This time, Li Longji didn't need Zhang Xiaobao to give a more specific explanation. He said clearly, "I will let the Ministry of Rites take care of it. You guys should hurry up and make the film for me. Use it for publicity. It's convenient and direct."
"Then … I'll go back to sleep." Zhang Xiaobao threw down this sentence. Without waiting for Li Longji's permission, he fell back to sleep.
Li Longji yawned. He was also sleepy. He took a sip of the tea on the small table and said softly, "Find a place to rest. These past few days have tired me out."
Empress Wang also felt tired and got up. Chi De and Zu Zan were still energetic. Gao Lishi didn't show any signs of fatigue.
Only Wu Huifei was reluctant to leave. She turned her head to look at the sleeping Zhang Xiaobao. She really wanted to go over and wake him up so that she could ask him about the doubts in her heart.
Yes, it was doubts.
Wu Huifei once had a wish to be empress, but it was later ruined by Wang Juan. Not only did she not do anything to Wang Juan after scheming against her several times, she also caused her own side to suffer great losses.
If it wasn't for her status, she would probably have been dealt with by the two of them. No one would be willing to cause trouble again and again.
It was with this thought that Wu Huifei came to watch the show. In the end, when she came in contact with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, she discovered something even more interesting.
That was, even if she couldn't be an empress, she could be a powerful economic leader. She also had to be involved in politics.
The two aspects of politics and economics actually had such interesting interactions. Moreover, a change in a small aspect could have a huge impact. When one saw through the surface and saw the essence, there was a special sense of achievement.
Therefore, Wu Huifei always liked to listen to Zhang Xiaobao give ideas and analyze what he said.
"Politics and economics are truly mysterious and wonderful. Your Majesty, when you go back, you must find a few books written by Xiao Xiaobao for people who study economics. I want to study them properly."
Wu Huifei said to Li Longji as she walked out of the room. Her eyes flickered as if she was yearning for something.
Li Longji glanced at Wu Huifei in astonishment. After pondering for a moment, he said, "That's fine. If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask Xiao Bao. Xiao Bao's use of this Dao has already reached perfection. If he uses it for good, the people will be in good health. If he uses it for evil, the people will not be able to make a living.
I hope that after you come into contact with them, you won't use harmful means to the people just to earn pocket money for yourself. Learn from Xiao Bao. His family has a lot of money, and he's also willing to invest in public welfare. It's not that he can't earn more money, but he's worried that the impact on the people will be too great, so he's been holding back. "
Li Longji had money, and he was also willing to spend it on the palace. However, he also knew that Empress Wang and Wu Huifei liked to earn money themselves. Empress Wang's method of earning money was to take the women in the harem to do embroidery in their spare time, and then take it out of the palace for Gao Lishi to auction.
She didn't earn a lot, but it definitely wasn't a small amount. The auction price of embroidery in the palace wasn't low, but Empress Wang was more willing to play with the palace maids, such as playing badminton and shuttlecock. Now, she was also infatuated with soccer and wanted to form a women's soccer team.
Wu Huifei's power in the palace wasn't as great as Empress Wang's. She cared more about her status, so she rarely got along well with the palace maids. She could only help to organize poetry and other gatherings behind the scenes, and let the merchants advertise for her to earn money.
From the looks of it, she wanted to learn more skills. She might even want to invest.
Li Longji was afraid that she would earn too much money and disregard whether her actions would cause losses to the people, so he told her in advance. Otherwise, if Xiao Bao found out about the problem, he would take strong measures.
Wu Huifei nodded obediently. "Your Majesty, rest assured. Your subject wife knows what Xiao Bao is doing. He has always kept his bottom line. He is doing this for Kang Long's remorse."
"It's good that Kang Long's remorse is known. Don't be like Zhang Shougui. Even though the news was cut off, he still rushed to Mount Huangshan without a care. Cuckoo is currently setting up a trap at Mount Huangshan, and her sniper camp is also following behind them, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
If they really do as they are doing, we can only hope that the natives they meet in the future won't be smart. Otherwise, how many good men of our Great Tang will lose their lives? "
While they were speaking, Li Longji's group had already returned to the sand table in the center. Sweeping his gaze over the sand table, Li Longji was extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Shougui. He had sent out quite a few scouts, and they had covered a considerable distance of thirty li. However, why didn't they clean up the traces left behind by the cannons?
