Sacrificing the flag and selecting soldiers to fight can be regarded as a common war ceremony in these years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, this is a means to boost morale, clarify the position of the general to the whole army, and let the military decree pass, such as sacrificing the flag is to sacrifice to the gods, using the method of divine protection to boost morale, and it is also the time to officially show the flag of the commander to everyone.

In this day and age, this is also a necessary means of superstition.

If there is a change in the sky during the sacrifice of the flag, such as the clouds and smoke rising, and the light shining on the handsome flag or something, it means that the army has been blessed by God, and the battle will be won.

If there is a sudden strange wind, the flagpole of the handsome flag is blown off, or even the handsome flag is blown away, it is a bad omen, and the morale of the whole army will be shaken, which seems to have happened in the history books, especially in romance novels.

After the sacrifice of the flag, the general is the process of formally appointing the leading general, which requires the general and deputy generals to distribute the general flag to them, so that on the battlefield, the soldiers can follow the general flag to kill and fight.

This time, Zhu Wei sent troops, mainly to give the generals of the army to Pang Yan, Ling Cao, Mu Lan, and Wang Yuyan under his account.

And Mu Lan is the commander of the guards and the deputy general of the rear army auxiliary army around Zhu Wei, and Wang Yuyan has become the chief general of the rear army, in charge of all logistics auxiliaries and various logistics affairs.

And the clan soldiers of the various families in Lingyang County, Zhu Wei only issued a general flag to the county lieutenant of Lingyang County, which was regarded as letting him lead the clan soldiers of these families in Lingyang County, and also reflected the results of the previous discussion in the Yasi of Lingyang County.

As for the Lingyang County Commander, he was instructed to be responsible for the logistics support work, which was regarded as a help for Wang Yuyan, and he still stayed in Lingyang County, delivering supplies to the front line at any time.

The ceremony of sacrificing the flag was also done smoothly.

Although Zhu Wei failed to find a few thorns that could kill chickens and set an example for monkeys to sacrifice the flag, he still slaughtered three animals such as pigs, cows, and sheep to sacrifice the flag, and then officially hung the handsome flag with the word "Wei", and then began to beat drums and count soldiers and distribute flags.

After all the flags were distributed, Zhu Wei began to read out the military law before the battle, but referred to Jiangdong's seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings, the so-called seventeen prohibitions are disobedient to the army, slow army, slack army, formation of the army, light army, bullying army, prostitution army, slandering army, traitorous army, stealing army, probing army, betraying army, ruthless army, chaotic army, deceitful army, cheating army, mistaken army, as for the fifty-four beheadings are too much, I will not describe them in detail here.

Although these military laws are very cumbersome, and it is estimated that few people can know what the seventeen prohibitions and the fifty-four beheadings are, but now Zhu Wei has no choice, his subordinates are all demoted and new pawns, and there is no need to scare them with strict laws, what may happen at any time.

And the seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings in Jiangdong should also be the military law inherited by the Sun family from the soldier saint Sun Wu, so now Zhu Wei can use it for the time being.

Let's start strictly, and of course we have to be more serious when we officially send troops to fight for the first time.

Anyway, every time Zhu Wei said a word, some loud guards around him shouted a word, and it reached the ears of all the soldiers under the city wall like a loudspeaker, so that when they heard the words one by one, their hearts trembled.

After the seventeen prohibitions and the fifty-four beheadings were finished, Zhu Wei could clearly feel the 16,000 or 7,000 people below on the city gate tower, and they all seemed to stand up straight, as if there was an awe-inspiring aura in the sunlight that made the sunlight become trance-like.

After getting these ritual things, Zhu Wei appointed Ling Cao as the vanguard in accordance with the strategy he had already discussed with Wang Yuyan, and set off with 2,000 soldiers first, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, exploring the way for Zhu Wei's army to meet the enemy.

So Ling Cao replied loudly "No" under the city wall, and then waved the flag and commanded two thousand soldiers, walked to the temporary military camp, brought all kinds of materials that had been prepared, and took the lead in sending troops.

Then Zhu Wei instructed Pang Yan to lead the remaining 6,000 soldiers on Zhu Wei's side as the left wing, and the county lieutenant of Lingyang County commanded the 6,000 soldiers of the Lingyang County Private Coalition Army as the right wing, and also returned to the camp to carry the corresponding supplies and send troops.

Pang Yan and the county lieutenant of Nalingyang County also promised a "promise" under the city, and then they also waved their flags and led the troops to leave under the city wall.

Then Zhu Wei assigned Wang Yuyan to also go down to lead the rear army composed of all the auxiliaries to prepare for the troops, Wang Yuyan agreed and took the lead in getting down the city gate, waving the flag to take away the more than 5,000 auxiliaries transporting logistics materials and more than 1,000 soldiers pushing tiger carts.

In the end, on the city gate tower of Lingyang County, there were about 1,000 guards led by Zhu Wei and Mu Lan.

Zhu Wei took Mu Lan down the city gate, found the Lu County Order of Lingyang County, and gave him a few instructions, asking him to lead the county soldiers of Lingyang County to guard Lingyang County or something, and then took his own personal guards, holding high Zhu Wei's "Wei" character handsome flag, and went to the temporary coalition army camp outside Lingyang County.

Of course, at this moment, a group of soldiers in this coalition camp have also marched in a neat line, along the official road to the east of Lingyang County, and the army officially set off to meet Zulang's Shanyue thief army.

More than 10,000 people marched forward in turn, and the relatively neat military formation queue also made the common people of Lingyang County feel a lot more relieved.

However, although Zhu Wei has officially sent troops, there is no official news about where the Zulang Shanyue thief soldiers he is going to face are.

Although Zhu Wei knew through various information channels that there were at least 40,000 or 50,000 Shanyue thieves who Zu Lang initially dispatched, of which at least 16,000 or 7,000 Shanyue thieves were the elite of Shanyue under Zu Lang's account, and the other 30,000 or so were composed of large and small Shanyue thieves who followed Zu Lang.

And Zu Lang came all the way from Jing County to Lingyang County, and he also raided all the way, so many villages have been attacked by Zu Lang's Shanyue thief soldiers, and the people in the village were coerced by Zu Lang as rebels, and most of the rich families in the village were also looted.

Judging by the latest news, Zulang's troops seem to have reached as many as 60,000, and the Zulang Shanyue thief soldiers, who are closest to Lingyang County, may arrive in about a day's journey.

However, Zu Lang, as a Shanyue thief army, did not directly kill these tens of thousands of people along the official road to Lingyang County.

Many times, Zulang's army seems to have hidden traces over the mountains, so to discover their movements, sometimes there is a bit of an afterthought.

Even if the local families in Lingyang County searched for the whereabouts of the Zulang Mountain Yue Thief Army through various connections, it was not so easy to get accurate information.

Zulang's army is huge, and it seems that the army began to divide not long after it was dispatched, so it is difficult to know where Zulang's main army is......