Niu Dalang held a spear in his hand, with one hand flat and the other behind the hand flat, and trotted forward.
The gun must be flat, the hands must be yin and yang, hold it without vomiting, and keep your eyes on the target!
Niu Dalang kept repeating in his heart, reminding himself.
After running more than ten steps, he leaned down to the front of the left and pierced about three feet away.
The spear tip trembled slightly and pierced into the straw and wooden stake. Then it was quickly pulled out again. Following its owner, it continued to move forward a few steps and pierced again to the upper end of a higher wooden stake on the right.
Finally, Niu Dalang held the spear and, with the last shout of "kill", plunged into a target about four feet high.
"Pass!" The instructor on the side glanced at the stress of the wooden stake, nodded, and shouted loudly, "Next! No. 37!"
Niu Dalang stood up with a spear toward the sky, then saluted slightly to the instructor, and circled back to the starting point from the edge of the venue.
This is a recruit training camp outside Chang'an.
Niu Dalang has been here for training for a while and is undergoing the assessment of training for new recruits.
I don’t know if it was because he was used to farming, but he prefers long-handled weapons, such as spears. This made him feel familiar, as if he was still farming.
Some of the friends who joined the army with him chose to be like him, while others became other troops.
Niu Dalang's current instructor is Li Er. It is said that he has been on the battlefield, actually killed the enemy, and has also won merits...
Sometimes, Niu Dalang couldn't help but look forward to it, it would be great if he could be like an instructor. But he didn't know whether this desire was to have the same combat skills as instructor Li Er, or to obtain the same post-war treatment as Li Er, or to have both.
The training of recruits will be over soon, and the next step of distribution or dismissal will be made according to the training situation.
Yes, there are some people who have been severed.
That is, many items are not qualified.
People always have their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are good at doing this, and some are good at doing that. The same is true in recruit camps. Some are good at fighting swords, some are like long spears like Niu Dalang, or there are also flexible bodies. They are preparing to join the cavalry ranks very early, and some are strong and powerful, and can wear heavy armor and get thick shields, etc.
Different.
But the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. Most of the recruits are working hard. Some people are brave enough to lie down. They can neither endure hardship nor be willing to learn. They can do better, but they just mess around. It is said that they violate the military rules, but they can't talk about it. After all, they can do exercises and practice training, and they can do whatever they want. They are just that they have very strong strength and are only willing to use five or six points, or three or four points.
Although Niu Dalang likes to use long spears the most, he also practices swords and shields, and also bows and arrows, which require extra time, energy and physical strength. Although Niu Dalang's swords and shields and bows and arrows may not be as good as those who specialize in swords and shields or bows and arrows, at least in the event of an emergency in the battle formation, he can also use them when picking up swords and shields and bows and arrows, and he will not be at a loss at all.
And those who lie down just fulfill the most basic requirements, and not being punished is the biggest goal of these people.
Niu Dalang looked down on those people a little. Niu Dalang believed that this was the same as arable land. It would only take a lot of money to pay for the arable land and sweat to get a lot of reward. He didn't work hard in training and didn't even want to sweat. Why didn't he go to heaven?
Similarly, the instructors look down on them, so these people will be dismissed after the training of the recruits and take some money to go home. No troops will ask them for them.
Nowadays, there is really no shortage of people joining the army.
The training of recruits is actually very hard. At the beginning, you have to remember a lot, including flags, commands, text arithmetic, and even weapons that you must be familiar with...
It's like a small mark with a triangle raised triangle on the wooden handle of a spear, which indicates the direction of the spear head. If you grab the spear in the absence of light and darkness at all, just reach out and touch the middle of the wooden pole and you can know where the spear head is. If you don't know the direction of the spear head, you may reach out and touch the head and tail, or weigh the weight of the spear. And through such a small mark, remember that Niu Dalang and other new recruits can act as an assassination at the first moment of catching the spear.
Sometimes, in the battle formation, life and death are just a little time gap.
Niu Dalang returned to the end of the queue again.
One subject must be taken three times.
You must pass all three times and then take the average value.
The three wooden stakes represent lower thorns, flat thorns, and upper thorns. They are used to deal with half-armored, non-armored or light-armored units, as well as heavy armored units all over the body, legs, chest, and throat.
The gun should be fired quickly, the force should be harsh, and the landing point should be accurate. This is the basic requirement.
There is no fancy posture in fighting on the battlefield. For spearmen, there are three kinds of stabbing methods.
Since entering the recruit camp, Niu Dalang has become much stronger. Although training is very hard, he eats much better than at home. He doesn’t have to worry about other things, just need to train well.
In another examination room next to him, someone screamed, which attracted Niu Dalang's attention.
That is the assessment site for the sword and shield.
Although the knife and shield also have a thorn movement, the biggest difference between them and spearmen is that they hold the left and right hands, which makes Niu Dalang's hands that have been holding the hoe and rake for a long time and are used to holding the same long handle and working hard in the same direction. It is somewhat difficult to adapt to. Therefore, Niu Dalang is particularly envious of those guys whose hands can use force in different directions and are all very smooth.
