Just after the feeding time, the long procession stopped at the sound of cymbals. When the camp arrived, relying on the logistics ships that were advancing westward against the Huai River, the military commissars were distributing grain and dry firewood to the camp in units of 100 people according to the intervals of each pawn during the camp.

This system comes from Xiong Jing, who used to read the memoirs of Chiang Weiguo, and saw that he said in the book that his mountain division crossed the Alps and marched into Austria, and the soldiers did not distribute ammunition at first, but when they stopped for lunch on the ridge, they found piles of ammunition boxes on the side of the road, the distance of which was exactly the same as the length of the march of a company, battalion, and regiment.

Inspired by this, Xiong Jing also asked the logistics personnel to distribute food according to the military tent before the Chu army camped, instead of the people who received the grain gathering in front of the grain camp and waiting for the military officials to distribute the military rations one by one, and there was no need to send people to run several miles to collect firewood at the risk of being captured by enemy scouts when it was freezing cold.

Xiong Jing was just envious of the precision of the German army's management, and he wanted to introduce digital management in the Chu army, that is, everything in the army must have a fixed number, so that the marching array could be convenient and accurate. With an order, each pawn will naturally weigh the convenience, and the military commissar will go crazy. Collecting firewood was originally a matter for each soldier, but now it has become the task of the military commissary; In the past, each pawn sent people to receive food, but now he actually has to send it to the door himself, and he has to 'separate the camps from each pawn and discharge them accurately according to the distance between the camps'.

Although the order came from the crown prince, the military commissar still reported his dissatisfaction to the commanders of the two divisions. The final solution was to hold a meeting, and the two divisions randomly selected a few old commanders, captains, and men, and then a few military officials who distributed military rations, military grain officers in charge of grain and straw, as well as the commanders of the two divisions, military horses, and military commanders, and finally naturally the crown prince Xiong Jing and the dying veteran Lian Po.

It took more than 20 people to deliberate three times before the regulations were reluctantly settled, and the price was that the military commissars had doubled their handcarts and horses, otherwise there would be insufficient manpower to distribute grain, straw, dry firewood, and firewood; In addition, there is a risk of theft in the distribution of military rations, and if a certain soldier arrives after some reason, the military rations are likely to be stolen by others.

In addition to marching every day, Xiong Jing also patrolled the battalions accompanied by Lian Po. I used to live in the palace, but now I have experienced the suffering of the people, and there are too many things that are not pleasing to the eye and unbearable, such as: the Yue people do not wear shoes, and their feet are either red and swollen or frozen and cracked; The soldiers had few winter coats, let alone furs, and the military tents they lived in were also leaky and had no warmth; Not to mention hygiene, it was not allowed to drink raw water, which was explicitly ordered from the first day, but the soldiers had no kettles, and even if they boiled hot water in a kettle, there was nothing to put in it.

'Ka ......', when the military rations and dry firewood were distributed, Xiong Jing was digging a stove. After these few days, he has become accustomed to those things that he is not used to, and has turned into an ordinary apprentice, and Lian Po, his eldest son Lian Yu, Ge Youyu, and the five of them are organized into a team, and they take turns digging stoves and cooking every day.

Lian Po is happy that Xiong Jing, who is the crown prince, can share weal and woe with his apprentices, and he is a good hand at digging stoves. That day, it was his turn to dig a stove, and he dug out a military stove with three or two strokes of a short song, and then began to make a fire to cook, and when it was the turn of others to dig, it was not so sharp. Cooking rice is not good for other people, the water in the retort is not too much, there is less, and the vegetable soup at the bottom will sometimes burn paste.

Carrying the north wind on his back, he was stuck and stuck, Xiong Jing dug down one by one, and the soil was turned out quickly, after all, he had little strength, even if Yu was helping to dig up the soil on the side, it took a lot of effort to dig out a standard military stove. He had no strength when the firewood was lit, and Yu Yu was pounding it alone.

