"I have already agreed with Old Man Zhang that you will be the leader of the third team of the Tiger Battalion." Ma Laosan suddenly smiled and said what he meant.

Li Xuanqing's eyes froze, and he wanted to say something but was interrupted by Ma Laosan, "I know what you want to say, I just hope you remember a word, believe in yourself, and don't let me, an old man, down." I think that's what Old Man Zhang wants to tell you. After saying this, Ma Laosan waved his hand and walked away, "We missed it once ten years ago, and I hope you will fight for us this time." Silly boy, don't relax, there should be fresh blood in this world. ”

Ma Laosan's words echoed in Li Xuanqing's mind like a morning bell and a dusk drum, although he still didn't say what happened ten years ago, but how much bitterness and helplessness were revealed in that tone, how many grievances and disappointments Li Xuanqing could still feel, and now with Ma Laosan giving up the position of team leader to himself, how many shackles have been added to himself invisibly, and the burden on his shoulders has an extra layer.

Li Xuanqing sighed silently, suppressing the distracting thoughts in his heart, now is not the time to think about this, since Ma Laosan didn't tell himself, he was probably afraid that he would know too much, but he would be tied up, and there would be too many fetters. In this case, it is better to do the things in front of you, at least the fifty-one people of the third team are in your own hands, and you can be regarded as having a starting point.

In the next eight days, the third team was stunned to complete their tasks as promised under Li Xuanqing's indifferent expression, and the military regulations and military discipline were firmly engraved in everyone's minds, and everyone took the training rules formulated by Li Xuanqing as a conditioned reflex, and all tactical actions, military discipline regulations, and formation operations did not need any thinking as long as they gave an order, and they habitually responded accordingly.

And on the afternoon of the eighth day, the long-lost wind and snow stopped, and the warm winter sun also poked its head out rarely, and everyone involuntarily slowed down. But Ma Laosan came over with the heralds of the Huzi Battalion to convey the order, and the selection was made on time tomorrow, and it was not a battalion of the Huzi Battalion, but a total of 40,000 people from the four bases of the Lingzhou Recruit Battalion at the same time.

Looking at the figure of the herald leaving, Li Xuanqing nodded thoughtfully, the expression on his face suddenly became solemn, and after groaning slightly, he began to concentrate on all the soldiers who trained.

I saw an order, and everyone quickly found their position at a unified pace, and almost instantly arranged into a neat phalanx, the spear stationed, and the faint murderous aura penetrated the big array.

"Brothers of the third team, I am very happy, everyone has completed all the tasks as promised, and I am very satisfied with everyone's performance, so I have just given the order, and the rear camp soldiers have taken out all our meat, and are ready to reward everyone well in the evening." Li Xuanqing's spear slammed to the ground, making a loud noise, and his passionate tone reached everyone's ears, "Tomorrow is the selection competition, I hope everyone can show our courage and strength to defeat everyone and strive for the best results." I've heard that there is a reward for the first place in every selection, do you have the confidence to win the reward? ”

"Yes!" Li Xuanqing's thunder has already activated everyone's minds, this year as a soldier actually has meat to eat, and there is meat to eat from time to time during this time, everyone has survived all the difficulties in addition to hard training, so at this moment Li Xuanqing said to take everyone to win the first place to fight for the reward, how can there be no confidence, suddenly a uniform earth-shattering loud sound suddenly broke out, everyone shouted, the spear in their hands was raised, and a completely different vitality filled the entire phalanx.

"Very good, this afternoon half a day's rest, everyone pack up, check weapons, and get ready for the battle." In a cheer, Li Xuanqing gave the last order, but it was a little strange that everyone didn't care about this order, Li Xuanqing's order had been engraved into everyone's minds for so many years, so after the order was issued, everyone withdrew from the school field in an orderly manner under the leadership of the commander and began to act according to the order.

