Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 45 Fishing and Training

Hongwu seven years, July.

After two months of marching, Xu Da, the general who conquered the captives, led several deputy generals who conquered the captives, and arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Shanxi, controlling the mountains and leading the rivers, is a country with four fortresses, and shoulders the shoulders of the world.And the shoulders of Shanxi, the survival of the north, and the stability of the world all depend on Taiyuan.

Shanxi is a land extending in all directions. It has been an important place since ancient times. It can enter Beiping in the east, Hejian in the west, Hetao in the west, Guanzhong, and Luoyang in the south. In addition, Shanxi is located on a high place overlooking the Central Plains. It has been a battleground between military strategists and soldiers since ancient times. land.

It was because Wang Baobao confronted Xu Da in the Longyou region during the first Northern Expedition, Chang Yuchun took the opportunity to seize Shanxi, and then swept across North China, fighting an invincible opponent. Bei Yuan reaped the results of the war in North China.

At this time, Shanxi was naturally under the control of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Da's task was to rectify the equipment, train the army, and prepare for defense, so he continued to go north to Datong to start the first-line defense.

But Beiyuan cavalry can be seen from time to time around Datong Mansion, so Xu Da did not let Zhu Qi and others follow to Datong, but stayed in Taiyuan to train recruits.

In the Ming Dynasty, the guard system was combined with the recruitment system. The form of the guard was a bit similar to the Fubing system in the early Tang Dynasty. The soldiers were half peasants and half soldiers. They were recruited during wars and usually farmed at home. , that is, military households.

However, in addition to military households, the Ming Dynasty also had soldiers, and the battalion soldiers were soldiers recruited.

The difference between the army and the soldiers is that the army is hereditary, all of them are military households, and the soldiers are called up temporarily. Food, and soldiers do not have family members, which is somewhat similar to modern professional soldiers.

What Zhu Qi and the others trained were the newly recruited battalion soldiers.

However, Zhu Qi didn't need to go down to the grassroots level to get in touch with those soldiers, and there was no bloody thing like eating and sleeping together every day, and then training together.

Xu Da would not let the prince do this, Zhu Qi's task is to command the generals, watch them train and coordinate with them if there is any problem.

And Zhu Qi himself is really not interested in the life of the military camp. When he stayed in Taiyuan City, he had nothing to do to draw pictures.

Zhu Di was so enthusiastic about his work that he even concealed his identity once and went to the barracks to wrestle with the soldiers. Of course, his 14-year-old brother must not be able to beat a strong man in his twenties.

To be honest, Zhu Qi was also very envious of Zhu Di's appearance as a hot-blooded man. After falling asleep, he imagined that he was like most heroines in novels. A group of new recruits went straight into the grassland and sealed off the wolves!

But after waking up, I don’t want to think about it anymore. The dream is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny. Besides, there are so many famous generals in the world.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Qi felt more at ease when he touched the fish.

Zhu Qi can fish, even Zhu Di can fish, because they are princes, and Xu Da is not around, so no one can take care of them, but Xu Zengshou, Li Qi and Li Jinglong can't fish.

All three of them were assigned specific military training tasks, because all three were young people, and the number of soldiers they led was not large. Each of them numbered around two hundred soldiers, which was equivalent to leading two sentry battalions.

In the Ming Dynasty, five people generally formed a team, the second team was a team, the third team was a team, the third team was a whistle, the five whistles were a general, and the five generals were a battalion.

After arriving in Taiyuan, the three of them began to train soldiers according to what Zhu Qibo had said on the road before...

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Taiyuan, barracks.

Wang Ji is the youngest son in his family. He was originally from Qixian County, Shanxi Province. He used to be a civilian household, but the Northern Yuan cavalry burned his family's fields. There was no food, so he had to be called into the army and came to Taiyuan to gather as a soldier. When the battalion soldiers came, they could be regarded as having a solid job.

Not long after I came to Taiyuan, I heard that the person who came to lead me was a noble son named Xu Zengshou, the son of General Xu Da, who was under the jurisdiction of Liao King Zhu Qi, the deputy general of Zhenglu!

Good guy, Wang Ji has never seen so many big men in his life. He is the son of a great general and belongs to His Royal Highness. Wang Ji, who is new to the barracks, couldn't help being a little excited.

When I first arrived in the barracks, I was assigned beds, received daily necessities, etc. Naturally, it goes without saying.

Wuchang is a loyal and honest middle-aged man. He calls himself old man Geng. He was a soldier before and fought with him during the first Northern Expedition. The war is over, and at this time, I am afraid that he will be buried in Mobei like other Han family sons.

Wang Ji also heard from scholars in the county about the Battle of Lingbei, saying that it was General Xu Da's only defeat in his life, so how powerful Wang Baobao was, and so on.

As a plain-headed commoner, Wang Ji naturally didn't know what was going on, but after all, he felt that such a big battle seemed to be a little far away from him.

I came to join the army because I wanted to fill my stomach after all.

After staying in the barracks for two days, there was nothing special to do, but to study military regulations, order flags, listen to horns, drums, and listen to what the captain said about formations, serpentine formations, wild goose formations, circle formations, etc. After a while and so on, even the corporal chief and the chief clerk stood by and listened obediently.

That captain is really awesome.

Then on the third day, the young man named Xu Zengshou finally appeared. Wang Ji looked at the young man who was about the same size as himself, and looked at him with a piece of paper in his hand, which was densely written on it. Character.

Of course Wang Ji couldn't read, couldn't read, let alone see what was written on it.

The young general named Xu Zengshou gave a lecture with a note, such as "you are all strong men who defend our Ming Dynasty", "you should train hard, and one day serve the court", etc. Wang Ji was flustered, Could it be that he is about to go to the battlefield right now?

Fortunately, he didn't go to the battlefield, but the young general held a piece of paper and read a lot of new rules, which were quite different from the military rules Wang Ji had learned two days ago.

For example, at what time does the camp have to beat the gong to wake up, get dressed within one minute after getting up, fold the quilt within one minute, and line up all the toiletries within one minute.

Not only Wang Ji was stunned when he heard that, but the two guards beside him also hesitated and asked:
"General, what is 1 minute?"

Xu Zengshou patted his forehead and said with a smile:

"This is a new vocabulary invented by His Highness, you can just read this omission."

Xu Zengshou took out a leak, and it took about 1 minute for the sand to drain. Zhu Qi helped adjust it himself.

In ancient times, there was a leak engraving, which is similar to the western hourglass, but the style is different. It is not two upper and lower balls, but two staggered upper and lower buckets, but the principle is the same. The earliest leak engraving invention is the same as the Western Zhou Dynasty. , "Zhou Li" has detailed records.

Since there are omissions, the timing is easy to handle, but there are more than one rule.

Xu Zengshou quickly continued:
"In addition to waking up, there are time rules for accidents, eating, sleeping, all have time rules. Not only that, the rule that one person makes a mistake and the whole team is punished should also be used in training. In addition to regular training, add two , Military posture and military steps, although very strange, but these are all thought out by His Highness, it is said that elite divisions are trained in this way.

Come on, let me show you..."

Ever since, Wang Ji and a group of battalion soldiers looked at the general's son and began to walk forward.

(End of this chapter)