"What's your name, Xiao Twelve? What's your name?"
"Ning Zhe, Uncle Huang!" Ning Zhe saluted respectfully towards Uncle Huang who was sitting in front of him at the recruiting desk.
"Tsk, tsk, would you rather fold? I'd rather fold than bend. What a good name." Uncle Huang nodded and was about to write it down on the paper.
"No, Uncle Huang, it's the Zhe of the sage, Zheguchi." Ning Zhe quickly reminded.
"Oh, okay, take this card, go to the Cao soldiers' barracks, and let Mr. Lin Qian and others try their skills."
"Okay!" Ning Zhe quickly took the badge given to him by Uncle Huang. This was for them to temporarily enter the military camp. If you pass the selection, you will stay. If you fail, you will be taken back and sent back to the recruitment point.
Ning Zhe took his waist badge and followed the crowd into the Caobing camp with small steps.
He also wanted to walk quickly, but there were too many people and he couldn't do it.
The main camp of the Cao soldiers is no different from other field legions in Daqi. At most, it is like the navy, with a small dock in the military camp.
Due to the large number of people, Lin Chong and the president decided to simplify the recruitment standards.
First of all, those under 16 years old and over 55 years old were eliminated, the only children in the family were eliminated, and those who looked frail and sick were eliminated.
This all ended when I just registered my information and received my waistband.
Everyone knows each other, who doesn’t know who?
First, he stood barefoot on the grass and jumped up and down to test his physical fitness and fitness. Unqualified ones are eliminated.
After undergoing some more piecemeal inspections, Ning Zhe finally entered the second level of testing.
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Wearing linen clothes that are about the same weight as armor and filled with river sand, they run circles and climb mountains with heavy loads. Then take off the sack and go swimming.
After all, they were going to the southern country. If they suddenly fell into a puddle, they could at least swim out on their own and not be drowned inexplicably.
After passing all the physical test items, the mental quality will be tested.
Nothing else, just form a group and fight with a small team of cavalry soldiers.
After many qualities such as intelligence, bravery and calmness meet the standards, it is the final physical examination stage.
Physicians and doctors from all over Huai'an were recruited into the military camp to check everyone's health.
First, measure the height. There is a rope lying across it. Those whose foreheads touch the rope are left, and those whose foreheads touch the bun are eliminated. Those who cheat will be given a beating and then eliminated. But they won't be eliminated mercilessly. If you have a skill, such as running fast, practicing flying over walls, etc., you can enter the scout camp.
Finally, the strong men who passed the physical examination became recruits entering and leaving the military camp.
Ning Zhe was also lucky enough to pass the test and became a new recruit in the counter-insurgency army.
They still have a lot to learn.
Fortunately, since the establishment of Daqi, the water workers in the Jianghuai area, especially along the canal, have been particularly fond of joining the army. However, there are only so many battles, and most of them are solved by the local defenders. It is true that there are more soldiers and fewer battles.
Therefore, in fact, most of the Jianghuai soldiers have been unable to get ahead for a long time and have to wait for seniority. When the fifty-five years of service are up, they will go back and start teaching their juniors the military camp skills, hoping to change their lives in the future.
Therefore, Huai'an has mostly reserve officers and soldiers who have received paramilitary training. With a little training, you can directly join the regular army.
In addition, Cao workers are inherently disciplined and obedient, which makes them easier to train.
Then they are assigned to corresponding military camps according to their respective specialties.
"Dad, I have been selected as a crossbowman!" Ning Zhe excitedly ran back to their small teahouse with the petition issued to him.
"Ah? My son was selected!" The shopkeeper, who had been absentmindedly calculating the accounts behind the counter for several hours, also slapped the table and stood up. He ran a few steps and hugged Ning Zhe in his arms. He was so excited that he was afraid of hitting his back. back.
"Okay, well done, well done to my son! Dad, I am useless, I can't run fast, and I was not selected as a regular soldier. Now my son has been selected as a regular soldier of Daqi, I..." Ben, the shopkeeper, wanted to say a few words to encourage him. He was a great boy, but he didn't know much about reading. He didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to slap Ning Zhe on the back hard again.
. . . . . .
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The thunderous war drums resounded in the Qi army camp outside Zhenjiang City. As many as eighty artillery were roaring, and they fired lead bullets that were rubbed by the air and could burn off a layer of skin and hit the north wall.
"Cuna! Why are the Dog Officer Army so crazy! They started bombarding the North City Wall very early in the morning. It has been more than an hour now and they are still bombarding. They sent troops to attack the city!" The senior White Lotus Sect leader responsible for guarding the North City Wall was hiding behind the wall. Under the city wall, an aggrieved man scolded the dog officers and soldiers outside the city.
