Section 330 Raising Warriors (2)
There is a fierce man sitting in the middle of the second row, the firm royalist Li Yiyan, this guy is a hard pull for Lai Heng to make up the numbers, and there is a dangerous light in his eyes. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info (Li Yiyan, a good friend of Hao Chujun, who was a good friend of Hao Chujun, who died, and he came with Lai Heng to oppose Wu MM's accession to the throne)
He recognized it as the little princess, and after a little thought, his eyes rolled and he whispered a few words to him with his hand touching the back of a general next to him, who first shook his head, but finally reluctantly agreed.
Then Li Yiyan said a few words to Lai Heng in front of him, and Lai Heng talked to Wang Li Yuanliang and Niu Tonggou.
Among the three main exams, Li Yuanliang is respected, Niu Tong is the first in the army, and Ke Laiheng has the greatest power!
With the three products under the Zhongshu door, the political affairs are in his hands, you can imagine when you see that Li Jingxuan was in the court at the beginning of the Zhongshu order, and the old army leader Liu Renliang was at the mercy of his temper.
In the end, the three parties reached a consensus to prepare an unplanned show, and everyone knew nothing.
At nine o'clock, Li Youdao, the squire of the military department, announced the start of the selection of Tang warriors!
Li Youdao, the ancestral house of the Li family in Zhao County, was talented, and later became the prime minister of the Wu Zetian Dynasty, and then was framed by the cool official Wang Hongyi and exiled to Lingnan.
"Please enter the field!" Li Youdao announced loudly. His position was in front of the first row, and a floating platform was deliberately set aside with a table, which was actually designed by Feng Xiaobao.
The "warriors" marched into the arena, there were more than 300 people, of course, there were more than so few people in Liangjing, but after screening, in fact, all of them had been selected, and the appearance before the martial arts arena was just to select the elite.
They are all sturdy people, with strong faces, and some even have beards on their faces, quite vicious, like thieves and not like good people, walking around Luoyang City immediately like a magnet to attract the public (poor people) to follow closely.
In fact, this edict is quite lenient, so the rangers in Luoyang City, the robbers on the road in Luoyang, Chang'an, and the misdemeanor criminals in the prison are all involved!
They were promoted as warriors and incorporated into the army, the imperial court eliminated the unstable elements in society, and got a large number of powerful people to fight against Tibet, to those guys, by serving the country, they can be whitewashed, this is also a good opportunity, to be an official depends on talent, but also on appearance.
Zhong Kui died in the imperial palace back then, just because his appearance was too poor!
Therefore, it is difficult to be an official without a good look, and it is understandable that the dignity of a warrior is ugly.
Raise a warrior, don't talk about appearance!
If they can return triumphantly on the battlefield, the court will be vacant.
People cheered at the warriors, some of them were friends and relatives, and they knew each other, and the warriors raised their hands or clenched their fists.
Feng Xiaobao even knew several of them, including the disciples of his master Golden Sword King Dojo, and the famous ranger "Little Lu Bu" Lu Yingbu in Chang'an, when Lu Yingbu attacked Xindu Mountain with him, that was the beginning of Feng Xiaobao's career, several years have passed, Lu Yingbu's status is still the same, and his appearance is more vicissitudes, compared to Feng Xiaobao, he doesn't even have the opportunity to look directly.
They stood still in the field, and the line was loose and tight.
Li Youdao first read out the emperor's order to raise warriors, but there is no need for everyone to kneel down and listen, the whole edict is to recruit warriors, mentioning that "today I want to divide the generals, poor their nests", the statement said that the imperial court recruits warriors, regardless of cloth clothes and eunuchs, they can be selected, enthusiastically join the army, in order to serve the country, the court does not hesitate to reward also!
For example, this time, within one hundred and fifty, they are all Zhichong team Zheng (the commander of fifty people, the military attache on the ninth grade), and the thirty are all Zhichong Brigade Marshals (from the eighth grade), and the top ten are the captains from the seventh rank, and the top three are also school captains, but they have a loose official under the ninth grade, and they have become officials without fighting, which is very generous treatment!
