Chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 151 Recruit Skill Competition

The next day, Guan Ziyang held the 'First Recruit Skills Competition' in the school grounds.

Set third prize.

No. 3 gold one or two, No. 2 a piece of high-quality Mingguang armor, No. 1 awarded the post of school lieutenant.

As soon as the reward came out, the whole army was excited.

Not to mention real gold and silver, a whole tael of gold, ordinary people save a little, and ten years of rice money is enough.

As for the bright light armor, this thing is a rare commodity. Only the generals of the Jin army can board it. Its defense is strong enough to save his life at a critical moment in a battle on the battlefield.

As for the school lieutenant, let alone, it is basically the limit of ordinary people's glory.

Seeing the generous rewards, many people are sharpening their swords and their eyes are shining.

This was exactly what Guan Ziyang wanted.

If you want the horse to run, you must feed the horse with grass.

As a result, the skill competition started in full swing on the school grounds.

Competition events are the usual training events.

The first item is long-distance running.

This item is very simple, 5000 people run together, along the road until the gate of Jiaozhi County, where there will be personnel to distribute a red cloth belt to the soldiers who arrive.

Then return with the cloth tape, and score according to the time to return to the finish line.

From Jiaozhi to Longbian, there is a full 25 miles. This round trip is almost a full 50 kilometers, which is already longer than the distance of a marathon.

Long-distance running is a test of people's endurance, and endurance also determines the soldiers' marching and combat capabilities, so it is more important.

With Guan Ziyang shouting: "Start."

The recruits set off in a mighty way.

……

Along the way, there are old loyal and brave troops composed of Xie's family members, who follow on horseback to prevent cheating and maintain order.

When it was dark, in less than two hours, Guan Ziyang, who was sitting on the school grounds drinking tea and enjoying Qing Chan's gentle massage, saw someone running back.

This should be the first echelon.

There are three people in total, and the gap between each person is only about 50 meters.

Guan Ziyang took a closer look and saw that the recruit named Gousheng yesterday was there.

And ranked second.

"It seems that this dog is really talented and can be cultivated more."

Another half an hour passed before the large troops returned to the school grounds.

After another half an hour, all the recruits at the end arrived.

Guan Ziyang took a look at the time counted by the staff, and he was quite satisfied overall, and he did not punish the bottom group of people.

On the contrary, Guan Ziyang also spoke out to encourage them.

After running for a whole marathon, everyone was tired.

Guan Ziyang announced that the second game tomorrow will be weightlifting.

Early the next morning, twenty pairs of stone locks were prepared on the school grounds.

This is the prop for weightlifting, each pair of stone locks weighs 300 jin.

If it were this group of recruits before training, it is estimated that few of them would be able to lift it.

But because of the three months of internal and external training, the progress of each recruit is obvious.

There should be few people who can't lift 300 catties.

"Xuan" learning is fast and easy to use, and the advantages of rapid progress in the early stage are fully reflected.

Then the game begins.

The contestants hold a 300-jin stone lock and start to do clean and jerk movements. Each person lifts up ten times to pass the stage.

After a round of competition, there are as many as 300 people who can lift the 3000 stone lock clean and jerk ten times.

Next, Shi Suo changed to 400 catties, still doing ten clean and jerk.

This time, more than half of it was brushed down.

There are only a little more than 1000 people who can still advance smoothly.

In the end, Shi Suo changed to 450 catties and tried again.

There are only more than 20 people who can still advance.

In the final stage of the finals, Guan Ziyang personally supervised the battle.

Gou Sheng was actually included in the list, and Guan Ziyang appreciated him a little more.

He gave Gousheng an encouraging look.

In the final final, Shi Suo came to 500 Jin.

There are only five people who can successfully lift up and do ten clean and jerk.

And Gousheng was also eliminated in this round. He made 7, and he no longer had the strength to lift the stone lock.

Li Bin and the others originally wanted to prepare for the next round, but Guan Ziyang saw that they had exhausted all their strength, and if they were forced to hold by the wrong country, they would be easily injured.

So Guan Ziyang decisively called a stop, announcing that all five of them will be counted as No.1 and will receive the same points.

Guan Ziyang announced the last competition, push-ups.

The time was set for the next morning.

That night, wailing filled the sky in the recruit camp.

After two days of competition, many people have a general understanding of their results.

Some people sigh that they have no chance with the general.

