The Red Age of Sword and Magic

Chapter 205
An officer who was directing the soldiers to practice formation ran over, stood at attention, and gave Randy a military salute, "Second platoon leader Su Duozhen sees Commander Randy."

Randy didn't wear a hat, and returned the salute by beating his chest with his right hand, "Take it easy."

Randy saw that the young man had a serious face and a bookish face, obviously he had studied, and the new army officer's uniform did not fit well, it was a bit too big.

These military uniforms were taken from the warehouse of Er Jin's family. I didn't expect to recruit such a small soldier, and there was no suitable one, especially such a small officer's uniform.

"Young man, if you are so young, if you don't continue to study, how can you join the army?"

"Reporting sir, I am a first-year student of the Provincial Second Normal School. Our principal was arrested and killed by the government a few days ago because he sympathized with the Tiandihui.

I don't miss it anymore, I haven't decided where to go yet, I'm planning to go back to my hometown in Huaihua, passing by Shi Lanchong, I saw you recruiting troops, so I came here. "

Randy and Liu Ming glanced at each other, this is still a progressive student.

The intermediate astrolabe he used appeared in Liu Ming's hand, "Come on, call a few people, and give Chief Randy a drill of your formation."

It was only then that Randy discovered that this young man had weak aura fluctuations, and he was at the apprentice level. However, according to Liu Ming, he turned out to be an apprentice array mage.

How can this be?Students in Jianqiu have to study for four years before they can become trainee formation masters, and when they arrive in the army, they can immediately become platoon leaders.

After gaining a certain amount of experience, it is also possible to be the captain of a company.

Those who graduate like Ruiyuan and become formal formation masters are rare, and they can command a battalion.

Liu Ming is a rare talent born in the world. He was self-taught in his twenties and became an intermediate formation mage. After all, he was old.

Such a child, one year younger than Sanmao, went to a normal school, where did he get promoted to a trainee array master?

No wonder Liu Ming asked him to be the platoon leader. Being educated is different.However, for a 16-year-old trainee array mage, this is too outrageous, right?
Platoon Leader Su took the astrolabe and went to find his subordinates.Liu Ming pointed at his back, "Comrade Randy, even you would never have guessed that this kid is the trainee array mage who was promoted under my nose yesterday.

When he asked to join the army, I thought he was young and disagreed. He boasted that he had read military books and understood formations since he was a child, but he had no chance to actually fight.

I see that his spiritual power enters the body, which is a material for cultivation, so I lent him the astrolabe for him to try.

Unexpectedly, he tried to set up the formation for the first time, commanding four recruits, he arranged the five-element formation neatly, and he was automatically promoted on the spot.

I'm just an intermediate formation master, but I don't have the ability to give him initiations and transmissions at the master level.

He can advance through self-awareness, but I only reached this level when I was 20 years old. "

Randy smiled and shook his head. Liu Ming is only 24 years old, and he is also self-taught.

This kind of self-awareness and promotion, without the guidance of a teacher, can figure out the right path by himself. They are all geniuses, and their abilities can be compared to the sword master Dugu Qiubai who created his own swordsmanship. Anyway, Randy himself does not have that ability.

Liu Ming is not only amazing in formation skills, but also resourceful, and he is also the material of a military adviser.

Platoon Leader Su is a true formation wizard. Due to his limited experience, at his current age, it is impossible for Liu Ming to have the ability to understand the world. Liu Ming is too humble.

Platoon Leader Su led four of his men over, armed with rifles, and stood in formation, which was still a regular five-element formation.

In fact, he knows more than one formation, because it was shown to Randy, the supreme officer here. He is small but has a steady personality, so he still uses the same formation as yesterday to avoid failure.

As soon as the astrolabe lit up, five faint white circles formed, and five people stepped on it, and the white circles brightened, indicating that the formation's effect on combat enhancement had taken effect.

Although Randy doesn't know how to form formations, he has seen a lot.Jianqiu graduates are promoted to trainee array mages, using the Five Elements Array.

There are many ways to go wrong, but few ways to go right.

The students who learn the formation in Jianqiu have the teacher's empowerment to teach the correct position, and the brain understands it, but they are often inaccurate in operation. It takes countless practice to match the rhythm taught by the teacher, and the promotion is recognized.

Being able to rely on self-enlightenment, eliminate thousands of wrong paths, and place every position in one step, this represents talent and understanding.

Randy's own talent is above average, not amazing.

