When Heifu walked to the camp, he happened to hear two generals whispering, and the person they were talking about was himself...
Seeing Hei Fu entering the account, the two nobles and generals wearing plate crowns immediately stopped talking, but their eyes were still communicating, and their glances at Hei Fu were full of banter.
Heifu ignored the two of them and sat cross-legged beside them.
A few days ago, relying on his neat housekeeping and outstanding performance during training exercises, Heifu successfully attracted the attention of Captain Li You, and later ordered him to be transferred to the "short soldiers" directly under his command.
The so-called short soldiers are not the forwards who charge into the battle, but the personal guards directly under the officers.
According to the military regulations of the Qin State, as long as you reach the 500th level, you no longer have to risk your own life. You can command your 100 generals from behind. The 500-strong army commanders charge into the battle. At this time, the military officers must also have people around them to protect them.
, so there were short soldiers.
The short soldiers are generally one-tenth of the total number of soldiers under the command of an officer. For example, if a commander of five hundred has fifty short soldiers, and a captain has one hundred short soldiers, and a captain who is in charge of five thousand to ten thousand people, there will be five hundred to ten soldiers.
There are a thousand short soldiers. As for the generals and generals, by analogy, there are even more short soldiers around them.
Therefore, Heifu's current position is equivalent to the commander of a security company in later generations. His duty is no longer to charge into the battle and break the city first, but to protect the safety of Li You, the "division commander."
After getting this position, Heifu was of course very happy. Although the chances of being beheaded and promoted were reduced, he also avoided heavy casualties. After the war, where is the safest place on the battlefield? There is no doubt that it is the general.
The captain is by his side. Unless the battle reaches an extremely anxious level, he will be sent out as a new force, otherwise there will be few opportunities for hand-to-hand combat.
But there are exceptions, and that is Li You who unfortunately died in battle.
The military law stipulates: "If an officer is killed in battle, a short-distance soldier will be treated lightly." If a general is killed in battle, all short-distance soldiers will be executed. Ordinary short-distance soldiers can be exempted from crime if they can capture an enemy's head, like
A short-hand soldier of Heifu's level must kill a general in the enemy's army who is equal to the captain, otherwise he will definitely die.
That is almost impossible to do, so Heifu is indeed much safer in this war, but his life is also tied to Li You.
"After all, he is Li Si's son and the son-in-law of King Qin. He will not die so easily."
Heifu felt a stone fall in his heart. With this, he was one step closer to his minimum requirement of "avoiding death" in this war.
But Li You had his own plans when he recruited Hei Fu to be a short-term soldier.
On the second day after Heifu reported for duty, Li You praised him in front of everyone for his "courteous manner" in running the army, and then asked his five hundred short-term soldiers to use this method based on Heifu's experience.
Promoted among hundreds of short soldiers...
Li You is a person who likes uniformity and believes that details can determine success or failure. However, he also knows that it is unrealistic to implement quilt quilts in the entire army, so he first tried it with those short-term soldiers from Guanzhong.
Unexpectedly, this caused Heifu to get a lot of complaints. Not everyone could understand why he had to go to such unnecessary lengths in the morning. Even a few short-term soldiers criticized Heifu because of this and gave him secretly.
a nickname.
"Hundred generals in quilts".
They whispered this nickname in Guanzhong dialect. Without exception, these hundreds of generals are from Guanzhong. They are either the children of military officials who have held titles for generations, or they are nobles with a long history that can be traced back hundreds of years. Among them
There are also two people who once took turns in Xianyang Palace and served as Lang Wei.
The horses tied up outside by several people are all Longxi horses, which are much taller than Heifu's maroon horse bought from Anlu County. The clothes under their armor are also made of silk of excellent quality, far superior to
Heifu's linen robe and even his skin color are much whiter than his Guizhou head, which has been exposed to the sun while working in the fields since childhood.
When Heifu, who came from a small county in Nanjun and spoke Jingchu dialect, squeezed into the circle, he was immediately isolated and excluded.
They looked polite, with slight smiles on their lips, but the eyes they looked at Heifu were filled with contempt and contempt.
Heifu didn't get angry because of this. He just sat on the side where he was not gregarious with the others. As a newcomer, he should be cautious about his words and actions.
At this time, hurried footsteps were heard outside the camp again, and a sweaty young man walked in. Instead of joining the chat of the four people next to him, he sat down next to Hei Fu.
"I was almost late again."
Among the hundreds of generals who were guarding each other, not everyone rejected Heifu. There was one exception, and that was Zhai Chong next to him.
Although Zhai Chong is young, only in his twenties, his beard has already climbed up his cheeks, and together with his face with alien features, it has become his trademark.
After he sat down, he was still taking care of his clothes and complained: "I have to fold the quilt when I get up. You are the one who deserves the credit."
This was a joke without any malice. Hei Fu smiled and was about to reply. At this time, the five hundred masters who ruled them also came in, and everyone immediately stood up.
