Zhao Ji, Ge Bing, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others finally stabilized their minds, and Zhao Xun next to him had a curious look on his face at the moment, and he couldn't wait to go over and have a look! This Zhao Xun is only four years old, and he grew up in the Five Kingdoms City, which is said to be a "city", but in fact it is just a small town, where thousands of Great Song Dynasty monarchs and nobles live, and there are more than 2,000 Jurchen soldiers left. Since he was a child, Zhao Xun had never heard such a shouting and killing, so he was very interested.

"Let's go over and have a look." Zhao Ji said.

Ge Bing, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others next to him nodded one after another, and everyone headed towards the south under the leadership of the soldiers in front.

The snow still kept falling, and the road creaked and creaked, and they kept going forward, walking for two miles, and came to the southernmost part of Shanhaiguan.

This Shanhaiguan is said to be a "pass", in fact, it is also a simple city, in ancient times, there was also a yamen here, the area is not small.

Once here, they came to the southern wall.

To the south of Shanhaiguan, here is a plain!

The plains are also covered with snow, and at the moment thousands of soldiers are training here!

I saw all the soldiers shouting together, and stabbing the spears in their hands fiercely forward! All the soldiers were stabbing forward with all their might, and every time they stabbed forward, there was a "kill"! There is a square team for every thousand people, and in front of him is an army of 100,000 people, and there are countless phalanxes!

Kill, kill, kill!

One after another, the soldiers were desperately shouting and training desperately, such a scene made Zhao Ji and the others stay there!

Zhao Ji has never seen such a scene! When he was in Kaifeng, 800,000 forbidden troops were stationed around Kaifeng, and he also went to the barracks of the forbidden army to investigate, but how could those forbidden soldiers have the appearance of the following soldiers? Although those forbidden soldiers were also standing there and lined up at the beginning, he thought it was good at the time, but compared to the soldiers below, the forbidden soldiers in Kaifeng Mansion were not worthy of carrying their shoes before!

100,000 people exercised together in the morning, and the momentum shook the sky, and everyone was stunned.

"Is there such a strong army in the world?" After a long while, Zhao Ji's voice was a little dry.

"No wonder these warriors are so domineering! This is a division of tigers and wolves! Liu Shikai, who used to serve as a squire in the military department, said.

"I'm afraid that the Western Army didn't have such an elite, right?" Zhao Ji swallowed his saliva and said.

"Don't say it's the Western Army, I'm afraid that the Jurchens are not so elite." Ge Bing felt trembling all over his body and said.

"I didn't expect this Liu Qi to be a generation of famous generals, who can train such a strong soldier, no wonder he is arrogant!" The former daimyo prefect Wang Xuandao.

"Your Majesty, what should I do?" Ge Bing said violently.

"Such a strong army, that is the scene of the late Tang Dynasty! There is no one in the world to control! Zhao Ji felt that his body was a little weak and said.

The scene below was so shocking that Zhao Ji didn't even dare to look down.

"Only take one step at a time! The Jurchens let us back, but they didn't tell me that there was a brave general like Liu Qi in the world. Liu Shikai said.

Several people stood here and felt cold, only Zhao Xun was being held, and at the moment he was dancing excitedly, he was a four-year-old child who saw such a scene, and his heart was extremely shocked and joyful.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be writing over there?" At this time, Ge Bing said violently.

Zhao Ji, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others looked along Ge Bing's fingers, and saw four big characters written on the wall over there, "All people are soldiers".

Soon Zhao Ji and others found that the rest of the walls were also written with different big characters, or slogans, some places were "infinite love, infinite worship, unlimited faith, infinite loyalty", some places were "I would rather die one step forward than take half a step back", some were "hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of millions of soldiers, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and thousands of camps", and some were "For Your Majesty's great thoughts, we must study every day, and we must resolutely implement Your Majesty's great strategic instructions".

There were slogans written on many walls in front, and Zhao Ji and the others were stunned.

Zhao Ji thought about it, he took a group of former ministers and walked down from the city wall, the southern city gate was wide open, they walked out of the city gate, and no one intercepted them.

