"Sixty horsemen of the former army entered the city......"

The first batch of heralds responsible for the ceremonial transmission work set off from Zhengyangmen and rode quickly to Daming Gate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing the number of "sixty horsemen", not to mention the people waiting there, even Zhang Heling, Xiao Jing and others felt extremely cold when they heard it......

You went all the way to the outside of the fortress and returned to Beijing to Shiqinwang's men and horses who made great achievements, you should send more cavalry as the vanguard, why did you only dispatch sixty horsemen at a time?

Shen Xi's side is his own business, he doesn't have many cavalry on hand, he basically sent the cavalry that can be mobilized to pursue the Tatars and conquer the Bauhinia Pass, the sixty horses at hand are still randomly pieced together, it is likely that even the war horses are temporarily drawn from the Beijing camp, and it is not easy to go through the motions with a little look.

In Shen Xi's opinion, even if there are elite riders, they must be used as heralds, after all, the heroic posture of the riders galloping past on Zhengyangmen Street is the most intuitive existence in the eyes of court officials, city guards and ordinary people.

Shen Xi was at the foot of Tumubao, Juyongguan and the capital, although there were also examples of relying on cavalry to win, but the cavalry he relied on was not brought out by himself, but the elite of the border army. The court allocated him only infantry, and there were only a few hundred scouts in the middle, that is, they did not collect horses at night, so it was understandable that the cavalry was scarce.

The key to Shen Xi's successive victories mainly lies in the use of infantry formations, as well as the ingenious use of artillery, firearms, bows and crossbows, and the digging of trenches for defense.

These things are difficult to show to the court officials, the soldiers guarding the city, and the common people in this small place of Zhengyangmen.

Do you want him to set up a square infantry formation at Zhengyangmen? Insiders look at the doorway, outsiders look at the liveliness, if there is no Tatar background, there is no way to show the power of the infantry formation!

When the first sixty horsemen entered the city, although they were not in a hurry or impatient, and seemed to be very lawful, it was obvious that the performance of these cavalry was very disappointing.

All of them are light cavalry, even if the horses are slow, slightly bumpy and unstable, it can be seen that the quality of the cavalry is very poor, and the quality of the horses is not good, fortunately it is only slow, otherwise these sixty horsemen will have to lose Shen Xi's face.

The corners of Zhang Yanling's mouth turned up, and he deliberately mocked: "Shen Zhongcheng, the soldiers and horses you brought are nothing more than that!" ”

Shen Xi smiled indifferently: "Each other!" ”

Zhang Yanling was about to ask Shen Xi what he was talking about each other in annoyance, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that the soldiers and horses under Shen Xi's command were not transferred from the Beijing camp under his command? He said that Shen Xi's soldiers and horses were nothing more than that, which was actually tantamount to derogating the Jingying troops under his command.

Xiao Jing saw that Uncle Guo seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Shen Xi, a hero of the Ming Dynasty, and hurriedly spoke up: "Master Hou, Lord Shen, it is important to supervise the entry of the three armies into the city, don't worry too much, and be safe!" ”

Shen Xi smiled, in fact, when the soldiers and horses entered the city, the initiative was not on him at all, it all depended on the preparation of the soldiers and horses outside the city, he was only responsible for receiving the report, and the person who passed the report was only passing around with him, and the most important thing was to report the progress to the side of the noon gate.

The herald quickly reported the next step to Shen Xi: "Three hundred soldiers of the former army have entered the city......

Although the number of three hundred infantry is a little more than the previous sixty cavalry, but no matter how you say it, it is a bit petty, Zhang Yanling frowned and asked, "Shen Zhongcheng, how did you dispatch it?" Can't you arrange more soldiers and horses to enter the city at once? How much time does it take to delay such a grind? ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, "I have to ask your brother-in-law...... If it weren't for your brother-in-law who first transferred 5,000 soldiers and horses into the city, and the officers and soldiers left behind outside the city were mainly responsible for escorting, why didn't there be too many soldiers and horses to support the scene for Daming? While wanting to be stable and not to cause chaos, and on the other hand, wanting to maintain dignity, where is there such a good thing in this world? ”

In the process of leading the troops to attack, the only thing Shen Xi cultivated was the most elite infantry in the world.

When the infantry arrived at the city gate, the officials, soldiers and ordinary people present suddenly felt an awe-inspiring murderous aura, and the temperature around Zhengyang Gate seemed to drop by a few degrees suddenly.

