Chapter 7: Calamity and Conspiracy

The good days of easy military training did not last long, and summer arrived, and an uninvited guest arrived in Lidu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The person who came was not a newly sent prisoner, but an important person sent by Xing Hou.

The man was extremely tall, although he was not fat, but his skeleton was very large, and wearing that armor, he could block the hole in the city gate of the capital alone. He had a beard all over his face, and if he hadn't been holding Xing Hou's papers, he would almost have thought that he was a warrior of the Rong clan.

He was accompanied by a thousand soldiers from Pingsha City, these people followed behind him, acting like a person, and the military appearance was neat, not to mention that the soldiers formed by the prisoners were not as good as the soldiers who were temporarily formed, and even the original guards of the capital were far from them.

The news of the Pingsha soldiers' garrison in Lidu spread to everyone in Lidu almost an hour later, and even the identity of the leader was carefully dug up by a group of good inquirers.

Among the official news: The person whose surname is Huang Jidu, 24 years old this year, is the life-saving benefactor of Xing Hou's sister, and is about to become the instructor of the 50,000 young soldiers in Lidu.

And since there is official news, then correspondingly, there is naturally gossip. It is rumored that Huang Jidu's mother was a native of Daiguo, and she was just newly married, but she was robbed by the Rong tribe, and her newlywed husband was also killed in that robbery. After that, Huang's mother gave birth to an only son, and she endured humiliation and stealing life in the Rongqi tribe and raised him.

When Huang Jidu was eighteen years old, his mother died of illness, and before he died, he asked him to return to his homeland and find a way to avenge his father. At that time, Huang Jidu was just a small guy of the Rongqi tribe who raised mounts.

He has been looking for an opportunity to flee south, until this time the Rongqi tribe plundered the Yinu and most of the cavalry left, so he took the time, robbed two wolves, and fled to Pingsha City.

On the way to flee south, passing through the sheep intestines at the foot of Daqing Mountain, Huang Jidu was bumping into the Yinu Brigade besieging Xing Mange by the Rong Clan. Although he was only a small guy before, because he wanted to avenge his father, he also learned a good martial arts in the past 20 years, so he tried his best to save Xing Mange, who was besieged by the Rong people, and then became a commander under Xing Hou through meritorious service.

On the night when Huang Jidu arrived in Lidu, he was dragged by Tan Qianbai to the mansion for a banquet and did not handle the handover, and when Huang Jidu was having a banquet, the streets and alleys of Lidu were talking about him.

Boss Tan's tavern is no exception.

Liu Quan booked a private room, called Han Feng, Du Lun, and Zhuo Xiaoling, and the four of them sat around the table, chatting while eating.

Duren, who was still a man of learning, spoke first.

"Huang Jidu, Huang Jidu...... Do you know what 'Jidu' is?" Duren picked up a edamame and glanced at the three of them, smiling at the corners of his mouth.

Liu Quan snorted lightly and took a sip of white water wine.

Zhuo Xiaoling grabbed the lice on his body by himself, and it seemed that he was not very interested in any yellow tricks.

Only Han Feng's eyes lit up, and he remembered the words that his father had taught a few days ago. At that time, my father was talking about the stars, and when he said it, he talked about the military system of the capital today.

"The White Army, the Chen Army, the Ying Army, the Sui Army, and the Zhen Army actually correspond to the five stars in the sky, which are 'Taibai', 'Chenxing', 'Yingfu', 'Suixing' and 'Zhenxing'. In addition to these five stars, there are also four stars that I value most as stargazers, namely 'Sun', 'Taiyin', 'Rahu', and 'Jidu'. ”

Han Yiyi said as he dipped his fingers in water and gestured on the table.

"The sun doesn't need to say much. The yin is the moon, you know. As for 'Rahu' and 'Jidu', they are two calamity. But that's all I know, how do I think about it...... I don't know. ”

When Han Yizhi finished saying this, Han Feng suddenly remembered what Liu Quan had said before. He pointed to a broom star in the sky and said that when the star reached the zenith, it would be a troubled time.

So is that star a disaster star? If it is a disaster star, then is it Rahu or Ji Du? Thinking about the things that have been confusing him for the past few days, and hearing Du Lun ask what Ji Ji is, Han Feng couldn't help but look at Liu Quan.

Liu Quan knows stargazing, he should know. But why do you have to pretend that you haven't heard anything? If the calamity star is Jidu, does it mean Huang Jidu, who has just arrived in Lidu?

