Time flies, after Zhang Shihua and other rebels voluntarily accepted the canonization of the Dragon and Phoenix Emperor Han Lin'er, so that the late Song Dynasty established by Liu Futong and others suddenly became a great power across the north of the river, the Central Plains, Xiangjing, Huguang and even the south of the Yangtze River, it didn't take long for it to be July.

At this time, the 30,000 new troops on the side of Wuling City finally completed their training.

On this day in early July, Zhang Shihua, as the king of Chu, couldn't help but leave the capital Jiangling, and took his queen Guo Weier out of Wuling on a luxurious boat to attend the parade of 30,000 recruits.

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"King, the former convenience is Wuling City. Now, General Zhao Jian and the local officials of Changde Road are also waiting to pick up the car at Wuling Wharf. Zhang Shihua's former personal guard commander, and now Li Wu, the commander of the forbidden army, couldn't help but report the news of his imminent destination to Zhang Shihua when he could see the shadow of Wuling City in the distance.

Hearing this, at this hot time, Zhang Shihua, who was only wearing a light single coat, couldn't help but nod and drank the glass of ice water in front of him. Then he took the hand of his wife who was sitting next to him, "Wei'er, come, it's almost there, let's change clothes for my husband." At this time, I wore this body to see Zhao Jian, which is not like words. ”

"En" Hearing the words of her father-in-law, Guo Weier, who was already wearing a formal dress that matched the queen's identity, and Guo Weier, who did not need to change her clothes, nodded softly in agreement.

Then the husband and wife walked hand in hand into the most luxurious room on the top of the boat, and went to change their clothes.

Then, less than half an hour later, this team of dozens of large and small boats, palace maids, eunuchs, guards, and entourage officials added up to nearly 2,000 people, and they couldn't help but slowly come to the dock of Wuling City.

"The king has arrived!" Waiting for the ship to dock, a eunuch stepped down first, and paged in a sharp voice,

"Ministers greet the king and queen. My king is a thousand years old, and the queen is St. Ann! "Wait until the pager is called, although there is no one yet. But when he saw that the guards and maids of the sword squad appeared on the deck and were ready to get off the ship, Zhao Jian and the officials on Changde Road who were waiting at the dock couldn't help but kneel on the ground.

"Come on, be careful." Zhang Shihua, dressed in royal clothes, appeared, and at this time, facing the ministers kneeling to greet him, he stepped off the boat first. Then he stretched out his hand again and thoughtfully reached out to his queen Guo Wei'er.

Seeing this, the queen's face couldn't help but show a heartfelt sweet smile.

"Okay, on a hot day, you don't have to kneel, let's all be flat!" When the husband and wife got off the boat, Zhang Shihua turned to look at the civil and military officials who were kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help waving his hand and saying so.

When the many officials kneeling on the ground heard this, they thanked them in unison, and they couldn't help but get up from the ground one after another.

"It's a bit untenable to get hot in this weather. Jian, Deshan, let's not talk about it here, let's change to a cooler place. After getting off the boat, he was wearing this damn royal costume again, and after a while, Zhang Shihua's forehead couldn't help but be full of sweat.

Therefore, in the face of Zhao Jian who greeted him and Zhang Deshan, the head of Changde Road, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but say like this.

And hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Zhao Jian, who was wearing an official uniform and had been standing here for a long time, was also hot and sweaty, so he couldn't help but hurriedly return: "Go back to the king and queen." The minister and Zhang Deshan Zhang have vacated a mansion for the king and queen in Wuling City, which is temporarily a palace, and where can the king move. ”

"Okay, let's go over there." Hearing this, Zhang Shihua, who really didn't want to stay here longer, nodded, and then sat with his wife in a wide king carriage with ice cubes and eight yellow horse-drawn carts, and then entered Wuling City surrounded by many civil and military personnel and thousands of followers.

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"Whew, it's much cooler." After entering Wuling City and coming to the back house of the palace prepared for him by Zhao Jian and Zhang Deshan, Zhang Shihua hurriedly changed out of the royal clothes that made him hot and uneasy, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, Zhang Shihua took a bath again, and after changing into a light single clothes, he came to the front hall and met the many Changde Road officials who were waiting in the front hall.

