Just after the New Year, the alarm news in northern Xinjiang was frequent, and His Majesty the Dajin Emperor convened the ministers to discuss the matter, and sent the two sons of Wanyan Hongxi and Wanyan Honglie to Mongolia to canonize the official positions.

After Wan Yan Kang and Wan Yan Honglie said goodbye, they devoted themselves to the preparation for the construction of the contemporary Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry.

Wan Yan Kang pulled Ye Siming, Yu Wenyi and Yu Wenzhong brothers to discuss together, Ye Siming was very supportive of Wan Yan Kang's idea, and participated in the discussion of the preparation with great interest. They preliminarily agreed to select about 200 teenagers, train and eliminate them, and finally choose one out of ten to form an invincible elite horse.

The vigorous preparatory plan was quietly launched.

There are many refugees in all corners of the central capital, and many of them freeze to death every winter. In a ruined temple in the east of the city, Luo San and Zhou Xiaojiang leaned together, gathered in front of a small fire, still shivering.

Zhou Xiaojiang said: "Third brother, let's add more firewood, shall we?" ”

Luo San shook his head and said solemnly: "No, there is only so much firewood, the fire is bigger, and it will not be enough to burn tonight." ”

Zhou Xiaojiang moved to the fire again: "Third brother, we haven't found anything to eat for two days, can we find it tomorrow?" ”

Luo San licked his mouth and was about to comfort Zhou Xiaojiang. With a creak, the temple door was pushed open, a cold wind blew, and the small fire was suddenly blown to the ground.

The two big men walked into the temple, and Luo San blocked Zhou Xiaojiang behind him, pretending to be fierce. The big man walked in front of the fire and stood separately, and a small figure appeared from behind.

"Come with me, there's meat to eat."

After Yan Kang looked at the two people behind the fire, he dropped such a sentence.

"Who are you?" Luo San asked vigilantly.

Wan Yankang looked at the two trembling children, and didn't bother to explain, so he only snorted: "Go or not, whatever you want!" With that, he turned around and walked out of the temple.

Luo San looked at Yan Kang, he didn't know who this person was or what his intentions were, so he just watched Yan Kang leave.

Zhou Xiaojiang suddenly pulled Luo San up from behind and chased after Wan Yankang.

"What is running, we don't know what he wants to do?" Luo San shook off Zhou Xiaojiang's hand and stopped.

Luo San has always had ideas, and Zhou Xiaojiang has always been obedient to him, but this time is the only exception.

Zhou Xiaojiang turned around and shouted: "Third brother, what does he do, he said to go with him, there is meat to eat, there is meat to eat!" ”

Luo San suddenly realized: "Yes, we are all starving to death, we can eat meat and do anything!" Why do you want to do so much! ”

Luo San and Zhou Xiaojiang desperately caught up.

In the evening, Xiao Baili curled up under the eaves of a large family, sheltering from the wind and snow.

He had been hungry for two whole days, and what he had eaten for two days had been snatched from the dog's mouth of the big family.

For this, he was also bitten hard by the dog.

If he hadn't bitten back the same thing, scared the dog away, and kept the bun, Xiao Baili would have been hungry for five days.

He was hungry and thirsty, but he did not dare to lick the snow and ice on the ground. Xiao Baili knew that if he licked the ice and snow to quench his thirst, he was afraid that he would not be able to survive this night.

"Young master, there seems to be someone?"

Wan Yankang looked at it and saw that the man seemed to be motionless, thinking that the child had frozen to death. If he had seen such a situation when he first arrived, he would have ordered the body to be dragged and buried.

It's just that this winter, he has seen too many people who have frozen to death and starved to death, and he can't control it.

Wan Yankang continued to walk forward, and he caught a glimpse of the mass under the eaves that seemed to move, he did not stop, and only left a sentence: "Still alive, keep up, there is meat to eat." ”

Xiao Baili's dim eyes lit up, he tore off the tatters on his body, and chased after him. I didn't know that he had been hungry for too long, his whole body was weak, and he accidentally slipped after chasing more than a dozen steps.

Wan Yankang stopped and looked back, didn't know what he was thinking, and walked forward again.

Xiao Baili chewed a mouthful of ice and snow fiercely, squeezed out the strength of his body, and chased after him.

Luo San, Zhou Xiaojiang, and Xiao Baili caught up, and there were more homeless children who did not chase or did not catch up.

After a cold winter, Wan Yankang's men found 218 homeless children.

The original plan was to recruit 200 potential homeless children, but it turned out that more than a dozen homeless children were all with sisters and did not want to be separated.

According to Ye Siming's idea, this part of the street children is not needed, so as not to be burdensome.

Wan Yankang said: "Facing the moment of freezing to death and starvation, they are unwilling to let go of the people around them, which is obviously affectionate and righteous, and these street children should especially focus on training. Besides, girls are not a burden, and when the time comes, there will be girls in our base who will do some laundry and cooking. ”

Ye Siming thought that when he ran away from the grassland, he had to protect his brother with his life, and nodded and said, "It makes sense!" ”

Originally, the martial arts field in the city could not accommodate so many people, and it was impossible to train in large numbers in the city. Wanyan Honglie still has several manors outside the city, and Wanyan Kang chose a manor in the north of the city as a place for these bitter children.

This manor house was originally not big, and it was already crowded with more than 200 people, but it was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the fields within a radius of several miles were all owned by Wanyan Honglie, and no one else peeped into it, so it was really an excellent place for military training.

