The soldiers rushing forward in front of arrows gradually broke away from the crowd, leaning on the side of the wide official road and moving forward quickly. They no longer need to worry about those who are far behind, those people no longer have any threats. Zhang Kuang commanded in the center, Fang Xie was Feng Rui, and the front arrow array was like a spiked arrow that flew unstoppably in the direction of the martial arts field.
Slightly behind them is Jiangnan Xie Fuyao, this young man in a brocade coat and jade face, with his sleeves fluttering like flying clouds, is not in a hurry to surpass Fang Xie and them, but just falls behind the arrow array, his expression is plain and unremarkable There is no hostility, but in Fang Jie's view, Xie Fuyao's position is extremely important, like a beast waiting for an opportunity, threatening the rear team of the front line at all times.
The front arrow formation is one of the more than twenty basic formations of the Sui army, and it is an extremely sharp impact formation. This formation is logically suitable for cavalry tactics, but there are only a handful of pure cavalry in the Sui Dynasty. In foreign wars, it is infantry who rely on this formation to break through. For more than a hundred years since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, it has never lost a single foreign war, relying on well-trained infantry and sharp and changeable battle formations, whether it is against Shang, Eastern Chu, Nanyan, or Nanyan Zhao, the infantry of the Sui Dynasty were undefeated in a hundred battles.
In terms of military positions, the arrogance is the highest among the dozen or so people. According to the military system of the Sui Dynasty, a team consisted of fifty people, with one team leader and one team deputy. The two teams form a brigade, with one brigade leader. The third brigade is a regiment, with a school lieutenant. Fang Jie was just a team deputy in Fan Gu, and he was two levels behind Zhang Kuang.
Therefore, according to the military regulations of the Sui Dynasty, even if this is not a war, the command power must still be in the hands of the person with the highest military rank.
Fang Jie rushed to the front of the arrow array, like sharp arrow clusters of spiked arrows.
The people who rushed to the front at the beginning were already accelerating crazily, lest they be caught up by the people behind. Before arriving at the martial arts arena, Fang Xie didn't want to get in touch with the people in front of him so soon. Once they fight, the people behind can easily surpass them.
In fact, the people who are at the forefront now have the same thoughts, and it is not very beneficial to stop others before seeing the end point.
The gate of the Martial arts arena was opened, and several professors in moon-white robes stood on the tower. Seeing the team of candidates rushing to the door, the leading professor shook off the things in his hand, like releasing a giant python from his palm. It was a huge banner. It unfolded like a boa constrictor and hung down from the city wall. You don't need to look carefully, the big characters written in thick ink on it are clearly visible.
Those who reach the finish line without fighting will lose their results.
When Fang Jie saw these words, he couldn't help cursing, how could the professors of Yanwu Academy be so insidious. As soon as this banner was hung up, these people who rushed to the front immediately gave up the idea of not fighting but only pursuing speed. There were only dozens of people rushing to the front, and almost everyone had the same thoughts. As long as you can ensure that you are in the first echelon and reach the finish line, there is no need to provoke the people around you.
After all, there are no weak people who are still in the first echelon.
Just when Fang Xie and their formation paused for a while, Xie Fuyao, who had been falling behind them, suddenly rose into the air. Like an eagle fluttering its wings, it flew over the array of frontal arrows, and in the blink of an eye, it reached the gate of the Martial Arts Field. Zhang Kuang, who was commanding in the center of the front arrow array, was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Xie Fuyao but did not order to attack.
"Find someone else!"
He only hesitated for a moment before making a decision, just fight, there is no need to provoke Xie Fuyao, who is also ranked in the forefront of all candidates. This idea coincided with Fang Jie's, and he rushed towards the densest crowd when he heard the mad shout. He has already observed before, who among these people is stronger and who is weaker.
Fang Jie directly approached six or seven candidates who got together. These people should be from the same county, and it seems that they have already negotiated to form an alliance during the competition. In order to facilitate identification, everyone's right arm Both are wrapped with a red ribbon. These few people have been together since the beginning and have not been separated. Although there is no tacit cooperation with each other, there are people in charge of each position, and they are obviously not rookies who have no experience in actual combat.
