Thirty miles west of Suzhou City, at the foot of Dongting Mountain, the Huangyi military camp behind Zhang Yitan after the military palace was subdued.

The selection of warriors progressed in an orderly manner, and Huang Zhao ordered someone to set up a high platform, move his grandfather and his golden chair up, and sit on the edge of the stage by himself, and his grandfather sat in the center.

Suddenly, Guo Wei, the regimental lieutenant in charge of registration, hurriedly ran to the high platform and announced in a loud voice: "There is a young man of the Tu tribe named Shancha, who is only six feet eight in length, and he is shouting to sign up. said that he was not long enough, so he knelt down at that time, and wanted to try his skills, saying that he was unqualified and automatically quit. What to do?"

Huang Zhao looked at his grandfather and saw Huang Yi nodding with a smile, so he shouted: "Tell him to try the three stones first, it's really good, and he will be hired as a tooth soldier immediately." You can continue to participate in the next competition. ”

Guo Wei and other four regimental captains and eight brigade commanders are mainly responsible for organizing the work, and after the competition, they can try their skills. In fact, after the observation of some veterans on the front line in Suzhou, among the 2,000 people who signed up, more than 600 veterans from Suzhou City changed their civilian uniforms and signed up.

This was beyond the expectations of Huang Yi and Huang Zhao's ancestors. If this method had been used a long time ago, the Suzhou Tubo army would have collapsed long ago?

But there is also one thing, we need to strictly prevent them from mutiny on the spot, seize weapons, and start a melee, which will become a bitter battle for the enemy to solve us. Therefore, the weapons are called centralized supervision, and two regimental captains with 400 soldiers are in charge, and there is no room for error.

At the beginning of the preliminary examination, after a morning of selection, 360 people passed the examination of carrying three stones and walking 1,000 steps, and all of them were hired as tooth soldiers. The first one hired was really the six-foot-eight-high mountain crack, according to the preliminary examiner's report, he directly lifted the three-stone iron rope and walked a thousand steps, and it seemed that there was still a good show ahead.

Huang Yi was greatly excited, and immediately issued an order, knowing that all the heroes who signed up, 360 warriors were organized into a team, called the Tiger Guard Division. The crowd cheered, and the faces of the three hundred and sixty tiger guards were full of joy.

The second six-stone test, put in the afternoon, all those who reported their names and did not leave a full meal, take a lunch break, and start the test when they are over. Many of them didn't pass the initial exam, and no relatives or friends passed, so they were gone. There are still a lot of people who don't go, just curious, to see the final result, what the person with the weight of nine stones looks like.

According to the Huotou Army's estimates, there were more than 900 people eating. According to the analysis of Huang Yi and Huang Zhao's ancestors, the possibility of mutiny and rebellion is no longer very large, and it depends on how the competition will be in the afternoon. But weapons still have to be seen to death.

At the turn of the afternoon and the turn of the hour, the guards struck the bell of the general, and the second competition began. That's six stones and a thousand steps. Why is a thousand steps equivalent to more than six miles?

The steps of the Tang Dynasty and even the past dynasties are two ** for the previous step, two steps for one zhang, one hundred and fifty steps is one mile, that is, half a kilometer now.

According to today's metric system conversion, one zhang is three meters three three, then, one step is one meter six six. Half a step actually reached 0.833 meters, according to the ratio of stride length to height, the normal height of the ancients was 1.85 meters, this is absolutely right.

However, many people who judge the ancients by the people of today say that the yellow Huaxia people are short, which is absolutely untenable. It's just that because of the man-made cultural extinction again and again, and the artificial blocking of the inheritance of Chinese culture, the meaning of many things is very different.

There is also this unit of weight stone, the ninju. Not to mention that no one knows that he is a larger weight unit than liters and buckets, and few people even know the pronunciation. The weight of one stone is one hundred and twenty catties, and six stones are seven hundred and twenty catties, which is also converted according to the metric city system, which is three hundred and sixty kilograms, who can walk a thousand steps with a weight?

It can only be said that there is a fault line in today's culture, and the culture of martial arts has also been faulted. In the era of cold weapons, relying on strength and force to defend the family and the country, inheriting the martial arts cultivation of the previous life from generation to generation, the weight of 720 catties, it is by no means a very small number of people who can take it. Even if you are a person with the strength of a thousand catties like Jiushi, you will not say that there is none.

