He Qizhou had long known that he could not hide his identity, so he said calmly: "I just have some issues with this Mr. Qiu. Your Highness is overthinking it."
"Incomparable talent, arrogance based on talent, Mr. He is indeed a talent? The Huashan sect really has nothing worthy of praise, let alone terrible." Jiang Di said, stroking his hands. He had personally asked the person who recorded He Qizhou's amazing results just now.
, although he had a BMW, it was still far from it, and he couldn't help but be jealous. He also knew that Qiu Huan and his son were narrow-minded, so it was just the right time to pick one more, but he was right. Compared to Shi Lan's evil reputation,
The Huashan sect, which is known as a famous and upright sect, is certainly not scary either.
Qiu Xin's face turned red and white. Seeing that He Qizhou was not afraid of Jiang Di at all, and couldn't figure out the opponent's approach, he hurriedly left with his companions.
He Qizhou didn't want to be chatty with Jiang Di, and still kept his cross-legged posture. Jiang Di also felt bored and found a place to sit down not far away. Some of the people around him obviously knew about Jiang Di and moved away without saying a word.
After taking the seat, four or five other people saw that Jiang Di was no longer talking to He Qizhou and actually sat next to Jiang Di. His Highness kept greeting him with long and short greetings. Judging from his clothes, Wu Cha Yuan, Tianshu Yuan, Yun
There are people from all sects.
As time went by, more and more people came to the cafeteria. Liu Junzhi was the last one to compete well in Tianxingyuan. Everyone competed well. Only Zhang Qingrou missed a target. They also learned from the team in front.
He Qizhou achieved an astonishing result in the competition, and everyone was very happy.
Xu Mu had also arrived early. After greeting He Qizhou and the others, he returned to the table where the Jinling faction gathered. Three hundred people crowded into a cafeteria and it was not too crowded. Most of them were seated according to provinces and academy factions. Lunch
It was steamed buns, soy sauce beef and rice milk. After the meal, everyone was taken to each examination room by special personnel according to their sign numbers.
Since the requirements for the literary test in the martial arts examination are much simpler than those in the liberal arts examination, the examination room is not one room per person, but one case per person. However, the distance is far enough. The three hundred people are divided into eight examination rooms. The examination lasts for one hour, and the test papers are played with the sound of a gong.
After the gong rings twice, you start writing. When the gong rings again, you have to stop writing. The test question is a short paragraph of text. After the gong rings twice, everyone is meditating and no one starts writing rashly.
[At the beginning of the summer of the fifty-second year of Tianxi, after a secret report was made to the northern Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, they planned to mobilize heavy troops to go south to Zhenyuan Pass at the end of autumn to seize grain from Hebei and trapped the isolated city of Yanjing. Now they are mobilizing troops and horses from all over the country;
The Privy Council urgently ordered Yanjing to reorganize its defenses, and the Ganzhou General Army sent two groups of elite troops out to raid the two large ranches of Longbei and Ximu in Zhou territory.
You are now the vanguard officer on the east route sent by the Ganzhou General Army, commanding three thousand light cavalry, all of whom are elite and can compete with the Zhou cavalry one by one.
The pioneers of the West Route were also three thousand elite light cavalry. According to the prior agreement, the distance between the two groups of people and horses must be fixed within fifty to one hundred miles from each other to take care of each other.
The Ganzhou General Army sent another 10,000 horsemen to transport the baggage and grain. Their combat strength was less than half of the elite. They were located a hundred miles behind and between the two teams of troops. The baggage team had now left Jiayuguan for 180 miles.
According to secret reports, the two large pastures are located in the west of the Zhou Dynasty. Five thousand of the eight thousand soldiers and horses stationed there have been transferred to Zhongjing in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It will take the rest of the Zhou captives three days at the fastest to arrive here.
As usual, you send out three teams of six reconnaissance cavalry, pointing in the north, northwest, and northeast directions respectively. Three groups advance twenty miles forward, and the other three groups ten miles behind the front group. Each group consists of six people. It is stipulated that every two quarters of an hour must be carried out.
