Chapter 5 Recruits (1)
"Get up, get up, hurry up, wash your face, rinse your mouth, fold your bedding, and gather, Lu Guang's butt, put on your pants! Plantain, tell you how many times you have, don't press your shoes under the pillow when you sleep!" As soon as the sky was dawn, Zhang San climbed up with a wheel, shouting loudly in Suse.
The recruits from the first team of the second brigade of the 3rd Regiment of the New Training Camp jumped off the floor like a stung hornet and started to clean up in a hurry. One by one, their movements were faster than rabbits.
However, their partner Zhang San was still dissatisfied. While quickly packing up his clothes and bedding, he urged at the top of his lungs: "Hurry up, hurry up, all of them are quick. Remember, you only have a quarter of an hour. Wash your face, rinse your mouth, fold your quilt, go to the cottage, and go to the cottage for a quarter of an hour. After that, I will never wait for him. Grandma, they are all too lazy to be like pigs. When they were herders, why didn't you see who dare to sleep?!"
The recruits were red in their faces and red in their ears, but no one had the courage to keep talking. The gang leader Zhang San cursed people badly, but they were all true. When he was a shepherd slave for the Tukki, no one dared to sleep until dawn. The rooster cried twice and dared not get up. The clan's whip had already been thrust on his body. After being beaten, he had to kneel on the ground to thank him, otherwise, the whip would not be allowed to turn into a knife.
"Don't rob, the water for washing your face is enough. Poplar, you are a girl. Use a big basin water to wash your face once. Iron pillars, wash two more handfuls of water will die. Touch, touch, the snot that last night was still hanging on your face! And you, Lu Dechuan, don't squeeze forward. They wash their faces, won't you fold the quilt first? What are you squeezing? After all, you have studied, why are you stupid like a donkey?!" The scolding continued to echo in the dormitory. The gang leader Zhang San had already packed his clothes and bedding, and then began to supervise his brothers one by one.
No one dared to retort the brother who had named him. He blushed and tried hard to correct it. According to the rules of Ye Tang's army, whether the new recruits can be successfully converted into war soldiers will account for half of the opinions of the gang leader. If he offended the gang leader Zhang San, the latter only needs to move his fingers a little during the assessment, which will ruin the possibility of their "reform".
The gang leader Zhang San is not only a bit fierce and likes to curse people when he is fine, but is actually quite good to them. Even if he scolds them, in most cases, he is just for their sake. In another ten days, the graduation assessment of the recruit camp will begin. If anyone is caught by the training camp instructor because of sleepiness, the assessment will not be passed, and the pain of more than three months of training will be in vain.
"Have you finished washing? After washing, hurry up and rinse your mouth with salt water. If you have a heavy tone, chew willow branches and wipe your teeth." After "reprimanding" his brothers one by one, Zhang San was finally satisfied. He gave a loud command, and then he came to the urn that filled the water and scooped water to wash his face.
The brothers under his command stuck out their tongues, held the wooden cups that had scooped water, and walked out of the door. They poured the fine salt powder that had been sent into the wooden cup, first dissolved it with cold water. Then they put the cold water in their mouths and rinsed their mouths repeatedly.
Before being arrested by Tuqishi as a slave, the recruit Wang Debao was once a grain store owner. So he didn't think the salt was precious. After rinsing his mouth, he immediately spitted the salt water from his mouth into a designated pit. However, his good friend Lu Dechuan and the other friends all took advantage of the inattention of the team leader Zhang San and swallowed the salt water into his stomach. Even if he was so salty that he frowned, he would not waste a drop.
"Eating too much salt will damage the kidneys. Be careful, it will be useless if you marry a wife in the future!" Wang Debao was born to like to joke, and immediately pinched his waist and ridiculed him in a low voice.
"Worry with you?!" An instant recruit named Tarhu turned his head and retorted, "You should think about yourself. Running, riding horses, shooting arrows, and stabbing guns are not effective. If you don't work hard, you will be allowed to pass unless the examiner is blind."
"That's right, Fatty Wang, you can't farm, you have no skills, and you don't have the capital to do business. If you can't even pass the assessment of the war soldiers, it depends on what you will get married in the future!" Another recruit nicknamed Lu Guangshou also whispered to Tarhu.