The standard techniques taught by Master Li Jinglin have been practiced thousands of times, and the deficiencies are made up for by diligence.

He also served as a sparring partner, as a human sandbag, and experienced countless actual combats, before he surpassed his peers when he graduated, advanced to the junior sword master, and was praised by Master Zeng Shan.

So Randy is quite envious of this amazingly talented and brilliant generation.

Seeing that Platoon Leader Su activated the five-element formation once, his face turned pale.

This Randy knows that he has just been promoted, and he still needs to practice more, so that his spiritual power can rise steadily, and his magic ability is a bit insufficient now.

Randy cherishes talents, and has the urge to give him a sip of fairy wine, but stops.He patted Platoon Leader Su on the shoulder, "Practice hard, and you will have a great future."

Looking back at Liu Ming, "Old Liu, I'm going to invite Shi Yuan to give them a lecture. It's a pity that such a talent does not become our comrade."

Liu Ming took the astrolabe back, "I have the right intention, but I haven't told you yet. It's a pity that I'm not even a sage, and I can't shoulder the responsibility of popularizing dragon slaying techniques."

Immortal wine is limited, and Randy is planning to give him more abilities after Platoon Leader Su becomes a comrade.

Liu Ming held the astrolabe in his hand, "Looks like, Randy, you have to buy another one for Platoon Leader Su."

Randy nodded, it was just an astrolabe.

You have to know that, in the Tianshan Mountains, it was seized from the military adviser sent by the Elf Kingdom to Agubo, and it would be fine not to sell it.

"Well, can you let me try—"

Um?Randy looked back and saw his younger brother Lan Zuo at the base of the wall.

"Aren't you busy studying? Why are you here?"

"Me, I like to watch the military training. After they finish training, I can learn to make up homework in the middle of the night."

"Nonsense, even if you want to become a formation mage, you have to wait until you graduate from Master Xu, and then go to a military academy to study. This thing takes four years to learn. You are a master."

Lan Zuo pointed at Platoon Leader Su, "Why can he? I'm seventeen, one year older than him."

Liu Ming came over as a peacemaker, "Let him try.

He left after seeing you on the first day.Yesterday I recruited soldiers and started training. He came to see me after school and asked me several questions. Your younger brother also knows the art of war. "

Randy scratched his head, "Why don't I know? Then you can try, but if you fool me, you don't understand at all, so I won't beat you up."

Lan Zuo is not afraid at all, his brother has never hit him, and every time he just scares him.

Take Liu Ming's astrolabe and try to input magic power.

After figuring out how to operate it, he called two of Platoon Leader Su's subordinates, went to get a gun by himself, carried it on his back with great effort, gave a few instructions, and activated the astrolabe.

Three faint circles appeared on the ground, one in front and two behind.

The two soldiers and Lan Zuo stood up, and the circle turned out to be bright, and the formation of three talents was successfully formed once.

Randy was surprised, "You are really good at it, when did you learn it?"

Liu Ming patted Lan Zuo on the shoulder, "It's not easy, it's not easy. Although it's not as good as Platoon Leader Su, it's not bad to be able to set up a three-talent formation by self-study."

The five-element formation is the bottom line for advancing to the trainee formation mage, and the three-talent formation is much simpler, so of course they cannot advance.

Fortunately, at least it is more complicated than the Liangyi Formation, and it is very difficult for a self-study.

Randy was in a good mood, "I didn't expect you, Lan Zuo, to have such a talent. When you graduate from the private school, I will definitely send you to a good military school.

By the way, I have the Medal of Confederation in my hand, you can go to West Point. "

Being able to enter West Point without a test is a step up to the sky, but Lan Zuo is not satisfied.

"No, it's not that I don't know how to form a five-element formation, you see."

Lan Zuo took out a book, "This is the "Basic Formation" given to me by Brother Erjin. When you were studying in Jianqiu, I begged Brother Erjin to buy it in Jiangxia. I will also do the Five Elements Formation.

However, I think that the five-element array is useful in fighting in the rivers and lakes, but it is outdated on the battlefield. "

"Lan Zuo, don't be complacent with some grades, Lao Liu is an intermediate array mage, you can't even reach the apprentice array mage, bragging about this in front of him?
Why is the Five Elements Array outdated?I blush for you.

You know, in Jianqiu, this formation is basically only a textbook for the first grade, and you will have to learn intermediate and advanced textbooks in the future, and you can command actual combat in the fourth grade.

