Looking at Zeng Ziwen's reaction, Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then said, "Since that's the case, let's go!" ”

Immediately, Li Xuan took Zeng Ziwen out, and after stepping out of the huge civil structure of the 'palace', they went straight to the school.

In addition to Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen, there were also seven or eight people from the guards.

Li Xuan has been the emperor of the ravine for so long, and the number of guards with him is also increasing, and at the beginning, there were only a few people arranged by Fang Dongquan, including Wang Danxu.

However, later Wang Danxu threw himself into Li Xuan and became the commander of the Guards, and several other Fang Dongquan's people were also transferred away by Li Xuan one after another.

The current guards are all accepted by him in the past six months, and they are all selected by him after personal observation, most of them are soldiers of the original Guards, and a few are people who escaped from Lijia Village back then.

To be honest, their personal martial arts are quite average, at most they can fight better than ordinary people, but this is not important to Li Xuan, the important thing is that these people were not Fang Dongquan or Huang Xueren's henchmen before.

After all, the personal guards were directly related to the safety of his own life, and no matter what, Li Xuan was unwilling to let Fang Dongquan or Huang Xueren and their people get in.

After a long period of deliberate co-optation, the personal loyalty of these guards to Li Xuan is also increasing day by day!

In the future, Li Xuan also plans to continue to expand the scale of the guards, from the current twelve to a complete team, that is, thirty-six.

Because these people are not only his safety on weekdays, but when he goes to the battlefield in the future, these people are also his personal guards and will follow him to fight, so it is really not good to have fewer people.

The scale of Huangzhushan is not large, and the school field is not far from the palace, so they quickly arrived at the school field.

More than a month ago, Li Xuan officially established a professional army, and set up a barracks for better training, requiring soldiers to live in the barracks every day, so rows of barracks were established next to the playground to serve as a residence for soldiers.

When Li Xuan walked into the school grounds, Wang Danxu, who stayed in the barracks and was in charge of daily affairs, was waiting early, he obviously had already received the news that Li Xuan would come over.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!" When Wang Danxu led people to kneel to greet him, Li Xuan took two steps forward and made a false gesture: "All Aiqing don't have to be polite, hurry up!" ”

Wang Danxu naturally couldn't let Li Xuan really help himself up, and when Li Xuan was about to help, he was already up.

"Your Majesty, the drill is ready, can it start now?" When Wang Danxu spoke, he also glanced at Zeng Ziwen, who was following behind Li Xuan.

Zeng Ziwen, who noticed Wang Danxu's gaze, didn't care, and he could naturally see a trace of worry in Wang Danxu's gaze.

This kind of worry does not mean that he is worried that Zeng Ziwen will hurt Li Xuan, because everyone knows that he would not dare to do this if Zeng Ziwen was given a hundred dares.

Wang Danxu's worry was that if Zeng Ziwen really returned to the Tang Dynasty, it would affect his own status.

Because many generals, including Wang Danxu, knew that Li Xuan had been trying to recruit Zeng Ziwen, but unfortunately Zeng Ziwen had never agreed.

Why did Li Xuan recruit Zeng Ziwen, Wang Danxu They also know a thing or two, it is nothing more than that this Zeng Ziwen is a real general, such as Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu, these bandit leaders who are halfway out of the house must be more proficient in training soldiers and fighting.

If Zeng Ziwen really agreed to join the new army of the Tang Dynasty, then it is foreseeable that this person will quickly become an important general in the army, then he will have no real power for a short time, but in time he will definitely squeeze out the power that belongs to Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu.

"Now that you're all set, let's get started!" Li Xuan didn't hesitate much, he came to see the drill today, on the one hand, to let Zeng Ziwen see the elite professional new army, so as to increase his hope of recruiting him, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see what kind of level this new army had after more than a month of full-time training.

Can it meet the requirements of going out to fight in the mountains at the time of the summer harvest?

Li Xuan had made a very bad plan for the battle at the time of the summer harvest, and he didn't think about escaping back to the mountains again this time.

He wants to lead the army to firmly contain those Ming troops, so as to ensure the safety of Huangzhushan in the second half of the year, which means that this time the battle is very likely to last for several months, and if you are active outside the mountain for such a long time, the chance of encountering the main force of the Ming army is also very high.

Once the main force of the Ming army is encountered, whether it is to fight or flee, there are great requirements for this new army.

Needless to say, a decisive battle with the Ming army head-on, how can you do it if your combat effectiveness is poor!

As for escaping, escaping outside the mountains is not like being in the mountains, you can just run away in the mountains, and the officers and men will not be able to catch up anyway, but if you want to avoid escaping and collapsing outside the mountains, the discipline requirements for the troops are quite high.

After boarding the wooden platform on the side of the school field, as Li Xuan nodded to signal the official start of the exercise, the troops who had already been prepared entered the field one after another.