Some of the lower ranks were secretly sad. Everyone started training from scratch. Everyone was an ordinary person with little knowledge in martial arts, but their strength gradually increased in the short three months.

Moreover, this gap may continue to widen in the future.

Some gave up on themselves, and some secretly cheered themselves up.

If there is a game, there will be a winner or loser, and Guan Ziyang has also considered this situation.

So at night, Guan Ziyang ordered the logistics to slaughter more than a dozen sheep and hold a barbecue party.

At the meeting, Guan Ziyang started the mobilization of recruits, and the focus was to comfort the soldiers who are not doing well now not to give up on themselves.

In war, besides force, there is also wisdom, courage, and morale.

As long as you are willing to work hard, there will always be a day when you will stand out. Although this loyal army of mine does not support idlers, it will never abandon any comrade-in-arms.

……

I have to say that Guan Ziyang's speech is still very effective, and it is very infectious.

In particular, he used his own example. He was once a small child of the common people in Fuling, and he only achieved today through his own hard work step by step.

Of course, those chances and good luck were all said by him to be his hard training. Although it was cheap, it had to be said to be very useful.

Morale up.

Around the bonfire, eating meat and drinking, Guan Ziyang mingled with the recruits.

Only then did they realize that their coach was really different from those high-ranking officials.

He really regarded the soldiers as his comrades-in-arms and friends.

There is no air of identity at all.

……

On the third day, the third game also started.

5000 people were divided into two groups, with one doing push-ups and the other counting.

Unlimited time.

But intoxication does not allow relaxation and rest, more than the limit of one breath.

As the game started, when everyone was around 500 people, some people began to fall to the ground.

Then, there were people who could no longer support their hands and fell down.

In the end, when Guan Ziyang entered the arena, there was only one person left who was still holding on.

The recruits all formed a big circle, looking at this dog who was far ahead.

While helping him cheer, help him count aloud at the same time.

"Eleven thousand five sixty one, eleven thousand five sixty two."

……

"Eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty three, eleven thousand eight hundred thirty four."

"It can still be done!"

"so horrible!"

In the amazement of the onlookers.

The leftover dog's arms had already started to tremble a little, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

Although each push-up is slow, it doesn't stop at all.

Sweat was already under his body, dripping out in a human shape.

Guan Ziyang saw it, this should be the limit of the dog.

"Eleven thousand and nine hundred!"

But this is only the limit of his body, he can feel the flow of the meager internal force in Gou Sheng's body.

It's like a dry river bed, with a stream of finger-thin water flowing.

About to be evaporated by the hot sun.

With the ups and downs of push-ups one after another, Gousheng's dantian has been squeezed to the limit.

Now, it was time to see if he could break through his physical limit.

"Eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty two!"

The recruits around were still coaxing and counting loudly for him.

Suddenly, there was a bang, as if something had been pierced.

Of course, everyone except Guan Ziyang could hear this voice.

Guan Ziyang could only detect it with his innate qi. At this moment, Gou Sheng broke through, from the upper realm of the second rank to the lower realm of the third rank.

A sliver of internal force emerged from his dantian out of thin air, supporting him to continue to grit his teeth and persevere.

In the end, Guan Ziyang set him a goal of 20000 push-ups, and relying on his temporary breakthrough, he finally achieved it!
Guan Ziyang remembers that the world record of later generations is only more than 12000, but this world has internal forces, and 20000 is not a scary number.

If Guan Ziyang were to do it, he could do as many as 20, as long as he wanted, the consumption of one push-up was not as quick as his natural recovery of internal strength.

In three days, three games were completed.

In the end, there is no doubt that Godson became No.1, and the gap with No.2 is not small.

The three games are long-distance running, weightlifting, and push-ups, which test the soldiers' endurance, strength, and core respectively.

These three indicators are completely opposite to each other, just like the Olympic marathon, which can only be completed by very thin people, and the weightlifters are all big men.

Godson's three competition results are all in the first stage, which is really commendable.

Guan Ziyang was also very happy, didn't he discover a talent!
A living example of a pacesetter.

Guan Ziyang immediately awarded him the post of captain, with a salary of 500 shi.

……

The 'First Recruit Skills Competition' ended successfully.

Guan Ziyang also encouraged the other recruits. In the future, this competition will be held once a year. As long as they work hard, everyone has the opportunity to become the next dog leftover!
In the middle of the night, someone knocked on the door of Xie Daoyun's room.

