After the exam results were announced, some people were happy and some were worried, Li Yang put his head down, he didn't expect that he would fall off the list, Sun Yuanwu sent a government official to call everyone to the inner hall of the government

After coming to the palace hall, the people hugged their fists and bowed: I have seen Lord Sun

Sun Yuanwu sat on the official chair and raised his hand and gestured forward: Everyone sit down, the results of the examination have come out, and Wen Shilang will read it out to everyone

Wen An, who was sitting on the side, pulled his body and coughed lightly, "cough", he first read the list of those who were on the list of those who were on the list of exams, and then the list of those who were unsuccessful, including Li Yang, he looked at me with meaningful eyes: This time the whole army is to remove those generals who do not learn, have no skills, no deeds, and no virtues, Lord Sun, as long as you remove the 10 generals who are in the back of the examination, Wen Mou can return to China to pay for the whole army

Sun Yuanwu didn't squeak after hearing this, his hand kept knocking lightly on the official chair and glanced down at the hall, the people present were completely two sharp contrasts, the people who fell off the list were happy that this cut did not fall on them, on the other hand, these people who fell off the list were all worried, how could this cut fall on themselves, and Li Yang lowered his head in the corner like a frosted eggplant, Sun Yuanwu shook his head helplessly when he saw it, and sneered and gave a look to the guard Yuanbin

Yuan Bin, as the leading figure among the generals in Taizhou, naturally had to stand up and speak for his brothers: Is it a bit too hasty for Lord Wen to cut off 10 generals based on the results of the general examination

The guards who failed the entrance examination responded when they heard that someone was willing to speak for them: Yes - my lord, even if we don't have merit, we have hard work, and it is a bit too unkind to dismiss us with just one entrance examination

Wen An: Then why are some of you on the list and some of you are off the list, the problem is that you don't complain about others

Sun Yuanwu: Wen Shilang, they are not the champions of the exam, just based on the results of the first examination, they decided to stay or go, this is indeed a bit unfair to them, it is better to do this, this time in a martial arts examination for them, if they still fail in the martial arts examination, then they can only blame themselves for not being angry, what do you think, Wen Shilang

Wen An originally wanted to take advantage of this examination to directly remove the few guards who failed the list, but after all, Sun Yuanwu is the number one person in charge of Taizhou, and this face naturally has to be given, although this is a life-and-death contest in the officialdom, but no one is willing to act as a villain, although Wen An is unwilling, he still agreed to this matter

Sun Yuanwu made a straight face: I'll say ugly things in front, if you are on the list, then don't blame this government for not being emotional

After hearing this, the generals stood up in unison: obey

Sun Yuanwu: Okay, you all go back and prepare

Wen An got up and arched his hands: Master Sun, Wen Mou, also went back first

Sun Yuanwu arched his hands and returned the salute: The matter of the whole army is still very troublesome

Wen An: It should be—it should be

Just when the fire was about to leave, Sun Yuanwu looked at me for a while, feeling as if he had something to say to me, but it was inconvenient because of the large number of people, so as soon as I stepped out of the door of the inner hall, I covered my stomach with my hand, "Oops", it may be that I have a bad stomach in the morning, I have to go to the toilet quickly, brothers, then you go back first

Zhao Shoubei slapped me with all his might: Then you go quickly, don't pull your trouser pockets

The guards on the side laughed loudly when they heard this, and Li Yang ran with a red face and said: Brother Zhao, you can't expect me to be better

Running around a corner, I stopped, quietly looked out, and saw that they were all gone, I tidied up my clothes and came to the back house of the mansion where Lord Sun lived, Lord Sun seemed to know that I would come, he sat at the table in plain clothes, and prepared tea

Li Yang stopped outside the door and bowed with his fists: My lord

Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and waved it back: Come and sit here

Li Yang: Thanks to your righteous words just now, or a few of us would have to be dismissed by Wen An, the servant of the ministry

Sun Yuanwu: I didn't read the questions in this exam very difficult, how could you fail the list if you are also a person who has read books?

Li Yang: My lord, Zhang Wenxuan's family connived at the murder of the last general, and during the fight, the evil slave hit the head of the last general with a wooden stick, fortunately, I escaped with a big luck, but I did have lost my soul, and I don't remember anything about the previous general

Sun Yuanwu was stunned for a moment when he heard this: No wonder - you go back and prepare well for the martial arts exam this time, if you fail the list, even if this mansion wants to intercede for you, you can't speak

Li Yang: At the end of this martial arts examination, I will definitely do my best not to disappoint the adults

Sun Yuanwu: "Hmm, by the way, you might as well ask Long Chuan about the martial arts examination, he may be able to help you."

