Dahan first prince

Chapter 409 Performing Martial Arts!

An hour later, in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City.

Looking at the military camp that had never been mentioned before, the faces of the courtiers and officials were all stunned.

——West camp in Chang'an?
Don't they all say that it is the residence of Shanglin Wei?
How······
Seeing the lonely and suspicious look on the faces of all the courtiers, Liu Ying did not explain too much, she just explained to Wei Wei Li, and then went to the school ground in the military camp.

In the past, there were actually only two military camps near Chang'an.

One is called: Beiying; the other is called: Nanying.

The Second South and North Battalions, as the name suggests, are where the South and North armies are stationed.

As for the responsibilities of these two armies, they are almost divided according to the location of the camp;
In other words, the camps of these two armies were built with responsibility as a prerequisite.

——The northern army stationed in the northern suburbs of Chang'an City, between the Weishui River and Chang'an City, was responsible for guarding the various gates of Chang'an, as well as the northern half of the city, that is, patrolling security in the civilian-inhabited area, and guarding the city walls;
The Southern Army stationed in the southern suburbs of Chang'an needs to guard the south gate of Chang'an City, as well as the Tai and Gao Temples in the city, and shoulder the responsibility of staying in the guard, guarding the palace gates of Weiyang and Changle, and guarding the palace walls. responsibility.

To put it more bluntly, the positions of the Second South and North Battalions, as well as the titles of the "Second South and North Armies", were established according to "the Southern Army governs the southern half of the city, and the Northern Army governs the northern half of the city."

In addition, the northern half of the city is composed of the common people's gathering area, and the living area composed of the east and west cities, while the southern half of the city is composed of Jiweiyang and Changle Palaces, the Tai and Gaoer Temples, and the aristocratic settlement - Shangguanli, etc. In important areas, the Southern Army, who was born as a child of "Feng Peiyuan Cong", was more respectable and more beautiful than the Northern Army, who was born as a child of a good family in Guanzhong.

——After all, no matter what, those who guard the imperial city are a head shorter than those who guard the palace.

As for Xiying, which was established together with Shanglinyuan a few years ago, it did not attract anyone's attention in the past.

From everyone's point of view, the so-called West Camp is just the place where Captain Shanglin is stationed, and his duty is only to guard Shanglin Garden, and has nothing to do with Chang'an City;

In the past, Liu Ying did explain the purpose of 'Xiying' to the outside world with such rhetoric.

But at this moment, when the courtiers and officials gathered in the West Camp, only to find that this was the so-called station of the two armies of Habayashi and Huben, almost all of them cast their eyes full of resentment on the people who had already sat on the edge of the school grounds. on Liu Ying.

——It’s all right to hide it from outsiders, but also the two thousand stones of Gongqing?

Not so much...

Liu Ying did not feel sorry for the resentful gazes of the courtiers and officials, her face was still calm, with a little uncontrollable pride.

Liu Ying is convinced that after watching this "martial arts performance", the courtiers and officials will understand: As for!
And it's necessary!

click!
click!
click!
While thinking, there was a sound of extremely neat and inexplicably exciting footsteps in the distance, which attracted everyone's attention;
It was also at the moment when the pair of 'Jiadao' dressed in iron armor and holding Modao appeared, the sun just happened to shine on the iron armor, and everyone who stabbed them couldn't open their eyes.

click! ! !
With the sound of the last footsteps, the team of "Jia Dao" stopped impartially on the east side of the school field like a machine that lost power in an instant!
Seeing this scene, even though she had confidence in this elite army built by herself, Liu Ying stood up involuntarily, showing a proud smile.

"Here, I am a tiger!"

The son of heaven's loud cry sounded, causing all the officials to look sideways. They saw Liu Ying raised her head high, turned sideways with great confidence, and pointed at the array of armored swords behind her.

"My lords, why don't you step forward and take a closer look?"

After being reminded by Liu Ying, all the people came to their senses, hurriedly put away their dazed expressions, and came forward to come behind Liu Ying;

After seeing the pair of armored swords that Liu Ying called "My Tiger Ben", the faces of all the courtiers and officials showed horror.

"Plate!"

"And that Mo Dao!"

Seeing the iron armor reflecting the dazzling light, and the long-handled Mo Dao that makes people feel inexplicably palpitating even under the bright sun, all the courtiers and officials were dumbfounded.

"The Shaofu said that a piece of plate armor costs more than tens of gold!"

"——That Mo Dao doesn't give in too much, it can't be done without fifty catties of refined iron!"

"Such an exquisite armor blade, can it be a school?"

Everyone whispered to each other, and they obviously had a new understanding of the financial resources of the Shaofu.

