Chapter 54: Choosing a Horse

A few days have passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past few days, in addition to his usual cultivation, Zhou Hao has also worked overtime to carve out five formation arrows.

Although there has been a successful experience, the success rate has been only about a quarter for several consecutive days.

That is to say, Zhou Hao carved twenty arrows, carved fifteen arrows, and only succeeded in five arrows.

Every moment of an arrow takes more than half an hour, and twenty arrows are carved, which consumes a lot of Zhou Hao's time, and even the cultivation of internal strength has been delayed for a while.

Fortunately, with five formation arrows in hand, Zhou Hao also had a little more confidence, and he also had the strength to fight in the face of martial arts masters.

And Zhou Hao's archery skills have also successfully broken through to the level of one bow and three arrows and three-star beads in the past few days. In the upcoming expedition, it is considered to be a few more chips.

But Zhou Hao's progress in learning Qimen gossip was quite slow.

After getting started with Qimen Bagua, it is to learn various formations. The extremely complex array diagrams made Zhou Hao dizzy. Without the essence to strengthen the brain, Zhou Hao stared at the formation for a long time, and he would also be bored and want to vomit.

Hongshu didn't seem to be in a hurry, and he didn't desperately urge Zhou Hao to memorize by rote as before. Instead, he threw out a formation diagram every day, and Zhou Hao remembered it, and even if he couldn't remember it.

In fact, the higher the cultivation, the stronger the memory and understanding of the surname. Zhou Hao is just a third-rate beginner cultivator, even if he pushes it tightly, it is useless

In three days, the army will be on its way. In the past few days, the entire Longxiang City, inside and outside, has become a huge barracks. Everywhere there are flying flags of all colors, and there are endless camps for dozens of miles.

The entire 300,000 troops, as well as more than 400,000 people and townsmen, were conscripted to Longxiang City to prepare for the expedition to Goryeo.

And the Liaodong Governor's Mansion was up and down, and they were all so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground. As the brain and center of the entire Eastern Expeditionary Army, all personnel and horses, grain and grass, offensive and defensive strategies, etc., must be uniformly arranged here. All of them wear many hats, and they are busy all night, and they can't rest for a moment.

Most of Xue Wanche's personal guards had already been sent out and played the role of scouts. Even Hong Su also shouldered the task of a staff officer, discussing the offensive and defensive strategies with General Xue and others, and putting aside the matter of teaching Zhou Haoqimen gossip for the time being.

Only Zhou Hao, the new guard, has no official and is light, and he only cares about cultivation in a leisurely manner, and he doesn't listen to anything outside the window.

At this time, Zhou Hao had just finished breakfast, sat down and was about to start a day's cultivation.

"Woooooo

"Who? what's the matter?" Zhou Hao asked, his eyes widened.

"Zhou Qinwei, someone is looking for you at the gate of the courtyard!" I heard someone outside the door reply.

Zhou Hao was a little surprised, quickly got up and opened the door and asked, "Who will come to me?"

It was a guard who knocked on the door, and when he saw Zhou Hao open the door, he quickly replied respectfully: "It's our pro-barracks Hou Tuanzheng, saying that he is looking for you for something!"

"Hou Tou has something to do with me? I haven't seen him for almost two months, let's go, let's see what Hou Tou can do!"

After speaking, Zhou Hao followed the guard to the outside of the courtyard.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, Zhou Hao saw Hou Fatzi at a glance, standing there with a big belly of white flowers, looking at himself with a smile.

Zhou Hao hurriedly stepped forward, hugged his fists and said, "Hou Tou, I haven't seen you for a long time!

"You kid, as soon as you come up, you will poke Hou Ye's shortcomings! Don't you see Hou Ye, I'm more majestic than before?" Hou Fat Man slapped Zhou Hao's shoulder with a palm, making Zhou Hao's whole body sink slightly.

"That's it, I've been promoted, of course it's more majestic than before!"

"Speaking of which, Master Hou, I can be the deputy head of the group, and you kid has a share of credit! If it weren't for the fact that your kid was under the command of Hou Ye and me, his performance was too amazing, and I am afraid that I wouldn't have been able to sit in this position!"

