"Lao Yang and the others are back, they seem to have brought a lot of things~"
When a netizen named "Blue Bird" who was standing guard at the top of Suifeng Dun used a high-pitched voice to say such a shout full of surprise.
One second ago, the rookies were slumped on the ground like mud, telling instructors such as Hu Biao that they were too tired to move their fingers.
They stood up quickly in the next second, as if they were resurrected with full health.
Then, with excuses like 'I want to help Lao Yang and the others' and 'Brother AT must be exhausted', they rushed towards the direction where Yang Dongli, AT, Huang Yizhi and other three people appeared.
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Good guy! That's a pretty good running speed.
It seems that with their physical reserves, they will have no problem running another 800 meters.
In fact, it is not to blame these rookies, their current reaction is quite normal; not only the current time, but also judging from the position of the sun in the sky, it is already two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
Even the netizens who drank two bowls of compressed biscuit paste and a few pieces of canned meat last night.
But I haven't eaten breakfast or lunch, so almost seventeen or eight hours have passed.
I have been training hungry since the morning, and now I am so hungry that my chest touches my back. Several otakus who are a little puffy even said that they have symptoms of hypoglycemia and dizziness.
In addition, Hu Biao and other veterans trained the rookies, but they did not relax because they did not eat.
I have been working hard from morning till now, with very short rest time in between.
Basically, after drinking a bowl of boiling water and sitting for two cigarettes, I started to practice again; by now, these guys are also very exhausted physically.
So at this moment, these people are thinking about one thing:
Even if there is still a while before dinner, it will be much easier to help with cooking, fetching water, and collecting firewood later than being trained by Hu Biao and the others, right?
In this way, a group of them happily welcomed Yang Dongli and the other three back like family members.
After getting closer, Hu Biao and the others could see that Lao Yang and the others had indeed brought back a lot of things, including several large and small cloth bags, as well as several chickens and some meat and vegetables.
When they were more than twenty meters away, Hu Biao started shouting at the top of his voice:
"You guys were safe along the way today. You didn't encounter any Tatar cavalry, right?"
"We didn't meet any Tatars, but we didn't even meet any pedestrians along the way. The gate of the village fort was also tightly closed. They looked at our badges and interrogated us for a while before letting us in."
After hearing this, AT responded quickly.
The so-called waist card is a wooden sign with some simple information engraved on the back; the system provided Hu Biao and others with one this time, which is regarded as a military household ID card from the Ming Dynasty.
The words from AT's mouth just fell. Yang Dongli had already introduced some more critical things to everyone, which was what they gained from this trip:
"Today we went to the three villages of Chiang Kai-shek, Jingwei, and Jigonggou. We walked dozens of miles back and forth.
I brought back 4 buckets, almost 73 kilograms of white flour, 3 chickens, 10 kilograms of pork, 5 bundles of Chinese cabbage, half a bag of carrots, some onions and garlic, and two pieces of old cowhide.
I couldn't buy rice, but it was said that I had to go to the grain store in Huangtubao to buy it.
But we bought a bag of millet and could make millet porridge for Xie Guangkun to drink.
We asked about adopting him. The people in the village said that the situation in the past few years has been difficult. They can't even feed their own children. How can they have enough food to adopt another baby?
By the way! We also bought some incense sticks for timing purposes, which are enough to last half a month.
The above things cost us a total of five or two three cents."
(The author searched on Baidu for a long time and couldn’t find out what the prices were in Shanxi in the late Ming Dynasty, so he made up one. A knowledgeable person might as well point it out and we can change it later.)
After hearing these remarks, Hu Biao's face suddenly became relaxed.
Unexpectedly, AT spent 5,680 yuan of his own money, and the 26 taels of silver he bought on the website had pretty good purchasing power in the late Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, Lao Yang later revealed some bad news:
"We heard that other supplies such as gunpowder, weapons, armor, etc. can be purchased at Pingyuan Fort, but it is more than 20 miles away from here.
We thought you were still hungry, so we came back early today and planned to go again tomorrow.
Inquire about more information, purchase some equipment and supplies, and see if you can solve the second phase of the mission; by the way, see if anyone is willing to adopt Xie Guangkun.