This is also the only indicator that there are so many in the Liangjing area, because there are many powerful people in the Liangjing, and raising the warriors is equivalent to the imperial court throwing some bones at them for them to grab, and there is no such big discount in other places.
People applauded and cheered!
However, the criteria for the competition also had to be changed.
It turned out that the content of the warrior test included four items: weightlifting, mounted archery, rifle shooting, and horse pistol.
Since he is a warrior, he must have a test standard, and this proposal is still approved by Wu Zetian.
Weightlifting is qualified to lift 200 catties and 10 steps, 200 catties and 20 steps are medium, and 30 steps are excellent.
Mounted archery is a target that shoots 60 paces on horseback, three out of nine, and requires a horse speed rather than a stationary. (There is a lot to be done in this way)
Foot shooting is a target that shoots 70 paces in a standing position, and it is five out of nine.
The next two items are added up, and the one with the most wins.
Two of the four contents of the competition are archery, which shows how much attention Datang attaches to dealing with Hu people who are good at riding and archery.
And the content of the carbine is to demonstrate marksmanship on a horse, and then to stab a scarecrow.
The test standard for the warriors in the Liangjing area is to lift 200 catties and walk 50 steps for excellent, riding and shooting 9 in 4, and foot shooting in 9 in 6!
The competition has not officially started, Li Youdao adheres to the meaning of the three examiners, and talks about what a warrior is? What is the standard of a warrior? Let's take a look at the real warrior standard!
A Hu cavalry with thick eyebrows and big eyes, curly hair, high nose and deep eyes, ape arms and tiger back and bear waist appeared, galloping like the wind, showing good riding skills, according to reports, called Xiao Rang, Khitan, the official worship right Qianniu Wei Zhonglang General!
He wore light armor, and when he went into battle, he came to ride and shoot, and opened his bow left and right, swishing, continuously, and eight out of nine arrows!
Only one arrow missed, and the other eight arrows were all on target, and five of them landed near the center of the target!
The infantry shooting was stronger, and eight arrows were shot in the center of the target, and if he went into battle, the enemy could not escape his aim.
Lifting weights, he lifted a large bag of grain of 200 catties, walked fifty steps, and his face was slightly flushed, obviously he still had spare strength.
Finally, there is the carbine, he makes a steel gun with iron, dances impermeable, rides past the scarecrow on the side, and pierces it with one shot!
People cheered him warmly, he is a model of a warrior!
Xiao Rang rode to Feng Xiaobao's side, bowed his hand to him, and said loudly: "I am Xiao Rang, the general of the right Qianniu Wei, I heard that General Feng is the first warrior in the fight against Tibet, and I have come to ask for advice!" ”
Without waiting for Feng Xiaobao to fight, Ling Huxiao was the first to jump up and said, "Old Xiao, have you eaten a lot this morning?" ”
What's going on? Everyone was confused when they heard it, and Ling Hu smiled and said: "You are full, you have nothing to do, come on, come on, I will fight you for three hundred rounds!" ”
Xiao Rang said in a deep voice: "General Linghu, I just want to ask General Feng for advice, if you want to, you can set the place and time in the future, and I will accompany you at any time!" ”
He said again: "His Majesty the Emperor raised warriors to fight Tibet, General Feng has been fighting with Tibet in the northwest for a long time, and we Luoyang Sixteen Guards all want to see General Feng's heroic appearance!" ”
"Really?"
Feng Xiaobao didn't say a word, stood up on the steps next to him, stretched out his hand, and the hard bow of two stones and three stones was handed over to him, he drew the bow and arrow, held his breath and calmed his mind, aimed at a harrier eagle cruising in the sky above the martial arts arena, and shot an arrow!
The harrier eagle was unlucky, because there were many people in the martial arts arena, which produced hot air and updrafts, and the harrier eagle went out to forage for food, spiraling and rising with the help of updrafts, observing the surroundings, without effort, but did not want to become Feng Xiaobao's prey.
The arrows were like lightning, and the eagles fell.
In the thunderous applause and cheers of the people, Feng Xiaobao sat back in his place, and looked at Xiao Rang without looking at him, which was very cool! (To be continued.) )