The fifteenth festival is approaching the end of the year, the whole Nanning city is also filled with a sense of joy, every day when you go out, you can see people on the streets of Nanning, or in a hurry, or leisurely on the street.

Wu Ming is only now truly experiencing the true mystery of "true qi liquefaction". Now that he is in charge, the two veins are connected, and in the two meridians, the true qi is like flowing living water, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is like an arm's command. The next thing is to open the bridge between heaven and earth. At this time, he also vaguely guessed that after this world reached the late stage of the seventh rank, I was afraid that every time he was promoted to a rank, it would take a chance, otherwise, the grandmasters of this world would not be so rare.

Every day, Wu Ming stayed in the independent courtyard of the guard camp, meditating and practicing qi, and occasionally flipped through Tao Yu's "March Strategy? Twenty-four Questions" manuscript and "Seven Interpretations of Gunnery". Originally, he wanted to borrow Yang Xiong's "Yang Family Gun Twelve Wants" to watch, but he thought that it was a secret that was not passed on, so he had to do it.

However, Rao is like this, and his current theoretical knowledge of the battlefield has also greatly increased, and he is no longer as blind as before.

Although Nanning City is peaceful, Nanban and Persia are now fighting fiercely. Persia was well prepared, and marched all the way. Nanban had just had a big battle with the Eastern Han Dynasty, and although it won in the end, its own losses were not small. The Persians were unintentionally calculated, and the southern barbarians were defeated faster. Wu Ming now goes to the pigeon house in Nanning every day to get the latest news of the war and pay attention to the progress of the war. While the lives of Nanning residents have not changed much, the Jiangnan Governor's Mansion is tense. Once the Southern Barbarians are defeated, it is not certain that the next target of Persia is the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, and some people even proposed to send troops to aid the Southern Barbarians, and it is naturally impossible to send troops to help, Zhu Huai is now facing strong pressure from the north, so there are troops to send?

Fortunately, after the Persians occupied the Dun steppe in the east, the pace of their eastward attack slowed down. The Southern Barbarians took advantage of the geographical advantage and began to deal with Persia. However, whether the southern barbarians can prevent this Persian crusade, everyone is uncertain.

The Persians once again hit the city of Tidal Tides, and suffered another big loss, and even the commander of the whole army, Wu Gong, almost died. And the person who assassinated was Li Mopa, the new national teacher of Nanban.

"At the end of November, a large number of Persian troops passed through the newly discovered Daya Cave, crossed the Daya Snow Mountain, and gathered at Qingting south of the Tianqing River.

"On December 2, all the Persian troops were assembled, and under the leadership of the Persian Wu Gong, the troops were divided into two routes, one was led by Xiao Ma Hou Jun Hejian, and the other was led by Wu Gong himself.

"On December 10, the fortress of Nanban Duner was breached, and the Pegasus Legion, under the leadership of the regiment commander Mo Ziou, struggled to break through, and in the end most of the casualties were killed and wounded, and less than one in ten of the entire army successfully escaped."

"On December 15th, Wu Gong personally led an invincible team of 10,000 people, drove the Persian war elephants to the tide city to launch a ruined miè-style charge, the tide city overnight, turned to the ground, this move angered the Southern Barbarian national teacher Li Mopa, she single-handedly, took advantage of the night to sneak into the Persian camp to assassinate, Wu Gong in more than a hundred temple monks under the protection, was able to save his life, but he was seriously injured, the Southern Barbarians took advantage of the situation to attack, the two sides fought, each other was injured."

The war is in a stalemate.

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War reports were sent out one after another from the officials of the pigeon loft, and then to the governor's palace and delivered to every citizen of Nanning. It's just that these things may be too far away for the people of Shengdou, except for those officials in the Governor's Mansion who are concerned about the battlefield in the south, others have to live how they should live. In the entire Nanning City, there seems to be an undercurrent surging in the festivities, waiting for the day when it breaks through the ground.

The guard battalion is now being taken care of by Yang Xiong, and Wu Ming himself has become the shopkeeper, not that he is lazy, he himself knows that although he is not a layman now, compared with Yang Xiong, the gap is skyscraper. It's better to delegate power and let Yang Xiong rectify it. However, the entire Guards Battalion now has more than a hundred people, and it is not much of a problem to manage. As for the matter of supplementing the system, Wu Ming has not thought about it, first, the requirements of the guard battalion are special, and they must be martial artists with more than three ranks, and they are innocent. The second is that many things have not been settled now, and the expansion of enrollment can only be put on hold for the time being.

