Volume 2 Washing Horses and Quicksand Chapter 1 Joining the Army (I)
The half-time lecture on the art of war passed in a flash, and the recruit camp was on a three-day break. Three days later, the day of the assessment. Although it was a break, the big guys were talking about what to take, what they would take, how to take the test, and so on. The whole barracks was full of panic, and there was no peace all day long.
"Sixth brother, tell me, what will happen to the exam in the next two days?" Luo Youneng asked Bingzhong with a tentative taste. Bingzhong listened, just smiled and said: "This exam is nothing remarkable, it is the same as normal training, as long as you are not too nervous." Bingzhong faced Luo Youneng and comforted in front of everyone.
In fact, the examination and evaluation of these subjects have long been secretly familiar to Xiao Liuzi, and he is confident. Therefore, in the past few days, the only ones who have taken the lead are going to bed early and getting up late to nourish their bodies, comforting their brothers and many classmates and waiting for the military camp to show their heads.
In the early morning of the fourth day, the trumpets in the barracks played war drums and thundered, and the flags were hunted. In a short time, the old battalion and the new battalion quickly stood up in turn. I saw that the battle flag was straight and thorny, and the spears were lined up, and in an instant, the aura of slaughter suddenly rose. After waiting for a while, a person stood on the point platform with a majestic style, and at a glance, he knew that he was a veteran of the battlefield who had seen blood. Everyone looked at it, and it turned out to be Captain Mazakima. I saw Captain Ma take out a scroll and read it aloud: The subjects of this assessment and selection are personally formulated by General Chen Hongfan, and the first day of the assessment of each subject is the second subject of Shigong, and the second day of the group assessment is called the Banner of Capturing the Mountain. The specific assessment content and items will be announced on the same day. Today is a subject assessment, in the morning force: lifting stone locks, in the afternoon shooting: vertical shooting and riding shooting. The merits are determined by the examiner, and the best ones are the recruits. Speaking of this, Captain Ma moistened the noise and continued: This time, the recruit battalion has recruited nearly one battalion, and if there is a competent person in the battle to capture the flag, the general can personally accompany the team. As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the new barracks, for the recruits who had just entered the barracks, it was a supreme honor to be with the general.
From now on, all the recruits in the new barracks will follow the orders of the assessment military gate and go to their respective places to return to the designated place for testing. As soon as Captain Ma finished saying this, he saw a group of people flash out from under the dark box on the right side of the point platform, presumably the team of the military gate, and they called out in turn when they came to the new barracks. This group of about 20 people, each of whom only took about 30 or 40 recruits for assessment. All the recruits are divided into two groups according to the twelve characters of the local branch, and the little six sons and the students of the same academy are in the Shen Zi team. Under the leadership of the old military gate, he came to his own place for the test, and in the morning he assessed the strength of the stone lock, divided into a single and two-handed lift, and the weight of the stone lock was divided into five hundred catties, one hundred catties (one quintal), two hundred catties (two quintals) and other three grades. Being able to lift 50 catties with one hand is an average achievement, being able to lift 100 catties with one hand is a good achievement, and being able to lift 200 catties with one hand is an excellent achievement.
After several rounds of testing, most of the students in the academy are Junliang, and they must all be scholars, and they usually don't pay much attention to physical exercise, and it is also considerable to have such results. The big guy was chattering, only to hear the old soldier in charge of the assessment shouting: Li Dacheng! Zao'er immediately responded. Lifting stone locks is Zao'er's strong point, and people are born tall and strong. I saw him walk to the stone lock group and look at it for a while, and directly picked up the 200 catties of beam stone lock, only to hear a loud shout of "bah!", and the stone lock rose in response. Immediately exchanged for applause, Zao'er took a step back slightly, and put down the stone lock steadily. When Li Dacheng just wanted to withdraw from the lock ring, the veterans motioned for Li Dacheng to raise another one with his left hand. At this time, Zao'er, although he was in good spirits, in fact, the strength of his whole body was already empty and extremely empty, so he had to smile apologetically at the old soldier, shook his head and retreated. The old military gate immediately reported: Li Dacheng, excellent.
