In the barracks outside the city of Hangzhou, a late autumn bleak, in the woods outside the forest, the maple leaves are red, the ground in the forest, has been shallow spread a layer of fallen leaves, a gust of autumn wind blows, the branches shake the leaves, a few maple leaves reluctantly leave the embrace of the treetops, roll in the air, and fall lightly to the arms of Mother Earth.

I don't know if it is affected by the parting feelings of this autumn wind, the atmosphere in the barracks that was originally alive and well is also indescribably depressing and heavy, and even the soldiers on patrol are no longer the high morale of a few years ago, one by one, their heads drooping, carrying guns weakly, patrolling back and forth in this large camp.

Hu Zongxian was dressed in armor, standing on a high post in the camp, his brows were deeply locked, looking at the listless and lifeless appearance in the camp, he couldn't help but sigh long, and said softly: "I didn't expect it to become like this, Sky Wolf, I should have listened to you at the beginning." ”

Li Cangxing changed into a military uniform today, and changed his appearance into a black-faced general in his early forties, standing beside Hu Zongxian, with his hands behind his back, looking coldly at this scene in the camp, and said: "Governor Hu has always had strict military discipline and good management of the army, why haven't you seen him for a few years, and military discipline has been so lax?" ”

Xu Wenchang, who was dressed in a blue shirt, dressed as a scribe, and a silk scarf, barely squeezed out a smile: "Most of the previous troops were taken to the front line by the generals to fight against the Japanese invaders, and most of the guards who stayed in the camp were transferred from the Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Division. ”

Hu Zongxian waved his hand: "Wen Chang, you don't have to find a reason for me. The courage of the generals, the military discipline in the battalion is lax like this, to put it bluntly, the governor has no heart to fight. That's why I will go up and down, Heavenly Wolf, when I was pressured by Yan Shifan, I was forced to kill Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, forcing the entire southeast, now from Zhejiang to Fujian, and even the coasts of Guangdong and Shandong provinces. There were pirate raids by the Japanese pirates, and they fought hard for three years with little success. The people along the coast have suffered a lot, and it is all the sin of my Hu Zongxian! ”

Li Cangxing said expressionlessly: "Governor Hu, the matter has come to this, you must also know. The reason why you have not been able to suppress the southeastern region in the past few years. The more and more they suppress, it is also because Yan Shifan provides all kinds of support to these Japanese robbers behind his back, and once the internal thieves collude with the outer robbers, it is not something that you, the governor of Zhejiang, can deal with. ”

Hu Zongxian gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "I knew this was the case, I would rather fight this black gauze hat back then, and I would have resolutely resisted the pressure of Yan Shifan, Heavenly Wolf." I really thank you for putting national affairs first, regardless of past suspicions. Come to the southeast to help me this time. ”

Li Cangxing sighed: "No matter what, I am a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and the matter of the southeast peace was also promoted by me to recruit An, and now it is like this, it is really not what I want, I will not miss the major affairs of the country because of my personal grudge with you, and see the people suffer more, so what is the difference between me and Yan Shifan, a traitor?" ”

Hu Zongxian's face flashed with a hint of imperceptible joy, and in a flash, he spoke: "Heavenly Wolf, you said that you brought more than a thousand martial arts warriors this time and wanted to join the army, can you tell me your next plan?" ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "Governor Hu, I have already left Jinyiwei, but my name is kept secret from the outside world, you still call me Tianluo, I joined the army here with you, and I also use this name." ”

A hint of embarrassment flashed on Hu Zongxian's face: "If you are Jinyiwei, there is nothing wrong with using this codename, but if you officially join the army, as a military general, whether it is an upward report or a future meritorious service, you need an official name, even if it is a pseudonym, it is stronger than this codename." ”

Xu Wenchang suddenly spoke: "Lord Ministry, there must be something unspeakable about the Heavenly Wolf's move, let's not be too reluctant, it's really not good, you can just make up a name for him and report it." ”

