These soldiers running on the beach in the 17th century were no different from later generations except that they were too short on average.

The same size, the same black strength, the same big pants, cotton vests, exposed to the body, are the swollen upper arm muscles and thick calves.

Simple but not simple, that's what they say.

Simply put, most of these young people were wearing only a large cotton pants on the scorching sand, and many of them even took off their two-finger vests. It is not simple that this cotton pants now represents the highest cotton spinning technology and weaving and dyeing technology in this plane.

The shell made by the kiln area, with several arrow looms DIY from imported core accessories, was successfully tested not long ago. The advantage of the arrow shaft loom is that it is adaptable, so after a successful test run, the stock Matsue lint was quickly woven into a sail sail.

In addition to weaving canvas, the textile factory also trial-produced a batch of cotton grey cloth for making military uniforms. The color of the military uniform is light blue, and the dye is obtained by reacting natural indigo imported from Fujian with a small amount of benzene produced by chemical laboratories.

Scarce quantities and hard-won raw materials have turned an inconspicuous military pant into a high-tech product. In addition, considering that most of the transportation capacity is occupied by the transportation of people and food, for a long time in the future, the textile materials that will pass through the forces will be dominated by self-produced hemp crops. Therefore, this batch of experimental cotton military uniforms is precious.

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The 400-meter hurdle is the best place to test a soldier's comprehensive assault ability.

With the sound of a whistle, groups of soldiers began to run the beach, their smooth feet stepping on the warm sand, bringing up patches of dust.

Today is a monthly assessment, and the scores must be recorded in the total score, so the soldiers are all working hard, for fear of being overtaken by others and losing the face of their squad platoon. This tension is easy to make mistakes, falling down the ladder, not being able to climb over the high wall, eating a mouthful of sand in the trench and not being able to climb up, so anxious that you scream in a hurry......

Wearing a camouflage T-shirt, camouflage trousers, and combat boots, a company of Changwei Yuan, was holding a stopwatch and a whistle to register the results. Watching his soldiers run across the finish line one by one panting, although he had a straight face, Wei Yuan was still quite proud in his heart.

These former outcasts, emaciated skeletons, have been transformed by the Travelers from both physical and mental aspects, and have now become a post-generation army with muscles and combat skills. What's more, they now have a sense of honor and a sense of teamwork.

It's a worse time. At the same time, soldiers in Europe's 30-year war were relying on looting and killing civilians to finance their salaries. The guards of the Ming Dynasty became serfs a hundred years ago; In the battalion system, the five-day exercise is the elite, and the three-day exercise is pro-army, which is similar to the cruel corporal punishment of inserting arrows into the camp, which is full of troops in this era.

Therefore, there is no need to instill any doctrine and truth in the soldiers under them: eat well and dress well, practice on time, pay on time, distinguish between beating and insulting, and cover the quilt at night on patrol......

Thinking of the sense of honor, Wei Yuan suddenly raised his eyebrows. The next moment, he looked sideways to the side and saw that he saw the monkey-like orderly, who was laughing at those who couldn't climb over the high wall.

"Yang Er!"

"Here!"

"What row are you in?"

"Report to the company commander, in a row!"

"Then why don't you run and wait for me to have a treat?"

"Yes!"

Yang Er, who had a large purple birthmark on his face, jumped towards the starting line when he heard the words.

The current Yang Er is no longer the image of the little monkey he was at the beginning. Yang Er, who has just finished his birthday and is already an 18-year-old adult, is taller than others, and his originally thin figure has now become slender and strong, as elastic as a cheetah.

The young people soon began to "perform" the 400-meter hurdle. I saw that he easily jumped over the low pile, ran and "flew" over the trench, and ran all the way to the top of the high wall, and then gently touched the wall to turn his body over. As for the single-plank bridge that everyone else can only run over, it has become a smooth road here in Yang Er.

The whole set of obstacle crossing process, the thief not only completes it very quickly, but also has a beautiful posture and a great range of movements; In the eyes of others, it was an obstacle to the assessment project, but here he really turned it into a performance.

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After the assessment, the total score was quickly calculated, and this time it was Yang Er's row where the total score was first.

Wei Yuan immediately announced the reward for today's row of collective dishes.

In the midst of cheers, Wei Yuan looked at his watch and found that it was still early to leave dinner, so he said to Yang Er: "Let's play ball." When Yang Er heard this, he immediately ran to the side of the courier car that was pulling training supplies, and found two orange basketballs from inside.

Due to the lack of rubber, basketball is now a valuable import...... Generally speaking, the basketball is used to "hit people", not to "play basketball".

Seeing the thief running over with two basketballs, the 30 soldiers in a row hurriedly gathered together. When two unlucky eggs are hit by a basketball, the game officially begins.

