Chapter 187: The Great Contest in the Army (I)

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Tian Fan and Zhao Yun can be said to be very happy to see each other! Zhao Yun was originally admired by him, he knew Xu Shu's ability, Shi Tao was his senior brother, Liu Bei attached special importance to Tian Yu, and naturally, Tian Fan attached great importance to them! And these four people are also full of curiosity about Tian Fan, naturally, these five people will also meet each other!

It's just that the position of these four people is really not easy to get! Now, Xuzhou Group can be said to be a radish and a pit, and there is no place left at all! There was no way, Liu Bei had to let Zhao Yun help Lu Bu train the troops according to their specialties, Tian Yu went to Guangling to help Chen Zhi lead the troops, Xu Shu joined the army, and Shi Tao stayed in Xiapi and started to do it!

On August 20, the military competition officially began!

As early as a few days ago, the middle and low-level officers with high martial arts selected and sent by all over Xuzhou, and even ordinary non-commissioned officers, have come to the Xiapi camp!

For a time, in the big camp of Xiapi, there were masters like clouds!

Tian Fan's original intention in holding this martial arts competition was to tap the buried talents, and the commanders of the various armies also fully understood his meaning and cooperated completely and unconditionally.

On this day, the entire camp was boiling, and the huge school field was crowded with people!

On the platform of the generals who are one zhang high, six zhang long, and three zhang wide, Tian Fan, Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and other major generals in the army sat down and discussed something in a whisper!

Tian Fan just wanted to tap a few talents, but since the entry lists of various armies were reported, his heart couldn't be calm for a long time! What the is going on? Why did the recruitment hall become an ornament? Why did so many masters enter his eyes before this competition?

Shaking his head, he thought, it seems that in the future, even if he doesn't have time to take a look, he will have to let them give him a copy of the list! In addition, the military competition will also be held every year!

Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, and Gao Shun have known each other for a long time, and Zhao Yun has won everyone's respect just by going head-to-head with Lu Bu! There's no way, Zhao Yun, who fought with Lu Bu for a hundred times without losing, what level is this?

Lu Bu is proud, but it depends on who he is right! Zhao Yun's martial arts are very good, if it weren't for the horses, I am afraid that he would not fall behind after fighting with him for two hundred rounds! And his understanding of cavalry combat is not much different from himself, such a person quickly won Lu Bu's favor!

Tian Fan put away his thoughts and asked, "Wait a minute, which of you will end?" ”

Lu Bu and Zhang Fei hurriedly said: "Of course it's me!" ”

Tian Fan rolled his eyes and said, "You two are too powerful, if one of you is not careful, and then hurts our future generals, how bad is it?" ”

Zhang Fei hurriedly said: "I'll just be careful!" ”

Hearing this, he nodded and said, "That's good! After a while, Yide and Fengxian were in charge of the examination of martial arts, and Zilong and Zhengqing were in charge of the examination of the art of war! How is it? ”

When the four of them heard this, they nodded in agreement!

A small colonel ran to the stage, hugged his fists at a few people and said: "My lord, several generals, the time has come, you can start!" ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "That's the case, beat the drum!" ”

After the little colonel clasped his fists and saluted, he took two steps back, turned around, and shouted: "Your Excellency has an order, beat the drum!" ”

Dozens of drummers who had been preparing for a long time shouted: "Order! Immediately after, the drums sounded! The drum sound went from slow to fast, and then from fast to slow, and it was exactly a three-way drum, one hundred and eight sounds!

The whole school field is quiet!

Tian Fan held a bronze horn, came to the front of the general's platform, and first saluted everyone in the audience with his fists, and then brought the thin section of the horn to his mouth and shouted: "Warriors in the army, I am Tian Fan, the chief examiner of this military competition!" ”…,

The soldiers below all knew Tian Fan, but many of them had never seen him, and now they heard that they were standing in front of them, and immediately responded with warm applause!

Tian Fan waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and continued: "The four behind me are today's martial arts examiners and art of war examiners!" ”

After that, he looked around at everyone and said, "The martial arts of General Fengxian and General Yide must be known to everyone!" They can be said to be the best warriors in the world! However, I don't want you to be so afraid of them that you will shrink back and lose your true martial arts! I often hear people say that there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts! Even if you know that you are invincible, you must do your best! I, Xuzhou Army, don't be a gutsy egg! If you don't even have the courage to make a move when you see them, then I have reason to suspect that you will do the same on the battlefield! Do you understand? ”

The hundreds of contestants on the field are all strong and brave men in various armies, and they are arrogant, how can they withstand Tian Fan's words? Hearing this, they all blushed and shouted, "Understood! ”

Tian Fan nodded and continued: "Many people must not know the rules of this competition, here, I repeat it again!" The first is the martial arts competition, where the participants are randomly selected to match, and the winner enters the next round, and the opponent is drawn again to compete, and so on until three rounds later! ”

After three rounds, there were less than fifty people left. The losers of the previous rounds will be paired up again, and the top ranking will be 60 with the winners of the first three rounds. These sixty people will be randomly paired again, and the winners can compete with Yide and Fengxian, as long as they can hold up to their ten moves, they can be awarded official positions! And the thirty people who lost directly participated in the art of war exam hosted by Zilong and Zhengqing! Everyone who competes with Bongxian and Yide will also have to participate in the art of war test! ”

"We will announce the final ranking according to the results of everyone's martial arts and art of war exams!"

