Lu Ming

Naturally, there are guards in front of the barracks.Seeing those short and sturdy green-coated soldiers carrying rifles with bayonets attached, none of these men who came to join the army dared to cause trouble.

After going through the initial discomfort with the weird clothes and short hair, now any normal person in Tianjin can see that this is a strong army.That kind of military style that has been rigorously trained all the year round cannot be pretended, so the warriors who came today, even if they are rebellious on weekdays, will not naturally withdraw in front of this strong army who is probably Cao Zongbing's family. Gave prestige.

Following the instructions of the guards in front of the gate, the three of Mei Fuxi first went to the horse farm next door.

Tianjin is a place where nine rivers meet, so there have always been frequent floods and depressions.I don't want what Mei Fuxi sees now is not the muddy field in memory, but a beautiful horse farm that has been filled in half.

On the filled half of the land, rows of brick and wooden stables were built, neat and clean.

After temporarily storing their horses in the designated stables, there was a groom in a neat blue jacket beside him, who added a mixture of black beans and buckwheat to the manger: "A good man just goes to apply for recruitment. If you pay for it today, you will be paid." On Master Cao."

"This southern soldier really wants to make a career?" After Mei Fuxi came out, he jumped onto a pillar and stood on a high place to look at it.

At the entrance, there are rows of stables, all of which are high-quality horses—the news that the Southern General Soldier has bought all the good horses from the surrounding horse dealers has spread throughout Tianjin Wei in the past two days.Not only that, the horses originally used to pull luxury cars in the hands of some big businessmen were all sent to the old school yard, Mei Fuxi also knew this.

However, rumors are not as good as meeting after all.After seeing the rows of horses eating black beans with his own eyes, Mei Fuxi was quite shocked.

Brother Jiu, who was a little more concerned, put away the cynicism on his face, and led the younger brother into the gate of the old school.

In the newly renovated old school yard, there is a row of long tables after entering the door, and a dozen clerks are registering the men who come to apply one by one.

This procedure is necessary.According to the standard process, in the early days, all applicants were required to have a bond——all recruits were from good families.The same is true for the recruitment of the cross-travelers. Those who apply for the recruitment must at least explain their family background.

Mei Fuxi is a serious hereditary military family with a clean net worth, and after going up to explain that the painting is adjourned, after receiving the number plate, she was allowed to enter the school grounds.

On the south side of the school field, a long double-decker grandstand has been set up with wooden boards and strip tables, and there are many people sitting in a cluster on the east and west.

After the three of Mei Fuxi walked over, they found that these people were grouped together according to their origins: military households were together with military households, and guards were together with guards.

After greeting each other non-stop along the way, Mei Fuxi finally sat in the crowd of Tianjin Youwei with her two younger brothers.

In this way, more and more people entered the school grounds, and at about nine o'clock in the morning, thousands of people had already gathered in the south stand, and there were a lot of people and discussions.

At the exact moment of nine o'clock, several trumpet guns sounded suddenly, and on the platform facing the north of the south stand, some weird people wearing gray and black beggar robes and holding long guns suddenly appeared.

Only after that did people come to the stage and sit down one after another. Among them, Cao Zongbing, who was sitting in the main seat and wearing a red official robe, was particularly conspicuous.Immediately afterwards, a four-row formation consisting of [-] guard battalion soldiers came to the general's platform with neat steps, fired their guns, and saluted with attention.

Neat pace, flashing spear stabs, 200 people moving in unison... After seeing this scene, the Ming people, who were still discussing, instantly felt the murderous aura and military might, and the discussion stopped immediately.

The soldiers quickly dispersed and surrounded the entire school grounds.

After the opening scene was done enough and order was maintained, the real shock came.

On the stage, when a young man in Qian Zong's costume opened his mouth, a loud sound came from the tweeter, which immediately frightened all the bright people on the opposite side into panic, and some even fell off the stage: No See thousands of people shouting at the same time?

At this time, only platoon guns can suppress the scene.As a result, the roar of Erba Dagai sounded neatly around the stands, and at the same time as thick smoke came out of the muzzle of the gun, the bullets whizzed past Mingren's head.

