Chapter 594: The Selection Test (Please vote and subscribe)

Jiandun's talent is not bad. Although he doesn't have any special skills, he has one characteristic: he learns things faster than others. He just ran the high and low piles and balance beam once, and now he runs it more smoothly for the second time.

Jiandun passed the second test in one try. This time, not only did he not make any mistakes in the high and low piles, but he also ran the balance beam in the back in one breath. He successfully exchanged a good score with the examiner, but he didn't know it himself, because after their team finished the test, the form was taken away by their captain, and none of the new recruits could see it.

After the balance test, the next test was about physical strength, lifting barbells.

Luo Chong didn't waste metal to specially make a few barbell plates, and he didn't have time to have people carve stone locks and the like. Instead, he directly asked the carpenters to make some wooden boxes, filled them with sand to increase the weight, and used wooden sticks in the middle to carry them. It looks like carrying two buckets, but it's filled with sand.

For this pure brute force test, the recruits all felt a lot more relaxed. No one was convinced by the other. They were all young people, so who didn't have enough strength? This was much easier than the high and low piles and balance beams.

Jiandun was no exception. However, he heard that this test was not based on speed, but on the number of times. So when it was his turn to take the test, he began to lift the barbell slowly, one after another, without exerting his physical strength crazily at the beginning. To put it bluntly, this thing was a

test of endurance. This time, each person only had one chance to lift the barbell. In order to be able to lift it more times, everyone would try their best. Even if they were given a second chance, no one could lift it again.

In the end, when Jiandun lifted his arms to the point of soreness, his waist felt like it was about to break, and his shoulders began to go numb, he sat down on the ground with a score of 127 times. This score was not low, but it was not outstanding. Among the 25 people in their team, there were only six or seven who could lift it more than 130 times, not to mention how many people there were in the entire army. Jiandun himself didn't know what score he could rely on.

With a trepidation, the first team came to the third test. However, they were all weak and exhausted. Even the first team member to lift the barbell had not recovered yet. Fortunately, the leader was thoughtful and only tested their eyesight this time, so they didn't have to exert any physical strength.

There was a horizontal line in the test room for eyesight. Jiandun stood behind the horizontal line according to the captain's order. There were ten tables in front of him from near to far, one table every ten meters, and an examiner sat at each table.

The captain standing aside first shouted out Jiandun's test number '0012', and then waved the yellow pennant in his hand to the examiner in front.

The first examiner, who was ten meters away, understood and randomly picked a wooden sign on the table and raised it, facing the number on it to Jiandun. Jiandun saw that it was a '3', so he loudly reported the number he saw.

The examiner indicated that the 10-meter mark had passed, and then raised a green pennant and waved it. The examiner at the 20-meter mark behind him understood and randomly picked a number to test. Those who could see continued to raise green flags to signal the others to continue. This continued until the 60-meter mark. Jiandun squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a long time, but still couldn't see clearly. He had no choice but to give up. So the examiner at the 60-meter mark raised a red flag to indicate that the test was over. Finally, the examiner standing with the team leader wrote 50 meters behind Jiandun's name on the form.

This result was not good, but it was not bad either. Jiandun could at least see the distance of 50 meters, while the worst person in their team could only see 20 meters, and couldn't see anything after that.

After this vision test, everyone's physical strength finally recovered, and then they rushed to the fourth test site under the leadership of the team leader.

The fourth test room was for poking wooden balls. There was a horizontal line drawn on the ground with white lime, and then there were several wooden boards more than one person tall, twenty meters away, with some wooden balls on them. All they had to do was to use the long bamboo poles in their hands to poke the balls. There were five balls on each board, and it didn't matter which one they poked.

Because the facilities were simpler this time, more wooden boards were set up, so six people could take the test at the same time. Jiandun was assigned to the last one in the second group. He held a four-meter-long bamboo pole in his hand, stared at the target in front of him, and rushed out after the captain gave the order.

Twenty meters is not far, and it is even faster for sprinting. Because he ran faster, Jiandun felt his lungs were a little out of breath, which made his body shake involuntarily. He was not as stable as he expected, so he did not hit the target in the first attack. The bamboo pole in his hand hit the middle of the two vertical wooden balls on the top, and poked the wooden board. Looking at the five teammates who all scored balls, Jiandun could not help but sigh. Fortunately, there were still four chances. He tried to hit the next four times.

