Tiannan Prefecture, located in the essence of the hometown of Linyi hundreds of years ago, on the Jiulong River Plain, the so-called surrounding mountains and facing the sea, many rivers, the terrain is better and the products are abundant, it is also the family of the surname of the Great Liang State, one of the many direct feudal lords distributed in overseas military states, and now it is one of the four major offices under the leadership of the Tonghai Gong, and the central and southern cities and the sea and land towns.

In history, it was once operated as the companion capital of the Liang clan in the South China Sea, after the failure of the Jiayou Great March, in the face of the rapid decline of the total collapse, there were people who built yì moved the capital from Guangfu to Tiannan Prefecture, although it failed to make the trip in the end, but as the operation of the accompanying capital, it has not stopped, and all kinds of palace offices and offices live in the harbor of the city and the army, which can be said to be readily available.

And the contemporary Tonghai Gong, in fact, is one of the few heirs of the current shogunate lord - the Great Xiangguo, and the half-brother of the current prison state, because of some political reasons, he was passed on to the last generation of Tonghai Gong as a compromise and exchange at an early age.

The existence of the four major offices is itself as a sibling and extension of the family of the national family, dividing the feudal clan to guard the four directions, and at the same time as the main vein of the shogunate, the alternate in the event of a succession crisis.

It's just that no one thought that this Tonghai Duke was obviously unwilling to just act as a family and office identity with a very respectful status, and stayed in Ki for a long time in the name of the court, and then gathered his henchmen to take advantage of the rebellion of the Qingyuan Army, in a vain attempt to usurp and abolish the establishment in Ouchi and the shogunate, and do a series of disasters in Guangfu.

It is reported that this Tonghai Gong, who failed to seize power, has secretly fled back to the leadership of Tiannan Prefecture under the desperate cover of the sworn party after the defeat.

In addition, almost at the same time, on the other side of Tiannan, Anyuanzhou, the capital of the former hometown of Shui Zhenla, also had a change.

This place is the place where the hereditary leader of the great Situ Makuo clan who has just resigned, and has multiplied for generations, and the relatives and relatives are intertwined all over the place, and it is also the eastern border of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, one of the few great feudal domains.

The ancestor of Ma Kuo is a famous family in Xijing, after Tianbao, Qianyuan, Taixing three dynasties of the name Ma Sui. It is also one of the oldest five-vein vassals that has survived in the South China Sea, and the heritage is above the Shichen family named Yaye, and Ma Kuo himself is a contemporary veteran minister, one of the leading figures of the so-called Westerner Party.

As a result, the envoys and guards sent by the Cantonese government to Suona to the rebels involved in the incident completely cut off the news almost as soon as they landed ashore.

And the attack and killing in front of the clan became the last straw that broke the camel's back. No matter who planned and instructed these dead men behind the scenes, this scene in front of the Sect Domain, simple and rude, but Rao was clever and direct, tearing off the last bit of fig leaf that the shogunate and the imperial court worked hard to maintain and control within the rules of the upper game.

In view of the war in Tiannan Prefecture, the plans and plans of the Eastward Advance Party and the main battle faction in the army, which advocated the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, no matter how good and powerful they were, inevitably fell into an indefinite delay again.

After all, with the current situation of preparation and mobilization of the Southern Dynasties, it is impossible to start a war on two fronts, and in view of the complex relations and situation in the territory and subordinates under the rule of the Southern Dynasties, there are too many things involved in the comprehensive mobilization to make up one's mind.

This ring of grasping the trend of the current situation is called a conspiracy, which makes people realize a little suddenly and sigh.

Bursts of loud noise brought me back to reality from my memories, and today was the military parade before Guangfu set out to fight the rebellion.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the division of all kinds of diligent kings gathered around Guangfu to hold this big parade ceremony, which is also to calm people's hearts and deter those who are potentially restless.

Because of some kind of relationship, I was also in the neighborhood, and I was assigned a good spot, and the pergola on the roof of the building was already full of drinks and snacks, but we were not in the mood to enjoy these things.

As the precursor is the six white elephants, whether in Tianzhu or the South China Sea countries, can be regarded as a rare auspicious omen of white elephants, here the well-trained lined up, stepping on a slight tremor, in the onlookers shouted and screamed, not frightened, not slow to move forward.

They all wore golden stalks, draped in various colors of silk and tassels, and walked side by side in front of the team to open the way. The elephant riders each sat on the elephant's neck, a small wooden lotus chair.

It was followed by a group of honor guards holding flags, Qingyou flags, flying yellow flags, Bai Zeqi and other colorful long queues, like clouds floating on the street. Then there is a group of drummers wearing colorful uniforms, and the golden drums are playing some kind of atmospheric "Zhan Taiping" and "Dingsheng Music".

And immediately behind, is a uniform sound of horses' hooves, the most eye-catching of which is undoubtedly the Iron Cavalry Brigade composed of officers belonging to the Dragon Guard, known as the "armor cavalry" lineup, this specially selected cavalry, known as the essence of the forbidden army, the backbone of the honor guard.

They all led the horses and men and horses, dressed in one-piece armor, covered with layered embroidered robes and large swords, and held spears and swords painted with gold and silver, and stepped off their horses, almost well-trained to the rhythm of copper drums and golden cymbals, and stepped out to the sound of neat and well-proportioned horses' hooves, and slowly marched forward in the midst of the audience's intoxicating cheers and cheers

The first person in this ranks. It is the general in charge of commanding this armored horseman, he wears a Zhu Ti hood, wears a bright fine scale gold armor, and a green robe on the outside, looking majestic and high-spirited, I don't know how many between gestures, and the girl and woman are obsessed with it.