On the side of Changde Road, because he took the initiative to surrender to the Chu army. Therefore, on the side of Changde Road, including Zhang Deshan, the chief manager transferred from Lizhou Road, many other officials and county orders were also old bureaucrats in the original Yuan court.

Therefore, for this opportunity to meet Zhang Shihua, many civil officials, including Zhang Deshan, cherish this opportunity very much.

After all, after surrendering to the Chu army, most of the magistrates on Changde Road met Zhang Shihua for the first time and saw their own king.

In this way, they naturally want to leave a good impression on Zhang Shihua.

In the same way, Zhang Shihua, who met these subordinates for the first time, in order to make them feel that Chu Jun had the possibility of achieving great things in the future, so as to work more actively for him Zhang Shihua, naturally appeased and praised, making them feel that they were valued and established their image as a wise man.

Of course, the main purpose of Zhang Shihua's visit this time was to review the 30,000 new troops trained by Zhao Jian and give the next military strategy.

Therefore, after meeting Zhao Jian, he decided to start a military parade in the south of Wuling City tomorrow.

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In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is definitely the hottest months of the year on the Wulin side.

Therefore, the parade on this day is undoubtedly a very painful thing for the 30,000 recruits who are going to participate in the parade.

But now that they have become soldiers, these soldiers obviously have no choice. To obey the command, they had to do it.

So early the next morning, the 30,000 new soldiers of the Chu army dressed in black clothes couldn't help but be gathered in a shout. A phalanx was formed in the large open space south of Wuling City, waiting for the parade to begin.

30,000 men, if placed on the march, then the march of these 30,000 soldiers is enough to be several miles long.

But if it is formed into a phalanx, the area used by 30,000 people is actually not much. A soldier occupies an area of one square meter, 30,000 soldiers, and after forming a phalanx, it covers an area of only 30,000 square meters. In the next generation, it will be just a larger square.

But when Changde Lu and the officials followed Zhang Shihua to the north of the temporary wooden viewing platform. Condescendingly, when I suddenly saw such a team appear in front of me, I couldn't help but feel shocked in my heart.

But Zhang Shihua, who was sitting at the top of the viewing platform, had long been accustomed to this. Therefore, at this time, holding the hand of his own queen, he just nodded to Li Wu, and Li Wu also raised the flag and gave Zhang Shihua the order to start the parade.

"The whole army obeys the order, and the parade begins!" Seeing the order flag issued by Li Wu, on a high platform used to command the military parade, Zhao Jian, who was wearing a military attaché uniform and holding an iron horn, couldn't help but roar completely.

Of course, even with the iron horn, his orders could not be heard by everyone. So the real commander was actually the standard-bearer standing behind him.

And this is why in the era of cold weapons, soldiers must learn the flag. Because in the chaotic battlefield, the main general simply relies on roaring, and he can't command the many subordinates who are fighting.

Therefore, when the standard-bearer standing behind Zhao Jian conveyed Zhao Jian's order to the whole army, the middle-level and high-level generals at the level of thousands of households could not help but command the phalanx of 3,000 people to march in a group under the coordinated transmission of the standard-bearer and the herald, and in this short march, a comprehensive formation was changed.

And this kind of change of formation on the way is itself a kind of military exercise.

It is assumed that when the enemy launches a surprise attack or ambush from different directions during the march, how to find a response in the fastest time.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, for the foot soldiers, there is no mobility to speak of, and if they want to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, it is most important to know how to change the formation in surprise.

And now, on the high platform, Zhang Shihua saw that the soldiers in a group of 3,000 people could achieve the change between the back and the front in just a quarter of an hour, and he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

Although this group of soldiers are all new recruits who have never been on the battlefield, they are not as familiar and experienced as war-hardened soldiers when they change formations. But compared with the old pawns, this group of new pawns is just a bit of a grind.

Zhang Shihua believed that as long as this group of soldiers went to the battlefield and trained a little twice, then they could be regarded as usable soldiers in the Chu army.

Therefore, after the completion of the military parade ceremony, which lasted for more than two hours, Zhang Shihua could not help but praise Zhao Jian and other thousands of officials who were responsible for training these 30,000 recruits.

After that, Zhao Jian was officially appointed as the generalissimo of the expedition to the south, leading 30,000 new troops, responsible for the campaign against the Huguang Lingnan region, which was still unwilling to surrender.

