Chapter 58: The Challenge
At the shooting range, the recruits are swinging the arrow target, and the archery assessment will be carried out soon, and there is no need for everyone to shoot, and the recruits who are confident in their archery skills can take the test. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In the past, the Hulin Army recruited honest farmers, miners, etc., and usually recruited thousands of soldiers on a regular basis, and few of them had combat skills.
Orion is a hunter who can shoot arrows, but this is a minority, and most of them have never touched a bow, and they can't even tell the difference between left and right, let alone others, so there are many training items for these recruits to enter the camp.
However, this year is a little different, the Hulin Army has set up a recruitment office, and accepts young people from all over the world to join the army throughout the year, so the quality of the people who come is uneven, and some of them inevitably have served as soldiers.
Or because of various reasons, they have certain combat skills, are skilled in bows and horses, and have killed people and seen blood, so they should "train according to their aptitude" for such people.
But the more important reason is to prepare to sharpen the other party's sharpness, so as not to turn all kinds of disobedience into thorns in your heart.
Although the Tiger Forest Army is very good at dealing with thorns, it is much easier to let the opponent see the difference in strength before the training begins.
The targets were set up seventy paces away, bows and arrows were prepared, and the recruits were taking the roll call with the list, and the recruits who had signed up for the examination came forward to choose their bows.
Everyone's arm strength is different, so the bow suitable for their use is also different, no matter how good the archery skills of people with slightly weaker strength are, the bow with too much strength can not shoot accurately, so there are many alternative bows, and each recruit chooses the bow that he thinks he can take advantage of, and there is a pot of arrows.
"There are fifteen arrows in each pot, five can be used to warm up, find a feeling, and an assessment, ten arrows, you have to hit the bull's-eye to count...
"Six is passing, seven is qualified, eight is good, nine is excellent, and all are excellent."
Zhang Dinghe took out an arrow from the quiver and looked at it, the workmanship was quite good, but the arrow was a little special, it was a double-cone arrow in the shape of "Lu".
The team is beginning to solve the puzzle: "You may have noticed that the arrow in your hand is a little strange, the style of the arrow is unusual, this is a target arrow, specially used for archery practice." ā
"Each person can only try five arrows at most, of course, if you are confident that you can try one or two arrows, you can also start the assessment."
"Time is limited, let's start now."
Zhang Dinghe often practiced archery when he was a guard, so he was full of confidence, and after trying two arrows, he felt that he could get started quickly, and he was about to shoot another arrow to start the assessment, but someone was one step faster than him.
It was a man of the same grade as him, who seemed to be in good spirits, with a strong and powerful body, and his words and deeds seemed to have been in the army.
As the first person to be assessed, the man did not have the slightest nervousness, and shot ten arrows in a short period of time, and the arrows hit the bull's-eye.
"Ten shots, not bad."
The recruits were taking note of their results, and there was no surprise, then they looked at the recruits and asked, "Who's ready next?" ā
Zhang Dinghe raised his hand and became the second archer, with a score of eight out of ten arrows, which was his normal level, and his on-the-spot performance was not abnormal.
Looking at the man, Zhang Dinghe still admired it very much, the killing range of arrows when the two armies were fighting, usually at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, which was a test of eyesight, and the requirements for archery skills were not low.
It doesn't look like an Orion, but I think he's also from the army?
Just when he was thinking a lot, the archery assessment was over, and the ten recruits who participated in the test were all above the passing line, and the powerful wheat iron rod was the sixth middle school, and only the first person in the tenth was the first person.
"The first place is out, please introduce yourself to your comrades."
The man saluted his comrades in the queue and said with a full heart: "A certain surname is Husi, the name is Wanshan, and he is from Luoyang, Henan. ā
The obvious Luoyang accent is not understood by many people, but Zhang Dinghe can understand it.
When Emperor Wei left Luoyang and entered the customs, many people moved to Chang'an to settle down, so there were many people in Chang'an City who spoke with a Luoyang accent, and there were many Luoyang comrades in the palace guards in the past.
Seeing that many recruits were admiring, Hu Si Wanshan roughly said his resume: he had been in the army, so his archery skills were okay.
