Zhou Shixiang planned to perform military parade at the Yuexiu camp tomorrow, and invited the King of Tang and officials of the court, and the people of Guangzhou to watch the ceremony together. One is to improve morale, and the other is to shock the young people.

The Northern Expedition Army was concentrated in Lianzhou, Yangshan, Qingyuan and other places. Currently, there are only the third town, the fifteenth town, and the cavalry of the Wang Fuchen Xinyi Town. Zhou Shixiang deployed and arranged the arrangements and ordered the third town and the fifteenth town to draw a brigade tomorrow, and together with the brigade of cavalry in the new town and his own Iron Man Guard to form eight square formations for the military exercise. Dong Changqing, the official of the Ministry of War, suggested that 00 students could be transferred from the Military Preparation Training Institute, and 00 young soldiers to participate in the military exercise together, and then the artillery of the third town and the fifteenth town were combined into a phalanx of artillery. This seemed to be crowded and armed, which would be strong.

Zhou Shixiang adopted Dong Changqing's suggestion and ordered the generals and the military headquarters to prepare. Dong Changqing also organized people overnight to go to Yuexiu Camp to build a high platform for military parade. Before going to the palace, Duke Xiang of Song said to Zhou Shixiang that the hasty military parade was being performed. Before the training was completed, the team would see if it would be scattered. Don't lose your momentum, but instead make all officials laugh. Should you postpone the Northern Expedition for a few days and wait for the soldiers to train before performing the military parade?

Zhou Shixiang smiled and told Duke Xiang of Song that there was no need to worry too much. Now all towns are tightly involved in military training. The newly recruited soldiers and the Qing army surrendered soldiers were beaten out by big sticks. Even if they did not train, they would follow the training site on weekdays, and they could be called a mighty and majestic army.

Duke Xiang of Song basically didn't ask about the affairs of the army. Seeing Zhou Shixiang's confidence, he felt relieved and entered the palace with Yuan Kuoyu to inform the King of Tang that the Taiping Army was performing martial arts in Yuexiu's camp tomorrow and vowed to the Northern Expedition. He proposed to ask the King of Tang to watch the liturgy and see off the soldiers of the three armies.

During the last national supervision ceremony, Zhou Shixiang invited the King of Tang to parade at the East Gate. At that time, the auxiliary Lian Chengbi and others proposed that this move was inconsistent with the system. Later, there were discussions that the King of Tang values ​​martial arts and neglects of scholars, which made the King of Tang extremely unhappy. In addition, the personal army around him were all from the Taiping Army, and Zhou Shixiang used his personal army to suppress the common people, gentry officials, so he was quite dissatisfied with the Taiping Army. However, after Duke Xiang of Song explained his purpose, the King of Tang agreed to this request without hesitation, and was willing to go to the camp to observe the soldiers and see off the Northern Expedition to the soldiers. The Northern Expedition was related to whether Zhu Ming's country and country could be restored and whether the ancestor's foundation could survive. The King of Tang was dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang, and at this moment he would never lose his heart. Regardless of whether Zhou Shixiang was the second Sun Kewang, at this time, he was the heaven of the Ming Dynasty and the only person who could believe and place high hopes on the Tang Dynasty.

After Duke Xiang of Song and others retreated, the King of Tang asked the princess to make a robe overnight and wait for the Zhou Shi to wear it with his own hands to enhance his reputation. The princess was also excited and said that the palace maids might as well embroider the robe so that each general would take one tomorrow, so that His Highness the Superintendent's sincere desire for the soldiers. The King of Tang agreed with a smile, but felt that it was inappropriate, so he found the eunuch of the rituals, Pan Yinglong, and asked him what he should prepare.

Pan Yinglong stayed in the inner court of Chongzhen in his early years and knew a lot about etiquette. He might as well give Zhou Shixiang golden armor, shangfang swords, silver armor of the generals of the army, and then soldiers to conquer clothes, and finally wine and food.