Even I could only look at the mysterious creatures with their red faces and red hands, and reluctantly admired, "What a good look." ”

This armor cavalry is the Zhengding Emperor who founded the Southern Dynasty, named in the Northern Expedition of the Jiayou Great Army, it took a lot of effort to create an iron cavalry force - Yulongwei, which is also one of the few pure cavalry departments in the Southern Dynasty

However, after many years, it has now become a full-fledged goods and honor guard for the children of the princess and eunuchs, and I don't know how many generations have not seen a real battle.

Next, it is mainly composed of horse infantry troops, which are also from Emperor Zhengding's other elite division - the Dianqian Army, which looks much more decent, and it is said that a considerable part of it has been stationed in the Yanbian War Zone.

Among them, the horse battalion is a foot soldier on horseback, they wear a whole cuirass, only shoulder pads and knee covering, holding the horse of the horse, holding their heads high and slowly passing through the column. The infantry of the brigade wore heavier one-piece bright light armor, shiny iron plates even covered the calves, and helmets with pheasant tails covered their cheeks, looking like rows of marching iron men.

Then there are the Gongwei armies holding the banners of Ruima, Qilin, Golden Tiger, Flying Bear, etc., which represent the left and right guards, Wuwei, Xiaowei, leading the guards, Weiwei and other Chinese armies, and there are six guards such as Jinwu, Jianmen, and Qianniu, which are only the places where the honor guards are named, and there is no actual compilation, so they do not appear in the field.

Coming down, there are the battalions of the Cantonese garrison, the subordinate naval battalions of the two seas and provinces, as well as the Privy Council, the Grand Counselor's Office, the Military Department, the Weiwei Temple and other powerful and important departments directly under the armed and defending sequences, which also appear in the shape of small phalanxes in the long streets and school yards.

a teaching team directly under the Privy Council holding a Japanese flag; Holding high the Suzaku flag is the school military camp of the General Shosho Mansion; The main unit of the General Administration of the Navy under the Red Sun and Sea Flag

However, it is, the review team of the righteous servants and the feudal army sequence under the national dynasty, of course, are qualified to appear here, all of them are some veteran powerhouses with a prestigious feudal army background, or a good fighting division.

For example, the dark-skinned descendants of Kunlun Nu formed the Yaksha camp; Cypriot camps with obvious Caucasian ancestry; Hu Mo camp with a distinctly nomadic color; a plagiarism camp that is used to tattooing on the face; The Hayato team, which is short and strong, mostly Japanese people; From the inland Qianzhong Road and Nanping Duhufu, the fierce and righteous obedience of the mountain barbarians.

Originally, there were some that did not appear, such as the Liren battalion that was good at making the shield array fight, but was disqualified from being reviewed because it was involved in the rebellion.

Finally, from the local, a different number of government soldiers, township soldiers, and regimental braves. The color of the clothes is a lot messy, but it also has a different style.

But what I am more concerned about is that there are three main types of firearms units that appear in the square:

Dressed in iron-gray silk armor resembling denim, grenadiers with rows of fuses hanging from their waists, and auxiliaries who followed closely behind them with special long boxes, they were also the backbone of the army, both offensive and defensive, capable of both field and fortification, and it was said that the most experienced veterans in the army must be filled in order to avoid scrambling and throwing these powerful weapons in the ranks of their own people;

Then there are rows of thick-barreled hand cannons wearing half-body chain mail, hugging in the crooks of their arms, with brackets behind them, more like the later generations of my Da Qing version, sawed short and supporting the grip of the lifting gun, which is said to be used to fire shotshots;

The second is a variety of strange-shaped artillery combinations from various military states, including leather cannons on horseback and wooden cannons carried by two people on their shoulders, which looks like a bit of the style of the anti-Japanese base era.

Then there are the black and shiny gun carriages with different sizes and polished body tubes and inner diameters on the frames of big bulls and strong horses, and the casting process has been quite developed in terms of length and caliber thickness, which is closer to the artillery of the Middle Ages.

These soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who were responsible for operating the "Heavy Equipment of the State", followed closely behind some horse-drawn heavy equipment, silently and quickly passing through the field.

After the gun carriage, in addition to the traditional stone cannons and crossbows that can be recognized at a glance, there are also some weapons that look more strange.

Naturally, someone introduced me that the huge box shape on those wheels was actually a fire nest car, and those rockets like a long box held by the Divine Machine Army in their hands were all arrows that were intensively projected with the power of gunpowder, which looked full of evil spirit.

I can't help but wonder if this is a bit crooked about the tech tree. In the end, there were more than a dozen of them, large long tubes obliquely erected on the stand, someone told me that it was a flying fire thunder, seeing this, I couldn't help but complain again, isn't this the Congreve rocket, as a modern artillery cluster before, the excessive product of the prosperity for a while,

However, with such a lineup, it seems to be a bit of a waste to calm the rebellion in Tiannan Prefecture.

Finally, there are the typical motley armies, armed with firearms of various flares and long and short barrels, more like arquebuses or muskets, with a small number of flintlock muskets. The only thing they have in common is that each has a medicine box behind them, or an auxiliary soldier with a light card.

It also represents the true normality of the firecracker army in this era, which also strengthens my determination and direction for the next step.