"Is this Huo Zhongtun?" Zhou Yude pointed in front of him and looked at a tall man beside him.
This man was a young herdsman from Pingqian Tunbu. His name was Sun Qiang. Because he looked very powerful and strong, everyone liked to call him Qiangzi.
Qiangzi smiled and nodded.
"Sir, this is Huo Zhongtun, but at this point our Mr. Zhao should be inspecting the area. Why don't you take a walk around first?"
"It's okay, but is this really Huo Zhongtun? How many people are there?"
Zhou Yude had to ask these things clearly, otherwise he felt like he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
But at this moment, I was on high alert. No matter what, Zhao Ming's ambition was probably not small.
It had only been a few months since I came to Chabei, during which time I was attacked by Mongolia, and yet I had managed to win over so many people in such a short period of time.
And looking at the current life of this group of people, it can be predicted that these people's trust in Zhao Ming must be extremely high.
"Of course this is Huo Zhongtun. As for how many people are here...maybe 30,000? I'm not sure. Anyway, there are more and more people here. There will be hundreds or even thousands more every few days. To be specific, I don’t know how much now.”
Qiangzi shook his head. He had been away for seven or eight days and needed to ask about the situation.
However, seeing that the other party seemed eager to know the exact number, Qiangzi reluctantly asked the other party to wait, and then asked the familiar herdsmen nearby about the situation.
Zhou Yude, on the other hand, was sitting under a shed with walls on three sides and resting, mainly to sort out his thoughts.
But his eyes couldn't help but look straight ahead. This seemed to be an open-air shed where soldiers could sit and rest after training.
From here, you can just see the huge school field next to it, where thousands of soldiers are divided into square formations for training.
Zhou Yude didn't think much of it at first, just looking at it as a fun, but gradually he became fascinated as he watched it. It should be said that he was shocked by the training content.
One of the formations had regular military posture training, but it could be clearly seen that the military posture training here was obviously more rigorous than that of the main force under Chief Zhang.
Dividing the different heights, everyone's standing postures are almost exactly the same. Their waists are straight, and they stand like javelins. In such a cold wind, even if they are shivering, they still don't make a sound.
A few people were shivering a little too hard because they couldn't stand the cold. Soon the man who looked like an instructor next to them kicked them in an instant, and added an extra stone to their hands, making them stand at attention while holding the stone.
The other square team was training to run in unison, which was not surprising, but everyone in this group was carrying a bulging load.
Looking at the shape of these packages, it is not difficult to guess that they are all filled with rocks. This is a load-bearing cross-country!
Zhou Yude was horrified when he saw it, and the shock became more intense as time went by, because the group of people ran around the school field for ten laps, which was a mile long.
In fact, their troops also have physical training such as running, but most of them don't run with weights, and they don't run so far.
And there's something strange here.
Because even if someone runs faster, they will try their best to support their slower companions and support each other in running.
Until everyone has finished the race together.
This kind of thing is impossible to happen over there, because what the chief requires is that the top few will be rewarded and can add a bowl of white rice to the next meal.
However, Zhou Yude vaguely understood something from the strange behavior of the group of people in front of him.
Because after this group of soldiers finished running, although they all collapsed on the ground, they all had smiles on their faces, and they had a particularly harmonious relationship with each other.
Zhou Yude seemed to see a unified momentum, which was completely different from the situation there.
His eyes turned to another phalanx again, this phalanx was simply training horseback riding.
The requirements are also very strict. It does not require you to be a superb equestrian, but you need to be able to show off your skills.
Zhou Yude is also different from them in this regard. There is also regular cavalry training there, but there is no mandatory requirement for slight irregularities in the formation when riding.
However, it is different here. It is required that the error cannot exceed half a marathon. Once someone is ahead or falls too far behind, the instructor will soon single him out for training.
But thinking about it carefully, Zhou Yude seemed to understand.
"Is this a training method brought over from Marshal Feng? I also heard that Marshal Feng is very strict in training troops. It's no wonder that Marshal Feng has thirteen Taibao and the Five Tigers under his command."
Zhou Yude got a reasonable explanation in his heart, because Feng Shuai was indeed in the first echelon of many warlords in terms of combat power.
If Feng Shuai hadn't been too poor, Feng Shuai's troops would have been more effective.
"It seems that Zhao Ming is really willing to spend money on his subordinates!"
Zhou Yude knew very well that if he wanted to train these people so desperately, he must first keep up with the food supply.
In fact, many people can endure hardship these days, but most troops don't practice this way because they can't keep up with the food supply.
For some generals, who have hundreds of thousands of soldiers under their command, if they are allowed to eat meat and white rice for every meal, their family will be destitute in less than a year.
This is why Zhou Yude laments that if he can practice like this, he will have to see some meat and fish in every meal.
And this time, Qiangzi also came back again.
"So you are here. Come with me. Master Zhao is back and he wants to talk to you."
Qiangzi smiled and pointed in the distance.
Looking in the direction of the other person's finger, Zhou Yude was a little confused. Where was the person? who?
"Uh... little brother, who is Mr. Zhao in your family?"
He was a little embarrassed. There was a group of people standing opposite him. He really didn't know who Zhao Ming was. Could it be the calm-looking young man next to him?
It can't be the young man in the middle, right? But this one is too young, right?
"Which one? Of course it's the one in the middle. My Mr. Zhao is very young and easy to identify!"
Hearing this answer, Zhou Yude was shocked.
Is Zhao Ming so young?
Although I heard that Zhao Ming was relatively young, I didn't expect him to be so young. He looked like he was no more than twenty-five years old!
"You are the special envoy sent by Chief Zhang, right? Hello, hello! Don't know what to call me?"
Just when Zhou Yude was stunned, the young man opposite had already strode over and took Zhou Yude's hand without much air.
"Zhou Yude, with the rank of major, sir, just call me Xiao Zhou!"
Although the other party was young, Zhou Yude would not really treat him as a piece of cake.
The atmosphere in the Dutong Mansion has been very strange recently. He has heard about some of these situations, and he has a vague feeling that it is not simple at all, and it may have something to do with the person in front of him.
