Li Xiao finally saw these soldiers, not to mention that they were all wearing new military uniforms and holding the eliminated ancient firecrackers in their hands. Two more grenades on his waist, it really looks like a ...... It's really fucking handsome.

Li Xiao has always entered a misunderstanding, that is, the Ming Dynasty does not have many troops. Because in his eyes, the army is the one who fights, and only those who can fight are called the army. But he forgot that since the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty has its own unique army system, the military household system!

The greatest advantage of this strange system is that the soldiers are hidden from the people, and the military households own the land, and they serve as soldiers for the people in peacetime and war. This is a very good system, but the scriptures are good to the mouth of the crooked monk, and the stunned is crooked.

The place where the military households gathered together was called the guard, such as Tielingwei and Tianjin Wei...... Wait a minute. If there is a guard house, there will naturally be hundreds, thousands of households, and these officers who manage the military households.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the officers of the guard station began to encroach on the land of the military households. The soldiers of the guard house gradually became slaves of the officers! In this case, the military households naturally spent much more time with hoes than with knives and guns. The decay of combat power is inevitable!

When it came to Zhu Youzhen's generation, it was even more corrupt to the point of no return. Daming Kong has a huge military household, but there are few armies that can really fight.

Shandong is a large province of health centers, and there are naturally many military households. There are more than 70,000 registered military households in the province, but it is estimated that only 30,000 or 40,000 people have been paid for their short salaries. There are more than 20,000 people around Jinan, and Sun Chengzong doesn't know when he picked 9,000 guys who still look like that among the more than 20,000 people.

Training all day is one thing, walk in line!

The one who walks is called a Qi, looking at a line horizontally and vertically, and looking at it obliquely, it is still a line, which is not much different from the National Day military parade.

Listening to the footsteps of "click" and "click", Li Xiao's heart involuntarily adjusted with the frequency of the footsteps. Every step seems to be on the heart rate.

"Look to the right!" The taller officer at the head drew his command knife with a "swish".

"Click", "Click" and "Click" three consecutive slashing movements, the snow is bright and the bayonet is like a forest, and the bayonet made of stainless steel reflects the cold light in the sun, which makes people shudder to watch.

"Good!" Li Xiao waved his hand and saluted, and had to admit that this was a very good honor guard. Wang Tiqian, who didn't see the side, was so excited that he swayed, so the military might must be a strong army.

Even Li Xiao was shocked, and Zhu Youzhen, who had never seen the world, saw it and fainted happily. As for the difference between the honor guard and the combat unit, Li Xiao did not intend to tell Wang Tiqian.

"Princess, you see that these officers and soldiers are about to go on battle. But we really can't get a little silver out of Shandong, you see ......! Li Xiao looked below, rows of soldiers walking by, and began to cry with Wang Tiqian.

"Well said, well said. I have already asked the cheap shop to exchange 50,000 taels of silver, take the silver ticket, the cheap shop belongs to your family, you can go and pick up the silver yourself. I just don't know when the army will be able to set off. Hooray, I'm looking forward to reinforcements! ”

"Well said, the day after tomorrow! The day after tomorrow, it will definitely be pulled! Li Xiao smiled and took the bill of exchange and put it in his pocket. Ai Husheng has even started an exchange business, and recently heard that he is engaged in savings and lending.

"Princess, don't worry, when this army arrives in the capital, it will definitely help Banzai repel the Tartars." Sun Chengzong also came over and inserted a pole, which is the crystallization of his hard work in the past six months.

"Thank you Sun Xianggong, you can also go back to the capital to have a look when you are free, long live always talking about you. I hope you can return to the capital and teach a lot of long live. Wang Tiqian exerted his expertise in dealing with Sun Chengzong.

"Please tell the prince long live, the old man is always thinking about being loyal to the Ming Dynasty. However, the old man is old and can't go to the capital to serve, and it's the same to help Banzai hunting and herding in Shandong. ”

A group of insincere guys on the stage touted each other, and the queue below shouted the trumpet to finish the audience.

Wang Tiqian was very satisfied with the army in front of him, and this time he was able to ask for reinforcements from Li Xiao, and returning to the capital would definitely be a great achievement. Hooray! Hooray! At the critical moment, I have to rely on my king's body.

