Farmers pay attention to sunrise and resting at sunset. At three or four o'clock, the sky is just shining, so they have to get up and go to work, regardless of age or age.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old man ran out of the house with a sickle, walked through the grass, and went to the river to cut pig grass. Before he could walk far, the cold dew soaked his trouser legs and couldn't help shivering.

The boy shook his legs and ran quickly. A heat gradually surged from his body, resisting the chill. When he arrived at the river, the grass was dense. He waved his sickle and cut off the tender grass.

At this time, after the grass, mosquitoes flew out from time to time, and the angry little insects were disturbed by people. They were like crazy, leaving red dots on the boy. But the boy didn't care about these things, just buried his head in his work, but it was so painful that he waved his hand.

The sun gradually rose, and there were two large bundles of tender grass in front of the boy. After tied it with a straw rope, he picked it up and ran home. While running, the boy's belly was like thunder, making a rumble sound.

Last night, he only drank a bowl of porridge. As the saying goes, half of the old man was eating to death. When he was growing up, he had to do physical work. This thing was really not enough. The boy also knew that there was really nothing more at home. He tightened the hemp rope in his waist, endured the torture of stomach acid, and ran back home quickly.

"Xuanzi, I'm back. See what dad has brought you back?"

As soon as the boy walked into the house, he heard the voice of his father. He hurriedly ran into the house. He saw a bay-red roast duck on the small table, with its oily skin and an intoxicating fragrance. After smelling it, his saliva couldn't help but flow out.

"Dad, why are you willing to sell roast duck?"

"It's not for you boy, eat it quickly, let's have a thigh first."

The boy didn't bother to wipe his hands, so he took it over, buried his head and started gnawing. In a few bites, he nibbled all the duck legs.

"Children's father, our life is hard with us. We can't eat any meat all year round." Looking at the voracious son, tears flowed out from the woman's eyes.

"Don't worry, our family has a way!" the man said with a smile.

"Damn, you've been struggling less over the years. Don't we both suffer the same kind of suffering?"

"It's different, this time it's different!" The man smiled and said, "Do you know, you used to sell a pig and you had to send it to He Butuhu in the county town. You walked far and gave you little money. You can exchange a few kilograms of salt for a pig. But now it's different. An** has set up pig collection points in various towns, and a good pig can give you a tael of silver."

"One or two? So many?"

"Well, the highest before was only seven cents of silver. This time, not only is the price high, but it also has a lot of money and a lot of money."

"Dad, what's An** doing? Why do you want so many pigs?"

"Damn it, aren't I wondering too? After selling the pigs, I took a bus to Xuzhou with the guy from the pharmacy. I asked around the city, guess what I found?"

"Stop keeping it aside, talk about it quickly!"

The boy also looked at the side with a burning look. The man laughed and said, "I heard that An** wants to train new recruits and give them meat every day. Thousands of young men want hundreds of kilograms of pigs a day. They bought all the pigs in Xuzhou City and went to the countryside to collect pigs."

"If someone collects pigs, our family will just sell them. What else can it do?"

"You say you have long hair and short knowledge. That's what you are doing. If our family sells it, can't we go to other places to collect it? Some rural areas can buy one for only five cents of silver. If you run errands, you will make money."

When the woman heard this, she smiled: "Dad, don't say, you have a pretty good head!"

"It's true! The family just has no money to study, otherwise with my head, I will at least be a juren."

While the couple was joking, the boy suddenly raised his head.

"Dad, is An** really good? Have meat to eat every day?"

"Okay, do you stay at home with your mother honestly. A good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a clamp. These days, the soldiers are in chaos. If you make any mistakes, will your Wu family be worthy of your Wu family?"

"Damn it, don't say it, maybe this is a good opportunity for our Wu family to change their families!"

...

It has been a month since Gu Zhenhua returned to Xuzhou from Nanjing. In this month, he has been almost always in the recruit camp and is dedicated to training recruits.

Almost all of these recruits were recruited in Tianjin. The quality of these young men was quite good. They went south all the way, and it was actually a marching training. They were no longer young. Many of them were arrogant and did not take the training seriously.

But after Gu Zhenhua personally urged them, they suddenly complained. They got up before dawn in the morning and started off-road long-distance running, starting from ten kilometers, increasing continuously. After breakfast, they were in the queue for two hours in the morning and in the afternoon, they were still in the queue for two hours, and they were dizzy when they walked. Before supper, they were in the strength training of stone lock wooden stakes, which almost never stopped.

At night, there will be two hours of cultural courses, which will cost many lives. Gu Zhenhua said that he would teach them to read and read, but these boys still regarded it as a beautiful job, but after it was implemented, they realized the difficulty. One hour to learn literacy, one hour to learn arithmetic, and every day they had to evaluate. Anyone who failed the training doubled the next day and failed the three consecutive times would be sent to the kitchen class.

