For the next week, Cheng Kun and other people from Jinyang County stayed in the barracks, and no one came to arrange the mission. They can use these few days to familiarize themselves with the surroundings, and the only restriction is that they are not allowed to go out of the barracks.

Cheng Kun is no stranger to this kind of life, when recruits first enter the barracks, they must first have a process of settling down.

He gets up at 6:00 every day and comes to the school field to practice. At this time, the other soldiers in the barracks had also woken up from their sleep and began to practice.

There were four main types of troops in the Chu Dynasty: Caiguan (infantry), knight (cavalry), Louchuan (sailor), and Qingcha (chariot). The chariot army reached a peak during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, after which it slowly declined and was replaced by more mobile cavalry. And it's much easier to learn to ride a horse than to train a qualified master. Youzhou is located inland, so there is no need to train sailors. Therefore, in the barracks, there are mainly infantry and cavalry.

The weapons of the infantry are mainly spears, but there are also three types of knives and shields. The gunners are extremely quick to get started, and the lethality is also extremely impressive once the scale is formed. The sword and shield men are balanced in attack and defense, and are generally used to cover the flanks of the army.

Both are melee classes and are often the most sacrificial part of combat. In contrast, long-range crossbowmen are much happier. Under normal circumstances, they will be under the protection of their companions, and when facing the enemy, they only need to follow orders to release arrows.

It's a pity that it takes at least three years for a good archer to practice, and crossbows are definitely high-tech in this era, not easy to make, and the production is limited, so it is difficult to form a scale, and their treasure is much stronger than that of spearmen and sword and shield men.

The soldiers Cheng Kun saw were all infantry, of which more than half were spearmen, and the rest were sword and shield bearers. The cavalry did not see any of them, and the thirty riders who escorted them all the way to the barracks also left after completing their tasks, they should have their own independent training grounds, and if they trained the cavalry, the school field was still a little smaller.

In Cheng Kun's eyes, the training of these soldiers is really not serious. They each found an open space, and the spearmen held spears to practice only one move, "Zhongping Stab", while the sword and shield fighters worked in pairs, holding wooden knives and shields for training, and "fighting" with each other. The movements are soft, as if they are not full.

When he saw it on the first day, Cheng Kun frowned in surprise, and he couldn't believe that Da Chu relied on it to subdue the male soldiers in the world was this virtue. But he quickly understood why.

It's not that the generals in the army don't want to train their soldiers strictly, it's that the logistics of the army can't be guaranteed. The cost of feeding an army is simply too great. Not to mention anything else, food alone has put a lot of pressure on logistics. If you are a soldier, if you let go of your belly to eat, one is counted as one, and all of them are big-bellied people.

He actually made a mistake of taking it for granted here, thinking that this era is like the 21st century, with abundant materials, and he can practice as much as he wants. When he was an instructor in the army, it was not other external factors that limited the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, but the physical conditions and mental will of the soldiers themselves.

In the Chu Dynasty, the fact is just the opposite, the elite soldiers at this time are not trained at all, but fought, as long as they walk around the battlefield, those who stay are naturally qualified soldiers.

It's simple and effective, but behind it is dripping with blood and bones everywhere.

After a brief drill for these soldiers, the meal in the barracks was almost ready. You can't expect the food here to be so good, in this era when there are no iron pots and there are few seasonings, there is simply not so much rich flavor, so it's good to have your fill.

Cheng Kun's group of people arrived relatively early, and in the next five days, the recruits selected from other counties and counties in Youzhou began to arrive one after another, and the barracks began to be noisy.

But when there are more people, there will be more trouble.

Jin Yong has a very classic sentence in the novel "Smiling Proud Rivers and Lakes": Where there are people, there are grievances, and where there are grievances, there will be rivers and lakes......

Cheng Kun couldn't remember when he saw it, but he now felt that what he said was too reasonable.

He looked at Deng Xiaoxian, who ran in front of him, his face was full of bruises, and his eyes were swollen into slits, his eyebrows were raised, and he asked in surprise: "Brother Monkey, what happened, who made you into this virtue?"

Deng Xiaoxian is a native of Changping County, Jinyang County, and is just 18 years old this year. He is four years older than Cheng Kun, but when the two stand side by side, Deng Xiaoxian is half a head shorter, he is lean, his facial features are not coordinated no matter how he looks, his two eyes are very large, and he is bright, his nose and mouth are very small, and with a pair of attractive ears, he is a thin monkey.

When Cheng Kun saw him for the first time, he almost blurted out "Brother Monkey", but after getting acquainted with it, he still put this nickname on Deng Xiaoxian's head.

And Deng Xiaoxian also accepted it with a smile. It's strange to say that since he met Cheng Kun, he has been following him all the time, looking like a dog.

What he didn't know was that Deng Xiaoxian had made up his mind to hug his thick thighs since he saw Cheng Kun's force value. He knew that his strength was not high, so he had long planned to find a boss to cover him, so that he could take care of him on the battlefield.

