Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 43 Fate is like a chess game (2)

In the Prince's Mansion of the Ju State, Bai Chengyan, the head of the guard, woke up from the hangover of the New Year's palace party, took a short rest, and then called his staff to discuss affairs in the main hall.

At dusk, a servant came in to announce: "Master Tang Sizhou from the Shaofu, please see me!"

"Please."

Baichengyan, as the only son of the Marquis of Baicheng, was recognized as the next ruler of the Ju Kingdom. Naturally, there was never a shortage of dignitaries in the house, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

"General, have pity on me, old man." A cry burst into the hall suddenly, Bai Chengyan raised his head in astonishment, only to see Tang Sizhou, who was over half a hundred years old, walking in tremblingly, he got up and said:

"Master Tang, why is this?"

Tang Sizhou said: "My lord is making a joke, because the old man is old and incompetent, causing the family to be bullied by the young people outside, so we can only find General Baicheng to uphold justice."

Bai Chengyan laughed and said, "Your Excellency, you are joking. In this Hanye City, is there any young junior with no eyesight who dares to provoke your Tang family? Isn't this going to make things difficult for me, Bai Chengyan?"

Tang Sizhou said: "The ones who don't dare to lie to the adults and bully the old are the ones in the army."

Baicheng Yan wondered: "Oh? It can't be from my first guard, right?"

"Don't dare." Tang Sizhou hurriedly said: "Your Excellency is very good at running the army, how can such an unworthy person appear. It is the member of the second guard.

Earlier, General Lian recruited many peasants from the countryside, and promoted two chiefs from them, one named Ye Ziqi and the other named Gu Feng. Duan, openly insulting the old man's daughter in the city, pity the old man, a civil servant, who dare not compete with the military officer, so he can only come to ask your lord. "

When Bai Chengyan heard that the two were born in the common people, he knew that things would be easy, and said with a smile: "In this case, please rest assured, this general, as the head of a guard, should clean up the military discipline and eliminate harm for the people."

Tang Sizhou said happily: "Since that's the case, there will be General Lao." Then, he put it on his body, took out a 1000 taels of silver note, and put it in Baichengyan's sleeve, Baichengyan nodded and smiled, and Tang Sizhou stepped back.

After sending Tang Sizhou away, an aide said: "General, Xue Yihu, the second guard, is very short-sighted. If you want to erase him secretly, you may cause trouble."

Bai Chengyan smiled and said: "You worry too much. Why do you have to do something secretly? The day after tomorrow is a military exercise. At that time, my first guard will practice with his second and third guards. Every year, a few accidental deaths will happen. I just He, Xue Yi, chopped off his two long hairs under his nose, and Xue Yi couldn't say anything."

When the staff heard this, they knew that Bai Chengyan had resentment towards Lian Hongye's recruitment of civilians and expansion of the second guard force, and this was also an act of venting his anger.Going against the lord's wishes like this would be too shameless, so he hurriedly said: "The general is wise."

"Call Liu Shanglai, you go and find out the details of those two wild soldiers, especially which military exercise they participated in."

"Yes!"

At the same time, Han Ye's two guards camped out.

The iron armor shakes its arms, and the gun is like a dragon.

"drink!"

"drink!"

Two hundred soldiers shouted in unison, their voices were like solitary cedar trees piercing the air in winter.

It was time for training.

Ye Ziqi stood in the formation where swords entered and spears practiced. Standing opposite him was a veteran spearman of the same level as him, Lin Fang, who was more than 30 years old.

"drink!"

The forty guns in the same row drew out at the same time, Ye Zi swung his sword, and Ge Kailin let go of the one that was aimed at him.With another shout, Ye Zi opened the stabbing sword, and Lin Fang swung the spear to block the blade.

"Boy, your sword skill is quite a bit worse than your brother's." Lin Fang said.

"Of course, Gu Feng is the most powerful in our town." Ye Ziqi replied.

Lin Fang was taken aback when he heard the words, then a little disappointed.One must know that this kid in front of him was called "the King of Xuelongpo" by his brothers who were on duty that day in the martial arts examination.

Not to mention the name, just look at the Gu Feng who joined the army with him, he is a very good player. During the month on Xuelongpo, Gu Feng recruited more than a dozen of the best players in the army. Learn martial arts, including Lin Fang.

Although it is all to the point of saving face, Lin Anxin knew that Gu Feng's swordsmanship must be one of the best among the two guards.

Later, Gu Feng went to the centurion to try his hand. Hey, those few officers who came to give advice and discuss with each other when they were idle every day, suddenly became "involved in military affairs" one by one at that time.

This made Lin Fang have some expectations for Ye Ziqi, a young man who also fought in the army.

