The commanders and five hundred lords stationed in Yangcheng did not expect that Captain Li You had just arrived at the barracks and was going to come on a patrol camp.

"Captain Patrol! Captain Patrol! ”

The slow-paced beat of drums was beaten, and the heralds arrived at the battalions to deliver the news, causing a flurry of agitation.

Then, surrounded by a group of subordinates, Commander Li You walked out of the camp and began to patrol the huge camp in clockwise order.

Li You is not very old, only twenty-eight or nineteen years old, he wears a long robe, leather armor, a knot decoration on his chest, and his feet are pointed shoes. Wearing a crane crown, a long face, and a short beard, although he is a military attaché, his demeanor is graceful and elegant.

As the son of Li Si, the court captain, he received a good family education, can be called both civil and military, at the age of seventeen he entered the Xianyang Palace as a Lang Guard, a few years later promoted to Lang Guan, began to enter the army.

What is strange is that although Li You is not young, he has not officially married a wife for a long time, and he doesn't know what he is waiting for. It wasn't until last year that he was able to Shang Qin, the eldest princess, and a grand wedding was held in Li Si's mansion, that everyone suddenly realized.

King Qin's favorite general to promote is Li Xin, but King Qin's most important minister is Li Si, which can't even be compared to Prime Minister Kui.

Everyone sighed with emotion, saying that Li Youzhen had a good father.

After becoming the son-in-law of the king of Qin, the fifth doctor Li You seemed to have a bright future, and sure enough, when the new war came, he was also appointed as a lieutenant and went out with Li Xin.

But looking at the camp in front of him, Li You was not happy at all, each family had a scripture that was difficult to read, and he also had his own troubles.

Compared with the elite of Guanzhong personally commanded by the main general Li Xin, as well as the soldiers of the Shandong counties under the general Meng Tian, the soldiers of the southern counties, it is really a chicken rib with doubtful combat effectiveness.

Li Xin assigned such a weak brigade to Li You, and the reason was very sufficient: Li You was originally a native of Shangcai in Chu State, and he could still speak fluent Shangcai, Jingchu dialect, and assigned a group of soldiers from the hometown of Chu State to him, which was just convenient for command. When the time comes, they will follow the army, use the language advantage to be stationed in various places, and there is no need to fight a battle to attack the fortifications.

Although in Li Xin's view, this is to take care of Li You, so that he doesn't have to risk the arrow.

But in Li You's view, his status as the son-in-law of the King of Qin, not only did not let him get preferential treatment, but was deliberately shown to be fair and became a victim.

But there is no way to complain, and you can't use your father's authority to adjust your appointment. When Li Xin set out from Xianyang, the king of Qin personally gave him an axe and authorized: "The left, right, and middle armies all have their duties, and those who ask for it will die." There are no two orders in the army, those who have two orders will be punished, those who stay in the order will be punished, and those who lose the order will be punished! ”

Skipping the report and being dissatisfied with the appointment, such a lieutenant, no matter what your background is, the general has the power to kill.

Li You could only take his 500 short guards and hurriedly rush to Yangcheng with Li Xin and Meng Tian in Yangzhai, hoping to master this army as soon as possible before the scheduled end of September before the war began.

As soon as he got off the car, Li You beat the drum to let the leader and the five hundred lords gather, he spoke kindly, and everyone communicated in the Jingchu dialect, which invisibly shortened the distance between him and the military officials.

Then, it was the patrol camp, Li You must know what kind of army this is, and let the soldiers know who their captain is! The soldiers don't know the generals, the generals don't know the soldiers, and it's taboo to fight!

However, just from the simple camp layout in front of him, Li You can see that this Nanjun soldier is of poor quality and is far from the elite in the pass......

The Qin army had its own system for camping, especially this kind of permanent camp that was stationed for a long time, and the perimeter had to be surrounded by an eight-foot-high wooden wall. An army of 5,000 men, divided into the central battalion and the left, right, front, and rear rates, each with separate camps, and each battalion was surrounded by trees and ditches, and a clear ban was issued that no one who was not of the same "rate" should enter other camps. If any other rate of soldiers enters without permission, the commander shall punish them, and sit in a row with his hundred generals and soldiers, otherwise he shall be guilty of the same crime.

And the road in the camp is guarded every one hundred and twenty paces, which is responsible for restricting pedestrian traffic and ensuring smooth traffic.

In addition to strictly guarding against spies, this also has an important role, that is, from the beginning of daily life, let the soldiers learn to obey orders, learn to enforce orders and prohibitions, and remove all the laziness and laziness they were when they were the heads of the Qian!

However, in the camp of the Nanjun soldiers, it is not in place, the ravines in the camp are oblique, and the barracks are staggered according to the terrain. But in Li You's eyes, the trenches between the different camps were sloppily dug, the sentry distances were too long, and the garrison was lax. Those who went out to collect firewood and graze war horses also came and went in twos and threes, and did not move in whole groups.

Even when he was on his patrol, he had already beaten the drum to warn, and he had already asked the heralds to spread the word to the battalions, but there were still people walking on the road between the camps! There was a loud noise as he walked.

To such a person, Li You was not half polite, and with a bow, the short-handed guards who followed him immediately stepped forward and took him down! Then he escorted the two people to the gate of a camp and announced loudly: "When the general enters the camp, he will clear the road behind closed doors, and those who dare to act will be punished, those who dare to speak up will be punished, and those who dare not obey the order will be punished!" ”

As soon as the words fell, in front of the leaders behind him, the five hundred lords, and the people in the camp who inquired about the tents, the two unfortunate soldiers who had gone out to collect firewood were pressed to the stakes, and the short guards raised the bronze axes and cut off their heads! And then hang high above the gate!

