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The northern side of Liyang, Jinzhou Camp, Rongxuan Camp, and the commandant commander, Chen He.
He was born in a noble family in the south of Liyang. At the age of 16, he had obtained the title of Tanhua from the imperial court examination.
Because he was handsome and elegant, he was also known as the "White Horse Flower Man" because he rode the "White Horse" Jade Lion that was given by the Emperor when he was in high school.
In his early years, Chen Fan had studied at the borders and had witnessed the devastation caused by the Turk rebellion.
The depression in his heart was difficult to calm down. After he went to high school, he resolutely rejected the great opportunity to enter the Ministry of Personnel to be the first evaluation officer. He resolutely submitted a petition and volunteered to join the army and go to Jinzhou to serve as the country's border guard.
The old emperor of Liyang, Zhao He, praised Chen Lin for his loyalty to the country and his bravery. He rewarded Chen Lin with the long spear Rong Xuan, forged by Iron Divine Weapon, the master craftsman of seal weapons in the Imperial Craftsman Manor. Meaning: The beacon fire of the Central Plains rises, and I throw my pen to serve Rong Xuan.
Although the Jiangnan Chen Clan that Chen Fu belonged to had praised him for his loyalty to the country and his scholarly swordsmanship, he was not afraid.
But in fact, the entire Chen Clan was very disappointed with Chen Lin. They felt that Chen Lin had abandoned the Blue Clouds Road and instead went to the border to become a general with a bleak future. Not only was he wasting his own talent and knowledge. It was also a waste of the resources that the Chen family had invested in him over the years.
Therefore, after Chen Lin joined the army, the Chen family of Jiangnan only praised him on the surface, but did not pour a single resource into Chen Lin. Even Chen Zhi's youngest son, Chen Zhibao, who was now 14 years old, still wore plain clothes and relied on copying scriptures and history books to make ends meet.
Chen Lin's wife, Wen Baochai, was the eldest daughter of the Wen family, the head of the southern aristocratic families in Liyang. After Chen Rong joined the army, the Wen family also cut off all contact with her.
After Wen Baochai left Chen's family, she had relied on selling her dowry to support her family and raise her children. From time to time, she would supplement Chen, who had used most of her dowry to support the families of the fallen soldiers.
Chen Fan was a scholar, but he was able to be promoted to the commander of a battalion in the Jinzhou border army. He even got the martial name of 'Zhi Hu'. It was not only because he had the talent of' White Horse Flower Tanlang 'but also because his martial arts were unfathomable.
Very few people knew that Chen Meng had been accepted as a secret disciple by Zen Master Longshu of the Sprite Zen Monastery since he was young. He had obtained the Great Righteousness Yuanjue Scripture, the martial art scripture of the Liangchan Temple, which was personally passed down by Zen Master Longshu.
Tie Shen Bing, the seal soldier grandmaster of the Imperial Court's Imperial Craftsman Mansion in Liyang Palace, had always wanted to forge a seal soldier that combined the strengths of both a divine weapon and a seal soldier.
The seal soldier Rong Xuan that Chen Fu had obtained was a half-completed seal soldier forged by the Iron Divine Weapon.
The Iron God Weapon refined a thousand-year-old python demon that was severely injured and on the verge of dissipating its primordial spirit into a soldier soul within the spear.
This python demon was known for its defense and agility among the demons. With it as a soldier soul, it could provide armor and cloud body and wind body to the user of the seal soldier Rong Xuan in battle.
If the user could become one with the Demonic Python's Weapon Soul, they could even temporarily summon the Demonic Python's Weapon Soul to help them attack the enemy. They could also borrow a small amount of the Demonic Python's Weapon Soul's power to strengthen themselves.
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Instead, the situation in the tent of the Great Snow Camp was too strange. The old man, who was the commentator, really didn't know how to describe it. He could only briefly introduce Chen Tao's past experiences, so that the audience could have a more detailed understanding of this new character and resolve the awkwardness of the scene.
When 'Zhi Hu' Chen Tao and Marshal Yuan Hua first entered the tent of the Great Snow Battalion, they were quite normal.
However, when Xu Xiao stepped forward to welcome the two of them and was about five or six steps away from Chen Fu, Chen Fu suddenly stopped and stared at Xu Xiao. His eyes were sometimes confused and confused, sometimes happy and gentle, and sometimes stern and solemn.
