Chapter 24: You reap what you sow

Yun Ye felt that he had a lot of responsibilities. At least forty people depended on him for survival. Looking at his bean sprout-like body, it was inevitable that he would have to exercise more. In ancient times, you had to follow the rules of the times. The strong and healthy were favored.

Cheng Chumo could easily shoot a three-stone bow, and he could hit the target within 100 paces. Yun Ye could not shoot a hard bow, and he could not find a soft bow with less than one stone of power in the entire camp. This became Yun Ye’s weak point, and he was ridiculed everywhere.

In these four months, he has grown a lot, barely reaching the threshold of 1.7 meters. Old Cheng said that this is the first sign of a man from the Central Plains.

In the vast martial arts field, Yun Ye ran back and forth, rolled, climbed high, crawled forward, crossed the ditch, climbed the rope ladder and drilled the hole, walked on the balance beam and climbed over the obstacles. After only three rounds, Yun Ye was like being pulled out of the water and was soaked all over, lying on the ground gasping for breath.

Lao Cheng and Niu Jinda began to watch Yun Ye play monkey with a mind to see the fun. But as they watched, the smile on their faces disappeared without a trace. They looked at each other, followed Yun Ye’s running order, and walked past Yun Ye’s place where he pretended to be a dead dog. They picked up Yun Ye and returned to the tent. They casually threw him on the wooden bench, poured a glass of water into Yun Ye’s stomach, and waited for him to catch his breath. Lao Cheng asked, “Kid, is this the physical training technique you planned for yourself? What is the effect? I think it’s a bit interesting, so I’ll tell you about it.”

“This is a physical training plan that my teacher specially designed for me because he saw that I was weak. My teacher said, ‘A person’s strength is not just in one area, but in all the functions of the body. You need to be able to run fast, jump high, have a quick body response, have well-coordinated limbs, be well-balanced, and have flexibility. Only then can you be truly strong.’ Yun Ye had no choice but to use his imaginary teacher as an excuse.

“Then you look like a chicken, does this set of things specifically train strong men into chickens?”

Yun Ye really wanted to give Lao Niu a punch, but considering that he couldn’t beat him, Yun Ye decided to generously forgive the old man who had been so provoked.

“Uncle doesn’t know that after my teacher taught me this stuff, he shut himself away, saying that he wanted to see what was at the end of the sky, and he ignored me. I lived alone in the wilderness, practiced it once and then forgot about it. It was too tiring.”

As soon as he finished speaking, two large hands simultaneously landed on both sides of his buttocks. Yun Ye screamed, covering his buttocks and scurrying around the tent. It was so damn painful that his buttocks felt like they were on fire. He rubbed them for a long time before he could feel anything. Old Cheng and Old Niu were shaking with rage and trembling all over.

“Wretch, wretch! Wretch, wretch! Since ancient times, the art of body tempering has been a secret of the family. When Liu Bei learned of it, he had the White-eared Army, which could walk through mountains and forests as if they were flat ground. When Gao Shun learned of it, he had the encircling camp, which could conquer cities and seize land without being defeated. When Cao Cao learned of it, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry ruled the world, and Chen Qingzhi’s back-mountain army was invincible. All of them used the art of body tempering. Such a magical technique, and you just throw it away like a worn-out shoe. I’m so angry that I have to beat you to death today.

Lao Cheng went crazy, and then the screams of Yun Ye and the roars of Lao Cheng came out of the tent. Cheng Chumu, who was hiding outside the tent and listening, was ashen-faced.

Yun Ye was not beaten to death, but his buttocks were badly swollen. He sighed and sighed as he made tools in the blacksmith’s room. Old Cheng heard Yun Ye’s words and got some coal. Yun Ye couldn’t make high-grade alloys, and as a technician, there was no reason why he couldn’t even make steel. Seeing the old blacksmith hammering the iron embryo with a hammer, Yun Ye felt a headache. When would he be able to make the three-pronged spines, locks, pulleys, flying claws, and engineering shovels he needed?

