At the Jiangzhou Prefectural Government Office, the prefect Cai Dezhang was listening to the officials below reporting to him on relevant official matters. The last person said a little strangely: "Two days ago, I was ordered to hand over all the money, food and military pay that I owed to the rural soldiers." The military camp was inspected and accepted by Sun Tuanlian himself. Just yesterday, the military camp there had distributed the money and food to the soldiers one by one. According to subsequent investigations, Sun Tuanlian did not withhold any money and food, and the full amount was distributed to each soldier. In the hands of soldiers..."
These words caused doubts to appear on the faces of several officials in the hall, because this was a situation they had never encountered before. In the past, even the most honest and self-defeating military attaches would try their best to get food and salary from these troops. To get benefits from it, not to mention the reissue of money and food this time, Sun Tu should have more opportunities to make a move, would he let it go in vain
Cai Dezhang could see through the minds of these people at a glance, and said slowly: "I have long said that Sun Tu is very different from the previous generals, and only he can truly convince Jiangzhou officers and soldiers to obey orders. "
At this time, an official said with some disapproval: "Perhaps it's just because this person is more cautious. After all, he just put Qi Kun in a desperate situation and doesn't want to bring trouble to himself. And as far as the official knows, this time the state government office The money and food allocated to him was enough for five hundred rural soldiers, but now there are less than four hundred soldiers and horses in the military camp, and the difference is not small."
Before Cai Jiu could speak, the official who had just reported the situation in the military camp added: "In addition, Sun Tuanlian also hoarded the remaining money and food in the camp and sent someone to look after it. Early this morning, he sent people to the market to buy more. I ate two fat pigs, but I don’t know what the purpose was.”
These words immediately made the former's suspicions clear. He could no longer target Sun Tu and could only smile sarcastically: "It's unreasonable this year. Sun Tu bought pigs into the military camp but he wanted the country soldiers to raise pigs for him. ?"
At this time, the look on Cai Jiu's face became solemn: "Now you have all seen that although Sun Tuanlian has only come to Jiangzhou not long ago, he is really dedicated to running errands for the imperial court and has no selfish motives, so you also Give up those ideas of taking revenge on him as soon as possible. This is the end of what happened before, and this is the best result for everyone!"
Because Sun Tu took action to get rid of Qi Kun, a corrupt official who made a big fuss about military rations, many officials in Jiangzhou suffered a lot of losses. Half of the grain in the granary was obtained from shops under the names of officials in the city. It was loaned out to cover up others' eyes. Now that he has been killed and convicted, the food will no longer come back. In addition, after this incident, they lost a good way to make money, which made these officials have a grudge against Sun Tu, so they continued to Cai Taishou came forward and asked him to find a reason as soon as possible to remove this bold military attache from his post or even eliminate him on the spot.
But after procrastinating for a few days, Governor Cai finally made his attitude clear today. At least without definite evidence, it was impossible for him to get rid of Sun Tu, a capable subordinate. At the same time, he also tactfully reminded his subordinates that it was best to be safe. Separate things and don't let anything happen again.
Looking at Cai Jiu's serious but still handsome face, these officials finally knew that they couldn't do anything, so they could only agree in a low voice: "I will obey my orders."
It wasn't until these people dispersed one after another that Cai Jiu breathed a sigh of relief and asked casually: "What's going on?"
In addition to distributing military rations, what else did Sun Tu do in the military camp in the past two days? Have you started training your troops? This is his duty. If some time passes and the country soldiers are still as incapable of fighting as before, they may not give up again. "
"This..." The confidant obviously hesitated for a moment, but still answered truthfully: "I have just received the news. Sun Tuanlian is now selecting available people, but his method of selecting people is really weird..."
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The sun is getting hotter at the end of April, especially near noon. Just standing under the sun for a while will make you sweat profusely.
At this time, in the rural army camp outside Jiangzhou City, 354 soldiers were standing upright under the scorching sun, motionless despite the sun's rays.
This was their second day of receiving such weird training methods. There was no need to run, use swords, guns, or draw bows. From the beginning, Sun Tu only asked them to do this one action, which was to row. After finishing the phalanx formation, they stood motionless.
However, this standing also has extremely strict requirements. As an older soldier's body became a little looser because he couldn't hold himself tight, Sun Tu's voice quickly sounded in front: "Put your chest out." Raise your head, straighten your hands and hang them by your sides. Don't relax at all. Lift up your spirit! If you can't even do this simple thing of standing in line, do you still have the nerve to receive money and food from the court every month? At least? We don’t raise waste in our Jiangzhou Township barracks!”