Zhao Ji turned his head and saw three big characters engraved "Shanhaiguan" above the towering Shanhaiguan gate, but above the "Shanhaiguan" was a huge portrait! The portrait is a young man of more than ten years, with a serious face and a gaze looking ahead, giving people the feeling of being heroic and unforgiving!

Looking at this portrait, Zhao Ji felt a little depressed in his heart, and he couldn't help but lower his head.

The rest of the ministers also looked upward, and when they saw the huge portrait, they did not dare to look at it more.

In front is the 100,000 army that is being trained, and in front is a phalanx, at this moment, the spears in the hands of a thousand soldiers in that phalanx are stabbing in the direction of the city gate, and the word "kill" in their roar is also passed together, Zhao Ji is unsteady on his feet, and almost falls, but fortunately, the soldiers next to him support him.

"Whose portrait is this?" Zhao Ji said.

"Of course, this is a portrait of my Great Song Emperor!" The soldier next to him immediately stood up straight, and gave a military salute to the portrait before speaking.

"It turned out to be Chen Er's portrait, why did you hang his portrait on the city tower?" Zhao Ji said.

"Your Majesty is the most revered person in the hearts of all the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, and we naturally want to hang his portrait here! Under the gaze of His Majesty, every soldier did not dare to slack off! Every morning, we have to ask for instructions on the portrait of His Majesty, and in the evening we have to report it! In fact, everywhere in my Great Song Dynasty, portraits of His Majesty abound, especially in Guanshan, Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu, where tens of millions of people have to ask for instructions early and report late to the portraits of His Majesty. The soldier said respectfully.

"This ......" Zhao Ji was stunned.

The ministers behind were also stunned.

The soldiers around looked at the portrait with fanatical expressions on their faces!

The shouts of killing around are still coming in a steady stream!

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The cold wind was howling, and the weather was unusually cold, but Zhao Ji and the others were still standing there, and they wanted to see how long the 100,000 army in front of them could train.

Two hours passed, and it was noon that the training of the army finally stopped.

At this moment, the 100,000-strong army began to move towards the surrounding barracks in an orderly manner! Everywhere you can hear the sound of counting the numbers, walking in unison, etc., and occasionally you can hear the slogan of one, two, three, four.

At this moment, a big man came from a distance, in the snowy weather, this big man was shirtless, his body was covered with sweat, and the steam on his head was rising.

This big man is Liu Qi, and when Liu Qi came to the bottom of the city tower, a soldier handed over the towel, Liu Qi wiped off the sweat on his body, put on his clothes, and then walked towards Zhao Ji and others.

"Emperor Taishang, how are the soldiers and horses of my Liaodong Military Region?" Liu Qi said with a smile.

"It's really the master of tigers and wolves! I really didn't expect that General Liu, you are the number one military training master in the world, and you can actually train 100,000 strong troops! Zhao Ji hadn't spoken yet, and Liu Shikai, who had served as a squire in the military department, had already said sincerely.

"The world's number one military training master, I don't dare to be this! When I was in Guanshan, Yue Fei's soldiers and horses were stronger than my soldiers! Now in my Liaodong Military Region, most of the people are from the former Guanshan Forbidden Army! We still have 40,000 cavalry, and we have to train every day, but we are training in the north of Shanhaiguan, on the grassland! Liu Qi said.

"Who is Yue Fei?" Ge Bing said with interest.

"Yue Fei is the number one person under His Majesty in battle, and he has repeatedly defeated the Jurchen!" Liu Qi said.

"Repeatedly defeated the Jurchens? How is this possible? The Jurchens are invincible, and everyone in the world knows about it! Zhao Ji said coldly.

"Emperor Taishang, the Jurchens are invincible and are just boasting about themselves, in front of my great Song man, the Jurchens have only one way to perish!" Liu Qi said.

"Although your soldiers and horses are strong, you must not look down on the Jurchens! The Jurchens are ten or a hundred times stronger than our Han Chinese! This time, thanks to the magnanimity of the Jurchens, they let us back! I have promised the Jurchens to establish a brotherly state with them, the Jurchens are brothers, we are brothers! Zhao Ji said.

After Zhao Ji said this, Liu Qi was stunned.

After a moment, Liu Qi laughed.

"General Liu, what are you laughing at?" Zhao Ji frowned.

