The smallest establishment of the Ming army was a squad, with a quota of fifteen people. However, the soldiers of the Ming army preferred to call it a shed, because they all ate and stayed in a shed during the training of recruits, hence the name. The squad leader is also known as the shed.

Shi Chen Wuyi is a member of the fifth shed of the third company and six platoons of the 19th battalion of the 3rd division and 7th regiment of the 1st Guards Army. As can be seen from his rank, he is already a veteran of more than four years of service. According to the rank management method of the Ming Army, a private in the first year of service is a recruit without a rank, a third-class soldier in the second year of service, a second-class private in the third year of service, and a first-class private in the fourth year of service.

Ordinary soldiers to the first class are basically considered to be the end, but if they have performed well in the first three years, they can break through the rank of first class and be awarded the rank of corporal. The corporal is also the lowest-ranking officer in the Ming army, and can serve as the deputy head of the first shed. Those who perform well and receive awards for meritorious service in training can be promoted to the next level to become a sergeant and become a canopy.

As for the rank of sergeant, it is difficult for an ordinary soldier to obtain it in peacetime if he has not participated in the war. Therefore, Chen Wuyi was able to become a Shishanmu, which shows that he is already quite good in daily training.

As for Chen Wuyi himself, before joining the army, he was just an ordinary young man in the countryside of Hebei, and he didn't have any eye-catching talents. The reason why he joined the army was purely because his family had many people and few lands, and his father could not afford to send him to the workshop in the city as an apprentice.

In the new barracks, he finally had the first full meal in his life, braised pork with dead noodles. When he ate the first bite of braised pork, he thought in his mind that if he could eat such a meal, this fate would be sold to the emperor. In Chen Wuyi's view, eating other people's food should be managed.

Therefore, no matter how harsh the training program of the boot camp was, he still tried his best to complete it, and did not start playing dead to a certain extent like those smart recruits. The General Staff of the Ming Dynasty itself had only just been established, and when those staff officers formulated their training plans, they were not actually reasonable at the beginning.

At some point, the boot camp became a testing ground for these training programs, and they increased or decreased the amount of exercise based on how well the recruits accepted the training program. Those recruits who are good friends with the officers, after knowing about this, naturally will not try their best to make trouble for themselves.

But for honest people like Chen Wuyi, every time they will use up all the strength of their bodies. In their opinion, it is not a pity to have their strength, and they have recovered after running out of sleep, since the emperor can let them eat and provide them with meat and vegetables from time to time, how can they cheat and play tricks.

As a result, honest people like Chen Wuyi ended up in the best-paid guards, while those smart people in the recruit camp were sent to the garrison. After being educated about this incident, Chen Wuyi believed even more that as long as they honestly followed the rules set by the emperor, they would not suffer a loss.

Chen Wuyi became more and more diligent in his daily training, and his performance was also watched by the officials, and finally walked to the position of the taxi shed step by step. Strange to say, before he joined the army, he was most afraid of the battlefield, so during the days of the new barracks, he prayed almost every night that he had better not be sent to the border army.

But as the days passed, Chen Wuyi suddenly found that he was less than 100 days away from being discharged from the army. It stands to reason that it should have been a joy to be able to spend their time safely in the service. But Chen Wuyi found that he was not happy, but felt empty in his heart.

Because of the army's adequate diet and a lot of physical training, Chen Wuyi not only grew half a head taller before joining the army, but also became well-proportioned and muscular, and he was no longer the skinny rural teenager he was five years ago. In his shed, he was a respected sergeant, and no matter what family the soldiers came from before they enlisted, they were the first to salute and accept his management when they saw him.

As the discharge date approached, Chen Wuyi suddenly became frightened, and after leaving the army, he didn't know what else he could do. Life in the army is actually extremely simple, as long as you train, study, study, and the day passes quickly. But when he returned to his country home, he was going to start to be the son of a tenant as before.

There, he will lose his current identity, and when people see him, they will only contemptuously call him Chen Tenant's family, instead of saluting him, and respectfully call him "Chen Pengmu". In the dead of night, he would think about this future scene and stay awake at night.

Chen Wuyi also quietly asked his officer if he could extend his service period. However, there is nothing the officers can do about it, because now the enlistment and discharge of soldiers are no longer under the jurisdiction of the generals themselves, but are planned by the General Staff in a unified manner.

