lucky star girl

Chapter 151 Battle
For this day, Xu Shiqiu prepared for a long time, and he didn't go home for two nights. Instead, he lived in the barracks with his soldiers.

Although Dong Shu was anxious, she couldn't go to watch.

Not only her, but Queen Hu also had no way to go to the barracks to watch.

Because of the rules of the military camp, women are not allowed to enter.

There used to be such a military rule to prevent soldiers from being greedy for sex and pleasure, but now it has become a reason to prevent all women from entering the barracks.

Apart from King Duan, among the princes who accompanied Emperor Ruikang to the military camp this year, Ye Jingxing and the Seventh Prince Ye Jinghui had this honor.

As for the third and sixth princes, one was sorting out housework at home, and the other was habitually forgotten by Emperor Ruikang.

Even Ye Jingxing and Ye Jinghui, Emperor Ruikang also felt that he brought Ye Jingxing out because his son was here, but Ye Jinghui followed him because he was acting like a baby.

The few remaining princes who are still young have no existence in front of Emperor Ruikang, and the status of their birth mothers is almost low. Naturally, they have no chance to ask Emperor Ruikang to go out of the palace with him.

In order to see the recruits trained by Xu Shiqiu, Emperor Ruikang specially dealt with the matters in his hands two days in advance, and left the capital early this morning with his younger brother, two sons and a few confidants.

When Emperor Ruikang left, Ye Jingxing also asked his confidant to send a letter to Xu Shiqiu, so when Emperor Ruikang thought he came secretly, Xu Shiqiu had actually been waiting for him for a long time.

The new army consisted of about 500 people. Except for the 1000 auxiliary soldiers, 500 of the remaining [-] people formed the elite Iron Eagle Brigade, which was taken from the Iron Eagle Guards of Qin State.

The soldiers of this brigade not only had to learn common combat techniques, but also practice equestrianism. They were qualified to be as proficient in horse combat as in foot combat, and able to use any weapon.

In Xu Shiqiu's eyes, the current Iron Eagle Brigade is actually not qualified. Although there are three months, it still takes a lot of effort to train them to be like Qin's iron eagle guards.

And the iron eagle guards are all elites in hundreds of battles, but the iron eagle brigade in his hands has not experienced any battles yet.

According to Xu Shiqiu's budget, after these 500 people went through a few battles, it would be good to keep 400 people, but he also knew that this was impossible.

If he wanted to be like the Iron Eagle Guard, it would be impossible within a few years. Even if there were not a hundred battles for him to fight, there would be at least seventy or eighty battles before he could barely be called the Iron Eagle Brigade. .

After Xu Shiqiu met Emperor Ruikang, he told Emperor Ruikang what he thought.

He doesn't want to be a general who stays in the capital safely. He wants to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy. The soldiers under him also need to experience themselves through the battlefield.

Emperor Ruikang had never led a soldier. Although he knew the name Iron Eagle Guard, he didn't understand what an elite like Iron Eagle Guard meant to a general.

But Prince Duan understood.

"Brother Huang, if we really have such an army in our court, then there will be no worries in the frontier." King Duan looked excitedly at Emperor Ruikang after saying this, thought for a while and continued: "Brother Huang, I'm getting old , has lost the original courage. But Shi Qiu has it, and he has started to work hard like this. Brother Huang should give him this opportunity."

Xu Shiqiu didn't expect that King Duan would speak for him. Because of the military affairs before, Xu Shiqiu actually understood that his sister-in-law hated him.

After all, King Duan is the biological father of his sister-in-law. It is true that no one of King Duan's descendants is good at soldiers. This may be because none of King Duan's descendants have inherited his bravery. upbringing.

Everyone in the world knows that generals will sacrifice, not to mention that now he is Emperor Ruikang's younger brother, so he has won the trust of Emperor Ruikang.

But what about the future?

His descendants and the next generation of emperors who will ascend the throne in the future are just cousins, and the blood will be even weaker in the future.

Xu Shiqiu understood that King Duan was a sensible person, so he slowly returned all the military power to Emperor Ruikang while he was still alive.

In this way, relying on the relationship between myself and Emperor Ruikang's brother, if he is gone in the future, his descendants will be able to live in peace as long as they do not seek rebellion.

But King Duan's grandson, Xu Yanhao of Xu's family, has liked to practice martial arts since he was a child, and wanted to be a general.

Back then, my sister-in-law hoped that Yan Hao would take over the military power that his father once held, but she never expected that he would decide to return to Beijing.

Xu Shiqiu thought so much in his mind, but he didn't spend much time. Just as he came back to his senses, Emperor Ruikang nodded to King Duan and said, "Shiqiu is worthy of being Zhenbei's son. He once told me Something like that."

Hearing Emperor Ruikang mention Xu Zhenbei, King Duan couldn't help sighing.

Thinking of the scene where he and Xu Zhenbei fought together on the battlefield, King Duan sighed in his heart, then turned to look at Xu Shiqiu and said, "Shiqiu, since you have such an ambition, why don't you quickly let the soldiers Let's practice."

