On the way back from Luwang's Mansion, Zhang Rang wanted to speak several times and stopped, Ji Qingchen, who was sitting quietly in the car and thinking, had already seen Zhang Rang's demeanor and expression in his eyes, and he saw that Li Changzheng, the grandson of Li Muzhi, who was so bold as to dare to beat the No. 2 person in the Dayan military on the street, dared to stop Xu Zhen's personal attendant without hesitation when Xu Zhen rushed towards him with a sword at the first time, and became so cautious at this time, he said with a smile, "Zhang Rang, just say what you have in your heart, don't be like this." ”

With Ji Qingchen's permission, Zhang Rang groaned for a while, and then whispered, "Your Highness, the battalion of pikemen beside Xu Zhen is an elite soldier selected by the King of Shu in the hundreds of thousands of troops in Western Shu for his safety, and we call it the Western Shu pikemen, all because the weapons of his battalion are all lances, and all of them have superb spear skills. So this time, His Highness invited Xu Zhen to fight, and in terms of the strength of a battalion of our two sides, we are very disadvantaged in this regard. ”

"What do you mean to say that I am afraid that I will lose when the time comes, right?" Ji Qingchen asked with a smile.

Zhang Rang was stunned for a moment, and immediately changed his words and said, "Your Highness, the slave doesn't mean that, the slave just wants to say that if Xu Zhen will give a war post to His Highness in a few days, and our battalion of soldiers and horses has not yet been transferred to our hands, even if we have this battalion of soldiers and horses three days later, but they lack systematic training in such a short period of time, and when the time comes to fight with Xu Zhen, I'm afraid it will be very unfavorable to us!" ”

Hearing Zhang Rang's worry, Ji Qingchen also nodded slightly.

It's just that he is quite confident in the battalion of soldiers and horses allocated to him by Emperor Yan, and he thinks that since Emperor Yan wants to build a cavalry like the tiger and leopard cavalry that leaves the country, he ordered that the battalion of soldiers and horses allocated to him by the Ministry of War will definitely not be too many, even if it is not an elite like Yulin Cavalry, it will definitely be the elite cavalry of the Long Xiang Army, one of the four elites of Great Yan stationed in King's Landing. As for the fact that the soldiers and horses have not yet arrived in his hands, it may be that someone in the military department wants to delay time, he doesn't think that the people in the military department have the courage to disobey Emperor Yan no matter how big they are.

That's why he dared to send an invitation to Xu Zhen.

He felt that he had a battalion of Longxiang Army, and with the fact that he had summoned Bai Xiangcheng to be the captain of this battalion, he would definitely win a big victory when he fought with Xu Zhen. He smiled and said to Zhang Rang, "Don't worry, as long as the soldiers and horses are transferred to us in three days, you will know whether we have the strength to fight with Xu Zhen's battalion of Xishu pikemen!" ”

Zhang Rang saw that His Royal Highness Jiu was so sure that he stopped talking.

In addition to reading a few books on astrology compiled by the Great Yan Qin Heavenly Supervisor, Ji Qingchen, who returned to the mansion, often went out to wander the streets of King's Landing these days.

As for the statement that the fourth prince Ji Wen told him about Qin Tianjian peeking into the heavens, saying that in the future, the four major calamity stars will overturn the rivers and mountains of Dayan, and Xu Zhen and Baili Jing are Lian Zhen and Lu Cun among the four calamity stars, he is not worth caring about, and thinks that this is purely a fool of people made by the old scholars of Qin Tianjian when they are full of food and have nothing to do and are idle and panicked.

And in the past few days, he asked Guo Quan and Zhang Rang to form the secret guard "Iron Suit" with all their might, and Guo Quan and Zhang Rang have recruited six hundred strong people to start the first round of training, as long as they wait until the three rounds of training are completed, through the three rounds of training layer by layer elimination and selection, the remaining 200 people will definitely be elite, and then these 200 people will be systematically trained, he thinks that within three years, he will have a swordsman whose combat power is definitely not inferior to the "Eastern Wilderness Iron Sword".

In this way, three days passed, and the tenth day of the ten-day period of the military headquarters arrived.

At noon that day, Ji Qingchen was practicing calligraphy in the study, and saw Zhang Rang leading a person into the study.

"Xu Qi, a member of the military department, see His Royal Highness the Nine!" The middle-aged man who walked into the study with Zhang Rang saluted Ji Qingchen.

