After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 906 With this troop strength, they need to inflate their numbers a bit.

"Commander Jiang, please calm down! They've just become trainees and still think like farmers, so they've been a bit lazy." Xu, the clerk from Fuliu Town, pleaded, then gestured to the trainees, "Hurry up and apologize to your Instructor Jiang!"

The students weren't stupid; they all pleaded, "Instructor, we know we were wrong, we'll definitely correct it, please forgive us this time!"

Jiang Dalang remained silent, glanced at them, and then ordered: "Follow the military flag. Those who fail to keep up will be punished with whipping at best, and disqualified from enrollment at worst. Even the people in charge of selection in Fuliu Town will be implicated!"

After speaking, his gaze fell on Clerk Xu and the four village chiefs of Fuliu Town.

Clerk Xu and the four village chiefs: "..."

When we were selecting people, although we favored a little bit of the children from our clan, the officials had still vetted them. You can't beat us because of that!

Dangdang Dangdang!
"Assemble, line up, stand at attention, look at the military flag, follow the military flag!" Xu Sanjun personally led several soldiers to guide them.

Can't keep up?
Then let's slap each other.

After practicing so much, the students from Fuliu Town dared not slack off and ran with lightning speed.

As for Wu Xiaoqi, who was in charge of leading the students from Fuliu Town, he didn't dare to come over at all... Because of the Wu village chief's family, he now wants to change his surname. Fortunately, he was transferred from Linshan County and his background is completely clean, otherwise he would have been imprisoned by the government troops.

Besides Fuliu Town, they also encountered teams from other towns along the way.

Whenever they encountered a town's gang, Jiang Dalang and his men would whip them once or several times.

Therefore, by the time they arrived at the county's outskirts martial arts school, Instructor Jiang's reputation for brutal beatings had spread throughout the entire county and township martial arts school.

The routes through Leibao Town and Junshi Town are opposite to those through Taifeng Town, so the students did not encounter Jiang Dalang and were not beaten.

Lei Lizhang's youngest son and cousin didn't believe it, saying, "Brother Jiang from the Qin, Jiang, Xu, and Qiao families? Impossible! Our village chief said that Brother Jiang is very easy to talk to, and our village chief would love him to be his own son."

Lei Lichang's youngest son nodded, "Yes, yes, that's right."

His father really did often praise Jiang Dalang, and he had met Jiang Dalang before. He seemed like a sunny, handsome, and kind brother.

“Fellow soldiers, Commander Jiang has rendered meritorious service in killing the enemy; he is a hero. We cannot give a hero a nickname behind his back,” said Lei Lichang’s youngest son.

Xu Lianmu looked at him and asked, "What's your name?"

Lei Lichang's youngest son: "Lei Sanbao".

Xu Lianmu's lips twitched: "Your dad took the easy way out with his name. My name is Xu Lianmu, from Fuliu Town. This morning, we encountered the Taifeng Town team. Jiang Duda and his troops beat us up back and forth."

He was very agitated, but he was terrified of being beaten. He lowered his voice and kept glancing around, afraid that Jiang Du's soldiers would suddenly appear and beat him up again.

The students from Fuliu Town nodded in agreement: "We swear on our lives that what Lianmu said is true. If you don't believe us, look at our injuries."

They rolled up their sleeves, stretched out their faces, and pointed to their necks, showing Lei Sanbao and the others their injuries.

After reading it, Lei Sanbao and his group also started to wonder, but because they had a good impression of Qin Jiang's family, they thought, "It must be that you made some mistake."

Xu Lianmu was almost furious: "We have evidence and proof, yet you still don't believe us and even helped Jiang beat him up."

"Just wait, after school starts tomorrow, you'll see just how good Jiang Duda is at beating people."

There's no need to wait until school starts.

At the beginning of the next day's hour (5 a.m.), a series of clanging gong sounds rang out.

The sound of whipping began again.

"Everyone must be assembled by 5 AM. Since none of them have assembled, attack them all!"

"Oh, stop hitting me! I forgot, I forgot! I'll remember tomorrow!"

"School hasn't started yet, we're not official students, you can't hit us!"

