There are two new barracks, one is in Qi County, with 20,000 recruits, and Luo Shixin is responsible for training, and the other is in Beihai County, with 35,000 recruits, of course, Wei Chigong is responsible for training.

Zhang Xuan has come to inspect the recruit camp for the third time, this time mainly to inspect the effect of night combat training, since he learned that the Bohai Hui army is good at night fighting, Zhang Xuan began to make up for this weakness in the army, joking, if the Bohai Hui army attacked the city at night, what would they take to defend the city? The rule of war is not to fight at night, but the rules are set by people, and if someone wants to break this rule, can you not keep up? Not only the Qingzhou Army, but I heard that Luo Yi's Youzhou Army is also training hard at night.

Zhang Xuan walked into the barracks surrounded by a large group of generals, and Wei Chigong smiled and said: "Marshal Qiqi, tonight's night battle training is to attack and defend the city!" ”

"Attacking and defending the city?"

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but look back to the north, built a section of the city wall in the north of the barracks, two zhang high, about a mile long, and a moat, the army will fight fiercely with ash poles and arrows every day in the city, and it is common to fall down the city, but below is a moat two zhang deep, at most it is only slightly injured, and no one can die, but the real moat is full of sharp piles, and it is nine deaths when you fall into the river.

"How many rounds have you practiced?"

Zhang Xuan asked with a smile, he knew that Yu Chigong liked to play knockout rounds, round by round, and finally determine the winner.

"It's been more than twenty rounds!"

Wei Chigong rubbed his hands excitedly, tonight is the last round, and he has been waiting for the general to come over.

"Good! We're going to take a look tonight! ”

Night fell silently, and two armies stood majestically above and below the city, two thousand men below the city and a thousand men above the city, dressed in bright light armor and holding blunt spears with ash poles in their hands. With shields on their backs, many of the soldiers were holding unclustered arrows, all of them standing straight, with solemn expressions and murderous spirits, and it could be seen that a month of devilish training had made them all reborn.

On the other side of the wooden stand. Standing full of generals watching the battle, Wei Chigong whispered to Zhang Xuan: "The attacker has won the city ten times, and the defender has also successfully defended the city seven times, the time is an hour, it depends on who can win the final victory tonight, and the winner will be rewarded with five times each." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, the reward is secondary, the key is the sense of honor of victory, and the unconvincing of the loser. That's the most important thing.

"Let's get started!"

Wei Chigong shouted, "Begin!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of the war were beating fiercely, and the soldiers above and below the city burst into a shout at the same time.

The two thousand soldiers under the city are like a black wave surging up, and the arrows from the city are like a torrential rain, and the soldiers under the city have raised their shields to meet the battle, although it is a cluster of arrows, but the rules are strict, and there is white paint on the arrows. If you are shot and do not retreat, you will be disobeying the military order and beating fifty sticks. The entire army was also declared defeated, and four armies had already lost their chance to win as a result.

The same is true of ash pole spears and blunt knives, the head and edge of which are painted red, and if they are slashed and do not end up, the consequences are like arrows.

The siege soldiers were twice as large as the enemy troops, and they came fiercely. They were very methodical, each soldier had a clear division of labor, and a hundred soldiers put long planks on the moat to form a pontoon bridge, behind which the soldiers erected five siege ladders. The first wave of 500 soldiers rushed up, all of them agile, and although it was night, they were all sharp-eyed, and dodged the arrows from both sides in time, and many of them were shot, and they jumped into the moat.

The offensive below was fierce, the defenders above were equally tenacious, and the cooperation was especially tacit, a thousand soldiers were divided into seven hundred archers and three hundred spearmen, because there were no rolling logs, all the defenders suffered slightly, but on the other hand, they also had compensation, real siege warfare, many wounded would still continue to attack the city, and would not jump into the moat themselves.

On the wooden platform, Wei Chigong laughed in a low voice: "Sixty people guarding a ladder, it looks like it is impenetrable, but as long as one person rushes into the city, the gap will be opened, and it is not easy to say, but tonight's battle, I estimate that it will end in less than half an hour." ”

"Why?"

"The commander looks at the siege ladder on the very edge, the siege lord will actually use their killer weapon in the first round, the general looks at the burliest man, take two spears."

