Together with the county magistrate and the county magistrate, in addition to promoting public toilets in Gangneung and other cities, Heifu did not leave behind his own job: training soldiers.

In the southern suburbs of Anlu City in late July, the golden drum sounded endlessly, Heifu and others stood on the city wall and looked down, only to see that on the wide field, thousands of soldiers from different townships and pavilions were divided into several parts, or Xi queue, or Xi Qigu, according to the sound of the golden drum, or advance or stop, or hit or retreat, it looked like a look......

Looking at this scene, Ji Ying, who was in charge of giving the order to Heifu, sighed with emotion: "I can't help but think of the scene of training with the county lieutenant in the pawn three years ago, but now, the county lieutenant has trained and commanded thousands of people, it's really like a dream!" ”

"Everybody's coming in from recruits."

Heifu smiled: "I can't be an exception, I learned step by step, when I was a shifter, I learned to be a hundred generals, and when I was a hundred generals, I learned to be a five hundred masters......

The traverser also has to keep learning, Heifu has experienced more than a year of military career, he is very humble to learn the method of training and managing troops from Yang Xiong and Li You, and now it comes in handy.

"The Art of War" talks more about strategy and tactics, and in terms of training, "Wu Zi" is more detailed, and Heifu was fortunate to borrow this book from Li You, and spent half a year reading and transcribing it, and now he is familiar with it.

In the chapter "Governing the Army" in "Wu Zi", he specifically talked about the problems of marching, combat, training, formation, and command.

Soldiers often die in battle because they are unskilled and defeated because they are unfamiliar with the tactics of warfare. Therefore, in the art of war, training is the first. One man has learned the art of fighting, and he can teach ten people. Ten people have learned, and a hundred can be taught. A hundred people have learned, and a thousand people can be taught. A thousand people have learned, and ten thousand can teach ten thousand. Ten thousand people have learned, and the whole army can be taught.

Applying it to the establishment of the Qin army, that is: "Wu Chang teaches it, and he is long." Shi Chang taught, and he was long. The tun chief teaches success, and the rate of integration is long".

When finalizing the candidates for conscription, Heifu gave preference to those who had served in the county and county, plus the young men who had served as guards, all of whom were counted as reserves, or at least familiar with the advance and retreat of the front and back.

In early July, they also completed the basic establishment in their respective pavilions and li, and each of them had five to ten people to form a shiwu, with Wu Lao or Li Zheng as the chief of the army. Every two pavilions are arranged into a tun, and the pavilion chief serves as the tun chief.

This is also in line with the principle of "comparing the township with the army" in the art of war, the officials can know the soldiers, and the soldiers are also familiar with each other, and it is easy to hold together.

After these people were assembled in the county seat, they were stationed in separate camps, and Heifu organized them into a larger organization: Qu.

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"The five hundred people of Zhuanshui Township and Yunmeng Township are the posterior songs, and they are led by Wei Shi Lixian!"

"The five hundred people in the county seat and the northern suburbs are the front song, led by the Dongmen leopard in the northern suburbs!"

Dongmen Leopard is not more, and he is the head of a township military official, and he has a lot of prestige in the county seat and the northern suburbs in the past six months, and it is in line with the rules to take him as the master of five hundred.

And Lixian was also promoted from hairpin to non-change by the county because of the last capture of Yunman and Liping, and he was also qualified to be a five-hundred-hundred-master.

After the order was issued, everyone congratulated the two, and Liham accepted the congratulations with a smile and was confident that he would do a good job in this position. But Dongmen Leopard came to Heifu worriedly afterwards, and bowed down without saying a word:

"I'm a rough man, I only know how to rush forward when I start a war, I don't know how to train or lead soldiers at all, I'm afraid that I can't do a good job as a five-hundred-hundred-person lord and disappoint the county lieutenant......"

This guy is self-aware, Dongmen Leopard is an expert in charging into battle, and he really doesn't know how much he can do to train soldiers.

But Hefu had his own plans.