In terms of cultivation, these people may be able to understand that the people on their side may not be opponents if they are one-on-one. But Fang Jie wasn't worried at all. The combat skills of soldiers all come from actual combat rather than practicing in front of books alone. Even if they don't belong to the same army, there is nothing jerky about cooperating with them. For team battles, Fang Jie has confidence in the dozen or so soldiers.
"break!"
Fang Xie led the front arrows and slammed into the group of those few people fiercely. He leaned forward to dodge the punch that was coming from that person, dragged his left leg back, bent his right leg, and had an obvious swing of his left shoulder. It hit the man's chest. The moment it touched the man's body, Fang Xie's right leg suddenly straightened, and he lifted his shoulder diagonally upwards, and the man's body was thrown backwards by the force of the impact.
The companion next to the man was taken aback, and had no time to rescue his friend, so he gritted his teeth and punched Fang Jie's chest. At this time, Fang Jie's body had just straightened up, and it was obviously too late to dodge. .
However, Fang Jie didn't seem to have any intention of dodging.
Just when the man's fist was about to hit Fang Xie's chest, Fang Xie's left frontier punched the man's lower abdomen with a diagonal stab. This punch was not weak, and the man's body immediately bent down like a shrimp. Fang Jie didn't even look at his opponent, and rushed forward with a sudden step. The frontier troops at the back alternately changed their positions to block the attacks from both sides for Fang Xie, so that he could face the opponent directly in front with all his strength.
This is the cooperation of the Great Sui army. Once the formation is activated, it is like a precision-operated machine. Fang Xie's two frontier troops, one on the left and one on the right, blocked all the attacks, while the soldiers behind formed a formation, and the front arrow formation instantly turned into a triangular formation, and the rear formation suddenly widened, and the hole Fang Jie had torn open continued to expand.
It was like a wedge that slammed into the opponent's formation.
Although the opponent's individual strength is good, but in terms of coordination, there is really no way to compare with well-trained soldiers. After the defensive formation composed of six or seven people was torn apart by Fang Xie, the front arrow array cut those people from the middle in almost a minute. Fang Jie didn't use his hands so hard, he used his shoulders and elbows as weapons to turn over the people standing in front of him one by one. Now Fang Xie already has a kind of self-confidence in his hands, instead of looking up to a second-rank person like he did in Fan Gu's time.
In a moment, they had already rushed through the crowd to the gate of the Martial Arts Field.
"Don't love to fight, rush inside!"
Zhang Kuang yelled at Fang Jie, and then ordered the formation to change direction.
But just when Fang Jie turned around, his footsteps stopped suddenly.
Jiangnan Xie Fuyao, standing straight at the gate of the martial arts arena, with his hands behind his back, looked with great interest at Fang Jie who had just broken through a layer of obstacles.
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Fang Jie is a person who likes to get to know everyone who is a possible opponent, and just before the Yanwu Academy exams, he went to Sanjin Hou Mansion, and asked a lot of questions about the popular candidates of the Yanwu Academy this time. A known thing was dug almost clean. But the news that Wu Yiyi gave him did not satisfy him, he even blackmailed some news from Zhuo Buyi by such despicable means as not letting Mu Xiaoyao go back to the guards in the palace.
So he knew that this young man named Xie Fuyao standing at the gate of the Martial Arts Arena blocking his way was a bit scary.
Not only was Xie Fuyao broadcasting Jiangnan with his talent when he was young, what made people worry most was his other identity. Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple is a named disciple of Zhenren Zhang. The so-called named disciple sounds like he is just a peripheral disciple of the Sanqing Temple. In order to make their reputation better, many children of aristocratic families often get involved with more famous sects. But this Xie Fuyao is different, in fact, he should be regarded as Sanqing Guanzhang's closed disciple.
That year Master Zhang was traveling south of the Yangtze River, when he came across Xie Fuyao, he pointed to him and said that this son would shine like a star in the future.
