And deserters are not worthy of being treated as soldiers, so everyone can only avoid dying heroically in half a day by training hard.
Just a few days after the formal training started, Li Xu found that the team he led had become a hot commodity. It turned out that because his team was too rigid, many people wanted to switch to other teams for food. But now, not only the team's
People no longer ask others to plead for him to be transferred, but people continue to make requests through Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others, hoping to be transferred to his team.
"The moves taught by Captain Li are very useful!" The soldiers are very smart and know what they need most at the moment. When Li Xu led the team to practice martial arts, he did not focus on routines but on the dismantling of moves, and taught everyone almost every move.
All are simple and effective. Such a team is hard to find. Anyone who doesn’t learn from this will be making fun of his own life.
"Team Li's orthodox teaching's cooperation is very useful. We had a fight at dinner the day before yesterday, and the four of us defeated seven of the other team!" The soldiers under Li Xu proudly showed off. The same combat cooperation, after Li Xu's instructions, immediately
Become practical. Although the change is only a little bit, this little change is simply the difference between life and death.
After hearing these praises, Li Xu trained more seriously. In his mind, this was also a way for him to repay Duke Tang. The skills of dismantling moves came from the coppersmith master, and the formation changes and cooperation came from Xu Dayan. These accumulations
The acquired knowledge and experience were integrated with his own actual combat experience, and it became Li's unique military training method.
Tang Gong Li Yuan apparently also noticed Li Xu's efficiency in military training. A few days later, Li Shimin came again to ask about Li Xu's apprenticeship under the pretext of asking for advice on archery skills.
"Brother Zhongjian, from which famous general did you learn your military training skills?" Li Shimin chased after him and asked. Since he lost to Li Xu in the arrow contest that day, he would go to the military camp to ask Li Xu for advice almost every three or five days.
Archery. With the idea of repaying Duke Tang's kindness, Li Xu was very dedicated in teaching him.
"I learned the formation and coordination from brother Maogong, and the dismantling of moves was taught by the coppersmith master. When he taught me, he practiced with real swords and guns!" Li Xu wiped the sweat from his head and answered truthfully.
"Both of these two are extraordinary talents. Brother Zhongjian is so lucky!" Li Shimin admired in a low voice, with a look of envy on his face.
"If you meet Brother Maogong, you should be able to become friends!" Li Xu smiled and answered seriously.
"Friend?" Li Shimin asked slightly surprised.
"Of course, doesn't Shimin want to know more heroes?" Li Xu asked with a smile, not feeling the difference in status between them at all. He had little experience and always thought that the best relationship between men is just friends.
So whether it was with Xu Maogong or with Liu Hongji, when the fear and strangeness in his heart gradually faded away, he immediately made friends comfortably. Although Li Jiancheng and Shimin had noble status, in the eyes of a country boy like him, they were just
Having a good family background does not prevent everyone from talking about being friends with each other.
"Of course, it is a blessing for the people of the world to have a few friends like Brother Zhongjian!" Li Shimin quickly adjusted his mentality and agreed eagerly.
"So he treats me as a friend!" Looking at Li Xu's back walking among the soldiers, Li Shimin thought with a smile. "It seems good to have such a friend without any scheming!" As the son of Tang Gong, he seemed to have grown up so big.
Nothing is missing, the only thing missing is friends.
People with Li Xu's temperament have never been short of friends. Now, he and Liu Hongji have become the core of the brothers who used to eat together and wait to die. This is not just because they are direct descendants of Li Yuan and always bring them in time.
"Confidential military information". The reason that is more important than Li Yuan's face is that the martial arts skills displayed by the two of them are so high that even the veterans sent by Li Yuan to assist everyone in training are no match for them.
By following two martial arts masters, the chance of being killed on the battlefield will be greatly reduced. Therefore, Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others are very glad that they have picked up treasures again. It’s just that these two treasure brothers don’t give everyone face recently and give everyone guidance on self-defense.
When training them, they were more ruthless than training the soldiers under their command.
"Stand still, watch carefully, raise your hands, and watch my eyes!" Liu Hongji shouted, and the handle of the knife hit Wang Yuantong's stomach heavily. The latter took a few steps back with a choke, and sat down.
Fell in the snow.
"Come again!" Liu Hongji pointed a long wooden knife at Wang Yuantong and ordered loudly.
"Brother, big brother, let me take a rest, take a rest!" Wang Yuantong gasped and waved his hands, with mucus flowing out of his nose. Before coming to Liaodong, he had never held a knife. In his own words, he was born with a compassionate heart.
I eat a lot of meat, but I haven't even killed a chicken.
"Do you want to be chopped off? If I were a Korean..." Liu Hongji made a gesture like cutting off his head. Wang Yuantong immediately jumped up and frantically slashed forward with the wooden knife in his hand.
He didn't want to die, and there was still a lot of wealth in the family that needed to be inherited. If he was beheaded by the Koreans inexplicably, it would just be an advantage for his older brothers.
"Brother Qi, come here and help!" Li Xu smiled and led a ram to the open space in front of the camp. Qi Po Ning grabbed a small horizontal knife and walked over shivering. Suddenly, he jumped up and stabbed with the knife.
Pierced the sheep's heart.
