Chapter 24: Sortie
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In order to get the reward, more than 3,700 soldiers who passed the first round of selection were already ready and eager to try.
At midnight (10 a.m.), the second round of selection began.
In everyone's surprised eyes, Zhao Ning, like everyone, carried a weight of fifty catties on his back and set off with everyone.
These poor people have only seen commanding officials, generals, masters, and young masters, but they have never seen Zhao Ning like this. Last night, I heard those people from Zhaojiazhuang say that when they were in the village, his young master often arranged meat for them, and everyone thought that it was just those people bragging.
But now I saw that the little young master, who was only fifteen years old and had a slightly childish face, or the captain, was dressed in a strong suit and carried the same weight as them, running in front of the team, although no one said anything, but there was a strangeness in everyone's hearts. Even the heavy weight on his body seems to have become lighter.
After running for half an hour, I don't know who to start, everyone gradually began to mumble quietly.
"I heard that the tenant farmer of the Zhao family cultivates the high-quality beautiful fields, and only pays forty percent of the rent every year, and his life is better than that of ordinary farmers."
"Don't talk nonsense, those who have their own fields are not enough to make ends meet, how good can the life of a tenant farmer be?"
"According to what you said, only pay forty percent of the rent as a tenant of the Zhao family? How can there be such a tenant? Is that a good thing? ”
"It's unusual to pay only forty percent? As a tenant of the Zhao family, there is a lot of grain in the field, and the reward is also rewarded! ”
"The year before last, my family's output was good, so I got 10,000 yuan, and that Lao Li over there, he won the first place last year and got 20,000 yuan."
"This year's harvest is in arrears, and the young master has exempted everyone's rent."
With everyone's discussion, an emotion fermented in the team of more than 3,000 people, the child who was running step by step with everyone, the young master of the Zhao family, rebelled against the captain, "You have to keep up with his steps, you can't be left behind." ”
Even Zhou Shu, who was still a little unconvinced by Zhao Ning in his heart, was completely convinced at this moment. He is a man in his thirties, and now he already feels that every step is very difficult, but Zhao Ning still seems so relaxed, it seems that he is really not an ordinary child.
"If you can't fight for him, forget it, even if you can't get the official position of the left eunuch of Yulin, if you can follow him to get the background of Yulin Lang, you will no longer be a rich but not expensive, and you will no longer be the last of the four people who are looked down upon."
"People are stabbing adults, they can look at people, that kid is young, his physical strength is really good, no wonder people can be captains." Zheng Gu didn't want to do so much, he admired those who had the means. Originally, he was just a head of the county lieutenant under the county lieutenant, but because he had the strength and a few hard skills, he was sent by the county lieutenant, and his 300 people were raised by their county commander H county lieutenant.
Zhao Ning controlled the speed all the way, and it was almost an hour before he reached the finish line. Luan Wu, the shadow-like black boy beside him, just kept a distance of four or five feet from him without saying a word from beginning to end.
Half an hour after Zhao Ning reached the finish line, an hour arrived.
There were only 2,654 people who reached the finish line on time, and of course, this did not include the 300 people brought by Zhao Ning himself.
After Zhao Ning temporarily lowered some standards, he finally got together almost three thousand people. Although there are still dozens of people left, Zhao Ning doesn't want to lower the standard anymore, because for his vanguard army, no matter how many soldiers can't meet the requirements, it will only be a drag.
When Zhou Jing learned of this result, he specially ordered someone to allocate one hundred and thirty-two people from the thousand elites he brought from Luojing to Zhao Ning's side. Originally, Zhao Ning wanted to refuse them all, but in order to avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings, he still left thirty-two people, making up the number of three thousand.
So far, Zhao Ning has an elite army of 3,000 people. In addition to Zhou Jing's 1,000-person personal guards, this army is already the most elite force on the ground in Xuzhou.
Among them, two thousand-man teams were led by Zhou Shu and Zheng Gu respectively, and the other 1,000 people were commanded by Wang Long instead of Zhao Ning. Originally, Zhao Ning wanted to give this task to Zhao Hu, but Zhao Hu was not at ease with the safety of his young master, and insisted on staying by Zhao Ning's side.
And those centurions assigned to Wang Lung did not have any opinions, first, everyone was very convinced of Zhao Ning at this time; Second, Wang Lung has experienced life and death in the army, and he naturally knows the rules of the army very well, so as soon as he appeared in front of them, he lost no time in showing his strength. After all, with the strength of his martial arts, even in the regular army of Great Xia, he is qualified to be the commander, let alone in such an army that has been improvised and put together?
