It was a bad start. On the night when the Junzi Army started its first formal training, the Junzi Army, which had only been formed for only one day, had its first deserter. This deserter was none other than Lin Qing, who was named by Tao Ying as his personal soldier.

When escaping, Lin Qing also left a line of words on the wall in Juanxiu handwriting - Boring! I am too lazy to play with you, a nerd!

There were deserters after only one day of forming the army, which was not good news for the newly formed Junzi Army. The morale, which was not very high, was also affected to some extent. Tao Ying's cousin Tao Ji, who had never been optimistic about the prospects of the Junzi Army, was

He was even more dejected, lamenting that the future of the Junzi Army was completely bleak, and secretly complained that his uncle had harmed others and forced himself to work for such a useless cousin, which affected his great future. After Tao Ying received the news, he

He didn't get angry or fly into a rage. He just gave another lecture to the Junzi Army soldiers before they started their second training.

"Brothers, I have good news for you." Standing in front of the queue of 900 Gentlemen's Army soldiers, Tao Ying spoke in a surprising voice and loudly said with a smile: "The good news is that there is a man who will drag you down on the battlefield.

The weak-legged coward, a scourge that will make you die in vain on the battlefield, a piece of trash that will turn us from a sincere unity into a piece of loose sand, got out last night! He became a deserter! This is a gratifying thing.

, all of us in the Gentleman Army should be grateful for this! We should be happy!"

There was a murmur among the officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army. They were all extremely surprised by Tao Ying's words. Tao Ji, who was standing directly in front of Tao Ying, did not give his brother face. He just rolled his eyes and secretly scolded his brother for being an idiot.

How can something like this be publicized with such fanfare? And he also expresses his congratulations publicly. Isn’t this a disguised form of inciting the gentlemen’s soldiers to become deserters?

"Brothers, you must be very surprised. There were deserters on the first day that our Gentleman Army was established. Why should I ask you to celebrate?" Tao Ying ignored Tao Ji's eyes at all and just continued to say loudly: "I

I’m not trying to make a fool of myself, I’m sincerely happy! I’m also sincerely happy for you!”

"Brothers, you can imagine, if that scourge named Lin Qing did not get out early, but continued to hide in our Gentleman Army and live a muddle-headed life, what would be the consequences on the battlefield? When we charge

, he will run at the back! When he holds on, he will take the lead in escaping!" When fighting the enemy in a bloody battle, he will push you to block the enemy's knife! When he fails, he will betray you without hesitation and use you.

His life in exchange for his survival! And when victory comes, he will rush to the front to snatch the trophies that belong to you! Rob the trophies that you exchanged for your blood! If you don't give it, he will stab you in the back.

, this is a stumbling block and will make you feel uncomfortable all over!"

After saying this loudly, Tao Ying raised his voice again and shouted: "Brothers, tell me, tell me the commander-in-chief of the Junzi Army, do you want such a companion?!"

"No!" The officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army who had just received training gave mixed responses, but their voices were loud and their attitudes were firm.

"Yes! I don't want it either! I don't want such a coward either!" Tao Ying shouted loudly: "We are a gentleman's army who are loyal to the emperor, patriotic, uphold justice, and denounce evil! A gentleman's army who stand upright! Don't be cowardly and cowardly,

Don’t be shameless! We are hard-working, thrifty, smart and brave. Our journey is all over the world. We don’t want to be a waste holding us back! Brothers, please tell me, should we be happy that the waste holding us back has escaped? Or should we be happy?

sad?"

"Happy! We should be happy! We should definitely be happy." The soldiers of the Nine Hundred Gentlemen Army replied unevenly.

"You didn't have breakfast? Why is your voice so quiet?" Tao Ying yelled: "Answer louder, answer more neatly, are you happy?"

"Happy!" The officers and soldiers of the Nine Hundred Gentlemen Army finally began to respond in order, and their voices became much louder.

"Very good!" Tao Ying nodded vigorously, waved his arm and shouted: "I am happy, but deserters and traitors cannot be spared lightly. I have sent people to contact the governor's office and ask the governor's office to post a notice and offer a reward for their arrest.

