Since Zhao Mingding and the army were not familiar with the army, they followed Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu to Guangzhou by boat, and Su Liu Yitong infantry of 50,000 marched to Guangzhou from the land. The land and water armies were all changed into the uniforms and flags of the Yuan army.

Because the Yuan army has always had the advantage and is overwhelming against the Song army on the battlefield, it was impossible to imagine that the Song army would counterattack, so the Song army, wearing the clothing of the Yuan army, easily entered the city of Guangzhou and successfully took Guangzhou. From then on, the Song army gained a firm foothold in Guangdong and ended the situation of passive flight.

Came to Guangzhou Mansion, when everyone arrived, Zhang Shijie began to assign tasks, Zhang Bao was appointed as the chief dispatcher of soldiers and horses, and Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu stayed in the town of the Chinese army, and Zhao Mingding was appointed as the commander of the elite cavalry, responsible for forming a 50,000-strong elite cavalry, and the official worshiped the vanguard. He Caishan was appointed as the commander of the infantry and commanded a 50,000-strong infantry as Zhao Mingding's backup and was responsible for responding. Huang Li naturally followed Zhang Bao.

After the personnel and troops sent to various important towns in Guangdong were deployed, Zhang Shijie turned his head and asked Zhao Mingding: "General, when do you want to start the selection of elite cavalry?" ”

"If it's convenient, I'd like to start right away!" Zhao Mingding replied.

"Inform the soldiers left behind to take turns to enter the examination hall for Jin Yu Zhenjun to select strong men!" Zhang Shijie ordered, and at the same time turned his head to me and asked, "I don't know how the general is selected?" ”

"My method is very simple: those who can lift a sixty-pound stone lock with one hand, and a sixty-pound iron spear with both hands will stay." Zhao Mingding replied.

"Okay, according to the general's opinion!" Zhang Shijie replied happily.

When I arrived at the school ground, I saw that the sergeants to be selected had already lined up for a long time. Everyone sat down, and the selection began.

The rules set in front were: Those who can lift a sixty-pound stone lock with one hand and wield a sixty-pound iron spear with both hands should stay. Therefore, the first item of the assessment is: lifting a 60-pound stone lock with one hand. Those who passed the level of lifting the stone lock went to dance the sixty-pound iron spear. Those who pass go to the registration office to register and wait for the assessment again, and those who do not pass go to the other side to return to the team.

Stone locks originated in the Tang Dynasty military camp. Soldiers often used stone locks, stone burdens, etc. to exercise their bodies, which later spread to the people and evolved into a traditional competitive event integrating strength, skill and fitness. When practicing martial arts, people often use stone locks to train grip strength, wrist strength, arm strength, waist and leg strength. The stone lock lifting method mainly includes snatch and swing lift, with forward throw, reverse throw, straddle throw, back throw and other throwing methods and hand, finger, elbow, shoulder, head and other ways to form a variety of suit actions. The small stone lock is mainly based on suit movements, which can be practiced by men, women and children, while the large stone lock of more than 20 kilograms is mainly used to train strength.

Basically, a person who can lift a sixty-pound stone lock with one hand has no problem dancing a sixty-pound iron spear with both hands.

After preliminary screening, only 30,000 of the 80,000 sergeants passed, less than 40 percent of the total number.

After the first round of screening, the 30,000 people who passed basically formed a fine cavalry team. Now in the second round of assessment, the officers of the elite cavalry are selected.

The elite cavalry of 50,000 men was divided into five columns, each with 10,000 men. Each column is divided into 10 brigades, and each brigade is divided into 10 squads, and each squad is divided into 10 groups, each of which has 10 people, all of whom have principal and deputy positions.

A total of 70 officers will be selected, and basically those who are strong in kung fu will be given priority, and only the chief and deputy column commanders will be given priority in those with command ability.

After increasing the weight of the stone lock lifted with one hand, the 70 officers to be selected were quickly selected, and after the interview, Zhao Mingding only selected the candidates for the chief and deputy column commanders, and the column commanders arranged for approval for positions below the captain of the brigade.

The officers are selected, the soldiers are arranged, and then the officers take up their posts, and the elite cavalry team is successfully formed. Next, it's time to intensify your training.

In order to establish prestige and absolute leadership, on the eve of the first formal training, Zhao Mingding gathered all the elite cavalry team to the examination school, erected a log weighing about 100 catties in the center of the examination school, and ordered: Among the soldiers, those who can move this wood by 100 meters will be rewarded with one or two silver.

However, the entire examination hall was silent and no one played.

"Those who can move this wood for 100 meters will be awarded two taels of silver!" Zhao Mingding increased the amount of the award.

Still no one played.

"Those who can move this wood by 100 meters will be rewarded with three taels of silver!" Zhao Mingding increased the prize again.

Still no one is on the ......

When the prize was increased to ten taels of silver, a soldier finally couldn't bear it, and under the gaze of everyone, he went up and carried the wood on his shoulders a hundred meters away, and re-established it on the ground.

Zhao Mingding immediately gave the ten taels of silver award to this soldier.

