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Chapter 119: The Commander Presents a Bow
"Are you sure, that's all?"

Fang Qingyun asked again.

He and Mr. Xu had had several exchanges and conversations recently, and they got along quite well. The other party was indeed a man of great talent, but it was a pity that his vision was determined by his birth, and he needed to relearn many things. However, with time, he would surely become a great man.

With the addition of Tang Ruoshan, even if his meridians are damaged, they can be pulled out and used. As for the others, I don’t know much about them.

"I am sure!"

Chen Sanshi's voice was loud and clear.

Not far away, Liangzhou General Zhao Wuji glanced over and kindly reminded him, "Boy, even if my Liangzhou soldiers are not as good as the Eight Great Battalions, they are all experienced in battle."

"Don't blame me, General Zhao."

Chen Sanshi clasped his fists and said, "I am just used to my old brothers."

"There's nothing strange about that."

Zhao Wuji said calmly, "I just don't understand why others are trying so hard to select elite troops, but you are trying to put yourself at a disadvantage. What's the point? The simplest four-door defense formation also requires 500 people. Do you have enough people?"

"Just right."

When Chen Sanshi crossed the river, there were almost four hundred people, and a group of people who were responsible for assisting the people in crossing the river, totaling almost five hundred people. Now they are all temporarily placed in the Eight Camps as service soldiers.

This is also in accordance with the rules.

Which general doesn’t have his own trusted soldiers?
Any selected general, if he has his own subordinates, can be called up to fight.

On the contrary, you can better experience the true level of leading troops.

However, the selected reserve generals came from the one capital and thirty-six states of the Great Sheng Dynasty. Quite a few of them had never fought in a war and had no subordinates of their own. Some of them were too far away to be transferred here.

Therefore, in order to ensure fairness in the assessment, those who do not have soldiers under their command can select from the Liangzhou garrison.

"General Fang."

Chen Sanshi added: "For this selection of vanguards, I plan to use my former subordinates. If they perform well, can they stay in the Eighth Battalion and be promoted to combat soldiers?"

"of course."

Fang Qingyun affirmed: "We put them on duty before because we didn't know their specific qualities. If they can really make it from beginning to end, it proves that their qualities are fine, and they can naturally be promoted to combat soldiers."

"Brother Chen, you are so confused!"

Yan Changqing rushed over to stop him and said, "Absolutely not! How can you use the defeated soldiers you brought from Poyang to participate in the selection test? Once the formation is broken, they will be eliminated in the first round and will be selected to participate in the selection of deputy generals. It will be difficult for them to get a command position again!"

Poyang.

It's a small county in the countryside.

No one could say what the soldiers in the rural garrisons of the Dasheng Dynasty were like, but everyone knew it clearly in their hearts.

In many places, half of the salaries were collected without work, and even arrows and weapons were sold for money.

In recent years, after Sun Xiangzong moved to Liangzhou and reorganized the north, the situation of people eating empty salaries has gradually decreased, but the combat effectiveness is still shockingly low.

"Brother Chen!"

Yan Changqing whispered in his ear: "I know you are a man of loyalty, but even if you think of your old subordinates, you should also understand one thing. As long as you select the vanguards and get a good ranking, and gain a firm foothold in the Eighth Battalion, you will be able to pull them up sooner or later."

"Brother Yan, don't worry about me."

Chen Sanshi said frankly: "I use old subordinates mainly to save time in getting used to each other, and I also have confidence in them."

In fact, Poyang County was considered good. Xiang Tingchun was ambitious. After taking office as the commander of a thousand households, he had been working hard to prepare for war, but corruption still existed.

Until later there was a great war, when fire refined gold, and now those who survived have some real skills.

"Oh, this is the benefit of having a good reputation."

On the other side, Yin Hanwen deliberately said loudly: "You must continue to be hypocritical and righteous to the end, and you are not afraid of ruining your own future."

"There's nothing I can do. Hypocrites are the best at winning people's hearts!"

Wen Qiushi echoed, deliberately saying it for the people around him to hear.

"In fact, I think it shouldn't be false benevolence and false righteousness."

Among the many selected generals, there are also many sensible people.

Among them, a relatively thin young man muttered in a low voice: "That Lord Chen almost sacrificed his life to help the people cross the river. How could he be a hypocrite?"

"Tang Yingke, which side are you on?"

Yin Hanwen glared at him: "Speaking for them, are you crazy?"

Tang Yingke shut up immediately.

Starting from Xianhe Tower, he followed Cao Fan and others, and was obviously a young master from the capital.

"He doesn't dare to say it, so I'll say it!"

Bai Tingzhi cursed, "You are hypocritical, but you can't stand others being gentlemen? What a thing! And this prince, I heard last night that all the soldiers under his command were transferred from the capital. Is there any need to compete? Just let him win."

"Hiss, it started again..."

Chen Sanshi really felt helpless. The mouth was on someone else's body, what could he do?

Were all Cao Fan’s people transferred from the capital?
Obviously, it is impossible to achieve absolute fairness anywhere.

It is already good enough for any reserve general from a poor background to lead the elite troops of Liang Province.

Moreover, setting up the formation is only the first level of the test, there is still a lot of content to come.

The one with the best overall performance is the chief disciple.

"You bastard, how dare you offend the prince?!"

Yin Hanwen was furious and wanted to take out his weapon on the spot.

Prince Cao Fan stopped him, but he was not angry. He just said in a cold voice: "Your name is Bai Tingzhi?"

