Last time, it was said that the Zhou army and their fellow villagers were conscripted to serve in the "fort". Due to the rebel rebellion, the court temporarily had no troops to mobilize, so the "military households" of the guard station were requisitioned.
"Baoli" can be regarded as a "thousand-household station". According to the "Guardian System" of the Ming Dynasty, the "thousand-household station" consists of 1,120 sergeants and has 10 "hundred-household stations" under its jurisdiction. At the same time, the official positions of the "Qianhusuo" are: "Zheng Qianhu" (the fifth rank), "Deputy Qianhu" (the fifth rank), and "Zhenfu" (the sixth rank).
The "Hundred Households" of the Ming Dynasty consisted of 112 sergeants and had two "general banners" under their jurisdiction. Among them, the chief of "Hundred Households" is the sixth grade. There are 2 "general flags" under "Hundred Households", and the "general flags" have no levels, but there are 5 "small flags" under each "general flag". "Xiaoqi" is equivalent to "squad leader", which also has no rank.
In this way, Zhou Jun and his fellow villagers were registered by the guards in a first-come, first-served order. After checking with the "roster", they were drawn by lots and assigned to different "small flags" to participate in military training. Unfortunately, What's surprising is that I didn't even meet a single child, they were all from other villages.
For teenagers, the military training at the guard station is boring and boring. They are not allowed to dance with knives or guns at all, let alone control firearms. They only hold long wooden sticks as "spear" and thick wooden boards as "shield" all day long, and follow the queue demonstration In the battle formation, they were stabbed and beaten, and the roaring sound of the mountains was except for the stone locks.
Lifting stone locks is specially used to train the strength of soldiers. In ancient times, cold weapons were still the mainstay of fighting, and what was most needed was explosive power and endurance.
According to legend, "Shisuo Lifting" first came from the military camps of the Tang Dynasty. It was a physical training program specially set up to train "Mo Swordsmen". After all, each Mo Sword weighs dozens of kilograms! Later, the "lifting stone lock" was followed in the military camps of all dynasties. In the late Ming Dynasty, this was still the case.
However, compared with 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, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict, ordering "Zhongshu Sheng", "Dadu Dufu", "Yu Shi Tai" and "Liu Bu" to jointly discuss the rules of training and sergeants: "Cavalry and soldiers must be good at galloping and shooting guns and knives, and infantry must be good at galloping and shooting guns and knives. Bow and crossbow spear. It shoots half of twelve arrows, which can reach far distances and close ranges.
The distance can be reached at 160 steps for generals and 120 steps for soldiers; the distance can be reached at 50 steps. A crossbow with five out of twelve arrows can reach far, with a kick of eighty steps, and a row of one hundred and fifty steps; if it is close, it can reach the target with a kick of forty steps, and a row of sixty steps.
The gun must be familiar with its advance and retreat. At the capital guard station, one of the five thousand people was taken, and the following officials were ordered to go to the imperial court for testing, and the rest were tested again and again.
In the Waidu Siwei Station, each guard has five thousand people, and one fifth of them will be sent to Beijing for testing by officials from less than a thousand households. I tried again and again. The soldiers are both good at foot and cavalry, and the generals will be rewarded according to their ability, and punished if not. The sergeant gave him 600 yuan for Daoli.
From the rank of general to the envoy, if the sergeants under their command fail to score three to six points, they will be deprived of their salary; if they exceed seven points, they will be demoted to the army. All command sergeants who fail to score more than four points will be deprived of salary for one year; those who score more than six points will be dismissed. "
Even if there are regulations above, it was more than 200 years ago, because now the number of "military households" in "guard stations" in various places has dropped sharply, and if you want to recruit enough troops, you have to capture Ding Laf. Moreover, the soldiers often don't even have enough to eat. How can they have the energy to accompany the officers and gentlemen above to mess around?
Therefore, after half a month of hasty training, these so-called "elite soldiers" who were barely able to line up with hoes were brought to the "capital commander" for review by the "guard officer". After each person is given a set of equipment, they exchange wooden sticks for spears and bamboo strips for swords and knives, and they are ready to go on an expedition!
"Uncles and brothers, let's set off like this? Why don't you say goodbye to your family? I have an old woman and a three-year-old little sister at home."
After getting along with each other for half a month, Zhou Jun and his comrades in the same team ate, lived and trained together, and they basically became familiar with each other.
"Hey, young man/big brother, why are you talking about that? As a 'military household', our heads are pinned to our belts and can be picked off at any time!"
"But you have to meet your parents, uncles, brothers, sisters, and sisters-in-law? At least you have to have an explanation, just in case..."
"Excuse me! There is no such thing as a chance!", "Yes, yes, you will die if you die", "The eldest brother died in the battle, the younger brother will be on top, there are no brothers, and there are no neighbors!"
