Xu Sheng saw that Lu Dai had already set up his jiashi, and there was still a trace of arrogance in his arrogance, he sneered, didn't say anything, his figure shook, and he jumped out with an arrow step, and his fists were also swung out at this time.

Lu Dai saw that Xu Sheng made a quick move, punched calmly, frowned, and was entangled with Xu Sheng.

The point of the stage instantly became the ring of the competition, Zhang Yan and Zhou Kui on the stage tried their best to give up a vacant space for the two, and the soldiers under the stage saw that the two were fighting on the stage, and they seemed to be interested and scrambling to see the excitement.

After a while, the battle between Xu Sheng and Lu Dai attracted everyone's attention, the two of them punched and kicked on the stage, and the soldiers in the audience also coaxed and shouted loudly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan laughed, but he had been paying attention to the battle between Xu Sheng and Lu Dai.

Xu Sheng is agile and quick to shoot, although Lu Dai's speed is not as fast as Xu Sheng, but the victory lies in strict defense, and the two of them have fought more than ten moves, and no one can help anyone.

The two of you come and go, fighting endlessly, and even the onlookers are full of passion, constantly shouting on the side.

Zhang Yan was also fascinated by it, and commented from time to time.

After more than a dozen moves, Lu Dai's defensive speed was obviously unable to keep up with Xu Sheng's attack speed, and he gradually fell behind.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan was faintly worried, thinking that Lu Dai would definitely not be able to beat Xu Sheng.

At this moment, Lu Dai's door suddenly opened, and Xu Sheng saw this, not wanting to miss the opportunity, so he punched and struck. Who knows, Lu Dai deliberately exposed a flaw to Xu Sheng, and his figure flickered, and he turned behind Xu Sheng in an instant.

Xu Sheng threw himself into the air, his body involuntarily fell forward, and before he could react, Lu Dai's hands suddenly pushed him from behind his back, pushing him directly off the platform.

Fortunately, Xu Sheng was agile, and jumped down with a somersault forward, although his feet landed, the whole person still ran a few steps forward.

"Agreed!" Lu Dai stood on the podium and bowed to Xu Sheng with joy on his face.

Xu Sheng was not convinced, and jumped back onto the Dianjiang platform, and wanted to compete again.

Zhang Yan stopped: "That's it!" ”

Xu Sheng said: "But master, he and I haven't decided the winner yet!" ”

Zhang Yan said: "You only have brute force, but he uses skill, and if you continue to fight, you may not take advantage of anything." Step aside! ”

Xu Sheng let out a "snort" and obediently stepped aside.

Zhang Yan walked to Lu Dai's side, directly grabbed Lu Dai's hand, and shouted loudly to the soldiers below the point general platform: "You all saw it just now, Lu Dai pushed Xu Sheng off the point general platform, this is an indisputable fact, although they did not have an obvious difference between victory and defeat, but with Lu Dai's skills, it is enough to serve as Sima in the army." Among you, if anyone wants to serve as Sima, even if you come up and try to compete with Lu Dai, as long as you can defeat Lu Dai or draw with him, you can become Sima. ”

As soon as these words came out, it immediately attracted a heated discussion, and the voices under the stage were noisy, and the soldiers were discussing, and this kind of opportunity to promote their military ranks was the first time for them.

Unable to resist the temptation of official positions, twenty or thirty people suddenly emerged among the soldiers.

Zhang Yan asked all these people to come to the point, and then compared Lu Dai one by one.

Lu Dai regained his spirits, and in the face of the twenty or thirty people who came to challenge, he had no fear at all.

Subsequently, Zhang Yan talked about the rules and taboos of the competition, and used hand-to-hand combat as the benchmark to let them start the competition.

After the competition began, at first, five people were not Lu Dai's opponents, and they were all defeated by Lu Dai.

Seeing this, the rest also had some scruples in their hearts, and some of them felt that they couldn't beat Lu Dai, so they took the initiative to get off the stage.

But in such a one-by-one competition, Lu Dai suffered a little, he was facing a wheel war, and his physical strength would inevitably be a little unable to keep up.

In order to be fair, Zhang Yan asked these people to be divided into groups and fight against each other first, and after a round of survival of the fittest, the number of people was directly reduced by half.

In the second round, it was still a two-on-two battle, and half of them were eliminated.

After four rounds of competition, there were four people left on the platform in the end, Zhang Yan asked these four people to take a break, and then divided the four people into two teams again for the fifth round of competition.

After a fight, in the end, there were only two people left on the platform, and he asked Lu Dai to fight against these two people. Due to the consumption of physical strength, Zhang Yan asked these two people to deal with Lu Dai alone, and if he won, he would make the two of them Sima at the same time.

The two soldiers were bound to win, and they worked together to start fighting against Lü Dai, and after a fierce battle, Lü Dai was finally outnumbered and defeated.

After the results of the competition came out, Lu Dai looked ashamed, but the two soldiers were extremely happy.

Zhang Yan first comforted Lu Dai, and then encouraged the two soldiers, asking for their names one by one, only to know that one of the two soldiers was named Deng Yi and the other was Wang Bo, and he should appoint Deng Yi and Wang Bo as Sima.