"The system in the army, five people are in a team, and the army protects each other; Ten people are what, and even each other is protected. The chief of the army, the chief of the army, the chief of the tun, and the hundred generals where these two people are located, are all twenty! ”

The four of them immediately went out of the ranks, obediently took off their clothes, and were beaten on the shoulders and backs of the rattan made of bamboo strips, again and again, and the sound was in the ears.

In this way, none of the Nanjun soldiers, who had been loose for two months, dared to ignore the ban, and they were all speechless.

Li You just watched the execution with a blank face, and the kind boss who had been talking eagerly with the commanders before suddenly became a cold-faced captain, and the general was initially established in this way.

Li You learned civil and military affairs since he was a child, and was deeply influenced by his father's Legalist thinking, which also infiltrated into the management of the army.

The embankment of Zhizhang collapsed with the nest of ants; The hundred-foot room was burned with a sudden gap.

Military discipline is often corrupted from small things, and once corrupted, the general will not be able to prohibit the soldiers, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

After the execution was completed, Li You also left the main road in the camp, stepped into the small camp, and began to patrol the inside of the camp with 100 people.

When he walked on the road, he couldn't see much difference, but when he entered the interior and looked at it all the way, Li You's face became more and more solemn, because none of the soldiers in the camp satisfied him.

The soldiers all hurriedly ran out of the tent after they learned that the lieutenant was coming, and they looked a little messy, and they stood on the side of the road and looked at the new lieutenant curiously and apprehensively.

After a few battalions came down, Li You could see what was the difference between this Nanjun soldier and the strong Guanzhong brigade he had brought before.

Not only the strictness of military discipline, but also the quality of the soldiers themselves, but also the overall morale!

The soldiers of Nanjun were drafted in the battle to destroy Wei, and now they have been away from home for nearly a year, and they have already taken steps to go home, but they have been notified that the military period has been extended, and there is still a war to be fought, which is a personal dissatisfaction. Therefore, the soldiers of Nanjun are a little loose and demoralized, and their enthusiasm for this war is not high.

Li You could understand, but he couldn't let them slack off.

"The art of war says that the general will be light, the base is low, and the crowd moves, and it can be attacked. With such an army, I am afraid that they will be defeated by the Chu army in one blow, let alone encounter the enemy in the field? ”

Before Li You set out, his father told him that it was okay to be careful in this battle, but now it seems that it is difficult to do nothing with such an army that is demoralized without a war.

Thinking like this, Li You had already walked down the entire camp, but when he stepped into the last camp, his eyes lit up!

A hundred soldiers lined up here early, although they were of different heights, fat and thin, but Li You looked at it, but he felt that it was uniform.

A hundred people stood in ten rows and ten columns in the open space in front of the camp, and the first two rows of people, without exception, were all wearing armor, although the colors and textures of the clothes inside were different, but they seemed to be a whole. The people in the back row also held spears, their heads held high, their feet together, and they all stood straight!

Seeing Li You and the others coming to the camp gate, a hundred generals wearing a long crown of veneers immediately came out of the ranks, trotted to Li You, waved at him, and reported loudly: "The left rate is seven hundred, and all one hundred and three people are here, waiting for the captain to patrol the camp!" ”

"Waiting for the captain to patrol the camp!" Everyone also followed, and the Dongmen Leopard, Ji Ying and others who were scattered in the past will also be honest.

Li You saw that the hundred generals had dark faces, but they were tall and well-mannered, and then looked at the hundred soldiers behind him, and their morale was high, and the depression of patrolling the camp in the morning was suddenly swept away, he nodded, and looked at the leaders and five hundred lords on the side: "Whose command is this?" ”

"It's under the command of the subordinates!"

The five hundred master Cheng Wuwu hurriedly came out, pointed to the hundred generals and said, "This hundred generals are called Heifu!" ”

"General Heifu, your soldiers are lined up in order."

Li You only praised it, but instead of glancing at the door and leaving, like the previous camp, he walked into the camp with his eyes scanning left and right.

He found that the camp was very well built, the ravine was deep enough, the dirt road was tamped and smoothed, there were not even slightly larger stones, the potholes were filled in, and the toilets were more than ten steps away from the camp......

"The camp is also well established." Li You looked at the little general again and asked him, "Where did you learn it?" ”

"I learned it from Master Cheng 500." Heifu is very good at being a man, and he owes it to his boss.

Li You smiled disapprovingly, didn't he know that Cheng Wuwu was a rough man, and the four hundred generals under his command before were all messy, and they were not so far away.

After looking around, he was very satisfied, but when he passed by the open tent, he seemed to see something, and immediately stopped, and let the short soldiers lift the gray tent.

At the first glance when he went in, Li You let out a "huh" and made a surprised sound, which caused the captain and the five hundred masters outside to look at each other, not knowing what was happening inside, but Heifu smiled and was confident.

Li You was really taken aback.

When the commander patrolled the camp, the array was orderly, and the camp was also set up in a regular manner, similar to the army, Li You had seen a lot in Guanzhong.

But the bedding in the camp tent can be neatly folded on their own couches, and this is the first time Li You has seen it since he came out of his mother's womb!