Li Yang hugged his fists and bowed: Master Xie mentioned that the last general will go back and prepare

Sun Yuanwu nodded, "Go ahead"

The night hall was full of tense atmosphere, and as soon as Li Yang returned to the manor, he told everyone that Wen An wanted to use the literary examination to dismiss him, which was a major event related to the retention of more than 3,000 soldiers

The meeting hall was unusually quiet, and the sound of breathing could be heard clearly, and Li Yang slapped his hands on his thighs when he saw that everyone was so nervous: Brother Long brought you here today, just to ask you to tell everyone what you are doing in this martial arts exam

Longchuan: There are three main types of infantry warfare - horse warfare - the whole army array, the infantry battle is divided into step shooting and the use of eighteen kinds of weapons, the horse battle is divided into horse bow shooting and the use of sabre - horse gun, and the whole army is mainly to command the soldiers to change the battle formation and fight and fight

Li Yang: In the past few days, all battalions have been training their troops and told their brothers that if they don't want to lose their errand to eat, then they have to sell more strength, Brother Long commanded the troops to fight, and we are all halfway monks, so we have to bother with the training of the troops, and you can help me mention a little bit or two

Long Chuan: That's easy to say

Gao Yuan: Don't worry about military training, leave it to a few of us, I think you can find a master to teach you a few kung fu skills, or you should fail the martial arts exam again

Yuan Kui: That's right, he has to find a master

As soon as Li Yang heard it, he felt that what they said was very reasonable, so he glanced at the people present, among them, Jiang Yu got kung fu and was the most important to win people, but he was a big swordsman, I looked at him with a smile on his face, and looked at him expectantly, before I could speak, he crossed his arms and put on a look of disgust: Stop, the kung fu I have learned has not been successful in ten years or eight years

Seeing that his attitude was so resolute, I didn't say any further: Okay, let's discuss it here today, and everyone should go back and rest early

After seeing everyone leave, I sent Brother Longchuan outside the manor, and asked people to prepare a carriage with more than a dozen guards to send Brother back to Taizhou City, before the carriage left, Li Yang instructed the guards: Be more careful on the road when it gets dark, and when you get to the city, you can find an inn to stay in and come back tomorrow

The guard responded: It's the young master

After returning home, Li Yang got a cup of tea on the chair, he reached out and picked up the teacup and sighed "Alas"

Song Shiting and Heng Yan sat down on my left and right sides with oil lamps: Husband, why are you worried

Li Yang: I'm worried about the martial arts exam, I failed in the literary exam, if the martial arts exam is on the list, then I can't be the northern garrison, the training of the army has Brother Long, a few of them help, Zhang Le, I want to find a master to teach me some kung fu, but I can't think of where to find a master for a while

When Heng Yan heard this, she suddenly became interested: Husband, what is there to worry about, don't we have a ready-made master in our family

Li Yang was a little confused when he heard it: Yes, why don't I know

Heng Yan slipped a smile on her face, and patted her chest with her hand with confidence: I can teach you

Hearing this, Li Yang chuckled in his heart, my daughter-in-law's martial arts are indeed very good, and she has the ability to take the first rank of a general among thousands of troops, but she doesn't have a serious start, if I learn martial arts from her, how many beatings will I have to suffer, when he thinks of this, he can't help but be scared: Madam, you are a girl, and others who dance with knives and guns all day long will laugh when they see it, and I am thinking of other ways to practice martial arts

Heng Yan hurriedly grabbed my hand and shook it, "Oh, will you let me teach you" This is the first time I have seen Heng Yan and me coquettish, don't say that she usually looks at her coldly, this spoiled is quite rare, seeing the beautiful woman, he couldn't help but laugh, just wanted to promise her, suddenly flashed in his mind I was playing with Heng Yan on the beach, she rubbed my hands, Li Yang shook his head violently, no, I can't be fascinated by beauty

So I patted her hand gently: Madam, I think it's better to forget about it, if you really want to teach people kung fu, I'll find you a few maids tomorrow and you can teach them

Heng Yan's little face pulled and grabbed his ear and twisted it vigorously, only to hear a miserable scream, "Oops, Mrs. hurts-it hurts, stop it"

Heng Yan saw Li Yang's painful expression, and she couldn't help laughing: Then I can teach you to do it

Li Yang grinned: Okay-okay, I'll listen to you

Heng Yan let go of her hand at this time: This is about the same

After breakfast the next day, Hengyan dragged me to the courtyard, and she stood in front of me with two wooden sticks: Husband, the world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable, whether it is offensive or defensive, it lies in a fast word, this lesson I will teach you how to attack quickly and defend quickly

Don't say that my daughter-in-law's words are quite reasonable, and her posture is quite reliable, so she threw a wooden stick and waved her hand at me: Come on, you hit me