"Today, it will be the turn of duty in front of the captain's tent... Zhai Chong and Heifu, two generals, will be in charge."
When Lord Five Hundred read the word "Hei Fu", the four people on the side looked at each other again and showed meaningful smiles...
Heifu knew what they were laughing at.
They laughed at him as "a person with no family name."
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"Zhai Baijiang hangs out with me all day, aren't you afraid of being isolated by the other Baijiangs?"
After Heifu and Zhai Chong were ordered to leave the tent, Heifu said calmly.
"isolated?"
Zhai Chong touched his beard and said with a smile: "Heifu doesn't know something. I'm from Shangjun, which is different from the rich counties in Guanzhong on the edge of the Wei River. It's also a poor and remote place. And my ancestors are from Zhai, so I suffer a lot on weekdays.
Those few people squeezed me out, and General Heifu was selected by the captain to join the short-range army. At least I have a companion."
After that, he said softly to Heifu: "In the army, each one relies on his or her ability to speak for himself. Those aristocratic young men look down on Heifu Baijiang because of their origins. But in my opinion, Baijiang was born in Guizhou, but
Relying on your own ability, you have made meritorious deeds and achieved the title of doctor. You are the one who is most qualified to look down on those who have contributed to the merits of your fathers!"
"Thank you, General Zhai, for your words."
However, Zhai Chong hesitated to speak. Heifu noticed this, stopped and bowed his hands to him.
"General Zhai, don't worry. If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Now that Mr. Hei has become a lord, it's time to choose a surname for himself. I heard from the elders in the clan that in Bai Zhai, our county, except for King Zhai, most people don't have surnames, and they all call them by their first names.
, distinguished by their tribal names. It was not until later that they were incorporated into the Qin State. When they arrived in Xianyang, they were ridiculed as Rong Di people because they had no surname, so all Bai Zhai people took Zhai as their surname..."
It is not easy to climb up from the bottom. Perhaps in the eyes of those four people, the people without surnames they have seen in their lives in the past twenty or thirty years are just servants and servants in the family.
After Hei Fu sighed secretly, he bowed and said, "Hei Fu will definitely remember Zhai Baijiang's words from the bottom of his heart. Let me go back and think about it."
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Heifu did not go back in a hurry to think hard, in order to add a surname to himself and choose a new name so as not to be laughed at by others.
If you give yourself a surname and pretend to be an ancient noble, you will be respected by others? Can you blend into a small circle? What a joke!
Rather than wasting time for a false reputation, it is better to think about how to make Li You trust himself more. This is the real thing.
After arranging all his subordinates to set up defenses in small groups at the camp, Heifu stood outside the tent, thoughtfully listening to the voices of Commander Li Youhe and the five hundred commanders discussing the military situation.
Compared with ordinary officers, the advantages of short-hand guards are huge. Not only are they safer on the battlefield, but they also have easier access to some military information. For example, what Li You discussed with the military officials is exactly the problem that has troubled this army for several months.
:Morale.
The morale of the soldiers in Nanjun was still low. Although no one was stupid enough to desert under the intimidation of Qin Lu Rushan. But most of them had no fighting spirit. After running around fighting for a year, the soldiers in Nanjun only had the desire to return.
Everyone seemed weak, and the military camp was filled with a negative atmosphere.
After a discussion in which everyone expressed their opinions, there was still no result. Although the leaders all proposed solutions, the soldiers were tired and the teachers were exhausted. This was no longer a problem that could be solved by the technique of punishment and reward.
Heifu stood straight outside the tent door. After all the military officials present had left, he walked in slowly and bowed before the table.
"The subordinates have met the captain."
"It's Mr. Hei. It's your turn today..."
Li You seemed a little troubled. He held his eyebrows with his left hand. When he saw it was Hei Fu, he asked him to get up.
But Hei Fu couldn't stand up. He lowered his head and said, "The captain was just discussing with the soldiers how to boost morale. The commanders were talking loudly. The subordinates happened to be outside and accidentally overheard. The subordinates are guilty."
"It's not a secret either."
Li You sneered and said: "The soldiers of Nanjun want to return. Everyone in our army knows it. I'm afraid even the Chu camp knows it."
Going to war in such a state, Li You, who was commanding thousands of troops for the first time, was inevitably a little uneasy.
At this time, Li You had an idea, pointed at Heifu and said: "You are also from Nanjun, and you have been promoted from the garrison commander. You are well aware of the sufferings of the soldiers. Do you have any solutions?"
As an airborne captain, Li Youke was worried that the generals would not know the soldiers, and the soldiers would not know the generals. He transferred Hei Fu to his side as a short-range personal guard. In addition to appreciating Hei Fu's extraordinary insight displayed in his answer that day, Li Youke was very worried.
Don't you want a grassroots military officer who understands the military's morale to provide you with advice?
This was what Hei Fu was waiting for, and he immediately said: "I have a way, I can't say it can revive morale, but at least it can calm the soldiers' minds!"
