Li Duo was considering whether he needed to recruit the reckless man in front of him into Wan Suying's command.
To be fair, this reckless man's physical fitness, strength, and speed are definitely among the best I have ever seen. This can be seen from the fact that I find it difficult to confront him head-on. Of course Li Duo could tell from the previous fight that Wei Kui had never learned any martial arts or received any systematic training - it was just a blank slate. If he can master more things in the future...
But his flaws are also obvious and fatal: First, he is a thorn in the side, and as an elite unit, the Wansou Battalion requires all soldiers to have good military literacy, that is, to obey orders. A disobedient warrior will become a burden to the team, no matter how strong the individual soldier is. Secondly, he may not be able to quickly master cavalry tactics and archery skills - why are the guerrilla tactics of the Haogao people so difficult to crack and so troublesome? It is because the mobility and containment brought by their excellent cavalry and archery skills will put great pressure on the infantry. This is also the reason why cavalry units such as the Wansu Battalion were established to fight against them.
Maybe it's not too late to let him grow up for a while?
Li Duo suddenly asked Wei Kui: "Are you interested in Wansou Camp?"
Before Wei Kui had time to react, the people around him were already secretly stunned. Li Duo had just introduced the selection standards and treatment of the Wansu Camp. The salary of the cavalry of the Wansu Camp was several times that of ordinary soldiers, but this young boy who had just joined the military camp was lucky enough to be selected? Many veterans are holding back anger in their hearts.
Unexpectedly, Wei Kui refused to give him face: "I'm interested."
Li Duo couldn't understand why Wei Kui refused so forcefully, and asked tentatively: "Is it because of the conflict between us just now, so you are worried that I will put small shoes on you and suppress you?"
"I want to be a pioneer. If you want to be a pioneer, I will go."
Li Duo glared at Wei Kui, shook his head and said, "I've said it before, you are very courageous and aggressive, but if you go too far, you are stupid."
"The position of vanguard is the most important part of the entire army. It cannot be handed over to you casually. If you don't want to, just forget it."
Li Duo left after saying these words. Just as he thought in his heart, Wei Kui was a difficult person to deal with. This kind of person would have to be beaten to a bloody head before he would restrain himself.
When Wei Kui saw Li Duo leaving like this, he didn't feel any trouble in his heart - he didn't care much about joining Wansu Camp.
After selecting some dignified-looking soldiers, Li Duo took them away. Wang Chi, who fainted after receiving a stick from Wei Kui, also woke up and walked in the team, looking at the new recruits. I was angry for a while, cursing that there was no way this loser could be selected.
To be fair, Wang Chi's strength is still very good, otherwise he would not have been able to defeat Li Dayong. However, when facing Wei Kui, he first underestimated the enemy, and secondly, he was thinking wildly, and was beaten with a stick until he vomited blood. But this also illustrates some problems - Wei Kui's power is indeed extremely huge, but without the skills to match it, no matter how powerful the power is, it is often beyond his capabilities. Just like the contest between Wei Kui and Li Duo, he was People use four ounces to make a thousand catties.
Hao Duwei was the commander of this thousand-man camp. After Li Duo left, Hao Duwei also dismissed his men and told them to go back to rest. Only a few close followers were left behind, and they didn't know what they were talking about.
"Young man, are you strong?" Wei Kui heard someone tapping his shoulder from behind, and turned around to find that the person calling him was actually the middle-aged man who had mocked the veterans.
Wei Kui felt that what this uncle said was quite interesting, so he nodded at him, "It's not bad." The two started chatting.
"It seems to me that you have never practiced martial arts?" the middle-aged uncle asked tentatively.
Wei Kui nodded, "It's just a matter of fighting with all your strength. I never thought about practicing martial arts before, but now I want to learn it, but unfortunately there is no chance."
The middle-aged uncle smiled and said with relief: "There will be a chance. You have a good physique. It would be a pity not to learn martial arts." He also squeezed the muscles on Wei Kui's arm and praised him.
The two chatted for a while, and then it was time to eat in the evening. The whole army walked to the gathering place, in groups of three or five, busy making earthen stoves. In order to reward the new recruits, pigs and cows were specially killed in the camp. Most of them came from poor backgrounds, and they were all happy to have a meal of meat today.
The place where they are now has left Shahan Pass, about fifty miles away from Shahan Pass. This time, a total of eight battalions were dispatched, with nearly 10,000 old and new soldiers mixed together. They were to serve as the vanguard to confront the Haogao people head-on. There are still more than a thousand cavalrymen from the Wansu Camp that are not fully completed. This time can be said to be a trial battle of the Wansu Camp. Naturally, there is no room for any mistakes. Behind the Wansu Camp, there is also the empire's ace elite Sirius Army. . In order to train the combat effectiveness of the Wansuying cavalry and let them grow into aces, a lot of money was spent.
Shahanguan Pass is located on a plain, and further into the desert is an endless desert. As we get closer to the desert, the hot wind in the air enveloping the flying sand becomes more unbearable, and the marching speed naturally slows down. It was agreed that they would go to the battlefield in ten days, but now it has been twenty days, and no sign of the Haogao people has been seen, which made many soldiers relax.
Wei Kui was not idle these days either. He chatted happily with the middle-aged uncle, Li Dayong and others, and stayed with them all day long. By the way, he also learned some basic kung fu from Li Dayong as a starter. .
The middle-aged uncle's name is Du Rong. He doesn't seem to be interested in martial arts. Whenever Wei Kui asks Li Dayong for advice, he just lies aside and is lazy. He usually avoids anything in the military camp for fear of tiring himself. . However, he talks very interestingly and seems to be quite knowledgeable. He can often tell stories to the recruits to relieve their boredom, and he has some status among the recruits.
