Hanhou

It was just dawn, dewdrops hung on the grass leaves, and the morning breeze was still cool.

In the barracks, several petty officials walked up to the barracks, looked at each other, and rang the gong in their hands.The sound of the gong came out of the camp, scaring away the small animals drinking by the pond and frightening the birds flying on the branches.

As soon as the gong sounded, the old soldiers in the barracks jumped up, lifted the mosquito net, and dressed neatly.He walked to the table and grabbed the clay pot, raised his head and poured a big gulp.Wiping off the water stains around his mouth, he turned around and saw several guards still snoring, refusing to get up for a long time, his eyes sharpened, his big hands grabbed them, and dragged them off the couch one by one.

With a few bangs, the tall man fell to the ground.He was not injured, but he was fully awake.

"Have I told you before? Get up with the sound of the gong! Still asleep, do you want to be whipped?!"

As the old pawn spoke, he lifted the men up and asked them to get dressed as soon as possible.

"Hurry up, don't delay!"

In the barracks next door, the old soldier who had served as the corps commander was even more merciless. He kicked the still sleepy soldier from the couch to the ground and scolded him.

The soldiers had been in the camp for a few days, and they were used to getting up at the end of the hour, and they were not used to the sudden arrival at the hour of the hour.The old soldier didn't care much, and with the sound of the gong, the reprimand became more severe.

"Get up, get up for me! Sleep like this at home?!"

Around the time of cupping tea, most of the soldiers rushed out of the barracks, followed the instructions of the small official, and lined up in the school grounds.

A wooden platform was built overnight in the school grounds, and there were two leather drums on the platform.

Zhao Jia was dressed in armor, with a long sword on his waist, and was standing on the stage.Because of the cover of the helmet, the soldiers in the audience couldn't see his expression clearly. They only felt that today's Captain Zhao was completely different from yesterday. He was not friendly and gentle, and his whole body was covered with a murderous aura.

After a few breaths, the sound of the gong stopped abruptly.

The little official stuck a wooden hammer in his waist and stopped the last few soldiers who rushed out of the barracks.

"Stop the sound of the gong. If you violate the order, you shall receive ten lashes! Considering the first offense, half the lashes will be reduced to five!"

When the little official brings the pawns, long wooden planks are placed under the wooden platform.The three guards were stripped of their shirts and pressed against a wooden board.

The executioners were all soldiers drawn from the county, and they waved the thorns without mercy.Five strokes later, the three people's backs overlapped with red bloodstains, and the sweat slid through, burning with pain.

For the soldiers, the pain was second to none, the key was being flogged in front of their comrades, and they couldn't hold back their faces.When they stood up and returned to the queue, they no longer saw the pride they had before, but they were all downcast, like eggplants beaten by frost.

Zhao Jia nodded to the official, who took half a step forward and read out the battalion regulations.

"Those who can't ring the gong, cane; those who don't follow orders in practice, cane; those who are afraid of difficulties and become lazy, cane!"

As the military orders were read out one by one, there was silence in the school grounds.

The soldiers who have served in the service are all attentive, lest they miss any one.Chu Fuji's young and strong nerves were tense, and when he looked at Zhao Jia again, he felt a faint sense of fear.

"Those who break the order today will have half the food."

As soon as the civil servant finished speaking, a cook brought a steaming steamer and a large bucket of millet porridge, and lined up on the sidelines of the school grounds.The aroma of steamed stuffed bun and millet porridge continued to waft, Geng Zuo's stomach began to roar, and they all swallowed subconsciously.

When queuing up to receive the meal, the three flogged soldiers lowered their heads.

The old soldier from the same village didn't yell anymore, he squatted down with the three of them holding a wooden bowl, and patted their backs hard, just right on the wound, causing the three of them to bark their teeth.

"County Zhao is merciful, and the caning will be halved. If you were replaced by the former county captain, you will get twenty blows at least!"

The three watchmen did not speak, and lowered their heads, holding half a bowl of millet porridge, with resentment hard to hide on their expressions.

The old soldier's expression changed, and he shouted: "You are punished for disobeying the order, why are you upset? I am equal to one mile, and I will surely form one army, honor and disgrace in the camp. The three of you are lazy and refuse to get up when the gong is beating. , I only received a small punishment today, and if I commit another crime in the future, I am afraid that the villagers will be affected!"

"When you leave your hometown, how do your parents tell you?"

"After entering the camp, I fed my stomach with steamed cakes and corn every day, and my head was also stuffed, so I didn't know what to do?!"

They are all from the same village, the old soldier deliberately lowered his voice in order to save some face for the three of them.It's just that I can't hear it from a distance, and the young and strong people in the same place are all gathered nearby. When I pay attention, half a sentence is naturally lost.

