In the summer of 1014, at the junction of Chu and Yan, the two countries placed a total of more than 100,000 troops here, of which Chu had 60,000 troops, and Yan had about 40,000 troops, the two armies were now facing each other in the border city of Fenglin of Yan, and the general of the Chu army, Xiang Zuoding, was an uncle of Chu Tiancheng, who had always been a one-sided general of the Chu army, and one of the pillar generals of the Chu state. At this time, he was the supreme commander of the entire warring Chu army, and Kong Ming was the captain of a team under him at this time. This is Kong Ming's own request, Xiang Tiancheng repeatedly asked Kong Ming, let Kong Ming and Xiang Zuoding be together, accumulate experience, but also for Kong Ming's safety, he knows that no matter who needs a certain amount of time to learn things in the army, and learning by the side of a general is undoubtedly the fastest, but his request made Kong Ming refuse, because Kong Ming believes that he can only thoroughly understand an army by starting from the bottom, and only in such a battle can he be conducive to his sword skills and magic breakthroughs, so he volunteered to be a captain under Xiang Zuoding。 For Kong Ming's request, not only Xiang Tiancheng was very strange, but Xiang Zuoding was the same, he thought that Kong Ming's arrival was Xiang Tiancheng as a means of monitoring him, of course, under the pretext of studying, because he knew that when he handed over Kong Ming to him, Xiang Tiancheng repeatedly emphasized that Kong Ming was a good classmate of his military department of Huayuan University, and he came to Chu to help him, and under his hands it was to initially understand the operation of the army, but Kong Ming's request completely overturned his idea. After knowing Kong Ming's request, he agreed to Kong Ming's request without the slightest hesitation, handed over the three teams of the swordsman battalion to Kong Ming, and also explained to Kong Ming's boss and asked them to take care of Kong Ming a little. At this moment, Kong Ming was sitting in his tent, watching the situation of the two armies facing each other, thinking about some questions.

Before Kong Ming arrived, those soldiers who had been in the Chu army for a long time always wanted to find some excuses to give this captain some color to see, but obviously although Kong Ming did not stay in the army as long as them, they were not Kong Ming, Kong Ming was the one who survived on the battlefield, and they had never been on the battlefield, in a sense, they were recruits, and Kong Ming was a veteran. On the morning of the first day that Kong Ming came here, Kong Ming recruited his team, a team of more than 100 people, the deputy captain of the management team was obviously also a nobleman, and the squad leader under him obviously didn't pay much attention to him, one hundred and twenty people gathered, it took half an hour, and the squad leader kept saying some strange things inside, and the deputy captain was just in a hurry, looking helpless, constantly screaming, but still no one paid attention. Half an hour later, the men were finally assembled, but their clothes really left Kong Ming speechless, in Kong Ming's words, this is a group of civilians in military uniforms.

One of them, apparently the thinnest squad leader among them, said after all the men had gathered: "Captain, what are we doing here on this hot day, not allowing us brothers to rest in the house?

"Whew!!"

After he finished speaking, there were people in the team who were constantly screaming to join him, the whole team seemed very chaotic and noisy, the deputy captain was frightened all of a sudden, usually he always made friends with these squad leaders to manage the team, I thought I could give him a calm, but I didn't expect this situation to appear on the first day the captain came, and I really thought he was very uncomfortable. Kong Ming ignored them, he just watched them quietly, he knew that those people were just giving him a dismount, the more calm he was, the more overwhelmed those people became, and the team next to them was also there watching the joke. After a while, those people felt that something was wrong, although they didn't think of them, but there was one thing they knew, Kong Ming didn't say a word until now, but just looked at them calmly, so that their dry laughter gradually couldn't laugh, and for a while both sides were quiet, and the vice captain kept worrying on the side, but there was nothing he could do.

Kong Ming waited until all the strange screams stopped, and still looked at them quietly, those squad leaders, this time they began to be anxious, because they didn't know what Kong Ming was going to do, just like that, about ten minutes passed calmly, and when those people were very anxious, Kong Ming finally spoke: "Now that you have finished laughing, then now we start training, and the first lesson of today is heads-up." After saying that, Kong Ming stopped, as a person who started as a soldier, he knew that those people would definitely give him some trouble on this topic, and now he was giving them this opportunity.

Sure enough, in a corner inside that Kong Ming couldn't see, when Kong Ming's words just fell, he said, "Is that you picking up a group of us, or is it a group of us that singles out you?"

They know very well that generally the intermediate swordsman and above are the captains, the squad leader, the highest strength is just a junior swordsman, and among them there are also three junior swordsmen, one junior swordsman singles out the other, whether they win or not, let alone two words, let alone pick more than a hundred. After they calmed down, Sora Ming said something that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

"I'm singled out all of you. I started when I shouted one, two, three. One...... Two...... Three!"

After Kong Ming finished saying this, he directly rushed into the team of more than a hundred people, without giving them a little time to react. Three minutes later, there was a cloud of dust where the one hundred and twenty men were standing, and there was no one standing there, and the sound of wailing continued to come from the dust. Kong Ming stood aside, looking at the more than a hundred people who were wailing, and finally waited for the dust to settle down, Kong Ming said another sentence, which made their alliance completely scrapped.