Giving gold armor, silver armor would make the King of Tang a bad idea. He had just supervised the country, and all the palaces were covered with grass, so where to find gold armor and silver armor. Pan Yinglong gave the idea, and ordered people to go to Zhou Shixiang's Guangdong Duke's Mansion to find dozens of armor. The latter one was painted with gold paint, and the rest were painted with silver paint to show gold and silver armor. In terms of the clothes of the soldiers, they symbolically wanted to get a hundred new military uniforms from Zhou Shixiang. Shang Fang Jian took a sword that Shang Kexi used back then. In the end, the wine and food should be given beef, but Guangdong prohibited the slaughter of plowing ox, so they ordered Guangzhou Prefecture to kill dozens of fat pigs overnight and prepare hundreds of jars of white wine to be used for tomorrow's reward.

The King of Tang kept sending people to ask for this and that, and Zhou Shixiang found it funny, and felt like he was making money by himself to make the King of Tang a human being, but he was not disgusted and ordered people to prepare one by one. In addition, at the suggestion of Hong Yuao, the Grand Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the King of Tang issued an edict to re-establish the position of Grand Commander-General abolished during the Hongwu period to grant Zhou Shixiang the title of Zhou Shixiang, and at the same time, Zhou Shixiang was added as the Prince's Taibao.

This incident surprised Zhou Shixiang. It should be noted that the Grand Governor during the Hongwu period was Xu Da, who was posthumously appointed as the King of Zhongshan after his death. Later, because the Grand Governor was too powerful, Emperor Taizu changed the Grand Governor to the Governor's Office while abolishing the Prime Minister's System. The descendants of the descendants were not allowed to recover again. Why did the Tang King restore the Grand Governor and grant him the title to himself?

Zhou Shixiang couldn't figure it out.

Gui Yongzhi guessed that the King of Tang wanted Zhou Shixiang to learn from Xu Da and be Xu Da. As for the restoration of the Grand Governor's Office, this was an optional thing. Now the military and political affairs are all from Zhou Shixiang's Military Commander's Office. Whether there is a Grand Governor's Office or not is the same thing. It was just that the other name of the Grand Governor's Office of the Duke of Guangdong was called the Grand Governor's Office. Zhou Shixiang thought about it carefully and thought that Gui Yongzhi was good at guessing that the King of Tang wanted to be Xu Da himself.

In this way, except for the uninformed people in Guangzhou, all the yamen are very lively, and the Yuexiu camp outside the city is also very busy.

The next day, the King of Tang brought the cabinet and six important officials to Yuexiu Camp to watch the ceremony. After the palace attack case, almost no officials in the court who dared to oppose Zhou Shixiang were established. Those who dared to oppose Zhou Shixiang are now locked in prison, waiting for trial and conviction. Looking at the court, there is only one Shifu Lianchengbi, but it is obvious that the arrest of Zhang Xiaoqi and others made Shifu realize that he could not fight head-on with Zhou Shi, so he was very clever and did not object to the King of Tang visiting the ceremony in person, nor did he say anything strange. He also prepared to come to watch the ceremony early.

As before, Cifu's face was not good-looking, followed the Tang King gloomy, and said nothing to him with Duke Xiang of Song and Ding Zhixiang beside him. Guo Zhiqi ignored him, but he could say a few words to Hong Yuao.

On the viewing platform made by Yuexiu Camp overnight, the King of Tang stood in front, and Zhou Shixiang and Guo Zhiqi stood on both sides. The cabinet and members of the six officials, officials from all over the nine ministers, families of the big and small ministers, and the Taiping Army were placed on one side. The camp was open to the people, and the people who came to see the lively were blocked from the safe area, leaving a road about two hundred steps wide for the parade soldiers to enter the venue.

At the time of Si, the King and the assistant minister, who was in the white robe and yellow horse, rode his horse on behalf of the Taiping Army, and clamored to the audience and asked for an order: "Please ask Your Highness, the Superintendent, to parade!"

