Chapter 15

A carved feathered arrow roared past Qin Lei's body and took away the jade pendant from his waist.

After Qin Lei landed on the ground, he rolled a few times, hid under a big cart, turned around and saw the arrows shot from the cliff. At this time, there was no one there, only the grass and trees swayed slightly, I don’t know if it was the wind or what.

The dirty-faced Zhang Jianzhi was helped by Tieying. He sprained his foot while drilling down the carriage. He happened to run into Qin Lei to come out of the carriage.

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, sat down face to face, and did not tease each other as usual, and the atmosphere was a bit solemn.

Tieying handed over the cold arrow in surprise, and it turned out to be a headless arrow.

Qin Lei played with this stupid arrow. After thinking for a moment, he had no clue, so he put himself aside and said to Guan Tao: "I was wrong. I have the responsibility for the loss." Although the statistics were not reported, Qin Lei also knew that more than a dozen people were killed and dozens of people were seriously injured.

Zhang Jianzhi comforted him: "Your Highness should not blame yourself so much. If you had not commanded him, the losses would have been greater."

Qin Lei shook his head and said, "Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. If I had personally trained the Shenjia Guard without caring about my uncle's face, instead of giving orders through my uncle's orders in everything, I would never have been caught in the encirclement like today and were caught off guard."

Zhang Jianzhi was silent. He didn't know Qin Lei's special instructor background, but he just said that His Highness took responsibility for Shen Luo, but he was uncle and nephew, so he couldn't say anything.

At this time, Shen Luo came over after cleaning the battlefield, his face was very bad. The statistics had already come out, sixteen people were killed and eighteen seriously injured. One hundred percent of his combat power was lost in one stick of incense.

Qin Lei helped him sit down, pulled out the dagger from his boots, picked up the bandage on his arm, and frowned and said, "It hurts the bone." He asked Tieying to go to the car to take the secondary splint, apply ointment and fix it, and finally wrapped it neatly with gauze, and there was a cup of tea in front and behind. Shen Luo saw his skillful movements, but was blocked by the touch and did not ask.

After doing all this, Qin Lei struck his head and said, "Uncle, please authorize me to command the guard with full authority."

Shen Luo also understood his shortcomings. He had only fought with bandits, which was very different from the real battle. He was stunned by just a few huge rocks. It seemed that he had a better future as a businessman, and he said to himself.

So he nodded and smiled at Qin Lei, "I told you a long time ago that our mansion will all listen to your order."

Qin Lei said gratefully: "I will definitely live up to my uncle's high hopes." No one mentioned whether Qin Lei had the ability to lead the army.

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No words all night.

The next day, the sky was bright, and Qin Lei stood in the open space, making the iron eagle blew the horn,

The inexplicable guards walked out of the camp to check the situation. Seeing the fifth prince looking at them with a smile, he hurriedly woke up his companions who were still sleeping soundly, and gathered in front of Qin Lei in groups of three or three.

After a while, Qin Lei still asked with a smile: "Is the person expired?" One of them carried the box for Qin Lei, and relied on his familiarity with His Highness, he replied loudly: "All have arrived, Your Highness."

After thinking about it, he added in a low voice: "Only those who cannot move."

The crowd burst into laughter, and Qin Lei smiled, "Brother Xu is really comprehensive." Then he clasped his fists to everyone and said solemnly: "This incident happened, all the big brothers were escorting their lives. Qin Lei was polite."

Everyone hurriedly replied to the gifts and said in a mess: "I dare not act as a death." "Your Highness, you are polite." "This is what we should do."

Qin Lei reached out and pressed his hand and announced that each of the guards who bravely killed the enemy would cost 100 taels of silver. The injured were doubled and the dead were treated with preferential treatment. Suddenly, the camp was cheering. Everyone praised His Highness for his generosity.

Qin Lei smiled and said, "But you thanked the wrong person. I also lamented my uncle's generosity and didn't even pay a single child."

The guards also burst into laughter and said, "Your Highness and our master are originally a family, thank you is equivalent to thanking our master."

