More than a month later.

Xiling City, the capital of the western province of the Glorious Empire, is the Governor's Office.

Zhao Yue sent someone to summon his confidant Zheng Ke to his mansion and asked, "It has been more than a month since Lei Ming and the tiger took office. How is the situation in the Fifth Regiment of the Fourth Division now?"

Zheng Ke's face looked a little strange, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Zhao Yue's brows frowned and asked in a low voice: "What, is there something wrong?"

"There is no problem." Zheng Ke smiled bitterly and shook his head, "But I really don't know where to start with some of the situations in the Fifth Regiment."

Zhao Yue said: "Then let's start from the beginning."

"Okay, let's start from the beginning." Zheng Ke nodded and said with a wry smile, "This Meng Hu has really made some bad moves in training. The recruits of the Fifth Regiment arrived at the military camp for less than three days. He set a rule that he had to rely on himself to grab three meals a day. He had the ability to eat and drink enough, and if he didn't have the ability, he had to endure hunger."

"What?" Zhao Yue's brows frowned more and more, "What's the bullshit rule? The food standards in the legion were not high, and that little ration was only enough for the soldiers to fill their stomachs. Meng Hu's approach was like this. Some people were full, but some people could only go hungry. It was nothing to eat one or two meals. Wouldn't it be a waste of time? Isn't this a mess?"

"It's not going to be killed." Zheng Ke said with a strange expression. "Meng Hu has some tricks. If the soldiers in the camp really can't get food, they can go to the kitchen to help, or go to the ranch to grazing, and they can barely make a living, but the standard is ridiculously low, basically the same as pig food."

"What? Pig farm? Feed pigs?" Zhao Yue was confused when he heard this, and said in confusion, "Where is this?"

Zheng Ke smiled bitterly and said, "This is another trick that Meng Hu did. He built a ranch at the Fourth Division headquarters and raised a lot of cattle, sheep and livestock. Oh, by the way, this guy also set up a transportation team. If there are any big items nearby, they can go to the army to help, but they have to pay."

"Nothing!" Zhao Yue's face was already ugly, and he asked in a bad tone, "In the past month, the Fifth United has not trained very seriously?"

"That's not." Zheng Ke shook his head, "After all, there are only a few people who go to the ranch to work as porters in the transportation team, and most of the soldiers can still get food, so the training of the Fifth Regiment has never stopped, and the training is even more difficult than other regiments, but they have not conducted much queue training."

Hearing that the training of the Fifth United was not interrupted, Zhao Yue's face looked a little better and asked again: "Don't practice the queue? Then what are they practicing?"

Zheng Ke said: "Practice long-distance running."

"Long-distance running?" Zhao Yue said in surprise, "Practice this every day?"

"Just practice this." Zheng Ke said, "but there have been changes in recent days. I used to practice long-distance running all day, but now I run long-distance running in the morning and go up the mountain to hunt in the afternoon."

"Hunting?" After a while of meditation, Zhao Yue shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Don't worry about this for now. I'll ask you to check his details. How are you doing?"

Zheng Ke's face suddenly became serious and he responded in a low voice: "I have already investigated, but my harvest is limited. I only know that he was rescued by Lei Ming last winter, and then stayed in Lei Ming United. He started as an ordinary soldier and was promoted to the squadron leader within a year. Lei Ming had actually told me these, and he could not find out anything else."

Zhao Yue frowned and said, "That's how..."

Zheng Ke whispered: "Maybe as it is written on his resume, he is a child of a hunter in the nearby mountains..."

"School." Zhao Yue said coldly, "Do you think the hunters in the mountains can teach such children?"

"Yes." Zheng Ke said ashamed, "I am humble and stupid."

"Forget it." Zhao Yue suddenly sighed, waved his hand and said, "You should let go of this matter first. The most urgent task is to deal with the Ye family. Just now, news came from the imperial capital that His Majesty's condition has worsened again. At this critical moment, there is no mistake."

"Yes." Zheng Ke whispered, "I will find a way to meet those from the Third Division."

"Well, this matter should be done as soon as possible. You must not let the Third Division fall into the hands of the Ye family." Zhao Yue said this and suddenly asked again, "By the way, where is Qinghan?"

Zheng Ke said in surprise: "Miss is out hunting, why don't you know?"

"Going out to hunt?" Zhao Yue's brows frowned into the word "chuan" again, and he smiled bitterly, "This girl is really not worry-free."

Zheng Ke comforted, "Don't worry, the lady is very skilled in martial arts and has the protection of Qingyiwei, so there will be no accident."

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The capital of Qingzhou, Jining, and the Governor's Office of the Mingyue Empire.

Du Yu, chief of staff of the Qingzhou Army, entered Situ Rui's study with a serious expression. Situ Rui, who was closing his eyes to rest, knew who was coming when he heard the sound of footsteps. He closed his eyes and asked, "Have you found out the matter?"

Du Yu looked ashamed and whispered: "I am really ashamed. Bei Zhi did not find out all the details. He only knew that this person was named Meng and his name was Hu, nicknamed "Tiger". He was originally a light infantry squadron leader of the Third Division of the Western Legion of the Guanghui Empire. He has now been promoted to the captain of the Light Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Division. I don't know anything else."

"Fourth Division!"

Situ Rui suddenly opened his eyes and then said relievedly, "Yes, Zhao Yue won the Battle of Tianlang, Ye Haotian should have made some statements, but he doesn't know where the Fourth Division is located?"

