Chapter 82: Punishment

Cheng Han, who was pinched by Zhang Xiaowu, didn't react for a while, only felt that the sky was getting dark all of a sudden, and then suddenly approached Zhang Xiaowu's face, and saw a cold face with a murderous aura: "Do you dare to fight me?" That Cheng Han was almost pinched to death, how dare he look at his eyes.

Li Cunyuan was about to draw his sword to save people, but he saw Zhang Xiaowu suddenly push Cheng Han back to the chair, and said lightly: "Don't use your sword against me, when I came out of the earth city, everyone who showed me his sword was dead." If you show your blade, I don't care who you are, you won't be polite, and I'm not a person who knows how to be polite, I'm afraid I'll lose control. ”

Li Cunyuan didn't use the knife, and said angrily: "You dare to touch my people in front of me? ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Your people dare to talk nonsense in front of the general, the general hasn't spoken yet, but your subordinates have spoken first, isn't it disrespectful to the general?" I only have the general in my eyes, no one else, he dares to speak in front of the general, I want to ask you, do you respect the general? ”

Li Cunyuan was angry and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense! ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Li Cunyuan, don't scream the damn, as long as the general gives an order, I will chop you and your shrimp soldiers and crabs now." Otherwise you sit down honestly, and if the general doesn't give the order, you will interject. ”

Li Cunyuan was so angry that he almost fainted, he actually became a handle when he contradicted Cheng Chu a few years ago, but his mouth was not good, and the generals behind him didn't dare to speak, he said anxiously: "General, general, don't listen to his nonsense!" ”

Cheng Chu pretended to wave his hand generously and said: "Everyone is discussing problems, not quarreling and fighting, how can there be their own people who use knives against their own people." He was very comfortable in his heart, and secretly said that since ancient times, wicked people have their own wicked people, this Li Cunyuan met Zhang Xiaowu, and he was destined to suffer, hurry, hurry! However, he is also dissatisfied with Zhang Xiaowu, you guy, you don't hit people in the face, if you hit him in the face, won't you also hit me in the face?

Zhang Xiaowu sneered at Li Cunyuan and said, "If I let him make ten moves, he won't be able to defeat me." ”

Cheng Han covered his neck and coughed for a long time, looking at Li Cunyuan helplessly, his heart was full of fear, Zhang Xiaowu put too much pressure on him.

Li Cunyuan said angrily: "Useless things, go out." ”

"Whoa." Cheng Han hurriedly retired.

Huang Sheng felt dizzy and didn't know what to say.

Li Cunyuan turned around and said: "What an unruly Zhang Xiaowu, so bold and reckless, those fifteen soldiers of the dead soldier battalion, but you tortured and killed?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Back to Li Junhou, the fifteen scum in the army were indeed killed by me, if Li Junhou likes it, I will have the head sent to the Xiaocai camp tomorrow, don't thank me." ”

Li Cunyuan slapped the chair and shouted, "No need." ”

"I thought Li Junhou liked it, I have a wine jug made of Inuyi's skull there, but I can give it to Li Junhou as a gift." Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile.

Li Cunyuan felt a wave of nausea and turned his face away.

The deputy general Xiahou Bao saw that Zhang Xiaowu dared to contradict Li Cunyuan, and his heart was happy, everyone was happy to see Li Cunyuan deflated, but he still had to knock on this Zhang Xiaowu, so he asked: "Zhang Xiaozuo, why did you kill these fifteen people?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu first handed the roster in his arms to Zhou Wenqi, who joined the army, and said: "The events that have passed are detailed, and all the officials are recorded in the book, and the general is also invited to look at them with all the soldiers." Soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, the general regards me as the commander of the battalion of dead soldiers, and Captain Huang entrusts me with the important task of training the troops, which is to trust me to train a crack soldier for the Sixth Regiment. These fifteen people were greedy for enjoyment and did not think about training, and they joined together to resist the military order, and the subordinate officials were naturally punished by military law. ”

He glanced at the lieutenants and asked, "My lords, if I let these fifteen people go, will the number of soldiers who do not train the next day increase from fifteen to sixteen?" Will it increase to 50? One hundred and fifty people? Two hundred and fifty people? Five hundred? I heard that the harshest training of the Sixth Regiment was the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and I dared to ask Li Junhou, if the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion openly resisted the training, what would you do? Honored as a guest, or punished according to law? ”

Everyone was speechless, Li Cunyuan twisted his head to the side and ignored it, Zhang Xiaowu said it was reasonable and well-founded, but it was not an exaggeration. After reading the record, Zhou Wenqi nodded to Cheng Chu and said in a low voice: "What happened, it was reasonable and compliant, and it was executed according to law, but there was an excess of killing." ”

Hearing that there was a surplus of killing, Cheng Chu's heart was filled with nausea for no reason, and he hurriedly calmed down his emotions and continued to listen to Zhang Xiaowu's self-defense. In the final analysis, although the soldiers and generals of the Sixth Regiment are either greedy for life and afraid of death or have their own petty calculations, the Sixth Regiment is after all a standing combat regiment of the forbidden army, and its daily training standards are naturally higher than those of ordinary armies, and there are its own punishments for soldiers who disobey military orders and refuse to train.

