Chapter 64: Fan-ear scraping and learn to bark
In a blink of an eye, it was time for the competition. It was a rare and good weather. However, it was not good for these soldiers who wanted to compete. The weather was so clear in the morning without a cool breeze, so it would not be too hot to death by noon! Moreover, this is a semi-arid area, and the weather is not only hot, but also very dry.
"Your Majesty, the time has come. Can you start the competition?" Li Yi asked Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo stood on the platform wearing golden armor and said to Li Yi: "Start! Li Yi leads people to supervise and record the assessment results."
"Yes, the last general will take the order." Li Yi said immediately.
"Your Majesty has an order, and the entire army will begin..."
In fact, the so-called whole-army competition is a decisive battle between each battalion. The competition implements a point system. Each battalion has to fight with other battalions. Those who win will get one point, those who lose will get one point, and those who lose will get one point. After nine battles, whoever gets the most points will win. When all the assessment results are added together, the highest score will become Li Liangzuo's personal guard camp.
When fighting in each battalion, try to follow the situation on the battlefield. There is only one way to win, that is, to defeat the opponent on your side. Only by defeating your opponent can you be considered a winner. In order to prevent cheating, both parties will wear different colors of clothes to be responsible for distinguishing, one party wears black clothes and the other party wears white clothes.
Both sides fight with wooden guns and wooden knives. The spear head or blade in black clothes will be black and gray, while the weapon in white clothes will be white and gray. As long as the opponent hits the body, it means that the person has been killed and must withdraw from the battle immediately.
This was the first battle since the founding of the new army. Everyone valued it very much, especially the ten generals. No one wanted to be the first person to "scratch and learn to bark". After the competition began, the soldiers of each battalion began to strangle into a group, and the shouts of killing were shaking. Li Liangzuo stood on the school stage and carefully observed every battlefield.
From morning to evening, each battalion had to fight nine games, which was a serious test for the soldiers' physical strength. The result of the first acting did not satisfy Li Liangzuo. There was almost everything on the battlefield, and there was no cooperation between the teams, which was completely a personal struggle for fear of hatred. But soon Li Liangzuo saw what was wrong.
The first battalion commanded by Richardhan did not move forward to the other nine battalions. The groups cooperated with each other. Although they did not cooperate very well, this had already given Li Liangzuo hope. In the evening, the result of the exercise competition came out, and the winner was Richardhan's first battalion. This victory was long as Li Liangzuo expected, but what Li Liangzuo did not expect was that Richardhan won all nine battles.
Of course, there are wins and losses. The 7th Battalion of Zhu Xu ranked last. After the competition was completed, Li Liangzuo called both of them to the school stage. Needless to say, he naturally encouraged Richardhan and commended the soldiers of the first battalion.
After rewarding Li Chahan, Li Liangzuo said to Zhu Xu: "I don't have to leave it to you!"
Zhu Xu's face turned red at this time. After Li Liangzuo finished speaking, Zhu Xu took a step forward and slapped himself in the ear, "Bang, Bang..." while slapping the dog barking. Many soldiers below couldn't help laughing.
After slapped more than a dozen times, Li Liangzuo looked at Zhu Xu coldly and said, "Enough, get back and lead the troops. If you lose next time, get out of here immediately."
"Yes." Zhu Xu said with a swollen face, saluted Li Liangzuo.
After Zhu Xu went down, Li Liangzuo looked at all the soldiers with a cold face and scolded: "Is it funny to see Zhu Xu slap himself? Do you think you performed very well? I tell you that if you were on the battlefield, you would have been dead long ago, and you still have a smile on your face. What kind of face do you have to laugh at others?
Look at your performance just now. The team is in chaos. Officers at all levels only know how brave and fierce they are. In the morning, you even trained the ranks into the dog's belly. I feel embarrassed to see you practiced like this. If you jumped into the cesspool and drowned..."
After Li Liangzuo cursed and said to Li Yi, "Li Yi asked the personal guards and battalions to show them."
"Yes, the last general will take the order." Li Yi replied in response.
The one thousand-person personal guard battalion was divided into two teams and killed each other. During this period, the troops cooperated with each other and teammates covered each other in order to achieve the greatest result of the enemy with the minimum casualties and the greatest casualties.
The competition in the personal guard camp deeply shocked everyone. In the subsequent competitions, the combat effectiveness of the new army began to gradually be reflected. Richardhan's spear training was also led to various battalions. The most cruel one was Zhu Xu's Ninth Battalion. In order to clear away the shame, Zhu Xu trained the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion to death, and the intensity of the training was doubled. Moreover, Zhu Xu also held competitions among groups at all levels below. Those who lost were in accordance with the rules set by Li Liangzuo.
Under such high-pressure training, the new army's physical fitness and combat capabilities were rapidly increasing; but the price was not small, and it was common to be injured during training, and some even died suddenly. Even so, Li Liangzuo had no intention of stopping at all. According to statistics, there were nearly 1,000 soldiers who died on the training ground after three years of training, and the loss rate reached one percent.
Most of the sudden deaths in training are concentrated in the first year. Most of these sudden deaths are exhausted to death due to the high training intensity. During the three years of training, almost all the soldiers were broken through the ribs with wooden guns, and those who did not break through the ribs were embarrassed to say that they were new soldiers.
As long as these new army soldiers go to the training ground, they will regard the sparring opponents opposite them as mortal enemies. However, no matter how heavy the fight is, they are still brothers who chat and laugh. This has become a culture of the new army. For three years, all the soldiers have been bruised and swollen every day, and often the old injuries will be just added to new injuries.
As the emperor, Li Liangzuo accompanied them to train with them every day, and sometimes even ended up in competition. In the hearts of these soldiers, Li Liangzuo is not only the emperor, but also the soul of this new army.
There is a special team on the training ground. They are trained by Li Liangzuo himself and are also the weather vane for each battalion to follow the training. This team is composed of eunuchs led by Xiao Fuzi. This may be the first army composed of eunuchs in ancient times. These more than 300 people have only a lot more training time than the new army, regardless of the training intensity or training time.
Therefore, these eunuchs also won the respect of the new army soldiers. Here, everyone gave a thumbs up when they mentioned the inner supervisor; this elite member of the inner supervisor was the first force Li Liangzuo formed the "Yipintang", and most of the others were sent to the army in various places to serve as the army supervisor.
These eunuchs and military supervisors are not like the eunuchs and military supervisors in the Ming Dynasty. Under the education of Li Liangzuo, these people are not only loyal to Li Liangzuo, but also skilled in archery and horses and high-quality martial arts. More importantly, they also know how to fight for military tactics and military formations at any time. This is also a unique scenery in history.
Chapter completed!