Pingzhou City is about seventy miles away from Yuguan. Li Chengzhong has already made plans to start training troops from this seventy miles away. The first thing to train is marching. An army that cannot march continuously will not have much combat effectiveness.
. Therefore, he divided the seventy miles into seven sections, each section being ten miles.
It was still more than an hour before dark. According to Li Chengzhong's instructions, all soldiers were issued with weapons, swords, shields, or wooden spears. Officers above the group leader must also wear leather helmets. Before setting off, he would
Nine gang leaders except Zhao Da called to their side and announced the plan for tonight's march. According to the plan, Jiadu organized each gang into a group and began a rapid march. No matter what method, they must reach Xiaosongpo, ten miles away, before tonight.
The five groups that arrived can rest on the spot, while the last four groups must cook food and water for the brothers in the first five groups. When arriving, the last person in each group will be considered. As long as one person is absent, the whole group will be considered as not having arrived.
As soon as the plan was announced, the moods of the gang leaders were aroused, and they were gearing up and preparing to compete with each other. Li Chengzhong gave each gang a stick of incense to plan and prepare in advance, and at the same time made an appointment with Feng Dao to arrive before dark.
They met at Xiaosongpo. Feng Dao watched the whole process of Li Chengzhong announcing the order with some surprise, and asked in a low voice: "Li Peirong, what should we do if some soldiers escape during the process?"
Li Chengzhong smiled and said: "If you run away, run away. As many people as there are left, Jiadu will take as many people to Yuguan. This is also considered the second selection."
Feng Dao nodded, without saying anything more, and urged the civilian men to drive ahead. Zhao Da set off with the civilian camp. Since there were only ninety people in Jiadu, he did not lead the troops at all, but only carried an accompanying deputy.
Wei, the title of team leader, is still doing his old job.
After reorganizing the team, Li Chengzhong waved his hand and took the lead with Jiang Miao to start jogging. All ninety people were instantly scattered into a pot of porridge and ran out without a clue. Wang Dalang also shouted loudly to compete with Zhong Silang: "Silang,
So-and-so went first, take your time and cook a good meal for me then!" After that, he rushed out first.
These soldiers rushed eastward in a chaotic manner, leaving Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao behind. Jiang Miao was a little anxious and wanted to increase his running speed, but was stopped by Li Chengzhong: "Don't be anxious, take your time, follow my pace, then
Help the bastard and he won’t be able to run away for a while.”
As expected, Li Chengzhong did not run out for more than two miles when he saw some soldiers bent over and breathing heavily, resting on the roadside, and some with stronger wills moved forward step by step with wooden guns. Li Chengzhong
He passed these stragglers with brisk steps and looked back at Jiang Miao, but Jiang Miao still had some strength left.
When they ran three miles away, they saw Zhong Silang resting in front of him, and a group of his brothers were there. Li Chengzhong nodded and continued to surpass. Moving forward, Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao gradually surpassed the groups.
Including the two groups of Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao who had all their brothers, the convoy of civilians who set off first, and many stragglers along the way.
I have to say that Wang Dalang is really good at running. When Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao were only more than a mile away from Xiaosongpo, they caught up with Wang Dalang who was moving forward step by step with a wooden gun. However, there was no one else around Wang Dalang, only
He was a bare-bones gang leader, and all the brothers in his gang were left behind by him.
Halfway through the race, Jiang Miao couldn't run anymore. Li Chengzhong knew that this was the critical point of running, and it would be fine after this point, so he pulled Jiang Miao to prevent him from stopping. Sure enough, when he reached Xiaosongpo,
, Jiang Miao's face softened, but she kept coughing and breathing heavily.
Li Chengzhong picked a branch and waited on the small pine slope. The first one to arrive was Wang Dalang. He gasped and laughed and loudly announced that he was the first. However, Li Chengzhong whipped him several times with a branch and refused to let him lie down.
Jiang Miao took a rest and just let him move around. Jiang Miao had recovered and asked Li Chengzhong why he didn't allow others to rest, so he followed suit. He broke off a branch and shouted to the soldiers who arrived later to move around. When he met Li Chengzhong, he lay down
Just pull them up and let them stand and move their hands and feet.
When it got dark, most of the brothers in Jiadu rushed to Xiaosongpo. Because Li Chengzhong had requested in advance that the whole group must be present before counting, so the first place was not Wang Dalang's group, but Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao.
The two groups arrived at the same time. The third group that arrived completely was Zhong Shilang's group. He noticed the requirement of "no one left behind" in Li Chengzhong's request, so he would rather sacrifice speed on the road to let two people who were not good at running
My brother kept up with the team and got third place instead.
