Hearing the screams, Wei Yuan and his companions hurried over. They were shocked to see three or four recruits lying on the stone road wailing, with arrow feathers sticking out of their arms and feet.
"This...what's going on?" He Yuan asked, looking at several new recruits beside him whose faces had turned pale with fright.
How could there be bloodshed during such a good assessment? And with so many people injured, it definitely didn't look like an accidental injury...
Wei Yuan and his companions also saw the new recruits around them. It's not that no one saw Ji Yue thirty meters away and a group of blindfolded new recruits holding bows and arrows beside him, but they were unwilling to guess because the idea was too shocking and unbelievable.
"Yes... General Ji ordered the archery. Everyone must crawl forward and pass through the rain of arrows three times to pass..."
The man's answer had just come out when a new round of arrow rain came down intensively. The six people who had already crawled for more than ten meters all quickly dodged with pale faces, not daring to delay for even a moment, let alone lose concentration, because the wailing behind them was still lingering in their ears like a devilish sound.
"ah……"
Suddenly, two more people were hit by arrows, but fortunately, these two people reacted quickly and were able to endure it. When the arrows pierced their shoulders, they rolled on the ground and quickly avoided other arrows, so that they were not hit by arrows again.
As a result, only four people were left out of the group of ten, crawling quickly. Their faces were pale from the intense shock, but their eyes were nervous yet filled with determination. They had come this far, and there was only one last round of arrow rain, and they had to pass it!
A group of Northwestern veterans who were standing at the starting point in the distance and witnessed with their own eyes the fifty arrows shot at the new recruits crawling on the stone road all felt disbelief and speechless.
It’s so fucking exciting!
"This General Ji is really...really unique..."
He Yuan stared blankly at the two injured recruits being carried aside for treatment, and then at the remaining four who continued to crawl quickly. Every movement they made seemed as urgent as if they were walking on the brink of life and death, but in their urgency they were also absolutely cautious and calm.
It's really... so unexpected...
It is unprecedented that Ji Yue would use such a cruel method to train these recruits.
Tan Qingxiu was also stunned. He also did not expect that Ji Yue would actually take real action against these recruits. You know, although these people are not in danger of life, they may end up with lifelong disability if they are not careful.
He really dares to train like this! ...
"Isn't this too fucking cruel?..." Hu Xiang stared in amazement. With so many arrows, if they could only crawl on the ground, they would probably be shot and injured.
"The strength of these new soldiers has improved so rapidly. Not to mention the veterans, even us veterans would be more or less injured if we were to encounter a situation where we could only crawl forward."
Wei Yuan said the most realistic words, which also reminded everyone of their deviated ideas, causing the veterans to look at the four new recruits who were once again facing the last batch of arrow rain.
Watching them dodge flexibly and crawl forward quickly, and hearing that in addition to having to face the rain of arrows and being under time limits, these recruits actually did it. All four of them passed through the last batch of rain of arrows and moved quickly towards the finish line, finally arriving at the finish line at the last moment when time expired.
It was so powerful that it was unbelievable and shocking at the same time. With such speed, such quick reaction and such strong mental quality, they finally had to admit that no old soldier could compare to these people.
"General Ji is as awesome as ever!" Liu Suli laughed out loud with his eyes shining with admiration.
The look of blind worship made the people around him roll their eyes speechlessly.
On the other side, Ji Junyue looked at the four people who had successfully broken through and raised the corners of her lips: "Very good performance."
Such a joke finally made the panic in the hearts of the four people erupt, but it also warmed up the coldness in their hearts. With red eyes, they looked up at the Jue Yan boy in front of them with a praising smile.
His eyebrows and eyes are delicate and he has an arrogant attitude that looks down on the world. He is unrestrained and cruel. However, it is precisely this kind of unfathomable young man who transcends worldly constraints, does not play by the rules, and makes them want to submit and follow him willingly.
It was he who gave them faith and motivation, and the power to protect themselves, even though the process was extremely harsh, cruel and painful.
"General Ji..."
The four of them muttered to themselves subconsciously, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say. Their eyes were red and they couldn't tell whether they were crying because of grievance or joy after success.
Ji Junyue reached out and patted one of them on the shoulder: "Go and have a rest. There are several other tests waiting for you. If you have overcome the most difficult one, the others should be no problem. I'll wait for you to enter the new training base."
The words "a new training base" made the four people's eyes light up. With General Ji's affirmation and encouragement, they will definitely pass the assessment, and they must pass the assessment!
After the four people left, Ji Junyue looked up at a group of new recruits standing still in the distance: "What? Are you scared? So you trained for so long and suffered so much just to back down today and become deserters and leave the barracks? After all, the battlefield will only be bloodier and more cruel than this."
