From the beginning of the first month of the Spring Festival on New Year's Day, officials have to take a five-day vacation, and Zhu Youxiao also gave himself a few days off and enjoyed the life of ordinary people and husbands and wives for a few days. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This was specially arranged by Zhu Youxiao, since the Beijing battalion and other troops stationed in Beijing were abolished last year and reorganized into a 10,000-strong Praetorian Guard, the Royal Praetorian Guard has expanded tenfold in just one year, and now the main force of the Praetorian Guard has reached 100,000 without counting the logistics personnel.

Not only that, but the royal cadets have also been held for three periods, and this does not include the thirty cadets who were secretly trained in the Forbidden City, and now these thirty cadets, except for the two cadets who are in charge of the law enforcement department of the Praetorian Guard and one who are responsible for staff and clerical affairs, are already senior generals with tens of thousands of soldiers.

Except for the first batch of cadets who had already been added to the battalions of the Praetorian Guard half a year ago, the second batch of cadets had just completed one year of study and had to be immediately charged into the battalions of the Praetorian Guard, and most of them were grassroots officers and soldiers with superior performance who had participated in the fight against the first invasion of the Manchu Tartars, and had a certain amount of actual combat experience, and had already experienced three months of intensive training during their previous years as soldiers, so they quickly became the grassroots backbone of the battalions of the Praetorian Guard after they were added to the battalions.

Most of the composition of the third phase of officer students is the same as that of the first period, and the second phase of officer students are also the original backbone of the Praetorian Guard, but a larger part of them are recommended by various places or personally ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to enter the school, such as Qi Changguo, who served as a thousand households in Yiyang Qianhu and was after Qi Jiguang, and Gu Sanmazi, who was originally a pirate leader.

Gu San Mazi has only been in the Royal Military Academy for less than a month, but he is obviously much calmer than before, his shoulders are no longer one high and one low, and his legs are no longer spread outward, but his face is obviously darker than before, and he has obviously been punished for standing many times, and his overall appearance is much more energetic, and he can also see that he has some vigorous muscles.

Although Qi Changguo was as energetic as before, his eyes were much deeper, as if he had penetrated the metaphysics and realized the Tao overnight.

However, in fact, it is true, according to Zhu Youxiao's report from Dongchang, Qi Changguo now reads the fourth watch every day and night, and he is harder than the scholars who participate in the exhibition, and even quarreled with the people of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Ordnance Department, even in the Royal Military Academy, because of some theories and disputes with the instructors, but many times Qi Changguo was defeated.

For a while, he and Gu San Mazi reversed, because Zhu Youxiao asked the Royal Military Academy to strictly control Gu San Mazi, so Gu San Mazi became more and more obedient and did not dare to violate discipline at all, but Qi Changguo tolerated it because Zhu Youxiao had given instructions, which made Qi Jiguang forget that this was not only a school, but also a military camp.

As the representatives of the cadets, the third batch of cadets naturally had to attend the review of the Royal Janissaries, and they were the first team to stand in the center of the school grounds. The armies officially established by the Praetorian Guard stood in line in the order of the ten heavenly stems.

What needs to be explained is that Zhu Youxiao carried out a reorganization and reform of the Praetorian Guard Army of various departments a few years ago, and the original battalion was added to the army, town, and brigade structure. Among them, the soldiers recruited by Chang Yanling in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou formed the first army, and most of the officers above the team were filled by the first or second phase of the Royal Military Academy, or veterans before the Praetorian Guard, but there were also Qin Liangyu's local soldiers joined, such as Qin Liangyu's son Ma Xianglin and nephew Qin Yiming and other well-trained old-style officers also joined it, and Zhu Youxiao specially served as a general or battalion commander of a brigade of the First Army of the Praetorian Army.

Of course, it is also because they have participated in actual combat with Qin Liangyu, and in order to better control these Tujia soldiers whose combat effectiveness is already good, they did not let these Tujia generals go to the Royal Military Academy to study first and directly take up important positions, but according to Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, they are only temporary now, and after these Tujia soldiers are completely assimilated into the Praetorian Guard system in the future, these officers who have not studied in the Royal Military Academy will be rebuilt.

However, the main body of the First Army of the Praetorian Guard is still the original First Battalion of the Praetorian Guard, which is still dominated by infantry, and the Apocalypse No. 1 flintlock pistol is the main weapon, however, the first brigade of the first town of the ace has been equipped with a Mini gun, which is the only formed unit in the Praetorian Guard equipped with a Mini gun.

