Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 312 Institutionalization and Morning Training
"Ahem! Thomas, Lyon, tomorrow you, along with Benjamin and Grant, will go to the Westca City base to pick up one hundred civilians. Be careful on the way."

"it is good!"

"Also, if they don't cooperate, don't act rashly," Li Wei added, although this possibility was unlikely.

"Zhao Guozhu, starting tomorrow, you will be part of a special unit, working alongside the free civilian soldiers, responsible for daily camp patrols. Our focus now is on preventing base raids, so your mission is very important!"

Li Wei added a point: since Zhao Guozhu didn't want to return empty-handed, he had to show sincerity.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely not slack off," Zhao Guozhu quickly replied.

"By the way, Lao Zhao, do you have any good suggestions regarding building a three-star tavern in the territory?"

Li Wei asked again, after all, he was a four-star veteran player, not someone like Thomas or Leon who could easily pull off a scam.

"Reporting to the lord, I am indeed aware of this matter. A three-star tavern is essentially no different from a two-star or one-star tavern. It can be built using one-star or two-star materials. You could even order the C section on the first floor to be designated as a tavern right now, without any problem. However, there is only one key issue: the tavern's business license. We need to apply for it from Duke Will, and it will be quite expensive."

"Oh I see."

Li Wei nodded and then said to Zhao Xuanxuan, "Xuanxuan, next, try to find a way to research the matters related to the Enchanting Blacksmith Workshop! While you're at it, help me repair these pieces of equipment."

"Alright, everyone go and rest."

After hastily assigning tasks to the few people, Li Wei sent them away.

Things are different now than before. In the past, players were the core of the camp, the experts who tackled most of the tasks, and the project leaders.

But now all of this is being overturned by the free people.

Eighty percent of the work in the entire territory is done by free citizens, and this percentage will continue to rise in the future.

Without the free people, or if they cause any trouble, the entire territory will immediately fall into disarray.

But if everything is left to the free people to elect a qualified management team, can it continue indefinitely?

The answer is of course no.

The role played by the lord and his staff in this process remains irreplaceable.

At this moment, Li Wei took out the Prestige Card, entered the information to build a three-star tavern into the pending tasks list through the Prestige System, and generated a pending task for the territory.

Within the next two days, the head of the Freedom and Democracy Department, Nelson, the engineering team leader, Lenos, the electrical team leader, and the leaders of other relevant teams will all receive this mission information.

They would provide feedback based on their own experience, and this feedback would be discussed by Nelson and the engineers within three days to come up with a preliminary construction plan. The next step was to select a person in charge, implement each step of the task in detail to each group, and then get to work.

This is exactly what lazy lords dream of.

However, Li Wei would not relax, and did not even plan to sleep. He went directly to check on the arrangements of various departments, such as the patrol teams.

There are currently six patrol squads in the territory, with sixty full-time free civilian soldiers.

Commanded by seven people: Javier, Benjamin, Santiago, Durant, Javier, Mark, and his personal translator Carson.

It sounds a bit exaggerated, but it has to be this way.

The territory will face various challenges in the future, and with fewer free soldiers, it will likely suffer a great loss.

"Reporting to the lord, the first and fifth squads are on duty tonight. The first squad is responsible for patrolling the visible outposts outside the camp, while the fifth squad is responsible for guarding the hidden outposts inside the camp."

"After midnight, the second and sixth squads will change shifts. The third squad will be responsible for guard patrols during the day tomorrow, while the first and second squads will be on missions tomorrow."

Fifth Squad Leader Havel reported to Li Wei that these things have now been established as rules and regulations. As full-time soldiers, if they don't produce some results, they won't live up to the name of full-time soldiers!
After all, there are still 150 reserve soldiers, both men and women, in the entire camp.

However, if we bring back 100 more free people from the small town base and train them for a period of time, they can replace some of the labor force, and then we can also set up three more patrol squads that are not on leave.

In addition, we need to send some supplies to Liang Yuzhi in a couple of days and also send a patrol team.

Thinking of this, Li Wei immediately took out paper and pen, wrote a note, woke up Ah Dai from his sleep, and told him to quickly deliver a letter to Liang Yuzhi, asking what specific supplies they needed.

Ah Dai was very impatient, but in the end, after seeing the two pieces of three-star premium jerky that Li Wei took out, he happily set off.

Next, Li Wei went down to the basement level and saw Nelson, Lenos, several team leaders, and a few engineers discussing something at the steam generator.

"My lord, we are discussing whether to add a steam generator set. It is almost foreseeable that starting tomorrow, the electricity consumption will increase significantly. Nelson's suggestion is whether we should rebuild a small nuclear power plant. These things are modular now and are not too complicated in themselves, but they require the construction of very deep underground facilities."

"We don't need it for now, so let's add a steam generator set first."

