July in the seventh year of Hongwu.

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

Shanxi controls mountains and rivers, and the country with four barriers, and the shoulders and backs of the world. The shoulders and backs of the Shanxi, the survival and demise of the north, and the stability of the world are all tied to Taiyuan.

Shanxi is a place with great connections and a key place since ancient times. It can be reached in Beiping in the east, Hejian in the west, Hetao in the west, and Luoyang in the south. In addition, Shanxi is located in a high place, overlooking the Central Plains, and has been a place where military and military battles have been fought for since ancient times.

It was because Wang Baobao confronted Xu Da in the Longyou area during the First Northern Expedition that Chang Yuchun took the opportunity to seize Shanxi and then swept across North China, fighting so hard that he achieved the result of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in one fell swoop.

At this time, Shanxi was naturally under the control of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Da’s task was to rectify the situation, train the army, and prepare for defense, so he continued to head north to Datong and start the front-line defense matters.

However, the Northern Yuan cavalry could be seen from time to time around Datong Prefecture, so Xu Da did not ask Zhu Qi and others to come to Datong, but instead kept them in Taiyuan to train new recruits.

In the Ming Dynasty, the military order system was combined with the recruitment system. The form of the military order was somewhat similar to the military order system in the early Tang Dynasty. The soldiers were half farming and half soldiers. When they were in war, they usually farmed at home and were self-sufficient, and they were called military, that is, military households.

But in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to military households, there were also soldiers, and the camp soldiers were soldiers recruited.

The difference between military and military is that military is hereditary, all military households are gathered temporarily, and it doesn’t matter whether the military households are or not. Moreover, the military households need to eat food and pay, unlike military households that bring their own food and pay food to the court, and the military does not bring family members, which is somewhat similar to the modern professional soldiers.

What Zhu Qi and the others trained were newly recruited battalions.

However, Zhu Qi didn't have to go to the grassroots level to contact those soldiers. There was no such thing as eating and sleeping together every day, and then training together.

Xu Da wouldn't have asked the prince to do this. Zhu Qi's mission is to command the generals. Just watch them train troops and coordinate with any problems.

Zhu Qi himself was really not interested in military life. When he stayed in Taiyuan City, he had no time to draw. He was strolling here and there. In short, it was just one word - play hard!

Zhu Di was so busy that he even went to the military camp to fight and fall with the soldiers without his identity. Of course, his 14-year-old little brother must have fallen into the strong man in his twenties.

To be honest, Zhu Qi was also envious of Zhu Di's appearance as a passionate man. After falling asleep, he imagined that he was like most of the male protagonists in the novel, and his prestige rose sharply. In three or two months, he brought a group of new recruits to the grassland and sealed the wolf's home!

However, after waking up, I don’t think about it anymore. My dreams are beautiful and my reality is skinny. Moreover, there are so many famous generals. It’s better not to do this in one go. It’s better to drag others down.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qi felt more at ease when he touched the fish.

Zhu Qi can fish, and even Zhu Di can fish because they are princes and Xu Da is not around, so no one can care about it, but Xu Zengshou, Li Qi and Li Jinglong cannot touch the fish.

All three of them were assigned to specific training tasks, because all three were young and the number of soldiers was not large, with about two hundred people per person, and they were quite carrying two camp soldiers.

During the Ming Dynasty, five people were usually one army, two army, three were teams, three were sentries, five were generals, and five generals were camps.

After arriving in Taiyuan, the three of them began to train as Zhu Qi was so arrogant on the road before...

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Taiyuan, military camp.

Wang Ji was the youngest son in the family. He was originally from Qi County, Shanxi Province. He was originally a civilian household. However, the Northern Yuan cavalry burned his family's land and had no food. He had to call the army and came to Taiyuan to gather as a battalion. He could be considered a tiny rice bowl.

Not long after I came too far, I heard that the one who came to lead me was a noble son named Xu Zengshou, the son of General Xu Da, who was under the jurisdiction of Zhu Qi, the deputy general of the Conquering Escaping!

What a guy, Wang Ji has never seen so many big shots in his life. He is the son of the general and the prince's highness. Wang Ji, who has just arrived in the military camp, couldn't help but feel a little excited.

As soon as I arrived in the military camp, I divided the beds, received daily necessities, etc., so there is no need to say more about these.

The sergeant was a loyal and honest middle-aged man. He called himself Old Man Geng. He had served as a soldier before and fought with him during the First Northern Expedition. However, the Battle of Lingbei was not there. Old Man Geng said that if the Battle of Lingbei was gone, he would probably have buried his bones like other Han men at this time.

Wang Ji also heard from the county scholars in the Battle of Lingbei that General Xu Da’s only defeat in his life, how powerful Wang Baobao is, etc.

As a commoner, Wang Ji naturally didn't realize it, but he finally felt that such a battle seemed a little far away from him.

When I come to join the army, I just want to have enough food.

After staying in the military camp for two days, there was nothing special to do, just study military rules, ordering flags, listening to horns, war drums, and hearing the captain’s words about formations, snake-shaped formations, goose-shaped formations, circular formations, etc. Even the sergeant and the captain stood by and listened obediently.

That captain is so majestic.

Then on the third day, the young man named Xu Zengshou finally appeared. Wang Ji looked at the other person as big as his, young as he was, and he was still holding a piece of paper in his hand, with words densely filled with words.

Of course, Wang Ji couldn't understand and couldn't see what was written on it.

The young general named Xu Zengshou held a note and scolded him, such as "You are all heroes who protect me from the Ming Dynasty", "You should train hard and serve the court one day", etc. Wang Ji was so nervous that he was about to be on the battlefield as soon as he came, right?

Fortunately, I didn't go to the battlefield, but the young general held the paper and read a lot of new rules, which was very different from the military rules that Wang Ji learned two days ago.

For example, when to get up in the camp, put on clothes within one minute after getting up, fold the quilt within one minute, and line up all the toiletries in one minute. If one person fails to finish, he will punish him.

Not only was Wang Ji stunned when he heard this, the two whistlemen next to him also hesitated and asked:

"General, what is one minute?"

Xu Zengshou patted his forehead and said with a smile:

"This is a new word invented by Your Highness. Just look at this missed emblem."

Xu Zengshou took out a leak, and the sand leaked for about one minute, and Zhu Qi personally helped to adjust it.

There were leaked carvings in ancient times, similar to Western hourglass, but the styles were different. They were not two balls up and down, but two barrels interlaced with staggered principles. However, the principles were the same. The earliest leaked carving invention was recorded in detail in the "Book of Zhou" during the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Since there is a missing tiar, it is easy to do the timing, but there are more rules than this.

Xu Zengshou quickly continued to talk:

"In addition to having time to make accidents when getting up, eating and sleeping, there are time regulations. Not only that, the rules of one person making mistakes and punishing the entire army should also be used for training. In addition to routine training, two items are added, military posture and military institution. Although it is very strange, these are all thought out by Your Highness, saying that elite troops are all trained in this way.

Come on, I'll show you..."
Chapter completed!