However, this time when they went south, Zhao Yufu and Gao Kaida, who had already proved their loyalty, were also appointed as Zhao Jian's deputies. Together with Zhao Jian, he commanded the 30,000 new troops, and two months later, that is, after the autumn harvest warehouse, they led the army south.

After that, Zhang Shihua, who had only come to Wuling once, naturally did not return in a hurry.

Instead, he took advantage of this opportunity to meet with officials above the Zhengqipin on Changde Road and some local gentry with prestige.

Then, he stayed in Wuling City for more than ten days before returning to Jiangling by boat.

And after returning to Jiangling City, it was only two or three days, and Zhang Shihua couldn't help but summon Yu Junda, the commander of the dark guard who was officially appointed by him as the queen of the lower road.

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"Meet the King!" Seeing Zhang Shihua, Yu Junda, the commander of the Great Chu Secret Guard, and now the intelligence leader under Zhang Shihua, couldn't help but bow down to Zhang Shihua.

In this regard, Zhang Shihua nodded and said, "Okay, let's be polite." ”

"King Xie!" When Yu Junda heard the sound, he got up from the ground and stood up, but he still lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Zhang Shihua.

Zhang Shihua, who was sitting on the throne, didn't care about this, but just asked him: "Junda, has the intelligence network in the Huguang region and the Central Plains been established?" ”

"Back to the king's words, in the Huguang region, except for the Hainan Provincial Propaganda Division, the intelligence network in the rest of the regions will be established. In the Central Plains, in addition to the chaos in the two regions, the intelligence network in the rest of the region has also been established. ”

"So, the intelligence system in Huguang and the Central Plains region is still not perfect!" Hearing such an answer, Zhang Shihua couldn't help frowning.

"This ...... Subordinates are incompetent! Seeing Zhang Shihua like this, Yu Junda couldn't help but seem a little lacking in confidence.

"Well, I didn't mean to blame you." Seeing him like this, Zhang Shihua didn't appease him at first, and then continued: "Junda, it is said that you have done a good job. But you see, if you want to do great things in this world, that's not enough.

Well, I'll give you silver...... Three hundred thousand taels. But this time, I can't help but ask you to establish all the intelligence systems in Huguang and the Central Plains within a year. It is even more necessary that within this year, you establish a perfect intelligence system belonging to our army in the important towns south of the Yangtze River and in the important cities of Sichuan Province. Can you do that? ”

"Minister, the minister is willing to make a military order to the king, and within a year, the minister will definitely do this for the king." Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, knowing whether it could be reused in the future, Yu Junda, who looked at this experience, couldn't help but make up his mind and made a guarantee.

In this regard, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but nod again, "Very good, then next, you sort out the definitive map, troop distribution and the personality of the high-level generals over there in Lingnan Guangdi, and hand it in a month later." Do you understand? ”

"Yes, the minister obeys!" Hearing this, Yu Junda was also busy singing loudly.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua, who was sitting on the throne, waved his hand at him, and couldn't help but let him retreat.

And after he stepped back, Zhang Shihua leaned on the throne, looked into the distance, and couldn't help but groan: "This world is really completely chaotic." ”

Yes, as Zhang Shihua said. Because of the existence of his butterfly at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the history of the end of the Yuan Dynasty that Zhang Shihua was originally familiar with is now unrecognizable.

Let's talk about Ni Wenjun, who should have occupied the land of Huguang and then restored the country again in Wuchang. Because he and Zhang Shihua were connected to each other as an alliance a few years ago, there was Ni Wenjun, who knew that the Chu army was far stronger than him, so he began to develop in Jiangxi.

I have to say that this person who can leave his name in history is really not a mediocre talent. For most of the year, this Ni Wenjun not only occupied Xingguo Road, the easternmost part of Huguang, as planned. I couldn't help but take advantage of the chaos in the center of the Yuan Court, and under the pressure of Jiangxi's right fire, I captured Jiangzhou Road and entered Poyang Lake.

This led to a series of chain reactions, causing Peng Yingyu's hometown Yuanzhou Road and Ruizhou Road, where he spread anti-Yuan ideas in his early years, to set off a rebellion again. In this way, the Tianwan Army suddenly formed a favorable situation of attacking from both sides on Longxing Road, where the center of Jiangxi Province is located.