After hearing that Xu Huai said that Wang Hua, Wang Zhang, Zhou Quan, Zhou Yong, Shi Xiong, Shi Hu and others would be kept by his side to serve as bodyguards, Niu Er's ugly face suddenly became more energetic and he came over to ask.
: "They are all considered bodyguards, are they all under my command?"
Except for Niu Er, Xu Huai had no special bodyguards around him before. They were all drawn from those on duty when needed.
On the one hand, Xu Huai takes the lead, and the generals around him bear extremely dangerous and heavy combat tasks, which need to be shared among more soldiers. On the other hand, Xu Huai also uses this method to ensure wider contact with the grassroots generals.
This resulted in Niu Er's meritorious service being promoted to the rank of general, but he did not have a single soldier to dispatch.
"Then you have to be able to convince them to be mediocre!" Xu Huai said with a smile.
"I also smashed twelve large shields of my enemy today. Although I am not as good as you and Grandpa Qi, one of you is holding a Mo Dao and the other is holding an iron spear. You also took advantage of it!" Niu Er shouted, not satisfied with today's results.
Ideal, I am still very unconvinced.
"To lead an army and a general, you need to know how to form a camp and a military formation. Have you learned this?" Xu Huai asked.
"There are too many people, but I can still command twenty or thirty people!" Niu Ersheng was afraid that Xu Huai wouldn't believe it, so he shouted, "If the military princes don't believe it, I will ask them to come out of the camp and set up many military formations for you to see...
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"We're not in a hurry now, we'll talk about it after dawn!" Xu Huai smiled and told Niu Er to calm down and drink until the sky turned white before returning to the camp to rest.
Niu Er was thinking about this, so he didn't sleep well after returning to the camp. When he opened his eyes and saw the bright light, he broke into Xu Huai's tent and wanted to drag him up to see how he manipulated the military formation and battle formation of twenty or thirty people.
Xu Huai fought hard yesterday and suffered several arrow wounds on his body. After that, many things happened one after another. He had to go to bed at dawn. He didn't expect that he had neglected his words. After sleeping for an hour, he called Niu Er to run over.
Harassment.
Xu Huai had no choice but to trick Niu Er into going to Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and the others to test their skills, and wait until he had had enough sleep to talk about other matters, so as not to bother him again.
Daily military affairs were handled by Guo Jun, assisted by Wang Ju and others. Xu Huai slept until the sun was tilted and then woke up. When he walked out of the tent, he saw Niu Er standing in front of the tent wearing armor and holding a shield, while Wang Hua, Wang Zhang, Shi Hu and others
Everyone changed their hands to a long-handled Modao, and they were practicing the Modao formation in a decent manner.
"Why, are you just asking this stupid cow to surrender?" Xu Huai asked, seeing that Wang Hua and others' faces were stained with sweat, presumably because they had been practicing for a while, and signaled them to stop.
Wang Zhang was one year younger than Wang Hua, but he was astute. He was actually the leader of the Wang family and the generals' children in Huayin County, followed by Wang Hua and Shi Hu, Shi Xiong and Zhou Yongsan who were the best among the family generals' children.
Wang Zhang came over and told Xu Huai about the situation in which they were grabbed by Niu Er before noon: "General Yashan is indeed very brave. We are in the military formation, and with the combined strength of two or three people, it is difficult for us to break through."
With this iron shield in his hand, I am convinced of defeat and willing to accept his leadership."
For more than a year, Niu Er followed the method taught by Xu Huai and worked hard to practice the python stake, and he has entered the realm where body and mind are in harmony.
To put it bluntly, Niu Er has already possessed the intuitive reaction ability of a martial arts practitioner, overcoming the fatal disadvantages of clumsy and delayed reactions. When faced with the opponent's extremely fast killing blade or the sharp cluster caused by rapid shooting,
Niu Er has been able to quickly block through intuitive reflexes. Instead of seeing his opponent coming to kill him, he has to go through it in his mind first and think of what moves to block.
In terms of mastering martial arts, Niu Er has naturally reached the state of "the strength is broken but the intention is continuous, and the intention is followed by the strength".
Although this is only the basic requirement for mastering the second-level sword skills, boxing skills, spear skills and continuous arrows, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Wang Xian and others have already entered this realm when they were fifteen or sixteen years old, but the strength of martial arts, high-level
Mastery of martial arts is not the only decisive factor.
Niu Er is born with supernatural power, and his power is long-lasting and strong. He can hold an iron shield with a large covering area as a weapon for a long time. He only needs to master the two-stage shield attack technique to withstand five stages of others in the military formation.
A fast attack with six levels of sword and spear power.
Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others are limited by their growth conditions. Even if their martial arts are not excellent, they can all master the second and third levels of the python spear. They are considered to be good players in the army. If they use joint attack and guerrilla fighting.
Of course, it is possible for two or three people to defeat Niu Er.
However, in the military formation, two or three good players attack from the front in a narrow fan-shaped or triangular formation. It is really difficult to defeat Niu Er holding a heavy shield, unless his energy can be exhausted first.
All.
In the fierce battle between the two armies, it was obviously difficult for them to find an opportunity to exhaust Niu Er's strength.
Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and the others were convinced. Apart from being unable to fight, the more important factor was that only after dawn did they truly know how brilliant the results of the Tongbai Mountain soldiers were in yesterday's attack on the enemy stronghold in Qingquangou.
