A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45
Back at Jingbian Fort, Wang Dou and the others still felt thrilled.

Wang Dou asked everyone not to tell anything about Xu Yue'e, but Gao Shiyin or someone with a big mouth couldn't help but tell what they heard on the road.

But since that day, neither the residents of Jingbian Fort nor Xinzhuang have seen Xu Yue'e, and they don't know where she has gone.

Since iron materials were brought from Shunxiang Fort, Li Maosen immediately led the blacksmiths in the fort to start making armor.

At the end of April in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Lu Baozhong, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, sent several times to urgently report the importation of the Yi people, but he did not know who the tribe was, how many people were there, how to suppress the attack, and how Xuanzhen raised troops to block the defense. No explanation.At the beginning of May in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, issued an order to warn Lu Baozhong and ordered him to be extremely vigilant when passing through the forts.

In Jingbian Fort, the fort wall began to be built in mid-February of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and there were still some people working in the fields in the middle. In mid-May, the fort wall of Jingbian Fort was finally built.

The perimeter of the entire fortress is about 600 meters. It is a traditional square, and the whole body is rammed with loess without bricks.The northern ends of the fort wall are connected to the stable wall of Jingbiandun, which happened to be used for guarding.At the same time, the urn city outside the south gate was also built, and a moat three meters deep and six meters wide was dug.

It is a pity that the battle field outside the Jingbian Fort, and the female wall tower on the fort wall have not been built yet, so they have to wait until autumn to build them.And Wang Dou also planned to build some tunnels and secret passages in the castle in the future.

After the fort was completed, everyone's safety was guaranteed. Wang Dou found that the densely rammed fort wall was very strong. Since some tung oil was poured in, he was surprised to estimate that the firmness of the fort wall was even higher than the concrete of later generations.

The walls of Jingbian Fort are generally ten meters high, and the walls of all towns in the Ming Dynasty are generally six to 14 meters high.

The city gate built at the southern end of Jingbian Fort is made of stones and is named "Yongning Gate", and the inner gate is named "Yongtai Gate".On the upper end of the gate of the fort, there is a stone plaque inlaid with three large characters in regular script "Jingbian Fort" lightly engraved in the center, and regular scripts are engraved vertically on the left and right sides of the large characters, recording the time when the fort was built, generals, craftsmen and other deeds and figures.

At this time, Jingbian Fort had more than 400 military households and a population of more than 14, but it was still easy to live in the fort.In fact, Wang Dou has read historical materials. In the Ming Dynasty, the Weihu Fort in Pinglu, Shuozhou, was 550 meters high and 500 meters in circumference. At that time, there were more than [-] troops and dozens of horses.Weihu Fort is much smaller than Jingbian Fort, but it can accommodate more people than Jingbian Fort. It seems that I can recruit some people to live in my fort.

On the day when the fort wall was built, the whole fort celebrated for two days. After that, Yang Tong and Qi Tianliang brought their families from Dongjiazhuang to live in one after another.Wang Dou also planned to bring his mother to live in Jingbianbao, so that he would not have to go to Xinzhuang to visit her old man.

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After the fort wall was built, Wang Dou did not build the stage and temple that everyone had been longing for for the buildings in the fort, but immediately asked people to build a mill in a place named Shu'erjing Lane in the east of the city. .

In the past, there was no mill in the fort, and it was very inconvenient to go to Dongjiazhuang and Xinzhuang to grind noodles. Now it is almost the season of grain harvest, so building a mill is on Wang Dou's agenda.

It is easy to build a mill, there are plenty of wood and loess in the castle, but the difficulty lies in the construction of the two huge stone mills, this matter, Wang Dou will leave it to the old craftsman.

It was not until the mill was built that Wang Dou ordered the construction of a stage and temple in the center of the street, which aroused cheers from the military households.

After that, they finally had a place to watch a play.

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After the construction of the fort wall came to an end, Wang Dou recruited the three teams of soldiers again before the busy farming season, and began to resume training.

At the same time, in view of the addition of nearly fifty households in the fort, but more than twenty households are artisan households, and the rest are military households, Wang Dou selected some young and strong people from the military households to add them in, making up five teams of warriors. soldier.Including the company captain, there are 12 soldiers in the first team, so there are 60 soldiers in the fifth team, and the strength already surpasses Zhang Gui, the team manager of Dongjiazhuang.