Lu Fang is busier now, according to Liu Ze's invitation, he moved all his strange things to Liu Ze's house. The two can be said to smell like each other now, and they don't know what they are tinkering with, every time Wu Ming asks him, he is mysterious, and when the time comes, he will know, Wu Ming can't cry or laugh, and it's not easy to force it.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and today Yang Xiong specially took a vacation from the guard camp, and everyone was busy, arranging, and cleaning up the house. When Wu Ming walked out of the courtyard, he saw two soldiers holding a ladder, and Tian Hong was climbing on the ladder and trying to hang a lantern. Seeing Wu Ming come out, the two soldiers hurriedly stood upright, saluted, and said, "Commander." Tian Hong climbed down from the ladder and said with a bitter face: "My lord, shouldn't we recruit some people, now there are no family members and entourage, Brother Yang is now practicing to the death every day, and he has to do everything himself after he comes back, so do you have time to practice?" ”

Wu Ming smiled: "Can't you do your own thing?" What do you want, I'm still considering canceling this rule in the future. However, you kid really has the ability, find a girl in Nanning to take care of you, I only have blessings, I'm afraid that your kid has no ability. ”

Tian Hong scratched his head and muttered: "We can compare with you ...... adults" Wu Ming's face changed, and he was about to say a few words to Tian Hong, when he saw a soldier running in from outside, and said loudly: "My lord, my lord, someone is looking for you." Wu Ming was stunned and replied, "Didn't I say it, no one will see me." ”

The soldier smiled bitterly: "This guest is quite special, and I can't stop it, so you'd better meet it, my lord." Before he could finish speaking, he heard Zhu Xiaolong shouting, "Where is Lord Wu?" I have to see him today, or I won't go back. As he spoke, he stepped in from the outside, and the two soldiers of the Guards Battalion did not stop him, nor did they stop him, and they followed him with a helpless face.

Wu Ming and Tian Hong greeted each other, greeted Zhu Xiaolong, and said, "Little boy came here to find me today, I don't know what's the matter?" ”

When Zhu Xiaolong saw Wu Ming, his eyes lit up, he ran over in a few steps, took Wu Ming's hand and said, "Lord Wu, my grandfather has said that as long as you are willing to teach me martial arts, he will support me and worship you as a teacher." Will you promise me? Wu Ming suddenly smiled bitterly, this Zhu Xiaolong looks very tall, but his heart is still a child, after the incident in the last academy, he didn't expect the other party to take it seriously. However, what he said was that Zhu Huai asked him to worship him as a teacher, which is worth scrutinizing.

He urgently needed to pull himself on the same chariot now, and his crippled Guards Battalion commander didn't need his support. What's more, although this Zhu Xiaolong has a bad temper, he is indeed very talented in martial arts, so what's the harm in being this cheap master himself? Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "It's not impossible to apprentice, but the little boy has to think about it, I may not have a lot of time to teach you, and my ability is limited." If you have any questions, you can come to me and I will do my best to answer them. ”

Zhu Xiaolong suddenly jumped up and said with a smile: "Master, don't be modest, listen to my grandfather, you are now an eight-stage master?" \ Tsk, tomorrow I'm going to announce to my classmates that I have an eight-dan teacher, don't scare them to death, hehe. Speaking of this, he seemed to remember something, took a few steps back, and said respectfully: "Master, since you agreed, I will go back to my grandfather and say that tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and when the reunion is over, we will hold a ceremony to worship the teacher." ”

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the Governor's Mansion will hold a party, which Zhu Huai has long noticed, and Wu Ming, as the commander of the guard battalion, is naturally among those invited. Wu Ming nodded and said, "It's up to the little boy to arrange." Zhu Xiaolong said: "Master will call me Xiaolong directly in the future, everyone in the family will call me that." He suddenly said mysteriously: "After the incident of the academy last time, Li Zhong has stopped pestering her sister-in-law recently, and her mood has improved a lot, and the master's contribution is indispensable." ”

Wu Ming just smiled bitterly.

Zhu Xiaolong smiled and said, "Master, since you are now my master, shouldn't you go to my house to have a look and guide me by the way." Wu Ming was moved by what he said, and he wanted to refuse, but he couldn't help but say: "It's okay, anyway, it's okay today, it's okay to go out for a walk." ”

The two said goodbye to Tian Hong and the others, got into Zhu Xiaolong's carriage, and walked all the way to the governor's mansion. After a while, they arrived at the Doge's Palace. Zhu Huai is not at home, and now that the New Year is approaching, he has to be busy, and Wu Ming is not surprised. Zhu Xiaolong took him around, and then arrived at the practice room, he couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes, and said, "My sister-in-law seems to have gone out, and she is not at home." ”

Wu Ming scolded with a smile: "Did you bring me to see your sister-in-law, or did you come to guide martial arts?" ”

Zhu Xiaolong's martial arts foundation is not bad, from the small talk, Wu Ming knew that this kid is only thirteen years old this year, but he is very tall, and he looks fifteen or sixteen years old. At the age of thirteen, he is currently a third-stage martial artist, and it is not easy. Wu Ming has learned a lot, and he can also combine some of the strange questions raised by Zhu Xiaolong to give answers to them in combination with the knowledge on the earth. The two asked and answered, and from time to time they gestured with each other. Before I knew it, a morning had passed. Zhu Xiaolong was already dumbfounded, and admired Wu Ming so much. The teaching of those academies, some of them can't even catch up with him, how can they convince Zhu Xiaolong? Now after answering Wu Ming, I only feel that my master is as knowledgeable as the sea and has unique opinions, so won't he be very powerful in the future? Thinking like this, his heart was even more excited.