lucky star girl

Chapter 152 Promotion
King Duan has led the army for many years, so he naturally has elite soldiers and good generals.

Just out of consideration for Xu Shiqiu's face, when selecting candidates, King Duan only chose half of them to come with him. He thought he could defeat the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade.

He randomly selected the remaining half from the barracks and other generals.

According to King Duan's estimation, even if the people he brought beat the people from the Iron Eagle Brigade, the Iron Eagle Brigade still had a half chance of being tied with the people he selected.

King Duan thought well, but when 100 people from the two sides actually fought, he realized that he had really underestimated the strength of the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade.

Different from other soldiers, the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade are killing moves as soon as they make a move, they will not retreat and evade, and they will attack from beginning to end.

"Shiqiu, have they been attacking?"

King Duan looked at Xu Shiqiu puzzledly, but when Xu Shiqiu heard what King Duan said, he just nodded and said: "Return to King Duan, the best defense on the battlefield is to attack. The two armies are fighting so closely, and it is impossible to use a large-scale attack." The army can only win if it keeps fighting and attacking."

As soon as Xu Shiqiu finished speaking, Emperor Ruikang wanted to ask him if he was not afraid of casualties in this arrangement?

Who knows that before he asked, Duan Wang nodded and said: "Your arrangement is really good. I saw that they cooperated well. It must be because they have been training for a long time?"

After King Duan's words fell, Emperor Ruikang took a closer look at the school field below, and recognized that although the 50 people in the Iron Eagle Brigade were small, they were still five people fighting in one direction neatly. rush.

After seeing this, Emperor Ruikang looked at Xu Shiqiu with a little more appreciation than before.

But at this moment, Xu Shiqiu suddenly looked at King Duan and replied, "Actually, they didn't train deliberately, because that's how they train on weekdays."

If it was the beginning, if Xu Shiqiu said that, Duan Wang would definitely not believe it, but now he chooses to believe Xu Shiqiu.

Because while they were talking, the winner had already been decided in the school field below.

Of the 25 soldiers specially selected by King Duan from among his own soldiers, less than ten defeated the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade.

You know, the soldiers around King Duan have all followed him to the battlefield.

As for the battle against the Iron Eagle Brigade, the remaining 25 people selected from other generals in the army were all defeated by the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade.

"It's really worthy of being the Iron Eagle Brigade, they deserve this name."

After Duan Wang gave this evaluation, he went to Emperor Ruikang and explained to Ruikang Emperor the battle between the two parties in detail.

With Duan Wang's professional narration, Emperor Ruikang understood how difficult it is for the Iron Eagle Brigade to have such a victory today.

"Shi Qiu really deserves to be a general. He really puts his heart into these soldiers." Emperor Ruikang hadn't seen such an ambitious young man for a long time. Thinking of his original arrangement, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: " It seems that I was too careful before, if I let Shi Qiu recruit more soldiers from the beginning, maybe there will be more people in the heroic Iron Eagle Brigade today."

Before coming today, King Duan had communicated with Emperor Ruikang in advance and knew that the emperor's brother was going to promote Xu Shiqiu.

So when he heard Emperor Ruikang's words at this time, King Duan immediately answered, "It's not too late now, as long as the emperor has the heart, I think Shi Qiuding is also willing to train more soldiers from the Iron Eagle Brigade."

As soon as King Duan finished speaking, Emperor Ruikang's eyes fell on Xu Shiqiu.

Sensing Ruikangdi's eyes, Xu Shiqiu immediately saluted and said: "The general will do his best to train more qualified soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade and protect our country forever!"

"it is good!"

Almost at the moment when Xu Shiqiu's voice fell, Duan Wang couldn't wait to say 'yes'.

Hearing his approval, and seeing Emperor Ruikang looking at Xu Shiqiu with satisfaction, the officials who followed Emperor Ruikang naturally praised Xu Shiqiu.

Ye Jingxing, on the other hand, just echoed twice without saying anything.

He saw clearly just now that his second son fought against a soldier who was much taller and stronger than him, but he was not afraid at all, and he struck fiercely, and it didn't take long for him to defeat the opponent.

