Chapter 424: West Out of Kun Pass
Looking at the mountains and forests behind them, it seems that they are not far away, and the mountains are gradually hazy in the gray mist, if they are wrapped in a thin veil.
Before nightfall, bonfires lit up in the camp.
Li Kui sat by the campfire and barbecued meat, and under his ass was a tiger skin with only a head left. If you look closely at the tiger's head, you can see a cloud of blood around the eye socket. Within five steps around him, no one dared to sit at all, and all of them were forced to endure their blood and frightened inexplicably, hey...... Li Kui bullied the tiger again.
Using the word bullying to describe it, it seems that the tiger is a little subservient to death.
Isn't it just standing on the hillside and roaring?
Then I saw a man jump off his horse and rush towards it. Man is very fragile, and the tiger uses its years of experience as a tiger to wonder whether to eat this swarthy fellow.
And then...... It had a round of eye sockets.
There is no then.
The tiger who was killed with his bare hands was not only scared to death by the fierce beasts in the mountains and forests near Kunshan, but also more than 1,000 forbidden troops who went out of the capital with Li Kui, and even with Hao Sui, Gao Yu, Peng Hu and others, they all looked at the man like a god with straight eyes, raised their fists high, one, two, and three punches...... Beat the tiger to death.
Woowoo woo –
The tiger's dying screams echoed in everyone's ears. It sounds like a dog is being bullied.
Li Yun puffed up his chest, made a heroic appearance that he was used to seeing big scenes, and snorted coldly at Gao Yu and the others: "I said a long time ago, the second brother is not a person!" ”
Ruan Xiaoer nodded in agreement with the sight.
The invincible power of human beings has appeared in the body of people, so there are only two explanations, one is that the gods have descended, and the other is that this evil demon has possessed the body. And the eyes of everyone looking at Li Kui are obviously the latter. Because the god of war possessed him, the soldier's gaze at the commander was that burning fanaticism. And the demonic possession is fear, endless fear.
"Gao Yu, you are a personal guard and a military officer, you go and discuss with Master Li, what should you do with the future training? I'm a eunuch, and I don't understand anything, so I just ask. After Hao shivered in the wind, he hid in his wagon, and he wanted to hide in the quilt to calm down.
This kind of car originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Middle Ages, and it is recorded in the Book of Rites that the clothes car is long and soft-shelled. That's what this kind of car is talking about. Of course, the role of the car is more of a traveling RV, a car that can sleep at night, and if it is big enough, it can also be used as a mobile home for living.
Unlike others, Hao Sui has never seen Li Kui's force, and in his opinion, Li Kui is taller and thicker, perhaps the kind of scholar with the strength of his arms. He is not afraid of scholars, nor is he afraid of military generals, because he is a eunuch, jumping out of men and women, and is not a strong existence in civil and military affairs.
But he was wrong, he found out that Li Kui's essence was too late, so late that he could hide in the quilt and shiver, regret it, and warn himself vigorously: "I will be killed!" ”
Hao Sui has been making trouble since he left the capital, and Li Xian's success has made many eunuchs think that fighting a war is such a thing, Li Xian can do it, and they can do it.
Tong Guan thinks so.
Hao Sui also thinks so.
After looking for a few pages of the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", he was full of confidence, thinking that he was a natural commander, and he scolded Fang Xuan and was omnipotent. Originally, after Li Kui was demoted out of Beijing, Hao Sui was also driven to the northwest by a holy decree of the emperor. He left the capital with Gao Yu and a thousand soldiers selected from the Beijing camp.
He was accompanied by Li Yun, the pioneer general of the Tiger Battalion, and a cavalryman under command.
Li Kui wanted to train in the middle of the road, Hao Sui disagreed, he felt that he was very strong, familiar with the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", even if he didn't dare to say that he was invincible, if he really met the Western Xia army, there would still be five or five open. So Hao Sui, who didn't know the height of the sky, took the book and sprayed Li Kui, and Li Kui disdained it.
Li Kui studied the art of war, but he did not believe in the profound mysteries of war expounded in the art of war, but preferred to believe in people.
The art of war is the method, but in the end, the war is still a game filled with human lives, and if you defeat the fear of death, you can already be regarded as controlling half of the battlefield.
