Chapter 127: Keju
Ying Ming does not have a book of heavenly books, and everything he does comes from the habit that many Beiyang Banner Army have had since they were recruited into the army - copying Chen Mu.
Strictly speaking, this young commander of the Elan Kingdom Tyron was born in the last years of Jiajing, which can be regarded as a generation of growth and Longwan.
This generation is not like a new teenager who grew up in the Wanli period, and there is a national construction of primary schools to systematically tell them the pattern of lagging behind in the world for two or three years, and they are not afraid of heaven and earth.
Ying Ming's generation, especially the young people born in Beizhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Liaodong, singled out ten stations together, and nine families counted three generations up, and all of them had elders who died due to the suffering of the Beiyu.
The calamity and the flames have subsided, but the breath in the hearts of men will last longer, and for them the world is eager to try, and they are desperate to prove something.
This kind of proof is in Ying Ming's heart, which is to prove that the Heavenly Army is invincible, not only because they have sweated for two years at the Beiyang Training Ground, but also because this is their innate responsibility.
A generation has a generational historical responsibility.
The world is in their hands, and they can move as they please.
There are three camps set up in Puli County, the large camp belonging to the Sanlao Battalion is located outside the Mingshang Muye Guild Hall, the sergeants in the camp are digging the foundation of the house in the name of training earthworkers, and the old Muye battalion soldiers who have been busy all morning outside the camp are playing kickball on the grassland.
The English also played football, and the game began in the 12th century when the Danes invaded, and some soldiers kicked the Danish skull out of resentment, but later they found that the kicking of the skull was too awkward, so they replaced it with a blowing cow bladder, and there was a game at the same time.
Twice a year, usually between lords and lords, people swarmed up, and sometimes the ball flew into the civilian houses, causing chaos and disaster, so that football could only be played in open spaces, and the open space between the Ming Chamber of Commerce and the city used to be the place where Plymouth games and religious gatherings were held, but now they are occupied by the army.
The squatting of the Ming Dynasty is also similar, since the Spring and Autumn Period, the squatting as one of the means of training and venting the excess energy of the soldiers, kicking is a solid ball that fills the hair, reaching a climax in the Han Dynasty, after all, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, has a wide range of hobbies, and specially held a game for the emperor to kick the ball, and the more professional regulations at that time were twelve people per team.
In the Tang Dynasty, it became eight pieces of sharp leather sewn leather balls, and the heart was also blown with animal bladders, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, due to the polo called the bow for military training, the squatting ball had more entertainment development, and there was also a women's team.
In the Song Dynasty, the game was more formal, the ball was made of twelve pieces of nitrate cooked skin, each ball weighed 14 taels, the two goal posts were three feet two feet high, the goal net was nine feet five inches wide, two feet eight inches high, and there was a glance on the net, which was called 'Merry Eye'.
The essence of the ball is that the two goals are the Chinese army camp, and the players of the two teams are the soldiers, the ball is not important, it just dynamically shows the focus of the battle formation, so as to attack and defend each other, and the first to break through the enemy camp wins.
This development was interrupted in the early Ming Dynasty, because the early Ming Dynasty followed the habit of the Yuan Dynasty gate valve nobles who liked to kick the ball, many people abandoned the government affairs, and the women of the Qinglou knew that men liked to kick ball, so they used the ball to attract guests, so that this sport tended to be obscene and vulgar, Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang specially issued a decree that the official warriors were not allowed to kick the ball: the bow round person unloaded.
But to be honest, it's useless, after Zhu Siye, one emperor after another was stuffed in the palace, and his favorite thing was to play football, and the people also liked this kind of sport too much, so this ban lasted for a while, and it only lasted for a period of time among officials and nobles.
This custom followed the immigrants across the sea to Makino, and was brought to Puli County by the merchants, and soon they cleared a field in the open space outside the camp to make a stadium, erected a goalpost, and directly put the canvas on the net without a net, and the two sides kicked each other against each other.
Ying Ming didn't prohibit it, he just didn't let the officers play football, as for the old camp and merchant soldiers...... Don't make trouble, their identities are already ambiguous, saying that they are good officials and soldiers, and it is okay to say that they are militias, and it has nothing to do with them no matter how strict the laws are.
Anyway, the new Universal Law didn't prevent people from playing football.
What's more, in such a place, just after experiencing a plague and war, regardless of whether the merchant soldiers or the Muye soldiers are idle and have nothing to do, the scouts have reported that the army of Leitou Township in the east will withdraw and disperse to the north after the defeat of the main army.
Now that the scouts were staring outside, the people also began to reclaim the wasteland outside the city to prepare for farming, and the troops waited for Li Yuxi's follow-up fleet to transport the baggage, taking advantage of the fact that the atmosphere of cockfighting, card playing, and gambling in the camp and guild hall had not yet risen, so that there was no harm in letting them play football to vent their excess energy and maintain their physical strength.
This even helped them communicate with the people of Puli, at least the ball game between the Makino soldiers attracted a lot of people in the city to watch, but no one dared to go to the east side of the stadium - the cavalry masters of Beiyang were all sitting here.
The elite cavalry lords are not armed with heavy armor like their Ailan Wuben, most of them have untied their iron arms and taken off their armor skirts, and they are placed next to the tethered horses outside the camp with their weapons, and the small horses carried by the auxiliary horses are sitting on the side of the court and watching.
These big men put their helmets and cuirasses at their feet, untied their belts, stepped on the leather official boots lined with iron sheets of Beiyang officers, and watched the squatting game while watching the squatting game under the tree.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, which is actually the reason why the sergeants in the city are so leisurely, the busy farming will make the enemy's troops smaller, and the increasingly hot weather will also make the enemy consider not coming to Puli County to fight - they come from a long journey, the heat will greatly limit the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and also limit the time for the soldiers to line up in the field, who dares to wear a military coat to go out and hang out in the summer?
The thickness and weight of the armed clothes and cotton armor, plus the armor outside, will cause heat stroke every moment in the array.
Even Ying Ming, who is not a heavy cavalry, can't continue to fight for too long in such weather conditions, he took the cavalry out for routine horse training for half an hour today, and he didn't dare to take off the cotton armor completely after half an hour when he came back, for fear of unloading the armor.
Based on the experience of fighting in hot conditions at the Toyo Military Office, the military hospital believed that the wind of removing armor was due to the body's efforts to dissipate heat, and that suddenly taking off the armor would cause the cool breeze to rush into the body along the pores, so it was stipulated that the heavy armor sergeant had a set of hard rules regarding taking off the armor in hot conditions.
It is not allowed to take off the armor before stopping the exercise, and after dismounting and resting, take off the outer armor of the arm binding, breastplate, and armor skirt, you can drink cold and white to cool down, and then open the cotton armor when the sweat falls, and then wait for a moment to take off the cotton armor and wear a single coat, and wait for half an hour to take a bath.
Therefore, these Beiyang cavalry masters had nothing to do, and most of them let Ailan Wuben carry the little horse to watch the football game, and some people returned to the camp to read books.
At this moment, Ying Ming saw someone riding his horse, galloping all the way from outside the court, and the horse was Wei Si, the warrior of the Ding family.
"General, the villain has inquired!"