Chapter 0401: Martial Arts!

An hour later, in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City.

Looking at the military camp in front of him, which no one had ever mentioned, the faces of the courtiers and hundreds of officials were all stunned.

- Chang'an Xiying?

Isn't it all said that it is the residence of Captain Kabayashi?

How is this ······

Seeing the suspicious look on the faces of the courtiers, Liu Ying didn't explain too much, only sent an explanation to Wei Weili, and then came to the school field in the barracks by himself.

In the past, there were actually only two military camps near Chang'an.

One of them said: Beiying; The second said: Nanying.

The 2nd Battalion of the South and North, as the name suggests, is the garrison of the South and North armies.

As for the duties of these two armies, they were also divided almost according to the location of the camps;

In other words, the camps of these two armies were built on the premise of duty.

- The Northern Army, stationed in the northern suburbs of Chang'an City, between Weishui and Chang'an City, was responsible for guarding the gates of Chang'an, as well as the northern half of the city, that is, patrolling and policing the civilian settlements, and garrisoning the city walls;

The southern army stationed in the southern suburbs of Chang'an needs to guard the south gate of Chang'an City, as well as the Tai and Gao temples in the city, and shoulder the responsibility of guarding the palace gates of Weiyang and Changle, and guarding the palace walls.

To put it more bluntly, the location of the two battalions in the south and north, as well as the title of the 'two armies in the south and north', are established in accordance with the principle that 'the southern army is in charge of the southern half of the city, and the northern army is in charge of the northern half of the city'.

In addition, the northern half of the city is a living area composed of civilian gathering areas, as well as two cities in the east and west, while the southern half of the city is an important area such as the two palaces of Weiyang and Changle, the two temples of Tai and Gao, and the aristocratic settlement area - Shangguanli.

- After all, no matter how you say it, those who guard the imperial city are one head shorter than those who guard the palace.

As for the Xiying set up together with Shanglin Yuan a few years ago, it did not attract anyone's attention in the past.

In everyone's opinion, the so-called Xiying is just the garrison of Captain Shanglin, and its duty is only to guard Shanglin Yuan, which has nothing to do with Chang'an City;

In the past, Liu Ying did use this rhetoric to explain the purpose of 'Xiying' to the outside world.

And at this moment, when the courtiers and hundreds of officials gathered in Xiying, only to find that this was the station of the so-called Yulin and Huben armies, almost all of them were full of resentment and scattered their eyes on Liu Ying, who was already sitting on the edge of the school field.

- It's just a matter of hiding it from outsiders, and the secretary of state is also hiding it from 2,000 stones?

Not so much······

Liu Ying did not feel sorry for the resentful gazes of the courtiers and officials, and there was still a cloud on her face, as well as a little irrepressible pride.

Liu Ying is convinced that after watching this 'martial arts exercise', the courtiers and officials will understand: As for!

And it's necessary!

Card!

Card!

Card!

While he was thinking about it, a very neat and inexplicably exciting footsteps sounded in the distance, attracting everyone's attention;

It was precisely at the moment when the pair of 'armor' knives dressed in iron armor and holding Mo knives appeared, the sun just shone on the iron armor, and the people who stabbed them were quite unable to open their eyes.

Card!

With the last sound of footsteps, the team of 'armor knives' stopped impartially on the east side of the school field like a machine that lost power in an instant!

Seeing this scene, even though she had confidence in this elite force built by herself, Liu Ying couldn't help but stand up, full of pride and smiles.

"This, I am a tiger!"

The loud call of the Son of Heaven sounded, provoking the sideways glances of the hundred officials, and they saw Liu Ying raise his head, turn sideways with great confidence, and point at the armor array behind him.

"Princess, why don't you come forward and take a closer look?"

was reminded by Liu Ying, and everyone reacted, hurriedly cleaned up their stunned expressions, and stepped forward to come behind Liu Ying;

When he saw the pair of armor knives that Liu Ying called 'My Tiger Ben', the faces of the courtiers and officials all showed a look of horror.

"Plate Armor!"

"And that Mo knife!"

Seeing the iron armor that reflected the dazzling light rays, and the long-handled Mo knife with a handle that was shining in the sun, it was inexplicable, and the courtiers and officials all looked dumbfounded.

"Shaofu is a word, a plate armor, the cost is more than dozens of gold!"

"——That Mo knife is not too much, it can't be done without fifty catties of refined iron!"

"Such a beautiful armor blade, can it be a school?"

Everyone turned their heads and ears, and they obviously had a new understanding of Shaofu's financial resources.

- The cost of such an army on every soldier is probably more than 100 gold!

