Chapter 90: Training (I)
Li Shimo wanted to go home because he didn't want to die.
Looking at the cavalry on the opposite side that was galloping towards him, he wanted to relieve himself, this was the second day of training after Li Shimo entered the new barracks, but he never thought that he would face such a terrifying scene.
The sound of horses' hooves trembled, making Li Shimo feel that the ground was about to collapse, and the ill-intentioned gaze of the cavalry made him feel that the other party was definitely going to kill him.
"Boys, if you're scared, you can squat, you can close your eyes, just don't stretch out your legs." Shi Chang, who was standing at the front of the queue, laughed, "Also, it's okay to pee your pants." ”
"Hahahaha!" The chiefs of the various fronts laughed when they heard this, and they seemed to be not afraid of this meeting and were still chatting with each other, talking about how many people in each team would pee their pants after the cavalry rushed over this time, and the captain of the team that urinated the most would have a treat.
Listening to their conversation, Li Shimo was scared and annoyed, afraid of what to do if the cavalry ran errands and bumped into him, and annoyed that what kind of ghost was this kind of training to treat human life as a child's play.
His left hand was tied to a bamboo like the others, and now he couldn't run if he wanted to, but looking at Shichang's hands as if they were tied together, he felt more comfortable.
"It's coming! Boys, hold on! ”
Pulled out of his cranky thoughts by the shout, Li Shimo looked forward, and then his face was bloodless, and the cavalry with a hideous face had rushed to the front, whistling like the wind, and swept past him, at that moment, he only felt that his legs were weak, and then he knelt on the ground.
From time to time, there were crying and whimpering sounds, and there was even the smell of urine, and a gust of wind mixed with the smell of dust hit his face, choking him with tears, and it was easy to stand up and look around, and found that at least forty percent of them were not standing.
"Very good, those who have not been trampled to death by horses, all stand up, and the cavalry will return and rush later!"
Because he was tied to the bamboo with a rope, Li Shimo, like the others, couldn't turn around and face the oncoming cavalry, so it was said that he shouldn't be afraid if he couldn't see it, but in fact, Li Shimo was even more frightened.
I can't see the opponent's movement with my back to the cavalry, what if I run crookedly and rub myself? Looking at it head-on, I was able to dodge it for a while, and now it's completely resigned to fate.
"Let's go!"
At the sound of the order, the cavalry rode up, trot, ran, galloped, and swept through the three-meter-wide gap between the ranks, and after a puff of dust many recruits knelt or cried.
"Very well, I was not trampled to death by a horse this time." After reviewing the team, they spoke one after another.
"There is a raised hand that can't stand it, and it is allowed to quit and rest."
When Li Shimo heard this, it was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, but when he was about to raise his hand, he heard a long saying: "Now when you quit, you will have one less bowl of rice for lunch!" ”
As soon as the words fell, many of the arms that had been raised were immediately retracted, and the rest of the moments of hesitation were all withdrawn.
"It's all kind! Then move on! ”
Li Shimo was entangled in his heart for a while, and then decided to endure it any longer, anyway, he stood here and survived for a round, so he couldn't suffer in vain!
He was originally a miner, I heard that the sunset county was recruiting people to train new soldiers, and the treatment was good, although it was brown rice, it was not bad, and the military camps in other places were all deducted layer by layer, and there were not many soldiers left.
Suddenly, there was a pleasant laughter in their ears, and Li Shimo and the other recruits heard the sound and found that it was a group of young ladies walking by the school yard with wooden basins, and when they saw them in drill, they stopped one by one and looked curiously, and some of them even pointed at them.
It seems to be a discussion about who is handsome and who performs the best.
I don't know what's going on, Li Shimo's face turned red, and even the cavalry that was about to rush was not afraid, people could coax him, but if he coaxed him in front of the girls, it would be really humiliating and thrown home.
