Just after the New Year's Day, all the soldiers of the left guard in the east began to practice, and the entire left guard in the east suddenly became lively again.

On this day, at three o'clock in the unitary hour, the school field in front of the left guard in the east fan.

Zhang Pan ran along the edge of the school field unhurriedly, it was not dark at this time, and there were still some people on the school field, some practicing alone, some learning from each other, and some running laps like Zhang Pan.

Everyone on the school field was very relaxed, because this was not the time for formal drills, and the soldiers of the Eastern Guard had a uniform rule that they could move freely after dinner, but they had to go back to the camp to rest before the end of the day.

At this time, there are about 120 soldiers recruited by the front of the left guard in the east fanzhong, but there are not many people on the school field, and there are only more than a dozen, many people are resting in the room, and some people are wandering around the small town on the other side of the port, after all, after a tired day, there are not many people who can insist on practicing on their own.

Now their lives are very regular, they get up at 7 o'clock every morning, wash up, and start practicing on time.

When the time comes, practice an hour of physical fitness, just two, running laps and lifting stone locks, the bottom is to run five laps to rest, and then lift a quarter of an hour stone lock, then take a break, then run five laps, and then take a break, and then lift a quarter of an hour stone lock is over.

From the time of the hour to the end of the day, it was the battle array drill, and they practiced the Mandarin Duck Formation of the Qi Family Army, and they were in a group of twelve people in the same room, constantly practicing various changes of the Mandarin Duck Formation.

In the words of the governor, if you don't know how to read, what kind of soldier should you be, if you accumulate military merits and rise to the general, thousand, or even general, when the time comes, you can't even understand a military merit book, won't it make people laugh.

Of course, the governor didn't let everyone take the Xiucai exam, so they didn't have to memorize any of the Four Books and Five Classics, but read the "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text", "Zengguang Xianwen" or something on the bottom, just learn some principles of life.

From noon to noon, they eat, rest, their food is unimaginable, there are fish and meat at every meal, and the rice is enough!

Before the time came, I started to practice again, but I practiced skills, and the level was different, and the skills of Lian were not the same.

For example, the third-class soldier practiced wolf dancing, spear thrusting, and palladium blocking, the second-class soldier practiced sword and shield strikes, and the first-class soldier practiced the handling of muskets and artillery.

When Shen arrives at the unitary time, he still reads and learns words, and when he arrives at the unitary time, the day's practice is over.

Zhang Pan would come to the school every day after eating dinner and resting for a while, starting with running laps, and then practicing his skills after ten laps.

Ten laps was already an easy thing for him at this time, and half an hour later, it was dark, and everyone on the school field was almost gone, and he finished running.

At this time, he will come to the military academy field, draw his saber, and practice his knife skills.

What he practiced was not a combined sword and shield attack, but a real knife technique, "Xin Chou Knife Technique", because he was already a squad leader at this time, that is, Xiaoqi!

There is a saying that opportunities will only be left to those who are prepared, in order to avenge his parents and find his sister, he practiced hard every day, and soon became a first-class soldier, and it would take at least a year or two to raise the small flag, but when the Chinese New Year was approaching last year, the elite of the Qi family army who took them to practice was suddenly all transferred away, so all the first-class soldiers were promoted to squad leaders, and he was one of them.

After becoming the team leader, he can practice the real knife technique, he has been practicing the "Xin Chou Knife Technique" for nearly two months, and he has memorized all the movements well, but there is only one thing he can't do, that is, the knife qi.

It is rumored that when the knife technique is practiced to a certain extent, it will produce knife qi, or knife light, the knife light flashes, and the head falls to the ground, and ordinary people can't stop it at all!

He practiced over and over again in the night, no matter the wind or rain, no matter the cold or heat, he never stopped.

In mid-February, one morning, at midnight, all the soldiers of the Zhongqian Institute gathered on time in the school field, Zhang Pan was about to take his men down to run circles, and Xie Zhengyang, the master of a thousand households, suddenly appeared on the school field.

He raised his hand and motioned for everyone to wait, and then walked to the front of the formation and said solemnly: "The governor has an order."

Everyone hurriedly raised their heads and chests and became serious.

Immediately afterwards, he said aloud: "Order the Dongfan Jiuwei, test all the soldiers, and all those who can run twenty laps in the standard school field within half an hour will be sent to the Dongfan Zhongqian guard to participate in the special operations camp selection!" ”

The special operations battalion, it seems to be very powerful when you hear the name, what the hell is it doing, someone couldn't help but raise their hands, Xie Zhengyang immediately nodded and said, "You say." ”

The man said loudly: "Lord Qianhu, what is the special operations camp for?" ”

Xie Zhengyang shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but I know that whoever is selected will be paid five taels of food per stone per month!" ”

Five taels of silver a month, better than the treatment of Xiaoqi!

