On November 20, the fourth year of Longqing, on the day of the big parade, the heavy wolf cannon of the city defense on the Yongding Gate rang non-stop.

The banner was displayed, and the Han generals who went out to the police were dressed in gold armor and wore gold helmets outside the brocade clothes, and the helmet was inserted with red tassels and carried golden melons, so that the southern city wall of the Beijing Division reflected the sunlight and shined.

Far away, surrounded by those Han generals, Chen Mu could see the senior officials of the court standing on the head of the city, and there were civil officials and eunuchs on the city wall, but there was no serious military attaché, even Qi Jiguang, the prime minister of Jiliao, was not qualified to parade on the same stage with the emperor.

The only one who had anything to do with the military and participated in the parade was Tan Lun, the secretary of the military department, who was responsible for explaining the quality of the parade to the ministers by the side of Emperor Longqing, which was about the last thing Tan Lun did in the position of the secretary of the military department this year.

He also had to ask the emperor for leave to return to his hometown due to illness, after the matter of my answer was dealt with.

Feng Bao persuaded many people, especially Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, and Feng Bao believed that the opportunity to negotiate peace with me was in this big review.

This is not without precedent, on November 20 of the 18th year of Yongle, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, met with the envoys of various countries in Beijing, and the envoys of all countries knelt, only the envoy of the Timurid Empire insisted on bowing on the grounds that "there is no such custom in our country", and Zhu Di was not angry.

The head of Timur's mission was the prime minister Aldushah, and the deputy envoy was the famous general Gaisuyaddin who had followed Timur, and they were exempt from kneeling even in their own country.

After the delegation visited Jiangsu, Nanjing and other places, Emperor Chengzu hunted in the suburbs of Beijing in March of the following year and invited envoys from various countries to observe the ceremony.

The grand 'hunting' mobilized 100,000 troops in Huailai, northern Beijing, and successively performed the Ming cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, and infantry and cavalry combined attack with the elite of the "Five Army Battalions", "Three Thousand Battalions", and "Shenji Battalion"; The "Coyote Soldiers" and the White Pole Soldiers practiced the training of infantry crossbow salvo and spear infantry assassination.

It lasted for a whole month, it was 1421, and artillery, guns, guns, rockets, and oil were in full bloom under the noses of the envoys.

This time, the envoys of the Timurid state took the lead in kneeling and kowtowing, "kowtowing and touching the ground", completely ignoring "there is no such custom in our country", and after that, the Timurid Empire sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty more than 60 times.

Timur's deputy envoy Gaisuyaddin later confessed in his memoirs: "I have to admit that it was a fortunate thing that the emperor died on the way to the east, which allowed him to preserve his reputation for the rest of his life." ”

One hundred and forty-nine years later, Emperor Longqing chose to receive the court of various countries on the same day as his ancestors and invited them to participate in the military parade.

It's just that Emperor Longqing was much more frugal than his ancestors, and he only gathered more than 30 generals and more than 18,000 troops, which looked extremely shabby.

Not far from the left and right sides of the city gate tower, far away from the emperor and the ministers, separated by the Han generals, there are also many people standing, those people are dressed in strange costumes, on the left are the envoys of the tributary states of Korea, Lumi, Mughal and many other guests living in Beijing, and on the right are the envoys of Alta, Jineng and Wara and other places who were invited, in fact, their identity at this time is more like the envoys of the enemy country.

Among these people, only the grandson of Altan Khan, who led more than ten people to the south of the Ming Dynasty, served as the commander of the Ming Dynasty not far from the Longqing Emperor and participated in the ceremony.

When Emperor Longqing sat on the dragon chair that had been set up slightly higher at the head of the city, the flags waved together, and the low horn sounded at the head of the city, spreading to the outside of the city, and people could see the end of the vision that was blocked by the streets and alleys in the distance, raising the wind and sand and rolling up the dust and flying into the sky, and there were soldiers and horses calling long live, and the vast woodland could still be transmitted to the city.

In order to cover up his pale face in the daylight, Emperor Longqing wiped a little powder on his face and waved his hand slightly, and Chen Hong, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, handed over the edict to Feng Bao, who was standing at the head of the city, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were like a poisonous snake.

Feng Bao was really happy, standing at the head of the city and reading the edict aloud in a somewhat strange but not unpleasant voice, and then the banner was unfurled under the city, and at the end of the long street, an army of five hundred men and horses stood quietly, until a shout that could not be heard at the head of the city sounded there.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can shake ......"