Thousands of people attacked the enemy stronghold where seven to eight thousand enemy soldiers were defending, killing the enemy soldiers without any defense. They killed 600 enemy soldiers on the spot, forcing five to six thousand enemy soldiers to flee to the northern slope of Songshan Mountain, which was clearly occupied by the enemy soldiers.
Although they had an absolute advantage, they did not dare to counterattack Qingquangou Village. In the end, they could only watch Xu Huai retreat with more than a thousand troops.
In the decisive street fighting, Xu Huai and Wang Ju always took the lead, leading the most elite soldiers to fight in the front line as the sharp edge troops. This also determined that the casualties of Tongbai Mountain soldiers were minimal, and Cao's division was able to cause a small number of remaining elite troops to flee.
After leaving the stronghold, Han Wende, Ling Jian and other troops entered the stronghold and chased and defeated them, with very limited casualties.
Yesterday's battle can be said to be a complete victory.
Early this morning, in addition to five to six hundred heads piled in front of the camp to boost morale, more than 600 prisoners were gathered back into the camp during the night. It is expected that several times more prisoners will be gathered from the northern slope of Songshan Mountain in the future.
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The disastrous defeat of the Second Allied Forces to Defeat Yan was a taboo topic among the Western Army.
The Xuanwu Army and the Xiaosheng Army are part of the Western Army. At the same time, many generals in the Western Army have unclear and unclear relationships with Cai Qing. How could Zheng Huaizhong and others allow the people below to talk about the Xuanwu Army and the Xiaosheng Army?
Collapse?
Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others had only heard some general rumors about the performance of Tongbai Mountain soldiers in Shuozhou. After all, Zheng Huaizhong and others could not completely silence the perpetrators, but they knew very little about the details and could not talk about it.
What a profound impression there is.
Last night, Xu Huai said that he would keep them by his side as bodyguards. Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others were still a little disappointed. They thought that as direct descendants of the Wang family, they should receive greater treatment after recognizing each other.
Pay attention to.
However, after truly understanding the achievements of Tongbai Mountain's soldiers, and then competing with Niu Er, who looked fuzzy and clumsy at first, they were truly convinced.
"Junhou, Wang Hua, and Wang Zhang are all convinced. You shouldn't deny it, right?" Niu Er came over and asked with a guilty conscience.
"Since they are willing to accept your command, you are worthy of your reputation as a bodyguard and general. However, they should not practice foot formations first, but first practice riding skills!" Xu Huai said.
If the situation is at its worst and he has to personally help King Jing escape from Bianliang City, he can only lead a small group of elite cavalry to Wang Hua. Wang Zhang and the others are restricted by their growth conditions and cannot be good at cavalry warfare. They are not even good at cavalry.
How many opportunities do they have to ride horses? If they want to follow him in the future, they need to receive intensive training in riding skills now.
Of course, the basic skills of Wang Hua and Wang Zhang are not weak, and the ups and downs of Fu Python Zhuang include the virtual and solid steps of the feet, the ups and downs between the legs, waist and hips, and the entanglement between the shoulders and arms.
It has something in common with basic riding skills. It even evolved from riding skills and is also the basis of riding combat.
In layman's terms, an agile person can learn to ride a horse much faster than an ordinary person, and his riding skills will also be much better than an ordinary person's.
Therefore, the riding skills of the red warriors who grew up on horses since childhood are much better than those of the people of Dai Viet, but this gap is not an insurmountable gap for martial arts practitioners.
"That's right," Niu Er patted the back of his head and shouted, "They will all follow the military princes from now on. How can they do it if they don't know how to ride a horse? I'm really stupid! I'll help them find horses.
go!"
Seeing Niu Er roaring in a hurry to find a horse, Xu Huai stopped him and said:
"Whenever you have to do it, when can it be done well? You have to learn to assign work so that everyone has something to do and perform their duties. Just like in a military formation, the most important thing for everyone is to guard
Face to face, rather than trying to cover everything. In this way, I will let Wang Hua and Wang Zhang serve as your lieutenants. You must discuss everything with them in advance, and then they will assign the work..."
At this time, Xu Huai saw Lu Xiong and Zhou Jing walking out of a tent to the east. Several people had already changed into casual clothes and were waiting in front of the tent with horses equipped with luggage. He knew that they were waiting for him to sleep in the tent.
After waking up, we officially set off.
Xu Huai said to Niu Er: "Ask Wang Zhang to do the job of finding horses, and you come with me."
Xu Huai walked toward Lu Xiong and Zhou Jing and said, "Have you bid farewell to His Highness?"
"I've already said goodbye," Lu Xiong said. "I said that you are worried about the outspoken nature of the king, and are afraid that he will have another dispute with Wang Qiyong, Wang Boqian and others who advocated peace. This will not help the matter, and may also harm him.
If you are squeezed out of Beijing again, I will be asked to rush back to Bianliang to persuade you to be patient for the time being."
The fight for heirs obviously cannot be discussed openly, and it is also urgent to persuade Wang Cun to be patient. The real war faction in the court has never really gained power. If Wang Cun angers Emperor Tianxuan again, he will be demoted from the capital, or be dismissed by the king.
Qi Yong and others used other excuses to crowd out the capital, which would be a huge blow to the main war faction still remaining in the capital.
Simply to prevent the Chihu people from invading the south again, Xu Huai absolutely hoped that Wang Zhen could temporarily tolerate it and stay in Bianliang.
"Then I'll see Master Lu off first, and then I'll go see His Highness!" Xu Huai asked someone to bring the horse over and see Lu Xiong off in person. Zhou Jing left the camp and headed south, bypassing Ruzhou and returning to Bianliang...