Chapter 358: The Contest (I)
There were a lot of unconvinced voices, but Yang Luochen's eyes lit up, he really didn't find out that Di Qing was actually among these people before, suppressed the joy in his heart, and asked seriously: "What skills do you have to lead them?"
I haven't seen him for a while, Di Qing has indeed grown a lot taller, and the immaturity on his face has disappeared a lot, but he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and his burly figure is similar to that of his father Di Yuan, and he returned seriously: "I have been familiar with military books since I was a child, and it is no problem to transfer troops and dispatch generals."
The five hundred people were in a commotion again, and Yang Luochen quieted them down and asked, "Since you can't elect someone, let's recommend yourself." Little Brother Di Qing has already taken the initiative to stand up, and if anyone thinks they can be qualified as commanders, they might as well stand up too."
As soon as Yang Luochen's words came out, the other ten Heavenly Rank masters stood up, Yang Luochen smiled slightly, and said: "Since you all think that you can be qualified for the position of commander, let's have a competition, whoever wins is your commander, what do you think?"
Five hundred people corresponding, the rules of the people in the rivers and lakes, whose strength is strong and listen to whom, this method is the most suitable for these people in the rivers and lakes, and it is a bit of a taste of choosing the leader of the martial arts alliance.
Di Qianluan smiled and whispered: "Haha, you really know how to play, since you want to compete"
Yang Luochen returned: "Who said that there is going to be a martial arts competition, and it is not to choose the leader of the martial arts alliance, you can only choose the commander on the battlefield, you just look at it, you have never seen this kind of competition in me"
Emperor Qianluan was stunned for a moment, and Yang Luochen said to everyone: "Since you want to compete, you must follow the rules of the battlefield." We don't choose the leader of the martial arts alliance, and high martial arts may not be able to be a good commander."
"Now that the war is imminent, you have to choose generals according to the battlefield, what objections do you have?"
The eleven people who stood up glanced at each other, and Di Qingsuan shouted first: "I have no objection, since I am on the battlefield, I will naturally choose a general."
The other ten people also said that they had no objections, and the other rivers and lakes naturally had no opinions, and it was important to be able to watch a good show.
Yang Luochen said with a smile: "Okay, then I'm going to talk about the methods and rules of the competition, you eleven have to listen carefully."
The eleven people in front of him cheered up, and Yang Luochen took a flag from the soldiers on one side, with the word "emperor" printed on one side and "Zhenbei" on the other.
Yang Luochen directly erased the word "emperor" with his true anger, and everyone who saw it was surprised, Yang Luochen didn't care about them, and said: "Each of you eleven people will go to the chivalrous army to select twenty people, as your subordinates, before tomorrow at this time, whoever gets this banner in my hand will be the commander."
"I will place the banner in a city of the barbarians, and I will send heavy troops to guard it, and whether you can get it on time depends on the ability of the eleven of you. If no one gets the post of commander by then, I will find a suitable person to take over the position, and you must not have any opinions."
The eleven people glanced at each other and replied in unison: "We are willing to compete"
Yang Luochen returned: "Okay, then I'll deploy now, you can use weapons and horses as you like, remember, at this time tomorrow, it's here."
After Yang Luochen finished speaking, he left with the flag, and the eleven people began to look for their subordinates, but Yang Luochen whispered to Emperor Qianluan: "Aren't you bored, this flag will be handed over to you"
Emperor Qianluan pursed his mouth back: "Aren't you afraid that I will cripple them?"
Yang Luochen shook his head and returned: "I only let you deploy troops and deploy defenses, and I didn't let you take action in person, so you should just play a war game." ”
Emperor Qianluan said dissatisfiedly: "I think you want me to borrow troops from my brother, I know that my brother will not buy your account."
Yang Luochen was embarrassed for a while, and returned: "I know you still say it." You can do everything you can to prevent them from taking the flag from you, but you can't do it, or no one will take it."
Di Qianluan returned: "I know, it's boring anyway, so I'll play with them." But don't blame me for the casualties."
Yang Luochen nodded, Emperor Qianluan went to Emperor Mang to borrow troops, and Yang Luochen carried the banner and went straight to the barbarian territory.
