Chapter 83. Spring and Autumn, Warring States Period (22) Military Promotion

     The next day, Ye Mo went to pick up Wang Xue who was punished to write in confinement. Before leaving Momen, Xu Ruo and Wang Shi told Wang Xue to listen to the young lady and not to make trouble.

     Wang Xue was desperate: “Yes, yes, yes, I’ll listen.”

     The two went to the farm in Beijiao for the purpose of the women’s army. Ye Mo couldn’t give up so many troops. Wang Xue had been in Emei for a few months and had a set of methods to train martial artists. It was perfect for her to be in charge of this matter.

     Especially for practicing outside.

     Wang Xue talked about some indispensable basic skills.

     The first project was standing.

    «The Secret of the Twelve Emei Villages»: “Imitating heaven and earth, The universe, round and void, gives birth to the law of existence.The subtle movements of the body, large and small, are controlled by the mind. The qi and the veins, in stillness and motion, generate life. When the mind is focused, the spirit is present. The body opens and closes, rising and falling. With downward movement, there is a ‘hehe’ sound; with upward movement, a ‘si si’ sound. In this unity of opening and closing, the internal elixir is formed.”

     Others were confused.

     The irritable Wang Xue came online: “I don’t understand this. Are your Chinese classes taught by the physical education teacher?”

     Ye Mo: “… Uh.”

     Fortunately, there were Sun Ba and Zhu Yuan, a guy with a dark apple face, who translated and created the rules, making the basic skills straightforward. However, Sun Ba’s research was very strict, which made the female soldiers miserable.

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     Seeing that the women’s army was on the right track, Ye Mo left two guards to help before leaving the farm, and gave Sun Ba, Zhu Yuan and other five reserve soldiers whose strength attributes had increased significantly a special internal cultivation method.

     The internal cultivation method comes from the Five Elements Law.

     Understanding the Five Elements Law, and then understanding the rules of the method, writing a matching method is equivalent to applying the basic formula to physics problems, which is not a big deal.

     It’s just that different physics problems have different solutions, some methods are complicated, some are simple, and the simpler the better for practice.

     The Five Elements Law can be used to predict good and bad luck, to create formations, and to apply to human medicine, etc., all of which are solving different types of physics problems, and the essence remains the same.

     Ye Mo cannot practice, but can use the Five Elements Law to customize one, two or three sets of internal cultivation techniques for people. This is how the internal cultivation techniques of Wang Wu, Sun Ba and He Shisi came about.

     Of course, she also asked the witch doctor in the mansion.

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     At the same time, the new recruits in Chuyang City are also preparing for training.

     Three days before the new recruits successfully join the army, the military doctor and the alchemist will give the soldiers who do not have a suitable internal cultivation technique a set of suitable five-element internal cultivation techniques based on the different five-element attributes of each soldier’s root bone.

     According to the alchemist’s test, the root bone talents of the agents are above the average level compared to the local soldiers, and Zhang San has the highest root bone talent, with attributes tending to water and wood.

     Among the three official survivors, Wang Qi is the strongest.

     His natural aptitude is above average. According to his birth chart, the diviner determined that though his spiritual potential is modest, his fire-based bloodline talent is also somewhat above average. It’s a pity he wasn’t born in a different time

     In the Irish copy, Wang Qi missed a great opportunity to awaken his physical ability, which means that he needs more time and luck to regain such a new opportunity.

     Among the remaining 179 reserve soldiers, there is 1 with excellent physique talent or above, 8 with good physique talent or above, and 29 with intermediate and above intermediate physique talent, breaking the highest record of the proportion of good and excellent physique talents in each batch of recruits.

     A high physique talent means a higher possibility of becoming a peak powerhouse, and inner cultivation will be easier.

     The soldiers and generals of Chuyang City were pleasantly surprised one by one. They were originally dissatisfied with the increase in the number of recruits this time. At this time, they also retracted their original negative comments and were very satisfied with this spring recruitment.

     Among the 13 agents, those with leadership potential were scattered to different military camps. With the friendship of joining the army as the foundation, they quickly formed their own temporary recruits in just three days.