The low-pitched and magnetic voice carried a hint of sarcasm and provocation. Although they were at a distance and could not see Ji Yue's expression clearly, just by listening to his words, they could feel a sense of grievance and unwillingness.
Yes, they have suffered so much and persisted until now. Are they going to retreat just because of a few arrows in front of them?
The battlefield is far bloodier and more cruel than this. If they go there now, at most they will get injured but not die. But on the battlefield, people will die.
If they can't even overcome the danger in front of them, how can they go to the battlefield? Soldiers who can't go to the battlefield are driven back and kicked out of the barracks. They will undoubtedly be laughed at by the world, and they will not be ashamed to go back to see their relatives...
Then, some people came out, one, two, three...
Until ten people gathered, Peng Xunyi, who was standing by and watching, restarted the time and shouted start again. Looking at the few people crawling forward, he seemed to think of the time when he provoked General Ji. Thinking about it now, he really felt that he was so stupid at that time.
It is a blessing in his life to be able to follow such a powerful man as General Ji and become a soldier under him. He will definitely continue to follow in General Ji's footsteps!
Groups fell down and groups moved forward. Wei Yuan and others watched from the starting point, watching teams of people crawling forward in the rain of arrows and growing in crisis. The speed of their growth was shocking.
They have seen the difference, a huge difference. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of recruits who are still training on the battlefield, the recruits here have left them far behind, a speed that they will never be able to catch up with unless these people stop themselves.
It turns out that Ji Yue's training method is so effective, much better than a hodgepodge. At least it can make everyone feel a sense of crisis and be motivated, and it will not let the capable people waste time with the weak.
It was only the last day of February, and there were still two full months until the March deadline. These new recruits were already elite, and it was hard for them to imagine how strong these recruits would be in two months...
At ten o'clock on lunchtime, Ji Junyue ordered everyone to take a break and eat, while Wei Yuan and others walked to Ji Junyue's side.
"General Ji, after today's assessment is over, will those who passed the assessment have new training?" Wei Yuan asked.
Ji Junyue did not hide it and nodded: "Yes, every time after the assessment, new outstanding talents are selected, they will receive more brutal training. I want not only a regular army, but also an elite army."
This statement shocked Wei Yuan and the others. An elite army? An elite army of more than 200,000?!
This appetite is not small. You know, in an army of 200,000, at most 50,000 elite soldiers are already the most powerful. Since he wants all the more than 200,000 new soldiers to become elite, this is simply...
It was simply unbelievable. They could only swallow those words of criticism silently. It was Ji Yue who had the ability. Besides, the facts were before their eyes. With the training intensity and improvement speed of these recruits, there was more than a 50% chance that Ji Yue would succeed in doing what he said!
Now this second batch of new training methods have made these recruits so strong, and Ji Yue actually has another more cruel training method. That means that those who pass the assessment this time will become several times stronger than they are now in fifteen days. This knowledge made several people feel scared.
"General Ji is truly a man of great talent. I wonder how General Ji came up with such an incredible training method?"
Tan Qingxiu looked at Ji Junyue, curled his lips slightly, and asked calmly.
Ji Junyue looked at Tan Qingxiu and curled her lips in the same way: "It's just some sudden thoughts."
Tan Qingxiu did not continue to entangle with this obviously perfunctory words, but a hint of deep meaning and inquiry flashed across his eyes. Why did he feel that Ji Yue was becoming more and more mysterious...
Wei Yuan sensed the cold atmosphere and immediately laughed out loud, "Come on, little brother Ji, let's go eat first."
Ji Junyue nodded and left the training ground with a few others. After having dinner and resting for two minutes, everyone gathered in the training ground again to continue the assessment that was not completed in the morning.
It was not until the sky turned gray that more than 80,000 people completed the assessment. After dinner, Ji Junyue called Liang Yu and others to sort out the results together, and let everyone train on the training ground according to the previous training programs.
Ji Junyue and his group moved quickly. Almost as soon as the hour of Hai arrived, Ji Junyue took Liang Yu and others to the training ground, while Feng Ye took Ye Yan and others to the battlefield.
When the people who were training on the training ground saw Ji Junyue and others coming over, they gathered together and stared at Ji Junyue with nervous and tired expressions, full of expectation.
Ji Junyue lived up to everyone's expectations and spoke directly without any verbosity.
"Out of 81,025 people, a total of 46,106 passed the assessment. I am quite satisfied with this result. I hope that those who did not pass can continue to work hard and strive to advance in the next assessment. Those who passed will leave the training ground and go to another place for training. The following training will all become real drills, not just training."
Ji Junyue glanced at the people who were puzzled and said, "That is to say, the new training will all be survival training, which is real and cruel. It will no longer be just a monotonous and boring repetition of training items like before."