"The first to appear is the most elite first musketeer team in our new army, not long ago they relied on intensive rounds of fire to defeat the bandits' flank sneak attack in one fell swoop, just three rounds of guns are more than 30% of the opponent's casualties!" Wang Danxu, who was standing beside Li Xuan, pointed to the first team to enter the field.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Danxu to introduce it, Li Xuan knew that they were the first musket team when he saw this team for the first time.

As the only fully loaded musket team in the Tang Dynasty Division, the First Musket Team can be said to be the core combat force of the Tang Dynasty Division.

The First Musketeer was followed by the Second Musketeer, and although there were as many people as the First Musketeers, there was a clear difference.

The formation was not close enough, and more importantly, half of them were armed with wooden training muskets!

Due to the limited production of muskets in Huangzhushan, most of the people in the second musket team are still not equipped with muskets, and according to the plan, they will get all the muskets before the summer harvest, and before that, they will share muskets with the first musket team for training.

The two musket teams entered the field one after another in a tight formation, and Zeng Ziwen's eyes never left them!

At this time, Li Xuan also said to Zeng Ziwen in a timely manner: "By the time the summer harvest comes, these two musket teams will be completely fully loaded, and they will become the core combat force of my Tang Dynasty King Division!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "The bayonet on this musket seems to have changed? ”

Li Xuan said: "Yes, we replaced the plugged bayonet on the bayonet with a sleeve bayonet!" ”

After hearing this, Zeng Ziwen said: "In this case, can you still shoot after loading the bayonet?" ”

Li Xuan nodded and smiled silently!

After listening, Zeng Ziwen didn't continue to ask, but continued to look at the people who entered the field behind, and the three spearmen who entered the field one after another were behind.

Zeng Ziwen didn't care about these spearmen, after all, he had seen a lot of such spearmen, and it was not surprising that he saw them now.

However, a team of heavy-armored sword and shield bearers who followed the spearmen behind him attracted Zeng Ziwen's attention, and this team of heavy-armored sword and shield bearers turned out to be all wearing double armor and wearing thick armor to enter the field slowly, which was more intimidating than the previous two teams of musketeers and the three long spearmen.

Zeng Ziwen was secretly shocked in his heart, he had long heard that there was a team of heavily armored bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, which was the core combat force that swept a radius of hundreds of miles, and it was true when he saw it today.

Just with this team of sword and shield hands wearing double armor, it is enough to make hundreds of enemy soldiers tremble on the battlefield!

In these years, even if it was the regular army of the guard post in the Ming army, the armor rate was quite low, and in the Tong'an Thousand Households he led before, only the middle and low-level officers at all levels and the personal soldiers of senior officers wore iron armor, and there were only more than 20 people wearing armor among more than 600 people.

And these more than 20 people are still scattered, not the same as in the Tang Dynasty, directly gathering people to use as a combat unit, and decentralized use and centralized use are also two different concepts, and the effect is very different.

In Zeng Ziwen's opinion, just by virtue of this team of heavily armored sword and shield hands, this Tang Dynasty royal division has the confidence to fight against a thousand households.

After the heavily armored sword and shield bearers, there was a team of archers, but the quality of this team of archers was not good, and Zeng Ziwen didn't pay much attention to it, but a small group of thirteen cavalry that appeared at the end shocked him a little.

He knew that the last time he looted Longhua Town, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi grabbed a batch of horses, originally he thought that these horses would be distributed to various officers for use, but he didn't expect that Li Xuan would gather these horses to form this small cavalry.

Don't underestimate such a small cavalry, you have to know that whether it is in the Tong'an Thousand Households or the Fairy Stone Thousand Households, they do not have formed cavalry, and there are only a few officers or personal soldiers on horseback.

In fact, there are more than these two thousand households, in fact, there is no large-scale cavalry establishment in the surrounding prefectures and counties, this is not that the Ming army is stingy and unwilling to belong to the cavalry, but Xingquanfu is located in the southwest inland, it is difficult to obtain a large number of war horses, plus the terrain here is mostly mountainous and hilly, but there is no kind of large plain in the north.

Therefore, cavalry has always been very small!

After these troops entered the field one after another, they began to conduct tactical exercises!

The drill was a line formation that was developed during the Guards era and was used to bring out the power of musketeers and spearmen.

Two musketeers were on the flanks, with three teams of spearmen, archers, and heavily armored sword and shield bearers in the second row after the spearmen.

And the cavalry team is located where the flag of the Chinese army is located!

As the drums sounded, the whole army maintained a tight formation and stepped forward, stopping after about thirty steps, the two musket teams began to reload and fire in turns, and in an instant, the school field was filled with white smoke!

When the two musket teams fired, the corners of Zeng Ziwen's mouth twitched slightly!