"It's time to be a hundred years old."

When Heifu walked to the tent, he heard two hundred generals whispering, and the person he was talking about was himself......

Seeing Heifu enter the account, the two doctors wearing a crown immediately stopped talking, but their eyes were still communicating, and they were full of banter when they glanced at Heifu.

Hefu ignored the two and sat cross-legged on their sides.

A few days ago, relying on his neat and tidy housekeeping and excellent performance during training exercises, Heifu successfully attracted the attention of Lieutenant Li You, and afterwards ordered him to be transferred to the "short soldiers" directly under him.

The so-called short soldiers are not the forwards who charge into battle, but the personal guards directly under the officers.

According to the military regulations of the Qin State, as long as you achieve 500 masters, you don't need to risk the arrows and stones yourself, and you can command the 500 generals and commanders under your command to charge into battle.

For example, 500 commanders have 50 short soldiers, 100 commanders have 100 short soldiers, and 500 to 1,000 commanders have 500 to 1,000 short soldiers. As for the generals and generals, and so on, there are more guards around them.

Therefore, Heifu's current position is equivalent to the commander of the guard company in later generations, and his duty is no longer to charge into battle and break through the city first, but to protect the safety of Li You, the "division commander".

Getting this position, of course, Heifu's heart blossomed, although the chance of beheading and promotion to knighthood became less, but also avoided heavy casualties. After the start of the war, where is the safest place on the battlefield? Undoubtedly, of course, it was the general Lieutenant by his side. Unless they are sent out to be a new force after fighting to the point of extreme anxiety, there are few opportunities for white-knuckle combat.

But there are exceptions, and that is Li You's unfortunate death.

Military law stipulates: "Fight and kill officials, and light and short soldiers", if a general is killed in battle, all of them must be executed. Ordinary short-range soldiers can be exonerated if they can capture one of the enemy's heads, and a short-range soldier of the rank of Heifu must kill a general equal to the captain in the enemy's army, otherwise he will definitely die.

That's almost impossible to do, so in this war, Heifu is indeed a lot safer, but his life has also been tied to Li You.

"It's Li Si's son, the son-in-law of King Qin, it's not so easy to die."

A stone fell to the ground in Heifu's heart, and in this way, he was one step closer to his minimum requirement of "avoiding death" in this war.

But Li You's transfer of Heifu to be a short soldier also has his own plans.

On the second day of Heifu's report, Li Youben praised him in front of everyone for his internal affairs of "being polite when he lives", and then asked his 500 men to promote this method among hundreds of short soldiers according to Heifu's experience......

Li You is a person who likes to be neat and uniform, and thinks that details are enough to determine success or failure, but he also knows that it is not realistic to implement the stacked quilts in the whole army, so he first tried those short soldiers from Guanzhong.

Unexpectedly, this made Heifu complain a lot, not everyone could understand why he had to do this extra thing when he got up in the morning, and even a few short-handed generals had a slight remark about Heifu because of this, and gave him a nickname behind his back.

"Hundreds of generals".

They whispered this nickname in Guanzhong dialect, and these hundred generals were all from Guanzhong without exception. or the children of military officials who have been knighted for generations, or the nobles with a long history, dating back to hundreds of years ago, and two of them have been on duty in Xianyang Palace and served as Lang Wei.

The horses that several people tied to the outside were all Longxi horses, which were much taller than Heifu's jujube red horse bought in Anlu County, and the clothes under the armor of several people were also silk silk with excellent color, far better than Heifu's linen and geyi, and even his skin color was much whiter than his Qianshou who had been working in the fields since he was a child.

When Heifu, a person from a small county in Nanjun who spoke a Jingchu dialect, squeezed into the circle, he was immediately isolated and ostracized.

They looked polite, with a light smile on their lips, but when they looked at Heifu, they looked at him with disdain and contempt.

Hefu didn't get angry because of this, he just sat on the side of the crowd and didn't fit in, as a newcomer, and he was careful about what he said and did first.

At this time, hurried footsteps sounded outside the tent again, and a sweaty young man came in, and did not join the chatter of the four people next to him, but sat down next to the black man.

"It's almost late again."

Among the hundreds of generals in the short guard, not everyone rejected Heifu, and there was one exception, and that was Zhai Chong next to him.

Although Zhai Chong is not very old, only in his twenties, his beard has already climbed up his cheeks, and together with the face with alien features, it has become his logo.

After he sat down, he was still taking care of his clothes, and complained: "Get up and fold the quilt, black man, this is all your credit." ”

This was a joke without malice, and the black man smiled, and was about to answer, when the five hundred lords who ruled over them also entered, and the people immediately got up.

"Today, the commander is on duty in front of the tent...... It will be done by Zhai Chong and Heifu. ”

When the five hundred lords read the word "black husband", the four people on the side looked at each other again and smiled meaningfully......

