In terms of seniority, Zhou Daowu is Xue Shao's uncle; Please be qualified, Zhou Daowu has led the army for decades, and he is an old man of the military, and he is Xue Shao's predecessor. However, Zhou Daowu did not put any seniors in front of Xue Shao, he was very humble and low-key, and invited Xue Shao to go into the city with him to meet the coach Pei Xingjian, and insisted on letting Xue Shao take the first step when entering the city gate.

The thousands of soldiers who came with him all saw it, and they wondered, why was our Zhou Dudu so humble to this young man who had only a few dozen people under his command?

Politics is too far away from these ordinary soldiers.

Zhou Daowu knew in his heart that Xue Shao, a prospective horse who had just entered the career at a young age, was definitely a ruthless character. Not to mention anything else, his son Zhou Jitong fought side by side with Li Xiantong in Zuo Fengchenwei for ten years without a winner, and as soon as Xue Shaobu appeared, he pushed Zhou Jitong up and drove Li Xiantong out of Chang'an.

Zhou Daowu was grateful to Xue Shao, but he was inevitably a little scared in his heart - if the facts at that time were reversed, and it was Zhou Jitong who was driven out of Chang'an, would he still be able to bring soldiers and horses to participate in this Northern Expedition now? Maybe he has been wiped out like Li Chongyi a long time ago!

With these antecedents and realizations, Zhou Daowu didn't dare to vomit in front of Xue Shao, where is there an uncle and seniors, everywhere the details are reversed to behave like Xue Shao's juniors and subordinates.

The two entered Shuozhou, and as soon as they arrived at the marching governor's mansion, they heard a surging sound of military drums and horns inside, which was the commander-in-chief summoning the generals to hold a military meeting.

Xue Shao and Zhou Daowu thought about it, and it was just in time. So the two of them walked into the hall of the governor's mansion in three steps and two steps, and saw Pei Xingjian and Cheng Wuting standing in front of a wall-mounted leather military map talking to each other.

The two stepped forward to pay respects, and Pei Xingjian was suddenly happy, "The two horses arrived at the same time, and the old man is far away!" ”

Everyone laughed together, Pei Xingjian, an old man, was still quite easy-going and funny in private.

Soon, after hearing the sound of drums and horns or receiving orders from the scouts, the generals rushed to the governor's mansion to discuss the matter. It seems that today is still a relatively important military meeting, and the whole army has basically come to the general of the fifth rank and above, and nearly 200 people are gathered together.

Xue Shao was among them, but he saw a lot of familiar faces. There are Li Jinxing and Li Duozuo, Zhang Qianxuan, the general of the Right Yu Linwei who I saw when he was in Chang'an, Cheng Boxian, Cheng Qizhi, Liu Mian and Cui Hejian who came out of the Wushu Academy, and Xue Chuyu also came.

In fact, Xue Chuyu is still a low-level officer of the eighth grade, but he can attend such a military meeting, and no one will express any objections.

In the first battle of the surprise attack on Heisha, Xue Chuyu won the eighth turn of the Strategy, plus his previous military exploits, it is already a sure thing that he will be promoted to a general above the fifth rank. It's just that the appointment of officials above the fifth grade of the Tang Dynasty must be handled by the emperor himself. Therefore, Xue Chuyu, like Xue Shao, has to be rewarded for meritorious service after returning to the dynasty.

In addition, Xue Chuyu's identity has changed since the last time he escorted grain, grass and medical supplies to Shuozhou. This young general, who has the courage of ten thousand people, was ordered by Pei Xingjian to begin to command the elite troops of the commander in front of the tent, that is, the most flexible and mobile and the most effective ace knife unit in the 300,000 army - "Chinese Army Yue Cai".

In the latest battle with the Turks, Xue Chuyu, who had just arrived in Chadao, only led 500 Chinese soldiers and Vietnamese cavalry warriors to participate in the battle, but they killed more than 40 enemy generals in one go, and cut off all the banners of the Turkic enemy army and dragged them back into their own formation.

Ashdwin Fu was almost captured alive, his helmet was picked off by Xue Chuyu, and he fled all the way to the wilderness.

In this battle alone, the name of Xue Chuyu, the "Jade Crown General", was thunderous among the 300,000 troops. Because he had previously followed Xue Shaoqi to attack the black sand and obtained the "Jumping" merit, so he had another nickname, called "Xue Jumping", and the elite cavalry of the Chinese army led by him was also crowned with a very legendary and praised reputation - "Jumping Army".

Good steel is used on the blade, and Pei Xingjian's discerning eyes are by no means in vain.

The meeting began later.

It turned out that Pei Xingjian convened a large gathering of the whole army today to arrange a large-scale military exercise, and the 300,000 troops of the whole army were to drill the "Seventh Army and Six Flower Formations" in the desert wasteland north of the Great Wall three days later.

The army had just won three battles and three victories, and Pei Xingjian was worried that the whole army would develop a feeling of pride and slackness, so he used large-scale military exercises to maintain morale and fighting spirit and prevent the soldiers from slackening. In addition, the more important intention, of course, is also to let the grassland rebel tribes who have just been defeated and flee see the mighty military power of the Tang Dynasty's royal division, and attack and destroy them from the will.

Subsequently, Pei Xingjian began to assign military tasks to the generals of the whole army and took on different roles in the exercise. The newcomer to the Zhou Daoist Department was unfamiliar to everyone, so he was assigned as an "imaginary enemy army" and put him in charge of attacking the Seventh Army's Six Flower Formation. In addition to defending their own positions, the rest of the troops must also cooperate closely, and if any side makes a mistake and leads to defeat, it will be subject to military sanctions, just like facing the enemy before the war.