"Use a wooden basin to catch the blood, that's a good thing!" Li Xu reminded loudly from the side. Qi Poning, who was already pale, picked up the wooden basin, suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and put the wooden basin under the sheep carcass.
His name sounds majestic enough, but there is no blood. In the autumn, when the soldiers killed sheep for meat, he vomited next to him. Now, he still wants to vomit, but he has opened his eyes when facing death.
Qin Ziying, dressed like a camel, staggered forward. Li Xu stretched out his legs to stun him, and then stuck the scimitar sheath around his neck.
"Qin Lushi, I'm offended. I kill a registered official and join the army. I wonder how many levels of merit will be recorded?" Li Xu asked with a smile.
"Recording affairs and joining the army, eighth grade, fifth grade, fifth grade!" Qin Ziying gasped and stretched out five fingers. Suddenly, he realized that the other party was referring to himself. He rolled on the ground angrily and tried to stand up. However, he was stopped by Li
Xu pushed it down with one finger.
"If you can't kill the opponent, it's useless to wear more armor. Instead, you will be dragged down. You will be captured alive and taken to the capital to be sacrificed! Then, Miss He Ruo stood by the river..." Li Xu smiled and waved it off.
A longing posture.
Qin Ziying got up angrily and reached out to peel off the armor. One layer, two layers, three layers. Suddenly, he stopped. A warm feeling came from his fingers, which made his heart feel peaceful. It was a jade amulet.
It was tied with a yellow silk ribbon and hung around his neck. He looked around to see if there was no one there, and carefully stuffed the amulet into the shirt close to his chest.
Miss He Ruo is the granddaughter of General He Ruobi. In the third year of Daye, she was exiled to Liaodong as a camp prostitute due to her grandfather's case. Qin Ziying had asked someone to redeem her. When they returned to the teacher's class in the future, they made an appointment to go to Longyou to see Qin Ziying.
's parents.
Li Xu smiled and no longer forced Qin Ziying to continue practicing martial arts. Although he was much younger than Qin Ziying, he always felt that he could see through Qin Ziying's mind. He had had such happy eyes before, but not long ago, he completely lost it
it.
He put down the knife with a smile and went to pick up the water bag placed aside. Drinking the cold well water in winter had a unique refreshing feeling, especially like drinking. He shook his head with a smile, put the water bag at his feet again, and waved the knife.
Separated from Qin Ziying who was fighting desperately.
After the two sides really got to know each other, Li Xu discovered that these friends who were just waiting to die actually had a lot of cuteness. They already knew that Li Xu was not a child of an aristocratic family, but they still regarded Li Xu as brothers without any care. They knew Li Xu's temperament.
He was old-fashioned and allowed him to leave alone after being half drunk several times while drinking flower wine, but he would still invite this little brother to go with him next time. They all had higher positions than Li Xu, but they never put on official airs with him...
"Actually, these people have good qualifications, but they just have too many worries in their hearts." Li Xu gently turned his wrist and deflected the force of Qin Ziying's knife, then stepped sideways, knocking the opponent staggering.
If they had not hung out with these people in a heap of wine and meat, they would never have accepted the teachings of a boy who was nearly a year younger than themselves and whose position was lower than themselves out of concern for their face. But since they all drank and ate meat together and became friends.
, the age issue is automatically ignored.
This was also one of the reasons why Liu Hongji forced him to drink and eat meat with others. In terms of dealing with people, this Brother Liu is even smarter than Brother Maogong.
Li Xu understood that he had unknowingly learned a lot from Liu Hongji. Looking at his friends around him, his heart was filled with warmth.
In the twelfth lunar month, the weather is getting colder. From Tongding Town near Khitan in the north to Laohekou where it meets the sea in the south, nearly three hundred miles of the lower reaches of the Liaohe River are covered with ice. Li Xu rode the black wind to the river for inspections several times.
, I saw that the ice surface was already dark blue. Even when we reached the middle of the river, we could no longer see the traces left by the Khitan savages who cut the ice to catch fish.
"As long as the granary in Huaiyuan Town is burned down, the attack time of the Sui soldiers and horses will have to be postponed for at least half a year!" When everyone was sitting together to discuss the matter, Li Jiancheng's words were full of worry.
As the eldest son of the family and his father's right-hand man, he often organizes small gatherings of direct staff members of the Li family. Although the scale of Tang Gong's subordinates is now far smaller than when he became a high official, there are still many famous people among them.
heroes and wise men.
Because they had performed very well recently, Li Xu and Liu Hongji were allowed by Li Yuan to attend this gathering of direct staff. However, they didn't talk much. They were new arrivals and they needed time to adapt to the atmosphere here.
Most of the time, Li Xu was playing with the charcoal in the brazier. The weather outside was very cold, which was different from that of the Crescent Lake. Although it snowed all day long in Su Chuobu, the air was very cold.
It's dry. As long as the sun comes out, you will be warmed immediately. But the wind here in Liaodong is so wet that it can condense into ice foam. The water vapor gets into any gap inadvertently. You can ride a horse for half an hour, and then
Thick felt armor will freeze into an ice shell. The person wrapped in the felt armor will also feel cold, just like the dead fish that the Khitan savages lured out from under the ice in early winter. (To be continued)
