"I please!"

"I ask for my life too!"

"Me!"

……

Everyone raised their hands and shouted at the top of their voices, fearing that they would be missed, and their excitement was palpable.

Xu Zizhen raised his hand and pressed it weakly, and said in a deep voice: "These five hundred people will follow me to various dangerous places that you can't imagine, that is to say, they may die at any time, you have to think clearly!" ”

The field was quiet again, but this silence only lasted for a moment, and then it boiled again, this time even the usually introverted and shy young men screamed desperately.

"Death is death, Lao Tzu is not afraid!"

"If the city is not protected, where is the home?"

The passion of the soldiers was completely beyond Xu Zizhen's expectations, life and death seemed to be completely unimportant to them, and they had only one belief in their hearts, that is, to protect the family and defend the country and keep Lanzhou!

Xu Zizhen looked at the passionate men in the field, only felt that his nose was a little sour, he took a deep breath, and shouted: "Okay, that's it...... Lined up! ”

Recruiting begins!

Xu Zizhen's plan is to build a brave and unskilled cavalry, with good sword skills, good riding skills, accurate archery skills, and sharp response.

Under his teaching, the three hundred horse thieves all learned the Cloak Knife Technique, and they also showed their absolute power in the hand-to-hand encounters with the Xia Army in those days, but Xu Zizhen also saw the strength and weakness of this knife technique.

In the battle array, whoever has the longest weapon has a certain advantage, but in comparison, the knife is more dexterous than the gun, especially the narrow and light saber, so in order to make up for the weakness compared with the spear and the spear, Xu Zizhen's first requirement for selecting soldiers is height and arm length.

Arm length can always take advantage, this is the conclusion that Xu Zizhen has come to after fighting for so many years, and it is the same in war, the longer the knife is swung, it is not easy to suffer.

Soon, the tallest of the more than 20,000 people were all selected, but this is not the end of the calculation, it is still necessary to look at the physique and then screen, and then test the reaction speed.

Xu Zizhen didn't know how Lu Dao came up with it, so he divided the selected 1,000 people into ten teams and took turns to stand in the field, with a distance of two steps between each person to give them space to dodge, and then Liu Feng followed him and threw a plate of dyed stones at them.

These selected soldiers must try their best to avoid them in a narrow range, otherwise those stones will fall on them one by one, Xu Zizhen gave a standard, each person must not have more than five spots on their bodies, otherwise they will be eliminated.

Liu Feng's flying stones hit a hundred shots, but Xu Zizhen took special care of it, and he showed mercy to his subordinates, and in the end, more than 1,000 people were screened, and there were less than 300 people left.

Wen Chengyan looked at the slightly thin team in front of him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your selection method is a selection of soldiers, it is simply a personal soldier of the palace of the official family." ”

Xu Zizhen said seriously: "Fighting is not child's play, and the team I selected has to do something special, and they may lose their lives at any time, so I have to choose carefully." ”

Wen Chengyan said: "If this is the case, then let it be, but now the number of people is not enough, but how to deal with it?" ”

Xu Zizhen turned his head and smiled at Bu Fen: "People? That's enough. ”

Bu Fen was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "You kid, you really calculated me." ”

Xu Zizhen squeezed his eyebrows and said: "Okay, you can give me a good word, it is not a long-term solution for brothers to eat this bowl of rice all the time, in the future, it will be better to rely on the background of the army, and if you don't ...... it."

Bu Fen interrupted with a smile: "Okay, okay, since I promised you, I naturally speak up." Xu Zizhen was happy, and before he could speak, Bu Fen continued, "Wait, although I answer you, my brothers have to make their own decisions." ”

After speaking, he looked at the more than two hundred horse thieves behind him: "Brothers, Brother Zizhen wants to recruit us, if you are willing, you will stay, and if you don't want to do it, I won't drag it, I will say a word, Zizhen, this brother has an appetite for me, his soldier, Lao Tzu is done!" ”

Horse thieves, look at me, I look at you, and suddenly shouted in unison: "Brother Xu is affectionate and righteous, his soldiers, we are also the ones!" ”

Xu Zizhen was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't believe it, this is an unrivaled powerful force on the Northwest Road, and even the Western Xia government has not dared to do anything to them easily for so many years, but now with their own words, they are willing to leave their previous free and easy life to follow themselves as an ordinary soldier.

Bu Fen slapped him with a smile: "Are you still stupid?" My brothers are looking at you. ”

Xu Zizhen came back to his senses violently and pinched his cheek hard, until he screamed out, then realized that he was not dreaming, and then said with great joy: "The brothers all agreed?" It's true? ”

The horse thieves looked amused and coaxed, "Fake, you're still dreaming!" ”

Everyone laughed, and even Wen Chengyan couldn't help but smile, and looked at them with a smile on his beard.

In the end, the team was still full, even those new and old soldiers plus horse thieves, there were no more than five hundred people, Xu Zizhen stood on the stage and was full of spirit, looking at the five hundred elites in front of him, and his heart was indescribably happy.

Nearly half of these five hundred people are horse thieves who are good at concealing and killing, and the other half are also the elite of the entire Lanzhou City defenders.

Wen Chengyan suddenly asked, "Zizhen, I don't know if your team has a name?" ”

Xu Zizhen woke up suddenly, yes, it's really blind for such a powerful team to not have a loud name, but what is it called?

In his concept, this team was still mainly based on knives, supplemented by bows, and if the situation allowed, he also wanted to equip each person with a firearm, and whether to ride a horse or not depended on the situation, because this was not only a charging team, but also had to sneak behind enemy lines to do some special tasks.

"What's it called? The Quick Knife Team? The White Horses? Xu Zizhen scratched his head and thought hard, this was the first time in his life that he had adopted a horse, and he didn't feel comfortable without a good name.

Bu Fen couldn't look at it on the side, and couldn't help but interject: "What the is this name, you can figure it out, didn't you say that you want to match the brothers with firearms?" What does that have to do with Quick Knife? ”

"That's right, Firebolt!" Xu Zizhen slapped his forehead and shouted, "I know what the name of Lu Dao is!" ”

Everyone was taken aback by him, and then asked curiously, "What's it called?" ”

Xu Zizhen smiled and said three words word by word: "Shenji Battalion!" ”