Ch 123: Speech At The Drill Ground!

Ling Chuan’s serious gaze swept over everyone below, and finally stopped on a soldier of Ding Biao.

“Ding Biao Wang Gui, step forward!”

“Your subordinate is here!”

Wang Gui’s eyes were full of fatigue, but when he heard the captain call his name, he immediately became nervous and ran to the front of the troop.

“What’s on your face?” When asking this question, Ling Chuan’s tone relaxed a lot, just like a daily chat.

Wang Gui was stunned, his eyes immediately filled with tension, but he still reached out and wiped his face.

Others were also puzzled, not understanding why Ling Chuan would ask this irrelevant question.

“Tell me, what is it?” Ling Chuan asked again.

Wang Gui looked at his hand, and there was nothing else, only a pool of sweat.

“Replying to Captain, it’s sweat!” Wang Gui answered with a stiff upper lip.

“Very good!” Ling Chuan nodded and said, “Turn around, take off your helmet, and let everyone see!”

Although Wang Gui still didn’t know what the captain wanted to do, he was obviously relieved and turned around, taking off his helmet, revealing his hair that had been soaked with sweat.

“You must be complaining in your hearts that the training is too hard and too tiring, but I want to tell you that sweating more during training is to make you bleed less on the battlefield!” Ling Chuan’s tone once again returned to its previous fierceness.

“I can be merciful to you, but on the battlefield, can you let the enemy be merciful to you? Every drop of sweat you shed in peacetime is the guarantee for you to walk off the battlefield alive!”

“You must remember that you are the border army, not wine bags and rice bags, you must protect the territory under your feet and the commoners behind you! If you don’t have excellent ability, what will you use to protect?” Ling Chuan’s voice became more and more fierce, and many people lowered their heads in shame.

“The 10-Li Armored March is very tiring, but what if you need to do a forced march without warhorses?”

“The 800-Step Obstacle Course is difficult, but I can tell you responsibly that your current assessment scores are far from being up to standard!”

Ling Chuan paused, and continued, “If you are afraid of hardship, afraid of tiredness, and afraid of death, then step out now, I will let you leave, my military camp does not raise cowards!”

“But, I guarantee to all of you that if you persist in training, in the near future, each and every one of you will become elite soldiers on the battlefield, and our army will surely become an invincible army on the battlefield. The enemy will flee in all directions when they hear our hoofbeats, and the killing intent on our battle saber will scare the enemy to death!”

As soon as these words came out, everyone felt the blood in their bodies ignited instantly, and the fatigue and resentment in their eyes disappeared, replaced by unprecedented firmness.

“Now, I ask you again, are you tired?” Ling Chuan asked loudly.

“Not tired!”

Below, everyone shouted in unison, the voice like a tide, as if to shatter the sky.

“I hope you answer me with practical action, not slogans!”

Following that, Ling Chuan looked at the Fly standing in front of the Personal Guard and shouted, “Fly!”

“Your subordinate is here!”

“From today onwards, I will complete the 10-Li Armored March with all the soldiers. If you are absent without reason or fail the assessment, you will be dealt with by military law!”

Hearing this, the entire army was stunned, and Fly was also shocked, but still answered loudly, “Obey the Order!”

During this time, Ling Chuan had indeed been somewhat lax in his training, and he just took this opportunity to spur himself on.

In the afternoon, Ling Chuan came to the barracks where armor was being refined with two jars of Wolf Blood Wine, and saw nearly a hundred craftsmen busy, with furnaces burning, forging, quenching, and polishing, and the processes were proceeding in an orderly manner.

Not far away, Blacksmith Yang was leaning on a deckchair with his Wine Gourd, not knowing whether he was asleep or resting.

Seeing Ling Chuan arrive, the craftsmen greeted him one after another, and everyone’s eyes were filled with respect, not only because Ling Chuan offered them wages twice as high as the market price, but also because Ling Chuan removed the Liu Clan, this harm, for the commoners of Yunlan County.

Now the first batch of battle sabers has been produced and is being made into scabbards.

Ling Chuan casually picked up a battle saber from among them, stretched out two fingers and gently flicked it on the blade body, and immediately, a long, clear sound came.

Following that, Ling Chuan also tested the sharpness, although it could not be compared to his own, it was already very good, at least in the current border army, it was almost impossible to find such a high-quality battle saber.

Ling Chuan came to Blacksmith Yang and placed the two jars of Wolf Blood Wine in his hand on the table.

Blacksmith Yang slowly opened his eyes, first looked at the wine jars, and then looked at Ling Chuan and asked, “You youngster, aren’t you here to supervise my work?”

Ling Chuan smiled and said, “Master Yang, what are you saying? With you, the great expert, sitting here, my military camp will be even more impressive!”

“Stop it, what kind of dog fart expert am I!” Blacksmith Yang waved his hand and said.

“I’ve seen the first batch of sabers, they’re very good, but I don’t know how they compare to the Hundred Refinements Saber, which once shook the battlefield of Great Zhou?” Ling Chuan asked, looking at Blacksmith Yang.

“Better than that!” Blacksmith Yang answered affirmatively.

With Blacksmith Yang’s craftsmanship and eyesight, he could give such an evaluation, and Ling Chuan was relieved, and then asked, “How long will it take to complete two thousand battle sabers?”

Blacksmith Yang sat up and said, “Among the blacksmiths you found, there are still many with good craftsmanship, but the requirements for this battle saber are too high, and it will take at least another month to complete two thousand!”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a little slower, you must ensure the quality of each saber!” Ling Chuan nodded and then looked at another row of barracks and asked, “How is the progress with the armor?”

“That stuff is much slower, and you have so many dog fart requirements, it can’t be done in three months!”

Ling Chuan gave a bitter smile and said, “It doesn’t matter, I’ll have Old Brother Liu recruit some blacksmiths with good craftsmanship!”

Afterwards, Ling Chuan went to another row of barracks and met Mo Xun, who was busy.

Originally, Mo Xun was responsible for all matters related to armor forging, but after Blacksmith Yang came, the two of them divided their work and cooperated. Blacksmith Yang was responsible for forging, while Mo Xun, with more than a dozen outstanding carpenters, devoted himself to the making of box crossbows.

“Captain!”

Hearing the carpenters greet Ling Chuan, Mo Xun realized that Ling Chuan had already come to him.

He quickly stood up and saluted Ling Chuan, “Mo Xun greets Captain!”

Ling Chuan quickly supported him and said, “Mister, you cannot do this great gift, Ling Chuan cannot accept it!”

The two exchanged greetings briefly, and Mo Xun went into the house and took out a bow. Judging from the shape and dimensions, it was completely copied from Ling Chuan’s Armor-Piercing Bow, but the workmanship was much more refined, which made Ling Chuan think of how Mo Xun had ‘ridiculed’ his Armor-Piercing Bow’s rough workmanship.

Compared to that, his Armor-Piercing Bow was like a brick, while this one was a delicate jade carving.