Li Cangxing waved his hand: "Governor Hu, I came here this time, not for fame and fortune, Yu Gong, I hope to fight against the Japanese Invaders, and return the southeast coast to Qingping and selfishness, I also hope to be a person in the rivers and lakes, and in the future, I can open a sect in this southeast area and realize my wishes, so you don't need to ask my name, or even give me a formation, my troops can be temporarily attached to General Qi's headquarters and act together." ”

Hu Zongxian's face changed slightly: "You want to go and meet Qi Jiguang's department?" ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "Yes, I have also heard a lot of current military reports along the way, Qi Jiguang's Yiwu soldiers have been trained very well, and I heard that they have also trained a mandarin duck formation, which is very powerful, and it is most suitable for squad combat, and it can be in the upper hand when facing the Japanese Kou." ”

Hu Zongxian sighed: "Having said that, but Qi Jiguang's department is an army after all, and those Japanese robbers are mostly stragglers, they can fight if they can fight, and if they can't fight, they get on the boat and escape, often when Qi Jiguang appears, the Japanese have already grabbed things, got on the boat and escaped, so although Qi Jiguang has been tired for more than a year, he has rarely achieved big results." ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "Governor Hu, this situation is nothing more than two reasons, one is that the Qi family army is infantry, and the roads in the south of the Yangtze River are muddy, and it is not easy to march, so it is difficult for the army to catch up with the Japanese invaders, and secondly, it is that the bandits of the Yan Shifan Tong Guò Jianghu colluded with the Japanese and reported to them, as long as General Qi's army moved, the internal thieves would spread the news to the outside world, so they would return again and again in vain." ”

Hu Zongxian nodded: "Heavenly Wolf, you are from Jinyiwei, and you are the most familiar with intelligence, what good way do you have to solve this matter?" ”

Li Cangxing put away his smile and said, "Governor Hu, there is a way, but I need you to be my strong backing." Without your right to act cheaply, I would not have been able to win the battle or kill the spies. ”

Hu Zongxian didn't say a word, took out a gold medal from his arms, and handed it to Li Cangxing: "Heavenly wolf, this is the gold medal I gave you when you went to Shuangyu Island, it was given by the emperor himself. ”

Li Cangxing smiled and put the token in his arms: "Governor Hu, this is the power of life and death in the southeast. I'm no longer in the court, are you so relieved to hand over this gold medal to a grass people? ”

Hu Zongxian's expression became resolute: "Heavenly Wolf, I believe in your character. I believe that your pure heart for the country was not firm enough back then, and I was confused for a while, which led to today's catastrophe. That's why I issued that order to join the army, just hoping that you, the wolf, can re-emerge from the mountain to help me, regardless of the past suspicions. ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "Governor Hu." This time, you may have to wronged the people along the coast, and if someone impeaches you at that time, you must hold on. ”

Hu Zongxian's face changed slightly, and he looked at the sky wolf. I was speechless for a while.

Two months later. Outside the city of Taizhou, Zhejiang, it has entered the cold winter, but in this southeast coastal place, it is not as snowy as in the north, although the grass and trees between the heaven and the earth have withered, and the trees in the mountains and forests have been bare, and even the animals have chosen to sting, but in a hidden canyon in the west mountains outside the city. It was still the sound of people shouting and neighing, and the enthusiasm of the camp sergeants and pawns for training. Like a fire in July, soaring into the sky, life is going to melt the winter sky.

Li Cangxing was dressed in black, masked, wearing a black hood, leaving only two bright eyes outside, standing side by side with the heavily armed Qi Jiguang, standing on the high platform, watching the training of the sergeants in the playground.

I saw hundreds of Ukrainian sergeants, fully armed, scattered into dozens of squads, eleven people in a team, at the front of the team stood a sergeant who was the oldest and looked like a non-commissioned officer, holding a sword, behind him, there were two soldiers with shields standing on the left and on the right, one on the left was holding a large square wooden shield one person high, as thick as a door panel, with iron edges, and one on the right was holding a light rattan round shield, and the right hand was holding a knife, both of them followed the sergeant in front of him, especially the long card player on the left, From time to time he flashed in front of the sergeant and raised his shield to cover it.

