Isolated town in northern border region

Wang Ergou was taken aback by the shout.

Although Xiao Lie was strict before, he was always kind to everyone and had never been as angry as he was now.

Xiao Lie shook his head, got up and walked up to him.

"idiot!"

"On the battlefield, if you say 'I can't go on,' do you think the Tartars will let you go?"

Wang Ergou looked up at Xiao Lie and stammered.

No...it won't happen.

"Do you think you can seek revenge against the Northern Barbarians?"

"Will they be able to survive on the battlefield?"

Wang Ergou lowered his head somewhat guiltily and muttered to himself.

"No...no."

Xiao Lie looked around and saw pairs of tired eyes.

"I will only say this once, and you all had better take it to heart."

"This is the Trapped Camp!"

"They are the elite Trapped Camp, ready to fight the Northern Barbarian Tartars at any moment!"

"Now...and later..."

"All the training is so that you can survive on the battlefield!"

"From now on, anyone who can't stand it, just leave!"

After saying that, Xiao Lie returned to his position and continued doing five hundred push-ups.

The drill ground was completely silent. Everyone stared at the still-rising figure, feeling a mix of indescribable emotions.

It turns out, there really are people who care about the lives of us common folk...

Even the prince hasn't given up on us, so why should we give up halfway?

Xiao Lie ventured alone into the northern frontier, rising from a city of remnants to the restoration of Cangzhou, and then to the Tengri Grand Assembly, where he intimidated the northern barbarian tribes.

To these soldiers, that was a god of the northern frontier!

Seeing Xiao Lie's rare outburst of anger and receiving a lecture from him, the fatigue from before no longer mattered.

"Damn it! Make them all for me!"

"Train until you drop dead, or you'll die!"

"If anyone angers the Prince again, I'll crush their balls!"

Luo Daniu was indeed a beat slow on the uptake; everyone else had already started doing push-ups, but he had only just started cursing.

After the angry outburst, only heavy breathing and muffled counting could be heard on the drill ground.

Do 500 push-ups, then 500 sit-ups.

After doing sit-ups, do 500 frog jumps.

After completing the frog jumps, do fifty shuttle runs.

Then comes the pull-up.

One hundred, divided into ten groups of ten.

Some people couldn't pull the third set anymore and ended up hanging on the bar like a dried salted fish.

After completing five sets, some people had their palms scraped raw, and blood was flowing down the bar.

Luo Daniu was the first to pull 100 in one go.

He jumped off the bar, clapped his hands, and without even breaking a sweat, grinned.

"Your Highness, this thing is quite interesting, but it's too light. Could you add a weight to it?"

Xiao Lie glanced at him, his eyebrows twitching.

Is this even a human being?

When it came to the parallel bar dips, Luo Daniu was the first to finish.

After he finished, he helped the men next to him by supporting their legs and backs, guiding them one by one.

Xiao Lie stood to the side, looking at Luo Daniu's honest and warm-hearted appearance, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up.

"Luo Daniu".

"arrive!"

"From today onwards, you are the deputy captain of the third squad of the second battalion of the Trapped Camp."

Luo Daniu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood at attention and punched his chest with his right fist.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

When the morning training ended, all three thousand soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion lay prone on the training ground.

Everyone lay on the ground, panting heavily, like a fish thrown ashore.

Luo Daniu was also exhausted.

He lay sprawled on the ground, his chest heaving like a bellows, but he was still muttering to himself.

"That was awesome...that was fucking awesome..."

When Bisu saw that the training was over, she quickly brought over a bowl of warm tea.

"Your Highness! This is terrifying!"

"I see the other recruits are just lifting weights and running around a bit, don't hurt yourself!"

Xiao Lie wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled.

"Don't worry, it's okay."

"You'll see, in three months, the Vanguard Camp will truly live up to its name!"

And so, hell descended upon the Trapped Camp.

I get up before dawn every day and run five kilometers with a 20-pound weight as a warm-up.

Then comes push-ups, sit-ups, frog jumps, shuttle runs, horizontal bar, parallel bar, and the 400-meter obstacle course, starting with 500 repetitions for each, with no upper limit.

