【Chapter 3】Martial arts
Because of the terrain, the morning of mourning was very humid.
Yu Moji dragged a huge broom across the yard, and the overly dense Du Ying branches and leaves crossed her head, and the dew fell silently on top of her head. Cool.
Yu Moji was not annoyed, but just straightened up and rested. She was in a very happy mood during this time, and when she looked up and saw the wet leaves, she felt that the air was a little fresher.
The washed sky is a subtle blue, and in the distance, the terraces of the Tusu people are paved along the hillside. There were a few places in the field that shimmered with metallic luster, and it was the tenants of the wealthy families who had risen early and were operating a simple steam machine to plant rice.
As usual, Yu Moji didn't sleep long this day, he was very sleepy, but at this moment, he had been awakened by the vitality around him.
There was a "squeak", and not far away, a window was pushed open.
The person in the window greeted the outside loudly, "Master Xu, it's early." The voice was laughing, and the tail note dragged on a little long, and it turned a playful turn.
Yuan relied on it.
Yu Moji hurriedly dodged, didn't pay attention, and almost bumped into Master Xu who was walking by.
However, Xu Fuzi didn't look at her, but nodded at Yuan Zhizhi from afar.
Yu Moji hid behind a row of dense bushes, lowered his head and swept the floor for a while, and after a while, he saw the other side of the bushes, Yuan Pingzhi and Xu Fuzi went in the direction of the lecture hall together, and did not notice her.
It's been a while since she last met Yuan Yizhi at night. It seems that this person may not remember her anymore.
Yu Moji was a little lucky, but also a little regretful. She breathed a sigh of relief, but she vaguely heard Yuan Pingzhi's voice.
"Master Xu, there is a female student in the martial arts hall who works very hard."
Yu Moji speculated in his heart that what Yuan Pingzhi said might be her, and he couldn't help blushing. She's not a schoolgirl.
"Effort?" Xu Da's voice was full of resentment for getting up early, "The female students here are indeed working hard. ”
Yuan Zhizhi was full of energy, "The atmosphere is very good." ”
"Try to get married."
“…… What the? ”
Xu Da explained, "On the battlefield, the gap between women and men is absolute. Do you think that these noble ladies who came to study in the martial arts hall will really enlist in the army in the future? ”
Yu Moji sighed silently.
She understood what Master Xu meant.
Since the advent of Yanji, it has broken through the limits of people's own physical strength on a large scale. With the fuel inside the machine powered, the operator's physical strength is no longer a decisive factor in most jobs.
In all walks of life, there are many relatively weak operators, who can achieve twice the result with half the effort with superb technology. As a result, women have gradually emerged in certain fields that were originally exclusively men's.
But in the lecture hall, physical strength is still the most important training and investigation item. One of the most important reasons is that heavy armor requires a lot of physical strength.
Heavy armor has super defense and long-lasting operation time, and has always been the core strength of military Yanarmor. Despite having the internal Chitose gold steam as the power, it still requires sufficient physical strength to support the entire heavy armor and complete all kinds of complex movements. On the other hand, light armor, although it has the advantage of being flexible and lightweight, is often vulnerable in actual combat. When the army is overwhelmed, this difference in strength can determine the success or failure of both sides from the beginning.
For decades, the Great Qi Empire has been able to continuously expand its territory, and the main combat power it relies on is also the heavy armored troops. In addition, the Yanshi of the Imperial Capital continued to improve the design of the Yanjia, and the ratio of fuel became more and more accurate, making the mobility of heavy armor a concept worth discussing, so that it was able to conquer everything.
Due to this unavoidable requirement of physical strength in heavy armor, the number of female students in the various lecture halls that served as the reserve force of the imperial army was very small.
Especially in a place like Waigo, there is a huge difference in the status of men and women. The lecture hall is the first step for men to pursue the glory of being a soldier, and the girls who come here to study can be counted on one hand.
