After reconverging the bones of Old Man Bai, Meng Yan left Yizhuang with Bai Suxin and his party.

Although the place is not small, it is too cold at night, and the yin air is very heavy.

A few of them are not afraid of gods and ghosts, that is, Wen Xiaoyu and Bai Suxin, two women, so Meng Yan has already arranged it.

Go to the Patrol Division's training base in Wolf Valley.

Although the location is remote and uninhabited, this year's new battalion of the Patrol Division is training there, and relatively speaking, the safety is more guaranteed.

Moreover, Meng Yan also wanted to take this opportunity to inspect the training of some recruit brigades, these people were carefully selected, for these people, Meng Yan offended many nobles and relatives who wanted to stuff their own children in.

If you don't meet the standard, no one will be allowed to enter, and if you want to make a special move, if you have a skill, you can relax other conditions.

In this way, Meng Yan picked out 450 people out of nearly 10,000 candidates, plus eight special recruits.

A total of four hundred and fifty-eight recruits.

Originally, Meng Yan also planned to consider the sign of female soldiers, but firstly, the infrastructure construction of the training base has not yet been completed, and many of them are still to be built.

Of the 458 recruits, except for the eight specially recruited, less than half of the remaining 450 may have stayed in the end.

That is, at least a 50 percent elimination rate.

This is already very cruel, compared to the elimination rate of more than 90% in later generations, Meng Yan is already merciful enough.

The above gave the patrol department two hundred-strong teams, so he couldn't leave everyone behind.

Of course, he himself can still pick out eight people to be his personal companions. It's just that no one knows the news.

To be your own personal entourage, you must first pass Guo Xiaochao's eyes, and if Guo Xiaochao can't look down on it, it will naturally be no fun.

Meng Yan handed over the power of choosing a personal entourage for himself to Guo Xiaochao, although Guo Xiaochao did not say anything on the surface. In fact, in his heart, he already regarded Meng Yan as a loyal lord who was "regarded as a confidant".

Although it is not yet a permanent training base, it already has a certain scale and weather.

Meng Yan didn't plan to build a castle in the Wild Wolf Valley, which would inevitably give people a handle and be suspicious of the emperor.

Therefore, this base adopts an open design, but an open design does not mean that it is unguarded.

The Wild Wolf Valley is densely vegetated, but the terrain is relatively flat, and the valley mouth is very large, and it is almost impossible to defend.

So this is not suitable for building a city. It is also not suitable for garrisons, only suitable as a natural training ground or hunting ground.

This was a barren valley, and Meng Yan didn't have much effort to buy this Wild Wolf Valley and several mountains around the Wild Wolf Valley.

All the mountains and rivers in the territory of the Ming Dynasty belong to the emperor, and with the relationship between Meng Yan and the emperor, give him a few barren mountains, which is nothing.

Although some people criticize it, these barren mountains produce some game or medicinal herbs. There is hardly any output.

What's more, Meng Yan does not prohibit nearby hunters from going into the mountains to hunt, but. They can't enter the Wolf Valley Military Restricted Zone.

"Drive!"

Meng Yan and his entourage galloped all the way from Yizhuang to the outside of the Wild Wolf Valley.

On the side of the road, a huge wooden sign reads: "Military restricted area, trespassers will be killed!" ”

There is also a large exclamation mark behind the bright red font, which is to remind the nearby villagers not to trespass without permission, so as not to accidentally hit the director of the organ zhì death and injury.

"Order, let Don Xiao come out and pick us up!" Meng Yan grabbed the reins in front of the warning sign. The command sounded.

"Yes, sir!" Guo Xiaochao turned over and dismounted, took out a bamboo tube from his backpack, and lit the fuse.

"Sting!" With a crisp sound, green fireworks flew into the air.

Tang Xiao, who was also arranging training tasks in the camp, suddenly raised his head. Look in the direction of Taniguchi.

"Brothers, my lord is here, let's go to Taniguchi to greet you!" Tang Xiao dropped the pencil in his hand and rushed out directly.

"Go, go, go......"

Da Da ......

A hurried sound of horses' hooves came from the valley, and after about a cup of tea, Tang Xiao led more than a dozen old brothers from the original craftsman treasurer brigade to rush in front of Meng Yan.

"Inferior to the Lord!" Tang Xiao led his subordinates to dismount together, lined up in front of Meng Yan, knelt down and saluted.

"Okay, not bad, Tang Xiao, your riding skills have improved a lot!" Meng Yan was very happy to see Tang Xiao and the others' uniform movements, at least it showed that these people did not relax their own strength while training recruits.

Training others is also a kind of training for oneself, the old brother of the treasury brigade, Meng Yan, is trained as a seed and an officer, and the recruits selected this time are all highly qualified, this officer can't let his subordinates compare, right?

"It's not that the adults have found a powerful riding instructor for the next grade!" Tang smiled and said with a smile.

"Mark the riding instructor Duan Tianming, see the adults!" Duan Tianming, who was dressed in military uniform, stepped forward excitedly.

"Okay, hard work Brother Duan!" Meng Yan laughed.