"How do you know I failed the exam?" Wang Debao was poked into the pain point and blushed and retorted in a low voice, "I have been following the team leader every day these days. When the exam is over, I will definitely surprise you all. But you, Lu Guang's butt, the result of your last round of assessment is not better than me. I have the same face as saying, if..."
Before he could finish a word, the words of the chief Zhang San were already ringing behind him, as if in the middle of the night: "What are you talking nonsense again? You're itchy? After washing up, hurry up to the cottage, and then complete the team to report!"
"Yes!" Wang Debao didn't dare to quarrel with others anymore, shrank his neck, trotted back to the house, put the wooden cup back on the windowsill, and then trotted out to stand.
The other eight recruits all took the same action as him. According to the training standards of more than three months, they lined up in front of the dormitory door facing the window, and then called out loudly, "One, two, three..."
"Yeah!" Zhang San, the trooper leader, also put the mouthwash cup back into the room. Then he walked out quickly and nodded slightly to everyone. Then, he quickly stood in front of the team and shouted at the top of his voice: "The third regiment, the second brigade, the first team, the fifth group, set out, the target, the university field."
After saying that, he took the lead in taking the lead. The other brothers followed closely. In the blink of an eye, accompanied by the morning breeze, and appeared heroically in the large campus dedicated to the morning exercises for new recruits.
There were already seven or eight teams on the school grounds, and they started running around under the leadership of veterans and gangs. Everyone was wearing a shiny sweat bead, but they were full of energy.
The training period for the recruits is about to end. Although they are a little tired and harder, as long as they pass the assessment, they will be waving to them for a hundred copper coins a day. In addition, the soldiers' luggage, shoes, socks, mounts, and weapons are all distributed by Suiye Town, so they don't have to spend a penny.
"The third regiment, the second brigade, the first team, the fifth gang, keep up!" Seeing that other teams were walking in front of him, the gang leader Zhang San immediately became competitive and shouted at the top of his voice, and then his steps began to accelerate.
Lu Dechuan, Wang Debao, Lu Guangjiao, Gai Ze and other recruits silently followed his guys' long steps and ran together along the largest oval circle in the school ground.
Among the new recruit assessment standards of the Sailye Army, running is one of the basic items. One quarter of an hour, one thousand five hundred steps are considered qualified, and two thousand steps are considered excellent. The co-super Zhang San originally thought that he would not be able to reach this standard in his life, but after running for a few months, he found that two thousand steps are not difficult, and most people can complete it within a quarter of an hour. And if he is ruthless, he can even run a long stretch within a quarter of an hour, directly reaching two thousand two.
However, most of the time, he would not run so fast. He was the only veteran of the first team of the second brigade of the 3rd Regiment, and the commander of the team. He had to take care of the other nine brothers under his command and advance and retreat together. Although he was not old at all, his qualifications were only six days earlier than the new recruits who joined the army in Frozen City!
He joined the Thunder Ye Army in Gumo City. At that time, many rescued slaves were not optimistic about the future of the Thunder Ye Army, so they took the money and dry food from Zhang Zhenshou and fled on their own. He was old and had no relatives to join him, so he simply made up his mind and surrendered to the army. He thought he would die in the battlefield soon, but he would be over. Unexpectedly, he followed Zhang Zhenshou all the way from Gumo to Frozen City, and then took Thunder Ye again.
Before entering the frozen city, the Saoye Army did not distinguish between warriors and new soldiers, so Zhang Sanyi joined the army and became a warrior. As a warrior, his combat skills were far behind Zhang Zhenshou's personal soldiers and veterans from Shule City. Therefore, when Soge was completely wiped out, soldiers like him who joined the army halfway were sent to the new training camp together with the new soldiers who joined the army after the restoration of the frozen city.
This arrangement once made Zhang San very disappointed. However, he soon cheered up.
