Hearing Zhu Luo say this, Zhao Hu shook his hand again and again, and said: "Sister, don't tell the prince, I originally wanted to go to the front line, if my mother didn't let me go, I would have gone a long time ago." Sister, please rest assured, I will let you marry me beautifully. ”

Zhu Luo held back his tears and nodded vigorously.

After Zhao Hu said goodbye to Zhu Luo, he got on the boat to find the four dead friends.

Zhu Luo stood on the dock and watched the ship leave the port before riding back to the palace.

However, Zhao Hu's recruits had to drift on the ship for half a month, and the first stop was to stop at Changhua, drop off the recruits, and finally arrive in Yong'an Prefecture.

The fleet arrived in Yong'an Prefecture on the 14th day of the first lunar month, that is, before the Lantern Festival. Yong'an Prefecture is already in the subtropics, and the temperature is more than ten degrees higher than that of Guangdong.

At the docks, the recruits disembarked one after another, where they had to wait for their assignments, some of them went to Hongji, and some of them stayed here in Yong'an Prefecture.

They were greeted at the pier by the commander of the Vietnamese garrison, Wang Jinbao.

When they heard that the commander was coming, a thousand recruits endured the discomfort of a long boat ride and lined up to greet the commander.

Wang Jinbao is not the same as a scout company commander half a year ago, and now he has 4,000 men under his command, and he is already a force here in Vietnam. In addition, he had to fight with the local natives every month on Hongji's side, so Wang Jinbao had a fierce face.

Wang Jinbao looked at the recruits who were standing in five rows in front of him, and shouted: "You bastards, don't think that you are a soldier when you leave the recruit camp, dreaming. Come to me, Wang Jinbao, this is hell, and you must be prepared to die in battle. I don't care who you are, if you don't obey in my army, then fuck me off, I don't raise idlers, you know? ”

The thousand recruits shouted, "Yes, sir! ”

Wang Jinbao looked at these recruits and said, "Go back to the camp in a while, and the officer on duty will arrange your accommodation." Normal training starts tomorrow morning! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Looking at the disbanded recruit team, Wang Jinbao's deputy Wang Kun said: "Sir, now we are in a tense confrontation with the Annan people, why does the prince still transfer a thousand of us?" It will take at least half a year for the 1,000 recruits to form combat effectiveness. ”

Wang Jinbao also frowned, and said: "I know the fuck, but there should be a move in the north." ”

"Oh? Could it be that the Manchus went south? Or is the king of Chu ready? ”

Waiting for an opportunity to support Zhu Hongsan has long been a tacit understanding of the new army, but Zhu Hongsan has always refused on the pretext that the time is not enough.

Wang Jinbao shook his head and whispered: "The King of Chu hasn't agreed to that matter, it is estimated that there should be a problem in the north, and the King of Chu mobilized the army." ”

Hearing Wang Jinbao say this, deputy head Wang Kun also sighed. After all, after Zhu Hongsan became the emperor, their military descendants could naturally tear the earth and seal the marquis. Wang Kun himself has calculated, before he can shoot twenty people in the officer corps, he can get an earl no matter what he says at that time.

Wang Kun saw the big black man who was half a head taller than others in the recruits' ranks, and said, "Sir, the instructor's son is also here this time, what should I do?" ”

Wang Jinbao smiled hesitantly: "This Zhao Tiedan, have you forgotten how he rectified our brothers at that time?" This time, his son fell into our hands, which naturally made him want to die. ”

Wang Kun also smiled and said, "Where does the chief want him to go?" ”

Wang Jinbao thought about it, Zhu Hongyi trained them viciously at that time, but after all, he was the eldest brother of the king of Chu, and his future status was naturally above him. It's okay to toss Zhao Hu, but if you really want to send it to the front line, it's not good to meet Zhu Hongyi in the future.

Wang Jinbao pondered for a moment and said, "I heard that this Zhao Hu is the son-in-law of the King of Chu, and he has already married the Lord of Zhuluo. I really want to have something to lose sorry for the king of Chu Chitose, and give him a share of Hongji, after all, the natives in that place have little combat effectiveness, and the Yao and Zhuang tribes in Yong'an Prefecture are too strong. ”

Wang Kun nodded and went down to arrange.

Now the military camp outside Yongan State has become a permanent fortress after more than three months of construction. The five-metre-high exterior wall is made up of one-metre-high, half-metre-wide bamboo baskets filled with sand. Above the earthen wall is a horse road, and soldiers patrol back and forth every three meters.

Inside the barracks are rows of bamboo and coconut trees made of sheds, the temperature in Yong'an Prefecture is above 20 degrees all year round, and it can reach 30 degrees in June and July. Therefore, the exterior walls of all the sheds are made of bamboo.

Zhao Hu, a thousand recruits, went to his shed under the leadership of the officer on duty. It was a house built according to the standard soldier's dormitory, and one room was thirty people for one class. The squad leader is none other than Zhu Ren, one of Zhao Hu's sworn friends. Zhu Ren was an orphan adopted by Zhu Hongsan in Henan back then, and he was relatively old and had been in the army for more than half a year, so he was appointed as the squad leader this time.

