Late Tang

On the second day of Zhang Chengye's arrival, Li Jing specially called all the seven battalions of the Shamen Town Army to conduct a military parade drill, and invited Zhang Chengye to conduct the review.On the large field of Shamen Island, the high point of the masonry base in the north will be on the stage, and Li Jing and Zhang Chengye are on the stage with smiles on their faces.As soon as he came, Li Jing was willing to give [-] guan tribute to the emperor. 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 the supervisor.

Generally, there will always be some conflicts between the supervising army and the generals in charge of the army, especially before he came here, he knew that Li Jing was still a young man, but he had just won a few big victories. The young general who is popular under the prestige tent thinks he will be an arrogant general.Unexpectedly, at first sight, Li Jing is so easy to talk to.He was also so forthright, which made him lose all the vigilance against Li Jing in his heart.

"Please order the supervisor to review it!" Li Jing politely said to Zhang Chengye.

Zhang Chengye shook his head, and he said with a light smile: "Our family is only stationed in the army on behalf of the emperor, comforting the soldiers, and conveying the loyalty and bravery of the soldiers to the emperor. As for the specific command of the army, we don't care. If you dare to exceed your authority, let General Li do it."

Seeing that Zhang Chengye did not intend to intervene in military affairs, Li Jing was very satisfied.What I'm afraid of is that those supervising soldiers, relying on their status as supervising troops, will meddle in military affairs, dictate and command indiscriminately.As long as Zhang Chengye doesn't intervene in military affairs, everything else is easy to talk about.Li Jing winked at the messenger behind him, and the messenger immediately waved the flag.Not long after that, everyone on the stage heard the sound of footsteps and rumbling sounds, orderly and rhythmic.

Hearing the rhythm of the uniform footsteps, Zhang Chengye couldn't help but exclaimed, his face was very surprised.Suddenly he took a deep breath, and saw that on the east, west, and south sides of the school grounds, a neat army was approaching. Amidst the sound of countless footsteps, smoke and dust surrounded the soldiers and horses, making them even more imposing.In a neat pace, groups of soldiers are advancing like a moving copper wall and iron wall. Those who run in front are all covered in iron helmets and armor, and they are covered with bright red battle robes.He held a large square iron shield with a tiger head pattern in his hand, and held an eight-foot spear in the other, tucked under his armpit, with a two-foot long spear slanting towards the sky.

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

These iron armored soldiers are all soldiers of Qibingdu. Behind them, there is still a neat armored phalanx, but these iron armored soldiers have double-layer thick armor, full-covering face armor, and all of them are tall and burly over six feet tall. Huggy and tiger-backed, like small moving iron mountains.Each of them carried a one-foot-long Xueliang Mo Dao on their shoulders, with a long blade like snow. This is a group of giant steel-armed beasts, with the thickest armor and the most powerful minions.Just looking at these Mo knives and iron armor is enough to make people tremble.

Zhang Chengye is not someone who has never seen the world. He used to walk around the palace and saw a lot of guards who were magical guards. Compared with the soldiers in front of him, there were also Modao soldiers in those guards, even more powerful than Li Jing's. These guys are even better equipped.But when he was walking, he had never seen the aura of the soldiers in front of him.This is a kind of murderous aura, an aura of going forward and crushing opponents on the battlefield, which is simply incomparable to those officials and dudes in the palace.

Afterwards, the sword and shield jumping soldiers stepped into the battlefield neatly. The sword and shield soldiers had a round shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other, and some were holding battle axes and war hammers.They are dressed in light leather armor, and they are generally much shorter than Mo Daodao, but although they are smaller, they still have the momentum of iron and blood.When the sword and shield soldiers walk, they always hold the round shield half in front of their chests and advance defensively.

The crossbowmen behind them are much more relaxed. These crossbowmen are always behind or in the formation every time they are on the battlefield, protected by surprise soldiers and cavalry, so they don't have to worry too much about themselves.All they had to do was tense their bows and release their arrows. They didn't have much to worry about except that the opponent's archers could attack them.A set of leather armor, a war robe, a bow, a crossbow, two pots of arrows, and a horizontal knife outside, the archers moved quickly.

Zhang Chengye was very surprised when he saw this. He was a small envoy to supervise the army when he was in Qingzhou, and he also brought a bodyguard of 500 people with him.Although it was just the personal guard of a military supervising envoy, at least he had led soldiers before, so he knew very well how much effort it would take to be like the soldier in front of Li Jing.Many people rumored that Li Jing defeated Feng Zhang first time by ambush, and second time by the mysterious fire.But now he knew that Li Jing's victory was inevitable.

His eyes were bright, and he whispered to Li Jing next to him, "Good soldier!"

These soldiers had solid armor and excellent weapons. He couldn't help but lament Li Jingshe's spending money with such good equipment.But weapons and armor alone are not enough. In terms of equipment, the 15 troops of the Shence Army randomly pull out a battalion head, which is better equipped than Li Jing's army.The key is the soldiers, and these soldiers are young and strong, especially in each queue, they are basically about the same height and uniform.The heroic spirit revealed between the eyebrows, as well as the muscles in the buttocks under the shirt, all showed that this was a real army.

