Chapter Seventy-Three: The Contest
"My lord! What do you think? Have you talked to Su Yun? Seeing Zhao Xun come back with a thoughtful expression, Situ Liang didn't know whether Zhao Xun had succeeded or failed.
"It's negotiated! They will send troops tomorrow, not only the Yiqu Mansion Army under Su Yun, but also the battalion soldiers under Zhou Jun, totaling 2,500 people. Zhao Xun said lightly.
"In that case, you don't seem to be very happy!"
"Happy? Then we have to see the results tomorrow. Castle peak! Let all the sentries come, I have something to say. Zhao Xun's face did not show joy or anger.
Not long after, except for Zhao Jie, who stayed in Shiping Village, the rest were ordered to arrive, and it was Li Lingfeng who stayed in Shiping as planned, but after transporting the grain and abandoning those strongholds, except for the three outposts of the recruits, they all gathered outside the Gushan Fort that was about to be completed.
"Now we are all here except for the three sentinels, and all the soldiers in Yanzhou Mansion are here, so we can take this opportunity to solve the problem raised by Li Lingfeng last time."
As soon as Zhao Xun's voice fell, everyone knew what it meant, this was to plan the troops and reorganize the team.
Zhao Xun glanced at everyone with different faces, and then said: "There are five posts for veterans and five posts for recruits. A total of 800 people from the first, third, and fifth posts of the recruits and the fourth and sixth posts of the veterans were organized into a battalion, with Zhao Kang as the captain and Li Luobei as the deputy. The number of each post under it is one to five posts of the mountain character, one or two posts are veterans and cavalry, and three or four or five posts are recruits and foot soldiers. The Shanzi Battalion, which is guarded like a mountain, Zhao Kang, how the Shanzi Battalion will be in the future, it depends on you, your original recruits have your deputy as the sentry commander of the first sentry, and the rest of the sentry commanders remain unchanged, but each sentry adjusts its subordinates, and the good riders are classified as cavalry, and those who are not good at riding are reduced to foot soldiers. ”
"The second, eighth, and tenth posts of veterans and the seventh and ninth posts of recruits were combined into one battalion, with Captain Li Lingfeng and the number of Huozi Battalion. The fire word battalion, its sweep is like fire, Li Lingfeng! Your battalion has three sentinel veterans as cavalry and two sentinel recruits as foot soldiers. Your original position is taken over by a deputy. The outposts are like the mountain word battalion. Adjust your soldiers today, and tomorrow there will be more than 2,000 army and battalion soldiers in Yanzhou Mansion. Nominally, they want to communicate with us, but in fact they want to attack Qingshan Town. However, these people will definitely not be so obedient, so I hope that you can strictly train the soldiers, and tomorrow, let them take a good look. Zhao Ning, your position is also held by your deputy, and you continue to train newly recruited soldiers, this is our foundation, so you should not take it lightly. ”
"The intelligence is two guards, the Shadow Guard and the Blood Shadow Guard, Zhao Hai and Ye Chaoge are in charge respectively, and they are directly under my orders, Situ Liang is the military advisor, and at the same time is responsible for logistics with Zhou Wenju. In the future, every single day, when there is no war, the sentry commanders will learn to read and write together. ”
"Literacy? My lord, don't use this! Feng Meng, the second sentinel of the fire word battalion, said with a bitter face, this Xi Wen literacy is simply too uncomfortable for him.
"What do you say?"
"Let's go!" Seeing Zhao Xun's face, Feng Meng hurriedly said.
"Okay, let's go down and deploy their own soldiers, if you have any questions, come and tell me, as for what you need, just find Situ Liang and Zhou Wenju."
At the moment, there was a chaos in the camp of the Huolin Army, and the outposts were arguing over the distribution of their subordinates, which made Zhao Xun shake his head, and he was reluctant to fight bravely among his subordinates.
Yanzhou City also immediately spread the news that the commander of the Huolin Army wanted to communicate with the government army, which made many people shake their heads and sigh, this Zhao Xun is too capable of tossing.
Early in the morning of the second day, more than 1,000 government troops and the battalion soldiers under Zhou Jun began to rush to Zhao Xun's camp.
