Cao Xing knew that this was a good thing when he heard it: "This kind of firearm is indeed very good, when the enemy is charging, it will first fire a burst of projectiles, even if it can't kill a few people, it can make their charging formation more chaotic, and then it can be used as an iron rod, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone." ”

But then he was a little worried: "I'm afraid that such a three-eyed fire gun consumes a lot of iron, can the imperial court support it for a long time?" ”

"There's no need to worry about that." Yun Xi said. As long as it does not fight a huge war for decades like the Southern Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, which opened a city and has commercial tax supplements, can still afford the money. As for the consumption of iron, he was worried that the current consumption of iron was too small to attract industrial development.

"It just so happens that today is the day of rest, so I will personally take you over to inspect these two guards." Yun Xi said again.

"Yes, official." Cao Xing agreed, and he was going to follow Yun Xi out of the palace together. But the three little princes also walked out of the Qianqing Palace together.

When he walked to the Qianqing Gate, Cao Xing looked back and saw that the three princes were still following behind him, and noticed that their clothes were not the clothes commonly worn by the royal family, and he was immediately surprised: "Your Majesty, this is going to take the three princes out of the palace together?" ”

"That's true." Yun Xi didn't hide what he meant.

"Your Majesty, although the three princes are smart, they are still young, and they rashly took them to the place where the guards were killed, and the ministers thought it was not appropriate." Cao Xing said immediately.

"It's called the official family." Yun Xi said again: "It is precisely because they are still young that they have to take them out of the palace to the guard to have a look." When they were children, their ideas were not yet finalized, and it was much easier to let them see the mighty and majestic Ming soldiers and like military affairs at this time, than to wait a few years older for them to be taught by civilian officials to value literature over military force and then correct it. ”

"However, the princes are too young after all." Of course, Cao Xing agrees with Yun Xi's idea, he is a military general, and of course he likes the approach of a military general. But they are still too young, what if they are frightened by the atmosphere of slaughter in the army.

Yun Xi didn't care about his worries: "What's scary about this. I have made up my mind, and there is no need to discuss this matter again. ”

Cao Xing couldn't resist him, so he could only secretly hope that the three princes would be bolder.

Out of the palace, Wenyuan and the three of them got into the car, and Yun Xi and Cao Xing rode horses with the guards to the garrison of the left and right guards of the government army. However, Yun Xi specially instructed a guard to say a few words, and the guard bowed down and promised not to follow the same road as Yun Xi, and rode to other places.

After a while, the group came to the station of the right guard of the government army, Yun Xi dismounted from a distance, and ordered the three children to stay in the car first, and he and Cao Xing led a few guards to this side.

After only walking a few steps, he heard the sound of shouting and killing from the camp, and then there was a sound like thunder, Yun Xi nodded, and said to himself: "Song Xuan is good, the sun is quite high now, and he is still training soldiers like this." ”

As he was talking to himself, he heard a voice from in front of him: "I don't know what is the important matter for this lord to come to the right guard of our government army?" He looked up and saw a man wearing the red coat of a Ming soldier standing in front of him and asked respectfully. This person is not stupid, although Yun Xi is not wearing an official uniform, but this faction is a big man at first glance, and he is young, most of them are the children of the noble family who have an errand in the army, but they dare not offend.

Yun Xi replied casually: "On the orders of His Majesty, I have something to order Song Xuan, the commander of the right guard of the government army." He motioned for Chen Lijie to show this man his guard waist card.

The man checked his waist tag and wondered, 'If they are all guards, why is this leader so promising?' If this person is not a guard, then what is the identity that can lead the guards to come and communicate to the commander? ’

He thought about it and felt that only a certain prince could do this, so he was more respectful and led him into the camp.

Yun Xi walked into the camp and saw the smoke and dust billowing from the school ground, and the shouts shook the sky, and the figures of the soldiers appeared from the smoke and dust, holding weapons in their hands and lining up neatly, shouting slogans from time to time and walking forward. Yun Xi followed the man while carefully looking at the soldiers on the school grounds, nodding or muttering to himself from time to time.

After a while, the group walked to the high platform of the school field, and the person who led the way was about to lead them up to meet Song Xuan, when suddenly Yun Xi stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Tell Song Xuan to come down to see me." ”

This man's face changed, but thinking that he was about a prince, he gave such an order, and promised to pass it on. Yun Xi stood below, looking at the soldiers who were drilling.