Thirty people packed their bags when they found their beds. Zhao Hu found that this place was not bad except for the heat, and the house and bed were all new. Zhao Hu was born in Huguang, and when he came to Guangdong, he was not adapted to the climate, and now he did not expect to come to Yong'an Prefecture, which is hotter than Guangdong. Zhao Hu sighed, no way, it's all for Zhu Luo.

After everyone cleaned up, there was a call to eat in the barracks, and the recruits took out their lunch boxes and prepared to go to the cafeteria to eat, their lunch boxes were made of cast iron. Zhu Hongsan's factory can make iron sheets, but now the cost is too high, and there is no way to make lunch boxes from cast iron. However, this also has a little benefit, that is, the lunch box weighs three catties, and you can practice wrist strength by filling it with water.

Zhao Hu's group of recruits, under the leadership of squad leader Zhu Ren, lined up in a neat line to go out to eat. The canteen was in the northeast corner of the barracks, and Zhao Hu and the others came early, so they were in front.

The meals were not bad, one sea fish in tomato sauce per person, one spoonful of braised pork, one cabbage, and a bowl of pork liver soup. Zhu Hongsan was afraid that his team would suffer from night blindness, so animal liver became a regular dish in the barracks, making it feel like a torture sentence when the soldiers ate every day.

It's not bad to eat pork liver once, but no one can stand eating it every day. Once, when a unit commander saw that a soldier didn't like to eat pork liver, he changed the dish to something else. Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongsan, who happened to be on patrol, saw that the unlucky officer directly became a big-headed soldier, and since then, pork liver has become an indispensable dish in the barracks.

The veterans who had beaten the vegetables in front of them looked at them and scolded angrily: "It's fish, braised pork, and pork liver soup every day, don't these guys in the cooking class have no brains?" I'm tired of eating something good for three months. ”

"It's good to have food, those guys in the city ask us every day if we still want to be soldiers, and now there are people waiting at the gate of the barracks every day to join the army. Let's compete with them. ”

"Not necessarily, I heard that the sailors eat well, prawns and abalone. Just us, it's not hard to get some lobster and abalone at the beach, why do you eat sea fish every day? ”

Zhao Hu listened to the group of veterans muttering and walked away, he had been a guard company for a month in front of Zhu Hongsan, and he knew something. This menu was set by King Chitose of Chu, and each soldier must guarantee three taels of meat, pork liver soup, and half a catty of rice every day. There may be deviations in the execution of various local troops, but it is necessary to have three taels of meat. As for the fish in this place, it should be a special food.

Finally it was Zhao Hu's turn, the same as the previous one, a fish, a spoonful of braised pork, a spoonful of cabbage, and a bowl of soup. In the end, when the master saw Zhao Hu's figure, he brought him a spoonful of rice, which was more than a catty.

Zhao Hu looked up, and it happened that his other friends had finished eating and were sitting at a table. Zhao Hu came to them and sat down to eat.

Zhao Hu is a native of Huguang and has no objection to rice, but this bowl of pork liver soup really can't be drunk. The pork liver is already in the air of animals, and this stew is really unpalatable.

Zhu Ren looked at Zhao Hu's sad face and said, "The soup must be drunk, the king of Chu said that there are any elements in the pig liver that can prevent night blindness." ”

Zhao Hu also knew this order, and he was about to close his eyes and drink it. At this time, seven or eight people came to the side and said, "You recruits* get away from the uncle, the uncle wants to eat." ”

When I looked up, it was a group of veterans who spoke. It's easy to tell that the veterans came early and were tanned by the South Pacific sun.

Zhao Hu used to be a little bully at home, and he was also an expert in fighting, and when he heard them talk like this, he couldn't help but sneer: "What if we don't let it?" ”

"If you don't let me, let you potatoes move, get the balls."

A veteran came over on the side, stepped forward and pushed Zhao Hu, and said, "What's the matter, the recruits are all standing and eating." "But I didn't expect that a push didn't push Zhao Hu.

The soldier was stunned for a moment and said, "Yo, there are two hits." ”

At this time, Zhao Hu stood up and said, "How about it, why don't you veterans stand up and eat?" ”

Zhao Hu sat with the veteran just now and didn't see it, but this time he stood up and was a head taller than them. The leading veteran looked at Zhao Hu and said, "Big black, don't feel that we are afraid of you." The guys are all out of the pile of dead people, I advise you to get out of the way honestly and don't look for trouble. ”

At this time, Zhao Hu's four sworn friends on the side also stood up, they used to be from the boy camp, and they had extremely rich experience in fighting.

That veteran is also an old fritter, and when he saw that Zhao Hu and their posture were all veterans, the veteran stepped forward and sneered: "You recruits, don't feel how to be unambiguous in Guangzhou, get here... ”

As soon as the veteran said this, Zhao Hu picked up the cast iron lunch box and saw it as a lunch box, and the veteran immediately had blood on his head. Several veterans around saw that they had done it, and they stepped forward to fight.

At first, it was just these dozen people who started fighting, but then I don't know who shouted, "These veterans are bullying new recruits, everyone." At this time, the chaos began, and the recruits and veterans present began to move, and for a time thousands of people began to fight in front of the canteen. However, group beatings are group beatings, everyone knows that military law is harsh, and no one has been killed, and there are very few people who have broken their hands and legs.