The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

Hearing Dongmen Bao say this, Hei Fu was stunned.

"Fighting is not about marching forward in a goose-step. What's the point of practicing formations all day long!"

During the military training in high school in his previous life, Hei Fu had also complained like this. It was not until he got older and entered the police academy and truly experienced military life that this idea slowly disappeared. Hearing Dongmen Bao mention it now, he felt familiar.

"Brother Bao, have you ever been on the battlefield?" He was silent for a long time and asked slowly.

Dongmen Bao shook his head and said, "No, I served three shifts, but I was never called up to the battlefield." It can be seen that he is very eager to fight and make meritorious deeds.

Now Hei Fu is relieved. Although he has never been on the battlefield, he has seen and heard a lot of documentaries about war in his previous life, and he has enough food in his stomach to brag about.

Hei Fu smiled and asked Dongmen Bao to sit on a piece of wood, and said to him: "Marching and fighting are very different from fighting alone. On the battlefield, there are thousands or tens of thousands of people, and the momentum is like a tide. No matter how good a person's martial arts is, he can't display his skills in the crowd. There are spears and swords everywhere, and arrows rain down like rain. The usual fighting moves are useless."

Seeing that Dongmen Bao still didn't believe it, Hei Fu asked him to imagine such a scene:

They are a group of knights with high martial arts skills, who went to the battlefield in a mess, ready to fight with their bravery and ferocity.

At this time, the central army issued an order to advance slowly, which was conveyed by drums and flags. As a result, the knights didn't know the drums and flags, some charged forward, and some stayed where they were with a confused look on their faces. As a result, those who broke away from the main force and charged forward were shot by the rain of arrows from the opposite side; those who stood behind were beheaded by the military judge; the rest of them wanted to move forward in a hurry, but found that they were blocked by their own people, which disrupted their own formation...

Even if they finally fought with the enemy, because they fought separately, they would be separated by the well-trained enemy army. One person would fight with several or dozens of people at the same time, and finally be chopped into meat sauce. Even if they survived, they would face the rumbling chariots and the galloping cavalry.

Well, these people are called Qi Jiji. In the past, King Min of Qi hired this group of "martial arts masters" from the streets of Linzi to fight, but they were defeated in every battle and almost destroyed the powerful Qi State.

So many years ago, when Xunzi commented on the strength of the armies of various countries, he listed Qi Jiji, which had the strongest individual martial arts, as the worst army and the army that destroyed the country.

After imagining the scene, Dongmen Bao couldn't help sweating. He imagined that he could rely on his bravery to chop off a dozen heads on the battlefield, but it turned out not to be so easy?

Hei Fu laughed again and said, "So, how can an army win? To win by governance! Good discipline is the difference between a mob and an elite army. And the training of these ranks was painstakingly studied by Sun Wu and Wu Qi, two masters of military strategy. Do you know who these two are?"

Dongmen Bao shook his head. Although these two people were once famous in Chu, the times have changed and the time is too long. How can ordinary country folk know about them? Heifu had to tell him about the deeds of Sun and Wu again...

"People often say, who can lead an army of 70,000 and no one in the world can stop him? It's Wu Qi. Who can lead an army of 30,000 and no one in the world can stop him? It's Wu Zi! Now you know how powerful these two are!"

"Sun Wu is really a hero! I just regret that I can't serve under him!" Dongmen Bao opened his eyes wide, obviously still immersed in the story of Sun Tzu beheading the favorite concubine of the King of Wu and defeating the State of Chu with tens of thousands of troops; Wu Qi killed his wife to seek a general, guarded Xihe, and finally entered Chu to reform and died from arrows.

Heifu said: "Back then, Wu Qi defeated the Qin State with his well-trained Wei Wu soldiers. Later, the Qin State also used Wu Qi's training methods in the army. These trainings may seem boring, but when they are completed, if hundreds or thousands of people can do what Wu Qi said, sitting and lying in order, marching in an orderly manner, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and the left and right divisions obey the command of the central army like arms, and can fight independently in their own formations, then they will be the sharpest warriors in the world who can be defeated wherever they go!"

"Heifu knows so much!" Dongmen Bao was full of praise. If he only accepted it verbally on the first day of arm wrestling, then after what he said just now, he really admired Heifu.

But he looked suspicious: "Heifu, this is just your first time in service, and you have never been on the battlefield. Why do you know all this?"

"This... Actually, it was all told to me by my late father, who has been on the battlefield many times." Heifu brought out his cheap father to take the blame.

"It's really outrageous!"

Dongmen Bao beat his thigh indignantly and said, "Heifu had a good father who taught you everything he saw and heard on the battlefield. My father was also called up to fight many times, but every time he came home from the battle, he would just look for wine with a gloomy face and drink without saying a word, and then beat me to death after drinking! In the end, he fell into the river and drowned after getting drunk, but he made a good middle-class family poor and destitute!"

It seems that this reckless and impulsive Dongmen Bao also has his own story, but Heifu just patted him on the shoulder and didn't investigate further.

"Sergeant... Sergeant..."

