Chapter 325: Early Troop Training, Surge in Cold-Resistant Level Personnel

After Xia Chuan's transformation over the previous two months, the outer city had been divided into four distinct jurisdictions: east, south, west, and north.

Great Xia's outer city was enclosed by three city walls and the Double Dragon Mountain wall, four kilometers long from north to south and three kilometers from east to west, with a total of twelve square kilometers.

Xia Chuan designed the four jurisdictions to be unusually compact and leaned as much as possible toward the edge of the city wall, leaving a large area in the middle, clearly intending to make plans for subsequent population growth.

In the very center of Xia City, there was a square wooden shed with a side length of about five hundred meters.

The wooden shed was divided into five floors, each of the same size. Except for a few windows on the top floor for ventilation, the others were almost completely enclosed designs, and even the light inside couldn't penetrate much. Standing outside, one couldn't see any situation inside the wooden house at all.

However, a giant wooden plaque hung on the top floor of the wooden shed.

On the wooden plaque, the two characters "Military Camp" were written with Jin Lin powder.

Although the military camp was very far from the streets of the outer city, about two or three hundred meters, it still couldn't stop people's curiosity, especially some half-grown children, who often surrounded the edge, looking at the military camp, their faces full of envy and longing.

"Was it the Long Wu Army that called for assembly just now?"

"Yes! Didn't you see the firelight penetrating from the second floor?"

"Second floor, what does that mean?"

"The military camp is made into five floors, which seems to be the Lord's intention, saying that our camp's short-term goal is to build five large armies. These five floors of military camps are specifically for the five large armies. Currently, only two floors are enabled."

"One floor is for the Cloud Dragon Army, and the second floor is for the Long Wu Army?"

"That's right, the construction specifications of this military camp are not low. Heard that the foundation piles alone were driven over twenty meters, and the floor partitions and joints are all pure iron. Even if tens of thousands of people squeeze in together, it won't collapse."

"That's for sure. After all, it's a military camp. The soldiers of the two armies have a minimum cultivation of Earth-Digging Realm limit. If it's not built sturdily, they will trample it in two steps, wouldn't that be a joke."

"Is the Long Wu Army training troops? Shall we sneak over and take a look?"

"You're crazy. The military camp is now a restricted area. Except for soldiers in the army, no one else is allowed to approach. Violators will be beaten with sticks at best, and punished with corvee labor at worst. If you want to die, go yourself, I won't accompany you to be crazy."

"Hehe, I was just joking. The regulations set by the Secretary last month, how could I forget? Even if I enter, I want to enter as a soldier of the large army."

"Stop dreaming. By the time you break through to the Earth-Digging Realm limit, let alone five, our Great Xia will probably have more than ten large armies, where will it be your turn!"

"Don't look down on people, you wait and see."

"Fine, fine, I'll wait and see."

Military Camp, Second Floor Square

The square of over two hundred meters wide could accommodate not just a thousand, but ten thousand people. One thousand Long Wu Army soldiers stood full in the center of the square at this moment, looking straight ahead without squinting.

The hundred-forged iron armor worn by the Long Wu Army soldiers was not light golden, but pure black. One could tell at a glance that it was produced in Longshan.

Not only the battle armor, but their weapon configuration was also different from the Cloud Dragon Army.

The first hundred people had different weapons, clearly elite scout battalions like the Cloud Dragon Army; the nine hundred-man phalanxes behind had three holding horizontal blades, and the remaining six all used long spears of a zhang long.

At the very front of the team, Director Yu Wen Tao was wearing a set of battle armor that was almost pure gold, pacing slowly. He just scanned the phalanx and asked loudly:

"Are everyone here?"

At the very front of the army, Scout Battalion captain Zhou Yuan stood out and bowed to answer:

"Reporting to the Commander, ten battalions totaling one thousand people, everyone has arrived!"