How dangerous was it to be targeted by the enemy's sniper team from afar? Once the sniper team received news of their main force, they would immediately use smoke signals to call the police and expose the enemy's position.
At that time, it would be useless even if they killed everyone in the sniper camp.
"Your Majesty, who is the commander of the group following behind Zhang Shougui's group? His goal was very clear. He was not like a normal small team commander who would lose focus and panic when they were fighting alone.
From the way they are leading the group, it feels like they know what's going on in the center of the sand table. Their sense of the big picture is too strong. "
Zuzan Chide also leaned over to take a look, looking at the sand table and the various orders given by the referee. He couldn't help but praise.
Li Longji also wanted to know who that unhurried and confident commander who had been tailing Zhang Shougui's army this entire time was. He glanced at the referee.
Someone from the referees immediately reported, "Your Majesty, the current commander leading the thirty-man group is a fourth-generation cadet from Wang Juan's family. Similarly, there are also the commanders of the twelve other groups in Wang Yi's camp."
"No wonder. The fourth-generation cadets are all nurtured and competed against one another in the inner court. How could they be easy to avoid elimination?
Oh ~! We understand now. Cuckoo was afraid that the enemy would be too close and wouldn't have time to make arrangements, so she sent out a group of elite commanders to delay the advance of the enemy's vanguard even if it meant sending them to their deaths.
But in the end, man proposes but the heavens disposes. That day, when there was no wind, Wang Yi saw the enemy hot air balloon team, so he ignited the entire mountain fire ahead of time and brought down Zhang Shougui's air vanguard. Formidable, Wang Yi. Well done.
When Li Longji heard this, he immediately understood the strength of the sniper battalion's commander. The sniper battalion was usually used for sniping and sneak attacks, and was considered a special force. In order to complete the strategic deployment, Cuckoo had reluctantly thrown them out.
But elites were elites. If they were given the slightest chance, they would cause endless trouble. Once the enemy's air force was eliminated, Wang Yi would have completed his mission. Without the scouting team, he wouldn't be able to find anyone, so he would naturally hesitate, giving the central army more time to prepare.
"Your Majesty, this … how should we train them? Back then … haah … this subject rejoiced. " At this moment, Zuzan understood how important an outstanding commander was. Wang Yi of the sniper camp had used his actions to show everyone what it meant to disregard the orders of the emperor.
In a situation where there was no communication, he could fight on his own and even form a faint pattern of cooperation with his allies.
If Xiao Bao and Cuckoo had led the logistics team to Tibet back then, they probably wouldn't have needed Xiao Bao to follow the economic strategy closely. This kind of commander who was a chess piece but still had the big picture in mind was too rare.
Li Longji wasn't sleepy anymore. Thinking about how Xiao Bao and Cuckoo were sleeping, he suggested, "Let's go and take a look at Wang Yi and the others."
The group of people excitedly strolled to other places.
"Everyone, follow me. Wait at a concave area in front of the cliff. Prepare the crossbows and shoot at the enemy's small group at any time."
When Li Longji and the others arrived at the door of the person called Little Dong, they first heard the voice coming from inside.
Usually, such a small group wouldn't be given a room. However, under special circumstances, if one person was in charge of delivering important information, he could be given a room to talk about how to avoid being chased and tracked.
Little Dong was currently in such a situation.
Li Longji was at the door, and when he heard this, he chuckled.
Empress Wang also covered her mouth and laughed. She knew what the small group Little Dong was talking about was. It was Zhang Shougui's communication team. Each team only had a few people, and they specifically found a place to hide.
For example, on a dense tree, in a patch of grass that was at least half a person's height, near a pond, in a concave area on a cliff, or beside a mountain cave. They didn't hide inside because the enemy would usually search inside.
And Little Dong didn't say that they would attack the enemy's communication team, but a small group. He was acting as a native.
As for why the natives were so smart and familiar with the enemy's formation and hiding spots, it meant that someone had been to Great Tang and had specially learned about it, or perhaps it was just a coincidence.
This was what Little Dong had done. He had already removed the two communication relay points behind Zhang Shougui's vanguard. He had found one accurately, and this time, he was waiting for the enemy to ambush him.
When the messenger saw Li Longji and the others, he didn't say anything. Instead, he nodded to Weiwei, indicating that he knew that they were here.
