Chapter 25 "New Recruit" Training

  P.S: Today's first update, promised four updates today.

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  That night, the soldiers of the First Hundred slept particularly soundly, their tired snores rising high. The nights in Huadu were a bit chilly, even though it was already summer. In the middle of the night, Yun Qi sat up, put on a cloak, and quietly got out of bed. Borrowing the faint light from the campfire outside, he took a glance at the sleeping soldiers and couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile.

  Only to see these big-headed soldiers, usually one by one, vigorous and mighty. At this time, they looked like pigs with their bones removed, with all sorts of sleeping postures on display. Yun Qi shook his head and sighed. He quietly walked up, one by one, from head to toe, tidying up the blankets for each soldier. Some had too exaggerated sleeping postures and were carefully turned over by Yun Qi. After everything was done, it was estimated that the sky was already late, Yun Qi thought for a moment and decided to go back to bed for a while, as the whole day's training after dawn would be enough to keep him busy. Still quietly walking back to the bedside, he hung his clothes aside, gently lifted the blanket, and lay down. Before long, a soft snoring sound came from him.

  At this moment, in the dark of night, several pairs of eyes opened simultaneously. If they could see clearly, their eyes would reveal a complex and unnatural glance, looking away and taking a peek at Yun Qi on the bed.

  The vast darkness was about to dissipate, and some white light gradually appeared in the sky. The torches in the camp also gradually faded away. Good sleep habits made Yun Qi slowly open his eyes. The soldiers were still sleeping, at this moment, even if it was later generations, it would be around five o'clock, not yet time for morning exercises. But Yun Qi couldn't sleep anymore, and after he got dressed, put on his soft armor, he walked out of the camp alone.

  Outside, the patrolling soldiers are also nowhere to be seen, probably they have gone for shift change and rest.

  "Ah... " Yun Qi yawned, looked up at the sky, summer days always come the fastest, in just a little while, the whole sky was bright and clear, only leaving the rising red sun.

  Yun Qi thought for a moment, then turned around and walked into the camp. He lifted up the tent flap, and the sound of snoring filled his ears. He grabbed the drumstick and wooden basin used to assemble the troops yesterday, and started beating them fiercely without warning: "Get up... get up... get up... the sun is shining on your butt!"

  Under Yun Qi's fierce beating, the soldiers one by one rubbed their blurry eyes, and one by one mechanically got out of bed, started putting on clothes, and wearing soft armor. However, their movements were slow, so Yun Qi had to shout again: "Within the stipulated time, I'll count to two hundred. If there's still anyone who hasn't dressed properly, today's breakfast will be skipped! One... Two... Three..."

  The soldiers didn't expect Yun Qi to count so suddenly, without any warning, and they were all startled awake, their movements also quickening a lot, the scene instantly becoming lively.

  "One hundred and fifteen!"

  At this time, almost half of the soldiers had gone out, and a few were rummaging through their beds for clothes and pants that they didn't know where to put.

  One hundred seventy-two!

  There were seven people left in the entire camp. After great difficulty, they finally managed to put on their clothes and hastily took down the soft armor from the wall and put it on their heads.

  Nineteen ninety-eight...

  When there were only two left out of nearly two hundred, the last soldier also put on all his equipment and ran out of the barracks.

  "Alright, everyone! Get to the training grounds as fast as you can. From now on, you're all new recruits and we'll start from scratch according to my plan. Let's go!"

  As the soldiers received their orders, they dispersed in a hurry and ran quickly to the school grounds. Yun Qi only then adjusted his soft armor. The Southern Kingdom's soldiers had two sets of armor: one was the hard armor used on real battlefields, made entirely of copper and iron, which protected every vital part of the body very thoroughly. There was also another kind, which he was currently wearing - this soft armor had a defensive capability that was far inferior to the heavy armor, but it increased mobility, mostly used for training or on archers and light cavalrymen; when encountering swords and spears, if they couldn't escape in time, they could only become souls under the blade.

  The black soft armor on Yun Qi's body was quite suitable, and when he saw that there was no one around, he imitated the generals in ancient movies, posing a few times, and after a round of self-entertainment, he estimated that those big-headed soldiers had already lined up, so he lifted his feet and walked towards the school field.

  In the training ground, only the first hundred people stood alone in a vacant lot. Yun Qi, on the other hand, took a glance at the sleepy-eyed soldiers with great interest and walked up to one of them who was still half asleep. Suddenly, he let out a loud "Ah! Ya!" which scared the soldier so much that his eyes widened in shock.

  "Look at you all, it's this late and you're still not awake?" Yun Qi scolded the soldiers in front of him with a tone of dissatisfaction.

  The soldiers could only lower their heads, no one dared to speak. Yun Qi shouted again: "All of you, lift your heads up, eyes wide open... you... yes, you... stand up straight, suck in your belly... damn it, how can your posture be so ugly?"

  "Hahaha......" The surrounding soldiers couldn't help but burst out laughing when they saw the soldier who was scolded by Yun Qi, his posture was quite strange.

  "Haha......" Yun Qi also smiled, but his laughter was somewhat cold. Yun Qi furrowed his brow, raised his hand and extended his index finger to tap his ear, saying lazily: "Since you all like laughing so much, it seems everyone is well-rested and full of energy... Alright, first have you all run around the school field ten laps as a warm-up."

  "Ah?" The soldiers in the front row heard it most clearly, they couldn't help but look at each other, with an unbelievable expression. Since they were all suddenly attacked by Yun Qi last night, their physical strength was naturally not as good as before, and now Yun Qi wanted them to run ten laps around the school field first.

  Seeing the expressions of these soldiers, Yun Qi shrugged and said innocently: "You didn't hear wrong, I let all of you run ten laps first, run ten laps around the school field, start immediately!"

  "Yes!"

  The soldiers of the First Hundred all remembered what Yun Qi had said yesterday about responding to their superiors, and now they all responded in unison. Led by Han Changsheng and another captain, the others followed behind, and over a hundred people started running along the edge of the campus at a distance of about one thousand meters.

  It's just a 10,000-meter run in the morning, maybe some people won't think it's anything. But for those who have been training for a long time, running 10,000 meters every day is almost a piece of cake. Even when this group of soldiers had just started and hadn't even touched the second item on their training schedule, they didn't think it was that difficult. In fact, Yun Qi even discovered that some people were whispering to each other, who knows if they were talking about themselves.

  Yun Qi suddenly shouted: "Shut up while running, the whole team will add two more laps, and eat after finishing!"