Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

As soon as Wu Yong left, Jia Lian closed the door and sank into cultivation. Then, he let go of his spiritual sense and covered the houses of the five soldiers.

But one of them said: "Old Liu, do you think what that kid Wu Yong said is true?"

Lao Liu asked: "What is true and false?"

"Is it because Wang Lei was beaten?"

Old Liu snorted: "It's probably true. This kind of thing can't be faked. There's no need for that kid Wu Yong to lie."

One who was sleeping in the corner said: "Hmph, Wang Lei deserves to be beaten, he really wants to encourage us to fight against the Deputy Lang Guan, saying that Liu Lang Guan appreciates him, and he is a nonsense, if Liu Lang Guan really appreciates him He, if you want to promote him, will someone beat him?"

Hearing this, Jia Lian withdrew his consciousness.

It's no wonder that these soldiers were obviously strong, but fell behind, but it turned out that Wang Lei was jealous and deliberately encouraged the soldiers to pretend to be weak, in order to mess up his plan in the afternoon.

This Wang Lei is somewhat clever, but he miscalculated.

He didn't even think about it. In the army, the military order is like a mountain, and the official rank crushes people to death.Although Jia Lian hadn't figured out why this Liu Zichou suddenly promoted him, he obviously wanted to leverage on him to achieve his own goals.

However, no matter what purpose Liu Zihao used him to achieve, Jia Lian would be happy with it.

Everything has two sides, how would you know that when Liu Zirou was using Jia Lian, Jia Lian couldn't use Liu Zirou's trust to buy people's hearts and cultivate his confidantes in the army?

Furthermore, even if he couldn't win over a group of people for his own use, he finally gave himself a place to display his talents.

Otherwise, what can he do as a little corporal leader?

Therefore, Jia Lian thought that there is no problem of anyone taking advantage and suffering losses here. This is a matter of mutual benefit and win-win.

The next day, I don't know if it was to cooperate with Jia Lian, the Lang team continued to conduct hiking training.

On this day, Wang Lei's subordinates did not fall behind.On the contrary, Wang Lei fell behind because Jia Lian gave him medicine because he received ten extra sticks.

Jia Lian treated him equally, and still gave him water to drink. With Jia Lian's help, Wang Lei barely completed the hundred-mile hiking training.

Through this incident, Jia Lian found that Wang Lei had merits.

In order to subdue the two teams as soon as possible and let Wang Lei voluntarily cooperate with the training as soon as possible, Jia Lian decided to focus on training Tang Hui's siege team and teach Wang Lei a lesson, letting him know that in a war, individual heroes cannot win.

Of course, Jia Lian's case is different, because Jia Lian possesses unique skills and has the advantage of crushing these small soldiers.

After coaching Tang Hui's siege team for ten days, Jia Lian conducted a second simulated siege.

This time, Wang Lei still served as the general defending the city, and Tang Hui still led the attack.

Wang Lei did not accept Jia Lian's tactics, and his strategy is still to adopt one man as the gatekeeper.

Because Jia Lian became a deputy Lang Guan and would no longer participate in the siege, Wang Lei was very confident.

However, Tang Hui accepted Jia Lian's siege concept and abandoned the forced siege tactics of face-to-face gongs and face-to-face drums, but adopted a sneak attack strategy of one light and two darkness, one master and two assistants.

For this move, Sun Tzu's Art of War has a saying: openly build plank roads, and cover Chencang secretly.

Tang Hui took the brunt of confronting Wang Lei head-on, while the two coordinators who fell from behind the ladder and climbed up looked at the opportunity, sneaked up and subdued Wang Lei.

The city defense team is very assured of Wang Lei's ability and trusts them very much. They just need to follow behind and tie up people at any time.

When Wang Lei was tied up, they were stunned.Although it was only for a short period of time, less than a stick of incense.

However, during this short period of time, Tang Hui's other brothers attacked the city wall, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand. The members of Wang Lei's detachment lost the opportunity because of ignorance, and Tang Hui's teammates were focusing on practicing Wudang these days Monkey Fist, each of them is flexible and jumps like a monkey. Especially the wrist strength of these soldiers has been greatly improved. Wang Lei's team, which had an absolute advantage before, was defeated in an instant.In less than a quarter of an hour, Tang Hui's team subdued all their opponents.

