"Your Majesty, my eldest son has a total of twenty-six guards. During the Hongwu period, there were 12 guards, during the Yongle period, 10 guards were added, and 4 guards were added during the Xuande period. Li Jinzhong told the emperor in detail, Zhu Youxiao asked him to investigate the situation of the pro-army, and he was still fully prepared.

"So many guards?" Zhu Youxiao was a little speechless, and then asked, "How many people can fight?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi, it is estimated that the only one who can still fight is Teng Xiang Siwei." Li Jinzhong replied, and Zhu Youxiao asked again: "How many people?" ”

"A total of six thousand, under the rule of the Imperial Horse Supervisor." Li Jinzhong replied.

"Then I'll go and inspect Tengxiang Siwei today." Zhu Youxiao decided, and Li Jinzhong said, "The slave will let people inform you first." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Youxiao nodded.

The superintendent immediately went to the Imperial Horse Supervisor to report that the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch's palm seal was called Zhang Yan, a young eunuch who had just been promoted by Zhu Youxiao, and was only sixteen years old.

Zhang Yan learned that the emperor was going to inspect the four guards of Tengxiang, and immediately went to gather the four guards and waited for the emperor to review them in the school yard in the imperial city. The flag bearers also dispatched some drummers to set up the scene with a bangbang.

At midnight (9), Emperor Luan drove out of the Forbidden City and walked to the northwest corner of the Imperial City, the inner teaching field behind the Jiale Palace. When I came to the inner teaching field, the drums shook the sky and the flags flew to welcome the emperor's arrival.

Knock knock, knock knock......

The sound of drums came into his ears, which made Zhu Youxiao's blood boil, and after Luan stopped driving, the drums also stopped.

"Slave Zhang Yan, welcome the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live." Zhang Yan, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor's palm print, knelt on the ground and shouted, and all the soldiers also knelt on the ground, and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live." ”

"All the soldiers are flat." Zhu Youxiao didn't feel much about this kind of bowing etiquette anymore, and this kind of self-explanatory went through the motions. The same was true of the Donglin Party in the early dynasties

Bow down, but they don't necessarily mean that they are really loyal to the court and the emperor. If you want to gather people's hearts, it is not simply a matter of letting others kneel and worship.

"Your Majesty." Everyone was flat, Zhu Youxiao immediately reviewed the four guards of Tengxiang and Wu Xiang, and with the sound of drums and flags, the forbidden army of Tengxiang and the four guards wore mighty armor and walked in front of Zhu Youxiao. Then the formation was rehearsed, and several formations were changed.

Zhu Youxiao looked carefully on the stage and found that the Tengxiang Four Guards looked good, the armor and banners were very distinct, and the soldiers were relatively burly and strong. However, the queue was not so neat, and it dragged on when changing formations.

Although Zhu Youxiao was not very familiar with the ancient cold weapon war, he was still disappointed when he saw such a table, obviously Tengxiang Siwei could not be regarded as an elite soldier all the time.

Seeing the emperor's disappointed face, Zhang Yan said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers and armor of the Tengxiang Four Guards are still good, but they have been a little negligent in training over the years. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Youxiao nodded, this may be the only good news, Teng Xiang Siwei is a forbidden army, and the soldiers and equipment are not bad.

After the review, Zhu Youxiao announced that he would give each soldier a reward of one or two pieces of silver, and then went back to the palace. Zhu Youxiao wanted to rectify Tengxiang Siwei at this time, but he didn't know how to start.

As a modern person, I still have military knowledge and knowledge. It's just that although Zhu Youxiao's military knowledge is advanced, the army is a complex system, and Zhu Youxiao does not know much about everything from logistics to operations. At this time, I don't know how to train them, so that these forbidden troops can become invincible elite soldiers.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Youxiao immediately summoned Sun Chengzong into the palace.