And such a soldier who needs equipment worth 100 gold each, Captain Huben, has a full 5,000 people······

"Your Majesty, aren't you too partial?"

"The military rations of the southern and northern armies for a year are only 300,000 stone of corn each, and the price is less than 1,000 gold!"

"The armor blade of ten soldiers of this tiger school can be used for a year's food ······ the two armies of the south and the north."

For a while, everyone felt resentful about the southern and northern armies, and even a few people began to think about the rhetoric when they advised Liu Ying to 'abolish Captain Huben'.

Before coming, Liu Ying did mention: Captain Huben is composed of 'armor' pawns with plate armor and Mo knife as a weapon;

But before coming to Xiying and seeing the 'steel torrent' in front of them, everyone didn't take Liu Ying's words seriously at all.

- 5,000 people, all of whom are protected by plate armor and weapons with Mo knives?

How can it be!

That plate armor, Mo knife, it's not like I haven't seen it before!

Any piece of plate armor, that is, more than seventy catties of iron, although the value is not as good as the same weight of gold, but at least there is a '10:1' exchange ratio;

That's it, it's just the price of iron, not counting the labor that tempers iron into plate armor!

As for the Mo knife, not to mention.

- Even now, when the Mo Dao has not yet been officially equipped with the Han family's standing field army, the courtiers and hundreds of officials have already decided: This Mo Dao will definitely be a controlled ordnance with greater control than the armor stomach and crossbow machine!

Therefore, in the past, after seeing the plate armor and the Mo sword, none of the princes with military backgrounds in the DPRK and China dared to ask for 'priority for these two types of equipment to be given to the army under my command';

Instead, he obediently found Shaofu and said that he was willing to spend a lot of money to buy a plate armor and a Mo knife for the family, as the foundation for future generations to live and live.

But at this moment, when they saw 5,000 'tiger pawns' wearing plate armor and holding Mo knives, everyone couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied in their hearts after a short period of astonishment and dumbfounded by Shaofu's financial resources.

Especially at a time when we are uncertain about what the combat power of this extremely good-looking, at least extravagant army is, this dissatisfaction only gradually turns into a burst of boredom with the scorching sun overhead.

It was in this weird atmosphere of boredom, fire, and slight hesitation that a long silence was spent in the school field;

A few drops of sweat slowly slipped down in front of his ears, and finally someone reacted with hindsight, and immediately removed the anger on his face, and surrendered his solemn gaze to the 'armor' array composed of about 500 people.

"Such a blazing flame and a ······ in plate armor"

"Five hundred, silent?"

A slightly lonely murmur drew everyone's attention back to the schoolyard;

Just a short moment later, the eyes of all the surrendered 'armor' arrays were solemn like never before!

Nowadays, it is the Han family;

Today's courtiers and officials are impossible to find a nerd who 'doesn't know soldiers'.

Especially today, the courtiers and marquis who can be brought to Xiying by Liu Ying, if they come out casually, they must be both civil and military talents who can govern the army and the people when they get off the horse.

In other words: everyone present understood what it meant to be in front of this array, which was as silent as a dead thing in the scorching sun······

"Your Majesty."

"Everything is ready."

While everyone was thinking about it, a loud sound sounded from Liji, causing everyone to turn around;

I saw that in the center of the school field, which was still fearful, there was already an additional 'enemy array' about 100 zhang long and wide—a wooden stake.

As Liu Ying nodded lightly and said 'start', this martial arts exercise officially kicked off under the solemn gaze of the courtiers and hundreds of officials······

"Enemies!

The almost poignant rough horn sounded, and the tiger pawn, who had been silent for a long time on the east side of the school grounds, finally made a move;

Card!

Kaka!

The sound of dull and neat footsteps sounded, causing all the courtiers and officials to stand on tiptoe, as if they wanted to see more clearly;

But when everyone heard the neat footsteps of the tiger pawns in their ears, the array that was still tightly gathered together was already scattered in the eastern suburbs of the school yard at this moment.

It is different from the close formation of halberds and giant shields in wartime, nor is it like the chaotic formation of sword and shield soldiers in melee;

The tiger soldiers who dispersed at the order of the army formed hundreds of three-person battle groups in an extremely regular formation of 'two people in front and one person in the back, forming an inverted triangle'.

It was also at the moment when the array dispersed that the three-person team immediately entered the combat posture!

- The two people in front of them held the Mo knife horizontally with both hands, bowed their waists slightly, and pointed the Mo knife in their hands to the diagonal front where they were;

As for the person in the back, he did not lift the Mo knife, but gently pressed the tip of the knife against the ground in front of him, straightened his waist, and swept his eyes back and forth in the fan-shaped range in front of him.