These words made everyone excited but at the same time they couldn't help but panic and worry. The mere three words "survival", "cruelty" and "reality" made them feel a sense of cruelty and death. It was obvious that the next new training would be cruel and dangerous.
"Now each team should organize their men to check the results in batches."
After Ji Junyue finished speaking, she walked out of the crowd, while Liang Yu and others had already copied the results and posted them on the wall.
Afterwards, Ji Junyue went to the battlefield. At this time, the people on the battlefield had already started to check the results. Ji Junyue did not affect them, but just stood aside and watched. After everyone saw the results, he walked up to the stage to select the generals.
"Now, all those who have passed the test will line up separately on the left."
Out of the 160,000 people, 100,000 walked out, leaving only over 61,000 who failed to pass the second test. Ji Junyue could only say that this result was expected, and he could not say whether he was satisfied or not.
Ji Junyue's eyes fell on the 60,000 people, with a bit of oppression: "This is already the second assessment. I hope that for the third time, all of you won't have to stay here."
Afterwards, Ji Junyue handed the people over to Feng Ye and took the 100,000 people to the parade ground.
The scope of the parade ground has been expanding over the past ten days, so it can barely accommodate the training of more than 100,000 people. After bringing these 100,000 people here, Ji Junyue asked those who did not pass the assessment in the parade ground to rehearse all the training in the parade ground.
A person was selected who had great abilities but failed the assessment due to poor performance. He was Zhang Nan, who had provoked Ji Junyue together with Peng Xunyi.
Ji Junyue asked Zhang Nan to be responsible for the training on the parade ground and to guide the training of more than 100,000 new recruits, and then walked to the front of the 46,106 people who were lined up in a separate formation and stood still.
"When the drums sound for training tomorrow, you don't need to gather here. Gather directly at the entrance of the barracks."
Everyone was very curious, but at the same time they were also a little nervous, thinking that the upcoming training would be scary...
As it turned out, everyone guessed right again. When the assembly drum sounded early the next morning, when everyone arrived at the gate of the military camp, they saw 120-kilogram logs piled on the ground. They were very familiar with this, so they didn't react much.
Until Ji Junyue issued the first task of the day: "Everyone, carry a weight and hold a log for a five-kilometer cross-country run. The time limit is two quarters. Those who are late will do 200 squats with the log. Let's go!"
As soon as these words were spoken, no one had time to think. Following the sonorous word "departure", everyone hurriedly picked up a large log and ran away as if they were given an injection of chicken blood. They were so fast that it seemed as if there was a ghost chasing them from behind.
Ji Junyue jumped on his horse and galloped in front of the large army. The horse's hooves kicked up clouds of wet dust, choking the people behind him and making them tear up.
If it had not been the beginning of spring and a lot of snow in the northwest had not melted yet, with Ji Junyue's deliberate actions, the yellow sand swept up would be enough to fill the sky instead of just submerging half of a person's body.
Fortunately, this month's high-intensity training was not in vain. Although everyone was running in the dust, they did not slow down. When Ji Junyue reined in his horse at the entrance of the grove, when the specified time came, all the more than 40,000 soldiers in the army gathered at the entrance of the woods.
At this time, this group of recruits no longer threw away the weights and lay down on the ground after running the weighted cross-country race. Instead, they put down the logs in an orderly manner and lined up in an orderly manner.
"Do you see the small backpacks next to them?"
When everyone heard this, they turned their heads to look and saw a pile of small backpacks on the ground.
"Each of you will take one in a while. The things in this small backpack are the same for everyone. A dagger, a map, a tinder, a water bottle, a pack of healing herbs, and a firework. All of you will take the things in this small backpack and go into the small forest behind the grove to survive for seven days. You are not allowed to come out during these seven days. You must take care of your own food and drink. You can steal food, but you cannot kill people."
"We have already set up various traps in the forest. Not only that, there are also various wild beasts. This is a life-and-death test and training. If you encounter danger and want to give up after entering, you can launch fireworks and I will send people to rescue you. You can act alone or in a group. You can come out of the forest after seven days. If you launch fireworks for help within seven days, you will be returned to the training base."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces tightened and their hearts were in an uproar. They thought that they had passed the assessment and would be able to live in peace for at least the next fifteen days, but no one expected that this training would be so strict and even extremely dangerous.
They survived in the mountains for seven days without any food, and even had only a small pot of drinking water. They had no knives, no bows and arrows, no spears, only a dagger.
This means that in the next seven days they can only rely on the hunting skills they have learned during the march, the martial arts they have learned in this month, and ordinary rescue methods to save themselves.
None of these matters. The most important thing is that the forest is full of traps and wild animals. These are the truly dangerous and deadly existences! ...
Ji Junyue calmly looked at the surprised faces of the crowd and said, "I don't need to explain what this training is about. I just want the soldiers I lead to be able to survive in any harsh environment, no matter what method is used."