That ever-changing little gaze, let alone Xu Xiao, even the usually 'steely straight man' who was standing at the side broke out in cold sweat.
Grand Marshal Yuan Hua also noticed that something was wrong with Chen Fu, but he silently shook his head at the side and used his eyes to stop Xu Xiao and Water Rider from disturbing Chen Fu. After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Only then did Chen Meng return to his original state.
"Previously, during Brother Hong's ceremony, I was so sad that I didn't take a closer look at Commandant Xu's appearance. When he looked carefully, Commandant Xu actually looked a little similar to the ancient Qin battle general on an ancient painting in Chen Mou's house. It made Chen think of his parents, wife, and children who had been away from home for many years in Jiangnan. He was absent-minded for a moment and made the marshal and everyone worry.”
'Zhi Hu' Chen Fu cupped his fists and apologized to the crowd. His eyes were clear and he had the bearing of a general.
Hearing Chen Fu's words, everyone's doubts disappeared. It was no wonder that General Chen had come to the Jinzhou border army when he was seventeen. It had been thirteen years since then.
During this period, he had only left the army twice to visit his family. The last time was five years ago.
The gentleness in his eyes just now should be because he was thinking of his wife and children.
There were also those doubts and confusion. They should be thinking about whether his choice to abandon literature and pursue martial arts was correct when he recalled the past.
In the end, he showed a stern and solemn expression because he had made up his mind.
It had to be said that people's imagination was really unlimited. Without needing Chen Meng to say anything, everyone could come up with all kinds of 'reasonable' explanations for him.
As for saying that Xu Xiao looked like an ancient Qin battle general in an ancient painting, hur hur, although everyone was a boor, it wasn't as if they hadn't seen a so-called portrait before.
The men and women in the ancient paintings looked almost the same except for their height and weight.
Since ancient times, all paintings have paid attention to the divine accumulation. We don't understand what it is.
But thinking about it, the divine accumulation of the battle general in the ancient painting should be the upright baleful aura of a general.
It was probably because Commandant Xu had been fighting hundreds of people every day for a month. That was why the baleful aura was more abundant than everyone else, which was why Commander Chen misunderstood.
If we get to the battlefield and see blood, I reckon that the divine accumulation on our bodies will be the same as that battle general in the ancient painting.
Seeing that Chen Meng had returned to normal, Marshal Yuan Hua explained his intentions to Xu Xiao and the Water Armored Warrior.
It turned out that Chen Fan had been paying attention to the movements of the Snow Camp during this month.
Although Hong Tao didn't leave him any last words, he knew that what Hong Tao was most worried about was the Great Snow Camp.
Xu Xiao and the military officer's performance in the past month had made Chen Fan look at them with admiration. Xu Xiao's martial strength was able to make these proud soldiers and valiant generals of the Snow Camp completely submit to him. The military officer was also much more stable than before.
However, Chen Fan and Xu Xiao had also discovered the problem that the Snow Camp was facing. They needed training partners and actual combat. They could not continue to work behind closed doors.
That was why Chen Fan had gone to find Grand Marshal Yuan Hua to 'recommend himself' and express that the Rong Xuan Battalion was willing to train together with the Heavy Snow Battalion.
Moreover, they could also let the Snow Battalion and the Rong Xuan Battalion carry out the mission of raiding together.
What a good person!
When Xu Xiao saw Chen Meng at Hong Tao's funeral previously, he already felt that this person was not bad.
Now, it seemed that he was more than just good. He was really a good person who provided charcoal in the snow.
It was said that tea would cool after a person leaves. Look at Commander Chen. Commander Hong was no longer around, but he was still thinking about the soldiers under Commander Hong.
In the following month, Xu Xiao and the soldiers of the Great Snow Camp trained with the soldiers of Chen Meng's Rongxuan Camp during the day.
The two battalions focused on actual combat training. They either worked together, mixed up against the enemy, attacked and defended each other, or attacked and defended together.
Chen Xu's Rong Xuan was an expert in military formations. He ordered the soldiers in Rong Xuan's camp to 'arrange' various types of military formations so that the people of the Great Snow Camp could experience the pros and cons of various military formations while breaking and charging through formations. He also taught them how to abide by the law when facing cavalry formations and how to defeat heavily armored infantry with minimal casualties.'