And can Liu Quan also be literate? When he read that poem before, he said that he couldn't read it, was he lying? Who wrote that poem?

Han Feng only felt that there were too many questions hidden in his heart, almost overwhelming himself, and he just wanted to ask Liu Quan to understand, and he didn't even care about Du Lun's self-questioning.

However, Zhuo Xiaoling's hoarse and rough voice drew Han Feng's attention back: "You say, what is this surnamed Huang coming here for?"

Duren was stunned and speechless. Liu Quan smiled, drank the white water wine in his hand, and said, "There will be a big war this year." Look at it. ”

"Great war?" Zhuo Xiaoling scratched his nose and his mouth deflated.

Liu Quan smiled: "Not bad. The surname Huang is a person from Xing Hou, and he came here naturally because Xing Hou didn't want all 50,000 people to fall into the hands of Tan Bo. What's more, Tan Bo's training is not effective, and he really needs someone who really understands military training to manage it. At this point, he paused for a moment, and then added, "Alas, the next day is not the life of man." ”

Han Feng smiled secretly, thinking that now he went to the mine during the day, trained in the evening, and went home late at night to learn to read and write, and he had already lived a life that was not a human being.

Zhuo Xiaoling also sighed, only Du Lun's face gloated: "You can rest assured to go to training, I usually help you wash your clothes or something." Haha, I'm very idle, if I can help my brother, I'll help some!"

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And in the following days, Liu Quan really said it: it is not a life of people.

Huang Jidu's new official took office with three fires, burning 50,000 young people in pain. Although Huang Jidu's military rank is only a division commander, because he is the governor sent by Xing Hou personally, his status is very different, and even Tan Qianbai has to give him three points when he sees him.

Huang Jidu was solely responsible for the training of troops in Lidu, and in his eyes, all prisoners below the division commander were prisoners, and there was no distinction between military ranks such as centurions, so he was treated equally.

At this moment, it was bitter for Han Feng and Liu Quan.

On the first day of Huang Jidu's tenure, after seeing the formation of 50,000 people, he shook his head again and again, and then ordered that the soldiers of the whole army should first take "physical training" as the top priority, and as for the formation or something, they could be put aside.

As a result, running, squatting, and boxing have become the daily homework of 50,000 young people.

Run two laps around the inner city every day, and then squat for half an hour and practice boxing for half an hour...... After the first day, the second day is naturally the most painful, after the previous day's devil training, the young people have to endure the pain in their bodies to mine, and on the premise of ensuring the output of the mine, they also have to ensure the amount of training at night.

Within two days, a percentage of young people were so trained that they vomited blood, and they were forced to go home to rest, and even going to the mine to start work became a problem. However, what I didn't expect was that rest was rest, and assessment was assessment. Huang Jidu did not lower his requirements because their bodies could not withstand the "devil training". As a result, the big test five days later became the bloodiest day in the history of Lidu.

Within an hour, all those who could not run two laps of the inner city were to be put to death.

Mo said that these young people don't take Huang Jidu's assessment seriously, even if they admit it, this speed is not something that everyone can achieve.

As a result, 3,000 out of 50,000 people failed the assessment and were all pushed to the banks of the Seli River to be beheaded.

Until they died, those young people still didn't believe that Huang Jidu had really given such a brutal massacre order. Even Tan Qianbai didn't expect that this Huang Shishuai would not give himself face like this, saying that if he kills, he will kill people, and he will not talk about any affection.

The water of the Seli River turned blood-red in an instant, because there were not enough soldiers to carry the dead bodies, so Huang Jidu actually loaded the dead bodies into boats, ordered the sluice gates to open, and let the boats go down the river to the Ten Thousand Bone Mound downstream.

Huang Jidu used bloody means to prove that "the law does not hold the people accountable" is a nonsense in his eyes, and the young people in Lidu also completely convinced him, even if he was so tired that he was bedridden, he had to climb to the training ground.

In this way, after another two months, the young people who left the capital were combed through like a comb, and in the end only 35,000 of the 50,000 people remained. These 35,000 people, all as strong as tigers, took off their coats during summer military training, and their whole body was full of strong muscles, even compared with the men of the Rong tribe, they were on par.

Han Feng has grown tall and strong, and although he has had a hard time these days, he can barely rank in the forefront every time he is assessed, and what surprises him is that Liu Quan seems to be weak, but he has always been firmly in the top three, and even Huang Jidu is impressed by Liu Quan.

And what surprised him even more was that the little Zhuo Xiaoling, I don't know what means he used, although it looked dangerous every time, but he never reached the elimination line.

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