"Zijing, why do you have to be like this!" Nao looked at it for a long time, and was dumbfounded for a long time, and when the stove began to smoke, he sighed like this.

"Teacher, why can't this be?" The left and right histories stood behind Xiong Jing, and Xiong Jing had long been accustomed to treating them as if they didn't exist. "My Chu people have gone from being expelled and killed by the Yin people to having no fixed place to having a big country in the world today, isn't it just by relying on the halberd in my hand? To understand that the halberd chariot and horse must be personally in the army, when starting from digging the stove. Isn't it because the Qin people dominate the world that there is an invincible and strong army? ”

"Even so, where is Zijing's etiquette like this? If this matter spreads to the world...... "Xiong Jing is right, how can he not accept that Xiong Jing, who will become the king of a country, will be mixed with the untouchables, and he will dig the stove and cook rice himself.

"Teacher, the first king of martial arts used to say: 'I am a barbarian.' Since I, the Chu people, am barbarians, why should I pay too much attention to etiquette? "As soon as Xiong Jing's barbarian words came out, the people around him changed color, but they changed color to change color, but no one refuted it." Today's children of the Gong clan have long been without the sharpness of the first monarch and the martial king, and they all boast of poetry and beautiful clothes, and the students are puzzled, what is the benefit of this in the country and the army? ”

Tired of digging a stove, Xiong Jing no longer had the usual forbearance, and the more he talked, the more angry he became: "The day before yesterday, I ordered Xiang Yan not to go north, but he replied after pulling out the camp. In his eyes, there is no such great son as me; The Qin people do not attack Han Wei or Zhao, but only attack our Chu State, thinking that I am weak and can be bullied. Xiang Yan has no self, Qin people bully me, why is this? Isn't it because I don't understand the art of war and military, even if I lead the army, I am vulnerable, so how can I abide by the law of etiquette and not practice the art of war? ”

Xiong Jing said very quickly, and before he could persuade him, he raised his strength and slashed into the mud with all his might, and said loudly: "Everyone will walk and see, one day they will be happy to surrender to me, not just because I am the king, but because I am stronger than them!" ”

Since becoming the crown prince, Xiong Jing has been very careful about his words, this time he complained with complaints, and there was a reason why Xiang Yan was angry: let him wait for the master of Jiangdong, he didn't wait, let him not go north, he went north, the most annoying thing was to return to Feixun after pulling out the camp the next day, which was simply a prelude to the first cut. Qi Xiang Yan is also angry about the current situation: Yesterday's news came that the former army of Qi State had left the Great Wall of Qi and went south to Muling Pass and was marching towards Ju County; There is also the State of Wei, which is said to be assembling and will soon take advantage of the fire to rob, and there is no news of Zhao Guo's fart, and Huang Xie also sent Guo Kai Wanjin, which is all fucking wasted!

The Qin State, which was obviously the first to destroy the Zhao State, actually sent 300,000 troops to destroy Chu, and Qi Wei, who had been in the first sight, also moved one by one, and the ally Zhao Guowang did not send troops through the autumn water. Helpless, resentful, angry, and unwilling to ......, Xiong Jing, who has never been under such pressure, is now overwhelmed and must speak out in order to regain balance in his heart.

The prince vented like this, but as the prince's protector, Nao was cunning and did not intervene, and others did not dare to speak, and only the noise of the soldiers in the barracks and the snoring of Lian Po dozing off were heard in the silence. The rice was cooked and hot, and the five of them ate it separately, and there was nothing else to say, and when they arrived the next day, Xiong Jing, who was cold in his heart, looked at his father's coffin and wanted to cry without tears, only howling in the cries of everyone.

"Emperor Tiantaiyi, Long Xian Dayou, the order of the destiny, the Fu Qi Diagram, the Jin Kui Ce Book, the gods proclaimed, belong to the Li people of Chu......" The crying of the middle court of the temple stopped, and the officials and courtiers were all dressed in filial piety clothes, and only the big Sima Nao, who presided over the enthronement ceremony, was dressed in red. Nao cunning read the blessing aloud, and his voice echoed between the layers of black curtains in the temple.

