Chapter 2: Mysterious Soldiers

The man was very young, slightly thin, and his long hair on his forehead almost covered half of his face, but from the other half of his face, everyone saw some loss and exhaustion. However, the adjutant general saw a lot of sorrow and pain in the eyes of this young man......

After the young man came to power, he first saluted the lieutenant general, and then said: "In Xia Lingnan, please show mercy to the general's subordinates......"

When everyone in the audience saw this young man on stage, most of them pinched a cold sweat for him. You must know that the recruits who were taller and stronger than him just now were all picked off the stage by the adjutant general, but he still dared to go up?

This courage has been admired by many people. But there are still some people who laugh at their incompetence!

"What weapon do you use...... adjutant general asked the young man who called himself Ling Nan.

At this time, Ling Nan turned his head to look at the various blades on the weapon rack on the side, and picked an eyebrow-level wooden stick at the back. Then he turned to the lieutenant general and said, "The little one will use this wooden stick......

Seeing this, the lieutenant general began to smile again.

"Okay, be careful...... I saw the iron gun in the adjutant general's hand flicker, and he picked up the wooden stick in Ling Nan's hand, it turned out that he planned to knock the wooden stick away first......

At this moment, Ling Nan saw the lieutenant general's iron spear and directly picked up his wooden stick, and he had already guessed his meaning...... Ling Nan may have reacted instinctively, first taking a step backwards and then dodging sideways, unexpectedly avoiding the adjutant general's iron spear attack.

The lieutenant ......general was slightly surprised, for he did not expect the young man to be able to avoid his shot.

Ling Nan was surprised when he saw that the deputy general was surprised, and he couldn't help but be a little worried. Almost at the same time as the deputy general was taken aback, Ling Nan choked at his feet and almost fell...... The people in the audience were extremely embarrassed when they saw Ling Nan avoiding it, and some of them even laughed loudly.

But this deputy general was a clear-eyed person, and he could see that Ling Nan's almost falling momentum just now was pretended.

"Take me one more shot...... That's it for today!" the adjutant general said to Ling Nan.

When Ling Nan heard this, he looked very panicked, "Please show mercy to the general's subordinates......"

After Ling Nan finished speaking, he saw the deputy general pressing on the head...... Before the gun arrived, the wind of the gun was already overhead.

Ling Nan no longer dodged, and only raised the wooden stick with both hands......

Impartially, he just blocked the adjutant general's iron spear head-on.

The eyes of the audience were already wide-eyed: they saw the adjutant general's incredibly powerful iron spear pressed right on the eyebrow-high stick......

The stick has not been broken, and the man has not fallen!

It's just that after Ling Nan caught the head-on blow of the lieutenant general, his legs were not stable before, and then he sat on the ground with his butt...... It's embarrassing. But the whole audience has seen that he obviously caught this shot!

The lieutenant put away his gun, still smiling.

He said to Ling Nan, "Okay, you are the last ten-master of my pioneer battalion......"

When the audience heard this, everyone shrugged, and Ling Nan also walked to the stage amid the shouts of everyone.

The lieutenant general looked at Ling Nan's back as he slowly stepped down and thought for a long time, he always felt that this young man had an unusual feeling! And his intuition told him that this young man was obviously deliberately hiding his strength. If his estimation was correct, this young man's martial arts were by no means inferior to those two centurions, and even he sighed to himself...... But that's just speculation, because he can't confirm it yet!

The next day, the east was white, and the morning light had not yet penetrated the clouds.

In the pioneer camp camp in Babao City, there should have been no one else except for the soldiers who were on patrol duty at night. But today there was a man who got up early and stood outside the tent. The man was dressed in cowhide armor, armed with a spear, and in ordinary riding boots...... He stared at the east in distraction, his straight figure untouched in the breeze. There was no expression on his face, but his melancholy eyes couldn't hide it from anyone. This person was Ling Nan, the newly recruited ten-division commander who received the iron spear of the deputy general after yesterday......

"Can't you sleep?" asked one of the people behind him.

Ling Nan didn't seem to be frightened, he just turned around respectfully and replied, "Yes, maybe it's because of the unfamiliar environment when I first arrived here......

