C32 (1/2)

If one were to ask which army was ranked first in terms of combat power, it would be difficult to say.

Red Camp looked down upon Border Army with his two legs. After all, fighting one on one could not win a war, and at a critical moment, he still required the appearance of these elites who knew how to lay down their battle formations and strategy. Moreover, Wulian Border Army looked down upon the group of young masters who only dared to wrap themselves in ”tortoise shells” and Phoenix City Border Army who only dared to nest themselves within the Phoenix City Pass to guard the city walls. Phoenix City Border Army, on the other hand, felt that Fire Phoenix Army could only play the part of cool and play the part of playing the hero, while Wulian Border Army was no different from a wild beast when it came to fighting, they had no military discipline at all.

Therefore, if one really wanted to be the first in combat strength, it would be a very difficult task. However, if one were to ask which army had the lowest combat power, everyone would unhesitatingly point out that it was one of the ”people's militia's three divisions.”

The entire people's militia was known as the ”Fire Phoenix Empire Regional Garrison”, or simply as the ”Local Army”. Some people called it the ”Garrison”, but most people called it ”people's militia” directly. people's militia were divided into three parts. One was the standing army, which was made up of two types of people. The first was the compulsory military service of the Empire. Those who had reached the age of eighteen to twenty-five without a rank, education, or title had to obediently come over to serve in the army.

The second type consisted of able-bodied men between twenty-five and thirty-five years of age. They worked as farmers, and during their leisure time, they would put on military uniforms for duty and training. While on duty, there was a daily allowance, and most people worked at the same job. Since he was paid, it was his duty to go to the battlefield. Thus, it was considered a semi-compulsory military service.

These two types of people formed part of the people's militia, and were also the main force of the people's militia. Generally speaking, people's militia referred to this group of people from people's militia.

The second division of people's militia, the preparatory army, was composed of a group of people who were sixteen to eighteen years old, and who were thirty-five to fifty years old, and did not have any military obligations. They were paid half a salary, and the corresponding work was much easier. They only needed to help out with their duties. If they were pulled into the battlefield during the war, they would have full control of the city's defenses and become the main force guarding the city.

The Empire stipulated that those who had reached the age of sixteen could take the national examination, and that those who had achieved results or achieved honorary titles could be exempted from military service. Thus, at sixteen years of age, many people's fates have been divided into watershed. After passing the national examination, one would be able to enter advanced schools such as Imperial Military Academy, Imperial Science and Technology, as well as other advanced institutions such as the Empire's Combined Humanities and become an official or scholar after graduation. If one was lucky, one would also be able to obtain one or two low-level titles. However, it was not easy to pass the Imperial examinations, one could not say that it was one-hundred. At the very most, it would be two, three, four, five years old, so most of the children still chose to enter the people's militia's second division to earn some money in advance to subsidize their families.

If people's militia One and people's militia Two could be considered to have some relationship, then the three people's militia s would become very interesting. The establishment of the people's militia three divisions only took about a hundred years, which was the shortest amount of time to be established. There were all sorts of 'heroic' people who had drunk too much wine or had run away to do military service, written on exams, or stole something from the side. In any case, as long as this person repeatedly had improper conduct that could not be punished by the laws of the Empire, the local officials would basically be thrown into the three parts of the people's militia, beautifully known as' strengthening and reeducation '.

What Huo Yanrann passed to Kong Sheng and the Xiu'er was precisely this kind of battalion Three Great Sects. Although it was called battalion, it was actually not as many as the Company Leader under Zhao Handong's command. It was actually more or less the same as the number of people in one battalion of Fire Phoenix Army. But compared to Fire Phoenix Army, the difference in quality was as different as the sky and the earth. Following this speed, by the time they reached the Phoenix City Pass, Zhao Handong would probably be able to pass his seventieth birthday.

Kong Sheng did not hurry them at the beginning and allowed them to walk freely for an entire day. On the morning of the second day, when the first light of day had just appeared, inhumane wailing sounds could be heard coming from inside the relay station. While Kong Sheng whipped the horse whip around, he recited the words ”Imperial Military Discipline” loudly. He had been riding a horsewhip since he had entered the Imperial Military Academy at the age of sixteen. He was pretty good at playing with whips, and with a whip, he couldn't even stand the sight of a large mule or horse, much less a human.

Not long after, the people's militia were all rolling on the ground, clutching their thighs, wailing like ghosts and wolves. Some of them wanted to do something to Kong Sheng, but before they could even raise their fists, they were thrown to the ground by him with one hand. Then, Kong Sheng stood on top of the big sized man and shouted towards the rest of the people in the house, ”I will go to the entrance of the inn and wait for you guys for an incense stick of time. Incidentally, you are currently being ordered by the Imperial Army Headquarter to go to the Fringe to reinforce us. If anyone dares to run out of this station, I will cut him down! If you don't believe me, you can give it a try! ”

After saying that, Kong Sheng walked down from the burly man's body and walked out of the room without even looking back.

At most, it only took half an incense's time for three hundred slanted people's militia soldiers to stand in front of Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng did not care about their clothes, and casually nodded, allowing each of them to carry a 20 jin bag of rations. Just as he finished speaking, the group of thugs started to cry out, but before they could finish, Xiu'er, who had more than 100 kilograms of food on her shoulders, silently walked behind Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng disdainfully rolled his eyes at the group of people, spitted fiercely, and followed Xiu'er out of the relay station. When they were almost to the gate of the relay station, his voice suddenly came from afar: ”According to the Imperial Military Discipline, during the war, if there's no reason to leave our officer's side, it's a place to talk about deserters, behead!”

In the following days, this group of soldiers who looked like they were having a headache became even more obedient than little sheep. Kong Sheng said that he was carrying fifteen kilograms, so no one dared to carry fourteen kilograms. Kong Sheng said that if one walked five kilometers, no one would dare to walk nine and a half kilometers. There was no other reason but that this man and woman were afraid of being bullied.

On the way, the bridge broke. Someone wanted to take the opportunity to laze around for a few days. The Xiu'er silently carried the two big trees over. Under the stares of the crowd, she used her bare hands to easily tear the two trees into four pieces, and then placed them on the river, nodding at Kong Sheng. ”You can pass now.”

A man who was said to have once been the head of a gang was over two hundred kilograms tall. He wanted to sneak attack Kong Sheng when she was asleep, but Xiu'er pinched his neck and threw him up a large tree that was more than thirty meters tall. The head robber didn't know how she managed to get up, but he suddenly felt as if she was hanging on a branch. The clothes on the back of his neck were hanging on a branch that was as thick as her arm. When he cried and begged for mercy, Xiu'er immediately broke the trunk of the tree with her foot. After the big tree fell, Xiu'er slowly walked in front of the head rogue and asked softly, ”Are you obedient now?”

The head thug nodded, ”Be good.”

”Still making trouble?”

”It's over.” The head of the hooligan shake his head like a rattle

”Scream.”

The leader obediently raised both of his hands to his chest and shouted, ”Woof!”