After walking out of the gate, the two turned over and got on their horses, and then galloped towards the Jingshi. Miss Huang held the fire in one hand and controlled the reins in the other, riding steadily on the horse, Xu Ping observed for a moment and couldn't help but say with admiration: "Miss is really worthy of being a tiger girl with such superb riding skills. ”

Miss Huang casually flipped her mask up, and the firelight reflected a playful smile: "General Xu is also worthy of being the queen of the gate, but his riding skills are a little lacking." ”

Then I heard Miss Huang proudly say: "I have been riding horses and practicing swords with my eldest brother and second brother since I was a child. ”

Xu Ping's curiosity rose again and asked, "According to Brother Jin, the swordsmanship and equestrian skills of the prince are outstanding. ”

"Of course." Miss Huang nodded heavily: "My eldest brother, since I can remember, there has not been a day when I haven't practiced swords. Last year, he finally went home for the New Year, and on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he got up before dawn to dance the sword, and said that if he did not touch the handle of the sword for a day, he would be born. Chinese New Year's Eve may be busy all day, and if you don't get up early, you may not have time. ”

"Ahh

Miss Huang smiled sideways, and praised proudly: "There is an all-army competition in the Funing Army every year, and my eldest brother has been the first in fighting every year since he was seventeen years old. It's not about relationships, it's all about real kung fu. He also beheaded many levels. ”

"Funing Army, beheading?" Xu Ping was slightly stunned: "Are there traitors in Fujian?" ”

Miss Huang replied: "It seems that they are fighting with the bandits, their Funing army is attacking the bandit stronghold on the island, I don't know exactly where it is." ”

Miss Huang said, "Uncle He once mentioned you, saying that you have memorized the military books you learned in the New Army. ”

"Reciting backwards? That's impossible. Xu Ping has always worked hard to study the principles in the military book, and he has tried his best to understand why each item was formulated in this way and what benefits it has for combat. Although Xu Ping worked hard, he did not think that he was a qualified commander who was familiar with military books, and Zhao Kuo was also familiar with military books, but he left a laughing stock of "talking about soldiers on paper": "I hope that I will have the opportunity to return to the teaching team to continue learning in the future." ”

"Xu Gongzi has gone through the highest level of training in the teaching team, and he will be the commander in the future, and he has learned everything in the teaching team."

"I once heard that Master Hou also wrote a book, and Lord Zhao, Lord Jin and other adults also participated, but we haven't learned it, so I think it should be read to the battalion officers, it must be the culmination of the art of war." Xu Ping said yearningly: "I don't know if I have a chance to see it." ”

"What book?" Miss Huang seemed surprised: "Why haven't I heard of it?" Jia Yan doesn't have any secrets of the art of war. ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly, guessing that Miss Huang was a girl after all, and she didn't have to go into battle to fight, so at most, she was asked to listen to a little interesting things in the army, and there was no need to teach her the essence of the art of war.

Miss Huang saw Xu Ping laughing weirdly, and snorted: "Xu Gongzi must have been deceived by hearsay." ”

"The source of the last admiral is absolutely reliable."

"Then Gongzi Xu told me, I'll go back and ask my family to take a look."

Although Xu Ping didn't believe that Huang Shi would show this thing to his daughter, he still replied: "It seems to be called "The Source of Conquest", well, that's the name." ”

Miss Huang asked, "The Source of Conquest"? ”

"Well, probably."

Before Xu Ping's words fell, Miss Huang laughed: "It turned out to be this book, I have already read it." The book is in the study, alongside the other books. The name was quite impressive, and I read it as soon as I saw it. Where is the secret book, similar to other military books, it is full of dense regulations, and it is not as interesting as "Wu's Art of War". ”

The barracks of the new army were not far from the gate of the Beijing Division, and at this time the two of them could already see the fire of the city gate, and Miss Huang restrained her mount: "Xu Gongzi, please go back, I will enter the city." ”

The city gate had already been closed, and Xu Ping was a little worried: "Can Miss really go in?" ”

Due to the smoke in the world, the imperial court authorized emergency military information to enter the city day and night, so the guards of the Beijing camp never questioned the military judges in black armor all over their bodies, but only let them go according to their waist cards. In addition to the orders of the imperial court, Huangshi also bribed the officials of the Beijing camp in order to facilitate the transmission of military information. The military discipline in the Beijing camp has long been corrupted, and the officers guarding the city gate are happy to make a fortune. However, of course, these inside stories Huang Girl and Xu Ping are not clear.

