Chapter 913: The Eagle Spreads Its Wings
Since the day of the fight, Huo Qubing seems to have changed people. I never went out hunting again, and I didn't continue to mess around. After disappearing for three days, the dust appeared where he belonged.
As the most elite force in Su Ren's hands, the cavalry is just a small team of 3,000 people. Despite the small number of cavalry, all of them were good at participating in real battles and surviving. And each person has two horses, armor, and blades. Some even had three horses, and the horses were equipped with armor to protect them.
Huo Quzhi was appointed by Su Ren as the commander of this team some time ago, and he also served as Su Ren's pro-army captain. So he almost never came to his barracks, and today was his first appearance in front of his own army. The battle of 3,000 men is not big, but it is not small. Standing in the middle of the school military field, the helmets were bright and bright, and even the war horses did not make a sound, and the birds in the vicinity were far away from the murderous aura that scared them.
The lieutenant general was a bearded man, tall and scary, and his appearance was rough and scary. From the dark gray eyes, it can be seen that this person should not be a pure Han Chinese, at least not pure Han blood. The vigorous hair covered the slightly immature face, and at first glance I thought that this man was a man in his thirties, but in fact this person was only seventeen years old.
"The last general, Zhao Poyu, has seen the major general!" Zhao Poyu clasped his fists and saluted, and the armor on his body was thinking wildly.
Zhao Poyu is a mixed Han-Hu race, his father was a Xiongnu, and he is currently a Han Chinese. Since childhood, he has always been looked down upon in the tribe. Before Zhao Poyu grew up, his father died in a war, leaving only his mother and him to live even more miserable. Later, his mother also died of exhaustion, and Zhao Poyu, a child with Han Chinese blood, was driven out of the tribe. At that time, Zhao Poyu was only ten years old.
The consequences of a ten-year-old child wandering the grasslands are terrible, and it is already fateful to survive for three days. Fortunately, Zhao Poyu has a good body, first wandered alone, and later joined a group of horse thieves, so that he can live to this day. Follow the horse thief to eat and sleep in the open, and do evil things. Neither the Huns nor the Han people could be counted as relatives in the eyes of Zhao Poyu, until Su Ren asked him from the thorns.
"You are Zhao Poyu? The general mentioned you, so I have something to ask you for. ”
"The last general is panicked, and he will assist the major general to open the banner victoriously, and drink the horse and the wolf!"
"Hahaha, I love to hear this, from now on you are my marching Sima, give you a month to train these lazy worms, the master is of great use."
"No!"
Zhao Poyu clenched his fists and stood at the front of the team. Huo Quzhi patted the armor on his body, and glanced at the three thousand people present: "To tell you the truth, the general arranged a fat difference for me, as long as it is done well, there is no problem in eating and drinking spicy food in the second half of my life, and I will be drunk and dream of death!" Of course, if we join the army, we will naturally go to the battlefield, and death is inevitable, but I hope that you will all come back alive one by one. ”
"The general asked me to select a thousand people from among you, but the master doesn't need it, as long as eight hundred, these eight hundred people want to be the best, the master guarantees that the mixed pavilion chief and county lieutenant who are alive in this battle will not be a problem, if you accidentally die in battle, the general will also buy your life with copper coins that weigh the same as yours, including your war horse armor, how much the fuck is this!"
"Some people say that such a generous reward should be a very dangerous dead man! Yes, it's about the same as the dead soldiers, what the master wants is the dead soldiers, those birdmen who pee their pants before the war don't need it, these birdmen not only can't help but also kill the brothers next to them when they go to the battlefield, what the master wants is a robe, a real robe, does anyone have the courage to go with the master? ”
"The last will go!" Zhao Poyu was the first to clench his fists and speak, without any hesitation.
Huo Quzhi laughed: "The master likes you, from now on, I will follow the master, and one day the master will be the marquis and the general, and I will also make you a general!" ”
Su Ren couldn't cry or laugh, and took Han Qing down from the watchtower on the west side of the school's military field, shaking his head with his hands behind his back and smiling bitterly. Huo Quzhi has inherited his "good habit" of foul language, but it is also very inflammatory, at least let the cavalry deputy general Zhao Poyu go willingly. Perhaps this is also the irreversibility of the historical path, in the end, it is Zhao Poyu who followed Huo Quai.
Han Qing was very confident, he knew that Huo Quzhi was Su Ren's apprentice, and he also knew that Huo Qubing had learned a lot of the art of war from Han Anguo, and he also knew that Huo Quzhi's character was stupid and bold. But today, Han Qing saw the other side of Huo Qu's disease. If this kid is serious, he is also a difficult fellow, just that swear speech, and the eyes of the three thousand cavalrymen in the school military field, have already shown that this cavalry general, who basically did not stay in the cavalry camp for a day, took half a column of incense to control the pampered cavalry.
"Hey! I don't know if this kid can make it? Su Ren sighed.