Qin Lei no longer argued and called out the more prominent ones in yesterday's battle, and the rest went to rest.

There were twelve people in total. Qin Lei assigned them as team leader and asked them to elect three team leaders to be in charge of battle, escort and reconnaissance.

After some trouble, a man named Shi Yong was elected as the captain of the battle. He had just killed five assassins, accounting for one-third of the total number of enemies killed. The Xu Ge, who was called "Brother Xu" by Qin Lei, was elected as the captain of the guard. There was also a Hou Xin who was elected as the captain of the scout. Qin Lei did not appoint Iron Eagle as the captain of the guard, and he had other tasks.

Qin Lei asked these people to sit in a circle, stand in the middle of the circle, looked at the excited faces, and laughed and scolded: "You didn't become officials, aren't you?"

These freshly released captains quickly raised their faces. Qin Lei rolled his eyes and said, "If you want to laugh, just laugh. This wilderness is so suffocated that there is no place to look at it."

Everyone's expressions relaxed and they chuckled.

Qin Lei added fire and said, "As the captain, the salary will be much higher, aren't you very happy?"

Twelve people were like chickens pecking at rice and nodding frequently.

Qin Lei changed his tone: "But this also means higher requirements and heavier responsibilities. If you are surpassed in future training, you will withdraw; if you make mistakes in battle, you will withdraw; if you are collectively impeached by the team members, you will withdraw!"

The three "removals" made the new officials stunned. These guards were servants of the Shen family. The longest one had served in the Shen family for eight generations. They were the lowest figures in the big family. However, they had read and wrote books and practiced some martial arts, which were not comparable to ordinary people. These people knew that although the person in front of him was extremely cowardly in Qi, he was a real prince when he returned to Qin. He was extremely expensive.

Seeing that there is an opportunity to rely on noble people, who doesn’t cherish it? Who dares to disobey? What’s more, this highness looks approachable and generous.

Qin Lei had no way of knowing the psychology of these people. Even if he knew, he would only be happy. He understood that it doesn’t matter if people had their own ideas, but what was important was that they could bring everyone’s ideas together. The so-called working together, only when they were united can their strength be used in the same place. This is what the meaning of being together.

Qin Lei asked the team leader to voluntarily select the team leader, but four followed Shi Yong, three followed Xu Ge, and two followed Hou Xin. He asked the team leader to supervise the team leader and be selected by the team members.

Only Qin Lei and three captains were left in the field. Qin Lei sincerely said: "This time, there are many dangers in Hangu Pass. Please unite with all your heart. If you return to Beijing safely, you will definitely share your glory and wealth with you."

The three of them stood up and said excitedly: "Don't you serve your life with death."

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Next, Qin Lei slowed down his marching speed and trained three teams in the mountains. The Qi Guardians urged him several times, but he asked Shen Luo to block it.

I walked the 200-mile mountain road for a month, and walked seven miles a day on average! This also created a miracle in the history of world marching. Qin Lei said to himself.

This team cannot be fundamentally changed in a month, and it must be guarded against enemy attacks and cannot be overly aggressive. Qin Lei only asked the combat squadron to 120 people, three people and one group to practice the three-talent formation: one person holds a gun, one person has two swords, one person has one hand knife and one hand shield, can be far or near, can attack or defend.

Then it was divided into black and white sides, and used temporary wooden weapons to stain white and gray, and attacked each other. Sometimes the number of people on both sides was equal and they fought happily, and sometimes the strength was disparate, causing one side to be beaten to the point of being beaten. Qin Lei told the team members that they were tempering their reactions under different circumstances, but gradually they had a clever discovery that every time the side who played the disadvantage was beaten was almost all the teams that were not active in training the day before.

This discovery quickly spread throughout the squadron, so the captains of the team gritted their teeth and shouted at their team members: "If anyone is cheating and cheating, let our entire team be beaten, don't worry, the whole team will beat you up after they come back!"

