Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 44 Fate is like a chess game (3)

Two days later, the warriors of the palace blew the bugle made of thunder beast horns, and the sound of the horn was like a dull thunder, echoing over the entire palace.

"Boom! Boom!..."

The huge drum was muffled, and the sun was rising in the sky, dispelling the gray shadows of the distant mountains. The morning light passed over the ice and snow in Shuobei, illuminating the solemn faces of more than a thousand soldiers on the school ground, and also shining on Ye Ziqi's face.

Ye Ziqi held a yellow pill in his hand, and stood under the forest of spears in the palace school grounds.

Huang Wan was Ye Ziqi who told Tang Wandie that she was going to participate in "Wuqi". After Tang Wandie shook the Jingxin White Jade Bottle for a long time, she shook it out for him and told him to make sure that she was ready before playing. eat up.

So Ye Ziqi hesitated all morning——

Can Miss Qiu's things really be eaten?

Chief Chen Wufu came all the way to inspect, and wondered: "What are you?"

"Nothing." Ye Ziqi swallowed the yellow pill in one gulp.

Chen Wufu didn't care, he just patted Ye Ziqi on the shoulder and said: "You are taking the job of showing your face, just let the king see the quality of our second guard'martial arts', and fight well in a while, don't need to give that guy a guard Let the soft-footed soldiers stay alive, and stab them to death!"

Ye Ziqi said solemnly: "Obey!"

Gradually, people in official uniforms began to appear on the tall buildings around the palace grounds, as well as well-dressed women and children.This is Baicheng Hou's annual practice of grace, allowing the family of Baiguan to come to watch the ceremony during the military exercise.

As a result, more and more people appeared on the surrounding watchtowers, Ye Ziqi saw some young children among them, their faces were excited, standing in a high and safe position, looking forward to watching others fight.

This made Ye Ziqi suddenly feel uneasy, as if he was a wild beast trapped in a cage, about to perform a battle between trapped beasts destined to die.

"Look, here are the generals!" Someone shouted.

Immediately, all eyes were drawn to the high platform directly north of the school grounds, which was called "Dianjiang Terrace", the tallest and widest place in the whole school grounds.Naturally, it is also the main stage of previous military exercises.

The generals Bai Chengyan, Xue Yi, and Bai Chengshuang came to the stage and took their seats one by one. It is worth noting that Xue Yi sat directly in the position of the second guard commander.

Seeing this, Bai Chengyan turned his head and said, "Oh? General Lian's schedule is so busy that he didn't even come back from the military performance?"

Hearing this, Xue Yi clasped his hands sideways and said, "General Lao Yan is worried. General Lian wants to clear the way for the Lord to go to the 'Leizhou Council' to ensure the safety of the Lord, so there is no time to go back."

"Hmph!" Baicheng Yansu and the second guard were at odds, seeing that the questioning failed, he stopped looking for words.

Ye Ziqi was in the school yard, and it was the first time he saw the appearance of the head of a guard—tall and imposing, with a broad chest.Just thinking about what kind of general this is, he suddenly heard "hehe" laughter, as if ringing in his ears.He knew it was the old demon head in the inner sea laughing.

"why are you laughing?"

"Your country of Ju is really a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, and you have a fifth-rank general."

"Fifth rank general?" Ye Ziqi stared at Bai Chengyan: "You mean him?"

"Who else could it be."

"It turns out that this man has a superficial appearance. No wonder the veterans look down on Yiwei. We Chief Chen is also a fifth-rank master. I don't know who can beat who among them... Forget it, his father is the lord of the country, and Chief Chen dare not make a move." .”

Suddenly, the drums were loud.

An old man in fine clothes, surrounded by a group of attendants, slowly climbed onto the general's platform.

At the same time, the three guard generals and other important ministers on the stage stood up.

Ye Ziqi was so moved that he knelt down towards the platform together with more than a thousand soldiers around him.

