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Outside the gate of Mingde, a Jinwu guard galloped towards him.

"His Majesty's oracle: the reading begins!"

The triumphant army that had already lined up neatly outside the Mingde Gate suddenly shouted long live. Today, Li Jing was wearing the gilded mountain unicorn battle armor bestowed by the Son of Heaven, the unicorn phoenix-winged gold helmet, and a red gold unicorn on the helmet. There is a red gold shoulder-swallowing unicorn, a unicorn inlaid jade belt around the waist, a gold woven gold cloak woven with gold silk, and a gold unicorn-headed jade sword on the waist.The golden armor is covered with a fiery red hip-short robe, the back is covered, and the golden thread [***] combat boots are on. He straddles a five-foot-high extremely handsome golden-haired sweat-blooded BMW from the Western Regions.On the winning hook on the saddle hangs an imperial bestowed horse lance, plus a pair of gold double maces.

Horses are like golden dragons and people are like unicorns. Li Jing raised the wind of weaving gold and pulled out a jade sword in his hand: "Enter the city!"

"Datang! Datang! Datang!"

The whole army once again shouted at Datang, and then the military band began to play drums and blow horns!

Amidst the sound of drums and horns, Gao Shun, the envoy of the Black Banner Army, led the left and right hatchbacks with ten armored horses and began to advance.In front of the billowing black heavy armored cavalry, there are a thousand cavalry of the left and right Jinwu Guards sent by the imperial court to lead the troops to be paraded.

Mingde Gate is the main gate of Chang'an, the capital city, and the central axis of Chang'an, Zhuque Yujie, is from Mingde Gate of Outer Guocheng to Suzaku Gate of Imperial City.The other gates of Chang'an City have three gates, but Mingde Gate has five gates.

The gate of Mingde Gate is about twenty feet long from east to west, and more than five feet wide from north to south.There are bluestone gates in each doorway.

The five city gates usually only open two gates on the left and right sides for people to enter and exit. The middle gate, like the other gates, is not usually opened. It can only be opened when the emperor passes by. The doorway can only be opened during major ceremonies.

The army to be reviewed was coming in order, when suddenly Zeng Yuanyu, a regular servant on scattered horses, arrived with Chengmen Lang, palace envoys and General Jinwuwei, and read the emperor's oral order to the city gate guards.

"The five gates of Mingde Gate are opened together to welcome the triumphant army into the city!"

The goalkeeper opened his mouth in shock. With his half-white hair, he had stayed in Chang'an City for half his life, and this was the first time he heard the middle door of Mingde Gate open. It wasn't to welcome the emperor or the prime minister to pass by. soldiers and horses.

"Open the middle door and play music!" After closing the fish ridge together with the door envoy, the goalkeeper took the key from Chengmenlang, and shouted loudly behind him.

Chang'an's city gate is quite sacred, and even if it rains for a long time, the Chang'an city officials will be responsible for the city gate sacrifice.And when the middle door of Mingde Gate is opened, it is even more sacred, and it is necessary to play drums and music.

There are gate towers on all the gates of the city wall outside Chang’an City, and Mingde Gate is no exception.There is also a set of musical instruments such as drums on the gate tower.With the sound of drums above the city gate, the middle gate of Mingde Gate finally opened slowly.

The five gates of Mingde Gate are opened wide. Behind the gate is the central axis of the entire Chang'an City, leading directly to the Zhuque Gate of the imperial city. Chang'an City is divided into two parts, East and West, with Zhuque Street as the boundary. The east of the street is under the jurisdiction of Wannian County, and the west of the street is under the jurisdiction It is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County.Taking this as the boundary line, extending from Mingde Gate in the middle of the south of the city, a straight road leads directly to Shibian Valley in Nanshan.

Zhuque Avenue is also called Tianmen Street by the people of the capital, or Tianjie for short.From Mingde Gate to Suzaku Gate, the entire Tianjie Street is ten miles long and fifty feet wide. The ditches on both sides are one foot wide, and pagoda trees are planted on both sides of the road.

At this time, on both sides of Shili Tianjie, countless eagerly watching people have gathered, especially the restaurants and tea shops along the street next to Tianjie, which have already been booked in advance and sold at sky-high prices.And those rich families who can open the door to the outside on the wall of each workshop even set up gauze tents in front of the gates, and even the whole family's female relatives, old and young, waited in the tents together.

Officials from Chang'an and Wannian counties of Jingzhao Prefecture and soldiers of the Jinwu Guard are clearing Zhuque Street for the final time to ensure the safety and compliance with the etiquette of the roads passed by the parade team.The content of clearing the road includes that there should be no places for funerals on both sides of the road, no people wearing mourning clothes, no inauspicious and dirty things, no unhealthy music, and no crying.

"Here we come!" With the continuous sound of knocking, a neat and clear sound of horses' iron hooves knocking on the bluestone slabs of Tianjie finally came. Thousands of cavalry are leading.The Jinwu Guard, who has always been responsible for the most arduous and troublesome job of maintaining order in Chang'an with millions of people, has always been the most thankless.

