After Shen Lie took the dragon tendon bow from Xiao Lu Xiaomo, he went straight back to the mansion and made the final preparations before the expedition.
Shi Kai, Wang Xiaohu and a few others were trying on the brand new dragon scale armor in the yard.
I saw the dragon scales undulating like waves, shining like blood under the sunset.
The workmanship is extremely exquisite, almost equivalent to Shen Lie's dragon scale armor.
Wang Xiaohu smiled and patted his dragon scale armor, "Come on, cut me!"
Zhang Yuan immediately picked up a battle knife and gathered all his strength, and a layer of golden blood instantly attached to the blade, which frightened Wang Xiaohu to quickly dodge.
"Hey! You kid, you want to hack me to death!"
Zhang Yuan scratched his head, "I thought, these dragon scales are so hard, even an ordinary knife can't be tried."
Wang Xiaohu was stunned, "What you said is really... It makes sense."
"Hey! Brother Shen Lie is back!"
When everyone saw Shen Lie walking into the courtyard with an imposing dragon tendon bow, they immediately surrounded them, and they all rushed to try it.
"Brother Shen Lie, let me see this dragon tendon bow."
Wang Xiaohu took the lead, rushed in front of everyone, and took the dragon tendon bow in Shen Lie's hand.
"Good guy!"
Wang Xiaohu sank suddenly, he didn't expect this bow to be so heavy!
"Xiaohu, can you pull this bow? If it doesn't work, let me come!" Niu Jin was eager to try it.
Wang Xiaohu ran to the other side of the yard with a bow, "Go, don't make trouble, I haven't tried it yet, how do I know if it's going to move."
Saying that, Wang Xiaohu took a deep breath, activated his qi and blood, raised his dragon tendon bow, and continued to exert force with his right hand.
Only the bowstrings made of dragon tendons made a slight whistling sound.
Seeing that Wang Xiaohu had already grinned and the bowstring was less than halfway opened, Zhang Liao and others cheered on the side:
"Little tiger, work harder!"
Wang Xiaohu gritted his teeth and had already exhausted all his strength.
"No."
Phew——
Wang Xiaohu finally only pulled the bowstring halfway.
"Try it for me!"
Niu Jin clapped his hand and took the dragon tendon bow from Wang Xiaohu's hand.
"Drink!"
Niu Jin shouted violently, causing the birds in the yard to fly.
Then he also used his qi and blood and slowly pulled the bowstring.
Zhang Liao joked on the side: "Old cow, can you do it, don't be blind to your posture just now."
Niu Jin's face was flushed and his neck was thick at this time, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, so he couldn't deal with a few people at all.
I saw that the circumference of his arms skyrocketed, and the bowstring would still be pulled to one-third.
"No, no, no, I can't pull it open."
Niu Jin held on for a moment and was defeated.
Then Zhang Liao and the others tried again, and only after breaking through the stone opening of the Divine Origin Realm could they finally pull the dragon tendon bow completely away.
Niu Jin was envious on the side, "It has to be the Divine Origin Realm, and the Divine Origin Realm has to break through."
That night, after everyone packed up their things, Shen Lie called everyone together and instructed them on the matters of tomorrow's expedition.
Shen Lie took out the map and said to several people: "In the past month, the power of the Heavenly Sword Sect has expanded a lot, and the front line has reported that several state capitals in the Central Plains have fallen one after another, and the enemy's strength has expanded to 100,000 people."
Niu Jin was stunned: "I'm a good girl, 100,000? When the barbarians called, why didn't there be so many people?"
Shi Kai then explained: "Among these 100,000 people, half of them are people with little combat effectiveness."
"The remaining half are all private soldiers of the Central Plains family, plus the Heavenly Sword Sect, these soldiers are the real threat to us."
The Heavenly Sword Sect has been operating in the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and almost all the children of the surrounding aristocratic families are disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
After learning the martial arts art of war from the Heavenly Sword Sect, he returned to his family and recruited and trained private soldiers with the methods he had learned.
Just waiting for the Heavenly Sword Sect to start on the first day, all the great families immediately gathered to follow.
"The stone is right." Shen Lie then pointed his finger at the map.
"Daimyofu."
Shen Lie continued: "After the Central Plains fell one after another, the Heavenly Sword Sect marched north, and now the army is on its way to the Daming Mansion."
"The strategic location of the Daming Mansion is very important, once it is occupied by the Heavenly Sword Sect, they can go north unimpeded, and the troops will approach the capital."