Li Xuanqing and Xu Tianxiang glanced at him, turned around and walked into his tent. It is said that since he was promoted to the deputy team leader, Ma Laosan has set up a small tent for Li Xuanqing alone, which can be regarded as distinguishing from ordinary soldiers.

Not long after, Xu Tianxiang walked in with Chen Yu, Hou Yong, Hu Xiaosi, and Chai Jia, "My subordinates have seen the team." "Everyone gave Li Xuanqing luggage.

Li Xuanqing motioned for everyone to sit down. Seeing Li Xuanqing's solemn face, everyone knew that they had something to say, so they hurriedly found a place to sit down.

"Little Si, you can tell everyone about the news I asked you to hear before." Li Xuanqing sighed slightly after seeing everyone sit down, and said to Hu Xiaosi. During this time, Hu Xiaosi trained hard, speeding up Chen Yu and others to open a small stove for individual guidance, and his martial arts have improved a lot, plus he is naturally good at inquiring about news, so Li Xuanqing signaled him to tell everyone what he heard, and unify the caliber in advance.

"A few days ago, the team asked me to inquire about the front-line war, and now I finally have some news, I heard from the people of the Jiedu Embassy that the front-line war is unfavorable, the Lingwu Army, the Fengxiang Army and Wang Chongrong's army were attacked by an army of the Hedong Jiedu Envoy, and the losses were very large, and the front line was tight." Hu Xiaosi arched his hand towards Li Xuanqing and said.

Li Xuanqing didn't speak, just quietly watched the performance of these people in front of him. When this news came, I was also taken aback, Li Keyong, who was supposed to be an ally, has now become an enemy, and he also attacked the coalition army, this war that ended quickly in history is now a pot of porridge, this result makes Li Xuanqing also cry and laugh, I don't know which link went wrong, is it the tragedy brought by his own crossing? But now I'm a soy sauce maker at best.

"Third brother, isn't this going to send us to death? Those veterans of the Lingwu Army can't beat them, can we do it? After a long silence, Liu Baoliang, who was sitting next to Li Xuanqing, raised his head and asked, it could be seen that he was very nervous, so he blurted out a private name.

As soon as he said this, Chen Yu took over the conversation and retorted: "Baoliang, you are still too bold, if you want me to see that this is calling us to make meritorious contributions, if everyone else wins, then how can it seem that we are high." The third child, I resolutely support you, just hit it, what are you afraid of. As soon as he said this, he immediately got the support of Hou Yong, Wu Huan and others, these guys are all bold lords, although they did not go to the battlefield, but as soon as they heard about the war, there was nothing left in their minds.

Li Xuanqing nodded, smiled at Liu Baoliang, and didn't blame him, just glanced at Xu Tianxiang lightly, and said with a smile: "Do you all agree with Chen Yu's opinion?" ”

Xu Tianxiang saw the smile on Li Xuanqing's face, knowing that he had made a decision in his heart, and looking at his eyes was also testing his ability to think about problems, he didn't hesitate at the moment, got up and said: "I don't think it's a question of whether we go or not, but something that must go." So instead of discussing whether to go or not, it's better to plan carefully what to do in the future. ”

Li Xuanqing clapped his hands, stopped Chen Yu and the others, and said with a smile: "Tianxiang is right, we don't have the right to decide this matter at present, even if we want to send it to death, we have to go, so this issue will not be discussed." What I'm going to say now is that we have the advantage of going, at least we have all the preparations and we will not suffer at any time. ”

Li Xuanqing stood up and said solemnly to the group of people who stood up after him: "You are all my Li Xuanqing's brothers, so I hope that everyone must do a good job in other people's ideological work in the future, and have a unified understanding, everyone must act in strict accordance with orders, the battlefield is not child's play, I don't want things to happen that are arbitrary." When these words were spoken, everyone present couldn't help but be awe-struck, "Tianxiang, you will be responsible for checking everyone's preparations later, as well as the accompanying box barracks, you must check all those who follow the third team, and be sure to keep everyone's thoughts in sync with us." ”

Xu Tianxiang nodded, led everyone to Li Xuanqing and agreed, and then walked out of the tent one after another and went to prepare one by one.