After the gunshots, everyone was honest...

After giving enough to this group of warriors who don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth and have no discipline at all, the loud voices sounded again on the general stage.

The young man first introduced himself as Chief Ma Junqian of Fujian Governor's Biao Battalion, and his name was Chen Ce.

Chen Ce then told the warriors that the loud voice was just using some tricks, so you don't need to panic.

After that, Chen Ce began to speak formally——The commander-in-chief is dedicated to serving the country, and intends to fight to the death with Jiannu, so he wants to recruit some local aborigines to serve as auxiliary soldiers.

When this set of official articles was mentioned, the terrified Ming people gradually settled down.

After the official papers were finished, Chen Ce repeated the favorable treatment on the notice again, giving the temporary workers a reassurance.

Of course, words like reassurance pills are not effective after all, so another vulgar scene soon appeared on the stage...the silver dragon posed by Cao Datou.

Cao Datou, a silver dollar with high technical content, has long been known and loved by Ming people with the circulation of canals and cross-traveling people to shop around, and the exchange with equivalent silver has always maintained a premium state.

So after seeing the long silver dragon on the stage, even though the tricks were vulgar, the Ming people followed suit: most people became excited again at this moment, and all of them forgot the embarrassment just now, and began to gear up and prepare It's over.

Ever since, the first day of the auxiliary soldier selection meeting officially began.

Chapter 423 School Field ([-])

The selection process was quick and brutal.

Because of the most important point of "skilled bow and horse", most of the bastards were screened out.

The bastard mentioned here does not refer to character, but to professional skills: horse riding.

Skillfully manipulating the horse, swinging a knife and chopping the top of the wooden pile while galloping - the most basic tactical action of the cavalry, immediately exposed all unqualified people.

Riding a horse is the same as driving a car in the later generations. There is no one who has specially trained, let alone galloping and slashing.

Therefore, most of the poor children in the guard were eliminated in the first pass.These people don’t talk about riding horses and killing people on weekdays. They can’t even eat enough. Where can I get a horse for you to ride?

So, poor culture and rich martial arts.If you want to ride a horse, you must first have a horse; if you want to be an experienced driver, you must first have a car.

The Meifuxi trio are naturally relaxed and happy in this level.Especially Mei Fuxi, who learned from the old soldier of the guard since he was a child, he was immediately proficient in skills.During the selection, he not only made difficult movements such as "hiding in the stirrups" and "changing positions under the abdomen" in public, but also cut eight wooden stakes while galloping with a knife, which won a lot of applause.

However, the next "secondary registration" was rejected by Mei Fuxi.

……

The so-called secondary registration is the registration with legal effect.

As far as the conditions required for this recruitment are concerned, those who can actually complete the riding event have already met the requirements of the organizers.As for the other assessments of archery and combat, they can only be regarded as icing on the cake, and will not have much effect.

In the plan of the crossing crowd, the battle mode of King Qin this time is as follows: the troops set out in sequence, one man with two horses or three horses.

After the main force has wiped out a certain group of enemies in the "enemy-occupied area", the auxiliary brigade following behind will arrive in time under the guidance of wireless communication and quickly "clean the battlefield".

At this time, the main force has already gone to find an opportunity to annihilate the next wave of enemies.

In this case, the so-called auxiliary soldiers are actually the "castrated version" of elite cavalry.The fighting attributes of these cavalry were cut off by the crossing crowd, but the skills of long-distance raids, horseback marching, field combat and sneak attack on camps are all required by the crossing crowd.

So when Mei Fuxi showed off his superb cavalry skills on the school grounds, he was immediately led to the book office under the general's stage to prepare for the second registration.

This registration is equivalent to a formal "signing contract", which is different from just now, and has legal significance.After the passers have signed the document and pressed their fingerprints, they can go to receive the 100 taels of relocation fee.

However, May Fuxi refused.

His purpose of pretending to be aggressive today has been perfectly achieved, and it's time to call it a day.As for following this Raoshizi southerner general to fight the Tartars in the north... are you kidding me?

