Chapter 36: Sycophancy
The deficit battalion under the jurisdiction of Liang Po is the strongest brigade among the three major iron cavalry of the god general Wang Fuqi.
Because of its outstanding military achievements, it was given armor and red robes by today's saints, and 3,000 Hongjin war horses, so this army is also called "red robe strong horse", which is the origin of the deficit battalion.
The sixteen barbarians invaded the east, Wang Fuqi was ordered to go out of Yangguan in the west for decades, Jin Ge Iron Horse, made immortal feats, established a great reputation, and became the pillar of the country.
This prestige, even if you look at the entire rivers and lakes, is also very important, when the prestige of the Chaozhu country is far more than stepping on the rivers and lakes, cutting down the mountains and grasses, looking at the court, it is also a cough, the existence of turbulent rivers and mountains.
Otherwise, a group of scheming Wenchen would not have divided the self-respecting Shenjiang Mansion Iron Cavalry into three, and deliberately let the deficit battalion stay in Kyoto to protect it on the day when Wang Fuqi pacified the cholera squad and returned to the dynasty.
After the cholera was lifted, Wang Fuqi, both in terms of military prestige and power and influence in his hands, had far surpassed the princes.
Nominally, the deficit battalion was left in Kyoto to serve as a guard, but in fact, it was to weaken Wang Fuqi's military power, and anyone with a discerning eye could see the clues.
The high merit of the lord has always been taboo by the king, criticized by the courtiers, and criticized by the army, which is also a hidden danger in the emperor's heart.
However, Wang Fuqi was not stupid, the class master returned to the dynasty and was not greedy for power, and he was proud of his merits, but took the initiative to ask Yingzhen to guard Mobei, and took the weakest purple qi battalion among the three iron cavalry to guard the frontier.
As for the Yellow Banner Battalion, whose strength is second only to the deficit battalion, Wang Fuqi ordered this strong brigade with good achievements to unpack its armor and become farmers, and turned it into pieces to pioneer in Yangguan, and recruited them in every battle.
Wang Fuqi's most ruthless thing is that he moved his family to the new capital Luoyang, in order to make Jun'an, he simply left his wife and son under the noses of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, while he continued to gallop outside the fortress and conquer the frontier.
Liang Po is not only the leader of the deficit battalion, but also the responsibility of leading the army to protect the new capital, and he is also the only righteous son of Wang Fuqi and the most trusted.
The reason why His Majesty treats Liang Po with abundant blessings and entrusts the responsibility of protecting the defense to Wang Fuqi, a righteous son with a strange temperament, rather than other capable military generals in the court, is that the people with a discerning eye know that the court has a strong intention to win over.
Or the reason why this pioneer is willing to stay in Kyoto is that firstly, he can make the king sleep on the couch, and secondly, he is actually the family of the guardian general's house, as for whether he is loyal to the monarch or not, only God knows.
The most discussed thing in the market about this unapproachable pioneer is his ruthless style, and the boudoir ladies of the noble clan often joke in private, classifying men who don't understand the amorous as Liang Mutou.
Liang Po is very strict in governing the army, he is not close to women, he is not addicted to alcohol, and the deficit battalion is stationed on the outskirts of Xicheng, and he has never had any disputes with the surrounding people.
Moreover, it is this pioneer who is easy not to go out of the camp to cultivate to a high level, and has a tendency to go further towards the realm of the big market, as the strongest cultivator with a bow in the whole world, his existence is like a banner.
The day before yesterday, if it weren't for Zhang Mazi's eight-money peach wood sword coming out of Luohe Hezhu, the momentum was so overwhelming that the Zen monk recruited by the Divine General's Mansion bowed his head and kowtowed to the willow pile on the riverbank, and shocked this pioneer to fly through the eastern capital to make a strong move, I'm afraid Lu Yao and I wouldn't be lucky enough to see the demeanor of the peak archer of the Shoushou Realm.
After only two days of taking the Six-Pattern Qingling Pill, Zhang Mazi's complexion has returned to normal.
During the period when I tried to practice and figure out the release of the true spirit, Zhang Mazi neither returned to the shack in Hezhu, nor did he slack off and relax.
When Lu Yao racked his brains to ponder the various residents of Taoliu Lane, explored everywhere and was happy to dig into the roots of the alley to no avail, he tirelessly pulled me and dragged me to the western suburbs.