Seeing the cavalry sweeping past the ranks, the young ladies exclaimed in unison, and for some reason there were many fewer cries and whimpering in the ranks of the recruits, and they all wanted to save face and not lose face in front of women.
After another round of tossing and turning, the recruits were numb or frightened and stupid, and they could stand still in the face of the passing cavalry, and the young ladies put the tub on the ground and whispered to them.
"After the drill, those who peed their pants went to the barracks to change down." One of the generals shouted, "And the little ladies will help him wash!" ”
"Hahahaha!"
Many of the recruits bowed their heads and remained silent, and honestly followed the guide to the barracks to change their trousers, and when they came out, the little ladies walked from the front of the team with wooden basins to the barracks to wash their trousers.
"Don't look at it, it's not to catch \\ traitors, and you can see them all straight!" The previous general continued to shout, "Ready to eat!" ”
Li Shimo, like many recruits, moved his Adam's apple up and down a few times when he heard this, and finally got through the meal after staying up all morning
"All follow Benshsh to line up, and those who cut the line will go directly to the end of the line!"
The recruits lined up to receive the meal, and everyone who walked in front of the rice bucket saw it straight: there were several large plates of dried salted fish and steamed cakes on the desk!
"Don't look at it, this is a dish that can only be added by the winning team in the left and right drill queue competition, and it will be your turn tomorrow!"
Not only is the brown rice full, but also the meat! Steamed cakes are also good!
Li Shimo also saw the dried salted fish, he walked with a big bowl of rice and looked back and almost fell down, his family is poor, not to mention that the meat is not even much salt, in his opinion, the dried salted fish is really a delicacy in the world, and he can lick it for a long time with just one.
Left and right drills? He watched and felt that it was very simple, isn't it just to listen to the order to stretch out his hands and feet, as long as it is done, it is so easy to have salted fish to eat!
Even if you don't have a big bowl of rice like dried salted fish, you can add it and it's enough to be full, but it's much better than elsewhere!
Since you can be full, why don't you boil it up again? Li Shimo thought so, and so did the other recruits, and they gathered together to squat and eat.
"Brother, squeeze it." A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old crouched next to him with a bowl in his hand, and a monkey with a sharp mouth and a rib essence squeezed in with him.
Li Shimo and several recruits found the young man with salted fish in his bowl and steamed cakes in the other two at the same time.
"Little brother, you're a recruit too?" Li Shimo asked when he saw that he was dressed like himself.
The kid shook his head and said with a smile that it was last year's soldier: "Brothers, today's performance is really good, think about the beginning, when we were shouting for a mother's hug." ”
Li Shimo and several recruits around him looked painful when they heard this, and then they laughed breathlessly, and even squirted out of their mouths: "Who is that!" ”
The young boy glanced at the sharp-beaked monkey gills beside him, and the man's face turned red instantly, and he muttered for a moment, "Why am I again?" and then said, making the brothers laugh.
Without waiting for the people around him to react, he smiled bitterly and said that he was really cowardly at the beginning, in fact, after surviving the first two days, there was nothing left, and the hard work was hard, but at least the food was full.
When the recruits saw that it was a veteran, they became interested, and when they saw that the three of them were easy to talk to, they asked if it was true that at the end of last year, each person sent a penny home for the New Year, and when they saw each other nodding, their hearts were boiling.
Isn't that what you suffer? If you can survive until the end of the year, you can get a handful of money and go home, and the livelihood of the family will be settled in the next year!
Chatting and chatting, his appetite was wide, and he went to add a full bowl of rice and continued to talk nonsense, Li Shimo asked the young boy how to add the salted fish he ate, only to hear him say that the veteran knife competition salted fish was tired of eating, and he happened to pass by with a bowl and got a fish for nothing.
"Knife competition? What's the comparison? Li Shimo heard that some people were tired of eating salted fish, and he couldn't help but feel hot, he pondered that he also had some strength, so it was better to practice and fight to have a round belly.
