Chapter 689 - Like an Arm
"Di~Di~~"
Seeing Chen Xu riding in again with people, Chen Yong and the other five commanders all excitedly sounded the bamboo flute at the end of the training, and the whole team quickly gathered into a phalanx and stood up.
"Master Hou, you're here!" The five teenagers all ran over excitedly and clasped their fists and saluted.
"Not bad, yes, training very seriously!" After Chen Xu got off the horse, he patted the shoulders of the five young leaders next to him, and his smile was very kind.
"Thank you Lord Hou for the compliment!" The five teenagers were all excited, and their souls were fluttering, and their faces were red.
"Come, let me introduce you to you, this is my father Chen Hu, he will be your chief instructor in the future, and your training will obey his orders in the future!" Chen Xu pointed to Chen Hu who was standing beside him and said.
"Meet Master Chen!" After a pause, the five teenagers hurriedly saluted Chen Hu.
"You're welcome!" Chen Hu looked at the group of immature teenagers in front of him, and while waving his hand, the momentum on his body suddenly rose a lot, although he was still dressed as a landlord and an old man, his face instantly became extremely serious, and there seemed to be a sharp light in his eyes.
This is the momentum of every soldier who has killed people on the battlefield, with a natural murderous aura, and ordinary people can't learn it if they want to.
Just like a group of guards around Chen Xu, they seem to be unfazed by people and animals on weekdays, as long as they see a stranger approaching Chen Xu, they will unconsciously get nervous, like a sharp sword, full of murderous intent, which makes people daunting.
Chen Xu had already told Chen Hu yesterday about the role of this group of teenagers.
These teenagers, the youngest of ten years old and the oldest of thirteen or fourteen years old, seem to be still immature, but they are the biggest reliance on their son's future.
I haven't been home for seven years, and I already have a deep sense of guilt for my wife and children.
And as soon as he came back, he suddenly found that the entire Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village had already become self-recognizable.
At the beginning, the dilapidated Qinghe Town, the even more dilapidated Xiaohe Village, the villagers who were not well fed and clothed were like a group of beggars, and now they are all wearing clean and tidy clothes, all of them are full of red light, and they are all smiling when they meet, and compared with the situation when he and Han Tian and his two children are still not well fed and clothed, they are no longer like people of the same era at all.
Especially yesterday, when I saw the new house in Xiaohe Village, which covers an area of 100 acres, the luxury and extravagance smashed Chen Hu's various thoughts into pieces.
And all this is because of his son Chen Xu.
Coupled with the half-day communication between the father and son, this is the most frank conversation between the two men, and the father-son relationship is thicker than water, so that although the two have not seen each other for seven years, there has never been much estrangement and strangeness when they meet.
Now that his son has handed over to him this team of teenagers who may be the last resort to save his life in the future, Chen Hu feels a huge pressure, and at the same time, he also has a huge enthusiasm.
And since escaping the battlefield incognito, he has never seen this kind of military training ground that is forbidden by order, and seeing it at this time immediately reminded him of his past memories.
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered, the Great Qin Dragon Banner that hunted and unfurled, the overwhelming arrows, the army that rushed forward like a tide, roars and shouts, blood and stumps, strings of blood and water brought up by Changge and swords wielding in the scorching sun and torrential rain, Ze robes and enemy soldiers who fell in the screams, wounded generals who wailed and rolled, and thick smoke rolling up to cover the sky and the sun......
In an instant, the bloody battlefield memories were churned out of Chen Hu's mind that had been suppressed for seven years like a flood, and the canyon in front of him slowly turned into a battlefield of fighting, and the young man in front of him seemed to be just like him at the beginning, standing on the battlefield with countless villagers and Ze Pao, waiting for an unknown battle of life and death.
Chen Hu's breathing gradually became heavy, his fists clenched involuntarily, even his eyes began to become cold, and the expression on his face became hideous.
After experiencing the bloody baptism on the battlefield of life and death, an ordinary farmer finally transformed into a murderous soldier, although he has been suppressed for so long, he is slowly waking up from the depths of his blood at this time.
"Dad~" Chen Xu's shout woke Chen Hu up from the memories of the battlefield.
"Dad, from today onwards, these sons and daughters will be temporarily handed over to you to take care of me!" Chen Xu pointed to the five hundred excited teenagers standing in line and said.
"Xu'er, don't worry, I will help you take care of it!" The spiritual momentum on Chen Hu's body instantly subsided a lot, but his face was still serious and serious.
Chen Xu had never been on the battlefield, and he didn't know the situation and cruelty on the battlefield, but Liu Po, who followed him, was deeply touched, and he keenly felt the momentum and emotional changes on Chen Hu's body, and couldn't help nodding slightly, Chen Hu at least survived the bloody battle, otherwise there would not be such a heavy murderous aura.
And with Chen Xu's father to control this secret youth army for him, Liu Po instantly felt that his pressure was much less.
Although each marquis will train such a private team subordinate to his own guards in his fiefdom, these teenagers recruited by Chen Xu seem to be completely different, although they only carry out simple training such as walking, sitting and lying, and rarely train weapons, but after reading the training manual, he knows that the soldiers trained in this way are definitely different from the soldiers under Daqin, at least there will be a radical change in the observance of military orders, over time, after such strict training in five years and ten years, plus weapon training, It's definitely going to be a team of men.
Next, Chen Xu arranged for the teenagers to show a separate training again, and then asked Liu Po to take out the training manual and seriously explain to his father the process and method of this military training in later generations, although Chen Hu couldn't understand it, he still nodded and said that he would strictly follow Chen Xu's method.
