Chapter 45 Assessment
When the bloody head of the deputy of the second team of the left capital was brought up and displayed in front of everyone in the school field, Feng Liang was pulled down on the spot with a heavy staff and twenty military sticks, and the butt that Feng Liang directly hit bloomed and fainted to death.
This result was not expected by anyone in advance, the school field suddenly fell into a silence and slaughter, killing chickens and monkeys, on the first day, he killed a team deputy and a team leader, and Feng Liang is still the nephew of the long history and the deputy envoy of unity, he just begged for a favor for his subordinates and ended up like this, who dares to be careless now.
The rest of the week went well, and nothing else happened.
The first content of the assessment is wrestling, which is divided into several items, the first of which is the stone lock. There are neat ten pairs of stone locks on the field, ranging from ten catties to one hundred catties, and each stone lock is ten catties apart.
In the era of cold weapons, the individual quality of soldiers is very important. It is inevitable to select a person with strong personal strength as a junior officer. Therefore, Li Jing's first step in evaluating officers is to assess their strength.
The stone lock is a very common exercise tool in the military camp of the Tang Dynasty, and it is basically found in every military camp. In the army, stone locks are often used for grip strength, wrist strength, arm strength, waist and leg strength training. The stone lock lifting method mainly includes snatch and swing lift, with forward throw, reverse throw, straddle throw, back throw and other throwing methods and hand, finger, elbow, shoulder, head and other ways to form a variety of suit actions.
Li Jing, as the head of Zuo Yidu's new training method, was the first to go down to demonstrate. Li Jing walked directly to the fifty-pound stone lock, took a long breath, squatted down with both legs, grabbed a fifty-pound stone lock with his left and right hands, and sank into the dantian, shouted loudly, and with his arms exerted, the two fifty-pound stone locks had already risen from the ground.
Lifting the two stone locks, Li Jing adjusted his breathing, and used force again to flatten his arms, like a roc spreading its wings.
There was an exclamation from top to bottom of the school, and everyone was a little surprised to see Li Jing directly choose a fifty-pound stone lock just now. But if you just lift two fifty-pound stone locks, it's not too surprising, after all, although there are few people who lift two fifty-pound stone locks, there is no shortage of people in the army. But Li Jing not only lifted two fifty-pound stone locks, but also flattened his arms, and the arm strength was already very amazing.
Holding two fifty-pound stone locks, Li Jing also felt that his arms were difficult to support. Fortunately, for the stone lock, I used to contact it at home for a long time, and it was often used to practice grip strength, wrist strength, arm strength and waist and leg strength. He quickly tossed the two stone locks up with skill, and then performed a series of concise movements in succession.
"Lock Punch"
"Lock the elbow"
"Lock on your fingers"
With Li Jing's movements, some people below began to shout out the names of those fancy actions.
The stone lock is extremely ordinary, not only is it commonly used in the army for exercise, but almost all the people in the north have a set of stone locks in their homes. Especially in the land of Qilu, martial arts prevailed, and almost every young person practiced stone locks. However, although everyone has almost practiced stone locks, there are very few people who can really play stone locks with tricks. Playing tricks like Li Jing requires not only strength, but also skills. This is the perfect application of grip strength, wrist strength, arm strength, waist and leg strength.
"This is Su Qin's back sword!" Even the left one on the stage was dazzled by the head Wang Chong, and couldn't help but applaud.
"Zhang Fei straddles the horse, Guan Gong takes off his robe!"
"Black Bear Gear!"
Trick the horse, wear the waist, cheat the legs, cheat the horse, put on the waist and punch, cheat the leg on the punch. Li Jing's movements were like flowing water, and he did more than a dozen beautiful moves in one go, which provoked everyone in the school field to applaud in unison.
"Bang!" In less than a cup of tea, Li Jing was already steaming hot and sweating profusely. Following the last action, Li Jing smashed the two stone locks on the ground.
"Who's next?"
"I'm coming!" Wang Chong's palms were itchy by Li Jing's action just now, and he immediately shouted without waiting for others to answer. Li Jing smiled, nodded and returned to the stage.
Wang Chong also chose two fifty-pound stone locks, and also played a set of quite good-looking routines, which attracted hundreds of cheers. The two chief officers, Li Jing and Wang Chong, came off the stage one after another, and immediately detonated the enthusiasm of the two teams of recruits below, and began to take turns on the field one by one. Zhang Hong and several officers in charge of registration immediately stepped forward and recorded the achievements of the recruits one by one.
Li Jing divided ten pairs of stone locks of different weights into ten grades, and those who can raise fifty catties of stone locks with both hands and play a set of neat movements like Li Jing are the first class, or those who only lift a hundred catties of stone locks with both hands are also first-class, and those who can only dance ten catties of stone locks to play tricks can only be counted as the last tenth.
However, what made Li Jing and them very satisfied was that there were more than ten recruits in the two teams of the left capital who could lift a 100-pound stone lock with both hands to play tricks, and most of them could use a 50-pound stone lock to play tricks, and the most inferior was a 20-pound stone lock. This result made Li Jing, Wang Zhong and others very satisfied, and the physical fitness of this batch of recruits was still very good.
After assessing Shi Suo's results, Li Jing asked the recruits of the two teams to rest for a while and then assessed Shi Danzi's results. The stone burden is actually the Tang Dynasty version of the barbell, two stones wear a wooden bar, which is the stone burden. The stone lock is practiced in the wrist, arm, grip, waist, and leg strength, while the stone burden is mainly based on weightlifting, with snatch and jerk, the stone burden does not have many tricks, but it is practiced with real strength.
