Kunlun one millet

Chapter 143
"Marquis Zhenming, these are newly recruited soldiers. There are eight battalions for every two thousand soldiers."

Zhao Mi stood on the platform, surrounded by General Wei with other school lieutenants and soldiers. He looked at the array of soldiers below the stage, with spears like forests and flags waving.

General Wei continued: "Thanks to your vigorous efforts to rectify prostitution and worship of ghosts and gods in Qingyan County, it is rare that the people in several counties in the south did not resist the recruitment. In addition to the inspection of corrupt ink, the money is sufficient now, and more than [-] soldiers have been recruited in a short period of time."

Zhao Mi also picked up the books from time to time to compare them, nodded and said: "Although that is the case, these recruits are not like Wu Kui army, they lack training, and they may not be useful when it comes to fighting."

"I don't expect these recruits to go out to fight, mainly to replace the tired old soldiers left by Gao Pinggong and guard the pass city, and the Wukui army can also let go of their hands and feet." General Wei said.

"That's fine." Zhao Mi turned to ask: "I arranged for the monks to go to the Wukui Army's battalions earlier. Is it appropriate to cooperate with the army formation?"

"After a period of practice and training, we have achieved initial results." General Wei said, "However, we still need to sacrifice as many talisman soldiers and arrows as possible. Jiuli Kingdom has already had scouts haunting the villages and mountains outside the pass. I plan to do a few small games first. Let's fight and hone our soldiers."

"The branch of the Jinding Division has been well-arranged, and the talisman soldiers, talismans and arrows are being sacrificed all day long." Zhao Mi said, "There is another thing. In the past few days, I surveyed the surroundings of Jianjia Pass, and found that there were occasional wells and ponds flooding."

General Wei said: "This is not something that happened recently, it is a normal situation in the Jianjia Pass area. I have arranged for people to dredge wells and ponds every day, and drain overflowing water. But did Marquis Zhenming find anything unusual?"

"This may be related to the condition of the land veins around Jianjia Pass." Zhao Mi said, "Although the fortifications on the ground have been repaired, the underground must be inspected. If the water around Jianjia Pass is deep, it is easy to breed diseases. I plan to open the altar. The method is to sort out the ground veins and connect the springs. And guide the ground veins to form a formation restraint to protect the key points of the city."

"It's so good, I'll leave it to the Marquis Zhenming." General Wei asked again, "Does the Marquis Zhenming need additional manpower?"

"To sort out the terrain, we may need to survey the nearby mountains and rivers. There is no need for a strong army. General Wei can send me a battalion of recruits." Zhao Mi replied.

"Which battalion did Zhenminghou take a fancy to? Pick whatever you want!"

Zhao Mi tapped the booklet: "Just this T-shaped camp."

General Wei didn't ask any more questions, and ordered someone to check and seal the letter, and the Dingziying directly belonged to Zhao Mi.

After discussing some military affairs, Zhao Mi went to the Dingziying camp and found a group of people from Qiaozhang Village.It was because he saw in the military booklet that the Dingziying recruited a group of overseas Chinese from Zhang Village, and guessed that Zhang Liwei and others were among them, so he found a reason to beg them, so that Chi Yundu's personnel could be recruited. Arrange it under your own command.

Zhao Mi doesn't want to regard Chi Yundu as a disaster for the country and the party, but now that the war is about to start, he can't tell what Chi Yundu's intentions are. If there is a possibility of joining hands to defeat the enemy, Zhao Mi doesn't mind cooperating with Chi Yundu.

"Meet Zhao Changshi."

When Zhao Mi came to Dingziying to summon the military officials, a group of people headed by Zhang Liwei came to salute.

"There is no need to be polite in the army." Zhao Mi smiled and said, "I am very relieved that you lead the township party members to respond to the imperial court's recruitment. Ding Ziying will accompany me to survey the mountains and rivers and inspect the inside and outside of the Guancheng. Please be united."

Zhang Liwei cupped his hands and said: "We have all witnessed Zhao Changshi's character with our own eyes. In addition, the fact that you opened an altar and patrolled the border in Qingyan County has long been rumored in various camps in the army. Everyone is looking forward to being under your command. effective!"

Zhao Mi was stunned: "I am in Qingyan County to open an altar to patrol the territory?"

"That's right." Zhang Liwei said with great interest, "everyone has heard that since Zhao Changshi came to Qingyan County, all the ghosts, gods and evil spirits who have harmed the people have disappeared. Others are not lucky, but I have seen Zhao Changshi with my own eyes. Chang Shi killed rat demons in Xinglong County."

Zhao Mi then thought about it, in order to lure Ren Wangchao and other evil spirits, he practiced Dharma in various places in Qingyan County, and he was said to be opening an altar to patrol the territory.Liang Tao's power to kill evil is not heard by the crowd, as if all the credit was taken by Zhao Mi alone.

Moreover, the idea of ​​opening an altar and patrolling the territory is similar to Liang Tao's patrolling the territory with a sword in the past. I am afraid that someone spread it deliberately.As for who did it, it's hard to say.

