King Han was a little confused.

He couldn't figure out what King Qi was having.

Since that day, after the early dynasty of "asking King Qi about the seven deadly sins", King Qi went to Songlu Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing and began to train his two royal guards.

O gods!

I'm thinking about how to bring you down here, but you should respond, what's the matter with you drilling into the mountains?

This is not for King Han, but he doesn't care so much about what King Qi is doing now, he has something else to do - seize power!

Since April of the 11th year of Yongle, Chen Jin, the right capital of the imperial history, was beheaded by Zhu Gaoxian on the Fengtian Palace, the left and right governors of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were all empty, and the dragons were leaderless. So the emperor promoted Liu Guan of the princeling to the imperial history of the left capital, and Liu Guan was fierce enough after taking office, and he fought hard to suppress the Han Wang Party in the Imperial Palace.

Now that Zheng Zhichang has ascended to the right capital of the imperial history, the king of Han wants to regain power in the Imperial Court, and now the party struggle has become a struggle between the king of Han and the crown prince, and the battlefield is the Imperial Court.

Zheng Zhichang became the representative of the Han Dynasty, and the Han King pinned all his hopes on this person, wanting to use this person to suppress the power of the crown prince and King Qi. It is naturally impossible to rely on Zheng Zhichang alone to have a right capital imperial history, the king of Han is bold enough, using all the henchmen of the king of Han in the court, revolving around Zheng Zhichang, whenever he meets the princeling and the party of King Qi, directly let Zheng Zhichang impeach with the official, and then desperately suppress the other party.

In just one month, the Han Wang Party has already eliminated more than a dozen middle-level officials of the princeling party, as well as two relatives belonging to the Qi Wang Party.

Above the court, the blood that had been killed flowed like a river.

……

The outskirts of Beijing, Songlu Mountain.

"Lord Wang, is my marksmanship accurate?"

"What do you think?"

"I think it's pretty accurate."

"You're a fart, and all eight generations of your ancestors are genetically blind?"

"Lord Wang, can you respect me a little, it's really hurtful to talk like this."

"You're a fart, and your ancestors are all genetically blind for eight generations?"

“……”

Zhu Gaoxian's liver hurt, he flickered two hundred brand-new muskets from the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War, and equipped them with his two guards in Songlu Mountain, but he was greatly disappointed - there is no problem with the weapon, but there is a problem with the person.

It was not easy to get these two hundred muskets from the Arsenal Division, which was one of the recognized four fat differences of the Six Divisions. The four fat differences are: the Ministry of Officials Literature and Selection Division, the Ministry of Officials Examination Division, the Military Department of the Military Division, and the Military Department Treasury Selection Division.

In these four departments, he worked less and got more, and now these four departments are all controlled by the prince, Zhu Gaoxian opened up various channels, and even coaxed and deceived to get 200 muskets.

The musket gun evolved from the Southern Song Dynasty's assault rifle, the Southern Song Dynasty was a straight-barreled structure, and the rifling was not designed for a smoothbore structure inside, while the Ming Dynasty's musket began to be improved, and the straight-barreled breech was changed to a shape that gradually increased from the barrel mouth to the medicine chamber, and the design was further optimized to achieve a more reasonable structure.

Through these optimizations, the development of firecrackers in the Ming Dynasty has made a qualitative leap, and derived a variety of firecrackers, such as individual handguns, city defense and water warfare with large bowls, guns, three-eyed guns, and so on.

And on the other side of the world, in Europe, after obtaining assault guns and black powder, iron guns also appeared in Italy almost at the same time.

The design of the Ming Dynasty and the European musket was almost the same, and when used, it generally required two people to operate, responsible for aiming and ignition respectively.

However, in combat and under the general cavalry combat concept at that time, the fire gate gun had the problems of low hit rate, troublesome operation and low firing efficiency, but for the countries of the world in the same era, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were undoubtedly quite advanced.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, after the Manchurian cavalry entered the Central Plains, the development of firearms still retained the technology of the Ming Dynasty after more than 200 years of history, and there was no progress or even signs of regression.

Therefore, when Europe was upgrading and optimizing arquebuses and developing more advanced weapons, China was still stagnant and even closed off from the country, until the Manchu Qing Dynasty was knocked on the door of the country by more advanced foreign guns and artillery, leaving a history of humiliation for nearly a hundred years in modern times.

……

Zhu Gaoxian knew that his two palace guards were waste, but what he didn't expect was that these two guards were even more waste than he imagined.

Nine out of ten shots missed the target, and the one shot that could hit was pure luck.

"Don't do it!"

Zhu Gaoxian waved his hand, his face turned pale, "Chi Rong, put away all the muskets!" ”

What a bunch of rubbish, it's a waste of things to let these palace guards use muskets!

Chi Rong commanded the people to take the musket back to the warehouse, and came over and asked, "Lord Wang, don't forget it?" ”

He didn't say it explicitly, but he was already showing disappointment.