Director Yu Wen Tao nodded, continued to walk to the front of the army, looked at the ten battalion captains including Zhou Yuan, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

"My Long Wu Army was built late, but the starting point is much higher than the Secretary's Cloud Dragon Army. At the beginning, there were four cold-resistant levels: Zhou Yuan, Hou Quan, Director Yu Wen Yong, and Zhu Yang. If we can make good use of this point, catching up from behind and surpassing the Cloud Dragon Army in combat power is not impossible!"

Just as many people in Xia City speculated, Director Yu Wen Tao indeed always had the idea of competing with Xia Chuan in his heart, especially the martial arts meeting in June this year, where he lost to Xia Chuan by one move, and this idea was even stronger.

Xia Hong's strength was completely in another magnitude. Director Yu Wen Tao didn't think he had the mind or courage to compare with him, and didn't even have a strong desire to catch up.

But Xia Chuan was different!

He was of similar age to himself, had similar cultivation, and had equivalent combat body aptitude. Director Yu Wen Tao had even been very certain that Xia Chuan was inferior to himself in combat talent.

However, at the June martial arts meeting, he actually lost to Xia Chuan.

For Director Yu Wen Tao, that failure was not just as simple as losing the qualification to build an army, so he always held a breath in his heart.

The next martial arts meeting would have to wait until next year, so he had to win against Xia Chuan once in other aspects. The establishment of the Long Wu Army was an opportunity.

Ten days ago, when he returned to Xia City, he immediately went to find Zhou Yuan and Hou Quan, exhausted his mind and tongue, and finally persuaded them to join the Long Wu Army.

Counting Director Yu Wen Yong and Zhu Yang brought from the Long Wu team, the fledgling Long Wu Army already possessed four cold-resistant levels. Moreover, the strength of these two cold-resistant levels, Zhou Yuan and Hou Quan, was both above nine bristles.

Before December 5th, he had been in the Hive, so he was very clear about the situation of the Cloud Dragon Army. Up to now, counting Liu Yuan, the Cloud Dragon Army had a total of only five cold-resistant levels.

Just in terms of the number of cold-resistant levels, there was no gap between the two armies.

What needed to be made up next was the combat power!

Director Yu Wen Tao took a breath, scanned the soldiers in front, and said loudly:

"It was said that we would set off the day after tomorrow. After going to the Hive, we would take the cold beasts in the Yang Lu Realm to train troops. But the Commander feels that since it is troop training, why wait until we go to the Yang Lu Realm? There are a lot of cold beasts in Red Wood Ridge. The two nights tonight and tomorrow cannot be wasted, so I summoned you over temporarily!"

The Long Wu Army soldiers perked up. They had only been formed for these few days and hadn't fought once outside.

"The people setting off the night after tomorrow are only 950. You should know the reason in your hearts. Because of the strange matter in the Yang Lu Realm, the Lord recently vacated the quotas of the Martial Arts Academy, specifically to help the Earth-Digging Realm limit break through. The Cloud Dragon Army shared 100 quotas, and our Long Wu Army was just formed and only shared 50."

The Martial Arts Academy could accommodate 200 people to cultivate together. The soldiers of the Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army were all Earth-Digging Realm limit cultivation, so they naturally occupied the most quotas.

The remaining 50 were shared by other Earth-Digging Realm limits in the camp who were not in the army.

Everyone heard about the quotas of the Martial Arts Academy, and their expressions suddenly became moved.

Half of the Long Wu Army soldiers were newcomers combined from Longyou. They had only been in Xia City for more than two months, and most of them had only heard about the speed increase in the Martial Arts Academy and hadn't entered to experience it.

Although so, judging from the news revealed by others in the camp, the speed increase in the Martial Arts Academy was absolutely true, so they naturally all kept the quotas in mind and all wanted to enter to cultivate and try.

"I have already preliminarily decided on the 50 quotas for the Long Wu Army. After disbanding later, there will be a list, and you will go directly to the Martial Arts Academy to cultivate.

Later, there will be people breaking through. Once someone breaks through, the quotas of the Martial Arts Academy will be vacated. The 50 quotas of the Long Wu Army will not change, so I will select people to enter and replace those who have broken through.

Now I will talk about the criteria for selecting people!" ===== CHAPTER 326 =====