On September 1st, the camp of the West Mountain of the Thistle Capital.

Today is the day of the military parade of Yan Kingdom.

Many ministers of the Jidu court, envoys from various countries in Jidu, and even the gentry with heads and faces in the Jidu City all received invitations from the Ministry of Rites of the Yan Kingdom, inviting everyone to watch the ceremony at two o'clock in the morning today.

And many people in Jidu City, including the people in the suburbs, villages, etc., are also organized by the government to watch the military parade in Jidu on the viewing platform set up opposite the review stand.

At this time, the western suburbs of Jidu, close to the Xishan camp at the foot of Shijingshan, are full of people, red flags, gongs and drums.

The Xishan Daying, located in the west of Jidu City, has been set up after the Yan Kingdom moved to Jidu.

When Ji Kang was appointed as the crown prince, the Fourth Army led by the general Wang Shi was stationed there, and the Xishan camp was comprehensively built, which not only expanded the area, but also added many training facilities.

Wang Shi's Fourth Army, and even the Eleventh Army led by An Xian later, as well as the reserve army of Jidu now, conducted a review and drill at the end of each month, all of which were carried out in the Xishan camp.

On the north side of the school grounds, there used to be a simple review stand, which was just a platform made of bricks and stones more than one meter high.

In order to welcome this year's military parade, after the beginning of spring this year, the military headquarters began to rebuild the original review stand.

The review platform is divided into the main stage and the secondary platform, and the main platform is built according to the pattern of the outer door of the palace of the Thistle Palace, and the eaves are carved and the fence is extraordinary. The main platform is where Ji Kang and several cabinet ministers, as well as officials of various ministries and envoys from various countries, who came to review, are located.

And the two secondary platforms that extend from both sides of the main platform and can seat two or three hundred people respectively are used by the gentry in the capital of Ji.

Yan Guo's military parade can be described as a grand scale.

The army includes the navy and the palace guard, a total of 16 corps, and a total of about 9,000 people.

The reserve army of the twenty counties of the Yan Kingdom totaled about 10,000 people.

The Army Command College, the Naval Command College, the Government Affairs College, the Gewu College, and even the Medical College, as well as the various branches of the military planned by the army, also have about 6,000 people.

There are all kinds of troops, and the total strength of the military parade held by Yan Guo in the Xishan camp is about 25,000 people, which greatly exceeds Ji Kang's original plan.

Originally, the number of troops to be paraded was about 10,000, but after the news of the parade came out, the commanders and political commissars of each army, and even the military and horse governors and county guards of each county all gave Ji Kang a performance, demanding that all armies and counties participate in the parade.

Ji Kang adopted the opinions of the ministers and decided to expand the scale of the parade.

Because Ji Kang deeply knows that the cohesion of any army must first come from the army's sense of honor.

As the supreme ruler of the Yan Kingdom, he must seize every opportunity to increase the sense of honor and cohesion of the army, rather than deprive or give up the sense of honor and cohesion required by any army.

Now the regular army of Yan State, the army is twelve corps, the navy is three corps, plus a palace guard army in Jidu, a total of sixteen corps.

The number of each army, including logistics and medical personnel, is about 33,000, and the total strength of these 16 armies has reached more than 500,000, which can be said to have reached the limit of what Yan can bear.

According to the population ratio of Yan State, more than 30 people have to raise a soldier. However, in this era of great strife, the number of Yan armies is still small compared to the proportion of the population of each country.

The number of troops, although planned at the beginning was about 10,000, has now grown to 25,000.

However, there are still limited quantities.

Whoever comes to the thistle will be read, and there needs to be a reasonable and overall arrangement.

After the generals Rong Yan and Lejian discussed with the armies and counties, it was finally decided to determine the army for this parade according to the ranking of the military exploits of each army and county and the results of the monthly drills.

This has the meaning of competition, and your army has not been read by thistles, so you can only blame yourself for not doing well. In the future, if you want to come to the thistle capital to be read, you should train hard and make meritorious contributions to wars!

Now, the 25,000 or so troops who have been paraded have entered the school yard of the Xishan camp.

According to the order in which they were read, they were arranged in a square line.

All the soldiers who were read were dressed in bright armor, helmets with red tassels, and leather boots made by the army.

The infantry squadron was in the east; Cavalry, as well as catapults, logistics, medical and other formations, rode in chariots to the west.

In front of the reading square, on the left side of the reading platform, there is a band square led by Gao Yuanli.

The gentry and officials of Jidu who got the invitation, and even the people from all over Jidu, came to the secondary platforms on both sides of the main review platform before two o'clock, and took their seats on the viewing platform opposite.

It was the first time for the people to see such a grand military parade, and they couldn't help but let out bursts of exclamations.

"You see, these soldiers who have been read are so neatly arranged......"

"Are these the soldiers of my Yan Kingdom? I didn't move......"

"The old man can see such a lineup of my Yan Kingdom soldiers today, and he is dumbfounded!"

"Look at the war horses in the west, like the soldiers, they don't move at all."

"This is the army of my Yan country, this is the strong army of my Yan country......"

"My Yan country has such a strong army, why should I be afraid of other countries?"

……

At this time, from a loudspeaker above the reading platform, a voice came:

"It's two quarters old, play music."

As the chief conductor of the orchestra under the review stage, Gao Yuanli, wearing white gloves in his hand and holding a wooden stick in the shape of a cane in his right hand, came to the conductor's platform in front of the band.

With a chic wave of the wooden stick in his right hand, the whole band played, and Yan Wangkang personally named the welcome song "Joyful Yangyang".

The cheerful and beautiful vocal music suddenly resounded in the sky above the Xishan Daying campus.

While many people were immersed in this beautiful melody, there was a sudden noise on the secondary platform to the left of the main review stand. A large number of palace guards entered the school grounds, and they lined up on both sides of the road from the main review stand to the gate of the Xishan camp.

A voice shouted, "The king has arrived." ”

Many people on the opposite side of the secondary platform and the main review stand were in an uproar and knelt down.

The 25,000 soldiers who were paraded also knelt on one knee in the direction of the main review stand.

In the entire reading school field, a deafening shout suddenly sounded:

"Ten thousand years of my king! Years! Ten thousand years! ”

"Ten thousand years of Yan Kingdom! Years! Ten thousand years! ”

At this time, the long horn under the main review platform also made a deep sound.

The chimes and other instruments in the band also rang solemnly, and the repertoire played by the band under the direction of Gao gradually became solemn.

The envoys from various countries who accompanied Yan Wangkang listened to the shouts like a tsunami, and saw the columns and rows of Yan soldiers waiting to be read in the school field, and their faces were not good-looking.

Especially Cai Ze and others, the envoy from the Qin State, saw this situation, and their faces turned white.

Cai Ze sighed in his heart:

"Your Yan State court also said that Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, and that the Qin army is an army of tigers and wolves. Your Yan Kingdom is like this, even more powerful than the Qin Kingdom! Compared to your Yan Kingdom and Qin Kingdom, who is the country of tigers and wolves? Who is the army of tigers and wolves? ”

"In just over ten years, I didn't expect my homeland to become so strong! Not only the people's lives, but also all aspects, they are much stronger than the Qin State. What has happened in Yan Kingdom in the past ten years? How so? How so? ”