"Who dares to stop the emperor's military parade?" the guard general Chong Li shouted.

"Feiqi Lieutenant Qiangxing is here to see your Majesty!" A young general standing on horseback held his hands in the air.

"Gu Zheng wants to parade on the battlefield, why does the young general stop him?"

"Report to the King: No one is allowed to enter the battlefield drill without permission!"

"Are military orders more important than the king's orders?" Ji Hu's face darkened.

"I will be outside, and I will not accept your order!"

"Oh?" Ji Hu's eyes flashed: "Is it General Ziliang who taught you this?"

"Then my life as a commander is a military life, right?" Wei He Youyouran asked.

Qiang Xing raised his head, cupped his hands and said: "Commander Wei, the last general has been rude." He raised his sword and shouted: "King's name!"

In response, the Taniguchi horse team flashed a row of horn horns, and the long and undulating sound penetrated the clouds. Next to them, Rongyi asked in a low voice: "Since I came to the battlefield, I only heard the golden drums. I don't know who created the new trumpet sound to announce the incident?"

Wei He smiled: "With Brother You here, there will be many new creations like the Eighth Division of Chengzhou in the future."

While he was talking, he heard another high-pitched and urgent trumpet sound coming from far away in the valley. Qiang Xing waved his hand, and the trumpet sound of the cavalry team at the mouth of the valley started again, which was also short and urgent. At the same time as the trumpet sounded, Qiang Xing raised his hand and said loudly: "Report to the king:

The deputy commander ordered me to lead the way into the valley!"

Ji Hu raised his arms and waved: "Let's go!" It was obvious that he was about to gallop on his horse. Qiang Xing raised his hand and said loudly: "No horse is allowed to gallop in the military camp except in times of war. The king must ride his horse into the valley!"

Ji Hu was angry and laughed: "Okay, okay! Go, go, go!"

As the cavalry entered the valley entrance, everyone was surprised. This valley, which looked unremarkable from a distance, was actually a carefully renovated battlefield-style military camp, with ravines and streams crisscrossing it. There was not a single military tent in sight, but there was nothing in sight.

The camp wave is faintly hidden. If they had not clearly seen the smoke flag on the mountain top on the way, no one would believe that this is the new camp of Chengzhou hiding thousands of troops.

Rong Yi, who was always making comments along the way, entered the valley without saying a word and just looked around intently. In the last sentence, he exclaimed: "It is impossible for a general to do anything like this! The famous generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty will surely shine like stars!"

Ji Hu, who was walking by, couldn't help but laugh: "Thank you for your good advice. If this is really the case, isn't it God's will?"

After turning around a mountain in the valley, it suddenly became clear that the army formation had gathered in the center of the valley. Ji Duoyou and his military advisor Gongsun Yujiujiu strode to greet them, and brought the king of Zhou and his ministers to the golden drum platform in the center of the formation.

Duoyou's intention was to ask Ji Hu to board the cloud chariot to review the troops first, and then return to the shogunate to report the situation of the entire army. Ji Hu nodded happily and ordered Rong Yi and Wei He to board the cloud chariot together.

Duoyou and the three of them, the emperor and his ministers, had just stepped onto the ground floor of the cloud chariot. The command flag outside the chariot was lowered, and a chorus of chants sounded. The four people in the chariot slowly rose up, and climbed steadily and quickly to the top of the cloud chariot, which was more than ten feet high.

Rongyi exclaimed: "The cloud car does not climb the ladder, it is really a miraculous skill!"

Wei He smiled and said: "This is all the ingenuity of my counselor Gongsun Yu. He spent the whole day in the weapons camp trying to figure it out with the craftsmen. All kinds of weapons of the Eighth Division of Chengzhou have been improved, especially the power of the machine-fired repeating crossbow.

It can be said that things are different now.”

Ji Duoyou joked: "Master Yu is so ingenious and good at his work. When you first came here, you thought he was in the way and you were always embarrassed!"

Wei He blushed: "It's not because my mother always worries about me. She sends people to follow me wherever I go. Can you not be annoyed?"