He even had the soldiers of Rongxuan Camp 'simulate' the battle styles and formations of the various battalions of the Jin Prefecture border army. It gave the people of the Great Snow Camp a 'fresh feeling of fighting different enemies every day.'
It also allowed the soldiers of the Great Snow Battalion to familiarize themselves with the fighting style of the various battalions of the Jinzhou Border Army in the shortest time possible.
Although the people of the Great Snow Camp were all veterans and had been in the border army for many years, they should be quite familiar with the combat methods of the various battalions.
However, he was not afraid of not knowing the goods, but he was afraid of comparing them.
Only after comparing the Snow Battalion with the Rongxuan Battalion did he realize that what he knew before was only superficial.
For example, the Fierce Tiger Battalion knew that their commander was the number one brave general of the border army, Qin Huchen. He liked to use the Cone Formation the most, using Qin Huchen and his personal guards as the arrowheads to break through the enemy's formation.
However, few people knew that although Qin Huchen was brave, the person he needed to be wary of the most was his Vice Commander, Li Xuan.
Every time Qin Huchen set up a conical formation to attack the enemy, Li Xuan would hide a four-sided formation in the conical formation. He would use the inner four sides of the four-sided formation to secretly replace the outer three sides of the conical formation.
There was also Zhang Biaozi's Dongxiang Camp. This was especially true for the East Mountain, East Forest, and East Water, which were also part of the Four Prefectures of the East Ridge. These three battalions were always in conflict.
However, when it came to a real battle, these villages were the most united.
If they were to encounter two of the four battalions of the Eastern Ridge at the same time in a chaotic battle, they had to be careful that they would help each other 'secretly' attack.
The Rong Xuan Battalion had also learned a lot from the Snow Battalion.
For example, in a battle, how to use a move to maximize its power while saving the most stamina.
During a long distance raid, the special 'abdominal breathing technique' could increase endurance and speed.
How to maintain your weapon during normal times would allow your weapon to maintain its sharpness for a longer period of time in battle.
How to feed and train horses could improve their endurance and explosive strength, so that they knew how to cooperate with the rider.
After being injured on the battlefield, how could he stop the bleeding and disinfect the wound without medicine?
How to maintain and modify a bow and arrow so that he could shoot faster, farther, more accurately, and more lethally with the same strength.
At night, Xu Xiao would learn how to govern the army, command the army, and various military books and strategies from Chen Meng.
Chen Fu would also use the military map to do actual combat deduction with Xu Xiao, allowing Xu Xiao to thoroughly understand what Chen Fu had taught him.
During the military planning deduction, Chen knew that the army was good at using, and Zheng Qi assisted him.
Xu Xiao's sword was unconventional and his actions were unpredictable.
After the deduction was over, Chen Fan thought about it carefully and found that many of Xu Xiao's arrangements were both unexpected and reasonable. It seemed to be as untraceable as the unreasonable hand, but it did have its reasons. He didn't blindly use strange methods to take risks.
The two of them would fight three rounds of military map deduction every night.
At first, Xu Xiao lost more than he won.
However, his improvement was extremely fast. After 20 days, Xu Xiao was already on par with Zhi Hu Chen Fan, who had been in the border army for 13 years.
On this day, the two of them used the battle of Impermanence Ridge two months ago as a deduction. When he reached the end of the deduction, Xu Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He thought of something and stood there motionlessly, frowning as he pondered.
Chen Fan didn't urge him to place his chess piece. Instead, he ordered all the personal guards in the tent to leave the tent. Furthermore, everyone was to stay a hundred steps away from the tent. As the general, he was not allowed to approach the tent unless he personally went out to greet them.
"Commander Hong, Xu Xiao is useless!"
After Xu Xiao shouted this sentence, he knelt down on the ground with a plop and kowtowed three times in the direction of the Impermanence Valley.
Immediately after, a mouthful of fresh blood spurted out from Xu Xiao's mouth.
Chen Meng stood there, watching two streams of hot tears pour out from Xu Xiao's wide open tiger eyes like a spring.
He didn't go up to help Xu Xiao up, nor did he comfort Xu Xiao. He just quietly looked at Xu Xiao from the side, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
He knew that Xu Xiao would figure out the crux of that matter sooner or later.
It was just that he did not expect Xu Xiao to think it through so quickly.
'Brother Hong, in terms of' identifying and employing people', you are indeed better than me.'
