Chapter 51: The Heart of the Army

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After a day's march, Qin Dong arrived outside Belgrade, the largest city in the northwest corner of the Balkan Peninsula, where the Qin army decided to rest for two days and buy some supplies by the way.

When he arrived outside the city, Doarik, the general of the defeated army, hurriedly ran into the city with his remnants, it was really embarrassing, when he went out the day before yesterday, it was two thousand, and only a few hundred people were left when he came back this time, he didn't want to continue to be with Qin Dong for a moment, and it was only right to stay away from this evil man early.

Although he won the battle along the way, Qin Dong found that the soldiers' affection was not very high, and these low-profile soldiers were basically more than 300 people who surrendered last time, which made Qin Dong very puzzled, and after setting up camp outside the city, he called several major officers in the big tent to discuss tomorrow's arrangements.

After dinner, the officers above the commander of ten were all gathered in Qin Dong's big tent, and Qin Dong asked when he saw that everyone had arrived: "Tuolong, I found that although I have won the battle in the past few days, the soldiers are not very emotional, and these people are basically people who have surrendered with you, what is going on?" ”

Seeing Qin Dong's question, Tuolong stood up and bent over his chest and said, "My lord, do you see it?" Yes, although the battle was won, the brethren were not in a good mood, because he was worried that their families, including their families, were in the royal court, and now that we had surrendered to our lords, we did not know what the Vultures would do to our families, so we ......."

Qin Dong didn't expect this to be the reason, he nodded and said: "This is my negligence, I have already planned for this matter, and I am going to send someone back to the royal court to ask King Youxian for the families of these soldiers after we arrive at Saidika to determine the location of the camp, you think about it, the scope of Saidika is not small, and I don't know what position the head of the Ten Thousand Households of Saidika's camp will arrange for us, even if I send someone back now, how can I find us after bringing all my family members?" So first of all, we have to determine where we are staying, and then send someone back to the royal court to pick us up, understand? ”

Su He said beside him: "My lord, you said that you want to ask King Youxian for the families of those soldiers?" There must be thousands of people, can he give it? ”

Qin Dong had long been concerned about this matter, he sneered: "Hmph, he was bewitched by Oristes to send Vulture to lead troops to openly attack us, if he doesn't want this matter to make a big deal there, he can only send me those soldiers, including the families of the soldiers who have died in battle, if not, hum, I want to see who is unlucky!" Blatantly attacking friendly forces, once this news reaches the ears of Da Shan Yu, even if he is the Right Virtuous King, he will inevitably be cut off from his military power! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they all felt that Qin Dong was reasonable, and the Right Virtuous King Enek would definitely not let this matter go to Dadan Erak for the sake of these family members, which was tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

Liu San, who was standing next to Qin Dong, said: "Young Master, this method is good, but in this way, we will completely tear our faces with the Right Virtuous King Enek, which is very bad for our future!" ”

Of course, Qin Dong knew the consequences of doing this, but if he didn't do this, most of his men would not be able to return to their hearts, and they might escape at any time, he shook his head and said, "Do you think that if we don't ask King Youxian for the families of those soldiers, the relationship between King Youxian and us will be eased?" In fact, on the night of Da Shan Yu's succession, I had already formed a bond with King Youxian, and I had already torn my face, so why didn't we get those family members back? Tolon! ”

Seeing Qin Dong calling his name, Tuolong immediately stood up and saluted: "Here!" ”

"When the meeting is over, you go and tell the soldiers, just say what Lord Ben said, and when we arrive at the Saidika camp to determine the location of our camp, Lord Ben will send someone back to get their families back from King Youxian, so that they don't have to worry, not only to bring their families over, but also to bring over the families of those soldiers who died in battle!"

Toron readily agreed: "Yes, my lord! ”

"That's it!" Qin Dong said again: "This is over, those will talk about another thing next, you all know that the Balkan region south of Saidika has many mountains and hills, and the terrain is complex, and it is difficult for a large force of cavalry to deploy and exert combat effectiveness, and the Eastern Romans are hiding in castles, if they have defense, our cavalry will not be able to cause damage to them at all, so to attack the city, to fight in a complex terrain area, you must not miss the infantry, not only heavy infantry, but also light infantry, Therefore I have detained three hundred and thirty heavy infantry of Doarik, and who will command these three hundred and thirty heavy infantry? ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at me, I looked at you, I don't know who to recommend to be the commander of these three hundred heavy infantry, they are all from cavalry, they don't know how to fight on foot at all, and it is not possible to let them be commanders.

Mu Ren, the second centurion of the cavalry, stood up and saluted: "My lord, if we were to train and command the cavalry, we would all be vying to ask for this position, but none of us here know how to arrange troops in foot combat, so please appoint a person who knows how to fight on foot to take this position!" ”

Qin Dong saw that none of these people were proficient in the operation and command of infantry combat, so he said: "Okay, I will personally be the officer of these more than 300 heavy infantry, Tuolong, you choose one person from among the ten commanders under you to be your deputy, and Ma Li will be transferred to assist me in training these more than 300 infantry!" ”

After these days of observation, those who surrendered are quite honest, no one has any dissenting intentions, Qin Dong is still quite relieved of Tuolong, this person is a loyal Hun man, so there is no need to let Ma Li stay by his side to monitor, it just so happens that there are more than 300 heavy infantry now, and Ma Li is transferred back to assist him in managing these more than 300 infantry, Qin Dong is only nominally an officer of this heavy infantry, in fact, he is trained and commanded by his deputy Ma Li, so as to prevent others from saying that he is crony.

"Yes, my lord!" Toron saluted again before sitting down.

After saying two things, Qin Dong said one more thing: "Then it's decided, Ma Li, inform it, those more than 300 people will start training from tomorrow, and they will train while marching, and they can't be delayed, the discipline of these people is too poor, first of all, we must let them know what the order and prohibition are, and later I will tell you the specific training method, you pick out thirty people from my escort team, train them with my method first, and then let these people train the more than 300 infantry!" ”

Ma Li immediately agreed: "Yes, young master!" ”

"One more thing, it just so happened that we passed through the city of Belgrade, which was the only city we passed along the way, and I decided to rest here tomorrow for two days, except for the more than three hundred infantry, all the other cavalry had a day off, in batches, the first and second hundredth men and their families had a holiday tomorrow, the third hundredth team and others and their families had a holiday the day after tomorrow, and the soldiers could go into the city to have fun, go shopping, buy things, go into taverns to drink and eat, and soldiers without wives could also go to brothels to find women, Tomorrow morning, you people come to me to receive the soldier's salary for this month, and the wounded soldier also has it, and it will be sent down immediately after receiving it, but I remind you that you must not be greedy for the soldier's salary, not even a copper plate, if I find out that someone has done this, then the law enforcement team will come to talk to you! In addition, the soldiers who went out were told that they had to pay money to buy food, eat and play with women, and they could not eat overlord meals and play overlord prostitution. It's okay to eat, drink and have fun, but you can't take the initiative to make trouble, but if others dare to provoke, you can't be timid and retreat, you can fight when you should fight, and you can kill when you should kill, do you hear clearly? ”

Everyone stood up and said in unison, "Clear, my lord!" ”

Qin Dong waved his hand: "Agula and Wang Liu stay, and the others are scattered, scattered!" ”