Hey, ha!
Hey, ha!
Raise the long knife, step forward with your left leg, and chop!
Sheath the knife.
Raise the long knife, step forward with your right leg, and chop!
The light of the sword split open the last darkness and created a dawn.
Xiao Cheng looked at these resolute-looking sergeants and nodded slightly.
The foundation of the Quanzhou Guard sergeants is far inferior to that of the Yulin Guards. Their strength, sword skills, agility, endurance, and perseverance are not as good as those of the Yulin Guards. They can only be tempered little by little.
Monk Kong Yue walked towards Xiao Cheng, chanted the Buddha's name, and asked calmly: "How many people left yesterday?"
Xiao Cheng chuckled: "Forty-six."
Kong Yue stared at her eyes and mused: "It took more than half a month to train, and more than 300 sergeants left. If this continues, it won't be long before the Quanzhou Guards are empty. In my opinion, deregistration should be cancelled, and let They have no way out."
Xiao Cheng waved his hand: "Whether it is the Quanzhou Guard or the imperial court, what they want is a strong army, not cowards who can't even endure the hardship of training! It's a good thing for those people to leave."
Kong Yue saw Huang Senping coming, so she walked over and saluted, and then expressed her worries.
Huang Senping smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Quanzhou Guards will send documents to Commander Gu every day, reporting on the training status and the list of deregistered sergeants. Commander Gu said that he would rather reorganize the Quanzhou Guards into pieces than turn it into a puddle of mud. Quanzhou Guards! You just need to train, don’t worry about how many people leave or how many people quit their citizenship, you have to take care of your own responsibility."
Kong Yue and Xiao Cheng looked at each other, bowed and left.
Huang Senping clenched his fist.
We must have the courage to break first and then build, and not to break but to build!
The Quanzhou Guard is a local guard, and the sergeants here are indeed not on the same level as the killing talents of the Yulin Guard.
Any sergeant of the Yulin Guards is strictly selected, and the selection criteria are very simple, that is, who is stronger, what battles he has fought, how he performed, how many people he has killed, and how many heads he has in his waist!
The Quanzhou Guards had not been selected. The battles they experienced were mainly against pirates and Japanese pirates, and most of them were with more people fighting less. Gu Zhengchen's attitude was very clear. The imperial court had not selected the Quanzhou Guard sergeants, so let the Quanzhou Guards choose for themselves.
Eliminate the weak and preserve the strong!
When night fell, the instructor shouted the order to disband.
The sergeants suddenly fell to the ground, gasping for air.
Shi An shook his body, resisted not lying down, and walked home exhausted.
When Juan Niang saw Shi An coming back, she quickly stepped forward to help her and called her eight-year-old daughter Xiu Xiu to bring hot water. Her three-year-old son was ignorant and wanted Shi An to hug him, but Juan Niang rushed him aside.
Xiu Xiu brought the basin with hot water. Juan Niang asked Shi An to sit down, took off his shoes, and poured out the water. She saw that the white cloth wrapped before going out was already red, and she couldn't help but feel distressed.
After untying the cloth and looking at the bloody soles of her feet, Juan Niang said softly: "The blood blisters are all worn out, there's no need to pick them."
Shi An chuckled: "This saves trouble."
"Dad, why don't we - we won't be training anymore? Aunt Wang and the others have already deregistered their citizenship a few days ago..."
Xiuxiu saw her father suffering and couldn't help but persuade him.
Shi An raised his big hand, touched his daughter's head, and said with a smile: "Dad has rough skin and thick flesh. When these injuries heal, they will transform into calluses and there will be no more pain. This little pain right now is nothing to hurt. I remember when my father fought with the Japanese pirates, he had a huge gash in his waist, so I would have chased them and killed him for two miles."
Juan Niang rolled her eyes: "I almost lost my life, but I still have the nerve to brag. Commander Gu is the same. Pirates and Japanese pirates are not so powerful right now, so why are you training you to death?"
Shi An shook his head: "I don't know why, but I know that Commander Gu is doing it for our own good. In the past, with one stone of food and salary, we could barely train every day. Now that we have three stones of food and salary, we naturally have to pay more. People, one person Why don't you live a good life every day? If you can eat better, I will bring you more food. As long as you can't die in practice, just practice with all your strength. When we become a hundred households, life will be easier, right?"
Just as Juan Niang was about to speak, she saw two people walking outside the fence. Just when she felt strange, Shi An quickly stood up and saluted after seeing clearly, "Commander Gu!"
Gu Zhengchen walked into the narrow courtyard with a smile and waved to Shi An, Juan Niang and Xiuxiu who were saluting: "Get up, everyone. You are here in casual clothes. No saluting is required."
Shi An quickly asked Juan Niang to move the stool. Gu Zhengchen leaned over and teased Shi An's youngest son, then sat down and said to Shi An, "Can you still bear it?"
"no problem!"
Shi An slapped his chest, making a thumping sound.
Gu Zhengchen stretched out his hand and grabbed Shi An's ankle. Shi An wanted to pull it back, but heard: "Don't move."
Shi An had no choice but to lower his head.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Shi An's sole of the foot where the blood blisters were broken and broken. He nodded, put it down and said, "The pain when the blood blisters burst is really unbearable, and being stung by sweat is even more uncomfortable. I miss you, sir." When I was in Jurong, I had to climb a mountain to investigate a case, but my feet also had a lot of blood blisters, and I was still limping on the road the next day."
