When more than 1,000 people walked through the temporary rostrum in turn, the footsteps were as neat as a person, this kind of shocking feeling even Jiang Tian, who was used to seeing the big scene of the military parade in later generations, was a little uncontrollable, after all, this was the first time he watched the parade at close range, and he was still standing on the rostrum. However, some other viewers are afraid that in addition to shock, they are also a little frightened, among these people are both genuine foreign envoys like Kim Yongtai, and businessmen Heizo who came to make up the numbers temporarily, of course, the Japanese master can't sit on the rostrum because of his low status, but considering that Japan does not have a resident diplomat, he found a front row seat in the audience below, which can be regarded as taking care of the neighboring countries that have just established diplomatic relations.

This is the autumn parade with a long history, in China's military history, it is also a military tradition that stretches through ancient and modern times, but now the drill is renamed as a military exercise, and at the same time the link of the military parade is added, many officials who come to watch the parade are actually not unfamiliar with it, when the emperor Zhang first ascended the treasure, he used the name of the drill to do it on Chang'an Street once, and since then which day has also been set as the National Day of the Chinese Dynasty, compared to the grand and pomp of the founding ceremony, today's parade is indeed not very new, can be seen in the eyes of those Fanbang envoys, this is the military deterrence of naked @naked @ naked@, and it also makes people's legs and stomachs drum. To say that this year's exercise is also very interesting in the eyes of experts, because the border army of Shanhaiguan has not left, so they also participated in this exercise, and simulated the imaginary Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, because they are also old acquaintances with these people, and they have a better understanding of the enemy's tactics and combat strength, and they will be the "enemy" to teach those forbidden troops in Gyeonggi a good lesson.

"Lord Jin, what do you think of our country's military might?" Hu Jingyi talked to Kim Yongtai with a little ostentatiousness. He, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the current minister of foreign affairs, does have the responsibility of receiving foreign guests.

Jin Yongtai is not a fool, he understood from the moment he received the invitation, this is to remind himself not to do stupid things, and after seeing the appearance of the new army here today, he understands what it means to be a soldier who surrenders without a fight: "I have never seen the sheng of your country's military in his life, and it is really stupid to think that the Tartar dares to offend Tianwei!" ”

In fact, anyone who has seen the military parade of the Chinese Dynasty has this feeling, even if it is in the rising period of the European powerhouse, it is difficult to get out of such a uniform pace, as the so-called insiders watch the doorway and the layman looks at the excitement, the same invited several missionaries in Beijing gathered together and muttered quietly for a long time, from their stern expressions, these people can see that this kind of almost ** queue military posture is of extraordinary significance for a pure firearms unit. Europe is now in a period of drastic military change, the widespread use of firearms has put an end to the good old days when the traditional aristocracy dominated the battlefield with heavily armored knights, and after ordinary peasants obtained crossbows and muskets, all kinds of fierce class conflicts have also erupted, and the order under the control of the Holy See has been greatly challenged. The root cause of the vigorous Renaissance and the rise of capitalism in history lies in the fact that the originally weak peasant and merchant classes, having gained the strength to challenge the existing rules, should naturally engage in continuous class struggle. The reason why the capitalist revolution did not break out in China after the large-scale use of firearms was mainly because the traditional literati government was quite stable, the centralized control force was able to ensure that the state's violent organs were not controlled by the lower classes, and the massacres after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs made the people recover for nearly two hundred years, and then the large-scale implementation of the cultural and scientific "degradation" policy, which interrupted the military progressHowever, when the revolution in Europe flourished, this delay led to a fatal result, but fortunately, since the Qin Dynasty, China has a vast territory and a large population, which has survived the crisis of national extinction.

