On the second day of Zhang Chengye's arrival, Li Jing specially summoned all the soldiers and seven battalions of the Shamen Town Army to conduct a military parade and asked Zhang Chengye to conduct a review. On the field of Salmon Island, on the high point of the masonry in the north, Li Jing and Zhang Chengye took the stage with a smile on their faces. As soon as he came, Li Jing was willing to pay 100,000 tributes to the emperor, which in Zhang Chengye's view, this was not only Li Jing's loyalty to the emperor, but also Li Jing's strong support for him as a prisoner.

There will always be some contradictions between the general supervising army and the generals who command the army, especially before he came to know that Li Jing was still a young man, but he had just won a few big battles, not only Cui Yunqing's proud protégé, but now he is also a young general under the command of the marshal Song Wei, thinking that he would be an arrogant general. didn't think about it, but at first sight, Li Jing was so easy to speak. is also so bold, which makes him lose the vigilance and precaution against Li Jing in his heart now.

"Please order the proofreading!" Li Jing said politely to Zhang Chengye.

Zhang Chengye shook his head, he chuckled and said: "Our family is just stationed in the army on behalf of the Son of Heaven, comforting the soldiers, and informing the Son of Heaven of the loyalty and courage of the soldiers." As for the specific command of troops in this army, we dare not overstep our authority, so let's let General Li do it. ”

Seeing that Zhang Chengye did not want to meddle in military affairs, Li Jing was very satisfied. What I am afraid of is that those prison soldiers rely on the identity of the prison army, meddle in military affairs, point fingers, and command indiscriminately. As long as Zhang Chengye does not interfere in military affairs, everything else is easy to say. Li Jing glanced at the herald behind him, and the herald immediately waved the command flag. Not long afterward, everyone on the stage heard the sound of footsteps, and the rumbling sound came. Neat and rhythmic.

Listen to the rhythm of the footsteps. Zhang Chengye couldn't help but exclaim. I was amazed. Suddenly, he took a deep breath, and saw that the east and west sides of the school field were on the south side, and suddenly a neat army drove over, and among the countless footsteps, smoke and dust rose everywhere, enveloping the soldiers and horses, and it seemed even more full of momentum. In the neat pace, groups of soldiers are advancing like a moving copper and iron wall. Those who ran in front were all covered in iron helmets and iron armor, covered with red battle robes. Holding a large square iron shield with a tiger head pattern in his hand, he held an eight-foot spear in one hand, sandwiched under his armpit, and a two-foot long front obliquely towards the sky.

The sound of an iron armor rubbing against each other was a strange step.

These ironclad soldiers are all soldiers of the odd army, and behind them, there is still a neat ironclad formation, but these ironclad soldiers are double-layered thick armor. Full-coverage face armor, tall and burly more than six feet tall. The bear's waist and tiger's back are like small iron mountains that move. Each of them carried a one-foot-long Xue Liang Mo knife on their shoulders, with a blade as long as snow, this was a group of steel-armed behemoths, with the thickest armor and the most powerful minions. Just looking at these Mo knives and iron armor is enough to make people's hearts tremble.

Zhang Chengye is not a person who has never seen the world, he used to walk around the palace and saw a lot of those Divine Ce Forbidden Guards, compared with these soldiers in front of him, there are also Modao Soldiers in those Janissaries, and they are even better equipped than these people in Li Jing. But as he walked, he had never seen the momentum of these soldiers in front of him. This is a kind of murderous spirit, a kind of indomitable momentum, which has crushed the opponent on the battlefield, and those officials and eunuchs in the palace are simply incomparable.

Subsequently, the sword and shield jumpers entered the battlefield in order, and the sword and shield soldiers had round shields in one hand and horizontal knives in the other, and some held battle axes and war hammers. They were dressed in light leather armor, and they were generally much shorter than Mo Daodao, but although they were smaller, they also accumulated an iron and blood momentum. When walking, the sword and shield soldiers always fold the round shield halfway to their chests and move forward defensively.

The crossbowmen behind them were much more relaxed, and these crossbowmen were behind or in the middle of the battle every time, protected by odd soldiers and cavalry, so they didn't have to worry too much about themselves. All they had to do was to nervous their bows and hurriedly release their arrows, and they didn't have much to worry about except that the opponent's archers could attack them. A set of leather armor, a battle robe, a bow, a crossbow, two pots of arrows, and a horizontal knife on the outside, the archers marched quickly.

Zhang Chengye was very surprised to see this time, he served as a small envoy in Qingzhou when he was in Qingzhou, and he also had a personal guard of 500 people. Although it was only a personal guard of a supervising military envoy, he could be regarded as having led a soldier, so he naturally knew very well how much effort it would take to achieve the appearance of the army in front of Li Jing. Many rumors say that Li Jing defeated Feng Zhang, the first time by ambush, and the second time by that mysterious fire. But now he knows that Li Jing can win, which is inevitable.

His eyes lit up, and he whispered to Li Jing next to him: "What a soldier! ”

These soldiers have strong armor and excellent weapons, and such good equipment makes him sigh at Li Jingshe's spending money. But weapons and armor alone are not enough, in terms of equipment, the 150,000 troops of the Shence Army can pull out a battalion head at will, which is better equipped than Li Jing's army. The key is still the soldiers, these soldiers are young and strong, especially each queue is basically about the same height, neatly and uniformly. The heroic spirit revealed between the eyebrows, as well as the muscles under the battle robe, all show that this is a real army.

