In the evening, the lights are still bright in the tent, Guo Song and the seven Zhonglang will discuss today's riding and archery competition, the game has all ended, the results are beyond Guo Song's expectations, quite good, there are 17 generals with more than 27 points, of which two are 30 points, and 3 are 29 points, which is a little trouble, and the two generals of 30 points have indisputably won the two Lang general places.

But the third place has to be competed for by three people, and everyone is gossiping and disagreeing.

"Nothing to dispute!"

Liang Wu knocked on the table with his knuckles and said: "It must be Xiao Lingfeng who is more skilled, after all, he has an arrow that hits the face door, and the other two people did not hit the face door, we can't look at the score, but also look at the specific archery skills." ”

This brigade commander named Xiao Lingfeng was Liang Wu's subordinate, of course, he did not hide his partiality, and wanted to grab the third place.

Yao Jin shook his head, "Rules are rules, since the rules require scores to be judged, then compare scores, although Xiao Lingfeng shot an arrow in the face, but his third arrow also hit his left shoulder, the other two did not have such big ups and downs, if they really can't tell the difference, then let the three of them compete again tomorrow morning." ”

At this time, Guo Song coughed lightly, and the big tent immediately quieted down, Guo Song smiled slightly: "The original intention of the competition is to discover and select outstanding talents, and now that outstanding talents have been discovered, then they must be promoted in time, and the other two outstanding ones cannot be brushed off with only three quotas, and the quota can be increased!" We have nearly 20,000 horses, and there is nothing wrong with adding two more Lang generals, this time the imperial court gave us 2,000 rhubarb crossbows, as well as 1,000 sets of Modao army equipment, so I considered establishing a heavy crossbow battalion and a heavy armored infantry battalion, so that the quota of five Lang generals would come out, and the generals who had obtained more than 27 points should be registered, and they would be given priority promotion under the same conditions in the future. ”

The big tent was very quiet, Guo Song took two steps and said: "In the future, such a cavalry and archery competition will be held once a year, and it will become the practice of the Ganzhou army, with twenty-seven points as the qualified line, and those who score more than twenty-seven points will have the opportunity to be promoted, even if they cannot be promoted temporarily, they must be rewarded." ”

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All the generals dispersed, but Guo Song left Changshi Pan Liao and Bing Cao Shen Military Zuo Changwen behind, Guo Song invited the two to sit down and said with a smile: "I left the two of them so late, it's hard for the two." ”

Pan Liao hurriedly said: "We are nothing, the governor is hard, and he has not stopped from morning to now." ”

"I can't help it, try to make the preliminary preparations before the invasion of the Shatuo people, there are too many things, and I can't wait!"

Zuo Changwen bowed and said: "We are all willing to share our worries for the governor, what the governor needs us to do, despite the orders, we will definitely do our best to do things well." ”

Guo Song nodded, "During the discussion just now, I mentioned the heavy crossbow battalion and the heavy armored infantry battalion, and we will start to form these two new branches of the army from tomorrow, the heavy crossbow battalion has 2,000 people, and the heavy armored infantry battalion is also 2,000 people, I have already selected the main general and deputy general, the key is the soldiers, I know that the Bing Cao Division has a detailed record of all the soldiers, I ask you to select the right soldiers for me within two days, the task is very heavy, it may be too late to rely on the Bing Cao Division alone, the six Cao officials are all involved, Pan Changshi, this matter will be led by you, within two days, Pick out three thousand soldiers for me. ”

Pan Liao hurriedly said: "I understand! ”

Zuo Changwen was a little more professional after all, and he asked, "I don't know what conditions the governor needs?" ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The big yellow crossbow is a seven-stone heavy crossbow, which needs to be operated by two soldiers, and the condition is that the strength is great, I remember that every soldier has a record of lifting stone locks, at least he can lift a hundred catties of stone locks above his head, which is the condition of heavy crossbow soldiers."

Then let's talk about the heavy infantry, the heavy infantry is also called the Mo knife hand, the first condition is the height and hand length, the height requirement is six feet two or more, if I remember correctly, this is also the condition for the Anxi Army to select the heavy infantry, the weightlifting conditions are a little lower, the stone lock can be more than 80 catties, select a thousand people, and the other thousand people are assisted, so there is no need for any special conditions. ”

Pan Liao quickly recorded the conditions put forward by Guo Song, nodded and said: "We have written it down, early in the morning after tomorrow, we will hand over the list to the governor!" ”

Pan Liao and Zuo Changwen said goodbye and hurriedly left.

Guo Song took a few steps with his hands in his hand, and felt a little remorseful in his heart, in fact, he should have started to form these two armies a long time ago, and he was delayed for four days in vain, he only found out that there were rhubarb crossbows and heavy armor Mo knife suits when he read the storage materials report this morning, and he had not thought of forming a Mo Dao army before.

At this time, Kang Bao appeared at the door of the tent, "Is the governor looking for me?" ”

Guo Song nodded and smiled: "Come in!" ”

Kang Bao walked in and saluted, Guo Song smiled and asked, "How is the chief instructor doing?" ”

Kang Bao smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay!" ”

Guo Song smiled, "It seems that I am not very satisfied." ”

"Governor, I heard that the pro-military camp has been formed, why don't you let the lowly post go back?"