Behind these three people, there are two sergeants holding strange-shaped weapons, which look like a whole bamboo that can be seen everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, the bamboo head is sharpened into a spear-shaped, and it is also inlaid with an iron spearhead, and the branches and leaves on the bamboo body are strangely retained, looking at the clouds from a distance, as if a big umbrella has been set up, and this bamboo weapon, which is three meters long, stretches forward, and is two meters ahead of the captain who is standing in the forefront, forming an excellent protection for him.

Li Cangxing smiled slightly, today was his first day at Qi Jiguang's camp, Qi Jiguang specially arranged a drill for him in the Mandarin Duck Formation, he asked: "General Qi, what are the weapons in the hands of those two sergeants with bamboo weapons?" It seems that there is no such number in the arsenal. ”

Qi Jiguang laughed, pointed to the soldiers who were wielding this big bamboo and said: "This thing is called the wolf, it is the invention of the Yiwu miners, the first two years we fought against the Japanese robbers, the Japanese knives are sharp, the Japanese thieves are fierce, although our army can win, but the casualties are quite heavy, the traditional short knife and shield can not effectively fight against the Japanese sword, and the spear and iron fork and other weapons are easy to cut off the Japanese robbers." ”

"So we gathered the wisdom of all the people, invented this kind of weapon, called the wolf whi, which is specially made from the bamboo in this mountain, about three meters long, the head is inlaid with an iron spear, and the thorns on both sides are ironed with fire There are straight hooks, and then poured tung oil, and poison will be applied when fighting, once our army is in battle with the enemy, then ignite the branches and leaves, and the poisonous smoke can be blown to the Japanese and poisoned. In peacetime battles, this wolf can hold up two large nets in front of the team, and it is even more difficult for the wolf to rush in, and the heavy arrows and swords they rely on will be effectively restrained. ”

Li Cangxing nodded with satisfaction: "It's just that this thing is very heavy, and it seems that it also needs a powerful person to use it freely, and General Qi recruited most of the Yiwu miners, who are powerful and powerful, so they can dance this wolf, if they change those guards, I'm afraid they won't even be able to lift it." ”

Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "This elite soldier is to be trained, a wolf whire, also weighs dozens of catties, in the eyes of your masters of the rivers and lakes, it is nothing, but for ordinary soldiers, it is very difficult to lift, let alone as a weapon to wield, these wolf wrenchers of mine are the strongest and most powerful people in the selected Yiwu soldiers, and they are also the essence of my mandarin duck array." ”

Li Cangxing glanced over and saw that behind the wolf hand, there were four pikemen and two short knife men, some of whom were still carrying bows and arrows. Looking at the formation they practiced, sometimes it was divided into two columns, left and right, and sometimes it became a zigzag three-talent formation. From time to time, it becomes the captain in the center, the shield hand protects the two wings, and the wolf soldier stretches out the circle array in front and behind the protection, which can be described as a wide variety and variety.

After Li Cangxing looked at it for a while, he smiled and said, "General Qi, this formation of yours is really good. The only pity is that although your sergeants are strong and disciplined, they are not martial arts people after all. The power of this wolf has not yet been fully exerted. ”

Qi Jiguang's eyes lit up: "Heavenly Wolf, your martial arts are world-renowned, can you instruct my subordinates?" ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly, he was not good at long weapons such as spears before. But in Mongolia for these years. I have traveled to many Mongolian tribes, and I have a deep understanding of the various marksmanship popular in the steppe, especially the Sulu ingot spear, because the Mongolian cavalry in the north mostly rides war horses and wields spears or maces, and these moves have been completely mastered by the current Li Cangxing.

Li Cangxing nodded. A little on both feet, a volley. The figure flew out of the air, and all the sergeants on the exercise ground only felt that the light had become dimmed, and they stopped their hands one after another, and looked up at the air, only to see a black figure like a big bird soaring down into the air, just blocking the ray of sunlight.

