Chapter 482: Delivery, Delivery

While the Jingshan Army set off, other participating troops also set off one after another.

Of course, the Imperial Guards set out from Zhongdu City. They lined up from the barracks in the imperial city, passed through Chengtian Gate, and deliberately walked out of the city on Fuxi Street... Although it was obvious that they should go to the west gate, the emperor insisted on leaving the city from the south gate. What do you think there is any way?

However, the publicity effect of this was very good. I saw that the 10,000-strong golden armored imperial guards were wearing red cloaks and holding silver halberds. The military appearance was very neat, and he rode a tall horse with a mighty and majestic appearance. The people in Zhongdu were dazzling and couldn't help but shout, "How might it be! Great Qin!"

Listening to this exciting voice, Shen Zilan Shen Biwei was full of excitement and said to the Sixth Prince on the side: "Did you see it? They are cheering at us!"

Although Qin Zhan was a few years younger than him, he was obviously much more calm. He glanced at the fanatical people and sneered: "What do the foolish people know?" In his opinion, if other troops passed by from now on, they would still cheer.

Shen Zilan curled her lips boredly, no longer talking to the "Sixth Brother" who was secretly tested, but instead looked at the deputy commander behind her and said, "Deputy Commander Ma, you can be properly promoted after you come back this time, right?"

Ma Guangzu was a very old general with mediocre qualifications and limited abilities. In fact, he was willing to accompany the last seat among the five major captains of the Imperial Guards. He knew very well that the reason why the emperor chose himself, an old guy who could not convince the public was that he did not want authority in the Imperial Guards, and thus developed a sense of second thought.

'But without authority, there is no soul.' Ma Guangzu smiled bitterly in his heart, looked at Shen Zilan with a thorn on his butt, and said lightly: "Don't make noise during the march." He was very unaware of this kid. When will the sacred golden armored imperial guard become a nursery?

Shen Zilan wanted to get close to the deputy commander, but unexpectedly she was bored. She turned around in a bad mood and cursed silently. Qin Zhan looked at it, reached out to pat his arm, and said softly: "Don't care, the deputy commander is such a person."

Shen Zilan looked at him gratefully and said to himself: "It's better for your own brother."

The team walked out of the south gate of the capital and walked around in circles to the northwest. Early spring was still short, and after walking less than forty miles, it was dark. Ma Guangzu ordered the camp to set up a tent and bury the pot to cook.

After patrolling the camp, Deputy Commander Ma returned to the central army tent. He was about to take off his armor and wash his face and eat, but he heard from the reports from the personal soldiers outside the tent: "His Royal Highness of the Prince of Longwei is here to visit."

Ma Guangzu frowned, put on his helmet again and said, "Open the middle door and welcome the fifth prince." After that, he hurried out to greet him.

Sure enough, he saw the fifth highman in military uniform at the entrance of the camp, and hurriedly let him into the camp and talked in the central military tent.

After some greetings, Qin Lei glanced at him, and Ma Guangzu hesitated for a moment, and he still sent all the accompanying generals away.

"General Ma, do you have any predictions about the results of this military exercise?" Qin Lei smiled and said, "Everyone is from a corps, so don't think about fooling me."

"Well..." Ma Guangzu thought hesitantly. Before he set off, His Majesty summoned him and indirectly told him not to get too close to the fifth prince. He didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Seeing that he was hesitant, Qin Lei was not in a hurry and said slowly: "If General Ma is hard to say, let me tell you," and said, "It's just two possibilities. First, we won, but that's because of Your Majesty's wise and good leadership, not your credit. Second, if we lose, you will have all the responsibility, and it is inevitable that you will be dismissed and investigated."

After hearing the prince's words, Ma Guangzu's expression gradually became stiff and he said in a stern voice: "If you win... you should still have made a contribution, right?" If he hadn't had a glimmer of hope in his heart, he wouldn't have bitten the bullet and led the army into battle.

Qin Lei pulled the corner of his mouth slightly upward, and smiled faintly: "Everyone will make contributions, but you won't." As he said that, he nodded his mouth towards Zhongdu, and said almost cruelly: "Because there are people who have chosen the Imperial Guard Commander, your Deputy Commander Ma is just a transitional figure."

Ma Guangzu's face suddenly turned pale and he asked in a trembling voice: "Who will it be?"

"Qin Zhan." Qin Lei said softly: "Your Majesty has promoted you to free him as a lieutenant. In this military exercise, you can find a reason to get you punished and make a contribution, so that you can get him to the position."