"Do you want to be a little general forever? Listen to Xiao Tao or Liham's command? You are not a knight today, but also quite admired by the county and the northern suburbs, if so, not only the soldiers are unhappy for you, I think you are not reconciled. ”

"Or, let you be my short-handed soldier? If you stay by my side all the time, watching others charge into battle, you can't rest assured, and your strengths will be buried. ”

Saying this, Dongmen Leopard also found that he couldn't do these two positions, and at this time, Heifu patted him on the shoulder and said:

"Ah Leopard, you are excellent in martial arts and brave in battle, although Qin Law stipulates that doctors and above are not allowed to be beheaded, but the five hundred masters must take the lead in the event of a war. You just have to look at my flag, just listen to my orders, when I let you standby, you can't move half a step, when I let you rush, wave the flag for me to drive! ”

Although Dongmen Leopard had no enterprising ambitions before, but since he was stimulated by Heifu's ambition to be a marquis, he also began to pick up martial arts again, and asked him about some training and management of the army.

Hefu divided the two 500 men into the front and back, with the East Leopard leading the striker and Liham as the reserve, so that the different personalities of the two could be brought into full play.

In order to reassure Dongmen Leopard, Heifu also asked his short soldier Xiao Tao, the hundred masters, to bring a hundred county guards to assist him in training.

This method is really effective, the county guards are standing troops, well-trained, and they all know the golden drum, the banner, and the advance and retreat. With the soldiers from each pavilion and Li training, but in five days, I re-familiarized myself with the queue formation.

The changes in the formation of the army in this era are still "round and square, sitting and rising, stopping in action, left and right, front and back, dividing and combining, and knotting and dissolving." "These, when Heifu was a pawn and in the army, he had already practiced to the point of vomiting.

After that, there is the more complex Golden Drum Banner, but fortunately, everyone has served once or twice, and there is a foundation. It only took ten days, and they were already familiar with the drums of step, tendency, shou, general, handsome, and bo, and the low flag was rushing, and the continuous rush was fighting, and it looked a bit of an army's posture......

"Wu Ziyan, every change is a habit, but to give his soldiers."

It wasn't until the end of July that Heifu opened the county arsenal and distributed weapons to the crowd.

In the Art of War, it is said: "To teach the order of war, the short one holds a spear and a halberd, and the old one holds a bow and crossbow." ”

Hefu asked the commanders to distribute weapons to the soldiers according to their physical fitness, but the ratio of the five soldiers had to be reasonable to meet the different tactical needs, so among the five hundred, there were 100 men with guns, halberds, spears, swords and shields, and bows and crossbows.

"Wu Zi" also said: "The strong hold the banner, the brave hold the golden drum, the weak give support, and the wise man is the master." So Heifu also completed the final call-up, and in addition to the first and second songs, he completed his Chinese army.

Although the number of Chinese troops is not large, the types are very complicated, and Ji Ying, as a herald, led ten people to communicate with the front, middle and back parts. Yu Shuo, the stable of Zhuanshui Township, is a horseman, and he leads ten horsemen as a sentinel.

If the front and back are hands, then the herald and scout riders are the mouthpieces and eyes of Heifu.

He once used to be a soldier with Heifu as a pawn, he was a tall man, and Heifu asked him and a few equally tall and strong soldiers to help him hold the flag, and ten people were responsible for the drum car, which is considered "the strong man holds the flag, and the brave man holds the golden drum".

The county engineer Shishi, who had dealt with Heifu, was drafted into the army, and Heifu asked him to take a hundred merchants and craftsmen to manage ordnance, grain, grass, bedding and other baggage. Bu Cheng, who knows medical skills, takes ten people as medical and first aid personnel, which can be regarded as "the weak to support".

In addition, by Heifu's side, there is also the jailer Le as a military judge, and the public from Chaoyang goes to the sick as a scholar, which can also be regarded as "the wise man is the master".

In this way, everyone practiced with their swords for another five days, and the black man ordered the military officials of all departments to decide to conduct the first joint training of 1,000 people!

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On the fifth day of the eighth month, on the eve of the autumn harvest, at the invitation of Heifu, the county commander, the county magistrate and all the officials in the city came to watch from the south wall of the city.

The public fields near the county seat were already golden and ready to be harvested in a few days, while outside the moat of Weilan, in the open space on the outskirts of the city surrounded by rice fields, more than a thousand soldiers stood in two parts, kneeling on one knee, waiting for the order to be given.

At the head of the city, the 100 short guards led by Xiao Tao also changed into new clothes, and a sword and shield soldier carried a skin shield on his back, wiping the sword with him shining; A crossbowman also carries a crossbow machine, as if he can shoot at the enemy at any time. There are even ten strong men such as Mu standing around Heifu with flags, and the big flags are fluttering in the wind, but the ten people are standing without moving.