It turned out that the person behind him was actually a lieutenant general.

The adjutant general smiled and continued to ask: "Yesterday, I saw that you were not like our people from Nanzhao Kingdom. Where are you from? Who else is there at home......

"The villain's ancestral home is Sichuan and Shu, and he has been dependent on his grandfather since he was a child, but his grandfather died half a year ago...... Therefore, I had to go away from home, wandering around, and yesterday I happened to meet the general's mansion recruiting soldiers, so I came to ......" Ling Nan replied.

The lieutenant general didn't laugh again this time, sighed lightly and continued to ask, "Do you know martial arts?"

Ling Nan seemed to have known that Vice Admiral Lu Dao would ask this, and he replied calmly: "The villain has learned some fur techniques to strengthen his body with his grandfather since he was a child......

"I see, it's not bad to be able to learn some physical fitness skills in troubled times...... Now that you have joined the army, I hope you will do your best to be loyal to my Nanzhao Kingdom!In the next three months, you will undergo extremely strict training, I hope you will not let me down......" After the adjutant general said these words to Ling Nan, he left. Although the lieutenant general still did not fully believe some of Ling Nan's words, he believed that one day it would come to light.

And because there were many people from Sichuan and Shu in Nanzhao, it is not surprising. It turned out that most of these Shuzhong people were captured after being captured by the Nanzhao Kingdom and Chengdu decades ago. This is a preface, and I will talk about it in several words.

In the next three months, the pioneer battalion really conducted strict camp training for the newly recruited soldiers. Ling Nan was assigned to the centurion Cheng Gang's men, but he was a ten-master commander. The pioneer battalion was organized into three teams of 100 men each, each of which was trained separately by the centurion, and the centurion led his men to practice swords, guns, sticks, and archery on horseback...... After March, the adjutant general and General Deng will personally inspect the training results of the soldiers of each team. Liu Lei and Cheng Gang, the centurion of the other team, had a personal grudge because of one palm and two legs on the technical platform, so they held a grudge...... There was also a group of men and horses that were later served as centurion by Sima Yun, a close confidant of General Deng, who was also the supervisor sent by General Deng to the vanguard battalion. Its main purpose is to monitor every move in the pioneer battalion at any time, but in fact, it is to restrain the deputy general Yang Shiyong......

Therefore, this Sima Yun often provoked discord among the other two teams in the pioneer camp, especially Cheng Gang and Liu Lei, which made the pioneer camp miserable...... Although Adjutant General Yang Shiyong argued with him twice, he was dismissed by General Deng's words to ensure peace in the army.

In these three months, Ling Nan was silent and depressed, neither socializing nor resenting others, and often alone in his spare time, muttering in a daze...... However, he often takes the lead in training with his subordinates, and he takes the lead in riding and practicing archery. He was very strict in the management of his subordinates, almost harsh in training, and often practiced with his subordinates with horizontal guns, and many times the rest of the team had already rested, but he still led his subordinates to repeatedly practice the strange marksmanship in the eyes of others—Zama picking stabs, horizontal spear response, and spinning spears.

In the Nanzhao Kingdom, the law was strict in the barracks, and ordinary soldiers did not dare to rush into their superiors, otherwise they would be severely punished by the military discipline officer, ranging from three days of confinement to corporal punishment with a military staff...... Therefore, most of the nine soldiers under Ling Nan dared to be angry with him, so they had to swallow their anger and practice the strange marksmanship taught by Ling Nan every day. Besides, Ling Nan has always taken the lead and set an example in doing things, and even if his soldiers complained, they had to be convinced......

March is fleeting.

The training of the new recruits has finally ended, which has made many people excited and sleepless. Of course, the time has come to accept the attendance inspection of General Deng and Adjutant Yang...... The three centurions of the Pioneer Battalion have their own thoughts, and they all plan to lead their men to show their skills in tomorrow's school competition. At that time, as long as he can be affirmed by General Deng and Vice General Yang, it is unknown that he will be promoted to become rich.