The Nine Frontiers of the Ming Dynasty were known as a million-strong army, but they threw their helmets and armor in front of the Tartars and were beaten to the foot of the capital.At this juncture, you have to improvise hundreds of people to fight the Tartars?

Mei Fuxi is neither stupid nor short of money, so he will not go.The most important thing is that he will not hand over his family's life to a stranger from the south.

War is not a child's play, and Mei Fuxi, who has been trained by the old army since childhood, naturally knows this.So what if the southern general has money?Having money can only show that the commander-in-chief is generous and can buy poor ghosts who work for him.

But what about military strategy?Where is the conductor?What about fighting the enemy?If you go into battle with this kind of person, if you can't go out with your front foot, you will lose your life with your back foot...

In fact, according to today's selection situation, Mei Fuxi, a member of a military family, has already seen through Cao Zongbing's heart, liver and lungs with a high probability: this group of southerners are not good at riding, so they need to buy some cavalry to fight against the Tartars. The head went to the capital to receive meritorious service.

Identification is completed.

Not only Mei Fuxi thinks this way, but this is also the common understanding of some veterans and caravan guards who came to the school today to watch the excitement and not to go to the field. Why hand over your life to a southerner?

So when the little principal in charge of the reception learned that the little brother Mei was unwilling to sign the calligraphy and painting, he couldn't help but shook his head: "It's a pity that the little brother is very capable."

Mei Fuxi could only smile awkwardly at this moment.

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Although there were some disharmonious factors, the selection meeting was still lively and lively all morning.

After all, there are more than 1000 people present, and there are still many who are willing to fight, so from time to time there will be a burst of applause on the school field: Either Zhang San is superb in equestrianism, or Li Si shot the bull's-eye in succession.

In short, in this era when people lack spiritual entertainment, someone spends money to provide venues, horses and equipment to invite everyone to perform. This is equivalent to a local sports meeting.

More value is yet to come.

At noon, after the selection was over, a string of carts came from outside the school grounds, and the drivers were all dressed in restaurant clothes familiar to the locals.

What was lifted out of the car were buckets of meat pies covered by quilts.

This time, the school field was really cheered: "Cao Zongbing is generous", and the voices of "Cao Zongbing is righteous" are endless.

Big cakes were distributed here, and buckets of boiling tea were brought out of the boiler room over there.This time, the atmosphere in the whole school field was very good. Thousands of Tianjin Weiwu people who had been blowing the cold wind all morning began to eat big cakes, drink hot tea, and smile all over their faces.

The buddies in the audience are happy, but the buddies on the stage may not be happy.

At this time, Zhang Dongdong and other big bosses, who also had the cold wind all morning, also gnawed big cakes on the stage-the trick of sharing weal and woe still needs to be performed.

However, the conditions on the stage are much better after all, not only the dishes are rich, but also there is a charcoal stove for heating throughout the process.

"My lord, there are only 150 people who have formally signed the contract right now." Just as the group of people were eating, the statistics from the audience came out.

After hearing this number, Comrade Zhang Dongdong, who was still chewing on the pig's head, was stunned: "That's how many people?"

This number is indeed a little less.

Today was the first day of selection, and the number of people who came was the largest, almost 1000 to 1000 people.According to prior estimates, among the more than [-] warriors, at least a quarter, that is, [-] qualified cavalry, is a reasonable ratio.

On the basis of this number, we will strive to recruit a hundred more in the next two days, which will meet the minimum requirement.

However, after one morning, when most of the people had finished the test, it was only one hundred and fifty?

After hearing the figures from the book office newspaper below, Yao Jianshe, who was in charge of the local intelligence work in Tianjin Wei, stood up, went to the audience and exchanged a few words with a few unremarkable people, and then came back and said: "Many people didn't show up. Worrying, I don't want to go to the north with the southern soldiers to die."

"That's right, I said that this is not enough for people to know how to ride a horse, right?"

After finding the crux of the problem, you can prescribe the right medicine: "It seems that you still lack confidence in us. Well, it's time to show your sword and open the eyes of the aborigines."

So the next moment, a smiling little schoolboy stood in front of the microphone on the general stage.

