Chapter 8: Brigade Commander Zhao Hu
"waste!".

The bearded man looked at the corpse of the pawn that was kicked several feet away with contempt and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground.

These refugees are so useless.

The Tianxing Army, which was able to fight against the imperial court for so long and developed into the largest rebel army, was naturally not composed entirely of refugees, but a group of well-trained elites.

He, Zhao Hu, was a brigade commander in the army. Before he joined the army, he was a bully in the town. He was extremely strong and brave. He often fought with other towns and villages and had killed more than a dozen people.

After entering the Tianxing Army, he underwent rigorous military training and not only became proficient in various weapons such as knives, guns, swords, and rattan shields, but also learned the necessary leg training methods for marching thousands of miles.

The method of training your feet is to take off your straw sandals and run on the wasteland.

When you first start running, if blisters appear on your feet, cut them open with a knife and continue running the next day.

Even if you get wounded and bleeding, you have to run!
After the wound heals, if blisters appear again, keep running.

Repeating this process will make the skin on the soles of your feet thicker and thicker.

After mastering it, not only will your endurance be improved, but you can also run faster barefoot than in straw sandals.

In this way, even if they were defeated and fled, it would be difficult for the imperial army to catch up.

The Tianxing Army was able to engage in combat with the imperial army for such a long time, and this art of marching thousands of miles played an indispensable role in this.

He became interested today and wanted to train some people to be used for attacking the city again in the future.

Ask the sergeants under his command to select some people who are not so thin for training.

Unexpectedly, these people's performance was so unsatisfactory.

He just ran away and dared to pull down the team.

This kind of trash is not worthy of joining the Tianxing Army.

After kicking one person to death, Zhao Hu looked gloomy and stared at the faces of those who were still running like a poisonous snake.

Anyone who was pulled down would be kicked hard again.

He kicked them again and again, and in a short while, more than a dozen people were kicked to death.

At this time, Lu Yuan had already quietly hidden out of the sight of the brutal bearded man.

That bearded man is so powerful!

With one kick, he kicked the man into the air, three meters away!

None of those who were stronger than him could withstand a kick from him!

He didn't dare to continue standing there and watching. If he was clicked over, with his current small body, he would definitely not perform better than those people!

I'm afraid I'll be kicked to death.

At the same time, I have a clearer understanding of this world in my heart.

Human life is truly worthless, even worse than when I was living in the Federation before!

The Federation also treats humans as consumables, but killing is not very common.

Excluding those with super powers, if civilians kill civilians, they have to pay a sum of federal currency as compensation, and it is not too little.

Therefore, Lu Yuan had mostly only heard about the random killings.

And here, he watched helplessly as those people, those small soldiers, did not die on the battlefield, but were kicked to death by those in power, just like grass.

In his eyes, those people were just slow in training because they didn't eat enough food.

What kind of crime is this?
Moreover, those foods were withheld by those in higher positions.

If not, they might not be able to complete the training well.

The bearded man, as a superior, did not even think about his own reasons and took the life without hesitation.

He could still hear the sound of feet hitting flesh!
He even moved away a little, not daring to stay here for even a moment.

Right now, he is simply unable to contend with such a strong man. If anyone wants to harm him, they can just come over and call out his name. He doesn't dare to stay any longer.

Zhao Zheng, the sergeant who was in training, was running and looking around.

Seeing the brigade commander showing off his power and kicking one useless person to death after another, he remembered that he had to deal with the guy who almost made him lose face yesterday.

Isn't this a good opportunity?
With his skinny appearance, he definitely can't stand such training. With the help of the brigade commander, this little ant can be easily eliminated.

He looked for a long time but still couldn't find the guy.

After thinking about it, I decided to give up.

There's no need to take getting rid of an ant too seriously.

Just wait until the next training session to target the opponent.

It's nearly noon.

The sounds of training stopped.

The aroma of meat wafted from the cave again.

The three hundred strong soldiers who had finished their training walked into the cave with their shirts off, arms around each other, and laughing.

And there were about 170 thinner pawns left.

Some sat on the ground, wiping their bloody feet.

Some of them remained silent, and carried the more than 30 people who had fallen to the ground and had lost their breath in groups of three or four and threw them into a ravine on another hill.

They also understood that those people living in the caves were all fellow townsmen of the brigade commander. Even if they curry favor with them and their treatment was slightly improved, it would still not be comparable to these people.

The most they can do is become a team leader, and even becoming a sergeant is basically impossible for them.

All these positions were held by the brigade commander's fellow townsmen.

But they had to do it.

At least, if they can keep up with the training progress, the brigade commander and his fellow villagers will give them bones and some leftovers after they finish their meal.

And if you learn the skills, you will have the opportunity to follow in and plunder when the next attack is on the government office.

Even though they knew that people like them would be arranged to lead the charge during every looting, they were basically the ones who died.

But when the other party grabbed the food and ate the meat, he would always give himself some soup.

They really couldn't stand the feeling of hunger and would even rather be beaten to death.

Don't go hungry anymore.

Only a small amount of food was distributed last time. The brigade commander has the final say on when to go down the mountain to rob again. They don’t know whether the remaining food they have can wait until then.

Even if they starved to death, the brigade commander and those people would not care at all.

Refugees like them are everywhere.

When they heard how much food the Tianxing Army had stolen when attacking the county town, they would come here to join the rebel army.

That's how they got here.

So they are not afraid of lack of manpower at all.

They silently threw the bodies on the ground, even those of their fellow villagers, into the ravine.

At this time, Lu Yuan was still turning over earthworms in the ground.

In the distant ravine, corpses with their rotten cotton jackets stripped off were thrown into the ravine.

One after another, the pale corpses were wrapped in mud, grass, and branches on the ground and rolled down the ravine, which was full of corpses and smelled terrible.

Lu Yuan took a look without stopping what he was doing.

Now, the only thing he was thinking about was how he could survive.

What he is facing now is not just hunger.

There are also officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain, as well as the so-called colleagues and superiors on the mountain.

Not only does he have to find food, he also has to improve his strength.

But how to improve it?
With his frail body, it is impossible for him to take the initiative to participate in training. That would be courting death.

(End of this chapter)