Chapter 11 The light of the armor opens to the sun

There's no way around it.

First of all, Fengtianmen is the square in front of Tiananmen, although there are also them, but compared with those of later generations, the Tiananmen Square of later generations is between the Forbidden City and the South City Gate, and the buildings of several squares have been bulldozed.

Not today. Space is limited.

And if the people watch, the organizational ability is also a problem.

Therefore, the people can only watch the parade units enter and exit at both ends of Chang'an Avenue.

This kind of military parade can also be regarded as Zhu Qizhen's creation in this era. But even if Zhu Qizhen's creation is in line with this era, there is no way to do it.

However, Zhu Qizhen wanted to watch the ceremony on the city tower, but this point was retained.

And it is not only Zhu Qizhen who can watch the ceremony on the top of the city tower. The civil officials circled by Zhu Qizhen are university scholars, or former university scholars, and military generals are national dukes.

So it's also densely packed with dozens of people.

There are the founding of the Qianguo Gong, the Wei Guogong, the Jingnan Xungui Dingguo Gong, and the British Gong. Chengguo Gong is delisted, and he can't only climb up.

Meng Ying's son, that is, the Duke of Teng Guogong of the Ming Dynasty. Yang Hong, the Duke of Changguo, and Guo Deng, the Duke of Yingguo. There were also several vassal kings and princes.

Zhu Qizhen naturally greeted them one by one, especially some old ministers who had not seen each other for a long time, such as Cao Nai.

Cao Nai, who was a member of the Young Zhuang faction, is now sixty years away. Zhu Qizhen and Cao Nai's words were happy, as if they were on top of the Golden Palace back then, and the tension was invisible.

When the auspicious time comes.

Then the sound of the whip sounded.

Dozens of big men, with red cloth wrapped around their heads, threw off their arms and began to beat the drum vigorously. The rumbling drums turned into the beat of the heavens and the earth.

Then the first phalanx came out.

It's nothing else, but it's a Han general in the palace.

Each of these men was selected from the best of the army, wearing heavy armor and holding a golden gourd.

The so-called gourd is actually a gourd hammer, and the hammer shape is like a melon. Naturally, it is a golden armor and a golden hammer, which looks very majestic, and it happens that the sun shines in the morning. Dazzling

Don't look at it, these Han generals are just palace honor guards.

But after Zhu Qizhen carried out the reform of the military system, how could he not do it to the deep palace.

It's just that this one thing is extremely sensitive, so naturally it can't be done drastically.

Now, in general, the guards of the palace are still a few pro-military guards from the royal family, but these guards have completely changed.

If you say that the previous pro-military guard, it was also produced by land. Today's pro-military guards, almost every family has someone working in the Shaofu system.

If the craftsmen of the past were still regarded as hard labor. Now working in the Shaofu is already a decent errand.

Anyway, too

Those who eat imperial food.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen gave all the fields of several nearby Huangzhuang to the pro-military guards.

Moreover, the land officers who encroached on the pro-army guards were dealt with heavily.

Maybe Zhu Qizhen can't be so far outside, and later generations say that Tiangao Emperor is far more of an adjective, but it is a fact in this era.

But in Beijing, what Zhu Qizhen wants to know, it's really hard not to know.

Therefore, after Zhu Qizhen's rectification, the soldiers of the pro-soldier guard and the Ming royal family can be said to be closely connected. One glory has glory and one loss has loss.

In terms of combat effectiveness, they have also undergone a lot of training, and some generals who can fight are also inserted in various positions. Even when they went out on expeditions, they sent a small number of them.

Of course, after all, these armies have not been engaged in actual combat, and they may not be as good as the field armies of the northern and southern armies.

But in such a critical position, reliability comes first.

In addition to these pro-military guards, there is also an important source of guards, that is, the sons and daughters of large and small nobles, who are on duty in the palace. There are also the children of the Liang family in Hebei, who have suffered from their fathers and ancestors. After all, Zhu Qizhen has always regarded the Liangjiazi of Hebei as the basic plate.

These three forces constitute the guard system of the Ming Imperial Palace. It also maintains a certain amount of internal and external mobility.

Now the Han generals are not incapable of fighting, they are real heavy-armored foot soldiers, and the gourd hammer in their hands seems to be a plaything, but their armor-piercing ability is amazing.

