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Chapter 19 Walk the way of predecessors

Although the calluses on the soles of the feet in this life were five times thicker than the otaku in his previous life, Zhu Dapeng's left soles were still ground to the point of blood after walking the road.

Looking at the brothers who were trained as officers' seeds, they walked and swayed one by one. Not only were the soles of their feet blurred, but they were so tired that they almost lost their shape. With a gentle push with their hands, they could collapse on the ground like mud.

However, after being tired, these officers were in a very happy mood. They suddenly found that walking with the rhythm, which was originally regarded as more difficult than climbing the sky, was not much more difficult than weeding in the fields. After walking for a whole day, they habitually raised their heads on the way back to the barracks. When they greeted others, their energy seemed to be much more sufficient than before.

What made them even more overjoyed was that because it took only one day to clearly distinguish the left and right, Governor Zhu actually wanted to eat meat for everyone. Although 600 people ate a pig, it was only two or three taels in each bowl, and it could be eaten in one bite. But that was meat after all! When I ate it last time, I didn’t know how many years ago it happened. Some guys who were born with miserable life even grew so big that they had never even tasted meat soup. This time, they finally started meat, and it was worth it to die tomorrow!

When he died, Zhu Dapeng would definitely not be willing to die immediately. The food for this group of officers was doubled according to the standards of personal soldiers. If the soldiers were trained, they could be multiplied directly by four. If they exchanged for auxiliary soldiers, it would be more than ten. In order to solve the sudden increase in food consumption, he secretly took out a genuine work of Liu Gongquan hidden in Mahama's house and sold it at a low price. He felt sorry for Mr. Su that he had not eaten dinner for two days. If the officers were allowed to die, wouldn't he have done a loss-making business?

Therefore, death penalty is avoided, and living crime cannot be escaped. After practicing for three days, the officers found that they had arrived at the second major juncture of this training. Each hundred people was in a row, a square formation of ten rows and ten rows, and walked in unison. No one was allowed to walk too fast, nor were he allowed to drag the hind legs of his peers.

"Every centurion comes to get a wax pole later. The tenth captain of our team stretches out his left hand, grabs the pole together, and walks forward. The commander of the thousand men is responsible for supervision. Anyone who walks without obeying the command, or whose stride is too different from the rest of the team, directly whip it on his legs. He mistakes for two whips, doubles the second time, and doubles the third time, and commits more than four times a day. The whole team whips collectively and cancels the qualification to eat meat at night! At night, I came here for the assessment myself. There are more than three teams under my command who have not learned to control the stride, and no one in the entire square has eaten no meat!" Looking at the officers with fear, Zhu Dapeng announced without pity the new auxiliary training methods and new reward and punishment regulations.

When everyone heard this, they immediately let out a "buzzing" sound. Then, everyone turned their eyes to Xu Hongsan, the centurion of the Fourth Brigade of the 1000-person team, who was organizing people to move white wax poles to the schoolyard. Xu Hongsan, the earliest follower of Zhu Dapeng, always looked at the ground, and no matter how loud the shouts and scolds in the team were, they would never look up.

"I said Xu Laosan, aren't you afraid of drowning in the ditch in the middle of the night?!" Mr. Su's apprentice, Sun Sanshiyi, the leader of the thousand men, was the most aware of Xu Hongsan. He put his hands on his waist and asked at the top of his voice. The newly released training method, especially the ash pole, obviously refers to the experience of training sedan chairmen in the teeth. Looking at the entire Left Army, who can speak to the governor and have also been sedan chairmen, besides Xu Hongsan?!

When several other thousand-man commanders heard this, they also raised their eyes viciously, wishing to swallow Xu Hongsan alive immediately. When Zhu Dapeng saw this, he immediately raised the wooden stick in his hand, first hit the shoulders of Sun Sanshiyi, who was shouting the most, and then announced loudly to everyone: "Shut up! Listen carefully, Chief Xu gave me a good idea. From today on, he will be promoted to the captain of the personal army team, and the level will be the chief of the centurion, but he can enjoy the treatment of a thousand-man commander, and at the same time, he will be rewarded with ten stagnants of copper coins. If you have good ideas, you can also make a private comment to me. Anyone who adopts the proposal will have at least ten stagnants of the bounty, and your official position will be promoted as appropriate."

He was eager to motivate everyone to make progress, and when he was not careful, he shook out the official articles in later generations, "enjoying the treatment of XX". Although everyone didn't quite understand what it meant, they also knew that Xu Laosan was promoted to the post by a way to harm others. They opened their mouths and looked envious.

A proposal that harms people can actually change to a position of commander of a thousand men and serve as captain of a personal soldier. From now on, the future is unlimited. Why didn’t everyone get into such a beautiful thing? Immediately, everyone’s eyes looked at Xu Hongsan became very complicated. One of them secretly decided that next time he had a similar opportunity, he had to go to the governor to give advice. Even if he was not adopted, he could at least leave a deep impression on the governor. In the future, he would be promoted and rewarded, and he would be ahead of others.

