In early July, the Song army finally came to Chizhou to join the Jiangnan naval division, and the Song-Tang alliance was assembled.

These sailors sailed south from Jinling and arrived in Chizhou early, where they trained and practiced in the river every day.

When the Song army came to Chizhou, they also camped here and began formal training.

The one who is in charge of the recruits in peacetime is called the head of the capital, and he has a hundred soldiers in his hands.

The head of the capital who led Liu Ruyan was five big and three thick, and his voice was even greater.

On this day, just after the morning recruit training, the sky suddenly thundered, and suddenly a torrential rain fell.

When the rain stopped and the sky was gray, Du Tou drove the recruits who were still sheltering from the rain outside the camp with a horsewhip in his hand to carry shipbuilding timber for the sailors.

The ground was unusually muddy after the rain, and the wheels that transported the timber were so deep in the soil that it was impossible to walk an inch.

The head of the capital asked the recruits to each carry a piece of thick wood and hurriedly send it to the workers.

Liu Ruyan picked up the heavy wood and carried it on her shoulders, making every step seem quite difficult. The others ran to the front early, leaving only Dong Qingxian and her far behind.

"Why are you two again!!" Du Tou raised his horsewhip and shouted loudly, "It's the last of you two to come back, especially you, who look like a monkey, what else is Wang Dazhuang, I'm bah!" ”

Three whips fell, splashing countless mud flowers.

Liu Ruyan carried the wood and dodged back and forth on tiptoe, dodging the three whips.

She said with a smile on her face: "The names are all chosen by my father's mother, how do I know that I will be this small body when I grow up, if the food in the camp is better, maybe I can grow more meat." ”

"Heh, just a little soldier like you, you can only eat bread for the rest of your life." He picked up the whip and hung it back on his waist, and looked at her coldly, "It's good to have food now, and when the time comes to enter the battlefield, you can ask for more blessings!" ”

With his many years of experience in leading troops, a thin monkey like Wang Dazhuang can only be an infantry until he dies, to put it bluntly, that is, a human shield to protect the elite main force.

Dutou spoke harshly, and Liu Ruyan just hung his head and said nothing.

As infantrymen, they usually have to transport the materials of the entire army, such as grain, grass, weapons and other heavy items. Because Liu Ruyan's physical strength is not as good as that of a man, she will fall behind every time she carries something, which is naturally disgusting.

The next day, the rain passed, and the sky cleared.

They all paced with square steps, shaking the whip in their hands.

With a wave of his hand, he pointed to the nearest mountain: "The recruits of the 14th Battalion, give me ten laps around the mountain!" ”

As a result, the recruit boys were stunned.

What?

Ten laps!!

Fortunately, as soon as the leader finished the order, he ran to the shade under the tree, and everyone looked at each other, intending to be lazy.

"None of you are allowed to be lazy, ten laps, not one lap less. If someone dares to slack off, anyone who reports it will receive an extra steamed bun for dinner today. Dutou said cruel words again.

Now everyone was honest and ran to the top of the mountain in resignation.

The first stage of training recruits is mainly to train physical fitness and exercise the endurance of soldiers.

Everyone rushed up the hillside together, and Liu Ruyan and Dong Qingxian were sandwiched in the crowd, running unhurriedly.

On the first lap, a group of people ran as fast as if they had stepped on Hot Wheels, and they completed two laps at once, but by the third lap, everyone ran slower and slower, and by the fifth lap, they were already tired like dead dogs.

By the eighth lap, the recruits looked helpless, and some even fell to the ground softly, simply pretending to be corpses.

Dong Qingxian is still comfortable because of his deep internal strength.

By the tenth lap, there were only two people left on the entire mountain who were still holding on, including Liu Ruyan.

When Dutou saw two men running towards him, one of them was as thin as a monkey, but looking at his expression, this person had a long breath and a steady footstep, it was not Wang Dazhuang.

"Good boy, this kid is out of breath." Du Tou stood up, his mustache raised upward.

He asked Liu Ruyan and Dong Qingxian to sit down and rest, then drew a horsewhip and walked towards the hillside with square steps.

The boys slumped to the ground, and some of them saw their heads coming, and they hurriedly got up and pretended to run a few steps.

The others, by luck, were caught red-handed, and they all had a whip in one hand, so that they begged for mercy one after another, and wailed one after another, like a flock of crows.

After this incident, they all got a nickname - Iron Three Whips.

Anyone caught by him will be whipped three times!

When Liu Ruyan went to receive the meal in the evening, this time she actually received an extra steamed bun, she wrapped the steamed bun in a handkerchief, picked up the bowl, and went around to the back of the tent.

Under the tree, Bai Zhi and Dong Qingxian have been waiting for a long time.

As soon as Liu Ruyan sat down, Bai Zhi gave her the meat in the bowl: "The recruits have a lot of physical exertion, so eat more meat, and you can have the strength to exert yourself." ”

She looked at the tender and fatty chicken thigh, the oil juice dripping into the bowl, and it looked very delicious.

"This is a group of soldiers bought from the village, and the military medical battalion has allocated a lot." Bai Zhi said, and sandwiched another piece of meat into Dong Qingxian's bowl, "The military doctor can get the meat every three or five times, I look greasy, so you should eat it." ”

Liu Ruyan was silent.

As a military doctor, Bai Zhi's food is indeed better than that of ordinary soldiers, but he separates the meat and vegetables at every meal, and he eats shabby.

Liu Ruyan raised her eyes and looked at Bai Zhi, who was following her day and night, her face was much thinner.

She took out a steaming steamed bun from her arms and handed it over, and her tone seemed to be a little disgusted: "A big man eats so much, come on, eat more steamed buns." ”

Bai Zhi took it with a smile.

In the distance, as the sun sets, the golden afterglow hangs over the camp, and the three of them squat under the shade of the trees to finish their meals, and then go back to the camp.

The Song army was a battalion of 500 people.

Liu Ruyan's camp tent was covered with layers of straw on the ground, and ten mats were spread on top of the straw.

The recruits had just arrived in the south, and because the weather was too hot, they liked to roll up the curtains and let the night breeze blow into their tents.

The boy who slept by the window was called Liu Xin.

He was naturally afraid of heat, his two trouser legs were pulled up to his knees, and then he rolled on the mat, took out the pu fan brought from his hometown, and shook it in his hand: "I heard that from tomorrow, the three iron whips will let the recruits go to the school field. ”

"Not really." Others followed suit.

Liu Xin put down the pu fan, "snapped", and slapped a blood-sucking mosquito to death, and by the moonlight, he raised it to his eyes to take a closer look.

Recently, the food has not been good, and even the stomach of this mosquito is dry and flat.

He blew off the flying mosquitoes in his hand and said: "I also heard that the group of sailors transferred from Jiangnan soaked in the water all day long, and by the way, they could touch some shells, fish and shrimp, crabs and the like, and the food was not much better than ours." Especially the white rice they eat, the crystal southern rice, the taste, the taste, you don't know! ”

As he added fuel and vinegar to his description, everyone took a sip of water.

Speaking of this, Liu Xin suddenly slapped his thigh: "From Ming'er, I will also go to the mountains to hide a few animal cages and fight tooth sacrifices." ”

Everyone was interested, as if the next drill was no longer a thing, and you talked about how to make a cage.