And this time, Li Xuan, like when he entered Liuzhou and Zhaoqing, once again rejected the advice of the ministers, and would not take the thirty-six dragon sedan chairs into the city!

He's going to ride into the city!

And it's still a military uniform!

Why Li Xuan did this, some people can guess, it is nothing more than wanting the world to declare that he is an emperor who has conquered the city and the entire Jiangnan.

Although Li Xuan is the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and his emperor throne is inherited, almost no one will think that this Tang Dynasty is also inherited by Li Xuan.

Although this emperor was inherited from his dead ghost father, but in this world, he won it himself.

And now, Li Xuan is just trying to further promote himself through such behavior.

And with the ministers who enter the city, the military generals will also ride into the city on their own, and the civil officials are also on horseback, but some of them are not good at equestrianism, in order to avoid accidents, there will be horsemen leading the horses forward.

However, there are not many important ministers who can ride forward with Li Xuan, only about thirty, all civil officials are at the level of Shangshu, and military generals are all major generals and above, all of them are the core class of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to these people, there is also a very core group of people, that is, the five hundred elite cavalry of the cavalry battalion of the Guards, who will accompany Li Xuan into the city, in addition to acting as a guard of honor, but also as an escort.

Before entering the city, the entire Jinling City had already declared martial law, and the urban area near the road where the holy car passed was completely blocked, and the soldiers were directly guarded by human walls at intervals of several meters, and the shops and houses on both sides of the street were all closed and closed for business, and then the military sent troops to search them one by one, and then closed them.

Only the general public, who have undergone detailed scrutiny, are allowed to enter a specific section of the main street to observe the ceremony, and are not allowed to carry any prohibited items, let alone metal products, and the number of people is limited to 3,000.

In front of these crowds of spectators, there were two infantry battalions of the Guards in a standard line, lined up in a strict formation, to prevent a terrorist from appearing among the crowd.

Nearby urban areas were completely locked down, and residents were all driven away first, and those who did not leave within the time limit were arrested and interrogated.

After the holy drive, these people were allowed to go home and shop.

This may seem a bit excessive, but you have to know that this time Li Xuan rode directly forward in order to pretend to be forced, and the streets in these years are relatively narrow, and if a few archers or musketeers are ambushed on both sides of the street, it will turn Li Xuan into a hornet's nest.

Although he had to pretend to be forced, Li Xuan didn't want to die, so the security work at the entrance ceremony was naturally the top priority.

After all, this Jiangnan is the base camp of civil officials and gentry, and Jinling City is the base camp of the base camp, even if Qian Mengjiu has been rectifying Jinling City for several months, but no one dares to say whether there will be spies of the Ming army hidden in the city, and the disgruntled remnants of the former Ming Dynasty are ready to assassinate or something like that in the city entry ceremony.

Li Xuan didn't want to stage a scene of hand-to-hand fighting, subduing or killing assassins, which was not heroic, but extremely stupid.

He didn't even want to see an assassin show up and a fight or something.

This ceremony of entering the city cannot tolerate the slightest accident!

Because Li Xuan wants a perfect performance, the Tang Dynasty needs this performance, and he Li Xuan also needs it!

Political propaganda is also becoming more and more important when the scale of the Tang Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, and it is more and more likely to unify China.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, the Holy Driver officially entered the city, and the order of entering the city had already been determined, and the first to enter the city were several phalanxes of the Guards wearing black military uniforms, including several infantry phalanxes and an artillery phalanx.

The nearly 10,000 troops of the Guards, except for a part of the security personnel, will be part of the ceremony of entering the city.

Countless soldiers dressed in black, carrying muskets and spears, wearing full bodies, half-bodies, or cuirasses into the city, this appearance alone is enough to blind everyone's eyes.

Then there was the artillery phalanx of the Guards, and this time, the Guards pulled out the artillery of the entire artillery regiment, a full fifty-four field guns, including eighteen nine-pound field guns, and when these heavy guns passed through the streets, they were enough to shock countless people.

The guns of the Tang Dynasty are sharp, that is known to many people, but it is actually the first time for many people to see dozens of heavy artillery pieces at such a close distance.

Even if it is many people inside the Tang Dynasty, although many people have seen these heavy artillery, and they also know that they have a lot of artillery from the data on paper, they will still be shocked when they see the scene of dozens of field guns passing slowly in formation.

This ceremony of entering the city was actually made into a military parade by Li Xuan.

The troops that were sent into the city in advance included not only the Guards, but also representatives of the army and navy!

The army directly dispatched the Fifth Infantry Division, the most outstanding unit in the Second Army, to form a phalanx of infantry regiments to participate, and the division commander, Major General Chen Keqiao, was also the actual commander of the troops entering the city.