"That's also Hou Tou, you have a good leadership, so we big soldiers can fight the battlefield!"

Zhou Hao has been in the barracks for a few months, and his face is getting thicker and thicker, and he doesn't feel blushing at all.

"You stinky boy, I haven't seen you in two months, but you can talk better than before!"

"Hehe, Hou Tou is looking for me today, what's the matter!"

"Of course it's a good thing to look for you! When I first met your kid, Master Hou I said that when I returned to the county government, I would get you a good horse, Master Hou, I have always remembered this stubble. But Master Hou and I have just taken over the pro-military camp, and many things need to be taken care of personally, and I have to prepare for the expedition, so I really haven't had time to spare these two months. ”

I only heard Hou Fatzi pause, and continued: "But it's about to fight the Fusang people, can't you let the kid ride a broken horse to Goryeo, right? Yesterday, I just sent a batch of good horses from the west, how about I take you to pick one?"

When Zhou Hao heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up!"

"Haha, you kid, you're still so anxious!" After speaking, Hou Fatzi turned around and waved his hand, and the two soldiers in the distance led the two horses.

One of the yellow horses is Hou Fatzi's mount, and the other is the mount that Zhou Hao hasn't seen for two months - the tall jujube red horse.

Zhou Hao saw the mount of the past, and felt very kind, so he hurriedly went up and hugged the neck of the jujube red horse, touched the mane on the neck, and said softly: "Man, we haven't seen each other for two months, and you are actually the same as Hou Tou, and you have grown fat!"

"You stinky boy, how can you compare Hou Ye and me with Mabi? Although your kid is no longer in Hou Ye's camp, but your horse, Hou Ye and I have instructed the people below to take care of it, and every essence is always enough, how can you not take a long look!"

"Haha, thank you so much! Your old man brought the horse, do we still have to ride the horse to choose a horse?"

"Of course, the military horse farm is twenty miles outside the city, can we still walk?" said Hou Fatzi as he turned over and got on his horse.

Seeing this, Zhou Hao hurriedly said: "Then Hou Tou, you wait for me first!"

After speaking, he ran back to the house and picked up the horn bow, thought about it, and brought three more formation arrows, and then went out and rode on the jujube red horse, and went to Longxiang City with Hou Fatzi. And behind them, there were also several entourage soldiers of Hou Fatzi.

"You kid, we're not going to war, what are we bringing guys for?" Hou Fatzi glanced at the bow and arrow behind Zhou Hao.

"Hehe, I haven't hunted for more than two months, and my hands are really itchy! If we can meet any prey, I can also have a good time!" Zhou Hao smiled.

"You kid is really, you've been in the army for so long, and you still haven't forgotten your old job!"

Zhou Hao and Hou Fatzi walked in front, chatting and walking outside the city, and after more than half an hour, they went out of the west gate of Longxiang City.

As soon as he left the city, what caught Zhou Hao's eyes was the camp tents that stretched to the sky, as well as various flags flying high. Groups of cavalry walked back and forth between the tents, and large groups of soldiers were sledding and practicing clumsily in the snow.

Looking at the soldiers practicing skiing, Zhou Hao turned his head to Hou Fatzi beside him and asked, "Hou Tou, have you learned this sled?"

When Hou Fatzi heard this, he immediately became angry: "Don't fucking mention this stubble! I don't know which ghost lacks virtue to come up with a bad idea, the general actually ordered the whole army to learn what kind of ghost sled sled everyone must learn to use, otherwise they will not be allowed to go out with the army! His grandmother's, look at Hou Ye and my body, where is the material to learn this skid? A few days ago, in order to learn this shitty thing, Hou Ye and I have done everything in foreign appearance! In order to save face in front of my brothers, Hou Ye and I only got up in the middle of the night and secretly practiced alone. Three nights in a row, I fell countless times, I broke two skids, and I finally barely learned to fucking it!"

Speaking of this, Hou Fatzi turned his head sideways and stared at Zhou Hao and said, "If you let Master Hou know who came up with this bad idea, see if I don't remove his two ribs!"