The middle-aged man is already thirty years old, and his lips have grown a short beard, which seems to be a little depressed, but his eyes are still sharp, and he has a calm and restrained attitude, and his speech is neither humble nor arrogant, which makes Ji Qingchen full of curiosity about the middle-aged man.

"Xu Qi?" When he heard this name, he felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while, so he asked a little puzzled, "You are the person sent by the Ministry of War to send a battalion of soldiers and talismans to this king?" ”

"Yes!" Xu Qi replied simply, respectfully placing the roster and talisman on Ji Qingchen's bookcase, and then said, "Because there is no more free place in the camp in King's Landing, His Royal Highness can only go to a military camp in the mountain outside the city to train. ”

Seeing the roster of this battalion of soldiers and horses on the bookcase and a piece of talisman that can mobilize 1,200 soldiers and horses of a battalion, Ji Qingchen's heart was overjoyed, he knew that Lu Dao let him go to the military camp outside the city of King's Landing to train this battalion of soldiers and horses was deliberately arranged, in order to let himself run in and out of the city all day long, but at this time, he didn't care about theorizing with Xu Qi of the military department, but took a cursory glance at the roster, checked the talisman again, and made sure that it was not a fake, so he asked Zhang Rang to put away the roster and talisman, and then said to Xu Qi, " Lord Xu was able to personally go to the house to deliver the roster and talismans, which really made Qingchen grateful, and invited Lord Xu to the front hall for tea. ”

"Thank you for Your Highness the Nine's kindness, but Xu Qi still has official business, so I won't bother His Highness the Nine!" Xu Qi immediately refused, "If His Royal Highness the Ninth Highness checks the talisman and roster correctly, please ask His Highness the Ninth to reply with a letter, and Xu Qi will go to the military department to hand over the errand." As for the battalion of soldiers and horses of His Royal Highness the Ninth who are already stationed outside the city, as long as His Highness goes to the military camp in Kunshan to receive it. ”

Ji Qingchen deliberately wanted to befriend Xu Qi because he found out that Xu Qi had the simple and practical skills of a soldier, but Xu Qi politely refused because he was on official business, and he didn't want to force the other party, so he said with a smile, "It's okay!" I'll write you a reply! ”

As he spoke, he picked up the pen, the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, and wrote a reply letter in one go and handed it to Xu Qi.

Xu Qi took the reply letter, glanced at it, and made sure that it was accurate, then Ji Qingchen gave up his hand and left the study.

When Xu Qi left, Ji Qingchen was still thinking about where he had heard Xu Qi's name, and saw Zhang Rang hurriedly walk into the study with a pale face.

"Your Highness! Someone in the military department has set a trap for us! Zhang Rang said hurriedly.

It was the first time for Ji Qingchen to see Zhang Rang's face become so ugly, and when he heard Zhang Rang's words, he knew that there was something wrong with the battalion of soldiers and horses allocated by the military department, so he said eagerly, "What's wrong?" ”

"Your Highness, please look at the names on this roster." Zhang Rang said, and handed the roster to Ji Qingchen.

It's just that Ji Qingchen took the roster, looked at it for a while, and still didn't see any problems.

Seeing this, Zhang Rang immediately said to Ji Qingchen, "Your Highness, can you let the minions draw a few strokes on the roster?" ”

"You paint!" Ji Qingchen knew that Zhang Rang was a cautious person and would not be untargeted, so he handed over the roster to Zhang Rang.

Zhang Rang took the roster with both hands, put the roster on the bookcase, and began to draw dots on the roster with the pen on the bookcase, and after a while, he handed the roster to Ji Qingchen with both hands and said, "Your Highness, please look, the names of these people who have just been circled with a pen have just been drawn." ”

Hearing Zhang Rang say this, when Ji Qingchen took over the roster, he carefully looked at the names of the people who Zhang Rang had drawn circles on it, and he didn't see the problems on the first two pages, but on the third page, he saw the names of Li Changzheng and Wang Yin in the names of the people who had drawn circles, and when he looked back a few pages, his face became very gloomy, because at this time he had already discovered who these people who had drawn circles on the roster.

They are the sons of the great families of King's Landing!