The sharp-beaked monkey gills next to him began to introduce that it was two people wearing armor and armor and holding wooden knives to slash each other, and whoever was hit first would lose, and finally the person who had survived ten rounds with the head of the coach had chicken legs to eat.
"Chicken legs?" Li Shimo and a group of recruits swallowed their saliva, and began to fantasize about the feeling of eating chicken in their stomachs, but the pork rib essence said faintly, don't underestimate the head of the sect, many people can't survive ten rounds and lose, so they can only eat salted fish and cooking cakes.
"Ten rounds is really that powerful?" The eyes of the crowd widened, and they all asked who the name of the sect leader was, and when it was the turn of the recruits to participate in the sword competition.
"The head of the sect surnamed Yang is twenty-five or sixteen years old, so he has a good knife technique, and I can't last ten rounds and lose." After the young boy finished speaking, he was sad, and the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks and pork ribs also gritted their teeth as they listened, as if they were thinking about something bad.
Chatting and chatting, Li Shimo and other recruits and those three who were close to a lot of rough embryos began to speak freely, and asked about the way to practice those young ladies today, but I heard the other party say that they were hired from the surrounding cities and villages to help with things in the barracks, such as laundry pants and other two sets of pennies.
"Two sets for a penny, then it's better to give me all!" Li Shimo heard that his heart was dripping blood, and a few people around him were also trembling in distress, and the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks pointed at them and scolded them with a smile, saying that the little lady of the family is so easy to have a job to subsidize, and the big man in the family is embarrassed to rob it.
"Na, if you look at the right little lady with the right eye, you can come to the door with clever words, but you can't use force, otherwise military law is not a joke." When the young boy saw that they were thinking about it one by one, he couldn't help but take the lead.
"The big ladies who guard the little lady have knives in their hands!"
Li Shimo nodded and said that he knew, the elders hummed all day long, don't mess around, otherwise they will be dragged out and castrated to feed the dogs, and when a group of people chatted more and more, suddenly several officers came over.
The recruits all recognized that the leader was Master Chen and a few others, and when they saw the other party walking towards them and didn't know what was going on, they were worried about it, but they saw them come to the young boy and saluted: "County Lord, the drill facilities have been set up, please check the County Lord." ”
The county prince? This kid is the county prince?
Li Shimo was so frightened that he almost couldn't even hold the bowl steadily, and looked at the young boy with the same blank as the recruits around him, they couldn't understand how this high-ranking county prince could squat with him to eat brown rice and talk about meat jokes together.
"Brothers, this father is Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County." The young man looked around and smiled slightly, "My father's training has always liked to toss people, but the food is also full and will not be deducted, everyone will have meat to eat at the end of the year." ”
"My father survived like this with the veterans last time, and now I ask, is there anything I can't survive!"
"Nope!" Li Shimo involuntarily shouted with the others.
"Li Shimo, my father is optimistic about you." Yuwen Wen patted him on the shoulder and said, then led the sharp-beaked monkey gills and rib essence to turn and leave.
Li Shimo only felt that his blood was boiling: even Lang Jun of a rich and noble family can survive him, there is no reason why he can't resist it, he is sure to eat the chicken legs!
"Lord Lang, I just said that the little one couldn't stand the cavalry crying and shouting for a mother's hug, which made the little one how to mix in the barracks in the future." Yuwen fifteen complained, he just stubbornly cooperated with Lang Lord Yuwen Wen to speak and practice himself, he was very hurt, and hurried to 'appeal' while he was far away.
"It's okay, you can just practice the exercises when those guys practice their swordsmanship." Yuwen Wen smiled, he was not 'treated' by a beautiful woman at home, so he came to the barracks to toss, vowing to vent the anger in his chest.
"By the way, didn't you two say that the progress of the sword technique is so fast that you can compete with the head of the Yang Sect, why did you wilt in less than ten rounds?" He remembered the results of the previous competition, turned around and looked at the two entourages with a smile: "It seems that you two are also undertrained."