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Chapter 1310 Cuju
Yingming didn't have a book from heaven, everything he got came from the habit that many Beiyang Banner soldiers have had since they were recruited into the army - copying Chen Mu.

Strictly speaking, this young Commander Tai Long of the Alan Kingdom was born in the last years of Jiajing, and he can be regarded as the growth and Long Wan generation.

This generation is not like the new teenagers who grew up in the Wanli period. The national construction primary school systematically told them the situation in the world that was two or three years behind.

Yingming's generation, especially young people born in Northern Zhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Liaodong, picked out ten to stand together, nine families counting up to three generations, and all elders died due to the suffering of the northern captives.

Disasters and flames of war have subsided, but the anger in people's hearts will last longer. For them, the world is eager to try, and they are eager to prove something.

This kind of proof, in Ying Ming's heart, is to prove that the Heavenly Army is invincible, not only for their two years of sweating in the Beiyang training ground, but also because it is their inherent responsibility.

A generation has a historical responsibility for a generation.

The world is in their hands and they can move as they wish.

There are three camps set up in Puli County. The big camp belonging to the Sanlao Camp is located outside the Mingshang Muye Club Hall. Inside the camp, the soldiers are digging the foundation of the house in the name of training geotechnical workers. The old Muye camp soldiers have been busy all morning. Play kickball on the grass.

The English also play football. The game here began when the Danes invaded in the [-]th century. Some soldiers kicked the skulls of the Danes out of anger. Later, they found that kicking the skulls was too harsh, so they replaced them with inflated cow bladders. , and a match appeared at the same time.

The game is played twice a year, usually between the lord and the lord, and people flock to it. Sometimes the ball will fly into the houses of the common people, causing chaos and disasters. Therefore, it is required that football can only be played in the open space. Mingshang Guild Hall goes to the open space between the cities. That's where Plymouth games and religious meetings were held, and now they're taken over by the army.

Cuqiu in the Ming Dynasty is similar. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Cuqiu has been used as one of the means to train soldiers and vent their excess energy. They kicked solid balls filled with hair, and reached their climax in the Han Dynasty. When playing football, the more professional regulations at that time were 12 players per team.

In the Tang Dynasty, it became a leather ball sewn with eight pieces of pointed leather, and the animal bladder was also used to inflate the inside. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the special polo called Jiju for military training, Cuqiu developed more towards entertainment. There are also women's teams.

The game in the Song Dynasty was more formal. Cuballs were made of twelve pieces of tanned cooked leather. Each ball weighed 14 taels. The two goal posts were three feet two feet high. The goal net was nine feet five inches wide and two feet eight inches high. It's called 'Merry Eyes'.

The essence of Cuqiu is that the two goals are the camp of the Chinese army, and the players of the two teams are soldiers. The ball is actually not important, it just dynamically shows the focus of the battle, so as to attack and defend each other, and the first to break the enemy camp win.

This development was interrupted in the early Ming Dynasty. Since the early Ming Dynasty followed the habit of the aristocrats in the Yuan Dynasty who liked Cuju, many people neglected government affairs because of it, and women in brothels knew that men liked Cuball, so they used Cuball to attract guests. Indecent and vulgar, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang specially promulgated a decree that officials and warriors are not allowed to play football: those who make a round ball will unload their feet.

But to be honest, it's useless. After Zhu Siye, the emperors will be bored in the palace one by one. His favorite thing is to play football. The people also like this kind of sport too much, so the ban lasted for a while, and it was only for officials. lasted for a while.

This custom followed the immigrants across the ocean to Muye, and was brought to Puli County by merchant soldiers. Soon they cleared a field outside the camp for a field, erected goalposts, and played directly without the net. Canvas, the two confronted each other and kicked up.

Ying Ming didn't forbid it, he just didn't let the officers play football. As for the Muye old battalion and the merchant soldiers...don't worry, their identities are already ambiguous. It has nothing to do with them.

Anyway, the newly edited Wanguotongfa did not stop people from playing football.

What's more, such a place has just experienced a plague and war, regardless of whether the merchant soldiers or the pastoral soldiers are idle and have nothing to do. The scouts have reported that the army in Leitou Township in the east retreated after the main force was defeated and dispersed to the north.

Right now, the scouts are watching from the outside, and the people are starting to reclaim the wasteland outside the city for farming. The troops are waiting for Li Yuxi's follow-up fleet to deliver their supplies. Before the cockfighting, card playing, and gambling in the camp and clubhouse are popular, let them play football to vent their excess energy. And there is no harm in maintaining strength.

This even helps them communicate with the common people in Puli. At least the ball game held between the Muye soldiers attracted many people in the city to watch, but no one dared to go to the east of the stadium—the cavalry masters from Beiyang were all there Sitting here.

The elite cavalry masters are not armed like their Ailan Wubians. Most of them have untied their iron arms and armor skirts. They are placed with the weapons next to the horses outside the camp, and they carry the horses one by one. The little Mazar who was carrying sat on the side of the court and watched.

These burly men put their helmets and breastplates under their feet, untied their belts, and stepped on the leather boots of Beiyang officers lined with iron sheets. .

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 reduce the enemy's troops, and the increasingly hot weather will also make the enemy think about not coming to Puli County to fight - they traveled long distances and went Come on, the heat will greatly limit the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and also limit the time for soldiers to line up in the field. Who dares to wear military coats to hang out in summer?
The thickness and weight of the armor and cotton armor, plus the outer armor, will cause heat stroke every moment in formation.

Even Yingming's cavalry, who are not considered heavy armor, can't continue to fight for too long under such weather conditions. Today, he took the cavalry out for routine horse training for half an hour, and it was half an hour after he came back. Dare to take off the cotton armor completely, afraid of the wind of armor removal.

According to the experience of the Japanese military government in fighting under hot conditions, the military hospital believes that the wind of removing armor is caused by the body trying to dissipate the heat. Suddenly taking off the armor will cause the cool wind to enter the body along the pores. There are rigid rules about taking off armor.

Do not take off your armor before you stop exercising. After dismounting or resting, take off the outer armor such as armbands, breastplates, and armor skirts. A wears unlined clothing and has to wait half an hour before taking a shower.

Therefore, this group of Beiyang cavalry masters had nothing to do, most of them let Ai Lanwu Bian carry the pony to watch the football game, and some went back to the camp to read.

At this moment, Ying Ming saw someone riding his horse, galloping all the way from outside the court, and the one on the horse was Wei Si, a warrior who received the family.

"General, the villain found out!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)