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Huai Xin sighed: "Mother... How can you make things difficult for others when guests come?"

Gu Ao smiled and said, "It's okay, what battle formation are you studying? Let's go and see together?"

Huai Xin frowned and took a look at Gu Ao: "... Well, I've been doing it for a month, it's not easy."

Gu Ao saw that Huai Xin's demeanor was different from that of the academy.When Huai Xin was in the academy, the three of them talked together, and he always showed a youthful and mature appearance, but now in front of his parents, Gu Ao saw a trace of childishness in Huai Xin.

When Huai Jinsong heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said in a rough voice: "What's wrong with it? Let Gu Ao try it? I don't believe it! We in the Central Plains can't compare to their barbarians?"

At this time, Huai Xin's mother was also smiling: "Well, you two should find a way to go. Just now I told your father, why did someone see you today, could something serious happen? It turns out that a classmate came to visit, just happened to You are also lonely, let Gu Ao stay with you in Shangjun for a while."

Only then did Huai Xin sigh, and said helplessly, "Okay then..."

At this time, Huai Xin's mother smiled at Gu Ao again: "Xiao Xin has such a sullen temper since she was a child, I hope you will take care of her."

"Where, I have benefited a lot from getting along with Brother Huai."

Gu Ao followed Huai Xin to bid farewell to Huai Xin's parents, and walked out of the school grounds, Gu Ao sighed inadvertently, "Ling Tang is really a hero among girls!"

Huai Xin took a look at Gu Ao and said, "My mother used to lead the army of Shangjun together with my father to conquer Rong land."

Gu Ao was startled slightly, and said with admiration: "Lingtang Zhen is a rare and rare woman in the world, and she is also on par with your father. It is really an admirable story."

Seeing Gu Ao's admiration on Gu Ao's face, Huai Xin couldn't help saying in her heart: "...Brother Gu said so, it was beyond my expectation, I thought that all ordinary men in the world would like soft and weak But it turns out that Brother Gu appreciates this kind of couple... But... I don't know where Brother Gu's love will go in the future? A woman who has practiced martial arts since childhood like my mother is hard to find in the world, only some families who practice martial arts Only then can I teach my daughter how to practice martial arts, but brother Gu is not from a family, I don't know what will happen in the future..."

Huai Xin thought about it, and thought about the military order his parents gave him just now, then raised his eyebrows slightly, and said to Gu Ao: "... Shall I take Brother Gu to see the battle formation?"

Gu Ao nodded: "I can't ask for it."

"Then I'll ask someone to prepare the car. The camp is five miles north of the city."

"Brother Huai, when we go together, can you ask Shang Dian not to know?"

"Okay, I'll send someone to find him out."

Just like that, Huai Xin and Gu Ao took Dian Bu Shi together, and the three of them boarded the carriage to the military camp.When Dian Bushi got into the carriage, he said without shame: "There is another carriage, and when we were in Yuyang County, Mr. Chou drove the carriage for us himself!"

Upon hearing this, Huai Xin asked Gu Ao curiously, "Brother Gu, is there such a thing?"

Gu Ao said: "Yes, I don't know why he sent us to another place on a whim, but he went to Beijing overnight."

Huai Xin nodded thoughtfully, with an unknown smile hanging on the corner of her mouth.

At this time, the carriage had already driven out of the county town of Shangjun, and there was a plain thousands of miles outside the city, stretching as far as the eye could see, white snowflakes were gradually falling from the sky, Huai Xin rolled up her cuffs, stretched out her hand, and caught a piece of falling snowflakes.Gu Ao also looked up: "This is the first snow this winter!"

Huai Xin smiled slightly: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year, but I don't know how heavy the snow will be...Rong people's life may be difficult..."

The snowflakes in his palm turned into ice crystals, Huai Xin withdrew his hand, wiped the wetness in his palm with a handkerchief, and suddenly asked Gu Ao, "By the way, Brother Gu, do you know why the Southern Expedition is always easier than the Northern Expedition?"

Gu Ao thought for a while, and said, "Forage."