Just after several phalanxes entered the school field, there was a sudden thunderous sound. Amidst the rumbling thunder, dust and smoke rose, and a cavalry arrived.

Four-foot war horses, six-foot cavalry, three-foot sabers, eight-foot lances, and under the guidance of red flags, three cavalrymen from the three battalions of the Black Bear Camp, the Blue Wolf Camp, and the Flying Eagle Camp all galloped over. Hundreds of cavalry gathered together and galloped like ten thousand horses galloping, and waves emerged.

All Liaodong war horses are tall and vigorous, coupled with young and brave warriors, with iron helmets and light armor, sabers and spears, their speed is their strength, and their charge is their sentence.Like a wave, more like a whirlwind.Their gallops were entering the arena, and then amidst the sound of iron whistles, they quickly turned around and slowed down. In a short while, they had gathered in the open space of the school grounds.

What Zhang Chengye saw was toughness, bravery, and confidence.Such soldiers are too rare. In Chang'an, those Shence soldiers saw only arrogance. When he arrived in Qingzhou, he saw more arrogance, while some soldiers in Dengzhou were numb.Now he saw the soldiers in Shamen Town, which was completely different.An army has a military soul, and by looking at the morale of an army's soul, one can know the details of the army and its generals.

He now felt that the spirit of the army in front of him was forging ahead, confident and brave.

There are several other battalion heads entering the school field one after another, even the medical capital, logistics capital, logistics capital, and engineering soldiers.But Zhang Chengye didn't need to look any further, he could already feel the elite of this army.

Although he knew that Shamen Town originally had only [-] soldiers, after it was upgraded to a town not long ago, with the addition of two forts and nine garrisons, it only had [-] soldiers.But today, more than [-] soldiers and horses entered the school grounds to participate in the review.This number and the number of soldiers have tripled and a half. He is the supervisor of the army, so the matter of overtaking the soldiers is his responsibility.But he just smiled and didn't say much.

Li Jing's army is so elite, obviously it didn't happen in a day.But he didn't want to care about this, as long as Li Jing was loyal to the court, it didn't matter what more soldiers he had, anyway, he didn't take money, food and military pay from the court.Besides, at this moment, the generals who lead the troops are either paid for nothing, and even have a false name, but often the battalion has already been corrupted, and there are less than two or three out of ten who can really count.Most of the wealthy places in the south of the Yangtze River are like this.Or, like Li Jing, when expanding troops and buying horses, the actual number of troops is often two or three times the number of troops.These have already become a common practice. Anyone with a little ambition has soldiers and horses in their hands, and the court is powerless to control them.

The soldiers and horses of the Seventh Battalion conducted a drill on the school grounds, and the content was some array demonstrations.Then the strange soldiers rehearsed the advance of the shield formation, and the sword and shield soldiers jumped back and fought back.The crossbowmen conducted an archery drill on the spot, and several leaders with the best archery skills also performed a few sets of fancy arrow techniques, such as piercing Yang with a hundred steps, piercing money holes, etc., which attracted a burst of applause.The most exciting thing was of course the cavalry's horse-cutting scarecrow performance. The horses galloped, the sabers were sharp, and the heads of the scarecrows were cut off one by one, which attracted Zhang Chengye's admiration.

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

"Just now, the sailor battalion also went on stage to practice for the supervising army, and you cheered loudly." Li Jing laughed.

"Our family is not talking about that, I'm talking about the fleet in Zhendonghai."

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

Zhang Chengye smiled easily, "General, don't be surprised. Since we are already the supervisor of the town, we will be one in the future. The matter of the town of Donghai was brought up by Commander Song Weijie to the supervisor Zhang Wanrong, saying that General Li Jing had successfully recruited him." For this band of pirates, envoy Zhang Jianjun will present to the imperial court on their behalf, and give them an arrangement. Before I came, the imperial court had already responded, so envoy Zhang Jianjun and envoy Song Jieshuai had full authority over this matter. The two superiors Feng handed over the matter to me again, and said that they would be collected in Shamen Town."

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

When Li Jing heard that there was an answer to this matter, he couldn't help being overjoyed.He had already mentioned the matter of recruiting security with Huangbeard and the others before, anyway, now Zhendonghai has basically become a non-staff fleet of Shamen Town.They didn't have any opinion on this, anyway, it's a good thing to be able to go ashore with a clean sheet, but they haven't found anyone they can trust before.In the past, many pirates credulously believed that the officers and soldiers were recruited to go ashore, but it was just that the officers and soldiers tricked them into going ashore so that they could kill them and take credit.Li Jing is a trustworthy person, if Li Jing can give them a whitewash, they will naturally be willing.

"I don't know what resettlement method Qingzhou gave?" Li Jing asked.

"It's just a group of pirates, how can they fall into the eyes of the two gentlemen. Having said that, you will handle this matter. Anyway, you are the one who recruited them, so you can just give them any official position and put them under your command." Zhang Chengye He squinted his eyes and smiled, "The general must be satisfied now?"

"Satisfied, very satisfied." Li Jing couldn't help chuckling, he was naturally very satisfied with such a result, and Zhen Donghai and the others must be very satisfied and relieved.It seemed that he would soon have to add a new battalion of sailors.

(To be continued)