The reason is not because after he arrived at the new training camp, he was still the new recruit commander, and most of the brothers led by him started following his acquaintances in the frozen city. It is not because he still enjoyed the treatment of a soldier commander, and he should receive a lot of military pay. But because most of the subjects learned in the new recruit battalion were personally formulated by Zhang Zhenshou, and each item was personally demonstrated for everyone.
"Zhang Zhenshou did not drive everyone into the new training camp because he disliked everyone. Instead, he wanted to train everyone as a direct line!" When he first received Zhang Qian's words and deeds, Zhang San suddenly realized, and then he devoted all his energy and physical strength to the training.
Under his leadership, the third regiment, the second brigade, the first team and the fifth gang cannot be regarded as the best performer in the entire new training camp, but it can definitely be ranked in the top ten. The ten new recruits, including him, were all reborn compared to his previous self. If the graduation exam is started now, Zhang San believes that except for Wang Debao, he and the other eight brothers will definitely pass the test smoothly. However, he hopes that he can bring all his brothers to the war barracks without leaving any one.
"Chief Zhang, this is the record of the first round, and then!" Zhou Kuang, the brigade leader who was responsible for counting the morning exercise numbers, stood on the edge of the school field and shouted and handed over a bamboo stick.
The gang leader Zhang San quickly took his mind out of his memories, took the bamboo stick with a smile, shook it at the brothers behind him, and continued to move his steps. The oval circle, one run, it was about 600 steps, and two and a half laps could complete the training indicators of the day. However, he usually took his brothers to run three full laps, and then stood up in the previous round, and it was just the time for the whole battalion to gather for the queue to practice.
A team that started the morning jogging first was silently surpassed by him and the brothers behind him. The other party was not convinced and collectively accelerated its pace. However, not long after, the team began to get out of touch. The team leader was forced to slow down the speed again, allowing Zhang San and others to pass by themselves, running further and further.
Another team was silently surpassed by Zhang San and others. Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth teams. The second lap ran around and soon ended. There was a clear gasp behind Zhang San. He frowned at Zhou, but did not slow down. In the blink of an eye, it was the second and a half, and the gasp behind him became heavier. He looked up at the finish line, and his footsteps slowed down slightly.
The big man Gai Ze quietly changed his position with Lu Dechuan. Then, Lu Guang's butt, horseshoe nails, iron pillars, poplar branches, Taerhu, plantains, and Baoge also surpassed Lu Dechuan. Lu Dechuan, who moved himself to the second-last position, quietly stretched out his right hand. Wang Debao, who was ranked last, saw it, and immediately stretched out his hand without hesitation and put it on Lu Dechuan's palm.
This is an obvious cheating behavior. Although the partner Zhang San did not look back, he knew it very well. However, he did not intend to interfere.
The third lap has already run for more than half. Even without Lu Dechuan's help, Wang Debao has completed the 1,500-step index. The next half lap is a training exercise. If Wang Debao does not withdraw, it means victory. Moreover, in his opinion, taking care of each other between robes is definitely a virtue and worthy of advocacy.
However, today, Wang Debao's luck was a bit bad. After being dragged by Lu Dechuan for less than a hundred steps, a clear sound of horse hooves sounded behind his back. Immediately, he shouted angrily and fell from mid-air, "Stop, stop, who told you to drag each other? What's the use of running like this? I've been practicing for more than three months. If I don't even have the energy to run 1,500 steps, I'll withdraw as soon as possible. Otherwise, when I arrive on the battlefield, I will fall down before the enemy comes to kill me, and I will drag my robe down!"
"I, I've run, I've run enough for 1,500 steps." Wang Debao stopped gasping, held his knees with his hands, and made a loud defense.
"Sir, he has indeed finished running today's indicators. If you don't believe it, you can ask Zhou Lusheng!" Lu Dechuan also stopped and explained carefully.
The trooper Zhang San secretly called out in his heart, and stopped with all the other brothers, then held two bamboo sticks and saluted to the officer dressed as a coach on the horse. "Shangguan Rong reported that the fifth team of the 1,500-step daily training task of the 3rd Regiment of the New Training Corps has completed today's 1,500-step daily training task, and his subordinates are taking them to practice more. The recruit Wang Debao was not in good physical strength, but he was unwilling to withdraw. It was his subordinates who allowed the recruit Lu Dechuan to help him nearby, not that they cheated together!"
