It soon came to June 11, the day to review the selected soldiers. The weather on this day was not good, it had been gloomy since the morning; although there was no weather forecast, experienced farmers thought it was likely to rain.
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After the court went down early in the morning, Li Jian, who was responsible for the specific arrangements for the review, said to Yun He: "Your Majesty, the weather looks like it is going to rain today. How can it be good if it rains during the review? Your Majesty, it is better to review on another day."
Yunxi raised his head and looked at the sky, thought for a while, but still insisted: "There is no need to reschedule, it is today."
"Your Majesty,..." Li Jian said.
"As long as I'm here, it won't rain." Yunxi interrupted.
Li Jian didn't understand Yunxi's words, but he didn't dare to say any more. He bowed and left to take care of things.
People in various guard posts still did not reschedule the review after hearing that such a day was coming. There were endless complaints, but no one dared to disobey the order and set off from the military camp to the review place.
At the end of the afternoon, Yunxi came to the review site. This was a school field affiliated with the Habayashi Guards. Because the Habayashi Guards were the upper straight guards, their station was relatively close to the imperial city, and the school field was also large, so they chose this place.
Out of curiosity about the new army marching method promoted by Yunxi, qualified officials from all relevant yamen came. As long as the nobles in Beijing were willing to come and see, Yunxi also allowed it.
So when Yunxi arrived, the reviewing stand was already crowded with people. He made a rough calculation and found that there were almost a hundred people standing on the stage, chatting and waiting for him. They immediately saluted when he came up.
Yunxi asked them to waive the ceremony, stood on the stage and smiled with Jin Chun: "Jin Qing, do you have confidence in the students of the Jiangwu Hall? If any of the two grades in the Jiangwu Hall loses, I will punish you.
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"Your Majesty, I cannot guarantee that the ranks of the students at the Jiangwu Hall will be the best. There are many capable people in the guard station, and I cannot match them, but they can meet your Majesty's previous requirements," Jin Chun said.
"Oh, then I have to take a look." Yunxi said with a smile. His requirements were not low. When Yunxi thought that there would be no team that could meet his requirements during this review, he did not expect Jin Chun to be so confident.
There are a total of thirteen teams in this review, with eleven senior guards and one hundred households each. The martial arts hall selects one hundred people from each of the two grades to form a team based on their grade.
Naturally, they could not appear together during the review, so Yunxi personally set the rules for drawing lots. Each team drew lots, and in the end, the first-year students of the Jiangwu Hall were drawn to the tenth place, and the second-year students were drawn to the twelfth place.
Zheng Xuan, the leader of the martial arts hall, said to them with a happy face: "We happen to be the last few, responsible for the finale, which is great."
"The performance of the soldiers at the front guard station must not have been very good. Just when nine teams in a row were performing very poorly, we suddenly appeared in front of His Majesty. Why don't we let His Majesty shine? We will be rewarded if we can't do it."
The first-year students were a little frustrated at first, feeling that they would have no chance to perform at the back of the queue. After hearing Zheng Xuan's words, they cheered up and were gearing up to go on stage.
On the contrary, the second-year students were even more frustrated after hearing his words: the limelight was given to the first-year students. Although they thought they would perform better than the first-year students, they did not feel that they could be much better.
They all ignored the other soldiers in the guard station. Most of the people in the guard station did not think they were better than the students in the martial arts hall. Although they felt uncomfortable after hearing the words of the people in the martial arts hall, they had nothing to say.
However, one of the guards didn't think so. "I'll let you know how powerful I am after a while," Li Zengzhi said secretly.
Then the review began. The first one to appear was the 100 families from the vanguard of the government army. The 100 families lined up behind the school field and started to move forward.
Yunxi immediately began to frown. Thanks to the lines drawn on the ground, the four columns did not turn into four long worms, but they were not very aligned horizontally, and many people's bodies were not straight. Their eyes were staring at the left and right or at the soles of their feet, and their footsteps were
The sound is not very neat either.
After a while, maybe the leader of the team said something. Their bodies slowly straightened from front to back, but the column had a tendency to change into a long worm. Near the rostrum, they began to goose-step. This was even more...
Disaster. The originally irregular footsteps were amplified exponentially, and the team became even more chaotic.
After a while, the team arrived in front of the rostrum, where everyone turned around a few times, and then continued walking. It was OK, no one turned in the wrong direction, and no one lost their shoes, which was considered to be the minimum standard required by Yunxi.
But although the people present did not dare to speak, they all thought in their hearts: 'This is how the people can see the difference in the army at a glance? It is not as neat as the previous phalanx, and it looks comfortable.'
Then came the eight guard teams. Yunxi became angry: Although historically the Beiyang Army could not become an army in one month, he had offered a very high reward price, and even one of them looked decent.
No, even the teams of primary school students in previous lives were stronger than them.
It wasn't until the tenth team that Yun Xi's brows relaxed a little: everyone in the team at the Jiangwu Hall had very straight backs and was relatively neat horizontally; they were a little messy when walking in goose-step, but the footsteps were uniform.
;The final turn is even more neat.
Yunxi smiled at the people beside him and said, "What do you think of this?"
Lan Zhen was stunned. It took a long time before she came back to her senses and said: "Your Majesty, this new way of walking is actually very magical. The team is so neat and orderly. It is completely different from before."
The infantry of the army in the past dynasties will train some square formations, mainly to resist the cavalry, but it is enough. Generally, it is impossible for the cavalry to be many. It is enough to be able to block the cavalry in four layers.
Other generals also agreed. They had all seen the demonstrations of the guards in the palace before, and they didn't think anything was wrong with just a few people walking. But today they were shocked when they saw more than a hundred people walking so neatly. Especially,
During that section of the walk, the sound of uniform footsteps reached their ears. They had never thought that such a loud sound could be heard from more than a hundred people, and they were very surprised.
Yunxi looked at their expressions and was secretly proud. This military training method that became popular in Europe in the 19th century was beyond the imagination of people in the early 15th century. Yunxi estimated that these students were far behind the well-trained Beiyang Laoliu Town.
But it should have reached the level of Wu Peifu's third division.
However, it is not easy to train soldiers in this way. European countries only came up with this method of training after six years of compulsory education. In the 19th century, ordinary soldiers in the Fuso Army all graduated from elementary school. In China, which was still in an agricultural society, it was difficult to train soldiers like this.
It is very difficult for ordinary troops to train like this.