In the exclamation of everyone, Li Cangxing's figure jumped down the high platform from the five-zhang high point and jumped to the center of the field.

Li Cangxing waved the wolf whisk with both hands, and used the dragon flying marksmanship of the Northern Desert Mongolia, only to see the three or four meters long, more than 40 pounds of wolf whisk in his hands, like a child's toy, lifting weights like light, flying up and down, dancing like a spear, seeing that the troops present were all dumbfounded, and their mouths could not be closed.

Li Cangxing took an arrow step, his hands were flat, and the small branches on both sides were open, as if a big umbrella had been opened in front of him, and shouted: "Zhongping potential, this potential is the front bow and the back arrow, yin and yang must turn, both hands must be straight, push and step like the wind, the world is invincible." ”

Li Cangxing reversed the wolf's whack, passed the end under his crotch, stirred up the weapon with both hands like oars, rolled up the dust on the ground, and shouted: "Riding the dragon, riding the dragon on the closed-door method, and the lower gate is very meritorious. ”

In the exclamation of everyone, Li Cangxing jumped up, danced with both hands, like shaking a spear, and shouted: "The hook opens the momentum, the hook method comes from blocking the gate, and the small door falls and runs forward. And following his mantra, this wolf is also like a hook and sickle spear technique, and the weapon that begins to hook up with the side branches.

"The shelf is on the momentum, the hammer must be used to hit the high, the pipe is up and down when the shelf, the yin and yang are repeatedly like the wind, and the iron pillar King Kong is also afraid."

"The brake is down, why should the brake be scrambled, the foot is the starting method, even sit down and rush forward, up to the bottom of the bottom."

"Reluctant to retreat, straight in and out of the Jun must remember, standing is the middle of the flat situation, high and low left and right to let the Jun go, cut the hook gate is not light."

After the six sets of moves of a set of dragon flying marksmanship were completed, the school field was already filled with smoke and dust, and some clever wolf soldiers had begun to follow Li Cangxing's routine and dance the weapons in their hands in a similar way.

Li Cangxing's first time the six potentials were swung extremely fast, and then he began to slow down, almost three more times in one move, this time even the stupidest wolf soldiers had memorized these six potentials, and some clever people had already wielded them well.

Li Cangxing laughed, retracted his figure, threw the wolf to its earliest owner, and said with a smile: "Young man, I'm sorry, borrowing your weapon delayed your own practice." ”

Qi Jiguang's applause rang out from five or six feet behind Li Cangxing, and his words also followed: "Heavenly Wolf, I really can't imagine that your marksmanship is so powerful, so concise and practical. ”

As soon as the army saw that the commander personally stepped down from the platform, they all knelt down and saluted, Qi Jiguang waved his hand and said in a loud voice: "The wolf soldiers have all practiced the moves taught by this wolf hero today, and they must master it within three days, and after three days, I will personally test your progress." ”

All the sergeants shouted in unison: "Obey General Qi's military orders." ”

Qi Jiguang glanced at Li Cangxing and walked forward, while Li Cangxing followed behind, and more than ten pro-soldier commanders stopped in place with a tacit understanding.

Qi Jiguang and Li Cangxing returned to the high platform, looked at the soldiers who were alive and well in the audience, and sighed: "Heavenly wolf, these of yours are the horse marksmanship of Outer Mongolia." ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "Yes, I have been to Saiwai in the past few years, and I have also learned a lot of Mongolian cavalry marksmanship, these steppe cavalry come and go like the wind, and immediately use long spears and hard lances, this aspect of kung fu is really powerful, my Ming officers and soldiers use short swords and shields, and they do suffer a loss." However, this wolf can exert the power of a spear and a shield in one, and I never dreamed that there would be such a weapon in the world. ”

Qi Jiguang nodded: "Originally, my wolf soldiers had more than enough to defend but not enough to attack, after your training of the six potentials, you can practice a balance between offense and defense, Tian Wolf, after ten days of what you said, the news that the wolf will attack in a big way, is it true?" (To be continued......)