Therefore, Li Kui wanted to take over Hao Sui's command, but Hao Sui refused to let him live or die, arrogantly saying that Li Kui didn't know how to fight, so don't be blind. What's more, Hao Sui also has a task, to watch Li Kui go to Ganquan County to take office, and then go to Yan'an Mansion to be his supervisor.
Then Hao Sui followed the marching method on the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", and a march of thirty miles a day was not too much, and Hao Sui strictly implemented the standard. This kind of marching speed, in Li Kui's eyes, is as slow as a turtle crawling, and finally got out of the Kun Pass, Li Kui asked to part ways, but Hao Sui took out the holy decree and told Li Kui that he could only leave after watching Li Kui take office. Li Kui jumped like thunder angrily, and at this time, a tiger who did not know the truth passed by......
Hao Sui never had a fierce conflict with Li Kui from beginning to end, and until the tiger was killed, Hao Sui still felt that he had a chance to win.
But just now, Li Kui's actions frightened all the forbidden troops.
Including himself.
"Are you out of the pass?"
Behind Li Kui stood Peng Hu, this guy originally thought that he was being bullied by Li Kui in the prison, because he had been hungry for a long time and his body was a little weak, so Li Kui took advantage. Unexpectedly, the result was that he was in the best state of being strong and strong and facing Li Kui, which might be even worse. He is now mixed with the equipment of the forbidden army and has become Li Kui's horse. The only important task on weekdays is to raise horses.
To be honest, Peng Hu was not very satisfied with such a platoon, he was a junior colonel in the Western Army before, and he was only promoted to one or two levels if he became a guerrilla general. Now he wants to raise horses for a county lieutenant, isn't this overkill? He thinks that he is not valued by Li Kui, and he is even a little reluctant in his heart. It's just that the saving grace is too great for him to speak.
Peng Hu swallowed his saliva, and his throat and eyes were a little tingling: "Master Qiqi, there is a town thirty miles away, and out of the town is considered to be out of the boundary of Kunshan Mountain." ”
The sizzle of the barbecue, the fat dripping on the flames, and the clouds of burnt green smoke came out, Li Kui brought the barbecue to his mouth and took a bite, the hot blow again and again, and finally chewed and swallowed the meat, and complained: "It's not as delicious as wild boar." ”
Fatty, fishy, and old.
Although the tiger is a treasure all over the body, if you want to talk about the taste, it can really be said that it is one of the worse tastes among the meats. Maybe it's good to cook and have a different flavor, but it's definitely not a good choice to grill meat in the wild.
Peng Hu: "......" Is this the reason why tiger meat is not delicious? Hey, before you beat it to death with your fists, if you still dislike it for growing stinky meat, the tiger may not have to be killed, but it can be angry to death.
Besides, it's not delicious, and you've eaten almost ten pounds.
Li Kui took a sip of wine, stood up and said to Peng Hu: "Divide the meat into one point, the bone rack will be removed for me, the tiger skin will be wrapped, and the rest of the meat will be divided into one point." By the way, tell the sergeants to march quickly tomorrow. ”
"A quick march?"
"Where to go?"
"Kuoguan."
"But we're already out of the customs!"
"I think this mountain forest is quite suitable for military training, why do you have any opinions?"
Peng Hu was asked by Li Kui, and was so frightened that he took a step or two, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "No." ”
"Tell the soldiers that if anyone falls behind the ranks, throw them into the mountains. It's a great place to eat and drink. ”
Li Kui pondered that where there were tigers, they must eat a lot and raise fat. But you need to have the ability to survive. Training may be the best way for him to pass the boredom. As for why you should go to Kunguan? There is food in Kunguan, and he wants to train the army under Gao Yu's command to see if he has the talent to train soldiers.
When Gao Yu heard the news from Peng Hu's mouth, the whole person was stunned, training, he has been training! It's just that as the main general, he is practicing according to his method, and the soldiers make do with it according to the methods of the soldiers, and Hao Sui often mixes with each other, and the military discipline of the whole army is a bit sloppy, loose and untidy.
The news reached Hao Sui's ears.
Hao Sui was even more nervous, Li Kui didn't want to get rid of him, and then dominate in the mountains, right?
Don't say yes, right?
Difficult.
Promise, right?
What about the prestige he had managed to build up in the army?