Moreover, after the development of martial arts culture for hundreds of years since the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the strength and length of the Tang Dynasty characters were definitely the first power in the world at that time. The average height is about seven feet, and more than seven feet four is considered a big man. The Flying Flame Spirit Officer Han Soap's body is nine feet long, which is unique.

As long as they are famous generals, half of them have about fifty pounds of weapons in their hands. The jujube wood Mo knife of ordinary soldiers in the Tang Dynasty has a weight of at least twenty-eight catties or more, and you can go to the countryside to take a dry zhangsanchang jujube wood and try the weight, just know.

Therefore, Huang Zhao certainly knows the arrangement for the selection of warriors.

In the second session, twenty-six people who carried six stones and walked a thousand steps stood out, and the mountain crack was also among them.

Huang Yi was overjoyed, just these twenty-six people pulled out one at random, which was enough for Deji Yangzong to drink a pot, and he was about to announce a name, when suddenly two big fat men came over and shouted: "Jutanzi, Wulianzi, we have to try it too." ”

It was Huang Zhao's eldest disciple Xi Ying and second disciple Tao Ke, Huang Yi was overjoyed and shouted: "Okay, your brothers also give it a try, I am waiting to announce the results of the competition." ”

All the heroes gathered around to see, Xi Ying carried the six-stone stone and walked step by step along the circle drawn by the lime line. He didn't speed up, he was slow, he was steady, and he walked a thousand steps with ease. After putting down the six stones, I saw that he was breathless and sweating slightly. Everyone was convinced and praised one after another.

The second senior brother, Tao Ke, lifted the six-stone iron cable, wrapped it around his waist, and walked unhurriedly along the circle drawn by the lime line, gradually speeding up to his normal stride, and calmly left. After walking a thousand steps, I put down the iron cable, and I was slightly sweating, but the atmosphere was not breathing. The heroes applauded and immediately recorded the results of the competition.

The two brothers Xi Ying and Tao Ke passed the competition, and there were exactly twenty-eight fierce generals, Huang Yi stroked his palms and laughed, declaring: "Today at the foot of Dongting Mountain, the Tang Dynasty has obtained twenty-eight new warriors in the army, which can be called twenty-eight Xiao, and they will be enough to boast in front of their descendants in the future, and they will be invincible and invincible." ”

In the third competition, it was upgraded to a weight-bearing nine stones, and he also walked a thousand steps.

Twenty-eight Xiao wants to compete one by one, Xi Ying has just competed, and asked for a break, waiting for everyone to finish the competition.

Tauk rose to prominence and was the first to play. He also wrapped the six-stone iron cable around his waist just now, and carried three stones, walking step by step, not hurrying, after walking a thousand steps, he was soaked with sweat and trembling all over his body. After all, it was the last one to finish, and then the first one was on, without the slightest rest.

Huang Zhao was deeply afraid of the loss, so everyone rushed up, caught the three-stone stone on his shoulder, and untied the six-stone iron cable from his waist. Everyone applauded and shouted: "The power of a thousand catties, the first hero!"

Tauk didn't have time to thank him, and collapsed. Huang Zhao hurriedly ordered the guards to help him to rest on the straw mat on the side of the high platform, and told him to drink water and eat snacks.

In the meantime, even a few can't compare to the power of the nine stones. When he came to the twelfth stage, this person's name was Gu Luan, eight feet three inches long, thick arms and legs, a big head and a big face, and he spoke in an urn voice. The green beard is five feet, the tiger's back is bear's waist, and although the body size is not a big fat man, it is also enough.

In the book, it is explained that Gu Ran, the word Gong Zhuo, is a native of Shuofang County, Xiazhou, and is 28 years old this year. His grandfather was Gu Fang, the second son of the Snow Surveyor, the second son of Kong Du, who had a pot. Gu Fang is the apprentice of the bamboo and wood dealer accepted by Wangyun, and the martial arts disciple accepted by the head of the Southern Underworld Dao.

Gu Luo is the great-disciple grandson of the bamboo and wood dealer Shen Wangyun, why did he come here to participate in the warrior recruitment examination?

