Yangzhou City.
Suzaku Corps barracks.
Kou Zhong, who has become a school captain, is leading his five hundred soldiers to run with heavy loads.
"Hurry up! I've only run thirty kilometers of a fifty-kilometer run with heavy loads. You guys are really embarrassing me, Mr. Zhong!"
Koo Zhong yelled loudly while running at the front.
At this time, after half a year of high-intensity military training, he had basically completely washed away the oily gangster temperament he had in the past.
The dark skin, the strong body, and the Chinese character face, although still a little green, but already resolute, all reflect the tremendous changes he has undergone during this period.
If it weren't for the occasional flash of intelligence in his eyes, which allowed people to see a bit of his original self, no one would have believed that he was just a low-level gangster half a year ago.
Compared to half a year ago, he looked like a completely different person.
Of course, Kou Zhong's growth does not stop there.
Not to mention anything else, just from the position of captain in charge of five hundred people, you can see his changes.
Although Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling received some attention from Xu Yi, when they entered the Suzaku Legion, they started from the most ordinary soldiers.
Xu Yi secretly spoke to Yuchi Sheng and Shi Long personally, asking them to treat Gao Zhong and Xu Ziling as real ordinary soldiers without giving them any special treatment.
Even to a certain extent, stricter requirements must be imposed on them!
You don't get any preferential treatment, you even have to perform better than others to get equal treatment.
Under such circumstances, it only took them less than half a year to grow from a small soldier to a captain in charge of five hundred soldiers. This is enough to illustrate how outstanding the performance of the two men was.
You know, even among other armies, commanding five hundred soldiers is not easy, and he is even qualified to be called a little general.
This is especially true in the Suzaku Legion!
This is the top corps that even Song Que, the Heavenly Sword, laments, thinking that it is more powerful than his Lingnan disciples!
Although the Suzaku Legion could only recruit people in Yangzhou City due to territorial restrictions at first, the best talents were continuously selected from among hundreds of thousands of people.
It can be said that these ten thousand Suzaku Army are the best in all aspects in Yangzhou City.
Coupled with Xu Yi's cultivation regardless of cost, the growth rate of each of them is extremely astonishing.
Just looking at their lowest strength in the late stage of meat training and approaching the bone training realm, you can see that none of these people are simple.
It is definitely not an easy thing to stand out among so many outstanding talents and become a captain in charge of 500 people.
Especially for Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, who were born as gangsters.
Because they lack a lot of innate education and resources, they actually have many disadvantages compared to others at the beginning.
But in the end, they relied on their own talent and hard work to make up for these disadvantages and achieve a comeback, which was not easy.
The Suzaku Legion established by Xu Yi has fixed literary and martial arts exams every month, and a unified exam every three months - in fact, it is to pull them out for practice.
There are still many bandits and bandits near Yangzhou City, and even a little further away, there are rebels watching.
According to Xu Yi's original plan, he did not plan to start a battle to conquer the world so soon. He planned to wait until a year later, when the Suzaku Legion was truly trained, before he began to conquer the world.
But this does not prevent the Suzaku Legion from 'practicing their skills' first.
After all, the army is different from others. It is difficult to train a truly elite unit simply by relying on daily training. You need to see blood to do it!
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling started to rise in the first unified examination.
In the first two months, the performance of the two was actually not outstanding, especially in the first monthly exam, they were even at the bottom.
By the second monthly exam, I don't know if they learned their shame and became brave. They finally started to catch up with the main army, but they were only at the average level. They could be regarded as elite soldiers in the Suzaku Legion.
By the third monthly exam, which was the unified exam and the actual battle, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling finally showed their talents.
In this unified examination, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling cooperated, and with their strength, they directly eliminated a bandit gang of 100 people!
This is a hundred-member band of thieves with several late-stage acquired warriors, big stronghold leaders, and even acquired peak warriors!
As for the strength of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, they have just entered the realm of bone training and are equivalent to warriors in the later stages of life.
