There are 18,000 young and strong people, and the Jingbianbao army only recruits 6,000 people, which is basically a pattern of choosing one of the three, and the supply far exceeds the demand, so the generals of the Jingbianbao army have a lot of choice.

Even the most unattractive pikemen had 2,000 people sign up, and the largest number of applicants are the firecrackers, because the firecrackers are lively, majestic, and look powerful, and if you become a firecracker, you can get a firecracker for free when you retire.

With such good things, the young men naturally enthusiastically signed up for the Fire Gun Soldiers. In addition to the firecrackers, the cavalry is also favored by the young men.

In the north of the Ming Dynasty, there are few rivers, not many boats, most of the transportation methods are horseback riding, and it is also excellent to learn first-hand equestrianism.

In addition to these two favorites, the more popular ones are archers and artillerymen.

Among them, there are 4,000 people who want to be firecrackers, and the rest are about 3,000 people, that is, the pikemen are the least.

The generals in Jingbian Fort don't need so many people, basically 1,500 people are enough, so next, several generals need to test the young people, and see if these young people who sign up have talent and can adapt to their own army.

The test is also simple, the artillery is to see the reaction ability, and whether the arithmetic is good, after all, the artillery bombardment target requires a certain amount of computing power, if the arithmetic is too poor, it is not good not to be an artilleryman.

In addition, it is also very important that when the artilleryman does not get motion sickness, otherwise he will sit down in the carriage and vomit a lot of meat and vegetables, and his eyes will be full of stars, and it will be a fart battle.

After this selection, there are still many people, and they will start the white-knuckle combat test, because sometimes it is possible for artillery to fight the enemy in close combat, and it is not bad to have this skill.

The test of the pikemen is relatively simple and crude, that is, to fight Yang Desheng with a hardwood stick, as long as the fight is clear and has the potential value of continuing to cultivate, Yang Desheng will not hesitate to recruit under his command.

The test of the archers, which is also patterned, is first of all to test the arm strength?

The conventional one-stone bow, the two-stone bow that requires great strength, and the five-stone bow that defy the sky, and see if anyone can pull these young people.

Of course, if you can't even pull a stone bow, at least the archer will not have to do it, because the archers are very physical, and they can't pull a stone bow, and when they get to the battlefield, they will be exhausted if they put three or five arrows, and it will definitely have an impact on the battle situation.

Therefore, if he can't even pull a stone bow, Zhang Tieniu will be directly persuaded to retreat.

If you come across someone who can pull a two-stone bow, you can cultivate it as an embryo of a marksman, and if a super soldier who can pull a five-stone bow appears, then don't hurry up and grab it and give it to Fan Xiongxin to train and train as a sniper.

After these tests are done, the next step is to shoot various targets, and look at archery, whether these people have talent, if every time they shoot, they can't even hit the target, then they are just kicked away, and they don't need to look at it.

If these two selections are completed, there are still many people, then carry out further screening, let these people shoot fixed targets and mobile targets, and those with good results can stay, and those with bad results will be eliminated directly.

The selection method of the firecrackers cannot only rely on shooting targets, because the smoothbore guns of this era have unstable ballistics, and if they have not undergone long-term training, the target shooting depends on their character, so except for a very small number of young people whose character explodes and the ancestral grave smokes, they can directly enter the firecracker sequence by shooting.

The rest of the young men must pass the test of white-knuckle combat to qualify for the Firecracker Sequence.

The cavalry test was like this, Liu Renjie first asked if anyone had ever ridden a horse before, and if they had not ridden a horse, they had ridden a donkey and a mule.

People with this kind of experience have some driving experience, and they are also old drivers, so they can be recruited first, and as for things like strength skills, they can be practiced after entering the barracks.

In the northern land of the Ming Dynasty, there may be very few people who have ridden horses, but there are not many people who have ridden donkeys and mules.

At that moment, many young people stood up and said that they had ridden horses, or donkeys and mules.

Liu Renjie immediately asked his subordinates to bring a few horses, let these young men ride horses, and see if what they said was true or false?

As it turned out, the men were not lying, and when they got on their horses, they were not bad, driving the horses to walk and trot, but the equestrian skills were not superb in any way.

"You are qualified, and wait first, and then go to the government to register, and prepare to receive the land." Liu Renjie said to the young men who came down from the horses.

"Master Xie."

When the young men heard that they could divide the land, they all smiled and were overjoyed.

Those young men who were not selected for the time being were all staring at Liu Renjie nervously, and watching how the other party would select new recruits.

The criteria for this selection are also simple, to be a cavalryman, you must first understand the horse, you must communicate with the horse, if the communication is not smooth, the horse is not happy, the rider can not control the horse, then the cavalry can not do it in any way.