Behind the manor, a vacant land of about ten acres is leveled as a martial arts field, a high platform is built in front of the vacant land, and ten human-shaped targets are planted behind the vacant land, which is about 100 meters away from the high platform.

Ye Siming crossed his horse and galloped in front of the high platform with a bow, and the arrows rained down.

The 200 people under the high platform stood sparsely, and when they saw Ye Siming riding his horse and releasing arrows, the arrows whistled overhead, some screamed in fright, and some fell to the ground with a pounce.

Wan Yankang walked up to the high platform and shouted, "Go see the target!" ”

Some teenagers in the audience suddenly realized that Ye Siming had shot the target behind.

A crowd of people swarmed over, and they saw ten wooden humanoid targets, all two finger thick. Ye Siming fired ten arrows, hitting ten targets, and all of them pierced the forehead of the wooden man.

Those who have a little insight all gasp.

When everyone gathered under the stage again, Wan Yankang shouted in a small voice: "Is the general who passed just now powerful?" ”

There was a noisy shout from the audience: "Amazing, amazing, this is the marksman!" ”

Wan Yankang pressed his hand in the air, and after a while, the voice stopped.

Wan Yankang was annoyed in his heart, these rabble, it seems that before formal training, they have to be disciplined well.

After the thought, Wan Yankang then shouted: "You were all street children before, I will bring you here, so that you can have enough food, so that you can have enough clothes to wear, so that you can learn martial arts here." In the end, I will choose the best eighteen people from among you. They will be as brave as the Divine Arrow General just now, and become an invincible army that will follow me to fight in all directions, are you willing? ”

"Yes! Willing! Willing! ”

……

A sheep is driven, and a flock of sheep is by no means so easy to drive, especially since some of these 200 sheep are illiterate.

Put down the martial arts first, and Yan Kang took out many rules of military training.

Standing in a military posture, standing badly, punished!

Deal with each other, punish!

What is the penalty? What could be more effective than punishing a group of children who have just come out of hunger and cold than a meal without food?

If there is, it's two!

After ten days of simple training, the 200 sheep finally became the forbidden 200 sheep. This also made people who didn't know the use of such a thing as standing in a military posture think deeply.

Two hundred sheep seems to be a bit much, Wan Yankang thought to himself, let's eliminate some of them first!

"Run, go around the martial arts field ten times, the first twenty people will add meat to their evening meals, and the last meals will be halved, and those who can't run will have no food to eat." Wan Yankang announced a new rule.

The difference between the reward and punishment of adding meat and halving the meal directly made the two hundred sheep red-eyed and screamed.

Tian Dali was also very excited since he heard the legend of Yanyun's eighteen horsemen, this guy didn't like to study, and kept begging Wan Yankang to let him join the training team.

Wan Yankang thought to himself, anyway, this guy doesn't like to study, so it's a good thing to come and concentrate on martial arts.

During the running practice, Tian Dali was in good health, and he ate in the palace for a year, and ran in front of him after two laps.

The area of the martial arts field looks a few points larger than that of an ordinary playground, about five or six hundred meters in a circle. The people who spread their legs in front and ran violently lost their breath after two or three laps, and those who came behind had some eyesight.

At the start, a bunch of people hugged together, no one cared about anyone, and by the halfway point there was a clear queue. Tian Dali's lead after half the race became more and more obvious, Luo San followed Tian Dali closely, and by the eighth lap, he had already led Zhou Xiaojiang by two laps. Zhou Xiaojiang is young, and he has been falling behind after half the race, and the more he runs, the slower he gets, it seems inevitable that he will fall in the last twenty.

Luo San ran to Zhou Xiaojiang's side, took Zhou Xiaojiang's hand, and ran side by side.

Yu Wenyi walked to Wan Yankang's side and asked with his eyes whether this situation was allowed.

Wan Yankang nodded and said: "Fight the tiger brothers, go into battle with father and son." You can help each other in peacetime, and you can trust your life when you go to the battlefield. It's just that it's actually very laborious to pull and run, and maybe both of them will fall behind. ”

Wan Yankang smiled again: "Lao Yi, look at this posture, how many can you finish?" ”

Yu Wenyi looked at the children who were panting and running, especially the last dozens of people, who basically couldn't even walk, so he smiled and said, "According to the humble position, there may be thirty people who can't finish running." ”

Wan Yankang shook his head and said, "There are not so many, at most twenty people can't run away." ”

At the end of the ten laps, almost all the prioritizers, including Tian Dali, sat on the ground and gasped. There were dozens of people who fell two or three laps behind. Wan Yankang was already thinking about how many people should be eliminated, and the question of where to send these people after elimination.

It turned out that Wan Yankang and Yu Wenyi's ideas were wrong, and when the last seven or eight children struggled to climb across the finish line, Wan Yankang's heart had an inexplicable emotion surging.

Yu Wenyi arched his hand and said: "Congratulations to the little prince, these children have different physical foundations, and they are very capable of hardship in their bones." In the future, except for the eighteen cavalry generals, the others may be used elsewhere. ”

Among these homeless children, the fate of most of them has changed because of this sentence, and Wan Yankang originally wanted to eliminate most of them.

He suddenly realized that the ability of people in this era to endure hardships is incomparable to that of children in the previous life, as long as there are enough resources, they will be able to create a group of strong soldiers and fierce generals who obey their orders!