Seeing that the hour was almost up, Heifu himself beat the drum at the head of the city!

With the first beat of the drum, the soldiers began to line up again, spreading out to the left and right to form a battle queue.

After the second drum, the soldiers hold the sword and shield in the front row, the spear and halberd in the back row, listen to the order of the Dongmen leopard and Lixian, and the drum will advance, the heavy drum will hit, the gold will stop, and the heavy gold will retreat, for a time the sword and shield are like a mountain, and the spear is like a forest, which is magnificent. And from the top of the city, the whole is also in order.

The third and fourth drums had passed, and there was a faint sweat on the foreheads of the soldiers, but they were still quickly regrouped. As the fifth drum of the Black Stroke sounded, they began to line up in the army, and walked neatly under the city one after another, and turned their heads to the city and shouted loudly:

"Qin will win!"

The call of thousands of people shook the sky and made people's scalps tingle.

The Qin army will win! This is also the idea that Heifu has been instilling in them every day for the past month.

Seeing this, the county commander Yonghe and others were full of praise: "One drum to organize the army, two drums to practice Chen, three drums to eat, four drums to argue, five drums to do." Listen to the drums and fold, then raise the flag. The soldiers trained by the county lieutenant are in such good order that they have caught up with the county soldiers......"

In the past month, Heifu's hard work was seen by everyone, he did not even go back to his home near the county seat a few times, lived in the barracks all day, and patrolled the camp every other day, talked with the soldiers in detail, and took care of their food and clothing.

The soldiers are all his cronies and old subordinates, like arm envoys, and the soldiers are all children of the county, who know the roots. In the past few years, Heifu's various deeds have made them thunderous, and Heifu himself is a typical example of jumping into the dragon gate because of his military exploits, those soldiers with meritorious deeds regard him as a model, and he was encouraged by Heifu's arrangement for Ji Yingyi, and was influenced by the propaganda of "the Qin army will win", and his enthusiasm for the war is very high.

However, Heifu only said humbly: "Sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in wartime, that's all." ”

Yonghe bowed: "I heard that the county lieutenant asked the county soldiers to assemble in Yancheng before the end of August, and the county lieutenant can train for more than ten days......

"There's not that much time."

Heifu smiled: "I plan to let the soldiers practice together once a day, and by ten o'clock in the first month of August, I plan to disband them......"

"Disband!?"

The county commander Yonghe was shocked: "The army is about to leave, why should it be disbanded?" ”

Heifu said: "I talked to the soldiers during my inspection, and found that they are most worried about two things at the moment, one is that they have been away from home for more than a month, and after going north to participate in the war, I am afraid that it will take a year and a half to return, and some are reluctant, and winter clothes and summer clothes are not ready. The second is that the autumn harvest is imminent, and without them at home, the autumn harvest will be delayed a lot. ”

"Therefore, I have decided to break the whole army into pieces on the 10th day of the first month of August, and the commanders, chiefs, and captains of the army will take everyone back to their hometowns to participate in the autumn harvest for seven days, and they will reassemble here when the time is on August 18!"

Yonghe and the county man looked at each other, although Heifu had the final say in the military affairs, they still had doubts: "The county lieutenant ...... What if the soldiers never returned? ”

Heifu smiled: "Kill." ”

"The military law is based on the mutual protection of the soldiers, and the township is the comparison, if one person does not return, the chief and the chief of the army will be guilty of the same crime, and if one is late, the chief will die. The escapee, the whole family became the concubine of the prisoner, and the whole family was ashamed of it! I will tell everyone in advance: I can love my peers as children, but they must also fear my axe! ”

"The harm of using soldiers is the greatest hesitation, and the disaster of the three armies is born of suspicion. I did this to let the soldiers know that I trusted them, that they could say goodbye to their families, and that they would not bear me, and that if they did not bear me, what was the use of such soldiers to be taken to the battlefield? At the critical moment, it will also become a black sheep, so it is better to kill it......"

Heifu looked at the soldiers with his sword, and suddenly had a kind of demeanor as a general:

"The county lieutenant asked me to train elite soldiers, only a thousand people are united, and they are happy when they hear the battle, so they are elite soldiers! It can be done! ”