Ma Guangzu was silent for a while, and finally nodded depressedly and said, "I said why others didn't choose, but chose me... a mediocre person," he said, smiling self-deprecatingly: "It turns out that he was deliberately asking me to be a toilet."

Qin Lei added fire again and said, "It's not a good idea if you lose or win, that's it."

But Ma Guangzu is not a fool either. After a moment of anger and loss, he quickly came back and looked at Qin Lei steadily and said, "Prince, please tell me if you have anything to do. It was impossible for a low-level position to do it, but it still couldn't be done now."

Qin Lei shook his head, changed into a Maitreya Buddha-like smile and said, "Sir Ma has a disagreement, Xiao Wang is here to help you share your worries..."

"Share the worries?" Ma Guangzu said with a gloomy face: "What should the prince do?"

Qin Lei pointed to the golden dragon Tengyun Banner on the wall and said, "Give me this to me, it is equivalent to giving me the responsibility."

Ma Guangzu suddenly said, "You are here for this!" and shook his head firmly and said, "No! Your Majesty has instructed the flag to be there, and the flag to be there." Although Ma Guangzu's qualifications are mediocre, his loyalty is the same, which is also an important reason why Emperor Zhaowu chose him.

Qin Lei laughed dryly, changed to a serious face and said, "I have absolutely confidential information, I am willing to share it with General Ma."

"What information?" Ma Guangzu tightened all over and thought to himself: "Don't be bad news."

"The law does not pass on Liu Er." Qin Lei lowered his voice and said, "Let your personal soldiers go out, and the general comes to his ears."

Ma Guangzu was already stunned by Qin Lei. He didn't think much about it when he heard this, so he waved his hand to repel his personal soldiers, got up and walked to Qin Lei's table.

Qin Lei waved his hand with a solemn expression, and Ma Guangzu bent down and stretched his big head in front of him... his posture was quite ambiguous.

Qin Lei put his mouth to Ma Guangzu's ear and whispered: "This news is... I have a knife that has been placed on your neck..."

Ma Guangzu felt a chill on his neck and felt the bones fluttering. He knew that his neck was about to be killed, and his expression changed rapidly. He was about to warn him, but Qin Lei tightly strangled his throat, so he couldn't even breathe, let alone make a sound.

"Don't try to struggle. The Gu Wang once cut off Prime Minister Wen's head with his own hands." Anyway, Qin Lei said nonsense. As he said that, he winked at Shi Gan, and he quickly walked over, took out an almost identical flag from his bag, and replaced it with the side hanging on the wall.

Looking at the wall that seemed to have no change, Qin Lei whispered: "Old Ma, you have to figure it out. If you can always protect the battle flag, then no one can see the flaws. If you can't protect the battle flag, the Lone King will save you. Apart from Uncle Lei Feng, the only one can do this kind of good deed of self-sacrificing oneself and being a good person."

‘Who is Uncle Lei Feng?’ Ma Guangzu thought wildly. He had already agreed with Qin Lei’s statement and nodded and stopped struggling.

Shi Gan came over to put a cloak on Ma Guangzu, Qin Lei moved the dagger to his waist and eyes, inserted it accurately through the gap of the Mingguang armor, and the sharp blade pressed against the skin and said, "There is a 'blood-sealing throat' on the dagger, you can do it yourself."

Ma Guangzu smiled bitterly and said, "Prince, you are too worried. Hu Zhi will not cause trouble for yourself..."

Qin Lei grinned and said, "You must be careful of others..."

Ma Guangzu was ashamed...

The generals outside the tent saw the deputy commander and the prince pushing their arms out, two big and thick bodies leaning tightly together, and the sticky and powerful... very broken sleeves...

"Haha, General Ma is so polite." Qin Lei laughed and said, "Stay on your way..."

"Send, send off..." Ma Guangzu said with a dry smile.

The two of them walked through the military camp like one-piece man and walked to the front of the gate.

"Stay on your way..." Qin Lei said goodbye again.

"Send, send off..." Ma Guangzu reluctantly smiled, and turned back to the accompanying generals: "You will go back to the camp, I will send you to the prince alone."

Seeing that they were so intimate, the generals felt a sense of drowsiness, but they didn't feel anything wrong, so they bowed to Qin Lei.

He pulled Ma Guangzu out of the second miles away from the Imperial Guard, and Qin Lei let go and said, "I am wronged by General."

Ma Guangzu rubbed his stiff arms, smiled bitterly, and said frankly: "Prince, why are you doing this? This thing is definitely the target of public criticism and will attract all your attention."

Qin Lei took the dagger back into his arms and said calmly: "Just because of our split appearance, are we qualified to drum against each other with our opponents?"

