CHAPTER XXXVI
After more than ten days of Zhao Xi's personal training, he handed over the training to the Zhao brothers, because they knew Zhao Xi's training methods the most, and as for the training of knife skills and spear skills, they were assisted by Li Lingfeng and other five people. He took one hundred and ten female soldiers who had been training with Zhao Hai and Zhao Jie for ten days to start the blood trial.
The reason why I personally took these one hundred and thirteen female soldiers for training was because since I got together with Xu Qinlian that day, and after facing the Captain of Yanzhou, I began to worry about the safety of my mother and her after I left, and decided to train these women as guards to protect their safety.
Looking at the woman in front of her who looked indifferent after more than ten days of training, Zhao Yi also nodded secretly. The women were all dressed in black samurai uniforms with white capes, long knives slightly shorter and wider than Japanese samurai swords, and wrist guards made of leather and fingerless gloves on their hands. There is a black steed by his side, which is also the result of ten days of training, and he can ride a horse. There was also a small black round shield hanging on one side of the horse, which was the last time Zhao Yi captured the black knight. On one side hangs a water bladder and dry fried noodles.
"Real warriors have to go through the baptism of blood, now I want to take you to become real warriors, if anyone is afraid or unwilling, you can quit now!" Zhao Yi looked at these women and said sharply.
The leader of these women, Sima Yan, who trained the hardest, said loudly: "None of us withdrew, and we obeyed the orders of the adults. ”
"Good! Then we'll set out and fight the horse thief. ”
"Hey, Zhao Xi, where is our goal this time?" Li Ruolan, who was training with the female soldiers, came to Zhao Xi's side and asked.
"Fifty miles away near Shiyan Town, there is a group of more than 200 horse thieves flowing there, extremely vicious, for the sake of the township, this time, we will go to clean him up." Zhao Yi replied lightly.
"What? You let more than 100 of us fight with more than 200 people on the other side, but they are still newcomers who have just been trained. Li Ruolan said in surprise.
Zhao Yi smiled and said, "Didn't you also train them in equestrian and knife skills?" The day before yesterday, they said to me, they are good, what, now that they are exposed, you mean big words? ”
"That's different, the training is very hard, and it's very good, but it's hard to fight with more than twice as many people as us, I'm afraid of ......"
"Who said you want to fight them? Two hundred! Zhao Yi said lightly.
"That's it! I'd like to see what you do. And so many arrows! Li Ruolan said angrily.
Zhao Yi went to find trouble with this group of horse bandits this time, went to train this blood female guard, and more importantly, let the other party give his own things, and the grain that Steward Zhao bought in Lexian County was robbed by this gang of mountain bandits halfway, and killed the guy who pulled the goods. After investigation, it was found that only this gang of horse bandits had the bad habit of robbing money and killing people.
"I said, you've been running with us for almost a day, and you don't go in the villages and towns, what do you want to do?" In the evening, Li Ruolan, who had been running for a day, asked angrily.
Zhao Yi turned his head to look at Li Ruolan and chuckled, "What?" That's not going to work? I thought that Miss Li had been on the battlefield for a long time and was a warrior who was not inferior to men, but I didn't expect ......"
"What didn't you expect?" Li Ruolan looked at Zhao Di's contemptuous eyes, and a burst of anger surged into her heart.
Zhao Xi sneered: "I didn't expect you to be as good as these recruits who have only trained for ten days, fighting a war is a matter of life and death for many people, not a child, I don't even have a little patience, I think highly of you!" ”
"You...... You ......" Li Ruolan pointed at Zhao Yi and didn't say anything for a while.
It's so shocking, I'm just asking, as for it? Stinky Zhao ......
"Alright, let's camp here." Zhao Yi pointed to a small dirt slope and said.
"Camp? We didn't have anything with us, how did we set up camp? Li Ruolan asked loudly, and somehow, she always wanted to go against Zhao Xi.
"Miss Li, we are fighting, not when you are the eldest lady, why do you still have to be served? The Long Xiang army can ambush in the ice and snow for a whole day, and we can't stay in the wilderness for another night? Zhao Xi knew that Li Ruolan had no malicious intent, but she felt that someone bickering could solve the boring time, so she confronted her.
While letting these female guards light a fire on the hillside, Zhao Yi explained to Li Ruolan: "Miss Li, I know that you can fight and not lose to men, but at that time, you were armed yourself. What I need is a group battle, and in the future, we will encounter not only mountain bandits, but also regular armies of foreign races, and with the combat methods we used to fight when we were mountain bandits, it will definitely be a loss in nine out of ten battles. In many cases, things are not as favorable as we think, what to do? Only by overcoming difficulties can we turn disadvantages into advantages. Just like we are now, don't we sleep? Of course not, it's okay to make a fire and just spend the night. Compared to those refugees who have no food or clothing, we are already very happy. ”
After Li Ruolan saw Zhao Xi's careful explanation, most of the inexplicable anger in her heart dissipated, and she said embarrassedly: "What's that...... I get that. Also, don't call me Miss Li anymore, I'm not really a young lady from a big family, you still call me Ruolan. After saying that, a blush appeared on his face.