It’s not nice to say that people are in the army to fight and they are in the army to cook. These kids are gritting their teeth and holding on. I have to say that the potential of young people is good. After a month of exploitation, they can actually bear it. As for Kang Lesheng and others, who are already well-founded, they are even more willing to accept it.

However, one principle of training is to constantly torture, and they must not be comfortable. Gu Zhenhua has more and more tricks. In the middle of the night, the horns are shocking and gathering urgently. Who is too late? People in a shed or even a whistle will be punished.

People need shame, trees need bark, and seeing that because of themselves and other comrades in the army suffer, you can imagine this psychological pressure. Everyone gritted their teeth and even if they didn’t do it for themselves, they still had to think about others.

Gu Zhenhua's training day and night, regardless of rain and rain made Li Xu and the others frown.

"I remember that back then, Grandpa Qi trained the Qi family army for only three days and one big training every five days. Is it a bad thing that the soldiers can't stand the training method like my brother?"

"We have to eat even if we can't bear it. The opponents we face are ten times more cruel than the Japanese pirates, so our soldiers are ten times stronger than the Qi family's army. If we don't do this, we can't defeat the enemy!"

When Li Xu heard Gu Zhenhua's words, his eyes widened, and a goose egg could be stuffed into his mouth. Speaking of Qi Jiguang, for the generals of the Ming Dynasty, it was God who was arrogant. He could conquer the world by learning Qi Jiguang's little bit, but Gu Zhenhua actually said something that would surpass the Qi family's army, which made Li Xu stunned.

"Do you think we can't do it?"

Li Xu lowered his head and said nothing, which was obviously lack of confidence.

"What we have in front of us is a must-have topic. If we cannot surpass the Qi family army and cannot defeat the Qing Tartars, we will have to die in battle. The whole army must work together. Not only the new military camp, but also the original Guanning Army and the old brothers of Shanxi soldiers must also keep up with the training. This is our life!"

Li Xu had no choice but to nod: "I will supervise training, but if I train so much day and night, even if I eat meat every meal, I am worried that the soldiers will not be able to stand it."

"Let's have a competition!" Gu Zhenhua suddenly smiled and said, "Be brave after knowing shame. Let's hold a competition for new and veterans to see who is the hero and who is the bear."

Li Xu suddenly showed a strange expression in his eyes, and he couldn't help but say, "Seventh brother, the new recruits are full of plans. After only one or two months of training, how can he compare with those brothers in the old army? I don't have any questions about the ability of the seventh brother, but it's too bad. If I could have half a year, maybe the new army could barely fight."

Gu Zhenhua waved his hand: "The Tartars won't give us so long. Ten days later, the new army will compete with the veterans. If the new army wins by chance, we will reorganize the army and promote the new army's model to all troops. In the future, recruitment must be carried out according to the new army's methods. As for those old brothers, if they can keep up, they will naturally be promoted and promoted. If they can't keep up and are unwilling to endure hardships, I have money and land to ensure that they are a rich man."

When Gu Zhenhua said this, Li Xu was not a fool, and he immediately realized that this was Gu Zhenhua's complete rectification of peace. The previous reorganization into ten battalions was a temporary measure after all, and with a stable base, Gu Zhenhua would form a completely own army.

At this time, Li Xu had only one thought in his mind: Dad is wise!

After Li Jibo arrived in Xuzhou, he kept reminding Li Xu to follow Gu Zhenhua's footsteps, and I'm afraid the old man had seen it long ago.

"Please rest assured, Duke Guo, I will do my best to play this game!"

Gu Zhenhua also smiled and grabbed Li Xu's big hand. The two of them looked at each other and said nothing.

...

After ten days, An** was alarmed. A bunch of young children who were still stinky and had a bad time to compete with the old army was like a birthday boy who was eating arsenic and was tired of living.

"Monkey, do you think our country's prince has any tricks?" Hu Shan asked Hou Sanhuai while gnawing on the steamed buns.

"I'm not the worm in the trunk of the Duke's belly, how do I know? But I heard that it's been three days since then, and the Duke is still training in the queue, and there is no change. I really don't know what the Duke's abacus is."

Others are confused, but Gu Zhenhua is full of confidence.

"Brothers, you have also heard about the competition. Do you have faith?"

"Yes!" Kang Dali and a few others shouted out, and the others' eyes were flashing, and they did not dare to look at Gu Zhenhua.

"Hahaha, everyone is worried, it's understandable. But I have a trick that can guarantee that you will defeat the enemy!"

"Mr. Master, what is the trick? Tell me quickly?"

"It's very simple. No matter how many moves they have, you only learn one move. In the next seven days, regardless of day or night, I will practice it well and understand it thoroughly. When it comes to the competition, I promise you will win!"
Chapter completed!