Chapter 17: The Call Comes
"In that case, Sanzi, from now on, your gang will be responsible for guarding Da Lang. Second sister, you must not dislike the third son and they are troublesome and slow to follow them, no matter what, if the third son or the third son does not ask you to run, you must never get out of their gang, you must stay among them all the time, when you stop and rest, you must also stay by Da Lang's side. "Since you don't have a choice, let's come! Guo Zhongda suddenly sprouted a sense of war, perhaps, in the future, the day of the Tang Dynasty will have a chance to change from the moment he guards Dalang!
"Hou Da, you take your group, go forward a mile, take the Ming Di as the signal, double arrows, single arrow stop, pay attention to the careful search. He turned his head and called another gang leader over, originally the task of exploring the way was the third son's gang, this gang is almost all composed of veterans, all of them are warriors of a hundred battles, and they are also experienced, but now Da Lang's safety is the most important, so it is natural to put the most elite team next to Da Lang, in case of an accident, it can also escort Da Lang to get out of the other way.
"Whew!" the other group of people who had been ordered were just about to rest, and immediately set off again.
"Iron Tower, Raise the Flag!" he had finished, but he gave another order to the tall and fat soldier.
As soon as they heard the flag, all the soldiers immediately cheered up, and their previous expressions of hee-hee and hee-ha were swept away, replaced by resolute and upright bodies, all of them seemed to have grown half a foot taller.
The tower took out a dark black flag from his arms, and did not need anyone to help, ran to the edge of the forest, chose a small tree with a thick arm and a straight length, pulled out the horizontal knife, cut down and cut off the branches with three knives and two knives, and cut off the branches in a moment, a simple flagpole became, put on the flag, and inserted it on the ground, the flag was stretched out against the evening breeze hunting, the flag tip occasionally whipped on the flag, and the sound of "pop", the whole team, from the moment the flag was erected, there was no other sound.
The erection of the flag has its own unique meaning, which is not only a challenge, but also a show of strength. If you want to fight, we will continue, if you coax, get out of here!
Guo Zhongda did not hide in the team like those military leaders during the war, he raised his head and saw the flag erected, he raised his hand and wanted to pat Da Lang's shoulder, but he realized that it was inappropriate, and shook Da Lang's arm instead: "In the entire Tang Dynasty, there are no more than five teams qualified to have flags, and a certain class is one of them!"
There is no word on the flag, on the dark black bottom, there is a snake embroidered with red thread, a fire, the color of the fire is not bright, some places do not know what is dyed, it is also black and purple, and the corner of the flag has also been damaged, it is torn into a strand, and the tail of the flag corner is together, like a big snake leading a group of small snakes to swim in the air.
"Don't all the teams have flags?" Da Lang finally felt better, this, he really didn't know, and finally there was something he didn't know.
"If it is in a military formation, each team has a flag, but it is for the commander to identify it, and these flags do not belong to this team, but are temporary. Only the independent teams have their own flags. And a certain class, because of the military exploits were awarded the independent flag, the snake on this is the name given to us by the Hu people: brocade-bellied snake. As soon as this flag came out, the Hu people retreated for hundreds of miles, not daring to confront us. The third son also changed his obscene flattery, straightened his chest, and was very proud.
In the entire Datang, there are only no more than five teams that are qualified to have their own flags! No wonder they are proud. This is how many soldiers have exchanged blood and flesh little by little, and the swords and swords in the meantime, needless to say, hardships and hardships have become the soul of this team at this moment.
Suddenly, a fire burned in his chest, and Da Lang learned from the appearance of those soldiers, straightened his waist, and clenched his fists: One day, I will also be glorified in this way, no, I will go further, and I will become the protagonist of those ventriloquists in the tavern teahouse!
"Woo~!" The flag was erected, and a trumpet suddenly sounded in the mountains and forests on the left, the sound was so loud that it collided back and forth between the surrounding valleys and produced echoes, superimposed in the previous sound, and the sound that should have been thick began to sharpen, which was enough to spread for dozens of miles.
"Formation!" Guo Zhongda, who had only taken a few steps and thought of personally serving as a guard on the periphery, heard the sound of the trumpet, his face immediately changed, and he pulled out his knife with a "bang" under his feet, pointed diagonally at the woods, and shouted sharply.
Hulala, only a few dozen breaths of work, the remaining nearly 100 people took the group of the third son, that is, Da Lang as the center, surrounded by a flood, and Da Lang was carried by the second sister again, standing in the middle steadily. The second sister was already tall, and Da Lang refused to shrink on his back, but straightened up and looked around.
I've always heard of something in formation, but I've never seen it, and Da Lang is very curious.
But I saw that the whole array was surrounded by three strong soldiers with spears in their hands, followed by two soldiers with shields in one hand and swords in the other, and then in the second row were three soldiers with spears and four soldiers with swords and shields, and the corners of the three formations were almost equal.
"What kind of formation is this? Why isn't it a long snake formation?" Da Lang patted the second sister's head, because of the fear of the so-called ghost upper body, he had long been left behind, and was replaced by curiosity about the military formation.