After lunch, take a break for an hour, and then take the test in the afternoon.
This time, the assessment is to shoot a bow and arrow. The open bow assessment uses a standard Zhemu bow instead of the usual practice bow. Bow practice is a special bow for archery practice, this kind of bow is not very accurate, mainly to practice arm strength.
The archery requirements for officers at the rank of general in the Tang Dynasty are, 'bow, one stone and one fighting power for foot shooting, and eight fighting power for horse shooting.' ’
The requirements of ordinary infantry archers are divided into three classes, nine buckets for the first, eight buckets for the second, and seven buckets for the third. Ma Jun horse shoots bows, with eight buckets, seven buckets, six buckets and three.
Li Jing remembered that when he was reading the Three Kingdoms, the veteran Huang Zhong was seventy years old and could immediately shoot two stone bows, and he could pierce Yang a hundred steps away. As far as he knows, one catty in the Han Dynasty was 250 grams, one stone was about 30 kilograms, and two stones were two hundred and forty kilograms, which was equivalent to the weight of later generations to be able to pull a bow of 60 kilograms. In the Tang Dynasty, a catty of 680 grams, a stone is 80 kilograms, a stone of foot shooting is a bucket force, which is equivalent to 88 kilograms of force, and horse shooting can also reach 64 kilograms.
Infantry archers have 72 kg of pull for the first class, 64 kg for the second class, and 56 kg for the third class.
The Ma Army archers have 64 kg of pull for the first class, 56 kg for the second class, and 48 kg for the third class.
Li Jing used to practice bow shooting at home, and he used to practice the bow specially, and the bow training did not consider the accuracy but strengthened the bow strength. Li Jing remembers that his practice bow reached two stones, and the bow power reached 160 kilograms. If you don't consider the accuracy and distance of the actual shooting, it is Li Jing who is in the prime of life in terms of light power, and even stronger than the seventy veteran Huang Zhong.
At this time, on the school field were ten Zhemu strong bows, starting from the six-bucket force bow to the sixteen-bucket force bow.
The requirements for the assessment are to choose a bow with more than six buckets, and the bow is fully drawn, and it can shoot twelve arrows continuously. Sixty paces away from the archery stack, the arrow twelve, six arrows in the buttress is the best, the stronger the bow chosen, the better the results will be;
"One bucket is twelve catties, and ten buckets is one hundred and twenty catties, just one stone power. I want you to choose your bow according to your ability, not the strongest and not the weakest, but the most suitable for you, well, now on, shoot twelve arrows in sixty paces, and the middle of the six arrows is the best; And the first place with the best results will receive a reward of 100 yuan, a roast lamb for dinner and a pound of wine! ”
This time, the bow is a test of strength rather than archery, so they are not too required to shoot accurately, the only requirement is to choose the right bow for themselves and open the bow twelve times in a row. Using the standard of the Tang Army's infantry archers, nine buckets are the first, eight buckets are second, and seven buckets are third; And if you can open a bow of ten buckets twelve times, that is the level of a general, and if you can open a bow with one stone and more than six buckets, it is a fierce general.
Li Jing's own highest level is to practice the bow with two stones, and the best way to use the infantry longbow is to use one stone and eight buckets, and the riding and archery angle bow is more suitable for one stone and five buckets. Further up, it can barely open, but it can't maintain accuracy, let alone shoot for a long time.
"Ready!"
"Open the bow!"
"Shoot!"
Ten people shot with bows at a time, and shot ten arrows in a row. Li Jing, Wang Chong, Zhang Hong and others carefully recorded the bows and shooting skills of the recruits. Although it has long been said that only the strength is tested and the shooting score is not tested, Li Jing still let people set up an arrow stack sixty steps away. However, judging from the performance of each team, the ability of one hundred recruits in the two teams to open the bow can basically reach the level of six to eight buckets, but the accuracy of shooting is not disagreeable.
In the morning, the stone lock and stone burden were assessed, and in the afternoon, the bow and arrow were assessed, and it took a whole day to complete the assessment of the two teams of 100 people, which was completely recorded.
As the sun set, the trumpet of dinner had sounded, and the recruits of Zuo Yidu began to line up to return to the camp.
Wang Chong walked over and patted Li Jing's shoulder and said with a smile: "This group of recruits has a good foundation, and it can even be said that they are the best ones I have ever seen." Next, it's up to you to see your new training method, how about it, how sure are you that you can train them to look like that? ”
Li Jing chuckled, these two teams of recruits did show results that exceeded Li Jing's expectations today. With such an excellent foundation, he is also full of expectations for his training. "I have full confidence in them, Captain, I'll sort out today's assessment results in a while, and let's draw up the list of low-level officers of the two teams together in the evening."
Wang Chong smiled at Li Jing and nodded, held Li Jing's arm and said: "You are not only the leader of the first team, but also the head of the left capital, and now the leader of the second team, Feng Liang, has been punished by the cane and cannot be a director for the time being. After speaking, Wang Zhong smiled and turned around and left first.
PS: "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Yue Fei" said: "(Yue Fei) was born with divine power, without a crown, and held a bow of 300 catties. "A catty in the Northern Song Dynasty is about 640 grams, which is slightly smaller than the 680 grams in the Tang Dynasty. Three hundred Song Jin is also equivalent to 192 kilograms, which is close to four hundred catties. In the history of the Song Dynasty, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei both had a record of holding a bow of 300 catties, which was equivalent to 2.4 stone bows in the Tang Dynasty, which can be described as innate divine power. Huang Zhong can still open a 60-kilogram bow at the age of seventy, and Yue Fei can open a 192-kilogram bow before he is twenty years old.