Guo Song said with a smile: "The current pro-military battalion is just a name, but it is actually an internal affairs battalion, which specializes in searching for enemy spies. ”

"I am willing to enter the internal affairs camp and be a small soldier enough!"

"I didn't come to you to let you go to the internal affairs camp, but to give you a new position."

Although Kang Bao is conscientious as the chief instructor, he still hopes to follow the lord in his heart, but he will never disobey Guo Song's arrangement, and bowed down and said: "Please command!" ”

"I want you to be the commander of the heavy infantry battalion, regarded as the same as a general, in charge of a thousand Mo sword army and a thousand synergy army!"

The Modao Army is the most elite army of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a sharp weapon to deal with the cavalry, and in the Anshi Rebellion, it was the Anxi Five Thousand Modao Army that came from thousands of miles away, turned the tide, and stabilized the Tang Dynasty.

But the price of building a Mo knife army is also extremely expensive, a set of heavy armor and a Mo knife will cost at least hundreds of dollars, and Datang only had the financial resources to create a Mo knife army of 5,000 people in the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

After the end of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was no longer able to build the Modao Army, and the Anxi Modao Army was also disbanded, 5,000 sets of heavy armor and Mo knives were scattered among the people, or included in the arsenal warehouse, so far there are only more than 2,000 pairs of well-preserved heavy armor and Mo knives, 1,000 sets were given to the Longyou Hehuang Army, and another 1,000 sets were given to the Ganzhou Army.

Of course, Guo Song wanted this elite army to be led by his own henchmen, and he immediately thought of Kang Bao, Kang Bao was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate, Kang Bao was not only loyal to himself, but also had superior conditions, two meters tall, extremely powerful, and had commanded an army of 100,000.

Kang Bao has always been due to lack of qualifications, Guo Song has not been able to appoint him as a Lang General or Zhonglang General, but for the special military branch of the Modao Army, the qualifications have been put aside, and the physical condition is the first.

Kang Bao saw the lord's expectant gaze, and he said without hesitation: "I am willing to share the worries of the lord!" ”

Guo Song smiled and nodded, "Come over tomorrow afternoon, I will teach you a set of Mo Dao Knife Techniques and master it proficiently." ”

After a pause, Guo Song said again: "In addition, early tomorrow morning, you go to the Metropolitan Governor's Office to find Pan Changshi, they will start to select a thousand Mo Dao soldiers tomorrow, if you have a suitable soldier candidate, you can also recommend it to Pan Changshi." ”

"Obey the order!"

The actual strength of the Modao Army should be two thousand, in addition to a thousand heavily armored infantry, there should be a thousand coordinated soldiers, and the soldiers alone cannot wear dozens of pounds of armor, and there must be someone next to them to help.

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Early the next morning, Yao Jin hurriedly came to the coach, and Yang Jun, who was standing at the door of the big tent, waved his hand to him and pointed to the big tent.

Yao Jin took a look and saw a tall and mighty heavy-armored general standing in the center of the big tent, holding a long Mo knife, which was none other than their commander Guo Song.

Yao Jin asked in a low voice, "What is the Governor doing?" ”

Yang Jun said in a low voice: "Du Du seems to be comprehending a set of sword techniques. ”

Yao Jin suddenly realized that Du Du was creating a set of Mo Dao Knife Techniques, so he had to wait patiently at the door of the big tent.

Guo Song was wearing a forty-pound iron armor, which wrapped him tightly from head to toe, only revealing a slit in his eyes, and holding a Mo knife that was one foot and five feet long, weighing about forty catties.

Although the ordnance supervisor gave him a thousand sets of heavy armor equipment, he did not give him the corresponding Mo knife technique, and Guo Song could only create a set of simple and practical knife techniques by himself.

Mo knife army combat is a collective battle, such as the wall to promote, with the collective strength to defeat the enemy, which requires all soldiers to be uniform knife skills, if each soldier to make a different move, it will be chaotic, it is likely to hurt their own people, in order to avoid this unfavorable situation so, training is one thing, and the Mo knife knife method of the tricks are few enough, can also greatly reduce the probability of chaos.

Guo Song stood quietly for half an hour, and he suddenly shouted, "Up! ”

Mo knife stabbed obliquely from top to bottom, the knife was extremely thick and powerful, and he shouted again: "Down!" ”

The right leg stepped out in a lunge, and the Mo knife slashed out horizontally, about one and a half feet from the ground, which was the foot of the horse that split the war horse, and he immediately retracted his legs, opened the bow left and right, and split a knife each.

In fact, it is four moves, according to the order, it is up and down, right and left, all in one go.

Yao Jin was so frightened by the sharp knife that he couldn't help but applaud.

Guo Song turned around and saw that it was Yao Jin, so he put down his knife and asked, "What's the matter with General Yao?" ”

Yao Jin bowed down and said, "Governor Qiyu, Zhang Yun has news coming!" ”