This small school surnamed Wu was born in Tianjin, and he spoke a humorous accent. He is fully qualified to be a host of a local TV station in later generations.

After Wu Xiaoxiao took the stage, he told a joke to liven up the atmosphere, and then he said: After watching the wonderful performance of Tianjin Wei heroes in the morning, the commander-in-chief was deeply impressed and sighed, and kept calling 666.

Well, now that it's lunchtime, there should be something to add to the fun.That's why Mr. Zongbing said just now that since the heroes of Tianjin Wei were performing in the morning, then at lunch, it was his Nanbing who would perform for everyone.

The sound coming from the high-definition speakers has aroused the praise of all the people who eat cakes—yes, it’s time for this group of southern soldiers to show their true skills. Like fifty or eighty thousand.

The side show will start soon.

The first item: chest target shooting.

Ten pairs of breastplates were sent to the auditorium first, this is to let Mingren test the firmness of the target.

These pairs of breastplates are the armor styles commonly used by the Ming army.

After Mei Fuxi, who was sitting in the pile of military households, got a pair of armor, he pressed it hard and found that the pair of armor in his hand was quite strong.Both the iron armor piece and the leather strip on the back are very finely crafted, and the armor pieces fit tightly together, which is obviously the best in the arsenal.

Mei Fuxi also saw the logo of Tianjin Zuowei on the inner lining.Needless to say, this Jia took the masters out of the "small arsenal" dedicated to high-quality goods and sold them to the Southern General Army.

After checking the targets, the ten armors were placed horizontally on a row of long tables in front of the cake-eating crowd.

Immediately afterwards, ten green jacket soldiers stood far away at the foot of the wall on the other side of the school grounds.

The reason why it is called the school ground is because it has a large area and can be used for military parades.Therefore, the diameter of the old school field is 350 meters, which is just used to practice marksmanship.

Mingren, however, didn't think so.

Ming people who have always regarded Erba Dagai as a bird gun have no concept of the range, rate of fire and power of this gun.

This has led to the fact that the cake eaters are still eating cakes, waiting for the row of green jacket soldiers in the distance to come forward-the three-eyed blunderbuss and the bird blunderbuss have a range of fifty steps. It looks more delicate, but the range of only a hundred steps to the left is as good as the sky.

However, at the next moment, with a loud "aiming" sound, the ten soldiers quickly raised their guns and began to aim at the breastplate more than 300 meters away.

Immediately after a "free fire", white smoke spewed out from the muzzles of the ten rifles, and almost at the same time, the breastplates in front of the cake eaters were shot one after another.

Under the surprised eyes of thousands of people, some of these breastplates were knocked over, and some were even beaten up. Most of them were pierced once and twice, and blue smoke came out of the bullet holes.

However this is just the beginning.

In the next half a minute, the ten elite shooters fired five rounds of volleys at a rapid speed, knocking all the breastplates to pieces, cracking some pieces of armor, and even tearing them into several pieces.

At this moment, all the cake-eating crowd stood up, and at least a hundred people opened their mouths wide in surprise, and the pig's head meat fell out of their mouths.

Chapter 424: School Field ([-])

The ten armors that had been targeted were sent back to the Ming people again.

Mei Fuxi, who had already walked in front of people, with a serious expression on her face, reached out and grabbed a pair of armor for a closer inspection.

Of course, the armor has not changed, it is still made of fine iron and cowhide, and the emblem of Zuowei is still engraved on the inner lining.It's just that there are a few more holes and cracked marks on the armor surface at this moment.

Mei Fuxi slowly stretched out her finger, and pressed lightly on the bullet hole, feeling the burr on the edge.

Next he raised his armor.Sure enough, looking through the hole, there is also a hole in the back - the best armor has been pierced.

Count carefully.

On his front, there are a total of four gun holes and a piece of armor that is about to shatter.These five wounds created three holes in the back of the breastplate.That is to say, the continuous shooting just now hit five shots and pierced three shots.

Closing his eyes and slowly raising his head, Mei Fuxi looked up to the sky and let out a long breath—at this moment, some of his inherent cognitions for many years collapsed.