——For such an army, the cost spent on each soldier is probably more than a hundred gold!

However, there are 5000 soldiers, Captain Huben, who each needs a hundred gold worth of equipment...

"Your Majesty, could you be too partial?"

"The annual rations of the two armies of the South and the North are only 30 shi of corn each, and the price is less than a thousand gold!"

"The armor blades of the ten soldiers of the Huben school can provide food for the two armies of the South and the North for a year..."

For a while, everyone felt uneasy about the South and North armies, and even a few people began to think about the rhetoric when they persuaded Liu Ying to "abolished Captain Huben".

Before coming here, Liu Ying did mention: Captain Huben is composed of "Jia Dao" pawns with plate armor and Mo Dao as weapons;

But before they came to Xiying and saw the "steel torrent" in front of them, everyone didn't take Liu Ying's words seriously at all.

—— 5000 people, all of them protected themselves with plate armor and used Mo Dao as their weapon?
How can it be!

It's not like you haven't seen the plate armor and Mo Dao before!

Any piece of plate armor is more than 70 catties of iron. Although its value is not as high as that of gold of the same weight, it has at least a '10:1' exchange ratio;
That’s all, it’s just the price of iron, not counting the labor involved in hammering the iron into plate armor!

As for Mo Dao, let alone.

——Even now that Mo Dao has not been formally equipped with the standing field army of the Han family, the courtiers and officials have already determined: This Mo Dao will definitely be a controlled ordnance with greater control than armor and crossbows!

So in the past, after seeing the plate armor and Mo Dao, none of the heroes and lords with military backgrounds in the court dared to ask "give these two kinds of equipment to the army under my command first";
Instead, he approached Shaofu obediently, expressing that he was willing to spend a lot of money to buy a plate armor and a Mo knife for the family, as the foundation for future generations to live and live.

But at this moment, when they saw a total of [-] "hu ben soldiers" wearing plate armor and holding mo knives, after a short period of astonishment and dumbfounded at the financial resources of the Shaofu, everyone couldn't help feeling a little dissatisfied in their hearts .

Especially in the face of uncertainty about the combat effectiveness of this extremely good-looking, at least extremely extravagant army, this dissatisfaction gradually turned into bouts of boredom with the scorching sun overhead.

It was in this weird atmosphere of boredom, anger, and a little hesitation that a long silence passed in the school grounds;

A few drops of sweat slowly slid down in front of the ears, and finally someone reacted belatedly, and immediately put away their anger, and surrendered their solemn eyes to the team of about 500 people.

"Such flames, and wearing plate armor..."

"Five hundred people, silent?"

A slightly suspicious murmur drew everyone's attention back to the school grounds;

After a short while, all the gazes cast on the array of 'Jia Dao' were solemn like never before!
Today, it is the Han Dynasty;

It is impossible for today's courtiers and officials to find a nerd who 'doesn't know soldiers'.

Especially today, the courtiers who can be brought to Xiying by Liu Ying, if they are picked out at random, they must be talented in both civil and military skills who can govern the army when they are on horseback and the people when they are dismounted.

In other words: everyone present understands what it means to be in front of the scorching sun, but silent like a dead thing...

"Your Majesty."

"Everything is ready."

While everyone was thinking, Li Ji's resounding recitation sounded, causing everyone to turn their heads;

In the middle of the school field where there was nothing there just now, there is already an 'enemy array' about [-] feet long and [-] feet wide - wooden piles.

With Liu Ying nodding her head lightly and saying "begin", this martial arts performance officially kicked off under the solemn eyes of courtiers and officials...
"Meet the enemy!!"

The almost stern and rough horn sounded, and the tiger who had been silent for a long time on the east side of the school field finally moved;
click!
Kaka!

The sound of dull and orderly footsteps made all the courtiers and officials stand on tiptoes, as if they wanted to see more clearly;

But when everyone heard the sound of the tiger's footsteps coming from their ears, the formation that had been tightly gathered just now had spread out on the east side of the school field.

It is different from the tight formation of halberds and giant shields in wartime, and it is not like the chaotic and disorderly formation of sword and shield soldiers in melee;
In response to the military order, the tigers and soldiers dispersed, forming hundreds of three-man combat teams in an extremely regular formation of 'two people in front and one behind, forming an inverted triangle'.

It was also at the moment when the array dispersed, the three-person team immediately entered a fighting stance!
——The two people in front hold the Mo Dao horizontally in both hands, bow their waists slightly, and point the Mo Dao in their hands to the oblique front where they are;
As for the person behind, he did not lift the Mo Dao, but gently pressed the tip of the knife to the ground in front of him, straightened his waist, and swept his eyes back and forth in the fan-shaped range in front of him.

