These more than 100 Chang'an rangers now have a deep understanding of a famous saying in later generations: pain and happiness, although they don't know this sentence now, but the mentality is the same.

They all have the desire to make meritorious contributions, and they are ready to endure hardships, and they can also accept the constraints of military discipline. But now where are they suffering and being constrained by military discipline, they are simply living a hellish life that is worse than death! If it weren't for the fact that General Xiao also accompanied them to train and endure hardships together, they really had to wonder if this Xiao Qu's illness was a pervert and deliberately tortured them.

Speaking of the past ten days, these 100 Chang'an rangers, including the 2,000 Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, all felt as if they were in a different world. I don't know where General Xiao learned so many torturous tricks, it's like training people to death! As soon as they thought of this, more than 2,000 people couldn't help but burst into tears, and they had eaten all their lives in the past few days.

However, the physical and mental changes are also obvious, the body is much stronger, and the spirit is more sufficient. This is also an important reason why they are willing to endure the devil's training formulated by Xiao Quai.

Every morning, I have to get up at two o'clock in the morning, and after some washing, before dawn, I have to dress neatly and gather in line at the martial arts training ground with torches. It doesn't matter if you don't get up or get up late, then dozens of instructors appointed by the general will break in and beat you up with military sticks, and after beating twenty military sticks, you still have to participate in training and have no breakfast.

After the assembly, at four o'clock (six o'clock in the morning), the ten-mile armed cross-country run began. This is a term invented by General Xiao, and all the people must wear full armor and carry all the equipment on their backs, including a horizontal knife, a Hulu and thirty arrows, a water bladder, a tactical rucksack, and a dry food bag, which weigh more than forty catties in total. Then run around Huaqing Palace, which is obviously twelve or thirteen miles, but General Xiao doesn't care, just say that this is called ten miles.

General Xiao also formulated a special competition mechanism, which in his original words was to improve the soldiers' sense of competition and collective consciousness.

The way to do this is to divide the 2,000-strong people into four teams, and each armed trail run will be accompanied by a race. What makes many people puzzled is that this is not a race between individuals and individuals, those with good physical fitness, no matter how fast they run, it is useless, and the results of the competition are calculated according to the last place of each team. In order to eat meat for breakfast, those who are physically fit and fast have to help one by two, helping those who are less physically fit to run in front of them.

This is what General Xiao said about the method of raising the collective consciousness of soldiers, and he has to say this dozens or hundreds of times almost every day: "The army is a very disciplined collective, and what is important is teamwork!" ”

"It's about teamwork, not being a hero. A lion can easily defeat a wolf, but if it is a pack of wolves, it can be invincible. In the same way, if they fight separately, a master can easily kill twenty soldiers. But after forming a battle formation with twenty soldiers, the master was either sent to his death or fled.

"When you are fighting, it is when you hand over your life to your comrades-in-arms, so you must believe in your comrades-in-arms at all times, and at the same time, you must fulfill your responsibilities and not drag the team back."

"We have to believe in our own people and give our lives to our own people! Therefore, what we hate most is betrayal, and what we value most is loyalty. "Okay, this sentence is off topic, this is Xiao Qubing imperceptibly instilling the idea of loyalty in them."

In order to confirm the correctness of his theory, General Xiao also deliberately conducted an experiment. Twenty soldiers were randomly selected to fight with his assistant, Ling Hu Liuyun, but within two hits, these soldiers were stabbed in the throat by Liuyun's bamboo sword and "killed"; After that, twenty soldiers formed a battle formation, spears, horizontal swords, shields, and crossbows, and finally Liuyun was shot twice by crossbow arrows with arrows removed, and then stabbed by wooden spears, and successfully "sent to death".

The sense of competition that General Xiao mentioned is reflected in the set of rewards and punishments he formulated: after each cross-country run, the results are calculated according to the last place of the four teams of red, blue, black and white to reach the finish line. The whole team in first place will have a double portion of meat; second place eats a portion of meat; In the third and fourth places, in addition to the staple food of steamed cakes, there is only broth; And the last one is also responsible for emptying the toilet for all the members!

Because the final result is not determined by a few brave and excellent people, and the formation is very even, in the past ten days, more than 2,000 people have had the experience of watching others eat meat and only drink soup by themselves, and finally have to help them empty the toilet. are all high-spirited men who are more than five feet tall, who can stand such a different treatment? Then the next cross-country run will be desperate, in the words of General Xiao, this is healthy competition.

After breakfast, it is everyone's favorite and most relaxing part. More than 2,000 people stood neatly on the training ground, following Xiao to learn to stand on the Wuji pile.

However, when they were relaxed and comfortable, it was the hardest time for Xiao Quai. More than 2,000 students have to be taken care of, and the thing of the inner family pile method did not appear in the Tang Dynasty before, and all of them have no foundation, so they have to start over.