"Da Lang understands a lot, even the long snake formation. The second sister smiled, but there was no panic, "This formation is called the corner array, it is the original creation of our captain, it is most suitable for use in this narrow and unknown situation, the three corners can become the direction of the assault at any time, if the enemy attacks from the corners, then the two corners can be outflanked from the side, we rely on this formation, I don't know how many Hu people have been killed, this formation is called Jinbei, you can be a ten, and there are thousands of people who have no return." ”
"There are traps in this formation, only with the uninterrupted brave soldiers can have the effect of killing the enemy, and must be practiced from time to time, if the enemy does not know, the same way to draw a gourd to learn this formation, but it is to find a way to die. The third son also added on the side, "Each soldier has its own responsibilities with each other, some are responsible for rejecting horses, some are responsible for blocking arrows, some are responsible for slashing and killing infantry, and some are nimble, and they have seen each other's weaknesses and give a blow to the head with a thunderous momentum. ”
There was no sound in the team, and the voice of the third son came out from afar, Guo Zhongda saw that the third son immediately told the killer weapon that his team relied on to become famous, and couldn't help glaring at the third son, but he didn't blame out loud, in his heart, he had long regarded Da Lang as the object to burn the stove, so there was no taboo for Da Lang to know the bottom line.
The third son, who was stared at and shrunk his neck, saw that Guo Zhongda did not mean to blame further, so he added: "The long snake formation that Da Lang said is also powerful, but it is only suitable for an army of at least a thousand people, and it has to be used in an open terrain where the strength of our army is several times that of the enemy, and it is used in the open terrain that is easy to toss and move. ”
"Oh. "Da Lang seems to understand whether he understands or not, a long snake formation, which is often on the lips of ventriloquistists, as long as it comes to fighting, it is: a certain general gave an order, with the order flag pointed, the army put out a word long snake formation, the gun is forested, and the flag hunts and hunts clouds. But he didn't know that in fact, when it came to a real war, unless it was a sure victory, few people would use a long snake formation, and if they really wanted to put it out, the soldiers at the head and end of the formation would face a strong enemy, or if the enemy's strength was equal to his own, he would concentrate a little impact, and his own side would be exhausted at both ends, and the middle would be weak, and he would only be slaughtered when he was killed.
"Look at our corner formation, whether the enemy is attacking the horns or the tips of the corners, they are facing the thickest human wall, the front one falls, and the back one automatically replenishes it, and there is an endless stream. The third son, who had the intention to further reduce Da Lang's bad feelings for him, shook his head and continued to tease, Guo Zhongda finally couldn't help it, and the blade in his hand turned and nodded twice at the third son.
"Horn, horn!" saw the second sister raise her hand and slapped the third son's face twice, "Don't complain about me, don't complain about me, the captain let me beat me." ”
I saw that Sanzi's cheeks immediately turned red, and after a while, they began to swell, and Sanzi covered his face: "Brother Li Hanhuo, can't you go kindly?" After complaining, he stood aside obediently and stopped talking, but covered his face with one hand and looked around with a knife in the other.
That is, half a pillar of incense is less than the work, and I saw that the trees in the mountains and forests in front of me automatically rose up without wind, accompanied by the sound of swishing, something was shining brightly, and Da Lang squinted: one, two, three counts.
The sky has begun to darken, and the eyes of some soldiers have begun to blur, the second sister and the third son are no exception, hearing the counting sound in Da Lang's mouth, he couldn't help but wonder: "Da Lang, can you see clearly?"
"Yes. Da Lang replied vaguely and continued to count. The experience of the people of Huoyuan Village, when encountering a wolf pack, you have to know in your heart how many wolves there are, how many you have killed, whether there is a wolf king who has missed the net, it is not a good thing for the wolf king to slip through the net, and if you seize the opportunity, the wolf king will lead the new wolf pack to launch a fierce revenge, so, in the face of the wolf pack, other wolves can escape, but the wolf king must be killed, even if it damages the wolf king's fur because of this.
"Huh~!" finally counted, Da Lang let out a sigh of relief, under the darkness to count how many people on the other side, and even hidden in the grass have to be counted, it is a great test of eyesight, Da Lang's eyes have always been good, that is, at night when Yueniang rests, he can also rely on the starlight to see the wild mice hiding in the grass dozens of feet away.
"How much?" Guo Zhongda asked involuntarily.
"Five hundred and twelve people, one with a red tassel on his head, and another with a fan in his hand, this person is sick, isn't it? It's autumn, and he still holds a fan?" Da Lang rubbed his eyes and looked at it again before answering.
"Is the person holding the fan wearing a robe?
"Hey, really, he is holding the fan with his left hand, and the cuffs and the hem of his robe are embroidered with large clusters of red flowers, and the robe is black. "Da Lang is speechless, this surname Guo's eyesight is not bad?
"Thief God!" Guo Zhongda gritted his teeth, "Third son, ready to escort the second sister and Da Lang from the side at any time." ”