Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Little Soldier

Queue drills may seem complicated, but they are actually simple. The really hard part is to be consistent, fast and fast, which takes a long time of training to achieve.

Chen Youfu was assigned to the first company of the caravan and became the first squad leader of the first squad of the first company. He had eleven men under his command, two captains and nine men. He didn't know the two team leaders, he only knew one surnamed Wen and his name was Yangzheng; One surnamed Tan, named Sigui. The one with the surname Wen is illiterate, and he can't even write his own name; The surname Tan doesn't play at all (Sichuan dialect: fool), thirty-six reels and seventy-two heart eyes, and the movement of the eyes is an idea. Chen Youfu, a member of the nine soldiers, knew two, not from Baoning Mansion and Kuizhou Mansion, but when they were driven by traffickers in the human market. Chen Youfu went up a step a day, he was very satisfied, and he worked harder on the field. At this moment, he was raising his right fist, stretching out his left palm and shouting: "Take me as the pacesetter, the whole company gathers!" ”

When the whole company heard Chen Youfu's shout, they immediately gathered towards Chen Youfu from a state of disarray. Chen Youfu's class is aligned with him from left to right, the squad leaders of classes 2 to 7 are aligned with him from back to front, and the members of classes 2 to 7 are aligned with their respective squad leaders from left to right. In an instant, a solid phalanx of companies took shape.

The good performance of the first company made Song Zhenzong, the concurrently commander of the first company, quite face-saving in front of Zhu Pingjin, and the bamboo stick that he often waved in his hand was already caught in his armpit. Zhu Pingjin walked to Chen Youfu's right side and glanced at the row with one eye, and the overall situation was quite neat. He took a few more steps down and looked, but shook his head at Song Zhenzong.

Song Zhenzong hurriedly came over. Zhu Pingjin said: "There is a problem in the queue. The spacing between the front and rear rows is uneven; The left and right spacing of each row of faces is also not uniform. Zhu Pingjin raised one arm flat, stretched out his fingertips, and made a demonstration action: "The distance between the front and back is subject to the fingertips of the soldiers in the back row touching the back of the soldiers in the front row; The distance between the left and right is based on the contact between the left and right fists. Zhu Pingjin raised his fists, stuck them on his left and right trouser legs, and made another demonstration move.

Song Zhenzong said well, immediately announced the new rules to the whole company, and ordered the dissolution and restart the assembly. Chen Youfu raised his right arm again, shouting that he was a pacesetter.......

Zhu Pingjin said to Shu Guoping, who was watching the performance around him: "It is easy for the company to practice in a static situation. But in the process, especially on the complex undulating terrain, it is difficult to be able to look horizontally, vertically and obliquely, and in a straight line! After the whole battalion is full, it is not easy to make the battalion-level queue neat, so you have to continue to practice! Starting tomorrow morning, the whole camp will start running and doing physical training! At the beginning of tomorrow, I will only run two miles back and forth, and then gradually increase to five, ten, and fifteen miles! In the future, it is even more necessary to carry 35 pounds from bare hands to weight! ”

After Zhu Pingjin finished speaking, he pointed to the big mountain in front of him and said: "As for the training location, run there!" ”

Before dinner, Sun Hong took Wang Daniu and them to Bifeng Gorge. Except for Sun Hong, Wang Daniu and they didn't have horses, and they all came by feet for more than 100 miles. Sun Hong knew that Zhu Pingjian's arrival at Mengding Mountain was just a pretense, and the real destination was the training ground. Therefore, after they arrived at Mengyang Town through Jiaguan, they immediately asked where Zhu Pingjin went, and then set off from Mengyang Town, followed a mountain stream through a canyon, climbed over a big mountain, and finally came to Bifeng Gorge. Wang Daniu They are locals and familiar with the road. According to him, if they had known that they were coming to Bifeng Gorge, then they did not need to go through Mengyang Town, and after they set off from Qiongzhou, they could go through Jiaguan, Shangli, and Zhongli and go directly to the mouth of Bifeng Gorge. This road is much closer, but it is just as difficult to walk, and it is not possible to cross the big car.