He inherited his father's business of selling bamboo and wood. At the age of eleven, he began to follow his grandfather Gu Fang to go south and north, carrying wood and bamboo poles to practice strength. At the age of eighteen, he was already strong, and he was good at making a bamboo copper cane, weighing seventy-eight pounds, and ordinary robbers died as soon as they were combined. But he is tightly controlled by his grandfather and generally does not kill people.

Gu rolled up and wrapped a six-stone iron rope around his waist, and put a three-stone iron rope around his neck, and walked away without hurrying. When he returned with a thousand steps, he was sweating profusely and panting, but he did not collapse.

Huang Yi was surprised and hurriedly asked about the child's family history. Gu Luo said, oh my God, the dual disciple of God and Martial Arts, no wonder he has inherited such a superb divine power, which is full of praise.

A few more tried it, but he couldn't take a step, and when he came to the mountain crack, Huang Yi and Huang Zhao pinched the sweat for him, after all, he was only an ordinary Tang man with a height of six feet eight. The mountain crack did not show weakness, he put a three-stone iron rope to his waist, carried a three-stone stone on both shoulders, and shouted: "Let's go!"

Walking steadily, every hundred steps he shouted the number of steps and laps, and his voice was extremely high, so that the people in the audience covered their ears. This guy is really a strange person, give him 3,000 people to practice, shout the trumpet, and it is estimated that no one will hear it.

After walking a thousand steps, seeing that he was sweating profusely, everyone hurriedly lifted down two stone bars, untied the iron rope around his waist, and helped him wipe his sweat. After breathing a little, Huang Yi came over to ask him for details of his family history.

The mountain is cracked, the word is open, twenty-seven years old, and the three flame forks in the palm are seventy-eight catties, which is far away from the Tu family in Shule Town. Of course, it is also a branch of the Tu clan on this side of Yanzhi Mountain, this branch is when Ban Chao of the Han Dynasty served as the chief of the Western Regions, and the ancestors followed Ban Chao to expedition to Shule Town and settled on the spot.

In order to survive, in order not to cause trouble to the ancestral land, they changed their surname to Shan, one to remember the ancestral land of Yanzhi Mountain, and the other to hide the ancestral land, and moved to Shule Town for nearly 800 years.

Shule Town is also 5,000 miles away from Suzhou, so why did he come here to sign up for Xuanmeng? Because he is also engaged in sales, and the dried apricots, walnuts, and knives that he sells in Shule's local specialties, this time they were sold out from Ganzhou, and he was about to go west to go home.

The third competition continued, and it reached the twentieth of the twenty-eight Xiao, who also seemed to be a rare hero in the world.

He called a dung, the words were dirty, and this thousand catties of wrestlers was the grandson of the eighty-first generation of the king of the mound. Sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandsons, and grandchildren are ranked down, belonging to the sixth generation, that is, the great-grandson of Tumian's grandson, who is now twenty-one years old, and Tumian is his heavenly ancestor, heavenly grandfather.

The soil dung was originally a soldier of Suzhou City, good at using a bull's head hammer, weighing eighty-two catties, and sneaked out to sign up and participate in the competition on his own initiative. Why did they come to the competition? A man joins the army, who is not for a future, who wants to be a soldier for the rest of his life? That's why he came.

This kid was eight feet five inches tall, much taller than his Heavenly Ancestor Tumian. From him, we see the family of Tumian, with father, grandfather, great-grandfather, high ancestor, and heavenly ancestor on the dung. Why is Tumian reverently called the Weak Water Narcissus?

Tumian has become a heavenly ancestor, even if there are no immortals, it is enough to make people respect as immortals.

The dung came up, directly carried a nine-stone stone stone, and slowly left, a thousand steps down, without waiting for everyone to answer, threw the stone stone forward, and the stone stone suddenly smashed into a pit more than a foot deep in the ground. When everyone wanted to move the stone back to a distant place, they could only look at the ocean and sigh, all of them were amazed.

Huang Yi came over to support this kid and shook him vigorously, but the dung did not move at all. Huang Yi asked about his origins, and the dung was briefly explained, which made Huang Yi laugh: "Boy, I have only been married to your grandfather for a few days, he is the eldest brother, and I am the second brother." ”

The words of the earth dung were like a muffled thunder, which made Huang Yi stunned. What the hell is going on?