During this half a day, Xu Tianxiang and others continued to go in and out of various tents, explaining to all the subordinates, but they only exaggerated the benefits, so most of the time basically unified everyone's thoughts, and the danger was also through the fact that everyone had to obey orders and obey commands.

Early the next morning, Li Xuanqing put on the Mingguang armor he brought, hung up the two swords of Hengshuang Chengying, said goodbye to Ma Laosan, and then led everyone to gather in front of the main gate of the Huzi camp.

After the third team arrived, the other four teams of the Huzi Battalion also arrived one after another. As soon as he arrived at Zhang Tianhu, he came out of the camp tent, and saw that he was fully clothed, with a long knife hanging from his waist, an iron helmet on his head, and a murderous aura.

Zhang Tianhu saw that everyone had arrived, nodded, waved his hand, and said: "The front-line battle is imminent, the location of the selection competition is set at the front-line camp, everyone is going to the back camp with the deputy battalion of the Huzi battalion to eat, and the general will set off at three o'clock, the target - Chang'an." ”

As soon as Zhang Tianhu's words fell, except for the third team, the other four teams obviously had a commotion, and obviously they didn't get the news. It's no wonder that except for Li Xuanqing who arranged for someone to inquire early, how could anyone else know if they didn't have the foresight?

However, Zhang Tianhu was an iron-blooded warrior on the battlefield after all, and he suppressed this commotion almost instantly, only to see the long knife in his hand suddenly unsheathed, and a roar like a tiger shook the audience, "Quiet, if anyone dares to violate our military discipline and disturb the audio-visual scene, there will be no mercy." After a pause, "It is the right thing to be a soldier and go to the battlefield to eat, why, are you afraid when it comes to the end?" Whoever is afraid, I will let him taste the long knife in my hand. The shiny long knife showed a hint of cold, which made the people in the front row chill, and the riot gradually subsided. Zhang Tianhu glanced at Li Xuanqing's third team, and saw that the fifty-one members of the third team did not move at all, no matter how noisy the outside world was, as if it had nothing to do with them, this calmness made Zhang Tianhu nod secretly.

After suppressing the commotion, everyone began to follow Zhang Tianhu's side of the deputy battalion to the back camp to eat, maybe it should be that the expedition is imminent, so everyone's meal is doubled, not to mention, there is also meat, which made Li Xuanqing a little surprised, but he didn't say anything, just signaled everyone to eat quickly.

Compared with the chaotic eating of other teams, there is a clear difference in the training of the third team in the past ten days, everyone stands in the open space outside the rear camp, not only eating silently, but also the position where each soldier stands seems to have been strictly selected, instinctively standing according to the direction of the circle, the spear is also leaning on the place where it is within reach, the feet are firmly nailed to the ground, and the eyes sweep around from time to time when eating.

Li Xuanqing didn't care, but it didn't mean that others couldn't see it. At this time, Zhang Tianhu was also holding a rice bowl, and swept Li Xuanqing's third team with cold eyes and was silent. He is an iron general who has been killed on the battlefield, so he can naturally notice these details for the first time, and when he sees the soldiers of the third team who have finished eating first, he immediately holds his weapons and begins to guard his companions who have not finished eating, and after each soldier has finished eating, the captain will pick up his own food to eat. Obviously, while the soldiers were eating, the captain was in charge of the guard.

Although the technique is still a little immature, it is obvious that it has been prepared for a long time. "This stinky boy really has two hits." Zhang Tianhu smiled slightly and picked up the rice bowl.

It was a quick time to arrive, and the third team came to the school early to assemble.

"The direct team of the Huzi battalion is the lead, the other teams follow in order, the logistics baggage battalion is postponed, and everyone sets off. Target Chang'an. Zhang Tianhu waved his hand, and the Huzi battalion began to pull out the camp and set off.