Xu Hongsan himself lowered his head. With a red face, he led his brothers to hand over the white wax poles to the centurions one by one, and then took one in his hand. Together with his brothers, he walked to the end of the 1,000-man team in a regular manner.

Although Sun Sanshiyi was his old boss, he did not dare to be arrogant in front of the captain of the governor's personal soldiers. He quickly pulled Xu Hongsan out with his own hands and asked him to command the training on his behalf. He took Xu Hongsan's original position and went there with a white wax pole honestly.

"No need to do this!" Zhu Dapeng said that, and intervened again. "Captain Xu first receives training under your command. When the personal soldiers are put on the airs, he will take office immediately. After the training is over today, each hundred people will grow back and pick two personal soldiers from my brothers. You must be strong enough and smart. Let them go to Captain Xu to report tomorrow morning. Follow you to receive training!"

"No!" After hearing this, the officers answered one after another. They immediately thought about what brothers they had in their hands could meet the requirements of the governor and support each other in the future. To be a personal soldier of the chief general, there is a high risk of death in the future, but the chance of promotion has also been several times more. Starting to get in love from now on is definitely easier and more reliable than waiting for the latter to become successful.

It is said that people walk towards high places and water flows to low places. There is an example of Xu Hongsan "promotion and wealth" in front of it. The enthusiasm of the officers to receive training and participate in internal affairs of the Left Army has increased several times. Various strange and wonderful tricks that can improve the speed of training and increase the fun of training stand out.

After more than a month, the team composed entirely of officer seeds finally became a bit like the college students who were later in life when they were undergoing military training. Although most of them were still yellow and black, they walked with their heads raised and their chests were full of energy.

The soldiers who had agreed to help recruit were all in place. The training system of three-level division, internal competition and last-place elimination that Zhu Dapeng and Mr. Su, which was originally agreed upon, could finally be implemented in the entire Zuo Army. However, there were big troubles in the supply of food and equipment in the Zuo Army.

It's okay to say that the former was, so Zhu Dapeng went to Zhao Jun to "communicate" and secretly sent a coral screen. The food of the Zuo Army could basically be paid in full according to the standard of 5,000 soldiers. Although there was still a certain gap from the actual consumption of the Zuo Army. However, Zhu Dapeng paid a portion of the subsidy for himself, so he would not let the brothers get trained on hungry.

However, Zhao Junyong refused to be able to adapt to the weapons. So far, he has only given the Zuo Army fifty steel knives, one hundred spears and eight hundred and fifty sharpened wooden poles. It is just enough to arm a thousand-person team. As for the armed Thousand-person team in this way, whether it can go to the battlefield, whether it will kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy after going to the battlefield, it is not within the scope of Lord Changshi's concern, so Lord Zhao will not be so idle!

Zhu Dapeng was forced to have no choice but to agree to Mr. Su's proposal and privately go to Zhang Dahou, who survived the city. On the night of the city breaking, the latter survived because he donated a batch of gold and silver to the Red Turban Army in time. Now he was bullied by his old acquaintance Mr. Su. He had to be forced to grit his teeth and gather 500 kilograms of pig iron and a batch of metal objects such as copper basins and copper bowls to avoid disaster.

However, after the 500 kilograms of pig iron and dozens of bronze ware were processed by craftsmen, the Zuo Army had more than 100 steel knives and several armors with copper water on the surface. Zhu Dapeng thought the armor was too fancy, the protection was too poor and heavy, so he refused to wear it. Su Changshi, Sun Sanshiyi, Xu Hongsan and others picked one of them, and they were dressed neatly every day no matter how tired they were, as if they were ready to fight at any time.

If this continues, everyone will sooner or later be buried under the enemy's butcher knife. As the weather gradually becomes colder, the news about the coming attack of the imperial soldiers is becoming more and more similar. Zhu Dapeng was so anxious that he was in a hurry.

To continue training step by step like before is tantamount to waiting for death. He had to look for some shortcuts that no predecessors found. Most of the shortcuts he knew were obtained from online novels. For example, a guy named Wu, who knew how to build a flintlock rifle, had a invincible firearm unit in the early Ming Dynasty. For example, a guy named Huang, who invented the pike-torn technique of spear soldiers, exploded tens of thousands of elite soldiers at a speed of three months, and directly drove another Qing cavalry from time to space back to the deep mountains and forests.

There was also a guy named Li who had the same conditions as Zhu Dapeng himself when traveling through time. However, with one move, "built on the company", the Dangxiang people were able to retreat. In time, he would probably be the one who replaced Zhao Kuangyin to establish the Song Dynasty. There was also another named Li who was able to get along well in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and then overthrew the Qing Dynasty in a certain time and space, and established a constitutional monarchy empire across the Pacific.

Whether the stories of these seniors who crossed the border are true or fictional, in Zhu Dapeng's opinion, they may not be meaningless to learn from. What he urgently needs to confirm now is which road is most suitable for his current conditions and which road can give Xuzhou army the ability to protect themselves the fastest.

PS: History books compare to cities, fantasy is inherently deficient at the beginning, so it is difficult to compete for the list. If everyone works hard, we can still move up.
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