Chapter 32 – Marquis
On the drill ground of Little Meng City, a large umbrella was blocking the scorching sun. Wu Qi was laying flat on a bamboo couch underneath the umbrella. On his left was a plate of braised wild boar ears, and in his right hand, a glass of fine red bronze wine sat. He was singing some song pleasantly while drinking wine every now and again.
Faded water vapor was hovering around Wu Qi, forcing the heat away and making it so that no dust could touch his clothes. In hot weather like this, Wu Qi could stay cool, dry, and clean, regardless of his surroundings. This might be the one thing that gave him the most pleasure in this world.
In contrast, the drill ground beside him was covered with dust. A few thousand City Guards were being cruelly trained by Zhang Hu and Hu Wei.
Zhang Wu and his barbarian hunters were teaching these City Guards the techniques and skills of melee combat, while Hu Wei and the elites from the third battalion were responsible for training these rookies to work together in different formations. The combination of both was perfect. It had made these City Guards into real soldiers in a short period of time.
Within the woods outside the city, there were twenty thousand new recruits undergoing more brutal and cruel training. The training program was prepared by Wu Qi, and he used the special forces training program back on Earth as a guide, but had the key performance index increased by ten to twenty times. Since this world was so rich in energy, all the men here were extra strong, when compared to men from Earth, therefore, no matter how tough the training was, no one would die in the process.
Those soldiers who could get past the initial boot camp in the woods, would proceed to get themselves torturously trained by Zhang Hu and Hu Wei on the drill grounds. At that time, they would be considered an official rookie City Guard.
Lu Chengfeng had become the new acting Mayor without any challenges, so, naturally, Wu Qi had taken over his previous job and become the new acting General. Since he had become the new General, Wu Qi had to show his abilities. With the incredible knowledge of Le Xiaobai that merged with him, it was a piece of cake for Wu Qi to develop a training program for new recruits boot camp, and he even made a set of military rules.
The people in this world were born to be soldiers, it just took a little time and effort to train them. Also, Lu Chengfeng had brought a foundation skill - ‘Tome of the Enduring Soldier’, which was perfect for killing in a combat, and this was taught to these City Guards. In just a few months time, these soldiers had transformed completely. Now they looked like an elite army.
An elite army of nearly thirty thousand soldiers. This strong force had made Lu Chengfeng become someone who shouldn’t be taken lightly. Therefore, these past few days, Lu Chengfeng had looked bright and breezy, focusing all his attention on managing Little Meng City and going through everything by himself, doing his best to make Little Meng City become stronger and even more prosperous. After all, this was his first job. Shouldn’t he be working hard at it?
Three months ago, the ex-Mayor of Little Meng City, Yi Yan, and his men were killed by barbarians. The incident soon quieted down, like a drop of water under the hot sun. Even the Yi Family didn’t pursue it any further. Yi Yan was not the first one who got himself killed by barbarians, and he wouldn’t be the last. Every couple years, there would be a batch of Little Meng City officials killed by these barbarians, so people of the Lu Kingdom had gotten used to it.
That’s why Wu Qi could lay comfortably on the drill ground, watching the scene in front of him, as if it was a monkey show, and examining how Zhang Hu and Hu Wei trained these unlucky City Guards brutally. For Wu Qi, watching those soldiers be torturously trained to extreme tiredness was one of the most pleasant feelings he had since coming to this world!
“Making other’s sorrows into one’s own happiness, this life lesson of Le Xiaobai is really ingenious!”
Casually crossing his legs, Wu Qi suddenly grabbed a wooden stick and threw it out forcefully. He shouted, “Xiaobai, are you trying to be lazy? Hurry, move your body! Move it! Anyone who dares to slow down, I’ll beat you with this stick!”
Meng Xiaobai, who was wearing a custom training suit and carrying two hundred pounds of iron weight on his back, cried out in pain. He stroked his sore butt, which was hit by the stick, clenched his teeth tightly, and followed the movement of the elite soldiers from the third battalion, who were teaching them how to change their positions in order to switch formations. For each formation change, the heavy pike in their hands, which was made specially for training, had to follow a specific sequence of actions, like stabbing, blocking, slashing, and matching their teammates beside them to perform an assault or defend maneuver.
On top of their heads was the scorching sun and they were surrounded by flying dust. The weight of the training gears on their bodies was more than four hundred pounds. Painful. Incredibly painful. But, no matter Meng Xiaobai or any other men from Meng Village, no one ever complained about this.
The ‘Mighty Ox Strength’ was circulating through their bodies at an incredible speed, keeping their their strength replenished. Mighty Ox Strength, it was a skill of self-torture. Just like the hard working ox, the best way to cultivate with Mighty Ox Strength was to overloaded one’s body with a massive amount of exercises and to squeeze every last drop of energy out of one’s body, making the body break through it’s limit and activating the strongest potential of the person.
The Mighty Ox Strength was not an advanced skill, but those who cultivated with it would become a warrior which had super strong stamina, strength, and a great fund of life.
Wu Qi had made himself clear with Meng Xiaobai and the other men. There was no free lunch in this world. If these men from Meng Village wanted to have a bright and prosperous future by working for Lu Chengfeng, they had to work hard, harder than anybody else! If not, how would you expect Lu Chengfeng to pay you handsomely? Why did he have to give you the power and wealth? If you wanted to get these, work hard for it!
Under the preaching of Wu Qi, these six hundred men from Meng Village transformed into six hundred wild ox, training themselves with self-torturing excercises.
Meng Xiaobai was not a fully grown into his adult, as he was still young. Although he was having a hard time following the pace of the training, under the supervision of Wu Qi, he still clenched his teeth tightly and followed every single training exercise. In just three months, Meng Xiaobai’s strength and skill had become completely different.
Finally, a sound of beating drums could be heard, and all the soldiers on the drill grounds stopped their exercises at the same time, regaining their strength by breathing rapidly. It was lunch time, and the overloaded training had made these soldiers feel extremely hungry. Their eyes seeming to glow with hunger.
The soldiers who worked in kitchen smiled and pushed some big carts out onto the drill grounds. Delicious meat, fine liquor, fragrant rice. Despite the fact that each of them was only allowed to drink half a pint of herbal liquor to stimulate their qi and blood, they were allowed to eat as much as they wanted. As long as there was more room in their stomachs, the food never ran out.
The few thousand soldiers on the drill grounds gulped simultaneously, producing a loud unified gulping sound.
Wu Qi let out a happy laugh and picked up the last few pieces of braised pig ears, swallowing them. Then he finished all the wine in the glass and walked toward the door of drill grounds while clapping his hands. “My brothers, eat all you can and drink to your fullness. One hour from now, the training resumes. *Sigh* I have a different mission. Now I need to go to the Green Mountain Restaurant and enjoy some delicacies and fine wine! But, why not bring some of you with me? Don’t worry, when you can defeat Zhang Hu and his men and can become the personal guards of the Mayor’s Mansion, then you will be able to join me!”
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