However, the thousand or so Jinwu Guards who served as the guides for the review today put on brand new armor and robes, and even the horses under their crotches were all light bay red horses.Seeing the neat and mighty Jinwu Guards, the people on both sides of Zhuque Street were a little surprised.

Everyone talked and looked at each other with admiration.

But when the red Jinwu Guard just passed by, and countless blacks emerged from behind, the entire Suzaku Avenue started from Mingde Gate and continued to cheer northward.

The appearance of the Black Banner Army completely ignited the enthusiasm of the onlookers.

What appeared in the front was the black battle flag of the Black Banner Army. There was nothing on that flag, neither words nor patterns, and what was there was just pitch black.The flag of the Black Banner Army, which is more than ten feet high, is held by the tallest guy in the entire army in Zhen [***].He is eight feet tall and weighs more than 200 kilograms. He is not that fat, but has strong muscles all over his body.In the army, they are called giants.The giant is very big, but very agile. He is the personal guard of Li Jing's guard.This time when he entered the city, Gao Shunli borrowed the giant from Li Jing and served as the standard bearer of the Black Banner Army.

The black flag fluttered in the wind and made a buzzing sound, captivating people's hearts.

Then there was Gao Shunli in black armor, and behind him were Li Jing's six disciples, Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji, Li Cunxiao, Yang Shihou, and Fu Cun.The six generals were also dressed in pitch black, with black lacquered Shanwen armor inside and a Suozi armor outside, and each of them also had a long black cloak.The most shocking thing was that the men and horses were all wearing iron armor. They all put down the visors on their helmets. The whole person and the horses they stepped on were like cold and emotionless steel puppets.

The two thousand black flag troops did not move fast. Fifty cavalry lined up in a row, with forty rows in front and back, and the orderly team advanced slowly.But amidst this slowness, everyone can imagine how terrible the result will be if such a man of steel charges forward.However, there were also many Imperial Guard soldiers who were not on duty and crowded into the crowd to watch.When he saw that Zhen [***] had a 2000-man heavy cavalry, he couldn't help grinning and inhaling his popularity, and then curled his lips and said, "This Li Jing is really rich, and he actually made so many heavy cavalry. Who I don’t know, in today’s world, the strongest is the light cavalry.”

However, such words have also attracted rebuttals from many people who admire heavy cavalry, "Who said that light cavalry is the strongest? In the past, the Turkic wolf cavalry was stronger. They were defeated by Xuanjia heavy cavalry. Besides, the black crow army of the Shatuo people The fine cavalry is strong, isn’t it also defeated by Zhen [***]? If you want to talk about cavalry, the strongest is the heavy cavalry.”

These few people were still arguing endlessly, and there was another thunderous cry, and they stopped arguing quickly, jumped up their feet and raised their necks to look at Tianjie, only to see that the Black Banner Army had passed by.Now there was another cavalryman shining with silver light behind him.

With silver helmets, silver armor, silver cloak, silver guns, silver knives, and silver saddles, coupled with all white horses, this cavalry team Sihao is no weaker than the Black Banner Army in front,

"Which town's soldiers and horses are these?" Someone asked anxiously.

"Didn't you see the banner of the handsome young man in front?" A middle-aged scribe next to him looked at the cavalry with three thousand silver helmets and silver armor, and let it go, "This is also the cavalry of the town [***], named Yin Gunjiao Jiejun, the heavy cavalry just now is called the Black Banner Army. Two thousand heavy cavalry, three thousand light cavalry, how majestic and mighty, no wonder Li Jing is so famous at such a young age, just having these five thousand cavalry is enough carry on."

Seeing the scribe's red eyes, the questioner next to him couldn't help but quickly dodge to the side. It's really unlucky, he didn't find a good place to go out, and he actually stood with a disgusting guy who has a habit of dragon and yang .

With the outstanding appearance of the cavalry from the two townships of the Black Banner Army and the Iron Forest Army, although the troops from the following towns also attracted countless applause, they were far from the start.However, with the appearance of the banner of [***] in the town, the enthusiasm of the people was ignited again.

"Look, look, Li Zhenguo is here!"

"Li Sanlang has appeared..."

Thinking of all kinds of cheers, everyone looked forward to it. Maybe a month ago, only a few people knew who Li Jing was, but today, in the entire Chang'an city, there are even sixty-seventy-year-old women. No one, down to the age of three or four, knows Li Jing and Li Jiyu, the commander-in-chief of the town [***].

Everyone is looking forward to seeing it sooner, wanting to see what kind of overbearing young man Jie is, who disturbs millions of people in the capital.

Under the protection of the newly formed Iron Forest Army, Li Jing rode forward slowly.While riding a horse, he did not forget to smile and wave to the onlookers on both sides.Those people were a little surprised at first, but after realizing that Li Jing was waving to them, they were all very excited.

Li Jing's imperial bestowed armor today is really cool, coupled with Li Jing's young and heroic face, and his unassuming approachability, it immediately attracted the praise of the people in the capital.

"This is Li Zhenguo, it's really good."

"It's not bad, it should be extraordinary, it's like a god from the sky will come down to earth." (To be continued.)