Although the military order is simple, these young people, who have not served in the army before, and most of them come from the countryside, are still a little confused. Although the sun was shining in early spring, there was a slight coolness both outside and inside the city, and no one including all the battalion officers knew what Yang Hongzhang's interview was going to do.

Gao Shanwei's call field, two thousand young people who passed the initial test are gathering in the field to teach the base to wait for the re-examination of the so-called chief soldier, everyone is very excited, because as long as they pass this level, it means a rich salary and supreme glory, I heard that this young general soldier was born when the Manchu Qing invaded the year before last, and as a result, the proud Manchu cavalry ran away, and even captured the other party's Baylor and the prince, and under the city of Beijing, he scared off Dolgon's sixty or seventy thousand elites with 10,000, so he thought it was a big handsome, in addition to eating and drinking spicy food, is waiting to accumulate military officials and get rich.

It's just that as time went on, apart from the straight sergeants who stood around, there were no generals to speak, let alone the chief soldiers.

At first, everyone thought that because there were too many people, the chief soldier needed time to slowly retest, but the cold wind blew on the body, and people would always gradually become anxious, so some people began to complain that the chief soldier was too big, and some people thought that the efficiency was too low, and they always said everything.

Some of them pretended to use their brains to ask the straight sergeants standing around them, but they snorted coldly and didn't say anything to them. I had to go back after a boring person, but I inevitably began to complain in my heart.

"It's too cold, but fortunately I'm young, if I were to replace those old men, I would probably have fallen down. When is Dashuai coming? There must be a charter for this retest, you can't just let the big guy just wait in the cold wind all the time, right? I thought the young man was complaining slowly, and kept stomping his feet as he spoke.

"Du Shi Niang, you can be selected if you are so thin, did you send your ass to the battalion officer? Why don't you go and talk to which of you is good at it, it's really too cold, be careful that you are directly frozen. ”

"Wang Mazi, you give Lao Tzu a roll, Lao Tzu can be selected by virtue of his own conditions, what do you think your fat can do, it is estimated that the first one to be eliminated is you."

"Haha, Lao Tzu is a muscle, there is strength, what you need to kill the enemy in battle is a handful of strength, if the Mongolian Tartars come, Lao Tzu can directly drag them off the horse. How can you be like this, if you can't rub the wind like a girl, you will definitely be eliminated. ”

"Don't make noise, how can the big man have the time to watch the two of you perform, I didn't see that the weather is so cold, there is no official on the school field, it is estimated that they are all hiding in the yamen to roast the fire, we have the north wind blowing here, if the big handsome don't come again, I won't be able to hold on."

"Yes, yes, I don't usually feel uh in this ghost weather, why is there more people and the wind is stronger, this is the rhythm of freezing people to death, is the retest a test of everyone's ability to resist freezing."

"You're stupid, this is the school grounds, of course it's empty, and the wind is naturally strong. Damn, will the handsome come or not, if you don't come, Lao Tzu will leave. ”

"Du Shi Niang, let's go and hide under the big tree, this wind is really cold."

"If you don't go, you go. Didn't you say that you have a lot of muscles, why can't you bear it for a while, it's an alarm clock! ”

"Don't pull it down, Lao Tzu will go over there to hide, the wind is too strong!" Wang Mazi stamped his feet and left the team and walked to the side, seeing him like this, some people also found a nearby low wall to squat down, some came to stomp under the tree, and some people played with each other to increase the heat. Some people even began to pick up dry branches in the vicinity and start a fire, which attracted more onlookers.

Time passed minute by minute, and one after another people left the team to think of their own ways to keep warm, and many people stayed in place honestly, their lips were purple from the cold, so they had to rub them with their hands, and then stomped their feet on the spot.

On the tall building not far away, Yang Hongzhang, Luo Kedi, Yang Sheng and others were holding clairvoyance to pay attention to everything that happened on the field, Yang Hongzhang's expression was very strange, and everyone didn't dare to speak, but the various beings on the school field also embarrassed them.

"Dashuai, it's been almost an hour." Luo Yidi reminded.

Yang Hongzhang put down his clairvoyance and turned to Yang Sheng and said, "There are a few people in the northwest corner who don't move at all, you go and bring them to me, and the rest are carried out according to the established method." Defeat the enemy, you go with me to the city wall and take a look at the situation in several other places. ”

"Stand upright, take a break, the handsome man has an order, isolate the inside and outside of the school field!" Yang Sheng came to the arena and gave an order to the straight sergeants who were standing, and suddenly the old sergeants who had been maintaining order in the school field quickly divided the crowd outside the hole in the field into two other layers according to Yang Sheng's instructions.