However, the next four attacks did not go as he wished. The second time, he still aimed at the top wooden ball, but he missed it again. He did not hit any of them. In the next three times, he stopped trying to be brave and started to target the more concentrated wooden balls below, which corresponded to the two chests and abdomen. As a result, he scored all the balls in the last three times, which made him very happy.

However, the consecutive hits still failed to save his results. The mistakes in the first two times kept his total score at three times, which made him very upset. If he had known, he would not have poked the two balls on the top.

A round of six-person simultaneous hitting test ended quickly, and the first team members were led by their captain to the fifth test, the bamboo pole knocking test.

This test was not difficult, and was even simpler than the previous hitting test. It only required the use of a weighted bamboo pole to knock the bamboo pole of the corresponding color. What was required was a reaction speed and the recognition of the color.

This test required each person to hit ten times, and after hitting once, they had to put the pole away and stand at attention. Then, when they heard the examiner say the color, they had to hit it again within one second, and then stand at attention again and wait for the command. This was repeated ten times, and finally the number of effective hits and the speed of reaction were recorded.

Jiandun was very confident in this test. During the test, he hit the correct target all ten times, but his reaction speed was very average, not excellent.

When all five tests were finished, the captain took them back and asked everyone to go back to have a full lunch and then have a good rest. There would be a physical test in the afternoon, which would be very tiring.

Jiandun and the other members of the first team all nodded and went back to rest. On the way back, they discussed from time to time what kind of soldiers the morning tests corresponded to. Some people performed very well and were looking forward to becoming flag officers, while others did not perform so well and seemed unhappy.

Meanwhile, at the reviewing stand in the parade ground, Luo Chong also received a strange report. This time, a color blind man who could not distinguish colors was found. Later, Luo Chong personally found some things for him to identify, and found that this guy was not really color blind, but color weak.

Color weak is not a rare thing. At least when Luo Chong was taking a physical examination when he joined the army in his previous life, he met a guy who was diagnosed with color weak. Such people are not color blind, they just see colors that are not so strong. For example, bright red can be seen as pink in their eyes, and light colors such as light yellow can be seen directly as white.

For such a guy, it is impossible to be a soldier. Although he is very strong, Luo Chong cannot let him join the army formally. Even if he is forced into the team, he will never be an officer and will not see the day of success, because he cannot distinguish colors. If he becomes an officer, he may misread the flag during the war, which may cause trouble.

But this guy is unwilling to go back. He is already in his twenties, with two women at home and children in school. There is no shortage of food, clothing and clothes at home, and no worries. He just lacks a title. He knows that there are many opportunities to gain a title by merit in the barracks, so he wants the leader to keep him no matter what.

Finally, Luo Chong thought about it and simply let him stay as a blacksmith with the army. He will be a member of the logistics branch. He is usually responsible for repairing damaged armor and crossbows, changing horseshoes for war horses, repairing horse harnesses and vehicles, etc. Although there is no opportunity to make merit, it is not impossible. Moreover, he can learn a craft. Even if he retires in the future, he can go home and open a blacksmith shop. So this color-blind guy happily stayed.

This matter soon spread in the military camp. Many people envied him for being able to stay in the logistics branch as a blacksmith. It was not that the recruits were afraid of death and unwilling to fight. After all, they were all here for military merit and equipment. Instead, they envied him for being able to learn a skill that could make money. The Han tribe was now in a period of development, and there was a particular lack of skilled craftsmen.

The recruits in his team had just learned that this guy could not recognize colors, and finally jokingly nicknamed him "fake blind man". In one afternoon, all the recruits in the camp knew about the fake blind man. This color-blind man was really rare. There was only one such person among more than 4,000 people. Military camp life was boring, and such a special talent was born. Everyone would be curious for a few days and discuss this matter privately.

The fake blind man said that it didn't matter. I can learn to forge iron with my color-blindness, but can you? You can be jealous behind my back.

It was afternoon. After a lunch break, the 4,000 recruits gathered at the parade ground again and began to prepare for the physical fitness test, a 10-kilometer cross-country run with a load.

There is a large runway in the parade ground, which is four kilometers long in one lap. If it is not big enough, thousands of people will not be able to set up their military formations. Therefore, when the camp was built, Luo Chong planned the parade ground to be very large.