After the short farewell was recited, Nao said again: "The destiny of heaven has an end, and there is no return." Before the king, the eldest son was established, and the eldest son was in front of the coffin on the same day. Please ask the eldest son to be the throne, and the queen to be the queen. ”

Xiong Jing and Concubine Zhao were already in the middle court, and after these words, Song Yu holding the royal seal, Zhao Huang holding the wine lord tortoiseshell came up from the east steps, and Zuo Shi Zhuyuan, who was holding the book, came up from the west steps, and all three of them were dressed in red.

Zuo Shi Zhuyuan said according to Zhou Li: "In front of the king, Daoyang is the last life, and the heir of you is trained, Linjun Chubang, and the Da Bian, Xie and the world, in order to answer the light ......training of the ancestors of the ancestors."

The enthronement ceremony is extremely exquisite, according to Song Yu's teachings, Zuo Shi should reply after Xiong Jing said this: "Glance at the last boy, can he mess up the Quartet, in order to respect the power of heaven?" ’。 This is a word of humility, which means: How can I, a small boy, rule the world in harmony and fear the majesty of heaven?

Humility is a virtue, but Xiong Jing, who is still in a state of imbalance, did not follow Song Yu's explanation and answer any insignificant boy on a whim, but muttered: "In today's crisis, who is there besides me?" ”

"The king..."Candle Yuan stood in front of Xiong Jing, and when he heard this, he corrected: "The king should say, 'Squint at the end of the boy......"

"Not necessarily!" Xiong Jing did not correct his previous words, but directly picked up the wine from Zhao Huang, began to sacrifice wine to the ancestors, and then poured wine to the coffin, and when Zhao Huang said 'feast', he drank all the wine in the cup. At this time, the enthronement ceremony has been completed, although the new king is not too vain, but the courtiers and officials still bow: "The ministers meet the king and the queen." ”

The temple is small, and although not all the courtiers and officials come here to pay their respects, the voices of two or three hundred people are still roaring and rushing to the eardrums. Originally, it was the Queen Mother Concubine Zhao who asked the ministers to get up, but Concubine Zhao, who heard her son's words just now, "Who else should I be", only looked at Xiong Jing, and Xiong Jing said: "The ministers are exempt." ”

"King Xie." Since Xiong Jing didn't say 'small boy', the gift of enthronement began to be out of order, but fortunately, this is the state of Chu, not the state of Lu, and Xiong Jing's sentence 'who else is there for me' won the hearts of Nao, Fengjun and county duke. In this situation, what they are worried about is that the new king is not tough enough, how can they expel the Qin people if they are not tough? If you are not tough, how can you restrain the county government?

"The Qin people have attacked me, the outer city of Chengyang has broken ......" Xiong Jing said unexpectedly, prolonging the ceremony that was supposed to end. He is not lying, but bluntly speaking of the current crisis. "The Qi people have besieged Ju County, and the Wei people are eyeing each other. The father was sick and died in the army. Although he is young, he also knows that his father dies and his son succeeds, and death does not turn around.

The ancestors have been on the road for thousands of years; So far, the state of Chu has hundreds of thousands of heirs and hundreds of thousands of monks. Now the city is in danger! The state of Chu is in danger! Sheji Zong Temple is in danger! Don't swear to this: But Master Qin, return to Chudi! With my sword, slay all those who invade Chu; With my blood, I defend every inch of the land of my ancestors. May the same sect of Chu help me, and may the wise men of Chu help me. ”

Exceeding the etiquette but deafening, the courtiers heard Xiong Jing's words and were worried in their hearts, and they didn't know how to answer, which was something that had never happened before. When the feudal monarchs heard this, their blood boiled, and when Xiong Jing finished speaking, they shouted: "The ministers are willing to die for the king!" ”