With such strength, he directly defeated such a group of hundreds of thieves. Although some small tricks were used in the process, this was also a partial manifestation of strength.
The assessment of the Suzaku Legion is divided into a literary examination and a martial arts examination. The unified examination directly combines these two assessments. Strategy, strategy, etc. are also part of the assessment.
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were able to defeat more powerful enemies with weaker strength, which undoubtedly demonstrated their abilities!
With such a record, they undoubtedly topped the list of individual scores this time, and thus became Centurions.
Then, in the fourth and fifth monthly exams, both of them performed very amazingly. With undisputed and impressive results, they became a school captain who commanded 500 people!
"He is one of the two people who are valued by the Holy See? His name is Kou Zhong?"
Song Que hid in the dark and quietly observed Kou Zhong.
He didn't know why, but he seemed to have a natural affection for this young man, and he felt that he was a good person at first sight.
Even his own son didn't like him, but at this moment he actually fell in love with this kid Kou Zhong.
'If this kid's talent is really good enough, maybe I can pass on the "Nine Styles of Heavenly Sword" to him? '
At this moment, he actually didn't have much desire in his heart.
Since Xu Yi secretly took over the world, this country can basically be said to have restored Han unification.
After the Song clan surrendered to the New Wu Dynasty, he no longer had family restrictions. As for his children, they have grown up and they should have their own path.
The only thing he can't let go of now is probably his own inheritance.
This should be considered a common problem among the Chinese nation. They always think that their skills can be passed down from generation to generation and do not cut off the roots.
It's just that the threshold for "Nine Styles of Heavenly Sword" is a bit high, and not everyone can learn it.
Song Que also met many young talents, but he didn't think these people could inherit his "Heavenly Sword Sword Technique".
Only Kou Zhong was in front of him.
Song Que felt a unique temperament in him, and this temperament had a special fit with his "Heavenly Sword Sword Technique".
He felt that if he let Kou Zhong learn it, he might be able to learn his "Heavenly Sword Sword Technique"?
It has to be said that the gears of fate always have some kind of special correlation.
The plot of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been made like this by Xu Yi, with the two main protagonists named "Double Dragons"-Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.
Before these two people even started their own plot, the world was already settled.
But even so, Song Que finally came up with the idea of teaching Kou Zhong the "Heavenly Sword Technique". It can only be said that this may be the compatibility between the two?
"Yes, there is another one named Xu Ziling. Do you want to go and see it too?"
Yuchi Sheng was by his side, and neither of them let anyone notice.
This was specifically requested by Song Que.
Although he was asked by Xu Yi to take over the Suzaku Legion, and he felt shocked and satisfied when he met the Suzaku Legion for the first time, he still wanted to get to know them in depth in secret before having a formal meeting with them.
"Go and have a look."
Song Que took a deep look at Kou Zhong, and then led by Yu Chisheng, went to where Xu Ziling was.
On the training ground.
"Well?"
Kou Zhong frowned slightly.
"It's strange. I felt like someone was watching me secretly just now. Why can't I see anyone?"
He glanced around and couldn't find any trace of the other party's presence.
Obviously, either he felt wrong, or the other party was far stronger than him, and he could not detect the other party at all.
Of these two possibilities, he was more inclined to the latter.
His perception has been keen since he was a child. After practicing the "Martial Arts", his perception has become even sharper and it is unlikely that there will be such a thing as an illusion.
"Who could it be? A commander in the legion?"
In the Suzaku Legion, there are still some people who are stronger than him.
For example, their current chief instructor-Shi Long.
Under Xu Yi's guidance, Shi Long finally broke through to the master level and was considered powerful among all the people in the world.
If he was observing in secret, it would be normal for him not to notice.
But when Kou Zhong thought about it again, he felt something was wrong.
If it were Chief Instructor Shilong or other strong men in the legion, there would be no need to hide in the dark and observe him.
"Is it an outsider?"
Kou Zhong's body tensed up instantly.
The news about the Suzaku Legion cannot be exposed at the moment, as this may affect future plans!