You want to run before you learn how to walk, too impatient. "

Lan Zuo usually listens to his brother very much, but when it comes to formations, he suddenly becomes stubborn.

"I'm going to try again. I want to show you the formation I created myself, which is based on the formation of three talents."

"Only the holy level can create their own formations, so stop messing around."

"Randy let him try it, and I will help Palm Eye, even if it fails, there may be something shining."

Randy felt that he was a little too used to his younger brother. It was a big taboo to make fun of soldiers because he was his younger brother.

But since Liu Ming has spoken, he has to save face.

Randy became serious, "If you have no knowledge at all and make fun of the soldiers, I will not only beat you, but also march and put you in confinement."

Lan Zuo straightened her neck, "I must try."

This time he took the branches, first drew nine circles on the ground, three groups, and the three groups were also arranged in a triangle.

The last two are regular triangles, but the first one is an inverted triangle.

While drawing, he said, "Now that there are machine guns and artillery on the battlefield, dense formations will definitely suffer.

Such a dispersed formation that can support each other is the most suitable formation. I have been thinking about it for more than two years, and I also told Brother Erjin, but unfortunately he didn't understand. "

Randy didn't quite understand, he relied on light armor to resist bullets, but Liu Ming thought about it.

"I need eight soldiers. It's best if two of them are practitioners. It's okay to have none, but the best effect won't be achieved."

Platoon Leader Su brought in seven soldiers, and Lan Zuo lined them up one by one, which happened to be one squad including himself.

I stood at the sharp corner of the inverted triangle in the front row, in the center of the formation, and the platoon leader Su was assigned to the position of the deputy squad leader inside the left triangle in the back row.

There should also be a practitioner on the inside of the right triangle in the back row. If not, ordinary soldiers can only be used instead.

Lan Zuo took a deep breath and activated the astrolabe.

In this nine-man formation, the distance between the three small triangles was more than 30 meters, occupying half of the yard, and the training soldiers were squeezed to the tent to rest.

There are commonly used formations in the astrolabe, and the more advanced the astrolabe, the more formations are stored.

To lay out the ready-made formation, the astrolabe can give the approximate position, and the formation builder only needs to make some adjustments.

But there is no precedent for the self-created formation, and the positions of the nine circles are completely controlled by Lan Zuo himself with his spiritual power and magic power.

If you want to deploy a new formation that doesn't have a built-in formation on such a large area, you need at least an intermediate formation master like Liu Ming.

As the area of ​​the nine apertures expanded, Lan Zuo felt sweat on his forehead, and finally couldn't control it, and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Randy rushed forward, and a bottle of red potion appeared in his hand, and he poured it down for his younger brother, "I want you to be brave, go to rest."

The younger brother was injured, and Randy stopped talking about the detention.

Lan Zuo wiped the blood from his mouth, and was extremely stubborn, "Brother, can you give me another sip of the fairy wine?"

Randy wanted to reprimand him, but on his younger brother's resolute face, he saw that when he practiced sword, he would not give up until he reached his goal.

He practiced the sword without sleep until he vomited blood. He had done it before, and he was reluctant to use the red medicine, so he could only recover slowly with the budding spell of the withered vine ring.

Randy's heart softened, he took out the jug and glass, poured a glass and handed it to Lan Zuo.

The younger brother worked so hard, Randy pulled down the ordinary soldier on the inside of the right rear triangle, and stood up by himself.

Lan Zuo held the fairy wine in his hand, but didn't drink it. He walked to the monitor's position, took the astrolabe away, and downed the wine in one gulp.

Lan Zuo's eyes were dimmed immediately, showing drunkenness, Lan Zuo stopped with a strong will, and nine faint circles were spread out quickly, accurately positioned in the pre-drawn position.

The other eight people in the formation, including Randy, adjusted their positions and stood completely in the circle. The circle suddenly brightened, emitting a dazzling light, and the formation was successful.

Lan Zuo fell to the ground all of a sudden, snoring loudly, and finally passed out drunk.There was a flash of white light on his body, and Randy detected it for a while, and he was indeed promoted to an apprentice array mage.

It's not easy, my younger brother is also such a genius.

Before Randy finished sighing, a different phase appeared in the sky. A large group of white light gathered in the sky and fell from the sky, sinking into Lan Zuo's body and the astrolabe in his hand.

The intermediate astrolabe exploded with a bang, and Lan Zuo, who was sleeping soundly, absorbed a lot of white light, and suddenly flickered again, before gradually dimming.

(End of this chapter)