A quarter of an hour later, Guo Wendong walked to the door of his home and saw a person standing outside the door, with his hands behind his back.

The nurse said to him, "My lord, this person is coming to you. ”

At this time, the man had already walked up quickly, looked respectful, and clenched his fists and said, "Dare to ask, but Lord Guo, the guerrilla general of the Shenji Battalion?" ”

Guo Wendong said: "Who are you?" ”

The man said: "Master Guo, the youngest is called Zheng Sen, the word is clear, and he is now the prisoner of the country, and his father is An Nanbo and Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian. ”

Immediately, Zheng Sen bowed to Guo Wendong.

It turned out to be Zheng Chenggong, the name of this period was Zheng Sen, he had a Chinese face, a tall figure, a dignified appearance, and was twenty years old, and later changed his name to Zheng Chenggong during the Longwu period of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Before and after the death of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Sen was indeed in Nanjing, was sent to Jinling to study, entered the Nanjing Guozijian, and studied under Qian Qianyi. Later, the Qing army captured Nanjing, and Zheng Sen escaped in time to survive, and spent the rest of his life actively resisting the Qing.

His father, Zheng Zhilong, was originally a pirate, but was later whitewashed by the imperial court, and he was also an official and a thief, and later surrendered to Jiannu and died at the hands of Jiannu.

"It turned out to be the son of Annanbo" Guo Wendong said: "Zheng Mingyan, what is the matter with you coming to this official?" ”

Zheng Sen said: "Lord Guo, Jiannu entered the customs, the Ming Dynasty was in danger, and Sen also had the heart to serve the country. Hearing that the Lord is a guerrilla general and rebuilding the Shenji Battalion, Sente came to defect, hoping to follow the Lord and kill the enemy and serve the country together. Sen has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has read military books, so now is a good opportunity to serve the imperial court. ”

He was sincere, respectful, and expectant.

This Zheng Chenggong is indeed a good candidate for general.

Guo Wendong said: "Although your father is Annanbo and has a high position, you are currently unequivocal, and when you come to the Shenji Battalion, this official can't give you much official position." ”

Zheng Sen was not disappointed, and said: "Now that Daming is in danger, Sen is willing to put pen to paper, and he is willing to start from the chief and captain." ”

Yan Yingyuan leaned into Guo Wendong's ear and said in a low voice: "Wendong, the Shenji Camp has just been built, and talents are urgently needed, so it is better to study him, if he is really talented, don't miss it." ”

Even if he didn't remind him, Guo Wendong also had this meaning, and smiled faintly at Zheng Sen: "This official will test you, if you have real skills, you will definitely reuse it." These people all have real skills, and they are the thousand presidents and deputy thousand presidents in the Shenji Battalion. ”

He gestured to the four behind him.

Zheng Sen and the four of them fought each other.

Zheng Sen said: "Adults, the small ones have learned martial arts, mainly swordsmanship, marksmanship, and archery, and have also read a lot of military books. ”

Immediately, Guo Wendong took Zheng Sen into the courtyard and asked him to say first: "You try first, how many push-ups can you do?" ”

Push-up? Yu Yufeng and Liu Jifang, who have been trained, are all too familiar.

Yan Yingyuan lived in Guo's mansion for several days, and Guo Wendong exercised every morning and knew about this type of exercise.

For Chen Zilong, Zhang Huangyan, and Zheng Sen, it is the first time they have heard the word "push-ups".

Guo Wendong said to Liu Jifang: "Let's demonstrate together and achieve the limit." ”

Immediately, the family took a thin cushion, Guo Wendong and Liu Jifang fell to the ground, supported the cushion with both hands, and did push-ups according to the standard movements.

After more than a year of hard work, Guo Wendong has developed a relatively good physical fitness, which is many times stronger than the weak scholar at the beginning.

So that's it! The three looked at the two doing push-ups.

At the beginning, Guo Wendong and Liu Jifang did it very easily, and after doing dozens of them, they gradually became a little struggling.