Wang Daniu and the others came to Bifeng Gorge, and as soon as they entered the mouth of the gorge, they saw a row of tall bamboo fence walls standing dozens of steps ahead. In front of the bamboo wall, there are piles of bamboo tied horses on the ground. There is a large wooden sign hanging on the bamboo wall with two rows of red letters written on it. Behind the bamboo wall, there is also a bamboo tower more than two feet high, on which stands a soldier wearing a gray cotton coat.

Wang Daniu was a little curious about what was written in red on the big wooden card, and was about to ask Sun Hong. The soldiers on the bamboo tower had already shouted to this side: "Stop, what are you doing?!" Can't see the words hanging on the wall? Wangzhuang forbidden area, mountain people do not enter! A head also poked out from above the bamboo wall and looked at this side.

Sun Hong was tired for the past two days, and was dozing off for a while, when he was suddenly startled by the loud shouts of the soldiers, and almost fell off his horse. Fortunately, Wang Da Niu was quick-eyed, grabbed the reins of the horse, and helped Sun Hong to sit down. When Sun Hong was in shock, Wang Daniu gave him the reason, which calmed Sun Hong. Sun Hong secretly thought, I am afraid this is the place where the prince once talked about military training. Sun Hong then stopped Wang Daniu and his party, slapped the horse forward alone, and shouted to the soldier under the bamboo tower: "Contemptible Sun Hong, it is the ...... of the Shu King's Mansion."

Before Sun Hong's words fell, the soldiers on the bamboo tower had already recognized the person. They were in the crowd and were very impressed by this gentleman who spoke kindly and never made things difficult for others. The soldiers on the bamboo tower shouted excitedly: "It's Mr. Sun here!" He hurriedly climbed down the bamboo ladder and removed the bamboo door with another soldier below. Wang Daniu saw that Sun Hong knew the soldiers, and brought people over. After explaining to his companions, the soldiers took Sun Hong and Wang Daniu and continued on the road.

Sun Hong looked at the soldier and saw that he looked unfamiliar, so he asked, "Do you know me?" ”

The soldier said: "Of course the villain knows! The villain Wei Chen, my eldest brother Wei Shen and I, as well as my father, my mother and my sister-in-law, were all bought by the prince in the human market. Mr. Sun registered it for us, doesn't Mr. Sun remember? ”

Sun Hong looked at the soldier from top to bottom again, and said with a smile: "You have changed into this clothes, it is almost unrecognizable!" ”

The little soldier named Wei Chen grinned and said, "It's all thanks to the kindness of the prince of the world, give us all the delicious food, and give us cotton clothes to wear!" The brothers all said that the prince was the reincarnation of the boy next to the Bodhisattva, who came to the world to save the suffering! It's a pity, if the prince had come two days earlier, my sister wouldn't have been bought by someone else! ”

Sun Hong just nodded when he heard this, but did not speak. He took refuge in the palace just because his life was in distress and there was no way. Because the officials of the palace are rarely promoted, they have to wipe their butts for the nonsense of the children of the Zhu family, and sit in the class room for their crimes. In the previous dynasty, there was a new branch jinshi, because he was assigned to the palace governor Shi Si by the officials, and rushed to the door of Shangshu to scold the street in excitement. Lord Shangshu can be a Shangshu, so naturally he is not jealous. So Lord Shangshu went into battle shirtless, rolled up his sleeves and stood at the door of the house to scold them, and jointly staged a wonderful farce in the history of the selection of cadres in the Ming Dynasty, the history of the imperial examination and the history of the vassal king. Sun Hong has no fame, not even a prisoner, unless there is a miracle in the world, his career is basically hopeless. Sun Hong knew this, so he got the news of the recruitment copywriter in the Shizifu, and immediately applied for the job, and he passed it successfully. He originally heard that the son of the world was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and thought that he would be just a literati and a gentleman in the future. But from the first edict of Shizi on the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve to now, more than 20 days later, Sun Hong has clearly known that his young boss is not only very methodical, but also ambitious. Wrong! Sun Hong crossed out the word ambitious in his heart, the loser is called ambitious, and the winner should be called ambitious!

