Chapter IV
On the newly opened training square, a thousand soldiers were standing there waiting for Meng Tian's arrival.
The square was not very smooth, and the formation of the soldiers was not very neat, but there was a kind of anticipation in everyone's eyes.
They are all looking forward to their main general, who is also the county guard of Wuding County.
Many people here were found from the wilderness by Xing Ning, who swore to them that the new county guard was fair, and as soon as he came, he killed Lao Fei and Hei Qi and released all the prisoners. Not only that, but the new county guard is also a member of Xuanyong's first general. As long as they are willing to return to Wude, they will no longer be bullied as before, and their lives will never be guaranteed.
Today they will be inspected by the new county guard, and they will learn their future fate here.
Meng Tian looked at the team of 1,000 people, and he was also a little excited in his heart.
It doesn't matter if the ranks are not neat, and it doesn't matter if the soldiers are emaciated, after all, everyone didn't even have enough to eat before.
Now that he is here, he believes that as long as he does not starve them after a period of training, this is the strongest combat power in the future.
Standing in front of the team of thousands of people, Meng Tian didn't speak, just looked at these people quietly, as if these people were all looking at Meng Tian quietly.
The square fell silent, and Zai Yue, who was following him, was a little panicked, he was worried that Meng Tian would not be satisfied with the soldiers he had trained. He Zai Yue wants to become the first general under General Meng, and General Meng must not be allowed to have a bad impression of him. It's just at this time that how can you speak out and show that you are loyal to General Meng?
When Zai Yue was still thinking about his idea, Meng Tian had already spoken, "Thank you! ”
The square was still quiet, and no one knew what Meng Tian thanked them.
Meng Tian continued, "I know that many people come back because it is as difficult to survive outside, and I still want to thank you. I want to make Wuding a home for everyone here, but I'm too weak alone, I need help, and now you're back, and you're here to protect Wuding and our home with me. In the future, we will live here, and no one can deprive us of the right to live. So, I want to thank you. ”
"Guarding is uncertain! Protect our homeland! Throw your head for General Meng and shed blood for Xuanyong! Zai Yue immediately understood what Meng Tian meant, and immediately shouted loudly. He finally seized the opportunity, and if he missed this opportunity, he would not be Zai Yue, and he would not be worthy of being the first general under General Meng.
With Zai Yue's accompaniment, the rest of the soldiers immediately shouted, "Protect Wude, protect our homeland, and ...... for General Meng."
The sound went from jagged to impassioned and neat.
Meng Tian was stunned, the slogan in front is okay, what is in the back? But Meng Tian didn't think much about it, he clenched his fists, maybe this is a group of people who can't eat enough and are struggling on the death line, but once they understand that they also have the right to live, they will burst out with unparalleled strength, and even fight for their lives for this right.
After a long time, the voice quieted down. Meng Tian continued, "From today onwards, there will be no more Xuannu. From this day forward, I will not allow a single person to starve to death. From today onwards, we will not allow any foreign enemy to invade us, and if anyone comes to invade us, we will take up our arms and fight to the death. Whether hungry or ragged, our blood is hot. For the sake of our homeland, we have to die ......"
"It's just ...... death" The voice was neat and high-spirited, and Zai Yue's voice was even louder.
Meng Tian said again, "But blood alone is not enough, our enemies are too strong, there are thousands of blood clans, they have oppressed us for many years, drinking our blood and eating our flesh. Sergeants, from today onwards, I hope that you will follow me to practice your skills, so that in the future you can truly protect our uncertain ......"
"Follow General Meng to practice his skills hard, and the guard is uncertain!" It was Zai Yue who was the first to call out.
The crowd shouted in unison, and a thousand people roared in unison, which immediately attracted all the people of the uncertainties.
With Shang Qing'er's acquiescence, many people who had returned to Wude, or who had been struggling to survive in Wude, came to watch.
Even if the army has not yet taken shape, even if the thousands of soldiers standing there still look a little messy, the spirit has already infected everyone. Let these people feel that Wuding is no longer different from the past, and they may really be able to live a quiet life in Wuding in the future.
Meng Tian is very satisfied with this kind of spirit, indefinite and barren, if he doesn't even have the fighting spirit, no matter how strong his army is, it is also the moon in the water. He glanced at Jae Yue, this guy was somewhat useful.