He turned his head to look at a white wooden board with gold trim that was one zhang long and one zhang wide, placed vertically, and shouted, "This is the gold list!" The top 30 people can all be included in the list, and their rankings will be spread to the whole army! ”

After a pause, he shouted again: "Moreover, this list will be kept forever, and many years later, it will be a souvenir of our Xuzhou!" Those who leave their names on it will also be famous in history! ”

When hundreds of participating warriors heard this, they immediately became enthusiastic, and I don't know who shouted: "The lord wins!" ”

The audience shouted in response, and for a while, the shouts of "Lord Wansheng" reverberated the world!

Tian Fan waved his hand again, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said: "There are four happy events in life, a long drought and a rain, a foreign country to meet an old acquaintance, a candle night in the cave room, and the title of the gold list!" Today, the winners, should be able to enjoy one of the four joys! I hope you will be cautious! Well, I announce, the game begins! ”

Although this four happy events in life came out of Tian Fan's mouth for the first time, it quickly won everyone's approval! The excited warriors were red in the faces, red in the ears, red in the eyes, and shouted, "Yes, my lord! ”

All the people in the army have always only obeyed the strong, if you are only a strong soldier and have no trace of martial arts, even if you can suddenly ascend to a high position, you will not be able to convince people! Therefore, Tian Fan did not give those who did not have martial arts a chance! If you don't enter the top sixty, no matter how powerful your art of war is, you can't convince the public, it's in vain!

This kind of person's path to entry is not like this! They should be strategists first, follow the main general as a staff officer, and if their ability is really enough to lead an army alone, and all the generals in the army obey them, they can be awarded the rank of general! Of course, there are exceptions, if it is a person, his family background is very high, especially the door tiger, it is another matter! However, if you have such a high background, you will not be buried here! …,

Judging from the Three Kingdoms era alone, wise generals like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu also have good kung fu! Both of them are eight feet tall and practice swordsmanship, and they can't get close to three or five people when they are idle! Lu Su is even more powerful, he is also eight feet tall, and his archery skills are very sharp, not to mention piercing Yang in a hundred steps, but there is no problem with shooting a person's head within fifty steps!

This competition is a competition that attaches equal importance to individual martial arts and the art of war. If you are strong in martial arts and skilled in the art of war, you will be awarded a higher position. And if they are only strong in martial arts, they can only be awarded some lower positions, of course, although the positions are low, but the army they serve in the future may be more special.

Martial arts competition, divided into foot and horse battles! The first is the foot battle, the process of foot combat is very fast, because it is just a simple fight between two people, the two sides fight together from the first hand, maybe ten moves, maybe twenty moves, the winner is divided!

In less than an hour, the foot battle was over, and from beginning to end, according to the rule that the winner gets two points and the loser does not score, the ranking is arranged.

Immediately afterwards, there was the horse war, which was more time-consuming and laborious, and it was still not completely over until the end of the day.

The next day, after another morning, the horse battle was finally over, and the rankings were ranked according to the same rules as the foot battle.

The winners of infantry battles and the winners of horse battles, the top twenty, directly took the test of the art of war. The rest of the men were rearranged according to the numbers obtained by adding the rankings of foot and horse battles. Take the top 20 and make up the number of 60 with the first 40.

Then, the fifteen people with the strongest horse battle and the fifteen people with the strongest foot battle fought with Zhang Fei and Lu Bu respectively. If there are overlapping people, they will be increased by one place and replaced by the person with the lowest ranking. For example, Xu Sheng, a native of Langya, is twenty-one years old, and his foot battle ranks first and horse battle is sixth, so he only participates in the foot battle competition, and the person who ranks sixteenth in horse battle rises one place to the fifteenth place to participate in the competition with Zhang Fei.

At noon, Tian Fan asked a primary school to send a letter to Liu Bei, and his original words were: "Go and tell the lord, just say, hehe, if he doesn't come today, he will definitely regret it!" In addition, let the lord find a few good horses, if not, you can't see the true level of these people! ”

When the little colonel heard this, he rolled his eyes, Mr. Tian is too good, right? Talking like this to the lord?

It's not that Liu Bei doesn't want to come, but he can't pull away! It's the peak of summer tax payments, and he's so busy every day that he can't spare time to keep up with Ben! But he knew that Tian Fan had never lied, and after listening to the words of the little colonel, he looked at the few people around him with a smile, and said, "Yes, Boguang has said it, let's go and have a look!" Hehe, it's kind of relaxing! ”

When Chen Qun, Xu Shu, Lu Su and others heard this, they smiled, hugged their fists and said, "Obey!" ”