Chapter 134: Winning the Bid
Today is the Feilongwei Winning Competition, and everyone in the school field is inexplicably excited.
The "standard" of competition is the steed with shiny fur in the stable!
The Horse Warden sent a total of 1,500 military horses to the Wyvern Guard twice, but it was not enough.
First of all, Wu Yang and a group of commanders and battalion commanders must be matched with horses, his pro-army camp does not have to say that everyone must have horses to ride, and in addition, the horse exploration camp needs everyone to have two horses, and then there are 1,500 soldiers of the dragoon army. The nine commands, firearms battalions, and even the battalions and logistics quartermasters of the Dragon Fierce Army all need to be equipped with a certain number of war horses, and once there is a war, they also need to be equipped with a large number of horses, mules and horses.
There are many monks and little porridge, and the conventions in the army are fought for according to their abilities!
"Today, there are 1,200 horses as the lottery headers, and each round is marked with 30 horses, and the top three in the race can each pick 10 horses in order of ranking. The competition is divided into four events: horseback riding, archery, stone lock and wall climbing, except for the general's personal battalion not participating in the bidding, a total of 15 teams participated in the winning bid today, and the number of participants in each team shall not exceed 40 people! - Did you hear all the rules? β
"Hear me clearly!"
Qiao Zhenyu was very satisfied with the thunderous response below: "Next, please give the main lecture!" β
Wu Yang walked to the front, and the eyes of the generals below radiated an eager light like a wolf!
"Listen to the whole army, my Great Song army respects force, and the Flying Dragon Guard does not raise mediocre people! If you want to ride the fastest horse, drink the strongest wine, get the most money, enjoy the best treatment, and win the greatest glory, then come on, take out your real skills to the general, who is the coward, who is the hero, see the real chapter on the field! In addition, Ben will announce that the team that won the first place today, in addition to the military horses, Ben will be rewarded with a separate cash of 100 taels of silver, and the bottom team will be punished for cleaning the stables for a month! Go ahead! β
The bottom of the promise was violently agreed, and with Wu Yang's order, the players of each team walked towards their respective competition venues surrounded by robes.
There was originally an archery range on the west side of the school field, which happened to be used as a competition venue at this time; The horseback riding competition is about speed, still starting from the stable and ending at the point, and the handymen at the stable are making various preparations under the leadership of Su Hong and Mu Nan; In the center of the school field, there are more than a dozen stone locks in the middle of the school field, and the soldiers who participate in the competition are lifted in turn, and whoever lifts the most stone locks and holds on for the longest time is the winner!
The wall opposite the Dianjiangtai is repaired much higher than other places, one is the Xiushui River outside the wall, and the opposite side is the craftsman camp, there are big girls and little daughters-in-law in and out, and the army is full of energetic and strong men, it is inevitable that some charming thoughts will be born, in order to prevent one or two, simply build the wall along the river to be extraordinarily tall, and put an end to the vision and thoughts that should not be on both sides of the river.
In addition, it was also used as a training ground for siege and plundering. In all dynasties, "ascending to the first" is the heaviest military feat, rewarding soldiers for not fearing death, and willing to risk arrows to attack the city wall!
It is not easy to compete for the first "ascendant" in the siege war, take the Great Song Dynasty as an example, the city walls are built extraordinarily tall, in order to defend the enemy from ascending the city, there is a raised "horse face" at the highest part of the city wall, if there is no little bit of strength to make the ability to climb over the "horse face", do not want to compete for the first work!
Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty has a special branch in the army, called "jumping", often select those with slender and powerful fingers to train as jumping soldiers, they follow behind the fierce soldiers, carrying a long rope, in front of the last pass, stretch out their slender fingers, with the help of a little bulge or slit on the city wall, the body swings and shakes, climbs over the horse face, climbs the city wall, pulls down the long rope, and responds to the robe!
Especially when attacking some cottage military forts, you can give full play to the advantages and role of the jumping soldiers!
In addition to seizing military horses, the officers and men were most interested in the firearms battalion, and since the chief and deputy battalion commanders of the firearms battalion personally picked them out, they have never appeared in the big school field, nor have they been seen doing any training alone.
Today, there were only 20 people in the firearms battalion, led by their chief and deputy battalion commanders, and one by two held their chests high, so angry that everyone saluted them everywhere they passed!
Lin Lang and Cui Tianyou are also observing this team, and today they are relieved to show their strength in the competition and win the first place in the whole army. Both of them are elites, and they have an understanding of the personnel and strength of each participating team, and make targeted arrangements, claiming to be nine out of ten. Only this mysterious firearms battalion, the two of them couldn't hear anything, and they were even warned by the general!
"Brother Lang, I inquired, the firearms battalion only signed up for horseback riding and shooting. Oh, look at Deputy Battalion Commander Jiang's team, what they are carrying on their shoulders must be the secret weapon of the firearms battalion! β
Lin Lang and Cui Tianyou looked at Xie Laowei's eyes, and sure enough, they saw that Jiang Conglin and the soldiers behind him were carrying a thing wrapped in cloth on their shoulders.
