Chapter 441: Watching the military parade and knowing the strength and weakness
Luo Luo asks for a monthly pass, and the historical classification has fallen to tenth, can Luo Luo be cheeky and worship the ticket?
April 5, 1848, Ching Ming Festival.
On this day when the Chinese sacrificed to their ancestors, the streets inside and outside the Chaoyang Gate of Yingtianfu were already full of Yingtianfu citizens wearing their best clothes, and this Chaoyang Gate was one of the thirteen gates that Zhu Yuanzhang had when he built the city wall of Yingtianfu, and it was the only way from the Daming Palace to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Purple Mountain. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was the main road for the Son of Heaven to travel, between the original Chaoyang Gate and Xiaolingwei, there was an imperial wall of 45 miles. Now, the former imperial wall has disappeared, but the road outside the Chaoyang Gate has been named Guangfu Road is spacious and smooth, this is the road that the Ming Army engineers spent several months building, and rows of camphor trees are transplanted on both sides of the road, which is very the style of the Son of Heaven to stop.
Since the day before yesterday, the citizens of Yingtian have known that their son of heaven, Zhu Jishi, will lead the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Tomb in the Purple Mountain to worship the Ming Taizu Emperor on the day of the Qingming Festival, under the command of the Jinyi Guards. Moreover, it was unprecedented to allow the people of Yingtian to witness the majesty of the Son of Heaven on both sides of Guangfu Road. Being able to see the Son of Heaven with your own eyes is a very rare and glorious thing for the people of this era. Therefore, the entire capital of the Ming Dynasty has been empty of thousands of people, and the lively queue has been lined up at the gate of Xiaolingwei, waiting for Zhu Jishi from the original Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and the current temporary palace......
At this time, Hu Yihuang, the protector of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, also stood in the crowd with a few subordinates who were disguised like him. stretched his neck and waited for Zhu Jishi to appear. He arrived in Yingtian from Hangzhou half a month ago. This time he headed south. In addition to meeting with the Cao Gang leaders, there is also a mission to explore the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River and master Zhu Ming's reality.
And half a month of exploration has greatly changed Hu Yihuang's opinion of Zhu Jishi - Zhu Jishi is obviously a faint king!
After only half of the country was laid, he began to build a large number of buildings, build palaces, and build mausoleums, without knowing the slightest sympathy for the people. It also cost tens of millions of dollars to buy antique toys and lose his mind, and he wants to build a museum of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it is also lustful, and there are Western beauties hidden in the palace, and the beauties of the East are pampered day and night, so that the national government is deserted. A small "Constitution" has not been drafted for more than a year. What is such a king, if he is not a faint king? It seems that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom should really have a world.
Just when he was proud, the neat and loud military song suddenly sounded.
"Arise, slaves under Manchu oppression! Full of enthusiasm, fight to the death! Destroy the Eight Banners of the Tartars. Restore my Chinese Ming Dynasty. Mo Daowu was born humble, and his meritorious achievements are now in the future! The overseas Son of Heaven has returned. Bring us to destroy and rejuvenate China, and rejuvenate the Han family......"
This is the military song of the Zhu Ming Army, and it is also the national anthem of the Ming Kingdom. Many of them are veterans who have fought in the Battle of Lantau Island, the Battle of Baiyun Mountain or the Battle of the Dongjiang River, and the rest are also young people who hope to gain fame immediately - in the troubled times, it is the time when the military uniform is shining, and it is only when you go to take the exam to start with a subtle officer, I don't know when Lu Dao will come out, it is better to be a military officer, maybe you can fight a lord to come out.
"This soldier is an elite ......"
Hu Yihuang is an expert in leading troops to fight, and he can see at a glance that the thousands of non-commissioned officers and students in front of him are the best of the best, and the queue of the Taiping Army's foreign guns and left and right armies is already considered to be neat, but compared with them, it is almost like a dog's gnaw.
"I don't know if it's a showmanship." Hu Yihuang muttered to himself.
Behind the thousands of non-commissioned officers and students were the officers and men of the brocade guards in the big red flying fish suits, and the tiger army of about 10,000 people, all of whom changed into red silk military uniforms as ceremonial uniforms, shouldered Bessewheat rifles, and bayonets flashed dazzlingly in the sun. The momentum is more than that of the elite foreign guns of the Taiping Army.
