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Chapter 785 What is it for?
After Zhang Cheng left Zhang Jintai's ward, he visited the other injured Yebushou soldiers, and it was natural for him to comfort and encourage him.

These people are the most loyal soldiers, and most of them are veterans. Once they are injured, they will grow up. There is.

After looking at the wounded, Zhang Cheng came to another place in the barracks, where the breeze was blowing and the trees were shaded.

There is a large temporary wooden shed here, and now, there are rows of corpses in front of the shed. These corpses are all soldiers who died during the sentry battle with Li Changsheng.

Of course, there are also some who were seriously injured and died after returning to camp due to insufficient treatment.

At this time, several doctors were collecting their badges, registering their military stickers, and sorting out their personal belongings.

In such a scorching hot weather, the remains of the soldiers would only be placed for a day or two at most, and then they would be cremated immediately, and finally the ashes and relics would be brought back to Xuanbei, and officials sent by the Kaiping Guards would deliver them to them one by one. family members.

Together with these items, their pensions and merit cards and other items were also delivered.

The meritorious service card was also decided after Zhang Cheng aided the Liao Dynasty, and it was issued exclusively to the families of the fallen soldiers to show outsiders the meritorious service in the army.

This merit card is a rectangular iron plate, on which it records the military experience of the fallen soldiers, starting from the time of enlistment, including all the battles they participated in, as well as the rewards for their meritorious service, and finally how they died in battle.

In the future, the family members of the fallen soldiers can use this card to go to the guards, guards, and thousands of households in Xuanfu to receive preferential treatment, and they can use this card to exempt the family members of the fallen soldiers from hard labor.

This is actually Zhang Cheng's new trick, which can not only reflect the preferential treatment policy, but also better demonstrate the benefits of joining the army to other military households and civilians, thereby further changing people's views and attitudes towards soldiers in this era.

The original meaning of Qiubayi was to refer to soldiers, and it neither meant to praise nor belittle.

According to the content of "Continued Jin Yangqiu" quoted in Volume [-] of "Taiping Yulan": "Fu Jian sent Murong Chui, but the attendant Quan Yi refused to listen. So Yi Naiye privately sent a strong man to attack him. It was Yemeng who was walking on the road, but the road was poor. I saw that there were eight people next to the tomb of Confucius. I felt disgusted.

It is called to occupy the dreamer to occupy it, saying: "The road is poor, the way is exhausted, it is not feasible."Confucius was named Qiu, and "eight" is matched with "Qiu". This word for soldiers must have ambushes on the road. '"

This is how the term "Qiu Ba" was used to refer to soldiers. However, with the passage of time, the term "Qiu Ba" has mostly become a general term for soldiers of various generations and even common people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the word Qiuba became the common name for all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, as if all the soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were tired soldiers.

Therefore, after careful study, it should have a lot to do with the loss of power of the Daming Wuxun Group in the court.

Just because the Wuxun Group was lonely and the literati were in power, in order to prevent the military officials and nobles from coming back to power, they suppressed and belittled from top to bottom, deducted military salaries layer by layer, and did not let the sergeants eat enough, etc., mostly related to this.

And Zhang Cheng's actions have only one purpose, and that is to try his best to raise the status of the general in the Xuanfu, so that he can get the respect he deserves among the people of the Xuanfu.

As a result, the sense of honor and belonging of the soldiers under his command will be further enhanced, so that they cannot leave Xuanfu Town. Once they leave, they will lose everything they have gained here.

After all, the outside world will not give the soldiers of the army supreme glory and respect like Xuanfu's side, they will only laugh, despise and avoid.

Only in Xuanfu, or only under the rule of Zhang Cheng, would he treat the generals like this.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng believes that in the near future, Xuan Mansion will definitely become a place that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty yearn for, and it will also attract a large number of aspiring young people to join the army.

He even believes that in the near future, a large number of people with lofty ideals can be gathered, and with the core of the existing generals under his command, they will form a new era martial arts group that only obeys him.

When this day really comes, the world will definitely change color. If it does not change, then use brute force to forcibly transform it. He believes that the self at that time will also have the strength to change the world.

However, right now he still needs to stay dormant, not to be too prominent, especially not to compete with the big bosses of the court, those ministers and elders. After all, holding the banner of the court, he has more room to operate and it is much smoother.

