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What he said was considered as taking Princess Nihuang's face into consideration. In fact, after dozens of moves, he could see that Gongziyu was slowly gaining the upper hand, but Princess Nihuang's martial arts could not be overshadowed.
Princess Huang has a tough character and needs to be strong. It’s not like she has never experienced the weak defeating the strong.
But judging from the situation, it is indeed Gong Ziyu who has the advantage.
When Mu Qing heard this, he felt a little unhappy, but he was not angry. He just snorted dissatisfiedly: "This Young Master Yu, it seems that I have underestimated him. He is really quite capable."
Hearing Mu Qing's arrogance, General Changsun smiled bitterly. Not only was he somewhat capable, this Gong Ziyu's martial arts skills were definitely rare in the world. No wonder the Langya Ranking ranked him seventh among the masters.
In particular, Gong Ziyu looks very young and still has a lot of room for improvement. His ranking will only get higher and higher in the future, and he may have a chance to reach the top.
Zhou Chen and Mu Nihuang exchanged dozens of moves again. The two of them had passed more than a hundred moves, and the people watching the battle were amazed.
This kind of duel between top experts is really rare for ordinary people to see.
Suddenly, Zhou Chen and Mu Nihuang's swords clashed again, and then a shocking scene happened.
The weapons of the two men were seen colliding together, and the next moment their swords flew away from their hands at the same time, landing on the ground not far away.
Zhou Chen let out a breath, then clasped his fists and said, "I admire the princess's brilliant move."
But Mu Nihuang didn't appreciate it. Instead, he snorted dissatisfiedly: "Brother Chen, don't you look down on me? If you win, you win in an honest way. Why do you need to use such little tricks?"
Zhou Chen quickly explained: "The princess misunderstood, I didn't mean it, but my skills have hit a bottleneck recently, and there are some flaws in my mind. In addition, swordsmanship is not my best, so I am like this."
Mistake.”
This is true and false, he is indeed at a bottleneck in his skills, and his swordsmanship is indeed not his best attack method, but the last moment when he let go of his sword was more or less an act.
Mu Nihuang looked at Zhou Chen suspiciously. The swordsmanship that Zhou Chen just showed was not weak at all. Isn't this what he is best at?
But compared to this, she was more interested in what Zhou Chen said about the skill reaching a bottleneck. Does this mean that Zhou Chen's internal skill cultivation is about to break through again?
Even if he doesn't break through, he can already suppress him. If he breaks through, it's still okay. I'm afraid he won't break into the top three in the master list.
Even though she had seen many talented people, she was still surprised by Zhou Chen's talent. No wonder he could reach the top of the master list in just a few years, and quickly occupied the second place in the young master list.
Looking at the entire list of Langya masters, Zhou Chen is the youngest, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has the brightest future.
"That means Nihuang misunderstood Brother Chen."
After the competition, Mu Nihuang invited Zhou Chen to have lunch, not with her alone, but with a group of generals.
Later, in the meeting after the meal, she named Zhou Chen a staff general of the Mu family army and allowed Zhou Chen to participate in the military and political meetings.
Speaking of the Southern Border Army, it is actually divided into two parts. One part is the Mu Family Army under the command of Prince Mu of Yunnan in the southern border of Yongzhen, and the other part is the Southern Border Defense Army directly under the central commander.
The Mu Army is somewhat similar to the Red Flame Army of the past. It is a special military branch of Daliang. There are 50,000 people in total. It is directly commanded by Prince Mu's Palace. It is still the Daliang Army in name, but in fact it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the private army of Prince Mu's Palace.
The other part is the southern border defense force, which is also composed of 50,000 people. The commander is dispatched by the imperial court. It not only guards the southern border, but also controls Prince Mu's palace.
However, once a war breaks out, Prince Mu's Mansion can merge the two armies at the same time and provide unified command. This is considered a wartime command, but it does not have the right to mobilize troops in peacetime.
Therefore, Mu Nihuang could make Zhou Chen a staff general of the Mu family army, but he could not assign Zhou Chen to the southern border defense army.
However, after Mu Nihuang took command of the southern border, the situation was different. Perhaps because of his strong personality or fierce methods, the 50,000 southern border guards seemed to follow Mu Nihuang's lead.
This is also the reason why Emperor Liang was so afraid of Mu Nihuang in the original plot and tried every means to help Mu Nihuang propose marriage and keep Mu Nihuang in Jinling City.
For an emperor with a strong desire for power, he would never tolerate such a time bomb appearing on the border. The southern border was the southern border of his Emperor Liang, not the southern border of Prince Mu's Mansion.
In the next few days, Mu Nihuang led his men and adopted many of Zhou Chen's strategies and began to practice.
After getting along with each other for a few days, Zhou Chen also admired Mu Nihuang endlessly. It was indeed not easy for this woman to have such a prestigious reputation. He had rarely seen a woman as self-disciplined as Mu Nihuang.
He stayed in the military camp every day, either discussing the situation or practicing military exercises. He was almost never idle for a moment, and he devoted himself wholeheartedly to military defense, to the point of forgetting everything.
Anyway, from Zhou Chen's point of view, doing this every day is really boring. If he is allowed to keep doing this, he may be able to persist for a while, but it is absolutely impossible for him to persist for so many years like Mu Nihuang.
Sure enough, you can never see what other people have gone through behind their success. You can only see the glamorous appearance but not the inner efforts.
