Before the army sets out, it is necessary to hold sacrifices to the sky, temples, military gods, military flags, oaths, and punishments. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Worship to the heavens is to inform the heavens about the conquest, indicating that they are doing the right thing for the heavens; Sue Temple is in the Taimiao, which means that it is ordered by the ancestors; The god of war refers to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor; The Ming Dynasty is to reaffirm the military law, and the main military law of the Ming Dynasty is to follow the "Seventeen Prohibitions" of the previous dynasty, of which each prohibits three articles, a total of 54 beheadings.

The Son of Heaven has six armies, the implementation of the system of six Xu, the Ming Dynasty specially built the Qixu Temple often worshipped, the gods worshiped in the temple have the flag head general, the six great gods, the god of the five flags, the god of the main warship, the god of the golden drum and horn gun, the god of the bow and crossbow flying spear flying stone, the god of the front and back of the battle, the five rampant gods and so on.

Before the sacrificial military flag is set off, killing and smearing the military flag and war drums with blood is called provocation. Usually deserters and prisoners of war are used, and today, the person killed is Yang Hao.

Finally, hundreds of civil and military officials arrived at the Dajiao Stadium located outside the Desheng Gate within an hour. The whole six-kilometer journey was all on foot, and the young ones were good to say, such as Fang Congzhe and the others were already in their seventies, and they were about to collapse after walking, and they were squatting in the corner of the west side of the wall at the moment, panting.

Yu Qiyuan, the secretary of Honglu Temple, presided over the sacrifice to the sky, slaughtered dozens of cattle and sheep, boiled them in white water, handed them over to the soldiers to share the food, and before the sacrifice of the flag, he should swear an oath to explain the reason and purpose of the army, so that the officers and soldiers know what they are fighting for.

Ye Xiang was originally going to have someone concoct a text, but when he found that this was not the first time he had sent troops, he wrote an edict with the help of the celebrant and ordered the official of Honglu Temple to read it.

Honglu Temple officials have a loud voice, although they can't let tens of thousands of soldiers hear all the clearly, but the courtiers near Dianjiangtai are clear, "I admire the mandate of heaven, follow the ancestor Hongtu, since Jiannu Nur Hachi called the chaos, more than five years, Jiannu was originally a Ming courtier, with the unwarranted seven hatred and thieves to make Liaozuo poison millions of creatures, ravaging the border for hundreds of miles, the realm, my people, Er and other brothers and sisters were plundered as slaves, the situation is unbearable, the cattle and sheep of my people are also plundered by them, so that they are full of food and drink and then kill my people, Is it tolerable or intolerable...... Today, all the soldiers will be sent to fight the thieves on their behalf, and they must march forward when they hear the drums, retreat with gold, and kill the enemy with all their might. Waiting for the master to play Kai, I will welcome the suburbs, and the meritorious promotion will be rewarded, and the special message will be given. ”

After reading the edict, Yu Qiyuan instructed according to the process, "Where is General Jinyiwei?" Yang Hao, the general of the defeated army. ”

General Jinyiwei is the captain of the Standing Palace, because he often serves the Son of Heaven and is specially organized as a general camp. The selection requirements for the generals are the same as those of the honor guards of the three armed forces in later generations, and height is the first factor, and now they are required to be more than five feet three inches (166 cm).

The prisoner car where Yang Ho was held entered through the West Gate, and his hair and beard were neatly combed on the prisoner car, and his face was red. The prison clothes are not messy at all, it seems that he is doing well in prison, and it is no wonder that he is a member of one party, and he is a fellow party of the first assistant, so the treatment is not bad. He was escorted by General Jinyiwei from the prisoner car to the point of being on the torture platform, turned around, and knelt down to the position of the Son of Heaven to salute the monarch and ministers, which was very dignified.

Ye Xiang sat on the throne and looked at Yang Hao, who was also in his seventies, and he didn't have any taste in his heart, he had no personal enmity with him, this can be regarded as avenging the tens of thousands of soldiers who were buried in other places, and he was only blamed for being born in the wrong era.

When Yu Qiyuan stepped forward to ask for instructions, Zhang Weixian came up again, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, let's change someone." ”

Ye Xiang shook his head, "You have no jokes." Then he said to Yu Qiyuan, "Let's start." ”

"Execution." "Click......" "Ah~~" "Provocation." ”

Yang Hao's head fell to the ground, and he rolled under the stage with a grunt, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were close to the execution platform saw blood spurting out from Yang Hao's bare neck, which was the blood of the neck artery. These soldiers ranged from twenty to forty, perhaps they had never seen real killings, and some of them were guilty, and the formation was a little chaotic all of a sudden.

