Everything was discussed, Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace, and everything was arranged, just waiting for the big martial arts in front of Chengtianmen.

On the day of the martial arts, it happened that the weather in Chang'an City was sunny and the temperature was suitable.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian both left the palace with full guard of honor.

In front of Chengtian Gate, Li Shimin's honor guards were all set up, and there were more than 2,000 deacons in front and behind, and there were more than 1,000 people on Li Chengqian's side.

Li Shimin rode the leather chariot of six white horses that was used exclusively for the emperor's soldiers, and Li Chengqian sat on the golden chariot of the highest rank in the crown prince's honor guard, and followed him and slowly walked westward.

Because later there was an edict to the world about the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo's harmony, Li Shiji arranged for more than 30,000 guards and soldiers to wait outside the Anfu Gate at the west gate of the imperial city.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's car drove from the front of Chengtian Gate to the west, passing through the Yeting Palace and exiting the Anfu Gate to patrol the guards and horses.

Li Chengqian's car and Li Shimin's car were about a mile apart, and in the middle were all kinds of ritual utensils such as lupine incense burners, flags, axes, and so on.

Looking from Li Chengqian's position, he saw the flags fluttering in front of him, and the procession marched slowly and solemnly.

When Li Shimin's motorcade walked to the front of Anfumen, Cheng Yanjin rode a fast horse to the side of the royal car, and asked the little attendant who accompanied him to convey a message to Li Shimin.

"The six leaders of the East Palace set out, lined up in a neat line and followed behind the crown prince's guard of honor, I don't know what it means, please ask Your Majesty to decide."

Li Shimin was shocked at first when he heard the report, but after a little thought, he understood what Li Chengqian was going to do, he was by no means trying to rebel against the mutiny, he just wanted to pull out the six rates of the East Palace and compare with other Tang Dynasty guards.

"Humph! The herald ordered Lu Guogong to ignore them. ”

Although Li Shimin passed on the decree like this, he still turned blue with anger, gritted his teeth and thought about how to clean up Li Chengqian when he turned around.

Cheng Yanjin also knew that it was impossible for Li Chengqian to rebel when tens of thousands of troops were gathered in front of Anfu Gate, and it was only his duty to report to Li Shimin. However, when he heard Li Shimin say to ignore them, he was still shocked, and said secretly: Your Majesty really wants to spoil the prince to heaven!

Li Chengqian, who was sitting in the car behind, had long known that Li Shimin would not give an order to stop Donggong Liuyu from following for the sake of face.

After all, now it is not only the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty, but also the envoy Feng Li of the barbarian tribes in front of the Chengtian Gate, if Li Shimin now decrees not to let the East Palace Six Rates follow, God knows what those people will interpret?

Xue Rengui was dressed in Mingguang Kai and rode a high-headed horse slowly in front of a thousand-person team, and the thousand-person team behind him walked forward in unison.

Wang Fangyi, who was behind Xue Rengui, was also dressed in Mingguangkai, riding a high-headed horse with a team of 1,000 people.

Behind them were Cheng Wuqian and Su Dingfang, who were also like them, and slowly followed Li Li Chengqian towards Anfumen.

Originally, Li Chengqian arranged for them to go out of Anfumen and then walk right, but several generals were very confident in the soldiers they had trained, and they wanted to show their demeanor in front of the generals in Chang'an, so as soon as they got out of the gate of the East Palace, they began to walk right, but fortunately, in front of them were two of the world's grandest honor guards at that time, and the speed was very slow, and they could keep up.

But they were so high-profile, standing on the tower of Chengtianmen City and the civil and military officials and envoys of various feudal departments in front of Chengtian were stupid.

What's going on, why does the crown prince have more honor guards than His Majesty the Emperor's, it's not like ah, this team of soldiers is murderous, what is this for?

Of course, some people can see it, for example, at this time, two idle people who were in the Chengtian Gate Tower and Wei Guo Gong Li Jing and Wei Guo Gong Chi Gong stood together and saw the formation below, and they couldn't help but smile bitterly when they looked at each other.

Obviously, this is Li Chengqian's demon son again, and the two of them can't help but worry about Li Shimin, if there is such a crown prince, there will be trouble in the future......

All the guards and soldiers on the right side of the main road outside the Anfu Gate lined up on the right side to wait for Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's review, and tens of thousands of soldiers lined up according to each phalanx of 3,000 people until they reached Puning Fang next to the city gate.

When Li Shimin's car drove out of Anfu Gate, Li Shiji, the secretary of the military department, rode to the front of the imperial car, dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the guards of the Tang Dynasty have been lined up in front of Anfu Gate, please review it yourself." ”

Li Shimin got up from his seat, took two steps forward and said loudly: "Accurate!" ”

Li Shiji got up and stepped on the war horse to lead in front, and Li Shimin's car started again and walked forward.

Li Shimin stood at the front of the car, looking intently at these Tang Dynasty soldiers, all the soldiers in the phalanx where Li Shimin's car drove everywhere must have knelt down on one knee and shouted long live to salute Li Shimin.

According to Li Chengqian's assumption, these ceremonies only need to be handed over as gifts, including the previous Li Shiji does not need to dismount, but Yang Shidao, Ma Zhou, Zhang Chengxing and others will become like this as soon as they are mixed.

Later, Xu Jingzong quietly told Li Chengqian that this was done to suppress the arrogance of the generals and make them more obedient in the future.

Li Chengqian smiled bitterly in his heart, why hasn't it started yet, there are signs of civil and military conflict, but after thinking about this situation in a few days, he may be able to take advantage of it, so he didn't say anything.

Li Chengqian also stood at the front of his chariot at this time, watching the soldiers in front of him kneel down and salute Li Shimin's car one by one, and get up one by one. When his car approached, he knelt down and saluted again, like undulating waves, and a sense of pride arose.

Looking up at the distant sky, he secretly vowed: I must make it a sacred kingdom from all directions forever, and all threats to this goal, whether internal or external, must be eliminated one by one.

At this moment, he really became a Tang man, a confident and domineering crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Shigui stood at the forefront of the first phalanx in front of Anfu Gate, and watched Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's car drive the honor guard slowly, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

It's just that before he could move, he heard the sound of neat footsteps and the grinding of armor from the Anfu Gate.

What's going on?

The soldiers behind Zhang Shigui also heard it, and some people who didn't know the severity began to whisper.

"Somebody can't be rebelling here, right?"

"Nonsense! Who is so bold as to dare to rebel in front of our tens of thousands of Tang troops?"

"And what is this?"

……

……

Without their doubts, Xue Rengui, who was dressed in bright light armor, rode a tall horse and walked out of the Anfu Gate.

Seeing this, Zhang Shigui couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked behind Xue Rengui......

Soon, a group of soldiers led by the Donggong Guards walked out.

Rows of soldiers in bright armor walked towards them like a sea of mountains.

Zhang Shigui and the soldiers in the array behind him all looked stupid.

Watching every movement of the soldiers of this thousand-person team be completely consistent, they walked forward step by step.

Every step of these people seemed to have stepped on Zhang Shigui's heart, shocking Zhang Shigui and not even daring to breathe, he looked at them with wide eyes, wondering how they got like this?

After Xue Rengui's team walked over, there was another team behind them, and several thousand people passed over one after another, and their military formation was still so neat, without any signs of disorder.

As the soldiers of the sixth rate of the East Palace walked in front of them, the soldiers of the guards, who were still excited because they were inspected by Li Shimin and Li Chengqian just now, were as if they had been beaten with a stick, and they were no longer as complacent as they had just now.

(End of chapter)