Back in the Son of Heaven's bedroom, Ji Yan threw himself on the couch, closed his eyes slightly, carefully thought about how to deal with Ji Jing and the others' next various deadly methods, thought for a while, got up and came to the front hall, and shouted: "Call the personal guards to lead Ji Qing over." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"No!" Ji Dong took the order and hurried away.

Soon, Ji Qing arrived. This is a tall man in his thirties, and he is also cousins with Ji Yan, but he is closer to Ji Fang's blood, and there is a bit of similarity between his eyebrows and eyes, but he looks thicker.

"The last will come to my king."

"Get up!" Ji Yan nodded at Ji Qing and turned his head to look at the screen: "Ji Dong, tell everyone to go away, including you." ”

"No!" Ji Dong immediately glanced at the attendants and guards standing around the front hall, and all withdrew from the hall.

Ji Qing couldn't help but get nervous when he saw that the Son of Heaven was so mysterious, and arched his hand: "I don't know what my king is looking for?" ”

Ji Yan looked at this honest man calmly, and said for a while: "This king remembers that you were also the guard of the previous king, right?" ”

"Yes. Wei Chen was promoted to guard by the first king twelve years ago, and two years later he was appointed as the head of the prince's personal guard, and since then he has been following my king, and it has been nearly ten years. ”

"You are very good, you have been conscientiously guarding this king for the past ten years. This king can grow up safely from a small child, you are the first to be the first to do! ”

Ji Qing said in a panic: "Protecting my king was originally within the responsibility of the last general, but my king said this, but it was a torment for the last general." ”

"You've also brought out a lot of talent. Chen Kai and Gao Ping should have been brought out by you, right? ”

"Yes, they were all recruited by Weichen into the pro-guard team, and they gave some guidance."

"These two entered the Sixth Army two years ago, and you are still a mere team leader, have you ever had any grievances in your heart?"

When Ji Qing heard the Son of Heaven's question, he suddenly remembered that his cousin Ji Fang had been removed from his position as a general of the forbidden army only two days ago, and he was also released from Luoyang, saying that he was going to do something big in the distance, but in fact, isn't it equivalent to being exiled? Do you have to follow the same path?

Thinking of this, his legs weakened in fright, and he knelt down with a plop and said, "How dare the last general have such thoughts!" Over the years, it has been my greatest wish to protect my king's safety, and I have never thought about anything else. If anything is wrong, the king will punish him. ”

Ji Yan smiled angrily: "What are you doing here?" Get up! This king doesn't blame you, he just asks. ”

Ji Qing slowly stood up and looked at Ji Yan nervously, not knowing what he was going to do.

"How many people are there in the Guards at the moment?"

"The standard establishment was originally 200, but now there are only 119 people. It's not that the general doesn't care, but he can't find so many suitable personnel, because the requirements for the guards are very high, not only to be strong, but also to be absolutely loyal; In addition, in order to save the expenses in the palace, the queen did not let too many people be recruited. ”

Ji Yan nodded, and asked again, "How did you arrange these more than 100 people?" ”

"The last general divided these people into three squads, one squad of fifty people for day defense, another team of fifty people for night defense, and another squad of eighteen people for mobile personnel, guarding my king's side at any time."

Ji Qing remembered something and said: "A few days ago, my king asked Ding Li to bring a small team of personal guards as a law enforcement team trained by the forbidden army, and these people are mobile personnel. Since they could not follow our king at any time, the last general divided ten men from each of the other two squads, and these twenty men formed the new mobile squad. ”

"Are there any people in the guards who are Taiwei Yang Han, Situ Wang Xu, and Si Kou Ji Jing?"

"Huh?" Ji Qing was amazed and said, "Why is my king's question exactly the same as the question of the previous king when he was dying?" ”

Ji Yan was also surprised, and hurriedly asked, "The first king summoned you before he died?" ”

"Yes."

"What did you ask? How do you explain it? Come on! ”

Ji Qing thought for a while and said slowly: "It was the day before the death of the first king, he called me to the front of the collapse, told me a lot of things, and made a secret decree, but, but let me not tell the king, he said unless, unless......"

"Unless what?"

Ji Qing said in a low voice: "Unless my king already has enough strength, the last general will definitely not be able to speak out." ”

Ji Yan's face suddenly changed: "Don't you say that this king also knows, the first king must have said something about Ji Jing and others, he may have seen the bad intentions of the three of them at that time, so he called you to go and told you to protect this king." ”

Ji Qing looked at Ji Yan incredulously, he couldn't figure out how Bai Zi knew.

Ji Yan continued: "Then the first king must have asked you if there were any people from these three families among the prince's personal guards, and secretly ordered you to clear out these people, and you must not recruit people from these three families in the future. Is it? ”

"Yes."

"How did the first king know that Ji Jing had a bad heart?"