There are only two or three people who can be so comfortable in front of Emperor Ruikang, especially those who dare to interrupt Ruikangdi when he recalls his old friends, and King Duan is one of them.

As soon as King Duan finished speaking, Emperor Ruikang nodded to Xu Shiqiu.

After receiving Ruikang Emperor's instruction, Xu Shiqiu immediately clasped his fists and performed a military salute: "The last general has orders." After the words fell, Xu Shiqiu turned around and left with a few personal guards, and went to direct the soldiers' upcoming drill.

After Xu Shiqiu left, King Duan looked at Emperor Ruikang and said, "Brother Emperor, I know that you feel guilty for Zhenbei, but since the past has passed, you should not keep thinking about it." Then, Wang Duan paused and continued: "The most important thing is, since you understand what happened back then, you should make a decision earlier."

Hearing what King Duan said, the other people who were leaning against him and Emperor Ruikang took two steps back in a hurry and acted like 'I'm not listening'.

Emperor Ruikang didn't care about the actions of those people. As an emperor, he naturally understood that when he and King Duan talked about this topic, they would not dare to eavesdrop.

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"Brother Duan, they are all of my blood, how can I deal with them ruthlessly." Emperor Ruikang also knew that when he got older, he had a soft heart, which was really bad for an emperor.

Emperor Ruikang saw that the back-end king's face was ugly when he said these things, so he sighed again and continued: "Brother Duan, I already have an idea in my mind about this matter, and I will discuss it with you in some time."

When King Duan heard what Emperor Ruikang said, he naturally couldn't say anything more, not to mention that Xu Shiqiu had already returned to the soldiers at this time, holding the military flag in his hand, and was about to start the military formation drill.

Although Xu Shiqiu had few people under his command, the formation he trained was varied.

Xu Shiqiu first stretched out one hand with the palm facing forward, and then quickly clenched his fist in the air.

As soon as he made a move, all the soldiers under him on the field below focused on him, looking at him, waiting for his new order.

Seeing that the soldiers below were all ready for battle, Xu Shiqiu clenched his fist and quickly made a gesture that others could not understand.

Next, the more than [-] people who had gathered together quickly separated, and then Xu Shiqiu commanded with a military flag.

People who have never led soldiers can only feel that the soldiers on Xu Shiqiu's side are murderous for a while, and retreat neatly and unhurriedly for a while. Before they can recover, the soldiers pretending to be enemies in the army The soldiers under the other generals already had one or two white spots on their bodies.

If you look carefully, you will find that the white spots on these people are almost all in the deadly places, with more throats and hearts, but the retreating soldiers can hardly see any white spots on their bodies.

"This, this is really a man of the tiger." King Duan looked excited, but seeing that the others didn't understand, he hurriedly explained: "This is a drill between the two armies, and the weapons in their hands have been replaced with wooden sticks. The end of the stick is stained with white powder, as long as white spots are left on the opponent during the battle, there will be a professional team to judge whether they are killed in battle."

Almost at the moment when Prince Duan's voice fell, a team of military doctors led by two imperial doctors appeared on the school field below, and began to check the two soldiers who had just left the battlefield.

Although the results at this time have not yet come out, they all know that the team commanded by Xu Shiqiu just now has obviously won.

Although he had already guessed that there was such a possibility, Ruikangdi still felt a little unbelievable.

He originally had confidence in Xu Shiqiu because he was Xu Zhenbei's son. Xu Zhenbei was able to step up from an ordinary soldier to the first-rank general of the country because of his strength and loyalty to him.

Originally, he gave Xu Shiqiu this official position purely for the sake of his old friend, but Emperor Ruikang didn't expect that Xu Shiqiu would actually surprise him.

Before Rui Kangdi and the others at the top came back to their senses, in the school field below, soldiers belonging to Xu Shiqiu's side suddenly walked out from various places.

When these soldiers got together, they immediately lined up in a row of ten people, a total of five rows.

Before Emperor Ruikang and the others guessed what Xu Shiqiu was going to do, Xu Shiqiu had already looked at them and said loudly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, these 50 soldiers were randomly selected by the last general yesterday, and I also ask His Majesty to select warriors from other armies to compete with each other." two."

Hearing Xu Shiqiu's words, Emperor Ruikang just wanted to refuse and say no, he already knew how powerful Xu Shiqiu was, but the next moment, he saw Ye Shuo from the fifth family among the fifty soldiers next to him.

Seeing that his grandson was there, although he was only a bastard, he was still his own grandson after all, Emperor Ruikang naturally wanted to see how he behaved.

King Duan has been paying attention to Emperor Ruikang's expression, and seeing that his expression has changed from unwillingness at the beginning to eagerness to try now, he immediately said: "Brother Emperor, why don't you arrange the fifty warriors for this battle?"

As soon as King Duan said this, Emperor Ruikang understood what he was thinking.

"Okay, since that's the case, I will leave this matter to you to arrange."

Following the words of Emperor Ruikang, although the faces of the fifty soldiers standing in the next school field remained unchanged, they were filled with excitement.

Today is the day when their Iron Eagle Brigade became famous in the capital!
(End of this chapter)