Zai Yue had already noticed that Meng Tian was looking at him, and he was even more proud in his heart. General Meng became more and more important to him, and he was one step closer to the first general.
Shang Buxuan ran over eagerly at this time, and when he saw Meng Tian, he immediately gave a military salute, "General Meng, Xing Prison is back." ”
Meng Tian had already seen Xing Xing standing outside the small square.
Farther away, standing or kicking, was a group of ragged and disheveled men, more than 3,000 in number.
Meng Tian was overjoyed, he didn't kill Xing Steroid before, just because Xing Steroid was the head snake here and had a deep understanding of Wuding. What he didn't expect was that Xing Steroid was so capable, and in just a few days, he got five or six thousand people back, this guy is a good talent.
"Let him come." Meng Tian said to Shang Buxuan.
Xing Steroid was born in the army, and he knew very well that if he trespassed into the formation without an order on the school field, he would have to be beheaded.
Xing Ning got Meng Tian's words, hurriedly trotted over, came to Meng Tian and bowed down and said, "Xing Ning has seen Lord County Guard, I have already recruited five or six thousand people to come back, as long as I give me a little more time, I will definitely be able to find more people to return to Wuding." ”
Meng Tian waved his hand, "You are very good, you don't have to go to find someone, you find someone to go over and publicize our indefinite new order." You follow me, waiting for my new command. Also, from now on, don't call me a county guard, call me a general. Let me take you with me to keep the uncertainty. ”
"Yes, General Meng." Xing Zhi excitedly immediately gave a military salute, knowing that he had gained Meng Tian's trust.
Zai Yue on the side pursed his lips, and secretly said that this guy is a strong opponent, and he must not let this guy become the number one general under General Meng, and he Zai Yue has to work harder.
Although he was in charge of the entire uncertain prison before, for Xing Ster, he didn't like this kind of day, but he had no way or ability to change it. He is a soldier, he can be ruthless, but he is not willing to be as subservile to the blood clan as Lao Fei.
Now Meng Tian came here and decisively killed Lao Fei. Not only that, Meng Tian is also the first person of Xuanyong's Meng family, so he is naturally willing to do things for Meng Tian.
"General, among the people I brought back this time, many of them hope to join the army after hearing the general's words." Xing Sang pointed to a group of ragged people in the distance.
Meng Tian nodded, and suddenly said loudly, "A thousand people are far from enough, as long as you are willing to join the army, you can stand in front of me now." ”
There was no need for Meng Tian to say a second time, nearly 2,000 people had already rushed into the square where the troops were training. Among these people, some of them were already gray, and Meng Tian could only screen them again, and finally selected another 700 people, and the original more than 1,000 people barely formed an army of 1,800 people.
"Shang Qing'er, you immediately take the rest of the people to form our homeland and plant pearl rice." Meng Tian said loudly.
"Yes." Shang Qinger knew that after today's events, everyone had a sense of identity with Wuding. The most important thing now is to make all those who have returned to uncertainty understand that coming back is not about waiting for death or starvation. Her task is very heavy, that is, to ensure that everyone in Wuding has clothing, food, and shelter.
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After all the people left, Meng Tian said to the remaining 1,800 people, "I really want everyone to rest, but the Blood Clan doesn't allow us to rest, they just give us three days, and after three days, when the Blood Clan comes back, it will be when we fight to the death with the Blood Clan, and we will be dusty and ......."
"Yes." Dusty stepped forward.
"The loyal Zai Yue is here." Jae Yue jumped out almost at the same time as Dust.
Zai Yue was even more proud in his heart, who is the dust? That is the general's first confidant, and he Zai Yue can be called by the general together with Meng Chen every time, which shows that his Zai Yue's status has soared directly, and he is already on an equal footing with Meng Chen.
Meng Tian slowed down his tone and said in a deep voice, "Starting today, you will each lead five hundred people to follow me to practice the military formation. ”
"Yes." Meng Chen responded excitedly and followed Meng Tian to learn the military formation, which was something he couldn't ask for.
