Chapter 64: A Crisis in the Shadows
"Ten sets of uniforms, five pairs of boots, five pieces of armor, and five swords......"
Xu Hark counted all the weapons and equipment, handed them to the five Tianchen people, and then said: "Check the respective weapons and equipment, if there is no problem, you can choose the martial arts." ”
"Martial arts?" Tao Zhuo and the others' eyes lit up.
"Can we still choose our own?" Wei Feng said in surprise.
Tsui Hark squinted and smiled: "Of course you can, not only you, but all soldiers can choose freely." But the problem is that you have not made an inch of merit now, and you have no meritorious deeds, so most of the exercises and martial arts are not related to you. ”
"Alas......" several people were a little disappointed.
"Let me give you a brief introduction. ”
Tsui Hark said: "Every official soldier has a meritorious medal, and the function of the meritorious plaque is to record the meritorious deeds you have received. Merit points can be exchanged for any military camp collection of martial arts, provided that the merit is worth enough!
Nowadays, your merit value is zero, so you can only exchange it for the primary chapters of the exercises [Mountain Opening Gong] and [Tidal Gong], and the full chapters of the martial arts [Cupola], [Cross Knife], and [Combined Sword Array].
As for the rest, it can only be obtained through hard work in exchange for merit points. ”
"Ah, isn't that the worst type of martial art?"
Xu Hark shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, although these martial arts do not require meritorious service, they are a very important foundation in the martial arts of the army, and every soldier is required to master them."
For example, [Kaishan Gong], the exercises are concise and domineering, explosive, and destructive, if you practice to the extreme, when you can open mountains and crack stones, even if you are not much inferior to the top exercises, the disadvantage is that the staying power is not enough, and the stamina is insufficient.
In contrast, the characteristics of [Tidal Gong] and [Kaishan Gong] are diametrically opposed. In terms of power, it is inferior to the latter, but the advantage is that it is full of stamina, continuous and strong staying power.
[Cupola] is the simplest and most direct military boxing method in the army. By using the power of your limbs, you can tear through the air and cause an air blast to kill and injure enemies. This technique is easy to get started, but it is difficult to be profound.
There is no need to explain the [Cross Knife], the sword skills you practiced during the training of your recruits are the basic moves of the [Cross Knife].
The [Combined Sword Formation] is a good thing, and this is the martial art that can best give full play to the comprehensive combat capability of our army. This is not a one-person martial art, but a combined array martial art of two people, three people, or even more people.
Through the [Combined Sword Formation], we can rely on the cooperation of many people to easily achieve the result of defeating the strong with the weak, which is also the reason why the army has great deterrent power although there are not many top masters. ”
Tsui Hark's explanation of Tianchen is the most understandable, in the past, when he was in the Immortal Realm, he commanded 100,000 heavenly soldiers to kill many enemies stronger than him, including the Demon Venerable of the Demon Realm.
After all, each person spits on each other, which is 100,000 mouthfuls of saliva, plus the blessing of the array, not to mention whether they will drown each other, they can scare each other to death.
Hua Xiaolou said indifferently: "I have a family tradition of martial arts, so I don't need to practice these ordinary ...... anymore Hmm!"
Tianchen covered his mouth and said, "No, you need it!"
Xu Ke frowned: "I know that your batch of recruits is much better than before, and the training of recruits is to let the recruits boil their muscles and bones, wash the marrow and cut the bones, but some recruits have already entered the realm of qi and blood without the need for military exercises."
I just want to remind you that maybe your family martial arts or the exercises you use are very powerful, but in the army, only the army's martial arts are the most suitable.
If you want to integrate into the army and develop well in the army, then you should take advantage of these basic exercises and basic martial arts. ”
Tianchen glared at Hua Xiaolou, who was talkative. What are you kidding, not to mention that what Xu Hark said is all about experience, even if you don't look down on military martial arts, then don't say it.
You have a family tradition of martial arts, but we don't, if you offend him, what if he doesn't take out the good things when he comes back to exchange the martial arts?
"Ahem, don't be angry, Steward Xu, he's joking, don't worry, we will definitely practice well." ”
"Hmph, that's for the best. ”
Tsui Hark stared at Hua Xiaolou: "Little fat man, don't think I don't know you, I've known your dad for decades, you dare not practice hard, believe it or not, I asked your dad to beat you?"
After saying Hua Xiaolou, he looked at Tianchen again.
"Zhang Lu has been a soldier all his life, and he has no ability, except for being very accurate in seeing people. He values you very much, and he keeps nagging me, saying that after you pass the assessment, he wants me to transfer you to be his soldier. But now it can't be realized......"
Zhang Lu seemed to be very emotional: "In our line of work, parting from life and death is commonplace, just get used to it." You have to work hard, don't let Zhang Lu down, he's a good soldier......"
After a few people chose the exercises and martial arts, they said goodbye and left.
"Brother Chen, do I really have to change my cultivation method? But my family's exercises are so good. Hua Xiaolou said reluctantly.
Tianchen said helplessly: "But what people said is right, if you don't learn the army's martial arts in the army, how can you cooperate with your teammates when the time comes?