After this failure, Wang Lei was silent for two days. Just when Jia Lian was about to ask Liu Zimo to change his head, Wang Lei seemed to have figured it out, and he agreed to cooperate with Jia Lian in training.

However, he asked for rotation training, and he wanted to attack the city.

The main task of the Yunti team was to attack the city, and Jia Lian agreed without hesitation.

However, Jia Lian made a request that the rice bags on Wang Lei's team's legs cannot be taken, and the rice bags must be hung on the wrists.

Wang Lei didn't seem to agree, his team was the most powerful team in the entire Lang team, otherwise, he wouldn't feel good and wanted to get closer.

Jia Lian treated everyone equally and taught Wang Lei's team Wudang Monkey Boxing to increase their climbing ability and fighting ability while climbing.With the deepening of training, Wang Lei's face became less and less hostile.The training is getting more and more serious.

He even admired Jia Lian in his heart, and was willing to dedicate his family's boxing skills to the brothers in the barracks for free.

His family has been a soldier for generations, and his ancestors have passed down many touching stories. Once a selfless and dedicated brother like Jia Lian goes to the battle, he will not hesitate to save the life of his partner in a critical moment.

He suddenly felt that he was a little stupid, because he refused to cooperate with Jia Lian's training ten days ago because of a little selfishness.

Now, he is very curious about the defense skills that Jia Lian gave Tang Hui.

Wang Lei discovered through peeping that although Tang Hui's team had tied rice bags on their calves, they had not performed leapfrogging and were still continuing to climb and train.

Wang Lei also discovered that Tang Hui and the others began to use the hundred-claw rope to climb the cliff.

This time, Wu Yong has become a favorite. He is the lightest in body, flexible in mind, and quick in his hands and feet. Every time he climbs to the top of the rock first, and then lowers the rope or the soft ladder.

As Tang Hui's unit conducts rock climbing training, a scene will appear in the camp every evening, and each returning soldier will carry a bundle of firewood on his back, which will be given to Wu Yong's foot shop as a travel fee.

Because of the intense training these days, Jia Lian ordered all the brothers to join Wu Yong's house in order to save time.

Wu Yong's parents refused to charge the processing fee because Jia Lian treated Wu Yong kindly, so Jia Lian had to find another way and asked his brothers to send firewood to pay off the debt.

Turn around and talk about Tang Hui, Tang Hui's team followed Jia Lian to train for more than ten days, and the ability of the whole team has been improved as a whole.

Now the teammates of the whole team run, jump and climb like monkeys, which is not the same as before.

Now Tang Hui is as convinced of Jia Lian as Wu Yong is. He not only accepts two hours of afternoon training, but also actively proposes night hiking training. Once he joins the war, night hiking training is very necessary.

Wang Lei seemed to be on the same page with Tang Hui, and he also took the team to go hiking at night.

After ten days of training like this, there were only seven days left before Liu Zimo's inspection. Jia Lian ordered the two teams to play against each other again, so as to find out the shortcomings in the match and make improvements.

This time Wang Lei's team attacked the city, but as soon as they climbed halfway up the ladder, a gust of wind blew up above their heads, but it was wheat flour. Only a few were kept, but as long as two or three were enough, it was enough to make the soldiers slip on their feet and fall down the ladder.

The soldiers of Tang Hui's team immediately lifted out a long wooden stick, and using the city wall as a fulcrum, ten people worked together to bring down the entire ladder.

Wang Lei was furious, and he went to Jia Lian to comment: "They are using tricks, which is not in compliance with the rules."

Jia Lian asked with a smile: "Will the enemy tell you the rules? Oh, they are so stupid, wait for you to climb up, and then challenge you one-on-one. This is a simulated war, not a trial."

Wang Lei was full of dissatisfaction: "If I get to the top of the city, I will definitely be able to defeat them."

Jia Lian told Tang Hui to set up the ladder again.

When Wang Lei climbed to the top of the wall, he saw that the place where he was standing was covered with five-inch nail boards. If he dared to jump off, he would be injured even if he was not disabled.