Dian Bushi asked on the side: "Why is it grain and grass?"

"That's a long story," Huai Xin sighed, looking at the endless desolate wilderness outside the car: "The weakness of our Birong people in the Central Plains lies in the fact that the Rong people invaded me and marched south, and I fought back against the Rong people. , but it was the Northern Expedition.

In the south, the water network is densely covered, and the hills are vertical and horizontal. It is not easy to recruit troops, but it produces more grain.The army of the Southern Expedition can always pay food on the spot to solve the food and grass; but every time the Northern Expedition, the situation is very different. The Rong people live after water and grass, and their cattle and sheep are their food. Wherever they march, the food will be brought there. However, we Central Plains people had to build more turnaround stations in order to transport grain.I have calculated that if we attack all the way from Shangjun to the capital of the Rong people, there will be a total of 14 people to support a soldier who needs to be supplied by post stations step by step.

The difference between the Northern Expedition and the Southern Expedition is worlds apart... Everyone in the Southern Expedition is self-sufficient, and 14 people in the Northern Expedition support one person. These dynasties and generations have naturally suffered consecutive defeats. "

Said, Huai Xin pointed to the outside: "Brother Gu, Brother Dian, look at how vast and boundless the outside is, it's best to have a solid wall and clear the wilderness."

Dian Bushi nodded thoughtfully: "...so that's the truth."

Huai Xin smiled wryly: "Father originally wanted to build a canal to solve the problem of transporting food, but there was not enough manpower in Shangjun. Later, my father went to find Qiu Jiang, the prefect of Yuyang County. He actually said that there is no need to bother, and the north is safe. It is really shortsighted." .”

Gu Ao frowned: "I also saw when I came here that the guards in Yuyang County are doing very poorly. I don't know how Eunuch Qiu thinks about it. He is in the north, so he doesn't know the troubles of the Rong people? Why do we turn a blind eye?"

Huai Xin sneered, "It's easy to guess what Eunuch Qiu is thinking... Doesn't he just think that in the future his son can rely on the Yong family to become the prefect of a rich county in the Central Plains, so he doesn't want to run this business?" Bitter cold place?"

Gu Ao nodded: "I see..."

"However, in Yuyang County, Mr. Chou is playing the wrong way..." Huai Xin said flatly.

"What do you mean by this?"

"Mr. Chou has a relaxed and open-minded personality. He has gone to the Rong area to dance and have fun with the Rong people many times. The Rong people are not wary of him. In addition, there are Rong women among his concubines in the backyard. For the merchants of the Rong people, Mr. Qiu is also They have never been in trouble. They have been doing business in Yuyang County, and the county has never collected heavy taxes. Now, Yuyang County has become a flourishing frontier for Han and Rong commerce. The knife casting skills of the Rong people are also Gradually, it spread to the Han area.”

"So, Mr. Chou still has merit for the frontier?" Dian Bushi asked with a frown.

Huai Xin said: "That's not the case. One of the major problems is the intermarriage between Rong and Han... There are many Rong and Han families in Yuyang County. The Rong people were more than brave but not clever enough, but now they have children with Han girls. Like a mother, violent like a father, if these mixed-race people cannot be used by me in the future, it will be a serious disaster."

"...That's right." Gu Ao nodded.

Huai Xin sighed, and the topic turned to the Northern Expedition again: "I also heard from the old man in my family that Emperor Yang wanted to solve the northern problem at one stroke, so he lost his country."

"I would like to hear the details." Gu Ao said.

"Emperor Yangdi ordered the people who transported grain to stay in the area after they arrived at the battlefield, and directly supplemented them as soldiers. At the same time, the cattle that transported grain were not repatriated, but were slaughtered on the spot to be supplemented as military rations."

"...Isn't that..." Gu Ao was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help hesitating, such people who carried food kept becoming soldiers, and the number of soldiers increased day by day, but at the same time, there was no food to eat for a long time.

Huai Xin nodded: "If you put all your eggs in one basket, unless you win quickly, you won't be able to afford it. In the end, the army of millions will starve to death, and no one will survive."

