Zhu Ao stationed 100,000 troops near the Ili River Valley, and these military households brought their families and families to help him firmly control this strategic place, and he had the intention to show off his strength to Qi Tai, so that he could retreat in the face of difficulties, so it took a long time to select a group of elite troops from these military households for Qi Tai to observe, and he had been dragging Qi Tai before, because the preparations had not yet been done.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, Zhu Ao hid his strength, and he hid everything he did, the number of military horses in the Shandan Military Horse Farm, the number of troops in his hands, and the annual grain production of his fiefdom were all reported as little as possible, because he was afraid that Lao Zhu would fight the autumn wind. And Lao Zhu is too strong, and he occupies his father's name, for them, the vassal kings can be described as a crushing existence, no matter how he shows his muscles, Lao Zhu will not be afraid, but will bring disaster to himself. In the end, although Zhu Yuanzhang is very strong, he is surprisingly good to his sons, so as long as he does not rebel, no matter what, Lao Zhu will not cut his fiefdom, and there is no need to show his strength.

However, now the situation is different, Zhu Yunwen sent Qi Tai over, obviously looking for trouble, although his current strength is stronger than himself, but he is not a soft persimmon that he can knead at will, at this time it is necessary to show him his strength, to let the other party know the difficulty and retreat, even if it is to cut the domain, do not start from himself first, let him get involved with others first, and act on his own initiative.

People are always bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and money and thighs cannot be exposed, but the edge cannot be revealed.

Zhu Ao led everyone to the martial arts arena in the west of Ili City, Ili is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the west is an open plain, so the martial arts arena is also located in this place, after all, the deployment of tens of thousands of troops still needs a certain amount of space.

This military exercise was specially deployed by Su Wang Zhu Ao, intended to deter hostile forces, and the generals and colonels of Su Guo were well aware of this, so they all showed their own twelve points of spirit, so that the king could see that at the critical moment of Su Guo, the majority of their sergeants were standing with the king.

Qi Tai followed Zhu Ao, slowly came to the martial arts arena, and roughly glanced at the sergeants below, and beat the drum in his heart, he is the secretary of the military department, and it can also be said that he is an expert in training and using soldiers, as long as the connoisseur takes a casual look, he knows whether the other party's army has goods, and he sees that these sergeants are basically burly, ruddy faces, and obviously have been eating very well.

These sergeants are basically dark-skinned, and at first glance they are the result of years of exposure to the sun, the green tendons on the backs of their hands are all bulging, and the palms of their hands are all thick calluses.

What's more, each of them has a very resolute and pure gaze, as if they only want to tear the onrushing enemy to pieces, and nothing else is considered.

Qi Tai saw this scene, secretly surprised in his heart, he had heard for a long time that King Su had a good way of governing the army, and when he saw it today, it was really extraordinary, his sergeants, whether in terms of hardware or software, had reached a very good state, so to speak, compared to the twelve guards of the Son of Heaven, it was not much better.

It seems that King Su is very confident, no wonder he dares to tease him in public.

Zhu Ao sat on the general's platform, leaned on the Taishi chair, and asked very majestically, "Are you all ready?" ”

The commander-in-chief of the parade, General Zuo Neng, immediately stood up, gave a military salute to Zhu Ao, and shouted: "Your Highness Qiqi, everything is ready to start at any time." ”

"Then let's start, give the widow the ability to take care of the house, and let Lord Qi give you some advice." Zhu Ao was still leaning on the big throne and said casually, as if such a big thing was nothing the same in his eyes.

"The last general commands!" Qu Neng gave another military salute to Zhu Ao, then turned his head and waved his order flag at the Ming soldiers in the audience, signaling them to start performing martial arts.

According to the types of troops, Zhu Ao divided the exercise into three parts: infantry, cavalry, and firearms, and the first to appear was the infantry, and the infantry had to practice two items, the first was the hand-to-hand combat items such as knives and guns, and they should not only advance and retreat freely, but also pay attention to the formation.