For a time, the atmosphere in the camp was rising, and no one dared to be sloppy in the training. When each team exclaimed, gritted their teeth and made the training close to actual combat, and from time to time, someone was beaten to get up and the teams began to confront each team. An unscrupulous prince would stand up and comment on each team one by one, point out their shortcomings, and focus on praising their strengths. Then there was a squadron conference meal.

When the moon rose, the fireheads set up grills on the bonfire, skinned the wild game such as the scouts, washed and hung them on them, and brushed the ingredients over and over again. The flesh gradually turned golden, and the oil oozed out, dripping on the fire, stirring the flames, and squirting the saliva of the fighting team members sitting in circles.

When Qin Lei took out two jars of fine wine like a magic trick, the atmosphere suddenly reached its climax. Qin Lei handed Shi Yong a jar, picked up one jar himself, waved his hand to open the mud seal. Shi Yong also followed suit. The team members seemed to smell the mellow fragrance of the wine. He was addicted to his nose and his face was full of intoxication.

Since leaving Shangjing, these people have been sleeping in the open. They have already drunk all their wine. I am afraid they haven't smelled the wine for a month.

Qin Lei raised his hands above his head and shouted, "Drunk together!" After saying that, he raised his head and drank it hurt.

After drinking, he shouted, "Happy!" and passed the wine jar to the first one in the left hand. The team member took the wine jar with an excited look on his face, and also drank it hard, shouting, "Happy."

The team members who were sitting together were a little awkward when they saw the opponent who was fighting hard. But as the wine jar was passed through the hands, they suddenly remembered that everyone was fighting side by side, and they were brothers who could depend on each other for life and death. So they looked at each other with embarrassment and drank the little awkwardness.

Qin Lei saw all this. He and Shi Yong smiled, pulled out their swords and separated them.

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During the training the next day, the team members were in high morale and trained more seriously, but there was no intentional injury, so the atmosphere became much better.

Qin Lei said to Tieying: "It is inevitable to be injured in training, but you must pay attention to controlling your subordinates' emotions and not lay hidden dangers for future conflicts." Tieying bowed and received the teachings.

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Regarding the ninety members of the escort squadron, Qin Lei mainly taught them how to protect important figures, especially His Highness, which is naturally easy to teach. What are outposts, lines, substitutes, covers, and behind-the-scenes, etc., demonstrations and explanations.

He also taught them how to support the combat team at the same time. He also used the method of combat squadrons to fight in groups. Those who performed poorly will be assigned the most unlucky task next time.

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As for the seventy people in the scout squadron, they were not as good as the first two teams. Qin Lei felt that the scouts in this era were weak and he tried his best to train these rookies. Sometimes he hid a few radishes in the camp and ordered them to search for them in teams. If they didn’t find any supper, the supper they saved would be given to the team that found more radishes.

Qin Lei told them that this was to exercise their ability to find clues.

Sometimes they would put some radishes on the top of the mountain ten miles away, then draw some strange pictures, and order them to climb to the top of the mountain in a team, and then turn back. The team members thought that whoever took the radishes first won this time. When a group of people rushed back to get the radishes, Qin Lei announced that all the teams had painted the strange paintings they saw on the top of the mountain below, the radishes were stunned and stared: I did have an impression, because it felt too visually impactful, but I really didn't take it to my heart.

Finally, the team where Hou Xin was in painted five patterns, but although they were all specious, they also won the championship. The average ones were drawn two or three, and the worst ones were not drawn.

Qin Lei said with a stern face: "Rebuke is the measure, and the expectation is the first requirement of the scout, which is to add his own thinking and judgment. Since he finds an abnormality, why not think? Why not write it down? A fool like a cow!" After speaking, he also laughed.

Only then did everyone's hearts dare to thump around. Your Highness, oh no, he called the team members "instructor". Instructors are good at everything, but they are too scary to get angry, and they often make people mistake his age.

Qin Lei did not cancel anyone's supper in the end. After all, there was no rule, but he clearly told the team members that there would be no rules in future tests.

"Instructor, what exactly are you painting?" asked boldly while eating.
Chapter completed!