It's still a triumphant song, it's still this army with all men and horses, chariots and horses, but there is one difference - Chen Mu is riding on a horse and looking at the telescope from a long distance, he thinks that the one who led the Qi family's army this time must be Qi Jiguang's henchmen, and he should go back and think about sending something over.

The man who knew that he frowned when he looked at him, raised his hand and handed the telescope to Deng Zilong, who was a little excited and anxious on the side, raised his hand and pointed and said, "Wuqiao, look, is the young general who led the troops a little familiar!" ”

Then I heard hundreds of eunuchs under the south gate of the capital preach in unison: "The formation of Qi Shuai, the chief soldier of Jizhen, and the commander of the Qingshankou car battalion, Chen Bazhi, leads the army!" ”

Chen Mu's hands were on his face, could he not be familiar, it was his son.

"First out!"

Hachiro is also an adult, and he has a little general's bearing between riding a horse and parading outside the battle formation, and when he gives the order, the horn and cannon sound, and the sergeant changes formation.

The front and rear left and right four rows of cold weapons rode in a long snake formation, and the Chinese army's bird gun team advanced steadily, and behind a whole northern Qijia army formation, there was a smaller car battalion, horses mounted on partial box carts, and armored sergeants walked with the car.

In the middle of the infantry formation, there are 16 Chinese military flag drummers, holding horns, suona, biro, gongs, drums, cymbals, cannon horns and other musical instruments, but they are not used to play, only as a signal in the change of formation.

"Battle!"

In the process of walking towards the city gate alone, the army changed the formation twice, and the guns in the middle of the phalanx spread out into a horizontal formation, and formed a row under the palace gate, the car camp was current, and then the suona rang and the car camp opened, shooting at the wooden wall of the earthen buttress that had been prepared in the south, as well as the regular Ming army parade in the charge and assassination, facing the enemy and changing the formation, etc., won many applause in the city.

Projects such as short-handed assassination and changing formations to meet the enemy, Chen Mu watched them with relish, his banner army did not have these, not to mention for military parades, even ordinary training did not have these items.

After leading the Qi family's army, Li Chengliang's heavily armored cavalry, Ma Fang's Mongolian subordinate soldiers, the infantry shooting of the Shenji battalion, and the combined attack of the infantry and cavalry of Zhenbao Town were all extremely exciting, but the troops such as the deputy commanders and generals of each town were nothing special, especially Deng Zilong's troops were the most boring.

He had some newly recruited soldiers who had not yet trained for a month, and he didn't dare to use the barbarian army to serve temporarily according to Chen Mu's wishes, so he could only lose a person under the city, and his performance was unremarkable.

Just as Deng Zilong's soldiers and horses passed through the south gate, the envoys of the Jineng and Warat tribes in the city also walked not far from the holy car, and said loudly what I said to ask for Hannaji, saying that these troops were nothing to look at.

"It's only five hundred, what can there be!"

Emperor Longqing did not answer, he looked at Gao Gong with a bad face, Gao Gong did not speak, turned his head to look at Feng Bao without a good face, Feng Bao did not answer, grinned, and raised his hand to Chen Ju, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch.

In the crowd, Chen Ju bowed his head and stepped forward, first arched his hand to Emperor Longqing, and then pointed to the large open space outside the south gate for this big parade.

"Your Majesty wants to see the battle of the Juma River, and the slaves and maids are building civil engineering outside the city, Your Majesty, please see."

There was originally covered with red cloth, at this time, there were soldiers from the Beijing camp who lifted the distance from 200 to 1,500 steps under the city, revealing dense wooden earthwork, Chen Ju said with a smile: "Every wooden person is a soldier of the Jineng Department on the Juma River, they are charging fiercely, and this battle is fought like this." ”

As he spoke, drums sounded in the distance on the royal streets, and a phalanx composed entirely of infantry walked neatly, for some reason, there was only one sound of their feet on the ground, and it was the sound of gold and stone.

The face of the messenger of the Ginon was not good-looking, and the messenger of Warat was full of banter, they all knew about the battle, but they did not experience it personally, and the people said that they were like a devil, because there was no one who crossed the bridge.

"Chen Shuai, the commander of all things, personally leads the flag army!"

Hearing the voice of the eunuch under the city, Emperor Longqing turned his head to look at the envoy of Alta and smiled kindly, "I hope that you will be patient and take a good look, Wanquan is along the Great Wall, and from now on, you will be a neighbor with General Chen." ”