But the result disappointed everyone.

When we were on Xuelongpo, although there were many soldiers who were curious about folk martial arts, they came to Ye Ziqi to learn from them, but this so-called "jun king" always made excuses to avoid them, and never showed his skills. Pompous in name only.

Now he used Gu Feng as an example and insulted him with his words, but he even foolishly admitted it!It’s no wonder that when talking about these new militiamen in the barracks, they always praised Gu Feng and Feng Jiu for their good skills, and they shook their heads when they talked about him as the “king of the army”!
Lin Anxin couldn't help but despise him even more, and he didn't want to put in any more effort to practice moves with Ye Zi.

Fortunately, someone interrupted them just in time.

"Ye Ziqi, General Xue is looking for you!" Centurion Chief Chen Wufu came over and said.

"Follow the order." Ye Ziqi immediately agreed, and then said to Lin Fang: "Brother Lin, I will take my leave for the time being."

Lin Fang pretended to say hello, then watched the young man turn and leave, and thought to himself: It’s true that he looked anxious when he received the military order, but this kind of child is really boring. When he sees General Xue in a while, he will probably be obedient , Can't say a word.I still want to take the title of "King of the Army", it's a matter of my next life.

Naturally, Ye Ziqi couldn't hear these words, so he rushed to the main tent of the barracks, and saw Xue Yi was talking with the army in front of the tent, Ye Ziqi went forward and saluted the army: "See you, General."

"You're here." Xue Yi turned his head and said, "Boy, I heard you're going to be a pawn in 'Wuqi'?"

"Yes."

Xue Yi frowned: "When you're young, it's common to be showy. But why do you have to risk your life to beat those rich and powerful men for a laugh?"

When Ye Ziqi heard this, he couldn't help sighing inwardly: "Wuqi", the most eye-catching item in the military exercise, in the eyes of General Xue, is nothing more than "making people laugh".

But for ordinary soldiers, this is a rare way to advance.

The so-called "martial arts chess" is the most confrontational item in the military exercise. The two major military guards, each with sixteen soldiers, play the roles of generals, soldiers, ministers, chariots, horses, bows, etc. on a huge chessboard with a radius of one hundred feet. Pawns and other different chess pieces.

When the noble chess player takes a piece, the two players on the chessboard will fight each other, and life and death will stand.Live people remain on the board.In order to practice the actual combat level of the troops.

Because this project is very ornamental and attracts the most attention, soldiers who perform well can easily become famous in one fell swoop and get promoted.But at the same time, this is also the item with the highest casualty rate in the military exercise tradition.

Xue Yi didn't want him to go.

"General." Ye Ziqi said: "May I ask the request made the day before yesterday, General, have you reconsidered?"

"You mean that you want soldiers." Xue Yi shook his head: "I said before, soldiers are never given by others, they are won by yourself. You are too young."

"Then the second guard's treatment is to be given a horse to ride?" Ye Ziqi raised his face, his tone was angry.

"Presumptuous!" Seeing this, Xue Yi's left and right were furious, and they wanted to step forward to capture this rude boy, but Xue Yi stopped him with a wave of his hand, and said with a smile: "You will be fined to hit the wooden stake for two hours, and the moon will not go up to the camp gate." Head, don’t stop even if your hands are discounted, are you convinced?”

"Follow the order." Ye Ziqi said: "However, general, I need permission from the general to participate in martial arts. I understand that my prestige cannot convince the public, so I have a long name but no soldiers to lead me. nature.

But the reason of being young, I can't even use it to convince myself.As long as I perform well enough in martial arts, there will definitely be pawns willing to fill up the establishment below me. "

"This is your business." Xue Yi walked away in a huff.

Joining the army and his subordinates followed immediately. Joining the army stepped forward and said, "General, the fine is only two hours, isn't it too cheap for him?"

"He was just talking back, at least he didn't steal military pay to go shopping in Flower Street, didn't he?" Xue Yi laughed.

After joining the army, he was taken aback, and never said a bad word about Ye Ziqi again.

Because he remembered that stealing money to go shopping in the flower street was not done by others, but it was the masterpiece of the general in front of him when he was young.

——General Xue felt that Ye Ziqi resembled him.

"You're back."

On the school field, Lin Fang watched Ye Ziqi come back, and was about to greet him, but found that Ye Ziqi just nodded to him, and went straight to the stake.As a veteran, Lin Fang knew that this was usually used to punish disrespectful behavior of soldiers, so he asked in surprise, "What did you say to General Xue?"

"Bang!" A punch hit the stake heavily.

"Nothing." Ye Ziqi said: "Just listened to the lesson."

(End of this chapter)