"It's not hard, and I have to thank Master Meng for seconding the mark from the Xishan Military Horse Farm, otherwise, I'm afraid Tianming will still be raising horses there!" Duan Tianming said gratefully.

"It's gold that shines everywhere, Brother Duan, would you like to stay and help me?"

"Mark yes!" Duan Tianming didn't know that this was a great opportunity for him, an opportunity that he had waited for thirty years.

"Okay, Brother Duan, let's work together to create brilliance!"

"Mark and command!"

"Tang Xiao, is everything arranged?"

"My lord, everything has been arranged, and you and your wife can enter the base to rest immediately." Don laughed.

"Let's go!"

Above the valley, rows of wooden slab houses have risen from the ground, temporary settlements, and permanent barracks are being laid.

"My lord, this small building is for you."

"This is a training base, and the official can't be specialized, right?"

"My lord is the chief instructor of the base, and he is also our official, and besides, such a small building is just separated from me. In fact, the conditions are all the same. Don laughed.

"Okay, it's good to be the same, at the base, I'm the same as everyone else, don't be special, right. I have guests today, they are all hungry, are you ready for dinner? ”

"It's been prepared a long time ago, that is, two jars of good wine have been prepared!"

"Where's the wine?" Meng Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Don't get me wrong, my lord, this wine was just exchanged for a hunter today, and his family brewed it himself, isn't this a guest. There is a ban on alcohol in our base, so let's ......," Tang Xiao explained awkwardly.

"My lord, we are also from the Patrol Division, since there is a ban on alcohol at the base, we will not drink this wine." Ge Tong said solemnly.

"Well, I gave the prohibition order, but no one is allowed to drink alcohol at the base. Even if the emperor is coming, it's the same. This is a military rule, I can't destroy it for my own selfishness, Tang Xiao, seal the two jars of wine for me! Meng Yan ordered.

"Yes, sir!"

"I promised Forensic Officer Ge that I would invite them to eat roast whole sheep tonight. You didn't prepare for this, but the officer prepared it himself. Meng Yan waved his hand, and a lively goat was caught.

"It was bought from a farmer in the village, slaughtered, and roasted whole sheep. Half brothers, half us! Meng Yan said, "Lamb bone stew, one bowl per person!" ”

"Medium!"

"Husband, I'm a little tired from Sister Suxin, so I won't go to the bonfire dinner with you." There is a group of men here, and it doesn't make sense for the two of them to come over, so it's better to hide in the small building and the sisters say something considerate.

"Okay, I'll have someone bring you food in a moment." Meng Yan nodded.

The crackling sound of the bonfire burning, after an eighty-pound goat was slaughtered, it was skewered with an iron fork, sandwiched on the fire and roasted, while roasting, the fat was roasted out, dripping on the fire, and the fire was surging up, burning more and more.

Meng Yan, Ge Tong, Tang Xiao and other henchmen sat around the bonfire, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"Tang Xiao, have you found any good seedlings in this group of people?" Meng Yan asked.

"There are a lot of good seedlings, my lord, do you want to focus on cultivating?" Tang Xiao was a little surprised, he had been with Meng Yan for a long time, and he knew more or less about Meng Yan's thoughts and ideas.

"This time, we selected four hundred and fifty people, basically more than half of them were eliminated, and in addition to going to other divisions, some of these people were left behind, and our base also had to be guarded."

"Understood."

"When is the first assessment?"

"Three days later!"

"How many days have they been at base?"

"It's been exactly half a month today!"

"Think ahead, just tomorrow, I'll be in charge myself!" Meng Yan Road.

"Assess in advance, my lord, isn't it too hasty?" Tang Xiao was stunned for a moment, a little surprised by Meng Yan's decision.

"If the enemy soldiers come to the city tomorrow, do you tell him that we are not ready, and you will come back to fight when we are ready?" Meng Yan Road.

"Mark the gaffe!"

"It's not that you lost your words, but your concept hasn't changed, I trained this team, but not to patrol the streets and catch little thieves, these little things are done by the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, we are here to fight, for the sake of fighting, do you understand?"

"War, but my lord, the capital has not fought for many years, besides, how can there be a war in this peaceful and prosperous world?"

"There is no enemy, why does the special envoy of Nawarat want to bring the dead soldiers into Beijing, is it for sightseeing?" Meng Yan sneered.

Tang Xiao's face changed suddenly.

"They came for a purpose, spying on my Daming's military intelligence is just one of them, what do we Jinyi Wei do, you won't even forget this, right?"

"The words of the adults are in the first place, and the mark is understood!"

"Got what?"

"Your Excellency, you should mark the inferior people and train them into the most elite team of Jinyi Wei and even Daming, and use it to deal with any enemy that may be unfavorable to Daming, especially the enemy who infiltrates and lurks in!" Don laughed.

"Sort of." Meng Yan nodded, now he couldn't say to Tang Xiao, three years later, the Warat Iron Cavalry will come to the city of Beijing, and when the time comes, whether they live or die will depend on themselves and their fate. (To be continued......)