Chapter 23 Preparations

In the standard camp instructor's building, in that crowded office, three people sat around the table.

"How long have they been gone?" said the head of the camp, huddled in his chair, his face pale.

Instructor Hua straightened his waist, sat opposite the principal, and answered concisely and clearly: "Four months and ten days, I just finished basic training, and no one has been eliminated. ”

"Their samurai commendation ceremony, I should attend. The main officer was a little disappointed in his words, and the master sitting beside him snorted coldly: "I almost lost my life, and I still think about glory." ”

"There are no commendations. Instructor Hua chose to describe the certification process, and the two old men listened carefully, the principal's face was red, and the accountant stared and shook his beard from time to time.

"When they become real samurai, I will hold a grand ceremony. The principal coughed a few times, and after calming down, he asked the treasurer: "Has the inner ghost been cleaned?"

"A few little minions, let Wei Biao pull to practice. The accountant's face was unnatural, and his words were divided into several paragraphs: "I didn't expect that after working together for decades, the general affairs would betray the empire, alas." The sad color flashed, and the old face became gloomy like water: "I wanted to wait for you to heal before dealing with it, but he couldn't bear it and died in the torture room." The executioner put me in custody, very hard, and still inconclusive. ”

The principal slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and ordered with a sad and joyless expression: "Let them go, don't send someone to watch." Most of the spies who have been seized have lost their value. Seeing that Chief Instructor Hua was puzzled, the principal slowly explained: "The spies can't be eliminated, if you really want to get rid of them all, that person will be more careful." Get rid of the general affairs, the key secrets will not be leaked again, and the rest of the trivial matters, hehe, true or false, let that one be suspicious. ”

"I'll review the new instructors again. Instructor Hua got up and went out without asking about the injury.

After Chief Instructor Hua left, the chief planner said with concern: "Old man, you have to hold on, without force as a guarantee, my conspiracy will not be useful." To die, and wait for them to grow up. ”

"I'm dead, don't you just be the boss, hehe, it's okay to endure for more than ten years. ”

"For more than ten years, Lao Tzu has given you the life of being your deputy for the rest of your life, and heaven is unfair. The accountant scolded and left the office, and the director of the standard camp frowned and buried himself in the pile of papers.

Lingbo Mansion, Adjutant General's Office.

Among the buildings that row upon row, the five halls stand majestically with heavy eaves and tiles, the carved beams and painted pillars are extremely luxurious, the three bright and two dark are separated into three pieces, the bright room is the official office of the deputy general, the wall hangs the landscape calligraphy and painting, and the two compartments of the weapon rack are placed with swords, shields, guns and bows.

Behind the huge table, the deputy general in brocade clothes and jade belt was frowning and reviewing the official documents.

"The children's camp is the foundation of the imperial army, although it is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but the soldiers are all orphans of the soldiers of the county, and the government where they are located should take more care of them, so the affairs of each province and the city must be careful, and the four o'clock condolences and supplies will be added, but they must not interfere with the camp affairs, and if they are slow to treat the nuisance, they will be severely punished according to the law. ”

The document of the county king's mansion is very short, and the routine official words are equal to nothing, but the deputy general keeps looking at it for half an hour, which makes the subordinates sitting on both sides of the table very strange, but no one wants to make a sound.

"Master Lingshi, what do you think?"

The adjutant general finally took his eyes off the paperwork, raised his eyes to look at the civil official in the first place on the right, and the question was not loud, but it had a kind of majesty that had been in the position for a long time.

Ling Shi, the main civil government, oversees the civil, academic, financial, agricultural and other departments, is second only to the deputy general of the government officials, the head of the civil officials of the whole government.

Ling Shi's fat and ruddy fingers stroked his beard, his eyes were hidden in the fat, and he replied indifferently: "What else can you see, just do it, it's just a few more steps and spend some silver." ”

"Old fox. The adjutant general cursed in his heart, his face remained unchanged, and he turned his head to look at the other civil official and motioned for him to speak.

"Lord Adjutant General, my subordinates thought that they should take it slow first and see the attitudes of other government officials. Seeing that the adjutant general bowed slightly, the civil official was happy in his heart and continued: "The Tong Camp is directly under the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Empire, and the responsibility of the government is only to allocate enough money and food. According to what Wen Mu said, it is difficult to grasp the fact that it is necessary to give more money but not to interfere with the camp affairs, so it is better to be still. ”

"Oh. The adjutant general was noncommittal, but in his heart he was disappointed in this cronie, and he couldn't grasp what others would do, so what would have been done to you.

A military attache on the left saw the adjutant's gaze move over and was about to get up, but asked the adjutant general to sit down.

"Captain Yan, what should you think of?"

The military attache at the top of the left stood up and saluted, his movements were meticulous, and his reply was extremely simple: "Lord Adjutant General, the Tong Camp is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he has no right to intervene." After saying that, he sat down.

"Lord Lieutenant is too cautious, and there are no outsiders here. The young military attache who wanted to speak before stood up and talked eloquently: "The child camp cadets will be assigned to the direct legions of the empire in the future, and it is not worth wasting money on them. Let's ignore it, lest the county king's mansion be distracted. ”

"Presumptuous!" the adjutant general and the lieutenant scolded at the same time, and the young military attache slightly bowed his hand to the two of them to make amends, and said indifferently: "The contradiction between the empire and the county king is not a day or two, except for fools, no one knows. I'm an officer in the county palace, and I don't want to be on the wrong side. ”

This time, no one interrupted the young military attache to speak, and the perception of him was different, the lieutenant was sorry, the lieutenant was pitiful, and Ling Shi simply closed his eyes and recuperated, only the civil official somewhat appreciated his ignorance and fearlessness: a fool doesn't know, he knows that if he dares to say it openly, you are not even as good as a fool.

