'Full of anger' Yu Wenwen personally supervised the formation in the new barracks, and trained a group of recruits to double the amount of food one by one, if it weren't for the saturation of the meal tube, the clanging military salary, I am afraid that many people would not be able to stand it.

In the early morning, the recruits were awakened from their couches by the terrible sound of horns, and they got up to get dressed and folded to tidy up their housekeeping, for when the next trumpet sounded, everyone had to go out of the barracks or be whipped.

Then the unscrupulous captains led the barracks to inspect one barracks to another, and anyone who did not meet the standard of housekeeping and remembered his name was waiting to be punished, and the recruits were now lined up to drink a glass of warm water and then had a column of incense to freshen up and go to the toilet.

As soon as the third round of horns sounded, the whole army assembled and lined up for roll call, and then it was a blood-boiling round trip running one mile and two miles back and forth, and it was not this that made people's blood hot, but that they had breakfast after returning to the camp, and the first hundred people could add an extra bowl of porridge to breakfast.

But before eating breakfast, those who did not meet the standards in housekeeping should be punished for doing push-ups in front of the whole army, and the whole army who couldn't finish it would wait for him to finish before he could eat breakfast!

Even if you are unlucky, more than 2,000 people in the whole army are hungry, then you really have to be careful when you walk at night, and you have to be beaten with a stick, and everyone is waiting for breakfast and a bowl of brown rice porridge!

In these years, the common people only have two meals a day, so there is basically no breakfast, but now it is available in the barracks, and the hot brown rice porridge feels a lot more comfortable under the stomach, not to mention that the porridge is still salty, and I don't know where the county prince went to get so much salt, as if he didn't need money.

The recruits are all bitter, haha, don't talk about meat on weekdays, even if you don't have to eat much salt, the salty brown rice porridge is eaten one by one, and you lick a few rounds of noodles for fear of wasting it.

After eating breakfast and making up a glass of warm water, the 100 people who counted down in the morning run were responsible for washing the dishes, and the rest rested for two incense sticks.

Then there was the drill that made people smell and change, the cavalry, archers, long sword soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers could say that they would go to practice their respective projects after a few rounds of practice, and the phalanx soldiers would stand still for half an hour as soon as they came up.

The team leader led people around with whips to see who dared to move, and they were going to be whipped, and after this round, the next thing was to repeatedly practice the queue change, first a tithe, a horizontal team, a column, then two tithes, then three tithes, and finally a team of ten, a total of 100 people to practice together.

This thing looks simple and is fatal to do, and after a long time, everyone's ears are the sound of 'turn to the left, turn to the right', but fortunately, there is hope for lunch: the best two teams of the 1,200 phalanx have a total of 200 people have salted fish for lunch, the third team of the second level has a total of 300 people have pickles, and the worst team has a total of 100 people who are responsible for washing dishes.

Take a lunch break for an hour, and then start the afternoon drill, and repeat the morning set as soon as you come up, stand for half an hour and then start the exercise, before dinner, after the whole army gathers, and then come back and forth for a round of one mile, the first hundred people to return to the camp can add a piece of fat pork to dinner, and the last hundred people are responsible for washing the dishes.

After eating dinner and resting for half an hour, Xu Shao, the owner of the auxiliary army, led the gentlemen and students of the township school to lead each team to read the 'thousand-character text', and it didn't matter if they didn't care, the team leaders randomly selected people to recite it after a month, and if they couldn't memorize it, they would whip it.

After half an hour of reciting the 'thousand-character text', there is hot water to take a bath, and it is limited to half an hour to solve the problem until the time rushes people, and then the military horn is sounded for a round to turn off the fire and sleep.

If you think that you can sleep peacefully all night until dawn, it is a delusion, and maybe when the team leaders will beat the gongs and drums to gather at night, everyone will put on their military uniforms and come out to line up, and if the time has passed, they will wait to suffer unless there is a special reason.

In order to prevent opportunistic tricks, it is not allowed to sleep in military uniforms, and it is the same as being late for the night assembly, and the wife at home does not accompany them, and the Xiyang County Gong, who does not sleep at night, personally watches them run three laps around the school field with red eyes.

However, many people waited for the county prince to come and 'find' them in the evening, because the first 100 people who rushed out at night (who had to be dressed in a satisfactory manner) had a salted duck egg per person.

The night gathering is not every night, but it may be every night, if the county is in a bad mood, there will be a second time in a night, of course, the rewards and punishments are also twice, no matter how tossed that night, the second day from the bed, the number still rings on time.

The training was boring and boring, but the recruits gradually got used to it, and they were used to listening to all kinds of horns and commands, and they were used to all kinds of competitions arranged by the county princess.

In particular, the tug-of-war is based on each team (a team of 100 people) as a unit ratio, and only 20 people can be on the tug-of-war team each time.

The 2,500 people were divided into 25 teams, and the team drawn by lot before the tug-of-war went directly to the next round.