Until now, there is no more brave palace guards like the Hongwu Dynasty. In the Hongwu Dynasty, the vassal kings guarded the border and the country, all of them were the elites who came out of the sea of blood on the battlefield, and when Zhu Di raised his troops, the guards of the Eight Hundred Yan Palaces knocked down the country. In the Yongle Dynasty, the prince's guard was constantly weakened, and the main reason was that the emperor was jealous of the prince, because he was the emperor who rebelled against the prince.

The guards of King Qi's Mansion are all made up of his mother's wine bags and rice bags, these people may not know how to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they are definitely good at greedy for military salaries and greedy for pleasure, where is this army, it is clearly a green skin!

Zhu Gaoxian was able to gain a foothold in the court, relying on the support of his relatives and his prestige in the army, but the guards of his Qi Palace's mansion were all indiscriminate waste!

If this spreads, King Qi's Mansion will become a joke in the entire capital!

"Last year, the Northern Expedition was in a hurry, although I drove with me, I didn't bring an escort, but when the emperor thinks about the Northern Expedition again, do I want to take these embarrassing wastes to fight?" Zhu Gaoxian said in a deep voice, "This king is now a military representative supported by the generals and horsemen, and he can't hide these palace guards for a lifetime, no matter what, this king has to train this palace guards into elites!" ”

Zhu Gaoxian's eyes were sharp: "These palace guards, the poor is not equipment, let alone muskets, even if this king equips them with the best armor, the best war horses, and the best weapons, they still defeat the battle!" ”

It is true that the guards of the Qi Palace, where can the equipment be poor?

This is completely a festering mentality, these people no longer feel that they are soldiers, if they cancel their status as palace guards, they will dare to find a ravine and fall into the grass casually!

Zhu Gaoxian took a deep breath and said viciously: "Chi Rong, take them with you!" ”

"How does the prince want to practice?" Chi Rong asked.

Every army has the practice of each army, the three thousand battalions brought by Chi Rong before, the most elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, only need to shout, and the soldiers will quickly assemble.

Now let him bring such an "iron waste army", but Chi Rong will not be able to rectify it.

Is there still value in practicing?

Zhu Gaoxian said categorically: "Twenty people are a team, one hundred people are a group, no need to practice anything else, let them kick the right step." ”

Chi Rong was a little confused: "What is kicking?" ”

……

Zhu Gaoxian explained to Chi Rong for a long time, and demonstrated it in person, and Chi Rong suddenly realized.

Although he didn't know what the use of this kick was in the right step, since it was the order of the prince, Chi Rong began to direct the training soldiers to start practicing.

At the beginning, the soldiers kicked sparsely and became a mess, and they didn't take it seriously, just complained that their prince had nothing to do.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Gaoxian waved his hand to ask Chi Rong to stop training, and walked to the front of the soldiers with an expressionless face.

He didn't bother to talk nonsense, and shouted: "Everyone, you can hear it clearly here!" ”

"You may think that now this king has let you engage in useless training, I don't care, I just tell you one thing, those who are not qualified in training, this king will be expelled from the ranks of the royal guards, where did they come from, where do they go back! The guards of King Qi's Mansion don't worry about not being able to summon soldiers! ”

The words fell, and the barracks fell silent instantly.

The guards of the Qi Wangfu are much higher than those in the ordinary local army, and no one wants to leave. How much is the monthly salary of the royal guards, and how much is the monthly salary of the local army?

For these rotten people who are bastards, the threat is far more than the practical of reasoning.

The sergeants honestly obeyed the order, trained to kick the right step, and after they settled down, they really looked much better.

There is no threshold for kicking the right step, they just didn't want to do it before. But with Zhu Gaoxian's threat, they became more and more serious, after all, no one was willing to give up the position of the palace guard.

……

The sun was blazing above the blue sky, and the sergeants shouted the slogan "one-two-one" and trained in a loop around the camp, their heels clattering on the ground.

Chi Rong sat next to Zhu Gaoxian and asked curiously: "Lord Wang, what's the use of you letting them kick the right steps, these wastes are rotten to the bones." ”

"It is precisely because they are rotten to the bone that they have to start from the most basic practice and let them be reborn." Zhu Gaoxian said lightly, "Kicking the right step is not to train their bodies, but to beat their military souls." ”

Zhengbu was originally used by the Prussian army in military parades in the early 19th century. Later, it was imitated in the armies of many countries, but the specific posture was different, and it was roughly divided into German, British, and Soviet-style.

In his 1857 article "The Army", Mr. Engels pointed out that "the main reason why the Prussian army was able to defeat the Austrian army was that the Prussian army was in a neat formation, with vigorous steps, brave in attack, and rapid assembly. ”

The seemingly useless step allows the royal guards to unconsciously rectify military discipline, which is the beginning and the most important step in shaping the soul of the army.

An army without military discipline is just garbage after all.

Chi Rong smiled: "Just these people, can they have a military soul?" ”

"I'll let them have it, it's just a matter of time, it's just a matter of time, I've been very idle in the past two years, and it's not a loss to change a top-level army in two years." Zhu Gaoxian said.

(End of chapter)