On the fifteenth day of September in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after just experiencing a sleepless night, more than 500 teenagers who had only been in the army for about half a month immediately threw themselves into the intense busyness. When all the teenagers were promoted to officers or non-commissioned officers at this time and took control of the teams, every teenager felt the spirit of "the heavens will descend on the people". At the same time, in order to alleviate the pressure brought by the battle and training in the past half a month, many people have trained those newly recruited teenagers much more directly than Xiao Xuan. More than 500 "veterans" were given sticks in their hands. Those who were newly selected and recruited were a little bit of a blow to each other, or a little more stupid, were a stick.

At first, this kind of behavior was only an isolated one, but when he saw that Xiao Xuan didn't care about it, it spread to a common practice. Of course, among the more than 2,700 teenagers who were selected by lottery, there were also many people with relatively hard personalities, because these people were originally people who were a little calm and able to reply in the temporary chaos in the streets and squares outside the Imperial Horse Prison, and there were many earth overlords in the capital. There are not a few people who are not commoners or from the bottom of the class. Soon there was a frequent clash between later generations of students and military training instructors during training. When Xiao Xuan asked these people to "cut their hair" according to the standards of modern and modern armies, this kind of contradiction and conflict began to erupt in a concentrated manner.

In this regard, Xiao Xuan did not have the consciousness of "being the master of the soldiers", but did not hesitate to occupy the side of the "veterans and officers", and all those thorns who dared to resist the "superiors" with physical actions were directly pulled to the school field and "caned" in front of thousands of people. This was a method that Xiao Xuan had never used against the initial 500 officers and soldiers of the new battalion in the previous training. In total, more than 70 "thorns" who insulted and beat non-commissioned officers and officers in the riot were beaten to death by hundreds of officers and veterans in turn, and the bloody scene instantly shocked the vast majority of newcomers.

Under the harsh training of a whole day, those who reacted a little slower or were injured in the beating and could not continue training were directly ordered by Xiao Xuan to be sent to the artisan camp where the other teenagers could not see to do temporary chores. It gives people the feeling that "these people are likely to end badly".

Pang Tianshou, who was the person in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor during this harsh training during the day, didn't say much, but when he was about to rest at night, he still found an opportunity to persuade with some worry: "Holy Lord, such a harsh training... Does it really work? Will there be a camp or something... ”

Xiao Xuan was silent for a long time, and finally chose to believe some of his understanding of the modern model army in the barracks these days: human nature is to be free and casual, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, at least compared to the requirements of the harsh battlefield environment. The quickest way to make a group of people who are greedy for life and fear death, and who seek advantage and avoid harm as a reasonable nature, remain in danger on a battlefield with great threats, is to make people think of themselves as slaves instead of human beings. As "1984" says: Ignorance is power.

Like the military in modern society where mobile phones are not banned in the barracks? Xiao Xuan can completely imagine that even if he has a material superiority of motorized artillery firepower or even one or twenty times, he will definitely be pressed and beaten by guerrillas like some third-world government armies or superpower armies at some times since the Vietnam War. The army should not be humane.

Of course, no matter how much ability to eat and how much dry food he has, Xiao Xuan also hopes that his army will become a revolutionary army or a tall and powerful army with a sense of "master" in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. However, Xiao Xuan had a bad feeling at this time: another crisis might come, and it wouldn't be too long. There simply is not enough time left for the construction of a "new type of army". In this case, the only way to make a rabble, who had just been selected from the market, become somewhat combative, and to be "obedient" in the face of the threat of the enemy, was only in this harsh and barbaric way.

When night came, the barracks of several thousand people could not be calm for a long time, and the cries and cursing of the cries and the cries of correction came one after another.

After being silent for a long time, Xiao Xuan said solemnly: "Extraordinary methods should be used in extraordinary times, of course I know that it is risky to do so. But I believe that 500 "veterans" are still in a position to suppress the problems that 2,000 people may bring if they are more organized, not to mention that you still have a lot of manpower. If there is a camp roar, it will be better, anyway, recruiting nearly 1,000 more people is used to eliminate. Killing less than half will surely make these recruits fear veterans and officers more than the enemy on the battlefield... ”

Hearing Xiao Xuan say this, Pang Tianshou and the others didn't say anything more.

At night, in order to prevent any accidents, Xiao Xuan still spent a lot of time patrolling the camp. Towards the end, I happened to come to the place where the soldiers cooked in the barracks. Seeing that it was only about half a month, the first batch of the dozen or so teenagers who had some impressions before became a little different, and couldn't help laughing: "It's only been about half a month, and you are also training like everyone else, why are you so fat?" Also: The eggs and meat stars in this meal seem to be a little less than what I requested, huh? ”

Hearing these words, the temporary leaders of the "cooking class", who already had a little understanding of the temperament and temperament of the young new emperor, were so frightened that they immediately knelt on the ground: "The Holy One spares his life... The Holy One spares his life... After us ... ”

Xiao Xuan smiled: "Don't worry, as a master, it's normal to eat a few more bites anywhere, isn't it?" But I don't think you're physically fit for battle. In this way, how about the squadrons, people like you who are oversized for the time being, go together to repair the fortifications and do the manual work in the new barracks with the teenagers who have been expelled from the team today? You don't have to do this for now. If you have any accidents there, it means that your usual popularity is not very good, and you can be regarded as self-inflicted! ”

Such a decision made all the people in the "cooking class" feel frightened. But no matter how these people begged for mercy, Xiao Xuan had no intention of changing himself.

Judging from the experience of modern Western armies, it is one thing to be strict with soldiers, to make people become servile and obedient, and lose themselves. But after all, man cannot truly lose himself and become a machine. These things that affect the cohesion of the army must be absolutely eliminated, and it is not only necessary to let soldiers suffer from "Stockholm syndrome" in general. It is absolutely forbidden for the cooking squad to dominate the squadron by virtue of its long service period and wide connections, or even to do more serious violations.

It is better to have people who are not very proficient in cooking to take turns to be responsible for the poor food, than to raise these "cooking class veterans"

"Start today! In my battalion, especially the soldiers' stoves: each squadron is in charge of the people on duty in each squadron in turn, and each squad is responsible for ten days, and the so-called 'cooking squad' officer stove is another matter... Xiao Xuan made up his mind and said.