"Next, Zhang Bingzhong!" Hearing the name of the sixth brother called by the old military gate, everyone's spirits suddenly jumped. Standing up in all directions, he felt that he was surrounded by the lock ring, and saw the sixth brother strode forward, came directly to the two-hundred-pound stone lock, loosened his shoulders, and tied his own martial arts belt. He took a deep breath and used the power of the internal strength of the Tongjian fist, put his hands on the beams of the two stone locks, and shook his wrist slightly, thinking: You give it to me. With the sound of "Hmm!", I saw that the pair of stone locks of nearly 200 catties were lifted lightly in the hands of the sixth brother. "Okay! I don't know who shouted hello from below, at this moment, everyone saw that the sixth brother had not put down the stone lock for a long time, and their hearts suddenly rose to their throats again. I saw that Zhang Bingzhong took a step back steadily, and gently put the two stone locks on the ground with both hands, and there was no trace of dust. At this time, the old military gate directly ordered a good one on the first book, which made the old military gate a little surprised, and he had not seen such a good strong man for many years. Although this Zhang Bingzhong is not big, medium in stature, but full of strength, modest and steady and does not boast, it is precisely for this reason that the old army is impressed.
After lunch, the big guys rested under the porch for a while, and the horns in the barracks sounded again, and Captain Ma announced the start of the second assessment of each subject, but the specific assessment of the military gate was changed again, and Zhang Bingzhong and they were still in the Shenzi team. I saw that the military gate led this jujube red horse and stepped forward, shouting directly at everyone, "Follow me in the morning!"
After walking for a short time with the old army, he came to a shooting field. I saw that this shooting field was a lawn about ten zhang long and two or three zhang wide. There are three targets about ten feet away from everyone, and in the middle is a little red heart, which looks about the size of a plum from a distance. When the big guy was observing the terrain, the old soldier said in a local Hanzhong voice: There are two subjects in this afternoon's competition, one is vertical shooting, and the other is riding shooting. The so-called vertical shooting is a fixed-point standing target, four or five of the ten arrows are average, three of the ten arrows are poor, seven or eight of the ten arrows are good, and all the ten arrows are excellent. The so-called riding archery is to ride a horse and shoot three arrows and three targets, one arrow is average, two arrows are good, three arrows are excellent, and one arrow is poor. When the old soldier finished talking about the content of the assessment, everyone began to chatter, and they all felt that this exam seemed to be a bit difficult. This makes the big guys have no bottom in their hearts, so it's only a matter of luck!
The first round of standing shooting was quickly assessed, and about 20 people in the team of more than 30 people were all average and good results, and only Li Dingfang, Luo Youneng, Zhang Bingzhong and others won a full ten arrows. Immediately it was the riding and archery assessment, and the three of them ranked last in the competition because of their standing shots. After a while, it was Li Dacheng's turn and Luo Youcai's riding and archery skills. "Li Dacheng, here!" Zao'er stood up from the line when he heard the chief call his name. I saw him walk up to the commander, take the reins, pull the horse's head, and turn over on the horse. He rode around the place twice on his horse, and then he leaped on his horse with the reins. I saw him raise his hand and swish two arrows, and when he looked at each other, he saw from a distance, and both hit the bull's-eye. So he returned to the horse and lightened himself with another arrow, only to see that this arrow only hit the target, but did not hit the bull's-eye. This inspected the old military gate of the Archery Imperial Branch, and immediately shouted excellent, and then Luo Youcai learned from Brother Dacheng and also shot three in one bull's-eye. At this moment, everyone is thinking about how the sixth brother's archery skills are? Because on weekdays, they only know that the sixth brother's shooting accuracy is very good, but they don't know how the sixth brother's ranger royal shooting is.
After a long time, it was the turn of Li Dingfang, Luo Youneng, Zhang Bingzhong and the last three to compete on the field. Li Dingfang first shot three hits and one target, and Luo Youneng has a lot of ideas on weekdays, and now he has met a competition again, this heart will only be more than usual, not less than usual. I saw him gently lead the horse, pat the horse's buttocks, and stabilize the saddle. I could only hear a "whoosh" and turn over the horse, Luo You was able to sit on the horse's back, and he was not in a hurry to shoot the arrow, but walked the horse twice in place. When he felt the horse in his hand, he suddenly lifted the reins and rushed out like an arrow. When the horse was running happily, I saw that there was a reins that could be violently lifted, and the moment when the horse stood stood shot two shots and two targets.