On this day, Zhou Chen accompanied Mu Nihuang on a tour of the Jinsha River Basin. Looking at the endless Jinsha River, Mu Nihuang looked solemn.
"Brother Chen, do you think Nanchu has not moved for many days? What are they planning?"
Zhou Chen said: "When it comes to marching and fighting, I am definitely not as good as the princess, but in my opinion, there are just a few."
"First, the Southern Chu Army has fought against you, Princess, many times. In fact, there is pressure to attack. This time they launched a water battle. Although they gained an advantage at first, they did not dare to attack rashly. It is possible that they are gathering forces. Maybe
The next attack will be more rapid than before."
"Secondly, the lack of attack for so long may have something to do with the rear, but I don't know what it is specifically; but I traveled to Nanchu more than two years ago. The writing style of Nanchu is much worse than that of Daliang, but the martial arts style is much worse than that of Daliang.
But they are very strong, and they are very eager to fight. Sooner or later, they will march to the Central Plains, and this time may be the beginning."
"In fact, not only Southern Chu, Dayu, Beiyan, Yeqin, Donghai and other places also have the intention to annex Daliang, but due to terrain and population problems, Beiyan wants to launch a large-scale war. It will not happen overnight.
and Dayu is actually a country second only to Daliang. If not for the battle of Meiling, where two hundred thousand troops were slaughtered by the Red Flame Army, how could it have maintained peace and tranquility for ten years."
"As for Ye Qin and Donghai, they are both small countries with limited national power and cannot influence the situation. However, if there is a war between big countries, their role will increase infinitely."
These are his emotions after traveling to various countries in the past few years. He has stayed in several countries for a year and a half. Although he has never stepped into the top leadership of each country, he can still see many problems with his perspective.
Mu Nihuang suddenly turned around and looked at Zhou Chen. She originally just casually asked about the Nanchu navy, but she didn't expect Zhou Chen to express such emotion and talk about various countries.
"Brother Chen is well-informed and Nihuang admires him. The Red Flame Army is now a rebel. But from Brother Chen's tone, it seems that he admires the Red Flame Rebels?"
Zhou Chen sighed in his heart, it was more than admiration, he was one of them and witnessed the strength and destruction of the Red Flame Army with his own eyes.
It was a terrifyingly powerful army, especially under the leadership of Lin Xie, it would have been invincible. If not...
Zhou Chen shook his head and said with a smile: "I can't speak of admiration, just emotion. If it hadn't been for that battle that destroyed Dayu's 200,000-strong army, how could there be peace on the border?"
Mu Nihuang sighed quietly: "Yes, even people in the world like Brother Chen can see through it, but some people can't see it clearly..."
Neither of them had the intention to continue talking about this topic. They just stood quietly by the river, blowing the river breeze. After a long time, Mu Nihuang spoke again.
"Brother Chen, Nihuang has an unkind invitation."
"Princess, please speak."
"You are also familiar with my younger brother Qing'er. He has a reckless and impulsive personality, and is also a bit squeamish and loose. So I would like to ask you to be half of Qing'er's teacher and help me teach him."
"ah?"
Zhou Chen's expression was startled, he couldn't believe his ears: "Princess, you want me to teach Little Prince Mu?"
Mu Nihuang's resolute face showed a rare hint of tenderness: "I have been guarding the border for many years, and I have lacked care and guidance for Qing'er, so he developed such a character. Now it is too late to teach him; I don't
Maybe after watching him for the rest of his life, he is about to reach adulthood, and it is time for him to be more mature. There are not many talents like Brother Chen in the entire southern region, so Nihuang please ask Brother Chen."
"this."
Zhou Chen looked hesitant. Mu Qing's character was indeed a bit naughty, but not evil at all. He was just a typical arrogant playboy with a bit of a sister control.
"Princess, you also know that when I first came here, I had some trouble with Young Prince Mu. If you asked me to teach him, I was afraid that he would not be convinced."
Mu Nihuang stared blankly: "How dare he, Brother Chen, since I asked you to do this favor, then of course I will teach Qing'er how you want. I will never interfere. If he disobeys, he will be beaten if he deserves it."
Just punish him. If he dares not to listen, tell me and I will deal with him."
Zhou Chen still hesitated: "Isn't this not good?"
"That's it, Brother Chen, just think that I owe you a favor."
Seeing that Mu Nihuang was so sincere, Zhou Chen thought for a while and finally nodded. He had nothing to do recently anyway, so he just thought of it as having fun.
Ever since, starting from the next day, Mu Qing's miserable days began.
"Ah, ah!!"
"Gong Ziyu, Chen Yu, I will fight with you."
Zhou Chen responded to Mu Nihuang's plea and began to teach Mu Qing. He took office the next day and made plans.
Study literature in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon.
Although Mu Qing was very reluctant, under Mu Nihuang's power, he could only obey.
But before he finished studying the article in the morning, he couldn't bear it anymore and clamored to fight Zhou Chen.
However, before he could rush to Zhou Chen, he was already knocked down by Zhou Chen and was so suppressed that he could not get up.
Zhou Chen was sitting casually on a stool, holding a one-meter-long bamboo stick in his hand. He pressed it on Mu Qing's shoulders, making Mu Qing half-kneeling on the ground, completely unable to straighten his waist.
If you don't come back, you can only stay there and be helpless and furious.
To be continued...