But in the face of Li Kui, who was not ready to be reasonable and directly wanted to usurp power, Hao Sui couldn't have the intention of resisting at all, muttered for a while, and said irritably: "Just do what he does." ”
This goods will send their families back to their hometowns, and if they really want to do lawless things, Hao Sui estimates that he is alone, and he can't stop Li Kui's tiger power at all. But let him go and talk to Li Kui, he didn't dare at all. Li Kui is now possessed by the demon king, maybe in anger, the demon will be furious and tear him apart.
The next day, Li Kui stood beside the mountain road, his eyes swept over the soldiers, and everywhere he went, no soldier dared to make eye contact with Li Kui, and even many people trembled nervously. Li Kui didn't care about the reaction of the soldiers at all, and grinned and sneered: "I am a civil official, and the moment even the civil official looks down on your force, there is no difference between you and a sheep." Today's training, if you are not convinced, stand up, fight with Li, survive three moves, you can on Li's head if you want. ”
The 1,500 forbidden troops who were proud of their might when they left Beijing stood straight, but none of them stood up.
What are you kidding, the tigers have killed you, and you want to make you angry, don't even think about it, everyone is from the capital and has seen the world.
Li Kui waited for half a pillar of incense, and seemed to be very patient: "In this case, turn around and go to Kuiguan, and the soldiers who don't come to Cuiguan in three days will run out of the mountains by themselves!" ”
"My lord, it's going to die!"
"If you don't want to participate, tie them up in the forest and release you after six days."
Everyone dared to squeak, and Li Kui's indifference of not taking human life seriously was all in vain when he died.
Hao Sui led the team and walked out of the range of Kunshan in five days, and Li Kui asked for three days, and the momentum was completely able to do it. After all, Hao followed the combination of work and rest, he had to rest when he was tired, and he had to rest even more when he was tired, and it only took five days to grind. However, if the army marches in a hurry, according to the physical strength of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, it is completely possible to reach Kunguan within three days.
Li Kui snorted coldly: "Fifteen hundred people, it's useless to go to the battlefield, it's okay to have less." If you die, the court will give you a pension. ”
If someone else dared to speak like this in front of this group of soldiers of the Beijing camp who usually flaunted their martial arts, they would have turned the world upside down. But don't forget, standing in front of them is Li Kui, a demon king who can only appear in legends, and he took away Hao Sui's command with a light and fluttering, and even Hao Sui didn't dare to say anything, let alone a soldier.
Hao stopped talking casually, faced Li Kui who was standing not far away, and looked down at his legs.
Still mustered up the courage and walked up to Li Kui and said, "Renjie, our family ......"
"Gonggong Hao is old, so he doesn't need to march, it's better to go to Lantian County to rest first, wait for half a month, train the soldiers, and then join Gonggong Hao."
Li Kui felt that half a month was not short, and the soldiers of the forbidden army were definitely familiar with the battle array, which was definitely incomparable to any army. After all, they are in the capital, and they can only train battle formations, and the others cannot be trained at all. And in any era, the absolute factor that affects the strength of an army is not the battle formation, but the willpower.
The willpower trained in half a month may not be enough, but if you want to survive in the northwest, maybe it is enough.
Gao Yu beckoned to Lu Qian: "Lu Qian, you take a team of people to protect Father-in-law Hao." ”
"Villain, get the order!"
Before leaving Beijing, Gao Yu went to the Imperial Boxing Gym to recruit people, but unfortunately the people in the Imperial Boxing Gym had a very high vision and looked down on Gao Yu's assigned army at all. He only recruited Lu Qian. As for Li Kui, he didn't go at all, he took office as a civilian official and recruited alternative generals, which was absolutely not in accordance with the rules. It's just that after Gao Yu took the men and horses out of Beijing, Li Kui found a problem, Hao Sui was a good person in the army, Gao Yu had no prestige and could not command the army, and this team passed the pass from Kaifeng Mansion to the pass.
If Gao Yu can no longer control this army, this army that Gao Yu has high hopes for will become a house slave with the best army equipment in the world.
And Gao Yu will also lose the bargaining chips for making contributions in the northwest, because with the current military discipline of this army, if Gao Yu wants to survive in the Western Xia army, the only way for the main general is to break away from the army immediately and flee on horseback.
Don't expect more from this army.
Lu Qian took away two hundred cavalry and all the cattle in the team. Even Li Kui's mount was taken away, and it can be said that today's army has become a complete pure infantry.