Soon someone found out: In such a three-person combat team, the two soldiers standing in front seemed to be slightly shorter, and the lower body was extremely thick, and the chassis was extremely stable!

The soldier in the back, who repeatedly checked the situation on the 'battlefield', was significantly taller and more burly.

"Triangle?"

Hearing the murmuring in her ears, Liu Ying had no intention of explaining, only raised her head proudly.

"The three-three infantry rule of my Great Heavenly Empire, how can people in this era understand······"

"Enemy attack!

"Bow and crossbow!

"Avoid!

Not long after the Tiger Ben array dispersed, I saw the 'observers' of each three-person battle group, scrambling to sound the siren!

But hearing this alarm, the Tiger Ben 'Armor' pawn did not panic, but knelt down on the spot at almost the same rate of movement;

After hiding his calves in the hem of the armor covering his thighs, and lowering his head to protect the door, the Tiger Ben's 'Armor Knife' array put on a posture of hard resistance to the bow and crossbow projectile.

After another three breaths, the sky-covering bow and arrow feathers that appeared out of nowhere stabbed down from the sky and hit the armor on the tiger pawn's body, making a crackling and crisp sound.

But everyone present didn't dare to look away at all, looking for the origin of the bow feathers that covered the sky, and only looked intently at the tiger pawns who fell to the ground on their knees and their hands were close to their sides.

- So intense?!

In the past, no matter how intense the martial arts exercise, there has never been a simulated project where the bow and crossbow arrow were missed, and the soldier was shot directly!

This!

For a while, everyone was worried again, for fear that this formidable 'steel torrent' would suffer casualties because of the military exercise.

But then, a glance appeared that shocked everyone again.

- After carrying six rounds of rapid fire, and kneeling in place for a while, the 'observers' in the three-man combat team raised their heads cautiously one after another;

After making sure that there was no next round of arrows, they bowed their heads and knelt on the ground, as if they were 'surrendering', and only then did they stand up one after another after being reminded by the observers and regained their previous fighting posture.

"Attack!"

With the sound of an officer's shout, the tiger array moved!

Winter!

Winter!

Winter!

One after another, the dull and neat footsteps seemed to be a breathtaking war drum, and every time it struck, everyone present was shocked!

When the array advanced to the 'enemy array' composed of wooden stakes, Captain Tiger's fighting style also appeared in the world's field of vision for the first time.

"Scatter!

Another order was given, and the Tiger Ben array dispersed in three-person combat teams, and did not forget to ensure that there were more than two three-person teams around at all times.

Then, there was a 'unilateral massacre' that was unquestionable;

In the blink of an eye, the entire sky above the school field was occupied by the sound of tigers slashing at the stakes, causing the stakes to break at the waist.

What really shocked everyone present was that in the process of 'chopping' the stakes, none of the soldiers made the expected 'heh' and 'ha' sounds.

On the contrary, it was the 'observer' of each three-person team, who did not devote himself to slashing, only holding the Mo knife tightly with both hands, his head turning quickly like a wind chime, and issuing commands at an extremely high frequency.

For example, the commands of 'detaching too far from the main formation, slow down the pace of advance', and 'deviate from the direction of progress, move to the left/right' reached the ears of the two soldiers in front of the 'observer' and every minister and official present in a deep and penetrating tone.

At most, thirty breaths, the thousands of stakes of the 'enemy army' were cut in half by this three-hundred-man tiger armor sword;

After 'ending the battle', the Tiger Ben array did not stop, but with the officer's shout again, 'Gather! The call was restored to a relatively compact one, and the forward formation of the triangle formation was not forgotten.

After the tiger pawn walked out a long way away, everyone noticed that on the west side of the school field, the same bow and crossbow phalanx dressed in bright scale armor and holding a strange crossbow machine were alternately covering the exit of the school field;

——At the beginning of the martial arts, the bow and crossbow blow suffered by the Tiger Ben Armor Sword should have been shot by this 'Yulin Captain'.

But after realizing this, everyone present except for Liu Ying was stunned.

Because the wooden stake 'position' in the center of the school field is fifty steps away from the very beginning of the Tiger Ben Armor Knife!

And the array of sky-covering bow feathers that shot at the Tiger Ben array must have been this Feather Forest Bow and Crossbowman, shooting out on the west side of the stake position.

From the west side of the stake position to the east of the stake position, the distance is a hundred feet and fifty paces·······

Enough, more than 200 steps!