Don't underestimate the ceremonial utensils, you must know that the Mo knife is still in the honor guard of the Ming Emperor, and there is a team of Mo Dao team behind to be reviewed.

The only question is, who are these heavily armored foot soldiers going to fight against?

Will the tile spur be stupid enough to fight with the heavy armor of the Ming infantry soldiers?

These murderous weapons have only become honor guards.

After these ceremonial armies passed, it was the real main force of the Ming Dynasty, first of all, the phalanx wearing the mandarin duck array with swords and shields in their hands, and the troops already wearing armor and holding spears. And then there are the Musket troops.

In fact, when there is a real war, many of these armies are mixed. Just for the sake of a good look at the parade, it is natural to line up.

If it is said that the honor guard army in front mostly uses gold, but at this moment, the main army of the Ming Dynasty uses more red, but when you see red flags, red tassels, and red mandarin duck battle jackets, it looks like a beating flame for a while.

Every phalanx chanted in front of the Fengtian Tower: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

In the midst of this chanting, Guo Deng pointed out by Zhu Qizhen's side, who led each department.

The entire military parade is only more than 20 phalanxes, of which the infantry and artillery are almost evenly divided, and every general who can lead the team to walk through the scene below is a rising star from all over the world.

Zhu Qizhen listened to them one by one, but he just heard a familiar one.

After all, for Zhu Qizhen, he doesn't need to be so nervous about the army now. These up-and-comers don't need to

He paid special attention to it, and if he had the ability, he would naturally be able to reach his ears again with his own ability. What if you don't have the ability, even if you're a rising star?

Regardless of the army, or officialdom, are there still fewer rising stars?

However, even such a name still attracted Zhu Qizhen's attention, and he asked, "Is this Sun Zhen the Sun Zhen of the Huichang Bo family?" ”

Guo Deng said: "Exactly. ”

Zhu Qizhen's gaze swept over the prince, and he sighed slightly in his heart.

But there is some helplessness, he and the prince, father and son, seem to be close to their grandmother. It's not that he is estranged from his mother, but Zhu Qizhen really doesn't have a good impression of the Sun family.

It's just that he sent all the children of the Sun family to the Annan army, if there was no prince's appeasement, how could this Sun Zhen appear on this occasion.

However, Zhu Qizhen did not really pursue it.

After all, he is the blood relative of the Queen Mother, and he can be regarded as his cousin. The prince's cousin, the prince can cultivate if he wants.

Immediately after the march, there was the cavalry.

The cavalry was also divided into heavy cavalry. It's the kind of man and horse with heavy armor, and it looks like a steel monster. Even these heavy armored cavalry had more heavy armor than the previous Ming Dynasty.

The reason is very simple, in fact, the Ming Dynasty is rarely equipped with heavy cavalry, without him, firearms are used in large quantities, so that this ancient type of military slowly fades out of the times.

Today's heavy armor is specially built for military parades. Like the previous Han generals, it has become more and more ceremonial.

And there is no shortage of horses in the Ming Dynasty at all, especially the high-headed horses that can carry weight in the Western Regions, coupled with the sophisticated heavy armor built by Shaofu, which looks full of deterrence.

In the heavy cavalry is the cavalry of various departments, and the appearance of these cavalry makes many people very excited. These cavalry phalanxes are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and many generals have fought many times with the Tile Thorn army.

The ministers around him probably felt that this was the core of the battle of the Ming army, and it was also the most deterrent existence, especially in the twenty-eighth year of orthodoxy, 250,000 horsemen, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, drove out the thorns in the Western Regions.

But Zhu Qizhen doesn't think that this is the most deterrent existence.

The most deterrent is heavy artillery.

The thousand-pound cannon that can only be pulled by six horses is also a special artillery battalion that Zhu Qizhen attaches great importance to, and more than 30 guns were pulled over at once. The iron wheels of the heavy artillery rolled over the blue bricks above the square, and the gurgling sound came out, but for Zhu Qizhen, it was the most beautiful sound.

True.

The Ming army still has many flaws.

At least with Zhu Qizhen's vision of pure firearms, completely abandoning cold weapons, there is still a long way to go. But at this point. It is enough to guard the twenty provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the six major capital divisions, and the various propaganda divisions at home and abroad.

And Zhu Qizhen's promotion of firearms will not stop.