From the army, but came here to join the Tiger Forest Army, I want to come to Hu Si Wanshan before the Sui Army, because of various reasons to appear here?
Zhang Dinghe thinks a lot, and most of the others don't have so many ideas, they don't have any skills, so when they see ten shots, they only know how to use the word "archer" to describe it.
Outside the wall, there was a sudden sound of drums and shouts, as if there was some kind of activity, and the team saw that the recruits were restless, and the deputy muttered to him and let them turn out.
After a while, the team deputy turned back again, and saw that he nodded to himself, and the team was looking at the recruits and smiled: "There is a competition next door, are you interested in showing your means?" ā
Mai Tiezhu raised his hand vigorously, and after getting permission, he asked: "Team Zheng, what is the competition?" ā
"Strength, speed, and archery!"
"So how are the jousting people?"
"Hulin Army, Huangzhou Prefecture soldiers, Huangzhou Prefecture soldiers, big competition!"
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The door slowly opened, and the scene in front of them made everyone stunned:
Directly in front of it was a ring surrounded by staircase-like stands filled with soldiers in military uniforms, and the ring was in the middle of a duddle.
There are many such venues, not only in the ring, but also in various venues, where not only the corners are dueling, but also other martial arts competitions, and the shouts of cheers from the stands, as well as the sound of drums and horns.
Just listening to it on the side, it makes people feel that their blood is boiling, even Zhang Dinghe, who boasts of seeing a big scene, his heart is beating faster.
Under the leadership of the team, the recruits lined up and walked to the ring in front of them, where it seemed that a corner had just ended, and the two sides of the competition were resting under the stage.
The gong sounded, and the soldiers in the stands around the ring instantly fell silent, and everyone's eyes looked at the team that had just entered.
A general walked up to the ring and shouted loudly with a big paper bullhorn: "Sons! These are new recruits, and they are very skilled, and they want to come here to show their skills, and everyone says it's good! ā
"Good!"
The sound of the instant rush shook the ears of Zhang Dinghe and the others, and many recruits who had never seen much of the world had been overwhelmed.
"Fang Cai's army of the government soldiers and the county soldiers are in the corner, which of you has confidence in the corner, come out!"
Hearing what the team was saying, Mai Tiecane was the first to come out of the ranks, followed by Zhang Dinghe, and Hu Si Wanshan, who was good at archery, also came out and was stopped by the team deputy:
"It's better than archery for a while, you save your strength."
Seeing that someone had been sent from the recruits' side, the general who was also the referee held a loudspeaker and asked, "New son, who are you going to challenge?" ā
"Mai Tiecane, you have the most strength, you choose!"
"Then choose the government soldiers!"
The choice of the wheat iron rod is also the choice of other people, in their opinion, the government soldiers are always more powerful than the county soldiers, so it is interesting to find someone with strong ability to challenge.
As a "striker", McIron was the first to take the field and start the battle for the recruits.
He took off his clothes according to the rules, shirtless and legs, with a long strip of cloth wrapped around his waist, and then put on pants and went to the ring.
On the stage, no one from the government soldier team played, the referee looked at the burly Mai Tiecane, nodded and said: "The original corner team still has to compete, and you choose another person from the audience." ā
Mai Tie saluted and said, "No need, please send the best of the best." ā
"The most powerful challenge as soon as you come up? That's not going to work! The referee smiled, turned to the side of the government soldiers, and asked loudly: "The enemy vanguard is calling the formation, who dares to fight!" ā
"I'll meet him later!"
A man strode into the ring, and at first he was worried that it was a reed stick, but after looking at it, he breathed a sigh of relief: the man's body was powerful, his beard was like copper wire, and his face was like a live crab.
It looks very fierce, so it just shows my means!
"I'm the Metropolitan Governor Shi Wanbao, who is calling the battle!"
"Siheung Mai Iron Staff!"
Mai Tiezhu replied loudly, his momentum did not fall in the slightest, seeing that the other party began to take off his clothes, looking at the muscles, his eyes froze: This... Is this still human?