Chapter 105: First Arrival at the Tiger Camp
Chapter 105 First arrived at the Tiger Camp
The army of the Great Xia Kingdom was composed of 1,000 to 2,000 people in a standard battalion, and three to five standard battalions formed a quasi-battalion.
When Li He arrived at the newly built quasi-camp camp fifteen miles away from Huyang City, the 1,000 light cavalry battalions transferred from the Hongzi quasi-battalion, the governor of the two provinces, the 1,000 strong prisoners selected by the three superintendents of the five prefectures, and the 1,000 strong men recruited from the prefectures, counties, villages and towns of Huyang Prefecture had already arrived, but their uniforms, weapons, and the grain and grass needed for the expedition were still being prepared. Except for the 1,000 light cavalry of the Governor's Guard's Hongzi Battalion, the rest of these people were prisoners and strong men who had never fought before, and they still needed to undergo some training so that they would not be sent to death on the battlefield.
Outside the battalion, there are at least a few hundred soldiers in rotation, very strict, and they seem to be all people from the camp of the Qinglin Governor Hongzi. Li He and the others entered the newspaper seven times and showed their military seals several times.
But the camp was completely different, it was still very messy, and many places had not yet been built. The transferred prisoners and the newly recruited strong men were all listless and lazy, and some of them had not even been properly organized, and the few officers transferred from the Qing Lin Army were simply not enough.
Only the light cavalry of the first standard battalion of the Hongzi quasi-battalion looks more like a soldier.
Li He didn't care much about the military in his previous life, and he only learned some about the army in his previous life, let alone any tactical theories and other things. However, seeing the situation in front of him, he also knew that there were still two things that this army lacked - discipline and morale, without these two things, going to the battlefield was just to be cannon fodder to add to the enemy's military exploits.
Li He and a few entourages did not wear armor uniforms, but after entering the camp, no one stepped forward to ask, and those soldiers all gathered together in groups to fart and laugh, and from time to time they could hear a few shouts and scolding from officers.
Li He went straight into the standard camp of the 1,000 light horsemen and went straight to the standard tent.
Soon after, the trumpet of the whole battalion sounded, and the thousand light cavalry were quickly assembled, but the prisoners and strong men came together in twos and threes after a long time, and stood crookedly, in sharp contrast to the fierce light cavalry beside them.
The standard commander of the 1,000 light cavalry stood on the point platform above the school field and said loudly: "Everyone listen! Today, General Li Tong has an order, everyone has a martial arts competition, and the top ten can be promoted to two levels, rewarded with ten taels of silver, and arranged for military positions. The first place winner can become the deputy commander! Get a hundred taels of silver! ”
When the officers and men in the audience heard this, they immediately turned their heads and talked about it, and they had no general since they were transferred here, not even a deputy general, and today they suddenly said that General Li Tong had given an order, and they couldn't help but be very surprised, they were all looking at the point platform, but they were still a few familiar standard camp generals, and they didn't see any General Li.
Soon a few soldiers came over and drew dozens of large circles on the school ground, and more than 3,000 soldiers were divided into dozens of groups, and they gathered around these large circles, and began to follow the instructions of the standard, and went in one by one to make comparisons. The rules are very simple, whoever is thrown out of the circle first or is beaten up and automatically abstains will lose. The winner stood in the circle until one by one came up and knocked him down. The person left in each lap will be compared with the rest of the lap to determine the final 10 place.
In the past, these soldiers were either fierce soldiers who were trained all day long, or prisoners who were caught in prison after injuring people's lives, or hooligans and gangsters who ran rampant in various villages and towns in their spare time, and even more honest were peasants or hard laborers who did manual labor all day long. All of them are full of strength and energy. I have been in this barracks for so long, I have not trained much, and I am not allowed to go out, I am so swaying, I am bored, and now there is such a fighting competition, everyone is eager to try, and the people watching the battle next to me are also shouting tightly.
In addition, the top ten can be directly promoted to two levels to become officers, and the first one can also fly up to the branch and become a phoenix as a deputy commander, which makes them even more energetic.
Except for more than a thousand light cavalry soldiers, the others are all humble prisoners, gangsters, and civilians, and now they have been drafted into the army, and they have such an opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune without going to the battlefield.
Among these dozens of circles, there was one that attracted the most attention, and many sergeants who had been watching the competition in other circles also came over and watched the fight inside in amazement.
I saw a handsome young man inside, shirtless, revealing his strong tendons and flesh, facing those stout men with one punch at a time, blasting out of the circle, no one was his enemy. After shouting for a while, he couldn't enjoy it, so he let everyone go up together, and after a while, a circle of soldiers were all put down by him.
