The Wenju scientific examination held in the Ministry of Rites Gongyuan was held for three days, from the first day of September to the end of the third day of September.

These three days are extremely dull, candidates are allowed to eat, drink and sleep in the examination room, no talking, no talking to each other, not to mention cheating, once found to have cheating, immediately kicked out of the examination room, disqualified.

At the moment when the third scientific examination ended in early September, the gate of the Gongyuan was opened, and the candidates walked out of the examination room one by one.

The scholars can't go back after the exam, and they have to stay in the capital and wait for ten days, waiting for the results of the scientific examination, so Chang'an City is still at the peak of the literary style at this time, some of the scholars who think that they have failed the exam will pack their luggage and set off for each other on the same day, and the scholars who are not sure and confident will stay, in the restaurants, wine shops, and talk about how the subject of the imperial examination is.

At this time, the lifters from all over the world who came to participate in the martial arts examination were also preparing intensively, adjusting their bodies and minds to keep themselves in the best condition.

On the eighth day of the first month of September, the martial arts examination officially began, and in the field of the forbidden army university, the first thing to be held in the morning was the first examination item of the martial arts -- the written examination.

There are only more than 2,000 people, accounting for 25 percent of the total number of martial artists, and the remaining 75 percent can basically only do martial arts, do not know how to arrange troops, military strategy, and even most of them are illiterate, and a person who does not even know a word can of course not participate in the written test.

Spectators were not allowed to enter the written test, so there was no one else in the entire forbidden army hall except for more than 2,000 tables and chairs, more than 2,000 candidates and hundreds of examiners.

The duration of the written test is one hour. There is still some time before the official start of the examination, and when the candidates sat down at the request of the examiners, Zhao Ziliang, Chen Xuanli and some officials from the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War walked to the stage.

Zhao Ziliang smiled at Chen Xuanli and said, "General Chen, can you say a few words to the candidates?" ”

Chen Xuanli's face turned red, and he waved his hand again and again: "No, no, I'm a big boss, I can't get a fart for a long time, talking in front of so many people, I've never done it before, wouldn't it be a shame to stutter later?" General Zhao, don't be embarrassed. Besides, General Zhao, you are the chief examiner of this martial arts examination, and you are just ordered to assist from the side, or you come forward to say a few words to the martial arts lifters."

"In that case, you're welcome!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and took a few steps forward.

He was lucky and opened his mouth to let out a high-pitched voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you can participate in the written test, it means that you have a higher starting point than other martial arts lifters who have not participated in the written test, at least you have the potential and opportunity to be a wise general." And other martial artists who did not participate in the written test and only knew martial arts could only be a brave general who charged into battle. Of course, it is not excluded that there may be people who are illiterate and do not know how to arrange troops, but they are strategic, and we do not rule out the existence of such people. But this written test is obviously not for such a person, if there is such a person, then I hope he has a chance to enter the army and have a chance to be discovered by his superiors. This time, General Ben was entrusted by His Majesty the Emperor to preside over the martial arts examination. No matter what the purpose of your participation in the martial arts examination is, you may be for glory and wealth, it may be for fame and fortune, it may be for the purpose of showing your ambitions, or you may have the ambition to kill the enemy and serve the country, no matter which one it is. This general hopes that you will remember and learn the arts and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family! It is His Majesty the Emperor and Datang who have given you the opportunity and the stage to display your talents, without His Majesty the Emperor and the Tang Dynasty giving you the opportunity, even if you have high military talents and strong martial arts, you can only grow old in the countryside, so when you take over the military power and occupy a high position in the future, you must remember to serve the country loyally and not try to rebel, otherwise you will not die well and leave a stench for 10,000 years! General Ben hopes that you will remember, 'Today, you are proud to be a citizen of the Tang Dynasty; In his year, Datang was proud to have you'. Okay, now it's up to the examiners to announce the rules of the written examination room! The written test starts in a quarter of an hour! ”

The examiners began to distribute the test papers to each candidate, and each candidate already had a sharpened pen and ink on the table, and they could start to do the questions just after the test papers were issued.

The paper was made of the finest paper, and it was full of questions, which were copied by more than a hundred pencilers over several days and nights.

Guo Ziyi took the test paper sent by the examiner and spread it out on the table, and the questions on the test paper surprised Guo Ziyi, only to see that the whole test paper was divided into five categories, the first is to fill in the blanks; The second is judgment; The third is the calculation problem; Fourth, write down the arrangement of the enemy's formation and the various ways to deal with the enemy's attack; Fifth, we should consider how to attack Tibet from both political and military aspects.