However, most of the students who were able to enter the lecture hall came from wealthy local families, which meant that the interaction between classmates could provide each other with some special opportunities.
For the female students of the martial arts hall, the original intention of the family to send them was not to study and learn martial arts and enlist in the army in the future, but to seize the opportunity to have more contact with the boys who also came from the families of Tusi, Xuanzhi and Da Shangjia, and make some preparations in advance in the dangerous wedding market.
Thinking of what he saw and heard on weekdays, Yu Moji couldn't help but sigh a little. In fact, she doesn't need to worry about marriage herself.
In her life, there are so many things worth worrying about compared to marriage.
Yu Moji finished cleaning the yard, washed his hands, hurriedly wiped his face, and walked towards the warehouse while shaking the droplets.
According to the practice of the martial arts hall, the day of the small martial arts performance is approaching. The various settings on the martial arts arena have been almost arranged, and only the armor that should be distributed to each team is left, which is still temporarily stored in the warehouse.
She'd cleaned the armor yesterday, and if she checked it again, it was time to distribute it.
Yu Moji walked to the door of the warehouse, and suddenly saw that there were traces of the window opening from the outside. She remembered that something had indeed been missing from the warehouse recently, and she immediately became vigilant.
She frowned, coughed a few times, deliberately made the sound of unlocking heavier, opened the door, and stood outside for a while.
No matter how stupid a thief is, in this way, he should hide it, right?
She thinks that she has no ability to catch thieves, and at this time, she chooses to save her life separately, and the two have nothing to do with it.
Yu Mozi pressed his footsteps and walked in, but he didn't expect a strange fragrance to rush to his face.
Yu Moji was caught off guard, let out a loud sneeze, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a pair of eyes leaking from the edge of the cabinet, staring at her secretly.
Yu Mochen sighed, "Young Master Wei." ”
"Didn't expect that, did you? Little teaching assistant," Wei Linyuan came out and shook the ash on his brocade robe, "I have something to look for you again." ”
Wei Linyuan may have felt that Yu Moji's structural drawings were really good, or maybe he was worried that he wouldn't be able to do that level of homework, and he was afraid that he would be able to goof, so he simply asked Yu Moji for help when he went back.
He is very popular among students, and he is blessed not to be exclusive, and even introduced Yu Mochen to a new business, and brought her the homework of several good classmates. The two have formed a fairly stable employment relationship.
Rao is like this, Yu Moji was still startled, "Then there is no need to be so sneaky...... What's up? ”
"I'm going to perform martial arts in a few days, I'm ......" Wei Linyuan scratched his head a little proudly and a little embarrassed, "I drew a hussar lot." ”
In the martial arts exercises of the Mourning Martial Arts Hall, all types of troops will appear. Wei Linyuan drew the lot this time, and he was the leader of the cavalry. He often went out hunting, and his horsemanship was not bad, but leading troops on a war horse was another matter.
"Can you ride a horse?" Wei Linyuan asked.
"Yes, yes...... But I'm not good at this kind of actual combat. Yu Moji was also embarrassed. After all, she is a miscellaneous person, and she doesn't have much chance to watch the whole martial arts drill in its entirety, and there is nothing she needs to help with in the tactical course, and she doesn't have much to learn in this regard.
Even riding a horse was just when she brushed the horse, and by the way, she learned some basic riding skills from the master who raised the horse. She had never worn heavy armor on a war horse.
"It's not that you want to go for me, the two of us are so different in size, and we will be recognized if we wear heavy armor, right?" Wei Linyuan smiled, "Didn't you say that after staying in the martial arts hall for so many years, you haven't experienced martial arts?" There's a little guy in our team who doesn't want to play this time, so you can replace him. It's just a small cavalry, just follow along, don't talk. ”
“…… Not good. Yu Mozhen has always been a little hesitant to do things, she is not sure about this matter, if it is discovered, it will endanger her current work. She didn't dare to take any chances.