Report a military situation. A group of reconnaissance cavalry is sent due west to determine the position with the west vanguard, and report each other's position and military situation every half an hour.
The current situation of the reconnaissance reports from various places is as follows: the west road just came to report, and no abnormality was found; the middle road report was half a stick of incense late, and it was not the two people specified, but only one person. The report said that the front group of the north road encountered Zhou Jun
The scouts ambushed, and only one person was seriously injured. After escaping, he reported the news to the six people in the rear group. The latter group still sent this person to report back to the army. The six people in the group blocked the ten scouts who were chasing after them. As for why
The delay of one stick of incense is because this person listened to the words of the leader of the rear group and watched the battle between the six people in the rear group and the opponent's scout from a distance before reporting back. The actual battle situation was that when we still had two people left, the opponent was still
There were seven of them. It was inevitable that the reconnaissance cavalry would be destroyed, so they left decisively and rode quickly to report.
Exactly two quarters of an hour after the last report from the northwest direction, I saw two riders approaching at a fast pace, about four miles away;
The last report from Zhengxi was that the West Route Pioneer was sixty miles away and had discovered a large number of horses, cattle and sheep from the Zhou Dynasty. After defeating the 300 defenders, they were chasing the herdsmen and livestock northward with all their strength. Now the time has just passed since the last report.
For half an hour, there was not a single person riding on the endless grassland due west.
As the vanguard of the east route at this time, you are, first, how to make a decision. Second, how to make a decision. Third, what is the basis?
After He Qizhou read the question, he thought for a while, no longer hesitated, and wrote:
1. Break: The Western Route Army has been completely wiped out, the Zhou Army has wedged itself between the two Qi armies, and the main force of the Zhou Army to the north of our army is less than twenty miles away from us.
2. Decision: The rear army replaces the front army, abandons all the baggage, and evacuates directly to Jiayuguan; sends the fastest horse to notify the baggage and grain team a hundred miles away in the middle road, and withdraws light chariots and fast horses to Jiayuguan, and burns all baggage and grain that is inconvenient to carry; capture
Or kill the scout who reported back in the middle.
3. Basis: The duty of the scout is to quickly transmit information, so how can an injured person come to report in the middle? If you want to save him, at least one companion should be sent to accompany him. Not only is this person's report delayed, but his report is also delayed.
He is still a member of the front group. Although it cannot be ruled out that what he said is indeed true, if we assume that this person is a spy, everything will make more sense: the scout cavalry of the front group was ambushed, and he was ordered to report back to the rear group with a companion, killing his companion on the way.
, then deceive the rear group, lure the Zhou Cavalry Scouts, and then annihilate the rear group. If this person is injured and delayed in reporting, it is likely that he was injured by the rear group's scouts or was injured while chasing down the person reported by the rear group.
These are just conjectures. If combined with the situation of the other two groups of reconnaissance cavalry, the conjectures can be confirmed to be correct. Since the east-west vanguard is sixty miles apart, and the scout cavalry in the northwest and northeast directions each only advance twenty miles, so the two
There is at least twenty to twenty-five miles in the middle of the army as a blind spot. It is very likely that the Zhou army will obtain military information leaked by our army's spies, set up an ambush here, and intercept our army's reconnaissance cavalry.
However, the scouts are all elites in the army. If there are no spies like the ones in the middle, it will be extremely difficult to wipe them all out at once. Therefore, the two scouts in the northwest are slightly delayed, but they are coming at a gallop. They are probably breaking out.
Later, he came to deliver information - the information about the enemy's army in the middle has been discovered!
Finally, there is a group of reconnaissance cavalry heading due west. Logically speaking, they are the least dangerous, but their failure to report back on time explains everything. The vanguard on the east route swallowed the bait of the Zhou army and fell into an ambush by the Zhou army on the north and middle route.
The meeting point of the reconnaissance cavalry in the middle is about thirty miles away. It is entirely possible for the Zhou army to make a sudden advance in the middle and cut off the connection between our two armies.