The remaining 24 teams will be selected for 12 teams in the first round, and the losing 12 teams will be awarded for 3 teams to advance, according to this rule until the top 3 teams are determined.

The first-place team (100 people) had three bowls of wine per person at dinner, the second-place team had two bowls of wine at dinner, the third-place team had one bowl of wine per person at dinner, and the top three teams each had a piece of bacon.

The tug-of-war is compared every five days, and I don't know how many people are waiting for the game to come, because there are still little ladies in raccoon clothes watching during the game, and the game can't be won, but it's worth it to talk to the little ladies.

The county prince of Xiyang wanted to squeeze out the time of the soldiers' laundry in order to better toss them, and specially hired a hundred little ladies in raccoon clothes to help, two sets of clothes and pants cost a penny, and the little ladies washed more than 20 sets a day on average, that is, the daily wage was at least ten wen.

The soldiers were tossed and sweated every day, and their clothes were changed every day, and the wages of each little lady could be 300 yuan just for washing clothes in a month, and the wages for washing clothes for these little ladies would be 30 yuan every month.

The wages for taking out and mending clothes, cooking and washing sheets are almost four hundred, which is equivalent to the salary of ordinary soldiers in other armies, and no matter how tired they are, they are willing to wash their own clothes and make money, but the soldiers who have not been able to do so are all wondering where the money came from.

Of course, Yuwenwen's money is not blown by the wind, his money comes and is spent quickly, Wang Yue spent the money for the mirror as soon as the copper money was not hot, in order to increase the training intensity of the soldiers, stimulate their self-motivation to practice skills, so as to become an army as soon as possible, the prince of Xiyang County is willing to use money to smash.

In these years, there are no chicken farms and duck farms on the market, and if you want to buy these poultry and what eggs, duck eggs, salted fish, etc., you have to go to various markets to procure.

Don't be in a hurry, seeing that the situation between the imperial court and the Eastern Zhou court in the east, which was supported and established by Chi Hui, the prince of Shu State, is getting more and more tense, and he doesn't know when he will have to fight again, Yuwen Wen doesn't want to miss such an opportunity to make contributions.

Yang Ji didn't want to miss this opportunity, he didn't want to die every day to practice the hundred long sword soldiers under his command to teach all the "Xinyou Sword Technique" that he was proficient in.

The Xinyou knife method, created by Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, is not a martial arts cheat that buys one get one free to deceive children.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the maritime merchants on the southeast coast colluded with the Japanese to attack and harass various places, and at this time, the guards in various places were not able to be used, and the anti-Japanese generals in various places organized and trained new soldiers to reform military skills in order to quell the Japanese rebellion.

Qi Jiguang recruited people from Jinhua and Yiwu in Zhejiang Province to train as the 'Qi Family Army' and formulated a new formation according to the needs of actual combat.

Yang Ji came from the end of the Ming Dynasty in order to serve the country and pacify the war, and invited the veterans of the Zhejiang soldiers to teach and learn the "Xinyou Knife Method" and was honed in the battle with Jiannu, and came to this Great Zhou Dynasty and practiced diligently for nearly ten years, and he can be regarded as a first-class knife master, Yuwenwen specially gave a hundred soldiers to let him 'train'.

The training period given by Yu Wenwen is half a year, and the standard should be on par with the Qi family's army, Yang Ji had also trained domestic servants in the original era, so he had a little experience, and this time he had the opportunity to show what he had learned in his life, so he naturally redoubled his efforts.

The soldiers practice on weekdays with unedged iron knives, the weight is almost the same as the real knife, plus adequate diet, and effective logistical support, so the day practice, night practice, and sparring training, everyone is making rapid progress, they are new soldiers, they have not learned other knife techniques, just like a blank piece of paper, just let Yang Ji 'write'.

Seeing that the new army was beginning to take shape, Yu Wenwen was restless, but there was another person who was also restless.

In the martial arts field, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, was accompanied by his son Yu Wenwen to observe the soldiers' martial arts competition, to be exact, the competition between the recruits and their own soldiers.

He didn't have any expectations for his son's training plan, and even sent a thousand soldiers to be stationed near the new barracks in turn in case of accidents, because Yu Wenliang felt that his son's frequent drills of three days off and one day off would sooner or later provoke a mutiny.

However, three months have passed, everything is normal, the new barracks are full of people, the recruits are in full swing, the mutiny on guard against has not happened, Yu Wenliang found that the 'practice for three days and one day off' The rice buckets are really bearable.

The reason why it is said to be a rice bucket is because, according to Cao Huiyu, the general manager who assisted in the military training, since the more than 2,000 people in Xiyang County began to train the troops, the average monthly consumption of food was nearly 6,000 people.

In other words, these recruits were trained into rice buckets by their sons, and then their sons also said that they would take these rice buckets into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

Yu Wenliang felt that it was unreliable to let a group of rice buckets go into battle, and he wanted to see how the soldiers behaved on the spot, if it was a bunch of rice worms who cheated on food, then he had to immediately stop the loss and drink it immediately.