Li Wei made the final decision, rejecting Nelson and others' wild ideas.

This is really unnecessary. The magic shield will be built in two years. Who knows what it will be like then? Will it be completely elevated from this world, or will the magic shield just be a special kind of wall?

Speaking of which, you could write to Liang Yuzhi to inquire about this.

Next, Li Wei inquired about the progress of the electric truck. It was going well, as many parts were disassembled from the original car and reassembled. The current difficulties lie in chassis tuning, calculating the vehicle's center of gravity, and various other complex data.

"You can ask Master Zhao for help with this. I bet she can solve your problem."

Li Wei chuckled. Zhao Xuanxuan was truly arrogant now, wielding the enchanted iron hammer as if she had grasped the truth, believing that there was nothing that couldn't be solved by simply knocking it down.

Well, the specific principle is to use resonance to provide feedback on what is inappropriate.

After reviewing all the departments and groups, Li Wei went back to sleep.

When Li Wei woke up, it was exactly 4:30 in the morning. After getting up, washing up, putting on his armor and weapons, he went downstairs. Apart from the two squads that were on patrol, the other four squads were already fully prepared to start their morning training.

This was an old practice left over from when He Yuying was in charge. It had been abolished a month ago due to the radiation storm, but now it had to be revived. Li Wei planned to personally train every soldier.

"salute!"

"My lord, the morning training duty commander, Grant, reports that the morning training squad has assembled. Forty men were expected, and forty men are present. Please give instructions!"

When Grant solemnly reported to Li Wei, Li Wei was almost dumbfounded. What's going on? Does it have to be so formal?
Am we just blindly imitating others? Is it really appropriate to be so ahead of our time in the feudal era?

Li Wei was genuinely guilty, but when forty elite free soldiers looked at him with unwavering eyes, he felt a surge of adrenaline. It felt so good! Indeed, a man should carry a sword and traverse the ends of the earth.

"Let's begin." Li Wei remained calm; he couldn't afford to embarrass himself.

"Everyone, listen to my command! Follow the lord and cross the 20-kilometer race fully armed!"

The thunderous footsteps shattered the morning tranquility.

A chilly breeze swept over us, and autumn seemed to have ended all of a sudden.

With each breath, wisps of white mist drifted away; winter had come a little early here.

Half an hour later, as dawn broke, Li Wei, fully armed, ran back to the city wall of the territory. Behind him were forty free civilian soldiers.

Not bad, no one fell behind.

"stop!"

"Reporting to the lord, the morning training 20-kilometer weighted run has ended! No one has fallen behind."

"Alright! Ten minutes of warm-up, then we'll move on to the next training exercise: long-range crossbow shooting and javelin throwing."

Li Wei is currently a temporary instructor. He doesn't actually have any amazing or impressive teaching methods. He just follows the trend and makes sure that every free soldier can shoot accurately with a bow and crossbow, and can also fight in close combat when they put down their bow and crossbow, so that everyone can be versatile.

If this were an ordinary soldier, it would be child's play.

But now, even the weakest of these free soldiers can achieve Level 1 awakening of life, stamina, strength, or agility, naturally giving them a significant advantage in all aspects.

If you have a Hunter class card, use the two-star blank bow and arrow made by Zhao Xuanxuan.

If you don't have a Hunter class card, use the Siege Crossbow.

The requirements aren't high: hit all fixed targets within 100 meters and hit eight out of ten moving targets within 50 meters!

Each person must shoot 30 feathered arrows or 20 crossbow bolts every morning.

Then there are ten javelin throws, and finally close combat training.

The whole process takes two hours.

Li Wei would personally train one-on-one with each Free Citizen soldier, accurately pointing out their weaknesses, as well as various ways of exerting force, mastering movements and postures, and so on.

This will become the norm in the future.

Every day, apart from the squads that need to go on missions, the other soldiers must ensure twelve hours of training.

At exactly seven o'clock in the morning, a fiery red sun rose from the east. After finishing his morning exercise, Li Wei habitually looked up at the sky. Huh, Ah Dai hasn't come back yet?
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case; a round trip of a thousand miles is nothing to Ah Dai.

Could it be that something has happened to Liang Yuzhi, or that Liang Yuzhi has made some arrangements?
Li Wei wasn't too worried. Today was only the first day of the month, and even if other forces wanted to raid his base, they would have to complete the preliminary reconnaissance and assessment first.

Besides, everyone has a family, and it's impossible for everyone to suddenly become harmonious and start attacking Li Wei.

The deterrent effect of Li Wei killing Scarface Ge Lan cannot be ignored.

Other forces would have to think twice before attempting to raid your base: would they rather send out all their elite troops and wait to be raided, or send out half of their elite troops and be wiped out?

Stealing someone's base is, after all, a skill!

(Two updates for now, let's take a break)
(End of this chapter)