Wang Dalang, who was the first to arrive, was very anxious. He stood on the side of the road and kept looking around. Every time he saw a brother in his group, he would go up and kick him, and cursed, "You can't fucking go faster!" and so on.
When Zhongshiro's group arrived at Xiaosongpo, he was already furious. This anger did not last long before he became discouraged. When it got dark, all the groups had arrived, except for his.
There are still two people missing from the gang.
Wang Dalang looked at Li Chengzhong with a sad face. Li Chengzhong asked with a cold face: "There are still two left? What do you think we should do?"
Wang Dalang gritted his teeth and walked back to the way he came. Li Chengzhong looked at the other people in his group and said, "Just let the group leader go find it on his own? What a good soldier!" Those people looked at each other for a moment, and then said:
Followed Wang Dalang.
Li Chengzhong did not regard the civilian camp as an outsider. On the contrary, he was willing to regard these young men as his own. Therefore, he unceremoniously asked Feng Dao to direct the civilian camp to start setting up military tents and unloading food. Feng Dao did not mind at all.
Li Chengzhong called on himself and fully cooperated with the peasants to get busy. Of course, the peasants were not allowed to cook food and water. As a punishment measure, this was a task specially reserved for the few gangs ranked after sixth.
Xiaosongpo suddenly became noisy. Those who arrived earlier enjoyed the service of those who arrived later. Those who arrived later swore and swore unwillingly, declaring that they would win the competition on the second day. Both sides came and went, laughing and angry.
Swearing, all kinds of saliva mixed together.
After dinner, it was already late at night, and Wang Dalang's gang had not returned yet. Li Chengzhong stood alone on the pine slope and looked at the road he came from. It was still dark there. After waiting for a while, he looked back and saw the brothers from Jiadu.
They all stood behind them, looking at the way they came. Li Chengzhong waved his hand and told everyone to go back to their tents and rest. He continued to turn around and wait. After a while, he turned around again and saw that his brothers were still where they were, so he said
: "Why don't you go and rest?"
Jiang Miao took a step forward and whispered: "Everyone said we would wait together."
Li Chengzhong nodded and ignored it, still standing where he was. Suddenly he saw a torch light up on the way he came from, and vaguely saw figures moving. After waiting for a while, Li Chengzhong finally breathed a sigh of relief. The person holding the torch was Wang Dalang.
.I counted behind him and saw that all ten people in the group were present. However, it turned out that those two people had a bad sense of direction and had gone off the road with everyone else.
When Wang Dalang saw that all his brothers were waiting for him, he lowered his head in shame and went forward, hesitating and saying: "I'm accompanying the soldiers... I'm sorry..."
Li Chengzhong nodded, and before he could finish speaking, he said first, "Don't say sorry to me, because all of you brothers haven't taken a break. Lead your gang and apologize to the brothers in each gang."
Wang Dalang was about to lead his brothers to apologize one by one, but he was pulled over by everyone, and everyone brought hot soup and hot rice. The camp was very lively again.
Li Chengzhong smiled and ordered Jiang Miao to arrange for someone to stay on duty at night. However, he saw that Feng Dao had not rested either and was watching him from the side, so he stepped forward and said, "What...Brother Feng, are you still not sleeping?"
Feng Dao leaned forward: "Li Peirong, you can call me Ke Dao. Li Peirong's subordinates are really close to each other. I heard they were all recruited on the first day?"
Li Chengzhong said: "Yes, Brother Kedao, they were all recruited yesterday. Look, not one of them escaped. Not bad, right?"
Feng Dao nodded: "I admire your skill in accompanying the army and leading the troops."
Li Chengzhong chuckled: "What does this mean? It hasn't even started yet." Looking at the Jiadu brothers mingling under the firelight, he felt an indescribable sense of comfort and joy from the bottom of his heart. The feeling of being a "company commander" is still the same.
Pretty good, Li Chengzhong smacked his lips and thought to himself.
Jiang Miao came over and asked in a low voice: "Li Lang, will it still be the same tomorrow? We all want to ask if we can continue the competition."
Li Chengzhong nodded and said: "Of course! What's wrong? Someone doesn't want to compete?"
Jiang Miao shook his head: "They said they wanted to ask Li Lang for half an hour, and everyone should carefully discuss tomorrow's move." Department A was built as an officer's frame by former veterans of Jianzu Camp.
These gang leaders have always followed the rules of the Jianzu camp and went to bed at 5 o'clock every day, but now they wanted to rest later.
Li Chengzhong was delighted: "Okay, I'll give everyone half an hour and rest after half an hour."
Jiang Miao passed the order, and after a while, the lights in each camp were turned on again. Li Chengzhong walked around the small camp and saw people in various tents looking forward to it, and slight comments could be heard from time to time. Finally, there was something.