Qin Official

"Is it possible to be exempted from the regular service next year? What a good thing!?"

Everyone who had never served several times couldn't believe it, but Uncle Chao nodded and confirmed the matter.

"It's natural. Every year, there is a competition among cattle in the countryside. If the cattle owner wins the most, the farmer who raises the cattle can also get rid of one watch. Tian Shifu, who is responsible for this, can also be rewarded with a pot of wine and ten pieces of dried meat."

"That's right!" Ji Ying added: "The reward for winning the first place in the competition on the tenth day will be a jug of wine and ten pieces of dried meat! Half of it will be given to the captain of the team!"

Hei Fu took the opportunity and said: "If we win first place, I can divide the wine and dried meat that were given to me to the second and third sons!"

"Wine..." The eyes of brothers Zhi and Mu immediately turned green.

"Dried meat." Ke, Ke, and Xiao Tao also swallowed their saliva at the same time. Sure enough, when they mentioned these two things, everyone from poor families shed tears.

Seeing that everyone was already motivated to participate, Ping said happily: "It's not easy. This is to compete for the first place in ten categories."

"Heifu never does anything uncertain. I am confident that I will get the best result with my second and third sons!"

Seeing that the time was ripe, Heifu made his promise: "Even if this matter fails, there will be no loss for the two and three sons. If it succeeds, they will all gain. Why not? What I want is just for the next few days." , the second and third sons can obey my orders!"

Heifu bowed to Dongmen Leopard: "I hope the corps commander can do his best to help."

He saluted Uncle Chao again: "I hope Uncle Chao will know everything and tell you everything!"

"I will do my best to help Hei Fu!" Dongmen Bao is a brave man. Even if Hei Fu doesn't mention it, he will take the initiative to compete with others.

"Me too." Ji Ying joined in for the second time.

"It doesn't matter, we have to train these days anyway, so I'll let you know what you're good at." Uncle Chao still found Hei Fu's respectful attitude very useful, so he simply joined in.

Then, Xiao Tao, She, and Mu also expressed their opinions to join one after another. But the two brothers, Ke and Ke, followed the crowd, and even the most passive Ping was forced to agree. In this way, all Guishi members agreed and went all out. To strive for the first place in the ten-day competition.

"In the next few days, we will work together..."

Heifu wanted to say a few more words to boost his own morale, but unexpectedly, "Zhao", the county soldier who took them to their residence yesterday, trotted over and said that it was Chen Baijiang who wanted to see him by name.

…

Chen Baijiang was separated from Bin Baijiang at this moment, and was waiting for Hei Fu behind a big mulberry tree beside the school field. He kept pacing in place, obviously a little anxious. When Hei Fu came up, Chen Baijiang raised his head. , the first sentence was in a very unhappy tone.

"Heifu, what do you mean!?"

Hei Fu cupped his hands and said, "The villain was reckless today, but General Chen Bai, this is a great opportunity to disgrace General Bin Bai!"

"Wait a minute, are you saying that this matter can disgrace General Bin Bai?" Chen Baijiang looked confused.

Heifu smiled: "Since General Bin Bai argued with me about this matter, he has lost!"

Chen Baijiang was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"First of all, General Bin is a general who has not changed his title, but he is arguing with me, a mere public servant. No matter whether he wins or loses, if the news spreads, it will be very detrimental to him."

"Secondly, if I am rated as the best, I will have to jump three hundred meters around the school field and perform three hundred dances. I will be laughed at by the people in the county. From then on, my prestige will be ruined and it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the school field. Isn't that not right? Wonderful?"

Chen Baijiang looked at Hei Fu with some surprise: "You think so far."

If you think about it carefully, it's right. If Heifu wins the first place, his opponent Bin Baijiang will definitely lose face, which will benefit him at all. If he didn't come first, it actually had nothing to do with him. He should just watch this farce as nothing to do with himself!

Thinking of this, Chen Baijiang felt much more comfortable, and said again: "Are you so sure of winning the first place?"

"The villain has indeed been trained by my father. There should be no problem in restraining Shi Wu. The only problem is..."

Heifu raised his head and said, "I just don't know which county captain will come to judge the competition ten days from now?"

General Chen Bai stroked his mustache and said, "It's the right lieutenant and the left lieutenant who came together to evaluate the results together. The final decision rests with the right lieutenant."

He knew what Heifu meant, and added: "However, there will be officials present to take notes, so the two county lieutenants will not show favoritism, but will be evaluated based on their performance. In this way, of course, the county left lieutenant cannot threaten Private revenge, but don’t expect the county lieutenant to deliberately favor you..."

"I don't dare." Heifu said, "As long as the review is fair and don't be influenced by Zuo Wei and Bin Baijiang."

At the end, he bowed deeply and said emotionally: "I just hope that General Bai will be in front of your right lieutenant and say some kind words. I am enmity with General Bai because of the case of Huyang Pavilion Chief. I am afraid that Lieutenant Zuo of the county will also do it because of this." If you are hostile to me, I will have to rely on Chen Baijiang and Youwei for protection from now on."