Xu Ping insisted: "The last general will see the young lady enter the city, and then he can leave with confidence." ”

Seeing that Xu Ping was so worried, Miss Huang smiled and said: "My military uniform is very useful, it can cover people's eyes and ears, and it is also very convenient to go out to play." She dismounted, led her mount to the gate of the city, prepared to hand over her horse to the guards of the urn city, and went up the city wall in a hanging basket herself.

Xu Ping remembered that Jin Shentong also wore the military uniform of a military judge when he went to Zhao Mansion that day, and even had similar discussions. The words that Jin Shentong had said that day sounded in his ears again, Xu Ping felt a sudden pain in his chest, and he couldn't help asking: "When Miss wore this military judge's clothes and armor to go out to play before, did she go out with her friends?" ”

Xu Ping's tone trembled a little, Miss Huang slowly turned her head when she heard this, stared at Xu Ping carefully, shook her head slightly, and said, "General Xu, your heart is really small, it's better to relax a little." ”

Miss Huang didn't say much, put down her mask and strode towards the city gate. Xu Pingyao watched her walk to the wall and wave something towards the city. After a while, a hanging basket fell from the city, and Miss Huang put the things in her hand into the basket. The hanging basket was withdrawn to the city, and after a long time, a large hanging basket was put down, and this time the yellow girl sat in it by herself, and was slowly pulled up to the city with the hanging basket.

Xu Ping watched the firelight at the city for a long time in the dark wilderness, until he couldn't even see the human figure, and then turned around and returned to the camp.

June 12, 21st year of Chongzhen.

After nearly a month of unremitting rectification, the 3,000-strong Changqing Battalion now has more than 2,700 soldiers, which is basically close to full strength. The other nine battalions of the New Army clustered around the Beijing Division were also in good shape. Combined with the supplementary troops in training, the teaching team, the military justice team, and other auxiliary units, the new army swelled to nearly 50,000 in less than half a year. At present, in addition to the new army, there are also various units of the Beijing camp, the forbidden army, and the 14th regiment and battalion stationed around the Beijing division, with a total strength of more than 180,000 garrison troops. If you count the Jizhen Mountain, Shi, Yan and Jian four provinces of Gongwei Jingshi, the Ming army around the Beijing division has reached more than 300,000 people.

The large army put enormous economic pressure on the imperial court. Cao Yun has been blocked, and the taxes and grain urgently needed by the imperial court were transported from Jiangnan to Beijing by sea. In fact, in recent years, it has been done by sea, but the interruption of transportation has seriously affected the income of those involved. The cabinet ministers were increasingly complaining about the hundreds of thousands of troops who had gathered in Beijing to eat and not work, and the most expensive of these hundreds of thousands of troops was the 50,000 new troops, who not only received more salaries, but also spent a staggering amount of money on training. For several months, the two divisions of soldiers and households, who had been complaining for many days, had repeatedly proposed that the new army should be allowed to move south, and at the same time, a part of the army could be transferred to Shandong for food.

In the past ten days, Xu Ping has become busier. Today he was busy finishing his work in the morning so that he could try to slip out of the camp in the afternoon. At noon, he didn't forget to gather his subordinates together, and while eating, he was busy assigning them the remaining tasks.

After the meal, Xu Ping hurried to the barracks of the horse team and took away a few wooden practice swords and a bucket of white powder. Cao Yun and Jiang Yizhou both looked at him with some surprise and asked, "Lord Xu, what do you want to do with this?" ”

"It's okay in the afternoon, so I take the time to practice, maybe it's useful on the battlefield." Xu Ping replied solemnly.

Cao Yun looked at him inexplicably and asked, "Lao Xu, don't you always say that a battalion officer doesn't need to practice this?" ”

"Be prepared." Xu Ping didn't want to talk nonsense with them anymore, so he carried things on the horse.

"Then ......" Jiang Yizhou saw Xu Ping being so active in fighting for the first time, so he asked: "We also have to practice in the afternoon, do we need to accompany the adults with two tricks?" ”

"No need." Xu Ping flatly refused, and led the horse outside without looking back: "I'd better go find Yu Shenhe, he has similar skills as me, and he will be fine in the afternoon." ”

After leaving the horse team station with his things, Xu Ping looked back and saw that no one was following, so he turned his head and led the horse straight to the camp gate, and turned over on his horse after leaving the camp gate. Rushing to the agreed place, Xu Ping kept looking around, if he wasn't worried about not being in shape, he would have wanted to climb to the highest tree to take a look. After a long wait, a war horse carrying a black knight came from far and near with small steps.

