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"Xu Xingxia, killed seven Tartars? He alone killed seven Tartars? Also killed the centurion of the Tartars? Not long after, Peng Feng's loud voice came again. The people around immediately subconsciously looked for someone named Xu Xingxia. As a result, the eyes of the Niu Jiaodun soldiers naturally fell on Xu Xingxia's body. The eyes of everyone else naturally fell on Xu Xingxia.

"Is that him?"

"Killed seven Tartars?"

"And the centurion who killed the Tartars?"

Every Ming officer and soldier who saw Xu Xingxia felt a little incredible. Xu Xingxia's appearance doesn't look special. He was neither the strongest nor the strongest. His appearance has few distinguishing features. However, it was such a man who shot seven Tartars! Centurions of Tartars are also included! If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would have thought it was a fantasy!

How powerful was the centurion of the Tatar cavalry? Those Ming officers and soldiers who had combat experience were well aware. Among the nomads, the centurion is definitely a first-class warrior. Whether it is hand-to-hand combat at close range or mid-to-long-distance mounted archery, it is the best. Those who can be centurions are all experienced figures, and their hands must be stained with the blood of the Han people. It's a bit difficult to kill one of the centurions of the Tartars.

Liu Guangliang's expression was more like eating a big duck egg. His own nephew actually killed seven Tartars? Also included a Tartar centurion? God, he thought he would only kill one or two at most, but he didn't expect it to be seven! Seven Tartars, that must be promoted and rich.

Zhang Qiuqing, Wang Shoulu and others, of course, were also surprised, but also a little unconvinced. For Xu Xingxia, they basically have no impression. They only knew that Xu Xingxia was an inconspicuous pawn before, nothing special. I never imagined that such an inconspicuous pawn would make such a feat.

The two of them were supposed to be stationed in Weizhen Fort, but the two of them felt that Weizhen Fort was not safe, and when there was nothing to do, they would rather live in Pingyu City. Xu Xingxia hunted red deer yesterday, and they didn't know about it yet. However, even if they knew about the red deer, they would still feel quite surprised.

After all, the Tatar cavalry is not a red deer, it is much more ferocious than a red deer. They all knew very well that in the last hundred years of the history of Ningxia Town, they had not heard of who killed seven Tartars in one go? That's the Tartar, the most ferocious enemy, more ferocious than the leopard on Helan Mountain. It's not easy to kill one, let alone seven? If it were reversed, it would be normal for a Tartar to kill seven soldiers like Xu Xingxia.

What's even worse is that almost all of these soldiers have military exploits. Even Chen Hai killed three! Even the most useless soldier had a Tartar's head in his hand. Could it be that this year's tartars have become muddy? With a slight touch, the Tatar cavalry will fall to the ground, with all fours facing the sky, and cry for their lives? Today's sun is really coming out of the west!

"!"

Someone shouted.

Peng Feng's face changed slightly.

He didn't need to make any movements, he knew who was speaking.

This bastard guy has always been like this, and he doesn't give himself face at all.

The person who spoke was called Wu Datou. The specific name, no one knows. He was originally a bandit, and he was also well-known in Helan Mountain, but later he was surrounded and suppressed by the official army, and he had no way out, so he had to take refuge in the official army. The strange thing is that after defecting to the official army, he and his subordinates and horse thieves actually turned into soldiers in Ningxia Town. He himself was constantly promoted, and eventually became the garrison of Pingyu City.

In terms of official position, as a garrison, Wu Datou should be one level higher than Peng Feng, who is only a thousand households. The garrison is generally the fourth grade, and the thousand households are generally the fifth grade. However, because the two are in different systems, the relationship between the rights and responsibilities of the two parties must be unclear. If Peng Feng doesn't buy Wu Datou's account, it's completely fine.

The army of the Ming Dynasty has always had two different systems, one is the army and the other is the soldier. The army is a military household, which is hereditary, and the so-called father dies and the son succeeds to the other. Soldiers are soldiers, they are recruited, and the so-called soldiers eat food.

The army has its own fields, and mainly relies on cultivating the fields to maintain its own livelihood, and has to prepare its own weapons, equipment, clothing, shoes and socks, and even forage. The entire family of the military belongs to the military household and cannot be left of the country. The early armies of the Ming Kingdom were all armies. This is not the case with soldiers, who are recruited from free households. All their supplies are distributed by the state. The famous Qi family army is a soldier.

Previously, the defense force of the Ming Dynasty was mainly an army, and the number of soldiers was scarce. Later, the system of guards was gradually abolished, and military households became less and less effective, and more and more unable to undertake combat tasks, so the state had to increase the number of recruits. After Jiajing, the main combat force of the Ming army has become a soldier. In the main strategic points, a considerable number of soldiers were stationed. As one of the important towns on the nine sides, Ningxia Town has more than 10,000 soldiers.

