"PS: The release date mentioned in the previous chapter is the release date of this "Warring States Great Sima", December 1st. Am (⊙_⊙) I making a mistake?'

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In the blink of an eye, October passed, and the weather became colder and colder, but the daily drills of the Xinwei Army were not affected by the weather at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that throughout the entire Zhao State, in terms of training intensity, there is absolutely no army that can surpass the Xinwei Army.

With such high-intensity training, of course the soldiers will not have no complaints, but Meng Zhong, Le Yi and others handled it properly, several people pretended to be red-faced, and Le Yi pretended to be black-faced, plus Meng Zhong invited Master Zhao to take a chariot to the Xinwei camp from time to time, so that those soldiers gradually adapted to such high-intensity training.

Of course, the most fundamental reason lies in the treatment of the Xinwei camp.

Don't look at Meng Zhong who threw the matter of training soldiers to Le Yi and Meng Sui, but he managed to get Zhao Xiangfeiyi to acquiesce to all kinds of special preferential treatment of the Xinwei battalion, such as "eating meat at once", such as more military salaries, such as rewards from the field house, these are all things that Meng Zhong took Xiang Yu, who was in charge of logistics, and finally persuaded Zhao Xiangfeiyi to win for Xinwei.

All kinds of factors made Meng Zhong, Le Yi and others gradually strengthen their control over the Xinwei Battalion, and also made the five hundred soldiers gradually recognize these commanders who were only fifteen or sixteen years old.

One of the most intuitive examples is Le Yi.

At the beginning, Le Yi only dared to use a thin wooden stick to beat those soldiers who took the opportunity to pant or even be lazy by falling to the ground when Master Zhao was patrolling, but after a period of time, Le Yi used words to stimulate those soldiers, and even used wooden sticks to beat those lazy soldiers, which has gradually become the norm.

To be honest, Le Yi's force is not the strongest in the Xinwei battalion, and he may not even be ranked in half of the ranks, but for some reason, there are fewer and fewer soldiers who dare to disobey his orders, and more and more soldiers who are afraid of him.

In this regard, Wu Ying and Meng Hu, who have successfully penetrated into the ranks of the soldiers, also asked the soldiers about their evaluation of Le Yi, and their conversation was like this:

"Are you afraid of Zuojun Sima (Le Yi)?"

"Fear."

"Why are you afraid?"

"I don't know."

Yes, those soldiers who are afraid of Le Yi, in fact, even they themselves don't understand why they are afraid of Le Yi, and it is clear that Le Yi's personal strength is actually not ranked at all in the Xinwei Army.

In this regard, Meng Zhong believes that it is due to habit: these soldiers have become accustomed to Le Yi with a straight face, carrying a stick to stimulate them with words, even if Le Yi does a little out of line, these soldiers do not dare to make mistakes, at best, they are scolding Le Yi behind his back, and giving him some slightly humiliating nicknames.

Although this matter is a bit inexplicable, Meng Zhong is happy to see it, and has arranged for Wu Ying, Meng Hu and others to deliberately "contradict" Le Yi and be punished by Le Yi several times, which can make Le Yi more prestigious in the army, and secondly, it can also make Wu Ying, Meng Hu and others more integrated into the letter and guard, and "resist" Le Yi together with the enemy.

The process is also quite fun.

In addition to the physical training, Meng Zhong also arranged other training.

For example, a two-person confrontation.

It is said that it is a two-person confrontation, in fact, it is to let the soldiers split into two and two, holding wooden sticks as thick as fists to hit each other, and strengthen the soldiers' ability to withstand beatings and pain, after all, as a soldier, injuries are inevitable, but Meng Zhong believes that excellent soldiers should not completely lose their combat ability because of injuries, so he arranged relevant training.

So, when Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Dui and others secretly sent Xizuo to spy on the training of the Xinwei camp, they saw the soldiers of the Xinwei Army beating each other with wooden sticks.

"Aren't these guys crazy?"

When they learned about the training of the Xinwei Army in terms of endurance, Zhao Cheng, Li Dui and others were at a loss.

In addition to physical fitness and endurance training, Meng Zhong also arranged more normal training, such as allowing soldiers to be proficient in the use of halberds, long swords, crossbows, etc., but the proportion of these trainings was not as much as strengthening physical fitness and strengthening endurance, and it would only take about three or four days to have that day.

Proficient in the use of halberds, Meng Zhong's requirements for the soldiers of the Xinwei Army were only one action, that is, stabbing and pumping, because he felt that the soldiers on the battlefield did not need any bells and whistles at all, and only needed to memorize these two actions.

In contrast, the training of swordsmanship is relatively complicated.

It's no wonder, after all, swords are short weapons on the battlefield, and generally only when the enemy army breaks through their own halberd defense line, and the formation of both sides is relatively chaotic, the soldiers can abandon the halberd and use the long sword to kill the enemy.

Otherwise, the saying that "one inch is long and one inch is strong" is not obtained out of thin air, and compared with long weapons such as swords and halberds, they do have greater advantages on the battlefield.

In the end, regarding the training of crossbows, Meng Zhong only asked Xiang Yu to order the supernumerary miscellaneous soldiers to make some straw figures and wooden stakes as targets, so that the Xinwei soldiers were familiar with how to shoot.

It is worth mentioning that when the soldiers shot at the target, Meng Zhong stipulated three assessment standards: "standing shooting", "squatting shooting", and "multiplying shooting".

Standing shooting, as the name suggests, means shooting while standing.

Squatting and shooting, that is, the soldier is required to complete the steps of loading crossbow arrows, aiming, and shooting while knocking on the ground on one knee and half-crouching.

As for multiplier shooting, the soldiers were required to stand on a galloping chariot and shoot.

