I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 73
Just as Wu Laoer and Song Guaizi turned their gazes to the deployment platform, the comrades in front of them knelt down on the ground, and Wu Laoer and Song Guaizi suddenly stood out from the crowd.

On the spotting stage, Zheng He had already returned with the other three generals of Longxiang Four Guards, Li Tian stood in the center of the stage, Jiang Bao and Wang Fu stood aside with expressionless faces.

After Li Tian waved his right hand, he heard [-] soldiers shouting like a tsunami, Long Live Your Majesty.

Li Tian nodded slightly, raised his voice to get the soldiers to stand up, turned to look at Liu Zuocheng, whose joy had not subsided, and said:
"That's right, with just these two voices, my money is not in vain."

The other three chief generals had just learned that the emperor was going to renovate the barracks for Long Xiangwei. Hearing this, they were all relieved. Fortunately, these rough guys did not lose their chains today.

"Your Majesty wants to inspect Long Xiangwei?"

Liu Zuocheng clenched his left hand on his chest, performed a standard Ming military salute, and asked respectfully.

"Well, let's go down and issue the order, Zheng Gong and I will watch from the troop counting platform."

"The order of the last general."

Li Tian's visit was unexpected, and the Four Guards of Longxiang did not prepare in advance, but it was also because of this that Li Tian was able to see the most authentic discipline of the Four Guards of Longxiang.

Twelve bright yellow dragon flags fluttered in the wind around the counting platform, and the four shorter general flags were constantly flying. For the ancient army without communication equipment, the general flag was the best command.

In the queue, thousands of households stared at the general flag, and every time the flag was waved, the messengers beside them would raise the flag accordingly.

Zheng He knew that Li Tian was not familiar with Longxiang's four guards, so he would take the initiative to explain every time the queue in the audience changed.

"Your Majesty, that is where Long Xiang's vanguard fought against thousands of households, and they are the most elite thousand soldiers under Zhao Zhisheng's command."

"Your Majesty, that is the Hundred Battles Battalion under Longxiang Right Guard. It is the only unit of Longxiang Guard who has ever been on the battlefield. They are all veterans selected from Yunnan to Beijing and participated in the crusade against Jiaozhi."

The ordering flag shuttled and galloped between the ranks, and the four guards of Longxiang changed with the change of the ordering flag, showing three battle formations in a row, including the crescent moon formation, the horse rejection formation, and the arrow formation.

Hearing the roar of the soldiers and looking at the flying dust from the audience, Li Tian's palms were slightly wet, his heart suddenly filled with pride, and he said with unbearable excitement:

"Uncle Bao, if Long Xiangwei goes to the battlefield, do you think he can still have the power he has now?"

Pursing his lips and smiling, Zheng He shook his head and said truthfully:
"Your Majesty, swords have no eyes on the battlefield, maybe a streamer will emerge from somewhere, and actually go to the battlefield. Most of these fancy battle formations will be useless.

When our family was ambushed in Sumatra, if we were busy setting up the battle, I am afraid that we would have died in other countries. "

"Then how do you kill the enemy on the real battlefield?" Li Tian was a little curious.

"The real battlefield." Zheng He's thoughts seemed to drift far away, and he couldn't bear to recall:

"On the real battlefield, when soldiers shoot at each other in bursts, there will be a lot of casualties. If they are in hand-to-hand combat and encounter hand-to-hand combat, they will ignore everything.
There are cats who specialize in the three-way attack with their bodies on their backs, some who secretly shoot back arrows against the enemy's corpses, and some who bite their teeth and take out a hand of shit from their crotch to touch the enemy's face. "

Li Tian couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, but when he came back to his senses, he suddenly lost interest in the hard-working performance of Liu Zuocheng and the others, and turned to look at Jiang Bao and said:
"Go and tell Liu Zuocheng and the others to stop, tell them that I don't look at these fancy things, and let them take a positive step to show me."

Jiang Baode ordered to hurry down to pass on the message, Liu Zuocheng and the others learned that the emperor was dissatisfied with their performance just now, and they all looked bad, so they hurriedly ordered the soldiers to prepare to go right.

Li Tian stood on the troop counting platform, looked at the uneven and loose formation, and said with a dark expression on his face:
"The battle formation is so beautiful, how can I walk like this if I take a step?"

Zheng He didn't make a sound, but secretly shook his head in his heart. The previous battle formation was probably the result of Long Xiangwei's long-term practice. Once he changed the project, all his secrets would be revealed.

The soldiers of the four guards finished a circle and were about to walk a second circle. Li Tian really didn't want to watch, and after explaining a few words to Jiang Bao, he went straight down to the soldiers' platform.

Long Xiangwei's meeting hall.

Li Tian sat in the main seat with an unswerving expression, Zheng He had already taken over the position of General Long Xiangwei and sat in the second seat, and the four chief generals of Long Xiang Wei sat in the lower seat anxiously.

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Li Tian looked at the tense-looking Longxiang Four Guards General and said lightly:

"You performed well in the battle formation, but I'm afraid no one will wait for you to set up the formation when you go to the battlefield; the front step is a mess, Liu Zuocheng, tell me, what do you train on weekdays."

The atmosphere in the lobby was somewhat depressing, Liu Zuocheng swallowed and said carefully:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Long Xiangwei practiced a lot of chopping and stabbing and slashing on weekdays, but he really didn't take many steps forward."

Not walking much?It's almost the same if you haven't walked by at all. Li Tian didn't bother to poke Liu Zuocheng, so he continued to ask:
"Besides stabbing and slashing? What other training programs are there?"

"Gone."

"No more?" Li Tian was too surprised, the dignified emperor's army only practiced chopping air every day?
Seeing the emperor's astonishment, Liu Zuocheng and the others were all panicked, but they had been in the army for seven or eight years, and they had never heard of any army that could practice walking.

With a long sigh, Li Tian finally understood why Daming had to raise more than 200 million troops. With this combat power, it wouldn't work if he had less.

This is still the personal guard of the Beijing camp, with the highest salary, the best equipment, and the most comfortable.Li Tian couldn't imagine what the ordinary guards in the area would be like.

It is impossible to go on like this, and Li Tian fell into deep thought, and began to think about countermeasures.

Although Zhu Di made five expeditions to Mongolia and beat Oirat and Tatar to the ground, the nomads have such a strong recovery ability that they will make a comeback at any time. Letting an army with this combat power go to the battlefield is basically tantamount to killing people, even if they win Yes, it must be a miserable victory.

"Wang Fu, bring a set of paper and pen, and I tell you to remember."

"Here."

The emperor was in a bad mood, Wang Fu ran fast, and returned with a pen and paper in his hand in a short while.

After pondering for a while, recalling the military training method of later generations, Li Tian took a sip of tea and said:

"Liu Zuocheng, you all listen to me, and you will train according to what I said in the future. All the soldiers of the Longxiang Guard, regardless of their positions.

From then on, I will run long-distance running for three buckets and ten miles every day to exercise my ability to march.

Stand quietly for at least half an hour every day to exercise your mind and will.The legs should be straight, the waist should be straight, the chest should be bulging, the hands should be close to the thighs, and the eyeballs should be widened and look straight ahead.

At that time, each person will tie a stone around his neck and put lime on the ground. As long as the stone is stained with lime on his legs, he will stand still for an extra time.

Also, I will send some wooden guns made by the Ministry of Industry to you when the time comes, and I will disrupt the establishment every three days and divide them into two teams to fight each other. Don't be afraid of getting hurt. you make, and"

(End of this chapter)