None of the five hundred commanders and commanders stationed in Yangcheng expected that Captain Li You had just arrived at the military camp and was about to conduct a patrol.
"The captain patrols the camp! The captain patrols the camp!"
A slow drumbeat was beaten, and messengers arrived in each camp to deliver the news, causing a flurry of excitement.
Then, surrounded by his subordinates, Captain Li You walked out of the camp and began to patrol the huge camp in clockwise order.
Li You is not too old, only 28 or 29 years old. He wears long clothes and leather armor, with flower decorations on his chest, and pointed shoes. He wears a crown on his head, has a long face, and a short beard.
, although he is a military officer, his demeanor is graceful and elegant.
As the son of Tingwei Li Si, he received a good family education and could be said to be both civil and military. He entered Xianyang Palace as a Lang Guard at the age of seventeen. A few years later, he was promoted to Lang Guan and began to serve in the army.
What is strange is that although Li You is not young, he has not officially married for a long time, and he does not know what he is waiting for. It was not until last year that he was able to marry the eldest princess of Qin, and a grand wedding was held at Li Si's mansion.
A sudden realization.
The general that King Qin liked to promote the most was Li Xin, but the most important minister he used was Li Si. Even the Prime Minister Wei Zhuang could not compare with him in this regard.
Everyone sighed with emotion, saying that Li Youzhen had a good father.
After becoming the good son-in-law of the King of Qin, Li You, the fifth official, seemed to have a bright future. Sure enough, when the new war came, he was also appointed as a captain and accompanied Li Xin on the expedition.
But looking at the camp in front of him, Li You was not happy at all. Every family had its own scriptures that were difficult to recite, and he also had his own troubles.
Compared to the elite troops from Guanzhong commanded by General Li Xin himself and the soldiers from Shandong counties under General Meng Tian, the Nanjun soldiers were really a useless force with doubtful combat effectiveness.
Li Xin gave Li You such a weak brigade for a very good reason: Li You was originally from Shangcai, Chu State, and he can still speak the Jingchu dialect of Shangcai fluently, so it was just right to give him a group of soldiers from his hometown of Chu State.
It is convenient for command and control. When the time comes, you can follow the movement of the army and use the advantage of language to station in various places without having to fight a tough battle.
Although in Li Xin's view, this was to take care of Li You, so that he did not have to risk his own life.
But in Li You's view, his status as the son-in-law of King Qin not only did not allow him to receive preferential treatment, but was deliberately shown to be fair and became a victim. Seeing that Li Xin and Meng Tian, who were both born in Lang Wei, were appointed as commander-in-chief and deputy-general respectively,
He felt a little unwilling in his heart.
But you can't complain, let alone use your father's authority to adjust your appointments. When Li Xin set out from Xianyang, the King of Qin personally gave him an ax and axe, and authorized him: "The left, right, and central armies all have their own duties.
If the quota is exceeded and the person who asks for it is killed, the army will not have two orders, and those who have given two orders will be executed, those who have left the order will be executed, and those who have failed to order will be executed!”
No matter what your background is, the general has the power to kill a captain who reports beyond his level or is dissatisfied with his appointment.
Li You could only take his own bodyguard of 500 short soldiers. He separated from Li Xin and Meng Tian in Yangzhai and hurried to Yangcheng, hoping to use the remaining time to master this army as soon as possible before the scheduled start of the war at the end of September.
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As soon as he got off the military chariot, Li You beat the drums to signal the leader, and the five hundred leaders came to gather. He spoke kindly, and everyone communicated in Jingchu dialect, which invisibly shortened the distance between him and the other soldiers.
After that, there was a turbulent patrol. Li You had to know what kind of army this was, and he also had to let the soldiers know who their captain was! A soldier does not know the general, and a general does not know the soldiers. This is a taboo in the face of battle!
However, just from the simple camp layout in front of him, Li You could tell that the quality of these Nanjun soldiers was far inferior to that of the elite in Guanzhong...
The Qin army's camp has its own set of systems, especially the permanent camp that is stationed for a long time. It must be surrounded by an eight-foot-high wooden wall. An army of 5,000 people is also divided into a central camp and a left and right camp.
, each camp at the front and back has its own separately assigned camps. There are trees and trenches dug around each camp, and a clear ban has been issued. People who are not in the same "camp" are not allowed to enter other camps. If soldiers from other camps enter without authorization,
The commander should punish them and sit down together with his 100 or more generals, otherwise they will be guilty of the same crime.
As for the roads in the camp, there are sentries set up every 120 steps to restrict pedestrian traffic and ensure smooth traffic. No one is allowed to pass unless they hold a general's talisman!
In addition to strictly guarding against spies, this also has an important role, that is, starting from daily life, the soldiers will learn to obey orders, learn to follow orders and prohibitions, and get rid of all the laziness and laxity they had when they were leaders of Guizhou!
However, the Nanjun soldiers' camp was not done well enough. The ravines in the camp were diagonal and the barracks were staggered according to the terrain. However, in Li You's eyes, the trenches between different camps were dug hastily and the distance between sentries was too long.
Moreover, the defense was lax. Those who went out to collect firewood and herd horses also came and went in twos and threes, and did not move as a whole team.
Even when he was inspecting, he had already beaten drums as a warning and had sent messengers to each camp to deliver messages, but there were still people carelessly walking on the road between camps! Making loud noises as they walked.
Li You was not polite to such a person. He nodded, and the short-soldier guards following him immediately stepped forward and captured him! Then he escorted the two men to the gate of a camp and loudly announced: "General
After entering the camp, we will close the door and clear the way. Anyone who dares to walk will be punished, anyone who dares to speak loudly will be punished, and anyone who dares to disobey orders will be punished!"