These three are all conjectures, but when the three are combined, it becomes inevitable for the Zhou army to set up an ambush. These arrangements of the Zhou army must have already been informed of our military situation, so the three thousand elite cavalry on the east road must be within the opponent's calculations. When facing a powerful enemy, retreating quickly is the best decision.
As for why we infer that the enemy army in the true north is only twenty miles away from us, because the grassland is vast and the eyesight can usually see eight miles, and even up to ten miles on the slope, so the Zhou army's scouts should be about ten miles away from the main army, we After the Chinese army's reconnaissance group is wiped out by the opponent's scouts, the opponent's army can advance at full speed, and the distance is almost exactly twenty miles. If we include the time for our army's spy reconnaissance cavalry to return, it may not even be twenty miles. Therefore, we can no longer wait for the reconnaissance cavalry four miles away in the northwest to report back. We must retreat at full speed to keep the army safe.
With a distance of twenty miles, it would not be easy for the Zhou army to catch up with the lightly armed and obedient elite of our army! The baggage troops hundreds of miles behind our army are actually closer to the Zhou army wedged in the middle, so they must be notified to evacuate as quickly as possible , but the spies are probably among the central army in the rear, and their status should be high. It is hard to say whether these 10,000 cavalry can escape the danger. This is also the reason why the 3,000 cavalry on the east road retreated directly from Jiayuguan, lest the Zhou army take advantage of us. After the army's troops leaving the customs were completely wiped out, they captured the important town on the western frontier!]
He Qizhou finished writing quickly, taking less than half an hour. He read what he had written again, put down his brush with satisfaction, packed up the inkstone and ink bowl, and stood up to hand in the paper.
In the large examination room with more than 30 people, there is one proctor standing in each corner, and there are people patrolling in the middle. Most of these people are borrowed from the Hanlin Academy. They will help copy the papers later to prevent anyone from cheating. The answer sheets will be placed on the desk. Above, they were all collected together at the end. When the patrolman saw a thick stack of answer papers, He Qizhou didn't even fill the first page, so he asked Qi Zhou, who had already stood up, "Are you sure?"
He Qizhou agreed, bowed and left. After all, he was a scholar who had passed the examination, so he still had some courtesy. However, he was stopped by a man in a black satin robe as soon as he left the door. The man looked to be in his forties, and his expression He asked quite seriously: "The literary test is not as good as riding and shooting, and the results are not judged by time. Why did you hand it in so quickly?"
He Qizhou knew that he was a professor at the Military Academy. He saw that his face was fair, his beard and hair were neat, and his aura was extraordinary. However, he did not know what his position was, so he did not dare to neglect him, and said: "Sir, the student has already said what he wanted to express. What's more, The question is: Making decisions in charge of soldiers, no procrastination is allowed?"
The man muttered secretly, what an arrogant boy, and ignored him, waving his hand to let him leave. He walked into the examination room and stood next to the patrolling person. The two of them looked at Qi Zhou's answer sheet together. After reading it, I looked at each other with the person on duty, and both of them had admiration in their eyes.
Since the test questions are jointly issued by the Privy Council and the Armed Forces, and the scoring is completed by the Privy Council, the people involved in the scoring are isolated after the official start of the test, so there is no fear of anyone looking at the test paper.
The scoring rule is to first determine the grade of the answer sheet, which is divided into four grades: A, B, C and D. Each grade is divided into three grades, upper, middle and lower, for a total of twelve grades. Then the ranking is evaluated in each grade, and the ranking is finally determined. The young black student The man in clothes was none other than the fourth priest of the Arms Hall, Taoist Priest Lingyue of the Quanzhen Sect. Since he had not witnessed He Qizhou’s amazing riding and shooting performance in the morning, he came here specially to see what kind of person he was. Didn’t he think he had just come here? It wasn't long before I found out that he had handed in the paper and left. I thought he was just a reckless person, but I didn't expect that his answer was so brilliant. His impression of Qi Zhou suddenly changed a lot.