Anyone who is hit by a basketball will join the side of the outer circle that smashes people. And the people in the inner circle who were originally crowded together and couldn't dodge will become flexible as the unlucky ones continue to be eliminated.

Under the noisy laughter of hundreds of onlookers, there were soon no more than a few people left in the inner circle. Because at this time, there are more than 20 people standing in the outer circle, even if the two basketballs are smashed into the air, they will be immediately obtained by the opposite person, and then smashed from the front and back at the same time, in this case, normal people will soon be unable to parry.

The most dexterous is the thief.

No matter how difficult the situation is, no matter how weird the angle of the basketball smashing, the thief can always put on some ugly but stretched figure in time to avoid the attack.

...... There is a reward for those who persevere to the end, and generally speaking, it is to do one less day of duty.

When the soldiers of the three platoons played a game of "basketball" one after another, the sky was already full of fiery clouds, and the sunset scenery on the seashore enveloped Dayuan Island.

After a password, Wei Yuan began to organize a team to comment. After a few short sentences, each platoon was handed over to the platoon commander to take back. The soldiers now ran to the beach, put on their training shoes, in fact, sandals, cotton vests, and marched to the barracks.

And a company commander with a height of 1.93 meters walked to the side of the express car. At this time, the thief orderly had already packed up the "combination of earth and foreign" car, so Wei Yuan sat on the cast iron plate of the car, and pressed the car to squeak.

The next moment, Yang Er held the ebony handle and started the battery car. At sunset, the car happily ran around the S-shape on the beach to the merchant house, and behind the car sat a smoked, silent giant.

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The addition to the cafeteria that night was scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and there were not many of them, only one pot.

The brothers in the first row were smiling, and the officers who crossed the crowd were naturally undressing and pushing food: they gave their own snacks to the poor worms in the second and third rows.

It's not a clever way, but it's the most effective. From the recruits to the present, the collective sense of honor of the troops has been slowly established in these small daily things.

After eating, each class is free to move.

Wei Yuan first went back to the company headquarters and had a meeting with the three platoon commanders who crossed the group, and then ran to Han Xiaobo to ask about the latest information on the Fujian side.

After returning to the company headquarters, he saw that Yang Er, the little thief, was sitting bored at the door to enjoy the coolness, so Wei Yuan smiled slightly, and said to the thief: "Practice the knife tonight", and then went back to the room to get the short knife he hung on the wall.

When he came out of the inner room, Yang Er at the door was already waiting there with a wooden knife. After going out, Wei Yuan relied on his height of 1.93 and raised his hand to set up the iron plate lamp on the porch, so that the light bulb could illuminate the front of the door.

"Attack and defend 10 times, up!"

As Wei Yuan's words fell, Yang Er held the wooden knife and practiced the basic movements.

Wei Yuan's grandfather was a martial artist in the Republic of China, so Wei Yuan learned a lot of routines when he was a child. Later, after Wei Yuan went to Africa to become a mercenary, the things he learned when he was young were slowly put down - there are too few opportunities to use cold weapons in the 21st century. You know, in Africa, even children don't use AKs and daggers, let alone long and short knives.

After not wanting to cross, Wei Yuan's family hand-me-down has a day of regaining sight.

In the 17th century, there were too many places where cold weapons could be used, so in the army's training syllabus, bayonet combat training was a very important basic training course.

As for Yang Er, who was repeatedly chopping with a wooden knife, it was Wei Yuan who had the idea of accepting apprentices on a whim after listening to the story of his dead showman, and then he began to teach the thief to practice knives, which is a hobby.

And the wooden knife in Yang's second hand is not a standard military stab in the army, but a total length of only 60 cm, imitating the black crocodile war knife in Wei Yuan's hand.

This kind of curved seemingly beautiful, but in fact weird short knife, was mostly used as a collector's item in later generations. If you really want to fight to the death on the battlefield, then the person who uses this kind of knife not only needs solid basic skills, but also a paradoxical heart.

Wei Yuan is this kind of person. Usually people are misled by his giant-like stature and think that he is a man running horses...... However, he is not, and it can be seen from the fact that he likes to play with black crocodiles, which are very curved and mainly used for quick stabbing, this person is actually quite yin.

So Yang Er was tricked like this, and the knife skills he learned were different from others.

With a "snap", someone got a scabbard on the buttocks: "How many times have you said it, the center of gravity, the center of gravity is the first!" What are you doing with such a big move, stir-frying!? ”

As soon as the offensive and defensive posture reached the third round, the thief began to be taught a lesson by someone again. Poor Yang Er's face was full of helplessness: there were a total of 6 simple cutting, cutting, splitting, stabbing, gridding, and blocking movements, he had practiced countless times since he started learning art, but the abbot was just not satisfied, and he had to be beaten every time.

"That's not how my dad taught!" A thief rubbed his ass and muttered.