Chapter 59 Graduation
Li Cangyu, who returned to the military camp, started to do something big.
——Preparing for the ceremony of practicing and apprenticeship.
Zhang Xu's affairs were so hot that it must have been left alone.
Although Li Cangyu had never met Zhang Xu, this young old man was called "Zhang Dian". His willfulness was famous in history. All common etiquette and common law were all over his life. He was addicted to drinking as much as he wanted. Most of the time, he was drunk and played whatever he wanted.
But Zhang Xu really had willful capital. In history, he was collectively called "Dian Zhang Zuixu" with the later monk Huaisu, and was named "Cao Sheng" by later generations. He and He Zhizhang and others were also called "Four Friends of Wuzhong" and "Eight Immortals in the Drinking" and were also known as the Three Evils of the Tang Dynasty together with Li Bai and Pei Min.
Li Cangyu, a mythical master who has been proud of the Chinese cultural circle for thousands of years, does not have the face and dares to be someone else's teacher. But if he refuses or escapes, he is too arrogant and pretentious. On the other hand, he will be a master to learn calligraphy with him, which is probably a perfect solution.
Not to mention that Zhang Xu's amazing name can bring some useful halo to himself, Li Cangyu, who is already a fan of calligraphy, really admires Zhang Xu from the bottom of his heart. If he can really get guidance from such a famous teacher, it would be a blessing. Although calligraphy is not his biggest pursuit, people must have some hobbies in life, right?
To become a disciple, you must have the etiquette of practicing. Didn’t Zhang Xu want to learn the word "Slim Gold"? Li Cangyu planned to give him a handmade word "Slim Gold" sticker. From the basic brushwork to his writing experience, he had to copy a classic essay that was popular in the calligraphy world, "Thousand Characters".
Li Cangyu felt that using this thing as a gift for tutoring is definitely much more appropriate than giving gold, silver and bacon, and it should be able to win the old man's favor.
At this time, the recruit battalion had resumed daily training. Shangfeng temporarily assigned two small officers from Bai Ze Yueqi, who were in charge of guarding, to manage and train these new soldiers of the Jinwu Guard.
At this moment, the training quality of the new soldiers has really improved. From the most basic queue, running, strength training, to fighting, gun skills, and knife skills at the martial arts level, each step is taught very well. At the same time, the requirements are also very strict.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers of the Jinwu Guard do not practice bows and arrows, but practice a single-soldier crossbow called "Bozhang Crossbow". It requires two hands to completely pull the distance, and the range can reach an astonishing two hundred steps. It is not a day or two to practice bows and arrows well, but the crossbow can be quickly achieved. Even a woman can easily shoot a big man by pulling the flight. Therefore, the crossbow is a controlled weapon of the Tang Dynasty and is not allowed to be held by the people. The Jinwu Guard's assessment requirements are to meet the two-point four shots, which can generally be achieved by those who are serious in training.
The archers in the Tang army mainly focus on collective shooting and large-scale killing. Only a few masters can really use the bow well. For the Jinwu Guard who maintains public order, the crossbow is obviously more practical.
Before the two officers of Bai Zeyue Cavalry served as "instructors", Li Cangyu became familiar with them. One was named Xiao Jinxuan and the other was Yao Ruiqi. Both were from military and martial arts families. Their ancestors had two or three generations and uncles and brothers in their clans were mostly soldiers. They had a deep foundation in practicing martial arts since childhood. After they grew up, they joined the frontier with their father and brothers, fought wars and made contributions, and forced themselves to kill a new path in life with their own swords and guns, and turned from civilians to officers. Although they were only low-level military officers like the eighth-rank brigade coach, they were still very young. Now that they have returned to the capital to work at the foot of the emperor, there is a lot of room for promotion and possibility of future promotion.
In the army of the Tang Dynasty, there were many young people like Xiao Jinxuan and Yao Ruiqi. Some were from military and martial arts families, some were civilian children who were "good heroes", and some were scholars who had studied. Their life was to kill enemies, make achievements and win their wives, and win their descendants. This was also the most direct manifestation of the "martial arts" in the Tang Dynasty. Although the world is getting worse and worse, there are fewer and fewer people like them, but it does not mean that there is really no more.
Such people are the real core combat power and mainstay of the Tang army.
Li Cangyu's initial life plan is to become a person like them.
As the saying goes, like-minded, Li Cangyu has a good relationship with them.
Tang Jie and Wen Peng, who had eaten eggs and fought together before, have now become Li Cangyu's "brainless fans". The three new soldiers often brought the wine and meat from Zhang Zhai to Xiao Jinxuan and Yao Ruiqi's officer dormitories, and secretly drank a little wine and started to relax. The relationship between the five people is getting better and better, and they all call each other brothers in private.
Li Cangyu's injury finally healed slowly and he also participated in training. Although they were all very basic things, they benefited a lot. It is said that "going far away from the nearest, climbing high and inferiority." The power of any industry starts with laying a solid foundation. Just like practicing calligraphy, only after practicing the basic strokes of one stroke and one horizontal stroke can you get the final stroke.
The restart of the month of recruit training gave Li Cangyu a personal and comprehensive understanding of the most basic things in the Tang army.
