Seeing Zeng Ziwen's reaction, Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then said: "In that case, let's go!"
Immediately, Li Xuan led Zeng Ziwen out of the group. After stepping out of the huge civil structure of the 'Imperial Palace', they headed straight to the school grounds.
In addition to Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen, their group also included seven or eight people from the bodyguard team.
Li Xuan had been the Shangou Emperor for so long, and the number of guards he had with him was increasing. At first, there were only a few people arranged by Fang Dongquan, including Wang Shanxu.
However, Wang Shanxu later defected to Li Xuan and became the commander-in-chief of the Guards. Several other people from Fang Dongquan were transferred away one after another by Li Xuan using excuses.
The current guards have all been recruited by him one after another over the past six months. They were all selected by him after personal observation. Most of them are soldiers from the original Guards, and a few are people who escaped from Lijia Village back then.
To be honest, their personal martial arts skills are quite average. At most, they can fight better than ordinary people, but this is not important to Li Xuan. The important thing is that these people have not been the confidants of Fang Dongquan or Huang Xueren before.
After all, personal bodyguards are directly related to his own life and safety. In any case, Li Xuan is not willing to let people like Fang Dongquan or Huang Xueren sneak in.
After a long period of deliberate wooing, the personal loyalty of these guards to Li Xuan has gradually increased!
In the future, Li Xuan plans to continue to expand the size of the guard team from the current twelve people to the size of a complete team, which is thirty-six people.
Because these people are not only his daily security, but when he goes to the battlefield in the future, these people are also his personal guards and will fight with him, so it is really difficult to have less people.
The scale of Huangzhushan is not large, and the school grounds are not far from the palace. They arrived at the school grounds quickly.
This school ground is actually a mud playground used for training in the past. Li Xuan officially established a professional army more than a month ago. He set up a military camp for better training and required the soldiers to live in the military camp every day. Therefore, in the playground
Rows of barracks were built next to it to serve as residences for soldiers.
When Li Xuan walked into the school grounds, Wang Shanxu, who stayed in the military camp and was responsible for daily affairs, was waiting early. He had obviously already received the news that Li Xuan would come.
"I respectfully welcome Your Majesty!" When Wang Shanxu and others knelt down to greet you, Li Xuan quickly took two steps forward and raised his eyebrows: "My dear friends, you don't need to be polite, please get up quickly!"
Wang Shanxu naturally couldn't let Li Xuan really help him up. When Li Xuan tried to help him, he had already stood up.
"Your Majesty, the drill is ready. Should we start now?" When Wang Shanxu spoke, he glanced at Zeng Ziwen who was following Li Xuan.
Zeng Ziwen, who noticed Wang Shanxu's gaze, didn't take it seriously. He could naturally see a trace of worry in Wang Shanxu's eyes.
This worry does not mean that he is worried that Zeng Ziwen will hurt Li Xuan, because everyone knows that even if Zeng Ziwen had a hundred courages, he would not dare to do it.
Wang Shanxu's worry was that if Zeng Ziwen really surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, it would affect his own status.
Because many generals, including Wang Shanxu, knew that Li Xuan had been trying to recruit Zeng Ziwen, but unfortunately Zeng Ziwen never agreed.
Wang Shanxu and the others also knew why Li Xuan wanted to recruit Zeng Ziwen. It was just that Zeng Ziwen was a real general. Bandit leaders like Fang Dongquan, Wang Shanxu and others who had become monks on the road must be more proficient in training soldiers and fighting.
If Zeng Ziwen really agrees to join the new army of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, it is foreseeable that this person will quickly become an important general in the army. He will have no real power for a short time, but in time he will definitely squeeze out the power belonging to Fang Dongquan, Wang Shanxu and others.
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"Now that everything is ready, let's start!" Li Xuan didn't hesitate much. He came to watch the drill today. On the one hand, it was to let Zeng Ziwen see the elite new professional army, so as to increase his hope of recruiting him. On the other hand,
He also wanted to see what level this new army had after more than a month of full-time training.
Can it meet the requirements of going out to fight in the mountains during the summer harvest?
Li Xuan had made extremely bad plans for the battle during the summer harvest. He never thought about escaping back to the mountains in despair this time.
He wants to lead the army to firmly contain the Ming troops to ensure the safety of Huangzhu Mountain in the second half of the year. This means that this battle is likely to last for several months. If he is active outside the mountain for such a long time, he will encounter such a problem.
The chance of attacking the main force of the Ming army is also very high.
Once they encounter the main force of the Ming army, whether they are fighting or fleeing, they will have great demands on this new army.
Needless to say, fight, a decisive battle with the Ming army head-on, how can you do it if your combat effectiveness is poor!
As for escaping, escaping outside the mountains is not the same as running away in the mountains. You can just run away in the mountains. The officers and soldiers cannot catch up anyway. But outside the mountains, if you want to avoid the escape from turning into a collapse, you must attack the troops.
The discipline requirements are quite high.