Fu Dahai's Second Army is considered a mixed army, artillery and infantry, plus cavalry, but the main body is still dominated by artillery, regarded as an army, mainly Huguang soldiers, like the first army, most of them are relatives of the same clan or friends with the same township, such an advantage is naturally that when fighting in the future, they can share the same hatred of the enemy, and when relatives and friends face a life crisis, they will fully mobilize the emotions of other officers and soldiers, but on the whole, they are still controlled by Fu Dahai, because most of the grassroots officers are students of the Royal Military Academy.

Aobai's third army is all cavalry, most of them are loyal and brave men of Qin, and most of them are good at riding and archery in the face of the raids of the Tartars outside the Guanhai all the year round, so it is better to form cavalry, not to mention, Aobai himself is only good at cavalry. After a year of training in the Great Northwest, Aobai's Third Army is the most powerful among the Praetorian Guard armies, and it is the most experienced in actual combat, because with the acquiescence of Zhu Youxiao, Aobai often took the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard to attack outside the pass, attacked some small tribes, and even ran as far as Hamiwei.

Qin Botong recruited soldiers in Xuzhou and part of Lu Jiayu's Lingnan soldiers and Gannan soldiers recruited in Liangguang combined into the Fourth Army, and Lu Jiayu served as the chief officer of the Fourth Army, this Praetorian Guard is regarded as the reserve of the Praetorian Guard, although there are Xuzhou soldiers who dare to fight as the basis, but the most elite two battalions of the Xuzhou soldiers formed by the original Praetorian Guard Baggage Battalion as the main force were taken away by Qin Botong to form the Fifth Army, so most of the Fourth Army are new recruits, and most of the grassroots officers are mainly officers and students of the third phase, whether they are officers or soldiers, many of them are the first time.

And Qin Botong's Fifth Army is to form a navy, the two battalions of Xuzhou soldiers combined into a marine brigade, responsible for the land battle after the beach landing, the other brigades are composed of the original Nanjing Navy and the pirates who were recruited, so it is relatively new, many officers and soldiers have not yet run in the feeling, even the officers and students who graduated from the Royal Military Academy have no practical experience in naval warfare, they are only in the Royal Military Academy when they study, they have a certain theoretical foundation and some interest.

However, everything is from scratch, from weak to strong, Zhu Youxiao is just thinking about building a shelf first, and when he has the opportunity in the future, he will definitely go to actual combat, whether he wins or loses, he can take it back to the Royal Military Academy to summarize anew, there will always be a few talents in the tens of thousands of navies.

The majestic and vigorous music sounded, this is a set of controlled instruments jointly produced by Zhu Youxiao ordered by the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Hanlin Academy and the Inner Court musicians, the tune is the march of the Chinese 0 0 people 0 people 0 people 0 liberation army 0, Zhu Youxiao was made by the musicians with all kinds of the latest musical instruments developed by the Royal Academy of Sciences after playing countless times, many of which have become bestsellers on the market.

Music can sometimes fully mobilize a person's mental outlook, not to mention that after a few cannons, not only the Praetorian Guards present became solemn, but even the civil and military officials who stood behind Zhu Youxiao as a foil were also solemn.

Zhu Youxiao was dressed in a military uniform, holding a royal saber, looking at his 100,000 elites, and walked towards this side.

The saber is a new imitation of the Tang knife by the Royal Academy of Engineering according to the documents provided by the Hanlin Academy, and the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Sciences sometimes not only invent and discover future things and theories in advance, but also sometimes restore some of the lost skills of the previous dynasties, on the one hand, it is indeed practical, and on the other hand, it also has high artistic value.

However, Zhu Youxiao's Tang knife is gilded and decorated with a dragon, mainly to show the honor of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and he doesn't really want to compare anyone's sword with the Oriental samurai.

In addition to the saber, Zhu Youxiao's uniform is also the latest textile product of the Royal Weaving Bureau, the fabric is woven with mixed yarn, the texture is delicate and the crispness is very good, and Zhu Youxiao's figure is very straight and straight, not only Zhu Youxiao, but also the 100,000 Janissaries in front of him, although it is no longer a mandarin duck robe plus iron mesh boots and shoes (junior officers), but when the simple and slim military uniform is added with leather boots, the military prestige formed is much more than other armies.