"Good! Ruolan! Zhao Yi also felt that Ruolan was more kind than Miss Li, so he agreed directly.
The sky gradually darkened, and a large bonfire was lit on the small dirt slope, and Zhao Xi gathered all the women and talked about the arrangement of light and dark whistles. He divided the 113 men into three groups, each group of forty people, who took turns to rest and watch the night, thirty sentry and ten secret sentry, and in addition, he laid many traps around it.
"I know that many of you don't think about this, but you have to remember that the lives of the other two sisters are in the hands of the one on duty, and likewise, the lives of the other two teams will be in the hands of the other two teams, and I don't want to lose the lives of others in the future because of someone's carelessness or negligence. Now everyone works hard to ensure the safety of the other sisters, and next time, the other sisters will be able to save your life. At any time, in any place, there can be no negligence, and the running situation is beneficial to us. Do you remember that? Zhao Yi said sternly.
"Remember!"
The three teams began to arrange according to Zhao Xi's instructions, one team was on duty at night, and the other two teams built several bonfires around them, paralyzed on the ground with cloaks, and began to rest around the bonfire. These women have experienced very cruel things in the cottage, and it is easy to accept living in the wild, but Li Ruolan is not good, although he is also from a mountain bandit, but he has never worked so hard.
"What? Not adapting? Zhao Yi sat in front of the bonfire, looked at Li Ruolan who was tossing and turning not far away, and said softly.
Li Ruolan sat up, came to Zhao Xi's side, looked at Zhao Xi pulling the bonfire, and said, "I haven't done this before, I'm very uncomfortable, what about you?" How not to sleep? ”
Zhao Xi smiled: "They are all recruits, can I sleep?" ”
Li Ruolan took a deep look at Zhao Xian, and felt that the red face reflected by the bonfire was particularly attractive.
"See what?" Zhao Xi saw Li Ruolan staring at him, and asked out loud.
Li Ruolan's face turned red, and she hurriedly said, "It's nothing, I just think you're very hard." ”
When Zhao Xi heard this, he laughed and said: "You think that the leader is easy to do, how big a position you do, how big things you have to consider, I have to think about the names of these more than 100 people with more than 100 people." ”
Zhao Xi and Li Ruolan sat by the bonfire and talked word by word, and the flames stretched the shadows of the two of them for a long time.
"What are you going to do?" Li Ruolan saw Zhao Yi get up and hurriedly asked.
"Check the sentry! How about looking at their expressions? ”
"Then I'll go too!"
Zhao Yi and Li Ruolan got up and came to the sentinels around them to investigate the sentinels everywhere, and as she expected, many people were unsatisfactory, Zhao Yi did not get angry, but just commented on the other party's appearance and pointed out the other party's mistakes.
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Li Ruolan stretched her waist, suddenly remembered that she was in the wild, and hurriedly got up, only to find that a cloak had slipped off her body.
It's his! Li Ruolan looked at the fiery red unicorn on her cloak and guessed it at once. Will care about people, good! Didn't he rest?
Li Ruolan looked up, and Zhao Xi was wandering around, and the four or five bonfires around him were still burning, which seemed to be the firewood that Zhao Xi added for them at night.
"It's dawn! Didn't you sleep? Li Ruolan got up and came to Zhao Xian's side and asked.
Zhao Yi took the cloak in Li Ruolan's hand and said with a smile: "I rested for a while." ”
The sun rose in the east, everything shone brightly, and after everyone washed in the small river not far from the small slope, they rode on their war horses and galloped in all directions.
For five days in a row, Zhao Xi took 100 people to wander around, one to train their riding skills, and the other to train them to guard duties, guards and soldiers are different, guards do not need to be more effective than soldiers, but they must be more careful than soldiers. In addition, he took them to practice traps, camouflage, and raids in the woods.
"Zhao Xi, we won't just wander around like this, right? By the way, what do we do in the future? Did you go to Yanzhou with that Master Su? What to do with Crouching Tiger Mountain? Li Ruolan has also learned a lot of things that she has not been exposed to before in the past few days, and she is becoming more and more surprised by Zhao Xi's ability.
Zhao Yi also had a headache about this, and originally listened to Li Lingfeng's story, and planned to set up a righteous army to kill mountain bandits and fight foreigners in various parts of Youzhou. What can be obtained from Su Yun is not so simple. In the first two years, the rebel army was a policy set up by the imperial court to solve the pressure from the north, and now, the rebel army has become the private army of local officials, and the independent rebel army cannot survive in the state capitals at all, and if it is not good, it will be surrounded and suppressed by the government army.
"Well, hang it in the name of that Master Su and become his private army. We can't continue to be mountain bandits, we have offended the governor of Yanzhou, and we need an identity. Only in this way will we be able to travel through the counties of the state capital. Zhao Yi continued: "Let's also prepare to act, it's been six days, and it's time to deal with them." ”
"Do you know where they are?" Li Ruolan asked in surprise.
"You think we've been going around like this for four days!" Zhao Yi said angrily.
"Isn't it?" Li Ruolan asked rhetorically.
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