Wang Lei was stunned: "Training is not allowed to hurt people, you fouled."

Tang Hui said with a smile: "We will remind you not to jump. When you are in a daze, we will lift you up by your feet with a hundred-claw rope, and you will fall down by yourself."

Wang Lei looked at Jia Lian resentfully: "It's not fair for Deputy Lang Guan, we didn't give these methods to our team."

Wu Yong jumped out immediately: "Bah, it's because you don't want to learn it yourself. You said that as long as you have three stones in your hands, you don't need these empty-headed things. You take your brothers to practice rocking every day, and you don't come to listen to the adults' explanations. art of war."

Wang Lei was in a daze: "What is the art of war by throwing flour and beans?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "It's called surprise, and it's unexpected!"

Wang Lei was stunned for a while: "If I use these methods to defend the city, how will my lord break it?"

Jia Lian smiled: "The army is divided into three groups. While you are fighting the enemy head-on, one of us will climb the city wall with a hundred-claw flying cable, and the other team will dig tunnels along the moat. When the time comes, our last team will come to the city by surprise, or set fire to open the city gate in disorder, or simply kill the soldiers guarding the city gate secretly and open the city gate."

Wang Lei said: "In a real war, the enemy will shoot arrows and kerosene. It is impossible for you to climb a ladder quietly and tie a rope to climb the city wall."

Jia Lian said: "In a real war, we will also have catapults and shotgun teams to support. As long as one team reaches the city wall, the enemy will panic, and our soldiers will be full of confidence and morale."

Wang Lei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly knelt down on one leg: "Your Excellency is strategically minded and thoughtful, Wang Lei admires him, and is willing to serve under His Excellency."

Jia Lian was taken aback, and raised his hand to help: "Efficiency is nothing to say, as long as you train hard and help me win the Lang team competition, I will be grateful."

Wang Lei said: "I also want to hear the adults explain the art of war, please accept the younger ones."

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Every brother can listen, it's just that you don't go."

After five days of training, Jia Lian was like a fish in water, and was welcomed by his teammates wherever he went.

Liu Zimo was stunned when he got the news, I just finished beating Wang Lei for him here, so they are lucky!

Feng Tang has been paying attention to Jia Lian silently, and will return to Beijing in secret every three or five days.

Emperor Qianyuan smiled all over his face on this day, and waved at Zhang's uncle: "Look, Jia Lian is really a good kid. I asked him to be a big soldier. Hey, within a month, he actually became a deputy minister." Well, even though he is a ninth-rank sesame official, he is an official regardless of size. And here, he only manages one team, but he is in charge of the training of two teams. This is to strengthen the ninth rank. This is amazing!"

Uncle Zhang smiled: "Probably General Feng took special care of his son."

Emperor Qianyuan waved his hand: "You are wrong. Feng Tang gave him a second-class soldier. After three days as a second-class soldier, he won the favor of a superior official, and became a ninth-rank official by leapfrogging."

Uncle Zhang: "It needs to be approved and promulgated by the Ministry of War."

Emperor Qianyuan smiled and waved his hands: "Approval and promulgation are trivial matters. The key is that this kid has done it. He was appreciated by the superiors for his ability and climbed up. This is the key point. I didn't know that this kid can also train soldiers."

Uncle Zhang smiled again: "His grandfather taught him to read military books since he was a child, but they were all on paper. This time, he found the opportunity to apply what he learned. But what is learned on paper is superficial, and it is the test in war." A place of talent."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "I know what you mean. If you want to mature alone, you have to take it out for a walk. This Jia Lian guesses that he doesn't need to read military books anymore. What he lacks is experience. Didn't that Feng Ziying just go to the Shenji Camp? Well, Jun Heng drafted a secret letter to Feng Tang, asking him to throw Jia Lian to the Shenji Camp, and I will use it again when they learn to use shotguns. Did you know that there was a group of bandits on the canal recently, It is said that several civilian ships that came to Anguo to buy medicinal materials were robbed, and it was even worse a few days ago. They also robbed the fourth-rank officials of Taipu Temple, and there were countless ordinary wealthy households. Complaining about the government's incompetence in the imperial court's corpse.

