When marching and fighting these days, except for soldiers and armor, which are distributed by the local arsenal, you have to bring your own clothes for changing clothes, and quilts are no exception.
"Quilt" refers to the quilt of these days. The summer is hot, so it is a single-layer thin quilt. Now it is late autumn, the weather is getting colder, and a thin quilt can no longer keep out the cold, so a thick quilt is needed.
Because everyone brought their own from home, or bought it at the market when they arrived at the garrison, the items in the quilt were all kinds of strange. The quilts made by captains and generals like Li You in the army were not only made of the best silk.
It is sewn, lined with a layer of soft deerskin, and stuffed with duck and goose down. It is light and warm, and only nobles can afford it.
Military officials like Heifu who came from middle-class families used better quality Gebu to sew quilts. For example, the quilt he wore was sewn for him by his mother, who also picked it from Yunmengze in late autumn.
It is full of reed flowers, soft to the touch, and warm enough to cover your body.
The poorer ordinary soldiers can only use burlap as a quilt, and stuff some withered grass and wheat straw into it in autumn. This kind of quilt feels hard and can only barely keep out the cold...
But in this tent that could accommodate ten people, Li You found that quilts of whatever shape were carefully folded and placed at the end of the bed.
Although due to material problems, it is impossible to stack them into the "tofu blocks" of the People's Liberation Army in later generations, but in the eyes of Captain Li You, who likes uniformity, it looks very pleasing to the eye. You know, not to mention the Nanjun soldiers, even the most elite Guanzhong Rui
Sir, the bedding in the camp is also laid out in various directions, and no one has ever folded it subconsciously.
Apart from being surprised when he first came in, he was speechless after that. And San walked out of the small tent of ten people and looked at the other tents in the camp of Heifu and the hundred people. He saw that without exception, the bedding was all neat.
They were neatly stacked. In addition, armor, clothing, weapons, and oars and shields all had their own place, which was in sharp contrast to the mess in other camps...
Li You casually picked up a wooden tablet on the couch. On it was the work schedule written by Heifu. He got up at sunrise and folded the quilt, ate during meals, and went out for training... almost every hour had a corresponding schedule.
"Who asked you to fold this quilt?"
It couldn't be that the soldiers were conscious, it must have been the order of the military officials.
Hei Fu, who was following closely behind, immediately agreed: "My subordinates ordered all the soldiers to do it."
"Why is this so?" Li You asked.
Heifu said: "It's for the sake of all the hearts."
"One heart?"
Li You became interested and sat down on a neatly folded floor with a quilt on the floor and asked Hei Fu to tell him.
Heifu looked at the leaders and five hundred leaders standing in a circle outside the camp, feeling a little embarrassed.
Li Youque said: "It's okay, just tell me in detail."
Hei Fu bowed his head and said: "I dare to tell you, Captain, that all the soldiers under my command are from various counties in Nanjun. Some are from Anlu County, some are from Yan County, and some are from Jingling County. We did not know each other before. And everyone has never been there before.
After he was drafted to the north at the age of 18, he worked abroad for a year and could not return home for a long time. He could not help but miss his own home. This is what is called everyone's heart. If there is a battle, they will hesitate to look at each other and cannot move forward according to orders. "
"When the subordinates were in the county, they had to participate in the training of soldiers. They must first be restrained in the formation, and they must be in step, uniform, and not in disorder. When they arrive in the military camp, it is even more strict. Even if the soldiers are doing chopping
It is also forbidden to go out alone to carry out firewood, grazing, etc. You must form a procession, and those who do not form a procession are not allowed to pass."
This is just like in the army of later generations, three people must line up when traveling. This is all to help soldiers develop good discipline in their lives.
Military housework such as folding quilts also plays the same role.
This kind of "formalism" in the army was often criticized in later generations, but its original intention was good and it greatly promoted the uniformity of the army. If even small quilts cannot be stacked neatly every day, you don't have to
The soldiers of this army are expected to obey more stringent orders when marching, stationed, and fighting.
In retrospect, when he was in the police academy in his previous life, he cursed the boring formalism of folding quilts every day, but now, it has become a habit that Heifu cannot give up.
Uniformity is an important way for collective strength to condense and gradually accumulate. This is what Heifu calls "the heart of one people." Whether it is ancient military strategists or modern armies, they are all doing similar things subconsciously.
thing.
A soldier is a murderous weapon!
After a year of military life, Heifu had a new understanding of this sentence.
He believed that the so-called ferociousness was not the domineering spirit of victory or victory, nor the tragedy of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but indifference to human life and suppression of human nature!