"The general passed on such a profound and top-secret military formation, and I, Zai Yue, will definitely learn General Meng's military formation to the extreme, and will not embarrass the general. I, Zai Yue, swear that I will never leak these top-secret formations. Zai Yue became more and more excited, the general valued him, and even taught the military formation.
Seeing that he didn't call himself, Xing Ning was a little disappointed, but he quickly adjusted, and he believed that Meng Tian would not forget him.
Bao Yang didn't care at all, in his heart, as long as he listened to Meng Tian's words.
Although there are less than 2,000 people in the army, as long as you look at the formation and the appearance of the soldiers, you can know that this is a rabble. The only thing that made Meng Tian happy was that the fighting spirit of these two thousand people was still good. After all, indefinite is their home, and from today on, as long as they can keep indefinite, then they are the masters of indefinite.
Although Shang Qing'er worked hard to fill the stomachs of these two thousand people, and the fighting spirit of these people was not bad, after a day of training, Meng Tian still knew in his heart that the people of the Blood Clan would come two days later, and the possibility of them being able to block it was extremely small. Some things are not solved by not being afraid of death.
After returning to his residence, Meng Tian tried to put these thoughts aside, and finally had time to open the old box that Dusty had left for him.
The outside of the box is sewn together with twine so tightly that in order to open it, all the twine must be cut.
Meng Tian cut the twine with a knife, only to realize that things were not so simple, these things that looked like twine were not twine, but a kind of filament similar to fine iron. Not only is the knife cutting constant, but it can't break with force.
Meng Tian tried several methods, but he couldn't cut the fine iron wire. After more than an hour of repeated attempts, Meng Tian felt that the layout of these lines was somewhat familiar, as if it were ......
When he was very young, his grandfather once taught him a knot, called the life and death button. The reason why he can still remember it is because his grandfather said that this buckle was taught by a peerless master. You must keep in mind that when the Meng family has no way out, they will use this life and death button.
He has never understood what there is to do with no way out and life and death. However, the silk thread on this box is very similar to the life and death button.
His Meng family was plotted by someone, and now he has been assigned to Wuding, and he is about to face a full-scale counterattack from the Wuding Blood Clan. Although he has assembled a team of nearly 2,000 people, the temporary army he has formed has no chance of winning against the Blood Clan, so he should have no way out, right?
Meng Tian tried to put aside all the distractions, and his attention fell on the box again, if this is really a life and death button, how should it be untied? By the way, you should find the knot of life and death first......
Tsai carefully searched for the dilapidated box, and sure enough, half an hour later, Meng Tian finally found the knot of life and death. Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Meng Tian finally untied the knot of life and death after another hour according to the way he unbuckled in his memory.
As soon as the knot of life and death was untied, the silk thread on the outside of the box naturally loosened, and the next moment, Meng Tian easily opened the dilapidated wooden box.
In Meng Tian's mind, the contents of such a tight box must be extraordinary. What made Meng Tian dumbfounded was that after he opened the box, he only saw a silk scroll.
I don't know how long the silk rolls have been stored, and the outside is already yellow. Meng Tian carefully spread out the yellowed silk scroll, and there was a smaller silk scroll inside. It seems that the outer silk roll is just a protective layer.
Unfolding the innermost silk scroll, the first thing Meng Tian saw was a slightly larger line of words, "In the face of absolute strength, everything is illusory." ”
It's still an extremely popular text, you can understand it at a glance, and no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like something left by the predecessors.
Looking further down, "To have a strong army, you must do three ......"
Seeing this, Meng Tian knew that this was a strong army's military book or something. He has been guarded by his family for generations, and it is normal for him to leave this kind of thing behind. It's just that he has been learning the art of war with his grandfather and father since he was a child, and what other military books need to be passed on with the help of this box of life and death buckles?
This is probably not left by the ancestors of the Meng family, and it is not known who left the Meng family.
Continue to read, "A strong army cannot be made in a day, first, it must have strong military discipline, second, it must have sufficient survival guarantees, and third, it must have powerful weapons......
Many of the more than ten articles that Meng Tian saw in the army were things that the Meng family had never come into contact with. Is it crazy that he saw a clause that allowed soldiers to play and even leave the barracks with preconditions?
And these are all guarantees of survival, what kind of guarantee of survival is this? According to Meng Tian's idea, the so-called survival guarantee is just enough to eat.