Don't think about it, there is no one else who dares to knock on her door in the middle of the night except Guan Ziyang.

"In the middle of the night, if you don't accompany your little girl Qingchan, what are you doing here with me?"

"No, I heard that Fan Wen's 60 warships are about to be completed, so I came to you to find a way." Guan Ziyang chuckled.

Xie Daoyun's beautiful face under the candlelight turned slightly, and said angrily.

"I knew that it would be no good for you to find me. Mr. Inspector, you have a bad stomach, and you must have already made up your mind. What are you talking about? Let's talk, let's do it."

Guan Ziyang scratched his head: "Tao Yuan is really getting smarter."

"I am going to attack Rinan County at night, and they will delay the progress."

"You are crazy. Fan Wen is not stupid. He will definitely focus on guarding his warship. The two of us will go like this. We will destroy one of their warships at most, and we will be discovered. If you don't hurry up, you will be surrounded. I'm afraid I won't be able to leave."

"If you don't enter the tiger's lair, how can you find tiger cubs."

Seeing that Guan Ziyang was calm and fearless, based on Xie Daoyun's understanding of Guan Ziyang, he never did anything he was not sure about.

"Okay, just tell me how I can cooperate with you."

Guan Ziyang said: "We don't need to wreak havoc, just make a small stumbling block. After a month or two, the loyal and brave army under me can be called a battle-hardening army, and then we won't be afraid of him."

Xie Daoyun thought for a while, and then asked, "Can't we go tomorrow? Why do you still come to me secretly in the middle of the night?"

Guan Ziyang said: "Of course it's a deception."

Xie Daoyun was surprised and said: "You mean, there are Fan Wen's spies in the governor's mansion?"

Guan Ziyang smiled and did not reply.

Xie Daoyun said again: "We have been away for so long and disappeared out of thin air for several days, we will always be discovered?"

Guan Ziyang said: "Don't worry, there must be spies. However, I have asked Luo Ding and Qingchan to help us cover up and create the illusion that we are still in the governor's mansion. The spies are not high-profile and will not noticed."

So Guan Ziyang took Xie Daoyun and the two ghost masks from last time, and headed to Rinan County again.

The horse galloped all the way, and one day later at night, the two arrived at the port where Lin Yiguo built warships.

Although it was already dark, there were still many soldiers patrolling back and forth holding torches.

It seems that Fan Wen is indeed focusing on guarding against his warship.

With Guan Ziyang and Xie Daoyun's skills, as long as they don't make a sound, it's easy to avoid these patrolling guards.

They turned onto a warship that looked like it was about to be completed.

Came to the bottom of the cabin.

He took out his dagger and poked a small hole.

Seeing this, Xie Daoyun asked: "If you poke such a small hole, someone can fix it in less than half an hour. What's the use?"

Guan Ziyang laughed and said, "One hole is easy to mend, but what about ten or a hundred?"

Xie Daoyun smiled sweetly, and couldn't help admiring Guan Ziyang's insidiousness and cunning.

Although the two of them were very good at lightness kungfu, under heavy guards, after a night of hard work, they only made five or six holes in each of more than 20 boats.

When Guan Ziyang let Xie Daoyun go, Xie Daoyun was still a little bit preoccupied, held up the dagger, and licked his lips.

"I think we can have two more."

Guan Ziyang said: "It's almost dawn, and the workers will come to start work soon, let's go, there will be no delay, be careful that you are really surrounded here."

After finishing speaking, he pulled Xie Daoyun, who was still full of thoughts, and left.

After leaving Rinan County, Xie Daoyun said, "Why don't we come back tomorrow?"

It seems that Xie Daoyun is really addicted to poking holes.

Guan Ziyang smiled and said: "These holes were discovered today, do you think we can go there again so easily?"

Tomorrow, Fan Wen will definitely send more manpower to the battleship, and focus on marking. If we think about it, we will definitely not be able to.

Xie Daoyun sighed: "Hey, that's such a pity, we only damaged more than 20 warships, and with such a few holes, they will definitely be able to repair them soon."

Guan Ziyang smiled and said, "How do you think it would take two months to rely on these holes?"

"Isn't that what you said?"

Guan Ziyang smiled.

"You, you should learn more from me, or you will be a female general in the future."

(End of this chapter)