Song Xuan was watching the soldiers' drills on the high platform, and from time to time he gave a few orders to the people beside him, when he suddenly heard the soldiers guarding the door say that someone sent by the emperor had something to tell him, and the leader of the faction asked him to go down to meet, and he was suddenly a little curious: Who did the emperor send to pass the word? It couldn't be the guards, they didn't dare to tell that. But it is absolutely impossible to be what Menzi said. Although the emperor is very good to the vassal kings, he is still very taboo about them touching power in the center, and it is impossible to send a prince over.

But it doesn't matter who it is. Song Xuan could only go down and have a look first. He commanded Tongzhi, and walked down with two guards, and then saw Yun Hee, who was looking by the school grounds.

Song Xuan was taken aback: 'Why did Your Majesty suddenly come to the right guard of our army?' But he didn't stop at all, and hurriedly walked to Yun Xi's side and knelt down and said, "Minister Song Xuan has seen Your Majesty." ”

After the salute was completed, Song Xuan stood beside Yun Xi, and Yun Xi pointed to the school and smiled: "Song Qing, you are very good." I knew that in the days when I left Beijing, the training of the Beijing Guard was a little slack, and even if I returned to Beijing, it was only a little tighter for two days, and I saw that I was busy and did not touch the ground and did not mention the matter of the guard, so I slacked off again. Saying this, Yun Xi sneered: "I thought I didn't know." ”

Song Xuan was shocked when he heard this: This is the rhythm of the upper guard again. Since Yun Xi succeeded to the throne, although the treatment of the upper straight guard has improved rapidly, it has been rectified twice, and this is the third time it has to be rectified, and the frequency is too high.

Yun Xi didn't know that Song Xuan had thought of so much, and he actually didn't mean to rectify it on a large scale. The Zhiwei must be the main force in the battle of Timur, and now a large-scale rectification will weaken their combat effectiveness, and Yun Xi will not do such a thing. He just planned to give a slight warning, and at the same time use the method of removing the commander of the left guard of the government army to kill the chicken for Cao Xing to show the monkey, so that the others could rein in.

However, these words couldn't be said to Song Xuan, he ordered the guards to bring the three children in, and he said to Song Xuan: "Song Qing, how many firearms have the right guards of the government army changed now?" The cavalry has already been cut off? ”

"Your Majesty, according to Your Majesty's wishes, the Ministry of Industry and the internal officials and supervisors will first try their best to meet the firearms needed by one guard and then supply them to the next guard, and before that, they just sent a few firearms for everyone to see. The two cavalry of the main guard are also still alive. ”

"Exactly. I want to add cavalry to the upper guard, and after thinking about it, Song Qing and Cao Qing are both good at using cavalry, so I want the two of you to lead this army. Yun Xi smiled. He then stated his vision for the two cavalry guards.

Contrary to Cao Xing's conjecture, although the soldiers of these two guards will be fully equipped with horses, they will not all become cavalry. First, as Cao Xing said, it is difficult to find so many good horses; Second, the soldiers of these two guards were not cavalry before, and it was too late to train from now on, and it was difficult to form a tacit understanding for a while when the cavalry was transferred from other guards. Although the cavalry will later be unified into one unit, it will not be reformed like this now.

According to Yun Xi's conception, the left and right guards of the government army each had four cavalry thousand households, and as real cavalry, they were trained according to the drill method he and Cao Xing drummed; The remaining 6,000 households were used as mounted infantry, and they were the same as firearms infantry in terms of equipment and clothing, except that they could ride horses, and when they were fighting, they used horses as mobile tools, and when they arrived at the battle site, they dismounted and fought on foot. The other nine upper guards, including the Tiger Ben Left Guard, which was planned to be an artillery guard, would still retain a separate cavalry Qianhu.

Thankfully, as the emperor's direct guard, the proportion of horses equipped is much higher than that of ordinary guards, and there are many more soldiers who can ride horses, although most of them are not very skilled, but it is easier than starting with a blank sheet of paper.

Cao Xing listened to Yun Xi's words, and his mood was a little low. He thought that a pure cavalry unit would be formed, but who knew that it was this kind of semi-cavalry unit; However, Song Xuan bowed slightly. The cavalry is not so well trained, and without five or six years of hard work, an elite cavalry cannot be produced, and the war against Timur is only these two years.

But Cao Xing was depressed for a while and regained his strength. Even if it's just half a cavalry, it doesn't matter, there are a total of eight cavalry and a thousand households, he will train hard and train them to become the most elite cavalry in the world!