Everyone laughed, but Duji Hu looked sad as she thought of her mother, Queen Fanji.

In a moment, the cloud carriage stopped. The four of them stepped out of the carriage and saw the vast green mountains on all sides. White clouds circled the mountains lightly, sometimes hovering around the cloud carriage. They were within reach, and suddenly they were in the sky. When they looked around, they saw the valleys and the surrounding hillsides.

They were neatly arranged with phalanxes of infantry and cavalry carrying flags, just like the red Populus euphratica forest filling the mountains and rivers, and everyone could not help but feel in awe.

Duoyou didn't realize it at all, he cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the army is assembled. I dare you to ask the King to take a look at the situation of each army." Ji Hu nodded.

Duoyou waved to Sima, the military commander holding the banner in Yunche: "Display the troops in order!"

The military commander made a promise and turned the mechanism. The flat and drooping flag suddenly flew through the air, and the drums of war thundered under the cloud chariot.

"Cavalry phalanx, ten thousand!" Duoyou shouted loudly, which was also a report to Zhou Wang Jihu.

A sheet of bright swords suddenly stood up in the middle of the valley, thousands of horses roared in unison, and the armor shone with light.

"Infantry formation, fifty thousand!"

The big flag passed by, the mountains to the east were full of spears, and the mountains to the south were holding swords and shields high.

"Liannu phalanx, ten thousand!"

There was a steady sound of trumpets and clappers on the west hillside, and thousands of long arrows flew across the valley and over the top of the mountain like a storm, whizzing away towards the back of the mountain.

Rong Yi asked in surprise: "How many arrows can be fired at one time? What is the range?"

Duoyou replied: "One thousand large-scale crossbows and five thousand individual crossbows can fire 20,000 long arrows at a time! The range is one mile away!"

Rongyi couldn't help but marvel: "With such a magical weapon, there is no rival in the world!"

"Large siege equipment battalion, ten thousand!"

There was a rumble of thunder on the road under the cloud car. There were large ladders that were almost as high as the cloud car, door jammers with sharp knives, ramming trucks equipped with thick iron pillars, and so on.

There are special large-scale crossbows that can fire crude oil arrows, trench bridges equipped with three-foot-thick iron planks that can be quickly rolled out on the trench, etc., or they are pulled by oxen and horses or pushed by soldiers, and they flow continuously, and the whole

Walked for less than half an hour.

"The military camp and the baggage camp are unable to perform exercises. I dare to invite the king to inspect them in person."

"Let's patrol again tomorrow. I'll have some thoughts today."

"Lower the car!"

At the command, the main cabin of the cloud chariot rumbled down, and suddenly it reached the general platform. When the monarch and his ministers got out of the chariot, Ji Duoyou whispered a few instructions to Qiang Xing, and Qiang Xing shouted loudly: "Gather the generals to drum!"

Beat the four big drums on the drum stand together, and you will see flags flying in the center of the valley and on the surrounding hillsides. Teams of powerful horses flew to the general stage one after another. In a moment, two rows of generals with pierced armor had been ordered.

Arranged under the general's platform.

"The emperor orders generals! Please report your orders to all generals in the army!" Gongsun Yu shouted loudly.

In a moment, the signal was announced one after another. Ji Hu bit his cheek and was speechless for a long time with tears in his eyes. The valley of the hundred thousand troops was so quiet that only the breathing of the men and horses could be heard. Finally, Ji Hu spoke in a hoarse voice:

"All the generals are in their prime, and all the officers and men in the army will be in their prime. The new army of the Zhou Dynasty is the most elite army of kings since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty! When you are young, you have the destiny of the country, even if you go to heaven, you can't do it.

Praise is also given. The fate of the Zhou Dynasty is determined by destiny, and whether the royal family can be revived depends on you.

The shoulders of young men! The cauldron protects the Central Plains, ends wars and chaos, and deters rebellious ministers from rebelling. We need our blood to be shed on the battlefield! For thousands of years of history, China's peace needs our vigilance and hard work! If we succeed, we will build achievements, if we fail, the country will be ruined and the family will be destroyed.