Ma Guangzu looked dark and sighed softly: "Why are you doing this? What's wrong with carrying out Your Majesty's will?"

"Because I want to win, my army wants to win." Qin Lei smiled and turned over to horses and said, "Goodbye, General Ma!"

After saying that, he rode his horse and whipped it, leaving the dust, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

Looking at the direction of Qin Lei leaving, Ma Guangzu was speechless for a long time.

His personal soldiers rushed over and a captain asked, "Sir, why is it so strange today? You have never seen guests."

Ma Guangzu silently twisted his beard, turned over and said, "It's okay, go back." Everyone had to suppress the doubts in their hearts and follow him to the camp.

On the evening of February 19th, the Jingshan New Army arrived in Wushan.

They were not the first to arrive. The Hu Ben and the Iron Armored Army had already arrived here one step ahead of schedule.

Seeing the prince's battle flag coming from afar, Huangfu Zhanwen and Shen Wei hurriedly met him.

Qin Lei laughed and bowed to them, then turned over and dismounted, surrounded by the generals of the three armies, and walked towards the temporary camp.

After a simple dinner, Qin Lei entered the camp with the two generals. After a secret talk overnight, the next day, Hu Ben and the Iron Armored Army left Wushan and entered the battlefield first. Of course, the same time they set out were also joint supervisors composed of the two parties. These people would be responsible for supervising the specific implementation of the military exercise rules and reporting the process to the observation team in a timely manner.

At noon on the 20th, the Shenwu Army and the Imperial Guard also arrived in Wushan one after another. After a short rest, they entered the battlefield early the next morning.

According to the latest information, the four opponents' four troops have all entered the battlefield.

Qin Lei and his Jingshan Army stayed on Wushan, as if they were here to camp. It was not until the evening of the 22nd that, under the repeated urging of the supervisor, they reluctantly entered the battlefield.

A small black card was hung around the neck of the soldiers of Jingshan Army. This thing is the survival proof during the exercise. Without this card, it means death... All movements must be stopped, stay in place, waiting to be contained. If someone dares to attack or move at will without the sign, he will be sentenced to one hundred people killed in battle for the convenience of his place, which is absolutely not worth the loss... This is also a supplementary regulation for the loopholes that occurred in the last military exercise.

After the Jingshan Army also entered the battlefield, all nine armies participating in the exercise, 100,000 troops were in place. After that, they would have six days of free time to build camps, occupy favorable terrain, and concealment, etc., but they could not attack each other, nor leave the exercise area. They could attack freely until after the twenty-eight days.

On the morning of the 27th, His Majesty the Emperor and the Grand Marshal also led a huge observation team to the edge of the battlefield. They will watch the military exercise throughout the whole process and decide the final victory or defeat.

The troops that stood in front of the observation group had already set up huge tents and hung a thick curtain on the wall. On the curtain was a map of the war zone with a large proportion. Through this map as big as a wall, every hill and every small river in the military exercise area were vividly remembered.

The two big figures will also learn about the progress of the entire military exercise through this map.

"The Grand Marshal is here!" With a call, the old Grand Marshal, who was white in his beard and had a strong muscle, appeared at the door of the big tent. The busy little officers in the tent quickly put down their work and stood up to salute.

Li Hun snorted lightly, glanced at the empty dragon throne, and sat down under it.

An officer presented fruits, wine and food, and soon there was a dazzling array of people. Ren Taiwei took it.

But Taiwei Li was obviously more interested in the map. He glanced at the colorful arrows on it and said slowly: "What's the situation..."

A senator from the Ministry of War quickly reported: "Return to Taiwei, based on the latest information sent back last night, we have marked the locations of each army on the map." As he said, he pointed to the map with a bamboo whip and said: "Blue represents the Tiance Army, brown represents the Polu Army, green represents the Yingyang Army, and red represents the Longxiang Army..."

Li Hun nodded, looked at the map with his eyes narrowed, and saw his four armies entrenched in the middle of the battlefield. He heard the senator continue to report: "Our army has built a solid camp at the foot of the Mati Mountain. It is expected that it will rely on this to concentrate superior forces and gradually encroach on the enemy."

"Where is the other party?" Li Hun asked expressionlessly.

The Senator was about to speak, and heard a sound outside the tent: "Your Majesty is here..."

Everyone quickly put down their work again and knelt down to welcome His Majesty the Emperor.

Emperor Zhaowu rarely wore a golden armor, slowly walked into the tent, sat on the dragon throne, smiled at Taiwei Li and said, "What's the situation?"

Li Hun rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know either." After that, he sat down and said to the senator, "Why don't you tell your Majesty?"
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