Traitor Lin Qing! After catching him, he will be punished with a hundred army sticks! I will execute it personally!"

"Sir, that traitor should be killed!" Countless officers and soldiers of the Gentleman Army shouted.

"That's not necessary." Tao Ying shook his head, waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and said loudly: "Brothers, there is a very important reason why I only prepared to hit the traitor with a hundred military sticks! Our Gentleman Army was killed the day before yesterday.

We have just been formed in the evening. Everything is difficult at the beginning. I want to turn the little-known Gentleman Army into a great army that is famous in all nine states. It is difficult for me! You have to go from a recruit who has never touched a knife handle to an elite.

It is even harder for the elite among them to become corps commanders, chief ministers, dubos, generals of hundreds, generals of tooth gates, or even generals! There are countless difficulties and obstacles ahead of you and me, and I, like you, have to endure countless hardships.

Suffering and suffering countless sins!”

"It's okay to endure hardships. Only when you endure hardships can you become a better person! I firmly believe that I can endure so much hardship. Brothers, what about you? So I want to ask you here, can you persevere?

Can you endure such suffering? If you have no confidence in yourself and feel that you cannot bear such suffering, you can stand up now, grab a hundred military sticks and leave! I won't stop you!"

"Brothers, do you understand what I say?" Tao Ying raised his voice again, waved his arms and shouted: "Brothers, choose! Do you want to be like Lin Qing, leaving the military camp in dejection with your tail between your legs?

Are you going to be ridiculed by your fellow countrymen, despised by your relatives, and be a useless coward who cannot hold your head up for the rest of your life? Or do you want to join me, endure countless hardships, suffer countless sins, and finally become a master! You choose! You only have

If you don't take this opportunity now, if there are any deserters in the future, it won't be as simple as beating a hundred military sticks. Anyone who deserts before the battle will be severely punished!"

The nine hundred officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army remained motionless, including Tao Ji, who had long wanted to leave the Junzi Army. The officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army had only been trained by Tao Ying for only one day and had not yet seen the real hell. They all believed that they would be able to persevere. Tao Ying

Ji Ze couldn't keep his face and ran away from the Junzi Army in public, and he didn't want to be called a good-for-nothing coward, so he and the Junzi Army officers held their chests high and took a firm stance.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no soldier came out and said that he was a coward, Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Very good, since no one wants to be a coward or a waste, then the training begins, just like yesterday, bear the weight."

March ten miles! The first thirty people who finish the ten-mile journey today will be promoted to the military law team tomorrow and supervise the remaining people to march with heavy loads! Start!"

After that, Tao Ying took the lead on the road to train for weight-bearing marching, trotting and gradually picking up the pace while shouting, "Shout with me, shout neatly, sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in war! Shout neatly,

Shout loud and clear, the more orderly and loud the better!”

"Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war!" The officers and soldiers of the Gentleman Army carefully selected by Tao Ying were indeed very obedient. Under Tao Ying's repeated requests, the slogans became much louder and neater. And with the infection of this neat slogan,

The adverse effects caused by deserters on the first day of the establishment of the Gentlemen's Army were completely eliminated.

"Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war!" Tao Ying took the lead in shouting slogans and whispered in his heart, "Damn, it was self-defeating. I planned to use it during the day and night, but ended up running away in less than two days.

Oh, it’s really a waste of money! Little girl, just wait, when I catch you, I’ll give you a ‘military stick’ and you can’t even dream of running away! Let’s see if you dare to give up halfway in the future!”

When Tao Ying was muttering quietly, Lin Qing was actually hiding among the crowd of onlookers not far from Tao Ying. However, Lin Qing had already changed into women's clothes and was hiding in the carriage, protected by servants and maids.

, so the Xuzhou soldiers who arrested Lin Qing had a hundred courage and did not dare to open the curtains to see if there were any deserters. At the same time, Tao Ying's words were heard by Lin Qing bit by bit. The result was natural.

of…………

"Blind nerd, how dare you insult me ​​in public like this! Very good, please note it to me! I want to see if you have the ability to hit me with my military stick!"