After Xu Xiao, Qi Wufu, and the others returned to the camp from outside the pass, they explained the cause and effect of the matter to Marshal Yuan Hua and the other camp commanders.
Marshal Yuan Hua and Chen Feng had already guessed some clues.
They had all thought that even if the Great Snow Camp did not protect the carriage, the Crown Prince would still increase the military supplies for the Jin Prefecture border army by ten percent next year.
Moreover, it was definitely more than 10%.
This was because if the Crown Prince wanted to stabilize his position as the Crown Prince, he would have to make a huge contribution.
Right now, the weather in Liyang Kingdom was good. If he wanted to make a great contribution that could help him stabilize his position as the Crown Prince, he could only do it by expanding his territory.
Not only would war against the other eight kingdoms of the Central Plains be against the greater good, but it would also allow the Turks to take advantage of the situation and reap the benefits.
Beiting and Liyang were separated by the Southern Tang and Dongyue.
In that case, they could only start a war against the Turks.
If they wanted to start a war against the Turks, how could they not have a good saber like the Jin Zhou border army?
Then, since the Jinzhou border army was the main force in the war against the Turks.
The Crown Prince would definitely use a huge amount of military supplies to sharpen the blade of the Jin City border army before the war began.
A white cat? No matter how mystical it was, could it help the Crown Prince ascend to the throne of the Nine-Five Supreme?
If it really had that ability, then it wouldn't have been the Snow Camp with only a thousand people. Instead, it was the elite main force of the entire Jinzhou border army.
Moreover, the Turks wouldn't allow such a mystical object to pass through the pass so easily.
Besides, if there really was such a divine item that could help one ascend to the throne...
Those Turkic princes had fought to the death on the steppe for the treasure. How could Prince Liyang transport it back from the Turkic steppe?
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"It's a pity that even though Brother Hong once held a post in the capital's Ministry of War, his character is 'round on the outside but square on the inside'. He's too upright, or else he would have impulsively hit the Crown Prince's housekeeper.”
"You have to know that you have to look at the owner to beat a dog.”
"Therefore, he couldn't see through or understand the joints at that time. He had thrown his life outside the Impermanence Valley for nothing.‘
"Brother Hong and the 1325 soldiers of the Great Snow Camp died unjustly. However, that wasn't your fault. At that time, you didn't understand the 'nine turns and eighteen turns' in the hearts of those nobles in the capital.”
"To be honest, Marshal and I both knew that you would figure out the crux of this sooner or later. But we didn't expect that you would be able to sort out the mess outside the Impermanence Valley after I taught you the ways of politics and the army for only a month.”
"Xu Xiao, today I won't talk to you about loyalty and filial piety. I will only teach you one thing, and that is to survive! You have to live first, then you will have unlimited possibilities in the future.”
"Just like Brother Hong and the soldiers of the Great Snow Camp, no matter how heroic their deaths were, no matter how many people sang praises of them, no matter how many people remembered them for their entire lives, they could not change the fact that they were already dead.”
"Don't tell anyone else about the things you've thought through tonight. You, me, and the marshal will get justice for them.”
"Before that, there are only two things you need to do.。。Go-down-to hell."
After that night, the Great Snow Camp and the Rong Xuan Camp ended their offensive and defensive sparring on the two camps 'training grounds and turned to real combat.
The two battalions were united and would fight against each other.'They began their month-long bandit extermination journey.
Regardless of whether it was inside or outside the pass, there were always people who liked to reap without sowing. They relied on their martial strength to roar in one place and do that 'no cost business' of killing and not burying.
Among them were the Liyang bandits who specialized in robbing the Turks.
There were also Turkic horse bandits who had joined the slave raiders.
There were also bandits who did not differentiate between good and evil and could take on both sides.
The most detestable of them all were those 'one-eyed bandits' who did not dare provoke the Turks, but instead shaved their heads and disguised themselves as Turks, then plundered their own people and committed countless crimes such as betraying their country for glory, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and killing the innocent.
The One-eyed Bandit was not a group of people. They were a loose alliance.
The powerful One-eyed Bandits could have two to three thousand people.
The smaller One-eyed Bandits only had thirty to fifty people.
This time, the Snow Battalion and Rong Xuan had gone out to wipe out the bandits. They were going after a small alliance formed by a few groups of One-eyed Bandits.