Now, Zhang Cheng is holding a farewell ceremony for the dead soldiers before cremation according to the tradition of the Xuanbei Army.

He passed by the bodies of these fallen soldiers one by one with a solemn expression, and all the generals followed behind him, all of them were also solemn and silent.

Zhang Cheng looked at the remains of these former soldiers. Some of them had peaceful faces, some had hideous eyes, and some had painful expressions.

Many of them who died in battle were near middle age, and some were still very young, but they were all the elite of the Xuanbei Army, but at this time, they all died in battle in a foreign land.

Zhang Cheng just stood there quietly looking at the remains of the fallen soldiers in front of him. He didn't move for a long time, he was silent, and his eyes were somewhat moist, but that was all.

As early as the 11th year of Emperor Qin in Chongzhen, Zhang Cheng kept watching his soldiers fall one by one, and he continued to grow and climb as if wading in blood.

During this process, more soldiers under his command fell down, and the corpses of soldiers passed by his eyes one after another. The more he saw it, the more his heart became hardened.

Zhang Cheng secretly made an oath: Never let the blood of the soldiers be shed in vain, never let the soldiers die in vain!

He wants to live, to protect the relatives of the soldiers who died, to protect the honor they bought with their lives, to protect the hard-won peace of the Xuan Mansion, and to protect the hundreds of millions of people in this great tomorrow.

Although his heart is as strong as iron, Zhang Cheng still feels pain in his heart every time he sees the dead bodies of his heroic subordinates carried past his eyes...

He is destined to continue to suffer this pain in the future.

Perhaps, this is his destiny, his mission!

Just like, every time he saw the remains of these fallen soldiers, he would ask himself: Why did I come to this world?
Every time Zhang Cheng thinks back on the past, it seems that the memory of the previous life has become more and more faded, and he can't remember many things, but the experience of this life is deeply engraved in his heart.

I had just arrived in Daming, just in time for the invasion of the Tartars, and I was ordered to enter the King of Jingqin. Not to mention developing silently, I secretly allocated private forces, and I didn't even leave enough time for preparation.

Since then, he has been tossing and tossing in order to survive, trying to change something, but in the end he still watched Lu Xiangsheng and his uncle Zhang Yan die for the country with his own eyes.

However, fortunately, he not only escaped from the killing field of Julu, but also retained a certain amount of strength. From then on, he became famous in the first battle, with the support of the king and cabinet ministers, and the support of the governor Chen Xinjia.

It was only then that he gained a firm foothold on Xuanfu North Road, and now he is walking step by step, and every step is bought with blood, and these brave soldiers are bought with their lives.

With the complete control of all forces in Xuanfu Town in the future, his own strength will gradually become stronger, and his mind and vision will also be broadened accordingly, and there will naturally be more things he can do!

However, what is your ultimate goal?

Thinking of the later generations who often read history, they always cover their pages and sigh, feeling unwilling for all the regrets in history.

Perhaps, God sent me back here just to make up for my regret!

After paying tribute to the bodies of these soldiers, Zhang Cheng left here silently.

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Although Li Changsheng suffered heavy casualties this time, he also beheaded nearly a hundred Tartars, and all the Tartars had their heads chopped off. Bush has many good soldiers, and the results are also very rich.

What's more, they found important information about the mobilization of the Qing army near Baimiaobao.

After obtaining the information, Zhang Cheng first went to the Governor's Xingyuan in Songshan City, and reported the detected Tazi military information to Jiliao Governor Hong Chengchou, and Li Changsheng and the others arrived at the Governor's Xingyuan with him.

Of course, only the heads of the Tartars, as well as the coats and armors of the good soldiers of Bayala and Gebush, were used to repay meritorious service, while the rest of the Tartars’ armor and weapons were left in the Xuanfu army. Especially for those war horses, Zhang Cheng would not share them with others.

In the past few days, the Xuanfu army's battalions sent out sentries and cavalry everywhere. Although they lost some troops, they also captured more than a hundred heads of Tartars.

Just after Li Changsheng and the others came back from sentry, Zhang Cheng sent an order that the Xuanfu army suspended sentries to the distant Qing army-controlled areas, and the battalions did not close the sentries at night. Come by.

At this time, each battalion of the Ming army that aided the Liao Dynasty also sent sentry cavalry to detect the movement of the Tartars, but most of them did not dare to go too deep behind the Tartars, that is, they just hovered near the front lines of the two armies.