This is a great injustice, I ordered Shuntian Mansion to cooperate with the Nine Gates garrison to suppress the bandits several times, but when the officers and soldiers arrived, they disappeared without a trace, and when the officers and soldiers closed the team, they came out again. "

How could Uncle Zhang dare to intervene? He could only act as an audience. He could only lower his head and listen to the emperor's grievances: "It's bad enough that there are bandits in the north and south now. Now the whole people are going to be soldiers and fight against the enemy. They are fine. The flag rebellion threatened the monarch's father, and the riots reached the doorstep, thousands of people surrounded and suppressed but failed to achieve an inch, I, the emperor, have become a joke!"

Only then did Uncle Zhang dare to intervene: "The emperor wants Jia Lian and Feng Ziying to investigate secretly and arrest the bandit leader?"

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "Yes, this time I will be ruthless and never recruit. If I catch one and kill another, they will all be robbed by the government. The next one will rush to my Forbidden City to grab things before they enter the capital. They must be severely punished." Kill without mercy."

But he turned around and said Jia Lian.

On this day, Liu Zichao personally sat in the battle, and the whole wolf team competed in catching and shooting. In the morning, they competed in bow horse riding, shooting, dancing with knives, and throwing stones.There is no doubt that Wang Lei's team won after three fierce battles.

Tang Hui's team wins by throwing stone bow horses, riding archery and dancing knives, and finally loses to Wang Lei on the stone throwing.

Siege competition in the afternoon.

The two teams of Wang Lei and Tang Hui finally killed the other eight teams and became the champion and runner-up.

This is the championship.Obviously, Jia Lian has completed the task assigned by Liu Zichao.

In the evening of this day, because of the strong protests of the other eight chiefs, Liu Zimo decided to have an extra try, a night hike.

This time, Wang Lei won the first place and Tang Hui won No.2.

Liu Zimo was very happy, and ordered Jia Lian to copy out his native place and the names of the three generations of his ancestors, so that he could report it to the Shangguan and send it to the Ministry of War for approval.

Jia Lian wrote about the three generations of his ancestors: his great-grandfather Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo, his grandfather Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, and his father Jia She, the third-rank general.

Liu Zimo couldn't help being taken aback when he saw the resume.

He had never met Jia Lian in Rongguo Mansion but had heard about it. In his heart, Jia Lian was just a dude.

This Jia Lian turned out to be Jia Lian from the Rongguo Mansion?Isn't Jia Lian from Rongguo Mansion a donated official?

However, Liu Zimo had already reported Jia Lian's affairs to the Shangguan, so he couldn't go back on his word at this time, and he could use Jia Lian right now, so he wrote a letter of recommendation, recommending Jia Lian to be the deputy captain of the Yunti team.

This letter of recommendation was quickly handed over to Feng Tang by the school lieutenant, Du Wei.

Feng Tang weighed both sides of the secret letter in his hand, and finally put down the secret letter, signed Jia Lian's promotion document, and asked people to report it to the Ministry of War immediately.Fengshengjun cannot appoint or remove officials by itself.

However, although Liu Zimo recommended Jia Lian, he couldn't keep him.

But for the sake of his impartial recommendation of Jia Lian, he will help Liu Zimo to be promoted to captain.How to put it, Liu Zimo can be regarded as a bole with discerning eyes and talents.Knowing Jia Lian's background and experience, and writing such a warmly praised recommendation document, it shows his heart.

Later, General Feng Tang sent someone to call Feng Ziying.

Feng Tangyan said: "It has been a month since Jia Lian was dispatched to Xishan, logically, you should go see him, see what he wants, and try to agree to him."

Feng Ziying was very surprised: "Hey, didn't the general prevent me from seeing him before, why has it changed now?"

Feng Tang felt that his father's dignity was being challenged, so he snorted coldly: "Before, there was an order from the emperor not to be partial, but now there is an order from the emperor to take care of him. I am a soldier, and everything is obeyed by the emperor. Is there anything wrong?"

Feng Tang's face-changing was terrible. Feng Ziying had been batoned since she was a child.

