Last time, I talked about the Zhou army and the villagers being conscripted to serve in the "fort", and because of the anti-thief rebellion, the imperial court had no soldiers to adjust, so the "military household" of the guard station was requisitioned.

According to the Ming Dynasty's "guard system", the "thousand households" consisted of 1,120 sergeants and 10 "hundred households" under its jurisdiction. At the same time, the official positions of "Thousand Households" are: "Zheng Qianhu" (Zheng Wupin), "Deputy Thousand Households" (from Wupin), and "Suppressed Fu" (from Liupin).

The Ming Dynasty's "Hundred Households" consisted of 112 sergeants, with 2 "General Banners" under its jurisdiction. Among them, the chief of the "Hundred Households" is the sixth product. There are 2 "general flags" under the "100 households", and the "general flags" have no grades, but there are 5 "small flags" under each "general flag". "Xiaoqi" is equivalent to "squad leader", and there is no grade.

In this way, Zhou Jun and the villagers were checked with the "roster" by the Wei chief officers in the order of first-come, first-served, and then arranged in different "small flags" to participate in military training after drawing lots, but it is a pity that they didn't even meet a single hair small, all of them were fellow villagers from other villages.

For the teenagers, the military training in the guard station was boring, and they did not let the dancing knives make the guns at all, let alone control the firearms to shoot, except for holding long wooden sticks to make "spears" all day long, holding thick wooden boards as "shields", demonstrating the battle formation according to the queue, stabbing back and forth, and roaring loudly, all that was left was to lift the stone lock.

The stone lock is specially used to train the strength of soldiers, because in ancient times, cold weapons were still used in wars, and the most needed was explosive power and endurance.

According to legend, the "stone lock" first came from the military camp during the Tang Dynasty, and it was a physical training program specially set up to train "Mo knife hands", after all, each Mo knife weighed dozens of pounds! Later, the military camps of all dynasties followed the "stone lock". In the late Ming Dynasty, this was still the case.

However, compared with the previous dynasties, the training items and training standards of the Ming Dynasty army in later generations have specific reference figures.

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict ordering the "Zhongshu Province", "Dadu Governor's Mansion", "Yushitai", and "Six Divisions" to discuss the law of coaching and sergeants: "The cavalry must be good at shooting guns and knives, and the infantry must be good at bows and crossbows." Shoot half of the twelve arrows, far away, close to the middle range.

Far away, it will be 160 steps and 20 steps for sergeants; Fifty steps. The crossbow is five out of twelve arrows, far away, eighty paces of stretching, one hundred and fifty steps of rowing; Approaching the middle, 40 steps of stretching, 60 steps of rowing.

The gun must be familiarized. In the Jingwei Institute, with 5,000 people as the rate, take one of the five, and command the following officials to go to the imperial examination, and the rest will be examined.

In the outer capital, there are 5,000 people in each guard, and one of the five is taken, and the officials below 1,000 households go to Beijing for testing. The rest of the try. The sergeants are good at foot and horse, and the generals are rewarded for their ability, otherwise they will be punished. The sergeant gave six hundred dollars for the Daoli fee.

The generals from the commander and below, the sergeants under their command who do not score three to six points will be awarded the next prize; If the score is more than seven, the second officer will be demoted to the end of the army. All command sergeants who fail to score more than four points will be given a year's salary; More than six points are dismissed. ”

Even if there were regulations above, that was more than 200 years ago, because now the number of "military households" in the "guard posts" in various places has decreased sharply, and if you want to recruit full soldiers, you have to arrest Dinnrav. Moreover, the soldiers often can't even eat enough, how can they have the strength to accompany the officers and men above to toss around?

Therefore, after half a month of hasty training, these so-called "elite soldiers" who could barely hold hoes and line up in formation were taken by the "officers of the guard station" to the "capital commanders" for review. After each person is issued a set of equipment, they will exchange wooden sticks for spears and spears, bamboo strips for swords and knives, and they can go on the expedition!

"Uncle brothers, let's set off like this? Don't you say goodbye to your family? I also have an old lady and a three-year-old sister at home. ”

After getting along for half a month, Zhou Jun and his comrades-in-arms in the same team eat, live and train together, and they can basically get acquainted.

"Eh, young man/big brother, what are you talking about? As a 'military household', our heads are pinned to the waistband of our trousers, and they can be taken off at any time! ”

"But you have to meet your parents, uncles, brothers, sisters, and concubines. At least there has to be an explanation, in case ......"

"Confess the fart! No in case! ", "Yes, yes, death is death", "The eldest brother died in battle, the younger brother is on top, there are no brothers, and there are neighbors!" ”

"Huh...... How good would it be if this battle was fought without dying? I can go home again to marry a wife and have a baby, and the stupid girl in the village is very fat and strong! ”

"Fat and strong? That's talking about pigs, cows, sheep, horses, and other animals, right? Could it be that your family is too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, so you use livestock to sleep with? ”

"Yo yo yo, no women, animals? Haha/quack...... "While the team was bored on the way, a group of people joked with each other to have fun.

