Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Proud Xuanjia Army and the Insidious Cloud Breaking Army
"Brother, have you heard? The day after tomorrow, our Xuanjia Army will have a competition with the Cloud Breaking Army! ā
"What! Cloud Breaker Army? I haven't heard of it, where did it come from? ā
"It is said that it is an army made up by the Marquis Bai Xiaohou of Yunzhong, many of which are composed of the sons and daughters of the nobles of Chang'an, as well as some brothers who retired from the army before the right guard, and they have only been trained for two months, and they will compete with our Xuanjia Army in the hunting garden the day after tomorrow!"
"Hehe, are they looking for abuse? Don't you know that our Xuanjia Army is the first army of the Tang Dynasty? Lao Wang, tomorrow you will fiercely praise them for not negotiable! ā
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Li Hu, the commander of the Xuanjia Army, sat in the camp tent, listening to the discussion of the soldiers outside, with a wry smile on his face. Although General Manager Li brought the elite of the Xuanjia Army to the battlefield in Yinshan, and now stationed in the Beiya Seventh Battalion at the north gate of the palace, the remaining Xuanjia Army is still not to be underestimated, but a month ago, Li Hu went to watch the physical fitness test of the little Hou Ye's cloud-breaking army.
It was a strange army under the leadership of General Cheng Lao, and their number was very small, only fifty people at the beginning, but each of them was the elite of the elite. Li Hu had seen with his own eyes that each of these fifty people could climb on the steep stone wall with only one flying claw, not to mention that when facing the ordinary wall, it was like a cornice. And all of them have good martial arts, and they are all warriors with one enemy and ten in the army. Although two hundred more people came in later, it is said that the fifty people who competed with themselves this time were the fifty people at the beginning, plus one of the little marquis, and the fifty-one people were nearly ten to one of the five hundred elite soldiers selected from the seventh battalion. If it weren't for Li Hu and the other captains of the Seventh Battalion who had seen the Cloud Breaking Army with their own eyes, they might be like other soldiers, so proud that they would even despise the Cloud Breaking Army.
The banner of the Cloud Breaking Army flying high above is the camp of the second lieutenant of the Supreme Commander of the Cloud Breaking Army, and now Cheng Yanjin is sitting in the camp tent, looking at the sand table on the table in front of him, he gasped, looked at the dozen hairy boys in front of him, and asked in surprise: "This sand table is the topographic map around Chang'an?" ā
Bai Qi rubbed his palms and said embarrassedly: "Hehe, Uncle Cheng, this sand table is based on the topographic map of Chang'an made by the soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army according to a certain scale after the field survey. In the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest, each with more than 200 miles of terrain is all on the sand table. White then pointed to the sand table, the direction of the north gate of the palace: "This is where the seven camps of the north gate are located, and then there is the hunting garden where the day after tomorrow will be played, and the terrain inside is all in the sand table!" ā
"Good job, rat!" Cheng Chumo patted a tall and thin soldier beside him and praised.
"Hehe, if it weren't for the idea of the little marquis, I might not have been able to sneak into the hunting garden to obtain these geographical information!" The mouse smiled embarrassedly, remembering the experience of sneaking into the hunting garden before, and still a little frightened, but more of it was the pleasure brought by the strong stimulation.
Cheng Yanjin's attention has been on the sand table, and he didn't pay too much attention to the matter of these dozen guys sending people to sneak into the hunting garden.
"Does Your Majesty know about this sand table?" Cheng Yanjin raised his head and asked Baiqi.
"Last night, we sent an identical sand table to His Majesty!"
"This matter is very well done, the Cloud Breaking Army has just been established, there are many things here that are different from our previous army, you must report to Your Majesty in time, and there can be no concealment!" Cheng Biting Jin's tone was very serious, his eyebrows were firm, and he looked at the white chess.
"The Cloud Breaking Army can only be in charge of His Majesty in the future, and we will pay attention to this in the future!" Bai Qi nodded and replied, because of the matter of the Weapons Development Department, there were already people in the DPRK and China who had made a slight remark, although Li Shimin finally ignored it, but still verbally warned Bai Qi and asked him to pay attention in the future.
Cheng Yanjin stretched his waist, lay comfortably on the rocking chair sent by Baiqi, held a big fan, closed his eyes, his body slowly moved up and down with the rocking chair, and said in his mouth: "Since you bunnies are ready, I won't interfere with the old man, I wish you a victory!" ā
"General Xie Cheng!" More than a dozen young people in the camp said overjoyed, Cheng Biting Jin didn't interfere, that is to say, this time they can play to their heart's content, and many of the tricks in the weekday training can finally come in handy!
Cheng Yanjin opened his eyes, looked at the backs of this group of young people who were far away, and said softly in his mouth: "A group of cunning little foxes collided with a group of arrogant lions, it's really interesting to think about!" He seemed to think of something funny, hummed a tune, and soon fell asleep in his rocking chair.
"Everyone checks the weapons they have brought and see if they are missing!" In the room where classes are usually held at night on the school grounds, fifty-one people are counting the weapons in their hands, such as flying claws, parts that can be assembled into moon-chasing repeaters, crossbow arrows without arrows, and camouflage uniforms.
"Monkey, what's this bag of white stuff you're carrying?" Cheng Chumo saw the eldest grandson rushing into the bag and stuffed a packet of powder into the bag, and asked curiously.