It's not that he is greedy for life and fear of death, but that he can no longer stay on the north city wall. Although the city wall has been severely bombarded, it only looks miserable. In fact, it is just the masonry layer outside the rammed earth wall that has been somewhat damaged. It's just broken, as long as the rammed earth wall is fine, the masonry layer is not as important as the rammed earth layer.
But the ground on the city wall has been blown to pieces, and it’s really impossible to get up!
"Master, this can't go on like this! Brothers are almost losing their temper. Let me take people out for a charge!" The newly appointed guerrilla general of the White Lotus Sect ran over from a distance.
"Call me the main town! Do you think the officers and soldiers outside the city are the soldiers of the Zhenjiang Guard? Those people are from the Jiangnan Camp, the Jiangnan Camp that has just been reorganized! Look at the flags on the side of the Dog Officer Army. The word "Jia" is big The flag also has the Vermillion Bird Flag! That damn left army commander, Jia Hui, personally led his troops!"
"What should we do? Are we beaten so hard by them that we can't hold our heads up? What will happen to the morale of our brothers?" The guerrilla general looked anxious.
After capturing the government office last night, the leader began to seal the officials.
“We need to build the big frame first!”
The captains of the sub-rudders in various places have been granted the title of a general town. For example, the general town responsible for guarding the north wall of Zhenjiang has his full official title of "Huguang Chief Military Officer".
Even if Huguang is not in their hands now, they can only feel aggrieved and condescend to the humiliation of Huguang's commander-in-chief and lead a large number of deputy commander-in-chief, staff generals and guards to guard the city wall.
"Headquarters, Gao Youyi is right. If we continue to fight like this, the morale of our brothers will collapse! What if the Dog Officer Army sends people over again at this time?"
"Yes, the Dog Officer Army has been hitting us with artillery. They must be afraid of us! Let the current generation of Gao Guerrilla attack us once!"
The deputy commander-in-chief of each province and other senior officers began to persuade the headquarters to send people out of the city to rush.
"That's easy to say, but our cannons have been damaged by the cannonballs of the Dog Officer Army. How can we cover their charge? We don't have many cavalry! How far can a crossbow shoot?" Someone jumped out to retort.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Stop talking, let me just say that Jia Hui's reputation is just a boast. He is only nineteen years old, how powerful can he be? I have already inquired about it. The reason why Lazang Khan was captured alive was because He Heshuote's main force was not on the plateau. It took a sneak attack to catch that Khan! The Mongol Khan had also been caught by Nalaoshizi Mobei Mongolia a long time ago. It was Jia Huan who shamelessly betrayed his alliance and succeeded in the sneak attack!
Bullshit destroyed the two countries, he just got lucky! As long as I lead my troops into the central army of the official army and kill the yellow-mouthed boy, the dog army without a general will definitely be in chaos. At this time, the general commander is leading the army to fight out of the city and defeat the dog army in one fell swoop. , then who else in Jiangnan is our Holy Religion’s opponent? "Gao Youyi interrupted their conversation, patting his chest arrogantly and telling his plan.
"Gao Guerji, I'm going to talk to the leader right now and ask him to transfer all the cavalry in the city to you. Can you guarantee that the Chinese army that breaks into the Gouguan Army will kill Jia Hui?" The general town thought about it and felt a little bit. Logically speaking, such a person who only knows how to make sneak attacks must not have high frontal combat power. He might actually be able to kill the general and capture the flag.
"This battle must be won!" Gao Guerrilla took a step forward and said disdainfully toward the outside of the city wall.
"Okay, then I will believe you once and go find the leader now!"
The commander-in-chief exchanged a few words with a deputy commander-in-chief and then rode wildly in the direction of the government office.
After being bombarded for a while, the artillery fire finally stopped. Everyone knew that this was to cool down the cannon, and there would definitely be more after a while.
About a quarter of an hour later, the main town came back.
"Gao Guerji, the leader has agreed to your plan. All the brothers who can fight on horseback in the city will be under your command. Work hard. If you can kill Jia Hui, a prince will definitely be indispensable in the future!" After saying that, everyone around him said: He looked at Gao Guerzhi with a bit of jealousy.
"General, thank you to the leader, thank you to the general town for the promotion!" Gao Youyi looked excited and kowtowed to the leader in the direction of the government office, then turned around and kowtowed again to the main town.
"Well, do a good job!" The headmaster nodded happily and said.
Not long after, a group of knights riding horses, mules, and even donkeys appeared in front of Gao Guerzhi.
"In this town, this, these are difficult to achieve"
"Haha, as you know, we don't have many horses in the south." Seeing such a ragtag group of people, the main town felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
Gao Youyi fell silent.
