The early sun shines through the thin mist on the main camps of Zuo Zhijun and Chaoyang Army. Starlight shines in the morning light. The blurred gray lines gradually become clear. The dust and sand are mixed with the iron smell of cold weapons. was sucked into the bodies of the soldiers.
Mu Feng squinted his eyes slightly in the morning light, picked up the kettle and took a sip of water. He pointed at the sweating young man standing on the training ground and asked Meng Yu, "Who is that?"
"General Ping Sheng's eldest son, Qi Pingyuan." Meng Yu looked at his movements carefully and said, "The current captain of the first flag of the vanguard, his marksmanship is really good."
"Yes, it's not bad." Mu Feng was still looking at Qi Pingyuan's spear dance: "He is outstanding among the younger generation. Why haven't I seen him before?"
"In the past, his father was very protective. Thinking that we were in command of the army, Yan, and had no acquaintances to look after him, he did not dare to join the army, so he joined His Majesty's Beiyang Army. It seems that he joined the army with His Highness the Crown Prince at the beginning."
Mu Feng glanced at Meng Yu in surprise: "Is his father willing to let him go this time?"
This time the Miao tribe came with great force. The elder Ge calculated ten consecutive hexagrams, which made everyone in the Yu tribe panic. Even veteran generals like Mu Feng and Qin Qin had to fight with ten times the energy. General Ping Sheng was so protective of his life. My wife is willing to let him go this time, which is strange.
"He came on his own." Meng Yu looked at Qi Pingyuan with some approval in his eyes: "He was a man of character. He was let out after a big quarrel with his father. He was in a state of embarrassment when he left. It is said that He was kicked out of the house by his father, so he was left with a bundle all over his body. There were a few sets of clothes, a few big cakes, and not even a scrap of silver in it. I don’t know how he ended up in our army."
"You don't know." Meng Yu couldn't help laughing: "When the commander saw him, he just didn't recognize that he was a young general from a certain family in Jiuchong City. He was so down and out, as if he was running away from home."
"You know better." Mu Feng teased him coolly.
Meng Yu was not convinced and deliberately followed his words and said: "No, the young general is not as busy as General Mu. I don't just wander around every day. This is my duty."
"What are you two talking about here?" Zhou Kaiqing came over and looked in the direction they were looking at: "Why are you staring at my soldiers? You don't have any soldiers?"
"Let's see if I can show you whether it's broken or not." Meng Yu teased him: "Xiaoqing's mouth is still the same as before, and it's like steel."
"You're a steel man, go to hell." Zhou Kaiqing knocked him away and said to Mu Feng, who was standing behind him: "The commander asked me to ask you whether my vanguard military faction is needed at Xuzhou Yunxian Station in three days. I will give you part of the army. The commander said that you are used to fighting with the main force, and he is afraid that you are not sophisticated enough in provocation. Do you want us to send a few people to regulate the army?"
Mu Feng wanted to say no, but when he saw the energetic and sweaty young man on the martial arts training ground, he changed his mind and said, "Okay, send him."
"Him?" Zhou Kaiqing hesitated for a moment and said, "He can't do it. He just came here. He just learned the rules. He's not suitable. He has to find an experienced person."
"Now that he's here, it's important to learn." Mu Feng said: "It's great that he has never been on the battlefield. Let him experience it. If he is shaking his legs on the battlefield, he is not suitable to stay in your vanguard army."
Zhou Kaiqing still had some hesitation in his eyes. He still took into consideration that Qi Pingyuan was the eldest son of General Ping Sheng.
"You ask him to come over and ask him if he wants to go?" Mu Feng looked at Zhou Kaiqing's hesitant face. This young fool couldn't hide anything, it was all written on his face.
Zhou Kaiqing said: "There is no third-level officer in the military camp who asks questions and solicits questions from his subordinates. I am his general. If I tell him to go, he must go."
Zhou Kaiqing looked at Mu Feng and said, "Thanks to the fact that your majestic chief of the main army thinks so highly of me, he happens to be practicing this and is the right person, so I'll go with you this time."
Mu Feng's mouth curved, and he saw Qi Pingyuan putting down the red tassel gun dripping with sweat, lifting up his shirt to wipe the sweat, revealing his tight and strong body.
"Qi Pingyuan, come here." Zhou Kaiqing shouted towards Qi Pingyuan in the center of the martial arts training ground, calling him over.
Qi Pingyuan looked up and saw Zhou Kaiqing and two other people with extraordinary temperament standing not far away, and ran over quickly without even having time to wipe the sweat from his face.
Glitter beads of sweat fell down the boy's buckwheat-colored cheeks, showing strong vitality.
"Minister Zhou." Qi Pingyuan saluted Zhou Kaiqing and looked at the other two: "These two are..."
"This is General Mu Feng, the chief of the main force. Just call him General Mu. This is General Meng Yu, the chief of communications. He leads the people who are always following him. You can just call him General Meng."
Qi Pingyuan met the two of them. He raised his hand and moved his arm uneasily. For some reason, he always felt that the minister of the main force looked at him a little strangely.
Zhou Kaiqing said: "In the battle of Yunxian County in Xuzhou three days later, the commander will send the good chargers of our vanguard army to fight together with the main force. They will be mainly responsible for the front battle. This headquarters plans to send you..."
"Really? That's great! I'm willing to go!" Zhou Kaiqing was excitedly interrupted by Qi Pingyuan before he could finish his words.
Zhou Kaiqing pretended to be angry and raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean you are willing to go? This is a military camp, and there are military orders. You have to go whether you want to or not. How many times have I told you, don't interrupt when your superiors are talking! No matter what the reason. Again. Next time, you will be punished!"
Qi Pingyuan lowered his head nonchalantly, but he was still happy: "Yes, Minister, I will remember it next time!"