Now it's time for the sixth brother to make a move, among all of them, only Bingzhong has some understanding of the habits of horses, and when he was a child, Xiao Liuzi followed Zhang Liuyi to learn to ride a horse in the jujube forest. The work on this horse is quite skillful, Xiao Liuzi put the reins in his hand and did not rush to turn over on the horse, but put his hand around the horse's neck, attached to the ear of the red horse and whispered a few words, and then patted the horse's forehead and said, Brother depends on you. I don't know if it's because this horse understands people spiritually, or because the military horses in this barracks are too tamed on weekdays and hear too many words like this, but he actually wagged his tail and nodded. Seeing this, Xiao Liuzi pulled on the horse, and rode the horse and did not rush to control it, but ran back and forth with the reins of the horse twice. He carefully and carefully felt the frequency of the horse's hooves on the horse's back, and suddenly, a "snap" sounded a horsewhip, and the horse leaped with four hooves like a joy, and at this moment the sixth brother raised the bow and carved arrows, and a hand was a three-star continuous bead shot, whoosh! With such an achievement, it immediately attracted a round of applause, worthy of being our sixth brother, this bow and horse stone is proficient in everything. Everyone thought so in their hearts, only to see Zhang Bingzhong hugging his fists on the horse and saying loudly, Accept!
At this time, I saw Zhang Bingzhong turning over from the horse in an orderly manner and handing the reins to the examiner steadily. There are not many of the two subjects today, but Xiao Liuzi is looking forward to the content of tomorrow's scientific examination in his heart. Surrounded by everyone and complimented, he returned to his own team and waited for the achievements of the other team.
After a short break, when the sun was about to set, all the teams were evaluated, and Captain Ma announced the discipline and selection requirements in the barracks and the elimination method, so as to motivate everyone not to take tomorrow's scientific examination too lightly.
In the early morning of the next day, the horn company camped, and the war drums thundered. Hula for a while, the battle flags were lined up, and everyone hurriedly followed their leaders to the place where they stood yesterday and waited for today's scientific expedition. I saw that on the stage, it was still Captain Ma announcing the content of today's scientific expedition: the content of today's scientific expedition is a group of subjects, called the Banner of Seizing the Mountain. As the name suggests, it is to organize a team of 12 people to go to the top of the mountain together to seize the flag planting. In this recruitment, there are about 500 recruits in the recruit battalion, and the recruits who were all different in yesterday's assessment will be assigned to the baggage battalion and will not participate in today's scientific expedition projects. There are nearly 300 remaining people, and there are 24 groups in a group of 12 people, half in the morning and half in the afternoon, and every half day there are three opportunities to capture the flag, and each time four teams compete; whoever captures the flag will be the leader of the team, and in the future will be under the jurisdiction of 50 people. When capturing the flag, you can bring your own knives and arrows, and you are only allowed to capture the flag in foot combat, and you are not allowed to hurt people's lives. If there is a violation of law and discipline, military law will be punished. In this group examination, free teams are allowed. From now on, give half an hour to team up with the ranks. Half an hour later, the selected team came to me to register and then take care of it.
A few classmates in the academy naturally surrounded Xiao Liuzi, and everyone publicly recommended Sixth Brother as the reserve team. Xiao Liuzi counted the number of people at the moment, and there were only nine classmates with good results, and he had to transfer three other members of the poor team from elsewhere to make up the number. After the number of his own family was gathered, Xiao Liuzi glanced at other team modes. I thought, as expected, the disciples of the cold sect surrounded the disciples of the cold sect, and the children of the official eunuchs gathered the children of the official eunuchs. After all, if the children of official eunuchs want to exchange some military merits, there are not too many people who have accumulated military merits in the military; in general, they are formed around Yan Zihe, Zhu Yiwei, Wang Dabao and others. It didn't take long for some people to start to get on the stage one after another, registering the names of their teams with Captain Ma. After touching the tea again, a war drum sounded in unison, and Captain Ma stood up again.