Li Yang: Madam, this is not good, the sword has no eyes, what if it hurts you

Heng Yan "Oops" asks you to hit you

I clenched the wooden stick with both hands and shouted, "Drink", and hit her head, worried that I would hurt Hengyan with too much force, so I deliberately slowed down the speed and reduced the force, how could I be willing to really hit my wife

I saw Heng Yan scream "Oh" with both hands and grabbed the wooden stick that was coming at her, I looked at her dumbfounded: Madam, how did you do it

Hengyan: Do you know why you can't hit me, it's because my defense is faster than you can attack - come again

"Madame, wait a minute," after speaking, he turned around and ran back to the house, took out the helmet he was carrying, ran to Hengyan, and buckled the helmet on her head: Madame, be safe

Heng Yan looked shy and put her hand on the helmet: Okay, come on

This time, I hit her with all my might, but she grabbed her with her hand like last time: Madam, teach me this trick quickly

Heng Yan: As long as you keep an eye on the opponent's hand when you are fighting with someone, you can judge his moves, so that you can effectively defend against them

Li Yang: "Oh-prejudgment", I understand

Heng Yan: Let's try it for you this time

I nodded, "Okay, madam, then you have to do it lightly."

Hengyan: Don't worry, I know it

I saw her holding the stick with both hands and asking me, "Okay", I nodded, "Okay", before I could react, the stick hit, only to hear a muffled sound "dong", and then a miserable scream "ah" came out.

Li Yang squatted on the ground with his hands on his head in pain, and everything he saw in front of him was shaking slightly: Daughter-in-law, didn't we say okay, let's do it lightly, why are you still so heavy, you see that I am confused

Heng Yan: Husband, I focus on it so that you can learn faster, and if you are beaten too much, you will realize how to defend yourself

So saying, she helped me up: this time I tapped my hand

Li Yang: Then let's talk about it

There was another muffled "dong" and another scream "ah" Li Yang looked at her dizzily: Madam, you are trying to murder your husband

Heng Yan: Why, husband, do you think your speed is much faster than just now?

Li Yang: Yes

Hengyan: "Hmm" is that you didn't feel it, I think you should have learned it after a few attempts

After I don't know how many times I was beaten, Li Yang finally got his senses, "Wait, madam, why can you hit me every time, and I really can't beat you, is there any trick here."

Heng Yan: There is really a trick, that is, you have to make a move before you think about it to win

According to what she said, Li Yang was beaten for a few more days, maybe after being beaten too much, the body began to have an instinctive reaction, and whenever Hengyan hit me, the body would spontaneously dodge the attack, and after learning, she taught me a set of knife techniques

More than 10 days later, Sun Yuanwu-Wen'an-Yuanbin and the vertical garrison stood on the temporary drill stage, with Sun Yuanwu as the main examiner sitting on the handsome chair in the middle, while Yuan Bin and Wen An were the deputy examiners sitting on his left and right sides, and the accompanying guards stood in a row behind them, and around the drill platform stood the supervision and standard guard battalion composed of hundreds of state cavalry, and for a while, the originally peaceful atmosphere immediately became solemn

Sun Yuanwu waved his hand at Li Yang in the audience: Li Shoubei, you can gather soldiers

Li Yang came to a big drum, picked up a drumstick, and struck it vigorously on the big drum

"Knock-knock"

The low drum beat slowly increased from slow to urgent, and the deafening drums resounded on the school ground, and after a few minutes, there was not even a single soldier on the school field, and the three chief examiners and generals on the stage looked at Li Yang

Wen An sneered when he saw this: After Lord Sun's gathering of troops sounded, the generals who commanded the army would assemble the soldiers within a quarter of an hour, but you see that we have waited for so long and there is not even a single figure on the school ground, which is enough to show that Li Yang is not suitable for the post of garrison at all

Sun Yuanwu frowned: Wen Shilang is still a quarter of an hour away, we might as well wait and see

Although he said so, he actually didn't know the bottom in his heart, as time passed minute by minute, Wen An and several guards laughed secretly, and then a sound of neat footsteps slowly came from a distance, "Poof-poof"

The spectators on the stage showed puzzled expressions: "What is this, why is this sound so neat?"

Suddenly, one after another neat troops ran in from outside the school grounds, and Zhao Shoubei, who had commanded the army for many years, saw it: In terms of size, each army is about 100 people, and I just checked that there are exactly 20 such armies, that is, 2,000 people, so many people are running, but the queue is not chaotic at all, it is enough to see that this is a well-trained army

Pang Yi: Isn't it just that the queue is neat, you can see something, aren't the soldiers under our command like this?