Then they talked for a while about how to train the cavalry. At this time, the guards sent by Yun Xi alone had already arrived, and they came over with a strange-looking firearm in their hands, Yun Xi picked up the firearm and said to them: "Cao Qing, this is the three-eyed firearm I conceived, let the Ministry of Engineering make a sample to see, and see if it can meet the requirements later; Song Qing, you don't know what kind of firearm this is, this is a firearm conceived by me to equip cavalry, this has three long tubes, each of which can be loaded with gunpowder to fire projectiles, and can be used as a weapon for close combat. As he spoke, Yun Xi waved it a few times and said with a smile: "It's not worse than a mace." ”

Song Xuan curiously took the three-eyed firecracker, weighed it, and said: "Your Majesty, this is indeed a good thing, but the requirements for soldiers are higher, first of all, they must be able to load gunpowder and projectiles on the horse; Second, this pure iron firearm is much heavier than a wooden mace, and the soldiers may not be able to use it freely for a while. ”

"It's only a dozen catties, I can use it freely, can't the soldiers?" Yun Xi said: "It's really unfamiliar for a while, but it's not like they want to take this to the battlefield right away, and there is still time for drills." ”

Although Song Xuan was still a little worried, since the emperor said so, he couldn't shirk it, and bowed down to agree.

Immediately, Yun Xi wanted to take them to test the three-eyed fire gun, and when he turned around, he saw Wen Yuan and the three of them had already come over, and when he saw Yun Xi's gaze turned around, he hurriedly saluted.

Yun Xi handed the three-eyed fire gun to Song Xuan, walked over and stood beside them, pointed to the soldiers who were still practicing, and said: "Wenyuan, Wenyao, Wenqi, how do you feel when you see the soldiers of the right guard of this government army drilling, can you feel the majesty and majesty?" ”

"Daddy, well, father, so many soldiers are practicing on the school field, son, well, I don't know how to describe it, but I feel the heat suddenly rising in my chest, but I can't sway it." Wen Qi said first.

At this time, Wen Qi's eyes were already shining. He had never seen so many people acting in unison according to the same order, and the shock to him was incomparable.

"Father, the son came up with an ancient word to describe this scene. Xin Qiji's "Breaking the Array: Giving Strong Words to Chen Tongfu to Send It":

Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp. Eight hundred miles of fire, fifty strings turned over the outside sound, and the battlefield was an autumn soldier.

The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death, and the pity happened in vain. Wen Yao said. He was also a little excited. After all, he is two years older, and he usually holds the qin and often instills how to wait for him to grow up in his fiefdom, and at this time, looking at so many soldiers, he can't help but think that he will command thousands of troops and horses in the future, and he will not obey the soldiers.

Yun Xi listened to the answers of the two of them, and saw their excited expressions, he was very satisfied, and turned his head to Wen Yuan with a smile and said, "What does Wen Yuan think?" ”

Contrary to Yun Xi's expectations, Wen Yuan thought for a while and said, "Father, this exercise is indeed magnificent, but Erchen is not as excited as the eldest brother and third brother. Erchen prefers to read. ”

Yun Xi's face froze. If it's just the first sentence, but then there's the second sentence, that's not good.

was stunned, Song Xuan said: "Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

"The eldest son of the emperor and the third son of the emperor have a lot of feelings about the training of the soldiers, and they will be the fence of the Ming Dynasty in the future; His Royal Highness the Crown Prince likes to read, and he will be a bright monarch in the future. ”

When the few people present heard this, they immediately bowed down and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

Wen Yuan was taken aback by their unanimous words, and couldn't help but take a step back, accidentally stepped on Wen Qi's foot, and hurriedly stood back again.

When they said this, Yun Xi didn't want to say anything, so he took everyone to a shooting range to test shoot the three-eyed firecracker, and tried to test whether it was smooth or not in close combat, what needed to be improved.

After recording the advantages and disadvantages of this trial-made three-eyed firecracker, Yunxi instructed Song Xuan to say a few more words and leave the right guard of the government army.

Yun Xi led Cao Xing to the left guard of the government army. The original commander of the left guard of the government army performed the worst among all the commanders of the upper guard, and he happened to be used as a chicken for the monkey, and was dismissed from his post on the spot by Yun Xi, and went home from the vacancy, and Cao Xing was appointed as the commander. As for the rest, it's Cao Xing's own business.