Everyone showed an eager expression, if they first came, they would probably faint in fright, running twenty laps in half an hour, forty miles, what a joke!

However, by this time they are used to running, running ten laps in half an hour, everyone has no problem, running twenty laps in half an hour, everyone wants to try.

However, Xie Zhengyang did not order them to start running circles, but said loudly: "Don't worry, everyone, the commander will send someone to conduct the test, now, everyone, rest in place, wait for the order, and disband." ”

Everyone was stunned for a while before reacting, this is to prevent someone from cheating, after all, it is impossible for one person to keep an eye on more than a hundred people, so many people cannot have the same speed, and when the time comes, the entire school field will be sparsely packed with people, who knows if you have run twenty laps.

The commander will definitely send someone to supervise and prevent everyone from cheating.

Resting in place means that everyone can relax, stand or sit, but they are not allowed to leave.

Everyone chose to sit down on the spot, after all, twenty laps and forty miles are not a joke, and they have to run within half an hour, and the test is physical strength and endurance, and everyone will naturally not stand there and consume physical strength.

About a moment or so, a sailor with more than 100 sailors came in a neat line, and Xie Zhengyang, who was standing there waiting, immediately said loudly: "Everyone, get up, line up, stand up." ”

At this time, everyone knows that the Dongfan Nine Guards, not only have soldiers and guards, but also sailors, and they, like the soldiers, are also ready to leave the station at any time, but they are not stationed at the guards, but patrolling the sea.

It stands to reason that Mr. Qian's status is higher than that of Qianhu, because they lead the troops to fight, and Qianhu is trained with Tun Wei Tuntian, but this Qian Zong is extremely respectful to Xie Zhengyang, because he knows that this Lord Qianhu is terrible, his three sons are all Qianhu, and his younger brother is also the captain of the governor's personal guard!

Mr. Qian patted for a while, and then smiled and said, "Master Xie, do you think you can start?" ”

Xie Zhengyang nodded and said, "Then let's start." ”

When Mr. Qian heard this, he immediately took out an hourglass and swung it on the ground, and then said loudly: "All the sailors and soldiers will listen to the order, and select one soldier according to the existing formation, and the rest will stand behind me." ”

Those sailors were ordered to immediately intersperse in pairs among the soldiers, each of them selected a soldier, and the extra dozen or so people behind ran back behind the thousand generals.

Mr. Qian immediately ordered again: "All the soldiers obeyed the order and lined up in a long snake formation on the periphery of the school field. ”

The soldiers immediately trotted to the edge of the school field and lined up in a long line.

Seeing that everything was ready, Mr. Qian immediately squatted down and flipped the hourglass, then stood up and said loudly: "Begin." ”

The soldiers around the school immediately ran at their own speeds, and the sailors in the middle of the school field stared at their chosen soldiers and carefully supervised them.

This kind of test is naturally trivial for Zhang Pan, he maintained a constant speed, running lap after lap, one by one the soldiers were surpassed by him, surpassed, and surpassed, twenty laps down, he could even run to the middle of the school field and salute the commander: "Report, I'm done." ”

That guy was always scared by him, Odi obediently, is this guy human, the hourglass is still a little bigger, at least a quarter of an hour, this guy actually ran away, and he spoke with a lot of energy!

Is this guy really finished?

The boss suddenly said loudly: "Who is responsible for giving him a few laps?" ”

A navy soldier immediately ran over and saluted, "My lord, it's a subordinate." ”

The one asked, always a little incredulous, "Did he really run away?" ”

The soldier nodded very seriously and said, "My lord, twenty laps, I counted it very clearly, he finished running." ”

The boss waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go to the side and rest." ”

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and although none of the soldiers gave up, only a dozen people could finish in half an hour.

Early the next morning, Zhang Pan and more than a dozen other people were taken to the port, boarded the transformed wheel steamer, and sent to the front guard of Dongfanzhong.

Not many of the left guards passed the test this time, less than a hundred people in total, and three wheeled ships were more than enough to fit them.

This is also the first time that Zhang Pan has left the station of the left guard in the east after arriving in the east.

Everything was so new to him, for example, the boat they were on was completely different from the one he took when he came to Dongfan, there was no sail, and he could still run fast.

