Chapter 6 See you in the camp
"Half a month later, it will be held in the military camp ten miles north of the city. Yan Ji's guy is more than eight feet tall, very strong, and extremely strong. He can carry a large tripod weighing 700 kilograms. He makes a pair of 70 kilograms of hammers, with superb riding skills and not bad bowing skills. The only disadvantage is that he is a little straightforward." After saying that, Gongsun Yue looked at He Bai strangely, with a strange expression.
He Bai was so amused and laughed at him. He was probably a simple-minded guy in Gongsun Yue's mind. It's not his fault, but who gave him the first impression of him was like this. However, pretending to be stupid also has the benefits of pretending to be stupid, which can make the enemy underestimate you.
He Bai said intimately: "A pair of 70-pound iron hammers weighing 56-pound iron whips are heavier than my pair of 56-pound iron whips. But it's okay, the martial arts are not the ones who have a strong strength win. Eight feet tall, that's more than 1.85 meters tall, and more than ten centimeters taller than me. But it's okay, it's only more than ten centimeters taller, which is not too outrageous. Besides, the generals under Gongsun Zan should not have many powerful generals except for Zhao Yun later."
"Even Gongsun Zan, who is the strongest martial arts, has a comment from later generations that only has about 86 martial arts in the game. Moreover, the only master of hammering among the Three Kingdoms is Wu'anguo under Kong Rong, Beihai County. Yan Ji should not be a big deal. He lacks martial arts experience at this time, but he can resist Dian Wei for twenty rounds and has a force of about 80 points. Compared with Yan Ji, even if he cannot win, he will not be defeated."
After thinking, He Bai said, "Since that's the case, please ask Lord Gongcao to find a few riding masters with excellent riding skills for me to teach me riding skills. I will practice this riding skills well within this half month, so I won't let Lord Gongcao down."
Gongsun Yue also knew that riding skills could not be practiced in one day, but at this point, he could only respond helplessly: "I have to do this."
After Gongsun Yue left, He Bai found Chengzhang, and Fu Xing said that he knew about this and wanted the two to take some advice. Fu Xing thought for a while and said, "I heard that the chief of the White Horse Master Gongsun Bogui is a general, but the recruitment of talents does not necessarily rely on superb martial arts and riding and shooting skills, and other military commands are required. Why did Lord Gongcao just mention equestrianism?"
He Bai smiled and said, "Gongsun Taishou chose the deputy commander of the cavalry of the personal guards, "Baima Yicong". As long as the martial arts skills are strong enough, what else should I do? Besides, Gongsun Taishou has a strong personal talent. I heard that he has a slight shortcoming and does not like people who are stronger than him in one aspect. Therefore, this time, this time, as long as the martial arts skills are sufficient, he will be obedient. He will not think about the others."
Cheng Zhang asked thoughtfully: "So, lord, you are a general under Gongsun Prefect, but it's only temporary?"
He Bai turned around and looked around. Thinking of the two of them as their confidants, he had to reveal something to them. So he nodded and said, "Yes, Gongsun Prefect has many bad things, but it is also very good. It is because he was born with a humble birth, had a rough early experience, and had many years of war. He never had the pampering habits of the rich and the decay of eating, drinking and having fun."
"He is also very sincere in his treatment of others, and he is loyal to the officials. He has been through the battlefield for a long time and has made outstanding achievements. He attaches great importance to talents such as us who are also born in a lowly manner. He never likes talents who go out of wealthy families and nobles. He says that these people are already very rich and noble, and they will think it is natural and will not be grateful if they are valued."
"I don't say what is right or wrong about this statement, but at least we, those who are guilty and blamed, have come to heaven under the command of Gongsun Prefect. But success is Xiao He and failure is Xiao He. My ambition is no less than that of Gongsun Prefect, but there is no possibility of surpassing him under his command. I can only use his hand to transfer to another party after I make some contributions to him and gain some fame."
Fu Xing was shocked and asked, "The prefect of a county is not the ambition of the lord? I don't know what the ambition of the lord is?"
He Bai said proudly: "If I don't have three officials, I won't have ten thousand households, I will not be willing to give up for my life."
Chengzhang and Fu Xing were shocked and said in surprise: "Lord Hongzhi, we will help the lord to take him a marquis of ten thousand households..."
In the next half month, He Bai hid in a small courtyard in Gongsun Yue’s east of the city and focused on practicing equestrian skills. The matter of practicing personal guards was to arrange the content to be practiced, and then Fu Xing and Cheng Zhang were hosted by them.
The two of them were both strange and strange about He Baida's training methods that are different from the popular current military training methods. At this time, they focused on individual soldiers' personal martial arts to kill enemies. For example, if you want to be a pavilion leader, you need to be proficient in swords, spears, swords, halberds, bows and crossbows. The fierce generals who charge into the formation have all kinds of weapons. They can kill enemies by picking up anything during the melee.
When the two armies were fighting, although they had a formation at the beginning, once they fought, the two armies suddenly formed a group of troops, teams, and teams to fight each other. The personal courage was extremely effective in it, and killing generals and flags was no problem. However, since the two of them had decided to be subordinate to He Bai, they did not dare to have any objections, and could only act as orders.