Han Qing smiled: "The young eagle will always come out of the eagle's nest one day, and if it can't withstand the storm, it won't be able to become an eagle that looks out of the sky." ”
"I'm afraid that if one accidentally breaks his wings, he won't have the ability to soar into the sky in the future."
"Sir thinks too much, the eagle will always be the eagle, no matter how many times the wings are broken, it can still get up, only the quail will always shrink its head under the feathers, even if it occasionally shows the ability to fly, it will soon fall to the ground and re-shrink its head under the feathers."
"Oh? Looks like you're confident! ”
"Sir's apprentice, I am naturally full of confidence!"
"My apprentice is also human!"
In one morning, Huo Qubing recruited the 800 people he needed, and after Zhao Poyu's introduction one by one, Huo Quzhi had a preliminary understanding of his subordinates. Indeed, all of them are the elite of the real cavalry, and a few of them also participated in the Battle of Ma Yi that year, and even have military industry. In other words, almost all of these 800 people are composed of lower-level officers, standard death squads.
In the evening, Huo Qubing gave an order to his 800 men and horses, ordering them to pull out the camp overnight, and even Zhao Poyu did not disclose where they went. With confusion and the hope of Huo Quai's bold words and generous returns, 800 men and horses rushed into Yanshan and disappeared into the vast forest.
Su Ren had been reading the military newspaper in the study, and the army of the Huns was still gathering, and there was no intention of ending. After the sum of the news fed back from all sides, it was found that Yi Zhixian was desperate this time, and almost all the Xiongnu soldiers who could fight were gathered in Mayi, and he turned a blind eye to Wei Qing and Li Guang's two-way army, which shows that Yi Zhixian hated Su Ren to the core.
There is not much time left for Su Ren, and whether he can prevent Yi Zhixian's rapid attack depends on whether Yanmen Pass can be defended. Su Ren knew this very well: "Mr. Han, do they have any news when they get sick?" ”
Han Qing hurriedly stopped what he was doing: "I have arrived at the Yanshan camp, I am stepping up training, those new equipment still need to be practiced, the deadline given to them by the general is one month, presumably it should be almost ready, and there will be new news tomorrow." ”
"Hmmm! People don't matter, the war horse needs to be more familiar, and if the war horse is frightened at that time, it will be more than worth the loss. ”
"What the general said is very true, I heard that on the first day of training, many people fell off their horses, and before they even went to the battlefield, three people were dragged to death by their horses, and hundreds of people were injured."
"Hey! I couldn't be in a hurry about this matter, but I was too anxious! However, the responsibility of going to the sick this time is heavy, and the troops are too small, if they are not equipped with these things, it is estimated that less than 30% of these 800 people can come back alive. ”
"Don't worry, sir, go to the sick and understand Mr.'s hard work."
"Send a letter tomorrow to tell him that his time is running out, and if he can't complete the training within ten days, this operation will be canceled."
"No!"
Huo Quzhi was swept off by the war horse again, not because his riding skills were inadequate, but because the war horse couldn't stand the violent explosion. One or two sounds are okay, hundreds of them in a row, like popping beans one after another, people are terrified when they hear it, not to mention these beasts. Today, another soldier broke his leg and was forced to quit the team. There are less than 600 horsemen left by Huo Quai's side.
Zhao Poyu pulled Huo Quzhi up: "Major General, we don't have much time, although this weapon is huge, but this sound is like thunder, people can't stand it, let alone these beasts, it's better for us to ...... the ears of all war horses."
"This matter can not be mentioned again, the teacher once said that on the battlefield, the war horse is our best partner, and can be regarded as the closest comrade-in-arms, since it is a brother, you can bear it? What's more, the deafness of the war horse is also a kind of damage, which is extremely detrimental to the battle, you must know that we have died this time, and we can't achieve it without reliable horses. Huo Quzhi patted his buttocks, got back on the horse, and continued to Zhao Poyu while caressing the mane of the war horse: "You go and ask Captain Shi if you can lend us their war horse, and when we come back, we will definitely compensate ten times as much." ”
"That's it!"
Huo Quzhi still insisted on training every day, and he and his men fell off the horse again and again, turned over and climbed up again. Whether someone has a broken leg or someone is dead, the rest are still diligent and hardworking, and no one has complained a single word. Because they had seen something that only gods deserved. This gave them confidence in the future battles.
Time flies, and January is coming. After so many days of learning and adapting. Their horses were basically not surprised by the loud noise. Coupled with the three hundred war horses borrowed from Shi Manzhu, it was barely enough for this team of six hundred people to travel. When Huo Qubing received the military order, he took a deep breath. This was his first time on the battlefield, a real battlefield, and he was leading the troops alone. Huo Quzhi regarded this battle as a test for him by Su Ren, and if he succeeded, it would not be far from the time for him to make contributions. If he fails, then he can only live under Su Ren's wings for the rest of his life.
Facing the scorching sun born in the East, Huo Quzhi looked serious and waved his big hand: "Go!" ”