He felt Liu Qi's rudeness more and more! He is the emperor, and his status is far superior to Liu Qi, but Liu Qi dared to laugh rampantly in front of him, if he was still the emperor ten years ago, he would have to kill Liu Qi now!

"The Emperor Taishang doesn't know the current trend of the world! The Jurchens first entered Guanshan, and we led the army to defeat the Jurchens! After that, we entered the Western Xia and wiped out the Western Xia! In the sixth year of Xuanwu, we completely annihilated the 200,000 Jurchen army that invaded the Central Plains! The situation in the world is like this, hundreds of millions of people in the world know that my Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses are better than the Jurchen soldiers and horses, and the strength of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses directly catches up with the Han and Tang Dynasties, and Your Majesty actually said that the Jurchen soldiers and horses are ten times stronger than our Han people, and they are sick, isn't it ridiculous? Liu Qi said.

Although Liu Qi respects Zhao Ji and others on the surface, he is a little disdainful in his heart! In his opinion, the two emperors Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were defeated by the Jurchens, so he always thought that the Jurchens were strong! Now the national strength and military strength of the Great Song Dynasty have long surpassed that of the Jurchens, but it is only because Yanyun and the Central Plains have just been recovered, and the land area has increased, so the money and grain, logistics, governance and other reasons are restricted, so they did not immediately go north to destroy Jin, and Zhao Ji still thought that the Jurchens were strong, and they wanted to establish a "brotherly state" with the Jurchens, and recognize the enemy as brothers, how can this not be ridiculous?

Liu Qi respects Zhao Chen, but he doesn't have much affection for the rest of the Zhao Song royal family! The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the country and why Kaifeng broke the city was not because of these people in front of them?

"This ...... General Liu, you are indeed powerful in your soldiers, but you look down on the Jurchens so much, I'm afraid you're a little arrogant, right? Liu Shikai said.

"I'm not arrogant! The soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty were stronger than the Jurchens, this is a fact proven by the six-year war, not that I am talking nonsense! Liu Qi said.

"General Liu, are you doing this once a year?" Ge Bing said.

"Once a year? It's a once-a-day morning exercise! Half an hour later, it's the afternoon foot drill! In the evening, there will be a unified military study! Liu Qi said.

"Once a day? No way! General Liu laughed! At the beginning, the Western Army's seed army was the strongest, but it was also a small training for three days, a big training for five days, and once a day. Ge Bing laughed.

"First of all, I would like to say that the soldiers are not cheap! Without them, there would be no current Great Song! Even Your Majesty will never say that soldiers are inferior, Lord Ge, I hope you don't say such things in the future! Your Majesty has entered the barracks to eat and sleep with the soldiers, treating the soldiers as siblings, how dare you look down on the soldiers? Liu Qi had a mocking smile on his face, Ge Bing was flushed with anger, Liu Qi ignored him and continued: "Our soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, every one of them is a good man who fights with iron! Millions of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, who don't exercise every morning and train every day! ”

"I'm going to stay here for a few days and see if that's the case! Except for the iron man, there is no one in the world who can train every day! Ge Bing said coldly.

"Good! You can stay as many days as you like! You can even stay for a year and see if my Great Song soldiers and horses are like this! Liu Qi said lightly.

"General Liu, what is the unified military study at night?" Liu Shikai said.

"Study the infantry drills, study the latest instructions conveyed by His Majesty, and learn all kinds of great ideas from His Majesty." Liu Qi said.

"This ......" Liu Shikai was stunned.

Zhao Ji felt that his mind was a little confused, everything in front of him seemed to be different from what he imagined, his grandson, the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, did not seem to be a puppet, but had a high prestige in the army! There are many things he has never heard of or seen!

"Emperor Taishang, it's already noon, I have someone prepare a meal, and I will dine with you! In the past, I dined with the soldiers! Liu Qi said.

"You used to dine with the soldiers?" Zhao Ji said in disbelief.

"Not bad! When I was in Guanshan and Hanzhong, His Majesty dined with the soldiers, let alone me? Liu Qi said.

"Are you saying that Chen Er also dined with these soldiers?" Zhao Ji said.

Just now he heard "eat and sleep together", and now he finally couldn't help but ask.