There was another shout next to him. A new recruit from the sword and shield lifted up his big shield, pressed him on his shoulder, and pushed forward. In order to simulate the situation where the sword and shield hand squeezed each other on the front line, there was a heavy object tied to the sword and shield hand's shield. He had to push fifty steps in one breath, and the shield was not left, and he could not land to be considered qualified.
It may not be necessary to advance as far as fifty steps on the battlefield, but in the battle formation, most of the physical strength may be consumed when you advance, and it is not in the best state, so it is still necessary to increase the distance.
The new recruit of the sword and shield advanced fifty steps. When he arrived at the first wooden stake, he lifted the shield upwards, and then stabbed the sword with his left hand hard from under the shield...
Niu Dalang felt a little cold between his legs and couldn't help but tighten it. When he was fighting each other in the recruit camp, he suffered a great loss...
Of course, at that time, both sides were covered with long sticks and short sticks with a tip, which was not very lethal. But even so, I couldn't get up for a long time after I got it, let alone now, it was replaced by a sword, which made Niu Dalang feel that the stabbed wooden stake was so pitiful...
On the battlefield, what we pursue is simple and directness, and it is not easy for veterans to survive.
Thinking of the veteran, Niu Dalang couldn't help but turn his eyes further away.
There is a veteran's test...
In the distance, Wei Yan and Ma Yan were standing on a high platform, watching a group of soldiers under the stage passing through off-road obstacles.
"Have a mission?" Ma Yan asked softly.
Wei Yan raised his eyebrows and denied, "No. It's just practical training... first test, then pick out some, and go to Wuguan to train...
Ma Yan smiled, then stroked his white beard, "I understand. Practical training."
Wei Yan glanced at Ma Yan with a squint eyes, then shook his head.
This is how veterans are. Even if they don’t say anything, they seem to be able to smell the breath of war from the air...
…(?·??··?)??…
Under the city of Wuguan.
The night is filled with darkness.
"From Wuguan to Qianshao Junzhai, all of them are mountain roads! There is an official road, which takes ten days to walk normally." Wei Yan stood in front of the array and said in a deep voice, "But they are ordinary soldiers! What are we? They are elites! Isn't it a joke to follow the official road for ten days?!"
Wei Yan wanted to use Wuguandao to train troops.
The structure of training is to bring out elites with elites.
Of course, the training place for mountain soldiers is in the mountains.
"Each person only brings dry food for five days! Put down all the other things that are not related to the battle, and all the gifts and backpacks are left in the camp." Wei Yan looked around and shouted loudly, "Anyone who is sick, physically poor, cannot walk, and those who feel that they are unable to do so will leave the list! You can temporarily stay in Wuguan and be impunitive!"
The queue was quiet and no one stood up.
Wei Yan waved, "The team leader checked! If there are any physical injuries, all the sick stayed! Stay in Wuguan to recover from the injury! This is an order!"
Several team leaders were stunned for a moment, then took the order and walked into the queue. After a moment, several soldiers were pulled out by the team leaders.
"General! I'm a minor injury! It's not a problem! It's not a problem..."
A soldier was pulled out due to injury and seemed to want to give up. He just shouted loudly and wanted to return to the queue.
Wei Yan took a breath, walked up, arrived before the soldier, looked down, "How did you get hurt?"
"Hehe, a small injury, it's okay, general..." the soldier said with a smile.
The team leader said on the side: "Report to the general, he was responsible for training in leading the recruits two days ago. Some recruits accidentally made mistakes in the process... He was on the side and reached out to rescue... and then was injured...
Wei Yan nodded, and then said to the soldier: "What did you think at that time? Why did you go to save the new recruit?"
"Ah?" the soldier said, "Why? No, it's all the comrades fighting..."
Wei Yan smiled, "All of them are all in the same clothes... You know, you can do it. Could it be that I am not as good as you? I stayed in Wuguan for a long time to recover from my injuries! When will the injury be healed? Come and find someone again! This is an order!"
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then stood up and answered, "Yes!"
Wei Yan walked back to the stage, "I stressed again that if there are any physical injuries and those who are sick are left behind!"
Several team leaders looked at each other, and then they got into the queue and pulled some soldiers out of the line.
Wei Yan nodded then, then waved his hand and "Set out!"
The commands are issued in turn, and the queue begins to move.
Some veterans followed the queue and muttered, "The general is a little different..."
"What do you mean?" asked the soldiers on the other side.
『I said, the general was not so strict before...』 The veteran said, 『Although he had said he was injured before, he would not stop him even if he wanted to follow him...』
"This is...but this is also a good thing, isn't it...
The veteran nodded and smiled: "That's right. Of course it's a good thing..."
"Leave, leave, keep up!"
The team leader waved his hand and urged them, and the soldiers stopped saying anything, but moved forward silently.
As the treatment of soldiers by the General of the Cavalry increased, the number of soldiers with night blindness gradually decreased. Even if there were new recruits who suffered from previous malnutrition, they would be treated and relieved in the recruit training camp. As for Wei Yan, who brought these mountain soldiers, there was basically no trouble with night blindness.