"Uncle Zhuang is right. I am in the military camp, so I must obey the military orders!" A man with a dark face, tall and strong like an iron tower finished his millet porridge, ate the buns in two or three bites, wiped the traces around his mouth, and squeaked He said, "Or are you so lazy at home, lying on the couch by yourself, and leaving all the work in the field to your parents and brothers?"

The three guards still didn't speak, but their expressions began to loosen, showing even more shame.

Seeing that they could understand the truth, the old pawn and the man looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Zhao Jia didn't eat with the pawns, let alone mingle with the crowd.

There is a saying, "If you don't have hair on your mouth, you can't do things well." After all, his age is a shortcoming. What needs to be done most now is not to love soldiers like sons, nor to show benevolence, but to establish dignity as soon as possible!

A month is not long at all, and several days were consumed by the affairs of the county. The time is tight, so it can only be done in an extraordinary fashion.

Furthermore, it is better not to be angry with him today than to be at a loss before the battle.After all, if you make a mistake in drill, you will be beaten at most, but if you make a military order on the battlefield, you will lose your head!

After everyone had eaten, they rested for a while, and the servant rang the gong again.

This time no one dared to slack off, including the three people who got up late, they all rushed to the school grounds to line up.All townships and lis gathered in one place, and stood in front of the wooden platform according to the formation formed by the clerks before, and no one made any noise.

Zhao Jia took a step forward and named out ten soldiers with military exploits.

According to the information recorded by the civil servants, these ten people at least said that they had experienced a great war, and they all had titles on their bodies, but they had not reached the level of exemption from military service, and they still had to serve one month of forced labor every year.

Ten people came out one after another, all of them were sturdy and their eyes were like lightning.

Two of them have thick arms and are obviously good at bows and crossbows.One person was particularly tall, with a long scar across his face, he was clearly a strong man carrying a large shield.The remaining seven were all halberd soldiers, and one of them had experienced three battles. Although he didn't have many beheads, his combat experience and grasp of fighters were beyond ordinary people.

Zhao Jia knew very well about the experience of the ten people, so asking now is to let the rest of the soldiers know.

After the last person's voice fell, Zhao Jia immediately gave an order to divide the [-] pawns into ten teams, with ten people as the team leader, and the commander and corps leader first selected the pawns who had been on the battlefield, and then the old pawns who had served the pawns , Once again choose the brave and burly man, after half a day's selection, report all to the official office.

When the teams were divided, there was a brief confusion in the school field.

Seeing such a mess, Zhao Jia frowned.

Fortunately, the chaos didn't last long, and the soldiers from all townships and li had already formed a group, and under the command of the team leader, they quickly re-formed.The pawns who served as Shichang and Wuchang were also selected accordingly.

The civil servants recorded the wooden slips and presented them to Zhao Jia.Except for the two corps leaders, the rest are all pawns with combat exploits and experience.

After the teams were re-divided, the clerks hung the gongs around their waists, grabbed the newly-made pennants from under the wooden platform, and jumped onto the wooden stakes that had been erected around the school grounds.

The team leaders each lead a wooden whistle, and use the whistle to order the pawns to practice in formation.

As for how to train soldiers, Zhao Jia only knows superficially. Fortunately, there are a lot of military books in the prefect's mansion, which he can learn from.

To be trained as a strong soldier, orders and prohibitions must be followed.If not, there will be an embarrassing situation like Qi Guo's martial arts.Obviously the country is stronger, but the small Yan Guo pressed him to the ground and stomped on his face. Not to mention the footprints all over his face, the capital of the country was almost breached.

In the pre-Qin period, the martial arts of Qi State was an example. In order to have a strong combat power, all countries strictly governed their armies.

For example, when the soldiers of Wei led by Wu Qi were at their strongest, their neighbors beat them up all over the place, and even seized more than 500 miles of Qin's territory.Wu Qi pointed his sword in all directions, and said domineeringly, "Who else is there?"

Regardless of how Wu Qi is, he is definitely a leader when it comes to training and employing troops.His "Wu Zi" is regarded as one of the "Seven Books of Wu Jing", and "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is also called Sun Wu.

It's a pity that no matter how powerful Wei Wuzu was, since he was born Yu and Shengliang, the curtain will eventually end.

The Qin army, forged with iron-like discipline, came from behind, swept away the soldiers of Wei, overthrew the girders, and finally defeated all opponents, helping the first emperor complete his hegemony and unify the six kingdoms.

When he was in the prefect's mansion, Zhao Jia had read a lot of ancient classics, and whenever he read about the Qin army, he would inexplicably have a strange thought: Do the people who made the laws of the Qin state have obsessive-compulsive disorder?And the higher the position, the more severe the symptoms?

It's just that the use of harsh punishments and harsh laws to govern the country has achieved remarkable results in Qin, but when it is extended to other countries, especially the six Shandong countries with different customs, it will inevitably be hindered and lead to backlash.