This point, the soldiers of Su have long been familiar with it, they have participated in several wars, basically each time is mainly infantry, for the sword and shield, spear, bow and arrow and other infantry position and cooperation has already reached the point of perfection, row after row of phalanx practice, only to see their seamless cooperation, advance and retreat freely, as if it is a human wall, crushing everything in front, blocking the break.

"Kill, kill, kill." Zhu Ao listened to the deafening shouts below that could shake the mountains and rivers, and he was quite satisfied, he thought that in this world, I am afraid that there is no army that can do this.

I couldn't help but proudly pointed to the military array below, and said to Qi Tai with a slight smile: "Lord Qi, how is the widow's army?" Please advise you. ”

Qi Tai was also shocked by the momentum of Zhu Ao's army, what surprised him was not their equipment, nor their tall and mighty figures, but their kind of indomitable, invincible momentum, such momentum is not trained, but cultivated in victory after victory, the equipment and training of the twelve guards of the Son of Heaven in the capital are no worse than these people, but they just don't have their bloodthirsty momentum, those people have been peaceful for a long time, if they really fight, I really don't know if I can beat these border guards who lick blood on the knife all year round.

"It is really the division of tigers and wolves, I have heard for a long time that His Royal Highness has a good way of governing the army, and it is indeed worthy of its reputation, after the minister returns to Beijing, he will definitely report His Royal Highness's achievements in the northwest to the emperor, and ask the emperor to greatly praise His Highness." Qi Tai arched his hand at Zhu Ao and complimented him with a smile.

Zhu Ao leaned on the big throne, still looking careless and smiled: "Then thank you Lord Qi." ”

After the infantry drill, it was the firearms battalion. The firearms were carefully built by Zhu Ao, and now it has been renamed the Shenji Battalion, and Li Mian and Sheng Yong are authorized to train with full authority. Since the two of them were appointed, they have been working overtime every day, the operation skills of the sergeants are increasing day by day, and the assessment standards of the Shenji Battalion are also constantly improving.

Due to the development of the arquebus, the previous muskets of the Su army have been gradually eliminated, and now the guns used by individual soldiers have been replaced with arquebuses except for carrying guns.

The Su army first practiced the shooting of artillery, but Zhu Ao had not yet made a technological breakthrough in the field of artillery, and the firearms and tactics used were the same as those of the ordinary Ming army, so Qi Tai did not care much. He was concerned about Su Guo's new weapon, the arquebus.

After the cannon was fired, the next thing was the time for the arquebusiers to wield, and Zhu Ao didn't bother to bother with the assessment standards of the arquebus soldiers, so he directly copied Qi Jiguang's method, that is, set up a five-foot-high and two-foot-wide target eighty steps away, and the bird gunner only needed three shots and one shot, and seven shots out of ten could be assessed as excellent.

"Ready!" The random commander raised the command flag in his hand, and the arquebus soldiers in the first row all raised their muskets.

Qi Tai's spirit was immediately mobilized, standing straight, his eyes narrowed into a line and staring at the front, although the gunfire had not yet sounded, but he could see at a glance that this arquebus was not simple, not to mention anything else, just that its range had reached a terrifying eighty steps, this distance was already farther than a bow and arrow. And now the firecrackers used by the imperial court have a range of only twenty paces, which is simply a heaven and an underground compared to the arquebus, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are toys.

Moreover, the operation process of the guns used by the imperial court is very complicated, and it takes two people to operate, one person holds the gun with his hand to fix it, and the other ignites the part that goes to the muzzle, which is not only a waste of troops, but also a waste of time. This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang's troops are only equipped with 10 percent firearms, if there are more, not only will not increase the combat effectiveness of the troops, but will make the troops very fragile, and they will be scattered as soon as they rush.

Qi Tai was sure that if such a musket encountered an arquebus on the battlefield, it would only be hanged, so he wanted to see the power of this arquebus clearly, even if he couldn't get them, he would introduce their performance to Zhu Yunwen, and it would show that he had done his job, not a waste of the country's resources.

"Put!" With the order of the starter, there were several loud "bangs", "bangs" and "bangs" in the empty arena, and white smoke came out of the muskets held by the musketeers in the first row.

More than half of the targets in the row 80 paces away were knocked down, which was already a very good result.