Seeing that the promise was fulfilled, the soldiers who did not play at the bottom began to talk about it, lamenting that they had lost a good opportunity to get rich.

The second game is arranged for a competition, and those who can defeat the captain of the first column will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, limited to the first three who are the first to challenge.

Due to the excitement of the first game, the three candidates for this second challenge immediately stood up, namely the captains of the third column, the fourth column and the fifth column. The result was that the captain of the fifth column lost. Fifty taels of silver were immediately distributed to the captain of the fifth column.

The third arrangement is: In the elite cavalry team, if anyone can split the hundred-pound wood standing in the examination hall within one move, he will be awarded one hundred taels of silver.

As soon as these words came out, the entire examination hall was boiling, everyone wanted to get the reward of one hundred taels of silver, and a few soldiers who thought they were extremely skilled came to the field to try, and they all ended in failure, and they drooped their heads and went down.

"How is it possible to split this wood in one move? Unless it's a god! ”

"I guess it's hard for the gods to split this wood in one move!"

…………

People's chatters were endless, and their eyes were fixed on the hundred-pound wood in the examination hall, not believing that anyone could split it in one move.

"Is anyone else willing to give it a try?" Zhao Mingding asked loudly.

"No more!" Everyone replied in unison.

"Is it possible for this wood to split in one move?" Zhao Mingding asked loudly again.

"Impossible!" Everyone replied in unison again.

"Okay, I'll open everyone's eyes today!" Zhao Mingding shouted, "Please take a good look!" With that, he raised his right palm, and slashed it violently from top to bottom, and saw a flash of golden light, and the wood was cut by him like a watermelon. Just when the wood that had been split in half was about to fall, Zhao Mingding's right hand was horizontal, and he cut another palm from left to right, and the golden light flashed again, blocking the waist and splitting the wood. In the blink of an eye, the whole piece of wood was split into four pieces.

The entire examination room was silent for a long time before thunderous applause broke out for a long time......

The Art of War: Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Therefore, if you want to defeat the Yuan army completely, you must have a comprehensive understanding of the Yuan army.

The reason why the cavalry of the Yuan army was invincible in the world was that they had the longest-range and most lethal combined bows and arrows at that time. The pull force of this bow and arrow was between fifty and seventy-five kilograms, and it was short enough to be used by cavalry, and the killing range was up to three hundred meters. If the arrows were equipped with sharp metal arrows, they could penetrate the thickest armor, and with the mobility of the Mongol cavalry, the Mongols could cross Europe and Asia without being stopped.

The cavalry of the Yuan army was best at what the ancient Romans called the "Sabbatical Archery Method", in which the mounted archers shot arrows at the enemy in the rear while fleeing. The essence of this tactic is as follows: first, to attack the enemy from a long distance; the second is to continue to attack the enemy; The third is not to give the enemy a chance to fight back. No matter how strong the enemy's spirit and armor may be under such an attack, it is only a matter of time before it completely collapses.

There is a more important point, which is the Mongolian horse, the mount of the Yuan army. This Mongolian horse lives in the wild regardless of the cold and heat, has a strong endurance, and can travel for days without food and grass when necessary, and this horse is not a picky eater, and can find food anytime and anywhere. Since horses did not have to carry fodder on the march, and soldiers brought their own food and equipment, often with minimal supplies, the Mongol army did not need to tow a large logistical supply convoy or keep a rear supply base. Since most of the Mongolian war horses were mares, the soldiers were able to live on mare's milk, thus also reducing the burden of food supplies for the army. At the same time, the mobility of the Mongol army was greatly enhanced.

"Avoid the real and the false, destroy the enemy's living forces, go north to recover the old land, and drive out the Tartars." According to this operational policy, the Song army marched up from the coast of Guangdong and attacked all the way to Lin'an. When passing through Quanzhou, he killed Pu Shougeng, an Arab merchant of the former Southern Song Dynasty in Quanzhou City, and avenged the Southern Song Dynasty clans and scholars who were killed by Pu Shougeng.

When the Southern Song Dynasty army hit Lin'an, there were 800,000 horses, so they put on a horn momentum, approached Lin'an City, and sent Jiang Cheng to lead 200,000 horses to make a detour, copy its back road, and besiege Lin'an City. At this point, the Yuan army that attacked the Song Dynasty was leaderless and was broken by each one. Seeing that the Song army was unstoppable, the Yuan army retreated all the way.

Lin'an was lost and regained, the Southern Song Dynasty army was sufficient, the Yuan army was defeated and retreated, and the remaining thing was to recover the lost territory, so after formulating the combat policy of "mobilizing the people and resisting the Yuan Dynasty" for Zhang Shijie for the last time, Zhao Mingding and his entourage said goodbye to Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu.

Just like walking in the yin, there is a time limit for those who walk in the yin, often the time of a pillar of incense, so the time travel of Zhao Mingding and his party also has a certain time limit, otherwise, I really want to dig out the capital of the Yuan Dynasty and drive them all back to the desert.

Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu saw that Zhao Mingding and his entourage were resolute and couldn't be reluctant, so they had to gather the emperor and set up a banquet to see them off.