"Woo, I also want to sleep with a woman, but my family can't afford to marry, if I die in battle this time, our family will be cut off from incense, and we will become a lonely ghost."

"Hey, hey, don't say those unlucky words! What is dead or alive? We haven't started the battle yet, and it's someone else who died, hum! ”

"Woo, how can there be immortals in war? Aren't all the folks who went to take the lead half a year ago? Even my uncle is dead! ”

"Eh, I said you are not annoying? We poor people fight to die when we fight! If you don't want to die, then you should become a deserter and escape from pursuit? ”

"As a deserter? That's going to be killed? Family and neighbors will be sat together! No, no, no, you can't run away, you might as well die by yourself. ”

"Dead and dead? Talking about death all day long? It's all annoying! Can't we just say 'die'? Say 'live'! Only if you can't kill can you survive, hum! ”

"Kill or not? Hey, the skull got a donkey's hoof? Do you think you're a 'god'? Can you fly away? Can you call the wind and rain? Can it come back to life? ”

"Hey, hey, don't fight, it's annoying! What kind of gods are there in this world? There are a lot of demons and monsters, who specialize in bullying our people! ”

"Who says there are no 'gods'? When Lao Tzu was a child, he went into the mountains to collect medicine, and he once saw an old Taoist priest flying over the edge of the cliff with his feet on a flying sword. ”

"Gotcha? Are you really capable of it? Then why don't you greet the old immortal and ask him to take you as an apprentice, learn spells, and cultivate to become an immortal? ”

"How dare I? At that time, the old fairy's clothes were tattered, covered in blood, his face was pale, and he was in a hurry, afraid that he was hiding from the enemy! ”

"Uh...... This...... Empty rejoice. "Yes, yes, if you can enter the path of immortality, you can step into immortality, and you don't have to die, it's a pity! ”

Everyone muttered and made noise along the way, after all, it was hundreds of miles away from Guangxi to Guizhou to fight, not to mention hundreds of thousands of miles, and the road was difficult to walk!

It is conceivable that such an army can be seen everywhere in the "guard posts" in the southwest region, and of course it is no problem to scare the common people, but if you want to go head-to-head with the hundreds of thousands of "Miao soldiers" of Yang Yinglong, the "Banzhou Tusi" in Guizhou Province, it is simply a meat bun beating a dog - there is no return. And so it is.

"Not good, there is an ambush!" "Enemy attack!" Array! Counterattack! "Not long after this team crossed the border of Guizhou Province, it was attacked.

From 1594 to 1599, Yang Yinglong, the "Banzhou Tusi", led his troops to kill almost all the local clans who had sued and offended him! He also attacked other Tusi and even the Ming Dynasty guards everywhere, and all of a sudden, Guizhou Province was full of bloody wind and blood, and unjust souls were everywhere!

However, the main force of the Ming army was holding the Japanese army in Korea at this time. However, Mingshenzong still sent an edict to let the governor of Guizhou, Jiangdongzhi, send troops to quell the rebellion.

So, in 1599, in February of the 27th year of Wanli of Mingshenzong, the Guizhou Governor sent Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong to lead the troops. However, even if the Ming Dynasty guards from the next province participated in the battle, they were still no match for these Miao tiger soldiers under Yang Yinglong.

Because as soon as the two armies fought, the Miao soldiers lured the Ming army into the encirclement near the Tianbang hoarding fortifications through the "home field advantage", and then ambushed the troops everywhere and easily defeated the Ming army, including the Zhou army from Guangxi and other troops. Yang Guozhu was captured and killed.

This was the result of the Ming Dynasty's second expedition to "Banzhou Tusi", which instead fueled Yang Yinglong's arrogance and threatened to be the "King of the Southwest".

The Ming Dynasty successively sent troops to conquer the "Banzhou Tusi" three times, but the first two failed due to insufficient preparation, until the third time the elite army that was preparing for the eastward expedition to the "Wa State" was transferred back to the south, and then the provincial army was recruited with a total of 240,000 horses, and the troops were divided into eight ways to besiege before finally pacifying Guizhou.

However, a small guard post on the southwest frontier like Gutian had uneven quality of soldiers and extremely backward equipment and training, and even if the whole army was not wiped out in the first expedition to "Banzhou Tusi", it would have been defeated in Changsha in the second expedition. Therefore, Zhou Jun is certain to die.

After Zhou Jun and Fa Xiaomen died in battle, they became lonely ghosts and wild ghosts in a foreign land, and it stands to reason that they cannot enter reincarnation, because they have not yet reached the time of death stipulated in the "Book of Life and Death", but because of the external factors of force majeure that led to death, it was inevitable that they would disappear in the wind and rain.

