Fenghou

Chapter 1152 Recruits
Early the next morning, Ruan De went to the county government to find Yu Shou, and Yu Shou recommended him to Ma Houwen, the county magistrate. Ma Houwen immediately ordered him to lift the tripod. With a bow, Ruan De hit ten out of ten shots a hundred steps away, and Ma Houwen was overjoyed. He immediately appointed him as the head of the recruits, and rushed to Bianliang after five days of training.

This is the officialdom culture that Yu Shou learned from his father. Although the appointment is his right, he handed over this power to Ma Houwen. This is not a power that you have every day. It only happens once every few years. But he showed respect for the chief.

In addition, if Ruan De performed well in the army, his recommenders would also be commended, and he gave this potential benefit to Ma Houwen, the county magistrate.

Ma Houwen was well aware of this, and he immediately agreed with Yu Shou's opinion and allocated a courtyard to Ruan De, located in Osmanthus Alley next to the county school and the county primary school. Houses, now there are many official houses and land in the hands of the counties. It is also because of the Jurchen invasion that a large number of rich people were massacred or fled.

After five days of training, Ruan De led two hundred soldiers to Bianliang.

Outside the southern city of Bianliang, a recruit camp covering an area of ​​over [-] mu has been set up, where [-] recruits recruited from various counties on Henan Road will gather and train. When it came to the recruitment order, the number of recruits varied. Counties like Bianliang, Chenliu, and Changshe all recruited more than a thousand people, while small counties like Yuchi County only recruited two hundred people.

This day is November [-]th. From the [-]th to the [-]th is the day for new recruits from all over the country to report. Although three days were given, most of the new recruits actually came on the first day. God, secondly, I came late, and many good resources are gone, such as good armor and weapons, good barracks, etc., so it is definitely better to come early than late.

Starting early in the morning, the first army to enter the camp was a thousand new recruits from Bianliang. They were led by a deputy commander named Kong Qing, the commander of the township soldiers in Kaifeng Prefecture, and finally took advantage of this opportunity , Kong Qing finally became the official deputy commander of the Western Army.

Although the Western Army has given quotas for low-level generals below the command envoys in various places, it does not mean that entering the Western Army will definitely become a low-level general. They must meet the standards of the Western Army. For military ranks above that, five feet eight is almost [-] meters, unless martial arts are outstanding.

The second is to lift a weight of [-] catties over the head three times, which is considered the minimum standard for generals practicing martial arts.Fourth, riding and archery is not required, but you must be able to use the step bow, use the eight-dou bow within [-] steps, and shoot at least seven out of ten shots.

These standards have been sent to the counties, and I also hope that the counties can choose their generals carefully, and don't just consider favors, and it will be embarrassing to come to the barracks when the time comes.

Yang Zaixing rode a horse and waited at the gate of the recruit camp. Recruits from various counties continued to arrive, ranging from two hundred in small counties to three to five hundred in large counties.

An ordering officer called out loudly, "Changshe County recruits have arrived!"

A group of more than a thousand recruits came in line. The leader was a general about thirty years old. When he was in the army, he was discharged from the army and returned to his hometown, Changshe County, Yingchang Prefecture. After Chen Qing captured the Central Plains, he asked all states to form township soldiers, and Li Yaoqing served as the commander of the township soldiers in Yingchang Prefecture.

The thousand soldiers he brought this time were the township soldiers they formed a year ago. After training for a year, they certainly looked more imposing than other recruits.

After entering the barracks, Li Yaoqing was separated from a thousand soldiers. One thousand soldiers went to the recruit camp to report. In fact, they all carried their recruit cards. Newly register the big account.

Teams of new recruits arrived one after another, and at this time the ordering officer shouted: "New recruits from Yuchi County have arrived!"

This is a small county with only two hundred recruits. Yang Zaixing didn't want to look at it. He turned his horse's head and was about to leave. Most of the soldiers are half a head tall. They are marchers. They don't ride horses. They are marchers. They hold a big iron rod, weighing at least sixty kilograms. Yu Bufan.

Yang Zaixing was a little surprised at the moment, he actually used more than [-] catties of iron rods as weapons, which can be ranked among the top five in the Western Army, Yang Zaixing called his soldiers, pointed to Ruan De and gave some instructions, the soldiers nodded and followed Ruan De up.

Ruan De was taken to the tent of the new general, where he had to register, and the registration of generals was much stricter than that of recruits.