Looking at the soldiers on the street, the people watching were all talking.
"Have you heard? The soldiers of the Huolin Army are going to compete with these government troops. One of them said to his companion.
"Really? How could this Huolin Army be the opponent of the government army? ”
"Nonsense, I think the Huolin Army must be more powerful than the Fu Army! The Huolin Army trains all day, but the government army stays in the barracks all day long, doing nothing, how can it be the opponent of the Huolin Army. One person retorted loudly, he had received a great favor from the Fire Lin Army, so naturally he did not allow anyone to say that the Fire Lin Army was bad.
"I think the Huolin Army is very mysterious, after all, they have a lot of recruits. But the government army is a few years old, and many of them have experienced battles. ”
"The Huolin Army must be more powerful than the Fu Army!" "I said that the government army is powerful!"
Such arguments can be seen everywhere. A twenty-seven-eight-year-old young man looked at the government army carefully, and said secretly: "How can this be just a competition, these government soldiers have complete armor, and even the logistics grain trucks and military tents have been brought, how can it be just for the competition?" I don't know what this Zhao Xun is going to do. ”
"Commander Ye! Welcome! When Ye Qing arrived at the Huolin Army garrison with the people, Zhao Xun had already led the people and was already waiting outside the camp.
"Commander Lao Zhao has been waiting for a long time, Ye Qing is so rude!" Ye Qing saw the layout of the Huolin Army camp and nodded secretly.
"Brother Ye, this kid is the one we want to obey?" As soon as Ye Qing's words fell, a person behind Ye Qing said loudly.
"Yuan Gang! How can you be so rude, the military order is like a mountain, don't you even know this? Ye Qing scolded, but Zhao Xun didn't see the anger on his face. Sure enough, these people are not so easy to command, and it seems that there is still a fight. Zhao Xun thought secretly.
"Brother Ye, why do you want to listen to him, there are more people than him, and martial arts, he is not necessarily better than us! Why do we listen to him, not to him. Yuan Jian didn't care about Ye Qing's scolding, as if he knew that Ye Qing was not really angry. Seeing that Ye Qing's people had a conflict with Zhao Xun, the two songs of the government army were also happy to watch the excitement, the length of the two songs, one had a close relationship with Zhao Xun, and the other was ordered by the military, so naturally he would not get involved.
Ye Qing said: "This is what Lord Zhou meant, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”
"It's okay if you want us to obey orders, but you have to compare ourselves to see who is better? If they are strong, then I will listen to them, if they can't, then ......" Yuan Gang looked at Zhao Xun and said loudly, as if he wanted the surrounding soldiers to hear his words.
"In that case, let's bother this hero to tell me how to compete? If we lose, then Commander Ye will be the leader. Zhao Xun didn't want to argue with them more, so he said straight to the point.
"Okay, refreshing! Five wins in three games, three general competitions, and two non-commissioned officer competitions. How is it? ”
"Good! Let's get started. Zhao Xun said coldly.
The martial arts field was soon filled with people, and there were soldiers from all sides, all of whom came to see the competition between the two sides.
"I'll come to the first battle, and the Huolin Army will fight with people!" Yuan Gang jumped on the high platform, looked at the side of the Huolin Army, and shouted loudly.
"Zhao Kang, you go!" Zhao Xun looked at the heavy responsibility of asking for battle, and ordered Zhao Kang, who had the best martial arts among his brothers.
"Huolin Army, Zhao Kang! Come and ask! ”
"Kill!" Yuan Gang lifted the spear and stabbed Zhao Kang in the chest. Zhao Kang stepped forward with his left foot, shook his wrist, and the spear brought up the Dao Phantom, facing the spear stabbed by Yuan Jian.
Yuan Jian's attack was fierce, and Zhao Kang defended it well, except for starting to move his left foot, he didn't move at all, and the spear in his hand was like a barrier, firmly blocking Yuan Jian's attacking spear.
"Yuan Gang is not an opponent!" Ye Qing looked at the two people on the stage who were constantly attacking and defending, and said with a grim face.
"Yes, Brother Yuan is not an opponent, this Zhao Kang did not move at all, and he was extremely relaxed, while Brother Yuan was ......" Several people behind Ye Qing also said with a little anxiety.