Shi An didn't expect that Gu Zhengchen had suffered like this.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Juan Niang: "My wife also asked me why I worked so hard when I was picking my feet. Yes, it's so comfortable to be a magistrate, sitting in the lobby, fiddling with paperwork and drinking tea. , not guilty. But this is not possible. When you are an official, how can you know the suffering of the people if you don't go among them. Similarly, if you are a sergeant, how can you protect your home and country if you don't train hard?"
"Our Quanzhou Prefecture is not at peace. There is no need to worry about the navy at the moment, but what happens once the navy is ordered to leave? In the final analysis, the safety of Quanzhou Prefecture still needs to be shouldered by the Quanzhou Guards. To tell you the truth, I rarely use toilets. He lost his father, so I hope this child also loses his father."
"As a sergeant, it is inevitable to fight. I, Gu Zhengchen, am the commander of the Quanzhou Guard. I have only one wish. If our sergeants are strong, if we come with one ship of enemies, we will destroy one ship of enemies. If we come with ten ships of enemies, we will destroy ten ships! Destroy the enemies, no matter how powerful they are, we will destroy them." It must be done at the cost of sacrifice. The sergeants have become stronger. One can fight five or ten. If a group of sergeants fights against a group of pirates, are you afraid that there will be no zero casualties?"
Shi An nodded repeatedly, and Juan Niang was also moved by Gu Zhengchen's words.
Gu Zhengchen smiled and said: "There are still many enemies in the Ming Dynasty. After the Quanzhou Guard's sergeants become stronger, they will have many opportunities to climb up. Hundreds of households, thousands of households, and even commanders and princes are not impossible. Not to mention other things, just If a thousand families work hard, that will bring glory to the family."
Shi An's head was burning, and he clenched his fists and said, "Commander Gu, don't worry, I will stick to it to the end!"
Gu Zhengchen stood up and patted Shi An on the shoulder, saying seriously: "You are a good man!"
Good man!
Shi An smiled honestly, he was considered a good man!
That night, Gu Zhengchen visited many sergeants' homes. The high-intensity training indeed made many sergeants complain, and even made their family members incomprehensible. Some sergeants were psychologically shaken.
In this situation, Gu Zhengchen stood up and shouted to the Quanzhou Guards sergeant after the assembly early the next morning: "Why, everyone has a bird in their crotch, but they can't be prosperous? You can't bear this even in just training. Is the pain more painful than when a wife loses her husband and children lose their father?”
"The ancients say that only by enduring hardship can one become a master! I, Gu Zhengchen, said that as long as you have strength and are willing to endure hardship, you can get generous wages! Where is the disobedient aura of everyone in the past? If you are a man, straighten your chest! Start now, put on leggings, carry twenty kilograms of weight, and run ten miles!"
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others made preparations.
Lin Baifan took out strips of cloth, tied them up for Gu Zhengchen, and handed him a backpack weighing twenty kilograms.
Xiao Cheng, Yue Kong and others were shocked when they saw this scene.
Huang Senping stepped forward to stop him: "Commander Gu, otherwise, you are a civil servant and cannot participate in this kind of training."
Gu Zhengchen packed his bags, pushed Huang Senping away, and shouted to the entire army: "Some sergeants said that I can't endure such high-intensity training for even a moment! Commander Huang and his colleagues said that I am from a civilian background and cannot participate in this kind of training." training! But what I want to tell you is that I am a man from Quanzhou County in the Ming Dynasty and the commander of the Quanzhou Guard! Now, start training!"
Some sergeants were inspired by Gu Zhengchen's actions, but some secretly wanted to see Gu Zhengchen's joke. Even Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others couldn't help but sweat.
Xiao Cheng didn't understand why Gu Zhengchen did this, but he didn't stop him and stayed with him.
Training begins!
Gu Zhengchen started running with the sergeant. The first mile was indeed not too tiring, but by the third mile, Gu Zhengchen was out of breath and sweat began to pour on his forehead. At five miles, Gu Zhengchen's breath became confused, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted.
When they reached seven miles, a few of the sergeants were already panting from exhaustion, but they turned around and saw Gu Zhengchen still running, and couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Everyone knew that Gu Zhengchen was actually a civil servant with a weak body and could not even draw a five-dou bow. But such a frail figure did not leave much behind a sergeant.
Gu Zhengchen was already exhausted. Even if he insisted on morning exercises every day, he still couldn't bear such high-intensity and long-term non-stop running.
But Gu Zhengchen couldn't stop or fall!
We must set a benchmark for sergeants, a benchmark that can withstand the pain of training even if a scholar is weak!
To boost morale, generals often need to personally lead the charge!
If you want these rough guys like sergeants to truly surrender, you must show enough quality and ability to conquer them!
To control the hearts of the guards, a whip was used.
This training is used to win over the Quanzhou Guards!
My legs were trembling, I couldn't seem to breathe, and my body had reached its limit. When he ran into Jiuli, Gu Zhengchen fell down suddenly. If Xiao Cheng hadn't caught him, he would have hit the ground heavily.
"That's enough. If you keep running, you will die from exhaustion."
Xiao Cheng said seriously.
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others came over to persuade.
Gu Zhengchen took a few deep breaths, sat on the ground, untied the cloth strips of his leggings, and tied them tightly again, stood up tremblingly, clenched his fists, and shouted loudly: "If there is a raging fire ten miles away, , this is a battlefield, and the enemy is killing our comrades! Am I, Gu Zhengchen, about to fall here? Move forward!"