There was much more to the food than he had seen, and there had to be fish, meat, and eggs for the soldiers to eat every day. Hehe, these things, even the former general Shang Peng himself didn't dare to have them every day.
Meng Tian didn't think about it, and directly skipped these contents. How to make the soldiers eat well, how to eat well, etc., Meng Tian didn't bother to read it. As for how to raise poultry and increase rice production, etc., it can be left to Shang Qing'er to see.
What interests Meng Tian is how to refine steel, and how to make weapons from steel. These are not the things that excite Meng Tian the most, what excites him the most is how to find refined iron ore.
After being excited, Meng Tian quickly calmed down, these things are good, but unfortunately he only has two days. As long as he doesn't give it to the Blood, the Bloodline will come to settle the account in two days.
Meng Tian sighed, even if the refined iron ore was in front of him, he would not be able to turn the refined iron ore into a sharp weapon in two days.
Shaking his head, Meng Tian was about to ask Bao Yang to call Meng Chen over, and suddenly found that this scroll was not over, and there were some graphic records behind it.
The word military formation made Meng Tian's eyes a little glazed, and he rubbed his eyes, convinced that he was not mistaken. It is indeed a military formation.
Meng Tian's heart immediately became excited, and his attention was also focused on the military formation.
“…… Most of the time, however, these measures, which take some time, have not yet been established, and the enemy has already stormed our homes. But it doesn't matter, since it's a battlefield, then do everything. The strength of a hundred people is limited, and if you can form a military formation of a hundred people, you can block hundreds or even thousands of people. If you can form a thousand people into an army formation, as long as the command of the army formation is satisfactory, it will not be enough to kill 10,000 people......"
At this moment, Meng Tian was completely immersed in the military formation, although he was a commander, he was obsessed with the military formation when he was learning the art of war. There are very few people who can guide him, and he usually thinks about it himself. And now he actually found something dedicated to expounding the military formation, even if the sky fell, he couldn't call Meng Tian at this moment.
Although the records of the military formation on the silk silk were dense, Meng Tian didn't care, he was completely immersed in it.
Battle array, trapped array, stranding array, luring array, killing array......
All the doubts that I had when I studied the military formation at ordinary times were relieved here.
When Meng Tian saw the one-yuan interception array in the killing array, he secretly marveled in his heart that it was so strong. This array is not a fixed formation, but a point as the center of the formation, and the whole array is driven by the center of the formation to strangle the opponent with unpredictable changes. If there is a suitable array, once such a formation is arranged......
Thinking of this, a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and a tall figure appeared in front of him, Bao Yang.
When he first saw Bao Yang, he thought that Bao Yang was of great use, but he didn't know what to use Bao Yang for.
Later, he asked Bao Yang to return to him, and he also wanted to use Bao Yang, but he still didn't find Bao Yang's location.
Now he understands that Bao Yang is the heart of the one-yuan interception array, and it is not a true array, it is a formation heart that can be changed.
If Bao Yang can be allowed to change his position in his strangulation array according to his mind, then can the killing array he has been thinking about in his heart be successful?
Instead, Meng Tian put away the silk scroll, found some stones, and began to deduce the new one-yuan interception array by himself. He has studied the formation path for many years and has his own understanding of the formation path. The one-yuan interception array on the silk scroll was very strong, but it was not suitable for his current situation. He wants to rely on his years of research on the path to arrange a new one-yuan interception array.
The piles of stones in Meng Tian's hands were like a team of soldiers, and these soldiers were repeatedly arranged in various positions by Meng Tian, and then deduced back and forth.
I don't know how much time has passed, when a new interception array that has been modified countless times appears in front of Meng Tian, Meng Tian clenched his fists excitedly. This is the most indefinite one-yuan interception array.
With a long breath, Meng Tian looked up and looked outside, it was already dawn. He didn't sleep all night, but Meng Tian was in good spirits at this moment, and he couldn't wait to turn the strangulation array in his heart into a real meat grinder.
"Bao Yang......" Meng Tian subconsciously shouted for the first time.
"Yes." Bao Yang, who had been waiting outside the door, answered loudly.
Meng Tian pushed open the door and smiled, "Let's go, come with me to practice the military formation." ”