Chapter 54: Choosing a Horse
A few days passed in a blink of an eye.
In the past few days, in addition to daily practice, Zhou Hao also worked overtime to carve out five formation arrows.
Although I had already had successful experience, the success rate was only about one-quarter for several consecutive days.
In other words, Zhou Hao had 20 arrows in total, and exploded fifteen arrows, and only five were successful.
Every moment of an arrow takes half an hour. Twenty arrows were carved, which took Zhou Hao a lot of time, and even the cultivation of internal strength was delayed.
Fortunately, with the five formation arrows in hand, Zhou Hao also had more confidence and had a fight against the warrior masters.
Zhou Hao's arrow skills have also successfully broken through to the level of one bow, three arrows and three star consecutive beads in the coming expedition. In the upcoming expedition, there are a few more bargaining points.
However, Zhou Hao's progress in learning Qimen Gossip was quite slow.
After getting started with the Qimen Bagua, Zhou Hao was learning various formations. The extremely complex formation diagram made Zhou Hao dizzy. Without the essence to strengthen his brain, Zhou Hao was also bored and wanted to vomit after staring at the formation diagram for a long time.
Hong Su didn't seem to be in a hurry, and did not desperately urge Zhou Hao to memorize it like before. Instead, she threw out a formation map every day. Zhou Hao could remember it, and even if he couldn't remember it, he would.
This is actually necessary to learn the Qimen Bagua. The higher the cultivation level, the stronger the memory and understanding. Zhou Hao is only a third-rate cultivation level, and even if he is forced to do so, it is useless.
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In three days, the army will set off for war. In the past few days, the entire Longxiang City has become a huge barracks. There are all kinds of flags flying everywhere, and endless camps are stretched for dozens of miles.
A total of 300,000 troops, and more than 400,000 civilians and local tyrants were conscripted to Longxiang City to prepare for the expedition to Goryeo.
The Liaodong Governor's Office was so busy that it was not touching the ground. As the brain and center of the entire Eastern Expedition army, all the personnel, horses, food, supplies, offensive and defensive strategies, etc. must be arranged here in a unified manner. Everyone holds multiple positions, is busy day and night, and does not have to rest for a moment.
Most of Xue Wanche's personal guards have long been sent out to play the role of scouts. Even Hong Su has taken on the task of being a staff officer and discussed offensive and defensive strategies with General Xue and others all day long, and temporarily put the matter of teaching Zhou Hao Qimen's gossip aside.
Only Zhou Hao, a new personal guard, has no official position and is careless. He is leisurely and cares about practicing all day long, turning a blind eye to the things outside the window.
On this day, Zhou Hao had just had breakfast and sat down cross-legged and was about to start his day of practice.
"Woo woo woo woo woo!" Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Who? What's the matter?" Zhou Hao asked with his eyes wide open.
"Zhou Qinwei, someone is looking for you at the gate of the courtyard!" He heard someone outside the door answering.
Zhou Hao was a little surprised and quickly got up and opened the door and asked, "Who will come to find me?"
A guard knocked on the door. Seeing Zhou Hao open the door, he quickly replied respectfully: "It's Hou Tuanzheng of our personal military camp, and he said he had something to come to you!"
"Hou Hou is in trouble for me? I haven't seen him for almost two months. Let's go and see what can Hou Hou be in trouble!"
After saying that, Zhou Hao followed the guards out of the yard.
As soon as he walked to the gate of the yard, Zhou Hao saw Fatty Hou standing there holding his big white belly, looking at him with a smile.
Zhou Hao hurriedly walked forward, clasped his fists and said, "Hou Hou, I haven't seen you for a long time! Your belly seems to be much bigger again!"
"You kid, you poke me on the Marquis' shortcomings as soon as you come up! Haven't you seen Marquis I am more majestic than before?" Fatty Hou slapped Zhou Hao's shoulder with a palm, making Zhou Hao's whole body sank slightly.
"That's right, I've been promoted, of course I'm more majestic than before!"