"In five minutes, I'm going to see all the people standing here in full costumes. The last ten, play with me, if one person is late, then his class will not eat lunch. Begin. When Kong Ming had finished speaking calmly, everyone got up from the ground and rushed to the tent.

Five minutes later, one hundred and nineteen people stood in the assembly hall, Kong Ming silently counted them, frowned, and asked, "Why is there one less?"

"The third squad leader, I'm sick. One of the voices inside replied weakly.

"Oh, sick, funny. Kong Ming smiled, but this voice sounded so awkward to the ears of those people.

"You two junior swordsmen, go and carry him out, if you are interested, you can discuss again how to make this thing more beautiful, but I will only give you three minutes, go. ”

Three minutes later, all three of them appeared in front of the team, two were standing, one was lying, Kong Ming could see that the lying person was about thirty years old, constantly there, wailing, the voice was as miserable as it was, Kong Ming looked at it, and said calmly: " For me, one more junior sword master is no more, one less is not less, and I don't think I need to miss everyone's training time for the sake of a junior sword master, because every minute before the start of the big war is precious, and I don't have enough strength to survive this war. When Kong Ming said this, the soldiers thought that Kong Ming was just talking to them about some ordinary things. But the next empty words directly made all of them change their faces, and the person who pretended to be sick jumped up directly from the ground and demanded that he be punished.

"I came down from the battlefield or crawled out of the pile of dead men, and what I saw, heard, and done, made me think that no matter how old they are, soldiers who have not been on the battlefield are always new recruits, because no matter how strong they are, most of them will die in the first battle, and there are not a few who die in my hands, and they are even two orders higher than me. Not why, just because they have never seen blood, and they don't understand a rule of survival on the battlefield, that is, no matter how much blood you have seen, yours, his, and the enemy's, as long as you don't die, then don't let your hands tremble, because if your sword misses, your life will be gone. ”

When Kong Ming said this, the junior swordsman had already jumped up from the ground, because he felt the murderous aura in Kong Ming's words, which was a murderous aura that only people who had killed many people would have, this kind of qi, he had also felt it in many people who had participated in the battle before, although he had been in the army for so many years, but he had never been on the battlefield.

"So, today, in order not to die in the first battle, and not to let all of you here have any regrets about whether you are dead or not dead, I will teach you a second lesson today. It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. Everyone knows this sentence, but everyone thinks that it is relatively vague, and today I will learn this rule with you. According to Article 20 of the military order of the state of Chu, those who do not obey the order will be punished with 20 lashes lightly, and those who are severely punished will be executed. Today, here, I have the final say on the light, and I also have the final say on the heavy. ”

When Kong Ming said this, he paused for a while, as if he was thinking about something or letting those soldiers think about something, Kong Ming knew that the most taboo in the army was that the punishment was not strict or improper, "Liutao" cloud: "Those who use rewards are valuable, and those who use punishments are valuable." Reward and punishment must be seen by the ears and eyes, and those who hear and see will not be yin. "For these obviously uneducated people, it is useless to preach, only to give them the most direct actions, words and deeds, is the most effective, otherwise even the most eloquent people will be like playing the harp to a cow."

"Well, so be it," Kong Ming's words were not too big, but everyone present could hear it, and after Kong Ming knocked out one by one, they all had a kind of fear or fear of the weak against the strong for this captain. "Even if the recruits are most afraid of blood on the battlefield, then, now we will whip these ten people, my standard is not very high, two lashes per person, but blood must be seen. ”

When all the people heard that there were only two whips, their hearts suddenly let go, although it was said that they saw blood, but as long as there were two whips, the problem was not very big. I couldn't help but see all the people exhale, but this empty Ming's next words made all of them change their faces.

"I'm talking about two lashes for each person, that is, you are divided into ten groups, and one person for each of you, two lashes for each of you, and twenty-two lashes for each of them. I'll just look at it here, you two squad leaders organize, I want to see blood, and if that one doesn't draw blood, then you will be guilty of the same crime as them, that is, you will also be whipped twenty-two lashes. Vice-Captain, go and ask a light mage to come over, and heal him after the fight. ”

"Yes" Deputy Captain, after agreeing, don't leave directly, this place is too explosive, the atmosphere of the scene makes him feel breathless, I wish I could leave earlier, not only him, including everyone here, except for Kong Ming. All of them are looking at each other, overwhelmed, which completely overturns their common sense and perception. At this time, Kong Ming sat there, looking at them fixedly, and they all looked at the three junior sword masters, and the three junior sword masters were also looking at each other, and finally one of them nodded slightly to the other two, and the other two shook their heads helplessly, so the ten people stood in front of Kong Ming in a row, facing the left side of Kong Ming, they took off their shirts, among those ten people, only the junior sword master was stable as usual, and the others may have some excitement, their bodies were constantly trembling, and even one was still crying, and there was some excitement in the team, and the voice of discussion continued to expand, The scene gradually got out of control, and some even threatened to say something like not doing it, after all, the knowledge of the three junior swordsmen was not comparable to these recruits who had not gone through the scene, they saw Kong Ming's calm eyes, and suppressed the noisy scene, two of them took the team according to Kong Ming's requirements, picked up the whip in their hands, and began the punishment.

