The bows used in the army today are recurve bows. Before entering the Pass, the bows used by the army generally had a force of eight to ten, while the elite cavalry had a force of more than twelve.
Although the level of the Eight Banner Army has declined significantly compared to before it entered the Pass.
However, being able to pull a bow with ten-force force was one of the requirements for joining Kangxi's personal army, and being able to pull a bow with twelve-force force was one of the requirements for joining his personal guards.
The personal guards are also called the imperial guards.
Kangxi's personal guards had unlimited prospects, and not everyone could get in.
I've gone off topic. Regarding the archery test in the Royal Army Camp, let's not talk about accuracy for now. If you can't pull a bow of ten points, you will not be qualified to enter the Royal Army Camp.
In other words, these thirty people who were brought here had all undergone strict assessments before entering the personal army camp.
If these people fail to pass this test, it would be quite interesting.
In order to verify Yinreng's idea of "boiled chicken", Kangxi pulled three people out of the team in order and asked them to stand a hundred steps away and shoot at the target.
The three people who were called out were extremely panicked.
But no matter how panicked he was, there was nothing he could do. He could only pick up the bow on the rack and start shooting arrows nervously.
Yinreng looked with interest at the three men with fair skin, a little flesh on their bodies, but not strong. They pulled the bowstring with all their might, and then released it - "whoosh"!
The arrow flew out and hit the target a hundred steps away.
"Huh, not a single arrow missed the target. Not bad! Another one, another one!"
Kangxi was secretly annoyed by Yinreng's behavior of watching the fun and not minding the trouble, but he couldn't bear to disappoint him, so he asked the three of them to shoot two more rounds.
The three of them were just congratulating themselves on their good performance, but before they could be happy for long, they heard that they were going to do it again. They felt like the sky was falling.
Sure enough, in the next two arrow shots, some missed the target, and some didn't pull the bow open.
“Tsk, that’s it…”
Yinreng mocked Kangxi mercilessly in his heart, but he didn't notice that Kangxi's face had turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
But Kangxi said nothing and directly asked the next group to take the test.
The archery test for thirty people was completed in less than an hour, and Kangxi calmed down at this moment.
He looked at the thirty sons of nobles who were standing in the sun without even daring to raise their heads, and calmly ordered the admiral to lead the horses.
The infantry archery test is over, and there is still the horse archery test.
Compared with the hard bow used for shooting on foot, the difficulty of pulling the cavalry bow is much easier, only eight forces are required.
There were deer made of straw in the horse farm. Each soldier had ten arrows in his quiver. If he hit five arrows from fifty steps away, he would be considered a B-low, and six would be considered a B-mid. The scores were ranked in order.
Still in groups of three.
They were all sons of noble families, and riding was a skill they had practiced since childhood, so no one had crossed Kangxi's bottom line in terms of riding skills.
But the accuracy of his archery during horse riding can only be described as a mess.
As time went by, those who had gone up for the test gradually dismounted and returned to their original positions.
Kangxi's expression also changed from calm to full of anger.
Veins bulged on his forehead, and his fists on his legs were shaking slightly uncontrollably. The air around him seemed to become heavy because of his anger, which made people feel fearful.
Yinreng also felt a chill down his spine, and dared not have any thoughts in his mind.
He was afraid that the old man would no longer be able to suppress his anger and would drag him out and beat him up.
The military stick is no joke.
Kangxi's eyes swept across the thirty soldiers and finally fell on Aisin Gioro Nesuken's face.
Nei Suken was the great-grandson of Taizu's second son Daishan, but he was not from the line that inherited the title of king.
His father only had the title of Beizi and was only a lieutenant general in the army, and Nei Suken had an outstanding elder brother above him, so it would definitely not be his turn to inherit the title.
So Nesuken's father used Jiahun's connections to send the boy to his personal army.
Three years ago, Nesuken passed the assessment.
Now that he was assessed again, his score was at the bottom among this bunch of good-for-nothings.
Kangxi was so angry that he almost laughed.
"Is this how you usually train?"
He spoke in a calm tone.
However, the group of people standing in the sun suddenly felt their hands and feet become cold and they were completely unable to control their bodies.
Seeing that they did not answer, Kangxi looked at Yilibu again.
"I handed over the personal army camp to you, and this is how you train them?"
Yilibu's sweat broke out and he immediately knelt down to confess his crime.
"I acknowledge my guilt!"
"Admit your guilt? Hehehe..."
Kangxi chuckled softly, and after a moment, he asked,
"You are considered an old man who has followed me. Don't you understand what the personal military camp means?"
Yilibu didn't dare to speak, only cold sweat kept dripping down his face.
Yinreng also gained some experience.
He had never seen anyone sweat so much.
"Don't understand? If you don't understand, I'll tell you."
Kangxi's tone remained steady, without any trace of anger.
"The Imperial Guard Battalion is under the command of my Imperial Guard Battalion. If I am threatened, the over a thousand men in the Imperial Guard Battalion will be my second-to-last line of defense. If you collapse, I will most likely... be dead soon."
As soon as the word "death" was uttered, all the people standing, with Kangxi as the center, fell to their knees in an instant, even Yinreng was no exception.
"This slave deserves death!"
Yilibu looked as pale as death at this moment.
"He deserves death?"
Kangxi stood up from his chair, walked up to a slightly fat soldier, pinched him under the chin, and then took out a handkerchief from his cuff to wipe his hands clean.
"With all that fat on his body, if he were to go to the battlefield, let alone kill the enemy, he wouldn't be able to run more than a hundred steps even if he was trying to escape."
Nowadays, most soldiers who march and fight all year round have broad shoulders and big waists, with a thick layer of fat covering their muscles. However, their flesh feels hard to the touch, unlike the one Kangxi touched, which was purely bloated.
Even the neck is covered in fat.
In fact, in this personal army camp that accommodates more than a thousand people, a mere thirty people are really insignificant and it is difficult to attract too much attention and attention from others.
But laziness is contagious.
If he hadn't discovered these thirty people today, then ten years later, these thirty would have become three hundred, or even more.
Only at this moment did Kangxi finally understand why Yinreng always spoke of the Eight Banners Army with such contempt.
If an entire team is composed of soldiers like this, who are all cowards on the battlefield, how can they fight?
Flee before the fight?
Kangxi was really furious.
In fact, he cared far less about the personal army camp than the personal guard camp.
If Yinreng had not wanted to go out for a walk this time, and Kangxi had not suddenly decided to take his two sons to see the military camp, he would not have thought of coming to the military camp to test and teach the soldiers.
The Imperial Guard Camp has its own assessment mechanism, but the person in charge of their assessment is the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard Camp.
Kangxi narrowed his eyes.
It seems that both the commander-in-chief of the Royal Guard, Sun Chengen, and the deputy commander-in-chief, Xinghui, need to be thoroughly investigated.
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