After seeing Xu Ping, the black knight on horseback lifted his visor and then took off his helmet entirely. Miss Huang's face was flushed with heat, and her forehead and neck were covered with sweat droplets. She dismounted and stood in the shade of a tree, glanced at the things on Xu Ping's horse, and said with a smile: "You still have to compete with me on such a hot day, General Xu really doesn't admit defeat." ”

A few days ago, Xu Ping tried his best to finally establish contact with Qiu Yue, who came out to buy things, and after "coincidentally" meeting Huang Girl outside the city yesterday, the two of them chatted and talked about swordsmanship. After resting in the shade of the tree for a while, Miss Huang shook her spirits, took out the wooden weapon on Xu Ping's horse, dipped it in the white powder bucket, and shouted, "Here it is." ”

When Miss Huang stabbed her with a sword, Xu Ping was still in a daze, and her heart was dyed with a big white spot. Miss Huang said: "Take out your skills, if you are so demented again, I will leave." ”

After just two attempts, Xu Ping was quickly "stabbed to death" by Miss Huang again. Although Xu Ping had been mentally prepared, he didn't show all his strength in the face of Miss Huang, but losing so badly still made him very faceless.

However, men in love don't care much about face, Xu Ping saw the smile on Miss Huang's face, and some of the chagrin in his heart immediately disappeared.

Xu Ping restrained his thoughts, concentrated on the enemy, and as soon as the three swords passed, his abdomen was painted with white marks. After a few more moves, he received another heavy blow on his shoulder. Miss Huang took two steps back and laughed, "General Xu is so skillful, he actually dares to fight against me." ”

Xu Ping waved the wooden knife in his hand and said with a smile: "Come again, I'll just let you three times first, this is called the enemy's strategy, you are a little woman who doesn't understand." ”

"Okay." Miss Huang twisted her waist and jumped forward, and stabbed straight at Xu Ping's façade with a sword. Xu Ping saw that the sword was fierce, and even the wooden sword couldn't stand it if he was stabbed, so he hurriedly parried and retreated. Miss Huang didn't have a smile on her face, and she waved it violently, Xu Ping had no time to resist and had to lean back, the other party's wooden sword grazed the tip of his nose, and the wind blew on his face, which made Xu Ping startled.

Next, Miss Huang beckoned to Xu Ping's unprotected façade, Xu Ping saw that the other party's face rose with anger, a sword was as tight as a sword, he hurriedly parried, while retreating again and again. Suddenly, his feet were empty, his body lost his center of gravity, and he fell down on his back.

Miss Huang looked at Xu Ping's embarrassed appearance condescendingly, bent over with a smile, and said sarcastically: "What a plan to be arrogant!" The little woman really didn't understand. ”

"The last general is indeed sparse in swordsmanship," Xu Ping jumped up, gently patted the dust off his body, and smiled: "Let Miss see and smile." ”

Seeing Xu Ping's cheerful expression, Miss Huang didn't have a trace of annoyance, she said with some apologies: "Xu Gongzi is a commander, and there is nothing wrong with a little swordsmanship. ”

Xu Ping thought exactly this in his heart. Soon after joining the army, Cao Yun pulled him to practice the art of fighting, and Xu Ping said impatiently: "I am an engineer, and I don't need to go up and fight hard when I fight." "When he arrived at the Texas battlefield, although Xu Ping admired Jin Shentong's martial arts, he was still not interested in practicing fighting, and always felt that he would be a thousand generals in the future, and then he would be a battalion officer in the future.

However, at this moment, Xu Ping changed his tone: "When the last general first entered the teaching team, he was an engineer, and the team didn't pay much attention to teaching swordsmanship. There was no time for the second time. However, if you encounter danger on the battlefield, you still have to rely on fighting to save your life. ”

"Yes," Miss Huang nodded in agreement and said, "My eldest brother and second brother attach great importance to the art of fighting. ”

"Miss Mingjian, the last general is an orphan, and there is no elder in the family to teach him. I don't know if Miss is willing to point out the last one or two. ”

"My two elder brothers were all taught by Uncle He, and I also learned a little from them, so I'll just say a few things first."