It was soon discovered that in such a three-person combat team, the two soldiers standing in front seemed to be a little shorter, their lower bodies were extremely thick, and their chassis was extremely stable!
And the soldier in the back who repeatedly checked the situation on the 'battlefield' was obviously taller and more burly.

"Triangle array?"

Hearing the murmur in her ears, Liu Ying had no intention of explaining, but raised her head proudly.

"My Great Heavenly Dynasty's three-three infantry rule, how can people in this era understand..."

"Enemy attack!!!"

"Bow and crossbow!!!"

"avoid!!!!!!"

Not long after the tiger array dispersed, the 'observers' of every three-member combat team were scrambling to sound the sirens!

But upon hearing the alarm, the Tiger Ben's "Jia Dao" pawn did not panic, but knelt down on the spot at almost the same speed of movement;

After hiding the calves under the hem of the armor covering the thighs, he lowered his head again, protected his face with the helmet on his head, arrayed tigers and armored knives, and assumed a posture of resisting the throwing of bows and crossbows.

Another three breaths later, the arrow feathers from the sky-shrouding bow and crossbow appeared out of nowhere, plunged down from the sky, and hit the armor on the tiger's body, making a crisp crackling sound.

But the people present didn't dare to look away at all, looking for the reason for the bow and feathers covering the sky, they just stared intently at the tigers kneeling on the ground with their hands clinging to their sides.

——So strong? !
In the past, no matter how intense the martial arts performance was, there had never been a simulation project where the bow and crossbow arrows shot directly at the soldiers!
This!
For a while, everyone became worried again, for fear that this daunting 'steel torrent' would suffer casualties because of the martial arts performance.

But then, a scene that shocked everyone again appeared.

——After carrying out six rounds of rapid fire, and kneeling on the spot for a while, the 'observers' in the three-person combat team carefully raised their heads one after another;

After confirming that there was no next round of arrows, the tigers who bowed their heads and knelt on the ground, as if they were 'surrendering', stood up one after another after being reminded by the observers, and returned to their previous fighting posture.

"attack!"

With the sound of the officer's call sign, the tigers arrayed up and moved!

Boom!
Boom!
Boom! ! !
The sound of dull and orderly footsteps sounded like a thrilling battle drum, and every time it hit, the hearts of everyone present were shocked!
When the array advanced to the 'enemy array' composed of wooden stakes, Colonel Huben's fighting style also appeared in the eyes of the world for the first time.

"Disperse!!"

With another order, the Huben formation dispersed in units of three-person combat groups, and did not forget to always ensure that there were more than two three-person groups within five steps of the surrounding area.

Then, there was an undoubted 'unilateral massacre';
In the blink of an eye, the entire sky above the school grounds was filled with the sound of tigers hacking on the wooden posts with their knives, breaking the middle of the wooden posts.

What really horrified everyone present was that during the process of 'slashing' the stakes, none of the soldiers made the expected 'heh' or 'ha' sound.

On the contrary, the "observers" of each three-person team did not devote themselves to the hacking and killing. They only held the Modao tightly with both hands, their heads turned quickly like wind chimes, and they issued instructions at a very high frequency.

Such as "too far away from the formation, slow down the forward speed", "leave the forward direction, move to the left/right", in a low, but very penetrating tone, passed in front of the "observer" In the ears of the two soldiers of the army, as well as every public official present.

In less than thirty breaths at most, thousands of wooden stakes of the 'enemy army' were cut in half by this 300-man tiger and cardinal armored swordsman;
After the 'end the battle', the tiger-been array did not stop, but followed the officer's cry of 'gather! ', and returned to a relatively compact forward formation without forgetting to maintain the triangular formation.

It wasn't until Hu Benzu went far away that everyone noticed that on the west side of the school grounds, the same bow and crossbow phalanx dressed in bright scale armor and holding strange crossbow machines were alternately covering and exiting the school grounds;
——At the beginning of the martial arts performance, the bow and crossbow hit by the Tiger Benjia Sword should have been shot by this 'Habayashi Captain'.

But after realizing this, everyone present except Liu Ying was stunned.

Because the wooden stake 'position' in the center of the school field is fifty steps away from the initial position of the Tiger Ben Jia Saber!

And the bow and feathers that covered the sky that were shot at the tiger's array must be this Habayashi bow and crossbow pawn, which was shot from the west side of the wooden pile position.

From the west side of the stake position to the tiger's foot in the east of the stake position, the distance is a hundred feet + fifty steps...

A full, more than two hundred steps away!
(End of this chapter)