Chapter 127 Cuju
Ying Ming did not have a treasure book of heaven. Everything came from many habits that Beiyang Banner Army had when they joined the army - copying Chen Mu.
Strictly speaking, the young commander of the Ailan Kingdom, Tailong, was born in the late Jiajing year, and was considered a generation of growth and Longwan.
This generation is not like the new teenagers who grew up in the Wanli period. Some national primary schools have systematically told them that the world was lagging behind for two or three years, and that they are not afraid of heaven or earth.
Yingming's generation, especially young people born in Northern Zhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Liaodong, picked out ten stations and nine families to count three generations, and all elders died due to the trouble of the Northern Captain.
The disaster and the fire have subsided, but the aura in people's hearts will remain for a longer time. For them, the world is eager to try, and they are eager to prove something.
In Ying Ming's heart, this kind of proof is to prove that the Heavenly Army is invincible, not only to sweat for two years in the Beiyang training ground, but also because it is their innate responsibility.
Each generation has its historical responsibilities.
The world is in their hands, moving as they wish.
Three camps were set up in Puli County. The camp belonging to the Sanlao Camp is located outside the Ming Shang Muye Association. Soldiers in the martial arts field in the camp were digging the foundation of the house in the name of training geotechnical workers. The soldiers of the Makiye camp who had been busy outside the camp for a morning were playing kicks on the grassland.
The English also played football. The game started here with the Danes invasion in the 12th century. Some soldiers kicked the Danes' skull out of resentment. Later, they found that kicking the skull was too bad, so they replaced it with a blowing cow bladder, and the game appeared at the same time.
The game is twice a year, usually between the lord and the lord. People rush up. Sometimes the ball will fly into the civilian houses, causing chaos and disaster. Therefore, football is required to be played only in the open space. The open space between the Ming Chamber of Commerce Hall and the city area was where Plymouth held competitions and religious gatherings, and now they are occupied by the army.
The Ming Dynasty's cuba ball was similar. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, cuba ball was one of the means to train soldiers and vent the soldiers' extra energy. It played a solid ball that filled the hair, which reached its climax in the Han Dynasty. After all, Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han, had a wide range of interests and held competitions and the emperor came to his feet. At that time, the more professional regulations were that each team had twelve people.
In the Tang Dynasty, eight pointed skins were sewn with skin balls, and the animal bladder was also used to blow air in the heart. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the special polo in training was called "Jiju", and the cuba balls had more developments in entertainment, and women's teams also appeared.
The matches in the Song Dynasty were more regular. The cuba balls were made of twelve pieces of nitrified skin. Each ball weighed 14 taels, two goal posts were three or two feet high, the goal net was nine or five inches wide and two or eight inches high. There was a glance on the Internet, called "Fengliu Eye".
The essence of cuba ball is that two goals are the central army camp, and the players of the two teams are soldiers. The ball is actually not important. It just dynamically shows the focus in the battle formation struggle, so as to attack and defend each other and take the lead in breaking the enemy camp to win.
This development was interrupted in the early Ming Dynasty. Because the early Ming Dynasty followed the habit of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty's favored Cuju, many people abandoned their government affairs. The brothel women knew that men liked Cuju, so they used Cuju to attract guests, making this sport a vulgarity. Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang specially issued a decree to prevent officials from playing football: those who ju round took off their feet.
But to be honest, it was useless. After that, Zhu Siye was buried in the palace one by one. His favorite thing was to play football. The people liked this kind of sport too much, so the ban lasted for a while, and only lasted for a while between officials and nobles.
This custom followed the immigrants to Muye and were taken to Puli County by Shangshang. Soon they cleared a field in the open space outside the camp to make a court, erected the goal post, put on the canvas without a ball net, and the two started to fight against each other.
Ying Ming did not prohibit it. He just refused to let the officers play football. As for the old camp of Makino and the Shang soldiers... stop making trouble. Their identities are already ambiguous. It is okay to say that the official army is good, and it is okay to say that it is a militia. No matter how strict the laws are, it doesn’t matter to them.
Anyway, the new Wanguo Tong Law does not prevent people from playing football.
What's more, in such a place, just after experiencing a plague and war, both the Shang soldiers and Muye soldiers were idle and had nothing to do. The scout had reported that the army in Leitou Township in the east withdrew its troops after the main force was defeated and dispersed northward.
At the moment, the scouts were staring outside, and the people began to reclaim wasteland outside the city to prepare for cultivation. The troops were waiting for Li Yuxi's subsequent fleet to transport supplies. While the camp and the guild were fighting cocks, playing cards, and gambling had not yet emerged, they could vent their extra energy and maintain their physical strength without any harm.
This even helped them communicate with the people of Puli. At least the ball game held between Makiyo soldiers attracted many people from the city to watch, but no one dared to climb to the east of the court - the cavalry masters in Beiyang were sitting here.
The elite cavalry masters did not wear heavy armor like their Ailan military barons. Most of them untied their iron arms, took off their armor skirts, and placed them with their weapons next to the horse stakes outside the camp. They carried small horses carrying the horses and sat on the side of the court to watch.
These burly men uniformly placed their helmet breastplate at their feet, unbuttoned their belts, stepped on the leather official boots lined with iron sheets of Beiyang officers, and watched the ball game while sucking herbal tea to cool off under the tree.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, which is actually the reason why the soldiers in the city are so leisurely. The busy farming will make the enemy less troops, and the increasingly hot weather will also make the enemy not consider coming to Puli County to fight. They traveled a long distance, and the heat will greatly limit the combat effectiveness of soldiers and the time for soldiers to line up in the field. Who dares to wear military coats in the summer to sway?
The armed clothes and cotton armor are only the thickness, the weight, and the armor outside, so you will have heatstroke for a moment when you line up.
Even cavalrymen like Ying Ming and others, which are not heavy-armed, cannot continue to fight for too long under such weather conditions. Today, he took the cavalry out for routine horse racing training for half an hour, and after returning for half an hour, he still dared not take off the cotton armor completely, for fear of removing the armor.
According to the experience of the Dongyang Military Office in fighting under hot conditions, the military hospital believes that the armor-removing wind is because the body tries to dissipate the heat. Suddenly taking off the armor will allow the cool breeze to penetrate the body. Therefore, it is stipulated that heavy armored soldiers have a set of hard regulations on taking off the armor under hot conditions.
Do not take off your armor before stopping exercise, get off your horse, and then take off your arms, chest, and skirts after resting. You can drink cool white and cool down. After sweating, open the cotton armor and wait for a moment to take off your cotton armor and wear a single clothes. It will take half an hour to take off your cotton armor and take a shower.
Therefore, these Beiyang cavalry masters had nothing to do, and most of them asked Ailan Wubian to carry a small stool to watch the football match, and some people returned to the camp to read books.
At this moment, Ying Ming saw someone riding his horse, riding lightly from outside the court, and immediately the servant Ding Warrior Wei Si.
Chapter completed!