Chapter 120: Tun Chief
(3rd Update)
"A man who sends a person to see another official shall not remove his old official or a new official ......"
Qin law stipulates that when the chief official is transferred to another place, he must leave alone, and he must not leave with the original assistant.
Shang Jun thought that with this article, he would be able to put an end to gangsters and mountaineering in the Qin State. And Xunzi also praised the scholars and doctors of Qin when he entered Qin, saying that they were "not as good as Zhou, and they are not friends".
However, from Heifu's point of view, Xunzi still knows too little about the Qin State, even in the orderly Qin army, it is not only military law and discipline that determines personnel appointments and military scheduling. In this battle to destroy Wei, there are shadows of old human feelings everywhere.
When he came out of the tent of the two or five hundred lords, Heifu had already received the appointment he expected, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotion when he looked at the busy soldiers and prisoners outside.
"The main general who was ordered to command the army to attack Daliang this time was Wang Ben, the son of Wang Qian, although he led the army to fight for the first time, but the title was already a small creation. The deputy general was also the one who had cooperated with Wang Jian to break through the Qiang of Zhao, this was the Qiang people of Longxi, Wang Ben ordered more than 10,000 people to leave Daliang and attack the eastern counties of Wei to the east. ”
"And Yang Xiong, the county lieutenant of Fangcheng, is also a child of the Yang family of Sanchuan County who has a good relationship with the Wang family, otherwise it would not be the turn of this good errand......"
"A big reason why I was able to blend in with this team is because my old boss Du Xian has an old friendship with Yang Xiong, and he also helped me write a letter of introduction, saying that I am good at leading troops and performing well in the post of change and pavilion chief."
There is a saying that the relationship between people must not exceed six layers, and at most only six people can be connected. Heifu calculated like this, and his relationship with King Qin was only five or six layers apart!
Therefore, even in the Qin State, the relationship between people is still full of every corner that the law and military law cannot control. No matter how hard you work in your position, when you leave your familiar surroundings, you still have to rely on favors to get key appointments when you compete with people of the same title.
This is the same starting point, and in the end, some people are promoted to the top of the ropes, and some people have been unknown at the grassroots level all their lives.
Fortunately, the result was in Heifu's favor, and he got Yang Xiong's consent to set off with the Eastern Division, although the position was only a small tun chief.
The infantry of the Qin army is divided into six levels, namely: five people in the army, and one army commander; The second army is what, and the chief is set up; Five tithes for the tun, set up a tun chief; Two tuns are hundreds, and one hundred generals are set up; five hundred, five hundred masters; a thousand, two or five hundred lords. Among them, Yang Xiong's position in the army is "2500 masters", also known as "1,000 people", and he is already a middle-level officer.
Because this army attacking Wei came from different counties and counties, and the division of the expedition to the east was also mixed, so the establishment was not strict, like Heifu, the tun chief, there were no hundred generals to manage him, but directly obeyed the orders of the "five hundred masters", the five hundred lords were named Zhang Qi (yǐ), and he was a captain of Wancheng in Nanyang County.
The fifty soldiers subordinate to the head of Heifutun included the people of Anlu County he brought with him, as well as the Yan County soldiers who lived near their shacks. The grass-roots military units are basically distributed according to their geographical origin, because there is a huge difference in accent and dialect between different counties, and the counties within the southern county can barely hear clearly......
Yayan? It was Mandarin that could only be learned by nobles, and it had nothing to do with Heifu, not to mention that since the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, Yayan had gradually declined.
Therefore, in the next three days of marching formation, Heifu used the Anlu dialect to give orders to his new subordinates.
He divided the fifty men into five chiefs, and appointed five chiefs and five chiefs.
After fully understanding the inside story of the "old people" in the Qin State, Heifu also played the principle of cronyism, and Dongmen Leopard and Xiao Tao, who had the title of duke, were appointed by him as the chief, Ji Ying, Lixian, and even Bu Cheng were also mixed into the position of Wu Chang.
In addition, there are three Shi Chang who are from Yan County, and Gong Ao is also among them, and this son learned that he had become Heifu's subordinate, but he complained a lot.
But a word from Hafu shut him up.
"I'm a hairpin, you're a public servant."
The low-ranking people obey the high-ranking people, this is the iron-clad rule in the barracks.
Gong Ao said angrily that this time he must make meritorious service and surpass Heifu.
There were only three days to arrange the march, although the Yan County soldiers who were mixed in were far worse than the Anlu County soldiers who had been brought over by Heifu in the past few months. But fortunately, the soldiers had served at least once and had received basic military training.
So Heifu didn't spend much effort, but finally let them know what they were in, and reviewed the skills of advancing and retreating, standing up and squatting, as for the left and right...... Don't force it to be proficient, just follow the bamboo pole flag in Shi Chang's hand.
After the completion of the preparation of each tun, the next step is the joint training of the "thousand people" level. As a middle-level officer, the 2500 main Yang Xiong and the 500 advocate Qi Ke are different from the earthen style of the hundred generals, but have mastered the tall art of war.
Nowadays, the Qin army's method of military training is no longer the early grandson and Wu Zi, but the newly compiled "Wei Yi Art of War" by Wei Yu, a national lieutenant who is far away in Xianyang.
According to the Captain's Art of War, the soldiers were distributed weapons, the short ones with spears and halberds, the tall ones with wide vision with bows and crossbows, the strong ones with big banners, and the brave ones with golden drums.
