Da Zaojun

After Song Wuji bestowed blessings through the stove fire, some more soldiers in the army broke through to the ninth rank.

With each breakthrough, Chen Xiu, as the leader, vaguely sensed that something was about to emerge.

Previously, in the military, five men formed a squad, ten men formed a platoon, and five platoons formed a team. The team leader was a ninth-rank official. Because there were only two hundred regular soldiers, there were only four team leaders.

Now that the five hundred regular soldiers have been replenished, there are also ten people who have broken through the ranks.

Therefore, the numbers "two teams and one brigade" and "five brigades and one battalion" were added.

A brigade consists of 100 men, commanded by a brigade commander, and under the command of two squad leaders.

Five brigades and one battalion consist of 500 men, and their commanding officer is a colonel.

Among them, the brigade commander was a principal officer of the eighth rank, and the colonel was a principal officer of the seventh rank.

However, these organizational structures require "military merit" and "luck" to be effective.

Whether it is a brigade commander or a colonel, there is only one set of ceremonial rules.

That is to "win the war" and to use military merits and the number of heads taken as a basis for a large-scale "skull sacrifice" ceremony.

The military, as the main body, completes this ritual, thus achieving a transformation in spirit and energy.

The main and fierce battles before were fought by the five battalions of rampant soldiers. Chen Xiu and his five hundred regular soldiers assisted the five battalions of rampant soldiers in clearing out the remaining soldiers, finishing off the wounded and removing their armor, and cleaning up the mess.

But it can be considered a "war sacrifice" at least.

They achieved at least some "victories," advancing two miles towards Jianxin County, clearing a secret post station area, and killing many wild monsters.

After the sensing was completed, Chen Xiu explained the situation to Song Wuji: "For every enemy demon we kill, we can plunder a share of luck and gain a share of military merit."

"If you behead three opponents of equal cultivation level, you can be promoted one level. That is, if an ordinary soldier kills three ordinary demons, he becomes a squad leader."

"Of course, of course, you can also directly kill ninth-grade demons and eighth-grade demons to obtain the power of a grade."

"Most importantly, as long as one is promoted to squad leader, there will be four more vacant regular soldier positions under one's command, which can be filled by auxiliary soldiers. As long as an auxiliary soldier kills a demon, he can gain the strength of a regular soldier."

"However, the difference between a regular soldier and an auxiliary soldier lies not in the three treasures, but in the equipment and the training discipline."

"However, if the auxiliary soldiers have also received training, they can integrate into the group quickly."

“I have already sensed it. The rituals of martial arts lie in war. As the saying goes, the great affairs of the state are sacrifice and war.”

"By defeating the demons and conquering the territory, the power of martial arts rituals can snowball and grow bigger and bigger."

"If one can command a thousand soldiers, he is called a Guard, and his title is General."

"If one can command 5,000 troops, one is called a lieutenant general, a deputy general, or a general with miscellaneous titles."

"A general is one who commands more than ten thousand troops."

"Above that are the generals of Siping, Sizhen, Si'an, and Sizheng, who can command tens of thousands of troops."

"Further up, those commanding over 100,000 troops are generals, grand generals..."

Chen Xiu spoke with great excitement, seemingly eager to amass a massive army and gain the support of ten thousand soldiers to become a master strategist. However, Song Wuji poured cold water on his enthusiasm: "Our county can only support five hundred regular soldiers and fifteen hundred auxiliary soldiers, which is already our limit. In this war, without the support of the Iron Pillar Palace and the ten thousand pills of fasting pills, we can only defend and cannot expand our territory."

"Even so, the city's resources have already been mobilized. If more soldiers are conscripted, the logistics will be cut off, and a large number of people will have no food to eat."

"If you command a thousand regular soldiers, once you go to war, you will need at least three thousand auxiliary soldiers and laborers to ensure logistics. And these people will need at least forty thousand people to support them continuously."

"If you want to command two thousand soldiers, you will need five thousand auxiliary soldiers and laborers, and you will need one hundred thousand people to support you."

"Unless we take over a prefecture and manage it well for three or four years, and explore all the secret realms within the territory, I estimate that we will be able to support five thousand regular soldiers."

"Therefore, my idea is to first train elite soldiers, at least these five hundred regular soldiers, all of whom should reach the ninth rank. Then, we should select the best among them to be squad leaders, and have them recruit auxiliary soldiers to train in the rear. Once they are trained enough, we can then send them to the battlefield."

"Only by taking steady and solid steps can we gradually control more and more troops, rather than blindly expanding the army and making it appear bloated."

"Furthermore, things are not the same as before; this is a war in the mundane world."

"What we are training is a heavenly army, to slay demons and monsters, to uphold the righteous path of humanity, and to suppress the demonic path."

"Upon reaching the seventh rank, one is akin to a terrestrial immortal, whose supernatural powers and methods no longer merely showcase personal abilities."

"Therefore, the primary purpose of military drills is to select talented individuals. If one is trained to the rank of seventh grade, one can suppress a county; if one is trained to the rank of eighth grade, one can suppress a town or a village."

"No matter how many soldiers you have, if you're not strong enough, they'll only be used as sacrifices."

"You should find a way to kill a seventh-rank demon as soon as possible, complete the seventh-rank sacrificial martial arts, and then assist the captain in killing an eighth-rank demon. The captain needs to help other talented martial soldiers he values ​​to kill ninth-rank demons."

"Now is a great opportunity. Next, I will focus all my efforts on dealing with the sixth-rank demon over there and will have no time to attend to you."

"Master Xu," Song Wuji said to Xu Jia, "I beg you to protect us at this critical moment, so that our team doesn't suffer too many casualties."

"Don't worry, don't worry, have you forgotten what kind of patriarch I am? I am the patriarch of corpse dissolution. Now the Three Realms and Six Paths are out of order, and the Great Dao of Life and Death Reincarnation is not as rigorous as before. As long as the corpse is still intact, I can revive it. Even if lifespan is greatly reduced and potential is fixed in the future, each person can only be revived once."

Upon hearing that the Corpse Dissolution Ancestor possessed such a heaven-defying resurrection technique, Song Wuji was overjoyed: "Rest assured, Master, this time, I will definitely bring back the remaining two primordial embryos of the Five Paths Evil God for you."

"This technique originates from the Supreme Being's innate creation, the Supreme Pure Qi Mysterious Talisman."

"Back then, Laozi used this talisman to revive me from my skeleton state, allowing me to cultivate into the Immortal Ancestor of Corpse Dissolution, known as the White Bone God Lord."

"Although I have lost this talisman and my status as the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal Ancestor has vanished, the principles I have comprehended have not disappeared."

"This is the way of creation."

"In the future, when you seize a prefecture and cultivate to the fifth rank, you will be able to comprehend the White Bone Dao Book that I previously taught you and forge the One Breath One Qi Creation Pure Life Pool."

"With your register of living people and the register of the dead of the city god, as long as the body is not destroyed, the two of us can work together to consume luck and revive the person. The number of revival times has been increased to 3, but each revival will still reduce a certain amount of lifespan and potential."

"Fifth rank?"

Song Wuji nodded, indicating that he had made a mental note of it. He would complete the rituals and cultivate the White Bone Daoist Book after he occupied Hongzhou Prefecture, and he would definitely build the Creation Pure Life Pool.

(End of this chapter)