He drove away all the blacksmiths and asked Old Cheng to bring a few of his personal soldiers to help. After Old Niu learned about this, he said that this was a military weapon and sent in a few spies from the Hundred Cavalry Division. Yun Ye didn’t care. His Majesty Li Er must know about this. There is nothing complicated about it. Pour molten iron into the mineral powder and stir it constantly. Stop when the flame on the iron becomes blue. Pour it into the mold and the initial prototype is ready. The three-edged thorn only needs to be polished and dipped in fire to become a thorn. The lock, pulley, and flying claw need toughness, so as long as they are polished smooth, the engineer shovel is more troublesome and needs to be hammered out by the blacksmith.

Cheng Yaojin gasped when he saw the first military dagger. The three sharp blades glistened with blue light, and the three thick blood grooves led directly to the handle. Old Cheng stabbed it with his backhand, and the one-inch thick table was easily pierced. The streamlined blade minimized resistance. Using pigs and sheep as test subjects, no matter which part was stabbed, the only result was death from blood loss. Old Cheng and Old Niu looked at each other, sighed, and then several fast horses galloped to Chang’an with military daggers and the method of frying steel.

Cheng Chumo was dying. His legs were swollen like an elephant’s, and his knees and elbows were bleeding. He needed his personal guards to feed him every day, and he was lucky to be able to take a hot bath every day, otherwise he would have trouble sleeping. He just needed someone to carry him to bed, because this guy would fall asleep while soaking.

Yun Ye felt that Xiao Cheng’s physique should not be like this. He asked his personal guards and learned that Niu Jinda had secretly increased the intensity of the training by three times. Each person must also carry full equipment. My God, the armor alone weighs 30 to 40 catties, not to mention the halberd and arrows. One guy’s pair of chain hammers alone weighs 30 catties. Add the armor on top, and Yun Ye silently mourned for these 100 brave warriors from the bottom of his heart.

Although he was in mourning, Yun Ye was still in a good mood. He was holding a bowl of shaved ice and laughing at the jokes of Cheng Chumo and the others in the shade of a tree.

Yun Ye was wearing leather armor and carrying a horizontal sword on the training ground. He was greeted by the strange laughter of a hundred men. Looking at the dirty puddle and the high brick wall, Yun Ye finally knew what it meant to be trapped in a cocoon. He pounded his head hard and regretted why he had added so many training subjects. This is a completely special training method. After getting kicked in the ass, Yun Ye began his sad and miserable career as a special forces soldier.

In the past, the personal bodyguard only had to carry Xiao Cheng, but now he also had to carry Lord Yun, and constantly sprinkle water on Lord Yun’s face, otherwise Lord Yun would faint again. Poor Lord Yun, who had been cured of his epilepsy by General Niu with a golden needle, was cured of his epilepsy by General Niu with a golden needle, which was so thick that it immediately cured Lord Yun’s epilepsy, and he ran faster than the young master.

Once they fainted, the two military doctors immediately gave them a full body massage, wiped their bodies with wet linen, and when they woke up, they drank some water and continued running. The soldiers originally felt full of envy for these proud sons of the sky, but after witnessing such a tragedy, they felt that it was still good to be a small soldier. One hundred, one hundred officers, under the big stick of Lao Niu, there were those who cried, those who begged, and those who pretended to be sick, but there were no rebels. How dare you rebel under the devil Niu?

Cheng Chumo and Yun Ye were lying naked in two large wooden barrels, next to 99 other barrels, also containing 99 naked officers. The military doctor kept adding black medicinal juice to the barrels, which was said to have miraculous effects on fatigue. After half an hour, they were fished out by their respective bodyguards, lying on their backs in a pool of black liquid, and given a full body massage by newly trained medical soldiers.

“Xiao Ye, when will our brothers’ hard times end?”

“Just bear with it. This is just the beginning. After we have built up our strength and meet the general’s requirements, we will start training in the wilderness. That’s when it will be really dangerous. We won’t be fed, and there will be heavy troops hunting us down. We have to avoid being hunted down, complete our mission, and not get too badly injured ourselves. Only then will we be considered half-trained soldiers. You also have to be able to fight, the kind that kills with one blow. You have to be able to hide, ambush, and disguise yourself. You have to be able to complete your mission in impossible situations. Only then will you be considered fully trained. Anyway, don’t think of yourself as a human being right now.

There was a wailing in the tent.