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I saw a pure white horse spread its hooves and galloped in the empty racecourse. The knight on the horse was slender, wearing a suit of silver armor and a long cloak drawn into a white shadow on his back. Seeing that, Yijing ran to the vicinity of the martial arts platform.

At this time, three soldiers carried three large cages to the stage of the martial arts, opened the cage door, and three wild ducks flew out of the cages, flapped their wings, and flew into the sky.

And at this moment, the white horse knight ran past the stage. The silver-armored knight on the horse suddenly turned around, bent his bow and arrows, and shot out in a row.

Just listen to the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", as the three feathered arrows are different from one after another, piercing the air and rushing straight into the sky. The three wild ducks suddenly fell from the sky like a kite with a broken string. Some soldiers in the audience immediately ran to the place where the wild duck landed, picked up the wild duck with the arrow, and raised the wild duck with the arrow high above their heads, and shouted: "Three three middle schools." The sound was still falling, and the wings of the wild duck were still fluttering.

Tens of thousands of soldiers around the stage burst into thunderous applause and shouted in unison: "The princess is good at archery." ”

Zhao Yue returned to the stage like a circle horse, turned over and dismounted. She was still wearing a well-fitting silver armor, but she didn't have a helmet and coiled up in a man's samurai bun. It looks even more heroic, but in the heroic martial arts, it is also charming. After stepping on the stage, he clasped his fists with both hands and gave a military salute to Zhao Chen, who was sitting in the middle and was also wearing a military uniform, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's ugly." ”

The generals Li Xianzhong, Yang Yan, Chen Min, Qi Fang, Cao Xun, Gao Zhen and others who watched on the stage applauded and cheered together. Even Zhao Chen got up and said with a smile: "The magic arrow stunt of the eldest princess of Yong'an has opened my eyes, and she is really a hero of the country." ”

This is not an exaggeration, these three arrows are extremely difficult, because Zhao Yueru uses riding and shooting, people are on horseback, undulating and bumpy, it is difficult to master the balance when shooting, and it is also a turn back shot, and the target is also a living thing, which is even more difficult to aim. In such a situation, it can still be three or three, this kind of hand, eyesight and stability, even Yang Yan asked himself how difficult it to do. The generals present were all people who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and naturally they also admired Zhao Yueru's divine shooting.

At this time, Zhao Chen smiled at Li Xianzhong again: "Li Dianshuai, although the eldest princess's magic arrow is wonderful, she is my eldest sister, and she is not a soldier of the forbidden army, I don't know what else can I see?" ”

This inch Li Xianzhong smiled slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, Weichen has already been prepared, although it is not as good as the princess's magic skills, but it will never disappoint Your Majesty." ”

As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the front of the stage, and said loudly, "Let's start." When the herald heard his order, he immediately waved his flag, and saw the sound of footsteps in the audience, and a group of infantry troops lined up in a neat line and came to the stage.

After two months of reorganization and screening, more than 6,000 people were eliminated from the original forbidden army, and more than 30,000 new people were selected to join the forbidden army. After being reorganized, the new army numbers were also organized into armies with the beginning of the warp. Although the official number of the forbidden army after the reform has not yet been reached, the Privy Council and several senior generals of the forbidden army believe that it is better to have a shortage than an indiscriminate. It is better to slowly replenish and complete the establishment than to pull all the soldiers who do not meet the requirements into the forbidden army.

However, the new army does not have to be ironclad to become an official banned army. It also has to go through three months of training, and the content of the training is not only some basic training, but also some skill training. Then go through the assessment test, and this time the standard of the assessment is higher than the selection, and some skill assessments are also added, and only those who pass all the tests can officially become a member of the forbidden army. Among them are more than 10,000 former forbidden soldiers, who can only be regarded as just meeting the standard when they participate in the test, far from reaching a satisfactory level, so they also train with the recruits for three months before retaking the assessment.

The training of veterans whose basic qualities and skills meet the standards is focused on overall tactical coordination drills, or group cooperative combat exercises, as well as some hand-to-hand combat skills exercises. And every other month, there is a martial arts competition. Yang Yan also introduced the methods used by himself when he was training in Quang Nam in those years, rewarding soldiers who trained seriously and made outstanding achievements, while those who failed to meet the training requirements were punished, so the training of the whole army was full of vigor.

Li Xianzhong was also a very strict person in governing the army, this time he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and he was also very grateful to the emperor, and he was too old to tear and kill in battle, so he only hoped to be able to train an elite army for the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible. Therefore, every day I do my best to train the soldiers. In addition, with the assistance of Yang Yan, under the concerted efforts of the two, the forbidden army of the front division of the palace was quickly on the right track after the reorganization, and in time, it could be trained as an elite army.