"Teacher, I want to rectify the forbidden army myself, but I don't know how to start, so I want to learn military affairs." Zhu You said to Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, as the emperor, you want to know some military affairs, if you are willing to learn, the minister will tell you." ”

"Okay." Zhu Youxiao's expression was excited, and Sun Chengzong immediately began to talk to the emperor about military common sense. Although Sun Chengzong was a civilian official, he was familiar with the art of war, especially Qi Jiguang's military works. In addition, when he was studying in his early years, he often went back and forth to the border and liked to talk with veterans, so that theory and practice were combined, and he was not a person who talked about soldiers on paper.

Sun Chengzong gave Zhu Youxiao a lecture in the palace for nearly a day that day, and Zhu Youxiao left him in the palace for dinner, and Sun Chengzong left the palace.

As night fell, Zhu Youxiao recalled the military common sense that Sun Chengzong told him, and he already had a relatively clear understanding of the war mode of this era.

At this time, the Ming army used a lot of firearms. The usual tactic against the nomads was to first disrupt the enemy's formation with artillery bombardment, and then charge with cavalry. When Ming Chengzu Zhu Di went on a northern expedition to Mongolia, he used this tactic.

Arquebuses are also widely used in the Ming Dynasty, called bird guns. However, because the craftsmen are having a hard time, they often cut corners, and the official-made firearms are often blown up, and the quality is not as good as the arquebuses made by the private people.

In this era, firearms may not be more reliable than bows and arrows. The effective range of the arquebus is about 200 meters, of which the lethality at 50 meters is extremely terrifying. Archers can also do this kind of killing, and they can also throw shots. However, the advantage of arquebuses is that the training of soldiers is relatively simple, and the physical requirements are not high. Archers, on the other hand, have higher requirements for physical elements, and the training time is relatively long, and the physical consumption is greater when fighting. And the cost of high-quality bows and arrows may not be much higher than that of arquebuses, but there is a significant gap between the cost of arrows and bullets. The cost of arrows is much higher than that of lead bullets, and the manufacture of lead bullets is extremely simple, as long as there is a stove, the lead water drips down to be lead bullets.

And as long as there is enough gunpowder, the number of times the arquebus can be fired is not limited.

The arquebus is very suitable for the Ming Dynasty, which has a large population and the peasants lack military training. You can rely on a huge population to quickly form an army and put it into battle, even if the casualties are several times that of ethnic minorities, you can use the huge population to grind the nomads to death.

The biggest threat to the Ming in this era is not the nomads, but the wild boar skins in the northeast, which belong to the nomadic people. The wild boar skin is claimed to be a descendant of the Jurchens, but it is actually a Tunguska, and only later generations of Tunguska people will have braids. These Tunguska people could not defeat the other barbarians in Tunguska, so they ran all the way east. After coming to the Northeast, after absorbing some of the culture and productivity of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with its original barbaric characteristics, and the troops are mainly cavalry, and the mobility is very strong, so it is very difficult.

The reason why these Tungusic wild boar skins are called Jurchen is mainly because the population is too small, so it is necessary to absorb the Jurchen tribes in the northeast to form a bandit gang with a larger population.

For the time being, Zhu Youxiao did not have an arsenal that could produce large quantities of up to the standard quality, so the plan to form a musketeer corps was not very reliable.

The purpose of rectifying the forbidden army was mainly to protect its own security and prevent the Donglin Party from launching a mutiny. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao thought twice and decided to reorganize Tengxiang Siwei into a cavalry unit.

The elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are basically the border army. It is unlikely that the border army will participate in the mutiny, after all, it is too far from the capital, and it will be suppressed before it reaches the capital. The system of the Ming Dynasty also doomed the border army to be unable to participate in the central mutiny.

That is to say, even if the Donglin Party launched a mutiny, at most it would be the army in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the peace of these army managers for more than 200 years would have long since degenerated, and it was completely a war scum. Once there is a mutiny in these five scumbag troops, as long as Zhu Youxiao has an elite cavalry in his hand, he can quickly suppress the mutiny.

Moreover, first control the four guards of the zhì Teng Xiang, and then find a way to control the Jingying, and the imperial power will be stable.