There are also three patrol fleets encountered along the way, the scale is simply terrifying, there are definitely a hundred, it turns out that each guard of Dongfanwei has hundreds of warships, and he thought that the sailors of Dongfanwei are the fifty or so warships that pick them up!

Also, the fortress outside the avant-garde port in Dongfanzhong is actually three stories high, and there are artillery all over it!

Also, the city next to the avant-garde in Dongfanzhong, he couldn't imagine that there was such a big city in this world, I'm afraid that the capital of Daming was not so big!

From the left guard of the East Fan to the front guard of the East Fan Center, it was less than an hour in total, but he was so shocked that he couldn't do it, there were so many things beyond his understanding along the way, he really didn't expect that the East Fan Wei was so powerful.

Fortunately, the station of the avant-garde in the East is similar to that of the left guard in the East Fan, both of which are military camps and school fields like nine-square grids, and when he came to a familiar environment, his mood finally calmed down a little.

After coming here, he first drew a lot, and then was taken to the room marked on the signature paper, and then he knew that the selection method was actually a one-on-one round competition, a group of twelve people, one by one after the round of competition, the four people who won the most could really become the elite soldiers of the special operations battalion.

His group was the twelve people in the room where he lived.

However, when he entered, there was no one inside, and he seemed to be the first one to arrive.

People were brought over one after another, and it wasn't until around the afternoon that all twelve people arrived.

Through conversation, he learned that these people are not all soldiers, among them, there are soldiers of the water division, and there are also elites of the Qi family's army, but the soldiers are the least, this group of twelve people, a total of three soldiers, although the other two are also civilians who migrated from Liaodong, but they are not from the same place as him, nor are they from a guard, so he doesn't know any of them.

Early the next morning, the competition of their group began, and the venue was the school field in front of the military camp where they lived, and at this time, the school field had been painted with lime square areas.

In each square area, a general with a brush sits on the north side to record, and on the south side there is an armory rack with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, but they are all wooden, and there are benches on each side.

The rules of the game are very simple, twelve people sit on the east and west sides, the generals on the north side point to which two, which two will go up to get weapons, as soon as the general announces the start, the two can start fighting, whatever you want, just hit the other party to admit defeat!

This rule is actually a test of people's IQ, because there is not only one competition, if you start to fight hard in the first game, knowing that you can't beat and still have to carry it and not admit defeat, then even if you are the top three out of twelve, you will not win in the end.

Zhang Pan has already guessed a little, in the first round, first observe the strength of everyone, if you can't beat, you will admit defeat, and maybe there is a chance to win in the end, because there are four places in the twelve, and it doesn't matter much if you lose one or two games, as long as you don't have more than four games.

However, unfortunately, he was the first to appear, and the opponent was still an elite of the Qi family's army!

I'm afraid that this one is going to be planted, and I will lose a game before I see a person's strength, it's really back, he stepped forward and took a medium-sized Qi family knife, and sighed in his heart.

The other party chose a cornet Qi family knife and a wooden shield, and it seemed that he was the sword and shield hand in the Mandarin Duck Array.

Zhang Pan had a glimmer of hope in his heart, the words of the sword and shield hand, it seems that he has not practiced the "Xin Chou Knife Technique", the ordinary sword and shield combined attack, he has also practiced, in front of the real knife technique, in fact, it does not have much effect, after all, the Qi family's army mandarin duck formation relies on cooperation, not on personal force, except for the team leader, the others are actually very bad alone.

He and his opponent took their weapons and just stood in the middle of the field, when the general said loudly: "Begin." ”

Zhang Pan did not hesitate to swing his knife and slash at the right arm of the opponent holding the knife, because he knew quite well that it was useless to cut the left side, even if he took a real knife, it would be difficult to cut through the shield, let alone wood.

Zhang Pan's movements were too fast, and the angle he found was quite ingenious, the sword and shield hand didn't have time to return to the shield, so he could only take the knife in a hard gear, and as a result, something shocking happened to everyone, the wooden knife in the hand of the sword and shield hand was actually broken, and the right arm was swept out of a long hole!

"Ahh The sword and shield hand hurriedly blocked the shield in front of him, covered his right arm and quickly retreated.

Zhang Pan was still waiting to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the general suddenly raised his hand and said, "Stop." ”

Immediately, he flew forward and snatched the wooden knife in Zhang Pan's hand, took it in his hand and shook it a few times, and then looked at the knife edge carefully, there was no problem at all, it was a blunt wooden knife!