My personality is not withdrawn, the most quiet, but Lu Yao is like a flea, I am afraid that Luoyang will not be chaotic, whether it is in the alley or in the market, there must be him if there is no excitement.
In the western suburbs, there is a high slope at the end of the tributary of the Yellow Water, which stands next to Luoyang City.
There is a dense forest on the east side of the high slope, which coincides with the middle of spring, the green trees are like grass, the grass grows and the warbler flies, it is a good place to find spring.
Lu Yao dragged me to the western suburbs, not to go out for fun, he just came to see the excitement, or to cause trouble.
However, the master who dares to cause trouble in the western suburbs has to be a bear-hearted leopard guts, I really dare not imagine, I estimate that with Lu Yao's cunning mind, most of them will not make such a stupid thing of being kicked in the head by a donkey.
Although the western suburbs are less than three miles away from Luoyang, if you really want to cause some trouble, it is tantamount to a fool's dream not to disturb the deficit battalion with the wind and iron cavalry.
The deficit battalion is well-trained and responds very quickly, and besides, except for the dense forests on the slopes, the rest of the place is flat, and it is not easy for ordinary people to escape from the vision of the deficit battalion.
Spring is bright and the breeze is gentle.
At the foot of the high slope, along the shallow canals and tidal flats of the Yellow Water tributary, the sturdy Hongtu horses are leisurely eating the tender grass.
Hongtu Horse has a slender body, a lean torso, long legs and wide hooves, a reddish-brown tail, and a bright coat and a graceful body from a distance, and the muscles at the joint junction are full and full, which can be seen at a glance with unusual explosive power.
The horses enjoyed the gifts of spring, and the soldiers were lying on the lawn, their hands resting behind their heads, one leg arched, the other on the arched leg, humming a little song leisurely.
Looking at the groups of Hongtu horses gnawing on the grass, Lu Yao, who was squatting in the dense forest on the high slope, stared at the horses for a long time, couldn't hold back his eagerness to see the excitement, and complained to me: "This Zhang Mazi, if you don't start at this time, when will you start?" ”
Lu Yao's purpose here is to see how Zhang Mazi can hurt people in the air as he wants with the things that exist in his environment without using a sword.
To be precise, it should be a horse injured in the air!
In order to prevent the noise from being too loud and disturbing the resting horse soldiers, I whispered, "Maybe people have always liked to challenge high difficulties......
Lu Yao said disdainfully: "If Zhang Mazi was really so seeded, he would have called for a battle in front of the tent a long time ago, how could he act so sneakily." ”
Then I whispered, "Maybe he didn't come today......"
"I saw him out of the city this morning, and it was facing west." Lu Yao is convinced of this: "With his stubborn donkey character, he will not retreat easily, and the tiger general chosen by the young master can still be seen!" ”
Looking at Lu Yao, who was confused and confident, I thought to myself, did I, a down-and-out scholar who somehow became the "master book", have I been successfully blinded by you?
Although I didn't blurt out these words directly, Lu Yao seemed to understand my expression and eyes, and just as he lost patience and was about to go home, there was a dull low roar from the horses!
"Woo woo~~~"
Hearing the sound, Lu Yao and I held our breath at the same time and looked at the horses that were grazing and drinking water at the bottom of the slope.
At this moment, in the middle of the herd, a Hongtu horse shook its hind legs, and the huge recoil slammed a pile of dirt and weeds against the face of the soldier lying on the lawn.
The soldier, who had suffered from the unwarranted disaster, was in the mood for pleasure, when he was suddenly kicked by his horse and his face was muddy, and he was so angry that he suddenly got up and spat on it.
"Phew! Hey, you bad hooves, you dare to play tricks on your military master, do you want to eat whips! As he spoke, the soldier who was herding the horse subconsciously raised the whip in his hand with a look of displeasure.
The soldier put on his helmet and was about to move to a place to lie down, but another horse jumped up without warning and almost kicked the chattering soldier.
The soldier was so frightened that he instinctively covered his crotch, and said foul language in his mouth: "Ouch, are you still energetic, see if I don't separate the two of you next time, let you watch the horses next door breed, let you two cut off children and grandchildren, do you worry!" ”
As he spoke, the angry soldier smiled evilly, but after all, he couldn't bear to whip it ruthlessly.