These five teams were led by Yang Tong, Han Zhong, Gao Shiyin, and Zhong Tiaoyang respectively, and Wang Dou himself led a team.

For these new recruits, Wang Dou let them learn to stand in line first. In order to better train them, Wang Dou selected some old soldiers to mix in, so as to better motivate the new recruits.

Gao Shiyin and Zhong Tiaoyang were finally able to lead the army, so they were naturally very happy. The styles of the two leaders were also completely different.Although Zhong Tiaoyang is a civilian, everyone knows that he is Wang Dou's cousin, plus he is very skilled, so naturally no military household would object.Moreover, he also set an example, trained with everyone, and he was steady and kind, so he was loved by the sergeants.

But Gao Shiyin is different. His style is similar to Han Zhong's, and his temper is more violent. He likes to beat poorly trained military households with his fists, which makes all the sergeants in his team fear him.However, under his beating and scolding, the soldiers' performance was very good.

Han and North Korea can finally train him not to accept the night.

It is not closed at night, and there are settings in Daming, whether it is along the border, along the coast or inland.Most of the people selected are strangers who can fly over eaves and walls, or have all kinds of ingenuity in killing and setting fires, and even those who are good at astronomy.In the army, Ye Bushou not only went out to sentry, but also often took on various tasks such as burning wasteland, surprise raids or robbing camps because of his superb skills and familiarity with geography.

And in the border town of Daming, there is also a sharper whistle than Yebushou. These whistles often travel far outside the Great Wall to detect the enemy's situation thousands of miles away. They stay in the enemy's territory for several months. It is an inaccessible area, so it must be a vigilant, vigorous and courageous person.

These soldiers in the Ming army do not receive sharp whistles at night. In addition to their superb skills, many of them are also proficient in several foreign languages. For example, the Han and North Korean brothers are proficient in Mongolian. In addition, they also understand some simple Jurchen language.

If these people are well trained, Wang Dou will have a group of outstanding scouts and intelligence eyes and ears.Of course he is very supportive.

Wang Dou delegated power to Han Chao and asked him to select six of the five teams of soldiers as his subordinates, including four veterans and two recruits.

Wang Dou was fortunate enough to watch Han Chao train his subordinates, and he couldn't help but be eye-opening.

Three of Han Chao's six subordinates, including veterans, suffered from night blindness. Han Chao found some chicken livers, pig livers, and a few lively tadpoles for the three of them to swallow without saying a word.All three of them turned pale and hesitated.

Han Chao said sharply: "We don't recruit soldiers at night, we often go to various places to spy at night, and in the future we will often choose brave soldiers to attack the captive camp at night. If you can't recognize things at night, how can you go out with me to spy? "

The three of them were forced to swallow tadpoles and other things alive.

After that, Han Chao led the six-person dragon to see the head but not the tail, often not knowing where to go, and Wang Dou was also assured that Han Chao would train him.

Driven by the old people, those newcomers learned to stand in line very quickly.

As for those veterans, Wang Dou also added new training content to them.

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Old White Bull:
I'm not in good shape today, so I'll update it, and it will be later, sorry.Right now, the biological clock is being disrupted again, and I always suffer from insomnia. I miss the regular life of going to bed at ten o'clock in the evening and waking up at five o'clock in the morning.

In addition: Huimo Chen Nanyuan Zimei Mu Shuyou: From the mid-Ming period, the border towns of the Ming Dynasty usually implemented a parallel system of guards and battalions.Hundreds of households and thousands of households have basically become official titles, without any real power or position.

Taking Xuanfu Town as an example, a Jiachang must at least be selected from the small banner of the Weisuo and the general banner.A team officer must be selected from at least one thousand or one hundred households.A defense officer and an integrity officer must at least be selected from thousands of households, guard commanders, and guard commanders.A garrison must at least follow the commander of the guard, and all commanders are selected within the task.As for the commander-in-chief of a town, that is already at the level of the governor of the governor's mansion.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no such official position as the Dusi, which was only established in the Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)