Cheng Kun was puzzled, but he didn't refuse, after all, this guy is not annoying to get along with. After getting acquainted with it, he also discovered Deng Xiaoxian's strengths.

This guy is very good at being a man, he can talk to anyone, and he has the meaning of being brothers all over the world, which is not simple. And he is very well-informed, in the past few days when Cheng Kun was silently self-studying, Deng Xiaoxian has not been idle, every time a group of people come, he will come up to talk, and at the same time he has heard a lot of news while making friends. But I don't know who I offended today, and I was beaten into a pig's head.

Deng Xiaoxian looked at Cheng Kun and said angrily: "Brother Kun, I didn't provoke this matter today, it's really that kid from the Fang family in Shanggu County is too hateful......"

With his description, Cheng Kun gradually sorted out the course of the incident.

It was the people from Shanggu County who arrived at the barracks today, Deng Xiaoxian still stepped forward to talk as usual, who knew that these people ignored him one by one, and they didn't look at him at all at all, they all circled around a young man named Fang Han, pretending to be doglegs, not much more professional than him.

He asked others to know that this Fang Han was not simple.

The Fang family he was born in is a large family in Youzhou, with strong strength, and the contemporary head of the family, Fang Xiong, served as the county guard of Shanggu County in the early years, although he has been idle at home in recent years, he has become more prestigious in the local area. And Fang Han is Fang Xiong's son-in-law, the fifth oldest in the family, just sixteen years old this year.

This time when he joined the army, Fang Han also obeyed his father's arrangement, and the people who came with him were basically selected by the Fang family and left for him to use as a team in the army, so Deng Xiaoxian was not mistaken, these people are real doglegs.

Under normal circumstances, the disciples of the family rarely join the army in this way, they have their own channels, and the starting point is much higher, and the worst one to come in must be a long (in charge of ten people). But this can only work in the local army and the Jingshi army, and the Dingshan army is a border army, and under the deterrence of General Tiange Hou Peng, no disciple dares to take such a trick.

Therefore, only in Youzhou can you see the scene of the disciples of the family participating in the training of recruits with civilians.

Even so, these nobles can still gain an advantage by virtue of the huge resources they have, or they are clever in their cultivation techniques, or they have many servants under them, and ordinary people can only redouble their efforts if they want to catch up with them.

Having said that, although Fang Han and his party had a very bad attitude, Deng Xiaoxian would not clash with others because of this trivial matter.

The real trigger for the incident was another person who was present at the time, Hong Chao. He is also a native of Jinyang County and lives in Haiyang County. Among the people in Jinyang County, Hong Chao is probably the one with the greatest strength except for Cheng Kun. He is the same age as Deng Xiaoxian, but his arms are almost as thick as Deng Xiaoxian's thighs, and with a height of 1.85 meters, anyone who sees it will praise him, what a strong man.

Although Hong Chao has a burly appearance, those who know him know that this is a kind-hearted and somewhat honest guy. The reason why he came to join the army was also very simple, to have enough to eat.

His parents died young, and he lived with his older brother, who was already married. But he ate too much, eating more alone than her brother and sister-in-law combined. His brother's family is not wealthy, so although Hong Chao works very hard, the couple still can't afford to support this pot-bellied man.

Although Hong Chao is honest, he is not stupid, and he also knows in his heart that he has brought a burden to his brother's family, so he simply signed up for the army this time.

In the past few days in the barracks, after Hong Chao has eaten a full meal every day, he has been holding a stone pier on the playground that is about five or six hundred catties for exercise, and Hong Chao is still very unconvinced that his strength is not as good as Cheng Kun, a guy who looks very thin.

When Fang Han first arrived at the barracks, Hong Chao had just finished his morning workout, tired and sweating, and was about to go back to his room to find water to rinse off.

But who knew that his performance just now fell in Fang Han's eyes, which aroused this person's interest. With Hong Chao's physique and this strength, if you cultivate it, you will definitely be a fierce general on the battlefield!

As a child of a family, Fang Han has been educated in this area since he was a child, and for talented people, they generally do not miss it, but find a way to receive it.

But Hong Chao didn't know why, he seemed to have a deep disgust for such a family member, and he didn't even hesitate about Fang Han's solicitation, and directly refused.

Fang Han didn't say anything, he didn't do anything with a bunch of dogs, what's the matter, what is this, we Fang Shao took a fancy to you, that is to lift you, so faceless, enough to hold you!

The verbal conflict finally turned into a physical conflict, and it stands to reason that Hong Chao's strength will not suffer, but he has just finished exercising, his muscles are a little sore, and the other party is overwhelming, and finally he was pushed to the ground and beaten fat.

And Deng Xiaoxian was already stupid on the side, but at this time, because people rarely go far away, they especially value the love of their fellow villagers, so he gritted his teeth and rushed forward, of course, it was useless.

After being also beaten into a pig's head, he escaped with his physical flexibility, and then found Cheng Kun and moved rescuers. Among their group of people from Jinyang County, it is recognized that Cheng Kun is the first in force.