When Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian led his troops to appear in front of everyone, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them.

What kind of army is this?

It's simply unheard of, unseen.

Everyone's robes were torn, everyone was black and thin, almost everyone had injuries on their bodies, and the scratches on many of them had just been caused, and the blood beads had not yet coagulated.

Quite a few people have peeling on their faces, which is caused by prolonged exposure to the scorching sun.

Many people have lost their hats, have bald heads, and their hair is not combed in a bun, and they are crooked on the top of their heads.

Including Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian, everyone is in a similar situation.

No one rode horses, not even the noble princes, who walked slowly through the meadows and wilderness, and when more than 2,000 soldiers appeared, they thought they were evil spirits that had come out of the ground.

Closer, it can be seen that no matter how embarrassed the form is, this army is as solid as a tiger, which makes people feel a sense of awe.

The military flag was unfurled, the flag was endless, but in the middle of the ranks, I saw the soldiers striding forward, holding a long bow, carrying a long bow, and pressing a horizontal knife on their waists, everyone walked in silence, without squinting, and set up a long column in a row of three people.

In the wilderness on both sides, miles away, there were faint rangers walking briskly in the grass, sentry into the enemy's situation.

With the reaction ability of the Nan'an army, as long as it is not quickly approached by the enemy's cavalry within three or five miles, it is not afraid of surprise attacks at all, even if it is a cavalry raid, it will take at least ten minutes to break through to the front of the formation, and there is enough time for the government army to line up.

Under the scorching sun, there is a silent, even more proud army.

They went round trip for 12 days, the journey was tortuous, and the round-trip journey was nearly 400 miles, which was a long and quite arduous training, and it was also the most arduous since the establishment of the Nan'an Fu Army.

The heavy generals of the government army, including Qin Dongyang, the first army manager, Jin Baoyi, Lin Huaiyu, the second army commander, Ge Cunzhong, the deputy commander, Ge Cunyi, etc., and Zhang Huchen, Li Fuxiang, Dong Ruixiang, Li Xingwu, Gao Shilai, Li Pu, Lin Shaozong, Zhao Zijiang and others, all Zhang military flags, battalion flags, and the flags of each capital, whistle flags, and red flags are all displayed under the blowing of the sea breeze, among the grass, more than 2,000 people are like long snakes that snake endlessly, although they are covered with thorns, scaly wounds, and their faces are black and thin, but the will and determination of this army, That kind of agitation and heroism rushed to it, which made people feel frightened to see.

This is the greatest benefit of the long-distance march, day and night, and Xu Zixian and more than 2,000 soldiers face difficulties together.

It is like a fire of pure gold, forging away all the impurities in the army and the cultivated arrogance and graceful atmosphere, from miscellaneous iron to fine iron, either a protracted war, or such a real hard training, there is no other way.

After the establishment of the government army, there was no trouble with the attack on the homeland, and it was not as ambitious as the crusade against Chen Yutai in Qizhou.

There will be confusion in the hearts of the soldiers, after all, Dawei is still together with Kyushu, and they resist foreign insults together, Xu Zixian is like self-reliance, and it is quite normal for everyone to have doubts.

The political measures of the Eastern Domain here are all welcomed by people, and the hearts of the people are attached, not to mention, most of the families of the soldiers are received on the island, so there is no need to have too many doubts about this.

In addition to preparing to pay the whole army in the near future, after such hard training, the soldiers will be more determined and can be used for great use, which is also Xu Zixian's painstaking point.

In the eyes of Chen Duzhu, Wei Jiuzhen, Xu Yanda and others, this army is respectable and fearful, even though they are all well-informed, have seen the Northern Army, the Western Army, the Beijing Forbidden Army, and also include the forbidden army stationed in Liangzhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, whether it is the brave Jiyun Northern Army, or the tough and strong Western Army, or the gorgeously equipped Beijing Camp soldiers, or the Fujian Forbidden Army guarding Fuzhou and the Southeast Jin Domain, in terms of equipment, the Nan'an Fu Army is still far behind, the quality of weapons in the army is not as good as the forbidden army, and there are very few divine arms and bows, not to mention waist crossbows and crossbows, bed crossbows, The Eight Ox Crossbow are powerful long-range weapons.

Shields are insufficient, and few are standard shields, most of them are homemade earthen shields.

The quality of the horizontal knife and the obstacle knife is average, and the quality of the long sword is very good, but it is equivalent to the quality of the long sword of the forbidden army.

There was very little armor, especially iron armor, only a large amount of leather armor and cotton armor, and even the cotton armor inlaid with iron leaves was insufficient.

These armor weapons are quite expensive, in the case of foot bows, if the whole army is equipped with a large number of foot bows and divine arm bows, and a long-range army of about 3,000 people is established, then the cost will have to be dozens of bows per bow, and more than 100 bows per divine arm.

That's a huge amount of money, and the archers should be rationed with two bows, as well as a large number of quivers, iron feathers, and a lot of money.

The cavalry's horses, horses' armor, soldiers' armor, foot soldiers' armor, and swords all start with at least ten runs, and a strong army of 10,000 people must be fully equipped with weapons, and there must be a lot of training and combat attrition, and there must be a large number of reserves in the arsenal, so that it can withstand the consumption of war.