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When Tao Ying was training hard at the Dongmen Primary School, the concerned people did not completely relax their surveillance of every move of Tao Ying and the Junzi Army. However, after monitoring for five or six days, these concerned people were completely disappointed and completely relaxed, because

There is really nothing commendable about Tao Ergong's military training method. In the first three days, apart from running with heavy loads, he practiced formations. On the fourth day, he added the soldiers to go out for morning exercises to practice Wuqinxi, and then added sword-wielding training. And this

The sword-wielding training was also outrageous. The Junzi Army soldiers were only asked to practice three swordsmanships: chopping on the head, slashing diagonally from top to bottom, and reverse slashing from bottom to top. It was so simple that it was even inferior to the training methods of Cao Bao, a third-rate general in the world.

If we insist on saying that there are any shining points in Master Tao's military training, there are probably only two. First, Master Tao attaches great importance to the discipline of the gentleman army. In five or six days, he turned a group of new recruits into a barely formed whole.

Whether shouting slogans, marching in forward march or waving a saber, every move is very neat and looks quite aesthetic. Secondly, Master Tao attaches great importance to the arm strength training of soldiers and created an arm strength training method called pull-ups, which allows gentlemen to

Soldiers hold wooden bars with both hands and pull up their bodies to exercise the strength of their arms.

But it is a pity that these two small shining points of Tao Ying are not enough to satisfy his relatives and friends who have expectations for him, because although the army of gentlemen under Tao Ying's command only has 900 people, it is only in the early stage.

The investment was almost the same as the initial investment of the four thousand recruits recruited by Cao Bao. Xuzhou, which had just experienced the Cao Bing Rebellion, was seriously injured and had to bear such heavy expenses. However, it did not see any results. Tao Ying's relatives

Of course my friend was extremely disappointed.

On the contrary, some people were extremely satisfied with Tao Ying's performance. For example, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who claimed to be the great-great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing and the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan, after carefully understanding Tao Ying's military training methods and processes, Duke Xuande

Showing some imperceptible joy, he secretly said that he was really cautious and suspicious. He treated a powerless nerd as a serious threat and guarded against him. He also repeatedly used important insiders like Brother Mi Zhu to monitor this nerd's every move.

Lowering his tall and glorious image in the eyes of Mi Zhu brothers may also cause Tao Qian to resent him, which is really not worth the gain.

After secretly laughing at Tao Ying's armchair tactics and his own overcautiousness, Xuande Gong quickly accepted Mi Zhu's brother's kindness and selected the inferior Northern Huns war horses in his cavalry team and replaced them with the best horses from the Western Regions that Mi Zhu brothers bought with a lot of money.

Then he gave these second-class horses to Mi Fang, who personally sent the horses, and asked Mi Fang to take them back to Xuzhou to present to Tao Qian and his son, and then asked Tao Ying to use these second-class horses to arm the army of gentlemen who were destined to be third-rate.

At the same time, Liu Bei explained to Mi Fang: "I have told Mi Biejia that Xuzhou is still owned by Tao Mansion. Too much publicity in everything will be harmful to the reputation of brother Biejia. Therefore, Bei believes that brother Biejia should not be too arrogant.

We take this matter very seriously, and if it is leaked, it will definitely arouse Mr. Tao's resentment and bring unnecessary trouble to Brother Biejia."

"Thank you, Mr. Xuande, for your advice. Mi Fang will definitely tell my brother." Mi Fang understood and knew that Liu Bei wanted his brother to relax his surveillance on Tao Ying, so as not to let the news leak out and cause trouble, which would make Tao Qian furious.

After agreeing, Mi Fang suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly raised her hand to Liu Bei and said: "Xuan De Gong, my brother has something else that I want Mi Fang to report to Xu De Gong. My brother found out that Tao Ying's son ordered Cao Hong to prepare ten carpenters for him.

He and a batch of high-quality wood, and borrowed fifty Danyang soldiers from Cao Hong's command, set aside several thatched cottages in the Junzi Army camp, and asked carpenters to make some wooden utensils in the thatched cottages, but what kind of wooden utensils they were, because Danyang

The soldiers sealed it tightly, and neither my brother nor Mi Fang could detect it. My brother suspected that Tao Ying might be making new weapons!"