"It's nature! At the beginning, His Majesty forbearance lasted for a year before he was killed, and then His Majesty entered the Zhejia army, and every day he ate and slept with the soldiers of the Zhejia Army and trained together, and the Zhejia Army was recovered by His Majesty! Liu Qi said.

"I don't believe it! General Liu, why don't we accompany you to dinner with those soldiers today? I'm going to see if you can eat it!" Ge Bing said disdainfully.

In the past, the soldiers in the Great Song Army ate extremely poorly, it was simply pig food, and ordinary people couldn't eat it at all, so Ge Bing said this.

"Good! Since you want to eat with the soldiers, let's go! Liu Qi said lightly.

"Go to that barracks!" Ge Bing pointed into the distance and said.

"Good!" Liu Qi nodded.

They followed Liu Qi towards the military camp, which was more than two miles away, if it was in Kaifeng, it would be impossible for Zhao Ji and the others to walk forward like this, but after staying in Wuguo City for a few years, they regarded walking on foot as a normal thing.

When they arrived at the barracks, the soldiers were eating, and when they came in, no one stood up and saluted, and no one paid much attention to them.

Zhao Ji, Ge Bing and the others looked into the rice bowls of the soldiers, and were surprised to find that the soldiers were eating white steamed buns, the dish was stewed vegetables, and meat pieces could be seen in it, they were all stunned! None of them, the Great Song monarchs, had eaten such a good meal when they were in the Five Kingdoms City! In the Five Kingdoms City, they can't fill their stomachs all year round, and sometimes they even have to eat rats and leaves! They thought the soldiers were eating very poorly, but they didn't know that it was!

"Isn't there anything in this army that withholds military salaries? The soldiers ate too well, right? It stands to reason that the soldiers' food money should have been embezzled a long time ago? Zhao Ji said.

He didn't understand these truths, but when he was in the Five Kingdoms City, he chatted with the rest of the ministers who were trapped in the cage while reflecting on his actions back then, so he learned about those dark things in the army.

"Withholding military salaries? Your Majesty, who in the Great Song Army has such courage? Embezzling soldiers' food money? Even if it is embezzling a tael of silver, it is a mortal crime, who is tired of living and dares to do this? Liu Qi said coldly.

"General Liu governs the army strictly, admire!" Liu Shikai said.

"The millions of troops of the Great Song Dynasty are all like this! Millions of soldiers, everyone knows that military law is like a mountain, and no general dares to deduct military salaries and embezzle military rations, which is nothing. Liu Qi said lightly.

Liu Qi personally went to cook for everyone, and the meal was the same as that used by ordinary soldiers, and Zhao Ji and the others began to feast! Especially Zhao Xun, he has not eaten a full meal a few times since he was born, and last night and today noon were the sweetest ones he ate!

In the afternoon, the soldiers really came out for training again, and they were still shouting and killing, and the soldiers were sweating one by one! Liu Qi led Zhao Ji and others to walk around the barracks, they saw that in some battalions and companies, the soldiers took off their shirts in unison, they shouted and threw themselves towards the snowdrifts in front, they wiped the snow on their bodies, let out a wild laugh, and some people were constantly beating their chests to express their excitement.

Zhao Ji felt that the soldiers in front of him were like beasts, and couldn't help frowning, while Ge Bing said, "How can they be the same as barbarians?" You must not train soldiers like this in the future! ”

Liu Qi said: "Our million-strong army is to make them brave and savage, just like the barbarians outside the Saiwai!" However, we have the iron discipline that the barbarians do not have, and we have weapons and tactics that are countless times more advanced than them, so we will be superior to all the barbarians! ”

Zhao Ji, Ge Bing and the others still couldn't accept such a statement, they all shook their heads, and for the soldiers in front of them, their eyes showed a look of disgust!

The heavy snow does not stop, the soldiers do not stop training, and after years of training, it can be seen that the soldiers are extremely strong, far better than the previous forbidden army and the Western army! Zhao Ji and the others watched a little boring, and finally decided to leave.

At this time, the sound of countless cavalry galloping came from afar, and after a while, there was an earth-shattering sound of long live in the front army, and then the sound of long live resounded throughout Shanhaiguan!

Zhao Chen has finally arrived!