That is to say, Zhang Cheng's original Xuanbei army sentry cavalry would go deep into the back of the Tartars to investigate. Therefore, even Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, attached great importance to the military situation he got.

These days, the Qing army moved frequently and stormed Jinzhou City, with the intention of still luring Hong Chengchou to send troops, but they never saw any movement of the Ming army, and they were also full of suspicion.

The Ming army that aided Liao has not made any major movements, but this has posed a problem for Huang Taiji, the captive chieftain.

Now let's see who is more able to hold their breath between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The key to this battle is the word "steadiness".

Interested generals of the Ming army can see that in these days, Huang Taiji, the slave chieftain, often climbed to Shimen Mountain, holding a telescope, and kept looking at the Ming army battalions down the mountain.

On August [-], more than [-] soldiers and horses under Liu Zhaoji, the general officer of Liaodong Town, pulled out their camps and set up their camps.

After the previous governor's Xingyuan agreement, in addition to Liu Zhaoji's return to defend Gaoqiao, the guerrilla Kuang Yongzhong's guerrilla battalion in Xuanfu town, and the town's Biaoyou battalion led by Du Si Tang Xiancheng also set up camp to Mama Mountain and Xiaoling River Estuary to guard the grain road for the army.

According to Governor Xingyuan's wishes, the two battalions of their troops temporarily returned to Shanxi General Li Fuming for control during the period of aiding Liao. Before they left, they all went to Zhang Cheng's commander-in-chief to say goodbye. Zhang Cheng gave the opportunity face to face.

Zhang Cheng naturally treated them with great enthusiasm, and made it clear that they were still the guerrillas and capitals of Xuanfu Town. This time they were assigned to Li Fuming's temperance and dispatch, which was completely based on the overall situation and was temporary.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng also emphasized the importance of the grain road with the two of them, and asked them to actively cooperate with Li Fuming to protect the safety of the grain road at the mouth of the Xiaoling River for the Liao army.

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The sun is approaching dusk, and the smoke is curling up.

In the large and small camps of the general soldiers of the towns around Songshan Fort City, there are countless sergeants wearing red-tasseled felt hats and worn-out mandarin duck battle jackets, enjoying dinner.

Different from the widespread use of cooking carts in the Xuanfu army, the soldiers in other towns still use the traditional cooking method of burying pots. It is also a kind of rice.

This kind of food is steamed with rice, then soaked in water, then exposed to the sun, and repeated several times, and finally some dry rice is obtained, which is somewhat similar to the compressed biscuits in the military rations of later generations.

Although it is just a small ball of rice, it can become a big pot after soaking in hot water.

However, the taste is really beyond words. When eating, it needs to be served with salt, vinegar, etc., or with pickled vegetables.

Generally, the monthly salt of Ming soldiers is two catties per month for those with family members, and one catty per month for those without family members.

But at this time, embezzlement was a common practice in the army everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. Even the monthly salt of the sergeants had to be deducted half, or more than half, when they went to the peak. What a treat.

In the era of no oil and water, the stomach will be very hungry, and there are piles of Shanhai Town sergeants, standing or squatting, all of them are eating sporadically.

They are not as orderly as the various armies of the Xuan Mansion. They have been controlled since the selection of soldiers. Not only do they need good family members, they also need to be strong and healthy. If they recruit some sick people into the army, how can they fight?
However, the soldiers in Shanhai Town are a mixture of good and bad. There are big and fierce soldiers, and some are emaciated old and weak. Sergeants, most of them are also cavalry.

According to the military system of the Ming army, generally only cavalry or infantry officers above the armored commander were issued armor.

However, in the garrison camp, except for the sergeants on patrol, these cavalrymen will not wear a suit of armor all day long. They wear folded towels, which also function as inner hats.

The cavalry is well paid, much better than the infantry. Although they also face deduction, most of the cavalry still have money to buy some dried vegetables, dried meat and other things from vendors inside and outside the city to accompany their meals.

As cavalrymen, they always feel that they are much higher than infantrymen, and they don't even bother to gather with infantrymen.

At this time, some dried fish in different forms appeared on their bowls. Although these dried fish were very hard and tasted bitter, no one cared about them. Many people even ate all the bones.

Many people even praised it while eating, saying that the dried fish is really top-grade and delicious. In this era of lack of meat, any kind of meat is welcome!
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