Among the soldiers who watched from the outside of the circle, a thin and tall man said to a scar-faced man next to him: "Boss You, this kid seems to have two hits, can you win him?" "This man with a long scar on his face is the eldest of the prisoners, surnamed You Ming, nicknamed Xijiang Boss, known as You Boss. One body can lift a thousand pounds, and it is even more capable of a few overlord punches. He was caught by the government for beating a dozen of his opponents to death, and he was supposed to be beheaded because he killed three of them when he was arrested, but later the Governor ordered him to come here along with several other fierce felons.
You Bi reached out and touched the scar on his face without speaking, but looked at the young man in the circle who didn't even gasp for breath and didn't sweat a drop after knocking over dozens of people, and his expression was solemn. The reason in his heart told him that this young man's martial arts were definitely beyond his reach for ten. But how could such a teenager be in this new-sighted quasi-camp?
"Which standard battalion and which team is he? How come I haven't seen him. You Bi asked.
The tall thin man frowned and looked at it for a while, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it either, it's definitely not from our standard camp, could it be from the farmer's camp?" ”
You Bi shook his head: "No, look at his pants, they are not something that the peasants can wear, and they are definitely not from the third eunuch." If I want to say that the officers in that group of cavalry, it is not like this, it is impossible for me not to see such a person in so many days. ”
After a while, You Bi also stood at the end of the other lap, and then dozens of the strongest soldiers in each lap began to catch and compare, and eliminated and advanced.
The half-naked boy was still invincible with one punch, just one punch, but no one could escape, and he fought straight to the last ten, and there was still no one to take his punch.
In the end, the soldiers in the audience were all outside a circle, and although the people in the back were blocked from seeing the competition inside, they still climbed up and looked inside.
Originally, the last ten were also eliminated in pairs, but the young man felt that this was too slow, so he asked them to go together.
The nine people, including You Bi, are also unruly masters, although they have seen that the young man's martial arts are extraordinary, but they still don't believe that he can entrust the eldest person to the nine of them, since the kid is arrogant and looking for a beating, they are no longer polite, they each glanced at each other, and roared and stepped forward to press Li He down and beat him. But as a result, in the cheers of the soldiers outside, the nine people were all blasted out by the young man's punch, and the nine people joined hands, but in exchange for the nine punches.
This young man is naturally Li He, he doesn't know much about the army in this world, but he knows one thing, the soldiers in the army and the so-called wicked death row prisoners transferred from prison only admire the strong people who are stronger than themselves or the generals with prestige and achievements, and everything is based on strength. He is only sixteen years old now, and he has no qualifications in the army, and the only thing he has is his family background and his own strength. His family background could make him the head of this battalion, but he could not make these soldiers really obey his orders, and only by impressing them with his own strength could he command them in the future battles.
So, he came up with such a way to compete in martial arts to get promoted. Anyway, they belong to the middle and lower-level officers, and they don't need any ability to be proficient in the art of war and strategize, as long as they can fight and have courage, and those who come out of the competition are the best in terms of force and physical strength, and they are just competent.
And in the process, he can also let these soldiers see his strength, impress them, and establish prestige.
Just like Li He's idols such as singers and movie stars in his previous life, Li He's strong force in front of all the soldiers made him a god-like existence in the hearts of these people.
The soldiers outside the circle cheered loudly, celebrating the birth of a deputy general with excellent martial arts.
And the nine people who were knocked to the ground by him were also admired after they got up, Li He won really simply, and they were also convinced when they lost.
You Bi laughed and stepped forward and patted Li He's shoulder and said, "Brother, which standard camp and which team are you from?" Such a good skill! Did you walk around the rivers and lakes before? "He used to be a well-known number one person in the rivers and lakes, and he knew that with Li He's martial arts, if he was in the rivers and lakes, he would definitely be a master who called for wind and rain.
Several others also came up to ask for his name.
Li He didn't answer, but also smiled and patted You Yu's shoulder. At this time, the standard commander of the cavalry standard battalion walked in with a few soldiers separated from the crowd, separated a road, and invited Li He to the point platform.
On the platform, Li He had already put on his clothes, and said to the soldiers in the audience with his hands behind his back: "Brothers, I am your commander Li He!" ”
When all the soldiers in the audience heard this, they were first stunned, and then they were all in an uproar, they didn't expect their commander to be so young.