And on the surrounding watchtowers, hundreds of officials and family members also bowed deeply to Dianjiangtai together, paying respects.

The deep and powerful voices like a mountain, from all directions, flocked to the same direction——

"All blessings, my lord!"

That old man who was nearly half a hundred years old with a deep complexion was the Lord of the Ju Kingdom, Baicheng Jiong, the Marquis of the Ju Kingdom.

"Pingshen—"

At this moment, the army's New Year's exercise officially began.

The first event is that [-] spearmen enter the arena to demonstrate the battlefield spearmanship "Liuhe marksmanship". The whole row is fixed, and the commander of the three guards, Wang Zhong, personally raises the flag on the point general platform. When the drum is hit, the spearmen shout together , Qi took the gun move, eighteen drums, and the spearman made eighteen moves.

Then, 800 people were divided into two armies, east and west, with 400 each. The east army played a drum, and Wang Zhong raised a green flag, forming a straight formation;

The Eastern Army drummed again, and Wang Zhong raised the black flag to form a curved formation; the Western Army drummed again, and Tian Jing raised the yellow flag to form a circular formation...

The two armies changed their formations, because most of the second guards were taken out of Hanye City by Lian Hongye to clean up the surrounding horse thieves, so here only the first guard and the third guard were practicing with each other.

As an opening ceremony, the exercise was vigorous but short.After five formations, thousands of people will return.After all, there will be a mixed drill of bows, guns, and swords later, and the competition between commanders and generals will be the highlight of the drill.But before the main event, there was a more exciting project - "Wuqi", which started with the sound of drums.

Ye Ziqi raised his fist to the right, and another fist appeared to touch him lightly.

Gu Feng was wearing the same "pawn" clothes as him, and the two of them stepped into the chess field together.

On the pointing platform, the attendants brought a pair of precious jade chessboards, with blue and white black chess pieces and glazed red chess pieces, a total of 32 pieces.

One of the chief guards, Bai Chengyan, immediately stood up and sang to Bai Chengjiong: "In the four northern countries, each of the four northern countries has its own uniqueness in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Father Wang is only famous for chess, and it has long been known in Kyushu. People come to watch martial arts and chess today. In order to see the demeanor of my father's chess king, I have a chess guard, and I am willing to be driven by my father!"

Bai Chengjiong said: "This year Hong Ye is not in the city, who can I match up with?"

Baichengshuang immediately stood up and said, "I would like to join the fun with my father."

She said this because the black chess pawns who fought against the red flag pawns of the first guard were composed of soldiers from the second and third guards, and most of them were her pawns from the three guards.

If someone else came to play chess with the king, he might not dare to take a single piece, so let the king kill all the "black chess".

Everyone in the country of Ju knows that the leader of the country is good at chess, and she, Baichengshuang, is probably the only one who dares to win the game.Therefore, Baichengshuang immediately stood up and stood up for his soldiers.

"Sure, let's fight Shuang'er." Baicheng Jiong said.

So 32 elite soldiers stepped into the arena. On the uniforms were written the chess pieces each person played. Each side had: one general, two warriors, two bishops, two horses, two rooks, two bows, and five pawns.

Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng are both pawns of black chess, with the simplest equipment.The "horse" is cavalry, and the "car" is a chariot, with the strongest combat effectiveness.

The red chess moves first, Baicheng Jiong moves a piece, and an attendant runs to the front of the stage, and tells the special ordering officer the chess plan. After hearing this, the ordering officer raises the red flag, and shouts towards the school ground to exercise internal strength: "Gong Erping!" five!"

Following Baichengshuang's movement, the commander raised the black chess piece again, and shouted: "Ma eight into seven!"

"Two into three!"

"Bow eight into two!"

……

The two sides lined up troops, and the soldiers obeyed the order of the commander, and walked back and forth on the "chessboard" area specially designated for a hundred feet long and wide on the school grounds.

"Bow three into three, eat horse!"

Suddenly, the first order to capture was given.

(End of this chapter)