When Liu Jifang was doing push-ups, he looked at Guo Wendong from time to time, and when Guo Wendong was struggling, he was also "struggling".

In the end, after Guo Wendong reluctantly did a few more, he finally couldn't do it anymore.

The family in charge of counting said, "My lord made one hundred and nine." ”

Soon, Liu Jifang couldn't do it anymore.

Jia Ding said: "Lord Liu has made one hundred and seven. ”

Both stood up.

Liu Jifang said: "Adults have made great progress, and they are ashamed of their humble duties. ”

In fact, according to his recent exercises, he can do more than one hundred and twenty, and he deliberately did a little worse than his master.

Guo Wendong said to the three of them: "You all try it, push-ups are one of the necessary exercise items for the officers and soldiers of the Shenji Battalion." ”

The three of them did as they had just done.

In the end, Yan Yingyuan made one hundred and fifty-seven, Zheng Sen did one hundred and twenty-three, and Zhang Huangyan made ninety-three.

Guo Wendong praised Zheng Sen and said: "Not bad, not bad! This official will test your martial arts again. ”

and ordered knives and spears and bows and arrows to be frought.

Zheng Sen took a knife and danced in the courtyard, the knife was shining, whirring in the wind, making it look like it was quite powerful.

After using the knife technique, Zheng Sen demonstrated the marksmanship.

Spears and spears are one of the most commonly used weapons on the battlefield in ancient times, Zheng Sen learned the essence, piercing, stabbing, tart, slashing, winding, ringing, blocking, holding, pounce, point, pluck, dancing flowers and other spear use, all skillfully used.

"Not bad, not bad!" After demonstrating marksmanship, Yan Yingyuan first applauded and approved: "If you talk about marksmanship, Yan is ashamed of himself." ”

Just in terms of marksmanship, if he didn't limit his weapons or fight with hand-to-hand, he still had the confidence to defeat Zheng Sen.

Guo Wendong also applauded and said, "Ming Yan, it seems that you have received guidance from a famous teacher." ”

Zheng Sen replied: "Exactly, among my father's subordinates, there is a person with magical marksmanship, and I have practiced hard since I was a child. ”

Next is archery, Zheng Sen's archery is also very good, shooting ten arrows in a row, seven hit the bull's-eye, and three are only slightly off.

At this time, Chunxiang came over and said, "Young master, dinner is ready, do you want to eat?" ”

Guo Wendong said: "Wait a minute, wait a minute!" ”

There are talents to vote, he is happy, and he will talk about Zheng Chenggong first.

"Let's go inside and talk about it in detail!"

In the main hall, Guo Wendong studied Zheng Chenggong's military strategy.

In this regard, Zheng Chenggong also did not disappoint him.

"The combat strength of the army depends on whether there is strict training, whether there is sufficient food and salary, whether the weapons and armor are complete, whether there is a commander who is proficient in military affairs in wartime, and whether the morale of the soldiers is strong. Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were both very good commanders, but it was a pity that the soldiers were not well trained, and the imperial court often could not meet the needs of food and salary, which led to the defeat of Li Chuang and the Qing army........."

Zheng Sen specifically recounted that more than an hour had passed unconsciously, Guo Wendong asked many questions, and Zheng Sen was able to answer most of them.

Through some research, Guo Wendong has a preliminary understanding of Zheng Sen.

Among the important subordinates, according to their characteristics, Yu Yufeng and Yan Yingyuan belong to the type of fierce generals, and Zhang Huangyan is better at military strategy and military strategy, and belongs to Confucian generals.

There is no shortage of famous Confucian generals in history, such as Zhou Yu, Wu Qi, Li Jing and so on.

Chen Zilong is somewhere in between.

As for Zheng Sen, he is also in between, slightly biased towards Zhang Huangyan's type.

Liu Jifang is a very potential person, as long as he studies and hone hard, he has a lot of room for growth, so Guo Wendong asked him to be the deputy chief soldier.