The son is now the marquis, the emperor's favorite courtier, and he must be much better than him, a reckless man who can't read a few big words.
At noon, he accompanied a group of teenagers to eat a rough meal in the canteen of Wild Wolf Valley, and in the afternoon, Chen Xu personally took the five teenagers to carefully demonstrate the basic military training actions such as walking in steps, walking in unison, looking left and right, and turning back and forth left and right, and the movements were much stricter and more standardized than the movements that Yu Wuya had taught at the beginning.
"The order is done, the prohibition is stopped, with the order flag and the flute as the order, anyone who violates the military order must be punished, the first offense is punished with 50 push-ups, the second offense is punished with 100 push-ups, and the second offense is punished for running 30 laps in the valley, and those who cannot obey the order are expelled from the valley five times, and everyone must complete this simple set of separate drills within a month, the same robe, they must care for each other, there can be fights, but they are not allowed to maliciously hurt people, and those who maliciously hurt people are handed over to Youjiao Faluo, and everyone is a family. In the future, when you go to the battlefield, you must be able to give your back to Ze Pao with peace of mind and protect each other, which is your only belief...... Okay, now everyone is resting in groups, and I'll teach you to sing a song by the way! ”
After some training, Chen Xu once again told everyone about some rewards and punishments, and also made a long speech before starting to have fun.
"Singing?" Not only were all the teenagers confused, but even Chen Hu and Liu Po felt inexplicable, not knowing why Chen Xu had such a strange idea.
"Master Hou, will you sing for a thousand years?" A teenager shouted.
"Yes!" Chen Xu smiled and nodded, "If you want to learn, I will teach you to sing in the future, but today I want to teach you to sing Jingzhong to serve the country, has anyone heard this song?" ”
"I've heard it~" the team remembered the sparse voice.
"Okay, if someone has heard it, come, you can sing a few words to everyone!" Chen Xu pointed to a young man who didn't look very tall and strong.
Uh, the young man stood up with a red face and stammered, "Master Hou, I'm ...... I just heard a few passing businessmen sing a few words, but I didn't remember! ”
"I don't remember either, I just hum a few times!" Several teenagers in the team whispered with their necks hunched.
Chen Xu smiled and said, "Then I'll teach everyone to sing this song today, and sing it aloud every day before gathering for exercise, okay?" ”
"Okay~" The five hundred teenagers suddenly shouted excitedly.
"The wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north, people are like dragons and horses, and the sword is like frost......"
This song of loyalty to the country has long been a household name in Xianyang, and with the business travel from the south to the north, many counties and counties in Daqin have also begun to be sung popularly.
But Qinghe Town is just a remote mountain after all, and this group of teenagers is almost the lowest level of existence under Daqin, and they can't get in touch with this kind of lofty spiritual consumption level at all, and it is reasonable that most of them have not heard of it, so Chen Xu taught it sentence by sentence, and a group of teenagers also happily followed the learning sentence by sentence, and it took an hour, this majestic and majestic song full of heroic spirit was finally learned three or four times, and the chorus could be barely completed together. But in a few days, Chen Xu believes that he will be able to sing decently.
And when Chen Xu was teaching the teenager to sing, Chen Hu and Liu Po were also humming along with him.
"Okay, everyone disperse and rest, everyone must learn this song as soon as possible, and I will check it in a few days, and the neat team that sings well will eat meat!"
With a wave of Chen Xu's hand, the team disbanded, and a burst of cheers instantly sounded in the valley.
Next, Chen Hu took the five young commanders to familiarize themselves with everything in this valley, and at the same time learned about the weekday eating and sleeping arrangements, while Chen Xu took Liu Po to leave the town first to arrange some things.
"Master Hou, this song is really heroic, I have heard some business travelers humming it before, but it is not as good as Master Hou's singing!" Liu Po rode his horse and followed Chen Xu and patted his ass and said.
"This song has long been spread all over the world, and children as young as three years old in Xianyang can sing it, what's so strange!"
"Children and women must have no momentum when they sing, by the way, Lord Hou, I heard that the emperor's autumn war against Hun Hu has ended, General Wang Li captured the king of Donghu alive, beheaded more than 80,000 victories and returned to the dynasty, His Majesty named him the Marquis of Wucheng, I heard that Xianyang City also set off the thunder fireworks to celebrate, have you seen the thunder fireworks, is it as beautiful as rumored?"
"The Divine Thunder Fireworks are naturally beautiful, do you want to see them?"
"Hehe, I naturally want to see it, but it's a pity that Master Hou didn't take me to Xianyang!" Liu Po said with a dry laugh.
"Why do you have to go to Xianyang to see the Divine Thunder Fireworks, I can do some in Qinghe Town for you to see!"
"Really? Great, when will you be able to make it? Liu Po was overjoyed.
"After you go back, you can arrange for someone to prepare some saltpeter, sulfur and willow charcoal, and in a few days when I have time, I will make a few of them, and make a few specially fired cannon barrels......"
"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible!"
The villagers of Qinghe Town now have a high income, a good family life, and have begun to pursue more advanced material and spiritual enjoyment.
Now Chen Xu is very familiar with the gunpowder formula and the production of fireworks shells, not to mention that this group of teenagers will also need gunpowder to train firearms in the future, plus Qinghe Town already has nitrate, and a small gunpowder and firearms processing factory can also be opened here to provide sufficient protection for training, so as not to mention that everything is transported back from Xianyang, not to mention that the journey is far from unsafe, and it will attract other attention.