As soon as he finished speaking, in front of the leaders behind him, the five hundred masters, and everyone in the camp who asked who had left the tent, the two unlucky soldiers who had returned from collecting firewood were pinned to the wooden stakes and guarded by short soldiers.
He raised his copper ax and chopped off his head! Then he hung it high on the camp gate!
"The system in the army is that if there are five people in a team, they will protect each other; if there are ten people, they will protect each other. The commander of the army, commander of the army, commander of the camp, and hundreds of generals where these two people are, will all be beaten twenty times!"
The four people immediately came out of the queue, obediently took off their clothes, and were beaten on the shoulders and backs with canes made of bamboo strips. One after another, the sound reached their ears.
As a result, no one of the Nanjun soldiers who had become accustomed to being loose in the past two months dared to ignore the ban, and they were all speechless.
Li You just watched the execution with an expressionless face. The amiable superior who had previously been chatting enthusiastically with his leaders suddenly turned into a cold-faced captain. This was how the general's authority was initially established.
Li You studied civil and martial arts since he was a child, and was deeply influenced by the Legalist thinking advocated by his father. He also infiltrated this thinking into military management.
An embankment measuring a foot long will burst with the holes of ants; a room a hundred feet tall will be burned by the blazing cracks.
Military regulations and disciplines are often broken starting from small things. Once they are broken, the general will not be able to enforce orders and prohibitions on the soldiers, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
After the execution was completed, Li Youye left the main road in the camp, walked into the small camp, and began to inspect the interior of the hundred-person camp.
When walking on the road, there was not much difference, but when he entered the interior and looked all the way, Li You's face became more solemn, because none of the soldiers in the camp satisfied him.
The soldiers all ran out of their tents in a hurry after they learned that the captain was coming. They looked a little messy. They stood on the roadside and looked at the new captain with curiosity and anxiety, although they did not dare to whisper to each other.
, but there is a lot of eye contact.
After going down several camps, Li You finally understood what was the difference between this Nanjun army and the powerful Guanzhong army he had led before.
Not only the strict military discipline, not only the quality of the soldiers themselves, but also the overall morale!
The Nanjun soldiers were recruited during the battle to destroy Wei. Now they have been away from home for nearly a year. They had already taken steps to go home, but they were informed that the garrison period was extended and there was still another war. This is what everyone will feel.
They were dissatisfied. Therefore, the Nanjun soldiers were somewhat disorganized and demoralized, and they were not very enthusiastic about this war.
Li You could understand, but he couldn't let them relax like this.
"The art of war states that if the general is light and the base is low, it can be attacked in large numbers. With such an army in the fort, I am afraid that it will be defeated by the Chu army in one blow, let alone encounter the enemy in the field."
Before Li You set off, his father told him that he only had to make no mistakes in this battle and be careful in everything. But now it seems that with such an army whose morale is low before the war begins, it is difficult to even make no mistakes.
Thinking like this, Li You had almost walked down the entire camp, but when he stepped into the last camp, his eyes lit up!
One hundred soldiers were lined up here early. Although they were different in height, fat and thin, Li You felt that they were all uniform at a glance.
Hundreds of people stood in ten rows and ten columns in the open space in front of the camp. The people in the first two rows were all wearing armor. Although the colors, textures, and lengths of the clothes inside were different, they seemed to be one whole. The people in the back row were also wearing armor.
Seeing Li You and others arriving in front of the camp gate, a hundred generals wearing a single-plate long crown immediately came out of the queue, trotted to Li You, bowed to him, and loudly reported: "The 700th leader of the left, all of us."
One hundred and three people are here, waiting for the captain to inspect the camp!"
"We are waiting for the captain's inspection of the camp!" Everyone also followed suit. Dongmen Bao, Ji Ying and others who used to be careless in the past are now acting honestly.
Li You saw that the hundred generals had dark faces, but tall and straight figures, and showed proper etiquette. Then he saw that the hundred soldiers behind him were well prepared and had high morale. The depression of patrolling the camp in the morning was suddenly swept away. He nodded and looked to the side.
The leader of the crowd, five hundred masters: "Whose subordinate is this?"
"He is under the command of a subordinate!"
The leader of the Five Hundreds, Cheng Wuyou, quickly came out, pointed at the Hundred Generals and said, "This Hundreds General is called Heifu!"
"Heifu Baijiang, your soldiers are arrayed in an orderly manner."
Li You just praised him, but he didn't look at the door and leave like he did in the previous camp. Instead, he stepped into the camp and glanced left and right.
He found that the camp was well-organized, the ravines were deep enough, the dirt roads were compacted and flat without even larger stones, the potholes were filled, and the toilets were more than ten steps away from the camp...
"The camp was set up well." Li You looked at the little general again and asked him, "Where did you learn it?"
"I learned it from Master Cheng Wubai." Heifu is a good person, which he attributes to his superior.
Li You smiled and disagreed. Could it be that he still didn't know that Cheng Wuyou was a rough man. The four hundred generals under his command were all in a mess. They couldn't camp so far away.
After looking around, he was very satisfied, but when he passed by the open tent, he seemed to see something, and immediately stopped and asked the soldiers to open the gray tent.
The first time he went in to take a look, Li You said "Huh" and made a surprised sound, which made the leaders outside and the five hundred masters look at each other in confusion, not knowing what was going on inside. Only Hei Fu smiled.
Be confident.
Li You was really surprised.
When the captain patrolled the camp, the formations were orderly and the camp was well-organized. Li You had seen many similar armies in Guanzhong.
But the beddings in the tent were all neatly folded on their respective couches. This was the first time Li You had seen them since he was born!