Gu Ao's heart was a little heavy: "...So, the poem "The Law of the Court" that the dragon city and the tiger general broke the Northland back then, is it true?"

Huai Xin smiled wryly, "The one who succeeded in the Northern Expedition so far is the famous general who will go down in history. He is the only one who came from a male favorite, and he doesn't care about etiquette. Otherwise, who in the family would want to do that?"

Gu Ao couldn't help groaning: "...the strong man eats the meat of the barbarians when he is hungry, and talks about drinking the blood of the Huns when he is thirsty."

Huai Xin sighed: "That's right, that's why the general died young, for fear of being infected with the plague during the expedition."

What neither Gu Ao nor Huai Xin noticed at this time was that Dian Bushi was listening attentively, frowning tightly, but did not intervene, looking thoughtful.

While speaking, the three of them had already walked to the gate of the barracks, and saw that the barracks were stable and solid, and the rows of them were neat and mighty, and the military discipline was strict.Huai Xin and Gu Ao got out of the carriage together, Dian Bushi followed up, and the three of them went straight into the camp holding tokens.

Huai Xin said: "By the way, Brother Gu, have you seen Rong cavalry?"

Gu Ao said: "I saw it in the book."

Huai Xin led the two into the tent of the Chinese army: "Come here, here is a full set of armor for the cavalry."

Said Huai Xin came in through the curtain, the guards on both sides were from Huai's family, seeing Huai Xin entered the tent, they all looked at each other and said: "Young Master!"

Huai Xin nodded slightly, and led Gu Ao into the side tent on the other side, Gu Ao raised his eyes and saw a set of human-shaped armor hanging on the curtain inside the tent, with an iron helmet on his head and a breastplate on his chest, Arm guards, wrist guards, fine armor under the waist, everything is available.

Huai Xin turned around, "Put it on, try it and you'll know."

Gu Ao nodded, attracting Dian Bushi, who made Dian Bushi take off his coat, leaving only a single shirt, and took off the armor and put it on, Dian Bushi tried to move around, and found that his whole body was extremely tight. It's heavy and heavy, and it can't even walk very quickly, let alone mount a horse.

Huai Xin and Gu Ao led Dian Bushi out of the tent, at this time a soldier brought a horse, and with the joint efforts of several people, Dian Bushi got on the horse, rode the horse for a few laps, Dian Bushi shouted from a distance: "It's okay to ride a horse, but you can't get off the horse."

Gu Ao looked at the Dian and did not know it, and he had some doubts in his mind, but he still asked: "What is the strength of the Rong people's armor, please brother Huai explain it to us."

Huai Xin nodded, and called another elite cavalryman from the battalion, Dian Bushi dragged off the armor, got off his horse, the cavalryman took it in his hand, and put it on very skillfully, thanks to the joint efforts of everyone At this time, someone moved a wooden stake with the thickness of a person's waist and inserted it in the center of the school ground.

The cavalryman was wearing military armor and holding a saber, but after a distance of a hundred steps, he came on horseback, bent down and cut off the wooden stake with a radius of more than ten inches on the ground just now. cut.

Huai Xin led Gu Ao closer to look at the stake, said: "I have observed that the faster the horse, the heavier the armor, the smoother the blade."

As he spoke, Huai Xin waved his hand again, at this time someone took out a Central Plains shield and tied it to the remaining wooden stake.The cavalry charged again, cutting the shield in half with a single blow.

Gu Ao saw it in his eyes, Huai Xin ordered people to demonstrate like this, and he completely understood... If this wooden post is a person, an infantryman holding a long halberd, he can't withstand any knife from the Rong cavalry, even Can't defend with a shield.

The strength of the Rong people lies in the valor of the people, the toughness of the horses, and the superb knife-casting skills, the combination of the three.

What if instead of a single Rong cavalry, 100, 1000, or 1 people rush forward in this vast wilderness?On the plain, where is the infantry that can stop it?

Gu Ao was stunned for a moment... He suddenly thought for no reason,

in case……

He just said that if...

How great would it be to have such a strong armored cavalry?