Next, it will take a few days to let everyone know the flag, distinguish the golden drum, know the advance and retreat, and know the rewards and punishments. As the commander of the tun, Heifu had to master the basic information such as "beating the drum and marching, lowering the flag and tending, singing gold and retreating, commanding the left, commanding and right, and sitting with the golden drum", and then taught it to the chief of the army.
What makes people's heads big is that on the golden drum, there are also various types of drum sounds, such as step, trend, horse, general, handsome, and uncle. Similar to the march in modern times, taking one step and beating the drum is a slow walk, taking ten steps and beating the drum once is a fast walk, and the continuous sound of the drum is a running march......
This means that when it comes to wartime, Heifu must prick up his ears, listen to the rhythm of every drum beat issued by the herald, keep his eyes open, and see the direction of the flag.
After completing the training of 1,000 people, it is a joint training of 10,000 people, and the army lined up in a phalanx is armed with weapons, shouting orders loudly in the decapitated beams, and walking in the dust, which is also a way to deter the city.
Soon it was the middle of February, and on the eve of the water of the great river and the chasm being lured by the prisoners and soldiers to pour the beams, the camp of the Qin soldiers once again sounded with orderly drums......
After half a month of training, the commanders were already very sensitive to the golden drums, and Heifu turned over one by one, and loudly urged everyone to get up and gather outside the tent.
One drum to organize the army, two drums to practice Chen, three drums to eat, four drums to do strictly, five drums to do. Listen to the drums and raise the flag......
This is equivalent to the modern army's wake-up, drilling, and meal-opening numbers, and there are also charge, rally, and marching calls during battles. It's just that the drum beat can't compare to the brass horn, and there is not such a noticeable difference in tune, and Hefu has to keep it in mind.
So after the three drums, the head of Heifutun took his subordinates to eat the morning food, and after the five drums, they walked out of the camp together, gathered under the banner of Yang Xiong, the "two or five hundred masters", stood in a small phalanx, and prepared to set off......
The soldiers who got up early to dig ditches and work as slender men looked with some envy at the more than 10,000 people who were separated and ready to go. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Wei country is rich and the Wei army is weak, and they get the opportunity to attack the counties in eastern Wei, not only can they see the world of flowers in the Central Plains, but they can also get the opportunity to behead and make meritorious contributions, which is much better than dealing with muddy water under the city of Daliang.
Everyone under Heifu's command was also full of longing in their eyes, but Gongao looked at Daliang City under the rising sun, a little melancholy, he suddenly said to Heifu: "Do you know that although I don't like the Qin army, but I am full of joy to be able to leave Daliang with the army?" ”
Standing at the front of the phalanx, Heifu, who was holding a sword and wearing armor, glanced at the impregnable earthen wall of the beam, and said lightly: "Don't you want to see the tragedy of the water attacking Yancheng and the death and injury of more than 100,000 people repeated?" ”
In this war, the besieging Qin army was basically able to remain unscathed, but the Wei people in the city had a hard time...... Perhaps by the time the Heifu and the others returned, the city would already be filled with cauldrons for cooking, and Yizi would eat them......
The conversation between the two was interrupted by the rapid beat of the drum, and under the sun, the flag of the general appeared, which was brightly colored, held high to the east, and the small flags of each "thousand people" also went east.
Under the guidance of the "step drum" that took a step and struck it, Heifu also held tiles and bamboo boards, beating the same rhythm, commanding his subordinates to take steps, and everyone pulled out the camp and marched east......
The first target of this army, dozens of miles southeast of Daliang, is called Chenliu, which is an important town in Wei, with 3,000 soldiers, this "Qinwang's division" has been wandering around to see the situation in Daliang, and it is also an obstacle that must be removed from the eastward advance of the division!
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A day later, Wei State Chen stayed in the county.
After hearing the news that "Qin Kou" was coming, he did not choose to surrender and flee, but beat the drum in the county, calling on all clans and people to resist the enemy together......
In the sound of bells and drums, located in Gaoyang Township, in the east of the county, a young man dressed as a light man and in his twenties walked into his poor yard, picked up the two-foot sword hanging on the wall, and was about to go out!
"Li Shang, stop!"
In the house, a middle-aged man in Confucian clothes holding a bamboo roll walked out, he was forty years old, eight feet long, not as powerful as a young man, he was a little weak and thin, and his appearance was also very ordinary, but a pair of small eyes revealed a trace of cunning and frivolity.
"My brother, you have a sword in your hand, where do you want to go?"
Li Shang pinched his sword and said loudly: "Brother, Qin Kou is coming, the county monarch is beating the drum to recruit everyone to fight the enemy, and I and my fellow villagers are about to go!" ”
"Defend against the enemy?"
When the middle-aged Confucian Fu heard this, he laughed: "The Qin army is so powerful that even the King of Wei was trapped and died in Daliang City, and his life is endless. And Chenliu District Xiaoyi, as long as the Qin army sends a partial division to attack, it is also in danger. The general of Fengjun is not yet able to resist the enemy in the Liangmen, and with a group of light chivalrous young men such as you, he wants to repel the Qin people? ”
Li ate his words, lowered his face, and reprimanded: "Knowing the situation, you can't sacrifice your life to die, just to fight for the courage of the moment, and the foolishness of the husband!" Li Shang, your life is so cheap? ”