When the first emperor was alive, no matter how many undercurrents were turbulent, Qin's rule was always as stable as a rock.When the First Emperor passed away while on tour, it was like snapping off a sea needle. Qin II couldn’t even touch his own father’s clothes, not to mention Qin III, who had no sense of existence. As the first emperor thought, it will last forever, but it died in a short time, which only makes future generations sigh.

When the Qin Dynasty fell, the Qin army was still strong.

In the simplest example, a group of Lishan prisoners pulled up temporarily can defeat many rebels. After the Han Dynasty, they recruited the remaining Qin army in the south in order to prevent the opponent from going crazy.

The same example is Han.

It can be said that if it wasn't for the melee of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty, they fought each other left and right, and ended up crippling themselves, and then encountered a typhoid fever outbreak and the population dropped sharply.

Don't look at all kinds of conflicts within the imperial court, foreign relatives and eunuchs are beaten into dogs, and the policy towards foreign ethnic groups has always remained unchanged.The most typical example, the Qiang rebellion, the court did not pay any attention, one word: kill!

Just as Ban Chao's father, Ban Biao, said, the Han Dynasty had prestige and prestige, and he led all nations, and under the sun and the moon, they were all courtiers and concubines.

The big man is so tyrannical, so unreasonable, the Huns can rub against the ground, mere hooligans, slaves, if you don't clean up you, wait for the New Year?

History also proves that in the Qin and Han dynasties, the only ones who could defeat their own army were their own.The rest, including the Huns, are all scum.This sounded like a mouthful, but when placed in front of the neighbors who were pressed to the ground by Qin Jun and Han Jun, they burst into tears even if they didn't vomit blood.

The strict military discipline of the Qin army can be seen from the historical books left behind.The Han Dynasty, which inherited the Qin system, not only inherited the same line of military governance, but also absorbed a lot of essence.

Before entering the camp for training, Zhao Jia made many plans.But he is very clear that in a month's time, if Han Xin is reborn, he may not be able to train an elite soldier.

Cross out the unrealistic items, and finally determine a main purpose, learn from Wu Zi's method of training soldiers, make sure that the more soldiers observe discipline, and keep in mind the orders of the golden drum.

To do this, inertia must be driven out.

How to do it, Zhao County Lieutenant has already had a plan.

So, the ten teams were divided, Zhao Jia did not follow the old rules, and ordered the teams to lead their own troops to practice formation, but with a wave of his hand, he ordered the teams to run along the school field, and the officials could not stop unless they raised their flags.

run?

The guards were collectively dumbfounded, even experienced veterans didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Zhao Jia's gourd.

However, Zhao Jia refused to explain the military order like a mountain, so they could only run around the school field with their heads full of confusion.

It was the first time for this kind of training, and everyone had no experience, and it was difficult to master the speed, so the team quickly stretched into a long line.Those who run fast can almost reach the tail of the team; those who run slowly see that they are about to be overtaken, so they have to let go and move forward desperately.

A large cloud of dust was thrown up on the side of the school field, no matter how good your physical strength is, if you run down without knowing how to slow down, you will be so tired that you will be sweating profusely.

Zhao Jia held down the hilt of his sword and nodded to the official.

After running ten laps, the little official finally raised the flag, and the pawns jogged one after another and stopped for a while. Looking at the wooden platform, a cook had brought a vat full of sweet and sour fruit soup.

At this time, Zhao Xianwei once again showed his "devil" side.

Those who run to the top [-] can only have fruit soup, those who run from [-] to [-] can use warm water, and those who run to the last [-] have to run five more laps after drinking the water.

unfair?

This is a competition, where does the injustice come from.

"The strong will be rewarded, the inferior will not be rewarded, and the lazy will be punished!"

In addition, Zhao Jia also explained that such drills will be carried out every other day from now on.The first time it is counted by person, and then it is counted by team.In short, it's useless to run fast by yourself. If the team comes out last, you may fall into the ranks of being punished.

"The winner, the whole team will be rewarded with half a fat sheep."

Whip Tianzao came in turn, and the soldiers who ran into the hundred were all eyes shining, looking at the comrades behind the team, all gearing up.The latter's scalp was numb from seeing it, and he knew that from today onwards, the good days would come to an end.

Then I thought again, isn't it just running around the school field?

Both have two legs, who is afraid of whom!

Fight for the fat sheep!

Seeing the changes in the soldiers, Zhao Jia curled his lips.

Wu Zi has a saying that the law of warfare should teach the soldiers first.One man who learns war can teach ten men; ten men who learn war can teach hundreds; hundreds who learn war can teach thousands; thousands who learn war can teach ten thousand; ten thousand men who learn war can teach three armies.

He had made up his mind a long time ago, time was short, and he was a novice, so he had to play hard and soft, and let these soldiers learn to unite.Looking at it now, this kind of rote application seems to have a good effect.