The next day, the rain cleared and the weather was fine again.

Zhao Pu's mood is also much better.

The assessment continues, and this time the assessment is in a military posture. The standing military posture is not imported from the West, China has had the habit of standing in the military posture since ancient times, and the standing military posture belongs to the "Art of War", the mountain in the "wind forest volcano", and it is as immobile as a mountain. Some famous generals can even tell the combat effectiveness of a unit from the military posture. It's just that with the Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, many of the army's fine traditions disappeared since the abolition of martial arts.

The army is inferior from generation to generation, and its combat effectiveness has plummeted to a shocking level, and it is often the regular troops that are inferior to the miscellaneous troops, and the miscellaneous units are inferior to the bandit troops.

And training a strong army starts with standing in a military posture.

Standing in a military posture is never an easy task, standing in a military posture tempers the will of soldiers, hones the indomitable perseverance of soldiers, and refines steely discipline. A simple standing posture can cultivate a soldier's obedience, discipline, and patience.

In the Eight-Character Army, the standing posture is divided into two forms, one is to stand in place, not moving like a mountain, and the other is holding a big gun, not moving like a mountain.

Each of the two standing postures is one hour each.

Instead of sitting on the chair, Zhao Pu stood on the high point platform, looking around indifferently, looking for those who were unruly.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Judge Advocate General's Department were walking back and forth between the phalanxes, as long as they saw a soldier whose movements were not standardized, they would whip them, and at the same time they kept scolding.

"Keep your eyes open, look straight ahead, don't look left and right, and keep your eyes focused. Even if a bee stings you in the face, you can't move. ”

"Don't stretch your shoulders, relax!"

"Shoulder level, don't be one high and one low, understand?"

The scolding continued one after another, and the soldiers had to tense their spirits and stand with all their hearts.

Standing in a military posture is very tiring and uncomfortable, and it is awkward to stand for a long time, so persevering will greatly improve people's willpower, patience, obedience and even physical fitness.

As the minutes passed, the soldiers slowly felt uncomfortable, only to feel that their arms were sore, their legs were sore, and their bodies were sore. I just feel itchy all over my body, like thousands of small ants crawling, the problem is that I can't scratch it yet.

Gradually, the officers and men of the Judge Advocate General's Department scolded less and less, because there were fewer and fewer irregular movements.

Zhao Pu looked at it and nodded secretly in his heart, not bad. Yesterday's round of elimination, all the unfavorable ones were eliminated, and the rest were elites, outstanding in all aspects such as combat effectiveness and willpower. The soldier of this era has less pure thoughts and distractions, as long as he eats and drinks up to the standard, strengthens his training, and has strict discipline, he has full confidence that he will bring his army to the height of a modern army, or even surpass.

After all, the people of this era may not have the same level of education as the later generations, but their physical fitness is very strong, and the soldiers of later generations are too dependent on advanced weapons, and their physical fitness has declined. In this era, without advanced technology, everything is a naked confrontation of cold weapons, and the persecuted soldiers must have a super physique, endure hunger, and endure hardships and hard work.

"The hour is up, run around the barracks!" The time has finally come, but it is not the end, but the beginning of another.

Running is to relieve the pressure on the muscles caused by standing for a long time and relieve the feeling of muscle soreness.

Running is a slow run, after running around the barracks, the army began to stand again, but this time it became a spear standing, the knees were slightly bent, the body was slightly heavy, one hand held the middle of the spear, the other hand held the tail of the spear, put on a posture, this standing, it was like a sculpture, motionless, and at the same time to hang a stone on the spear, weighing two pounds.

It's another torture.

This is designed to fight against cavalry, and pikemen are one of the important weapons to restrain cavalry, whether it is a mandarin duck array or a scattered star array, they are all used in spears. In the formation, the pikemen have only two movements, one is to raise the spear, the other is to stab forward, and there are only two movements, between the front and the back, forming a dense forest of spears and destroying the cavalry.