Thinking of this, Sun Hong glanced at Wei Chen, the little soldier next to him who was still talking happily, and felt a little more stable in his heart.

Wei Chen brought the people and returned to the outpost. When they parted, he bowed respectfully to Sun Hong: "Daddy asked me to meet Mr. Sun in the future, thank you on their behalf." Your kindness is rewarded! ”

Sun Hong hurriedly returned the salute and said, "I can't help it, I can't help it!" This is all the kindness of the Son! Your Wei family should serve the prince! In the future, you and I will serve the son of the world together, and we will be ministers of the same palace in the future. Just take care of it! ”

When Sun Hong and Wang Daniu arrived, it happened to be dinner in the evening. Wang Daniu looked into the distance, and hundreds of gray backs were neatly arranged on the flat dam. A man who looked like an officer yelled a few times, and he could hear it clearly from a hundred paces away. Then, without warning, hundreds of people suddenly shouted together: "Tiger! He was shocked. Wang Da Niu is brave and brave, and he is famous for not being afraid of the sky and the earth, and when he sees this formation, he will inevitably beat the drum in his heart. When he met Zhu Pingjian, the arrogance on his body was long gone.

The people brought by Wang Daniu, together with himself, were twenty-eight people, and Zhu Pingjin met them outside the drying field. The men, though in tattered clothes, were noticeably much better than the beggars they had when they first arrived. Most of them are young and strong in their twenties, and only Wang Daniu has just turned thirty-one. They also carried all kinds of weapons, spears, broadswords, and at least a pole. Among them, Wang Daniu and four other people also carried a pair of bows and arrows. When Wang Daniu saw that Zhu Pingjin noticed the bow and arrow, he explained to Zhu Pingjin that these bows and arrows were made by himself for hunting. They served as tenants for Yang Tianguan, and when they encountered a shortage of green and yellow, they could only rely on hunting and digging wild vegetables in the mountains for food. This made Zhu Pingjin have some ideas about Wang Daniu's arrangement, so he arranged for Sun Hong and Wang Daniu and his party to go to eat and freshen up first.

It was past five to seven o'clock in the evening, and Cao Sanbao took Wang Daniu, who had been refreshed, into the small courtyard. When Wang Daniu saw Zhu Pingjin who was seated, he honestly knelt down and kowtowed three times. Zhu Pingjin said hard, personally left the seat to help Wang Daniu up, and gave him a seat.

After a little greeting, Zhu Pingjin asked Wang Daniu if he denied the word. Wang Daniu replied: "It turns out that when the year was good, Xiaomin studied private school for a few days and knew a few words. ”

Zhu Pingjin smiled: "That's good!" So he said what he thought. He planned to organize Wang Daniu's people into a spy platoon, with Wang Daniu as the platoon leader. Zhu Pingjin emphasized that the platoon commander is an officer. Because the number of people brought by Wang Daniu was not enough, the displaced people were added to this platoon. This special service platoon is directly subordinate to the battalion headquarters and performs special tasks assigned by the battalion headquarters.

But Wang Daniu made a surprise reply to Zhu Pingjin: he didn't want to be the platoon commander.

Zhu Pingjin hurriedly asked why.

Wang Daniu replied: "These people are your family members, and the villain is a grass people, how dare you call your family members?" ”

Zhu Pingjin laughed, pointed to Luo Jingyun standing next to him, and said, "This is your deputy platoon commander!" He is the brother-in-law of this son. Since they are in the army, they are soldiers, and soldiers must abide by military law! Platoon Commander Wang marches in the army, don't care who he is! ”