The barbarians really retreated, and the two cities around Wangmo City had been controlled by the army, Yang Luochen passed through these two cities and went to the three below, and a small number of barbarian wives were still packing up their salutes.
Yang Luochen didn't want to go south, and returned to one of the two cities closest to Wangmo City, called Bocheng, which was the territory of the elder barbarian.
Emperor Qianluan soon came with two hundred elite soldiers, well-equipped and well-trained, and Elder Shi and Manda also followed, this Yang Luochen was a little surprised.
After asking, Yang Luochen couldn't cry or laugh, it was actually the military advisor invited by Emperor Qianluan, Yang Luochen said: "Miss, are you so unconfident, and you still invite a military advisor?"
Emperor Qianluan replied: "Who knows what the hell are you doing, in case I am allowed to look foreign, I still invite the Great Elder to avoid being fooled"
Yang Luochen was speechless for a while, but Elder Manda said with a smile: "It's okay, the old man is also idle, I heard that you are going to have a general competition, so I am curious to come and take a look, and it can be regarded as a study with a stone."
Yang Luochen hurriedly returned: "Great Elder, it's just a small game, there's nothing worth learning, let those people in the rivers and lakes just feel it."
Elder Manda didn't mean to leave at all, and Yang Luochen couldn't drive them away, so he came and handed the flag directly to Emperor Qianluan, saying: "Okay, it's in Bocheng, you can go and deploy, be careful that the flag will be lost tonight."
Emperor Qianluan took the flag and returned: "Don't underestimate me, I invited a military advisor"
Yang Luochen shook his head for a while, Emperor Qianluan hurriedly wanted Elder Manda to ask how to deploy, Elder Manda knew everything, and soon two hundred people were already tightly guarded around the Bell and Drum Tower, and the flag was also placed on the top of the Bell and Drum Tower by Emperor Qianluan, fluttering in the wind, very conspicuous.
Yang Luochen and the others went to the top of the bell and drum tower to watch, Di Qianluan looked cautious, afraid that it would disappear in the blink of an eye, and the stone was also arranged in the bell and drum tower as the last line of defense.
Elder Manda and Yang Luochen chatted, and Yang Luochen asked, "Great Elder, why don't you see the other elders?"
Elder Manda returned: "They are organizing the evacuation of barbarian women and children, and when the barbarian evacuation is completed, they will naturally appear in Wangmo City."
Yang Luochen nodded, but Elder Manda suddenly asked, "If there is a problem in your family, how will you deal with it?"
Yang Luochen was stunned for a moment, and then returned: "According to the family rules, if the differences are too big and it is really impossible to maintain the existence of the family, then it can only be separated, maybe it will be a good thing."
"'One peanut has six leaves, six leaves out of one, if the flower is lost, the fallen leaves leave its branches', this is what the Mingfa Zen master told me when I was discussing Zen in the temple before"
Elder Manda smiled slightly, and returned: "This Zen master is really extraordinary, and he has been taught."
Yang Luochen didn't know why Elder Manda wanted to ask this question, and Emperor Qianluan's voice suddenly sounded, "There are really people who dare to attack at night."
I saw two teams of forty-two people coming to sneak attack the main guard of more than 200 people, the sound of fighting came, although those soldiers were bloody, stubbornly defending the bell and drum tower, but their martial arts were too poor, they were not the opponents of the forty-two masters at all, and they were quickly dispersed.
Emperor Qianluan said dissatisfiedly to Yang Luochen: "Fortunately, the Great Elder was invited, otherwise how to play, I can't beat these people at all."
Yang Luochen shook his head and returned: "Who told you to only know how to use force but not to know skill, the art of war: the soldier who surrenders without a fight is the best policy, and the hard fight is the next policy."
Emperor Qianluan was stunned for a moment, but Elder Manda said with a smile: "Soldier, treacherous way, King Dingfeng really knows this way."
Yang Luochen was modest, the more than 200 elite soldiers under him had all collapsed, and all the forty-two masters had entered the Bell and Drum Tower, Emperor Qianluan was nervous for a while, and the sound of fighting sounded, which seemed to be on the same page as the stone.