The 20 armies were divided into 4 rows and stood in a phalanx on the school field, and the flags of each army were arranged in the order of wind-forest-fire-mountain, the first two rows of 1,000 soldiers were all wearing iron armor and iron helmets, and the ghost face team standing in the middle was the most conspicuous, all of them wore hideous grimace masks, a red ribbon on both sides of the helmet, and held a large knife that penetrated people, which made the people on the stage gasp when they saw it

The army that was already in place stood still, waiting for the follow-up army to take place, and after all 20 armies were in place, the soldiers stepped on the ground with all their might, and then there were two loud shouts of "drink-drink"

Looking at the soldiers who were not moving in the audience, Sun Yuanwu's eyes gradually brightened, and he raised his hand to twist a short beard under his chin: Okay

Yuan Bin looked at the phalanx in front of him and muttered: Fenglin volcano - its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and it is not moving like a mountain

Wen An's face was confused: What kind of consciousness is this?

Yuan Bin glanced at Wen An: the consciousness is that the army must be as fast as the wind when moving, as neat as the woods, as merciless as fire when attacking, and as steady as a mountain when defending

Sun Yuanwu: Okay, let's get started

The battle horn sounded, and the soldiers quickly ran, turning the original phalanx into a battle formation, with the sword and shield men in front and the spearmen advancing step by step in the back, "Drink-drink"

Gao Yuan saw Li Yang raise his hand and clench his fist and shouted: Shield wall

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately stopped, and the first row of sword and shield men crouched on the ground to block themselves with their shields, and the second row of sword and shield men stacked their shields on top of them to form a high shield wall of nearly one person, and the spears pierced out like hedgehogs through the gaps between the shields, and the crossbowmen made a movement of throwing arrows outward in the middle

Li Yang waved his five fingers together, and Yuan Kui pulled out his steel knife and shouted: Attack

Hearing this, the sword and shield men and pikemen immediately stood up and pushed forward step by step, the crossbowmen followed closely behind and fired crossbow arrows in front of them, and after pushing forward for some distance, the crossbowmen in the back row came to the front row and fired several waves of arrows at the scarecrow prepared in front of them

A dense rain of arrows swept through the air and shot through the scarecrow in front of him, and Li Long shook his hand and shouted loudly: Brothers, kill

The school field resounded with overwhelming shouts to kill, the soldiers rushed to the scarecrow in front like a flood, and the ghost face team suddenly rushed to the front with a big knife and jumped forward, and the scarecrow was split into two sections with a knife, if this knife was broken on the battlefield, Yuan Hong-Li Hu and others rushed to the front and brandished a steel knife to cut off the scarecrow

Then the two teams of cavalry outflanked from the left and right, and after getting closer, they projected their carbine at the scarecrow, "whoosh-whoosh", the carbine shot out quickly, shooting through the scarecrow and nailing it to the ground

After a series of strikes, the soldiers immediately gathered to form an iron wall of "drink-drink" against the drill platform, and the crossbowmen were ready to fire in the middle and all around, and the two teams of cavalry came to the phalanx and stood in two rows

Li Yang - Gao Yuan - Gao Lin - Yuan Kui - Yuan Hong and other people came to the phalanx, and they knelt down on one knee together and clenched their fists and swords: After the drill of the two thousand soldiers of Alan County, please ask all the adults to inspect the troops

Sun Yuanwu: General Yuan, you are the leader of the troops, so you can say it first

Yuan Bin stood up from his chair: If a soldier like an adult falls off the list, then no one will be on the list

Sun Yuanwu nodded with satisfaction, "Well, yes, this mansion also thinks so."

Wen An was a little unhappy when he heard it: Don't worry, Lord Sun, isn't there another martial arts competition in the martial arts exam

Sun Yuanwu: I don't think there is a need for martial arts competitions, the position of garrison is directly appointed by the local government according to needs, which is different from the champion of the martial arts examination

Wen An: Master Sun, I think you are deliberately biased in favor of Li Yang

Sun Yuanwu: Wen Shilang, what are you talking about, do you have to invite the local officials within the authority of the government to appoint first?

Wen An: I don't dare, but I'll play this matter as it is

Sun Yuanwu: Li Yang has resettled tens of thousands of disaster victims for Zhejiang, and I am preparing to ask for credit for him in the country

Wen An: This official was ordered to go to Taizhou to supervise the whole army

Sun Yuanwu looked at him with a smile: The whole army will be explained to the national capital, so there is no need to worry about you

Wen An's face was flushed, and he pointed at Sun Yuanwu for a long time and said a word, "Good-Good", turned around, brushed his sleeves and walked away

Sun Yuanwu slowly stood up from the chair: After the martial arts exam, everyone should go back

The martial arts exam is over, I knew that I wouldn't practice martial arts with Hengyan in this way, so wouldn't I have been beaten in vain these days