Just after several phalanxes entered the school field, suddenly a thunderous sound sounded, rumbling like thunder, dust and smoke rose up, and a cavalry rushed to arrive.

Under the guidance of four-foot war horses, six-foot cavalry, three-foot swords, eight-foot cavalry spears, and red banners, three of the three cavalry leaders of the Black Bear Battalion, the Blue Wolf Battalion, and the Flying Eagle Battalion all galloped, and a full six hundred cavalry gathered together and galloped, like ten thousand horses galloping, and the tide emerged.

The Liaodong war horses are tall and vigorous, with young and brave warriors, iron helmets and light armor, sabers and spears, speed is their strength, and charging is their sentence. It's like a wave, and it's like a whirlwind. They galloped into the stadium at a rapid pace, and then, with a quick turn of iron whistles, slowed down, and in a moment they were already assembled in the open space of the school grounds.

What Zhang Chengye saw was toughness, bravery, and self-confidence. Such soldiers are too rare, in Chang'an, those Shence troops only see domineering, and when they arrive in Qingzhou, he sees more arrogance, and some of the soldiers he sees in Dengzhou are numb. Now he saw the soldiers of Shamen Town, and it was completely different. The army has a military soul, and if you look at the morale of an army, you can know what kind of details this army and their generals are.

He now feels that the military spirit of the army in front of him is determined to forge ahead, confident and brave.

There were several other battalion leaders who entered the school field one after another, and even the medical capital, the logistics capital, the baggage capital, and the engineer capital also entered. But Zhang Chengye didn't need to look at it anymore, he already felt the elite of this army.

Although he knew that Shamen Town originally had only 300 soldiers, it was only 2,000 soldiers after it was upgraded to Shangzhen not long ago, and with the addition of Erbao and Jiujun. However, more than 7,000 soldiers and horses have entered the school field today to participate in the parade. This number and the number of soldiers have increased three and a half times, he is the prison army, and this super-soldier matter should be in his charge. But he just smiled and didn't say much.

Li Jing's army is so elite, it is obvious that it was not made in a day. But he doesn't want to care about this, as long as Li Jing is loyal to the imperial court, what does it matter if there are more soldiers, anyway, he doesn't take the imperial court's money, food, and military salaries. Besides, at this time, those generals who lead the troops are either paid empty salaries, or even have a vain name, but often the camp has already been rotten, and there are less than two or three of those who can really count. The rich places in the south of the Yangtze River are mostly like this. Or, just like Li Jing, expand the number of troops and buy horses, and often the actual number of soldiers and horses is two or three times the number of soldiers. These have long been the norm, and anyone who is a little ambitious has soldiers and horses in their hands, and the court is powerless to control it.

The soldiers and horses of the seventh battalion conducted a drill on the school ground, and the content was some array demonstrations. Then the odd soldiers practiced the shield array forward, and the sword and shield soldiers jumped and counterattacked, and fought in close combat. The crossbowmen carried out an archery drill on the spot, and several leaders with the best archery skills also performed several sets of fancy archery, which caused a burst of applause. The most exciting thing is, of course, the cavalry's horse chopping scarecrow performance, the war horses galloped, the sabers were bright, and the scarecrow heads were cut off one by one, which attracted Zhang Chengye's admiration.

After the drill, Zhang Chengye asked a little unsatisfied: "I heard that there is a fleet in the town, why don't you show it together?" ”

"Just now, the sailor battalion also went to the field to conduct a drill for the supervising army, and you still applauded loudly." Li Jing said with a smile.

"That's not what we're talking about, I'm talking about the fleet in the Zhendong Sea."

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, not knowing why Zhang Chengye suddenly mentioned this matter, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Zhang Chengye smiled lightly, "The general doesn't need to be surprised, since we are already the superintendent of the town, then we will be one in the future." The matter of the East China Sea in this town was mentioned by Marshal Song Wei to Zhang Wanrong's military envoy, saying that General Li Jing successfully recruited this pirate, and asked Zhang Jianjun's envoy to show to the imperial court on his behalf and give them a settlement. Before I came, the imperial court had already replied, and the matter was decided by the military envoy Zhang Jian and the envoy Song Jieshuai. The two superiors handed over the matter to me again, saying that they would take them into the town of Shamen. ”

He smiled at Li Jing, "Song Jieshuai and Zhang Jian Jun are very relieved of the general." ”

When Li Jing heard that he had already had an answer to this matter, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He had already mentioned the matter of recruiting an to Yellowbeard and them before, anyway, now Zhendonghai has basically become a supernumerary fleet in Shamen Town. They don't have a problem with this, anyway, it's a good thing to be able to go ashore in vain, but they haven't found anyone to trust before. In the past, many pirates were gullible and believed that the officers and soldiers were recruited to go ashore, but it was only the officials and soldiers who tricked them into going ashore in order to kill and lead the merit. Li Jing is a person who has believed, and if Li Jing can give them a white placement, they will naturally be willing.

"I don't know what kind of resettlement method Ludao Qingzhou has given?" Li Jing asked.

"It's just a group of pirates, how can they get into the eyes of the two ministers. Having said that, this matter will be handled by you, anyway, you recruited An, so you can just give you an official position and place it under you. Zhang Chengye squinted his eyes and smiled, "Presumably the generals are satisfied with this time, right?" ”

"Satisfied, very satisfied." Li Jing couldn't help but chuckle, he was naturally very satisfied with such a result, and Zhen Donghai and they must be very satisfied and relieved. It seems that he will soon have to add a new sailor barracks. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )