Chapter 8: Dabi Begins
Cheng Kun took every action of the Iron Bull instructor into his eyes, it was as if he was doing a math problem and worked hard to solve it himself, but now someone demonstrated the standard answer in front of him, and the harvest can be imagined. What impressed him most about the Iron Bull Instructor's arrow was not its power, but the casualness and fluidity he showed in his movements, as if the water was flowing down naturally.
He could see that the instructor had turned archery into his instincts, and he didn't need to think twice about shooting at all. Cheng Kun believes that when he arrives on the battlefield, as long as he gives this guy a strong bow and enough arrows, he can become a death-like existence, invincible wherever he fights.
There was a hint of fanaticism in Cheng Kun's eyes, which was exactly what he was working towards.
After going back, Deng Xiaoxian found that Cheng Kun began to practice with a bow on the school field again, and it became even worse, he looked at the pile of five hundred arrows around Cheng Kun, and couldn't help but be frightened.
Cheng Kun's archery is different from the previous days, he can no longer pursue precision, but instead strive to break down each of his movements, and then gradually remove those superfluous movements when practicing, and strive to make his time for each arrow shoot shorter and shorter, and on this basis, pursue others.
Gradually, he began to learn to see less with his eyes, but more with his body to feel, not to underestimate this, if he could do it, it would completely save him a third of his time, and it could also make his movements more fluid.
And at this point, he has an advantage, after the dark energy is mastered, the pores on his arms are much more sensitive than before, and with the sound of the pores, he can do better.
At the beginning, Cheng Kun's movements were still very awkward, and the archery skills that had just improved seemed to have been beaten back to the original point again.
But Cheng Kun was not discouraged at all, he had practiced arrows for almost twenty days, and the original movements had initially formed muscle memory, and now it was normal to suddenly change it, and it was normal to be awkward, as long as it took a little time to get used to it. If you wait for him to be completely solidified, it will be difficult to change it.
But in the eyes of others, they can only see that Cheng Kun's archery skills have reached a certain level, and I don't know how many people are secretly laughing at him. After all, on the first day, Cheng Kun could say a lot of limelight, and he was called alone by the Iron Bull instructor along with the other six counties. No one is a fool, and with a little thought, they can guess how many people have been opened.
Confucius said a long time ago that if you don't suffer from few, you will suffer from inequality. Forget about those families, where did you Cheng Kun come from, why did you get such preferential treatment!
They couldn't see Cheng Kun's excellent attainments in marksmanship and the perseverance and diligence he showed when practicing archery, and they just thought that since I didn't have it, then you can't have it either. As for the privileges of the children of the family, they all take it for granted.
This kind of thinking is quite bizarre, but in their own opinion, it is perfectly normal.
If Cheng Kun knew what these people thought, he would only say one thing to them: Ma De, make a cane!!
As the clock ticked by, the January deadline was approaching, and the atmosphere in the barracks became tense. After practicing for so long, it's time to test the results. This kind of apprehension mixed with excitement is a true portrayal of many people's hearts. Many of these people are alone, and they don't have any skills, so they are especially looking forward to being able to successfully be selected into the Joyama Army.
And secretly, there is a news that began to spread quickly, a few days later, the barracks will hold a big competition, all the recruits will participate, the competition skills, the final winner can learn the secret martial arts in the barracks, and can also be awarded the official position of the tun chief!
It doesn't matter where the news came from, everyone soon knew. The news was like a spark that fell into the oil pot, and in the blink of an eye, it was boiling.
No one doesn't want to get ahead.
The secret of the barracks, it sounds very powerful. Even if your strength is limited and you can't win in the end, as long as you do your best, I believe that the chief will see your performance. Even if you can't be the tun chief, even the chief and the Wu chief can do it!!
Everyone was like being beaten with chicken blood, and whenever they had time, they went to the school field to practice swords, guns and archery.
Cheng Kun looked at this scene, grinned, speechless, he faintly felt that the news might have been released by the Tie Niu instructor himself, the purpose was to finally push these people to burst out of their potential, so that more good seedlings could be selected. He had already seen that although the guy from the Iron Bull Instructor looked like a big grin, rude and poisonous tongue, he actually had a lot of fancy intestines in his stomach.
The number of people in the school field suddenly increased, which also disrupted Cheng Kun's exercise plan somewhat, but he quickly came up with a new method.
This guy didn't go outside anymore, just in the barracks, holding a bow, imagining himself shooting an arrow, pulling the bow again and again, the bowstring vibrating, making a buzzing sound. Those who know understand that he is practicing archery, but if they don't know, they may think that he is performing under the overpass, playing cotton!
However, this simulation does help him solidify his optimized archery movements.
On the other side, Fang Han was also in penance. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he is especially good at swordsmanship, and in Shanggu County, the Fang family's Rain Storm Sword Technique is a must. It's just that the sword is light and agile, and people with superb swordsmanship must be extraordinary. This kind of weapon is more suitable for fighting in the rivers and lakes, and it will not have any advantage on the battlefield, after all, in the chaos of war, where to find space for you to toss and turn.
Therefore, after arriving at the barracks, he decisively changed his marksmanship, and there are similarities between the two, isn't there such a saying, swords are small guns, and their greatest lethality is manifested in the thorns. Therefore, Fang Han was not worried at all, if there was an old friend who thought that his strength would decline if he temporarily changed to practice the big gun, then he would definitely surprise the other party at that time.
Fang Han was full of fighting spirit, and Luo Rongjun did not relax at all. The temptation of the fight with Cheng Kun gave him a lot of stimulation.
This guy's cultivation of Shaoyang True Qi is quite advantageous when fighting with others, and the opponent must always be careful, otherwise if one is not careful, it will be easy for him to be attacked by his True Qi and burn the meridians, and the injuries of the meridians are often difficult to heal. With such distraction, it's good to be able to achieve eight out of ten percent of your efforts. So don't look at his kung fu taking a masculine path, but in fact it is quite yin.
In the past, he rarely fell behind in the competition with others, but this time he was planted in Cheng Kun's hands, which is very unpleasant to think about. Recalling the huge force from Cheng Kun's palm when the two were fighting, he also felt a faint pain in his hand. Therefore, he is also looking forward to fighting Cheng Kun again in this military camp competition, and this time, he wants Cheng Kun to have a good understanding of his Burning Sun Knife Technique.
And in the small circle of Liaodong County, there is still one person who is silently accumulating strength, waiting for the moment of blockbuster hits.
His name is Gai Yuntian, and he is a native of Xiangping County, Liaodong County. This guy has followed his father to hunt for a living since he was a child, and he has practiced an otherworldly archery, and the people from Liaodong County who came with him saw it and admired it all over. And this guy has a well-defined face, with a sense of beauty like an ancient Greek sculpture, and he is an out-and-out beautiful man, who can be said to be self-reliant, and the people around him were quickly impressed by him.
The only thing he may be inferior to others is that his background is too thin, and he has not cultivated any exercises so far, and it is precisely because of this that he is particularly eager for the secret martial arts of the military camp that he is rewarded this time, which is his ladder to the sky. He has a secret that has been hidden in his heart, when he was a child, he once mistakenly ingested a lingzhi, and the essence in his body is strong, as long as he cultivates the exercises, he can travel thousands of miles in a day.
Under the cover of night, Gai Yuntian stroked the longbow with his hand, and the touch from his fingers gave him the illusion of blending water and milk. This bow has been with him for seven years, he knows every detail of it, and as long as he has the bow in hand, he is confident that he can defeat anyone. In the darkness, his eyes sparkled, and he couldn't wait.
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A month finally passed, and the barracks Dabi arrived as scheduled.
Everyone was called to the school grounds, and Captain Tie Niu looked at the more than three thousand recruits and nodded slightly. After a month of exercise, everyone unconsciously had a little more fierce spirit, unlike when they first came, they were loose and sloppy, and they looked like stragglers.
Instructor Tie Niu glared at everyone and said directly: "I know what you want to hear, I can tell you clearly, in the military camp competition, the last three people can obtain a military martial arts, and the longer you persist in it, the better the exercises." And the last ten people can be awarded official positions, the highest canton, the lowest chief. If you want to get ahead, then exchange the knives and guns in your hands!"
The thunderous sound spread throughout the school field, everyone heard it clearly, their eyes were a little red, and their nostrils were panting, such an opportunity was really rare, and it was worth everyone's best to fight.
The first item of Dabi is very simple, that is, to test how well everyone has practiced swords, guns, and archery skills this month, and those who are qualified can be selected into the Dingshan Army and qualified to enter the next link. Those who are not qualified will be directly eliminated and transferred to other counties and counties in Youzhou to serve as local troops, and the military salary treatment can be said to be far worse than that of the Dingshan Army.
As long as one of the three skills is passed, you can pass. The standard of marksmanship is 10 steps to pierce armor, the sword rule is to fight against a shield-wielding veteran, which can break through his defenses or last more than five minutes, and the simplest archery technique is to open a stone bow and shoot a bull's-eye 50 paces away.
Nearly half of them chose the marksmanship test, two-thirds of the rest chose the knife technique, and only the last third chose archery.
Cheng Kun naturally chose the gun, and under the gaze of a veteran, he held the gun in one hand, and stepped forward directly, and with a crisp shot, he penetrated a pair of half-body armor made of fine iron in front of him, and successfully got out of the line.
After it was over, Cheng Kun ran to the others in Jinyang County to see if they were doing well.
Deng Xiaoxian also chose a gun, although his strength was weak, but under Cheng Kun's teaching, he also learned how to use force correctly, so he also passed without danger.
Hong Chao, a big man, chose the test of knife skills, in order to prevent the soldiers from being injured, the barracks issued wooden knives, and at most they were bruises when they were chopped on people, and they couldn't die.
The veteran who was in charge of testing Hong Chao was a little thin and his skin was a little dark, and at first glance he looked a little like an old farmer in a crop field, but the faint murderous aura in his eyes revealed his identity. The veteran held a half-meter-long wooden shield in his hand, covering the vital points of his body tightly, and then signaled with his eyes that Hong Chao could start.
Hong Chao shouted angrily, holding the knife in both hands, slashing from top to bottom, the veteran shield was raised, accurately parrying the knife, and at the same time taking a step back, unloading the excess strength, and then reorganizing the defense, the action was skillful, and the parry was just right. Hong Chao was not discouraged, but slashed one after another, slashing at the veteran's wooden shield, back and forth with such a move, and the momentum was quite wild.
Finally, after eight knives, the veteran could not bear the power of the shield, his hands trembled, and he could no longer grasp the shield, so that it fell to the ground, and the test passed.
Hong Chao can be said to be completely overwhelming people with force, and there is no technical content at all, but this method is just right for him.