"You can see very far. Have you discovered the enemy?" Little Dong was very engrossed. Even though there was only a sand table in front of him and a few small models on it, he was lying on the back of the chair with his head lowered, afraid that the enemy would discover him.
This was a habit. During their training, they would always be pulled into the wilderness and have each of them hold a map. Next to them would be one or two people with a radio behind them to evaluate the situation.
If you were to hold the map and follow the route on it while advancing or dodging, you could easily be seen by the 'enemy' nearby if you stood up. What was the point of playing then? The person with the radio behind them would just tell you that 'you have been discovered and eliminated'.
He was completely engrossed in the task, as if he was really dodging the enemy on the battlefield.
To him, the sand table was no different from reality. In a real battle, if he had the chance, he had to personally observe the terrain. During the process of giving orders, he had to control the advantage and concealment of the attack spots in units.
For example, if he had the time on a small mountain, he would first observe which spots were suitable for an ambush, such as whether there were dense grass or potholes, whether there were large trees nearby, how tall the trees were, and whether he could arrange snipers there.
Then, when he returned to the command center, he would complete the map and arrange for people to go there. If a battle really broke out, he would immediately be able to determine which position had been lost and who was next to that position.
This was what Wang Juan required of a commander. Even if you were only leading a small squad of five and I gave you a squad machine gun, after you had observed the terrain, even if your eyes suddenly went blind, you had to provide the necessary firepower at the crucial moment.
After learning this, you could then continue to command more people until you learned strategic arrangements and deployment.
Little Dong had been promoted step by step like this. He was already qualified to command a battalion, but because there were too many talents in the Inner Courtyard Military Academy, he could only command a small squad in this military test.
Right now, because of Wang Yi, Little Dong could only command a small squad. Otherwise, in the middle army, he could command a large squad. The middle army's sniper battalion was the best, and a second-year student was the battalion commander. It was a fact that this battalion was elite.
"Everyone, hide well. I'll ask again. Have you discovered any members of the enemy squad?" Little Dong asked again. His hands formed a circle in front of his eyes, representing the binoculars.
The messenger took a pair of binoculars to Little Dong and said, "For now, we haven't found any traces of the enemy. We're still observing. Captain, do you want to hide a little?"
The messenger was very dedicated at this time. On one hand, he was responsible for sending messages to and from the central sand table, but on the other hand, he had to play the role of the scout for Little Dong's squad.
Li Longji was excited. This Little Dong was really too fun to play with. He snatched the binoculars of others and even insisted that they were things that could see very far. Yes, in theory, the radio natives shouldn't know how to use it, but if they snatched the binoculars, they could use them.
With this thought in mind, Li Longji whispered to Empress Wang, "Zhang Shougui is in trouble this time. Based on Little Dong's command, the referee panel will judge that Little Dong led his team to easily break through the scouting net set up by Zhang Shougui's scouts.
Then, with the binoculars in hand, the referee panel will have to show him the situation of Zhang Shougui's army within the range of the binoculars. At the crucial moment, he will think of a way to send the news to Cuckoo. What do you think Cuckoo will think? "
"I think Cuckoo will be very sad. She knows that when she sees this news, a group of soldiers will be sacrificed. Just like what Cuckoo said to Xiao Bao when the Bureau of Military Personnel went over during the imperial examinations, a shooting star will shine."
Empress Wang suddenly felt that soldiers were so respectable, that war was so heartless, that soldiers were so insignificant, yet they were like shooting stars that illuminated the night sky.
Wu Huifei looked at Little Dong lying on the ground, an indescribable feeling rising in her heart. Even though she knew that everything was fake, she was attracted by the devotion and perseverance of the commanders of the Inner Court Zhang Shougui and Wang Family. She whispered to Li Longji.
"Our Great Tang needs to prepare more air forces and artillery shells. We can't let the good men of our Great Tang die so easily. Just as Cuckoo said, for the sake of a single soldier's safety, we would rather throw down tens of thousands of artillery shells.
Money can be earned back, steel can be mined and refined, and shrapnel can be picked up from the battlefield. Explosives don't matter, but when one of the men of our Great Tang dies, this subject wife's heart will ache with it. "
In the past, whether it was Wu Huifei, Empress Wang, Li Longji, or even Zu Zan, his wife, and Gao Lishi, none of them had ever been so close to a battle that wasn't actually a battle.
They had seen many dead people, but this was the first time they had felt the spirit of the Great Tang army assaulting them in the face on such a heroic sand table.
