Nine a.m.

Dozens of well-known high-ranking officials and nobles gathered at the review stand of the camp at the southern foot of Lion Rock, looking at the neat camp full of battle flags from afar, pointing and commenting with great interest.

More than 200 low-level officials and hundreds of officials stood on both sides of the high platform, and there was no end to heated discussions, and tens of thousands of citizens surrounded the camp, noisily waiting for the new army, which had become the focus of public opinion.

Ruan Dayue, president of the "Jiangnan Times," has set up a collective of more than 60 people to collect and edit the newspaper, and has completed all the preparations for the printing and distribution of the newspaper; today he personally led more than 10 senior editors and painters to arrive early, and at this moment he sat on a high platform specially set up for him in the northeast of the school grounds, and nervously discussed how to make the scale, momentum, and temperament different from the old army of the new army vivid and lively, and easy to understand, and how to make it the most attractive news on the front page of the first issue of the "Jiangnan Times" that is about to be officially issued.

As the loud trumpets sounded, the bustling noise on the reviewing stand and around the camp quickly stopped.

The new army, which had been missing before, lined up in a neat queue phalanx, walked out of the camp on the east side of the school field, and the chief instructor Li Yiliang, who was fully armored, drove the jujube red war horse and galloped over the first phalanx, and suddenly came to a beautiful sharp turn more than ten meters away from the review stand.

The front hooves of the war horse fell, Li Yiliang pulled out the snowy saber on his waist, raised it with a flat chest, and faced Zhu Daolin, who was riding a tall Arabian gray horse under the review stage, and reported loudly:

"Report to the general, the officers and men of the new army have been assembled, please give the general instructions!"

The dozens of civil officials sitting on the high platform were all stunned when they heard this, according to the rules, it was reasonable for Li Yiliang to report to Xu Hongji, the supreme commander of the Jiangnan army, and if it belonged to the Lu Division, it should also be reported to Zhang Gongwei, the supreme commander of the Lu Division. How can you let the Governor's Mansion be in charge of a mere four-grade commander?

Without waiting for the civil officials to figure out the situation, Zhu Daolin in the audience said "take a break" and turned over and dismounted, strode to the side of the high platform and climbed the stairs, came to the front of the first row of the review stand, turned around, and raised his hand to salute under the stunned gaze: "Report to the Governor of the Left and the Governor of the Right." The soldiers of the new army have been assembled, please review it with two adults! ”

Xu Hongji and Marquis Longping already knew that Zhu Daolin's new army imitated the Tianshu Pavilion, and they looked at each other and smiled at each other, but Marquis Longping really had to stand up, stiffen his old face, and ordered loudly to Zhu Daolin, who was dressed in uniform: "Let's start." ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Daolin returned the salute again, turned around on the spot, stepped down from the high platform, and jumped up to the side of the war horse. Riding steadily on the back of a high horse, he and Li Yiliang rode their horses to the east of the assembled team, and after issuing the order, they rode back to the review stand again, and they both rode on their horses and waited.

The sound of military trumpets of different lengths sounded, and Jiang Yulong, the tall and armored commander of the guard, shook the reins lightly, and under the escort of two cavalrymen, he rode a white war horse and held high the Ming military flag with a red background and a green dragon. The Ma military team, composed of more than 100 instructors and officers and men of the law enforcement team, followed closely and slowly walked to the review stand in a neat array. The rare neat phalanx was not chaotic at all, causing hundreds of civil and military officials on and off the stage to applaud.

Wu Jicheng, commander of the artillery battalion, led the artillery team to follow.

Escorted by two sword and shield soldiers, Wu Jicheng held high the artillery flag embroidered with a cannon, and took the lead, with a total of 32 Franc Captain Tube Bronze Cannons for teaching in four rows behind him, all of which were erected on two-wheeled carriages. The square team composed of more than 450 artillerymen who had never fired a single artillery shot followed closely, one by one with their chests and backs straight, and they were majestic. Marvel.

The 18 teams of the new army took turns to play.

Novel arrays, uniform uniforms, neat pace, and exuberant fighting spirit, almost everything is so distinctive, and each phalanx passing through the review stand will trigger a sea of cheers and cheers.

The excited onlookers danced and praised the crowd, and the civil and military officials on the review stand also sighed and praised frequently, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei were flushed as if they were drunk, and kept saying that it was extremely correct to hand over the army to Dao Linxian's nephew for training.

All this fell in Zhu Daolin's eyes, all lackluster, he can understand the mood of the people and civil and military officials at this moment, knowing that the Ming people who have been invaded by foreign races have not been able to stand up for decades, the army has been defeated again and again, and the Manchu Tartars have burned and looted again and again as if entering no one's land, and the blood and tears are vivid, which makes the Ming people who have no power to resist extremely sad and desperate.

It is precisely because of this that no matter who they are, whether good or bad, they all yearn for a strong army to defend their homeland and country, and they all hope that their country will become strong and not be humiliated by foreign countries.

The reason why the new army has won the people's applause for a long time is by no means that the officers and men of the new army have performed well after only 45 days of training, but that thousands of people have pinned their hopes on this unique young army.

In Zhu Daolin's eyes, the pace, rhythm, formation, and mental outlook displayed by the new officers and soldiers could not satisfy him, and even if the ordinary militia of the Celestial Empire were pulled out for a walk, they would be a hundred times stronger than the new army in front of him.

Five days ago, when he received the order from Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei asking the new army to be reviewed, Zhu Daolin was reluctant to write down the general queue training method and appearance method to the chief instructor, and after writing down the general queue training method and appearance method to the chief instructor, he devoted his energy to the training of the personal guard battalion, and let Li Yiliang lead hundreds of instructors and temporary commanders of each battalion to toss.

However, no matter how dissatisfied Zhu Daolin is, he can only remain silent, this is his army, and in the future, he will rely on this army to protect his wealth and conquer the Quartet for him, even if there is more dissatisfaction, he can only redouble his efforts to make up for it, invest more energy and financial and material resources, and build this immature army into a real iron-blooded army.

End of review.

More than 9,000 officers and men returned to the barracks in an orderly procession, and the tens of thousands of people gathered outside the barracks were still full of interest and did not want to leave.

The instructors gathered around Zhu Daolin were all full of energy, and their faces were full of pride, which made Zhu Daolin feel that he was a little out of place.

After sending away the civil officials who still wanted to recite poems to give them lyrical feelings, Xu Hongji, Zhang Gongwei and others, who were full of smiles, asked Zhu Daolin to accompany them to visit the barracks, and Wu Jingxian, who had something to say to Zhu Daolin, also echoed it.

Zhu Daolin believed that visiting the barracks was far more beneficial than inspecting them, and secretly made up his mind to take this opportunity to instill in the nobles in military power the importance of logistical support. (To be continued......)