CHAPTER XLIV
The front line of Fallen Leaf City, where the First Army of the "Homeland" is stationed.
As usual, the sound of the soldiers' morning exercises in the morning dispelled the last trace of night in the sky. Winter mornings can be unusually cold, but they're Airy's favorite time of day. In such mornings, people always seem to be very energetic and their thoughts are very clear.
Since that incident a few days ago, there has been no movement in the direction of Fallen Leaf City, and even opened the previously closed Fallen Leaf City traffic the next day. The ranks of merchants who came and went gradually increased, and everything seemed to be back to normal. However, Airy did not relax his guard because of this, but instead strengthened the scouts on the front line to Fallen Leaf City in the past few days, and every half hour, he could receive a report from the direction of Fallen Leaf City. So far, there has been no indication that Basr, who controls Fallen Leaf City, is making any moves to increase his troops. It at least made Airy's life feel so much better!
Airy strolled through the barracks alone, and every now and then a soldier walked past him and saluted the commander. In the "homeland", there was a strict hierarchy between the upper and lower ranks, and any soldier who defied his superior officers was severely punished. Li Yuxuan has always firmly believed that "only by establishing the prestige of superiors over subordinates can we command the battlefield like an arm and a finger, and be able to be effective." Of course, this kind of prestige is established not only by the difference in position, but more importantly, by the difference in ability. Only by showing that you are superior to others can you be qualified to command others.
As an officer, you must be able to complete all the disciplines that you ask your soldiers to complete, and you must do it better than others.
Airy was visibly pleased with his subordinates' performance, with a slight smile on his face throughout, which seemed to infect the rest of the barracks.
These days, Airy has always looked sad in front of the soldiers. Since the report to Kefield, the pressure has not diminished in the slightest, but has intensified. But as time passed, Airy calculated the time, and if there was really any movement on the part of Bassier, the intelligence agencies in Kefield would definitely convey the news to him. But depending on the situation, there should be nothing.
Unbeknownst to Airy, the current Kefield was a bloody storm, and the center of the entire "homeland" was also in chaos, so to speak, it could be said that it had completely fallen into a state of paralysis. The entire city of Kefield was also completely cut off from the outside world. Even if there is any news, I am afraid it will not reach Airy.
Airy, who still doesn't know it, is still immersed in his good mood, and he thinks of the "giant" in his heart again.
The Guards were the most elite unit of the entire First Army Corps, and at the same time the most rigorously trained. In the 1st Army, the Guards had the nickname "Hell". It can be seen from this that the training is very hard. Only through the most rigorous training can the iron army on the battlefield be trained. Li Fang once said this when the First Army set up the Guards.
The status of the Guards in the First Legion is what the status of the "Black Dragon Knights" in the "homeland". The difference is that the latter is cavalry, and the former is infantry. However, the quality and combat effectiveness of these infantry are believed to be not much worse than the "Black Dragon Knights", even the former Fengxiang ironclad infantry, who enjoys prestige in the southern part of the mainland, is secretly stunned when they see the training of the Guards.
The total strength of the Guards is only 250 people, which happens to be a squadron, but the commander in charge is a "homeland" captain with considerable battlefield experience. In peacetime, the Guards train twice as much as other units every day, and this is the place where the real battlefield warriors are trained compared to the recruit camps. And those recruits who have just entered the First Legion, the first training class they take is to observe the Guards training for a day.
Those recruits can only be regarded as being able to enter the "homeland" after thousands of selections, and they are inevitably a little arrogant. But after the first day of observation class, they came out of the camp of the Guards, more like frosted eggplants, wilting. Of course, there were a few of them who were not convinced, and the doctor of the day was one of them. However, he was very "lucky", only two days after entering the "homeland", he was named by Airy and incorporated into the sequence of the Guards.
Although Airy had expected that the doctor was definitely not an ordinary soldier before this, the shock he brought to the guards was so great that Airy was still shocked.
Since the Guards are the elite of the First Legion, the unit that Airy pays the most attention to in peacetime is naturally also the Guards. In the past few days, because I was worried about what was going on in Basr in the direction of Fallen Leaf City, I was thinking about the current situation of both sides all day long, demonstrating every possible battlefield situation on the topographic map over and over again, and I neglected to inspect the military camp in peacetime.
Taking advantage of the good mood today, Airy left the big tent where he had stayed for a few days, and walked around the entire barracks alone, and also let the soldiers who had not seen him in a few days see his commander. But don't underestimate this ordinary action, it is through such a solo patrol that you can often see many things that you can't usually see. It also cultivates the affection between the commander and the ordinary soldier, and does not give others the impression that they are high and unattainable. This invisibly has a great effect on improving the overall morale of the army. And what ordinary soldier doesn't want to show himself in front of his own commander, maybe he will be able to rise to the top in the future.
Thinking of this, Airy's footsteps unconsciously turned in the direction of the Guards camp, for the doctor, it is undeniable that Airy is subconsciously very interested. It is believed that after the baptism of war, this "giant" who was once a slave will definitely grow into a brave general.
I didn't expect it to be so lively in the early morning of the morning!
As soon as he entered the Guards' camp, Airy heard a burst of earth-shattering cheers.
These guys must be idle again, and they are doing some new tricks! It looks like they're going to have to train them more!
If those guards could "hear" the words in Airy's stomach at this moment, I am afraid that they would fall to the ground one by one. In fact, even the veterans of the "homeland", when they first joined the Guards, were exhausted by the amount of training here that exceeded the ordinary people. However, after a period of time, after adapting to the training of the Guards, these people's martial arts have made great progress, and at the same time, in terms of physical fitness, they are far beyond the ordinary "home" soldiers, and those extraordinary training amounts seem to have become easy and simple for them.
There was no other activity in the barracks, and for these energetic Guards soldiers, it became the only pleasure to challenge each other in the barracks. It is precisely through these peacetime "actual combat" that the personal combat effectiveness of every Guards soldier has been raised to a fairly high level. Unlike the "Black Dragon Knights", these soldiers are all infantry, and they naturally do not have the strength of the "Black Dragon Knights" in horse combat, but in hand-to-hand combat, they are definitely not weaker than the "Black Dragon Knights", and I believe that some of them will never be inferior even if they join the "Black Dragon Knights" now.