The afternoon was for swordsmanship training, including slashing a thousand times and thrusting a thousand times.

The nighttime training involved surprise attacks, with troops maneuvering, concealing themselves, and flanking maneuvers in the dark on the training ground.

Xiao Lie didn't miss a single thing, and he trained with the soldiers.

Initially, his performance ranked in the middle of the pack.

Two weeks later, he made it into the top ten.

A month later, he made it into the top five.

Two months later, he began competing with Luo Daniu for first place.

The brothers in the Trapped Camp were dumbfounded!

Look at his eyes, they change every single day.

At first, they were simply in awe.

Because Xiao Lie is a prince and the commander-in-chief.

Later, they came to admire them.

Because Xiao Lie can endure more hardship and fight harder than them!

Xiao Lie sprained his ankle during a previous cross-country run with weights; it was red and swollen.

Bisu cried and begged him to rest, but he insisted on wrapping his ankles tightly with cloth strips and limped the whole way.

After the run, his ankle was so swollen that he couldn't even take off his boots.

Later, they were completely convinced.

Because this prince, when he trains, he's like an animal!

Animals just like Luo Daniu!

Nowadays, Xiao Lie and Luo Daniu's daily extra training has become a regular feature of the entire Trapped Camp.

While others are so exhausted from training that they can barely hold chopsticks, these two seem tireless, adding extra training sessions after completing their daily quota!

Xiao Lie and Luo Daniu have almost broken all the logs on the training ground!

As time went by, Xiao Lie also discovered his physical talent.

Perhaps he truly inherited the talent of Emperor Wu of the Great Chu, as his body recovered at an astonishing speed!

Even Luo Daniu would experience muscle soreness the day after training, but Xiao Lie only needed to sleep and would be perfectly fine the next day!

Moreover, Xiao Lie's appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

One meal now is enough for him to eat for two days before!

Xiao Lie's physique changed every day.

His shoulders grew wider, his chest thicker, and the muscles in his arms became more defined.

In just three months, Xiao Lie transformed from a fair-skinned boy into a muscular man from the northern frontier!

Not only did his appearance undergo a dramatic transformation, but Xiao Lie's martial arts prowess also skyrocketed!

Just like now, Xiao Xiong was practicing swordsmanship with him. When the two swords clashed, Xiao Xiong, a veteran of the battlefield and the bravest warrior of the Canglang tribe, was so shaken by Xiao Lie that he couldn't hold his sword steady!

"Your Highness... your strength... is growing stronger every day!"

"Truly as valiant as Emperor Wu of old!"

Xiao Xiong shook his numb hand, his face full of horror.

Xiao Lie casually twirled his sword and smiled.

"I thought I could only be a character focused on skillful maneuvers, but I never imagined I could also be a stat-focused monster!"

The three-month period ended, and the assessment was held as scheduled.

The assessment consists of three parts.

Part 1: Basic Physical Fitness

Carrying a 30-pound load, run 30 miles.

The time limit is two hours; those who exceed the time limit will be disqualified.

Part Two: Skills Assessment

The knife skills, spear skills, and archery skills were each scored by Chen Hu and Xiao Xiong.

Part Three: Practical Exercises.

Three thousand people were divided into six teams to conduct simulated attack and defense drills on the training ground.

The losing team will have to train for an extra month.

When the news spread, the people of Cangnan City were in an uproar.

"His Highness is going to conduct an assessment? Let's go take a look!"

"I heard that the Prince himself is participating?"

"Of course! Your Highness has been training with the brothers of the Vanguard Camp for three months, and they'll be taking the exam together this time!"

On the day of the assessment, the area around the training ground was packed with people.

There were ordinary people, merchants, representatives from various villages in Cangzhou, and people who came from nearby prefectures and counties to watch the spectacle.

Xiao Lie stood on the starting line, dressed in an ordinary military uniform, without armor or a sword, just like the other soldiers.

Three thousand elite soldiers stood behind him, a dark mass.