However, the 200 elite soldiers who had already dispersed quietly gathered outside the Bell and Drum Tower, with 100 men holding bows and arrows in their hands and 100 people holding wire-woven nets, rushed into the Bell and Drum Tower.
Soon the sound of the fight ended, Emperor Qianluan hurriedly ran down, and Yang Luochen and Elder Manda also came to the bottom.
I saw that all the forty-two martial arts masters were captured, the iron net was still on their bodies, and two hundred elite soldiers pointed at them with bows and arrows, and the stones were smirking on the side.
Yang Luochen said to the forty-two people: "You dare to come forward without exploring the truth, but now you have fallen into a trap, the whole army has been wiped out, and you have lost."
Forty-two people were obviously not convinced, Yang Luochen continued: "This is the battlefield, not a fair competition, I know that many of you are not convinced, but this is the truth"
"Now it's just a small try, if you really meet the people of the Demon Capital, I'm afraid you will already become a ghost under the sword. ”
"I've let you go, if you don't feel convinced, you can go to the rest of the participants, a team of twenty-one people remains the same, you can come again, I'm waiting for you here"
These forty-two people Ben Yang Luochen all let go, and left a little unwillingly, the two hundred elite soldiers began to cheer, and Emperor Qianluan also laughed, and said: "I start to think this game is fun."
Elder Manda replied: "Don't take it lightly, I'm afraid it won't work to catch turtles in this urn, if you want to think of other ways, there are nine teams of one hundred and eighty-nine people to come, otherwise this flag will be lost sooner or later."
Emperor Qianluan suddenly thought that these two hundred people were ordinary soldiers, and the strongest martial arts were the ground rank, and the number of people was actually about the same as those martial artists, and he felt unfair for a while, and pulled Yang Luochen to complain: "Okay, it's still your trick, my two hundred soldiers go against more than two hundred martial arts masters, and they are not at the same level of strength at all."
Yang Luochen said with a smile: "What is fooled, if you counted the number of people at the beginning, you would not have borrowed two hundred people, and now you have taken the task and blame me."
Emperor Qianluan's teeth itched with hatred, so he could only ask Elder Manda for help, and Elder Manda said slowly: "Don't worry, although they all want to get the flag above, they won't cooperate at the moment, and it is estimated that the two teams came together just now because of the good relationship in peace."
Emperor Qianluan's heart was also a lot more relaxed when he heard Elder Manda say this, and then Elder Manda redeployed, the Bell and Drum Tower returned to calm, and there were elite soldiers everywhere outside, and Yang Luochen and the others returned to the top of the Bell and Drum Tower.
In the middle of the night, there was movement in Bocheng, and Di Qianluan said a little nervously: "Here, I don't know if they will be fooled."
Elder Manda smiled, and the sound of fighting came from all sides of Bocheng, and soon led those elite soldiers to disperse, and the bell and drum tower was empty, and more than a dozen warriors sneaked in.
Yang Luochen saw this and said, "What a good one to turn the tiger away from the mountain, Great Elder, I'm afraid it's dangerous this time."
Elder Manda just smiled and nodded, without the slightest hint of worry, Di Qianluan hurriedly asked: "Great Elder, this is out of plan, what should I do, they are coming up"
Elder Manda said slowly, "They can't come up."
As soon as the Great Elder's words fell, shouts and drums began to sound from all directions in the city, as if thousands of troops and horses had come to support.
The faces of those warriors who had already rushed into the Bell and Drum Tower changed greatly, and they retreated without hesitation, and more than a dozen figures also quickly withdrew from Bocheng.
Emperor Qianluan asked puzzledly, "Great Elder, how many soldiers and horses have you called?"
Elder Manda smiled and said, "Haha, it's not much, twenty people in the east, twenty people in the west, twenty people in the south, and twenty people in the north."
Emperor Qianluan was stunned for a moment, and Yang Luochen said: "False and real, true and false, let the enemy flee from the wind, this is the great elder deceiving them, making them think that they are surrounded by heavy troops and dare not stay."