The King of Tang nodded excitedly, Zhou Shixiang waved his hand, and the sound of war drums suddenly sounded. With the sound of desolate horns, waves of neat and dull steps sounded. More than 10,000 soldiers entered the stage in steps, cavalry and cannons one after another, shouting and killing the sky. The vibration sound of the ground when the eight hundred Iron Man Guards entered the stage made the King of Tang excited. He only hoped that this powerful army could win the northern expedition, restore the Nandu, restore Xiaoling, and restore the capital.

After the military parade, Hong Shiming, the Minister of Rites, climbed up to the high platform with a familiarity and read out the Northern Expedition manifesto.

"On the ninth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, the King of Tang of the State of the State issued an edict to Guangzhou: Now the Manchus are originally Jianzhou. They are raised by my emperor's ancestors and live in the left and right of Liao. After two hundred years, they have been blessed. However, the dogs and sheep of the wild nature have repeatedly turned against each other. They do not want to repay the favor, and they become enemies. The old slaves are in chaos in Liaodong, and the people are scattered. When the Hong Tai spreads poison to the capital, the common people are scattered. When I am in trouble, I dare to promote the ambition to recommend food. Then, the whistle between the mountains and seas, and the Shenjing was occupied. When the three emperors flew across the river, the three emperors were invaded. When the Hu Qi arrived, they immediately slaughtered. The father and son were lost, and the couple were not complete. In the past, the places where the flowers of the past were all lost to the ghost realm; the place where the strings and songs were completely destroyed, and my clothes and hats were destroyed, and my hair was scattered. Therefore, the Yanhuang Miao people were all left-bred; Yao sealed the land of Yu, and the land was full of fishy smells everywhere. If the sage saw it, wouldn't they cry bitterly in Jiuyuan?!

Fortunately, the ancestors have a relic of their ancestors, and the Ming Dynasty has an unsuccessful fortune; and moreover, people's hearts are in the Han Dynasty, and China has to extend the principle. Last year, the victory of Chaozhou was won by the fake king; this spring, the battle of Liuzhou was killed, and the bandits were killed. In two years, the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang were restored to the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, and within ten months, it was planned to kill 100,000 real and fake captives. Now the captive forces are in decline, and they are trapped in Yan's corner, and the ugly are in panic. This is actually a good opportunity to clear the country and wipe out Hu.

Now, I ordered the Duke of Guangdong to conquer the general Zhou, and to carry 300,000 troops from the water and land, and to follow the heavens and respond to the people, and swear to the northern expedition. Soon, the three Chus will be restored and directly taken to the southern capital; the feces will be removed from the smell of smell and worship Xiaoling. The emperor comforted the emperor's spirit in the sky; the elders will restoration of the elders. Later, he will lead the troops north to suppress the evil forces; he will attack Huanglong and destroy the Huns. He will welcome the emperor to return to Shenjing, and pacify the people and share peace. Isn't it a pleasure?!

In the north, civil and military generals were originally innocent people in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, they were poor and poor, and they were entrusted with the captains. Charle would rather not be patient? If the conscience is still there, loyalty and filial piety are still there, return to the right and the evil is right, and the right is right. Those who come to the whole province will not be reluctant to divide the land; those who surrender in the state will have to rely on Jixun. Lead troops to surrender to the land and give up the number of people to the few; those who arrive in purity will be promoted to the top; those who arrive in purity will be promoted to the top; those who arrive in purity will be given the best; those who arrive in purity will be given the best; those who arrive in the world will be given the best; those who arrive in the world will be given the best; those who are in the world will be given the best; those who are still in the history of the country will be defeated by the king; once the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be crushed! They will be killed and destroyed, and they will be detrimented for generations, so don’t say they will not be prepared! The order is issued to the far and wide, and all the people will know it!”

After the Northern Expedition was read, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the campus shouted long live. The King of Tang was stunned and wanted to refuse but failed. However, he was very happy and ordered to give wine and food to reward the three armies.

Later, three cannons passed by.

The horn hand raised the long horn high, "Woooo" a sad chirping, and the empty Yuexiu Mountain echoed. Under the dazzling sunshine, two red flags danced in the breeze, with eight big characters embroidered: "The Great Governor of the Emperor Ming Army and Horses" on one side; the other side embroidered the three big characters "Taiping Army".