The soldier thought that Hongtuma, who knew human nature, was deliberately playing tricks on him, and became the third and fourth...... Then, when all the Hongtu horses couldn't stop jumping and neighing, the soldier in charge of herding the horses finally couldn't suppress the panic in his heart, and when he dodged left and right, he almost stumbled to the ground and was trampled by the instantly irritable group of horses.
Lu Yao looked at the excited horses, opened his big blank eyes and asked me, "Have you seen what the situation is?" ”
I pouted and spread my hands at the same time, indicating that I didn't know: "There are dense forests all around, Zhang Mazi doesn't show his head, and no one knows where he is." ”
Lu Yao was also looking for Zhang Mazi's figure in the dense forest at this time, and finally ran out of patience to find his traces, so he continued to watch the movement of the horses down the slope.
Looking at the huge movement of the tidal flats gradually getting out of control, Lu Yao wiped his eyes, wondering if he wanted to see if he wanted to see what Hongtuma was disturbed by, and his temperament became so violent.
The extremely puzzled horse wrangler soldier was like a monk at this moment, and when he was at a loss, he hurriedly blew the bone flute hanging on his chest, and his warning eyes couldn't help but sweep around.
For a while, the wind was loud, revealing a bit of the slaughter and coldness of the battlefield.
The bone flute on the chest of the deficit battalion is a short whistle made of crane legs, a microphone for alerting the enemy and ventilating the message, and the sound is crisp and special.
With the sound of the wind, the sound of the bone flute soon attracted the other soldiers in the battalion.
When a group of cavalry galloping on fierce horses came to the river beach where the horses were grazing, the horse herding soldier hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted.
"Centurion!"
The centurion who rode at the front dismounted, and after looking around, he asked the soldier who played the bone flute with a gloomy face, "What is the bone flute?" ”
The Wrangler didn't know how to answer, so he lowered his head and muttered for a moment, then said, "Uh...... Just now, for some reason, the Hongtu horse on the river beach roared wildly for no reason, and I was afraid that there would be an enemy......"
Seeing that the faces of the horse herders were full of panic and panic, the centurion who was the leader and the other soldiers who dismounted behind him slowly approached the horses, and their eyes were full of vigilance against the enemy.
Seeing the scene in front of me, I have to sigh from the bottom of my heart, Liang Po's corporal is worthy of being a strong team trained by the god general Wang Fuqi from the battlefield through bloody battles.
When a soldier who came to the aid of the horse herder saw a bloody leaf in the weeds, he hurried to the horse's body, and after a period of probing, the sharp-eyed soldier handed the leaf to the centurion, pointed to the shallow scar on the horse's buttocks, and said, "Look, these Hongtu horses have all scars on their buttocks!" ”
"There are leaves here too!" Immediately afterward, two more soldiers found other bloodstained leaves.
As soon as the words fell, the centurion at the head pulled out his sword at his waist, pointed directly at the dense forest where we were hiding, and gave the order: "People are in the dense forest, catch them alive!" ”
"No!"
As the word "no" echoed in the wilderness, a group of soldiers, under the command of the centurion, quickly mounted their horses and galloped towards the dense forest with great vigour.
"Run!"
Seeing this situation, Lu Yao was also shocked, and the girl fled, running faster than a rabbit.
I was half a beat slower than Lu Yao, and asked Lu Yao as I ran: "Aren't you not afraid of heaven and earth, can we outrun the cavalry of the deficit battalion?" ”
Who knew that Lu Yao didn't bother to pay attention to me when he ran away, and I didn't run two steps and looked behind me in fear, and then I found that the leaves of the dense forest seemed to be swept away by the autumn wind.
In the blink of an eye when I looked back, the leaves of the dense forest on the slope were all pulled out of the branches by a force, and the leaves were like flying swords shooting straight at the chasing cavalry.
I saw the foliage roaring, as if the sky was full of rain, and in an instant I cut a soldier off my horse, and I heard only a burst of wailing and the neighing of the overturned horse, and then a vigorous figure swept past me, setting off a whirlwind.
I looked at the familiar figure, and I recognized it as Zhang Mazi at a glance, and I saw that his figure looked like a ghost, and soon surpassed Lu Yao, who was running with all his might.
Lu Yao, who was left behind, was out of breath, and when he ran to the city gate, he held the city gate with his hand and covered his stomach, and kept complaining: "Zhang Mazi, look at the sycophants you patted, leaving traces...... Almost didn't get me in......"