Since then, Zhang Zhenren will send his most proud disciples to Jiangnan to preach every year. In more than ten years, he even personally went down the mountain four times to teach Xie Fuyao how to practice.
Daoist Zhang's position in Taoism is second only to Master Xiao in Qingle Mountain, but there are rumors in the world that Master Zhang may not be inferior to Master Xiao in terms of cultivation. Some people even say that if Master Xiao and His Majesty had not yet ascended the throne There is some origin at that time, the position of the leader of the Taoist sect may not be him, it is very likely that it is Zhang Jiuzhi of Wudang Mountain.
With such a great master, one can imagine how high Xie Fuyao's cultivation level is.
So from the very beginning, Fang Xie didn't intend to have a head-on contact with such a person. It can be understood that he was afraid. Admitting scruples, worries and fears is not a very shameful thing. Fang Xie, a good-for-nothing who can't practice, only has the drive to die rather than surrender when facing a master, it would be silly and shameful. This is a test, not a hard work. Even with all his might, against an opponent like Xie Fuyao, Fang Jie would still choose to dodge if he could.
But Xie Fuyao is standing at the gate of the Martial Arts Field right now, and he cannot avoid it.
Seeing Fang Jie and those soldiers standing not far in front of him, Xie Fuyao nodded slightly with a calm expression. This is a very polite and friendly gesture, but Fang Xie doesn't think he is showing his favor. Sometimes a hello doesn't have any complicated meaning, it's just a hello.
"You are very good."
Xie Fuyao looked at Fang Jie and said, "If it wasn't for this annoying rule, I'd like to see how high you can climb. Although your excellent grades in the five subjects of liberal arts are rewarded by His Majesty, but a person with no ability No one wants His Majesty to be so generous. So unlike other people who have jealousy and resentment towards you, I have some sincere appreciation for you. I am curious how much effort it takes for a deputy of the frontier army from an ordinary background to let the station stand The supreme being at the pinnacle of the world also cast a concerned look? But... I didn't regard you as an opponent from the beginning to the end."
Fang Jie was taken aback, he didn't expect this handsome and elegant young man to say such words to him.
"Then we're going in."
Fang Jie pondered for a while and said, "Actually, I am also very unwilling to become an opponent with you."
Xie Fuyao slightly shook his head and said in a flat tone, "No."
Fang Jie asked, "What's wrong?"
Xie Fuyao said: "It's not that I don't want to regard you as an opponent. On the contrary, although the level of what you have shown is not very high, it is already impressive. I'm not right... because there are only a dozen of you as opponents. ,not enough."
Fang Jie's heart tightened suddenly, and he subconsciously looked back at Zhang Kuang.
The meaning of Mr. Xie from Jiangnan was to stop the dozen or so of them by himself. And... not enough.
Xie Fuyao stood with his hands behind his back at the gate of the Martial Arts Arena with his clothes flowing. He was obviously standing at the same place as everyone else, but there was always an illusion that he was standing on a higher place and looking down on others, and his posture made people feel uncomfortable. A hint of disgust at him being contrived.
"Before yesterday, I wanted to enter the Yanwu Academy in a mediocre way. The so-called ranking really didn't tempt me at all. But today I changed my mind, because yesterday you were so dazzling that many people who should have People who are better than you have been suppressed by you. The burning eyes of those people when they saw you being rewarded by His Majesty made me suddenly understand a truth."
"Since I have the strength, why deliberately keep a low profile? I wanted to enter the Martial Arts Academy in a mediocre way before, but it was because I thought too much of myself. It is not arrogance to show what I already have, but it is the real arrogance to ignore the ranking. I think After realizing this, I feel that I am still a bit stupid compared to you."
He slowly raised his finger to Fang Jie: "You make me feel arrogant and clumsy, it doesn't feel good. It's because I think I'm better than you guys, and it's really my fault for thinking like this before I've ever fought. So... let's play a game."
The moment he raised his finger, Fang Xie's expression changed suddenly!
"retreat!"
He shouted a word without the slightest hesitation, and then retreated sharply.
However, almost all the candidates in the first echelon were blocked at the gate by Xie Fuyao, where else could they retreat