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If Yang Xi was not welcomed by any of the generals when he first came to Tongguan, then now he has made most generals admire. There are many reasons for this, including Yang Xi's feat of leading the army to first aid Tongguan, the heroic deeds of pulling out Guiren with a sword and saving Ge Shuhan, as well as the killing of the eunuch Bian Lingcheng of the prison army, and his good performance in the defensive battle of Tongguan, and his intercession for the generals after the war.

And Yang Xi's selection of outstanding soldiers for special training was also a move that surprised all the generals. All the generals had witnessed the training of the special training camp with their own eyes, and they were very surprised. Yang Xi has such ability, although the generals have a lot of doubts in their hearts, but they have a new understanding of Yang Xi's ability, and now Yang Xi personally made a telescope that can bring distant objects closer, and promised that each general can be equipped with one in the future, which makes the generals more pleasantly surprised Yang Xi.

The attraction of new things is very great.

In the eyes of many generals, Yang Xi is already a completely different person, a person who has nothing to do with the traitor Yang Guozhong. Yang Xi's performance during this period of time was not at all for his own personal gain, all for the sake of Tongguan and the interests of the overall situation, and his personality charm made many people ashamed.

Yang Xi's appeal is slowly improving, which he himself slowly feels, but he is not satisfied with this, he wants to be an absolute authority, to make the generals completely satisfied with him, and strictly obey his orders.

Of course, it is not an easy task to do this, and the road is very long. But Yang Xi believes that as long as you make efforts, there will always be gains.

"I'm sure I'll be a good commander!" These are Yang Xi's words of encouragement.

The telescope was made, and the effect was very good, and it must be very useful when marching and fighting, and Yang Xi used this to shock the generals again, killing several birds with one stone. He also immediately wrote to Yang Guozhong, his father in Chang'an, asking Yang Guozhong to personally go to the Ordnance Prison and make a large number of telescopes from the patterns he had taken. He drew a number of patterns according to the telescopes of later generations, both monoculars and binoculars, and he hoped to make telescopes with the same zoom as two lens tubes, and he believed that with his current manufacturing capacity, practical binoculars could be made.

He had explained in detail the principle of making the telescope to the two guards who he thought were the most intelligent after his observation, and asked them to rush back to Tongguan, explain the principle of production to Yang Guozhong, and participate in the production process of the ordnance superintendent, so that the craftsmen who made it could understand the principle.

There are many intelligent people in this era, and as long as you explain the principle to them, they should be able to improve it with their own ingenuity.

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Yang Guozhong sent a secret letter, saying that Li Jingzhong, the eunuch of the prison army, had embarked on a trip and was ready to go to Tongguan to take up his post.

It is impossible for Li Jingzhong to come to Tongguan through the post station like Yang Xi, he came slowly on horseback, and it will take at least three or four days to travel. Yang Xi didn't pay much attention to the arrival of this middle-aged uncle-level eunuch, he was very busy, all his enthusiasm was mobilized, and he was busy with the physical training of the eight hundred sergeants recruited.

The other generals were also busy training the soldiers, and under the hot sun, the inside and outside of Tongguan City were full of soldiers who were working hard.

After more than 10 days of training, five of the 800 carefully selected soldiers have voluntarily quit after the high-intensity training, 10 have been eliminated because they are injured or physically unbearable, and most of the other soldiers have resisted.

The soldiers who resisted did not know that what awaited them would be more and more brutal training, and most of them would eventually be eliminated.

Nighttime emergency gatherings don't happen every night, but they can be several times a night, and the irregularity makes the team members always sleep with a heart. However, this made them much more vigilant than before, and they could wake up as soon as there was a disturbance. The extreme exhaustion of the training also allowed the soldiers to fall asleep immediately after they fell, and the quality of their sleep was also improved.

Just kidding, if you don't sleep well and your physical strength can't be effectively recovered, how can you resist the subsequent training?

There is a training program that is basically fixed, and that is a long-distance trail run that is good in the morning. The shortest distance per day is five miles, basically ten to fifteen miles, and at the back it becomes a weight-bearing run, and each soldier carries a weapon to prepare.

Many times, when I ran back, it was still dark, but the room had already burned steaming steamed buns and porridge. Meals are not evenly distributed, but on a first-come, first-served basis. If you come back a long way behind the others, chances are that there won't be any soup left.

Those who did poorly in long-distance running were basically eliminated, and hundreds of soldiers who ran trail running every morning came back in about the same time. For the sake of that precious meal, everyone ran as fast as they could, just for fear of being robbed of everything if they fell behind and would be hungry.

In the case of hunger, it is extremely difficult to persist in the subsequent training, and if you can't stick to it, you will be eliminated, and it is very embarrassing to be eliminated.

It's a terrible cycle, and everyone has to do everything they can to keep from being pulled down, or they're losers.

For the emergency gathering, the team members have gradually adapted to it, and they are not as flustered as they were in the first few times.

Someone summed up the fastest action flow in the case of an emergency gathering, and it was promoted.

Under no circumstances should there be any panic, and all actions must be done in an orderly manner: get up, put on pants first, then boots, put clothes on your body, take your weapons and equipment, and then arrange your clothes on the way to the training camp, and carry them ready. The clothing of the soldiers is also specially designed by Yang Xi, of course, the reference is the military clothing of later generations, which is convenient for wearing and training.

The rules are summed up, and the speed of the assembly is gradually getting faster.

And those players who have no clue are almost all eliminated.

The training results of each soldier are recorded, and the training results of each training team leader are the focus of everyone's attention.

The training captain is not always fixed, but will be adjusted frequently, and those who do not perform well will be removed from the position of captain and replaced by a sergeant who performed well during training. When this batch of sergeants was selected, the sergeants who served as captains, brigade commanders, and generals were not necessarily qualified to be the captains of the training camps, and ordinary sergeants were not always denied the opportunity to lead others. Eight of the twenty training team leaders at the beginning have been replaced, and the rest have a sense of crisis, whether it is training or managing the team members, they do their best to perform well, so as not to be removed from their posts and lose face.

Li Han and Chen Feng, who played against Yang Xi on the first day of the training camp, were designated as the captains of the first and second teams of the training camp because of their very good performance, far better than the average team members. Maybe there is also an element of misfortune in this, fortunately won the favor of Marshal Yang Xi, and Yang Xi fights, this glory makes them dare not slack off at any time, enthusiasm bursts, and they want to do better than others at any time. Coupled with the fact that their skills are already very good, it is not surprising that their training results are outstanding.

After ten days of training, Yang Xi personally presided over the first assessment, the physical fitness assessment, after this assessment, 60 soldiers were eliminated because they failed to pass the physical fitness assessment, and the size of the training team was reduced to about 700 people.

At this time, Li Jingzhong also arrived at Tongguan.