"I heard that not long ago, we caught several spies from the nearby rebel army."
Although Yangzhou City's attention has declined due to Yu Wenji's departure, this does not include the nearby rebels who have long been eyeing Yangzhou City.
Especially after the unified examination two months ago, there have been more such actions against Yangzhou City.
The unified examination two months ago should be said to be quite perfect for the entire Suzaku Legion, even exceeding expectations!
But precisely because it was too perfect, the Suzaku Legion dispatched this time and wiped out almost all the bandits and bandits near Yangzhou City, and even killed several vanguard reconnaissance troops of the rebel army. This naturally caused a stir in the surrounding area. A huge shock to the rebel army.
Some actions against Yangzhou City immediately became more frequent.
Although the entire Yangzhou City is under surveillance and the location of the Suzaku Legion is extremely hidden, very few people can find it.
But eating and drinking for over ten thousand people is not a small matter. If someone is looking for it, they can always find some clues.
Several spies who were captured not long ago illustrate this point.
And the number of spies who were caught before they could find them was even greater.
"It should be that the disappearance of a large number of spies has attracted the attention of the rebel army in disguise, causing them to send real experts to investigate!"
Kou Zhong's mind was spinning and he quickly came up with a 'reasonable' possibility.
"No! I have to inform Chief Yuchi and the Chief Instructor as soon as possible!"
With this thought in his mind, Kou Zhong did not take action immediately, but continued to train according to the original plan.
——He was worried that the person who was secretly 'monitoring' him had not left. If he left suddenly and in a hurry, he might have alerted the person and caused him to run away in advance.
Although he couldn't act immediately, Kou Zhong still chose other ways to speed up his pace.
"Hurry up! Come on! Stop whining like this! You're like a bitch!"
Soldiers: "·······"
They wanted to complain, but when they thought about the comparison between the 500 kilograms of weight on their bodies and the 2,000 kilograms of weight on Kou Zhong, they couldn't say anything.
To be able to become a member of the Suzaku Legion and persist in various high-intensity training for nearly half a year, no one is an ordinary person.
Just relying on good results in the assessment cannot completely convince them.
In order to subdue this group of arrogant and powerful generals, Kou Zhong took the four words "practice" to the extreme. Not only did he eat, sleep and train with them, but the intensity of the training was several times more than theirs!
Everyone who originally saw that Kou Zhong was just a young boy who didn't obey discipline very much, after experiencing this training, all of them were convinced and truly recognized him as their boss.
Now, under the boss's 'prompt', no matter how hard they felt, they could only scream and speed up.
All of a sudden, the training ground was filled with enthusiastic voices again.
the other side.
Song Que also followed Yuchi Sheng and met Xu Ziling.
He also became a captain in charge of 500 people. The camp where Xu Ziling was located was actually not far from Gao Zhong, it could even be said to be right next door.
However, the two training camps so close to each other have very different training plans.
Kou Zhong, on his side, prefers training in physical fitness, strength, combat prowess and other aspects.
Xu Ziling, on the other hand, prefers training in discipline and obedience.
As a military master, Song Que could guess what kind of personalities these two people were just by looking at their training methods.
Xu Ziling should be more inclined to the style of a wise general, while Kou Zhong is more inclined to the style of a brave general.
Of course, this does not mean that they are not brave or intelligent, it is just a matter of relative bias.
For people like Yuchi Sheng who came from a noble family, they would definitely prefer a general with the style of Xu Ziling.
This was also the reason why when he noticed how much Song Que seemed to be partial to Kou Zhong, he immediately recommended Xu Ziling to him.
Unfortunately, after Song Que looked at Xu Ziling, he only gave a 'not bad' evaluation and turned around and left.
Yuchi Sheng shook his head slightly and left.
The two returned to the camp and were preparing to discuss the meeting of the entire army.
"Reporting to the Chief Superintendent, Colonel Kou Zhong and Colonel Xu Ziling would like to see you!"
(End of chapter)