It may seem like a pikeman is simple, but it's not at all simple. In order to fight against the cavalry, most of the spears in the hands of pikemen are about one zhang, even if they are made of wooden poles, the weight of the spears is not light, and if you want to grasp the balance and want to cause lethality to the enemy, it is really difficult to do it without a certain amount of strength.

In order to practice strength and balance, it is necessary to hold the spear, maintain the state of forward stabbing, and stand for an hour.

It's not an easy thing to do either! But for veterans, this is really nothing, when the Jin army was fighting fiercely in the Hedong area, His Majesty the Emperor at that time, who was not yet the emperor, also trained like this, and it was a little uncomfortable at first, but after a long time of training, he got used to it, even if it was abandoned for a period of time, the delay was not too big.

And the really uncomfortable are those recruits, their training time is relatively short, coupled with the lack of strict training, there are many omissions.

However, looking at the three people in front of the phalanx, all the resentments in the hearts of all the recruits disappeared.

At the front of the phalanx were Wang Yan and Wang Shouyi. Li Pojun three. The three of them were the three supreme leaders of the Bazi Army, but they did not enjoy the treatment of generals, but like ordinary soldiers, they carried spears and stood in front, although their arms were numb and sweat beads were dripping from their faces, they still persevered.

How can a general serve the public? Stick together in good times and bad!

The torment continued, but it was finally to the end.

Zhao Pu shook his head, very dissatisfied.

In the end, less than a thousand people managed to stay still, and most of them were swinging their bodies, their arms shaking, and their spears were unstable! However, Zhao Pu was not too demanding, but firmly remembered that the group of soldiers who were less than a thousand.

"They are good seedlings, good seedlings to be musketeers!"

…………

Then there is the assessment of the "forest", which pays attention to the formation, which means that when fighting, it is necessary to maintain a stable formation like a mountain forest, as long as the formation is not chaotic, it will be invincible. If the formation is out of order, it is easy to be defeated by the enemy.

It is often the initial stability of the formation, but with the attack of the iron cavalry, the soldiers' will to fight weakens, and the formation will also collapse. Or start the formation is stable, like a mountain forest, but with the victory to defeat the enemy, it is often easy to mess up the formation, at this time, if an ambush comes out, it is often defeated and left.

During the battle between Song and Jin, when the Jin army encountered a weak enemy, it used iron cavalry to attack and break the enemy's formation; When encountering a strong enemy, it is to pretend to be defeated and retreat, leading the enemy to pursue, and when the formation is in chaos, kill another horse pistol, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

The two modes seem simple, but they have been tried and tested repeatedly, and they have repeatedly defeated the Song army.

Therefore, "forest" is very important.

If the "forest" pays attention to defense, it is like a mountain forest, which is unbreakable; The "fire" assesses the offensive ability, the ability to break the formation, break the formation at a faster speed, or lure the enemy to reveal flaws, so as to divide and surround the enemy and annihilate the enemy.

In "The Art of War", "its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and the immobility is like a mountain", the former tells about the way of military training, and the latter two pay attention to the way of fighting.

The latter two assessments have already involved actual combat exercises.

The actual combat exercise is to check the results of the training, and all complicated procedures are omitted, but it is divided into four items, a squad duel of 12 people, a squadron duel of 60 people, a brigade duel of 300 people, and a duel between battalions of more than 3,000 people. In order to determine the strength of Wang Yan, Wang Shouyi, and Li Pojun's respective battalions.

There is no first in the text, and there is no second in the martial arts.

At normal times, the three people who have a good relationship are facing each other with nervous faces at this time. Seek only victory, and if you lose, everything is in vain. If he is the penultimate in four consecutive games, then this battalion commander does not have to be the commander, and he can't afford to lose that person.

"Your Majesty, it's better to be happy alone than to be happy with all......" Wang Wuyue reminded.

Zhao Pu nodded and said, "It's time to cultivate martial arts!" “