After that, Zhang Yan divided the army of more than 18,000 people into three parts, and let Lü Dai, Deng Yi, and Wang Bo each command 6,000 people, and began to select grass-roots officers such as military marquis and tun chiefs on the school field based on the level of force.

Zhang Yan's order suddenly drove the enthusiasm of the entire army, so the Xiapi soldiers began a hot competition.

For a whole day, the soldiers spent time on the school field, and the efficiency of the round competition was also very high, and after a round, half of the people could be eliminated, and it would not take a few rounds to select the winner.

The military system of the Han Dynasty was calculated by multiples of two and five, and the most basic unit was the army, that is, there was a commander for every five people; Two Wu Wei, one for every ten people; Five tithes are a team, and there is a team rate for every fifty men; Two teams are one tun, and every 100 people have a tun chief; Two tuns are a song, and there is a military marquis for every two hundred people; Two songs into one, one for every four hundred people.

However, there are a large number of soldiers in Xiapi, and there are only four military commanders selected by Zhang Yan, and the two-five system is also a bit tongue-twisting, which is not easy to manage. Simply Zhang Yan used ten as a multiple, removed the two positions of captain and team leader, and used the commander as the basic unit of the army.

In addition, he also renamed the tun commander to the centurion, and the military marquis to the commander of the thousand, but he retained the military position of the military commander separately and used to lead the commander.

In this way, in the ranks of 18,000 people, it is necessary to set up 1,800 chiefs, 180 centurions, and 18 commanders.

As soon as Zhang Yan's position was changed, it immediately became clear at a glance, and even the soldiers could easily remember who their commander was.

In the evening, eighteen commanders, one hundred and eighty centurions, and one thousand eighteen hundred commanders were all elected, and all such selections were obtained through a single contest of force, so that everyone was convinced, and not one complained.

Subsequently, Zhang Yan divided the 18,000 soldiers into four battalions with 5,000 men as a battalion, and asked Lu Dai, Deng Yi, and Wang Bo to each bring a whole battalion of soldiers and horses, but gave the other 3,000 soldiers and horses to Xu Sheng to lead. He also informed the soldiers and horses of the battalion that from tomorrow onwards, military training would begin, and that he would personally supervise it.

In the evening, Zhang Yan, who had been busy all day, returned to the Taishou Mansion, and before he had time to rest, the official came to report that Chen Ying should ask to see him outside the mansion.

Zhang Yan immediately went out to greet him, and when he arrived outside the Taishou Mansion, he saw a man with a sturdy body and a handsome appearance, and he looked a little similar to Chen Deng.

Chen Ying rode a tall horse, dressed in a hunting suit, his face was cold and abnormal, and under his thick eyebrows was a pair of bright eyes, which looked extremely powerful.

Chen Ying saw Zhang Yan walk out of the Taishou Mansion, looked at it from top to bottom, immediately turned over and jumped off the horse, hugged his fists towards Zhang Yan and said, "Grass people Chen Ying, meet Lord Zhang!" ”

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "Zhonghu, I look forward to it day and night, but I finally looked forward to you, come on, come in, I have already asked people to prepare a banquet, let's have a drink tonight." ”

Chen Ying met Zhang Yan for the first time, he didn't expect Zhang Yan to be so enthusiastic, although he is Chen Deng's younger brother, he was also born in a scholarly family, but he has no interest in reading, but only likes martial arts.

In his early years, he learned from famous teachers and learned swordsmanship, and later learned spearmanship and bow skills from several famous masters, and has been constantly strengthening himself. He walked the rivers and lakes, often fought unevenly, crisscrossed Huaisi, rarely met opponents, and even his younger brother Chen Da's martial arts were mostly taught by him.

Later, because he killed someone by mistake, he hid incognito, returned to his hometown Huaipu, devoted himself to studying, self-cultivation, and never stepped out of the house for a few years.

Later, Chen Da died, his father broke with his brother Chen Deng, he made peace from it, but his father was stubborn, and in a fit of anger, he ran away from home, so he stayed at home to take care of everything.

Until a few days ago, Chen Ying received a letter from Chen Deng, saying that he had met a Ming lord and invited him to Pengcheng to seek a great cause, and his calm heart rippled again. Two days later, Zhang Yan personally sent someone to pick him up with gifts, he thought twice, said goodbye to his mother, and followed the frame to Xiapi.

After entering the Taishou Mansion, Zhang Yan warmly entertained Chen Ying, during the conversation, Chen Ying saw that Zhang Yan was bold, and he was a little happy, and gradually, the heartiness of the ranger showed up, and Zhang Yan hit it off at first sight.

That night, both of them were so drunk that they didn't wake up, and they were carried into their rooms by the officials.

The next morning, before Zhang Yan woke up, he was woken up by a knock on the door, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Xu Sheng's voice came from outside the door: "The person sent by the master to Guangling has returned, and he has also brought back a young gentleman, who is now waiting for the master in the hall." ”

When Zhang Yan heard the news, he immediately jumped up from the bed, and after getting dressed, he opened the door and walked towards the hall.

In the hall of the Taishou Mansion, Chen Jiao had been waiting there for a long time, and he didn't see Zhang Yan come out for a long time, with a slight anger on his face, and said to himself: "What does it mean to invite me from afar, but I avoided it?" ”