Yuan Gang stabbed again, Zhao Kang was not defending this time, and a shot was pointed on the side of Yuan Gang's gun, so that after Yuan Gang's spear bounced, he quickly stepped forward and remembered, followed the barrel of the opponent's gun, and slid into the opponent's empty chest.
"Uh...... I lost! Thank you for your mercy! Before Yuan Gang took back the spear to defend the palace, he felt that his chest was cold, and after Zhao Kang retreated, Yuan Gang found that the clothes on his chest had broken a small hole.
"Big brother! I lost! Yuan Gang, whose face was flushed, said shyly after returning to his side.
"It's nothing, if you lose, you lose, I said yesterday, this Zhao Xun is by no means a general, you don't listen, now you see it, there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky!"
"I'll do the second game!" Ye Qing said alone.
"It's good! Meng Yun, your archery skills are the best among us, since the weapons can't reach the other party, let's try your archery skills. Ye Qing nodded in response.
"Black Flag Army, Meng Yun, ask the Fire Lin Army for archery skills!"
"It seems that this person's wrist strength is very strong, and the big bow on his back is also three loads strong." Li Lingfeng looked at the man with a big bow on the stage and said.
"Zhao Ning, you are on this battle!"
"Huolin Army, Zhao Ning! I don't know how Meng Zhuangshi fights? Zhao Ning also carried a big bow, walked on the platform, and said with a smile.
"Since it's a competition, let's measure the level by distance and accuracy!"
Meng Yun and Zhao Ning came to the archery training ground, and the two took turns shooting at the target, gradually moving away from the distance of the arrow target. Until one person fails.
"Chirp!" With a sharp sound, Meng Yun bent his bow and arrow, looking at it, it seemed that it was a target of 100 meters, and it took no effort at all.
"Hit the bull's-eye! Arrow through the bull's-eye! The soldier next to the target immediately reported the result.
Zhao Xun glanced at Meng Yun, who had a loose expression, and also bent his bow and arrow.
"Hit the bull's-eye! Arrow through the bull's-eye! ”
One hundred and fifty meters
"Hit the bull's-eye, two inches deeper!" Meng Yun's expression was much stricter this time.
"Hit the bull's-eye, go two inches and five deep!" Zhao Ning's result seems to be slightly better.
Hearing the results reported by the soldiers, Meng Yunshen glanced at Zhao Ning beside him, and seemed to be puzzled by the strength of such a young person.
"Two hundred meters!" Meng Yun said with a little anger, it seemed that he was very unwilling to lose to a young man who was much younger than himself.
At a distance of 200 meters, the target seen in the distance is just a small phant, and only the red dot in the center allows the shooter to see clearly.
Meng Yun took a deep breath, drew his big bow, set up an arrow to aim, and waited for three breaths before the arrow in his hand was released. Then he squinted his eyes and waited for the results to be reported by the soldiers.
"Hit the target, two!" Hearing the results reported by the soldiers, Meng Yun also breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to be satisfied with his results this time. In addition to the red center, Zhao Xun's arrow target here also has three rings around it. The second is the ring closest to the bull's-eye.
Zhao Ning also took a deep breath, bent his bow and arrows, and after two breaths, let go of the arrows!
"Hit the target, two!" Hearing this result, Meng Yun's face changed several times, and finally said, "I might as well too!" Then he conceded defeat.
Everyone was puzzled why Meng Yun had the same result, and Meng Yun admitted defeat. But several generals and Meng Yun knew that they had indeed lost. Meng Yun pulled the bow for three breaths before releasing the arrow, while Zhao Ning only needed two breaths. What made Meng Yun even more convinced was that after Zhao Ning released the arrow, he didn't seem to be as nervous and worried as himself, and in his state of mind, he had already lost.
"How? Are you all convinced? Why don't you go up and give it a try? Ye Qing said with a smile to the five brothers behind him. Although they lost this battle, they can also give them a few reminders, so as not to be arrogant and mislead themselves. It's better to lose the test than to lose on the battlefield.
The soldiers present were deeply impressed by the superb archery skills of the two.