This alone is nothing, and the most troublesome thing is that everyone's qualifications and comprehension abilities are different. When a pose is posed, some people can learn it at once, but some people can't learn it at all.

And controlling the slight shaking of ligaments and muscles is a very mysterious thing, many people just learn a look, the inner essence is mastered, forced practice will only be counterproductive, but will cause harm to the body.

This was busy Xiao Qu's illness, and for a whole hour, he barely stopped for a moment, constantly shuttling back and forth in the array, constantly demonstrating, and constantly explaining.

But fortunately, Xiao Quzhi also found more than 30 martial arts seedlings with particularly good qualifications and understanding, and in less than ten days, he had mastered all the essentials of the Wuji pile. In the end, it is up to them to take their place and explain and demonstrate to the soldiers who are slow learners. Rao is like this, or almost a quarter can't learn anything, and finally was defined as not suitable for practicing internal boxing, and changed to strength and endurance training.

After two hours of standing pile learning, it is a boring hour and a half of queue training, as well as various formation drills. It wasn't hard, but it was torturous, at least that's what all the more than 2,000 soldiers said.

The practice queue is meticulous to the point that there is a standard for every movement, and the practice march is meticulous down to which leg to lift first and how high to lift. That's not all, the most unbearable thing for these soldiers is that whenever someone in the team steps on the wrong leg, lifts the wrong arm, or even looks left and right, the entire team of five members, plus the captain, will be punished to accompany the team to start over, and the team member who makes the mistake will also be punished with a military stick.

At first, there were many people who protested strongly against this, but they were greeted with harsher punishment with military sticks. Ten days later, Xiao Qu's illness and the dozens of instructors appointed established absolute authority in the army, and when he saw the military sticks, he subconsciously felt fear.

Lunch is nothing special, the staple food tube is full, and the vegetables and meat are also enough. Then the afternoon begins, and it's all about the brutal physical and strength training. Mainly for arm strength, leg strength and waist strength, the corresponding method is 100 push-ups plus 100 weighted squats plus 100 sit-ups. You can take a short break in between, rest for a quarter of an hour after one set, and then start again until you have done three sets.

Then put on full gear again for an armed cross-country long-distance run around the Huaqing Palace, and also introduced a competition mechanism, and this time the ranking determines whether you can eat meat for dinner. In the afternoon, Xiao Qubing usually goes to Chang'an, and when they finish running, Xiao Qubing will almost come back from Chang'an, and guide them to stand on the pile for half an hour before dinner.

In the evening, Xiao Quzhi did not forget to pull more than 2,000 people, talk to them, and tell stories. Talking about the iron blood of the soldiers, the wolf smoke of the desert. Talk about the responsibility of soldiers, the honor of soldiers, and the ideals of soldiers. In addition to making meritorious contributions, receiving awards for meritorious service, and becoming famous, we should also defend the country and serve the country.

Xiao Quai's most talked about the sacrificial spirit that a soldier should have, talking about serving the country with loyalty, about sacrificing his life to go to the country, and seeing death as if he were going home; said that he wished to serve the country with this length, why should he be born in Yumen Pass...... Most of the more than 2,000 people are hot-blooded young people in their teens and twenties, and they already have strong patriotic feelings in their hearts. Whenever Xiao Qubing talked about this, it always resonated strongly with them, and they really couldn't wait to immediately raise their swords and get on their horses, and cut down the enemies around Datang one by one!

Day after day, such subtle indoctrination, unconsciously, Xiao Qubing quietly established his own faith and authority in the hearts of more than 2,000 people.

Although he is now only an instructor of more than 2,000 people, and their nominal commander is still Gao Lishi, but all of them are branded with Xiao Quai's personal brand. In less than two months, when they begin to have a strong army, Xiao Qubing will be able to turn them into his own army.

It's really tiring to do so much every day, busy from morning to night. However, the harvest is also huge, out of the discovery of Ma Sui, a famous general who has almost never lost a battle in another time and space, and also found two very good seedlings. In addition, in two days, my restaurant in Chang'an City will be able to open.

The only flaw is that there is no progress in Ke'er, and I don't know how she is now, do you really have to wait for Wang Ji to defeat Wang Ji and subdue Li Linfu before you can continue to contact her? Although in another time and space, both of them will not be able to jump for a few days, and Wang Ji will be killed in about three months. But the trajectory of history has changed, can I accelerate the progress of Wang Jie's downfall?

When these more than 2,000 people finished standing for the third half hour of the Wuji pile at night, Xiao Qubing also returned to his residence, and after playing a set of innate Taihe fists and fishing toad strength, he was lying on the bed thinking about it. Outside the door there was the sound of footsteps of a man, who came to the door and hesitated whether to knock on the door.

Xiao Quzhi shook his head, he really couldn't rest, and shouted with a smile: "Ma Xunmei, come in if you have something." ”