Zhang Xuan saw that there was a burly man on the siege ladder on the very edge, his shoulders were particularly broad, but his skills were very vigorous and flexible, the difference was that he did not use a shield, but held two spears in his hand, and constantly picked up the arrows shot from both sides, and the other party also paid special attention to him, countless arrows shot at him, but they were all flew, and the two spears danced through the wind and rain, he kept turning back and shouting that the soldiers were going to the city, and he could see that he was a small leader. ”

"Good martial arts!"

Zhang Xuan blurted out that he was a connoisseur of goods, and he could see that this big man's double guns were very skilled, and the ash wood was heavy, and a spear weighed more than 20 catties, and this sergeant could be called a general.

"Who is he?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

"This person's name is Wang Ning, he is from Yidu County, and he is currently a famous team."

"He's not a recruit?"

Zhang Xuan is a little strange, the pro-soldier can only serve as the fire captain at most, and the team must be a veteran.

"He is indeed a new recruit, he was promoted by me exceptionally, and he didn't hide it from the commander, the reason why their army succeeded in ten battles was because he was there, and everyone else was average."

Zhang Xuan didn't speak, his eyes were focused on the big man named Wang Ning.

Wang Ning grasped it very well, when the arrows were shot intensively, he froze, the two spears crackled and hit the arrows, but the arrows slowed down slightly, and his body rushed upwards like an ape, without holding the ladder with his hands, relying on his two feet to grasp the balance, and then the subordinates behind him climbed up with him, and his subordinates were also different, two people in a row, actually raised their shields back to back and climbed up, so that the arrows on both sides were blocked.

Zhang Xuan secretly admired that this siege technique was good, unless the ladder was overturned, it would be difficult to protect the city.

Wang Ning approached the head of the city, more than a dozen blunt spears stabbed at him together, at this time, Wang Ning continued to provoke arrows with a spear, and the other spear fought with the defenders, only to see his spear elusive, a moment, the three soldiers on the left retreated in the spear, there was a gap, only to see Wang Ning jumped up, jumped on the gap, and then the spear swept, four or five soldiers were knocked to the ground, he had broken through a gap, climbed to the head of the city, the city defenders were anxious, hundreds of people killed him.

His two spears were elusive, and a piece of soldiers were stabbed by him, and in just a moment, dozens of people were forced to retreat, and at this time, his men swarmed up, and fifty soldiers quickly climbed to the top of the city, controlling the siege ladder around it, and the soldiers behind continued to climb the city, and the city wall was finally lost, and the city and the city immediately cheered.

"When! While! While! The bell rang for the end, and Jang Hyun looked at the hourglass, which was just halfway over.

Wei Chigong said with a smile: "There is still a month of training, if this person does not violate discipline, I plan to make him the best." ”

According to the usual practice, after the training of recruits, the best recruits can be named captains, Zhang Xuan originally wanted this warrior to be rewarded in the battle exploits, but he still has to give Wei Chigong face, after all, Wei Chigong is the main general of training, and he can't easily break the rules.

Zhang Xuan smiled, "I won't meet him, so as not to be arrogant, let him follow you in the future!" ”

If Wei Chigong has realized, the marshal is right, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated

At the same time when Zhang Xuan inspected the new barracks, at night, a passenger ship of 500 stone sailed into the Jiangning wharf, this kind of passenger ship is extremely common on the Yangtze River, the boat is small and easy to capsize, and the large boat carries many people, usually a ferry, 500 stone is not big or not too big.

Passenger ships docked, and no one paid attention, hundreds of such passenger ships docked every day, it was so common that no one would pay attention to it.

Since the New Year has passed, the docks are lively, and even when night falls, there is still the laughter and scolding of boatmen and pickers.

Walking from the boat was a man in a green robe, in his thirties, with a leather belt around his waist, a flat scarf on his head, dressed as a scholar, and two entourages carrying bookcases behind him, but the man was extremely burly, with sharp eyes, dark skin, thick and big hands, walking fast, almost striding meteors, and the entourage followed him all the way trotting, and his appearance and temperament did not look like a scholar.

The man entered Jiangning City and came directly to the general office of the Jiangnan Society, he took out a letter of worship and handed it to the porter, "Please transfer it to Shen Gong, and say that the old friend is visiting." ”

The porter saw the inscription on the prayer post clearly by the faint light of the lantern, and couldn't help but be shocked, and it read, 'Yuzhang Lin Shihong'. (To be continued.) )