Chapter 40: Hidden Feelings
In May outside the plug, the cold winter has passed, the spring is thick, several rivers from the snow mountain, the water volume has increased significantly, the river water with a snow peak cold, drink a sip, sweet and incomparable.
"My people, in the camp, are not allowed to drink raw water, when they go to the wild, they can only drink it if they filter it as much as possible, this is Lao Tzu's order, if you can't do it, if you can't stand it, you will give Lao Tzu a fuck out, where to go if you love his mother."
Liu Ji's voice, although not as arrogant as Yang Guozhong, but the unquestionable meaning is the same.
Under his command, several sergeants carried wooden barrels, went to the river to fetch water, pulled them to the camp, and poured them into a cauldron full of a man high, and at the bottom of the kettle was already set up firewood, not for bathing, but for drinking.
In this era, there are not so many antibiotics available, drinking raw water, it is very easy to get parasitic diseases, and he doesn't want to hang up at a young age.
"Grandma's, take care of the heavens and the earth, and those who don't let you drink water."
"The bottom is from a big family, and it's exquisite."
"What can be done by such a war master, if you don't do it, you will be sent back to your hometown, and you won't even get a portion of Lu rice.
"Can he still withhold our Lu Mi and not give it?"
"Shhhh The lord who walks sideways in Qiuzi City is better to make less trouble, not just a few loads of water, how much work can be spent. ”
These messy discussions faintly came into his ears, sounding no different from the military camps of later generations, in terms of tricks, far less abundant than those pampered city soldiers, Liu Ji didn't care about this, what made him care was only the high mountain in the distance, and the things behind the mountain.
In his string of titles, whether it is a general or a captain, they are just fictitious positions, representing rank and treatment, and the real dispatch is the four words "master of the dry pit".
In the Tang system, the border passes were set up with army, town, guarding, city, pass, garrison, feng, shop and so on, the garrison is the penultimate layer, under the army, guarding and capture, it can be said that it is the most basic level, more than 50 people are the upper garrison, 30 are the middle garrison, and those who are not up to the lower garrison are the lower garrison.
One hundred people, that is, the establishment of a company in later generations, for Liu Ji, nothing else, if only there was an instructor to help him manage logistics.
Since it is double, his sword has two deputies, one is Zhang Wuxuan, a native of Xizhou, and the other is Xu Guangjing, a native of Guazhou, the former is a forty-five-year-old middle-aged man, looking honest, more wooden, Xu Guangjing's mouth is much more lively, and he is thirty-seven years old.
In the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Sui system was adopted, and the government and military system were implemented, and the world was divided into more than 600 Zhichong Prefectures, which were led by Zhichong Lieutenant and Guoyi Commander.
In the Tang Dynasty, especially during the period when the Wu clan was in power, due to the destruction of the Juntian system, the people evaded military service, and had no choice but to recruit soldiers instead, fortunately, in this era, the status of the warriors was not low, and in this dynasty, the emperor liked to work on the side, and the national strength was strong, and the army became a relatively easy choice.
This can be seen from an example, the current commander of this army, Feng Changqing, who is in charge of the military power with the Jiedu and the marching Sima, is to enter the army as a servant, step by step from the lord of the war, to the town general, the guard, and the retainer, even if he rarely went out with the army before.
The servant is not a slave, but a kind of employment relationship, as long as there is money, any formal sergeant, can go to hire the common people out of the puppet, a bit similar to the nature of the auxiliary, if compared with the Western mining system, a knight can only be regarded as a combat force, but he often hires two or three attendants, which is equivalent to the puppet.
Feng Changqing first became Gao Xianzhi's entourage, and then with his own efforts, he completed a miraculous jump, he did it in an extremely disgraceful way, in short, he relied on Gao Xianzhi, so that the other party was helpless.
This kind of miracle is not uncommon in the Tang Army of this era, Cheng Qianli, Li Siye, and Tian Zhen are all recruited people, that is, from an ordinary soldier, he has been promoted to a general.
This is a martial era, hot-blooded men into the military camp, meritorious service, admired by the people of the time, regardless of origin, race, and even men and women, the best era!
There is only one thing in the army, that is, strength, when Liu Ji found that one of the two deputies was cold and the other was perfunctory, he thought that he was too young and looked down on by these veterans.
Can't blame him for thinking so, just take Zhang Wuprice, this forty-five-year-old veteran, with nearly thirty years of military experience, has participated in almost the entire war of Kaiyuan and Tianbao Dynasty, and he has gone through seven terms just as the capital protector of Anxi!
represents the merits of military merit, Liu Ji himself is just a captain from the fifth rank, and he, who was promoted to the second rank of Shangzhu State five years ago, has no promotion.
Liu Ji made a count among his subordinates, and was surprised to find that among the 100 sergeants, there were less than 10 people with lower ranks than him, and there were 23 people who won the top rank and went to the pillar country, and 17 of them were just ordinary sergeants, not that they were not qualified to be officers, but that they had no seats.
Obviously, this is a tiger and wolf army, and he, the tiger head, is not recognized by them.
Someone is stressed.
Before deciding what to do, Liu Ji took on the role of an instructor, only managing the logistics of the team, not interfering in training, he was taking the opportunity to observe, and of course, to learn.
The Tang army is in a heavy formation, the basic unit of the formation is the team, a team of 50 people, his two deputies just serve as the team leaders of the two teams, daily training, formation drills should account for more than half, sometimes it is a separate column, sometimes it will be combined with other teams, every ten days or so, there will be a large joint training of thousands of people, a bit like testing the results of the training of each battalion.
For ten days, he was squatting on the field alone, watching his subordinates line up in a neat line, under the leadership of their respective teams, completing some actions such as turning, forward, backward and so on.
His strange behavior caused speculation among the generals in the camp, and most of them attributed it to his injuries, and he couldn't move too much, only Yang Yu, who knew the details, didn't believe it.
Yang Pre is a team of wanderers, the so-called "wandering", that is, light cavalry, men and horses do not focus on armor, mainly riding archery and spears.
On this day, his team passed by the school yard and saw Liu Ji squatting on the field at a glance, like a farmer.
"You take someone back to the camp first, and so-and-so will arrive later." Handing over the team to the team deputy, he rode his horse along the field path, and soon came to Liu Ji's side, who was dazed and stared ahead, and Yang Pre hit him with a horse whip.
"What is there to see about this kind of exercise, if you keep an eye on it so closely, what else do you have in mind?"
What kind of idea is there, the military heart has not been cleaned up, and the two subordinates must be put into their hands, but what is the method? He didn't think that he would have the heart to deal with Yang Huzi.
Yang foresaw that he didn't speak, so he simply squatted down, looked over there side by side, and saw the figure of a middle-aged man, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Lao Zhang didn't take advantage of your sleep to put down the black knife?"
"Why did he do it? I didn't rob his wife. ”
"You didn't rob his wife, you robbed someone else's girl." Seeing the demented look on his face, Yang Yu stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes: "Eh, it's not that I don't remember, it's no wonder, it's natural to rob so many little ladies and forget one or two." ”
Isn't it, buddy still has such a strong deed?
Wait, how can the kind of wicked person who bullies men and women be called 'Sijun', there must be another hidden meaning here.
Liu Ji, who prides himself on being a good law-abiding citizen, is messy.