Lin Lang bumped Jiang Conglin with his shoulder: "Old Jiang, Brother Jiang, what are you mysterious and secret?" Open your brother's eyes! β
Jiang Conglin shook off his dishonest hand: "Go, if you want to open your eyes and wait for the game, you will know it, now you give me to be honest, and then stir it up, be careful to eat the leader's rank!" β
Lin Lang was just about to speak, when there was a commotion next to him, it turned out that the battalion and the quartermaster logistics office had actually invited the general's personal battalion as their own foreign aid.
"It's good to say that the general's pro-military camp won't participate, what are you doing like this?"
"Do you want to give us a way to live? It's not fair, find the master to reason! β
"That's it, the end of the pro-military camp, what else is going on with us? I'm afraid I won't even be able to get leftovers! β
The soldiers were noisy and shouting that they were going to go to Wu Yang for comment, and they couldn't afford to be courteous and humble when it came to their own interests. The army is like this, one step behind may be beaten everywhere, and the risk of losing one's life on the battlefield is not much higher!
Life is at stake, who dares not to fight?
"What's the noise? What's wrong with the pro-barracks helping my quartermaster logistics department to fight? Didn't the rice you eat, the military uniforms you wear, and the money you will receive in the future come from our military logistics office? I'm too embarrassed to make a noise, I didn't ask you to help me fight, it's okay, it's still noisy! β
There are not many horses allocated by the Quartermaster Logistics Department, and they can be directly retained, since the general wants to use this to train the troops and add a little vitality and cohesion to the army, Qiao Zhenyu naturally wants to have fun. But the quartermaster logistics department is all civilian officials, and there are three or two small shrimp running errands, and he doesn't want to lose too ugly, so he seconded some good hands from Wu Yang's personal guard camp to help, and Fu Quan of the battalion is an old man in front of Wu Yang, and he also borrowed the pro-military camp to fill himself with a faΓ§ade, Wu Yang also personally instructed Mu Yuan to lead the team to help the old man after Wu Yang knew!
Qiao Zhenyu's words made everyone lose their temper, and they all looked at Fu Quan.
Fu Quan smiled and said: "If there are no horses in the battalion, and the rations cannot be supplied, don't rely on me if the military masters are hungry!" β
The soldiers were no longer noisy, and everyone had a hateful expression. Qiao Zhenyu is not used to it: "How can you be unconvinced?" See you on the field! In the future, when the two armies face each other, do you still expect the enemy to tell you fairness? Dream! β
A gong sounds, and the winning bid officially begins!
Shi Xiaoyu sent her grandfather Shi Nanting back, the four competition venues were already overcrowded, she couldn't squeeze into the circle at all, and she was so anxious that she stomped her feet!
Changji was watching the excitement here at the horse race, he knew that Shi Xiaoyu would definitely come here, and greeted: "Xiaoyu, come here, I have left a seat for you!" β
Since Wu Yang ordered the mandarin duck spectrum, Chang Ji Suo has called her "Xiaoyu" before and after, Shi Xiaoyu was extremely annoyed, and said a few times, he still did not change his life, and still called "Xiaoyu is long and Xiaoyu is short".
Shi Xiaoyu wanted to leave angrily, but when she remembered her grandfather's words, she stomped her foot and simply walked over and sat down on the chair that Changji had left for her.
Shi Nanting stayed in Feilongwei for five days, and he was not idle for a moment during these five days, while helping to raise horses and let them adapt to the new environment as soon as possible, while teaching some experience in horse breeding and horse training to the stable, as well as some common horse diseases and injuries, attracting a large number of soldiers to come and observe.
When Wu Yang heard about it, he simply summoned the whole army to gather to listen to his lecture after completing a day's training. Shi Nanting did not hide his selfishness, and taught the Shi family's experience in raising and training horses in the past dynasties, which won the unanimous respect of the Feilongwei, and even some mustard for Shi Xiaoyu disappeared.
War horses are not only mounts, but also partners and comrades-in-arms.
On weekdays, they rely on each other, and they share life and death on the battlefield!
The higher the tacit understanding between the soldier and the war horse, the greater the chance of surviving on the battlefield, and the more likely it is to survive in a desperate situation! What an ancestral skill means to a person or a family, these former pirates who have lived by the sea for generations and made a living from fishing know better than anyone else!
Shi Nanting is willing to give everything, firstly, to repay Wu Yang's kindness, and secondly, to ask everyone to take care of Shi Xiaoyu. Regardless, this is a feat ahead of its time!
When he left, several carts loaded with horse material were full of Haizhou's native products, which was a little respect for Feilongwei.
Shi Xiaoyu is Shi Nanting's only relative in the world, looking at Shi Xiaoyu's loss and escape these days, the old man wanted to persuade but didn't know where to start, and finally he sighed and told his granddaughter: "Yu'er, you are old, you have your own ideas about everything, and grandpa will not interfere with you too much." What I want to advise you is that if you get married, when choosing a husband, you can't just stare at the high bright moon, but bow your head to find the most solid support! If you want to stand side by side with a man, you can't escape everything, if you can't even cross such a small hurdle, grandpa will persuade you to put out your thoughts, the light of the bright moon may be able to illuminate a small grass in the mountains and forests, but it can never change the distance between them! β
Shi Xiaoyu smiled at Changji: "Commander Gu, who do you think can win the jackpot today?" β