The King of Tang gave the golden armor to Zhou Shixiang, and the silver armor to Ge Yi, Wang Fuchen, Qi Hao and other generals. Zhou Shixiang and other generals immediately put on armor. After Zhou Shixiang finished putting on armor, the King of Tang personally put on the robe embroidered by the princess for Zhou Shixiang, and the rest of the generals were also brought on by a special person.

"You will definitely be able to defeat the Tartars when you go to the northern expedition, and you will be able to suppress the Tartars and let them down!" The King of Tang was too excited and his speech was a little trembling.

Zhou Shi was wearing armor and was unable to kneel down, so he saluted and said loudly: "Don't worry, your highness, I will never let you down!"

After saying that, Zhou Shixiang walked off the platform, rode on the big green horse, and rode around the horse training ground, which attracted thousands of soldiers and the people around him to cheer.

Looking at the soldiers' tranquil military appearance and high morale, and listening to the deafening cheers, Zhou Shixiang's heart was full of passion and confidence. He raised his hand to greet the soldiers. The cheers immediately stopped, and tens of thousands of people were silent.

Zhou Shixiang didn't say anything, but started singing. He sang the Taiping Army song and the song of killing Hu.

Everyone did not expect that Zhou Shixiang would sing and was stunned for a moment. The King of Tang was also confused. In his mind, there was never any deeds of leading general Yu Dajun singing loudly before.

Guo Zhiqi and the others were also shocked, with strange expressions one by one. Someone thoughtfully explained the strange behavior of the Duke of Guangdong: After all, they were just scholars, with little knowledge and a young man, so they were inevitably rude.

Those who are not considerate regard Zhou Shixiang's behavior as a devil in the king's previous behavior and a decent act. No one knows what others think, but Ji Fu Lianchengbi must have thought so. At this time, Ji Fu's face was very distorted. If it weren't for the fact that there were people around him, he would have been unable to help but come forward and scold him.

Zhou Shixiang's voice was not good, but he sang very loudly.

Holding a steel knife with ninety-nine, killing Hu Er before stopping;

I am a man, why do you make a horse and a cow if you are a Tartar?

The hero drinks all the wine in the bowl, and never looks back when the journey is thousands of miles away;

The golden drums roared together, and they would never stop until they broke the Yellow Dragon!”

Zhou Shixiang remembers this song of the Red Turban Army from that year and the Taiping Army song now. He sang it word by word, ignoring the strange gazes of the crowd around him. He only cared about the gazes of tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him.

The Grand Marshal sang, the Grand Marshal sang military songs!

The officers and soldiers on the parade were in full swing, and they sang loudly together.

"The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, fame, wealth and land; look at the state of China, the people suffer, and the fertile land of thousands of miles is desolate; look at the world, all the barbarians, and the incomplete laws of heaven are repaired."

The golden drums roared together, and the yellow dragon was swearing to the end!

The heroic military songs rise with the wind, float with the wind, and disperse with the wind.

No matter how absurd what Zhou Shixiang did, tens of thousands of men sang in unison, gave people the strongest impact. The officials and the people were also excited, and they could sing and yelled, and they could not sing and burst into tears.

Three hundred years ago, countless Han men sang this military song and advanced into Beijing, destroying the Yuan Dynasty!

Three hundred years later, this military song will witness the defeat of the Qing Dynasty and the unyielding Han family!

The King of Tang was also excited, ignored Junyi and shouted: "Go to drink!"

"Thank you for your wine!"

Zhou Shi took the wine bowl presented by the palace maid and drank it all, threw it to the ground, facing the north, shouted loudly: "The Taiping soldiers followed me to go to war, kill all the Tartars and then return to triumphant!"

On the ninth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Yongli, the Duke of Yue Guo and the Grand Commander Zhou Shixiang led the army to the northern expedition, and the vanguard rushed straight to Shaozhou.
Chapter completed!