"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray! ”
Suddenly burst into cheers from the Chaoyang Gate, Hu Yihuang followed the sound and looked, and saw a man wearing a red dragon robe and a crown of golden silk wings, riding an extremely strong horse appeared in his eyes - he is Zhu Jishi, the son of the Great Tomorrow? Hu Yihuang thought uncertainly, maybe it was a stand-in, right? The hundreds of thousands of people in Yingtian City are lined up on both sides of Guangfu Road, who knows how many traitors from the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are among them?
"Kneel, kneel, kneel......"
I don't know who Lu Dao was around him, and suddenly pulled Hu Yihuang and pulled him out of his thoughts. He looked around and saw that the lively people had already bowed to the ground. Although the newly promulgated "Ming Etiquette System" does not require the people to bow to officials, they still have to bow down to the emperor, queen, prince, prince and others. The officers and soldiers of the Daming Wang's family, who were maintaining order on both sides of the road, saw that Hu Yihuang had not yet knelt down, and they also scolded loudly. Hu Yihuang hurriedly bowed to the ground and shouted long live with the people around him.
"Up!"
As soon as Zhu Jishi and his accompanying civil and military officials passed, the Ming soldiers who maintained order shouted loudly again, and the people who worshiped on the side of the road got up one after another and continued to watch the excitement.
Behind Zhu Jishi's steed is a brocade knight who discharges six columns, everyone is a good horse that is difficult to buy (in fact, it is not so expensive, they are all military horses bought from India), and the knight who walks in the front still has a shining cuirass, and at a glance you know that the road is made of stainless steel, I am afraid that it is difficult to penetrate with foreign guns! The cuirassiers numbered about fifteen hundred, each armed with a gleaming saber and a Colt pistol stuck in his waist. Behind the cuirassiers were cavalrymen armed with spears, also riding good horses and carrying pistols, and numbering about fifteen hundred—these were Zhu Ming's lancers.
"These 3,000 horses are elite!" Hu Yihuang's brows were already tightly wrung up. Although there are only 3,000 cavalry, this war horse, this equipment, this queue, and this uniform pace are all elite cavalry that Hu Yihuang has never seen.
"The horse team of the Twist Army is far inferior to them, at least 5 times the strength to fight, and 10 times the strength to win!" Hu Yihuang muttered in his heart. "Although this Zhu Jishi likes luxury, he has not lost the Ming generals, this Zhu Ming's soldiers are elite!"
When the marching Zhu Ming's elite soldiers approached Xiaolingwei, at the gate of Xiaolingwei, a group of envoys from Eastern and Western countries were already waiting to see through. Zhu Ming has established formal diplomatic relations with Britain, France, Russia, the United States, Prussia, Austria, Pakistan (Bavaria), Württemberg, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Saxon (Sardinia), the Papal States, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Persia and other Western countries, as well as Japan, Siam, Burma and other Eastern countries.
Seeing King Zhu's elite soldiers rumbling out, these envoys' faces all changed slightly, and the diplomats of this era were more or less military experts. They could see at a glance what Zhu Ming's soldiers were—the distance from Yingtiancheng to Xiaolingwei was 45 miles, which was almost the standard march of an army unit in this era. Zhu Ming's troops were completed in less than six hours, and after a long march, the troops still maintained a strict queue, which was already the standard of the first-class army in Europe. Only the regular armies of military powers such as Britain, France, Prussia, and Austria can do this, and the armies of the Italian states do not have such a level.
The Russian envoy who had just arrived in Yingtianfu, Irkutsk and the Governor of Eastern Siberia, Nikolai Murphy. Major General Muravyov suddenly turned to look at an Oriental man in a suit, and said lightly in English: "Mr. Guan, do you have any feelings?" "That Oriental is actually Bai Siwen's cousin Guan Yuanbao, Guerjia. Ingots. Without waiting for Guan Yuanbao to answer, Major General Muravyov said softly in Russian thoughtfully: "Maybe we are encountering the re-emergence of a nation with a population of 40,000. 40,000,000 people, once there is a Peter the Great, what means will the Russian Empire use to contain them, this is the top priority of the Russian Empire......" (to be continued......