Although Zhu Guoliang quickly cleaned up the formation as usual, Ye Xiang was still very uneasy, and suddenly didn't know if his decision was correct.

"Guogong, you say, rely on these people, okay?"

Zhang Weixian knew what Ye Xiang was worried about, after all, the Shenji Battalion had been fighting for a long time, and the pretense of the Jingshi Garrison was okay in normal times, and if he really wanted to see blood, he would reveal his original form. Zhang Weixian also knew that not all of these soldiers were from the Shenji Battalion, but some were drawn from the Shenshu Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion, because the Shenji Battalion, like other guards, had the phenomenon of empty salaries, old and weak, sick and disabled.

Zhang Weixian didn't dare to tell the truth, but said with relief, "Your Majesty, I'm too worried." These soldiers are firearms soldiers, and they will neither fight face-to-face nor go into battle, and if it were a saber team, such a situation would definitely not occur. After they arrived in Liaodong, they participated in several major battles, and only after seeing blood did they become real soldiers. The minister has led the troops for many years, and he is sure of it. ”

"Really?" Ye Xiang's gaze moved away from Zhang Weixian and looked at those soldiers, "Hey, if it weren't for me, I would never let them go into battle in a hurry, I hope they won't let me down." ”

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North Zhili, Cangzhou of Hejian Province because of its canal north to Zhili, south to Qilu, and so that merchants gathered. It has become very prosperous because the ships and merchant ships that transport grain from the south have many docks, so there are tea houses, pharmacies, pot markets, cloth shops, wine shops, grain inns, hotels and other shops on the shore to serve passing merchants.

Cangzhou wharf is famous, at this time it is nearly noon, only to see the canal on the high mast penny forest, although the size of the ship is messy, but not congested.

On a passenger ship about three feet long, Feng walked to the cabin with his son Sun Shirui in his arms, and suggested to Sun Chuanting, who was sitting around the square table, while shaking. "Xianggong, the three of you have talked all the way, and you have all arrived in Cangzhou, and you will not go down to the activities to see the customs and customs of the north?"

"Have you arrived in Cangzhou? Brother and sister don't say, we don't know, it seems that we will be able to arrive in Beijing in a few days. It was a middle-aged man who spoke with a Jiangnan accent.

"So fast? Brother and sister, don't be fooled. A man in his thirties looked incredulous, "Didn't you just pass Linqing two days ago?" ”

Sun Chuanting got up, teased his eldest son, and said to the other two, "Brother Ke, Brother Zhenzhi, since we have arrived in Cangzhou, we will also get off the boat to drink two cups, and move our muscles and bones. ”

The middle-aged man known as Youke got up with a smile when he heard this, "You better accompany your younger brother and sister for a walk, and I can walk around with Brother Zhenzhi." ”

Zhenzhi, who was in his thirties, also got up and said to Feng, "My brother and sister can't help it, these days I have been pulling Brother Baigu around, but I forgot that my nephew is still in infancy, and I hope to forgive my sins if I disturb a lot." Brother Youke and I will no longer disturb the two Yaxing, you will be. ”

Sun Chuanting saw that the two people who were older than him insisted, so he said goodbye temporarily, took his wife and his entourage off the boat, and did not mention it.

The remaining two are Wu Youxing and Xu Hongzu, Wu Youxing met Sun Chuanting in Liujiatun in Yuncheng, Shandong, and Xu Hongzu was on the boat in Linqing.

Wearing a robe with narrow sleeves and a gray cloth on his feet is Wu Youxing, a native of Dongshan, Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, and is now eight years Chinese New Year's Eve old. Because of his wandering medical practice, he looks a little old. I saw that he was of medium height, and the skin on his face was a little rough because of the perennial weather, but his eyes were sharp, his nose was full, and his eyebrows were sparse and neat.

Wearing a square scarf next to him, wearing a green cloth with a collar and a straight neck, a cloth bag at his waist and straw shoes on his feet, Xu Hongzu, a native of Jiangyin, Nanzhili, is now Chinese New Year's Eve three years old. He is half a head taller than Wu Youxing, and his eyebrows are thicker, because he is young, the beard that came out looks messy, and he also has a very famous name, called Xia Ke.

Xu Hongzu said that in Sun Chuanting's boat, because he visited many famous mountains in the north over the years, when he heard that Emperor Taichang died, the new monarch was eager to seek people who understand geography, he impulsively picked up his luggage and went north, in Linqing is only to find that he can not take the feng shui at all, so he dispelled the idea.

But coincidentally, Xu Hongzu, who had been sleeping in the open air, met Sun Chuanting and others when he went to the wine shop to buy wine to satisfy his hunger, and everyone was of the same age, so they quickly chatted together. In the end, under the instigation of Sun Chuanting, he decided to try his luck with the two of them going north.