At that time, the general was also very confused and asked the first king. He said that he could not confirm it, but only vaguely found this sign from some clues, and the reason why he asked the last general to do these things was mainly for the safety of my king and to take precautions. ”

Ji Yan nodded: "It should be like this." If the first king had confirmed Ji Jing's ill intentions, he would definitely hand over the tiger talisman to the old lady or Zongbo, since he didn't do so, it was not confirmed, so as not to cause infighting due to misunderstanding. Fortunately, the first king had the foresight to let you do these things, otherwise this king would have been gone long ago. After a pause, he said, "So, there are no more people from these three families in the current guards?" ”

"The last general can be guaranteed by the head of the item, absolutely not." Ji Qing straightened his chest and said: "After getting the secret decree of the first king, the last general began to clean up these people, fortunately, there are not too many, only seventeen people. In order not to show a trace, the last general came up with various methods, either to find their mistakes and cut him off, or to put him in the Sixth Army in the name of promotion, or to send him to other non-military positions under the pretext of being able to use his talents. It took three months to get rid of them completely. ”

"When the personnel are replenished later, each of them will be personally examined, as long as they are not related to these three families, which is one of the reasons why the current pro-guard team has so few personnel. Therefore, the last general can guarantee that there is absolutely no one of these three families in the team today. ”

Ji Yan was greatly relieved and praised: "With my brother by the king's side, I am lonely and worry-free!" ”

Ji Qing arched his hand and said: "The last will protect my king with his life, which is also my promise to the previous king." ”

"Good. From now on, let all the guards be alert, and if there is a suspicious person, they will be arrested immediately, and you will interrogate them personally, and if there is a real problem, bring them to see the orphan immediately. Self-inspection within the pro-guard forces must also be strengthened. ”

"No!"

"Find a way to recruit more guards, and strive to make up for the two hundred people, you can choose from the forbidden army, and tell the king who you like. It is also necessary to strengthen training to deal with unexpected situations that may occur at any time. ”

"No!"

As soon as Ji Qing left, Ji Dong walked in.

"Qi my king, General Wei Yan has arrived with the team."

"Oh? Where is it? ”

"They were supposed to report to the Tiger Prison, but when they heard that the forbidden army was training in Zhongding Square, they went there. General Wei sent a commander to report to my king for instructions on what to do next. ”

"Okay." Ji Yan turned over and sat up: "Change your clothes and go to Zhongding Square." ”

As soon as he walked to Zhongding Square, Ji Yan saw a phalanx standing on the side of Dingtai, dressed differently from the forbidden army, thinking that it should be the team brought by Wei Yan. Not far in front of the phalanx, there were some carriages parked, and the horses pulling the carts were restless, and they wanted to run with their front hooves, but the drivers on the carts were desperately pulling them. Behind the carriage was a bunch of forbidden soldiers, pointing at the chariot in front of them, smiling and saying something.

"What's going on?" Ji Yan turned his head and asked Ji Dong.

"It's unitary time, and it's the time when my king asked them to train the battle array, and I think this is the carriage used to arrange the battle array."

"Oh!" Ji Yan suddenly understood. In his original imagination, the battle array should be an infantry phalanx or a cavalry phalanx, but he forgot that at this time, the chariot phalanx has not been completely eliminated by the times, especially in this gloomy Zhou State, the army has been following the ancient way of fighting, and the chariot war is still the mainstream.

When the team in the field saw the Son of Heaven coming, they hurriedly stood up one by one, but the war horse pulling the cart did not know the Son of Heaven, and was still mischievous there, and the anxious driver was sweating profusely.

Wei Yan was the closest, and he was the first to greet him, and Ding Li and the guards in the forbidden army also greeted him.

After seeing it, Ji Yan said to Wei Yan: "You take the team to wait for a while, and this king will go to see the chariot first." After speaking, he walked towards the chariot with Ding Li and the others.

There were ten chariots, in two columns, all two-wheeled, with two horses strapped to the front of each chariot, and there were no soldiers on the chariots except the riders.

One of the commanders explained: "Since the forbidden army has very little time to use the chariot, everyone is not too familiar with it, so it takes a long time to prepare, and after the soldiers get on the chariot, they can start training. ”

Ji Yan nodded and said, "Okay, hurry up and let the soldiers get into the car, this king is waiting to see your car formation!" ”

The commanders hurriedly ran over and shouted at the well-dressed soldiers to board the car. Each chariot climbed up with two warriors in full armor, one on the left and one with a halberd. On both sides of the chariot, soldiers approached one after another.

Looking at the Son of Heaven with a puzzled face, Ding Li, who was standing beside him, introduced: "The one who holds the bow on the left side of the chariot is called the head of the chariot, and he is the leader of each chariot and is responsible for long-distance combat, and the one who holds the halberd on the right is called the attendant and is responsible for close combat. There are six foot soldiers on the left and right sides to protect the chariot. ”

"A chariot with so few people?" Ji Yan recalled some records in the history books he had read in his previous life, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you hear that there are about 100 people in a chariot?" ”

Ding Li said: "What my king has heard about is the configuration of the chariots of some big countries, they have a large number of people, and each chariot will be equipped with more personnel. In addition to the three people in the car, there will also be seventy-two foot soldiers and twenty-five Lifu, so that there are 100 people. However, our Zhou State still follows the practice of the early years, and the staffing is less, but the training in the actual war is also different from the training in front of us. ”

"In actual warfare, chariots were generally drawn by horses, but now only two horses are used for ease of training; Each vehicle will also be equipped with fifteen wives to supply various military and logistical supplies, which are not currently equipped. There were two soldiers on the chariot, one driver, twelve foot soldiers on both sides, and fifteen chariot drivers, a total of thirty people. ”

"I see." Only then did Ji Yan understand.

After about a quarter of an hour, the tank was ready to stop and ready to go. A captain waved his flag and pressed it downward, and the riders raised their whips in their hands, and slowly loosened the reins with their other hands, and after a burst of Herod's neighing horses, the horses pulled the chariot and ran.