It's night, the moon is hanging high, the stars are dotted with the night sky, and the light breeze hits people, just because the night beauty disturbs people's sleep.

In a crowded and dimly lit marching tent, a few rays of moonlight shining through happened to reflect on Ling Nan's face. At the moment, he was not asleep. He was thinking about the things that happened half a year ago: his grandfather's blood feud, the days when he was framed and hidden, the woman he once loved the most hurt him the most, and the brothers who grew up in the same school since he was a child...... Thinking of this, Ling Nan seemed to feel that the most unfortunate thing in the entire world had happened to him. He sometimes really hated himself, hated why he was so useless in the first place! Seeing his grandfather die in front of him, he was at a loss for what he could do when he was stupid, he hated himself for being stupid and fell into the trap set by others, and hated himself for why he would have given that kind of unworthy love to that kind of woman in the first place......

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, because he was so bothered by those things that he was almost out of breath. So, Ling Nan got dressed and walked out of the tent, he wanted to get out of the tent to breathe.

Later, Ling Nan sat down in the corner of the camp not far from the tent, and he stared at the bright moon hanging in the night sky......

Tonight's moon is round, big, and bright.

Because there are still two days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, this is originally a day to miss relatives every festive season. But now, Ling Nan has become a lonely prodigal son in a foreign land, he has no home, and he has lost his grandfather who loves him......

The joy of the past no longer appears even in dreams, and all he has now is hurt and pain, regret and hatred!

Grandpa's dying words, he never forgot for a moment, "Man, you are leaving Nebula Villa and going to a place where no one knows you...... Don't come back until your martial arts are complete!"

Those words seemed to ring in Ling Nan's ears again at this moment, and his eyes staring at Mingyue began to blur, and two lines of hot tears actually flowed down his cheeks......

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind him: "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"

Ling Nan couldn't help but be shocked, because he was momentarily caught up in the memories of the past, he didn't realize that someone was behind him.

Before he turned to reply, he wiped the tears from his face.

"My subordinates can't sleep......"

At this time, Ling Nan had already seen clearly the two people behind him, who turned out to be centurion Cheng Gang and Yang Shiyong, the deputy general who came to check the night.

"Are you sad?" said the adjutant general, looking at Ling Nan's tear-stained cheeks.

"Subordinate...... There is no ......," Ling Nan replied.

"Then why are you crying alone in the middle of the night?" said the adjutant again.

"It's because ...... Just now...... A bug flew into his eyes...... "Ling Nan isn't very good at lying, but his voice has proven it all.

The lieutenant smiled, out of disbelief, but did not expose him.

The centurion said, "I have never seen you smile during these three months...... I've asked people before, and it's said that I've never seen you laugh once. ”

Ling Nan was speechless, because he also felt that he really hadn't laughed again in the past six months. Of course, Ling Nanzhi said that his smile was lost when he left Nebula Villa......

How sad it is for a person to forget how to laugh!

The centurion and the lieutenant general both looked at Ling Nan in front of them, with an indescribable sourness and helplessness. They could all see that this young man must have been in the midst of great changes, suffering tremendous blows and tortures......

"Ling Nan, one cannot live forever in painful memories. Forget the past and face the reality, you can live better!" said the adjutant general.

"Yes, the man doesn't flick when he has tears...... Don't be too sad, go back and rest early!...... there's a school competition tomorrow," Centurion Cheng Gang also comforted him.

"Men don't flick when they have tears...... The boy ...... "It's been a long time since he's heard these two words that are both familiar and unfamiliar."

It turned out that in Nebula Villa, the elders called him "...... man", which is a later story, and I will not show it here for the time being, and I will explain the reason later.

Ling Nan was silent again, and he fell into memory.

When the lieutenant and centurion saw this, they could not say any more, and soon left.

After the last, Ling Nan was still left, alone on the moonlit night.

As the night deepened, a cold breeze rose. In the night sky, two bright stars twinkle non-stop. What does it seem to be telling?

Ling Nan saw it, but could he understand it? No one knew what Lu Dao was saying! Only that on the night of Lu Dao, when the rooster was crowing, Ling Nan returned to the camp.