However, no one at the scene except Zhang Tao and Jiang Tian knew this, in the eyes of others or in the eyes of anyone in this era, the decline of China is only temporary, just like when other dynasties change in history, once the great unified dynasty comes again, then it will inevitably reign again in the world, just like the military parade seen now. If the infantry phalanx gave people an unprecedented shocking feeling, then the cavalry phalanx and even the heavy weapon phalanx immediately after it brought a terrifying feeling of crushing. The forbidden army of Beijing itself is equipped with the best horses in Asia, these purchased Arabian horses are not only tall and long, but also completely surpass the Mongolian horses, with fresh clothes and sabers, although there is no heavy plate armor like Europe, but the missionaries and European merchants who watch the excitement believe that even the most elite heavy cavalry can not win in the front, because next to the saddle of this group of Chinese cavalry, there are four short-barreled flintlock pistols on the left and right sides, which are specially prepared for cavalry. The Manchu white-armored soldiers did not suffer less from this thing, as long as the two sides took a look, they had to bear a round of dense bullet rain first, even if the thick skin of those Manchurian Baturu people was not necessarily directly knocked off the horse by bullets, but the horses would never be able to withstand such a blow, not to mention that the range and power of the other party were far above the cavalry bow, even if they wanted to fight back, even if they could be dragged to hand-to-hand combat in the end, they might not be able to please it, because the cavalry knives of these guys were just decorations during the parade, The real weapon was a cast-iron sledgehammer similar to the European mace, and when these forbidden troops rushed over with the height and speed of their horses, the fancy-mounted kung fu could delay the death of the Manchurian cavalry at most, except for a few outliers who were born with brute strength and kung fu, and there were almost no guys who could escape from these cavalry hammers. This is also why when the cavalry of the king of Ji landed, no one in the Manchu nobles, including Dolgon, dared to line up to meet the enemy, you must know that even the elite troops on the front line of the Yangtze River could only dig trenches and defend them, and did not dare to provoke this cavalry in the field battle, not to mention the old, weak, sick and disabled who stayed in Beijing.

So Jin Yongtai, who is familiar with this history, since the cavalry debuted, his expression is extremely strict and serious, when the wild boar skin led the cavalry called Huazi to force North Korea to be a vassal, and even beat the once powerful Ming army wolf rush, and now the Central Plains has risen again A cavalry that makes the grassland tremble, is it possible that the history of China's conquest of the Quartet in the Han and Tang dynasties is going to repeat itself? You must know that whether it is the Han or the Tang Dynasty, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula is the territory of China, is it possible that the emperor of the Celestial Empire is warning us that if we do not know each other to hand over Jeju Island, he will lead this army to regain those lands?

Different from Jin Yongtai's focus, the Europeans and the Japanese looked at the vast array of artillery behind it, the European cannon casting technology in the late Ming Dynasty has surpassed the invention of artillery, and even the Ming Dynasty has a lot of imitation of European models of artillery large-scale assembly troops, such as the famous Franco cannon and red cannon, but these guns that shine in China are not the best models in Europe, which missionaries and naval sailors have the most right to speak, but since Zhang Tao started the army, China's casting process began a dazzling change, first of all, from the world's common mud fan casting method to the transition to the iron cannon casting, this process improvement combined with the background of large-scale iron smelting, so that it did not take a year, according to the Yangtze River of the southern artillery density to the point of numbness, in the original Nanjing defense of the end of two months later, the Manchu Qing had been unwilling to organize a joint counteroffensive by land and water, but from the rear mobilized enough artillery and flowering shells Zhang Tao almost repeated a Ningyuan victory, It's just that unlike the "great victory" in history that did not have the head of the enemy, the enemy who fell on the offensive road this time can be described as full of corpses, and since then the Manchu Qing Dynasty has never organized an offensive against the fortified city. From that moment on, the offensive and defensive forms on the battlefield of the Central Plains changed, and the Europeans also saw what it means to be like the arrival of death at close range, and they coveted China's rapidly rising artillery industry, and also made them understand that this continent is different from other indigenous kingdoms, and is by no means an opponent that any European country can provoke. If it is just cast quickly, the key is that the knowledgeable missionaries found that the Chinese artillery did not completely use heavy bronze, and the later the more light steel cannons of all kinds, they were puzzled by the fact that the Chinese could precision cast steel and withstand the pressure of the propellant.