The eldest grandson asked and threw the powder to catch it, and said with a sneer: "This is lime!" ā
The people around gave the monkey a thumbs up and laughed sinisterly.
After the equipment was counted, Bai gathered everyone in the center of the room, where there was a table-sized hunting garden sand table, and ten small flags of different colors were planted in the jungle, river, mountain and other places on the sand table, and each location was marked with a serial number.
Bai Qi pointed to the two farthest mountains on the sand table and said to everyone: "These two places are where the military flags of my Cloud Breaking Army and Xuanjia Army are located, and the key to winning tomorrow is who takes down the opponent's military flag first, who is the winner!" ā
Seeing that everyone nodded, Bai Qi continued: "Tomorrow, our Cloud Breaking Army will be divided into ten groups, each group will have five people, and the last group plus six of me will be used as a mobile group, ready to support other groups at any time!" ā
White motioned for the eldest grandson to rush over and handed him the whip in his hand.
"The Xuanjia Army used to be the most powerful special army in the hands of His Majesty, and it was good at light cavalry combat, and at the same time, it also liked to charge as a team when fighting." Changsun Chong pointed to the mountains and dense forests in the center of the sand table as he spoke, and then drew a line in the sky above: "The first encounter between my Cloud Breaking Army and the Xuanjia Army is likely to be on this line, and this line has many mountains and dense forests, which is very beneficial to our army!" Once this line is crossed by the Xuanjia Army, it will pose an extremely serious threat to our army! Therefore, rats and elephants, you two teams of ten people, responsible for monitoring the movement of the Xuanjia army on this line, once you find that the other party has signs of gathering in a certain place, immediately send a signal, and other people nearby must rush to support and eat this enemy as soon as possible! ā
White Qi continued: "Since the Xuanjia army has five hundred people, which is ten times more than us, we can't have a head-on conflict, we must break the whole into zero, turn the passive into the active, take the initiative, the virtual and the real, divide the Xuanjia army into a small group, and we will slowly turn around and eat them!" White's voice suddenly raised his voice, and he said solemnly: "Leave aside our usual senseless vanity, war, only the victor has the right to speak." This is the first time that our Cloud Breaking Army has appeared in front of the world, so in this battle, we must fight beautifully, fight wonderfully, and play the characteristics of our Cloud Breaking Army! ā
"General, what is the characteristics of the Cloud Breaking Army!" Someone raised his hand and asked.
"Lewd and insidious!" Fang Yi said with a straight face. When he said that, everyone burst out laughing.
Early this morning, Bai Qi went to the imperial garden to take care of the vigorous potatoes for a while, the harvest season is approaching, it may be that the air in Datang is better than that of later generations, and the reason why it is specially taken care of, the potatoes are very gratifying, and Bai Qi has become very looking forward to the harvest of this pot of potatoes. Looking at this potato, White's mood became very good.
The hot morning sun hung early in the east sky, and the sky was so blue that there was not even a single white cloud.
On the high platform of the Hunting Garden, Li Shimin sat on it, and below sat Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Cheng Yanjin, Wang Qi, Li Gang, Cui Guoli and other ministers of the DPRK and China, and in front of each of them were placed pork porridge, a plate of rice rolls and a few fritters. This is Juxian Lou sent to the outside of the hunting garden before dawn, and it is inspected by the forbidden army guarding outside and sent in, and breakfast is made for Li Shimin and each minister who have just come down from the morning court.
Li Shimin took a sip of porridge, raised his head and asked Bai Qi and Li Hu who were standing below: "Are you all ready?" ā
"Back to Your Majesty, the Xuanjia Army is ready at any time!" Li Hu stepped forward and knelt down on his knee and said.
"Your Majesty, the Cloud Breaking Army is ready!" White also stepped forward, also kneeling on his knees and clenching his fists.
"Okay, you two go back and get ready, and as soon as the arrow is fired, the competition between the Cloud Breaking Army and the Xuanjia Army will officially begin!" Li Shimin waved his hand and stood up, and the overlord's qi was leaked.
Bai Qi and Li Hu walked out together, and Bai Qi suddenly showed a generous smile and said to Li Hu: "Li Duwei, I hope to give me a lot of advice!" ā
"Li doesn't dare to forget the heroic appearance of the soldiers of the Broken Cloud Army during the school exam, and he is also looking forward to the confrontation with the Broken Cloud Army!" Li Hu laughed, hugged his fists and rode back on a fast horse to arrange.
Bai Qi looked at Li Hu's departing figure, smiled, and rode back to his camp.
"Zhijie, you have been in charge of training the Cloud Breaking Army, what do you think are the chances of victory for the two armies this time?" Du Ruhui poked his head over and asked, and the others also pricked up their ears.
Cheng Yanjin thought about it seriously for a while, and then said: "Fengqu, this kid has a lot of scheming, it turns out that the fifty soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army are also a group of guys who don't make people worry. This time, if Li Hu and them are a little light, these boys will probably be ugly! ā
"Zhijie is right, it seems that this time Bai Fengqu's position in the clouds is not guaranteed!" Li Shimin ate fried dough sticks and drank a mouthful of porridge, which was very comfortable. Bai Boy doesn't say anything else, this cooking kung fu is really good!