In the next half month, the whole army of the selected general battalion conducted four consecutive actual battles, namely Luo Cong vs. Yao Chang, Pan Cheng vs. Su Zhong, Yao Chang vs. Su Zhong, and Luo Cong vs. Pan Cheng.

The four teams of the Xuanjiang Battalion fought six games in a row, Yao Chang's department won all three games, Luo Cong's department won two games and lost one, Pan Cheng's department won one and lost two, and Su Zhong's department lost all three games.

According to the results of the actual combat evaluation, Yao Chang and Luo Cong were promoted to the touchstone units of the selection battalion, and they did not need to participate in the selection of generals to defend the battalion and the task of building the camp, but only needed to train in the training ground or in the mountains according to the training requirements.

Since they were elected as the touchstone troops, they will face all the forbidden troops who came to select generals in two months, so they are also beneficial, and the generals will be rewarded after the selection of generals, needless to say, as far as ordinary soldiers are concerned, they value the immediate benefits, so Yang Congyi decided that the touchstone troops will have meat to eat every day, and the garrison troops will be supplied once every three days.

As soon as they heard that there was meat to eat, it made the soldiers hungry, and they hadn't eaten any meat for a long time, except for fish, of course, because for many of them, fish was something they felt sick to their stomachs when they saw it.

The two commanding forces selected as the touchstone troops are flexible in actual combat, but their ability to fight on the frontal battlefield is slightly lacking compared with Su Zhong and Pan Chengbu, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages, but in terms of the selection of the future, Yang Congyi is naturally more inclined to choose a team with flexible operations, after all, they have to bear the heavy responsibility of selecting generals, and in the face of dozens of forbidden armies, strategy is of course more important.

At the end of the selection, Yang Congyi, on behalf of the commander of the general battalion, made arrangements for the tasks of the four teams in the next few months, Pan Cheng and Su Zhong specifically assisted the Shen Shen army battalion in building the general camp, and assisted the army in mobilizing the necessary grain and grass materials, Yao Chang and Luo Cong first carried out basic physical fitness and battle formation training in the training ground in the battalion, trained for eight hours a day, and went into the mountains to train a month later, to study and familiarize themselves with field operations and battle formation applications under various terrains.

The construction of the Elective Battalion and the training of the Touchstone Troops officially kicked off in early August.

Outside the valley and in the mountains, bricks, tiles, wooden beams, timber, green bamboo and other building materials are continuously transported, and various materials are pushed into mountains, but outside the valley are still collected, and the mountains are still felling, and a huge camp of selected generals is built, and the building materials needed are difficult to measure, and the cost is far from being comparable to the original Changguo Xuanwei army camp.

Under the leadership of dozens of experienced construction craftsmen recruited, the soldiers of the two commanders were busy working day and night in the valley, leveling the ground, laying foundations, laying bricks, and erecting beams......

The camp is divided into two parts inside the valley and outside the valley, the valley is the headquarters of the camp of the general, there are the camp of the commander, the soldier camp and the school field, the camp is built on the slope of the north of the valley, sits on the north and faces the south, the camp is arranged in the east and west of the camp of the handsome camp, the school field is located in the low place in the valley, most of the camp area in the whole valley is built in the north of the big Chen River where the terrain is slightly flat and spacious, the valley of the south of the river is less than 100 zhang away from the foot of the mountain, the terrain is slightly flat, it is between the 30 zhang from the river to the foot of the mountain, more than 50 zhang of space, a row of barracks is built, extending from the inside to the outside of the valley, there are countless houses, looking at it from afarI don't know where the end is.

Outside the valley, all the land that was divided into the area of the general camp no longer had dilapidated houses, all of them were demolished, the ground that could be leveled was flattened, the trees in the camp area were also cut down, there was no debris at a glance, and a brand new barracks were built, and in front of the barracks along the river for the forbidden army troops who came to participate in the selection of generals left a large area of training ground, after more than a month of leveling and trampling, a huge training ground from the valley to the outside of the valley, 30 zhang wide and about 3 miles long, was formed for more than 20,000 forbidden troops to practice at the same time in the near future.

In a month and a half, in addition to the handsome camp with a relatively large amount of work and high construction requirements, the rest of the more than 1,000 main buildings were basically completed, because almost all of these buildings are barracks and warehouses that are not difficult to build, and they are practical, not aesthetics, unified planning, the same style, and sufficient building materials, which can be built quickly.

All barracks are based on bricks and stones, logs are columns, big trees are beams, green bamboo planks are walls, the main body is erected, small wood is used as a frame, two feet above the ground, and then the broken green bamboo is laid around the shop, which is nine feet wide and more than three zhang long, and a barracks can accommodate 30 people.

Now only the roof has not been covered, and when the straw comes, one by one on the roof, the construction of the barracks can be completed, but according to the builders, the new wood and bamboo harvested in the summer contain more water, and are prone to moths, so they need to be exposed to the sun for a period of time, and the water inside is dried, and then the roof can be covered for a long time.

In this way, the final step of the construction of the barracks was not rushed, and all the construction forces were immediately put into the construction of the camp.

