Great Tang princess

Chapter 243 Army Life
It is about to enter the sweltering heat of June, even in the morning before the sun comes out, you can already feel a little bit of heat.

The sky had just turned white, and Li Yuechen, who had already woken up early and finished yoga, came to the military camp playground.

At this time, the visibility conditions are not very good, but for the military barracks with transparent glass windows, they can already see some things around them clearly, at least they don't have to worry about being bumped into.

Several soldiers with drumsticks were already standing in the pavilion below the barracks, stopping in front of the big drum, waiting for Li Yuechen's order.

As the orange-red sun slowly revealed a little edge, Li Yuechen raised his hand, and then suddenly swung it down.

The soldiers in the pavilion immediately raised their drumsticks and pounded heavily on the big drum.

"dong dong dong dong..."

The sound of the military drum representing the charge order resounded throughout the barracks instantly, and the sleeping soldiers opened their eyes one after another.

"Quick, let's beat the drums! Put on your gear and go down to assemble!" The squad leaders roared and quickly got up and got dressed.

The soldiers jumped up from the bed one after another, quickly put on their clothes and equipment, and came to the playground to assemble.

Li Yuechen counted the seconds in his mind and counted the time. It took less than 10 minutes for the soldiers to run out.

Afterwards, without her ordering, all of them immediately looked to the right, stood still, and organized their formation.

It took about 1 minutes, the formation was integrated, and everyone stood at attention in front of Li Yuechen.

"The time for you to gather is much slower than I imagined!" Li Yuechen said loudly, "Everyone is there! Turn to the right! Get ready! Run!"

After the words fell, Li Yuechen was the first to run out, and the soldiers behind followed quickly.

The runway of this playground, Li Yuechen, has probably calculated that one lap is about 500 meters, and it takes about five kilometers to run about ten laps.

At present, this army is still in the training stage, let's start with five kilometers, and when it is almost the same in the future, gradually increase to ten kilometers, and finally go to Mangshan to open a cross-country track and run ten kilometers.

The soldiers carried steel ingots on their bodies, and they were already sweating profusely not long after they started running.

Li Yuechen slowed down a little, and almost yelled in the middle of the team: "Hurry up, hurry up, you must work hard to become an elite. Otherwise, no matter how long you stay in the army, you will be a waste! One two one, one two one... …one two three four!"

"One! Two! Three! Four!" The soldiers also shouted together.

"Can't hear you, speak up!" Li Yuechen roared.

The soldiers yelled again, louder this time.

It is summer now, and the soldiers are not wearing camouflage uniforms with long sleeves and trousers, but specially made physical training uniforms with half sleeves and large pants.

After all, this is an era without air conditioning. If you wear long-sleeved trousers for training in summer, if you suffer from heat stroke, it is impossible to directly carry it indoors to enjoy the cool.

After running five kilometers, Li Yuechen asked the soldiers to disband and go back to their respective dormitories to clean up and organize the housework.

According to the requirements, the soldiers folded the thin linen cloth into a square shape and put them on the bed, arranged the sheets, and then took their wooden buckets to fetch water by the stream to wash.

Li Yuechen had asked the craftsmen in the weapons development department to research the hand-operated water well pressurizers that used to be in the countryside when she was a child, but she personally felt that she had little hope.

The main reason is that there is no rubber in this era, so it is really difficult to make such a thing.

The structure is quite simple, but the sealing problem is a big problem.

There is currently only one well in the barracks, and it is too troublesome for 500 people to use it, so the soldiers go directly to the stream at the entrance of the barracks to fetch water, and then go to the washroom to wash.

There is a simple sewer in the washing room, which can directly flow the water after washing them to the vegetable garden behind after some simple filtration.

In this day and age, no chemical materials are used for brushing teeth, washing hair and face, so it should not be a big problem to water vegetable fields.

After the soldiers washed up, they gathered at the entrance of the cafeteria. After the roll call, they all went in to eat.

……

After eating, the soldiers walked out of the cafeteria and continued to assemble on the playground, waiting for today's training.

However, Li Yuechen said: "The awarding of titles will begin now. Geng Yunqiang!"

"To!"

Li Yuechen beckoned him to come over, and said with a serious face: "From now on, another name for our Zuoqianniuwei will be the Reconnaissance Battalion. Today, you will be appointed as the battalion commander and awarded the rank of major!"

