Southeast, Nanyangyuan, training ground.
The scorching sun is spreading heat unbridled. On the training ground, a bunch of "new recruits" are standing in a military posture under the scorching sun. Their heads are sweating like fountains. They have a brick on their head and a brick on their neck. There were two needles sewn on both sides of his collar, a wooden board was sandwiched between his knees, and a piece of paper was also sandwiched between his hands and legs, but the paper was soaked with sweat at this time. It has become wrinkled, and some have even broken, leaving only a small corner completely remaining between the fingers.
Some of them were trembling all over, their knees were shaking like chaff, some were even tanned and shiny, and some were teetering on the verge of falling, with stars in their eyes, and when they were about to fall to the ground, there would be an immediate sound around them. A sharp shout: "Stand still! Don't harm anyone!!"
"Yeah, hold on, it's almost time!"
The shaky guy will grit his teeth and persevere again. It’s not that these people don’t want to throw away the piece of paper in their hands that has wrinkled their fingertips, it’s not that they don’t want to get rid of the bricks above their heads, it’s not that they don’t want to escape at all costs. They lay down in the shade to rest, but not far in front of them, there was a guy who was cut to pieces with a thousand cuts. He was eating honeydew melon fished out of the well under the pergola, while lying on the couch and looking at them with a smile.
This guy is a real devil. He set a trap for them so that they can't get out if they get in. He also gave them such a set of "equipment". If the brick above their head falls, they will eat less. After a meal, all the paper on your hands will fall off. If you miss another meal, if one of your companions can't stand it in the middle of the meal, falls down, or gives up, then everyone will also miss another meal!
These requirements may not seem too harsh, but in reality they are desperate!
After more than ten days of training, they had been tortured by Li Chengfeng until they collapsed and despaired!
At first, they were full of resentment and felt that they had been cheated by Li Chengfeng, because the requirements he made seemed simple, but in practice they were simply impossible to achieve!
But when someone did it, the reward Li Chengfeng gave them was beyond their imagination.
The easiest one is to add meals!
It sounds easy and ordinary to say, but food is the most important thing for people. As long as they can meet the standards, they can have meat for every meal and four meals a day!
Especially they will eat some good things that they never thought of! For example, the honeydew melon that Li Chengfeng was eating in front of me! These are good things that only nobles can eat on weekdays!
At this time, just looking at them, they were almost drooling. The reason why they were not drooling yet was because the scorching sun had almost evaporated all their water. The water in their bodies had turned into sweat, and their clothes were also dry. Wet, wet, dry, there is a thick layer of salt on the clothes.
Finally, when the shadow of the sun on the ground passed the flagpole, Zhao Xiaobao, who was also under the pergola, said with a smile: "It's time!"
They swayed and fell down, but some people tilted their heads and their necks were immediately pierced by the needle points. The pain made them tremble and they got up again screaming.
Li Chengfeng looked at them with a smile and said, "Hey, didn't you say you can't hold on? After two hours, aren't you quite energetic? Come on, let's run ten laps each!"
This sentence almost paralyzed everyone with fear, and they almost fell to the ground. They all looked at Li Chengfeng as if they had seen a devil.
Li Chengfeng said with a smile: "Oh, I'm just kidding, get up, get up! You guys performed well today, come in and have some fun."
The eyes of these guys who had been trained to death immediately shone, and they rushed into the pergola with a cheer, and took the sliced honeydew melon piece by piece from Zhao Xiaobao's hand.
Li Chengfeng looked at them with a smile as they gnawed on the honeydew melon, with their hands and mouths full of sweet juice. As he was waving his fan, a figure stood next to him. When he turned around, he saw a guy with shiny dark skin. Standing next to him, grinning at him.
"Hey, Hei Dan, what's the matter?" Li Chengfeng naturally recognized this black guy.
This is the hardest-trained and hardest-working soldier among these "new recruits". He is tall, strong, and has a simple and honest personality. Li Chengfeng can't help but think of Senior Brother He Zhu when he was in Cangjian Pavilion. This also made him quite fond of this guy nicknamed Black Egg.
Every time after training, Heidan would always come to Li Chengfeng and say a few words, as if he wanted to deliberately make friends with him.
Li Chengfeng was well aware of Heidan's little idea and did not expose it. He just watched it with a smile.
Heitan scratched his head, hesitated, and said in a squeaky voice: "Envoy Li, we want to ask Envoy Li something."
"Oh? Tell me." Li Chengfeng said with a smile, but his appearance really caused a heavy psychological shadow on others, who already called him "Smiling Tiger Envoy" behind their backs.
Heidan asked very embarrassedly: "We would like to know if the military envoy's training sect is still recruiting people?"
Li Chengfeng never expected that Hei Dan would actually have this idea in mind when trying to get close to him these days. He looked at Hei Dan up and down and said with a smile, "You want to join our Lingshan Sect?"
Heidan nodded quickly, but waved his hand nervously: "No, no, no, we don't dare to expect to be a disciple of the Lingshan Sect. Our qualifications are like a chicken and a dog, so we can be favored by the Lingshan Sect. We I'm just asking, does the Lingshan sect still accept tenants?"
Li Chengfeng was stunned and looked at him in surprise: "Why don't you give it a try? Maybe you can become a disciple of the Lingshan Sect?"
Heidan scratched his head in embarrassment and said with a smile: "We still have two younger brothers and three younger sisters. We can't leave them to become monks. Even if we choose, the family can't afford to support them, so we might as well go Become a tenant, and then see if you can work as a servant for the masters, so that you can earn a living."
Li Chengfeng was even more surprised: "Haven't you already become a Xiang army? Now as long as you pass the training, you can become a regular army. At that time, the military salary will be doubled. Isn't it better than being a tenant?"
Hei Dan looked around and saw that everyone was concentrating on eating honeydew melons. He stepped forward and lowered his voice and said: "I don't dare to hide anything from the military envoy. We are just soldiers to eat. It is good to be a monk." , but we are not good at fighting. If we are caught on the battlefield like now, won't we die even faster? There is a war coming soon, and we don't dare to die here. If we die here, the whole family will be hungry. Damn it!"
Li Chengfeng looked solemn and said, "Where did you hear that there was going to be a war soon?"
Heidan wondered: "Those golden-haired ghosts have been fighting with us for decades. Now they don't want to fight with us to determine the outcome? How can there be peace talks?"
Li Chengfeng actually guessed that the peace talks with the Puppet Kingdom were just a delaying measure, but for Long Tenghai, he also needed time to rectify the army and logistics, so he accompanied the other party in the peace talks in a tacit understanding.
But now even an upright guy like Hei Dan knows that this peace talk is fake! There will definitely be an earth-shattering battle next!
Li Chengfeng patted Heidan on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, you won't be able to go to the battlefield by then! After this battle is over, I recommend you to go to our Lingshan Sect Hidden Sword Pavilion!"
Hei Dan was overjoyed and quickly wanted to kneel down and kowtow: "Thank you so much, envoy, sir!"
Li Chengfeng quickly supported him and shouted in a low voice: "No kneeling in the military camp!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Han Tianxing's voice coming from far away: "Senior brother, senior brother!!"
Li Chengfeng and the people in the pavilion looked up, only to see Han Tianxing rushing towards him and saying nervously and expectantly: "The peace talks... have broken down!"
The "recruits" in the pergola suddenly fell silent, and the honeydew melons in their hands suddenly lost their aroma and sweetness.
Because they know that a terrifying war with millions of people is about to begin!