If Zhou Jun was just an ordinary mortal soldier who died fighting on the battlefield, then it would be enough to die, even if he couldn't fall into hell and be reincarnated again, it would be very normal, after all, the number of underworld Yin Si was limited, and he couldn't be busy, so he had to let those dead souls and wild ghosts stay in the world.

According to the saying that "like gathers like and people divide into groups", these huge numbers of dead souls may be evaporated by the sun in broad daylight, or dissolved by wind and rain on rainy days, they may possess plants, trees, and animals at night, and may even gather in caves.

However, Zhou Jun's soul was ingested by a strange force in the dark, and as if blessed by gravity, he quickly fell to the ground.

"Huh? This...... It's so dark, there's a gust of wind everywhere, it's groggy, what's going on? Why are you having the same dream again? Huh! ”

At this moment, Zou Jun's soul is floating around in the yin and yang realm, although it feels very strange, but he is not panicked, because since he is sensible, he will have a similar "bizarre" experience every once in a while, and he has even seen all kinds of ghosts and monsters looking at him, but nothing happened after waking up.

There was nothing before, because he was a distraction from the power "Xuanyin Ancestor" in the upper realm, and he was reincarnated and reincarnated in the lower realm, causing the memories of his previous life to be brought over with him. However, because Zhou Jun was only a mortal in the Nether at this time, he had no spiritual root and could not cultivate the truth, so he had an illusion.

However, the experience suddenly became real, as if I was deeply trapped in a dream, and I had to fly around with images in the middle of the west, trying to find a river, the "Lethe River", because there is a bridge on the river, which is the only way for all the souls of the dead.

Of course, if it is an ordinary mortal who has turned into a dead soul, after entering the "underworld", it will pass through seven places in turn, namely "Ghost Gate Pass", "Huangquan Road", "Sansheng Stone", "Wangxiangtai", "Lechuan River", "Meng Po Tang", "Nai He Bridge", and finally enter the "Yama Palace" to be judged and wait for processing.

The "Ghost Gate" is the gate to enter the "underworld", because the "Hades" has a heavy army here, so it is very terrifying, and it is not something that ordinary ghosts can come.

As long as the soul of a mortal in the yang world passes through the "ghost gate", it basically cannot go back, which also means that this mortal in the yang world is completely dead.

People who have not reached the end of their yang life but die unexpectedly will gather on Huangquan Road and wander around the Huangquan Road, waiting for their yang life to arrive before they can report to the underworld and be reincarnated.

However, every ghost must pass through the "Huangquan Road" to enter the "underworld", just like the ghost of Zhou Jun is floating on the Huangquan Road now.

"Sansheng Stone" is a stone that records the grievances and hatreds of each person in the past and present lives, and the ghosts have seen this stone, but they will regret it, because the grievances and hatreds of the three generations of the yang world have been written off, but when the ghost of Zhou Jun floated over to see the stone, there was nothing on it, strange!

As its name suggests, "Wangxiang Terrace" is a tall stone platform with a view of your hometown. When the ghosts come here, they can see their loved ones for the last time and say goodbye to their loved ones for the last time. Usually the ghosts who come here will cry profusely.

"Lethe" is the most "romantic" river in folklore, because if a ghost loves someone to the point where he or she does not want to be reincarnated, then he/she can jump into the "Lethe" and wait for a thousand years, soak his ghost body with the water of the River Styx and cleanse his soul of distractions, but the lover has already been reincarnated.

After a thousand years, the ghost's lover has been reincarnated many times, and she/he has completely forgotten the lover of the previous life. However, at this time, as long as the memories of the previous life have not dissipated, the soul-torn ghost can climb ashore from the "Lethe" river and reincarnate with her/him to renew the previous relationship.

"Meng Po Soup" is one of the clones of "Hou Tu Niang Niang", and "Meng Po" uses the tears of ghosts to mix seven emotions and six desires, which can make ghosts forget all the things in their previous lives. If the ghost does not drink the "Meng Po Soup" before being reincarnated, it will preserve the memory of its past life, and once it is reincarnated through the "Six Realms of Reincarnation", something big will happen!

Under the "Nai He Bridge" are all lonely souls and wild ghosts who cannot be reincarnated, although they are very miserable and pitiful, but they must not be confused by it, because they often want to find a substitute for themselves to reincarnate. And after crossing the "Nai He Bridge" is the "Hall of Reincarnation", which can be regarded as completing all the processes from death to life.

However, Zhou Jun's ghost seemed to have an impression of this, and he was hesitant, so he did not float over to drink "Meng Po Soup" one by one like other ghosts, nor was he tempted by the lonely ghosts and wild ghosts under the "Nai He Bridge" and jumped down, but waited for the last bridge crossing.

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"Heaven and Earth Let Me Do Part II" has ended, readers can leave more good comments and suggestions, so that I can try to improve when I continue to write "Heaven and Earth Let Me Go Part III", and strive to meet everyone's reading needs, after all, I am just an amateur writing enthusiast.