"The recruit battalion listens to the order: the twenty-four teams reported are divided into two assessments. Twelve teams in the morning and afternoon, this is divided into three capture the flag, one capture of the flag allows four teams to participate at the same time, all teams are divided according to the registration order, and the name of the capture of the flag is numbered according to the heavenly stem, such as: A, B, C, D, E, F, etc. Those who call the number three times and fail to do so will be regarded as an elimination team. Do you understand?" "Got it!" The new barracks in the audience roared in unison, and everyone was thinking in their hearts, they had finally come to this point, who didn't want to show a small face at this critical moment.
Zhang Bingzhong's 12-member team was assigned to Group E in the afternoon to capture the flag, and in the morning group test, it had already passed two sessions. In these two matches, there is nothing special, just that it is all about strength and speed, and there is no tactics to speak of. To be precise, it was a mess, and there was no formation plan to speak of. When it came to the third competition, Zhang Bingzhong gathered his players together to discuss how to "kill and capture the flag". "Everyone, in today's two games, it can be seen that most of the disciples of the poor sect do not know how to use tactics to capture the flag, and I don't know if the pair of Yan Zihe in Group D will know how to use tactics. This afternoon, two groups of eunuchs participated in the capture of the flag in the two groups of Ding and E, and we were also divided into group E to capture the flag. Joining us in capturing the flag is Zhu Yiwei, the son of Deputy Governor Zhu, presumably he still has some skills, so please don't let your guard down. Later, let's look at the wind direction of these two rounds and see how they capture the flag. Before capturing the flag in the afternoon, we big guys will discuss it again and set the direction. "Okay! It's all up to the sixth brother's arrangement. Everyone agreed, and they all seriously settled down to watch the other group's way of capturing the flag.
In the afternoon, the flagpole was originally planted on the ground in the morning, but in the afternoon, the flagpole was gone, but it was hung on the trunk of a tree with a twine, which was more than one person high from the ground. If you want to take off the flag, you must either climb it with the help of a tree trunk or build a human bridge to carry the person up. The four teams of Group D fought very hard at the beginning, and Yan Zihe in Group D captured the flag with a very decent and handsome appearance, but this flag made his team very vulgar. I only know that the bully is beaten hard, as if he is a clumsy fool. In these four capture the flag teams, it is very obvious. Looking at it carefully, the team that won Yan Zihe in the capture of the flag in Group D had no formation and strategy at all. stumbled and persevered to the end, and at the last critical moment, Yan Zihe's group competed with another group of poor disciples. The two methods mentioned above were used by them alternately, but in the end, it was the one who climbed the tree who grabbed the fluttering flag, and it was finally the poor disciple. was so angry that Yan Zihe beat his chest again, and he was out of shape, maybe he also wanted to show his strength here, relying on his father's relationship so that he could be in the general's personal team. But there is a saying that the method of capturing the flag of this poor man seems to be very clumsy, but it is very effective.
After resting for a while, it was immediately Zhu Yiwei and Zhang Bingzhong who fought the battle to capture the flag. I saw that the sixth brother made a move, and more than a dozen people surrounded him with a hula sound. The big guy surrounded Bingzhong in the middle, and Bingzhong said in a low voice: This time the capture of the flag depends on all of us working together to win the beauty, if it is scattered, it will definitely be nothing. So, the twelve of us are going to stand in line according to the diamond shape. Li Dingfang and Zhang Jun stood at the head of the spear, Li Dacheng and I, Luo Youcai, and Luo Youneng were four people at the tail of the spear, and the remaining six people were separated from the left and right to protect the formation. The big guy should stay in this formation from the beginning to the end and don't rush forward. Because as long as it is rushing, the team formation is easy to disperse, especially in fast movement, without long-term training, the formation is easy to loosen. In the process of capturing the flag, the remaining three teams will definitely interfere with each other and block each other, which is also a necessity to check each other. Therefore, the way we move forward is to trot, the duty of the spearhead is to capture the flag, and the duty of the speartail is to block the pursuit and interference. The other six are guarding the spearhead's forward speed and interference from the left and right. Except for the spearhead, the rest of the people can stop when necessary in the process of blocking, and use it to drag down the opponent's strength and team. But the two must reach their ...... as quickly as possible.