In the previous battles, Shen Xi used the beat of the drum to determine the step points of the soldiers, and paid attention to advancing and retreating together to prevent the soldiers from being out of formation.

In this era, there is no such thing as a step point, even if the emperor points troops on the battlefield, the honor guard soldiers and horses do not walk in step or in unison.

And this method was brought to the Ming Dynasty by Shen Xi.

As a result, the officials, soldiers and people of the Ming Dynasty realistically experienced the review mode that was popular in later generations.

The soldiers marched into the city gate with their spears raised, listened to the drums, and marched in unison, and the crowd of onlookers in the city was silent for a while, and then erupted into earth-shattering cheers.

This is since the defense of the Beijing Division, the first army to aid the Beijing Division, at this time a lot of news in the city is not smooth, ordinary people do not even know how far the war has developed outside, now see the majestic soldiers of the Ming Dynasty into the city, they are most encouraged.

When the soldiers came to Shen Xi, they looked to the right in unison, and continued to march while aligning.

In Shen Xi's view, because most of these soldiers are heavy soldiers, their training is very sparse, and many times they are trained by battle, so that they are relatively poor in the neatness of foot drills, as if they are enjoying a foot drill performance of a primary school sports meeting, but it is such a clumsy performance that quickly won the recognition of all the officials, soldiers and ordinary people present.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is an amazing way to enter the city, and there is no way in the world where soldiers and horses can achieve such a high degree of unity, and the steps are consistent.

Zhang Mao, Wang Shouren and others had already gone to the city, but at this time they all came down from the city wall and stood behind the side of the high platform where Shen Xi was, just like the generals who came to the review ceremony, and followed Shen Xi to enjoy the glory.

When the first batch of infantry passed, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, leaned into Shen Xi's ear, pointed to the infantry team pointing in the direction of Daming Gate, and said to Shen Xi: "Is this what you arranged?" ”

Shen Xi nodded, and said in an ordinary tone: "Yes, it doesn't count!" ”

Ma Wensheng frowned slightly, and asked unhappily: "What is and is not?" ”

Shen Xi replied seriously: "The officers and men of the three armies are actually just marching according to the infantry formation that they train on weekdays, outside the Xizhi Gate and Zhengyang Gate in the capital, when our army and the Tatar cavalry are fighting, they also use this method to ensure that all the soldiers in the infantry phalanx are in the same pace, and now they are only cooperating with the drum beat, and the soldiers march according to the daily training, in fact, it is not an intentional pre-arrangement!" ”

With the improvement of status, Shen Xi does not have to be humble in front of Ma Wensheng and call him "Xiaguan", Ma Wensheng is the official of the second grade, and he is also the right capital of the second grade, the two are equal in terms of official character, and he is still the chief official who is responsible for presiding over the ceremony of entering the city today, so naturally there is no need to be respectful to Ma Wensheng.

Ma Wensheng didn't have any sympathy for Shen Xi's "rudeness", a pleased smile appeared on his face, and said: "Yu Qiao always praises you in front of the old man, and sure enough, he didn't boast in vain, look at the infantry you bring, and then compare with those soldiers on both sides of the city and the street, you will know what the gap is!" ”

Because when Ma Wensheng spoke, he didn't care about Zhang Yanling standing next to him, and the blow of this was very big.

Although the soldiers stationed at Zhengyangmen looked energetic, compared with the spirits of these soldiers under Shen Xi, it was not a grade.

The same Beijing battalion soldiers are like two completely different armies.

The only difference is that these Beijing soldiers followed Shen Xi out for a trip, and it took only three months before and after, as if they were completely different people.

If Shen Xi's soldiers and horses have experienced the test of the Great War, the soldiers stationed here have also experienced continuous battles, and even the bloody battle at the head of Zhengyangmen City is more tragic than the battle outside the city, but the soldiers led by Shen Xi have different spirits, mainly because these Beijing soldiers have endured all kinds of hardships after following Shen Xi, and even have been trapped in a Jedi with no tomorrow, sharpening their tenacious character.

Moreover, these soldiers followed Shen Xi all the way to win the battle, and gradually accumulated strong self-confidence. This is the self-confidence of a military man! Now that he has withdrawn to the capital, and the imperial court has arranged such a grand ceremony to enter the city, in order to show his majesty in front of his colleagues in Beijing, he naturally has to behave well.