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Yang Xi knew that the crown prince Li Heng was going to Tongguan to inspect the labor army after receiving a secret letter from his father Yang Guozhong.

This was the result of Li Heng's several pleas in front of Li Longji, and Yang Guozhong's opposition was fruitless, and he did not have much reason to oppose it.

After all, Li Heng is the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and Yang Xi is the deputy marshal. It was only natural for Li Heng, who led the post of marshal, to inspect military affairs at Tongguan, the gateway to Chang'an. Even Li Longji appreciated this very much, and the ministers also agreed.

In the end, Yang Guozhong could only reluctantly give in, and immediately wrote to Yang Xi to tell Yang Xi that he should be ready to greet him.

Of course, Yang Guozhong knew that Li Heng's arrival in Tongguan would definitely not be just to inspect and labor the army, there must be other purposes, the biggest possibility was to pick Yang Xi's stubble, and then strengthen his prestige for himself.

The generals who did not know the details of the matter would definitely be encouraged when they saw the prince inspecting military affairs in Tongguan, and further respected Li Heng, who was not afraid of danger and went to Tongguan to work in the army.

But Yang Xi was not as worried as Yang Guozhong, if Li Heng really wanted to gain the hearts of the people and the army, he should come to the army to cheer up the army at the most critical time in Tongguan. If Li Heng dared to risk his life to come to Tongguan to supervise the war, then Yang Xi would be impressed by him.

Li Heng came to Tongguan when he had basically established his authority and made the generals respectful, and it would take a lot of effort to win over and buy people's hearts. Yang Xi was afraid that Li Heng would take some opportunity to accuse him after arriving at Tongguan, and even punish him on the spot, which would be a headache, after all, Li Heng was the crown prince and marshal of soldiers and horses, and he had the power to deal with many people, including him, the deputy marshal.

But he couldn't stop what was coming, and Yang Xi could only ask himself to be careful after Li Heng arrived.

However, what needs to be done must not be affected by this, including the training of the whole army and further training in special training camps, as well as the production of firearms.

The weather has already turned cool, winter is approaching, the training of the special training camp has lasted for three months, the physical training is over, and the actual combat subject training has begun. After the physical training, Yang Xi personally presided over the assessment, a very harsh and strict assessment. That is the armed cross-country of 100 miles of turnback, requiring the soldiers to carry 30 pounds, run 50 miles and then turn back, the sergeants who return within the specified time are considered qualified, and the sergeants who are unable to persevere or fail to return within the specified time will be eliminated. This is the final assessment item after Yang Xi's physical training when he participated in the special training camp in later generations, and he and a few comrades-in-arms persevered until they finally completed the special training.

Now he has also moved this assessment project to the Tang Dynasty, and the examination school has been selected into the physical training results of the soldiers of the special training camp.

In the end, there were 213 sergeants who passed the assessment, and these sergeants were the most outstanding people in all aspects among the more than 100,000 town troops in Tongguan. The more than 200 sergeants are also full of fighting spirit, and they have persevered in the hellish training that Yang Xi said, so they will definitely be able to persist in the next relatively easy training. They are about to become members of the special operations detachment under the personal leadership of Yang Xi, and they are full of pride.

Staying in the special training camp to continue training is not only a symbol of glory, but also an improvement in status and treatment.

The sergeants of the special training camp are not something that ordinary sergeants can provoke, and their treatment is far from being comparable to that of ordinary sergeants, and these practical factors have also stimulated their fighting spirit to a certain extent.

After these sergeants are reorganized, they will undergo more secret and professional special training, which is still presided over by Yang Xi himself.

However, Yang Xi also has regrets, he is now the leading marshal, it is impossible to leave the position of marshal, take more than 200 sergeants to various places for training, participate in actual combat, this batch of sergeants is destined to not be able to complete all the special project training he formulated, he can not guide all aspects, many subjects he can only write a detailed training outline, so that Chen Yuan and Li Han, who were selected as the chief and deputy captains of the special training team, guide the training.

Of course, he personally checked the results of the training, and Yang Xi also hoped that the batch of sergeants he had trained with a lot of effort would have outstanding performance.

Li Heng's car also came when Yang Xi continued to be busy with everything.

On September 18, Li Heng's carriage arrived at Tongguan after six days of marching, and Yang Xi took all the generals under his command and Li Fuguo, the eunuch of the supervising army, to meet him ten miles out of the city.

After Li Heng's car stopped, Yang Xi led the neatly dressed generals to greet him.

"Yang Xi, deputy marshal of the ministers, soldiers and horses, led the generals of Tongguan to greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here!"

After a while, Li Heng's lazy voice came from inside the carriage, "Marshal Yang and the generals are exempt!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!" Yang Xi accepted the salute and stood up straight, as did the generals behind him.

deliberately asked him to stand in a saluting posture for a while, Yang Xi felt from the "meeting gift" given to him by Li Heng that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not give him a good face this time.

Li Heng did not get out of the car, but asked people to lift the curtain of the car, and after meeting Yang Xi and the generals, he immediately ordered the car to continue moving.

Yang Xi could only drive to Tongguan City with Li Heng's car with the generals. Li Heng drove into the Tongguan territory, and he was in charge of the security guards, and he also sent out more than 200 members of the special training team to perform vigilance and protection. There are 2,000 guards and forbidden troops brought by Li Heng, which is actually enough to protect his safety, but Yang Xi wants to give the team members a chance to train.

It doesn't necessarily have the opportunity to fight, but it can help them understand the details of the actions of the special people to be aware of.

Although Li Heng looked lazy and tired on the road, after arriving at Tongguan, he immediately changed his appearance and immediately ordered Yang Xi to summon the generals, and he wanted to listen to the military report of Tongguan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this prince is ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to go to Tongguan to work and inspect military affairs, and he does not dare to have any delay, I want to listen to the situation report of the generals immediately, and report it to His Majesty the Emperor," Li Henghuan looked at the generals with different expressions under the tent, and said very seriously: "Now the rebellion is continuing, the war in various places is still continuing, the rebels are strong, Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, there must be no mistakes, this prince is always concerned about the situation in Tongguan, and he can't personally lead the army to resist the attack of the rebels." Today, you will tell this prince about the situation in Tongguan in detail!"

Li Heng said, and as soon as he spoke, he shouted at Li Fuguo, who was waiting under the tent: "Li Jianjun, His Majesty the Emperor has entrusted you with the post of supervising the army, you should be very clear about the military affairs in Tongguan, and today the prince wants to hear your story first." Tell this prince everything you know in detail, and leave nothing to chance!"

Li Fuguo subconsciously glanced at Yang Xi, and immediately stepped forward to squint and agreed: "Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Yang Xi chuckled in his heart, he sensed a trace of pride in Li Fuguo's eyes just now, and also understood that Li Heng first asked Li Fuguo without first letting him, the marshal in charge of military affairs, state the military situation.