As he spoke, he put the major epaulets with two bars and one star on his shoulders.

"Niu Ermao!"

"To!"

"You were appointed as deputy battalion commander and awarded the rank of captain!"

"Yes!"

After putting the epaulettes on the two of them, Li Yuechen asked them to go to the next level to perform the awarding ceremony.

Then the company commander wears it to the platoon leader, the platoon leader confers the rank of corporal to the squad leader, and finally the squad leader of each squad confers the rank of private to ordinary soldiers.

The entire process of the conferring ceremony is very serious. This sense of ceremony is very necessary. They must realize that what they carry on their shoulders is a responsibility!
After the conferring ceremony was completed, almost half an hour had passed.

Afterwards, Li Yuechen waved his hand, and two young men also wearing military uniforms came over.

The soldiers frowned slightly as they looked at the two people who came over. Their only feeling was that they were too young, they were still two children at all!
The age is no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, and should be about the same age as the princess.

But they didn't dare to question it, if they had the same natural power as the princess, it would be a slap in the face.

"These two are currently considered to be military graduates. Your task is to learn characters and arithmetic from them!" Li Yuechen explained.

Hearing this sentence, many of the soldiers below were puzzled.

Niu Ermao said directly: "Report!"

"Say!"

"Dare to ask Your Highness, why do you want me to learn this kind of culture?"

Many soldiers also nodded, agreeing to this question as well.

"Good question!" Li Yuechen nodded, "Remember, a unit with excellent combat effectiveness must be a unit with culture! In the future, according to your level of study, it will also affect various promotions such as final promotion. question!"

The soldiers stopped talking. In this day and age, being able to learn culture is something that many people look forward to.

Although I feel puzzled, it is a good thing that the princess is willing to teach them culture now. It can be regarded as fulfilling an ideal that many people grew up with.

Li Yuechen set for them to study culture for an hour each day at the hottest time of day, that is, before and after lunch, in order to prevent them from heatstroke.

……

In the afternoon, Li Yuechen chatted with the imperial cooks in the cafeteria.

"Do you know if there is any meal to cool and relieve the heat?" Li Yuechen asked casually.

Although there is a way to make ice with saltpeter, and occasionally the soldiers can eat some ice cream or something, but this thing is not good to eat often, after all, it is not nutritious.

After hearing Li Yuechen's words, an imperial cook raised his head and said, "Return to Your Highness, there is a medicinal ingredient in Qianjin Fang that should be fine."

"Medicine?"

Hearing that it was medicine, Li Yuechen frowned.

As the saying goes, medicine is three-point poison. This theory is especially true in Chinese medicine. We can't give medicine to soldiers every summer, right?
But thinking about it the other way around, the boundary between medicinal materials and ingredients in this era seems not so obvious.

So he nodded: "That's it, you go back to the palace today, and show me tomorrow!"

"Here!"

Originally, Li Yuechen had no hope, but after bringing the so-called medicinal materials the next day, Li Yuechen laughed.

Isn't this mung bean? Then I looked through the Qianjin Fang that the imperial chef also brought back. The name recorded on it was Qingxiaodou.

This thing seems to be an imported product. It has not been long since the Tang Dynasty, and it seems that it was brought by the Indian alchemist who made Taizong alchemy.

But let alone, mung bean soup is indeed a magic weapon for relieving summer heat, arrange it now!

……

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the hottest month of June.

However, since the soldiers are studying Chinese and mathematics indoors with two young teachers at the hottest time of the day, and there is mung bean soup in the afternoon, no one has suffered from heat stroke during this time.

At noon, the soldiers finished their morning studies and gathered at the entrance of the cafeteria to sing loudly.

Li Yuechen stood directly in front of the team, swinging his arms and directing the beat.

The singing of the soldiers was a little out of tune, but at least the voices of hundreds of people shouting in unison were shocking.

"Let the blood stain the most beautiful flower red and sprinkle it on my chest~~~"

"Flags fluttering, drums ringing~~~"

"...Go ahead, go ahead~~ The Army Soul of the Tang Dynasty! Hey!"

After the song was sung, the soldiers entered the cafeteria in formation and began to eat.