Military discipline and military regulations are based on the premise of eliminating personal character. This kind of discipline must be deeply rooted in the bone marrow and become a part of their lives, so that everyone has a strong sense of belonging.
If you are ordered to do so, you must forget about your family. When you go abroad to fight, you must forget about your parents. When you are fighting against the enemy, you must forget about yourself.
That's right, forget their previous identities as farmers, craftsmen, merchants, husbands, sons, and brothers, and get a brand new identity, the only identity: warrior!
This principle is the same when it comes to the Qin army.
Therefore, when Heifu was stationed in Hufu Township, he asked his soldiers to insist on folding quilts every day to cultivate their obedience and discipline. When he arrived in Yangcheng, when new subordinates joined, he asked his old subordinates to teach the newcomers how to fold quilts.
It has also become a good way to quickly integrate them into the group.
Of course, the more important reason is that Heifu wanted to attract the commander's attention in this way. Under the transformation of Qin Law, many officials and officers in the Qin State had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Heifu just prescribed the right medicine...
After two months of strictly demanding his subordinates day after day, the opportunity really came. How could Heifu miss it?
So he talked eloquently: "Therefore, in addition to military training, the subordinates thought that the soldiers could also start with some simple small things on weekdays, so as to eliminate their selfish desires when serving as the head of Guizhou, forget those lazy habits, and make hundreds of people
Uniform and uniform, just like one person!"
After saying this, Hei Fu bowed and said: "The subordinates are vulgar people and their shallow views make the captain laugh."
"A hundred people are like one person..."
Li You did not sneer, but rather admired the young military official in front of him. He asked Heifu where he was from, and learned that his family was just a family of young officials without a family name. He worked as a local pavilion chief and joined the army.
Only through little meritorious service did he obtain the position of doctor, and he was secretly amazed.
He had read the Art of War and remembered this passage in "Wu Zi": "If the laws are unclear, the rewards and punishments are not believed, the gold is endless, and the drums are not advanced, even if there are millions, what is the use?"
When this happens, it must be because the general does not know how to conduct an army.
So, how can we “manage the army” according to the law?
The so-called ruler should be courteous when he lives, and powerful when he moves! He cannot advance in time, and cannot retreat in pursuit. There is a knot in the front, and there is a friction in the left and right. Even if it is broken, it will become a Chen, even if it is scattered, it will be a line.
Today's incident refreshed Li You's understanding of "being polite when staying".
"This Captain is patrolling the camp today, and I didn't come in vain."
He stood up with satisfaction, and when he walked out of the camp, he said to the five hundred leaders who were waiting outside with big eyes and small eyes: "Hei Fu manages the army, it can be said that he is polite! He and all the soldiers should be rewarded with ten thousand coins!"
Hei Fu thanked him, and his subordinates who were standing in several rows outside also looked happy after hearing this, thinking to themselves that the quilts had not been folded in vain in the past two months.
Unexpectedly, Li You turned around and said: "I just don't know whether all the people under Heifu's command can really be one hundred people during the drill, and if they can move, they will be powerful? Tomorrow, this captain will have to
Try it!"
…
Li You looked elegant, but acted in a fickle manner. The day after he arrived at the military camp for inspection, he asked five commanders to lead their soldiers for a large-scale military exercise outside Yangcheng County.
According to the rules of the Qin army, the five thousand men were divided into five teams, lined up in the field, and conducted drills. During the drill, three wooden Dahua watches were set up, one for every hundred steps.
After the army was in formation, they practiced martial arts, spears, swords, marching forward, running and leaping, according to Li You's golden drum flag. After repeating the drill three times, the army fully mastered various essentials, and then rewards and punishments were given according to the performance of the drill.
In this drill, as Li You had expected, the Nanjun soldiers had average command of the formation, golden drums and flags, and were far inferior to the elite troops in Guanzhong.
Only Heifu, who had not slackened in his team training in the past two months, once again attracted Li You's attention...
Use boards as drums, tiles as gold, and poles as flags. Beat the drums to advance, lower the flags to move forward, and ring the gold to retreat. Follow them to the left, follow them to the right, and sit down while beating the gold and drums. Each item is
Well done.
Being able to get the general to notice once may be luck, but being able to notice twice in a row is strength.
So after the day's practice, Li You rewarded Heifu and his subordinates with tens of thousands of dollars, and made a decision that surprised everyone in the song.
Heifu and his subordinates were all transferred to the short-range soldiers directly under Captain Li You!