Time flies, and half a month passes quickly. After careful teaching by the jockey who is good at riding, He Bai practices hard every day, and finally he is not bad at riding. He Bai asks himself that he can fight with others immediately.
After Fu Xing and Chengzhang and He Bai's fourteen personal guards were trained according to He Bai's requirements, they could not say that their martial arts were so powerful, and they might have regressed a little. However, their actions were consistent and orders were prohibited, which made the fourteen people feel like they were the same.
This surprised Fu Xing, who had experience in commanding troops. He only had some ordinary queue training every day, turning left and right forward and backward, and so on. In this way, he actually looked like a legendary formation formation. This surprised Fu Xing, who had had formation formation training, because Zhang Jiao had also practiced formation formations with Taiping Taoists back then, but he did not succeed in the end.
At this time, we practice the methods of training more. Although we pay attention to formation, we cannot set up the elite soldiers without hard training for more than ten years. Even if we set up, it is just a scheming. Just like the soldiers and horses in the early years of the Song Dynasty, they could be said to be invincible in the world by placing the formation. But later, the same formation was made with untrained soldiers and horses, and they suddenly became a good deal, and nine out of ten battles were lost.
When it comes to formations, legend has been passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but very few people really understand it. During the Three Kingdoms Period, basically no one set it up, only Cao Cao and Cao Ren’s “Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation” and Zhuge Liang’s “Eight Formation Map”. It can also be said to be one, because the “Eight Formation Map” is an upgraded version of the “Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation”.
In the early days, warlords fought in a mess, and there was no time to practice elite soldiers and practice formations. Later, the Three Kingdoms were in power, and it took decades of war to have the leisure time and elite soldiers to practice formations. The reason why Zhuge Liang was able to compete with few enemies and lose more is because of the formation. It was just that the "Eight Formation Map" had good offense and defense, but the maneuverability was poor. Although he could defeat the enemy, he could not annihilate the enemy, so Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition could not succeed.
Fu Xing couldn't help but feel a secret surprise. He thought that the great wise and good teacher Zhang Jiao had taught Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and his disciples the formation. Unfortunately, there were very few people who could understand it. Only Qu Shuaibo, Zhang Mancheng, and Ma Yuanyi could understand it. Although he was born as a powerful Yellow Turban, he often followed Zhang Liang's side, so he gained a lot.
At that time, Zhang Jiao divided the Taiping Taoist people into 36 directions, with more than 10,000 people in total, and six or seven thousand people in total. There were more than 263,000 people in the 36 directions, which was the magic method of Zhang Jiao to use to fight the Han army. Unfortunately, in the battle with Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo, it disappeared with Zhang Jiao's death and Zhang Liang without knowing what was said.
Looking at the brothers who could almost be the commander of Du Bo and the 100-man general in front of him, Fu Xing couldn't help but feel ambition in his heart. Following the ambition of Lord He Bai, he would have the chance to lead the army in the future. He obtained the lord's magical method of training troops again at this time. Could it be that the Taiping Dodge Formation will appear again in the future?
Early this morning, Gongsun Yue gave He Bai a pair of iron armor and said, "This set of armor was given by my elder brother when I joined the army. It was my beloved thing in the past. But I already had something better at this time, and it would be useless to leave it alone. I will give it to you. I hope you can seize the position of deputy commander of "Baima Yicong" for me today."
He Bai's nose couldn't help but feel sour. Gongsun Yue treated others sincerely, making it difficult for He Bai not to have friendship with him. He Bai said movedly: "Thank you for your kindness, Lord Gongcao, I must have won this position for you."
After saying that, He Bai, Fu Xing, Chengzhang and other sixteen people rode the war horses specially assigned by Gongsun Yue, and followed them all the way to the military camp in the north of the city. The camp here is very large, much larger than Tuyin County, and can accommodate 3,000 cavalry troops. Although the troops are similar to the forces of a conventional brigade in later generations, because they are all cavalry, plus special logistics and baggage personnel, there are more than 5,000 people and more than 6,000 horses.
Unlike the army that had 100,000 or 1 million in later generations, there were only about 5,000 troops in a county at this time. In addition to the necessary city guards, there were only 3,000 mobile troops. These 3,000 people were already a very strong military force.
It should be noted that there were a total of one million troops in the Han Dynasty, but there were about one hundred counties, with an average of five thousand people per county, and 500,000 troops to go. The governor of each state had an army of ten thousand or twenty thousand, which was another ten thousand. Luoyang City always had a army of two hundred thousand, and in the end there were only about tens of thousands of mobile troops left. When the Yellow Turban thieves that had affected the whole country, they dispatched these tens of thousands of mobile troops and the forces of the troops of various counties.
Youbeiping County has only four counties, more than 10,000 households and more than 60,000 people. It cannot afford the five thousand army at all, and can only support about two thousand guards. However, these three thousand cavalry troops were sent by the court and temporarily led by the prefect of Youbeiping. The daily food and supplies were allocated by Jicheng in Guangyang County. It is no wonder that Gongsun Zan was a little powerless to command this army.