The latter's surname is Ren, with a single name of Shou. He is one of the coaches of the new training camp and is also a well-known "factual master". He likes to pick on his own and does not say anything, and any mistakes will be infinitely magnified when he falls into his eyes. Therefore, in order to avoid Wang Debao and Lu Dechuan being caught by this person, Zhang San must explain everything clearly before the misunderstanding occurs.
However, it was fine if he didn't listen to his explanation. When he heard this, Ren Bing, the coach on the horse, immediately thought he was protecting his brothers. He raised the whip in his hand and looked at his shoulder hard, "You think I'm blind or I'm stupid! I was standing at the entrance of the school ground just now. I can see clearly when you came! Those who arrived earlier than you and have not finished running two laps, you actually..."
This was the first time Zhang San was whipped, so he didn't dare to dodge, and he straightened his shoulders and spine. Wang Debao looked around and felt guilty. He rushed up without hesitation and protected his spine with his body. "Don't hit our gang leader, he didn't lie to you. If you don't believe it, you can check the bamboo sticks in his hand, or go there to ask Zhou Lusu! Why bother rush to show his power?!"
"So what if I hit me?" The coach Ren Bing was originally anxious, but he firmly believed that he would not be able to succeed without hitting. He increased his strength in his hand and swung the whip higher. As a result, he accidentally thrust on Zhang San's face, and suddenly, a dark red whip mark appeared on the latter's face.
"Why are you unreasonable!" Lu Dechuan couldn't bear it anymore and raised his hand to grab the whip sheath. "Our trooper has explained to you clearly, why are you still hitting him!"
"Look at the bamboo sticks, two. If we run a lap and a half, how could we have two bamboo sticks?!"
"Zhou Lusheng is nearby, you can figure it out with a question!"
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Lu Guangshou, horseshoe nails, iron pillars, poplar branches, Taerhu, plantain, Bao Ge and others shared the same hatred for the enemy, walked forward together and glared at the coach Ren Bing.
The coach Ren Bing immediately realized that he might have really misunderstood Zhang San. However, it was impossible to let him admit his mistake to a small recruit and mate. He pulled the whip back and continued to scold him sternly, "Let go! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude to you!"
"You're welcome, so what can you do?" Lu Dechuan used to be whipped by people from the thunder cavalry and never had the courage to resist. But today, for some reason, he was on the head of blood and blood. He actually held the whip sheath firmly with one hand, and looked glaring, "I'm here to serve as a soldier for Zhang Zhenshou, not to be bullied by you. If I violated military discipline, I'll be beaten by you. Obviously I was wrong and I'm still beating people, you'll be counted..."
"So what if I beat you? If it weren't for me, you guys were still making big animals for the thunder cavalry! I don't know how many whips I got from Lu Dechuan!" After being guilty, Ren B bit the bullet and made a point. "I beat you because I respect you. If it were someone else, I would only draw my sword!"
It is said that if you hit someone, don’t slap your face, and don’t expose your shortcomings by scolding others. The most humiliating experience in Lu Dechuan’s life was that he was treated as a slave by a thunderbolt in the frozen city. The same is true for Wang Debao, Lu Guangjiao and others. Immediately, several robes grabbed the whip and pulled hard, "I don’t need you to look down on you, if you have the affair, you can draw your sword!"
The whip was taken off, Ren Bing was angry and anxious, shouted loudly, and instinctively pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist. At this moment, a stone quietly passed through the crowd and hit the back of his hand. Immediately, Luo Huaizu's voice also sounded in everyone's ears, "The guard is here, don't make trouble anymore. If you have anything to say, please slowly say it after you go down a little later."
"Master of the Manor!" Ren Bing made a cold war and immediately regained his rationality. He quickly turned his head and bowed to the direction of the sound.
"I've seen the guard commander!" Zhang San raised his hand to wipe away the blood and tears from his face, and took his brothers under his command to salute Zhang Qian together, but his eyes refused to face Zhang Qian. His eyes looked at the ground were full of disappointment.
Chapter completed!