Xu Ping was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Miss, for saving your life." ”

Miss Huang laughed and said, "Xu Gongzi's words are too exaggerated. ”

After letting Xu Ping hold the sword steadily, Miss Huang took a posture and gently tapped his weapon with her own sword, made a few demonstration movements, and commented: "The fighting techniques in the new army have actually been greatly simplified. I have heard Jia Yan say that the training of the new army is simple and easy to memorize, and practice makes perfect within a few months to achieve results. ”

Compared to the situation where other armies recruited strong men to serve as soldiers, the training of the new army was much stricter. However, under the pressure of the imperial court's constant urging, the soldiers of the new army did not have enough time to train, so they had to rush to the battlefield, so they could only use training methods that had quick results.

Miss Huang made a few more movements and explained to Xu Pingdao: "Just these few movements, Uncle He asked my two brothers to practice for a month before continuing to teach the following, and they still practice these basic movements diligently to this day." Don't try to kill your enemy in the first place, but leave some back and strength to be ready to parry. Use these few movements to test the enemy's wrist strength, agility, and reaction speed......"

When Miss Huang was leaving, Xu Ping asked her to continue to teach her swordsmanship tomorrow, and Miss Huang shook her head and said, "No, I don't dare to go out without Qiuyue." Today I have already asked her to go to the teahouse for an afternoon of tea. ”

Xu Ping proposed: "Let her go to the teahouse tomorrow." ”

Miss Huang shook her head again: "It's very inappropriate for her little girl to be alone, and it's just a day once in a while, what if something happens?" ”

"Then bring her here, too."

"Akizuki can't ride a horse."

"She can learn."

Miss Huang glanced at Xu Ping: "General Xu will practice here slowly, I'll go back." ”

Xu Ping saw Miss Huang turn around and leave, and hurriedly caught up with two steps: "Miss, this is a matter of life and death for the last general, and the sincerity of the last general's study can be seen from the sun and the moon!" ”

Miss Huang turned over and put on her helmet: "A liar who deceives God and deceives his heart!" ”

"Miss Mingjian," Xu Ping grabbed the reins of Miss Huang's mount and said hurriedly: "The last general has not yet married." ”

Miss Huang's face was flushed, and she raised her whip to beat: "General Xu is becoming more and more silent." ”

"The last general has no heirs, in case he dies on the battlefield if he is not good at swordsmanship, the incense of his ancestors will be broken." Xu Ping did not evade: "Dare to ask the young lady to teach the end of the exquisite swordsmanship, so that the incense of the ancestors of the last general can be passed on." ”

Miss Huang couldn't help laughing and said softly, "Let go of my reins." ”

"The last will obey." Xu Ping relaxed his hand when he heard this.

Miss Huang stepped on the return journey as soon as she clamped the horse's belly, looked back and smiled at Xu Pingwan: "Let me think about it." ”

In the blink of an eye, another three days passed. In the morning, Xu Ping and Wu Zhong reported to Zhang Chengye on the recent progress of the whole training, and Zhang Chengye did not let them put down the report and leave as before, but handed them a thick pile of materials. In front of Zhang Chengye, Xu Ping and Wu Zhong carefully read all the information. The two of them glanced at each other, and Xu Ping opened his mouth and asked, "My lord, is our army going to Shandong?" ”

Zhang Chengye smiled incomprehensibly and said, "This still has to wait for Shangfeng's order, but you can use this thing for a tactical deduction, and then report the results." ”

"Yes, my lord."

The documents Zhang Chengye handed over to Xu Ping and Wu Zhong included a series of place names, specific topographical maps, and some troop settings. The tactical exercise called for was a hypothetical attack on the area demarcated by the Evergreen battalion, while the rebels in Shandong did their best to hinder the movement of the Ming army. The two men quickly gathered the staff officers in the battalion, laid out the map, and arranged the chess pieces belonging to the two armies according to the relevant settings. After all this was completed, Xu Ping appointed two people to play the commanders of the Ming army and the rebel army respectively, and other staff officers assisted in the deduction. Xu Ping and Wu Zhong watched the game as referees.

The staff officer who played the Ming army's side was named Zhou Dongtian, who was a good friend of Jiang Yizhou, and Xu Ping was also very familiar with this person. Zhou Dongtian was promoted after the First World War in Texas. And playing the rebel is Fu Tianjun, a senior staff officer of the Evergreen Battalion, who is a subordinate officer like Wu Zhong and is very familiar with the rules of war chess.

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