False eunuch in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 31 There are many talents in the guard camp

"What's your name?" Cao Qing asked.

"Ye Hong!" The man saluted Cao Qing.

"Did you hit it just now?" Cao Qing asked.

"It must have been hit." Ye Hong said calmly, but there was strong confidence in his words.

Cao Qing was very surprised, the accuracy of this musket was not very good.What's more, what's more, it's a living target. Although there are a group of them, it's not so easy to hit them.

"Are you so sure?" Cao Qing asked.

"Of course, when the gun was fired just now, a turtledove fell down. That's what I hit, at that position," Ye Hong said.

"Eunuch Cao, Ye Hong is actually a sharpshooter!" someone shouted.

Cao Qing didn't think it was disobedient, and asked the guard with a smile: "You all know?"

"The villain is not lying, and the deputy flag can also testify." The man stood up and saluted Cao Qing, which is a military salute from the Ming army.When Cao Qing just started training, he made it clear that everyone in the army must give a military salute.

"Where is your deputy flag?" Cao Qing asked.

Immediately, the two stood up and saluted Cao Qing respectively, "The villain Deng Maoqi." "The villain Zhao Lu."

"Can you two testify for him?" Cao Qing asked.

Deng Maoqi stood up and said, "Eunuch Cao, the villain can prove that this is true. Ye Hong was born as a hunter, and his archery skills are very good, and he can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps. He is also much faster than others in learning musketry. Two hundred No misses in the bullets."

"I believe you! Ye Hong, you can no longer be a soldier." Cao Qing said.

"Why? Did I do something wrong?" Ye Hong asked.

"You are even more powerful than the officer you are compared to. If you stay in the flag, how will your officer lead the troops?" Cao Qing said.

"My lord, if you are so capable, you still drive him away. What kind of reason are you doing?" Zhao Lu, who hadn't spoken just now, stood up and said.

"When did I say I was going to drive him away?" Cao Qing said with a smile.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, Cao Qing really never said such a thing.

"Then you said just now that he can no longer be a soldier?" Zhao Lu said.

"That's right, I said that he can no longer be a small soldier, but I didn't say that I should drive him away? It's just that I don't understand. Since you are a hunter, why can't you run ahead of the hundred people that day?" Cao Qing asked.

"I..." Ye Hong was a little embarrassed.

Zhao Lu said: "He just came from his hometown that day, and he ran over before he had time to eat. He has been hungry for a few days, and his stomach is rumbling, how can he run so fast?"

Only then did Cao Qing understand what was going on: "It seems that I didn't think carefully. It's just that gold always shines. Since Ye Hong has such abilities, he can't be a soldier anymore. I'll mention you as a musket instructor in the guard battalion. In addition Set up a separate banner to select brothers with good marksmanship in the battalion to join. Ye Hong, you are responsible for teaching them marksmanship. Let them become sharpshooters like you!"

"Brother, that's great for you! You are now an instructor! Why don't you thank Eunuch Cao?" Zhao Lu was very excited, as if he had become an instructor of musket.

Ye Hong gave Cao Qing a military salute, and said loudly, "Thank you, Eunuch Cao, for your promotion!"

"You don't need to thank me so early. You bring me a sharpshooter as soon as possible, and I want to thank you instead. As the saying goes, if you raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while, you will be needed one day. At that time, don't let me lose the chain .” Cao Qing said.

"Eunuch Cao, don't worry. If my brother dares to lose the chain, I will kick his ass hard!" Zhao Lu laughed.

Although this Zhao Lu is very vulgar and carefree, Cao Qing likes this kind of scheming subordinate very much.

"Zhao Lu, which relative is Ye Hong?" Cao Qing asked.

"Yes. He is a distant relative of my family. He went to Guanzhong in northern Shaanxi to make a living a few years ago. This year, Guanzhong was hit by a disaster. He came to join my family. He is not a child of our military bureau. I lied to you adults, and I am willing to be punished." Zhao Lu said.

"No. In the future, if you meet someone with a skill like Ye Hong, you can bring it to us. Those who are skilled can go to the military bureau, and those who are capable can come to the guard camp. If everyone has something special, I, Cao, can be promoted to be an instructor. But those who behave in a bad manner must not be brought into the guard camp, otherwise they will be punished together with the person brought in." Cao Qing said.

"Eunuch Cao, I also have a skill." A big man came out.

"What's your name?" Cao Qing asked.

"My name is Niu Dazhuang." The big man was very simple and honest, and his speech was somewhat slurred.Make everyone laugh from time to time.

"What specialties do you have?" Cao Qing asked.

"I'm so powerful! I can throw a one-jin object nearly a hundred paces. If you don't believe me, I'll show you." Niu Dazhuang said.

Tian Shixian quickly came up to stop him: "What kind of specialty is throwing stones? Don't mess around, hurry back!"

Niu Dazhuang shrank his head and was about to retreat.But was stopped by Cao Qing.

"Wait." Cao Qing said.

Niu Dazhuang stopped and looked at Cao Qing blankly, not knowing what to do.

"Come on, show me, are you really strong?" Cao Qing said.

"I'm not lying." Niu Dazhuang said.

"Go pick up a rock and throw it to me. See if you're talking big." Cao Qing said.

Everyone didn't know what Cao Qing's intention was.But Niu Dazhuang honestly picked up a pebble from the corner of the wall, which weighed one or two catties.

"Get out of the way, everyone, stones don't have eyes." Niu Dazhuang said.

When Niu Dazhuang picked up the stone, he really had a bit of momentum, he swung his arms round, and then ruthlessly threw the stone in his hand.Like a cannonball, it slammed into the distance.

"boom!"

Stones smashed hard among the abandoned rubble, splashing mud and rock high.

"Who knows how far it is?" Cao Qing asked. He couldn't understand how far it was, but it seemed to be more than a hundred meters away.Cao Qing knew in his previous life that if he can throw about 80 meters in the army, he is already a master among masters.You must know that the effective range of bows and arrows is only 150 meters to 200 meters.

"Almost a hundred steps." Someone said.

"How do you know?" Cao Qing asked.

"My father is a carpenter. I was very sensitive to size since I was a child," said the man.

"You're also quite capable. What's your name?" Cao Qing said.

"The villain's name is Gu Yucun." The man said.

"Very good, I have something to ask you later. Let's talk about Da Zhuang first." Cao Qing said.

Niu Dazhuang was reprimanded by Tian Shixian just now, and he doesn't know whether he did the right thing or wrong today.Standing there obediently, waiting for Cao Qing to speak.

Cao Qing said, "That's right. Da Zhuang, as I said just now, as long as you can show your real skills, I will give you an instructor. Your throwing skills are good. It will be of great use in the future. From now on, you are also our guard battalion You can also find people in the guard battalion who are born with strong arms like you, and teach them how to throw as far as your gang."

Tian Shixian didn't understand why Cao Qing selected some of these people.But it's not easy to say anything.Had to step back.

Cao Qing said to Gu Yucun again: "You are not bad, and you can also serve as a teacher. But you can't open another banner, but you can find a few people with more accurate estimates, and they will be of great use in the future."

(End of this chapter)