About half a year after joining the Yin Army, I finally had the opportunity to participate in the assignment.

After the night tour, the army has just been reorganized, and most of them are recruits, and in addition to training, they are on duty in various key parts of the prefecture every day, such as the Ghost Gate Pass, the various ministries and departments, and the Yama Palace. But this is obviously not the original intention of the prefecture to spend a huge amount of money to maintain such a large military force, and the dispatch mission is the key to testing the strength of the Yin army.

In general, there are three main parts of the Yin Army's assignment tasks: exterminating ghost bandits, searching for ghost troops, and deterring disobedient Yin City.

The underworld is not very peaceful, although the underworld and the various underworld cities have collected and controlled most of the ghosts in the underworld, but there are inevitably some omissions. Many brutal ghosts scattered in underground caves and dangerous places often collude with bandits, block roads and loot, kill people and steal goods, and pose a serious threat to trade routes.

Although the existence of these ghost bandits is not strong enough to directly confront and impact the underworld or the Yin Cities in various places, once commercial trade is blocked, it will lead to a sharp drop in tax revenue, and it is possible that wages and military salaries will not be paid in the tax revenue, thus greatly weakening the ruling foundation of the major Yin cultivation forces. As a result, these ghost bandits have become a disease of moss, and it is not okay to let them go unchecked, and they will have to be eliminated after a long time.

Yin cities with strong military strength, such as Zuoqiu City, are fully capable of organizing city guards to clear out the ghost bandits who are frequently active in the surrounding area. But there are still some small yin cities, which can protect themselves, but they are powerless to pursue them. At this time, they often turn to the Great Yin City or the Underworld. Of course, this kind of help is certainly not free, not to mention the private benefit transaction, at least the military expenses of the troops will be reimbursed.

As for the ghost army, it's much more threatening than the ghost bandits!

The Ghost Army was created and led by the Ghost Marshal with the aim of subverting the rule of the underworld and completely changing the relationship between ghosts and humans. You must know that the existence of the underworld ensures the absolute suppression and management of the many ghosts in the underworld. To put it simply, the ** in the yang world is in charge of the living, and the yin in the underworld is in charge of the dead, not only buried, but also reincarnated.

And the ghost army is equivalent to the rebel army of the "ruled class" in the underworld, which is definitely not as simple as the ghost bandits. Their ultimate goal is to even take the life of King Yama!

Therefore, if the ghost bandits are just a disease of moss, then the ghost army is a malignant tumor. The Yin army has no room for the search and suppression of the ghost army, once the trace of the ghost army is found, it will definitely send troops to attack, and it will not die!

The nature of the last assignment is somewhat ambiguous.

Originally, the underworld was supposed to be the only political organization in the underworld, but in fact, the management capacity of the underworld was also limited. Such a big underworld, so many ghosts, it alone can't manage it. As a result, Yin City was born.

Some of the rulers of Yin City were originally born in the underworld, such as Zuoqiu Maoming in Zuoqiu City. Even if this kind of Yin City had a feud with the underworld at the beginning, it was all separated from the family after all, and the relationship slowly normalized later. The prefecture is generally based on Zhao'an for such a yin city, and it is forced to pay tribute every year by signing an agreement, nominally being a vassal, which will not affect the "suzerain" status of the prefecture.

There is also a small part of Yin City, which belongs to the grass head team, occupying the mountain as the king, and does not necessarily put the underworld in his eyes. However, this kind of Yin City is generally not large, or far away from the underworld, or located in a secret realm, and it is not easy to conquer. At this time, it depends on the mood of King Yama. He said that if he fights, he will be punished even if he is far away; He said there was no need to fight, so he opened his eyes and closed his eyes and let it go.

Therefore, to sum up, the underworld must always have a strong enough military force to maintain a deterrent effect on these large and small Yin Cities, and knock them off from time to time. Otherwise, there will be some "little brothers" who are not long-sighted and want to seek a position, and maybe one day they will ride on the head of the "big brother".

To get back to the point, half a year after the establishment of our night tour army, we finally received the first assignment, which was to set off to the vicinity of Spade Town to exterminate a group of ghost bandits.

The town of spades is a small underworld city known for producing a variety of fruits with the characteristics of the underworld, the most famous of which is spades. This fruit, which resembles a peach, is juicy and sweet and full of yin energy, and is one of the favorite fruits of yin cultivation. The skin of spades is pure black, and most of them are grown in the subterranean plains near the town of spades. Therefore, the town simply named its Yin City after "Spades".

I've been to the town of spades before and know that the spades are still a month away from the ripening season. At this time of year, many caravans would travel from all over the country to the town of spades to prepare to buy spades. Therefore, the spade harvest season is crucial for the town of spades, and it is said that nearly half of the annual revenue depends on the harvest and sales of this season.

But this year is different, since the beginning of the year, there has been a group of ghost bandits entrenched in the valley outside the town of spades, often coming out to rob passing caravans. And they are growing rapidly, and the number of bandits has increased dramatically. The town of Spades also sent troops on its own to fight several times, but they were all defeated and retreated due to lack of troops.