"The Fourth Division's headquarters is in Hexi Fortress, but strangely, there seems to be only one light infantry corps stationed in Hexi Fortress, and most of them are recruits, while the remaining four corps are missing."

Du Yu said this and said, "According to Zhao Yue's usual style, since the Fourth Division has been rebuilt, he will definitely draw a large number of veterans from the other three divisions to serve as the backbone of the Fourth Division, and then supplement it with a moderate number of new recruits. Only in this way can the Fourth Division quickly form combat effectiveness, and the other three divisions will not be affected too much. But now Zhao Yue's approach is not like this. I really don't know what he is doing?"

"What's the point of Zhao Yue?" Situ Rui said coldly, "Isn't this obvious? The commander of the Fourth Division is not Zhao Yue's person, and he is worried about handing over the army to him!"

Du Yu sighed and said, "Since the old emperor was seriously ill, the political situation of the Guanghui Empire has continued to be turbulent. It seems that the political struggle in the court has affected the western provinces. All signs show that there must be major changes in that country within a few months. Now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to send troops."

"Yes." Situ Rui said in a deep voice, "What you said makes sense. Let me tell you another good news. Two divisions in Bingzhou and Yingzhou, three divisions in Guards, and three divisions in Yunzhou, a total of ten divisions have all arrived at the designated assembly site. Everything is ready. It's time to fight east!"

As early as the beginning of the year, Situ Rui foresaw that the political situation of the Glorious Empire would inevitably be turbulent, and suggested that the Emperor of the Mingyue Empire secretly mobilize troops to prepare for the Eastern Expedition. The Emperor of the Mingyue Empire approved Situ Rui's suggestion, intending to mobilize about three legions of troops to invade the Glorious Empire. Situ Rui was appointed as the commander of the Eastern Expedition Army.

In order to divert the glorious empire's sight, Situ Rui asked Situ Biao to lead the First Division to launch a harassing attack on the Tianlang Fortress to cover the assembly of Bingzhou, Yingzhou, Yunzhou, and the Guards to Qingzhou. However, Situ Biao lost his life and the First Division was completely destroyed!

Situ Biao's death and the destruction of the First Division made Situ Rui feel heartbroken and regretful.

At this moment, he heard that the culprit of the killing of Situ Biao was in the Hexi Fortress. The hatred and family hatred suddenly surged into his heart. Situ Rui slowly stood up and said to Du Yu word by word: "Immediately condemn the horse to go to Heyuan, and order Tuoba Tao to capture the Hexi Fortress within five days. Ten days later, this governor will take Meng Hu's head to sacrifice to his second brother in the Hexi Canyon!!!"

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Hexi Fortress, the garrison of the Fourth Division.

After practicing physical fitness in the morning, the recruits from the Fifth Regiment were sent by Meng Hu to hunt on nearby Qingyun Mountain. Hunting is a technical job, especially group hunting. It is very important to team cooperation. If there is no cooperation between each other, it will be difficult to hunt large prey.

What Meng Hu trains is teamwork awareness.

What is an army? The army is a collective, a huge group composed of countless ordinary soldiers. If an army is to be strong, you have to pinch each soldier in this group. Only by pinching them into a whole can we form a joint force and become invincible.

The Middle-earth army is also practicing teamwork awareness, but they are more accomplished through queue training than through hunting like Meng Hu.

Countless bloody facts have proved a truth. The true elite troops were fought in actual combat, not trained. Meng Hu was not the governor of the western provinces, nor the emperor of the imperial court. He did not have the power to take the Fifth Regiment to practice troops in actual combat, so he could only create an atmosphere closest to actual combat to train troops, and hunting was undoubtedly closer to actual combat.

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In the evening, the new recruits who were hunting up the mountain came back one after another.

Hunting training is carried out in teams. Most teams usually only hunt some small animals such as pheasants, hares, etc. Several teams even returned empty-handed. Only one team hunted large prey, and it was an adult black bear. It was almost dark, but there was still a team that did not return.

Meng Hu was waiting impatiently. A new recruit Danzi, who was dressed in disheveled and looked embarrassed, suddenly rushed to him and said breathlessly: "Sir... Sir, no... bad, something big happened..."

Meng Hu groaned and shouted, "Let me tell me slowly, what happened?"

The new recruit took a strong breath and said anxiously: "Our team has deducted it."

"What did you say?" Meng Hu suddenly widened his eyes and said sternly, "Your team has been detained? Who has eaten Xiongxin Leopard dared to detain the 4th Division? Tell me, what's going on?"

"That's right." The recruit calmed down his emotions and said, "In the afternoon, our team was hunting in the old forest in the west. We had already surrounded and killed an elk, but we didn't expect that a man suddenly broke out from the slanting thorn. We insisted that the elk was hunted by them, but they started arguing and started to attack. But there were too many people on the other side, with about a hundred people. Our team was outnumbered, so they detained it. I took advantage of their unpreparedness to sneak back."

"Collection!" Without asking any more questions, Meng Hu shouted loudly, "Collection of all."

The sharp whistle sounded throughout the school field in an instant. When the whistle was heard, the new recruits who had just gathered in groups of three or three to chat were like a needle in their butts, all of them jumped up in shock, and then began to mess with the shouts of officers at all levels.

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Chapter completed!