Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 47: Training

The next day, Zhou Shixiang overslept, and Lin Wan’er didn’t dare to call him. When he woke up, it was already three strokes in the sun. After hurriedly eating a few bites of Lin Wan’er’s porridge, Zhou Shixiang hurried out the door.

The people who transported grain to the stockade came back, and they brought back two carts of grain in total, less than twenty stone in total. In addition, they also brought back all the goods that Boss Hu and the others robbed in the past, including silk, satin, gold and silver jewelry. Currency, two sacks of large salt, half a bag of tobacco leaves, a bag of oilseeds, and half a pig made into bacon, two sheep that were not slaughtered in time, and brought back a lot of pots and jars, and even a few women. I don’t know if the tube tops for home use were directly pulled from someone else’s body or brought back by a guy with a fetish. In short, there is everything in a mess, and it looks just like the stalls set up in rural markets in later generations, and it is very dazzling.

Looking at a few guys who were exhausted and gasping for a sense of accomplishment, Zhou Shixiang couldn’t even start to scold them for messing with them and bring back the useless things, but he couldn’t praise them for doing a good job. Impatient to count these “dirty thieves”, he called someone to invite Song Xianggong to come, and then pulled the leading man aside to ask about the women’s situation, but was told that everyone had left.

gone?

Zhou Shixiang was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he had told those women to leave the stockade, and his heart was relieved: those women were snatched into the stockade by Boss Hu and the others, and if they had the opportunity to leave, they would not stay.

Then asked if the little mute also left? After getting a positive answer, Zhou Shixiang sighed, feeling a little lost and a little worried: The little girl is still young, I don’t know if there are any relatives in this world, if there are no relatives, where can she go? How could she, a little girl, survive in this chaos?

With this worry, when Duke Xiang of Song brought someone over to receive the food, Zhou Shixiang asked him about the specific situation of the little mute, and wanted to know if the little girl still had a home to go back to.

“That girl was picked up by us on the way back from Xinhui last year. At that time, she was dumb and covered in blood. I asked her if she didn’t know anything. It was estimated that the family was attacked by soldiers, and the little girl escaped alone. Boss Hu looked at her pitifully. , I asked her to follow everyone and be a little maid on weekdays.”

Song Xianggong knew that Zhou Shixiang was worried about the little mute, but he knew so much about the situation that he really couldn’t help Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang frowned and said, “So, this girl has no relatives in the world?”

Song Xianggong shook his head and said, “If there were relatives, we wouldn’t have taken her back to the stockade last year, but let her go home. Such a young girl, the brothers are not beasts, how could they spoil her.”

“Then where will she go?” Zhou Shixiang became more and more worried about the little mute.

“The women in the stockade treat her well on weekdays, so they must have gone with them.” Seeing Zhou Shixiang’s worried expression, Duke Xiang of Song also sighed softly, and then persuaded him: “Okay, I know that my virtuous brother is reluctant to bear that little girl. , but now we are too busy to take care of ourselves, so what if we ask you to find someone back? Could it be that she will be a girl with us all her life? Let’s go, we can’t say which one will take in this girl and raise another one. After two years of marriage, you can get married, how can this day be better than following us.”

Song Xianggong said this, and Zhou Shixiang thought about it too, so he put his mind away and asked him instead, “Qi Yuantai, they sent the rest of the food?”

“Just now, Lu Changchang talked back and forth, and said that it will be delivered in an hour.”

Song Xianggong said while instructing people to unload the food, and then register it with the account book. Zhou Shixiang couldn’t help, so he went to see Boss Hu.

………

The entire area near the East Gate was designated as the Taiping Camp by Duke Xiang of Song. Dazheng took Ge Wu, Zhao Sihai and the others to train.

“Brother Zhou is here!”

Seeing Zhou Shixiang, Boss Hu showed a hearty smile, patted him on the shoulder, and joked, “Did you sleep well last night?”

Ge Wu also said with a wicked smile: “Is that girl of the Lin family enjoying herself? Tsk tsk, but Luo Dingcheng’s number one beauty, if it wasn’t for the elder brother and Mr. Song pointing it out to Brother Zhou, the brothers would also like to have a good time.”

“Cough cough…”

Zhou Shixiang made a haha, instead of telling them about it, he asked Boss Hu how the soldiers were trained. Speaking of business, Boss Hu took Zhou Shixiang to the city wall, and then signaled Zhao Sihai and Baldy below to show Zhou Shixiang a look.

Zhao Sihai, Baldzi and the others were not surprised by Zhou Shixiang in their training. They had typical characteristics of the times. The corps commanders were either holding whips or sticks. beat.

But for the beatings, these recruits who were civilians yesterday did not have any dissatisfaction, and there were no complaints on their faces, but they trained extremely hard. Some of the recruits are taller and stronger than the corporal leader and the team leader, but after being beaten, they have a smile on their faces, and they dare not show the slightest dissatisfaction.