From these perspectives, the Nan'an army is not strong enough and lacks stamina.

War is not as simple as imagined, before that, the predecessor of the Nan'an Army, the Nan'an regiment, practiced several battles, either to ambush foreign bandits, or to raid pirates, or to attack the mansion of the Great Counselor in Beijing.

The real tough battle has never been fought once, protracted, years of great war, the war is counted in months or a year, and the logistics, arsenals, and the will of the soldiers have not been really tested.

The Forbidden Army of the Northland, resisting the Donghu and Northern Captives, either went deep into the barren and far into the grasslands and deserts, or resisted everywhere in the territory, and there were battlefields of bloody battles everywhere.

For months, and even the rest of the year, they have been constantly scheduling, fighting, and fighting, and this intensity of war is the real test for the army, and the Nan'an Fu Army has not participated in it.

At this stage, only this kind of arduous and extremely arduous training, which is used to temper the will and ability of soldiers, can achieve the effect of real tempering.

Judging from the immediate results, the harvest is quite fruitful.

After this training, the officers will rest for a period of time, and they will again pull more than 2,000 people to take turns to exercise, and the next time, they may take a longer training time, go deeper and farther, and even bring a convoy of baggage to replenish the people and build a road to Taichung and Taipei.

Xu Zixian's actions have always been in a hurry, and he will do it when he thinks of it.

In front of him, in front of more than a dozen gentry from all walks of life, the style and demeanor of the Nan'an Mansion Army was enough to impress these well-informed gentry.

After all, even the most tenacious Northwest Forbidden Army rarely experienced such arduous training, and even if it fought for months or even years, it was not always at war.

The silent, resilient army has finally reached the front of all.

Chen Zuocai and other officials solemnly paid respect, here in the Eastern Domain, there is no situation where civilian officials and officials are faintly above the generals, in fact, over the years, especially in the past 20 years, the military has been booming, and the status of the Great Wei generals is also obviously rising.

If during the period from Renzong to Wenzong, the country was peaceful, and there were only occasional small-scale wars on the border, and most of the places were in a peaceful and prosperous era, and the status of military generals at that time was indeed under the civilian officials.

Due to the development of industry and commerce, the number of people willing to serve in the army has gradually decreased, and the status of military personnel has gradually decreased.

In the last two decades, the situation has long been different.

In the Eastern Domain, the status of the soldiers was actually hidden above the Shinong industry and commerce, and the status of the generals would never be below the officials.

The guards approached on horseback and dismounted in salute.

The official farmers in the fields of the outer garrison area, and the workers who are responsible for maintaining the roads under the craftsman division, all took off their hats and bowed in salute.

The army, carrying bows and arrows, risking arrows and stones, bleeding and dying, civilians, accidentally scratched a scar on the body, shed some blood, can not help but be frightened, the family is worried, and the soldiers were hit by an arrow, were cut out of a long wound, bleeding nonstop, and even lost a finger, injured an eye, many people will feel lucky for the wounded soldiers.

After all, he retreated with his whole body and did not die on the battlefield.

Fighting with his life, just for one or two salaries a month, the Xiang army has long given up, and the treatment of the soldiers of the forbidden army is not bad, but in terms of the risk of fighting with the soldiers with their lives, the income is still too little.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, Zhou Qi to the Tang Dynasty, that war-torn time and space was the era of martial artists.

The warriors' war horses are tall Hetang horses, and the tall warriors are cold Daibei warriors, tall, burly, brutal, with a three-stone longbow on their backs, which can break people's backbones with heavy arrows, and even shoot down people's heads. War horses have a curtain to protect the head, a chicken neck to protect the neck, a horse as a body armor, a chest to protect the horse's chest, and a rear to protect the tail, and a parasite placed behind the knight to protect the rear side of the cavalry.

The knights wore two armors, wore a scarf, had an iron mask on their faces, and were heavily armored with iron armor, and the scarfs were decorated with beautiful feathers, and the parasitism was also extremely gorgeous.

They are armed with long armies, carrying bows and arrows, riding horses to the north to the Central Plains, Henan, the Yangtze River, invincible and killing no count, every battle, then plundering the mouth, the martial artists are in charge of the pillar country, the general, in charge of the national power, overthrow the imperial power at every turn, the five generations of the Son of Heaven soldiers and horses can be strong, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties is actually the norm, whether it is to give up the Northern Expedition, hurriedly return to usurp the country Liu Yu, or Yuwentai, Gao Huan, this generation of martial artists is in charge of national politics, enjoy the blessings, the so-called scholars and Chinese, ordinary gentry and people, Under the iron cavalry and long sword of the martial man, he is nothing more than a target for random killing, or a slave who can be used for enslavement.

At the beginning of the Wei Dynasty, under the state of great unification, it was normal for the status of soldiers to decline, and in the Eastern Domain, he had a premonition that the great chaos was coming, and the status of the generals was repeatedly raised, and Xu Zixian just moved at the right time.

"The Nan'an Mansion Army, it's really better to meet than to be famous, and it's really a strong army."

"Walking silently, like a dragon galloping Daze, is really admirable and admirable."

"Sure enough, under the fame, it is not a false person, and the ability of Nan'an Hou to lead the army is very out of people's reach."

Under the praise of everyone, Xu Zixian also strode forward, getting closer and closer to everyone.