At this time, those who were isolated outside the school field seemed to notice that something was wrong and wanted to walk in, only to be greeted by the cold eyes and muzzles of the sergeants.

"The commander has an order, all the people outside the human wall are not qualified, you can disband, and the people inside the human wall continue to stand by."

In an uproar, the crowd immediately exploded, and Wang Mazi shouted at Yang Sheng: "General, what about the handsome, we want to see the handsome, why do you say that we are not qualified?" ”

Yang Sheng came to Wang Mazi's side and drew the whip over the situation, Wang Mazi was also clever, and immediately fell to the ground and rolled on a donkey, which just happened to dodge.

Yang Sheng glanced at him and sneered: "As far as you still want to see the marshal, let me ask you, what was the order that the officer gave you just now?" ”

Wang Mazi silently didn't seem to remember, at this time Du Siniang in the human wall smiled and said: "Wang Mazi, stupid, what the officer said is to stand by in place, do you know in place, you and the hell have run outside the school field, the cloth cover is too tired to eliminate anyone." ”

Hearing this, those who were separated by the human wall seemed to understand that Yang Sheng was not joking, they were indeed eliminated.

Yang Sheng glanced at the young man who was called Du Shi Niang, and then sneered: "Even if you still know each other, our Yang Jiajun has always been disciplined, and after such a while, I can't hold on for a while, and I still want to be like Yang Jiajun and dream." ”

After speaking, Yang Sheng came to the northwest corner of the arena again, nodded more than 30 people, and said, "You come with me." ”

Those who were pointed out by Yang Sheng looked nervous, and slowly walked out of the crowd with great reluctance, and one of them finally couldn't help but say, "General, we ...... It didn't move just now. ”

Yang Sheng smiled: "What's your name?" ”

"Villain Ding Hao."

"Have you ever been a soldier before?"

Ding Hao shook his head, and seeing this, Yang Sheng didn't explain more: "Come with me." The commander wants to see you. ”

Hearing this, Ding Hao and the others were stunned for a while, and then an excited look appeared on their faces.

"Don't be too happy, it's just because you performed okay just now, so the marshal saw you, and when you see the marshal, what do you want to say, behave well, maybe you can become a scout or join the elite battalion directly."

"Yes, General!" When Ding Hao and the others heard this, they finally followed behind Yang Sheng one by one with their heads held high. The rest of the people who were separated by the human wall tried to rush in but were viciously kicked back by the sergeants who were standing guard, and then everyone held their muskets in their hands, seeing this, Wang Mazi and the others drooped their heads like deflated balls, and two thousand people gathered in this school field, and after an hour of testing, nearly five hundred people left the team and left the school field.

The situation of several other assembly points is similar to this battle, especially the assembly point at the north gate actually brushed off half of the people, these people have not been blacklisted by the Yang family's army, even if they come to sign up again in the future, they will not be allowed to enter the army, and a very small number of them have not even been robbed of auxiliary barracks and cultivating people.

What is surprising is that there are more than 200 people who have been eliminated from other guards in Datong at the assembly point outside the north gate, and more than 1,000 people from the six assembly points who have been eliminated are old fritters who have been soldiers in various guards. Yang Hongzhang completely lost trust in the soldiers of the Thirteen Guards, and he also decided to completely abandon the Guards to build Datong Defense.

What made Yang Hongzhang happy was that there was a gathering point, and those who stood motionless like Ding Hao in the wind for an hour actually reached more than 300 people. After careful investigation, these people are all children of poor families, they are in rags, which really makes Yang Hongzhang admire, in the final analysis, these people are not necessarily how obedient to military orders, but honest, and cherish the opportunity to be a soldier, so they all listened to the words of the officer. These people naturally became the objects of Yang Hongzhang's key training and personal training. The few who could not provide proof of household registration and explain their place of origin were kicked out of the barracks.

Yang Hongzhang couldn't wait to train a strong army, but he didn't want to help train spies.

The entire recruitment lasted for a total of ten days, and the recruits recruited in the follow-up no longer used the method of standing by the school to eliminate people, but took a small range of inquiries, and most of the old fritters of the guards were turned away.

The entire recruit camp was divided into two parts, 5,000 people stayed in Yanggao for training, and Luo Kedi was in charge, and 5,000 people were sent to Tianzhen, and Zhang Hu was in charge of training. The first phase of training lasts for three months, and after three months, the elite is selected and divided into infantry and cavalry battalions.

In Yang Hongzhang's plan, as long as the artillery can keep up, it is time to establish an artillery battalion, but now there are only a very small number of new and old 20,000 people in the Yang family's army who can use artillery, and Yang Hongzhang brought back from the sea, and most of these people have now become the backbone, and the rest are all in the pro-military camp.