This test paper was made up by Zhao Ziliang, because it was the first time for the martial arts lifters to conduct a written test, so Zhao Ziliang did not come up with too difficult questions, the content of the exam is basically the theoretical part of several military books, the generals need to know how to calculate the consumption of grain and grass and marching matters on the way to the battle, and how to send troops to deploy the formation, how to deal with the enemy's attack, whether it is a field battle or a defense of the city, or an offensive aspect is involved, the difficulty of the last question is quite large, not only from a military point of view, It is also necessary to consider it politically, which is also the most headache for the imperial court at present.

The fill-in-the-blank questions are very simple for Guo Ziyi, he is familiar with the military books, and he knows what to do at a glance on the content of the fill-in-the-blank questions, but the next calculation questions make him a little blind, for example, there is one question, "The Tubo army is two hundred and sixty miles away from the Heyuan military station, and it marches to the Heyuan army at a speed of forty-five miles every day, and our army's reinforcements are three hundred and fifty miles away from the Heyuan military station, and asks how many miles our army reinforcements need to march on average every day before they can rush to the Heyuan army at the same time as the Tubo army for reinforcements, It is impossible for our reinforcements to take shortcuts to intercept the Tibetan army."

When he saw such a topic, Guo Ziyi realized that it was not so easy to march and fight, and what generals needed to understand was not just about arranging troops and strategizing.

After the exam began, many people bit their pens from time to time, frowning and meditating, some scratched their ears and cheeks, and some looked left and right, but soon found that the examiner's sharp eyes swept over.

When the time came, the examiners immediately ordered everyone to get up and leave the examination room empty-handed, and the examiners put away the test papers on the table one by one, first sealed the names and places of origin, and age columns, and then put them in brown paper bags and sealed them.

The results of the remaining exams in the Gambit category, such as the actual arrangement of formations and the actual need to lead troops in combat exercises, will be announced after the results of the written examinations come out, and those who are eligible to participate will be announced, and those who are not on the list will be eliminated, but they can continue to participate in the martial arts exam.

The next exam in the morning is the martial arts infantry test, the martial arts test is allowed to the common people, officials, nobles and relatives of the emperor to buy tickets to watch, after the written test, the soldiers of the brigade lined up in a neat line to run into the examination room, remove all the tables, chairs and benches placed around for the audience to sit.

The forbidden army field is very large, can accommodate 30,000 people at the same time to practice, it can be seen how spacious the venue is, in order to allow the audience to watch, Zhao Ziliang also specially asked the officials of the military department to organize some carpenters to build long stepped chairs and put them around the school field, this project did cost a lot of money, but the money Zhao Ziliang got was enough to pay for this cost.

As the people, officials, and spectators entered and sat down one after another, in order to seize the time, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the first martial arts test - infantry shooting.

The martial arts examination is basically participated in by all martial arts lifters, otherwise even if you pass all the intellectual and military strategy exams, you are not qualified to compete in the final competition, and you can only join the army and judge, but you cannot become a military general.

Eight thousand people at the same time for the foot archery test, in order to speed up the speed, Zhao Ziliang has already made a deployment, divided into four test areas at the same time, respectively, four test areas in the southeast and northwest, each test area has fifty people at the same time, a distance of one hundred steps, each person shoots ten arrows, eight arrows do not hit the heart of the person is eliminated, that is to say, can no longer participate in the following exam, this martial arts test for such a person is also over, you can go home with a big burden, this martial arts exam can eliminate a considerable part, If you can't achieve a hit rate of more than eighty percent if you stand on the spot and shoot on foot, then such a person will also make the soldiers below dissatisfied.

The test is not all over in one hour, the results are released on the spot, and those who can continue to the next test are notified to continue taking the test in the afternoon, and those who do not read their names are automatically eliminated.

After lunch, the second martial arts test was officially started in the afternoon - riding archery, of course, riding archery is not sitting on horseback and not moving to shoot arrows, so there is no difference from foot archery, the so-called riding archery, is to gallop on horseback in archery, a distance of 100 steps, riding a horse and galloping horizontally in the bow and archery, a row of ten arrow targets, hitting eight is considered to be qualified, and the next step of the Confucian foot combat test.

The examination of these two martial arts can basically eliminate the good hands and a considerable number of candidates who are mixed in the candidates, and the people in the rivers and lakes can also fight on foot, but when it comes to infantry archery and cavalry archery, it is impossible to meet the requirements without a certain amount of time accumulation and training, many people may be very good at foot combat, but not everyone is proficient in infantry and cavalry archery, and only those who are truly inspired to join the army will specialize in practicing archery and cavalry archery. (To be continued.) )