"My name won't change, and my surname won't change!" Bai Tingzhi straightened his back.

"What a good man who never changes his name."

Cao Fan turned his head to look at Chen and Yan, and said grimly: "Bai Tingzhi, you are really a good dog who helps your master bite people. It's a pity that your master is not me, and you chose the wrong master. Do you think they can protect you?"

"You don't have to threaten me!"

Bai Tingzhi said fearlessly: "If Your Highness wants to take action, you can do it now!"

"enough."

Fang Qingyun slowly spoke to stop their quarrel. His voice was still very soft, but it made people feel inexplicably majestic: "If there is any conflict, we will meet on the test field. Anyone who dares to fight privately will be disqualified from being selected as a striker."

The two of them gave up.

The selected generals dispersed.

Chen Sanshi also met his subordinates whom he hadn't seen for several days in the training ground temporarily allocated to him.

After so much time has passed, these people have naturally improved their realm.

Zhu Tong and Wang Li, bone training is the recent thing.

The rest of the people also made some improvements.

"Don't worry, sir!"

Everyone was full of confidence: "We may not be able to compete with us in terms of cultivation level, but when it comes to formation coordination, who can beat us? Those who are standing here have all crawled out of the pile of dead bodies!"

"That's right. No matter what formation it is, we can learn it as quickly as possible."

"..."

Wang Zhi promised, "Sanshi, just leave it to Xu Wencai and me. It won't take nine days. In five days, we can train you to be ready for the battlefield with the Four-Gate Defense Formation."

The words say so.

Of course Chen Sanshi had to stay and watch in person, until the afternoon, and only after confirming that there was no problem did he take his spear and bow and arrow and go up the mountain.

During this period, he also learned about Bai Tingzhi's background.

Born in Guangling County, Youzhou, his father was a scholar, but he loved martial arts. After he took the initiative to join the army, it was revealed that he had a genuine body of King Kong. During that time, he was bullied. Someone wanted to snatch his spot as a selected striker, but he killed him directly, offending many local people.

Fortunately, the vanguard officer arrived in Guangling and took him away, so he was safe.

To this day, Bai Tingzhi has just started to learn the internal organs training method.

Absolutely a genuine genius.

His cultivation speed is not much slower than Chen Sanshi's, but he is a bit reckless in dealing with people. He offends people in various ways. Even if he doesn't want to recognize this subordinate, others may recognize him as his subordinate.

Sun Buqi and Bai Tingzhi were both there when we went hunting in the mountains this time.

Sun Buqi held a bow in his hand and carried a huge box on his back, and no one knew what was inside.

Taking this opportunity, Chen Sanshi just made a breakthrough in [Searching and Hiding] to see what effect it would have after it was perfected. Who would have thought that the original hunting skills could also be used in marching and fighting?

"Chihiro, you want to go too? What are you going to do while I'm hunting?"

He looked at the white swan horse that followed him and patted his head gently: "You just want to go out and play by yourself, go ahead, find me at the foot of the Luotian Mountains before dark."

Chihiro nodded and ran away happily without a trace.

"Three stones."

Sun Buqi looked at the flying white horse and said, "There's something wrong with your horse. It's definitely a strange beast."

Chen Sanshi took the opportunity to ask, "Are there any exotic beast horses?"

"Naturally there is."

Sun Buqi nodded: "But it is very rare, and its appearance is also different from that of ordinary horses. For example, my senior brother's flaming horse has bloodshot eyes and steam rising from its body when it runs. In addition, its blood-red hair makes it look like it is on fire, hence the name.

"Your white horse doesn't look unusual on the outside, so how come it can run so fast? Maybe you've encountered a mutant."

Chen Sanshi has actually always been very curious.

No matter how powerful a BMW is, a thousand miles a day is its limit. It will take an unknown amount of time to recover after a rest, and it is possible to die from exhaustion.

But Chihiro won't.

From the time they left Poyang until they reached Youzhou, they never stopped riding their horses and kept running at full speed. No matter how tired they were, they could recover by eating some food and grass.

Furthermore, as Chihiro's horse riding skills improve, her speed is still increasing.

If we continue like this, won’t we be able to take off in the future?

Xiang Tingchun had given him a good horse at the beginning.

Looking back now, there was a reason why no one wanted the white swan horse because it was difficult to tame. Its bloodline was different, so ordinary horse taming methods were of course useless. It took him a long time to tame Chihiro, which was more time-consuming than practicing martial arts.

"arrive.

"After passing through the forest ahead, we will reach the first level of the Luotian Mountains.

"The Luotian Mountains stretch for tens of thousands of miles, with a total of 6636 layers of mountains. If we want to find the strange beasts, we have to reach at least the seventh layer of mountains. Even if we practice martial arts, it will take more than a day to get there, and we will definitely have to spend the night in the mountains."

Sun Buqi was extremely excited: "When I left home, my father knew that I was going to the mountains with you to hunt exotic animals. Not only did he not scold me for not doing my job properly, he also asked me to bring this to you.

"I was so happy that I almost forgot all about it!"

As he spoke, he took off the wooden box from his body, placed it on the ground and slowly opened it. Inside was a large bow that had not been assembled yet and looked quite old.

But Chen Sanshi could tell at a glance that the material was extraordinary. It was a good thing like the exotic beasts that could not be bought on the market at all. Moreover, its pulling force was probably terrifyingly great.

"The bow my father played with when he was young."

Sun Buqi demonstrated: "Fifty stones, try to put the string on first."

(End of this chapter)