As for the Japanese idea, it is much simpler, on that barren island, if a daimyo can pull out a dozen large barrels, that is, artillery, it is enough to be called the world's strongest, like the Chinese drag out dozens of artillery pieces of various types in just one military parade, even the Tokugawa family who won the title of shogun may not be able to do it, not to mention that the caliber and length of some of these cannons are equal to three and a while dizzy, just pulling such a huge cannon requires at least four Mongolian horses, The cannonballs on display on the car don't seem to be much smaller than their own heads, and even the general's castle probably can't stop such cannonballs......

In short, this is not a grand military parade, it is a successful end, Jiang Tian, who watched the whole performance, is also very puzzled, to say that this is a bright muscle to deter Xiaoxiao, he can understand, but from the display of military strength, at this moment in the northern grasslands there is no longer an army that can stop Zhang Tao, whether it is the uninjured Mongols, or the Manchu Qing rout who does not know where to hide, in the face of such an army, they are only slaughtered, why Zhang Tao doesn't want to finish the battle, Hurry up the Northern Expedition to lay the time for peaceful development in the future?

"You see war too simply!" Zhang Tao, who was riding on the horse, looked high-spirited, although he was not wearing a dragon robe, his bearing was still very natural, and the people around him, even King Ji, were careful to stand on the side and did not dare to make a loud noise.

But Jiang Tian was the only one who was immune to this domineering spirit, he just asked a question curiously, although his horseback action was not as good as Zhang Tao's, but only he dared to come up to him and ask questions with a shy face: "Even if there is no artillery, only rely on the musket phalanx and that kind of fierce cavalry, on the grassland...... Even if there are these surrounding countries, who else can stop His Majesty's iron hooves? ”

Zhang Tao shook his head and didn't speak, he came to watch the exercise, and by the way, he organized an autumn hunt, which was often played by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Because it is an informal occasion, there are some important ministers around him, the old man of the Liu family is also a duke as a guard, how can this kind of thing be without him, looking at the emperor's meaning that this question is too naïve, so he stood up and answered: "Lord Jiang doesn't know, the Mongolians on this grassland will not be stupid to fight with us, they are originally living in pursuit of water and grass, your army has just set off, they have run away without a trace, except for those tribes who guard us in the grassland, Most of the Mongolian tribes are not afraid of our Northern Expedition, but if you move farther, can you still chase it to Beihai? ”

Jiang Tian thought about it for a while, and the Central Plains civilization has not been able to relieve the harassment of the nomads from him, precisely because of this mobility of the other party. Now is not the era when the borders of the country are clear in later generations, and they don't have the concept that the land of their ancestors cannot be lost, anyway, can't they beat you and run? But the result of a thousand days of thieves is that sooner or later, they will come back.

King Ji, who has always been very low-key, also seemed to want to clarify his position, so he opened his mouth and added: "Now the top priority of the imperial court is to pacify those rogues, although Zhang Xianzhong has been surrendered, but there are still some remnants of thieves in the northwest, and it is said that there is already a flow to Jiayu Pass, which also has to be guarded against." ”