And the other two forbidden army horse army division and infantry army division are also accumulating training. Chen Min and Qi Fang also knew that the emperor attached great importance to military affairs, so he did not dare to slack off at all, and with the assistance of Cao Xun and Gao Zhen, the effort spent was no worse than that of the palace secretary. Zhao Chen came to inspect once a month and was very satisfied with their work.

Today, Emperor Zhao Chen, together with the privy envoys Han Yanzhi and Liu Heng, came to inspect the training of the forbidden army, and the generals of the forbidden army, such as Li Xianzhong and Yang Yan, specially arranged a drill for the emperor and his ministers to take a look at the results of the training of the forbidden army in the past three months. Just now, Zhao Yueru was the first to appear and showed a magic shot, which shocked the four people, and played a preemptive effect.

At this time, before arriving at the martial arts stage, the performance began to be a heavy armored infantry army belonging to the Xiongwu Army of the Infantry Division, the command of the Xiongwu Army was the original Lei Tonggang of the Guangxi Army, under his leadership, three hundred infantry troops lined up into a long phalanx, each wearing heavy armor, holding a hemp knife as long as one zhang and two feet in his hand, with the order of Lei Tonggang, continuously doing chopping, cutting and other actions, and constantly changing the formation. The footsteps stepped on the ground, and there was a sonorous and powerful sound, the long knife waved, bringing out the sound of "woo, woo", and the shouts of the soldiers, which shook the sky above the martial arts training ground.

Then the three hundred men were divided into two armies, and they swung their swords at each other, and the snow blades made a piercing sound of gold and iron when they exchanged blows, telling the people in the stands that they were using real knives. Seeing Zhao Chen, he couldn't help but be a little frightened, although he had been trained hard in advance, but if he was not careful, he would be seriously injured if he missed his hand and slashed his body for a while.

Finally, when their drill was over, the soldiers put away their swords and stood in front of the exercise platform, and then knelt down on one knee together, facing the stage, and shouted "Long live" three times in unison. Zhao Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Lei Tonggang had already boarded the stage to give Zhao Chen a salute. Zhao Chen nodded to him and said, "The general has worked hard. As a reward, he ordered a saber to be given.

Lei Tonggang couldn't help but be overjoyed, took the saber, knocked again and again, and said, "Thank you for the emperor's reward." ”

Next is the Ma Junsi martial arts. The appearance was the Xiao Cavalry Army that was renamed from the original Election Army, but the whole army still maintained the style of the original Election Army, and all of them were dressed in white robes. And Liu Fuwu, the original commander of the Xuan Feng Army, had already been upgraded to the commander of the capital and stationed in Haozhou. Tian Kai, Xuan Chip and others were also promoted and transferred out of the selection of the front army. Now the command of the Xiao cavalry army has been assumed by Wei Jiao.

At this time, fifty puppets had been placed at a distance of eighty paces in front of the stage, but they were all made in the shape of golden soldiers. I saw two pairs of cavalry rushing out from the left and right sides of the stage, charging diagonally towards each other, and crossing twenty steps in front of the platform. Then circle the horses back and follow the back team, forming a double ring. And when I cross over, I shoot to the puppet golden soldier in front.

For a moment, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, mixed with the whistling of arrows breaking through the air. In a short time, each puppet was planted with a lot of arrows. Moreover, the soldiers did not all use the normal archery posture, and made various actions on the horses, such as the rhinoceros looking at the moon, kicking the bottom to hide, Su Qin's back sword, and the wild horse mane, which showed good archery skills and superb riding skills.

From a purely visual point of view, there are a lot of fancy movements in this Ma Jun's drill, so it looks much more refined than the last one, seeing Zhao Chen's eyebrows fluttering, he can't stop clapping, and even Han Yanzhi and Liu Heng, who were sitting on both sides of Zhao Chen, nodded frequently, obviously very satisfied.

After the exercise of the Ma Military Division ended, some soldiers raised all the fifty puppet golden soldiers to the stage, Zhao Chen looked down, and saw that each puppet golden soldier was full of arrows, like a hedgehog, it can be seen that it was not a pure performance just now, and it was quite accurate.

At this time, Wei Jiao came to the stage to knock on the emperor, and Zhao Chen said: "The Xiao cavalry army was the army led by Yang Juma back then, and it made countless military exploits for my Great Song Dynasty. Then he also gave Wei Jiao a saber.