"Second team, hurry!" The starter waved the command flag again, and commanded loudly.

At this time, the rate of fire of the muskets was very low, and in terms of specific tactics, it was natural to adopt the method of three shots, the arquebus soldiers of the first team immediately retreated to reload, and the soldiers of the second row quickly filled up, and the remaining targets were knocked down with a few "bangs", "bangs", "bangs".

may know the purpose of King Su letting them perform martial arts today, in order to add points to his king at the negotiation table, these soldiers were very concentrated when they fired, and it only took two rows of soldiers to knock down all the targets that were eighty steps away, and the third row of soldiers had not yet been on it.

"Hahahaha!" Zhu Ao laughed happily, this result surprised him, Tai Nima gave the widow a long face, and he must add chicken legs to this row of musketeers at night, and said: "This is the arquebus, what does Lord Qi think?" ”

Qi Tai has already been shocked by this sharp weapon, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, the heart of King Su is really ingenious, he can actually make such a big killing weapon, Zhuge Kongming relied on the advantage of crossbows to fight the Wei army did not dare to go out of the camp, if King Su has a bad heart in the future, this sharp arquebus will pose a great threat to the army of the imperial court, and said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness is really good at ingenuity, the minister is eye-opening this time, in fact, not only the minister, but even the ......"

"Thank you, Lord Qi, for the compliment." Zhu Ao knew what he wanted to say next, and immediately interrupted him with a wave of his hand, with a very sad and regretful expression on his face, and said: "This technology was given to the widow by a master in the world, and the widow made a heavy oath in front of him in the name of his father, not to leak this technology, otherwise it will cause chaos in the world and be deeply sinful." It's a pity, it's a pity, if the widow hadn't made such a heavy oath, he would have been dedicated to the imperial court, and he would have been able to strengthen the army of my Ming Dynasty, and the widow would have made a contribution. ”

After that, he shook his head again and again, sighed for a long time, and had a great sense of pain and heartache.

Qi Tai, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but sneer when he saw Zhu Ao's scene, no one believed this to deceive a three-year-old child, but what could he say? Zhu Ao is clearly talking nonsense with his eyes open, and talking nonsense seriously, what can he do? exposed his low-level deception in public, so that he couldn't get off the stage? When the time comes, don't say that the queen is not here, even if she is here, she will not be able to save him.

and thou shalt not live.

Qi Tai is a smart man, and a smart person will not die, so he can only pretend to be stupid, and follow Zhu Ao's words and say: "Hehe, Your Highness is true to his word, he is really a gentleman." ”

In the blink of an eye, the drill of the firearms battalion is over, and the final performance should be the cavalry battalion of the Su State, horses are the most important means of transportation in ancient times, compared with the soldiers with horses and the soldiers without horses, it is simply a sky, an underground, people have horses, and when they want to hit you, they will catch up and fight, and when you want to hit people, they will have long since disappeared.

Zhu Ao has good horses produced by the major military horse farms represented by the Shandan Military Horse Farm, and has already formed a powerful cavalry, a total of 100,000 people, this time he has the intention to show off, so he put the performance of the horse team at the end, and said with a smile to Qi Tai: "Next are the knights who are not in the stream, and please give good guidance to Lord Qi." ”

Qi Tai had already seen the group of cavalry, the horses under the crotches of those cavalry were tall and mighty, everyone was draped all over, holding a long lance in their hands, carrying a horizontal knife at their waists, extremely powerful, if they were fighting on the plains, with the cooperation of the firearms just now, it was estimated that no army could withstand their wave of charges, not only secretly admired: King Su's wings are hard, and the court must deal with it carefully.

Zhu Ao looked at Qi Tai's expression, knowing that his strategy had worked, and he was very proud in his heart, but at this time, he suddenly had a whim, turned his head and smiled at Di Linaza who was standing next to him: "Aifei, how long have you not practiced arching horses?" ”

Di Linaza was stunned, she was a person who grew up on horseback, and she had a special hobby for horses, but after following Zhu Ao, most of what she learned was court etiquette, and she rarely rode horses and archery, and said with a smile: "King, the concubine has not practiced riding and archery seriously for a while." ”