"Forget about donkeys, they can't run fast, just mules and horses." After thinking about it, Gao Guerrilla still accepted this "cavalry".
"Hey, yes, the conditions are rather difficult now. Don't worry, when we kill Jia Hui, all his horses will be yours!" The headquarter told Gao Guerrilla the cake drawn by the leader.
"Ah, really?"
"This is still fake!"
Gao Youji swallowed and looked at the city wall firmly, as if he could see Jia Hui through the city wall.
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"Pfft! What kind of group is this!"
In the artillery camp of the Qi Army, the commander of the firearms battalion saw through the telescope that the North City Gate of Zhenjiang was half opened, and a group of ghosts and snakes rushed out.
The ones in front are pretty normal, they are all horses, and the ones following behind look like long-eared horses.
Isn’t this a mule? Hey, there's a group of donkey riders following behind!
After all, the donkey couldn't escape his fate and was sent out.
"Quick, go and inform the general that a strange group of cavalry is coming."
The messenger quickly ran towards the general.
Jia Hui works on the high platform behind the firearms camp.
"Report! General, General Guan Qian has penetrated the land route between Zhenjiang and Jinling. He encountered six waves of sneak attacks. The six thousand troops lost more than 300 people. They wiped out six waves of ambush troops, totaling more than 7,000!"
"Very well, where are the troops going to the east?"
"General Zuo has not sent anyone here yet."
"Report! The Left Staff General has arrived outside the artillery range in the east of Zhenjiang City and has begun building fortifications!"
"Report! The Firearms Battalion is reporting! A group of demons and monsters have rushed out of Zhenjiang City!"
"Huh?" Jia Hui stopped writing formal military orders and raised his head curiously.
"Ox ghost and snake god? What is it?"
"Back to the general, about a thousand cavalry consisting of horses, mules and donkeys rushed out of the city. According to the inference of our commander, they seemed to want to attack our army and behead them." The messenger quickly lowered his head.
"Mules? Donkeys? The brains of these Zibailian thieves are really... I don't know what I did to start my business? Yang Zhi, go crush them!"
Jia Hui was speechless for a moment, and turned to Yang Zhi, who had been waiting by his side.
"General, I obey!" Yang Zhi held the steel gun and cupped his hand towards Jia Hui, then stepped off the platform holding the ancestral sword in his left hand.
. . . . . .
Whoosh——
Boom!
A lead bullet hit Gao Guerzhi's side, and the flying soil and gravel hit him and was blocked by the iron frame.
"Brothers, hold on! Four hundred steps ahead is the artillery position! Behind it is the center of the Gouguan Army, and Jia Hui's yellow-mouthed kid is right there!"
Gao Guerrilla rushed towards the Qi army while looking back to boost morale.
There is no way, the congenital conditions are too poor, even a thousand horses cannot be raised, the gap with the elite of Qi army can only be made up by morale.
He looked down upon Jia Huigui and looked down upon Jia Hui. He had never underestimated the elite cavalry of the Qi army.
It is definitely impossible to fight with the Qi army's cavalry, but the goal of this attack is to behead Jia Hui. As long as his cavalry can survive the first wave of cavalry chops, it is enough. I will have the confidence to lead the real cavalry. He rushed through the cavalry artillery position and plunged into the Chinese army, beheading Jia Hui.
The reason why he was valued by the leader and entrusted him with cavalry was naturally not just because of his battle plan.
Gao Guerji's ancestor once followed Qianliang's last famous general, Hua General Wei Ming, and wiped out the Qi army on the northern route. He was Wei Ming's deputy general.
After Liang Hou committed suicide, the Liang Dynasty was destroyed. Wei Ming's troops were besieged and killed in Qishan by Jia Yuan, Duke of Rongguo.
Gao Guoji's ancestors took advantage of the chaos to escape and joined the White Lotus Sect incognito. Over the past hundred years, Gao Guerzhi can be regarded as an old white lotus with red sprouts.
He began to practice riding and archery since he was a child, and studied Wei Ming's art of war.
He can be regarded as the only one in the White Lotus who understands cavalry.
In addition, his high guerrilla martial arts skills can be regarded as one of the best in the White Lotus Sect. It was precisely because of this that this group of White Lotus sect members who knew how to ride animals dared to follow him out of the city on mules and donkeys to directly attack the central army of the Qi army.
"General, there is a situation ahead!"
the deputy shouted toward Gao Guerzhi.
Gao Youyi quickly looked back at his subordinates behind him, looking directly at the biggest obstacle in this battle.
The elite of the Qi army's cavalry.
The direct army of Grand Sima General Jia Hui - the Suzaku Cavalry.
(End of chapter)