     Wang Qi, who has good cooking skills, unexpectedly became the mascot of the army, resolving the conflicts between new and old soldiers.

     The first important goal of Zhang San and his team after entering the military camp was to familiarize themselves with the work and life of ancient soldiers.

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     Three days later, the new recruits ate and lived with many old soldiers. They would train for a month, including internal and external cultivation. This part of the old soldiers was the soldiers who failed in the previous winter hunting or even the last spring recruitment, that is, they did not cultivate the five elements of internal force.

     The new recruits also fully understood the process of the military camp.

     Each soldier has about two years to cultivate. If they cannot cultivate internal force, they will always be ordinary soldiers, no longer concentrated training, and there is a high possibility that they will be cannon fodder on the battlefield.

     Among the new recruits, more than 20 have entered a new stage of internal cultivation. Wang Qi and the other two survivors who have system attributes have also cultivated a little heat flow, that is, internal force, on the fifth day after entering the military camp.

     Those recruits who have internal strength, as well as soldiers who have developed internal strength within a month, are all key talents to be trained. Soldiers who have not developed internal strength within this month will have the opportunity to train with summer recruits.

     The training is very hard and tiring.

     Before soldiers cultivate their inner strength, simply meditating and reciting a few cultivation techniques isn’t enough. Nor can they start by directly practicing boxing, swordsmanship, or martial arts with a staff. They need to find their suitable path within the foundational exercises.

     Basic exercises include running, standing firmly, standing still, standing in a relaxed pose, striking wooden posts, sparring, sword practice, and staff practice

     Every day, get up at 4:30, gather for running at 5:00, eat breakfast at 9:00, and have dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon. After the sun sets, we continue under the moon and stars until we disperse at 9:00 in the evening.

     The intensity of this training is no less than that of special forces training.

     Even the special forces, who are stronger than before and have super high perseverance, are so tired that they don’t want to move their fingers every year after the high-intensity training in the first three days. Every reservist has cried for his parents because of exhaustion.

     And the military rules are strict.

     If the mission is not completed on this day, they may be sent to guard the gate of Chuyang City that night. If there is a violation, they will be punished and whipped. There is no complaint and human rights do not exist. If they do not change after repeated violations, expulsion from the barracks is the best result. There are also many who are imprisoned in Bi’an Prison and die.

     It was not uncommon for soldiers to die in training in ancient times, but there would be bloody buttocks or backs every day. There are strings of new recruits guarding the city gate every day.

     In addition to training, military doctors also prepared some powders that can help strengthen the body and reduce muscle strains. Although these powders are not particularly precious, it is still quite expensive to provide them to tens of thousands of soldiers.

     Therefore, the big stone pool where the soldiers bathed was the best place to sprinkle the powder. This was probably the “medicine bath”, which was taken every three days and took half an hour each time.

     In order to avoid hurting each other’s noses, the soldiers would often take a shower before taking the medicinal bath, and then a group of big men would chat casually while soaking in the green potion.

     The agents were very familiar with this kind of group life. The temporary recruits accumulated more and more people and the cohesion became stronger and stronger. Most of the reservists continued to grow in the sweat life of the military camp, and there were also 38 reservists who could not keep up with the progress and were eliminated like some soldiers.

     Ye Mo prevented them from being beaten to death or imprisoned. Some of them joined the ordinary army, and some returned to the farm to work for the future female soldiers and train with them.

     Because since Wang Wu and Sun Ba knew about the military camp project, they were no longer willing to be outdone, but they were still a little weaker than the strictness of the military camp. There were exactly 15 women who insisted on the highest requirements.

     In addition, there are acupuncture techniques to help martial arts practitioners, but this consumes too much energy and physical strength of the military doctor. In addition to the internal practitioners, they can only help the soldiers who perform in the top three every day.

     This is a project that tests perseverance. Basically, there must be an agent who ranks in the top three every day.

     Once they master inner cultivation, they’ll have a lot more free time. They can meditate and search for the perfect sword or saber style. Wang Qi has chosen a pair of double swords and is now intensively training in the basic techniques of chopping, hacking, stabbing, slashing, dancing, flicking, and shearing

     In a surprising yet expected turn of events, after Zhang San embarked on his inner cultivation and chose the sword as his weapon, he took on a sorcerer as his teacher, his goal being the study of military formations.