After boarding the wooden platform beside the school field, Li Xuan nodded to indicate that the drill had officially begun, and the already prepared troops entered the field one after another.
"The first one to appear was the most elite First Musket Team in our new army. Not long ago, they relied on intensive rounds of fire to defeat the bandit's flank attack. Just three rounds of gunfire killed more than 30% of the opponent's enemies!"
Wang Shanxu, who was standing next to Li Xuan, pointed at the first team to enter the field.
In fact, there was no need for Wang Shanxu to introduce him. When Li Xuan saw this formation for the first time, he knew that they were the First Musketeers.
The First Musket Team is currently the only fully-manned musketry team in the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty. It can be said to be the core combat force of the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty.
Following the first musketeers was the second musketeers. Although the second musketeers had the same number of people as the first musketeers, obvious differences could be seen.
The fact that the formation is not tight enough is secondary. What is more important is that half of them are holding wooden training muskets!
Due to the production of muskets in Huangzhushan, most of the people in the Second Musket Team are still not equipped with muskets. According to the plan, they will get all the muskets before the summer harvest. Before that, they will get all the muskets with the First Musket Team.
Shared muskets for training.
The two musketeers lined up in a tight formation and entered the field one after another, but Zeng Ziwen's eyes never left them!
At this time, Li Xuan also said to Zeng Ziwen at the right time: "By the time of the summer harvest, these two musketeers will be completely full, and they will become the core combat force of my Tang Dynasty King Division!"
Zeng Ziwen asked: "The bayonet on this musket seems to have changed?"
Li Xuandao: "Yes, we replaced the plug-in bayonet on the bayonet with a sleeve bayonet!"
After hearing this, Zeng Ziwen said: "In this case, is it possible to shoot after attaching a bayonet?"
Li Xuan nodded and smiled without saying a word!
After listening, Zeng Ziwen did not continue to ask, but continued to look at the people who entered the scene behind him. The three spearmen who entered the scene one after another were the three spearmen.
Zeng Ziwen didn't pay much attention to these spearmen. After all, he had seen many such spearmen, so there was nothing surprising when he saw them now.
However, a group of heavily armored swordsmen and shieldmen who appeared behind the spearmen caught Zeng Ziwen's attention. This group of heavily armored swordsmen and shieldmen were actually all wearing double armor and walking slowly into the field wearing thick armor. They were much better than the previous two.
The team of musketeers and the three spearmen are more intimidating.
Zeng Ziwen was secretly shocked. He had long heard that there was a group of heavily armored bandits in Huangzhu Mountain. They were the core force that swept across hundreds of miles. It was true when he saw it today.
Just this team of sword-and-shield bearers wearing double armor is enough to scare hundreds of enemy soldiers on the battlefield!
These days, even among the regular guards in the Ming army, the armor wearing rate is quite low. In the Tong'an Qianhu Station he led before, the only people wearing armor were middle and low-level officers at all levels and personal soldiers of senior officers, more than 600
There were only about twenty people wearing armor.
And these twenty people are still scattered. They are not directly gathered together as a combat unit like the Tang Dynasty Wang Shili. Dispersed use and centralized use are two different concepts, and the effects are very different.
According to Zeng Ziwen, just with this team of heavy-armored sword and shield men, this Tang Dynasty king's army had the confidence to fight a thousand households.
After the heavy armored sword and shield bearers, there was a group of archers, but the quality of this group of archers was not very good, and Zeng Ziwen didn't pay much attention to it. However, the small group of thirteen cavalry cavalry who appeared at the end made him feel small.
The ground was shocked.
He knew that during the last raid on Longhua Town, the Tang Dynasty King's Division had snatched a batch of horses. He originally thought that these horses would be distributed to various officers for use, but he did not expect that Li Xuan would gather these horses and form this army.
A little cavalry.
Don't underestimate such a small cavalry. You have to know that whether it is Tong'an Qianhu Station or Fairy Shi Qianhu Station, they do not have an organized cavalry. There are only a few officers or soldiers on horseback.
In fact, not only these two thousand households, but also the surrounding prefectures and counties did not have large-scale cavalry establishment. This is not because the Ming army was stingy and refused to assign cavalry, but because Xingquan Prefecture is located in the southwest inland and it is difficult to obtain a large number of cavalry.
war horses, and the terrain here is mostly mountains and hills, but there are no great plains like those in the north.
Therefore, there have always been very few cavalry!
After these troops entered the field one after another, the tactical drill began!
The drill was based on a line formation developed during the Guards era and used mainly to bring out the power of musketeers and spearmen.
Two teams of musketeers are located on both wings, with three teams of spearmen in the middle. The archers and heavy armored sword and shield bearers are in the second row behind the spearmen.
The cavalry team is located where the general’s flag is!
As the drums sounded, the entire army stepped forward slowly in a tight formation, and stopped after about thirty steps. The two musketry teams began to load and fire in turns. In an instant, the school field was filled with white smoke!
When the two musketeers fired, the corners of Zeng Ziwen's mouth twitched slightly!