Chapter 52: Prelude to the Exercise

Seven company commanders from five recruit companies and two cadet companies walked into the conference room on time. After Du Yu walked in, the seven company commanders stood up and saluted him.

"Now for the meeting. Du Yu walked to the main seat of the conference room and sat down, nodding to a major beside him. The major quickly put the documents in front of the company commanders.

"The Xishan training camp is nearing the end, and in the next half a month, the general headquarters will organize and implement the training assessment, and the assessment method is the battlefield real confrontation exercise. The specific implementation plan has been sent to everyone, everyone hurry up and take a look, what questions can be raised. Du Yu raised his voice.

Several company commanders opened the plan and looked at it intently.

"Imagine that the enemy werewolf is actually played by Commander Xiao's guards?" Lei Meng saw this, and his heart palpitated. These recruits, I'm afraid they will have to shed their skin if they don't die in this assessment, he sighed in his heart.

Among the four major theaters of the Tianlong Empire today, the strongest combat effectiveness is undoubtedly the Northwest Theater. And the most famous unit in the entire Northwest Theater is, of course, the wolf killer horse. However, for the first batch of veterans of the Wolf Killing Cavalry, there was a unit in the Northwest Theater that they could never surpass - Commander Xiao's personal guard battalion.

Lei Meng will never forget the situation when he received a notice to report to the Wolf Killing Cavalry after he was eliminated from the selection of the Guards Battalion. On the night when he packed his backpack and left the training base of the guard camp, he looked back at the familiar military camp and shed his first tears after joining the army. Luckily, he quickly bounced back from the setbacks of his defeat and carved out a world of his own in the Wolf Slayer Ride. Many young officers and soldiers with the same experience as him were successively eliminated by the Guards Battalion to the Wolf Killing Cavalry, laying the foundation for the rapid rise of this unit.

For example, Zhang Tianwei, the commander of the first company of the recruit company who had been secretly competing with him and was now peeking at him with a playful eye, was the brother and sister who left the training base of the guard camp with him that night.

However, Lei Meng did not feel the usual provocation in Zhang Tianwei's eyes, but read out four big words - kill them. The meeting is fate, and the revenge of being eliminated from the guard camp that day must be avenged, Lei Meng nodded at him.

However, when they looked down, they were both dumbfounded. The confrontation exercise was carried out in two phases, the first stage was for each company to organize its own confrontation exercise for recruits, and 10 winners were selected to form a small detachment, which represented their respective companies to participate in the second phase of the exercise. In the second stage of the exercise, the instructors of the wolf-killing riders were only responsible for receiving the wounded. To put it bluntly, this confrontation exercise is a contest between the recruits and the pro-guard battalion, and it has nothing to do with them.

What is the difference between this and sending a flock of sheep to feed the wolves? Lei Meng and Zhang Tianwei looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

After everyone finished reading the plan in their hands, Du Yu asked out loud, "Do you have any questions?"

Zhang Tianwei was the first to stand up.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, I have two questions about this confrontation exercise. First, if instructors are not allowed to lead the team, will the disparity in strength between the two sides of the exercise be too great? It is no exaggeration to say that the strength of the individual soldiers of the pro-guard battalion is probably higher than that of the wolf-killing cavalry, and even if we personally lead the team, I am afraid that the chances of victory will not be too great. And, as far as I know, there is no shortage of martial artists and even martial arts masters in the guard battalion, and most of our recruits don't know martial arts. Second, since the exercise is close to the actual combat environment, the pro-guard battalion will not show mercy, and I am afraid that there will be a large number of casualties among the recruits at that time. How can this problem be solved?"

"These two questions should also bother the other company commanders, right?" Du Yu smiled. Lei Meng and the others all nodded.

"I'll answer the first question first. Du Yu said, "The royal family has given a heavy award this time, the purpose is to see if our recruits and this batch of graduating students can create a miracle." What the three places to escort to the Yanyue Royal High Command Academy mean, as a soldier, you should all know very well. If no one can stand out from this assessment, it means that these soldiers we have trained are not worthy of this honor. ”

"I'm very responsible for the words of the commander-in-chief!" As soon as Du Yu's words were finished, the commander of the sixth company immediately nodded in agreement. The recruits of the Sixth Company are all students who are about to graduate from the Military Academy of Haiyue City, and their tactical literacy and personal ability far exceed those of the same period. Some of the students are also proud of their nobles, and their martial arts skills are quite not weak. The more difficult the assessment, the higher the chances of his students winning.

The five company commanders who killed the wolf all looked at him with disdain. The tacit agreement was reached almost instantly: when the time comes, let the recruits unite and kill the people of your sixth company first.

Now, let me answer the second question. I've heard that General Xiao has given an order to the guards battalion that they must do their best to play the role of a good werewolf, but if one of the recruits dies, these guards don't have to go back to the northwest. In view of this, I think the pro-guard battalion will be quite measured. As for the problem of the recruits' injuries, the royal family also solved our worries and sent four healers for this study. As long as you bring people back, I guarantee that no matter how heavy the injuries are, they will heal quickly. As for the use of martial arts, there is no clear provision in the plan, but the basic principle is that unless it is attacked by spiritual power, the pro-guard battalion will not take the initiative to use spiritual power to fight. Because in the continental war, the main forces of the two belligerents were troops composed of ordinary soldiers, and the influence of cultivators on the war was negligible, so the core element of this confrontation exercise was not the strength of individual soldiers, but the tactical action and command level of the detachment. Du Yu continued.

Donna hesitated and stood up. As soon as she got up, a bumpy curve attracted everyone's attention.

"Commander-in-chief, I think this assessment is a little unfair to our Seventh Company. She smiled. This laugh immediately made several company commanders fascinated and swallowed their saliva violently.

"Oh?" Du Yu smiled and motioned for her to continue.

"There are hundreds of people in the Sixth Company, but there are only more than 20 people in our Seventh Company, and all of them are girls. Although these female students are excellent, I am afraid there is still a gap between them and the elites selected by the Sixth Company from hundreds of people. "Donna didn't take the other five recruit companies into account, and her main opponent was the sixth company. In her opinion, this confrontation exercise was carried out in detachments, one Mo Tianci and one Zhu Xiaoqi, and they should not be able to make too many waves after the use of spiritual power was restricted.

"Hmm. Kind of makes sense. In order to make up for the gap in your strength, I specially approve you and Captain Lan Xinyue to personally lead the team to participate in this exercise, so is that okay?"

Damn, the dead old man is eccentric. The other company commanders suddenly cursed in their hearts. However, it is normal for female soldiers to be given preferential treatment wherever they go.

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief!" Donna sat down satisfied.

In the following time, several other company commanders also raised some questions about the exercise, and Du Yu patiently answered them.

Lei Meng didn't speak. He waited until everyone had finished asking questions before he stood up.

"I just want to ask one question. When you go to battle, can you carry a kitchen knife?"

At about two o'clock in the morning on 20 August, a shrill emergency assembly call suddenly sounded in the Xishan military exercise ground. Sleeping recruits poured out of the barracks like a tidal wave, carrying backpacks and speeding towards the empty training ground.

Soon, the seven recruit companies were assembled, left the Xishan Exercise Ground, and began the last long-distance training in the night.

The final destination of this training was the Cangyue Mountain Range, four hundred miles east of Haiyue City. In the rolling mountains, in the vast forests, in the boundless wilderness, the recruits of Sea Moon City will be greeted with a baptism of blood and fire. The clarion call of war sounded in advance in their short military career, and the call of honor will make youth and blood shine brightly under the military flag. And their performance in this battle will also lead them to embark on different life paths.

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