Many of these soldiers are from the villages and towns around Huyang Mansion, and many people know the name of the second son of Huyang, and although the cavalry of the standard battalion of the Governor Hongzi Quasi-Battalion is not garrisoned in Huyang City, there are also many people who have heard of Li He, the second son of the Huyang Governor's Mansion. So as soon as Li He's words came out, they reacted after the initial shock, isn't this person the second son? The second son actually came to be the commander and lead the troops?!
"Quiet!" Li He shouted in a deep voice, and all the soldiers in the audience immediately quieted down and looked at him in a daze.
"I think you should know why you're here. The northern Hulu is on the side, and it is the time for us to wait for a good man to make a contribution. Some of you are depressed soldiers who have been stationed here all the year round, some are prisoners who are quickly executed when they commit crimes, and some are peasants and hard laborers who have come out and rested. What would have happened to you if you hadn't made it here? Just be a petty officer and a little soldier for the rest of your life? A few days later, he was put on a sign and pushed to the wilderness to be beheaded? A life of doing nothing, relying on farming for a living? Li He stood on the military platform and looked down at the soldiers in the audience, although he was only sixteen years old, although everyone in the audience was at least one or two years older than him, but the calmness and majesty on his face at this time made the situation as if a father was teaching his son.
The audience was silent, and the prestige that Li He had established during the martial arts competition just now had already been reflected.
"Now that you're here! You are soldiers, you are my soldiers! Li He shouted loudly, the second half of this sentence sounded a bit rebellious, but this was in Huyang Mansion, he was not afraid, there was no evidence, who could treat him like this?
"Look at the bears you look like now, do you look like soldiers? Standing or not standing, sitting or not sitting, all of them are like girls! ”
As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers in the audience subconsciously straightened up, straightened their heads, and stood in line.
"It won't be long before I'm going north to fight Hulu! When the time comes, the two armies will face each other in front of each other, do you want to be a hero, or do you want to be a bear? For the first time, Li He found that his voice was so infectious.
"Hero!" Everyone in the audience shouted loudly, but the voices were uneven, high and low.
"Are you learning from women?" Li He said disdainfully.
"Hero !!" All the soldiers shouted in unison.
Li He nodded with satisfaction, and only then did he find a little bit of the taste of the military camp and soldiers. continued: "If you want to be like you now, you can only give people a chop when you go to the battlefield!" "Although he has never been on the battlefield, with some of the majesty he has erected now, he can still deter this group of recruits.
"If you want to be that general, you will work hard to give Lao Tzu some practice during this time, if you want to make that ten thousand bones, Lao Tzu will immediately send you to nourish the earth!" Li He said and glanced at the soldiers in the audience with tigerish eyes, and said: "From now on, if there is a violation of discipline in the camp, it will be severely punished!" Those who violate it once will have thirty rods, and those who commit it again will have sixty rods, and those who commit three times will be killed! ”
said that according to the ranking of the competition just now, he arranged officers for the standard battalion composed of the two prisoners and the strong men, and You Bi became the standard commander of the standard battalion of the prisoners, which made him overjoyed. And the deputy commander, because the winner of the final competition was Li He himself, so he let Chen Yun, the standard commander of the cavalry standard battalion, concurrently serve as the commander, and he was responsible for the training arrangements of the regular army.
After Li He finished arranging these affairs, he said coldly to all the soldiers: "I, Li He, promise that as long as you are willing to follow me well, after we return from the victory of going north to fight against Hu, we will all be promoted to become rich and glorify the lintel!" But if anyone dares to play sloppy with me, and wants to test my patience and challenge my prestige, let's see if your heads will be harder than this pillar! With that, he clawed his right hand and grabbed a thigh-thick wooden pillar on the platform, only to hear a click, and the sawdust flew over where he was caught, and the wooden pillar fell in response.
All the soldiers in the audience looked dumbfounded, and those who knew the name of the second son of Huyang knew in their hearts that if anyone dared to do anything with him, they would definitely die worse than the wooden pillar.
After explaining some things to Chen Yun and the other two standards, Li He was ready to go home, it had been almost a day since he came out today, and he was a little homesick for the beauties at home.
"General, please stay." But it was Chen Yun who followed again.
"What's the matter with General Chen?" Li He asked.
"General, that's right. When the Governor submitted a report to the Ministry of War to form this quasi-battalion, he did not report the name, so our battalion is still not named, you see, did you give our battalion a name? Chen Yundao.
The name of the Daxia [***] battalion is generally one word, such as Li Sihong's governor Hongzi quasi-camp.
Li He groaned slightly, and said, "If you want to call it, just call it a majestic name, just call it Huying!" ”
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