Since the terrifying creatures such as the erotic ape came down from the tree and learned to use fire, they have evolved rapidly towards the direction of breaking away from the food chain - without natural enemies, and are natural enemies of all other animals.

However, the war that humans themselves lasted for more than ten years has caused naked apes north of the Yangtze River to fall into such a miserable situation - during the busy farming period, they have no time and free time to eliminate other species. However, during the slack farming period, they have wars with other humans, or they squat at home and have no free energy to hunt.

It's too cold in winter, and there is no clothing to keep the food away from the cold, so no one dares to leave the house and stay in the wilderness for a long time to breathe.

Therefore, there were no naked apes in the mountains, and tigers were called kings.

Just around Juzhou, Xu Shiyang knew about it, there were a large number of wild dogs, wild wolves (the two animals are essentially the same), wild boars, bears and even tigers, and other ferocious wild animals.

During the busy farming period, these animals are a great threat to the animals and farmers who farm on the edge of the safe range of the dock. Travelers and caravans have to gather dozens of men to dare to set off.

However, after Xu Shiyang's militia now wears warm clothes, food for belly pads and hunting equipment, the good days for these wild animals are over.

The 15th-tun militias took turns to hunt, with 2 to 300 men in a team. Their command was the Jie Zhen and Jie Bao brothers, and they were also supported by the reconnaissance team in the new army (this unit focused on cold weapon combat, so it did not stay in the fort for training, but participated in the winter hunting operation).

As soon as the terrifying erect ape exerted its strength, other animals had no resistance except their kind. In this winter, the militia hunting team even swept to the west of Fulai Mountain and returned to the other fort militia who remained in the bandits' village several times.

They hunted back more than 200 wild wolves (and wild dogs), more than 50 deer, nearly a thousand hares and pheasants, more than 20 wild boars, three blind bears and one tiger.

By the way, more than 100 refugees from Maodong were found in some abandoned villages.

Xu Shiyang was surprised to find that through the primitive military training of hunting, his militia combat effectiveness has improved significantly (at least the reconnaissance team's archery performance has improved significantly).

Moreover, the large amount of prey made the food he spent in advance not only did not lose money, but also had a considerable surplus.

The hard work of the reconnaissance team and the militia set a good example for the new army who stayed in Shiwutun to train. In winter, these 90 full-time soldiers can receive additional meat supplements every day. Every night, Xu Shiyang will personally use the most popular wolf meat soup soaked sorghum rice to everyone's bowl, and then eat and live with them and train together.

Sufficient nutrition naturally requires cooperation with rigorous training plans. In the first month after the training, all new soldiers except the reconnaissance team, the first training content is queues. Ten days later, the team will add mobile subjects such as marching. Then the team will suspend training, and everyone has a peaceful and prosperous Spring Festival in the fortress. Xu Shiyang took Zhao Shan and Rong Mama to Ertun to celebrate the festival with his father, Erniang and his younger brother.

On the tenth day of January, Xu Shiyang returned from Ertun, and the departments of Shiwutun began to work hard again.

The new soldiers underwent ten days of restorative training, and then added practical subjects - including assassination training for spearmen, loading training for firearm soldiers, etc.

In addition to the queues, marching and other subjects that have been retained, the training time of the new army soldiers exceeds 4 hours a day.

This high-intensity training lasted until February of the 11th year of Jianxing. New soldiers survived this extremely tired life with their own resilience and adequate dietary supplements.

All 90 people, including Xu Shiyang, were fully trained. The firearms, composed of half-aged children, were all raised, and their original body, which was like bean sprouts, became much stronger.

The spearmen composed of adults also lost their original expression of honesty and cunning, and became ungrateful under the education of military sticks. Once arranged in a formation, more than 50 people could advance and retreat together like a machine.

Although there is still a lack of practical test, it is at least intimidating enough on the surface, and it looks like it is a three-point similar to the early modern phalanx soldiers.

On the tenth day of February, the last hunting team returned to the dock.

Since sorghum was about to start in March, the happy hunting activities could only end there. Xu Shiyang gave ordinary militia a few days off and allowed them to take a break and prepare for the most important farm work for the fortress.

In addition, Xu Shiyang also needs to restore the two docks to the west as planned. About two-thirds of the population must pack up their luggage and go to their destination before starting the plowing farm.

They need a few days to restore the walls of the two forts (although they do not need to be fully restored for the time being, they only repair the holes), and they also need to divide the fields they cultivated, and time is actually very urgent.

As for the new army, the high-intensity training of daily life began to slow down - because the food was disappearing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there was not much wildlife left behind. Without new prey supplements, the training of the previous few months had to be maintained, so the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep raised in the fort were killed to supplement the soldiers with nutrition.

Of course, Xu Shiyang was reluctant to do this, not to mention that training cannot always be stressed, and one tension and relaxation are the kingly way.

The training of the new army has entered a three-day training state. The extra meals given to them by the canteen have been cancelled, and the food supply has been restored to the standards at all levels issued by Xu Shiyang a few months ago.

In the following year, the new soldiers often missed this hard and tiring training life (of course, mainly missing the food during the training).

After implementing the three-day training system, the new soldiers had two days to rest every three days. Xu Shiyang allowed soldiers with family to go home to reunite during this period, and others could not have nothing to do, which could easily cause some unnecessary disputes (all men with strong spirits and strength and nowhere to be used).

Therefore, Xu Shiyang learned the practice of PLA and asked the soldiers to build a pigpen, raise a few piglets in it, and then set up a few vegetable pots around the barracks. In this way, in winter, it will take longer to improve the food.

The remaining time is used by Xu Shiyang to carry out cultural education.

He hoped that these 100 soldiers could become seeds of the future army, so everyone must have the minimum tactical execution ability (especially the highly plastic firearm soldiers). Xu Shiyang took advantage of this time to hand over some simple Chinese characters and numbers he invented (plagiarized) by the new army soldiers, and at the same time preached some simple nationalist ideas to the soldiers.

For example, in cultural classes, Xu Shiyang told soldiers some stories, in addition to routine greetings to the relatives of Tartar women, now he also vaguely contempt for Tartar men.

Xu Shiyang told the new soldiers that the Tartars were very powerful, but that was not as powerful as humans. They were more like a group of wild boars, blind bears or tigers, and were as powerful as wild beasts.

We have killed many Tartars last year, as well as wild boars, wild bears and tigers, so we are actually better than Tartars.
Chapter completed!