"If we fight steadily, we can also march eastward, occupy Shandong, and completely cut off the land connection between the north and south of Daxia."
Hearing this, everyone immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.
The capital is densely populated and relies on the southern grain transport.
If the Heavenly Sword Sect fights steadily and insists on isolating the north and south, by next year, I am afraid that the entire Gyeonggi region will starve to death and starve in groups.
At that time, the soldiers of the Heavenly Sword Sect will not shed blood, and just by trending refugees, the northern state capitals will be defeated without a fight.
...
The next morning, everyone gathered on the school ground, and civil and military officials also came to see them off.
As winter turns to spring, the temperature gradually warms up, and the frozen river water slowly becomes enlightened.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were neatly formed and their armor was shining, standing majestically on the school ground.
When the civil and military officials saw this solemn military appearance, they couldn't help but praise it again and again.
After a month of training by Shi Kai and others, the 10,000 elite soldiers selected cannot be said to be reborn. But the mental outlook is also renewed.
got rid of the bad habits they had developed on weekdays, and they all became qualified soldiers who were prohibited by orders and prohibitions.
Shen Lie rode the dragon fruit to patrol the three armies, he was wearing crimson dragon scale armor, and he was still wearing a cloak with black on the outside and red on the inside.
There was a tiger amber knife hanging from the saddle, a Yue Que sword, and a freshly built dragon tendon bow on his back.
The dragon fruit galloped, and the cloak was hunting, so majestic!
The first to pass by was the 4,000-man infantry formation of the front army led by Shi Kai, with Jiang Bin and Xu Cheng as his left and right deputies.
2,500 Xuanjia guards wearing soldiers' dragon scale armor, plus 1,500 heavily armored infantry.
Then there was the 3,000-man infantry formation of the rear army led by Niu Jin, all of whom were heavily armored soldiers selected from the three major battalions.
After Shen Lie rode past the infantry formation, there were three thousand cavalry.
Among them, Wang Xiaohu led a thousand pioneer elite cavalry, with Qianhu Lu Xian as his deputy.
The cavalry under his command all wore soldiers' dragon scale armor, and the dragon blood horses under their crotches were also armored.
The rest were each led by Zhang Liao and Zhang Yuan to serve as cruising scouts and light cavalry.
After Shen Lie inspected the circle, he returned to the middle position, and behind him were eight hundred cavalry guards, commanded by Zhao Feng.
After experiencing a hundred battles, these eight hundred guards have all broken through the realm of martial arts.
At this time, they were also wearing soldier dragon scale armor and mounting armored dragon blood horses.
Shen Lie looked up at the position of the sun, and then shouted, resounding over the school ground.
"Let's go!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers immediately set off, lined up in neat lines, and marched towards the outside of the capital.
Suddenly a person rode over, and it turned out to be Lei Qingyun, the Duke of Wei.
The team kept marching, Shen Lie and Lei Qingyun walked side by side.
"Brother Shen, I have hesitated again and again these days, but I still don't want Jing Ming to go to the battlefield... Alas." Lei Qingyun sighed heavily.
The moment he saw Lei Qingyun appear, Shen Lie already knew his decision.
Shen Lie nodded, "Brother Lei, you don't have to blame yourself too much."
Lei Qingyun nodded guiltily, and said heavily: "Brother, I will hold a banquet in the capital and wait for your triumphant return!"
Shen Lie bowed in return, and then ran to the front of the team non-stop.
A team of tens of thousands of people quickly left the capital, marched along the road of the south gate, and rushed towards the Daming Mansion.
The team walked ten miles, and a horse galloped from the side and rear.
I saw that the man's face was covered in dirt, and only a neat white tooth was exposed.
"Brother Shen, Brother Stone! Brother Xiaohu!"
Shen Lie and others immediately rode to a stop when they heard the sound.
Wang Xiaohu squinted his eyes at the man, "It seems... Little Leizi!"
"Haha, it's him, it's this kid!"
Lei Jingming rode over, since everyone returned from Liaodong, he had been grounded at home, and he hadn't seen him for a month.
Wang Xiaohu couldn't help but ask curiously, "Xiao Leizi, you really have you! How did you get out this time?"
Lei Jingming laughed, "Dig a tunnel!"
"I dug during the day, dug at night, and dug for a whole month, and finally let me dig my head!" Lei Jingming said proudly.
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh.
Shen Lie was also really in Bengbu, and suddenly remembered the story he had seen in his mind -
What kind of salvation is Lei Jingming's meow!
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