This was a voluntary surrender. Chen Baiyuan was surprised by Heifu's cleverness. Is this really a 17-year-old farm boy who came to the county for the first time?

However, Chen Baijiang did not delve into it further. At this moment, he just regarded Heifu as a sword that stabbed Bin Baijiang.

"As long as you understand."

As everyone knows, Heifu actually has his own plan.

On the way back to the army, Heifu thought to himself: "Ever since I was knocked down and humiliated by the county soldiers yesterday, I have understood that even if I swallow my anger for a month, I will be made things difficult by all the generals, and I will be punished if I am not careful. Anyway, everyone who deserves to be offended has been offended. Instead of being a timid young man who retreats, it is better to move forward bravely! "

It is necessary to make full use of the contradiction between the two hundred generals and even the two county captains. If done well, there may be a chance to stand out!

What's more, others thought he was bragging about this matter, but Heifu had a good idea.

He looked at the crowds of watchmen in the distance. They were a mix of old and young, with uneven heights, different builds, and loose shapes. Some put their hands in their sleeves and shivered, some raised their heads and shrugged in a daze, some were hunched over and coughing, looking left and right, or scratching their ears and cheeks. Even if they barely stand in a row, the formation is crooked.

Such a queue made him speechless, who was used to seeing the neat and orderly armies of later generations.

Facing such an opponent, Heifu felt that it would be difficult for him to lose even if he wanted to.

After all, he was a student at the police academy, and he was very good at formation training. Before graduation, he served as a military training instructor for freshmen at a certain university. He knew very well how to train a ragtag group of soldiers into regular pacesetters who marched in formation...

Although the cultural quality of the soldiers of this era is far inferior to that of contemporary college students, they are more obedient and have better physical fitness. Although most of them are thin and malnourished, at least they will not suddenly faint while standing in the sun and scare the instructor half to death. …

Moreover, it is said that even if you don’t obey orders, you can be beaten!

"Just wait and see."

Heifu looked behind him at Chen Baifu who thought he had a trick, as well as at Bin Baifu who was dismissive of him from a distance, and even the chiefs and corps commanders who saw his joke smiled.

"The real military training has begun!"

…

On October 3, the 22nd year of the Qin Dynasty, the third day of the watch, just after "Ping Dan", Heifu got up.

Qin also had twelve hours, but unlike later generations, they all had their own names, which are:

Rooster crow (1 a.m. to 3 a.m.), Pingdan (3 a.m. to 5 a.m.), sunrise (5 a.m. to 7 a.m.), eclipse time (7 a.m. to 9 a.m.), midnight (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), sunrise Hit (11:00 to 13:00), lose (13:00 to 15:00), lose the market (15:00 to 17:00), hit the sun (17:00 to 19:00), cattle and sheep enter (19:00 to 21:00), Dusk (21 o'clock to 23 o'clock), people set (23 o'clock to 1 o'clock).

After Heifu got up, the genius outside was bright. He washed himself with the accumulated water in the water tank outside, closed his eyes and inhaled, pressed his legs, stretched his waist, stretched his muscles, and then began to review what he had learned yesterday afternoon." "Come on, the procession."

The military training method of this era emphasizes "One person learns to fight and teaches it to ten people. Ten people learns to fight and teaches it to become a hundred people." So after dividing the troops yesterday, General Chen Bai asked each commander and corps commander to follow a few The old troops in the county soldiers learn various formation skills. These skills are derived from Sun and Wu, two masters of military art, and can be roughly divided into the following categories:

Sitting and standing up are the squatting and standing up in military training in later generations.

To move and stop is to move and stand still.

To move from left to right means to turn left or right.

Forward and backward are forward and backward.

Divide and unite, as the name suggests, is the gathering and dispersing of queues.

Knotting and untying are gathering and dissolving.

After learning about it, Heifu couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. He always thought that the basic formation training in the army of later generations was copied from the West. Who would have expected that it could be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period!

However, Heifu and the others are just more soldiers, and it is still early for them to go into battle. Now they are practicing these things mainly for the ten-day competition seven days later. On October 10th, two county captains will come to inspect their training results, and time is very tight.

Fortunately, when Heifu was in school in his previous life, he had experienced countless inspections by various heads and leaders and had experience.

After Heifu had practiced for a quarter of an hour, the sun had already appeared above the horizon, and the time of "sunrise" had arrived. He wiped his sweat and felt more confident.

It seems that the commander played the role of squad leader in the army in later generations. There were two teams of ten of them, standing in a row. The chief should stand at the front of the line, holding a thin bamboo pole - in wartime, he would hold a small flag. The corps leader should stand at the end of the line to monitor whether anyone is falling behind.

"It's too easy for me, but it's a bit difficult for others to learn and use it proficiently in a few days."

"Shi Chang, it's so early."

When he turned around, Heifu found that Wu Commander Dongmen Bao had been leaning against the door with his arms folded, watching for a long time.

Hei Fu bowed to him. After Dongmen Leopard came over and stretched, he watched Hei Fu practice for a while, and then he couldn't help but said: "Shi Chang can practice vigorously, but I just can't figure out why the training is not Start with combat archery, and practice this meaningless formation. It will be useful when you go into battle! "