Even if Chen Wuyi could be left behind by the General Staff, he would be sent to other armies, unless he could be recommended to study at the Army Military Academy and become a real officer. However, the current army military academy is not as good as it was at the beginning.

At that time, the army officer school had just been established, and everyone was reluctant to go, fearing that after leaving the army, their place would be snatched away by others. Therefore, in the early days of the establishment of the Army Military Academy, the recommended quota of the border army became a poor job, which made those low-level officers who had no background complain.

But as the imperial court formed a new army with these military academy graduates as the backbone, the generals of the Ming Army finally realized that the emperor was planning to push the army back again. However, by this time, the climate of the new army had become a success. With the large fortunes made from overseas trade, the emperor had completely reorganized the army in Hebei.

As the most powerful Jiangmen group in Liaoxi was divided and disintegrated by the imperial court, the other Jiangmen groups in the nine sides immediately softened. After the border army of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by the imperial court, the guards in various places had no opinion, after all, they couldn't even beat the militia groups formed at random in the local area.

Since they could not resist the re-training of the army by the imperial court, everyone could only adapt to the rules of the imperial court and send their own people to study at the military academy, so as to rebuild their power under the new system. As a result, the places recommended by various armies to study in military schools were soon monopolized by Jiangmen and the children of the northern gentry.

The improvement of the status of the military made the northern gentry begin to realize that sending those children who had no hope of the imperial examination to study in military academies was also a way out in the future. At least now the Ming merchants want to do business overseas and in the grasslands, and the words of the officials are really not as effective as the words of the officers. Functional lecture teacher protégé, now the officers also have instructor classmates, and everyone is not alone.

Under the eyes of the emperor, the guards certainly want the local army to follow the rules, and they can't leave all the places in the hands of the powerful gentry, but even if these admission places are released, they have to go through layers of selection.

Chen Wuyi had already accepted his fate and was ready to accept the fate of being discharged from the army or transferred abroad. It wasn't until he stood on this battlefield with his shed that he suddenly felt that death was not terrible at all, and facing the same future was the most unbearable for him.

His officer was a very studious officer, and Chen Wuyi once heard the phrase from him, "I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the sun."

Chen Wuyi felt that if he changed this sentence slightly, it would be very in line with his current mood, "I could have succumbed to fate, if I hadn't seen the excitement of this world."

"The world is so big, why can't there be a place for your future? If only war can have a future, then I am willing to dedicate everything I have to it. ”

Chen Wuyi's eyes were firmly fixed on the Qing soldiers who were still trying to stay and assemble, and he methodically commanded the soldiers under his shed to load, raise their guns, advance, and shoot. Those seemingly vicious Qing soldiers fell one after another under his guns and bayonets, until no enemy dared to stand in front of him.

Ming soldiers like Chen Wuyi who want to change their fate are all on this battlefield. Except for the initial engagement, the soldiers were still a little immature, but after one enemy or companion fell beside them. Tens of thousands of movements have been trained on weekdays, like an accurate alarm clock that is moving, and these soldiers move mechanically and orderly.

Turushh had never encountered such an insensitive enemy, and neither the death of an enemy nor the death of a companion could make these Ming soldiers who were like walking corpses stop their movements.

Yes, Turushh prefers to describe these Ming soldiers as the walking dead. Because their actions on the battlefield are completely subordinated to the sound of drums and whistles, without the slightest sense of individuality.

It was the first time he had seen such an army since he joined the army. You must know that the army is also made up of one individual, some people are happy when they hear the battle, and one person dares to rush towards hundreds of thousands of enemies; Some people can only follow the general trend, and our army will advance when it advances, and our army will retreat when it retreats.

However, the army in front of him did not show such humanity. In his opinion, these Ming soldiers on the opposite side were not fighting, but like performing a daily job.

Like an ox that ploughs the field, it moves forward and turns at the shouts of its master, but it does not understand what it is doing.

Turushh gathered his men several times, but was defeated again and again by these unhurried Ming soldiers, and by the end of the day, no one was willing to stop and obey his commands.

Turush, who had no choice but to run towards the rear camp under the protection of two personal guards. At this time, it was less than half an hour before he attacked, and less than half of the team in this formation was organized.

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