There is a bright moon shining in the sky. Follow the mountain roads and the army will move forward. You only need to add some torches to the dangerous places and bends to shine, and there will be no big problem.
The order Wei Yan issued to these people was a practical exercise, and he also claimed it to the outside world. However, like Ma Yan, these veterans all smelled some different aura, and they were a little excited in their eyebrows and eyes.
It’s okay to train. If there is really a battle, it means there is a military merit to be obtained!
It has been a long time since there has been no war. No matter whether it is the itchy hands, the heart is even more itchy.
Many soldiers have already started to calculate how much military merit they need to accumulate promotion...
The moonlight and starlight in the night gently outline the surrounding mountains.
With these meager lights, Wei Yan led his soldiers to the mountains, as if he was integrated with these mountains. Outside the steel armor, he put on a gray-black battle robe, so that when the collision accidentally would not cause loud metal sounds. So although some small sounds were heard, they did not appear very abrupt. If you could not get closer, you could not even find these quiet and rushing troops.
The team leader and chief Qu walked on both sides of the queue, taking care of their respective guards and convenient for accepting orders.
Wuguan Road is a relatively mature mountain road. Liu Bang walked this mountain road in the early Han Dynasty. After three or four hundred years of continuous development, although Wuguan Road cannot be considered wide now, there is no problem with caravans and ordinary walking.
The elite soldiers Wei Yan brought with him did not have any titaniums. Although titaniums can prevent soldiers from making a sound, they will also cause certain breathing difficulties for soldiers. Therefore, only soldiers need to be well-trained, so there is no need to bite the titanium when marching at night.
The one who walked in front was Wei Yanhe's elite scouts.
As the vanguard of the entire army, these elite scouts are good at detecting situations and use whistles or the chirping of birds and beasts to signal the soldiers behind. These contact signals were a little confused at first. After all, it was just an agreement between the team at the beginning, but after the integration of the military academy, a standard was gradually formed.
After resting halfway, the entire army began to enter the mountain from a mountain pass, left the official road and turned into a ravine, and then generally maintained the direction southward. The road became difficult to move, and people were constantly tripped by stones and piles of soil. The team leader waited for the middle and grassroots non-commissioned officers to whisper to remind him that all the soldiers were concentrating and staring at the person in front of them, and then followed them to step on that position, so that they would not have to spend too much energy and effort to choose a safe step.
The speed dropped.
Wei Yan stood on the edge of this mountain road and watched the soldiers pass by.
There were shrubs and grass on both sides. Because of the arrival of soldiers, the worms that were originally singing among the bushes had closed their mouths. Only in the woods and grasses on the mountains farther away, occasionally with some green eyes flashed.
Some things are usually jackals or coyotes, but those with no movement are big cats and kittens...
These guys.
Wei Yan snorted coldly in his heart.
If you really dare to come, you may not be able to defend yourself first. There will inevitably be some casualties in soldiers, but the subsequent counterattack of soldiers will make these guys unable to bear it!
People in later generations have no ability to resist in front of big cats and kittens. It does not mean that people in later generations have worse physical fitness than those in ancient times - well, maybe it is indeed worse. After all, sitting every day without exercising, the three highs and other things are standard - and the most important thing is armor.
Even when people in later generations were hunting, they rarely wore armor.
With armor and without armor, it is the difference between heaven and earth in the era of cold weapons.
Just like in later generations, some people wore shark-proof armor in the sea. When they encountered sharks, they would mostly survive even if they didn’t fight back. However, if they did not wear special shark-proof armor, then as long as the shark opened its mouth and bit it, they would be finished.
The same is true now.
If there were no excellent armor provided by General Husband, even a general with high martial arts skills like Wei Yan might not dare to face these beasts head-on, but with the armor-stomach shield, it would be different.
No matter how good your teeth are, you can't get rid of iron, right?
It's not a Chinese divine beast.
So the beasts peeking in the distance all chose to leave. Maybe they knew that there was meat in the can of iron, but if they couldn't open the can of iron, they would hurt themselves.
Wei Yan watched the wild beasts who didn't know what they were leaving, and the feeling of being peeped and stared gradually dissipated, and a little boldness emerged in his heart.
These places may have been the territory of those beasts, but now I have brought my soldiers here, and this is my territory!
In fact, Wei Yan also knew that these big cats and kittens may not really give in, but they may feel that they are not easy to hunt, so they just chose other prey, and they didn't mean to waste time with humans.
Mountain paths are generally not the territory of these big cats and kittens, because mountain paths are basically considered public areas, even mountain paths that are rarely visited. On the contrary, if Wei Yan led his soldiers deep into the woodland, if these big cats and kittens in the mountains feel that their territory has been violated, they may not be so easy to talk to.
The thinking of wild beasts is very simple. Territory, not territory, easy to hunt, and difficult to hunt. They all have a very direct standard and make decisions very straightforward, unlike some people...
Wei Yan's eyes turned to the south.
If someone really doesn't know the good or bad situation and doesn't know the comparison of strength, then he doesn't mind being like a killer hidden in the mountains and forests, finding the right time, suddenly rushing out, stirring up blood mist in the sky!