Chapter 35: In the Cold Wind
Time is always in such a trance, in a blink of an eye, it is winter, and it is less than a month before the start of the new year. Most of the ordinary people have begun to prepare all kinds www.biquge.info of food and all kinds of New Year's things.
But early that morning, in the newly built military camp in the wilderness of Hedongkua.
The soldiers who had just eaten breakfast learned that the original training plan had been forcibly canceled, and all the soldiers were summoned to the high platform of the huge school field by the sound of high-pitched and tight war drums of emergency assembly.
The sound of whirring and whirring continued in the ears, which was a symbol of the cold wind raging.
In the cold wind, Wu Ming stood alone on the high platform and looked down at the school field below, which had expanded from 20,000 foot soldiers to 60,000 troops, and the army had been fully doubled.
"This is? General? ”
"What is he going to do?"
"Yes, on such a cold day, he is naked on the upper half of his body, and the lower half of his body is still so thin."
"This, who knows how."
The soldiers in the audience were discussing.
Everyone knows that there is still a trace of the effect of blocking the wind and cold in the crowd of 60,000 troops, but there is no army on the high platform where Wu Ming is standing, there is only him, the cold wind is howling, and this scene makes people tremble for a while.
"The warriors of Great Wei, I would like to ask you, is it cold this day?" Finally, on the high platform, he shouted the first sentence with a simple speaker modeled after the bell mouth of later generations, and under his serious face, there was no trace of twitching in the tense muscles of his whole body.
The army of 60,000 was gathered together, and it was so dark that even with a simple loudspeaker, a considerable number of people could not hear a single sound at all.
But those who heard it, with one voice: "Cold." ”
Except for the school field, all around is white, and the heavy snow has covered everything overnight, and who can say that this kind of weather is not cold.
Of course, Wu Ming is also cold, but no matter how cold it is, he can't say it. Because what he wants to build is a strong steel army that is not afraid of cold and heat.
Don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, but this is a military camp, but if you want others to do it, then you should also let everyone admire it first, so as not to confuse the military in the end.
There were still sporadic snowflakes flying in the sky, and they landed on Wu Ming's broad shoulders, melted by the temperature, leaving only a little crystal on the surface of his skin.
In the midst of the discussion, he stood on the high platform and waved the general's flag, Zhang Meng, Ni Tao and the newly promoted general Lu Sheng each began to disperse around the high platform with 20,000 soldiers, so that more people could see what was happening on the high platform.
The well-trained soldiers performed very well in this change, and soon the 60,000 troops were already surrounded by the high platform according to Wu Ming's intentions, and all the soldiers raised their heads to look at the general in the middle of the high platform, wondering what he was going to do.
Like the soldiers, even Zhang Meng and other generals did not get any news in advance.
But this is a military camp, no matter how curious you are, it will not be as noisy as a vegetable market, and everyone's eyes are just staring at Wu Ming.
Looking around, Wu Ming silently reached out and picked up a bucket of water that had been put away a long time ago.
Under the amazed gaze of all the soldiers, Wu Ming suddenly poured the cold water on top of his head with one in both hands.
The cold water flowed down his sideburns and down Wu Ming's skin all the way to the flat ground below the high platform.
The instinctive reflection of the body made Wu Ming look like a kettle exuding hot air at this moment.
The expressions of shock, disbelief, admiration, and so on swirled on the faces of the soldiers, of course, there were many soldiers who felt so cold for Wu Ming, and they shivered first.
Shaking off the water stains on the surface of his skin, Wu Ming reached out and grabbed the shouting microphone on the side, and let go of his voice: "The warriors of Great Wei, do you think it's cold or not?" ”
No one answered, and many people didn't know how to answer, but more people were still silent in the fright caused by Wu Ming's actions just now.
"Ben will ask you again, do you feel cold or not?" On the high platform, Wu Ming once again ripped his throat.
This time, a burst of earth-shattering roars immediately sounded among the 60,000 troops, "It's not cold. ”
"We're not cold."
The voices came and went, shocking all directions, this is the heart of most soldiers at this moment, it is a heart that has been ignited with a raging fire.
Under the suppression of the earth-shattering roar, a recruit next to Zhang Meng, the 'cold' sound in his mouth could not be heard far at all, but Zhang Meng still heard it.
Turning around, Zhang Meng's slap, which was about the size of the recruit's face, landed on the armor above the recruit's head, "As far as you know, a manly man, how can you be afraid of the cold?" If you march in winter, can you say that the night without a tent is cold? ”
In just one sentence, Zhang Meng glanced at him deeply and then turned around again.
The high roar continued, but at this moment, Wu Ming waved the military flag in his hand, and the bursts of sound stopped abruptly.
Once again, he clenched the shouting microphone that did not have a big effect, and his voice was like a Hong Zhong: "Warriors, it is cold this day, but we have never been afraid of life and death, how can we be afraid of the cold!" From today on, every morning I will accompany you in this cold wind, shirtless morning exercises, and you will definitely be the most powerful army in this troubled world in the future. Ben will only ask one sentence, but some people are afraid of the cold, if there is a meeting, you can find your own chief general to declare, ordinary soldiers will not be forced, you can decide whether to participate or not, but a thousand people will above must participate, if you can't do it, you can change to someone who can do it. Can everyone do it? ”
"Yes, we can."
"Yes, if the general can do it, we will definitely do it."
The staggered roars rang out again.
Listening to the voices that were mostly shouting that it was not cold, Wu Ming tried his best to control his body, and when the water flowed down his skin, Wu Ming felt that every inch of his body became tight, but he kept holding back, trying to restrain his body to ensure that he would not tremble.
All he did was to make everyone not afraid of the cold, of course, he knew that not everyone's physique could be like this, if half of it was he would be content, but at this time, the sound he heard was far more than half.
Grinning, he smiled with relief in this cold wind, from running ten miles a day to now training in the snow with bare arms, Wu Ming's requests, the soldiers are actively responding, and the ten-mile journey every day has made everyone in the 60,000 army get used to it.
This time he was not afraid of cold training, and the original idea was to let the soldiers come to the ice bucket once a day, but just a month ago, Wu Ming found that this method was indeed a bit cruel in the process of constantly trying the ice bucket. It is estimated that it will be difficult for the soldiers who have not adapted since the autumn to accept this, and even if they do, Wu Ming does not dare to guarantee that nothing will happen to them.
After all, the medical skills of this era are not refined, and they have to stay in bed for half a month with headache and brain fever, if there is a chain reaction, it is estimated that this army will be played to death by themselves first, so Wu Ming only requires them to do bare-chested training, as long as they do this, then they will not be afraid of winter marching, and the consciousness of the soldiers can be improved, which will be of great help to their future promotion.