Chapter 5: Spring Dawn (Part 2)

In the next few days, Wang Xun spent every day in a busy manner. Receiving baggage, equipment, clothing, and armor, placing new recruits and veterans who had been scattered and reorganized from the original Praetorian Guard, leading his subordinates to tidy up the barracks, and arranging their beds, and so on, there was no time to spare.

Fortunately, the two team deputies assigned to him by Zhou Duwei, Zhao Huaixu and Li Yuanqin, are both veterans in the Anxi Army, with rich experience, neat work, and no bad intentions. Everything was done according to the instructions of the two of them, and Wang Xun didn't make any big jokes. Watching the twenty recruits and thirty veterans of the forbidden army under his command walk together and gradually form a horizontal and vertical row, a sense of pride arose in Wang Xun's heart. In addition to his excitement, he remembered the vow he had secretly made in his heart when he had just left the door. As the only man in the Wang family, he must make a name for himself, make Aunt Yun happy, and let Ziluo and her face shine when they mention themselves.

But when it came time to officially start training, this kind of ambition and pride was instantly wiped out. After only two laps around the White Horse Castle with an eight-foot-long ash pole, he began to stretch out his tongue like a dog and pant for breath. When he was nearly halfway through the third lap, he hated to immediately throw away his so-called weapon and run home with a cold hand, never to be tortured again. It's just that this kind of thinking can only rot in the heart, and it is difficult to put it into action. Zhao and Zhang, the two team vices, seemed to have long expected Wang Xun's shortcomings of liking Chang Lizhi but unable to persevere, so they sandwiched him from left to right, so that he had no chance to slip away. And the recruits and veterans in the team, who were also tired like dead dogs, saw the three bosses meticulously following everyone to endure hardships, and they easily did not dare to be lazy and slippery. gritted his teeth and persevered in the four circles, and the second team of the seventh brigade of the new barracks became one of the top three teams with outstanding performance among all the teams participating in the training.

Clear rewards and punishments are the only magic weapon for all generals to govern the army. Since the Anxi Army can become one of the most elite strong armies in the Tang Dynasty, the four-character mantra has been implemented to the bones. Seeing that the second team of the new Seventh Brigade participated in the training on the first day and was able to return to the finish line in a complete manner, Zhou Xiaofeng, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and consciously knew how to make good use of it. stroked his beard and announced with a smile that the whole team would be rewarded with two roast sheep, which could be cashed out by the room at noon that day. Hearing this, the brothers immediately burst into a shout of joy, and all the whippings and scoldings they had received along the way were forgotten. I can't wait to lift the scar-faced Captain Zhou up and slam it on the ground three times to show my gratitude from the bottom of my heart.

The morning exercise tempers the physique by running around the White Horse Fort, the morning exercise focuses on training the formation and array, and in the afternoon, it is the training time for the use of equipment. The deputy of the Li team is good at using the long lance, so he also serves as the head of the battalion's gun and stick instructor. I saw that he swept a eight-foot-long lance, picked up the vertical block horizontally, split and stabbed on the left, and the gun trembled when he boarded, and he danced imperviously. Seeing the more than 800 recruits and veterans who had already enlisted, their faces were full of admiration, and the cheers were like thunder.

But when it was his turn to tutor the soldiers, he turned his face and said in a deep voice: "The year knife, the moon stick, the lance for a lifetime." The ash pole in your hand is actually a variant of the lance. It's just that it's not your turn to wait for the battle, so let's go to the complicated and simplify, and deal with it with a bargain first. If you want to learn the lance, first practice your arm strength, and hold the ash pole with one hand every day, flat end for half an hour. Perseverance every day, after half a year, you can naturally see the door! ”

With that, he handed the lance to his right hand and held it four feet above the ground. Sure enough, the root and eight long lances were held up like a weighing rod, and the tip of the pole and the end of the rod formed a line, and the line did not move.

"Good!" Among the veterans of the forbidden army, there were many people who knew the goods, and they opened their throats and applauded loudly. Before the cheers fell, Zhou Duwei had already put up his scarred face again, pointed at everyone with a whip and ordered loudly, "Hold up, hold up, from today onwards, everyone will serve for half an hour every day." If you can't hold on, there's no dinner! ”

The cheers immediately stopped, and the soldiers, who had already been arranged in a scattered formation, handed over the ash poles to their right hands, and leveled them out one after another. It's easy to look at, but it's hard to do it yourself. After less than a quarter of an hour of perseverance, many people began to sweat on their foreheads and their arms hung down tremblingly.

Li Yuanqin, the head of the sect who instructed the group in front of the queue to shoot guns, glanced at them proudly, and his arm was holding a long lance that was nearly twice as heavy as the ash pole, and he still didn't move. Captain Zhou Du, who was scarred-faced, led a group of wolf-like soldiers into the queue, raised his whip, and jerked at the head and face that was trying to be lazy, "Waste, on the battlefield, not only will you die, but you will also have to affect all of us." If you want to stay, you will hold the life-saving guy steady for Lao Tzu. If you don't want to do it, pack up the bed and roll for me immediately! ”

Although there are many people in the team like Wang Xun, they are pampered and like to always aspire. But at this juncture, no one really wants to be kicked out as waste. While greeting Zhou Laohu's ancestors for eight generations in his heart, he flattened the ash pole again, and after holding it for a while, his arms began to weaken again. Then he was given a few more lashes and the ash pole was leveled again. Finally, half an hour passed, and the faces of more than 600 people in the team of more than 800 people had turned pale.

"I, Zhou Laohu, have never been difficult to be my brother!" Ordering the soldiers, who were already tired to lose half of their arms, put away their stance, and Captain Zhou cleared his throat and repeated his mantra. Although the ash pole is inconspicuous, you can't do without him on the battlefield. Once the weapon is broken, it is difficult for other guys to find, but the ash pole can be picked up everywhere. You can use a lance as a lance, and you can use a spear as a gun. There's really nothing to settle down, so cut the front a few times, and you can stab the enemy through the same way! In addition, when you set up camp and set up a village, three ash poles are poked together, and you can support a tent by tying the front one. In the middle of the night, when you are attacked, you can pull it out of the ground and temporarily use it as a repellent gun. The two armies faced each other, and there was a stalemate, and the soldiers in the back row could also suddenly throw the ash pole as a spear, and hit the opponent by surprise......"

I have never heard of so many benefits of ash poles, and Wang Xun listened to it with relish. was wondering if this guy surnamed Zhou was born in a teahouse before joining the army, so he practiced an iron mouth, and suddenly a broken cry came from his ears, "Wang Teamzheng, you come, and teach Li Jiaotou how to use an ash pole to make a spear!" ”