Along a long canyon nearly two miles into the road, the eyes suddenly opened, surrounded by mountains, a small square of a few miles of flat land appeared in front of the eyes of the group, in the distance, a spectacular waterfall from the cliff face straight down, near the front, the water in the ravine flowed, a simple road along the stream stretched forward.

Walking on the trail, you can already see that on both sides of the ravine, a lot of land has been opened, most of them are paddy fields, some have been harvested, and some have not yet fully matured, but looking at those heavy ears of grain bending the branches, there is no reason to give birth to some joy in people's hearts. In addition to these, there are also some fields with all kinds of sparse vegetables, and the growth of green is gratifying.

Walking a little further, I saw a mill, at this time the waterwheel was driving the wheel in the mill to rotate slowly, and when I saw Li Ze and his party coming, a few and a half young men who were licking rice in the mill immediately walked out and bent down to salute Li Ze.

"Isn't this a secret camp? How can you still farm? Shen Congxing said in surprise.

"There are now five hundred and sixty-one people in the secret camp." Tu Lichun explained: "This is what Gongzi has quietly brought back in the past two years by using our caravan outside, some are picked up, and some are bought, but they all have one thing in common, that is, orphans. Most of them were boys, but there were thirty-two girls, because they all had brothers with them, so they had to bring them back with them. ”

"Five hundred and sixty-one?" Shen Congxing was shocked again.

"After the initial screening, there are some people who are not suitable to be fighters, so they can only be eliminated, but they cannot be let out of this place, so they can only be placed on the spot." Tu Lichun continued: "But we can't let them just eat and not work, besides, with our financial resources now, it is actually very difficult to support the secret camp." Therefore, they open up fields here, grow grain, grow vegetables, raise pigs, and always solve a part of the ration to reduce the pressure. ”

"And how many serious warriors do we have now?" Shen Congxing asked.

"Three hundred." Tu Lichun raised three fingers, "The oldest is eighteen years old, and the youngest is twelve years old." The three hundred people are divided into ten squads, and the two people you just saw are from the Heart Moon Fox squad. Those who are assigned to these squads, regardless of their previous surname, will be discarded, and they will be uniformly given by team name, and then distinguished by number. ”

First heard the scale of three hundred, Shen Congxing's face showed joy, but then he heard that the youngest was only twelve years old, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. The age is too young, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

"This is all Childe's arrangement for the future, and in a few years, they will become the toughest warriors." Tu Lichun rolled his eyes and glanced at Shen Congxing. The future is emphasized.

Shen Congxing nodded again and again, and at this time he also reacted, at most four or five years, these twelve-year-old guys will be adults, and eighteen-year-old guys will be fighting properly.

Three hundred full-time soldiers, this is a lot of combat power, even Li Ze's father, Li Anguo, is a festival envoy, and the soldiers under his command are only more than 3,000 people, and the rest are also implemented in the government military system, which is farming in peacetime, and only conscription is carried out in wartime, which is also the most common military service mode in this era.

It's too expensive to raise a full-time fighter. Like Li Ze, who quietly got three hundred soldiers who were all out of production, it is no wonder that he had to be cautious and did not dare to leak the slightest rumor. With these three hundred people, if Li Ze wants to, take them to attack the county seat now, and he can almost go down with one drum.

Walk a little further, then see a village appear in front of you, built by the mountains and rivers, rammed earth for the wall, a few meters outside the wall, the thick tree pole at the mouth of the bowl, one by one is planted in the soil, and then the middle is nailed horizontally, and a fence is formed, between the fence and the earthen wall, there are some horses, antlers, and boulders and other things placed messily.

At the gate of the village, more than ten people were already waiting, and the person who was lame in the lead, but Shen Congxing recognized it, and he was also an old man in the former Zhuangzi, named Tian Bo, a childless, lonely veteran. He disappeared from Zhuangzi a year ago, and Shen Congxing thought that he was driven away by Gongzi, but he didn't expect to come here.

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Congxing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, he arrived at Zhuangzi, and he had been in a daze, he was already too far behind, and even a guy like Tian Bo who couldn't make a stuffy fart with three sticks had already come to Gongzi's side and became a confidant, but now he had to hurry up.

