Chapter Twenty-Five: Practice

When Lu Xiangsheng and the others walked out of the big tent, they heard the sound of loud shouts, and only heard a few endless streams. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Defend the capital with the adults." "Defend the capital with the adults!"

Lu Xiangsheng felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, hearing the shouts from the camp in the west, Lu Xiangsheng looked, only to see a person wearing a fine iron chain mail, standing above everyone, surrounded by Huang Yang, Shi Gang, Shi Lu, Wang Dayong, Liu Tong and the unruly Wang Dahu are all standing aside, and the hundreds of sergeants around are all around a few people, shouting non-stop.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the person in the center, but saw that it was the person he had just met, and he couldn't remember what the name was when he thought about it. Lu Xiangsheng's eyes suddenly widened, and the knife in his hand... Is that... Qi family knife?!

After Lu Xiangsheng was promoted, a general was about to draw his saber and said, "Someone!" Arrest that person for me, the army dares to gather a crowd to cause chaos! ”

Lu Xiangguan stopped the man and said to Lu Xiangsheng, "My lord, this person is the Xiao Yi I introduced to you before, and it was he who responded positively when I recruited volunteers in Shishazhuang today, so that I recruited a full amount of three hundred." Lu Xiangguan is not afraid to tell the truth, Lu Xiangsheng is not the kind of person who cares.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said to Lu Xiangguan: "Youzhe, your opinion is right. This person is different from ordinary people, so call him a big tent. "After that, he will return to the account with everyone.

After about half a pillar of incense, Xiao Yi and the others had already come to the big tent again, but this time everyone didn't have the idea of despising it, looking at the Qi family knife in Xiao Yi's hand, they were all talking about something.

Lu Xiangsheng also said to Xiao Yi with great interest, "You can look at the knife in the hand of the strong man." ”

Xiao Yi didn't say a word, handed the Tao to Lu Xiangguan, and Lu Xiangguan handed it to Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng stroked the blade of the knife, looked at the marks on the knife, and sighed, "Qi Shuai crisscrossed the north and south, and drove away the Kou, which is my role model all the time." It's a pity that the soul has returned to his hometown, as beautiful as today, and he actually let me see this Qi family knife. Then he turned his head and asked, "Is this knife a family heirloom?" ”

Xiao Yi thought quickly in his heart, and then said quietly, "It's a gift from one person." ”

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at Xiao Yi, nodded, and didn't ask again. returned the knife to Xiao Yi and said, "I see, no wonder I can subdue this Wang Dahu." As he spoke, he glanced at Wang Dahu, and showed Wang Dahu a few words.

Xiao Yidao, "My lord said it, it's not a surrender, it's just another brother." After Xiao Yi finished speaking, he didn't know that Wang Dahu glanced at him, and then lowered his head silently.

Lu Xiangsheng said, "That's it, you will be my personal guard, how about it?" ”

Everyone thought that Xiao Yi would agree directly, after all, recruiting someone as a personal guard was Lu Xiangsheng's greatest trust in this person, and Lu Xiangsheng was young at this time, and it was a time when the future was immeasurable, and everyone was envious of him who didn't know how much benefit he could get. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yi said, "My lord, Xiao Yi is willing to stay with all the brothers, Xiao Yi only asks for one thing!" ”

Lu Xiangguan also didn't expect Xiao Yi to reject Lu Xiangsheng, and was busy squeezing his eyebrows at Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi didn't know anything, and only cared about talking.

Lu Xiangsheng was not angry, but just spoke.

Xiao Yi continued: "Xiao Yi only wishes to be with more than 100 of my brothers, and being able to enter Beijing to defend Xiao Yi is content. After hearing this, Wang Dahu and the others looked at Xiao Yi with emotion.

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said, "Okay, then let you take charge of the team on behalf of Wang Dahu and take charge of one hundred and twenty people, how about it?" ”

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng's voice fell, a general took the case, but it was Liu Zhongyong of a hundred households, and he only heard Liu Zhongyong say: "No!" My lord, who knows where this person came from, you can't just order him to manage the team just because this person is holding the Qi family knife, this will only make his subordinates dissatisfied! ”

Everyone after him nodded, Lu Xiangsheng didn't answer, just looked at Wang Dahu with burning eyes, and asked categorically, "Wang Dahu, order Xiao Yi to manage the team on your behalf, Encore?" ”

Wang Dahu did not hesitate, hugged his fists and said, "My lord, Dahu said a fair word, it's not that no one is unconvinced, Dahu was defeated by Xiao Yi's Dahu, and Dahu is willing to be Xiao Yi's deputy!" Dahu believes that no one will disagree with his brothers. ”

Hearing Wang Dahu say this, Liu Zhongyong was speechless, and sat down stupidly and stopped squeaking.

Shi Gang looked at Wang Dahu and patted Wang Dahu on the shoulder, the two looked at each other and smiled, saying that they don't know each other.