"It's kind of a job. Two strings of money, how's that? ”
“…… Okay," Yu Moji said, "you give me his number." If I use it myself, I'll have to adjust my armor again. ”
"Xuanzi Fourteen," Wei Linyuan was confident, "Don't worry, just follow me closely when you get on the field." I'm a hussar. ”
"Got it," Yu Moji had too many miscellaneous things to say to him, so he turned around and opened the door, "You can go quickly, General Wei." ”
When Yu Moji appeared in front of Wei Linyuan again, he had already put on a heavy armor and blended in the team, revealing only a pair of eyes. Wei Linyuan glanced at her, and the two of them nodded slightly imperceptibly, which was regarded as greeting each other.
The armor is heavy. Yu Moji has to do a lot of physical work every day, and his physical condition is not bad. But the weight of this heavy armor was still too heavy for her. When she tried it on, she weighed it and felt that with her own physical strength, it was impossible to hold on for too long on the horse anyway.
But she had already received a deposit, and she couldn't regret it, so she had to rely on her understanding of heavy armor to temporarily dismantle some parts that were not important in the martial arts exercise, and forcibly reduced the weight.
Removing these parts is not the hardest.
The mecha box "Dragon Waist" on the waist can support the operation of the entire armor, relying on the intricate pipes inside the armor. Without the steam inside the pipes as a power, the whole heavy armor is just a lifeless iron lump, although it still has a certain defensive ability, and its main function is to crush the armor operator to death inside.
Therefore, after removing the parts that are not used for the time being, Yu Moji also has to consider how to modify the pipes to bypass the "wounds" that she dismantled.
From the time she promised Wei Linyuan to the time she appeared on the martial arts field, there were not many days left. During this period, she had to be busy with all kinds of chores, and the modification of the armor could only be carried out secretly in the middle of the night when there was no one in the warehouse, and the whole person was so tired that she was dizzy.
Yu Moji climbed onto the horse's back and clenched his fists.
After supporting the three pairs of martial arts, it may be her limit. But when it comes to the end, there is no room for repentance.
Without allowing her to think about it, the drums of war were beating.
"Sixteen or more, eastward, two hundred feet." Wei Linyuan's voice was quite loud. Yu Moji obeyed, followed by the student soldiers who were wrapped in heavy armor and couldn't see the difference, and rushed over on a war horse.
Although Wei Linyuan's group of students had learned tactics seriously, it was still too difficult for them to rely on their own judgment to give orders directly on the martial arts field. In this kind of small-scale martial arts training, the plot is designed in advance, and although Wei Linyuan is a hussar lotter, all he has to do is to memorize the tactics and practice them a few times in a step-by-step manner, and then he can pass the test.
Yu Mochen is not a student after all, before the martial arts stage, there is no way to practice with them, only to listen to Wei Linyuan talk about the plot in detail, during the drill, she took advantage of the passing by to eavesdrop some, which can be regarded as a little familiar.
Right now, she had to map each command to an operation as quickly as she could. Her reaction was not particularly fast, and she could barely keep up. Yu Moji couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for himself.
"The infantry breaks the barricades, the first team is ready to break through, the second team is ready to intersperse, listen to my orders."
Yu Moji pulled the reins and stabilized the warhorse.
"The barricade ahead has been broken, a team, rush."
Yu Moji grabbed the horse's belly and galloped forward. However, a strange bump on the dirt road ahead suddenly made her realize that something was wrong.
Tribulus terrestris! She recognized what was half-hidden in the dirt. The barricades have obviously been broken, and the thistle terrestris is not on the list prepared by the warehouse for this exercise.
Yu Moji's heart is not good.
Several sharp-eyed cavalrymen also noticed this, and suddenly stopped, and the formation was chaotic, and the two of them even fell out directly.
Wei Linyuan obviously didn't consider this unexpected situation, and hurriedly shouted, "The cavalry retreats, thirty steps, no, fifty steps!" Hold on to your formation! ”