In the process of exterminating and chasing down these One-eyed Bandits, many people discovered that Xu Xiao deliberately did not use bows or arrows, but used battle sabers and iron spears to kill the enemies.
It was split in half, cut off at the waist, cut off shoulders diagonally, pierced straight into the heart, cut off the neck and cut off the head.。。Almost every time Xu Xiao attacked, it was a one-hit kill.
People also discovered that the speed at which Xu Xiao struck out with his saber was getting faster and faster, and his strength was also getting greater and greater.
However, the strange thing was that Xu Xiao was clearly able to fight on par with many Peak Rank-3 Martial Masters in the army. However, his martial arts realm remained at the Lower Tier of the Fourth Stage.
Every martial artist of every rank and realm had their own unique characteristics.
The characteristic of a middle-stage Rank-4 martial artist was that the internal energy in their body would fill their dantian and fill their limbs and meridians. The most obvious thing was that the temples near their ears would swell slightly.
However, Xu Xiao, who was already able to fight with a third-grade Martial Master, had his temples remain flat without any swelling.
In fact, Xu Xiao himself had already discovered when he was fighting Ding Huang. He was only a Rank-4 martial artist, and it was not as difficult as he had imagined to shoot Ding Huang, a Rank-3 Martial Master.
Later on, when he faced Fu Jiapo, he had consumed a lot of mental energy because of his battle with Ding Huang. However, when facing Fu Jiapo, Xu Xiao could clearly feel that even if he hadn't reached his peak condition at that time, if he were to fight Fu Jiapo, it wasn't as if he didn't have the strength to fight.
Also, he was chased by the Second Stage Grandmaster, Xin Wujin, for three days and three nights in the mountains. At that time, he was even poisoned. Even so, he had fought Xin Wujin head-on several times, but he did not give the other party much of an advantage.
There was even a time when if it wasn't for the sudden poison effect and the missed arrow, he would have turned the tables and killed Xin Wuyou.
However, his temples did not show any signs of swelling at all. This meant that although he had an inner body that was not inferior to a Rank-3 Martial Master and could even arm-wrestle with a Rank-2 Grandmaster, the capacity of his Sea of Qi Dantian also exceeded that of a Rank-4 martial artist in the general sense.
His dantian and sea of qi were not filled with true qi, so his temples naturally did not have any obvious signs.
When he was at Rank-4 Lower Tier, he had the ability to fight a Rank-2 Grandmaster.
How strong would he be when he reached Rank-2?
Only the heavens would know.
Perhaps at that time, he would have the ability to seek justice for Commander Hong and the 1325 soldiers of the Great Snow Camp.
In the blink of an eye, a month had come to an end.
The Snowy Battalion and the Rongxuan Battalion had also returned to the Jinzhou Border Army camp with 15,000 bandits.
In this month, the soldiers of the Snow Camp and the Rongxuan Camp had fought shoulder to shoulder with each other. They had already reached the point where they were like a family, regardless of who they were.
Xu Xiao had learned quite a few good things from Chen Fu, and he also regarded Chen Fu as a good teacher and helpful friend in the Jin Province border army.
But what Xu Xiao did not know was that Chen Meng had a secret that he had been hiding from him and everyone else.
That was the reason why Chen Meng had lost his composure when they met for the second time in the Snow Camp. It wasn't because Xu Xiao looked like the ancient Qin battle general in his family's ancient painting.
Rather, it was because Chen Fan had a dream that he often had since he was young. In the dream, there was a person who looked exactly the same as Xu Xiao.
The only difference was that the temperament of the person in the dream was very similar to his. They were both elegant and unrestrained.
But for some reason, although Xu Xiao's temperament was completely different from the person in the dream, Chen Meng had an indescribable but very clear feeling.
Xu Xiao was the person he had often dreamed of since he was young.
Moreover, Chen Fan didn't know what kind of relationship he had with the elegant and suave Xu Xiao in his dream.
Sometimes, he would drink and chat with Xu Xiao in his dreams.
Sometimes, he would argue with Xu Xiao in the dream until his face was red.
Sometimes, he would even fight to the death with Xu Xiao in the dream.
What was the connection between the elegant and suave Xu Xiao in his dream and the brave and cunning Xu Xiao beside him now?
What was his relationship with them?
Even the quick-witted Chen Fan couldn't figure out what was going on.
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