With such a large parade ground, it takes two and a half laps to run ten kilometers. Since there is no accurate timing tool, Luo Chong has no way to measure the time. He has to let thousands of people run together, and the final result is calculated by the ranking of those who pass the finish line, so he does not measure the time.

When he was a soldier in his previous life, such physical fitness tests were commonplace. Ordinary troops usually practiced five-kilometer armed cross-country running, but Luo Chong's was more special. They all started with ten kilometers and there was no upper limit. They had also walked on mountain roads and walked sixty kilometers at night. This ten kilometers was nothing.

In modern armies, five kilometers is generally good within twenty minutes and excellent within eighteen minutes. Luo Chong wanted to measure the time, but he had no tools, so he had to give up the idea.

Thousands of people all carried bamboo rafts filled with sand on their backs, and ran at full speed after a drum sounded. Thousands of people wore uniform military uniforms, and four bamboo joints were hung in front and behind them. The runway was filled with smoke and dust. Those who fell behind could only follow others and eat dust, so they also tried their best to catch up. The scene seemed a bit chaotic for a while.

Luo Chong, Ying Rui, Xue Tu, and Jiang Xuan were all on the reviewing stand and did not go down. They just watched the scene from a distance. Thousands of soldiers chased each other on the outer circle of the runway, and there was a group of examiners on horseback supervising the inner circle. There were also several tables at both ends of the key line, and several examiners sat there to record their rankings.

The first half of the circle was crowded with people, but in the second half of the circle, the fastest first group pulled away from the back. After two kilometers, when they ran to three kilometers, the people began to be sparse, but the base of 4,000 people was there, so it still seemed a lot.

Jiandun was also in the fastest group, but his speed was not outstanding. He could only grit his teeth and barely keep up with the long-legged ruthless people. After running another four kilometers, Jiandun felt that the bamboo tubes on his body seemed to weigh thousands of pounds, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted, because his dream was to be a sword and shield soldier.

His captain once said a jingle to describe sword and shield soldiers, called "wear the thickest armor and take the most poisonous blows." I heard that this sentence came from the leader.

Therefore, sword and shield soldiers have the thickest armor and the heaviest shields. Moreover, sword and shield soldiers are usually ranked in the first row to resist the direct attack of the enemy, so they need a lot of strength and usually carry the heaviest weight. After all, they not only have weapons, but also have a large shield more than others. How can they be a sword and shield soldier without sufficient physical strength? So Jiandun kept gritting his teeth and persisting, biting hard in the first group, and never fell behind.

After one lap, everyone was still running, but some people could only be called walking, and some even vomited and knelt on the ground to retch. Someone in the inner circle quickly dragged these exhausted recruits away, while the others continued.

After the second lap, the long team had been divided into several sections. Everyone divided into several groups according to their fastest speed and began to support each other and encourage each other to continue running. Luo Chong did not interfere. After all, this was the first time for them to do this. In the future, such physical training will become normalized. If anyone dares to support each other again, they will be beaten. However, in this assessment, carrying teammates or carrying teammates on their backs is still not allowed.

In the last half lap, the first group had opened up a distance of one kilometer from the second group, and a distance of three kilometers from the last echelon. The gap widened immediately.

Luo Chong couldn't help but sigh. He felt that at least an hour had passed since the beginning. In his previous life, anyone who ran a 10-kilometer cross-country race for more than an hour would be ashamed to see people. In their ace troops, on a flat surface like the playground, the average score for a 10-kilometer armed cross-country run is within 50 minutes. It is only on mountain roads that it will exceed an hour. This batch of recruits is really not good enough. Even the fastest first echelon runs so slowly.

But the people next to him were a little dumbfounded. They were obviously running very fast, and everyone was carrying so much weight, and the leader was still not satisfied? !

Even Jiang Xuan, who had no right to speak, thought these soldiers were very powerful and didn't understand why Luo Chong was still dissatisfied.

Finally, after more than an hour of competition, several teams passed the finish line one after another. Some people collapsed on the ground. The examiner was busy recording the results, while Luo Chong, who was standing on the reviewing stand, quickly gave orders to Ying Rui and Xue Tu to get up all the people lying down and make them stand up. Lying down suddenly after such intense exercise could kill people.

The two of them thought it was a big deal and ran over to start blasting those lying down.

(End of this chapter)