What kind of training is this? What's the use of just standing so straight and stiff? Can you kill the enemy with this? Many soldiers were full of complaints. After experiencing yesterday's day and today's boring and strenuous half-day of standing in line, these people were already full of complaints.
Sun Tu also stood in front of the team energetically. He could see through their thoughts at a glance, and continued: "If you can't even do this, why do you still fight with the enemy? Are you not afraid to tell the truth? You, I want to train you into an elite force that can protect the peace of our Jiangzhou, so as long as there are those who are unqualified, I will not keep them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a gray-haired veteran suddenly fell down in the team. The old man, who was far from mentally and physically weak, finally couldn't bear the harsh training and fell down.
Sun Tu didn't even blink at this. He waved his hand and ordered a few selected soldiers behind him to carry the fallen old man away directly. This was the twelfth veteran to fall in two days. The remaining seventy or eighty veterans in the phalanx were immediately panicked, because they knew that this fall meant that this person had been excluded from the countryside. Soldier team.
Because of Sun Tu's assurances two days ago, many rural soldiers chose to believe it. Then some of these old, weak and remnant soldiers asked themselves to leave the army, and arranged for younger and stronger nephews at home to take their places. Only some families who are lucky or who really do not have young men in their families will continue to grit their teeth and persevere.
In this regard, Sun Tu did not pretend to make things difficult, but directly trained them all equally. He wanted to use strict requirements to get rid of these old and weak soldiers who were trying to make up for their numbers.
Although it is just a simple station
The military posture also requires considerable energy and physical strength to deal with, so in just a day and a half, he has made more than ten physically weak old people reveal their true colors, which also proved that they are indeed not qualified to be his subordinates.
It wasn't until after standing for half an hour that almost everyone was soaked in sweat, almost as if they had just been fished out of the water, that Sun Tu said: "Let's stop and rest for a while. I still said the same thing, today's rural soldiers Unlike before, you can get more money, food and military pay, but at the same time you will inevitably be asked for more, so I hope there are only young and strong men here. Now is just the beginning. From tomorrow on, my training intensity will continue to increase until You have built a truly elite force.”
After saying these words, he also began to move his slightly stiff body and limbs. The military posture that had been standing for nearly half an hour just now was not only done by the soldiers in the phalanx, but also Sun Tu, who was staring at them opposite, and the soldiers behind him, Lu Da, Yang Zhi, and even Wu Huan and Zhu Lin. They all stood under the scorching sun for a long time. Because of this, the soldiers from the countryside stood for a day and a half as ordered.
While everyone was moving around, Luda glanced at Sun Tu with some confusion and asked Yang Zhidao next to him: "What do you mean, Sanlang, what is his plan? Although this line is indeed very tiring, but Sajia is really I don’t think that just standing like this can improve the combat power of the soldiers. It’s better to let them pick up swords and guns and practice hard here for a few days.”
Yang Zhi actually had doubts in his heart, but he still said at this time: "This may be a way to save the soldiers' physical strength. If you can't even bear this little pain, let alone other things. In addition, although this method has some It’s weird, but I always feel that there is another purpose in it, but if Saburo doesn’t tell us, we won’t know.”
Even the people around Sun Tu had some doubts about this, and others were naturally even more dissatisfied, especially the two Dutou who thought they were higher than others and had long been used to being lazy and carefree. At this time So he called on a few of his cronies to make arrangements there in a whisper.
After less than half an hour, when Sun Tu gave the order again and asked everyone to continue to form a square formation, Wu Huan said: "Sun Tuan Lian has something to say in his humble position."
"Oh? What do you want to say?" Sun Tu could tell at a glance that the other party finally couldn't help but want to cause trouble, but there was no sign of panic, and there was even a slight smile on his face.
"The humble rank and others think that the purpose of standing in line is only to test people's physical strength in order to eliminate those who are unqualified from the military camp. But in fact, such people are obvious at a glance, so why should everyone suffer with them? The humble rank thinks As long as all the people in the camp who are over 50 years old are pulled out to stand in line, the others will not need it, right?"
"Yes, I thought so too," said Zhu Lin, who immediately followed, and then some others responded, saying that everyone didn't need to do such a thankless job.
Sun Tuzhi waited for these people to finish chattering, and then said with a smile but not a smile: "It seems that you mistakenly thought that I set up this team just to exclude certain people? You are wrong, this is what I want to practice Your things, even if you are all young and elite, it is indispensable to stand in line, it is the foundation of all subsequent training!"