Besides, let you practice the exercises in the army, and you didn't abandon your family tradition, wouldn't it be better to go hand in hand. These exercises and martial arts are not complicated, and they can be used quickly. ”
"Yes, yes!"
Hua Xiaolou was stunned for a moment, and then scratched his head in embarrassment, hehe, silly music.
Wei Feng said with envy: "I really envy the three of you, you all have your own exercises to cultivate, we can only cultivate this kind of big road goods." ”
Tianchen said seriously: "You all know Zhuzi, he has been a soldier for eight years, and he is a third-grade blood refining martial artist. As far as I know, he is using the same exercises as we do.
However, I have seen with my own eyes that he and another third-rank and second-rank companions can resist the attack of a first-rank Tongmai martial artist for a while.
As Steward Xu said, if you practice this exercise to the extreme, it will not be much inferior to the top exercises. But don't underestimate them. ”
"Tianchen is right, we all have to learn this martial arts and martial arts, we have always fought in groups, and the strength of individual force does not have a great impact on our overall strength. ”
Tao Zhuo then asked, "Then what are we going to do next?"
Tianchen pondered for a moment, and then said, "It takes us three days to get to the designated place, and it takes two days and one night to get to Yueyang County City.
Because the task is not clear, it is better to be cautious, let's set off before closing the city gate in the afternoon, and strive to arrive early the morning after tomorrow, observe the situation first, and be fully prepared.
Considering the secrecy of the mission, we all set off in plain clothes, and all our weapons were camouflaged. Now go back and get ready, eat and drink enough, recharge your energy, and get ready to go overnight. ”
Li Mingting was drenched in cold sweat on his forehead, habitually picked up the tea cup, and when he was about to drink it, he found that the tea was already cold. However, he was panicking in his heart now, and a cup of cold tea made him calm down a little.
"Master Hua, is what you just said true?"
Li Mingting was looking forward to Hua Shaofeng suddenly standing up and pointing at him and laughing: "Of course it's fake, I'm teasing you!"
But with his understanding of Hua Shaofeng, the sun is coming out of the west, and he won't make any jokes. In fact, he never jokes.
"Of course it's true, the situation is so serious that I can't joke with you. Now we are in the light, the enemy is in the dark, every move is under the watchful eye of the other party, and they are right next to us, probably anyone you know. Hua Shaofeng sighed deeply.
"Since you're not sure who the enemy is, why are you telling me?" asked Li Mingting.
"I'm certain sure that you're not. ”
Hua Shaofeng looked at him and said, "In addition, I have some arrangements, I can't do it without your help, after all, you are the highest governor of Pingyang County Government." ”
"Thank you. ”
Li Mingting said for a long time: "Tell me in detail about the situation you have mastered." ”
Hua Shaofeng said in a deep voice: "Things have to start with the Pingshan Temple that was abandoned three months ago. One day Wen Zheng told me that he felt something at night, and Pingshan was a god. So I went to check it out for myself, and sure enough, Pingshan did have a god.
Later, Wen Zheng discovered a strange thing, that is, the mountain gods of this mountain temple have been changed too frequently, and three have been changed in more than ten years.
Where are the previous mountain gods now, and why did they disappear for no apparent reason? This is too unusual. I was not at ease, so I arranged for someone to investigate the matter.
It turned out that something similar had happened in Yueyang County. You know that Yueyang County is a thousand-year-old city, and the city god temple in the city still retains the god seat of the city god, and the incense has not been broken.
The City God Temple is a large temple, and in addition to the great god of the City God, there are some other small gods. However, just a month ago, the city god suddenly disappeared, and disappeared very abruptly, and then the rest of the minor gods also disappeared. Within a few days, the temple became an empty temple.
Ordinary people can't feel the disappearance of the city god, but those old masters in the Yueyang Shufu can detect it. They reported to He Sheng, the lieutenant of Yueyang County, and He Sheng's investigation was fruitless.
When I heard about this, I felt that it might have something to do with the Ping Shan Temple. Because I was small with Kong Weifang, the Shou of Yueyang County, I sent him a letter to understand the matter.
As a result, when he replied, it was a birthday invitation. I thought he was asking me to go to his birthday banquet to talk in person, but I thought that there was no hurry to talk about it later, so I put the matter aside.
It wasn't until five days ago that I suddenly remembered that Kong Weifang was three years older than me, and I was fifty and five this year, so he should be fifty-eight years old this year, and there are still two years left, what kind of 60th birthday is there?
The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, and I found the invitation card and looked through it carefully, and sure enough, I found that in an inconspicuous place, there were uneven marks, and I touched it with my hand, and it turned out to be blind engraved words.
It reads, 'Yueyang is weird, it's hard to distinguish between true and false, beware of your body, people's hearts are unpredictable!'
That's when I realized that something was wrong, and depending on what he meant, not only him, but also the people around me had problems.
I don't know what kind of force is secretly arranging this, and I don't know what the purpose of this force is, but it's not my character to sit back and wait, and I'm going to make some arrangements just in case. ”
"And I need your help!"