Feng Ziying hurriedly put on a smiling face: "There is nothing wrong, father, you are busy, I will go to Jia Lian right away."

But Jia Lian was explaining the art of war to his new younger brother Wang Lei Tang Hui and others when he suddenly heard a burst of hearty laughter: "Second brother Lian, you have come to the military camp!"

As soon as Jia Lian heard that he was busy welcoming them out the door, just as Feng Ziying rushed forward exaggeratedly, Jia Lian didn't want to be hugged by him, and stretched out his hand: "You late master, don't you want to cover up your faux pas with madness?"

Feng Ziying giggled and said: "My brother said something rude, shouldn't he be respectful to brothers and sisters, look at how respectful I am."

When Jia Lian looked at Feng Ziying, his complexion darkened three points compared to before, and he immediately guessed eight points that Feng Ziying was not in the barracks before.Then he smiled and said, "Let's go, I'm treating guests today, and we won't return until we're drunk."

Wu Yong hurriedly ran out: "The adults walk slowly, the younger ones take a step first."

Feng Ziying recognized Wu Yong: "Why is this little monkey so anxious? How did he become your subordinate?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "I didn't know the way when I first came here, so he led the way for me, helped me resettle the house, and introduced the situation of the residence for me. He was very enthusiastic, and then he said that he wanted to mix with me. .”

Feng Ziying smiled heartily: "You should change your soft-heartedness. If you go to battle, this habit will kill you."

Jia Lian smiled: "Let's talk about it later."

At the foot of the mountain, I arrived at Wu's foot shop.Wu Yong has already set up a meal in Zhang Luo.

Jia Lian said that if you don't get drunk, you won't return. In fact, the army is not allowed to sell alcohol. What they drink is rice wine, which smells like wine. If you don't get drunk, thin wine is better than yellow soup.

Feng Ziying got his father's permission, and then told Jia Lian that he had gone with the Xiaocavalry Army to suppress bandits, and he just came back a few days ago, and now he works in the Shotgun Construction Office.

As soon as Jia Lian heard this, he really became interested: "Shotgun camp? Can you learn to shoot a gun? Didn't it mean that the bird's beak gun is controlled in the hands of the royal family and outsiders are not allowed to touch it?"

Feng Ziying waved her hand: "It's all rumors from the outside world, and the entry and exit of personnel is indeed tightly controlled. However, the Royal Clan is not the only one in the Shotgun Battalion. Similarly, not all royal family members can enter and exit the Shotgun Battalion."

Jia Lian raised his hand: "I know, it has to be handpicked by the emperor, right?"

Feng Ziying stretched out her thumb: "Brother Lian is smart!"

Jia Lian frowned: "Shotgun Construction Office? Is it looting? Are you learning how to do looting? Do you have a gun?"

Feng Ziying scoffed: "My second brother, I'm just an apprentice now, just helping to install a matchstick. I was lucky to meet an unconservative master and a mean master. I'm afraid the apprentice will learn to starve to death. I won't let you touch it either."

In fact, the apprentices are not allowed to touch the guns. Some of the reasons are because the master is conservative and cherishes the broom, and some are afraid that the apprentices will not know how to spoil things. It should be noted that the fine iron needed to make the bird's beak gun is scarce.There is no room for waste.

Jia Lian was very curious: "I heard that the bird's beak gun can kill people with a single shot. Is it true?"

Feng Ziying shook her head: "If you are not prepared, you can seriously injure someone to death with a single shot. However, there will be protective measures in the battle, such as rattan and leather armor, but it is not very effective. It can only play a certain role in slowing down. , the bird's beak gun is the most lethal weapon among the weapons I have come into contact with, and everyone can learn to use the bird's beak gun, unlike swords, guns, swords and halberds, which must have a certain level of skill to be effective." Jia Lian suddenly sparkled : "If everyone shoots a gun when they go to the battlefield, then the provocative old Maozi in the north and the Japanese pirates in the south will be a piece of cake?"

Feng Ziying chuckled: "It's so simple, before you say it, the emperor has already issued an order to go to war, you know how long it takes to make a gun, why is it in the hands of the royal family?