After arranging everything that day, Zhao Ning once again arranged wine and meat for his soldiers, so that everyone could let go of their bellies and eat and drink happily, because he knew that in the future, waiting for these soldiers who were willing to follow him would be the most difficult days.
At the second quarter of the second day (5:30 p.m.), Zhao Ning's vanguard army gathered in the school field, and 3,000 elite soldiers lined up in a neat ranks, looking at their commander and rebelling against the captain - Zhao Ning.
Facing the 3,000 soldiers who were ready to go, Zhao Ning couldn't suppress his rolling blood.
Zhao Ning in his previous life had fought countless times in the game, fighting bloodily, unifying the world again and again, and then staring at the cutscene at the end of the game in a daze.
Today, after fifteen years of living in this world, he is finally going to realize his decades-old dream of taking his army with his own flesh instead of a mouse and keyboard to witness the blood on the battlefield.
He tried his best to suppress his emotions, restrained his imperceptible tremors, and began the mobilization speech before the departure of the team.
"Today, you stand here, not for me, but for yourself, to defend your own home and loved ones; You stand here because you are a man, a man who does not hide at home and wait for robbers to snatch your daughter-in-law; You're standing here because you're going to do something earth-shattering with me. Some of you are farmers, some are blacksmiths, some are hunters, some of you used to wander in the market, and some of you used to live in the mountains and forests. Originally, you were destined to live a life in a mess, but because you are standing here today, everything will change, and you will follow me to do a great thing that you could never have dreamed of, a big thing that you will be seventy or eighty years old in the future, and you can still brag to your children and grandchildren. ”
"No matter who you are, now, if you can become a member of my command, you are already the best warrior in Xuzhou. Each of you carries the best strong bows and arrows, 100-for-100 steel knives, and Zhangba spears, you are the best soldiers in Xuzhou, to be honest, I really pity those mongrels who are going to fight you. ”
"Three days later, every rebel will tremble when they hear that we are coming, they will scream with a stream of urine, and they will ask the Jade Emperor to bless themselves and not our next target."
"I can't wait to harvest the heads of those thieves, if we don't hurry, our battle achievements will be snatched away by the 20,000 army behind us."
"I also want to go home early, I want to go back early to live my peaceful life, but Guo Chun won't let me. If we don't kill Guo Chun's son of a bitch, sooner or later he will hit our house, kill our old father and mother, and snatch our wives and daughters. If we want to go home, the only way is to quickly kill Guo Chun and their dog mongrels, and kill them one day earlier, so that we can go home one day earlier. ”
"Every one of you standing here has taken my bounty of five thousand denarii. As you all know, Young Master Ben is the richest man in Dune County, and the Zhou commander next to me is a famous iron merchant in Xuzhou, and the last thing we lack is reward. If you want more bounty, you'll have to bring me the thief's head. If you get one head back, I will reward you with 10,000 dollars, and if you get ten heads back, I will reward you with 100,000 dollars, and if you can get that Guo Chun's head back, then I will reward you with 1 million dollars. ”
"Immediately, I will take you out, and in three hours, we will appear behind the thieves who are attacking the county, wake them up from behind while they are still dreaming, and then cut off their heads for a reward while they are crying wolf and running around with their buttocks."
Zhao Ning's words, or the excitement in his own heart, infected every soldier present. When he finished speaking, everyone's blood boiled, and everyone wanted to rush out immediately and cut off the head of the thief. Zhao Ning was also surprised that he was so incitative.
The team set off quickly, and Zhao Ning deliberately chose this time, just to avoid people's eyes and ears, and strive to appear in front of the thieves by surprise, so as to catch them off guard. It was precisely in order to implement his tactics that forced marching with heavy loads became an important condition for him to select soldiers.
It was a well-armed army, each armed with two hundred feathered arrows, in addition to spears, steel knives, and hard bows. Without the ability to carry fifty pounds of force to march, it is simply impossible to carry so much equipment for a long-distance run.
At this dusk, a sharp arrow was shot out like this, and at this moment, whether it was Zhou Jingzhou, who was sitting in the Assassin's Mansion, or Zhao Ning, who was walking in the line, he didn't know what would happen next.
Although they have done their best to prepare for everything, and although they have begun to implement the most effective strategy on their side, who knows what will happen next moment when the battle actually starts?
It's like the thief who is besieging Wei County at the moment, not knowing that he is about to face a catastrophe.