The stuttering words sounded, and when he turned around, it was Xiao Tao who also stood up. Heifu greeted him, and in return Xiao Tao smiled honestly. This child is a typical young man from a farming family, simple and honest, but a little timid.

At this time, the sun had completely risen. Dongmen Bao changed his disdain for training and took the initiative to wake up the rest of the people. With this evil star urging them, everyone got up much faster than yesterday.

Hei Fu nodded slightly. It seemed that he had another good helper besides Ji Ying, so he took them to the training ground and announced his training plan.

"Today's training will start with comparing heights and lining up!"

Hei Fu found that Qin's obsessive-compulsive disorder in the law did not seem to be contagious to the army. The army's standing line was not based on height, but on rank and age. Those with rank stood in front, and those without rank stood behind. Among the soldiers, the older ones stood in front, and the younger ones stood behind.

This also caused the people in the squad to stand unevenly, which affected the appearance.

Hei Fu had carefully asked General Chen Bai yesterday, and it was not considered a violation of military regulations to adjust the queue arrangement method, right? Chen Baijiang said that arranging by rank was a legal requirement, but arranging by age was just a convention and was not written into the military regulations. Anyway, there were only two public officers in their squad, one in front and one in the back, and Heifu could arrange the rest at will.

So Heifu boldly began to adjust the queue.

"Zhu, you stand behind me... Why? Of course, it's because you are the shortest. Don't be sad. Maybe you can grow taller if you eat more meat."

"Mu, I know you want to stand next to your cousin, but you are eight feet tall, so you have to stand behind, in front of Dongmen Bao."

"Xiao Tao..." After looking around, Heifu found that Xiao Tao had already stood behind Zhu. This kid, although he stuttered and was dull, was actually quite smart.

"Ji Ying, I'm talking about you, don't look around, stand behind Xiao Tao."

"Chao Bo, you usually stand in the second place according to your age, but now you have to stand in the middle."

"Ping, yes, no, you three stand behind Chao Bo."

In this way, their order is from low to high, which is much more pleasing to the eye.

After adjusting the queue, Hei Fu, who also has mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, nodded with satisfaction, and then entered the second part of today.

Stand!

"Learn to stand?"

Ji Ying almost laughed out loud when the training content was announced: "Brother Heifu, isn't it just standing? I learned it after I was three years old, why do I need to learn it?... Hey, why are you hitting me?"

Heifu raised the bamboo stick in his hand and hit Ji Ying with a grin: "Don't interrupt me before I finish speaking. In addition, it is forbidden to laugh, play and look around in the queue."

After Heifu conquered Dongmen Bao on the first day, he established his prestige, and he had said in advance that he would treat this matter strictly. Those who disobey orders will be beaten three times for the first offense, ten times for the second offense, and the third offense can be "beaten to death" by the squad leader!

Seeing that Heifu was serious, Ji Ying shut up tactfully. Others looked at Dongmen Bao and found that he obeyed Heifu contrary to his usual behavior, so they naturally did not dare to act rashly.

Hei Fu said, "I've heard a saying that a real man should stand straight and walk upright in the world!"

He faced everyone and made a standard standing posture, saying, "Stand like a pine tree! Like me, I am the straight pine tree on the top of the mountain!"

Everyone stared at Hei Fu and found that he was indeed standing straight, as energetic as a green pine tree.

Hei Fu pointed at the crooked standing posture of Ji Ying and others and said, "And you are like the crooked pine trees protruding from the hillside! When the wind blows, you will sway. How can you be decent!"

Everyone looked at each other. Although they didn't think there was anything wrong with standing like this, no one objected. Under Hei Fu's demonstration and correction, they began to learn to stand straight again...

"Heels close together, toes apart, that's right."

"Straighten your legs together, slightly contract your abdomen, lift your chest, and keep your shoulders level, not one high and one low."

"Stretch your arms down, fingers together and naturally slightly bent, sticking to the trouser seam... No, it's the side of the lower skirt."

"Well, keep your head straight, your neck straight, and your mouth closed. Ji Ying, don't grin at me all the time!"

"Look straight ahead, no, don't know what it means to look straight? Come, look into my eyes..."

So, before breakfast, all the other squads started to follow their squad leaders and sergeants to start training in a confused and chaotic manner. The whole training ground was filled with shouts and it was very lively. Only Hei Fu and his squad stood still and began to stand at attention.

Bin Baijiang was also watching the training of the night watchmen on the platform. Seeing this, one of his garrison commanders said, "General, the garrison where Heifu is standing there for a long time, maybe he is being lazy. Should the subordinates go over and reprimand him?"

"No need."

Bin Baijiang shook his head and sneered:

"He probably knows how difficult it is to train soldiers. It's not easy to be a garrison commander! Let him do whatever he wants! I will lead the county soldiers to Yunmengze to hunt down the thieves tomorrow, so I don't have time to take care of such trivial matters. I'll wait for him to make a fool of himself in front of everyone on the day of the competition! After that, the whole Anlu County will know that the so-called thief-catching warrior Heifu is just a boastful man! At that time, I will ride a horse in front of him and watch him jump around Anlu County in a whole circle!"

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