Shen Congxing came a lot later than Tu Lichun, but he also knew very well that when he arrived at this place, the future of the Jiedu envoy was basically over, but he was not yet thirty years old, so he was naturally unwilling to die in a Zhuangzi like this, if the little boy he served was a waste, then he couldn't twist his arms and thighs, so he could only accept his fate, but a few days ago, Tu Lichun had a conversation with him in the clouds and mountains, but he suddenly woke up. He is also a smart man, and when he arrived at Zhuangzi, all kinds of weirdness here naturally fell into his eyes, but he was disheartened earlier and didn't go to his heart. Once you wake up, you naturally have a plan in your heart.

In this life, people are in a process of constant choice, but sometimes you choose actively, and sometimes you are just chosen by others.

Opportunities are in front of us, and of course, we must hold on to the ropes that have the potential to change our fate.

This little boy is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp. Since the other head has given up on itself, it is natural to hold on to this one tightly. Maybe one day, you will see the blue sky!

There really will be a day when I must go to those who have excluded me from nowhere to go back then, set all kinds of traps to make myself disgusted by the festival envoys, and finally be assigned to this little Zhuangzi, and humiliate them.

Thinking of this, his whole body was invigorated.

"Tian Bo has seen Childe." The lame old guard Tian Bo clasped his fists and saluted, he was the manager of the secret camp.

"Jiaoyi has seen Childe."

"Long Yi has seen Childe."

……

The ten people who followed Tian Bo clasped their fists together and bowed to Li Ze.

"Let's all go in and talk." Li Ze waved his hand.

The mud bungalows in the village are all the same, around the wall, and a large area is circled in the middle, and each adobe room is equipped with all kinds of equipment, these things Shen Congxing has seen, all of which are used to refine and boil strength, and there are all in the Zhuangzi. The piece of land in the middle, after being tamped, was paved with layers of gravel, and now those small stones have all been pressed flat, and the light can be seen by the setting sun.

"Today, according to the training department goals listed by Childe, the combatants of the ten squads are all taken out by the deputy captain to train except for the Xinyue Fox who stays behind, and it will take about an hour to return to the camp. So the stockade looked a little deserted. While walking, Tian Bo explained to Li Ze.

"Well, what's the overall situation?" Li Ze asked.

"Fabulous." Tian Bo showed a smile on his rough face, "The training subject list given by Childe is extremely targeted, unlike us who used to mess around with experience, this batch of kids is the most promising I have ever seen." After two more years of polishing, it will definitely not lose to the pro-soldier guards of the Jiedu envoy. ”

"Experience is also important." Li Ze patted Tian Bo on the shoulder: "I'm talking on paper, I have to combine your actual experience to give full play to the greatest effect, if there is a problem, tell me directly, don't hide it." ”

Tian Bo hesitated for a moment and said: "Yes, the things given by Gongzi are excellent, that is, the amount of training is too large, and only the strongest soldiers can complete the daily subjects, so I took it upon myself to reduce the amount of training a little." Please forgive me. ”

Li Ze's mind turned, and he already understood where the key was.

Nutrition!

The soldiers in the secret camp can barely be fed now, and occasionally improve their food, but they are not as strong as they are, after all, the oldest of them is only eighteen years old, and more importantly, they are not like those soldiers in their previous life, they are extremely lacking in nutrition, and their own training amount is copied from the training subjects and training amount when they were serving in the military, for people in this era, the body, can not keep up.

"You did the right thing, I was negligent." Li Ze patted his brain, "How big the amount of training is, you can grasp it yourself, the most important thing is to train them every day until they are exhausted, but they can't hurt the fundamentals, once they are injured, they will be in trouble at all." ”

"Thank you, Childe, do you want to rest first, I have arranged for someone to prepare the house and all the items for Childe." Tian Bo couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that Li Ze was not surprised but affirmed his approach.

"No, let's talk about things first." Li Ze shook his head. "The captains of each team will go down and go down to work on their own first, and you guys will come in."

Long Yi and the others bowed and retreated, and Li Ze walked into the room with Tu Li Chun Tianbo and a few others.