To say that Li Zicheng was also driven out of North China by the Manchus as in history, but the later development went wrong, first because the Yangtze River War made the Manchus have no spare strength to exterminate them, and then the Guan Ning army, which was beaten to the bones, refused to fight with the southern soldiers, and chased Li Zicheng without being dispatched, the reason is also high-sounding, he Wu Sangui wants to find Li Zicheng to calculate the hatred of the country and the family...... In fact, who doesn't know that he slipped away under the banner of revenge, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have enough troops to pursue him at that time, so the two Han troops confronted each other in Shaanxi, and then Beijing fell, the general trend of the world reversed instantly, and the southern soldiers almost drove the fleeing Qing soldiers all the way to the north, Wu Sangui knew that he had no possibility of surrendering again, so he took the remnants of the army into the desert with the fleeing Mongols as horse thieves, but his men were not very satisfied with leaving their homeland and running to the grassland to nibble on mutton chops, Later, in a mutiny, he was beheaded by his own people and sent back to the gate to surrender. So far, the once powerful Guan Ning Army has completely disappeared into history. But Li Zicheng's fate is much weirder, he can't beat the Manchu Qing, and he can't beat Zhang Tao's new army, but he refused the ultimatum of surrender under the defeat and retreat, and only took less than a thousand henchmen to go away, and the rest such as Niu Jinxing and the like became prisoners of the order, and Emperor Ming Shun, who was still reigning at the time, was angry and executed these rebellious ministers and thieves, and the Northwest Army also disappeared.

To say that things have developed to this point, the great unified dynasty has come again, and the Ming Dynasty is hopeful, and then as long as they don't give up the pursuit of Li Zicheng and his ilk, they will at most die in a foreign land. But the Confucian students in Donglin had their heads in water, and they felt that the country was revived and it was unpleasant to look at the soldiers, so the vigorous infighting began again. Although there is no suspense in the end by Zhang Tao to change the dynasty, but the original military deployment has also been disrupted, the new court has to first straighten out the domestic people's livelihood, which allows them to slowly grow bigger abroad, according to the report of Hu Shang from the Western Regions, Li Zicheng out of the Hexi Corridor, first slaughtered a small Mongolian tribe, after obtaining supplies all the way to the west, and now has gradually formed a climate near the Tianshan Mountains, the surrounding tribes, whether they are Mongols or Wu'er people, hate this bloodthirsty and brutal horse thief.

Hearing King Ji's explanation, Jiang Tian's questions were even more, you must know that the Ming Dynasty has not been able to control the Tianshan Mountains again, which has been separated from the Central Plains for a long time, and he broke into the king to go over there to plague the local natives, just like many defeated troops in the early Ming Dynasty went to sea to occupy the island as the king, if you are afraid that one day in the future thieves will make a big counterattack on the Central Plains, you can send troops to kill now, it is estimated that the local people who have long been aroused by hatred will raise their hands to welcome. Even if he doesn't have time to take care of him now, this guy can't break through the city defended by the new army now, and it's unlikely that he won't dare to go north because he wants to guard against him, right? Besides, the local Yarkand will not leave these horse thieves alone, and sooner or later they will be destroyed. Could it be that Zhang Tao is not worried about Li Zicheng's comeback, but is worried that Zhunger, who destroyed Yarkand, will make trouble for himself as he did in history? It is difficult to say that this will not happen, after all, at this time, Jungar only rose after repelling the Russian attack. Is Zhang Tao waiting for Zhunger to disrupt the entire Western Regions and the Mongolian steppe as it did in history, and then defeat Zhunger in one fell swoop to expand thousands of miles?

Seeing that Jiang Tian was still thinking nonsense, Zhang Tao felt that it was better not to dwell on this issue: "I heard that your research institute has made a lot of good things, I wonder if you have anything worth recommending?" ”

Jiang Tian quickly retracted his mind when he heard this, the reason why he would accompany Wang to participate in the hunt was actually to take this opportunity to show the results of the development of the new musket, which was also Zhang Tao's order to silence the mouths of officials who complained that the research institute was too expensive. So he hurriedly beckoned Song Yi and Liu Baokai, who were behind the team, to come over quickly.

These two people have neither titles nor official positions, and being able to participate in this level of hunting is still stained with the light of studying firearms, so these two people quickly suppressed their excitement, and hurriedly stepped forward with a few entourages, and then carefully took out a rifle from the holster next to the saddle and handed it to Jiang Tian.