"You first go and touch the horses, and then learn to ride like a horseman, and ride on the horses, and if you go up, the horses will not be shocked or jumped, and they will be selected, but if the horses are frightened and you are not allowed to ride, they will be counted as failures and will not be selected." Liu Renjie said loudly to the young men.

This selection method is really new, and it greatly surprised the young people. However, the selection is in the hands of others, and the only way to do it is to do it.

Sometimes, horses won't let anyone ride on them, and some young people can't ride on the horse because of poor communication with horses, and they are eliminated alive.

Those who were eliminated in this way were extremely depressed, and those who remained had to pass one more level, because the cavalry itself had nearly a thousand people, and now there were three thousand people who had signed up, and there were still many people left in addition to the more than three hundred who could ride horses.

So the next step is to let these young people ride a horse for a walk, to see who will fall off the horse, if the horse falls, it will naturally lose the qualification, if it can not fall off the horse, this will enter the next round.

The next round of selection is more simple and crude.

"Now each of you takes a wooden knife, divide them into two teams, correspond one by one, gallop your horses, fight each other, and in the process of fighting, the one who falls from the horse loses the selection qualification, and the winner remains." Liu Renjie said to the young men.

This is easy to do, and the young people who remain will naturally have enough energy to win this battle for their own interests in order to obtain good land.

"Let's go."

With Liu Renjie's whistle, these young men seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, frantically urging the horses to speed up and prepare to impact.

They also expected that their riding skills would improve by leaps and bounds, allowing them to gallop and complete beautiful sprints and slashes, but the reality was cruel.

Most of these young men fell under their horses before they could touch a single hair of their opponents, and only a few lucky ones managed to get to the expected place of engagement.

Then the scene of the fight did not appear, and they could only hold the horse's neck to make sure that they did not fall under the horse, and it was impossible to fight or anything.

After this round of testing, Liu Renjie has a spectrum in his heart.

"If there is no falling horse, accept it, and then screen it according to the time of falling horse, and the young and strong who fall from the horse in a short period of time will be eliminated, and those who can keep their body in shape for a long time without falling from the horse will stay." Liu Renjie instructed Sun Wuxian and He Yaozong beside him.

"Yes, General."

Sun Wuxian and He Yaozong were ordered, so they recruited those qualified young people, and as for those who did not meet the requirements, they could only be eliminated.

Those young men who were eliminated were all beating their chests and feeling very frustrated that they had missed the opportunity, while those who could be selected were all very excited and overjoyed.

In front of the office building of the Liujiabao barracks, Liu Renjie, who was standing on the high steps and watching all this, saw the scene of his subordinates selecting recruits, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "When I first started my business in Zhenbeibao, where was there such a condition, but now I can actually choose the right soldiers among so many people, and it is the best of the best, and the combat effectiveness of the army cultivated will be extremely strong.

Within two years, the Ming Dynasty will be changed, and then the Jiannu will be destroyed, and commerce will be encouraged, so that my Ming merchant ships will gallop in the ocean again, and the Chinese nation, a land nation, will transform into a maritime nation. ”

When Liu Renyu was still imagining the future, he did not beware of Li Jiye, Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu, Liu Renjie and Wang Zuohang.

After they saw Liu Renyu, Li Jiye, on behalf of the generals, reported with a happy face: "Marshal Qiqi, the recruitment work of my Jingbianbao Army has been completed, please go and give a lecture to the recruits." ”

"Look at the happiness of a few of you, speaking of which, the way you selected people today is really special and interesting." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"They all want some good seedlings, so that the combat effectiveness of their own troops is guaranteed." Yang Desheng seemed to be in a very good mood today, and he took it very rarely.

"Desheng, the gang you recruited all look fierce, and they don't seem to be good at stubble." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"Those who learn martial arts can't be bloody, and even if they are not good at stubble, the last general is not a vegetarian, so I am not afraid that I will not be able to suppress them." Yang Desheng said proudly.

"Well, when they see your inhumanly rigorous training methods, they will cry." Liu Renyu teased Yang Desheng with a smile.

"Commander, the last general is strictly drilled, not so that they can master more of the real ability to kill the enemy, so as not to be killed by the enemy on the battlefield because of their lack of skill."

Yang Desheng originally wanted to say that because of his strict training, the casualty rate of his troops in the field army was only lower than that of the artillery hiding in the combat vehicles.

But after all, he has been mixed with officialdom for a few years, and he felt that it didn't seem very good to say this, so he held back.

"Okay, Desheng, what you said makes a lot of sense, come, gentlemen, I'll go and see the recruits you have chosen." After Liu Renyu said this, he strode down the steps and went straight to the recruit phalanx on the school field.