By this time, the page of the bloody fight seemed to have been completely revealed. No one talked about that matter again, whether in the military camp or in the streets and alleys of Chang'an.
The training of the recruits is over. It is time for everyone to officially join the Jinwu Guard and assign "job positions". The recruits are all excitedly talking because the upcoming distribution of soldiers will directly affect everyone's treatment and future.
The best place to go is of course to be assigned to the Yi Mansion to carry out the security and martial law tasks of the palace. But not everyone can enter the Yi Mansion. It basically only recruits soldiers from aristocratic families. In other words, unless they are descendants of officials, there is basically no chance.
The remaining positions are to guard the nine city gates of Chang'an or inspect the streets. Different regions and positions, treatment and status vary. The most boring thing is to be sent to Wuhoupu to be Wuhou, just like being "delegated" to the local police station to be a police officer.
Bai Ze Yueqi, like Xiao Jinxuan and Yao Ruiqi, is not a position that the new recruits can imagine. They are the highest-level troops of the Jinwu Guard. Whenever the emperor goes out, they will set up special flags and walk in the forefront of the team.
At this time, they will have a new title, "Tours" and "Tours Fly".
In addition to being responsible for clearing the road and clearing the streets, the guided horse is also a high-ranking guard of honor that represents the dignity of the country, and is also an important bodyguard for the emperor to travel. This is not something that can be achieved by just being a "righteous and red-rooted" aristocratic family. It must also have real skills, hard skills, and rich practical experience. Otherwise, if you really encounter something, who will protect the horse?
But the emperor rarely traveled far away. Without a escort mission, these elite Yue cavalry did not lead the way, but the "Ace Special Police" of the Jinwu Guard and the "Anti-terrorism Special Forces" in the capital. For example, a bloody fight between hundreds of people that day, they had to be the ones who had to be suppressed. The facts proved that they were indeed awesome. Among the more than a hundred people in the imperial guards, there were officers. When they saw them, they were like mice and cats, and they did not dare to show off at all.
There were 800 such elite Yue cavalrymen in the Jinwu Guard, and they were organized into four prefectures, named after the flags they had been slaughtered when they were in the pilot mission, namely Baize Mansion, Zhuque Mansion, Xie Fei Mansion and Xuanwu Mansion. Each prefecture had a fifth-ranking Lang general as the commander. Among them, "Baize Mansion" was at the forefront of the guard mission, and its position within the Jinwu Guard was also the first of the four prefectures. His commander was Hao Tingyu, known as the "No. 1 general in the capital".
When it comes to Hao Tingyu and Li Cangyu, he gets angry. That guy is not a good person at all!
But I heard that he is the one who is responsible for the acceptance of recruits and the assignment of positions.
Li Cangyu was so nervous that he gritted his teeth. I was afraid that this guy would deliberately disgust me!
Before dawn in the morning, the recruits who were so excited that they couldn't sleep all got up and began to tinker with the new equipment distributed the day before. They tied their hair up and tied them up a layer of foreheads, put on a new military uniform in yellow linen, put on rhinoceros leather armor, and had military leather boots under their feet. They were all very arrogant. As for weapons, each person has only distributed the iconic "Park-headed spear" of the Jinwu Guard, and each has a horizontal knife and a barrier knife. Special weapons like the Biao Zhang Bird must be distributed during training or execution of tasks.
Li Cangyu wanted a horizontal knife very early, and its reputation in history was too great. In the general sense, the "Tang sword" refers to a horizontal knife. The casting technique of this kind of knife has been lost in China, but the Japanese learned from the past and developed it, and made it a world-famous knife "Japanese sword". The most obvious difference between a horizontal knife and a Japanese sword is that the horizontal knife is completely straight.
Li Cangyu once visited the weapons shop and saw the horizontal swords on the market. Each one sold for about 15 to 20,000 yuan... It was too expensive and I didn't buy it!
Now Li Cangyu's wish has finally come true. He got a horizontal knife with a brown wooden sheath. According to veterans, the expensive type of horizontal knife on the market has only put a lot of effort into the appearance. It is more meaningful for rich people to buy it for decoration. The special horizontal knife made by the army is mainly practical. It is also a horizontal knife. If it is pulled out and the beautiful sword on the market encounters a saber, it will be almost a piece of scrap iron.
But Li Cangyu was disappointed when he got the coveted horizontal knife. It was not that it was bad, but that he had used the stupid and heavy big She knife, but now he was not used to using the horizontal knife at all - it was too light and too short!
So Li Cangyu stubbornly carried the She sword on his back, which caused a burst of ridicule from the robes, saying that the blade of your knife was so bumpy that it was almost turned into a saw, why are you still keeping it?
Li Cangyu sneered, I used it to cut off the imperial guard's horizontal knife, are you going to give it a try?
So they surrendered, but they just couldn't afford to offend them, they couldn't afford to offend them!
After having the last breakfast Zhang Gai made for these recruits, everyone stood in line, waiting for the arrival of the top general, and waiting for an important arrangement of fate.
Li Cangyu was also quite impressed. He finally graduated from the novice village. Where will his next stop be?
Chapter completed!