"This matter is not my fault alone." Zhao Mi shook his head and smiled: "Immortal ghosts and gods who blackmail the people and plunder have long been tolerated in the world. What I did was just to follow the wishes of the people. I patrolled the counties and counties, When the announcement was made to rectify the prostitution rituals, the local people took action upon hearing the news, and without me sending soldiers, they went to destroy the prostitution rituals and find out the temples themselves.”

According to previous knowledge, Chi Yun has planted a lot of people in the countryside of Qingyan County. Zhao Shu can easily destroy the prostitutes wherever he goes. I am afraid that Chi Yun is secretly cooperating and instigating the people. Announcement, may not be able to have such a result.

Maybe this is Chi Yundu's kindness to Zhao Mi, but he is still not completely sure, so he pulls the Dingziying, which has gathered the villagers of Qiaozhang Village, under his command, so as to wait for an opportunity to understand the situation.

After giving some orders, Zhao Mi left Zhang Liwei and the others behind.

"I haven't seen you for a while, I didn't expect you to come to Jianjia Pass." Zhao Mi chatted: "I don't know if the officials who went to Qiaozhang Village to recruit soldiers made things difficult for you?"

"It's never happened before." Zhang Liwei replied, "Thanks to Zhao Changshi's blessing, we distributed money and food as soon as we arrived at the barracks, and everyone's minds have settled down."

Zhao Mi nodded slightly. The imperial court intends to reform the military system in recent years, because monks and artisans showed their abilities in the Five Kingdoms War, which led to the lack of training of military soldiers. The old military system of simply recruiting young and strong men is not enough to deal with such fierce battles.

The Wukui army, apart from cooperating with the monks of the Guanxi, is characterized by the fact that the soldiers in the army are all excellent talents selected by the various armies in the country. They have to distribute money, food, cloth and silk to the soldiers on weekdays, and they also have other expenses during wartime.

Correspondingly, the daily drills of the Wukui army are varied and rigorous, not just practicing martial arts and formations. Seniors and above must have a rough knowledge of words and arithmetic to serve, and there are even civil and martial arts exams every month, just like monks studying magic arts generally.

As a result, although the number of Wu Kui's army is less than ten thousand, they are all elite soldiers.Beheading the fleeing rat monsters outside Xinglong County, even made it possible for no one to die.If there are monks to cooperate, it will be more powerful.

It is precisely because of the treasures of the Wukui army that General Wei wrote to the lord that in the future, the military system of Huaxu State should be paralleled with recruitment, and the army of foreign crusades should be formed with the selection of recruits, and the young and strong should be recruited to guard the important areas. In this way, each will do his best .

Although there is also training for the recruitment of young and strong men, the cost of armor, weapons, food and salaries is naturally not as good as that of the Wukui army. However, the young and strong can be exempted from the corvee and land tax of the year, so that the people's strength will not be exhausted.

And because of Gao Pinggong's lesson, most of this batch of conscripts are selected from the countryside, young men from good families, and those idle men who want to ask for a bite of money, food and military pay, Jianjiaguan will not accept them.

Although Zhao Mi had experienced the suppression of bandits in Xingluo County, he didn't know much about leading troops and running the army.Even if he holds the position of chief historian, counselors and assists in military affairs, what he can really do is to set an example as much as possible to restrain the soldiers so as not to offend the common people.

If there is spare time, Cao Zuo, the lieutenant colonel, will be summoned to tell them about the use of various spells and countermeasures, and ask them to teach them to the soldiers after they go back.

From time to time, they have to draw various images of ghosts and ghosts, and post them all over the barracks, so that the soldiers can identify them and understand them, so as to make some preparations in their hearts, so as not to panic when they really encounter ghosts and ghosts.

Zhao Shu is a very busy person in Jianjiaguan, there is a branch of the Jinding Division here, even if he does not have to do the specific sacrifices to make talismans, military artifacts, and refining elixir, but Zheng Siyuan is not enough to provoke the leader. Zhao Mi came forward to solve it.

"Curse water according to this method from now on." Zhao Mi picked up a willow branch, tapped the magic water, and then sprinkled it on several soldiers lying on stretchers beside him. The purple and black swelling of their limbs quickly subsided, and their groans gradually cease.

Feeling that their bodies were no longer in pain, these soldiers knelt down in front of Zhao Mi and kowtowed their thanks.

Zhao Mi waved his hand and said, "Okay, go down and get a bowl of dispelling evil and nourishing qi soup, and leave after drinking."

A monk from the Yunzhu Hall asked, "Marquis Zhenming, the tingling pain in their limbs doesn't look like an ordinary disease. Could it be the miasma poison in the mountains?"

Zhao Mi shook his head: "It's not just miasma poison, it should be the bad breath of flying corpses. I've inquired about it. This group of soldiers just came back from outside the customs and encountered walking corpses. Although they killed them, they were infected by the corpse's smell."

"The evil spirit of flying corpses? There are also walking corpses. Could it be the corpse sect?"

"It's very possible." Zhao Mi said while packing up his things: "In the past, the Corpse Sect recruited many disciples and gathered corpses in the middle of Kunlun, and it became a disaster for the world. Below the leader, most of the elders have lost their bodies and spirits.