It is not so easy to fool the governor's office to bear the military salary and food package of 450 wen per person per month!

Therefore, Yu Wenliang attaches great importance to the competition between the teams in front of him, and eleven people on each side of the opponent are wearing protective gear and holding wooden knives, one side is wearing a blue smock is his own soldier, and the other side is wearing a red smock is Yu Wenwen's new recruit.

The competition method is one-on-one, and the eleven people will win or lose with the total score after the competition.

The recruits for the competition were randomly selected by Yu Wenliang from among the hundred long sword soldiers, because this was the son's request to reflect their so-called strength.

"Let's go!"

Under the order, the two soldiers shouted and waved the 'knife' to fight together, Yu Wenliang didn't think that his own soldiers would lose, turned his head, and was just about to talk to his son, but he heard a loud shout in the field: "Red wins!" ”

So fast? Could it be that my own soldier is not in the state?

Yu Wenliang thought so but didn't take it to heart, and the result of the second match seemed to confirm his idea: Lan Fang won.

However, the next four consecutive victories of the red side made Yu Wenliang's face a little unbearable: these personal soldiers followed him to fight east and west, I don't know how many people they killed in the battle, and their sword skills are outstanding, and now they can't take a few recruits who have practiced knives for months!

In the end, the blue side won six wins and five defeats, but this was the result of the battle between the bloody veterans and the rice bucket recruits, Yu Wenliang couldn't help but look at the recruits of the long knife team differently, and was also a little interested in his son's boastful cowhide: "What kind of phalanx are you talking about?" ”

What if the long knife soldiers can fight, what kind of 'sharps' phalanx that accounts for the majority of the soldiers, if they are like goods, I will be mad!

However, when Yu Wenliang, who had been in battle for a long time, looked at the four phalanxes on the school field, his heart sank: So tricky?

The soldiers armed with two spears were densely assembled together in a phalanx of sixteen men each horizontally and vertically, and the rest waited on the side with crossbows, a total of four phalanxes arranged in a hollow cross shape in front and back, left and right, each phalanx was two hundred and fifty-six people, each of whom was nearly one step apart.

Yu Wenliang rode on a horse, looked at this hedgehog-like formation, and felt that if he was on the battlefield, he couldn't get up with the idea of charging at all, he had fought against the Turkic cavalry, played with the Qi State infantry cavalry, and even cut Chen Guo's army, but he had never seen this kind of humanoid horse rejection formation completely piled up by 'super long spears'.

The dense spears are pointed at themselves, even if they charge the battle with a spear, before the spear stabs the other party, they are afraid that they will be stabbed through by the spear first, not to mention that ordinary war horses may not be willing to crash into these spear forests, and the brave war horses are worth a lot of money, and not many generals are willing to waste them so much.

But that's not enough, who wouldn't put on a show!

Facing his father's question, Yu Wenwen nodded, and asked his father to designate a hundred people in any phalanx to come out to show spear assassination: those hundred people held guns and stabbed the left, top, and right haystacks on the one hundred crosses of wooden stakes on the opposite side according to the command.

Yu Wenliang asked his soldiers to supervise behind the stake, and with an order, the pikemen took their positions with their guns in both hands.

"Left!"

I could hear the order, and the pikemen shouted "Kill!" At the same time, the head of the two-zhang spear stabbed at the target like lightning, Yu Wenliang couldn't see the results immediately, but he was very satisfied with the momentum of the soldiers.

Moments later, the results of the first round of statistics came out: 100 people, 100 people who did not stab in the wrong direction, 100 people who stabbed the target.

Yu Wenliang is not so easy to fool, he is old in the army, and he knows that he can't find out the true level of the soldiers only once, so he ordered fifty rounds to see the real strength of these rice buckets from thirty rounds onwards.

A big battle lasted for half a day, but he wanted to see how strong the arms of these soldiers who had to rely on their spears to kill the enemy and win, and wait until after thirty rounds of back pain, they could still hold the gun and stab accurately!

Jiang is still old and spicy, and the recruits' results in the previous rounds were all hits, but the hit rate gradually dropped, and after more than 20 rounds, it began to decline significantly, and by the fiftieth round, the hit rate of spear assassination dropped to about seventy.

But this is beyond Yu Wenliang's expectations, after consuming so much arm strength, it is okay to maintain a seventy percent assassination hit rate, after all, as long as you stab someone on the battlefield, it doesn't matter if you leave and right shoulders, it is commendable that no one has stabbed in the wrong direction until now.

He has also trained soldiers and knows that it is common for recruits to be able to skillfully distinguish between left and right for a month or two, and his son can train soldiers to this extent, which is also useful, as for what step to kill Yu Wenliang, he is still skeptical.

However, he didn't want to dampen his son's enthusiasm, some things can only be understood when he goes to the battlefield and sees blood.

Yu Wenwen came up and asked his father how the rice buckets were, and the old manager snorted and said a word before leaving:

"I don't have time to come over after I'm busy with my father's affairs, so Erlang can do it by himself."