Chapter 16: The Eve of the Great War

Half a month later, the guards of the Qi State couldn't stay any longer, so they followed Shen Luo's suggestion and took the first step to join up again in Ninggu County, the first county seat after leaving the mountain.

Qin Lei continued to polish his scout team unhurriedly, it was not that he was eccentric, it was really forced by the situation, and the scout team was too important.

Scout training can be fun and challenging for some, but frustrating and torturous for others. Therefore, Qin Lei stipulated that scouts could voluntarily withdraw, but once they withdrew, they could not be reversed for life. In the other two squadrons, many of them coveted the novelty of scout training and could learn more from His Highness, and they asked to change teams. That's why no one wants to quit the scouts on their own initiative.

After a period of getting along day and night, the team members have completely accepted this prince 'instructor' who eats and lives with them and knows everything, and no one cares about his age.

Qin Lei stipulated that only the top 25 members of each squadron were eligible to sign up for the scout team, which undoubtedly raised the level of the scout team, which was Qin Lei's idea, and he was ready to build the scout team into a special force of this era in the future.

At a general meeting, he announced the decision in front of nearly 300 people, and also announced that from now on, no matter how many people he had, only those 300 could call themselves "instructors." ”

Zhang Yizhi and Shen Luo on the side were dumbfounded, His Royal Highness's method of buying people's hearts is traceless, and it can also arouse the sense of honor of this group of people, and these three hundred people will be the descendants of the lineage in the future. Zhang Shen Qiqi regarded Qin Lei as an idol.

Fifty qualified people all signed up, Qin Lei kicked the two captains back, and then drove all the forty-eight people who signed up to a mountain, gave them an hour to hide, and told them that they could enter the scout team without being discovered in half an hour.

An hour later, Qin Lei told the scouts that from now on, an indefinite elimination system would be implemented, and that all those who could not find anyone this time would be eliminated, and then scattered them into the mountains......

Sixty to forty-eight, in the best-case scenario, one of the five players will be eliminated. The scouts were eager to dig into the ground and find out all the turnips, and now they all call the rookie turnips.

The gap between professional and amateur quickly became apparent, and the scouts calmly went up the hill and stabbed a stick at the top of the tree, and a radish fell screaming. Stirring in the bushes, another radish popped out with an 'oops'. Throw a few honeycombs into a cave, and run to the side with a wicked smile and hide. In a moment several turnips screamed and sprang out of the hole, and threw themselves down the brook beside them.

One by one, the turnips were pulled out. Half an hour has passed, and there are still eight that have not been found.

This means that twenty scouts will be eliminated and eight new radishes will be replenished. Each of the eight radishes had their own tricks, and one of them, Shen Qing, was the most clever, digging a pit beside the path at the foot of the mountain, covering it with a wooden plank, sprinkling it with floating soil, and finally breaking through the crack and getting in. Anyone who has played hide and seek knows that the person who is looking for it will always subconsciously take two steps and start looking for it, so he uses this habitual thinking to hide at the starting point, and as a result, all sixty scouts passed without finding him. Shen Qing was also rated as the first place this time by Qin Lei.

The most tragic was a man named Shi Meng, who was also hiding in the cave at that time, but when the bees pounced, he curled himself up in the corner, gritted his teeth and did not scream, nor did he rush out.

At the end of the test, Iron Eagle shouted out to the eight winners to come down the mountain, and there was one less. By the time everyone found the cave and found Shi Meng, he was stunned beyond recognition, swollen, and had fainted.

As he was carried down the mountain, the stubborn brother woke up, barely opened his swollen eyes, and looked at the instructor pitifully. Qin Lei wanted to laugh and felt distressed, nodded at him, and asked people to heal quickly. Brother Meng was relieved to faint again.

Looking at the listlessness of the eliminated and those who were not selected, Qin Lei sighed secretly, and announced in time that all the players who were not selected could participate in the next selection, and the morale was even higher.

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No matter how slow you go, there will be a day when you finish. In June, Qin Lei and his guards finally arrived in Ninggu County. At this time, the guards were well-groomed and their morale was high, like an unsheathed sword, and their sharpness was exposed.

After five days of repairing in Ninggu County, it dragged on the road, and the Qi army guarding was also accustomed to this master's chronic son, so he didn't urge it anymore.

A horse came from the west, disrupting Qin Lei's rhythm.

"I didn't expect that Qi was in such a situation." Shen Luo shook his head and smiled bitterly. The guards who were sent to Yingzhou to do business reported that it had reached the point where the people's grievances were boiling, and after a little fanning the flames, there was a riot, which intensified at this time, and had the tendency to spread throughout the state.

This is the strange phenomenon of Qi State, the three-legged Ding Qi State declined, in order to resist the oppression of Qin and Chu, Qi State had to invest heavily in armaments, 30 years ago Zhao Wujiao established a military household system, the military family was separated from the tax, although in the long run, this will be endless, but at least in this generation, it has well protected the enthusiasm of the army, the army is not weak, and the income of officers and soldiers is not low. The astronomical military expenditures, coupled with the extravagant lifestyles of the upper classes, were almost entirely passed on to the poor people, who would rebel and be suppressed by powerful armies. The repression will be followed by more severe exploitation, rebellion, and repression.

Drinking to quench thirst, this is Qin Lei's definition of the national policy of Qi Guo.

The three-person leading group of Qin Lei, Shen Luo, and Zhang Jizhi quickly adjusted their plans and ordered the troops to speed up their advance and travel hundreds of miles a day to reach Yingzhou City before the riot was suppressed.

This change made the Qi State guards miserable, and they fell behind after three days. It also dumbfounded many forces, and before the various traps in the design began to be arranged, they watched these more than 300 horsemen rush forward and never go back.

Seven days later, with a day's journey to the rioting Yingzhou, Qin Lei asked the team to stop and rest for the night. He had to wait for a few pieces of information, and he also had to send a few people off.

At the edge of the camp, Tie Ying, who was dressed in a strong suit, looked at the young highness solemnly, and he felt the changes in Qin Lei the most. Qin Lei under the sunset is thin and straight, obviously taller than a few months ago, and much stronger, and can already have a tie with Tie Ying. But the biggest change was in his eyes, bright eyes with a determined gaze that made him look much older than his actual age.

Especially after entering Qianzhou, Qin Lei's command was determined and his dispatch was free. It is even more to train a group of domestic soldiers like a command, and the order is forbidden. Let the iron eagle, who is a good hand in the conceited army, also learn a lot.

The original cowardly and fearful, muddy proton has turned into the bold and powerful Qin Lei, and Tie Ying is happy from the bottom of his heart. Five years ago, because he offended the powerful, he was proud to take over from his retired predecessor and came to Beijing, and he had no future at all.

In the past few months, seeing the changes in His Highness, Iron Eagle has been dormant for a long time, and his fighting spirit has slowly recovered. Now he wants to go two thousand miles west alone to see His Majesty and send a handwritten letter to His Highness. This is the key to Qin Lei's entire plan, if something goes wrong, everything will become meaningless.

Qin Lei faced Tie Ying and was silent, the contours of his face becoming deeper in the afterglow. He didn't know if Tie Ying would be able to reach Hangu Pass safely, but at this time he could only choose to trust this big man who had been with him.

After a long time, the two hugged each other, and Tie Ying turned over his horse and galloped away, without saying another word or looking back.

Shen Luo and Wang Jizhi also left Qin Lei half an hour ago, and they were tied up by three squads all the way north, crossing the big river, traveling west along the north bank, and entering the border of Qin from the grassland. Although they have come full circle along the way, with Qin Lei attracting firepower for them, it must be quite safe.