"Hey...if you survive this battle, how wonderful would it be? You can go home, marry a wife and have children again. The silly girl in the village is so fat and strong!"
"Fat and strong? Are you talking about livestock such as pigs, cattle, sheep and horses? Could it be that your family is too poor and cannot afford a wife, so you use animals to sleep with you?"
"Yo yo yo, you don't have a woman, are you acting like a beast? Haha/Quack..." While the team was bored because of the long journey, a group of people joked with each other to have fun.
"Ugh, I also want to sleep with a woman, but my family is too poor to afford a wife. If I die in the battle this time, our family will be cut off and we will become a lonely ghost."
"Hey, hey, hey, don't say those unlucky words! What's life or death? We haven't even started the war yet, and others will die, huh!"
"Uh-huh, there's no one who won't die in a war? Aren't all the folks who went to lead the battle half a year ago dead? Even my uncle is dead!"
"Hey, are you bothered? We poor people go to war to die! If you don't want to die, then you can become a deserter and escape capture?"
"Being a deserter? Will you be beheaded? Your family and neighbors will be imprisoned! No, no, no, you can't run away, you'd better die by yourself."
"Death, death? Are you talking about death all the time? It's so annoying! Can't you stop saying 'die'? You have to say 'live'! Only if you can't kill can you survive, huh!"
"Can't be killed? Hey, his head was hoofed by a donkey's hoof? Do you think your kid is a 'god'? Can he fly to the sky and escape from the earth? Can he control the wind and rain? Can he bring the dead back to life?"
"Hey, hey, hey, stop arguing, it sounds annoying! How can there be any gods in this world? There are quite a lot of demons and ghosts who specialize in bullying us people!"
"Who said there are no 'immortals'? When I was a child, I went to the mountains to collect herbs. I once saw an old Taoist priest flying over the edge of a cliff with a flying sword."
"Yes? Are you really capable? Then why don't you say hello to the old god and ask him to accept you as his disciple, learn magic, and become an immortal?"
"How dare I? At that time, the old immortal's clothes were in tatters, he was covered in blood, his face was pale, and he was walking in a hurry, fearing that he was trying to avoid being chased by his enemies!"
"Uh...this...is nothing to be happy about.", "Yes, yes, if you can step onto the path of immortality, you will be able to live forever, and you won't have to die. What a pity!"
Everyone was muttering and noisy along the way. After all, starting from Guangxi to Guizhou to fight the war is hundreds or thousands of miles away, and the road is difficult!
It is conceivable that such troops can be seen everywhere in the "guard stations" in the southwest. Of course, it is okay to scare the people, but it is simply impossible to go head-to-head with the hundreds of thousands of "Miao soldiers" of Guizhou Province's "Bozhou Chieftain" Yang Yinglong. A meat bun beats a dog - there is no return. This is true.
"No, there's an ambush!", "The enemy is attacking! Set up a formation! Counterattack!" Not long after this team crossed the border of Guizhou Province, they were attacked.
From 1594 AD to 1599 AD, "Bozhou Chieftain" Yang Yinglong led his troops to kill almost all the local clans that had complained and offended him! He also attacked other chieftains and even the Ming Dynasty guards everywhere. Suddenly, Guizhou Province was full of blood and injustice!
However, the main force of the Ming army was in a stalemate with the Japanese army in North Korea at this time. However, Ming Shenzong still sent an order to Guizhou Governor Jiangdong to send troops to quell the rebellion.
Therefore, in 1599 AD, in February of the 27th year of Wanli Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou Governor-General's Department sent Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief, and Li Tingdong, the commander, to lead the army. However, even if soldiers from the Ming Dynasty garrison from the neighboring province participated in the battle, they were still no match for Yang Yinglong's Miao tiger soldiers.
Because as soon as the two armies fought, the Miao soldiers used their "home field advantage" to lure the Ming army into an encirclement near the Tianbangtun fortifications. Then they set up ambushes and easily defeated the Ming army, including the Zhou army from Guangxi. The troops where others belong to. Dusi Yang Guozhu was captured and killed.
This was the result of the Ming Dynasty's second campaign against the "Bozhou Chieftains", which in turn encouraged Yang Yinglong's arrogance and threatened to be the "King of the Southwest".
The Ming Dynasty sent troops three times to conquer the "Bozhou Chieftains", but due to lack of preparation, the first two failed. It was not until the third time that the elite troops preparing for the eastward expedition to the "Japanese Kingdom" were transferred back south, and a total of 240,000 troops from various provinces were recruited. The troops were divided into eight groups and attacked in eight directions before Guizhou was finally pacified.
However, in small guard posts on the southwest frontier like Gutian Post, the quality of soldiers is uneven, and equipment training is extremely backward. Even if the "Boshu Chieftains" were not completely wiped out in the first expedition, they would not be wiped out in the second expedition. Lost in Changsha. Therefore, Zhou Jun is bound to die.