After Hao Sui climbed into the carriage and left, Gao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Kui: "Renjie, thank you!" ”
"Don't thank me, I just don't want to see these people go to the northwest to die. If you die, you will die in vain, and you will send a set of armor and weapons to the Tangut people, and the enemy is not such a resource. Li Kui really thinks so, don't look at the difficulty of selecting the forbidden army, the selection of soldiers in the four armies has many assessments such as height, strength, bow and crossbow, etc., but these are not enough to make these people called soldiers. The prosperity of the capital is destined to the exaggerated character of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, who are weak-willed, and even have sloppy military discipline, making it difficult to take on heavy responsibilities.
Without intensive training, these people simply won't be reborn.
The vicinity of the mountain is full of alpine woodland, the terrain is complicated, and the roads are dangerous, but it is also a good place to train soldiers. Li Kui ordered his soldiers to set off in groups of fifty.
Two days later, they gathered at the pass of Kunguan.
The guards were surprised to find that the forbidden army that had left a few days earlier had reappeared in front of their gate, and then left after begging for four days' rations.
Once, twice, three times.
The number of scattered soldiers became fewer and fewer, and some unlucky people got lost in the mountains and forests for a while, and miraculously found a large army. Often, although the number of people is a little smaller, the miraculous one is that less than thirty people are missing.
Gao Yu was naturally not happy to see this result, but when he saw the soldiers staggering one by one, the will that burst out of his eyes moved him.
More than half a month later, Li Kui finally stopped this short training. Gao Yu excitedly followed Li Kui to the beginning of seclusion, took out the roster and said to Li Kui: "It's done, it's really done." Renjie, there are still more than 30 people who have not caught up with the team, and I am ready to personally take people to the mountains to find them. ”
Li Kui was very calm and took the roster: "Don't bother. Li Kui took the roster and marked the missing soldiers one by one with a cinnabar pen. This is on the battlefield and indicates that the person is dead.
This scene made Gao Yu's heart flutter, and he asked softly, "What if I come back?" ”
"Does it matter?" Li Kui asked rhetorically, threw the roster that had been dried to Gao Yu, and said coldly: "Once the success is done, ten thousand bones are dry, and the general must avoid the benevolence of women." ”
Gao Yu fell into deep thought after being shocked, and then gritted his teeth and said, "I understand." ”
After today, he has finally embarked on the road of his dreams, don't think that if he is good at bowing, he must be a scoundrel prodigal. He is a military member, and his goal since he was a child has been to be a general, but he is not a general, and it is difficult to become an officer. There are not many children with military status, and when they were young, they didn't fantasize about riding a high-headed horse and leading soldiers to rush to kill.
Gao Yu also wants to be a general, but unfortunately he doesn't even have the opportunity to be a junior colonel of the forbidden army.
He had a feeling that as long as he made meritorious service in the northwest this time, the day when he would become a general was just around the corner.
This time he led the troops to the northwest, although he followed Hao Sui, Gao Yu also had the idea of making meritorious contributions on the battlefield. But as he spent more and more time in the army, he found that he couldn't take these young master soldiers with him at all. He himself has a low official position, and his family is ...... Forget it, although he has the same surname as the Empress Dowager Xuanren, this Gao family is not the Gao family, the Empress Dowager Xuanren is a top general, and the Gao Yu family is a broken settlement in the capital. There's no comparison.
has no prominent family background, the official position is not high, and he got the official position by playing football, Gao Yu is as unbearable as he is in the impression of this group of high-eyed and low-handed, invincible forbidden troops. The command does not move people at all.
But Li Kui took over the army for half a month, and Gao Yu finally saw that this army had the appearance of an army.
After leaving Kunshan, they went straight to Lantian County, and after replenishing, they prepared to go to Yan'an Mansion.
The soldiers of the Beijing camp thought that the training in Kunshan had ended, but they didn't expect that this was just the beginning. Li Kui made a demon on the way, and used drums to order the soldiers to set up a gun formation in the middle of the march. This may not be difficult for the real elite, but it is not easy for the soldiers of the Beijing camp. As long as Li Kui is on the edge of the avenue, no soldier dares to complain.
They were even afraid that they would fall behind again during the march, and then they would be hooked by Li Kui's gang......