The corpses they expelled were all over the wilderness, and the evil spirit condensed into flying corpses lingered for a long time and was difficult to get rid of. "

"So it seems that the remnants of the Corpse Sect have gone to Jiuli Kingdom?"

Zhao Shu frowned and said, "That's what it is expected to be. There is Xiong Kingdom who claims to inherit Tianxia's legal system and cannot tolerate this kind of heresy. Our Huaxu Kingdom respects Taoism and Immortal Way, so the Corpse Cult had to go to Jiuli Kingdom. There are filth and filth, mortals and demons are mixed together, tribal witches even retain the bad habit of blood sacrifice, and the Corpse Cult may have regained some vitality."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Shu wrote quickly, and then said to the monks in front of him: "I will have to deal with groups of walking corpses later on, so I need to prepare more incense. This is a prescription for warding off the poison and evil smell of corpses. You go to the treasury." Take a part of it, and I will take you to prepare the fragrant medicine tonight, then pack it into small bags and send it to each battalion in the army. The few in the Yunzhu Pavilion will continue to refine the medicinal powder for repelling poisonous miasma and evil spirits. I have already ordered the battalions Come get it."

All the monks bowed their hands and retreated one after another.

Now Zhao Mi seems to be the leader of the monks in Jianjiaguan. After experiencing the incidents of Yingzhou Society and Qingyan County, few people would question Zhao Mi, even if they did not obey his advice, they would not dare to refute it in public.

"Zhao Changshi! The water is coming out, the water is coming out!" Zhang Yanshou hurriedly shouted from a distance.

Zhao Mi didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, so he asked quickly, "Is the well pond springing up? Where is it?"

"There is a fish pond on the west side of the city, and the muddy water is two or three feet high!" Zhang Yanshou gestured excitedly.

"This is not a small movement." Zhao Mi said, "You lead the way on horseback, and I will pack up and follow later."

After saying this, Zhao Mi took out a paper crane and hovered above Zhang Yanshou's head.The other party was still a little curious, Zhao Mi reminded: "You just go, I naturally know where I am going with this paper crane."

Although Zhang Yanshou is the head of the Ding Ziying, Zhao Mi saw that he was very good, so he was moved by his love for talents, and promoted him to be a personal soldier, responsible for passing news, and occasionally giving him a few words about how to get started. How much he can comprehend depends on his comprehension.

Zhao Shu actually didn't know much about how to teach disciples to pass on the Dharma.How should a student be taught in detail, where to start and when to break through in the face of different aptitudes and comprehensions, Zhao Mi is also blind, and he thinks he is far inferior to his teacher Zhang Duanjing in this regard.

Going back to the Jinding Division to arrange a few things, and then started to pack up the ritual things, Zhao Mi can really feel now that without Jiang Ru's help, he is almost too busy to touch the ground.

"Marquis Zhenming is in a hurry, is there something urgent?"

At this moment, Lu Wangji came here with his qin in his arms. Since she came to Jianjia Pass, Zhao Mi has hardly seen her.

"There are fish ponds and springs outside the city. I want to go there to investigate the changes in the land veins." Zhao Shu picked up the bamboo box, cupped his hands and replied casually: "The hospitality is not good these days, please forgive me, fellow Taoist."

Lu Wangji shook his head slightly: "It's better to say that I am too leisurely. Marquis Zhenming is so busy, do I need to contribute a little bit?"

Zhao Mi invited Lu Wangji to come, originally to let her guard some key points of Jianjia Pass, to prevent the spies and assassins from the Jiuli Kingdom from sneaking in.

"This..." Zhao Shu couldn't turn his head around all of a sudden, he rubbed the center of his brows, and then said: "Okay, if you have more people, you will have more skills, so I will trouble fellow Taoists."

After saying this, Zhao Shu straightened up, and Lu Wangji swayed the Yaoqin, and with the sound of the clang, he floated up, his clothes fluttering like a fairy.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, flew towards the outside of the Guancheng.There are still ordinary houses in Jianjiaguan, and there are farmland ponds around Guanchengjun Town.

After flying for a while, they saw a pool of water spewing out from a distance, and the pond was full of water. The surrounding soldiers could only quickly dig ditches to guide the water to a wider river.

"I've seen fountains before, but I've never seen such a powerful one." Zhao Mi lowered his figure and leaned over to explore. The water temperature was not unusually hot or cold.Shushui took a sip and raised his eyebrows: "It's still a sweet spring, which is good."

Zhao Mi was preparing to set up the mandala, intending to call the officers and soldiers to explore the ground pulse, but Lu Wangji suddenly said: "There are monsters hiding in the water veins."

"Monster?" Zhao Mi grasped the Qingxuan brush and ordered the soldiers to be on guard.

Before everyone was ready, Lu Wangji stroked the strings, and a mysterious sound penetrated into the water and underground, as if breaking through a blockage invisible to the naked eye. The momentum of the fish pond fountain became stronger, and a slender shadow rushed out.

(End of this chapter)