This was because the commanders of the Wang Juan Family were too engrossed in the battle, making it impossible to tell that it was fake.
"If I had known this would happen, I would have just surrendered in the past. There would have been no need for Cuckoo and Xiao Bao to bring people to kill each other," Zu Zan lamented. Zu Zan said with emotion. He felt that only the Great Tang was worthy of having such a commander and army.
As for whether he would have surrendered before the Tufan army lost their resistance, that was another story. Anyway, it was impossible for him to go back. He was not Xiao Bao and Cuckoo.
"Reporting to the captain, we have discovered the enemy. There are a total of five of them, and they are heading towards the ambush location of our team." The messenger was very professional. He listened to the emperor and the others, but he didn't get distracted. The moment the sand table in the center gave a judgment, he immediately reported to Xiaodong.
"Lower your head and don't observe. Don't think about killing people. Think about the rake in front of you. We are just doing what we do during normal training. Pay attention to your breathing and relax."
Lil 'Dong's order to the messenger was actually to give his team of 30 people. However, it was impossible to assign 30 people to each one of them. He was the smallest combat unit at the moment, so he could only let the referees decide through the order.
The reason why he gave this order was because Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao had said that although many people had always denied the sixth sense, it would always be there at crucial moments.
Anyone who had survived the battlefield understood the importance of a sixth sense. In the moment of life and death, one would find that time passed very slowly. One could even have a process of judgment, but because one's physical condition did not meet the requirements, one could not avoid it.
Because in their era, the surveillance system was already very well-developed.
People discovered a problem. When a person fell from a building, no matter what their initial speed was, the normal 9.8 meters per second would cause their speed to reach nearly 20 meters per second after two seconds.
However, the surveillance system had recorded many such situations. Some of the falling people's pupils would become lax, and some of them would suddenly shrink and reach out.
In other words, when the falling people were so fast, they would feel that time was passing very slowly. They could see the protrusions around them and wanted to reach out to grab them.
At close range, moving at a speed of more than 20 meters per second was impossible for normal people to distinguish, but sometimes, humans could do it. This was the Sixth Sense's Time Domain.
Of course, some people also had this feeling when they were sleeping. It could be that time passed very quickly, or very slowly, or it could be when they were doing something.
Most of the cases happened to animals. It could be explained by the vibrations underground that affected the magnetic field. Then, the animals reacted first, while the humans deteriorated.
This was also the case on the battlefield, especially for snipers. They could even feel the instant when the other party aimed and pulled the trigger, and then make a judgment.
The purpose of Little Dong's order was to prevent the enemy from sensing their hostility when they approached, so that they could take precautions in advance.
At this moment, the messenger played the role of a soldier. "Understood."
"The enemy is within ten meters of us," the messenger reported to Lil 'Dong after he ran back.
"Kill!" Lil 'Dong jumped up from the back of the chair and shouted.
"Annihilate all the enemies." The messenger hastily hugged Lil 'Dong who had thrown himself into the battle and said to him.
"Oh, what's my team's losses?"
"No losses."
"Oh, collect the enemy's thing that can see very far. I have to think of a way to send it to Miss Cuckoo and Young Master Xiao Bao. This thing is very useful. It's five times. Ah, it feels like it's five times closer. No, it's one-fifth of the same thing."
Lil 'Dong was very happy.
He chuckled and turned his head. Suddenly, he saw a few people standing at the door. He was stunned for a moment before he reacted. "Your Majesty, Empress, Concubine Hui, Princess, Lord Gao, Lord Chi De, why are you all here?"
Li Longji was stunned. "You know us?"
"When I went out to pick up Lord Chi De a while ago, I was with the guards. Why are you all here? I wonder how Young Master and Miss are doing. "
Lil 'Dong naturally spoke to Li Longji and the others.
"They're asleep," Li Longji replied.
"Oh ~!" Lil 'Dong heard too much from these two words. The enemy's vanguard was still some distance away from the main force of the army, and Miss had already made arrangements. By the time they woke up, the battle between the two armies would probably begin.
Then, shouldn't he speed up?
Li Longji instantly understood that he had leaked the news. Can you not be so smart? Zhang Shougui, look at what kind of people your opponents are!
How could Zhang Shougui hear Li Longji's thoughts? He was still estimating the distance when he said to the messenger, "Inform the central army that my vanguard will arrive at Mount Huangshan in three days."
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