It was soon June 11, the day of the review of the selected soldiers. The weather was not good on this day, and it was gloomy from the morning; Although there is no weather forecast, experienced farmers think that it is likely to rain.

After getting down early in the morning, Li Jian, who was in charge of the specific handling of the review, said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, the weather looks like it's going to rain today, how can it be good if it rains during the review?" Your Majesty might as well review it another day. ”

Yun Xi raised his head and looked at the sky, thinking for a while, but still insisted: "There is no need to reschedule, it is today." ”

"Your Majesty,......," Li Jian said.

"There's me, and it can't rain." Yun Xi interrupted.

Li Jian didn't understand Yun Xi's words, but he didn't dare to say any more, so he bowed and retreated.

When the people in the various guards heard about such a day, they still did not reschedule the review, and the voices of complaint were endless, but no one dared to disobey the order and set off from the barracks to the place of inspection.

At the beginning of the afternoon, Yun Xi came to the place of review. This is a school field belonging to the Yulin Guard, because the Yulin Guard is a direct guard, the station is relatively close to the Imperial City, and the school field is also large, so it was chosen here.

Out of curiosity about the new army marching method promoted by Yun Xi, all the qualified officials of the relevant yamen came, and as long as the nobles in the capital were willing to come and see, Yun Xi also allowed it.

So when Yun Xi arrived, the review table was already crowded, and he roughly calculated, there were almost more than 100 people standing on the stage, chatting and waiting for him, and saluted immediately when he saw him come up.

Yun Xi asked them to be exempt, stood on the stage and smiled with Jin Chun: "Jin Qing, do you have confidence in the students of the martial arts hall?" If one of the two grades of the martial arts hall loses, I will punish you. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to guarantee that the queue of students in the martial arts hall must be the best, there are many capable people in the guard, and the minister cannot reach it, but it can meet His Majesty's previous requirements." Jin Chun said.

"Oh, then I'm going to have to take a look." Yun Xi smiled. His requirements are not low, and in Yun Hee's thoughts, there is likely to be no team that will be able to meet his requirements in this review, but he didn't expect Jin Chun to be so confident.

There were a total of thirteen teams in this review, eleven guards and one hundred households per guard, and one hundred people from each of the two grades were selected to form a team according to the grade.

The review was naturally not able to appear together, and Yun Xi personally set the rules for the lottery. Each team drew lots, and in the end, the first-year students of Jiangwutang drew the tenth place, and the second grade drew the twelfth place.

Zheng Xuan, the leader of the martial arts hall, said to them with a happy face: "It happens to be the last few, responsible for the finale, very good." ”

"The soldiers in the front guard must not be doing well, just when the nine teams in a row are performing very poorly, we suddenly appeared in front of Your Majesty's eyes, and you still don't let Your Majesty's eyes shine? If you can't say it, you will reward us. ”

The first-year students were still a little frustrated, feeling that there was no chance to perform at the back, but when they heard Zheng Xuan's words, they all lifted their spirits, and they were ready to go on stage one by one.

On the contrary, the second-grade students were even more depressed when they heard his words: the limelight made the first-grade out, although they thought that they would perform better than the first-graders, but they did not feel that they could be too strong.

They all ignored the other guards and soldiers, and most of the guards themselves did not think that they could be better than the students who spoke the martial arts, and although they were uncomfortable hearing the words of the people who spoke the martial arts, they had nothing to say.

But there is a guard who does not think so. "Wait a minute, let you know how awesome." Li Zengzhi said secretly.

Then the review began. The first one to appear was the avant-garde hundred households of the government army. I saw that these hundred households lined up at the back of the school field and began to walk forward.

Yun Xi immediately began to frown. Thanks to the lines drawn on the ground, the four columns did not turn into four long worms, but they were not very uniform horizontally, and many of them were not straight, their eyes were staring to the left and right or under their feet, and their footsteps were not very neat.

After a while, it may have been said by the leader of the group, and their bodies slowly straightened from front to back, but the column had a tendency to change towards the long worms. Closer to the podium, they began to walk forward, which was a disaster. The already untidy footsteps were amplified exponentially, and the line became even more chaotic.

After a while, the procession walked to the rostrum, where the whole group made a few circles and then continued walking. It was also done, there was no one who turned in the wrong direction, and there was no one who dropped his shoes, which is considered to have reached the minimum standard of Yunxi.

But although the people present did not dare to speak, they all thought to themselves: 'This is it, so that the people can see the difference in the army at a glance?' It is not as neat and comfortable as the previous phalanx. ’

After that, there was a team of eight guards. Yun Xi became angry in his heart: Although the Beiyang Army could not become an army in a month in history, he offered a very high reward price, and he didn't even have a decent one, that is, the team of elementary school students in his previous life was stronger than them.

It wasn't until the tenth team that Yun Xi's brows relaxed a little: all the people in the team of the martial arts hall had their waists straight, and they were relatively neat horizontally; There is a slight mess when you walk the right steps, but the footsteps are neat and consistent; The final turn was even sharper.

Yun Xi smiled at the person next to him, "What do you think of this?" ”

Lan Zhen was stunned, and it took a long time before she came back to her senses and said, "Your Majesty, this new way of walking is actually very magical, and the team is so neat that it is completely different from before. ”

The army infantry of the past generations will train some phalanxes, mainly to resist the cavalry, but they are all about the same, and the general cavalry cannot be much in line, and it is good to be able to block the cavalry in four layers.

Other generals also chimed in. They had all seen the demonstrations of the guards in the palace before, and they didn't think anything was even if a few people walked; But today, when I saw more than 100 people walking so neatly, they were all shocked. Especially when they walked right, the sound of uniform footsteps reached their ears, they never thought that more than a hundred people could make such a loud sound, and they were very surprised.

Yun Xi looked at their expressions and was secretly smug. This method of military training, which began to be popularized in the 19th century, is not something that people in the early 15th century of the Western calendar can imagine. Yun Xi estimated that these students were far from the long-trained Beiyang Old Sixth Town, but they should have reached the level of Wu Peifu's Third Division.

However, it is not easy to train troops in this way, because European countries only appeared after the popularization of six-year compulsory education, and in the 19th century, ordinary soldiers in the Fuso army also graduated from elementary school, and it was very difficult to train ordinary troops in China, which was still an agricultural society.

'Take your time. Yun Xi said in his heart.