After Zhou Jun and Fa Xiaomen died in battle, they became lonely ghosts wandering in a foreign land. Logically speaking, they cannot enter reincarnation because they have not yet reached the death time specified in the "Book of Life and Death", but because of force majeure external factors. Leading to death, it will inevitably disappear in the wind and rain.
If Zhou Jun was just an ordinary mortal soldier who died on the battlefield, then that would be it. Even if he could not fall into hell and be reincarnated again, that would be normal. After all, the number of underworld divisions was limited and they were too busy, so they had to let Those dead souls and wild ghosts are stranded in the world.
According to the saying "birds of a feather flock together, people flock together", these huge numbers of souls who died in war may be evaporated by the sun in broad daylight, or be dissolved by wind and rain on cloudy and rainy days, or may be possessed by vegetation at night. , animals, and may even gather in caves.
However, after Zhou Jun's soul was absorbed by a strange force, it quickly fell into the ground as if it was blessed by gravity.
"Huh? It's... so dark. There are gusts of wind everywhere and everything is drowsy. What's going on? Why are you having the same dream again? Hey!"
At this moment, Zou Jun's soul is floating around in the Yin and Yang world. Although it feels strange, there is no panic, because since he became sensible, he will have a similar "bizarre" experience every now and then, and he has even seen various ghosts. They looked around at him, but nothing happened when he woke up.
Nothing happened before, because he was a ray of distraction from the powerful "Ancestor Xuanyin" in the upper world and was reincarnated in the lower world, so the memories of his previous life were also brought with him. But because Zhou Jun was just a mortal in the lower world at this time, he had no spiritual roots and could not cultivate, so he had hallucinations.
However, the current experience suddenly became real, as if I was deeply trapped in a dream and couldn't extricate myself. I had no choice but to wander around with images flying here and there, trying to find a river - the "Forgotten River", because There is a bridge over the river, which is the only way for all the dead souls to pass.
Of course, if it is the soul of an ordinary mortal after death, it will pass through seven places in sequence after entering the "underworld", namely, "Guimen Pass", "Huangquan Road", "Sansheng Stone", "Wangxiang Terrace", "Wangchuan River", "Meng Po Tang", "Nai He Bridge", and finally entered the "Yam Luo Palace" to accept trial and wait for processing.
"Ghost Pass" is the gate into the "underworld". Because "King of Hell" has heavy troops stationed here, it is very scary and cannot be visited by ordinary ghosts.
As long as the souls of mortals in the earth pass through the "Gate of Hell", they basically cannot go back. This also means that the mortals in this earth are completely dead.
People who have not yet reached the end of their yang life but died unexpectedly will gather on the road to the underworld and wait for their yang life to arrive before they can report to the underworld and be reincarnated.
However, every ghost must pass through the "Underworld Road" before entering the "underworld", just like the ghost of Zhou Jun is floating on the Underworld Road now.
The "Three Lives Stone" is a stone that records the grievances and grievances of each person's past and present lives. The ghosts will regret it after seeing this stone, because the grievances and grievances of the three lives in the world have been wiped out. But when Zhou Jun's ghost floats over to see After removing the stone, there was nothing on it. How strange!
"Wangxiang Terrace" is exactly what its name describes. It is a tall stone platform from which you can see your hometown. When 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 burst into tears.
"River of Forgetfulness" is the most "romantic" river in folklore, because if a ghost loves a person to the point of not wanting to be reincarnated, then he/she can jump into the "River of Forgetfulness" and wait for a thousand years to be soaked in the water of the Styx. My own ghost body cannot purify my soul of distracting thoughts, but my lover has been reincarnated.
Thousands of years later, the ghost's lover has been reincarnated many times, and she/he has completely forgotten the lover in the previous life. But at this time, as long as the memory of the past life has not faded, the soul-torn ghost can climb up from the "Forgotten River" and be reincarnated with her/him to start a new relationship.
"Meng Po Soup" is brewed by "Meng Po", one of the clones of "Houtu Empress", with the tears of ghosts mixed with seven emotions and six desires, which can make ghosts forget all the things in their previous lives. If the ghost does not drink "Meng Po Soup" before reincarnation, it will retain the memory of the previous life. Once it is reincarnated through the "six paths of reincarnation", big things will happen!
Under the "Naihe Bridge" are all lonely ghosts who are helpless and reincarnated. Although they are very miserable and pitiful, you must not be deceived by them, because they often want to find a substitute for themselves to reincarnate. After passing the "Naihe Bridge" is the "Reincarnation Hall", which can be regarded as completing the entire process from death to life.
However, Zhou Jun's ghost seemed to have an impression of this and was hesitant. Therefore, he neither floated over to drink "Meng Po Soup" like other ghosts, nor did he get confused by the lonely ghosts under the "Naihe Bridge". He was tempted to jump off, but waited to be the last one to cross the bridge.
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