Yizhou, String City.

In the early winter, under the snow, the earth is covered in silver. In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yang Xian sat on the Taishi chair and shook it. In front of him, the figures of two uninvited guys, an old man and a young man, were shaking.

There was a large casserole on the table with steaming wild boar meat that had just come out of the pot. But I saw Tong Gu and Xia Gong Niena on both sides of the table, pulling and studying.

"Your Majesty, you're right, the food of the lord is really better than ours. It's all the same ingredients, why does it taste so bad? ”

"Lao Tong! Of course, the father is a thief! We were given a big pot of rice, and we opened a small stove by ourselves. ”

Saying that, the two foodies, one old and one young, were not too bad for their seniority, so they ate like this, and while eating, they talked about the mountains, and did not take Yang Xian, who was not far away, as an outsider.

Yang Xian lay on the Taishi chair, rolling his eyes. He didn't expect that these two goods were dozens of years apart, and they could still have a common language.

"I said, O king! Your cook in the palace is not very good! I went to the palace with the lord for a banquet a few days ago, and the taste was far worse than when I went to the Shendu Palace to eat. ”

Xia Gongni's eyes lit up, and he looked a little envious.

"Lao Tong! Have you ever been to the capital of the gods for a wine feast, is it so good? ”

Tong Gu touched his beard, smiled, untied a skin bag from his waist, and took a sip of wine. The flush flushed his cheeks, and Tong Gu began to talk in a chattering mode.

"Speaking of the wine banquet in the divine capital, the words are long. At that time, your grandfather's grandfather was still in power, and I had just become a small soldier, and I was sent to chase down the bandits in Jizhou. It was a very dangerous situation! The general we led was a waste, with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and was almost wiped out by 3,000 men on the other side. In the last battle, we were short of food and horses, and if I hadn't shot three arrows in a row and shot the three thieves, more than 10,000 of our brothers would have been confessed there. ”

"Lao Tong is so powerful."

Xia Gong Nirvana praised while stuffing meat into his mouth, and his mouth and hands did not stop.

"Although the general is a waste, he is not bad, he is your grandfather's grandfather's brother-in-law. It was he who took me to the banquet in the palace, and in the corner, Lao Tong and I secretly tasted the dishes of the imperial kitchen. That tastes ......."

Speaking of which, Tong Gu is still reminiscing about the past. But by the time he woke up from the past, the wild boar in the big casserole had already gone down a little bit.

Lao Tong was anxious and said: "Why are you so cunning, king, you have done so much while I am reminiscing about my youth!" ”

"Lao Tong, don't you know that soldiers don't get tired of cheating? Have you read the book in vain? ”

Xia Gongni stuffed meat in his mouth, and said vaguely to this old boy who was robbing him of food, his mouth bulging like a fat-headed fish.

Lao Tong immediately stopped talking nonsense, and concentrated on the great cause of eating up this pot of wild boar. This old and young, eat back and forth, competing against each other.

It wasn't until the bottom of the pot was empty that Tong Gu touched his round belly and burped contentedly, then he remembered that Yang Xian was still on the side.

"Oh, lord, I've been here for so long, what are you going to make me an official? I can't always eat white food in this house! I've gained a few pounds these days. ”

"Captain Shooting!"

Yang Xian shook the fan in his hand and said slowly.

"Don't, my lord. I was a lieutenant decades ago. After so many years, I have to go up to the next level! ”

"That's it!"

Xia Gong Nirvana nodded his little head and helped beside him. For this foodie friend, Xia Gong Ni is still very righteous.

"That Qin Feng came over with eight hundred people, and you gave him a cavalry captain. Lao Tong has 3,000 people, so he has to be a general! ”

Yang Xian rolled his eyes, Xia Gong Ni is settling the account. If she is put in charge of finances, then the Shu Kingdom will be defeated by her sooner or later.

"Qin Feng has eight hundred people, that's a well-equipped cavalry, is it too much to be a cavalry captain? Lao Tong brought 3,000 people, most of them were old and weak women and children, and the rest were strong, and they couldn't get together a single one. ”

"So that's right."

Hearing Yang Xian say this, Tong Gu was not angry. He was rough by nature, touched his beard, and looked suddenly enlightened.

Yang Xian sat up, looked at Tong Gu, and said, "Kua's father is good at shooting, and Lao Tong, you are one of the masters." It just so happens that the Changce Army is training new soldiers, and I will also allocate you 3,000 soldiers. If you can train them to be first-class archers, then I will ask the king to give you a lieutenant general. If you can train 10,000 elites, then you are a general. ”

"Rest assured, my lord! Give it to me Lao Tong, and I will definitely bring you an elite division. ”

Tong Gu had never met such an atmospheric lord as Yang Xian, and he suddenly came to his senses.

On the battlefield, archers and crossbowmen coexist, but their uses are very different. The crossbow has very low requirements to use, and with a little training it can be used by humans. Archers, on the other hand, cannot become a qualified archer without years of training.

On the battlefield, a crossbowman can shoot a maximum of two or three arrows in a minute, and a good archer can shoot two or three times as many arrows as a crossbowman in the same time.

That is, in the same time, one archer can withstand three crossbowmen, forming a dense firepower on the combat area for a short time.

What's more, in the inheritance of the same line in the army, there are very low-level cultivation methods for the crossbowman, but there are quite a lot of cultivation methods for the bow.

But even so, there are still a few who are willing to specialize in archery. After all, if it is a field battle, ordinary archers can shoot at most two or three hundred paces. At this distance, the cavalry can rush over in a few breaths, and the infantry does not need much time.

The appearance time of archers is quite small, and they are more likely to cooperate with other units to fight together and play a supporting role.

The cultivation method of the first line in the army is originally more difficult to practice the higher you go, and it is really rare for an archery master like Tong Gu to be seen.

Yang Xian pointed to the box next to him, and Tong Gu took out a talisman from it.

"Take this talisman and go to the Changce military camp outside the city to select 3,000 people. The choice is yours, and it doesn't matter if there aren't enough people. I have prepared a special village for you, and I will take the strength of the Kuafu clan and the soldiers you have chosen to train in it. ”

"Gotcha!"

Tong Gu smiled, took the talisman and ran out. The rest of Xia Gong Ni also chased after him, his voice was very anxious.

"Lao Tong, why did you leave. Didn't we say we would go to the mountains in the afternoon to hunt game? Tomorrow's wild boar hasn't landed yet! ”

"King, another day, another day!"

The sound of the drum came faintly, like a monkey with a burning buttocks. He was busy going outside the city to select soldiers at the moment, and he didn't have time to pay attention to Xia Gongni.