"Wooden weapons? New weapons made of wood?" Liu Bei laughed dumbly and said: "No matter how good the wood is, can the weapons made from the best wood be as hard and sharp as the weapons made of iron?"

"Yes." Mi Fang agreed: "Mi Fang also thinks that her brother is making too much fuss, but her brother must ask Mi Fang to report the matter to Mr. Xuande, and ask Mr. Xuande to be careful and give instructions."

"No need to waste time and energy." Liu Bei said contemptuously: "What new weapon can a nerd with a pile of wood create? A car crash or a ladder? I'm afraid he has never seen what a car crash and a ladder look like.

Right? Zifang went back and said goodbye. Stop spying. Tao Fujun has even spied on your secret purchase of horses for me. If you continue to spy on Tao Ying's son, you will not only be able to hide it from Tao Fujun's eyes, but also

It will anger him further."

"What Mr. Xuande said is very true, Mi Fang has remembered it." Mi Fang replied respectfully: "Actually, Mi Fang didn't want to scare the snake and make Lord Tao become wary of Mr. Xuande. It's because his brother is too suspicious, so Mi Fang must keep a close eye on him.

Tao Ying’s little nerd.”

"Zizhong is not too suspicious, but cautious." Liu Bei changed his serious face and said very seriously: "Tao Ying went deep into Cao's camp to deliver the message. Everyone thought that he didn't know life and death, and he didn't know the heights of heaven and earth. Liu Bei was

He thought so too. But now Liu Bei thought about it more carefully and found that there might be another possibility, that is, Tao Ying's son might have already known the news about Lu Bu's attack on Yanzhou, the slave of the third surname, and expected that the Cao thieves would definitely withdraw from Xuzhou.

That’s why he dared to go to Cao Ying alone to deliver the message!”

"Is it impossible?" Mi Fang said in surprise: "This is absolutely impossible! If Tao Qian knew that the Cao thieves were about to retreat, he would never have allowed Xuande Gong's army to enter Xuzhou City. He would have only kept your army outside the city.

Stationed."

"How is it impossible? After all, Tao Fujun's family has deep roots in Xuzhou, so it is not surprising that they have hidden information channels." Liu Bei shook his head and sneered: "Maybe Tao Ying's son received the news and did not report it to Tao Fujun.

Then I pretended to go through life and death for the people of Xuzhou, risked going deep into Cao’s camp to deliver a message, and stole the great contribution to relieving the siege of Xuzhou that should have belonged to me!”

"Is this possible?" Mi Fang's eyes widened and she said even more surprised: "How can that nerd who doesn't work hard and doesn't distinguish between grains and grains have such a scheme?"

"Of course it is possible, but there is no evidence to prove that this Second Master Tao is a stupid nerd with no heart?" Liu Bei snorted again, "Or is he a poisonous snake that hides deeply?"

At this point, after discussing the doubts about Tao Ying with Mi Fang, Liu Bei inevitably had some doubts in his heart, and felt that it was better to be cautious again, so Liu Bei only thought for a moment and immediately changed his words: "Zifang, as the saying goes,

Well, be careful when sailing the ten-thousand-year ship. Your brother Zizhong’s worry is not unreasonable. Liu Bei also feels that we cannot take it lightly until we have confirmed who Mr. Tao is."

"What Mr. Xuande means is that we take another risk and find out what wooden objects Tao Ying'er is making?" Mi Fang asked tentatively.

"That's right." Liu Bei nodded and said coldly: "Finding out what kind of wooden utensils Master Tao is making is equivalent to finding out who Master Tao is and whether he has any real talent or knowledge. Only when you know yourself and the enemy can you know everything.

Win the battle and take another risk, it's worth it!"

"Listening to what Mr. Xuande said, Mi Fang also felt that it was time to take another risk." Mi Fang was very similar to Liu Bei, so she immediately cupped her hands and said with a smile: "Please don't worry, Mr. Xuande, it can take as little as ten days or as long as half a month."

, Mi Fang must have found out clearly for Mr. Xuande what kind of wooden objects Tao Ying's son was making in the Junzi Army camp!"
Chapter completed!