, where will the Great Zhou Dynasty go, Ji Hu is willing to hear the hearts of all the soldiers!"

"The tripod protects the Central Plains and revitalizes the royal family!"

"The war will end and the chaos will end, the king will be invincible!"

The mountain roars like a tsunami, and the oaths are like rolling thunder, and the mountains are boiling for a long time------

As soon as he entered the tent of the Chinese shogunate, Ji Hu's mood could not be calmed for a long time: "Such an elite division can stand alone in the world! What does Qi have to fear? As long as Lu Bushan dares to send troops, he will surely level Qi in one fell swoop and attack directly.

Linzi!"

"Your Majesty, be careful what you say!" Rong Yi whispered softly. Ji Hu saw Wei He and Ji Duoyou exchanging a rather unnatural look, and suddenly felt something strange in his heart. He slowly sat behind the case and asked, "Is it possible?

Is there any difficulty?"

Ji Duoyou is now the actual commander-in-chief of the Chengzhou camp, and the situation is clear to him. He has no excuse. He stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, although the new army's exercises have been completed, the successors are weak.

If the Qi State really mobilizes its entire army to fight, it may not have a chance of winning."

"Oh? Why is this?" Ji Hu was very surprised.

"Your Majesty, the Eighth Division of Chengzhou consumes hundreds of kilograms of new copper every day just for drills. If there is a real war, the consumption will probably be doubled. Since last winter, the copper materials sent to Luoyi through Suizao Passage have been

It is decreasing day by day and is almost extinct, so the copper materials consumed in this exercise are supported by the inventories of various vassal states in the Central Plains."

Duoyou glanced at Wei He and emphasized: "Especially the Marquis of Wei, who spent almost all of Wei's inventory to achieve the results of this King's military parade."

Ji Hu stood up excitedly after hearing this, bowed to Wei He and said, "If all the princes of the Zhou Dynasty are like you Wei He, why worry about the instability of the country?"

"Thank you Marquis Wei!" Several people thanked him in unison.

"Don't, don't -------" Wei He was a little embarrassed and waved his hands hurriedly: "I am the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Division of Chengzhou after all. Isn't this the right thing to do?"

"Your Majesty," Rongyi cupped his hands and said, "The Marquis of Wei is indeed very righteous, but as a long-term plan, in my humble opinion, it is better to clear the Suizao Passage as soon as possible and transport the products from the Tonglu Mountain to Chengzhou as soon as possible.

Policy. I just don’t know where the obstacle lies?”

"Is there any need to ask?" Ji Hu waved his sleeves angrily: "Of course he is the governor of E. Since the rat poison incident, he seems to have been at odds with our royal family. Not only has he repeatedly had bad relations with Sui Guo, but he is also eager to try to

Seize the Tonglu Mountain. Now they are openly cutting off the Suizao Passage, preventing my king from replenishing copper materials, thus secretly aiding the Qi State. This is really intolerable!"

This time it was difficult to handle. Due to the constraints of copper supplies, the elite kings who had been trained could not go out on a large scale. Could they only sit back and watch the Qi Kingdom be destroyed? If so, how could the Zhou royal family have any face? If they turned their heads.

If we attack the State of E, we can open up the Suizao Passage and unblock the Golden Road. But what if the State of Qi or the State of Song with ulterior motives takes the opportunity to attack Chengzhou? How can we solve this deadlock with the left branch and the right handicapped?

Rongyi glanced sideways and saw Duoyou lowering his head in deep thought, as if thinking, and asked directly: "Does General Ziliang have any solution to this problem?"

This question focused everyone's attention on Duoyou. Wei He shook his arms and urged: "Yes, brother, didn't you say there is a way? What is the way? Now that the king is here, you

Just say it!"

Seeing that he could no longer shirk it, Duoyou bowed deeply to Ji Hu: "Your Majesty, I am not trying to shirk the blame, but I have not thought it through. However, this matter cannot be dealt with in isolation and must be considered in an all-round way. In my humble opinion, I should put aside the affairs of Qi State first.

, attack Hubei first, and shock all directions with one fell swoop!"
Chapter completed!