Mu Feng looked at Qi Pingyuan faintly, and suddenly said: "You have changed a lot."
Qi Pingyuan: "...General Mu knows the last general?"
How could he be so virtuous as to be recognized by the chief of the main force of the Left Branch Army?
Meng Yu was also surprised. Didn't this person ask him about this person just now? They knew him together.
Mu Feng's eyes were smiling more and more, but somehow, Qi Pingyuan felt more and more ominous.
Mu Feng said slowly: "Young General Qi must have forgotten that six years ago, the commander of the Beiyang Army went to visit His Highness the Crown Prince who was training in the Beiyang Army at that time. As a result, he saw injuries all over His Highness the Crown Prince's body. Look carefully. When people asked, they found out that it was General Qi who had the consciousness of a strong territorial man. If it hadn't been for His Highness the Crown Prince's injuries, I would not have known that General Qi was so naturally gifted with extraordinary powers."
Qi Pingyuan: "..."
Qi Pingyuan's face turned pale. Come on, he now felt that the most embarrassing thing he had ever done was bullying Gu Beilin when he was a child.
It is simply a dark history that cannot be looked back upon.
Not to mention that he hadn't succeeded in bullying him yet, and he was almost falling apart after being tortured by Gu Beilin's god of control.
When Meng Yu heard this, his eyes almost popped out of his head. There was actually gossip in the world that he didn't know about?
Zhou Kaiqing was also very surprised and looked at Qi Pingyuan with slightly surprised eyes.
He always thought that he was a good, motivated and polite boy. When he found out that Qi Pingyuan wanted to join the Left Branch Army despite being kicked out of his home, he admired this boy very much, so he gave him the gift without hesitation. Qi Pingyuan was not lower than his original military position in the Beiyang Army.
"General Mu, the last general... The last general was ignorant before and was joking with His Highness the Crown Prince." Qi Pingyuan gritted his teeth. Good guy, he still wants to follow this General Mu into battle.
"Don't be nervous, the headquarters knows you are joking, Qi Xiao... no, Qi Xiaoqi." Mu Feng said with a smile, and approached Qi Pingyuan's ear: "Have the front teeth grown in?"
Qi Pingyuan's body suddenly stiffened, and he wanted to find a crack to get in, and his whole face turned red.
Mu Feng smiled and patted his shoulder: "Long time no see, you really make this department's eyes new. Very good. Are you ready to go down? I hope this cooperation can surprise me."
"...yes!"
Qin Qin held a blueprint and looked around the candlelight. Jiang Shuyi had made some manipulations on the blueprint, and they had to use some methods that only they knew to decipher.
After being baked in the candlelight, the drawings were densely packed with red dots, which were all special notes left by Jiang Shuyi when he made the weapons. These notes, even with the exquisite precision of the weapons he made, It is also a secret that the Miao people have tried their best to steal over the years.
The drawing showed a mighty and solid armored vehicle. Qin Qin pointed to a red mark on the baffle: "You can make it a little thicker here."
Jiang Shuyi frowned, and her fair little face wrinkled slightly: "General, it can't work here. Below here are the two inner wheels and a hidden box of the armored vehicle. If it is thickened, it will affect the forward speed."
In fact, no matter what kind of vehicle, forward speed is an essential consideration. However, armored vehicles rely on their weight as a factor to win, so they have to give up the advantage of forward speed.
Qin Qin thought for a few times: "How much impact will it have?"
"It's so close here that it has a big impact. And if the armored vehicle vibrates while it's driving, if the vibration frequency catches up with the vibration frequency of the black box, it will cause the entire armored vehicle to vibrate wildly, which is very dangerous, and increasing the thickness means The added weight is also a burden for soldiers."
Jiang Shuyi looked at Qin Qin's thoughtful face and thought for a moment: "General, if you have to make it thicker, it's not impossible."
Jiang Shuyi pointed to the position behind the place on the drawing that Qin Qin just pointed at: "General, look, this is OK."
Qin Qin looked at where Jiang Shu meant and didn't quite understand. He looked at Jiang Shuyi doubtfully: "This is not a place for frontal defense."
"Although this is not a place for frontal protection, its increased thickness will affect the weight and sag of the frontal protection parts above, making them fit and interact better, increasing the compactness of the armored vehicle, and not It is easy to cause resonance with the camera obscura.”
"Okay, then add it here." Qin Qin actually didn't understand it very well. At that time, Jiang Shuyi was an expert in this field. Today, no one in the world has surpassed him in the art of Qimen Dunjia.
Even though countless people come to Yu Clan Continent every year to challenge Jiang Shuyi, they all worship under him without exception.
Qin Qin was sorting out the drawings, and Jiang Shuyi was following behind him. He was so small that those who didn't know better thought he was a child laborer.
"General, why do you have to increase the weight of armored vehicles? The only use of armored vehicles in combat is to cut open city gates, but I heard from General Mu that General, your purpose this time is not to attack the city?"
Everyone else in the army called Qin Qin Commander, but Jiang Shuyi still called him general, because when he knew Qin Qin, Qin Qin was his commander-in-chief, even though Qin Qin was just a small deputy general in the left branch army at that time. .
"You don't need to ask about this, I have my own plan." Qin Qin looked outside the military tent and asked, "Did Tang Ming send someone to reply?"
"Probably not yet... I just saw General Meng and General Mu standing in the martial arts training ground chatting."
"Chatting?" Qin Qin narrowed his eyes. When Jiang Shuyi saw his expression, he knew that he wanted to tease him.
As expected, Qin Qin chuckled and stretched: "General, it seems that I haven't been to the martial arts training ground for a long time. Since everyone is here together, let's do some activities together. Come on, Shuyi, you are responsible for watching from the side. .”