Even the chief military officers of the border towns such as Man Gui couldn't help but widen their eyes, and secretly sighed that they never dared to believe that there was such an army in this world that revealed an awe-inspiring murderous aura without the addition of Xuantie.

The sixteen-pounder, twelve-pounder, and six-pounder guns, as well as the military four-wheeled carriages jointly developed by the Ordnance Department and the Royal Industries Company, were placed at the front of the ranks.

No one knew how powerful these cannons were on the battlefield, only that the surrounding residents were terrified every time the Ordnance Department conducted secret experiments. Otherwise, there would not have been an imperial history to impeach the Ordnance Division to break the dragon vein, and it is obvious that this imperial history has actually suffered from it.

"Hello soldiers!"

Zhu Youxiao shouted, this kind of standard questioning has been sent to all the armies of the Praetorian Guard in advance, and it has taken half a month to conduct intensive training.

Therefore, after Zhu Youxiao shouted this sentence, it didn't take long for a moment to suddenly sound like a raging wave: "Your Majesty is good!" ”

"All the soldiers have worked hard!"

Well, on the surface, His Majesty is really amiable, smiling, and expressing his concern for the vast number of Praetorian Guard soldiers, and the vast number of Praetorian Guard soldiers are naturally deeply encouraged by this, and therefore reply loudly and neatly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

In order to emphasize the absolute authority of individuals in the army, especially in the Praetorian Guard, Zhu Youxiao demanded that the Praetorian Guards must express their loyalty to themselves at the end, and the most direct way was naturally to shout long live.

The Praetorian Guards were not only the military generals and nobles of the Ming Dynasty, as well as most of the feudal lords who had been locked up in Beijing, but also some envoys from Korea, Ryukyu and other countries.

But they all have only one feeling at this time, and that is shock!

After all, it was the cry of 100,000 people, and even the earth would tremble a little after it was shouted almost in unison.

In this way, Wenchen began to understand that His Majesty today not only has Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but also has a war machine whose strength should not be underestimated, and the generals have to weigh whether they should do anything because they have a few soldiers in their hands, and the vassal kings also lamented that they can only be at the disposal of His Majesty today, seeing such an army, where can they dare to have the slightest intention of rebellion. North Korea and other vassal states can't help but strengthen their loyalty to the Celestial Empire.

This time, Zhu Youxiao was still sitting in a four-wheeled carriage when he inspected it, and before steam power was fully used in transportation, animal power was still the main way for people to move instead of their feet.

Of course, the four-wheeled carriage that Zhu Youxiao rode in was certainly the most gorgeous in appearance, but this could not hide the defect that he could not rely on steam power to move forward.

After Zhu Youxiao finished the review and returned to the high platform, each army and battalion of the Praetorian Guard sent their most elite teams to enter the column, led by the third batch of officers and students of the Royal Military Academy, followed by the representatives of the battalions of the Praetorian Guard.

After all, it is an army of 100,000, and if you go through them all, you will definitely not be able to complete them all in one day.

The teams of all parties walked forward neatly with flintlock pistols with bayonets, and their gait was like a green wave that appeared alternately, but when they passed by Zhu Youxiao's side, their steps suddenly became heavy, and their steps smashed on the ground like iron, sonorous and powerful!

"Salute!"

As soon as Qi Changguo shouted, Gu San Mazi, like other officers and students, quickly turned his head over, looked at Zhu Youxiao on the stage, leveled the flintlock pistol in his hand, stepped on the ground, and walked forward step by step.

And when other teams came over, the same was true, not only to prove the prestige of the Praetorian Guard to the restless elements inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, but also to demonstrate the discipline and collectivism of their own Praetorian Guard.

It is also thanks to the fact that the Royal Jingying School Field has begun to expand since last year, otherwise it would not be able to form such a shocking picture, the south side of the school field is a high platform as high as several zhang, and the north side is a large school field that can accommodate 100,000 people, even if Zhu Youxiao stands on the high platform, he can't see everyone's face.

But the momentum formed is surging people's enthusiasm!

The news of Zhu Youxiao's inspection of the Praetorian Guards was also reported by Daming Daily, some praised the Praetorian Guards as the lions of the world, and some still doubted the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guards, believing that an army with a good pace might not necessarily dare to fight with the Tartars.

But for the ridicule of these boring literati below, Zhu Youxiao didn't ask whether the Praetorian Guard had combat effectiveness, and he would naturally know it in the future.