"Speaking of this, Marquis, I can become this team leader, and you have a credit for your kid! If you weren't for your performance under my command of Marquis, you wouldn't have been so amazing, I wouldn't have been my turn to sit in this position!" Fatty Hou said with a little emotion.
"That's why you have good leadership. Only those big-headed soldiers can fight to the death on the battlefield!"
Zhou Hao spent several months in the military camp, and his skin became thicker and thicker. When he flattered, he didn't blush at all.
"You little brat, haven't seen each other for two months, you can talk more than before!"
"Hehe, Hou Toutiao looked for me today, what's wrong?"
"Of course there is a good thing to find you! When I first met you, Marquis, I said that when I returned to the county government, I will make a good horse for you. Marquis, I have always remembered this. But Marquis, I just took over the personal military camp, and many things need to be taken care of by myself, and I have to prepare for the war. I really haven't gotten time in the past two months."
Fatty Hou paused and continued, "But I'm going to beat Fusang people soon. You can't let you ride a broken horse to Goryeo, right? Yesterday, a batch of good horses happened to be sent from the west. Marquis, I'll take you to pick one?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Hao was overjoyed and quickly said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go!"
"Haha, you kid, are still so anxious!" After saying that, Fatty Hou turned around and waved his hand, and the two personal soldiers in the distance led two horses.
One of the yellow horses was Fatty Hou's mount, while the other one was the tall chorizo horse that Zhou Hao had not seen for two months - the tall jujube horse.
Zhou Hao felt particularly friendly when he saw the mount of the past. He hurried up and hugged the neck of the maroon horse, touched the mane on his neck, and whispered: "My man, we haven't seen each other for two months. You are like Houtou, and you have grown fat!"
"You little brat, why do you compare me with the Marquis and the Horse? Although you are not in the Marquis' camp, I have ordered the people below to take good care of your horse, Marquis and I have always taken care of the essence every day, so why don't you glance at me for a long time!"
"Haha, thank you, Hou! You brought the horse here, do we still have to ride a horse to choose a horse?"
"Of course, the military horse farm is twenty miles outside the city. Can't we still walk?" Fatty Hou said, turning over the horse.
Seeing this, Zhou Hao quickly said, "Then Hou, please wait for me first!"
After saying that, he ran back to the room and picked up the ox horn bow. After thinking about it, he brought three more arrows of formations. Then he went out to ride a maroon horse and traveled outside Longxiang City with Fatty Hou. Behind them, there were several of Hou's personal soldiers.
"You kid, we are not going to fight, why are we taking guys with you?" Fatty Hou glanced at the arrow behind Zhou Hao and said.
"Hehe, I haven't hunted for more than two months, and my hands are so itchy! If we can meet any prey, I can enjoy it too!" Zhou Hao said with a smile.
"You kid is really. You have been in the army for so long, but you still haven't forgotten your true abilities!"
Zhou Hao and Fatty Hou walked in front, chatting and walking out of the city. After half an hour, they left the west gate of Longxiang City.
As soon as he left the city, what caught Zhou Hao's eyes were the camp tents that stretched to the sky and the various flags flying high. Groups of cavalry traveled back and forth between the camp tents, and large groups of soldiers were slidding and practicing clumsyly in the snow.
Looking at the soldiers practicing skiing, Zhou Hao turned his head to Fatty Hou beside him and asked, "Hou Hou, have you learned this sliding?"
Fatty Hou was furious when he heard this: "Don't mention this! I don't know which evil spirit came up with a bad idea. The general actually ordered all the soldiers of the army to learn to use this slid, otherwise they would not be allowed to go to the army! His grandmother, look at the marquis, how could I learn this slid material? A few days ago, in order to learn this slid, I made a fool of myself! In order to save my face in front of my brothers, I had to get up in the middle of the night and practice alone. For three consecutive nights, I fell countless times and broke two slids. Finally, I could only learn it!"
Speaking of this, Fatty Hou turned his head and stared at Zhou Hao and said, "If I let Master Hou know who came up with this bad idea, I will not remove his two ribs!"
Chapter completed!