"This time, no one can help you. You can only save yourself. Even if you send a signal when you are in danger, we may not be able to arrive in time to save you. This means that everyone who participates in this training is in danger of their lives. Now, make your decision. If you don't want to continue, you can return to the training ground."
Everyone looked at each other in silence, hesitant and wavering. After all, it was normal to hesitate when facing life-threatening situations for the first time, but no one stepped forward and said they wanted to give up.
When they joined the army, they knew that they might have to face death in the future, so they were already prepared to die on the battlefield. Even if they were afraid or timid, they were unwilling to retreat.
Moreover, it has been more than a month. They have been training with General Ji for more than a month. The training during this period is enough to hone their tenacity and perseverance, and to sharpen their character. They are General Ji's soldiers, and there is no reason to retreat. Even if they die, it should not be a cowardly and incompetent death!
"General Ji! We are your soldiers, we will never back down!"
"Yes! We will never back down! We will follow General Ji to the battlefield and kill those bastards!"
"That's right! General Ji won't have any cowardly soldiers under his command. We will never back down!"
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A series of resolute and determined voices slowly rang out, until everyone spoke firmly, and then Ji Junyue's lips curled up with a satisfied arc.
These were elite soldiers who had gone through two assessments. They should not have retreated. They should have been tougher and braver than anyone else. Fortunately, they did not let her down.
Liang Yu, Ruan Mo and others stood beside their respective teams and watched without saying a word from beginning to end. There was no way they would retreat. They had made up their minds long before, so how could they be shaken by danger? Ji Yue was the person they wanted to follow, and that would not change now, nor in the future!
"Good! You finally lived up to my teachings. Now everyone will be divided into two groups. 20,000 people will go in first, and the remaining 20,000 people will stay outside the grove. We will take over after seven days."
Following Ji Junyue's order, the first group of people each took a small backpack and carried it on their backs and divided into small groups and entered the grove, then went all the way to the forest behind.
After all 20,000 people entered, the energy in Ji Junyue's body began to circulate, and a map appeared in his sight. All the new recruits who entered became green human figures walking on the map. The places marked with red dots on the map were where there were traps, and the individual running red dots were wild beasts.
Last night, she brought Feng Ye and others to set up traps on the mountain overnight, and cleared out the wild beasts on the mountain. Large beasts such as wild bears were either driven away or killed directly by them, leaving only some wild wolves, tigers, leopards, wild boars, etc., which could be dealt with by the force of everyone.
As for mechanical traps, they don't necessarily take people's lives. They are traps that can injure and trap people, such as deep pits, ropes for hanging people, hunting traps, etc.
However, if a trap and a wild beast are encountered at the same time, it can be fatal.
Those who stayed outside the woods were taken by Ji Junyue to the top of a nearby cliff that was a hundred feet high. Below was a stream depression, and a pile of long ropes had been piled on the cliff in advance.
"Now your task is to climb down from here and climb up again, on your own. No one will help you."
Although this was their first time trying such a high distance, and without any help, everyone present was able to fully master this training, so there would be no mistakes. The most they had to do was to overcome psychological barriers.
So everyone didn't say much, nodded, and divided into teams to look for leverage points to tie the ropes. After everyone completed the task with trepidation, Ji Junyue's next task finally made everyone change their expressions.
"The rope has been set up for you. Climb from the top of this cliff along the rope in the air to the forest on the opposite side, and then climb back."
This time, except for Ye Yan and Shu Wei who did not follow the first group into the forest, the rest of the people were shocked and looked at Ji Junyue in disbelief, as if they were wondering if she had said it wrong, or if they had heard it wrong...
The distance from here to the other side is at least five or six hundred meters, not to mention the height of a hundred feet. If you fall down, you will really die...
Ji Junyue didn't say anything, but just asked Ye Yan and others to demonstrate to everyone.
Ye Yan and his companions picked up the safety belts piled on the ground nearby and put them on. They passed the rope through the safety buckle and tied it to another rope in the air. Then they climbed up the nearby rope without any protection, just using their hands and feet to climb up while holding onto a rope.
There is a rope tied to the safety belt and then to another rope in the air not far away, so that you can save yourself in case the rope breaks.
Everyone watched Ye Yan and his companions climbing the hundred-foot-high rope swiftly. They seemed to have no idea what fear or danger were. They kept moving away without stopping, which made everyone look at them with admiration and shock.
It's not that no one can do it, so they should all do it because they are the best legion in the entire Northwest Army.
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There won't be two updates today. I have to go to a dinner party tonight. If I come back late, I won't be able to update after 10:30. So I'll take a break tomorrow and try to update more. The content about training should be finished tomorrow and I can write new content. Roar, that is to say, exciting things are coming again~
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