Special War God

After ten days of bayonet training, Xia Zhongnan walked to the front of the team after they finished marching that morning and said, "Everyone has been stabbing for ten consecutive days. I have counted for you. Each person has stabbed 38,000 times a day. After ten days, each person has stabbed 380,000 times."

Xia Zhongnan actually didn't have a real number, he just estimated it based on their usual stabbing speed and time.

But the soldiers did not know this and thought that the centurion had been counting them until he reached 380,000, and they were shocked and moved.

Xia Zhongnan continued, "Now each of your shots has power. I'm going to teach you the second move. Watch carefully!"

Everyone watched Xia Zhongnan's movements intently, wanting to see how powerful the second move was.

Xia Zhongnan still stood slightly forward, assuming the same starting posture as the first shot, then gently swung his hands, first making a gun-lifting motion, and then stabbing out like the first shot, even the cry of "kill" was the same as he had learned before.

After completing the action, Xia Zhongnan put away the gun.

The soldiers were all surprised. The second shot they were looking forward to was so simple?

Xia Zhongnan has confirmed: "Did everyone see it clearly? This is the second shot, let's start practicing now!"

Although they were a little disappointed, the habits they had developed these days prevented them from complaining and they just did what they were told.

So, day after day, simple repetition.

During this process, Xia Zhongnan did not use the Ningyuan Pill, nor did he absorb the vital energy from the Yuanshi. He naturally broke through into the middle stage of Qi transformation.

Although he was just practicing the basic movements of spear thrusting like an ordinary soldier, he felt that his understanding of spearmanship had deepened a lot. Every time he drew his spear, he didn't need to deliberately guide it. The energy in his Dantian would naturally flow through his meridians with his movements and finally be injected into the spear.

He taught those ordinary soldiers the gun method because he believed that it was the foundation of gun skills and the most direct way of attack. As long as the soldiers practiced hard, it would be very difficult for them to really exert the power of this stab. Complex moves would not be very useful to them, but would consume too much time and energy. This is how the old predecessors of the Chinese Army trained.

He didn't expect that this principle also applied to him as a monk. He remembered that his military predecessors said that only by repeating an action countless times and forming muscle memory can the body produce a natural reaction without consciousness. Now he understood that the same is true for the vitality in the body.

The movement of the body can automatically stimulate the flow of vital energy, which is smoother than guiding it with the mind, without pauses or confusion. With these insights, Xia Zhongnan became more enthusiastic about such practice, and his basic spear skills were also steadily improving. The sword skills that he had practiced thousands of times began to be integrated into the spear skills. Although simple and unpretentious, they were magnificent and very suitable for fighting on the battlefield.

Gu Xiu Zhang had not come to see Xia Zhongnan training during this period. He was immersed in sword training and enlightenment every day, and had no interest in the outside world. It was only when Xia Zhongnan reminded him that he remembered to find the postman at the post station to send a safety letter to Tianyi Sect.

In a blink of an eye, the one-month deadline agreed with Liu Dabazi came to an end. Liu Dabazi decided to hold a large-scale competition for all the Thirteenth Army. On the one hand, it was to test Xia Zhongnan's promise, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see the training results of the Thirteenth Army in the past month. He knew that in half a year, he might have to lead the Thirteenth Army to fight in the White Kingdom.

Although the whole army attached great importance to this competition, the format of the competition was very simple, that is, everyone was pulled to the training ground, and then a hundred-man team would fight against each other. It was not that they did not want to make it more complicated and closer to actual combat, but because the 13th Army had just been established and did not have the ability to fight under complex conditions, they had not had time to conduct corresponding training.

The day finally came. Xia Zhongnan called together the hundred-man team and said, "Today is the grand military competition. Time is tight. I can only teach you two spear techniques. But don't worry. With these two techniques, we are enough to sweep all the other hundred-man teams."

He spoke passionately in front, but the soldiers had blank expressions and no reaction at all...

In fact, the soldiers were a little uneasy. They only knew that the training was very hard, but they didn't seem to learn anything substantial. They just learned some tricks like walking in a line, which even children can do, and the so-called "two-stroke spear technique", one is to stab straight, and the other is to lift the spear and then stab straight. This is also called "two-stroke spear technique"? It feels worse than the old tricks of farming.

I heard that other teams have already learned a whole set of complex moves, and some have even practiced tactical formations for a month.

But during this month, they got used to obeying Xia Zhongnan and did not show any dissatisfaction. They only knew to act according to Xia Zhongnan's orders.

Xia Zhongnan gave a few brief instructions and led the team of 100 people to meet up with other teams and enter the main training ground together.

A high platform had been built on the field, and Liu Dabazi and the top leaders of the 13th Army were already sitting on it, watching teams of soldiers enter the field one after another.

At this time, Liu Dabazi's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the front and said, "Hey, look over there, who is leading the team? I have never seen such momentum in those veteran armies!"

Everyone followed his gaze, and then turned to look at Mao Zizhuang. Duan Ganbao said next to Liu Dabazi: "It looks like General Mao's men. Why don't you ask General Mao to explain to the general!"

Mao Zizhuang had long noticed that there was a phalanx of 100 men that stood out among his team of 2,000. The uniform pace and movements of the 100 men, coupled with everyone's high mental state, gave people a strong sense of oppression from a distance.

Mao Zizhuang felt a little conflicted. He turned around and looked at Liu Dabazi. Seeing that he was staring at him closely, waiting for an answer, he could only smile bitterly and said, "General, that team is the 100-man team led by Xia Zhongnan."

The 13th Army had just been established, and Liu Dabazi had a lot of things to do. How could he have the time to keep an eye on Xia Zhongnan's training? Except for asking a few times at the beginning, he didn't ask much later.

Although Mao Zizhuang paid more attention, he really didn't find anything worth reporting to Liu Dabazi, so if Liu Dabazi didn't ask, he was too lazy to bring it up.