There is a long row of tables in the big tent, and there are more than a dozen civilian officers sitting there, and a general sits in front of each of them.

"Please sit down!" The civilian officer politely asked Ruan De to sit down.

"I asked you something, please be sure to answer truthfully, if it is not true, it will seriously affect your promotion in the future, because many of you have served in the army in puppet Qi, but as long as you have not committed the crime of killing civilians or raping civilian women, everything else is fine. do not worry."

Ruan De nodded, "I understand!"

The civil servant spread out the registration form and asked with a pen, "Name, age, are you married?"

"My surname is Ruan Mingde. I have no characters. I am twenty-five years old. I am married. I have two sons, one is seven years old and the other is five years old."

The civil official flew a pen to record, and then asked: "Where is the ancestral home?"

"Shijie Village, Yuncheng County, Jeju!"

"What's your father's name? What's your job?"

Ruan De hesitated and said: "Father's name is Ruan Xiaoqi. He used to be a fisherman in Liangshanbo. For farmers."

This civilian military officer was obviously not familiar with the Liangshan Uprising during the Xuanhe period. The civilian officer was a passer-by in Shaanxi. Of course, he didn't know what happened on the East and West Roads in Beijing twenty years ago. He took a pen to record it expressionlessly.

"Can you ride and shoot?"

Ruan De shook his head, "I'm a step general, and I can step with a bow!"

"What weapon do you use?
"Usually use iron rods and harpoons!"

"Harpoon?" The civilian officer froze for a moment.

Ruan De turned around and saw three small harpoons stuck behind him.

The civilian military officer wrote: "Iron rods and hidden weapons flying forks!"

"Any other special skills?"

Ruan De thought for a while and said: "The water quality is good, but you can dive in the water for a stick of incense, and you can also forge iron!"

"Forging iron is not a martial skill, it's a life skill!"

The civilian officer smiled and asked again: "Have you ever joined the army? Song Army, Puppet Qi Army, Signing Army, Township Soldiers, etc."

Ruan De shook his head, "Is this my first time joining the army?"

The civilian officer smiled again: "There is one last question, can you read?"

"I have read books for several years, and there is no problem in silently writing "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius."

The civil servant immediately had a good impression of him, "Okay! Press your fingerprints here, five fingerprints on your right hand, and then sign your name."

Ruan De signed his name with a pen, and pressed five fingerprints, and the civil servant gave him a bronze medal, "Go! Go to the martial arts field to test it."

Ruan De was startled, "What did you actually measure?"

"If you want to be the head of the Western Army, there are requirements. Don't you know about body shape, weightlifting, martial arts, and archery?"

Ruan De shook his head, but Yu Shou didn't tell him.

The civil official said with a smile: "You should have no problem, go! There are soldiers outside the tent to take you there."

Ruan De clasped his fists and saluted and left.

At this moment, Yang Zaixing walked over from the back tent, and asked lightly, "How do you feel about this person?"

The civil official had a very good impression of Ruan De, and said with a smile: "I feel very honest, and he can also write "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" silently. I think he is very good."

Yang Zaixing picked up the registration form, and his eyelids twitched suddenly. This person turned out to be Ruan Xiaoqi's son. Others didn't know Ruan Xiaoqi, but Yang Zaixing knew it very well.

Everyone has their own secrets, and Yang Zaixing is no exception. It is not without reason that he followed the bandit leader Cao Cheng in his early years. His father Yang Zhi was also one of the heroes of Liangshan. Yang Zaixing was entrusted to Cao Cheng, and Cao Cheng took Yang Zaixing to his hometown of Hezhou, and together with Yang's gun, he passed on his strong martial arts.

Later, Cao Cheng offended the local tyrants, was forced to rebel in Hezhou, and soon took Yang Zaixing to kill Lingnan.

Because of Cao Cheng's poor military discipline, rape and robbery, he committed all kinds of crimes, which aroused Yang Zaixing's strong resentment, and repeated admonitions were useless.

Yang Zaixing kept his father's secret in his heart all the time, and no one ever confided in it, but he never expected that he would meet a descendant of Liangshan, the son of Ruan Xiaoqi, who was the son of Ruan Xiaoqi during the recruitment of recruits. Xiang, even the water ghost scouts can't do it, as expected of the descendants of the three heroes of the Ruan family.

Yang Zaixing's heart was full of ups and downs, but he didn't know that Ruan De was in big trouble in the martial arts arena at this time.

(End of this chapter)