Seeing Ye Shuo's changes now, Ye Jingxing felt so unhappy.

Ye Jinghui also noticed his fifth brother's excitement. He scanned down and guessed why his fifth brother was so excited.

"Father, don't forget about the soldiers who fought just now. I saw that some of them were very good. How about you just give them an official status today?"

Only Ye Jinghui dared to say such words to Emperor Ruikang in such a nonsensical tone.

And everyone present also understood that Ye Jinghui would say that because among the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade selected by Xu Shiqiu just now, in addition to the second son of the fifth prince's family, there were also several sons of civil servants above the court. The eldest grandson of Buliu Shangshu was also among them.

Emperor Ruikang naturally understood what Ye Jinghui meant, and he was also willing to give these children an official position.

For those low-level military officers of the seventh and eighth rank, it doesn't matter if he seals up some more today.

Presumably with official positions, these children who were not valued at home can also do something for the court within their ability.

Emperor Ruikang was in a good mood, and because he had promised Empress Hu to give the Xu family some compensation, he promoted Xu Shiqiu's official position to the third rank, General Dingyuan, in front of everyone.

When he was promoted, Xu Shiqiu naturally wanted to express his gratitude. For the remaining low-level military officers of the seventh and eighth rank, Emperor Ruikang would arrange for the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War to record the names of the soldiers who performed well in the Iron Eagle Brigade after Xu Shiqiu sent them up. case.

According to Xu Shiqiu's plan, after the morning arrangements were over, he would entertain Emperor Ruikang and others for a meal in the barracks at noon.

Naturally, the food in the military camp was not very delicate, but King Duan ate it with relish, and said that he hadn't eaten such an authentic military camp big pot meal for many years.

It was also the first time for Emperor Ruikang to eat these. The servants around him thought that Emperor Ruikang would not be able to eat these rough foods, but he did not expect that Emperor Ruikang not only ate them, but also used more rice today than in the palace before. .

"Your Majesty, you need to walk around more every day. When the last general was still at home, he couldn't eat so much food." Xu Shiqiu was like a junior who cared about his elders. After saying this, he still laughed Pointing to a bowl of cold salad aside, he said: "This dish is a recipe my wife thought of. The soldiers in the barracks all like to eat it. It is easy to make and very appetizing. Your Majesty might as well use less of this dish."

Rui Kangdi enjoyed the feeling of being cared by Xu Shiqiu. His sons, except Lao Qi, would not care so much about him.

As for his son caring about him, Emperor Ruikang might worry that he had other calculations in mind, but Xu Shiqiu's concern made him very relieved.

The cold salad was not so cold at the entrance, perhaps because the weather has entered autumn, the cold salad tasted slightly sour, and with this cold salad, Ruikangdi ate another half bowl of rice.

After lunch, Emperor Ruikang went to rest for a while in the military tent that Xu Shiqiu had prepared, and after Emperor Ruikang went to take a lunch break, King Duan found Xu Shiqiu and praised him severely.

"Don't dare to be a prince to praise so much, Shi Qiu just did this with his heart."

Hearing Xu Shiqiu's words, King Duan couldn't help but sighed: "The most rare thing these days is the word 'intention'. Seeing that you have gained a firm foothold in the army, your father must have no regrets."

Xu Shiqiu understood why King Duan said that. His father was very sad because his eldest brother and second brother didn't like military affairs, and felt that he had no successor.

At that time, he really liked these things, but because of his bad luck, he couldn't go out.

So his father must have passed away with regrets.

After King Duan finished speaking, seeing Xu Shiqiu's longing expression, he couldn't help reminding: "Now you have a third-rank official status, and if you go up, you should go outside for a while."

Xu Shiqiu understood why King Duan said that. When he was promoted again, he would definitely have to go out and stay for a while.

Although a military officer is different from a civil servant, if he really wanted to climb to a high position, he had to go out and practice.

What's more, Xu Shiqiu had long thought of leaving the capital and going out for a walk. The Iron Eagle Brigade under him could only become qualified soldiers of the Iron Eagle Brigade if he went out and saw blood.

But Xu Shiqiu didn't know at this time that this opportunity would come soon.

(End of this chapter)