After that meeting, Siu also returned to the camp. Immediately found Wang Dahu and asked, "Dahu, how many firearms do we have in our hands at this time?" ”

Wang Dahu scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "Firearms? No! ”

What the? No firearms? Xiao Yi couldn't believe it, and after asking repeatedly, it was true that there were no firearms, which made Xiao Yi's idea of immediately training these 100 people to use firearms in vain.

That night, Xiao Yi lay alone on the plank, feeling the stiffness of the plank at all, just thinking about it in his heart. If there are no firearms, then only guns can be used. I remembered the Qi family's army mandarin duck formation method that Qi Lao told him, but at this time, the number of people was too small, even if it was a team of five people, it could only form more than 20 teams. Xiao also thought about it for a night, and now it is estimated that Huang Taiji is coming to Beijing, and he can't delay it all night, and practicing one more day is a day.

On the second day, the number of volunteers recruited reached 5,000, and the camp was also expanding, at this rate, there would be three more days, and 10,000 people would be recruited.

Therefore, he has three days to train this group of ruffians at most, and now the top priority is to train the formation and cooperate with each other, not even the use of spears.

Early in the morning, Xiao Yi personally went to find Lu Xiangsheng to borrow rattan cards, spears, and armor.

Although Lu Xiangsheng wondered what Xiao Yi wanted rattan cards for, fortunately, there were still a lot of rattan cards, and he also gave Xiao Yi fifty rattan cards. Seventy-four spears were required, plus the spears of the previous camp, and some shoddy ones were picked, but they were enough for the pikemen. As for the armor, no matter how much he asked for it, Xiao Yi only asked for more than thirty pairs of simple leather armor from Lu Xiangsheng, compared to these one hundred and twenty people, this leather armor was not enough to equip all of them, not to mention that there were many shoddy ones.

Xiao also divided every five people into a team, and each team omitted the wolf millers of the Qi family's army, two knife players armed with leather armor sabers and rattan cards, and five pikemen armed with spears. Each team's sword players are only there to protect the pikemen, and the three pikemen in the center are the main force.

Xiao Yi knew that there were still many loopholes in this division, but his original idea of relying on firearms to win could not be implemented. can only imitate the Qi family's army, but it is still a serious shortage of armor and weapons, so it can only be like this.

It was noon after all the equipment was in place, and everyone, including Huang Yang, suggested that Xiao Yi avoid noon and then train, but Xiao Yi had a hard time, he knew that Huang Taiji had come to Jingshi in the past few days, and the time was running out, but he couldn't tell them.

It's not that Xiao Yi doesn't trust them, it's just that there are some things that even his own brothers are inconvenient to tell.

In the eyes of others, Xiao Yi was bent on going his own way, and when the sun was at noon, Xiao Yi asked Huang Yang and them to call the soldiers out. The soldiers were already lazy, and a few days ago they were peasants, and it was difficult for them to change their status immediately. Even if Lu Xiangsheng has so many things, he can't immediately train the people in the absence of weapons and equipment. Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng also thinks that with only these few days of drills, these people will not change in the slightest.

Xiao also called out Minyong, and most of them were reluctant to come out. When he came out, he saw Xiao Yi standing on a small temporary platform with a Qi family knife, and some people even whispered, "Isn't there a Qi family knife, what is it?" ”

Xiao Yi was not surprised when he heard the whisper below, and said, "You all want to know why I asked you to come out, that's right!" We're going to practice today! ”

Before Xiao Yi finished speaking, the next Min Yong said sourly, "Lord Lu Xiangsheng didn't let us practice, why should you do it?" ”

Xiao Yi didn't answer, but he didn't hear it, and continued, "You must know that the tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers and horses of the Slave Chief Emperor Taiji are hundreds of miles, or even dozens of miles away, and they may hit here at any time!" When the time comes, watch as the Tartars burn down your houses, hurt your wives and children, and ruin everything you have, and you will be able to do nothing, or nothing! Don't you feel ashamed?! ”

Seeing the audience silent, Xiao Yi struck while the iron was hot and continued, "Yes, maybe you think that the slaves and thieves are powerful, but don't forget, what kind of place is this?" This is Daming! This is our home! Officers and soldiers everywhere are on their way to the defense, and I know you may have some opinions about the officers and soldiers, but we can't just watch the thieves come and do nothing. So, brothers, get up and down! ”

After Xiao Yi finished speaking, Shi Lu Huangyang yelled first, "Defend your homeland!" ”

"Defend your homeland!"

The enthusiasm of the volunteers was finally mobilized by Xiao Yi, but would it really be useful to practice like this, Xiao Yi looked at the volunteers around him, he gave them confidence, but he himself did not have confidence. However, whether he has faith or not, Xiao Yi only knows that this can only be done in this matter.

Closing his eyes, Xiao Yi muttered, "I hope it will succeed." ”