadership of each team. And this time, after seeing that Li Tianyi and Wang Houchun's two teams received all bows and arrows except for Tang Dao, he couldn't help but nodded, this time the number of people was unprecedentedly abundant, and some of Li Xuanqing's ideas also had the possibility of being realized, archers have always been one of the special forces that Li Xuanqing wants to focus on, and this time I saw Xu Tianxiang let the two people with the best and most talented archery skills in his group of brothers lead two pure bow and arrow troops, which can be regarded as a bold attempt.

"The archer scout team is out of the queue alone, and the other teams are divided into two parts, the left winger arrow formation, and the right circle formation, for formation drills." At this time, Li Xuanqing saw Xu Tianxiang walking to his side, knew that he had finished preparations, and began to give the first training order today.

With Li Xuanqing's order, the order flag in Xu Tianxiang's hand began to wave, and everyone on the field began to run quickly according to the order flag to form two military formations.

In fact, one of the advantages of these recruits is that they are already familiar with all the common sense in the army, so as soon as they see the flag waving, they automatically know what to do. In a moment, everyone found their place. Li Xuanqing motioned to Xu Tianxiang to continue to command the operation of the large array. Since the formation pays attention to coordination, it is the most suitable method to cultivate the familiarity and fit of the soldiers, and what the Fourth Brigade lacks most is tacit understanding and familiarity.

Li Xuanqing came to Li Tianyi, Wang Houchun and Hu Xiaosi with the Soul Breaking Gun, and motioned for them to follow him outside the camp.

"It seems that the Fourth Brigade is right to be handed over to this kid. Ma Laosan, Ma Laosan, your vision is still as poisonous as ever. In the corner that Li Xuanqing didn't pay attention to, Zhang Tianhu and a few of his own soldiers saw the Fourth Brigade start the formation drill, nodded and sighed, and a complicated expression appeared on his face full of vicissitudes for the first time, and it didn't go away for a long time.