The relationship between the veterans and the new recruits in the camp has gradually eased, but they are still a bit arrogant and they direct the new recruits to do any hard work. Most of the new recruits were still a little afraid of these veterans, so they reluctantly ran errands for them. However, these veterans did not bother Wei Kui and others. They probably knew that Li Dayong, Wei Kui and the others were not easy to mess with.
It was night, the moon and stars were sparse, and everyone was sleeping soundly. Only a few soldiers in the camp who were keeping watch were still holding back their sleepiness and half-opening their eyes.
After these days of trekking, everyone was becoming more and more exhausted physically and mentally, and the promised battle was not even mentioned, which also made the soldiers slack off, and even the heavens and the earth could not withstand the sleepiness of the people.
And just a few miles away from the military camp, a cavalry team was approaching furtively. In order to prevent the bright noise from attracting attention, they extinguished their torches, wore leather armor, wrapped their feet and horse hooves with cloth, and quietly approached the series of large camps.
Unfortunately, Wei Kui's battalion happened to be the one closest to them, and it was also the one they planned to attack first.
When these people approached the camp, they all mounted their horses one after another. Under the moonlight, they could be seen carrying sharp scimitars on their waists. The leader among them rushed out at the lead, and the large army followed him like this. It's coming like a tidal wave.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" A soldier on guard at night saw a group of people rushing towards his camp and shouted loudly to his sleeping companions.
The next moment, the leader of the Hao Yao cavalry unit had pulled the scimitar along his neck, and the body of the night watchman fell suddenly, as if blowing the horn for the Hao Yao people's attack.
The Haogao people's cavalry troops are very fast and have a clear purpose. They are here to break up the camp, so they don't stop in any one place, they just rush forward. Countless tents were torn apart by their scimitars, revealing the panicked soldiers inside.
Hao Duwei did not expect that the Haogao people would launch a sudden attack. At this time, he woke up from his sleep in a disheveled state. However, he had been in the army for several years and had encountered such a situation. He held a knife and shouted loudly in the camp. The soldiers gathered together. It can also be seen from this sudden attack that the veterans ran out of the tent immediately and gathered spontaneously in small groups with weapons in hand, while the recruits were confused and hid in the tent unarmed, preparing to Escaped.
The ferocious scimitars of the Xiegao people did not give Shengguo soldiers enough time to prepare. Almost no one survived wherever they passed. Their team always maintained the same state of sharp arrows. The sharp arrow formation was a standard assault. The formation can achieve the greatest assault effect, just like the sharp arrows in their hands that penetrate directly into the enemy's vital points.
Under the command of Lieutenant Hao, the veterans formed a circular formation to resist. The soldiers at the front were holding spears half as long as one person to resist the fierce assault of the Hao Gao cavalry. Logically speaking, spears are the most effective. The weapon that restrains cavalry charges, the iron barrel-like square formation is also very effective when facing cavalry charges. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of manpower at this time. The square formation that should be airtight is now simply a leaky door curtain, which is easily torn open. A big hole was made.
The crowd was scattered by the cavalry charge, and the Haogao cavalry did not pursue them. They just continued to charge forward. They only broke one camp, which was not enough for them.
Hao Duwei suffered some minor injuries that were not intrusive, but it was absolutely impossible to allow these lunatics to charge towards the next camp, so he gathered the remaining defeated soldiers and chased the Haogao cavalry, hoping to take advantage of the weak frontal formation. A gap opens in the rear.
His idea was quite good, but the cavalry at the end of the arrow kept turning around and shooting arrows to deal with the encirclement. They didn't want the arrows to be missed, they just wanted the arrow rain to cover their charge. The dense rain of arrows quickly suppressed the footsteps of the pursuers, and people continued to be hit by the arrows and fell to the ground.
"What to do now?" The camp was in chaos. Wei Kui, Du Rong, Li Dayong and others had been eating and living together. Of course, they also knew that the Xiegao people had launched a charge towards the camp, but Wei Kui was the youngest and still First I asked other people what their ideas were.
Du Rong patted Wei Kui on the head and said: "The few people they have are obviously not enough to attack. They should just harass us and cause chaos. I just don't know if they have rear troops to clean up the mess."
Wei Kui noticed that the cavalry team did not stop for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "Where are they running to?"
Du Rong also observed it carefully, and after a moment he replied: "The eight infantry battalions in front of us are divided into four or four groups, each connected in a row... If my prediction is correct, they come from the east side of us and from the west side. When we go out, we may have to attack the next camp."
The next camp? Isn't that the camp where Wei Cheng and the others are? Wei Kui suddenly woke up.
He is the leader of Weijia Village. Although the people in Weijia Village are now scattered everywhere, Wei Cheng's place is not far from him. How can he not help? He picked up his two halberds and ran away, shouting as he ran, "I have a brother in the camp nearby, I have to save him!"
Du Rong has always liked to be lazy, and he would have been happy in peace and quiet. He was not willing to move at all unless the Xie Gao people came towards him. However, Wei Kui also developed a lot of friendship with him in these days. Let's look at Li Dayong and others. The man was already running after Wei Kui, and he immediately followed after gritting his teeth and stamping his feet.
At the end of the cavalry team, a dozen or so people gradually slowed down. Apparently they had been ordered to turn around and deal with the pursuers. These dozen people formed a small front formation and turned around to kill the pursuers. There was a back and forth.
Just when they were about to go back to join the main force, they heard a roar like thunder in the air, and an iron halberd blocked their way.