"If you dare to talk nonsense, don't blame me for not looking at your father's face, if your father says something, he will also be imprisoned in the criminal department. This is the last time I warn you. After the adjutant general reprimanded the young military attachΓ©, he looked at Ling Shi: "Unintentional words, look at my old face, forget about it." The affairs of the children's camp will be done according to the wishes of Lord Shi, and the old man will bother more. ”

Kicking the problem back to Ling Shi, the adjutant general waved his hand to signal the meeting to be dismissed, and everyone left one after another, and the young military attache stood in front of the table with a thick face and did not leave.

"Your words will be spread, the empire will not cut off your head, and the king of the county will also pick your skin. Go back to the county king's mansion, this is not for you. The young military attache pleaded, and the adjutant general shouted: "Someone is coming!" The guards responded to the call, and the adjutant general softened his tone and ordered: "If you don't have the token of the county king's mansion, you must not let him enter the mansion again, and if you violate the order, you will be killed!"

The guards took away the young military attachΓ©, and the adjutant general paced around the hall, round and round.

The undercurrent of Lingbo City is surging, and the new patrol cavalry team is far away from the city, and the training is boring.

Get up in the morning, run, line, practice martial arts trilogy, gather after meals, and repeat the daily homework under the supervision of Scarface.

First of all, the horse harness is inspected, the horse harness is divided into two pieces for horses and people, and the scar face focuses on inspecting the war horse equipment. The saddle should be neat and clean, the stirrup should not tolerate a little dirt, the bridle head should be more demanding, and the armature alone should be smooth, clean and odorless. Helmets, leather armor, and breeches must be worn neatly and neatly on the body every day. It often takes more than half an hour to clean the harness after training. Whoever wants to let Scarface find a mistake, then there will be no need to ride a horse that day, others train to ride a horse, you learn to run laps with a saddle on your back, and you are followed by the four brothers of this post.

Then came the horse walk. If you want to ride a horse, don't worry, lead the horse on the grassland for ten miles. You have to talk to the horse while walking, observe the horse's demeanor, and Scarface will ask, "Is your horse happy today?" If you are happy, you have to find out the reason, and then try to make the horse happy. War horses are partners? You might as well say that horses are uncles and we are grandsons.

Serving "Uncle Ma" every day, it is better to be an infantryman, in the face of incomprehension and resentment, Scarface is very angry when he says crookedly: "The opponent is you can choose, you are an infantryman, and if you want to win, I will be a horseman for you." "Nonsense, the cavalry can't win, they can still run, and they have long been invincible, how can this be compared? So the hard days are day after day.

Finally served the horse comfortably, and became an uncle on horseback, and the nightmare officially began.

Run in small steps, draw two lines half a mile apart, run from one end to the other, run from one end to the other, and form a horizontal line in front of the line, and the difference between the front and rear heads of the horses shall not exceed one foot. If you can't do it, you can run back from that end, but it still doesn't work, then run back again.

"To master the rhythm of war horse running, there is no trick, only hard training. ”

The small step is practiced, and I continue, and I run in circles. Draw a circle of ten zhang, one person at a time, ride a horse around, the horse runs along the line, turn a circle of the whole whistle horse's head in one direction, and the difference between the front and back is less than one foot to be qualified.

If the whole whistle is qualified, then there will be two whistles, until the whole team of five whistles runs in small steps and runs in circles.

"Congratulations, it took you more than a month to learn to ride and jog. Doesn't it feel very majestic to ride on a horse, hehe, the man is tall and the horse is big, and the crossbowman doesn't need to aim to shoot you!"

Scarface is not soft on punishing people, and sarcastic and sarcastic people are even more adept. Unconvinced, this coach is very open-minded, get on the horse, you want to win, you can toss as a coach, let me be a turtle and learn to bark while crawling.

No matter how well the jogging is practiced, it is not much use to fight, and the cavalry relies on the speed and impact of the horses.

The vast grassland stretched as far as the eye could see, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves could be heard on the edge of the sky, and the cavalry marched in a line of horses. Sitting in the saddle with a straight back, his body rising and falling with his horse, looking from one end to the other, twenty-five horsemen rolled forward like waves.

The cavalryman held the reins of his horse in his left hand and raised his saber in his right hand, and his eyes were fixed on the wooden stake erected in front of him. The stakes were high and short, and the distribution was irregular, and the swords were cut down and raised, and the cavalry charged on horseback.

The road to the charge was covered with earth pits, beams, and even the wagons carrying grain from the training camp to the end of the road, and behind these obstacles, there were often more and stronger wooden piles.

The stakes were cut off one by one, and the charging team also had people fall off their horses from time to time, and some even fell down with their horses, and in the neighing of the horses, the knights didn't care about the injuries on their bodies, and ran over to take care of the horses first, and the look of love was like facing the beloved girl.

Chopping, stabbing, latticing, flashing, the knife technique taught by Scarface is very simple, the cavalry team learns quickly, but it can be performed on horseback, and the combination of speed, strength and skill is used to grope by falling off the horse again and again. This point is much more difficult for cavalry than infantry, and the cooperation of men and horses must be considered, and the instructor can only teach the essentials of movement, and it is impossible to teach by hand like the infantry, and can only rely on the understanding of each person.

After practicing the saber, as well as the spear, and the bow and arrow, the three weapons have been basically learned, and they can be displayed in a manner on the back of a galloping horse, and the cavalry has been in the grassland for more than four months, and at this time they are lining up to listen to Scarface's lecture.

"Basic training, a little better than the previous cadet corps - no one fell to death or was injured! Cavalry is a noble class, you, hehe, a group of infantry who can ride horses. ”