But Lao Hu, you have to be prepared for equipment, gunpowder and other raw materials. I heard that the prices of these things are not cheap at all. We have a lot of silver and gold left, but we can’t buy much."
Faced with such a statement, Hu Biao spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth far away.
He yelled: "Never mind, let's eat first before talking.
Everyone gets moving, a few people go to collect firewood, a few people go to carry water, and those who are good at making fires, making noodles, and washing vegetables all take action spontaneously. Let's start by serving two large bowls of cabbage and pork noodles."
At such a statement, everyone cheered...
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After finishing this meal, which I don’t know whether to describe as breakfast, lunch, or even dinner, it was already after four o’clock in the afternoon.
Perhaps due to the intense training, everyone's appetite has greatly increased.
During the course of the meal, everyone consumed a quarter of the flour, half of the pork and cabbage, and even Ali, a thin-looking girl, ate a large bowl of noodles.
Normally, that would be at least two days' worth of food for her.
If Huang Yizhi hadn't looked at the pot and scooped the last bit of noodle soup into his own bowl, the girl thought she might still be able to eat some.
After finishing eating, Hu Biao gave the rookies a full half-hour of luxurious rest time.
It's not that he pities these exhausted rookies, just kidding! Compared with the process they carried rocks, picked up dung, and cut down trees in Kucha City, this scene is already a lot easier, isn't it?
The real reason was that he was worried that something might happen to these overfed guys who would immediately start high-intensity training.
It should be noted that Hu Biao and the others are now able to basically control the time.
To put it simply, it was their personnel who were on sentry duty at the top of Suifeng Dun and started to light the incense sticks.
These special incense sticks are used to measure time. Each stick of incense can burn for about half an hour. As long as they light it one by one, they can record the time.
The specific time may differ by a few minutes, but the sky is much better than before.
In this way, everyone continued training until the sky completely darkened, and then Hu Biao gave the news that they could return to Suifengdun.
As for dinner, I ate it not long ago because I was thinking about it. For the purpose of saving a little, Hu Biao didn't make any arrangements.
It was precisely for this reason that, except for Ali, who had to take care of her baby, the other rookies collapsed on the crowded kang without even washing their faces.
Within two or three minutes, snoring could be heard one after another.
Even Lao Hei, a veteran of the PLA, and Lao She, a serving SIR, are like this. It's just that their snoring is slightly quieter in comparison.
There's no way! The intensity of today's training was just too much for them.
Due to his profession, Lao She, this SIR, usually does not have as much training intensity as PLA. Faced with such training that is like a big animal, I really can’t bear it.
After Lao Hei retires, of course he will not maintain the same training intensity as before.
But what they didn't know was that when they were sleeping to death, Hu Biao was secretly greeting Commander Sipujie who didn't know they were doing it during their training, and Xu Feng and other veterans were still awake.
Already.
Huang Yizhi and AT were smoking cigarettes to refresh themselves while standing guard at the top of the pier.
Lang Qing, Fengrui and the other two men damaged Hu Biao's Mingguang armor, which was repaired with iron wire and armor pieces. They dismantled the damaged parts one by one and repaired them again with cowhide strips.
The main reason is that in their opinion, Hu Biao's repair method will cause many gaps in the armor.
Wearing this thing to fight, aren't you looking for death?
Yang Dongli and Xu Feng used some rattan and cowhide to try to weave a rattan armor.
The rattan used by the legendary rattan soldiers had to go through many processes of soaking in oil and being exposed to the sun, and the rattan in their hands was chopped back while collecting firewood in the afternoon.
The performance of a rattan with leaves is definitely far behind that of a regular rattan.
The problem is, no matter how bad the rattan armor is on your body, it’s better than nothing at all, right?
Hu Biao, a commander who was always on the move, even carried a large oil lamp and carefully inspected the rooms of netizens.
He took off their shoes and covered them with dirty, strong-smelling tattered quilts.
Of course, the reason why Hu Biao did this was actually because he was worried that these rookies would catch a cold, which would mean that he would lose a big animal that he could command.
However, don’t pay attention to so many details at all, as long as the result is the same...