The person who shouted that was dragged out and given special attention.

Jiang Dalang, dressed in the armor of a centurion, stood to the side, staring at the students: "The Village Martial Arts Hall was born to fight the enemy. As students, you are formal soldiers. Soldiers risk their lives to fight and survive! If you still consider yourselves ordinary farmers, you will suffer endless beatings!" "All punishments are in accordance with the military regulations of the Great Wei. It will be useless for you to appeal to the government; it will only implicate your family and village!"

The principle of collective punishment was mentioned almost every time they were beaten.

Just because they possess military power, the concept of collective punishment must be instilled in their minds so that they will not rely on force to bully the villagers.

Lei Sanbao and the others were stunned. That was Brother Jiang's voice! He really did love beating people up!
Lei Sanbao and the others didn't know that Jiang Dalang had already been very merciful. In the real battlefield, there were no beatings, only corpses and severed limbs.

Before the start of the school year, the students from all the towns and villages in the county had already been given a good workout by Jiang Dalang.

When the magistrate of Kang County, the envoy Qi, the Imperial Guard Commander Wang, and the various gentlemen (donors) arrived at the village of the Martial Arts Hall on the outskirts of the county, they were greeted by groups of students from various villages who stood tall and straight, with voices as clear as bells and vigorous as the sun.

Xu, the clerk of Fuliu Town: "..."

Got it, those brats deserve a beating!
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
The war drums thundered, echoing throughout the several-hundred-acre village martial arts hall.

Magistrate Kang, Commander Wang, Grandpa Qin, Angel Qi, Elder Qiong, and others ascended the high platform to deliver speeches.

They all concluded by echoing the Duke of Yan's words: "Strong as the sun, we resist enemies and defend our borders, protecting the weak and vulnerable, and living up to His Majesty's grace!"

Upon hearing this, the students from various villages echoed, "Strong as the sun, resisting enemies and guarding the borders, protecting the weak and vulnerable, and living up to His Majesty's grace!"

I don't know why, but I felt a surge of passion and a strong urge to protect my fellow villagers!

Not only the students' children, but also students like Ying Zilin felt the same way.

"Commander Jiang, how about we start school by shooting the flag together?" Commander Wang of the Imperial Guard invited.

Originally, he was supposed to be the one to shoot the flag to start school, but he liked Jiang Dalang very much and wanted to give him this honor. He also believed that with Jiang Dalang's ability, he would definitely not mess up the flag-shooting.

"Okay," Jiang Dalang replied.

The next moment, he and Commander Wang took out their bows, drew them, nocked the arrows, and aimed at the tall flagpole beside the drill ground.

Whizzing!

Two arrows were fired simultaneously, soaring over the training ground and heading straight for the tall flagpole at the edge of the field.

Ding Ding!

The rope holding the flag was shot off.

With a whoosh, the large banner embroidered with "Da Wei Xiang Wu Tang · III" unfurled like a waterfall.

Boom boom boom!
The war drums beat rapidly. When they stopped, Commander Wang shouted, "The third village martial arts academy of the Great Wei Dynasty is officially open!"

School has started! School has started! Baofu County finally has the military force to protect its own territory.

The county magistrate and other officials, including the village chiefs and gentry, were extremely pleased, and their fear of the Eastern Desert attack lessened considerably.

Why are you so confident?

Firstly, because they had not heard any news that the Eastern Desert army was going to attack, they always felt that this calamity was getting further and further away from them.

Secondly, the county and township martial arts academies have a total of 1,880 students!

1,880 trainees! That's almost equivalent to the strength of 30 county military garrisons.

From the time Emperor Wuxing mobilized troops to attack the capital, the number of soldiers in the county garrisons in the northeastern prefectures never exceeded sixty.

Now that a county has dozens of times more troops, how can they not become arrogant?

If Magistrate Kang hadn't been so knowledgeable, even he would have become arrogant.

And this was just one county. In various prefectures and important counties under the prefectures in the Northeast, rural martial arts schools were also being built.

With such a large force, and having never experienced a real battlefield, their confidence was naturally inflated.