Walking back to the post house, Wang Tiqian had a dream of being praised by Zhu Youzhen in public.

Seeing Wang Tiqian return to the post house with satisfaction, Li Xiao felt a little unbearable. "Isn't it too much for us to cheat people out of their money like this?"

"Yo ......! Your kid's conscience found out, the bill of exchange is in your kid's arms, and it's too late to rush over and return it to him. Sun Chengzong couldn't get used to Li Xiao's ugly behavior of getting cheap and selling well, so he turned his head to visit the officers and soldiers who were being reviewed.

"Big brother! These people went to the capital to fight the Tartars, isn't this a person to be sent to death? That's more than 9,000 lives! Li Hu was a little dumbfounded, so he leaned over to Li Xiao and asked in a whisper.

"Your eldest brother, am I so vicious?" Li Xiao turned his head and glanced at Li Hu.

"Let me tell you, there is news from the inside of the capital. Qian Qianyi and the others prepared to withdraw the Nanjing Forbidden Army that assisted in the defense of Bauhinia Pass to the capital, and then they protected Long Live and went south to Nanjing. This matter is currently classified, and few people know about it. Remember! Don't spread the word. Li Xiao whispered to Li Hu, and then left with Cao Wenzhao.

It's okay to keep looking at these honor guards, and those who can really fight have to rely on Cao Wenzhao and them.

"How's the training going?" Walking into the carriage, Li Xiao shouted Cao Wenzhao to come up together.

"It's not bad, the officers are all veterans. It's that the soldiers are too new, this batch of soldiers is stupid and stupid, and the church recognizes the old nose on the left and right. It's been three days of queue training, and there are still people who walk in unison. Speaking of these soldiers, Cao Wenzhao had a headache.

"Zhuang Hu who just joined the army is like this, I have promoted the excellent squad leaders of the first and second divisions to you as an officer. For this, Ao Ye and Yuan Chonghuan said that I was biased. In terms of training, I rely on these squad leaders. They are all veterans, and several of your battalion commanders followed me when I was on Phi Island. When it comes to seniority, they are all old seniority.

These old guys are like loaches when they are soldiers. I can't control it, but you can bear it. ”

"Handsome! I didn't say this, my subordinates were generals in the first year of the Apocalypse. Dealing with a few veterans can still be caught, but sometimes it can't help but sweep the face of the handsome. After all, these people all started with you. ”

"Military law is military law, and whoever starts a business cannot violate military law. You've got it, and I don't have a problem here. Mr. Sun will not interfere, you let it go. It's just that if you are in the way, don't do such a thing as killing your head, if you are really disobedient, you will just get out of the way. ”

There are always such people in the army who rely on the old and sell the old, and follow them out of Phi Dao. Many have already been discharged from the army, and some have survived, and many have already mixed into the position of battalion and company commander. Some of them who are more literate have also become the head of the regiment. For example, Nie Dahu, the head of a regiment, is!

"No!" Cao Wenzhao hugged his fists, this was Li Xiao's great support for him.

"Dashuai, this time our division really didn't follow us to the capital. Just now that gang of soldiers went to the capital, that is, to die. The capital has a large population, and if the rebels and Tartars enter the capital. That's going to kill a lot of people! Cao Wenzhao also thought that Li Xiao was just letting those soldiers go over and send them to death.

"You don't have to worry about the affairs of the capital, your current business is to train the soldiers. The affairs of the capital, Ben Shuai is to worry about. Li Xiao didn't want to shake Qian Qianyi's conspiracy to the whole world.

"No!" Cao Wenzhao hurriedly shut up, and it could be seen that Li Xiao didn't want to talk about this topic.

Like an ant on a hot pot, Wang Tiqian waited for two days. But he also understands that this is the army after all. If the army wants to be pulled, it must prepare some application materials such as grain, grass, and baggage.

It was finally the morning of the start, and the 9,000 guards were ready to go with their backpacks and bayonets on their shoulders. Suddenly, a pegasus galloped in.

"Handsome! Emergency military intelligence! ”