Heifu knew what they were laughing at.

laughed at him as "a man with no surname and no name." ”

……

"Zhai Bai will be mixed with me all day long, so he is not afraid of being isolated by several other Bai generals?"

After Heifu and Zhai Chong received the order to leave the account, Heifu said casually.

"Isolated?"

Zhai Chong touched his beard and said with a smile: "Heifu doesn't know, I'm from Shangjun, which is different from those Guanzhong rich counties on the edge of Weishui, and it is also a poor country. And the ancestor is still a Zhai person, and he is not less squeezed out by those people on weekdays, and Heifu Bai will be selected by the lieutenant into the short army, and I have a companion. ”

After that, he whispered to Heifu: "The army is a place where they can speak according to their own abilities, and those anointed children rely on their own backgrounds and look down on Heifu's hundred generals. But in my opinion, the hundred generals were born in Qian, but with their own ability, they won the knighthood for meritorious service, and worked hard to get the title of doctor, and the most qualified to look down on those who have made meritorious contributions to their fathers is you! ”

"Thank you Zhai Baijiang for your words."

However, Zhai Chong wanted to speak and stopped, and Heifu saw it, stopped, and bowed to him.

"Zhai Bai will not have to worry, just say what he has to say."

"Now that Heifu is the Grand Master, it's time to pick a clan for himself. I heard the elders of the clan say that Bai Zhai in our upper county, except for King Zhai, ordinary people do not have a surname, they all call him by his first name, and the tribal name is the difference. It wasn't until he was later incorporated into the Qin State and went to Xianyang that he was ridiculed as a person of Rong Di because he had no surname, so all the Bai Zhai people took Zhai as their clan......"

It is not easy to climb up from the bottom, perhaps in the eyes of those four people, in the past twenty or thirty years of their lives, the people they have seen without surnames are just slaves and servants in the family.

After sighing secretly, Heifu said: "Zhai Baijiang's heartfelt words, Heifu must remember it, let me go back and think about it." ”

……

Heifu didn't rush back to meditate, in order to add a clan to himself, and choose a new name, so as not to be ridiculed.

After giving yourself a clan and pretending to be an ancient nobleman, you can be looked down upon? Can you blend in with the cotery? Joke!

Instead of wasting time for a false name, it is better to think about how to make Li You trust himself more, this is the real thing.

After arranging for everyone under his command to be deployed in a group at the camp, Heifu stood outside the tent, listening to the voices of Li Youhe's commander and five hundred lords discussing the military situation inside, and thoughtfully.

Compared with ordinary officers, the advantage of short-term guards is huge, not only is it safer on the battlefield, but it is also easy to come into contact with some military information, such as what Li You and the military officials discussed in it, which is precisely the problem that has plagued this army for months: morale.

The morale of the Nanjun soldiers was still low, although under the intimidation of Qin Lurushan, no one was confused enough to become deserters. But most of them had no fighting spirit, and after fighting outside for a year, the soldiers of Nanjun only had to go home in their hearts, so they all seemed to be weak, and the barracks were full of negative atmosphere.

After some discussion of their opinions, it was still fruitless, although the leaders all proposed solutions, but the soldiers were tired and old, this was no longer a problem that could be solved by the art of punishment and reward.

Hefu stood straight outside the tent door, and waited until all the officers present at the meeting had left, and then walked in and bowed before the desk.

"The subordinate has seen the captain."

"It's Heifu, it's up to you to take turns today......"

Li You seemed to be a little annoyed, pinched between his eyebrows with his left hand, and when he saw that it was Heifu, he asked him to get up.

Heifu couldn't afford it, he lowered his head and said: "The lieutenant just discussed with the military officials how to boost morale, and the leaders talked a lot, and the voice was very loud, and the subordinates happened to be outside, and accidentally heard it, and the subordinates were guilty." ”

"It's not a secret either."

Li You sneered: "The soldiers of Nanjun think about returning, everyone in our army knows it, I'm afraid even in the camp of Chu State, it is also known." ”

Fighting in such a state, Li You, who commanded thousands of troops for the first time, was inevitably a little apprehensive.

At this time, Li You had an idea, pointed at Heifu and said: "You are also from Nanjun, and you have risen all the way up from the tun chief, and you know the hardships and hardships of the soldiers, but what is the solution?" ”

As an airborne captain, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals, and Li Youke is worried. He transferred Heifu to his side as a short-range guard, in addition to appreciating the extraordinary insight shown by Heifu in his answers that day, why didn't he want a grassroots military official who understood the heart of the army to provide him with advice?

Heifu was waiting for this sentence, and immediately said: "The subordinates have a way, I dare not say that it can revive morale, but at least it can reassure the hearts of soldiers!" “