Seeing that the harvest season of spades is approaching, there are still very few caravans from all over the country to buy them. The mayor of Spades was in a hurry, so he had to send an envoy to the underworld with tribute urgently to ask for help. After accepting the tribute, the king of Yama finally nodded and agreed to send troops to help.

According to the town of spades, the number of the ghost bandits was about a thousand. Based on this, the king of Yama believed that sending an equal number of Yin troops would be enough to exterminate him, so he abandoned the task of suppressing bandits to the night tour rear army, which had just been established for half a year. This can be regarded as an opportunity for our new army to be trained in real combat!

After receiving the order to go on the expedition, Gan Sheng immediately called a meeting of all the lieutenants under his command and read out to us the will of the king of Yama. His face was flushed, and he couldn't hide the smugness on his face. He said: "This dispatch to suppress bandits is the first expedition of our army after the night tour. And the opponent is not strong, which is a good opportunity for us to make contributions. You must obey the order and make meritorious achievements, and I will naturally not treat you badly! ”

"Yes! We will definitely go all out and listen to General Gan's dispatch! Several lieutenants replied in unison.

Gan Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and then handed a token to Wang Song, and explained to him: "Captain Wang, this is a token issued by Marshal Night Tour. You hurry up and take people to the military headquarters to receive heavy grain, grass and military supplies, and you must be fully prepared and must not leave anything out! ”

"Order!" Wang Song replied with a fist.

"Gao Jia!" Gan Sheng turned to Gao Jia, the captain of the third battalion, who was in command of the Green Arrow Battalion.

"The last general!" Gao Jia hurriedly replied.

"You go with Wang Song, get some more arrows back, and make sure that there are enough for the third and fourth battalions. If you dare to complain to me about the lack of arrows in wartime, I will remove you from your post first!" ”

"The last general understands!"

"Shen Turen!"

"In! What did General Gan command? As soon as Shen Turen heard Gan Sheng call his name, it was rare to be serious.

"Before you set out, you must feed all the Cerberus, and if there are old, weak or sick dogs, you must take them to the kennel in time to change." Gan Sheng pointed at Wang Song again and said, "If the kennel refuses to change, let Wang Song go with you with the token!" ”

"Great! No problem! Ha ha! Shen Turen grinned excitedly.

Gan Sheng looked at the others, and finally said, "The other battalions are responsible for urging the soldiers of the battalion to pack their backpacks and receive weapons. In addition, add dinner tonight, let them eat and sleep well, and gather troops after the ghost gate is closed early tomorrow morning. Make no mistake! Otherwise, it will be dealt with by military order! ”

"Yes! Checkmate! ”

When the battalions were given the order to go on the march, they returned to their respective camps to reorganize their men. The 8th Battalion, which I commanded, had always been disciplined, and every soldier moved quickly after the order was passed down from level to level. I looked at the scene in the camp with satisfaction, busy but not chaotic, and said in my heart: "It's not a shame that I have bothered to bring it for so many months, and the military heart is available!" ”

Most of these recruits have not experienced the test of war before, and they do not know much about the cruelty of the battlefield, but they are quite fresh. I have experienced the life-and-death battle of Zuoqiu Chengzechao, and naturally understand that as long as there is a war, people will die. But as an officer, it is impossible to pour cold water on his subordinates at this time and hurt morale. On the contrary, I had to encourage them before the war to boost their morale. This is also what Gan Sheng did at the officer preparation meeting.

All in all, the soldiers quickly packed their backpacks, ate and went to bed early, waiting for the next morning to go out for battle. You don't have to go into details.

Since the Yin army was a standing army, and a thousand people were not a large army, they were often pulled out to practice martial arts and drills in nearby caves, so the preparations were all completed before that night. On the second day, all the officers and men of the night tour army were assembled on time in the square behind the ghost gate.

Gan Sheng then began to count troops battalion by battalion. He is an old general, and he has long been familiar with the matter of leading troops to fight. The main purpose of counting the troops is to count the number of troops and check whether the equipment and materials of each battalion are complete, and at the same time, to test the mental outlook of the troops in this way.

According to Gan Sheng's formation, the second battalion led by Shen Turen walked in the forefront as the vanguard battalion, responsible for exploring the road and reconnoitring the enemy situation ahead. The fifth, sixth, and seventh battalions were the front army, ready for battle at any time. Subsequently, Gao Jia's third battalion and another fourth battalion of the archery battalion sandwiched the first battalion led by Gan Sheng in the middle of the team to form the Chinese army. The remaining 8th and 9th battalions and the baggage battalion were the rear army.

I don't know how Gan Sheng thought about it, but he actually arranged for my eighth battalion to be dragged to the end, responsible for protecting the baggage battalion. I used to be in charge of breaking the queen when I was a dart master in the caravan, but I didn't expect to join the Yin Army and do my old job again.

Alas, can't I escape the role of being the tail soldier in my life?