The children of these big families, like Li Changzheng and Wang Yin, can only fight cocks and walk birds on weekdays in addition to eating, drinking and having fun, or go to the Qinglou to visit the kiln. If they reach the age of sixteen, if they want to enlist, they will be assigned to the royal guards such as the Dragon Guards of the King's Landing, except that they can be mixed with a little seniority to inherit the family title, and the military department does not expect them to fight and establish immortal feats. Because as long as they go to the army, they will rely on their family strength to be arrogant and unreasonable, neither obey military orders, but also have no discipline, and they are a group of real gentlemen.

But now the military department has transferred a battalion of soldiers and horses composed of this group of gentlemen to its command, allowing himself to use such a group of undisciplined, bloodless, and wine-colored gentlemen to participate in next year's school competition. When he thought of this, he was very aware that someone had done something in secret, and it was deliberate, in order to make himself lose in next year's school competition.

It's just that compared to the school competition that can be held for more than half a year, what makes Ji Qingchen particularly angry is that if Xu Zhen gives him a battle post in a few days, how can he win Xu Zhen with such a group of defeated soldiers who don't have it? It was he and Xu Zhen who took the initiative to invite the battle, and if he was defeated at that time, wouldn't it be ...... Thinking of the contradiction with Xu Zhen in King Lu's Mansion, and then thinking of his defeat of Xu Zhen at that time, Ji Qingchen's face became even more iron-blue, he once again suppressed his anger and opened the roster, and said to Zhang Rang, "How many people like this are there in this battalion?" ”

"Your Highness, the servants have already counted just now, and our battalion has a total of 1,200 soldiers and horses, of which the number of people like Li Changzheng and Wang Yin is about 980." Zhang Rang replied with a dejected face.

Dayan's army is composed of corps, gangs, teams, brigades, departments, battalions and armies, that is: five people are in a team, and there is a team commander; The second army is a team, with a team leader and a Sima; Five groups are a team, with one team leader, one deputy team, one Sima, and two soldiers; The second team is a brigade, with a brigade commander, a deputy brigade commander, a Sima, and two soldiers; The second brigade is the department, with one captain, two deputy captains, one Sima, and two soldiers; The fourth to sixth divisions are a battalion, with one captain, two deputy lieutenants, one Sima, and two soldiers; Dozens of battalions are an army, and as for the generals in the army, there is one main general, two deputy generals, and several staff generals among the four elites of Dayan, and the number of people varies.

Zhang Rang's answer was equivalent to telling Ji Qingchen that at least eighty percent of the 1,200 people in the battalion in front of him were gentlemen, a group of wastes with no combat effectiveness at all. As for the remaining 20%, it depends on what they did before, if they are ruffians who participated in street fights and were arrested or ruffians who disobeyed discipline in various armies, then this is a battalion of tired soldiers, this battalion of soldiers and horses is definitely abandoned, and it must not become an army, let alone fight!

"This is called a sword to seal the throat!" Ji Qingchen sighed.

Suddenly, he remembered the news he had received when he left the country, saying that the battle between the princes of King's Landing had reached a fever pitch. However, when he first returned to King's Landing, he never felt this dangerous atmosphere, nor did he feel the tense atmosphere of life and death between his brothers, but he felt that the relationship between the brothers he saw was very harmonious, at least not as terrifying as the outside legend suggested. Now he understands that the reason why everyone gave him such an illusion is to make him relax his vigilance and let him be paralyzed by a sword to seal his throat by surprise when he is careless.

He thought that in a few days, Xu Zhen would post a battle post, and they would publicize this competition between themselves and Xu Zhen, so that everyone in King's Landing City would know, and then let themselves lose in the hands of Xu Zhen through the competition, and it would be a complete defeat, and then he would lose the face of Da Yan, not to mention the ministers of the court, who supported him very much, and Emperor Yan, who wanted to train himself to train a fine horseman, would probably be very disappointed! Even the people of Dayan will begin to dislike themselves for disgrace to Dayan!

Thinking of this suddenly, Ji Qingchen found that dense sweat was oozing from his forehead!

"Your Highness——!" Zhang Rang couldn't stand the dull and depressing atmosphere in the study, and shouted.

"There's nothing wrong here, you go down first!" Ji Qingchen said in a low voice.

His voice was low, and the whole person looked very tired, and when he finished saying this, he ignored Zhang Rang in the study, but slowly sat down in the chair and fell into deep thought.