In this regard, Wu Ying, Menghu and others felt inexplicable, but Le Yi had some guesses about this: Could it be that these are the three ways to use crossbowmen?

However, Le Yi can understand both vertical shooting and multi-shooting shooting, but squatting shooting makes him a little puzzled - is it necessary?

It wasn't until he chatted with Meng Zhong in private that Le Yi suddenly realized, so he demanded more stringent standards for those soldiers.

During this period of time, Zhao Xiangfeiyi, Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao also often invited Meng Zhong to their mansion for banquets, and Meng Zhong and Feiyi and Zhao Bao became more and more familiar, but he and An Pingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Dui and others are still at the level of "face familiarity".

This is related to Meng Zhong's own character, he is not a self-familiar character, and he will not take the initiative to lick his face to please others, only when the other party releases kindness, he will give corresponding kindness.

And Zhao Xiangfeiyi took care of him from the beginning, as for Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, he and Meng Zhong can be said to be not acquaintances, although the two have had some conflicts, but it is those conflicts that make Zhao Bao realize that Meng Zhong's son cannot be underestimated, so he maintained a good relationship with Meng Zhong.

As for Zhao Cheng, Zhao Zao, Zhao Jun, and Li Dui, they did not take the initiative to contact Meng Zhong, and Meng Zhong naturally did not take the initiative to contact them.

Not to mention that Zhao Cheng, Li Dui and others once made fun of him in public for not being able to do anything and trying to imitate Wei Wushu of Wei.

In addition to a few people such as Feiyi and Zhao Bao, Meng Zhong's interpersonal contacts in Handan are only Zhao's father, Anyang Jun Zhao Zhang, Tian Buyu, and the master and apprentice of Que Guanzi and Pang Xuan.

Crane Guanzi is a Taoist sage whose knowledge is no less than that of Zhuangzi, even if Meng Zhong is a disciple of Zhuangzi, he is also respectful in front of this great sage.

As for Pang Xuan, although Meng Zhong once laughed at the new army trained by Pang Guanzi and said that the new army trained by Pang Xuan may be the fierce enemy of the Xinwei army under his leadership, but in fact, neither Meng Zhong nor Pang Xuan actually regarded each other as enemies - because they are both cronies cultivated by Lord Zhao's father, there is no contradiction between them, and their "enemy" is the royal party force headed by Zhao Wang He.

It is worth mentioning that although Pang Xuan was also busy training the new army, Meng Zhong also had a conversation with him.

Pang Xuan is a native of Handan, Zhao State, but his ancestor is from the "Wei State Pang Clan".

Speaking of the Pang clan of the Wei State, the most well-known is "Pang Juan", after all, this person was once known as the famous general of the Wei State after Wu Qi, but unfortunately, these famous generals were defeated twice by Sun Bin of the Qi State, which not only made Pang Juan ashamed and angry, but also made the Wei State lose the opportunity to rise again.

After Pang Juan's death, the Pang clan gradually lost power in the Wei state, and later the Wei state sent his clan son "Pang Cong" to accompany the prince to Handan in the Zhao State as a proton, and Pang Xuan, that is, Pang Cong's descendant.

By coincidence, Crane Guanzi set out from the State of Chu, traveled around the world and came to the State of Zhao, where he accepted Pang Xuan as a disciple.

According to Meng Zhong's own estimates, although Que Guanzi is a disciple of Taoism, his knowledge is not only limited to Taoism, but at least he is good at the four schools of thought, namely Taoism, fame, law, and soldier, but Pang Xuan, as a disciple of Que Guanzi, is not very proficient in the three schools of Taoism, fame, and law—at least not very proficient at present.

It's a soldier, Pang Xuan can talk eloquently.

For example, Pang Xuan believes that the most important thing in "soldier" is "courtesy, righteousness and loyalty", and etiquette refers to strict military discipline; Righteousness refers to the belief in integrity and justice; Loyalty means loyalty; Faith is trustworthiness.

For another example, Pang Xuan also believed that "soldiers are more valuable than fine, not more expensive", so he spoke highly of Meng Zhong's selection of only 500 soldiers to strengthen training.

However, Pang Xuan himself recruited 5,000 soldiers.

It's not that Pang Xuan says one thing and does another, but he doesn't trust the "drawn" soldiers, he prefers the soldiers who are trained by himself from beginning to end.

Therefore, he recruited 5,000 civilians in the villages around Handan, and prepared to train and sift through until he finally selected what he considered to be the best soldiers.

Under Pang Xuan's recommendation, Meng Zhong also met the former's friend "Ji Xin".

Ju Xin is also a native of Zhao, and met Pang Xuan very early on, and became confidants with each other, when Pang Xuan accepted the order of Zhao's master to train the new army, he invited Ju Xin to assist him - currently Ju Xin is serving as Pang Xuan's Zuo Sima, like Le Yi assisted Meng Zhong, assisting Pang Xuan.

Because of each other's position, and the age is close, Pang Xuan, Ju Xin, soon with Le Yi, Meng Sui and others familiarity, after that, Meng Zhong and Pang Xuan also arranged several joint exercises under the leadership of the new army, in view of the fact that the Xinwei Army under the leadership of Meng Zhong is a soldier drawn from the command of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, itself has a high foundation, which makes the new army trained by Pang Xuan and Ju Xin repeatedly defeated in front of the Xinwei Army.

In this way, the year passed quickly, and Meng Zhong and the others ushered in their first New Year in the Zhao Kingdom.

And after the New Year, the three kingdoms of Zhao, Yan, and Song will join forces to attack the Qi State.

Although it is said that it is three enemies and one enemy, even Lord Zhao's father does not dare to take it lightly, after all, the Qi State is on the same level as the Qin State, and it is one of the two most powerful powers in the world.