The third appearance of the drill is the front division of the palace, the appearance is the front division of the palace to urge the front army, with the command of Wu Xi's order flag swinging, first from both sides of the martial arts platform to kill a team of infantry, each with a long knife hand, spearmen, shield hands composition, rushed together, the two armies immediately split and crackled to fight, Zhao Chen saw clearly, this time it was real, many soldiers were hit by knives and guns, but the soldiers used all wooden weapons, and wore formal armor, so there was no big problem.

The two armies fought for a while, Wu Xi shook the order flag again, and rushed out a cavalry from each side of the martial arts platform, and also joined the battle group, and the infantry and cavalry melee was even more brilliant. Although it was only a drill, the soldiers of both teams still worked very hard and went all out, and many soldiers were knocked to the ground, or fell off their horses, but immediately got up and continued to fight.

Although Zhao Chen is young, he has also experienced some battles, Han Yanzhi and Liu Heng are even more from generals, and they have both personally commanded the army, and now that they see it, they can't help but feel that the battles on the battlefield they have experienced before are nothing more than that. It only took Li Xianzhong, Yang Yan and others more than three months to train the army like this, and it was indeed not easy.

At this time, Wu Xi waved the order flag again, only to hear the sound of a gong. The men and horses on the field stopped fighting, and quickly formed a team and saluted the martial arts stage together. Zhao Chen also gave Wu Xi a saber.

The last to appear was the Jingyan Army, although the momentum and bearing were not as good as the first three armies, but under the command of Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu, they rode and set up a formation, and they advanced and retreated, in an orderly manner, showing that they were well-trained in peacetime and not in vain. And whether it is swinging a spear or bending a bow and shooting arrows, it looks beautiful, adding a graceful style to the atmosphere of slaughter, and another taste.

Liu Heng smiled at Zhao Chen and said: "Your Majesty, although the ministers see that although they are women, they are also quite powerful, but although they are men's teachers, they are nothing more than that." I guess it was the eldest princess who carefully taught. ”

Zhao Chenru turned his head and smiled at Zhao Yueru: "It seems that this has taken a lot of effort from Liuniang." ”

Zhao Yueru bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment." In fact, this is all the credit of Han and Zhang's two rulers, and I don't dare to take credit. ”

Zhao Chen smiled at Han Yan again: "In this way, Han Qing's family is really the tiger girl of the gate. The others laughed when they heard this.

Because of the control of the Shocking Yan Army, one is Han Yanzhi's daughter and the other is his niece, so Han Yanzhi looked at it just now, and it was hard to say anything. Hearing what the emperor said, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, arched his hand, and said, "Your Majesty has spoken." ”

Then Zhao Chen also gave Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu a saber each. Then the whole army was in front of the stage, shouting long live to Zhao Chen on the stage. All the exercises are over.

Zhao Chen said to Han Yanzhi and Liu Heng again: "Soldiers, the sharp weapons of the country." Honesty must not be abolished. I heard that the ancient emperors, spring harvest, summer seedlings, autumn hunting, winter hunting, four o'clock out of the suburbs, in order to show the world. Therefore, I thought that after the autumn of this year, when all the forbidden troops were reorganized and the training was proficient, I wanted to hold an autumn festival to use the hunting field to perform martial arts, promote the spirit of martial arts, show the prestige of the Song Dynasty soldiers, and boost the morale of the people. ”

Han Yanzhi nodded and said: "The combination of civil and military affairs is the way to govern the country, Your Majesty is very good at discussing this, and the minister also thinks it is feasible." However, this place is still a place for martial arts, not a hall of deliberations, and it will be discussed later. ”

Liu Heng also said: "Your Majesty's intentions are very good, but it is not a trivial matter to hunt the fields and perform martial arts in the autumn season, and it should be planned in detail, and then it will be done." Don't act rashly. ”

Both of them were born in the Jiangmen and were also proficient in military affairs, so they naturally knew that they could not relax their military preparations, and they were very much in favor of holding military exercises such as the Autumn Festival. However, this matter is very important, and the Great Song Dynasty rarely held similar activities before, so if the Autumn Festival is held, then how to hold it, how big the scale is, where it is held, and how to ensure the security meeting, these are all problems. The two did not dare to agree to this, so they advised Zhao Chen to discuss with Zhongshu Province before making a decision.

Zhao Chen nodded, he also knew that if he wanted to hold the Autumn Festival, he had to convince several ruling ministers of Zhongshu Province, which of course would take a lot of effort. However, Zhao Chen decided to work hard to change the concept of the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, so he was also determined to do his best to persuade several ruling ministers to carry out this autumn battle.