This is the difference between someone who has killed someone with a knife and someone who has never killed someone with a knife. Zhou Shixiang only glanced at it and understood why this happened. In essence, these soldiers are actually ordinary people. Ordinary people face murderers, even if the other party The number of people is pitifully smaller than them, and they will habitually obey rather than rebel.

This is also the national inferiority of the Han people. To put it mildly, it is called obeying the law and abiding by the law. Willing to strive for it by hand. Even if their relatives have suffered injustice, they will count on the help of others, instead of going out on their own to seek justice for their relatives.

Such a mentality naturally led to countless tragedies in the history of the Han people. For example, a few Hu people and the Qing army (Japanese pirates) dared to drive thousands of people to run away, and dozens of aliens dared to massacre hundreds of thousands of Han people, but no Han people dared. If you resist, you are waiting for others to resist, and the result is that they are all killed by others.

The fundamental reason for this phenomenon is that the martial spirit of the Han people was interrupted by the artificial castration of the rulers of the previous dynasties, because what the rulers need is this kind of obedient people, not the brave people who dare to draw a sword to help in the face of injustice.

Whether this kind of obedient national character is good or not, Zhou Shixiang dare not judge without authorization. At least, when there is a strong leader, the Han people will explode with a powerful force, and this force can crush all enemies. For him, what he needs is this kind of person, not the kind of brave man who dares to resist injustice at any time. The simple fact is that if all the recruits on the lower school grounds dare to be dissatisfied with Shangguan’s whipping and resist, then this soldier does not need to be recruited, let alone practice, and it is useless to practice. The army is based on obedience as the first criterion, what kind of battle can an army that does not obey orders fight!

The training is very simple. The team is holding a small flag. The flag is raised to move forward, the lower finger is to stop, and the cross toss is to run. Apart from that, there is no other movement, not even combo, slash, and stab. This made Zhou Shixiang a little surprised. He thought that in addition to beating and scolding, Boss Hu and the others were training soldiers to shout with swords and guns.

Seeing the doubts on Zhou Shixiang’s face, Boss Hu couldn’t help but smile and said, “Brother Zhou, do you think it’s child’s play?”

Zhou Shixiang didn’t speak, he was thinking about the purpose of only practicing these three movements.

Hu Boss had already explained it to him, he said: “Brother, I worked in the army for a few years, I know how to train, and Brother Zhou also said that what we need now is that these soldiers can listen to us, so I Just let them practice these three movements, walk forward if they want to go forward, stop if they want to stop, and run if they want to run, as long as they understand the flag and know how to act according to the flag. As for the other things, Hey, there’s really no need to practice, that is, we practiced for ten days and a half months or even half a year, and they’re still useless on the battlefield.”

“Why is this?”

Zhou Shixiang was surprised. In the previous life, new recruits could be drawn to the battlefield after three months of training. Why did Boss Hu say that the following people could not be on the battlefield after training in the first half of the year.

“This soldier was killed with real swords and real guns, not just by practicing some fancy tricks. In the past, when the old man was training soldiers, he was impatient and asked the soldiers to tie a wooden stake to chop and kill them there, but directly captured some prisoners. Death row prisoners, let them stab them directly. UU read www.uukanshu.com Don’t say it, it’s a bit ruthless, but as long as this soldier gets blood, he won’t be afraid when he goes to the battlefield in the future. After a few rolls, you will be a veteran, a top-notch elite!”

Boss Hu talked about the events of the year, very energetic, “You can say that I didn’t understand anything back then, and I joined the army with a little work. In the army, I really know nothing, and Shangguan doesn’t teach us anything. , when the war is over, when the cannon sounds, take the knife and rush forward. If you don’t kill the fortune teller, you deserve it. Get close to the enemy, all follow the veterans, the veterans roll, we roll, the veterans chop, we Just cut, the veterans ran, and we ran too. After a few times, I also became a veteran, and then I was chosen by the old prince as a personal soldier. So, this soldier was not trained, but shot with real swords. You are a fool, you have seen it a few times on the battlefield, and you know how to save your life and **** people.”

Boss Hu’s words made Zhou Shixiang stunned. What kind of army is this? I suddenly remembered that Li Chengdong was once under Gao Jie’s subordinate, and Gao Jie was from Li Zicheng’s peasant army. After contacting him like this, he also understood that Li Chengdong’s army still used the same method of robbers back then. How could his soldiers be able to fight? Those were all real escapes from the dead, so it’s no wonder if you can’t fight!

It is a pity that Li Chengdong was eventually defeated, which proved that his suit was useful in the face of the Ming army, which was weaker than him, but it was useless in the face of the Qing army, which was stronger than him. In other words, the army of this era is not about who is stronger and who is more organized, but who is more scumbag.

The rogues are rogues, and Zhou Shixiang can’t count on these recruits right now, as long as they are obedient. After watching for a while, he proposed to Boss Hu to send someone to Deqing to scout the movements of the Qing army. If the Qing army in Deqing was really dispatched, how to fight this battle and how to win it.