The disgraced official I took care of was actually Zhu Houcong's childhood friend.

Chapter 336

Facing Zhou Chu, Wang Changshan and the others felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness. In terms of strategy and scheming, they were completely helpless against Zhou Chu. In terms of military strength, Zhou Chu now commanded tens of thousands of troops, who had just returned from suppressing bandits and were in high spirits. They wished they could sacrifice them as a sacrifice.

Therefore, no matter how unwilling Wang Changshan and the others were, they dared not utter a single word of dissent.

Even officials like Hu Duo were perceptive; someone like Hu Duo, for example, didn't prioritize protecting Wang Changshan and his ilk over protecting himself.

As long as this matter doesn't affect him, he'd rather Zhou Chu hadn't noticed him at all, so why would he stand up for Wang Changshan?

Who among those who can become officials doesn't have their own sense of propriety? To defy Zhou Chu in front of tens of thousands of troops? That's no different from being tired of living.

Everyone knows that the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in front of them has the authority to act expediently, and even killing them on the spot is within his authority.

If it were an ordinary commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, they might have dared to say a few more words, but Hu Duo and his men were well aware of Zhou Chu's past deeds in the capital.

Sometimes, the more you know, the less courageous you become. Hu Duo and his comrades were far inferior to Zhou Chu in rank, so even if they wanted to be assertive, they couldn't.

This is not Taiyuan. Datong is far from the power center of Shanxi Province. The distance between Datong and Taiyuan is almost the same as that between Datong and the capital. It is truly a case of the emperor being far away and the court having no jurisdiction over it, nor does the governor have any jurisdiction over it.

That's why these people in Datong act so recklessly.

Of course, Datong was just a microcosm; there were many more Shanxi merchants who colluded with the Mongols than just those in Datong.

Zhou Chu, along with Wang Changshan and the others, did not return to the military camp, but went straight to the Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard) headquarters. As for the main army, Lin Lu led them back to camp.

Two thousand elite Tiger Warriors were stationed in the military camp to train the thirty thousand troops, with each Tiger Warrior responsible for training a dozen or so people.

This made the Tiger Legion soldiers extremely excited. In the past, they were always trained to the point of death by Zhou Chu or Lin Lu. In the Tiger Legion, there was never a concept of adapting to the intensity of training. Once they had adapted to it, Zhou Chu would continue to increase the intensity of training.

Of course, the training intensity won't be increased indefinitely, but the current training intensity is already enough to exhaust every Tiger Legion soldier.

It is precisely because of this high-intensity training that the Tiger Legion has achieved its current combat effectiveness.

Even though the Tiger Legion gave these garrison soldiers very low training intensity, even lower than their initial training intensity, these garrison soldiers were trained to the point of exhaustion. Some were trained to tears, and some were trained to the point of vomiting.

"Sir, 99% of people can't complete this level of training. Is it really suitable for training troops?"

A commander came before Lin Lu and called out loudly.

Upon hearing this, the soldiers who were training all looked at Lin Lu, hoping that he would reduce the difficulty of the training.

"You think this is difficult?"

Lin Lu looked at the thousand-household commander in front of her.

"It is indeed difficult, sir."

Qianhu said, forcing himself to speak.

"Wang Dengkui!"

Lin Lu did not answer the man's question, but instead called out a name.

"To!"

When a soldier from the Tiger Legion heard Lin Lu call his name, he hurriedly came to Lin Lu and stood up straight.

"Show them the intensity of your training."

Lin Lu looked at Wang Dengkui and said.

"Yes, my lord."

After saying this, Wang Dengkui, like a wild wolf unleashed from its cage, began to demonstrate his training exercises on the training field.

The intensity and speed of the attack left the garrison soldiers dumbfounded, and they looked at Wang Dengkui as if he were a god.

Qianhu, who was just talking about the excessive training intensity, was also dumbfounded. Even he couldn't achieve that kind of speed and intensity.

After all, this commander was only a squad leader before, and in terms of martial prowess alone, he was no match for Wang Dengkui.