Even the navy, which can only swim in the water, is ingenious this time, discharging a naval phalanx of hundreds of people, wearing a navy blue military uniform of the same color as the army uniform, almost making outsiders unable to recognize this as the navy, but the navy directly engaged in a large-scale model of the cruiser, carried it forward directly, and then behind the phalanx, there was also a naval gun phalanx!

Yes, the navy transported those fourteen-pound naval guns and a few twenty-four-pound heavy guns to Jinling City with great difficulty, in order to show their faces at the entrance ceremony.

Sure enough, when outsiders looked at the navy's naval gun phalanx, many people exclaimed, alas, oh my, this cannon is so big!

In the past, the army's field artillery phalanx amazed them, but now as soon as the navy's ship-borne heavy artillery appeared, it immediately stole the limelight of the army's artillery.

Although the scale of the army is larger than that of the navy, in fact, when it comes to the number of artillery, in fact, the number of artillery in the Datang Navy is already more than that of the army.

In the naval battle of Nanao Island, the naval fleet used more than 300 ship-to-ship guns at one time!

On the army side, all the field artillery and howitzers of the Second and Third armies combined, can be compared with the number of mobile fleet artillery at that time.

And now, there are more and more warships in the navy, and the number of these guns is also increasing, although there is still some distance from the plan of 1,000 guns planned by the navy itself, but it is estimated that it will not be able to reach it in a few years.

The navy's artillery is not only numerous, but also many of them are large-caliber guns, in the navy, five-pound artillery is only small-caliber artillery, and nine-pound artillery can only be regarded as medium-caliber, not even the main naval guns.

Today, the main naval guns of the Navy are 14 catties of artillery, and in the future, larger-caliber naval guns, such as 18 catties, 24 catties, and 48 catties of artillery, will be the main naval guns.

So whether it is in terms of quantity or caliber, the Navy is not weak!

After the phalanx of the army and navy also passed, it was the official formation of the army, and the number was not large, only more than a hundred people, and these people were also composed of the academies of the martial arts hall, but more than a hundred officers were listed in the phalanx, and their quality was stronger than that of the soldiers in all aspects, so the power was even greater.

After the military official formation, it is the holy car that appears!

Today's Li Xuan is dressed in a military uniform, the military uniform is special, embroidered with dragon patterns, wearing the same specially made sword of the Son of Heaven around his waist, with black leather gloves, and long leather boots.

And today's mount is a pure white Alabama horse, the origin of this horse is not simple, it was originally a tribute horse from a small country in the Western Regions to Emperor Zhengde, and then it was rewarded to the King of Jingjiang, and then it was captured by the Tang Dynasty, and finally it was dedicated to Li Xuan.

This pure white Arabian horse, with a shoulder height of 1.53 meters, has been Li Xuan's mount for the past two years, and this time Li Xuan entered the city, he naturally rode this horse.

And behind Li Xuan, there were four hundred cavalry of the Guards Army following!

When Li Xuan rode into the city in military uniform, it finally let people see what it means to be a horse in the world!

Many people were muttering psychologically at the time, no wonder the Li Tang Dynasty was able to develop from a ravine to today, and it was no wonder that such a wise and holy emperor could lead it in front of him.

And they have also heard that this emperor did not just ride a horse during the ceremony of entering the city, but really led the army to fight, especially during the Guizhou period, Li Xuan personally led the army to fight almost every important battle.

Don't talk about it too early, just say that at that time in the Xingquanfu period, he personally led the army to fight a big battle with the Guizhou official army.

In the Wuzhou Campaign and the Guangzhou Campaign, Li Xuan personally commanded the troops to fight.

Although Li Xuan's command relied to a large extent on the assistance of other generals and staff teams in the specific operations at that time, it has to be denied that every important order on the battlefield was given by him personally.

With such an emperor, it is difficult for you to treat him like an ordinary emperor on the spot.

Even Emperor Zhengde in the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the north personally led the army to fight in the early years, but it was only a coordinating role, and it was not the case that he really commanded the troops, after all, he was not the founding emperor.

And leading an army to war, this kind of thing is generally what the founding emperor did.

Zhu Yuanzhang, people like Zhu Di would do this!

In the shock of everyone, Li Xuan rode into the city on horseback, and after receiving a shocked gaze and shouting long live, he ended today's performance and officially moved into the royal palace rebuilt by the former Wei State Mansion.

Immediately after Li Xuan, Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun and others also arrived one after another.

However, at this time, Li Xuan still can't be idle, the forcing of this entry ceremony has been installed, but he hasn't done anything yet!