As soon as he entered the military camp, He Bai was quite disappointed. Looking around, the entire camp was slanted and garrisoned in units of troughs. Each barracks were arranged in an order of terrain, and there were also eye-catching piles of scattered soils more than half a person high, like a simple construction site, and it was completely unlike a majestic military camp.
There was no such thing as He Bai imagined as a soldier who was cheering and greeting, as strong as a mountain, with a sound of rushing to the night. The living people that He Bai could see were only patrol soldiers carrying spears who occasionally passed by the camp, while most other places were very quiet, as if no one was there. If there weren't any horses that were neighing, He Bai would have thought this was an empty camp.
As for these soldiers of the camp, after seeing Gongsun Yue, He Bai and his party, they just made way out and waited for them to pass, and then continued to patrol. No one even went forward to salute, which completely set off the majesty of Gongsun Yue, Lord Gongcao. I don’t know if there would be any difference between the head coach Gongsun Zan coming in person.
Could it be that the ancient army should have been like this? In a disappointment, He Bai felt this question in his heart, and was about to ask Fu Xing to solve his doubts. However, the next scene taught him a vivid lesson.
A small riot suddenly occurred in a barracks ahead. Soon, a team of soldiers from the patrol patrol went out of the barracks. Several young soldiers were twisted and their arms were escorted out. Each of them looked gray and their lips were closed. When they reached a raised flag gate, one of the soldiers in the patrol patrol swung the pole and knocked on the small gong hanging under the flag gate, and then shouted: "The war games are prohibited in the camp. The main culprit is killed, and the followers are whipping twenty."
Before he finished speaking, He Bai saw the soldiers who were being held in jail tied with hemp ropes and kneeling on the ground, then he raised his knife and then squirted out several feet like a spring. His head had flew away, and the blood was pulled up and hung on the crossbar by the hemp rope. Two more were stripped off and pressed in a pool of blood, and they whipped their shoulders and backs with whips made of cow tendons.
"Hiss..." Seeing this scene, He Bai breathed and was stunned. There were only a few headless corpses lying across the ground and still blood flowing out of his neck. As a soldier in his later generations, he had never thought of such a cruel military method of killing Xiao Guo. It was not until Gongsun Yue said that he suddenly shuddered, and the turbid air accumulated in his chest slowly spit out, and he felt cold all over his body.
Gongsun Yue seemed to have been accustomed to this. The corpse on the ground had been dragged away. The soldiers were splashing water to wash away the blood on the ground. The two soldiers were still being whipped, and the heads hanging on the horizontal wood were still dripping blood from the bottom, which was very eye-catching. But apart from this, there were not too many riots in the camp, and it was as calm as if the ones who were killed just now were not a few people, but a few chickens. It was this calm that made He Bai feel more and more shocked.
"This is what was called the so-called orders and prohibitions in ancient times. Will the charity be in charge of the army?"
He Bai didn't know how many times this scene had been staged in various military camps, but he had really sensed it. Something called "Military Power" permeated in this camp. It is precisely because of its existence that everyone in this camp is no longer an independent individual, and the personal presence is suppressed to a weak and almost non-existent, and he can't help but become a small component of this huge murder machine! It seems that the ancient army was not as chaotic as imagined.
It was precisely because of this understanding that when he observed this simple and huge campsite, He Bai felt more touched. He found that although the barracks were in a mess, they were connected by small paths, and the dirt road was compacted and flat, and there were not even a slightly larger stone. The mounds next to the barracks were generally of almost the same size, and they should be used to extinguish fires. As for those camps where there was no crowd of figures, it seemed to have life, like ferocious beasts attached to the haystack waiting for prey to catch, they could burst out at any time and choose people to eat!
The warrior is very evil! The so-called evil is not the domineering spirit of winning the battle or defeating the attack, nor is it the tragic corpse and blood sea, but the indifference to human life and the suppression of human nature!
There are many severe punishments in the army, and severe military laws are the best way to govern the army. Fighting war is a task that keeps your head on the belt. To make soldiers not afraid of the enemy's swords, military laws must be used to let them first understand that violating orders is death, and they can survive in death by following military orders and fighting to the death. There are even many rewards. Generals must make soldiers afraid of themselves more than the enemy or even death. They wave a big stick with one hand and hold a carrot with the other hand. This is the way for good generals to be generals since ancient times.
Wei Liaozi's military order also said: "I heard that those who are good at using troops in ancient times could kill half of the soldiers, and then kill thirteen of them, and kill eleven of them. Those who can kill half of them will be powerful in the sea; those who kill thirteen of them will be strong in the princes; those who kill eleven of them will be ordered to carry out soldiers. Therefore, it is said that a million people do not use their lives, which is not as good as a fight of ten thousand people; a fight of ten thousand people does not use their lives, which is not as good as a fight of hundreds of people. Rewards are like the sun and the moon, faith is like the four seasons, commands are like axes and halberds, and control profits are like a general, and soldiers do not use their lives, which is not as good as a fight of ten thousand people."
Chapter completed!