     The military formation, as the name suggests, is the formation when marching and fighting.

     At this time, the military formation is not focused on the shape as in later generations. It is already very difficult to understand and remember the five elements of the soldiers, but Zhang San passed the test.

     It is worth mentioning that Ye Mo sent 10 Yangcheng Mansion guards into the military camp under the pretext of caring about this year’s spring recruitment to supervise the training of the new recruits. Their purpose is very simple. First, secretly assist Zhang San and others to get promoted, and second, observe and record the talented soldiers.

     Since then, the ancient military camp promotion record of the agents has officially begun. I believe that with the help of the system and the guards, combined with ancient and modern disciplines and military tactics, it is not difficult for them to get an official position in the army.

     Wang Xue compared the military camp with the Emei Sect training in the previous copy. When helping to train the female soldiers at the farm, she improved some rules to make the training mode suitable for female soldiers.

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     The agents are training, and Ye Mo is not idle either. Her time is mainly divided into three places.

     First, the jade mine cave in the northern suburbs.

     Ye Mo goes to the jade mine every night, and trains with the guards in the ranch in the morning and evening, instead of the martial arts field. This is only known to the guards and maids of Yangcheng Mansion and Wang Xue, who occasionally run away from home.

     The diligent example greatly inspired Wang Xue. She became more and more serious and hardworking in inner cultivation, sword practice, and music learning. Of course, she also found that she was suitable to be a commander, not a general.

     Second, Yangcheng Military Workshop.

     Ye Mo personally crafted weapon-making equipment in the military workshop, producing swords, daggers, spears, halberds, hammers, and crossbows. These devices could manufacture ordinary, unattributed weapons. Thanks to the optimal use of ore materials, these weapons were notably sharper, stronger, or had a longer range compared to others.

     The number of spiritual objects between heaven and earth is decreasing, and the jade mines are also limited. In the wars of the Western Zhou Dynasty, everyone may have weapons with attributes, but in the Spring and Autumn Period, only the elites can get good weapons.

     Therefore, enhancing the combat effectiveness of ordinary weapons is very useful for ancient battlefields.

     Third, Momen.

     In Momen, Ye Mo trained a batch of semi-assembly line equipment, which can only do preliminary work. The weapons with attributes in the later stage still have to be completed by Momen disciples.

     It does not stop the Momen disciples from showing great interest, and even encourages them to operate. No matter how many weapons they make now, they may be used in the future. Now that they are familiar with the process, they can make weapons quickly in the back.

     Occasionally, Ye Mo would forge one or two weapons. After she understood the principles of the five elements, her array drawing skills improved, and her forging skills also improved. The highest level has vaguely touched the line of high-level weapons.

     In the communication with the Momen disciples, the tips of the magic array can also bring them surprises, so that there are more attribute weapons in the room.

     It is worth mentioning that in terms of weapons, goblins, alchemists and Momen disciples have overlaps, and even understanding the five elements is beneficial to alchemy, but only Ye Mo knows this.

     But Zhang San and his friends don’t know any information about the goblin underground world, they have only seen magic weapons, and don’t know how to make magic weapons for the time being; they don’t know that Maria knows alchemy, and think she is just a forging craftsman.

     Wang Wu saw mainly the Mohist mechanical arts , and forging was only one of them, they didn’t know what Ye Mo did in Momen, and even thought that half of those mechanical equipment were the work of Mohist disciples.

     Even so, there were still many risks of exposure.

     Therefore, Ye Mo entrusted the important task of forging weapons in this world to 160 disciples of the Mohist school. The weapons they forged, especially those at the level of Meng Sheng and Xu Ruoh, were no worse than hers

     And she plunged headfirst into the Mohist mechanical engineering.

     In addition to the equipment with little technical content, there are still many things to study in the art of machinery, such as chariots, wooden kites, armor, wooden horses, secret boxes, musical instruments… Each mechanism is so exquisite and wonderful.