During the construction of the Elective General Battalion, news came from the front division of the palace that the commander of the Elective Battalion, the King of Pu'an County, might come to Yiwu in advance, and the specific time is unknown. Since the king of the county is going to come in advance, the construction speed of the camp has to be accelerated, and the soldiers can sleep in the open, but the king of the county has a noble status, even if he does not live in the camp of the generals, there must be a place for him to cover himself with green tiles in the camp of the generals.

In the following half month, almost all the construction forces were put into the construction of the Shuai camp.

From dawn to dusk, the craftsmen and soldiers, changing their guards, suddenly accelerated the pace of construction, and finally by October, the last green tile was covered with the largest and most beautifully structured marshal camp in the entire general camp.

The entire camp covers an area of more than 4,000 acres, with a total of 1,120 barracks, 600 rooms, and one camp, including nine rooms and three large and small meeting rooms.

The camp was built, just waiting for the army to come to Yiwu to enter the camp.

In the past two months, Yang Congyi rarely participated in the construction of the camp, and Shen Jin and Lu You were almost all in charge, while he followed the touchstone troops throughout the whole process, supervising the two teams to train day and night according to the training plan.

After half a month of military training, followed by half a month of forced march training, and then began to carry out field interspersed marches, ambushes and counter-ambushes, sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks, position attacks and other actual combat exercises, the two teams assigned roles to attack and defend, compete against each other, do not give in to each other, today's big victory, tomorrow's big defeat, is not unexpected.

The whole training of the touchstone team was presided over by Yang Congyi himself, and all actions were carried out according to the actual combat standards as much as possible, so that the lessons and gains and losses in the training could be clearer and more reflected.

For example, in a rapid march for an important stronghold, the two teams set off from different directions, whoever wins the stronghold first, Luo Cong's battalion occupies the terrain advantage, and it seems that there are more than ten miles to reach the stronghold, but the result is negligent, there is no guard post on the periphery, and the Yao Chang battalion is interspersed with blocking the road and ambushing, the whole army is annihilated, and directly loses the opportunity to fight for the stronghold. So the Luo Cong battalion, which learned a lesson, whether it was returning to the camp to garrison, or marching and camping in the field, there must be three sentry posts in the three miles outside.

Another time, just when the two teams were in formation and preparing to do a big job, the soldiers of Yao Chang's battalion suddenly began to have diarrhea, and they couldn't arrange the formation at all, and even the sentry could not guarantee it, and the combat effectiveness completely collapsed. Luo Congying immediately released the news, saying that they sneaked into the place where the other party took water and gave laxatives, so without spending a single soldier, the battle was divided into winners and losers, Yao Chang lost all face, no matter where he camped in the future, he would personally check the water source and confirm that the water source was correct.

Failures and lessons have made the two teams grow rapidly, put away carelessness and carelessness, always remain vigilant, have a plan for every action, and will definitely convene lieutenant colonels and key officers to discuss together, clarify goals, assign tasks, unify will, upload and issue military orders, and improve efficiency again and again.

On the fifth day of October, the training of the touchstone team in the mountains was completed, and the two armies gathered in a temporary camp to prepare to leave the mountain and return to the camp of the generals.

"You've worked hard all this time!" Yang Congyi sat in the center.

"Stainless steel is refined, protecting the country and the people!" Luo Cong, Yao Chang, Zhou Ping, and Li Hu will sit around and respond loudly.

"Good! I hope you can still maintain such high morale in the next gold trial challenges! Yang Congyi replied in a righteous voice, paused for a moment, and said: "In the past two months, you have grown up very quickly, whether it is a strong fight, a battle strategy, or a marching formation, it has been greatly improved from before, which shows that our training is effective, just waiting for the army to come to challenge and test!" ”

"It's all the guidance of adults, otherwise we would still be fighting with our heads as before. In the future, if you go to the real battlefield, if you get the merits of war, you should thank the adults for teaching the art of war! Luo Cong raised his hand to thank him, looking sincere.

"What General Luo said is that the last general fought before with all his dead strength, I don't know what the art of war is, and I don't know the art of war, during this time, I followed the adults and learned a lot of ways to march and set up battles, and the last general will be used for life, no matter where I go in the future, the last general will miss the adult!" Zhou Ping then hugged his fists and thanked him.

Yao Chang was about to raise his hand, Yang Congyi hurriedly waved his hand, and said with a smile: "We are learning from each other and learning together, not to mention teaching the art of war, I have only studied martial arts for more than a year, and the way of the art of war is to use it flexibly, not to copy it rigidly or talk about it on paper." You have been in the army longer than me, and you have more experience in actual combat against the enemy than me, if you really go to the battlefield now and fight with the Jinren, you may not be better than me. In a word, the art of war is vast, broad and profound, and what we have learned and discussed these days can only be regarded as the surface of the art of war, but no matter how much we learn, the most important thing is to use it flexibly according to the different battlefield situations, turn passivity into initiative, turn disadvantage into advantage, turn defeat into victory, and even survive in death. ”

The generals listened attentively and immediately fell into deep thought.

Who knew that Yang Congyi immediately said again: "Speaking far away, with the number of subordinates you are now commanding, when you go to the real battlefield at this time, it is very likely that you will not have the opportunity to use the art of war, but I hope that you will keep what you have learned in these days in mind, always recall, learn to think, review the old and learn the new, and when you all become commanders and generals of an army in the future, you will definitely make meritorious contributions and be of infinite use!" ”

"Yes!" The generals responded in unison.