In Pingyu City, there were 500 soldiers stationed, which were directly under the command of Li Guozhen, the chief military officer of Ningxia Town. In fact, it is said that there are 500 soldiers, but in fact there are less than 300, and almost half of them are empty. In the army of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a soldier or an army, the situation of eating empty quotas was equally serious. Rao is like this, as soldiers, half of their food and salary, at most two or three months in arrears, can be paid.

The equipment of the soldiers is also much better than that of the military households. The advanced equipment distributed from above must have been distributed to the soldiers first. Other weapons aside, in terms of firecrackers. Weapons such as the Flying Birds, Thunderbolts, and Three-Eyed Guns used by the soldiers were of much better quality than the beaks used by the soldiers. The firecrackers of the soldiers are all equipped with helmets and cotton armor, and their protective ability is much better than Liu Guangliang's thin military uniform.

It is not false at all that people are more angry than people. Generally speaking, the equipment, quality, training, and morale of the soldiers are much stronger than those of the military households, and they mainly rely on the soldiers when they go into battle to kill the enemy. This also made the soldiers feel that they were the boss of the military town and the main force of the military town. In this way, it is natural to look down on most of the military households.

For the military households, of course, they do not like to see the presence of soldiers. Why? The food and salary that should have been distributed to the military households were all cut off by the soldiers, can the military households be happy? Besides, the existence of soldiers is a kind of surveillance of military households. If the soldiers want to make trouble, the soldiers will suppress them. No one wants a sword hanging from their head, right? With such an idea, conflicts between military households and soldiers are naturally inevitable.

Wu Datou relied on himself as the commander of the soldiers, and he always looked down on the military households in the guard. Naturally, even Peng Feng is not in his eyes. In fact, the military family really has no reason for him to look down on it. If a military household wants to be equipped or not, if it wants to train without training, and if it can't even eat, where will the combat effectiveness come from? In Wu Datou's view, the army is purely for the soldiers. If he is transferred, he will feel very uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, the appearance of Xu Xingxia is showing such signs. Niu Jiaodun's exploits brought Peng Feng naturally full of joy. However, it is a great threat to Wu Datou. None of the soldiers under his command have created such feats, and the military households under Peng Feng can kill so many Tartars, which makes him embarrassed? If this matter is widely publicized, won't the status of military households be raised?

After Peng Feng was happy, he was also a little unconvinced. A soldier of a military household killed seven Tartars, no matter how you look at it, it seems like a fantasy. He slowly calmed down his thoughts, and said with a solemn expression: "Chen Hai, you made it clear, this military household named Xu Xingxia did kill seven Tartars?" Or was it killed by one person alone? ”

Chen Hai avoided Wu Datou's gaze, nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes." ”

Peng Feng couldn't help but take a soft breath. At this time, it is absolutely impossible for Peng Feng to tell a lie. He was keenly aware that, perhaps, his own time had come. Well, to be precise, it is the fate of the military household, and it may have to come and go. In the military household of the guard, there is actually such a heroic figure, he is not good to show off in front of Wu Datou, how can he be worthy of Wu Datou's previous arrogance?

"Call Xu Xingxia over." Peng Feng pretended to be reserved and ordered.

"Xu Xingxia, come here." Chen Hai immediately turned around and shouted loudly.

Xu Xingxia came steadily in front of the superiors and bowed. The military salute of the Ming army only needs to bend down. If it's on a real battlefield, you don't even need to bend over, you just need to straighten your body. It is only when the emperor is in audience that he needs to kneel. This point is very different from the later Qing army. The Manchu Qing Dynasty has to kneel at every turn, and he has to call himself a slave, which is indeed very depressing.

Wu Datou looked Xu Xingxia up and down, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily showed a hint of a teasing smile. With Xu Xingxia's stature, it is a joke to be able to kill seven Tartars. These guys in the guard don't know where they got the Tartar corpses, pretending to be war exploits. Wei Suo played such a trick, obviously aimed at his soldiers. However, he didn't say anything, but said with a somewhat gloomy face: "You are Xu Xingxia?" ”

Xu Xingxia straightened his body and said without squinting: "Lord Hui, the contemptible person is Xu Xingxia." ”

This answer is very interesting. He did not call himself a lowly position, nor did he call himself a subordinate, but used a contemptible person. This is obviously to show Wu Datou that I have nothing to do with you. In fact, Xu Xingxia and Wu Datou do not have a single hair relationship. He is a military household, and he and the soldier are two different systems.

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