"Horn!!"

"Horn!!"

......

The voice kept coming, among the ten people standing, only the junior swordsman stood very steadily, thinking that he must have something outstanding to become the squad leader, and the other nine let the two soldiers stand there to continue the execution, except for Kong Ming and the two junior swordsmen's faces looked calmer, the executed junior swordsman kept twitching his face and endured the pain, the other nine people who were executed were already crying hoarsely, and those in the team had more or less uncomfortable faces. Soon the execution was over, the ten, one was still standing, the other nine had fallen into a coma, and there was a trace of hatred, a trace of fear, and a trace of unknown feelings in the eyes of all the people in the team looking at Kongming, but no matter what they thought, they had one thing in common, that is, their captain was an iron-blooded man, and the days ahead would not be too peaceful.

The scene was calm, Kong Ming was still sitting there, looking at them calmly, they seemed to be talking to himself, and it seemed to be telling some of his own stories: "I was arrested and sent to the army at the age of fourteen. This was a very bland opening, so bland that all the people present were very surprised, when they heard that Kong Ming went to serve in the army at the age of fourteen, they were all a little surprised, after all, Kong Ming's current age looks like he is twenty-five or sixteen years old, so how many years has he been in the army?

"At that time, I was a child who was not even a first-class swordsman, and it was originally planned that we would train for a year, but for some unknown reason, we only trained for a little more than half a year. Our formation is different from here, most of our team are from neighboring or a village, because I am too small, so the people in our village are more concerned about me, and constantly let me train, train, and retrain, and my sword skills have also reached the level of a second-level swordsman before going to the battlefield. On a day I don't know, we were all pushed into battle, we were not prepared at all, but fortunately, in that battle, I survived, and more than half of our team did not make it back alive, and a large part of those who came back alive also returned home injured. In a way, the wounded are happy, because they survived, although they broke their hands and feet, but they survived and could go home, and we have to continue to fight, they can go home, but we people don't know when we will die. Throughout the year, the battle continued, we kept fighting, sometimes victorious, sometimes lost, but fortunately, although my rank has been very low, I still survived on the field, although I have been wounded many times, and even some fatal wounds, the life of a soldier on the battlefield is worthless, it is just a number in the hands of the general. Among the enemies I fought against, there were swordsmen who were higher than me, and there were swordsmen who were lower than me, but whether they were high-level or low-level, when they first went to battle, they would make me seize an opportunity and kill, and that opportunity would be--"

When Kong Ming said this, everyone looked at him, not knowing if it was because of Kong Ming's eloquence, or because of the attraction of the story itself, or simply wanting to know Kong Ming's past. But there's no denying that one chance of survival is one of the reasons they want to know. Kong Ming looked at them, and then said:

"That opportunity is the moment when their comrades are killed or they kill our people. No matter how high-level a swordsman, an intermediate swordsman, a senior swordsman, or a great swordsman, or even a sword master, among people who have never killed anyone, as long as it is the first time they kill someone, they will have a reaction, I don't know why there is this reaction, even those hunters who hunt a lot, they will fall into a state of dementia, this state varies from person to person, some people have a little longer, some people have a little shorter time, and even some people go crazy because of this, but on the battlefield, even if there is only a moment of dementia, it is fatal。 A lot of people fell, not because their opponents were too smart, but because of their own reasons. I was lucky that when I first went to battle, although I belonged to the first line of formation, I was in the second row, and now that I think about it, that time when I saw my brother who usually lived with me falling, I felt a little crazy, and kept rushing forward to kill, but fortunately that battle was won by our side, and I survived, although afterwards, I couldn't eat for a whole day, but I still survived. Those who didn't fit in were eliminated in the first battle. Since then, I have known that this moment is the essence of the moment, so there have been many times when I have encountered opponents who are higher than me, and I have killed them at that moment at the first time. ”

When he said this, Kong Ming looked at the team members who were standing in a daze, and then said:

"I know that no matter how I train you, you're going to have a process like this. There is a saying about how to say, well, you are not afraid of opponents like wolves, but you are afraid of teammates like pigs. I don't want to die more in the first battle, so you have to get used to my training now. Now one of you will send those ten people for healing, and the other will organize training for each of you, mainly in formation. ”

After saying that, Kong Ming left directly, without any souvenirs. Looking at Kong Ming's distant back, the three junior swordsmen looked at each other, and one of them said, "Although I know that he is a bastard, what I can't deny is that he is indeed right. Let's do it. The other two also nodded, they had both been mercenaries and knew that Kong Ming was right.

Thinking of the events of that day, Kong Ming shook his head. Continuing to study the current situation, it is really stronger than people.