The soldiers may not know the meaning of singing, but they can clearly feel that since singing together, the relationship between the soldiers seems to be much more harmonious.

But Li Yuechen remembered that during the military training, he always sang before every meal.

But at that time it was not this, but one, two, three, four.

It's just that at this time, the uniforms are all black, and the barracks are not green, so I'm afraid it's a bit of a drama to sing, so I taught them to sing this.

……

For the work and rest in the barracks, Li Yuechen adopted a seven-day system.

Training is from Monday to Friday, and the rest system is endless on Saturdays and Sundays. At the same time, morning exercises must continue, but Saturdays and Sundays are no longer complicated training, but activities such as rugby or Cuju.

At the same time, there will be an intensive training on Wednesday, the training time will be later and the intensity will be higher.

Every week, I will pick a certain night to make a fuss, and come to an emergency meeting in the middle of the night.

At the same time, there is also education on Thursday. After dinner, tell them how soldiers should be loyal to the country and the royal family, so that they can understand the importance of it.

During this period of time, the physical fitness of the soldiers has gradually improved, and the 1000 meters obstacle has gradually been put into training.

The soldiers also gradually began to adapt to the discomfort at the beginning. Originally, they fell asleep as soon as they lay down at night, and gradually they had the energy to lie down and chat for a while before falling asleep.

At night, Li Yuechen who passed by the corridor of the barracks listened to the whispers of soldiers chatting in each room, and nodded slightly.

The next day happened to be the day to go back to the palace, I had a meal with my parents, and at the same time invited Wang Xiaojie to come over for a chat.

Wang Xiaojie is Li Yuechen's most promising fighting instructor, and his kung fu is a real fight from the battlefield.

If Li Yuechen didn't have this kind of divine power, he probably wouldn't be able to do five moves in his hands.

After having dinner with his parents in Renshou Hall, Li Yuechen came to a pavilion in the imperial city, sat down with Wang Xiaojie, made a cup of tea and chatted.

"Does General Wang know about the changes in Zuo Qianniuwei?"

"The final general knows, but he doesn't understand what His Highness ordered?" Wang Xiaojie asked.

Li Yuechen picked up the teacup: "This new army will mainly do investigations, sneak attacks, and assassinations in the future... General Wang has outstanding skills. Figure out a suitable set of kung fu..."

In this day and age, inheritance from master to apprentice is very important. Even if she is a princess, she cannot easily ask others to fully contribute her mantle.

After listening to Li Yuechen's words, Wang Xiaojie fell into silence.

Now he is only an official at the level of a general. For a person like him who has no family background and no relationship, it is not easy to get into this position.

Of course, if there are wars in the future, it is not a problem to make more military achievements and continue to rise, but who can say for sure about wars?

If one fails, the whole life will stop here.

After a while of silence, he raised his head and said, "To tell you the truth, the general himself intended to find an apprentice to pass it on in the future. It’s okay to spread the word about the problems of old age, this one’s own ability!”

If it was someone else, he wouldn't necessarily say that, but the princess is different.

All civil and military officials in the court know that the princess is now the number one in the world. In the future, as long as there are more wars, some qualifications, and when she gets older, she will definitely have a pivotal position in the military.

Besides, this is not the first time that a princess of this dynasty has led troops to fight, and her future status is predictable, she is a person with absolute power.

If he could hug the princess' thighs, it would be safe in the future. That's why Wang Xiaojie could say this.

People who came from the army, when choosing a backer, most of them would choose someone from the army first. This is completely a subconscious reaction.

Compared with the prince licking a lot of dogs, Wang Xiaojie felt that since the princess took the initiative to offer an olive branch, it would be better to continue first.

After all, even if he wants to join the prince, whether the prince recognizes him or not is another matter!
"General Wang, don't worry, this army in this palace will definitely solve your problem. And if there is a war in the future, these soldiers will make military exploits, and you will inevitably be a part of it..." Li Yuechen laughed.

Hearing the princess' assurance, Wang Xiaojie immediately stood up and saluted: "Thanks to His Highness's love, I will finally be willing to do my best for His Highness!"

"Okay, General Wang, hurry up and get rid of the ceremony!" Li Yuechen smiled and stretched out his hand, and at the same time smiled secretly in his heart.

After this matter is settled, the training mode of this army will be clearer in the future.

(End of this chapter)