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It was a top priority to complete the guards of the palace, so early the next morning, Zhu Xuanming took Xia Nan to the camp of the Praetorian Guard, and Huang Xiu, the head of internal affairs, stayed in the palace to clean up.

The Praetorian Guard is an elite unit stationed in Beijing, an army directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, with an army of about 100,000 troops and very strong combat effectiveness.

Emperor Jingping had promised Zhu Xuanming permission to select a hundred sergeants from the Praetorian Guard, just ordinary soldiers, and no more than one officer below the rank of lieutenant.

When he came to the barracks of the Praetorian Guards, the guards at the gate did not let him in, Zhu Xuanming reported his identity, and after layers of reports, a general led the two in.

The general's surname is Bao, he is a partial general, and after knowing Zhu Xuanming's identity, he didn't show much respect, or any sycophancy, what should he do, and completely regarded him as an ordinary person.

The barracks of the Praetorian Guards were very different from what Xia Nan thought, there were not many soldiers and ruffians together, gambling, drinking, or making trouble; there were no hot training scenes, standing in queues, running laps, or assassination exercises, and fighting exercises; there were no cases of desertion from the camp, and there were only one or two thousand people left in the barracks of 10,000 sergeants.

In the barracks of the real Praetorian Guard, all the soldiers are practicing martial arts, or in the camp, or in the training ground, every soldier is practicing martial arts, or meditating and cultivating, or practicing martial arts, or fighting each other.

"Lord Wang, let's go to the training ground to have a look, there are more sergeants there, usually everyone is fine, and they are willing to go there to vent their energy. ”

Bao Bi will suggest.

Zhu Xuanming said in a kind manner: "Okay, then I will be a guest and a host." ”

General Bao Bi hurriedly said: "Don't dare, please come with me." ”

As for Xia Nan, he was completely ignored and treated as a first-class commodity of passerby A and passerby B.

The Praetorian Guard's training ground was so large that there was almost no end in sight, and it was not surprising that a venue that could accommodate 100,000 people be so small that it could be small.

When Zhu Xuanming and Xia Nan arrived, there were many people on the training ground practicing martial arts, and there were eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, and forks.

But Xia Nan saw that the soldiers practiced less of other weapons, and most of them practiced guns, more than 90 percent, no, it should be a spear.

Guns and spears are both long weapons, some similar, let Xia Nan tell the essential difference between them, that is, guns are more expensive, spears are cheaper, making a gun requires fine craftsmanship, several years to complete, while spears can be relatively easy to mass-produce.

What does 100,000 people mean, that is the total number of all the residents of a high-class county, standing together in the black press, I don't know where it goes, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as overwhelming.

The 100,000 Praetorian Guards are not 100,000 ordinary people, although they are elite soldiers, if they want to improve their combat effectiveness, they also need to rely on equipment.

The equipment of arming 100,000 people is not a small amount, and the money needed to spend cannot be stopped by gold and silver, and the money spent on military spending by the Ming State every year accounts for more than half of the treasury taxes.

This is still under the condition that the imperial court strictly controls military spending, otherwise, if the gold and silver seas are smashed down, they will not be able to fill the bottomless pit of the army.

An army of 100,000 men, each sergeant armed with a spear and equipped with a spear, the cost can vary greatly, and the difference in price can reach tenfold, or even tenfold.

If each soldier is equipped with a good spear, the million-strong army of the Ming Kingdom will smash all the tax revenue for a year into it, which is far from enough.

There are many gaps between spears and spears, such as the toughness of the spear shaft is not as good as the spear shaft, and the spear is not as sharp as the spear, etc., it is not an exaggeration to say that the spear is inferior to the spear in all aspects.

A martial arts master practices marksmanship, if he changes the spear and then makes that set of marksmanship, more than seventy percent of his strength will be wasted, and only two or three percent will remain.

The spear is harder than the gun, and the quality is often not so good, and many of the moves that can be used with the gun will definitely not be able to be used with the spear, and if one is not good, the spear will break.

Most of the 100,000 Praetorian Guards use spears, and their cultivation is naturally not marksmanship, but the simplified martial arts in the army.

Like using a spear, there are only a few simple moves, such as stabbing, stabbing or picking, etc., and if you master these simple moves, your hope of surviving on the battlefield will be greatly increased.

This is not difficult to understand, the battlefield is a collection of tens of millions of people, not a martial arts master battle, the emphasis is on a group cooperation, when tens of millions of people fight, unless your martial arts are much higher than Tongji, otherwise, no matter how clever you are martial arts, no matter how extraordinary your skills, you can't play it.

Soldiers in the army generally practice this simplified martial arts, pursuing simple moves and great power, and they don't need to learn too many and too complex martial arts, and more time is better for practicing internal skills.

On the battlefield, simple martial arts are often more effective, and the role of internal force is more than martial arts, if the internal force is deep enough, it can improve the survival rate.

Therefore, the masters in the army are not necessarily martial arts masters.

In the case of the same cultivation, most of the masters in the army are not the opponents of a martial arts master, but the number of people increases, one hundred against one hundred, and the probability of the master in the army winning is greater.

"Lord, look, how are these sons?"

Bao Bijiang puffed up his chest and said proudly.

It can be seen that General Bao Bi is very satisfied with these Janissaries, proud of his comrades, proud of being one of them, proud of being one of them, proud.

Zhu Xuanming nodded again and again, and said in appreciation: "Okay, very good, they are all elite." ”

Zhu Xuanming is not exaggerating, nor is he talking about the scene, the 100,000 Praetorian Guards are indeed elite, and even most of the soldiers have the cultivation of the acquired Xiaocheng Realm, only a few have not reached the acquired Xiaocheng Realm, and only one or two meridians have not been opened.

An acquired martial artist is nothing, two, three, four...... One hundred, when these elites form a military formation and kill them neatly, the power is indescribable.

After complimenting, Zhu Xuanming said impatiently: "General Bao, the purpose of my visit, I don't know if you know, my father promised me to come to the Praetorian Guard to select a hundred people, I don't know how to operate." ”

General Bao Bi said: "Our army has been notified, the general specially sent me to deal with this matter, I have been prepared for a long time, the prince please come with me." ”

The training ground was very large, and it was impossible for 100,000 Praetorian Guards to practice martial arts here at the same time, so despite the large number of people, the training ground still seemed very empty.

If the officers and men in the army have a good relationship, they will naturally form small groups one by one and cultivate together, and in the area slightly on the edge of the martial arts arena, there will be a wave of people who are far away from others and are active.

Bao Bi will take Zhu Xuanming and Xia Nan and walk straight to this place, and before he got close, he had already shouted loudly: "Li Thief, the prince has come to inspect, why don't you hurry up and come to visit." ”

Chapter 3 is delivered.