Xue Shao remembered that the Seventh Army and Six Flower Formation was the most elaborated and classic of the Weigong Military Method, and it was also the most used by the army of the Tang Dynasty to face the enemy. Its history is really long, and it can be said that it runs through the entire history of cold weapons warfare in ancient China. Its original origin is the Yellow Emperor in the "Grip Qiwen" described in the Qiujing five formations, and later Jiang Taigong transformed it into the Taigong Array, and then there were Sima Sui Tho, Guan Zhong and Sun Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, these people successively transformed it into the Five Elements Array and the Five Elements Bagua Array, etc., Zhuge Liang's Eight Arrays were also added and changed on this basis, until the former Sui famous general Han Baohu changed the Eight Formations to the "Nine Army Formations". Han Baohu is Li Jing's uncle, he passed this formation to Li Jing, and then Li Jing, a military wizard, changed it to the current "Seven Armies and Six Flowers Array" suitable for the Tang Dynasty army.

The so-called Seventh Army means that all the armies under the command of the commander are divided into seven parts, namely the front and rear left and right four armies, the left and right Yuhou armies and the middle army. The Chinese army was naturally led by the commander himself, and the remaining six armies took the Chinese army where the commander was located as the center of the circle, and were evenly arranged on a position similar to a circle, like the six petals of a flower. In this way, the distance between the Chinese army led by the commander and any unit is the same, which is convenient for the Chinese army to respond and rescue at any time. At the same time, it also ensures that the commander's orders can be transmitted from the nearest distance and as quickly as possible to any subordinate unit.

The Seventh Army and Six Flower Array seem very simple, and almost all the generals with troops in Datang are using it. But just like all the Chinese people are writing Chinese characters, some have become calligraphers, and some are miserable to write, Pei Xingjian is recognized by the world as the master of the Seven Armies and Six Flower Arrays.

Xue Shao thought to himself, just in time, he could learn from the old fox on the spot how to use the simplest ancient battle formation to exert the most powerful combat power.

Just pondering, Pei Xingjian suddenly called: "Right Guard, General Zuolang, where is Xue Shao?" ”

"The last general!" Xue Shao went out of the class and promised.

Many people turned their heads to look at Xue Shao together, and a whisper sounded-

"This is the Xue Shao who is about to become a colt?"

"Pei Gong's newly accepted protégé?"

"The brigade commander who attacked the Black Sand last time?"

"Why does he look like a beautiful man in fresh clothes and angry horses, not like a general who fights tough battles?"

"Who knows? Maybe it's a vain name, or maybe it's a person who can't be seen? ”

Xue Shao couldn't help but smile gracefully, soldiers are not as upright as Doctor Shi, and they will say anything directly. These questions and discussions seem to be very representative.

Pei Xingjian turned a blind eye to these people's questions and discussions, and said: "You come to assist Zhou Daowu to use troops together to break my Seventh Army and Six Flower Array!" ”

"Huh?" Xue Shao was stunned, thousands of people attacked 300,000 people, old fox, just came to fix me like this?

"What questions do you have?" Pei Xingjian said calmly.

"There is no doubt, the last general will take the order!" Xue Shao clenched his fists and agreed, and then returned to the train.

Cheng Boxian and the others, who were standing with Xue Shao, laughed happily and whispered-

"You're miserable!"

"We will not show mercy!"

"You'd better not meet the jumping army led by Xue Chuyu, otherwise you will definitely be beaten badly!"

Xue Shao squinted at them with disdain, what a mistake was a bad friend!

Tomorrow night, 300,000 troops will begin to assemble north of the Great Wall, and each of them will set up their positions within a radius of 100 miles, and start a big drill and a big martial arts.

Xue Shao has always been very curious, in the ancient battlefield era when there was no modern wireless communication technology, how did a general who commanded hundreds of thousands of people command the whole army to fight on a battlefield that stretched for hundreds of miles?

Now, I can finally see it for myself.

What's even more rare is that Xue Shao himself will also play an important "villain" role, personally fighting with Pei Xingjian, the god of the Tang Dynasty, and the 300,000 under his command. So, what kind of situation and result will be the collision between the modern concept of special operations and the traditional art of war?

Therefore, Xue Shao was very excited and looking forward to it.

After the meeting was dispersed, Pei Xingjian asked Xue Shao to gather all the people of the Three Swords Brigade under his command, and stood in line to wait for the lecture.

The people of the Three Swords Brigade were secretly a little excited, because Pei Xingjian had promised that when Xue Shao returned from his "vacation" in Bingzhou, Pei Xingjian would officially promote the soldiers of the Three Swords Brigade and appoint them with different officer positions. At the same time, the people of the Three Swords Brigade are also a little melancholy, which means that Xue Shao and everyone in the Three Swords Brigade will go their separate ways and go to serve in different units.

Before officially issuing the letter of appointment and issuing the official certificate, Pei Xingjian called Xue Shao aside and said to him privately: "This is the last time you have led the Three Swords Brigade to carry out a military mission. ”

"Last?" Xue Shao said curiously, "Pei Gong is saying, let me bring these brothers to assist Zhou Daowu to use the army?" ”

Pei Xingjian shook his head with a smile, unfathomable like an old fox who had been practicing for thousands of years, and said, "That's just a disguise." You and the Three Swords Brigade have the ability to reach the sky, and it is impossible to give the old man a black tiger like the last time they dealt with Cheng Wuting's flag cutting exercise. ”

Xue Shao's heart lit up, "Then what does Pei Gong want me to do?" ”

Pei Xingjian was even more mysterious, "Of course it's to execute, beautiful man!" ”