Zhang Xiaowu stared at him, and everyone had the illusion of being coerced, and some people even turned their heads sideways and listened to him continue in a deep voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, why do soldiers need to train? Because the soldier is the blade of the country, it must be wielded and wiped from time to time, and if it is left in the scabbard for several years, it will rust by the time it is used. The composition of my dead battalion is all stragglers, standing and not standing and sitting, even if they are gathered, they are also three or three, not to mention that such an army is not to mention encountering the elite of Wuhuan, even if it encounters the remnants of the Yue clan, it is not the enemy. If a sergeant wants to survive the war, he must either train hard or fight on the battlefield to eliminate the weak. If I don't train them today, tomorrow they will die in a foreign land and become the weaklings who will be eliminated. I practice them for their good, and if I don't practice them, I will harm them. ”

Everyone thinks that sergeant training is not for others, but for saving lives, and if the generals do not train their soldiers, they will really harm their subordinates and the army. Don't look at the generals who are afraid of death, but the more afraid of death, the more they know the importance of training to save their lives.

After a while, Zhou Wenqi, who joined the army, questioned: "You have only been in the army for half a year, how can you know how to train soldiers?" Could it be that you were born in a military family and were influenced by your parents since you were a child? ”

Xiahou Bao said: "I heard that your military training is just to teach everyone to walk in several rows, which is also considered military training?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly, and said without cowardice in the face of the generals: "Generals, Lord Zuo, there are too many things that I need to practice in the death camp now, and the battle formation and even the marching camp. But the biggest problem facing my battalion of dead soldiers is here. He pointed to his head.

The crowd couldn't help but ask, "What is it?" ”

"Thoughts!" Zhang Xiaowu said loudly, "My soldiers in the Dead Soldier Battalion, there are 150 soldiers in the Houdu Brigade, there are 60 prisoners, there are 200 eliminated soldiers in each battalion, there are more than 300 deserters, and more than 100 soldiers and people, it can be said that no one is willing to stay in the Dead Soldier Battalion, they are trying to escape from the epidemic village all the time and return to the rich Central Plains hometown of Jinse." To tell the truth, every night I only do one thing in the camp of the dead, that is, at night I carry a pot of arrows, sit on the top of the plague village, just wait for someone to sneak out of the plague village, and shoot an arrow. It's his bad luck to die, and it's his luck to live, but where can he escape? Can you pass the Two Wolves Pass, or can you climb the East and West Yehe Mountains? ”

All the generals felt angry and funny, and when they thought of the composition of the Dead Soldier Battalion, they felt that it was reasonable again, and they all felt that this Zhang Xiaowu was very dedicated, this is a practical general, and then look at Huang Sheng...... Forget it, at least Huang Sheng is his own person, and he has invited himself to drink.

Cheng Chu couldn't help but stroke his beard and smile slightly, looked at the people on the left and right, everyone nodded in agreement, but Xiahou Bao said curiously: "But I see that you train soldiers to walk, but it is not a military formation, why is this?" Could it be that the soldiers of the Dead Battalion can't walk? ”

"The purpose of teaching them to walk is only to develop their military spirit. Even toddlers know that if you want to learn to be a person, you need to learn to walk first. Zhang Xiaowu said solemnly: "Don't underestimate this walking, the first thing you need to do when you enlist in the army is to understand the rules and abide by discipline." The army of millions is lined up in front, the soldiers will stand next to each other to advance and retreat, the soldiers must advance at the same speed, if anyone goes fast and scatters the formation, they will definitely be broken by the enemy. If anyone walks slowly, they may be mistaken for a mutiny caused by desertion. Therefore, in a row, in a line, everyone must be able to walk, and do not change color under the heavy pressure, believing that the comrades around him can resist the flanks for themselves, believing that the comrades behind them can resist behind for themselves, believing that the commander leads them to victory, and the sergeant only needs to stand up and kill the enemy. ”

This remark gave everyone a new training field, and after looking at each other, they suddenly said: "This young general is reasonable, I didn't expect to know the law so well." ”

Even the unruly Li Cunyuan couldn't help but secretly applaud in his heart, regardless of martial arts, this is the insight, and it is more than enough to be a school leader. In this era, people habitually accept orders, and the marching regulations are the rules, and everyone follows them. However, no one has told why this regulation was made and what the advantages and disadvantages of this regulation are.

Cheng Chu admired this battlefield killer very much in his heart, but he did kill fifteen soldiers, but he had to be punished, so he let Zhang Xiaowu go back first, and discussed with the rest of the people how to punish him. After Zhang Xiaowu said goodbye to the military salute, Cheng Chu turned his head to look at Xiahou Bao, who was responsible for military discipline and punishment, and was naturally the first to speak: "If we punish him, will we be strict in military discipline in the future, or will it be better to exercise military discipline?" No penalty, I suggest. ”

In the end, after discussion in the general's palace, Zhang Xiaowu was punished and fined for three months, but Guan Xiang privately compensated Zhang Xiaowu with twenty taels of silver, saying that the general could not let those who worked hard suffer. Zhang Xiaowu's original disdain for Cheng Chu has changed a lot because of these twenty taels of silver, this is not a matter of money, but Cheng Chu is really good at being a man, sure enough, being a forbidden army general not only requires a background, but also needs to be able to deal with people, this Cheng Chu is undoubtedly the best in this kind.