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Chapter 256 Neighbors
On November [-]th of the fourth year of Longqing, the day of the grand parade, the city defense heavy wolf machine guns on Yongding Gate rang non-stop.

The flags were unfurled, and the generals of the Han Dynasty, who were dispatched by the police, wore golden armors and helmets, and red tassels on the helmets, carrying gourds in their hands, making the southern city wall of the capital shone brightly with sunlight.

From a distance, surrounded by those big Han generals, Chen Mu could see the high officials standing on the top of the city walls. There were civil servants and eunuchs on the city walls, but there was no serious military officer, not even Ji Liao Prime Minister Qi Jiguang, who was not qualified to compete with them. The emperor parades on the same stage.

The only one who participated in the military parade was Tan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of War. He was responsible for explaining the pros and cons of the parade to the cabinet ministers beside Emperor Longqing. thing.

He will also ask the emperor for leave to return to his hometown due to illness, after the matter of my answer is settled.

Feng Bao convinced many people, especially Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, that Feng Bao believed that the opportunity to negotiate a peace with Ida was in this great review.

This is not without precedent. On November 18th of the [-]th year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di once received envoys from various countries in Beijing. Therefore, Zhu Di was not angry when he insisted on bowing.

The leader of Timur's mission was Prime Minister Aldusha, and his deputy was Gaisuyeddin, a famous general who had followed Timur. Even in their own country, they were exempted from kneeling and worshiping.

After the delegation visited Jiangsu, Nanjing and other places, Emperor Chengzu went hunting in the suburbs of Beijing in March of the following year and invited envoys from various countries to watch the ceremony.

The grand "hunting" mobilized [-] troops in Huailai in the north of Beijing, and the elites of the "Five Army Battalion", "Three Thousand Battalion" and "Shenji Battalion" successively performed Ming cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, and cavalry attack; "Soldiers" and white-armed soldiers practiced infantry salvo and pike infantry assassination training.

It lasted for a whole month, which was [-]. Cannons, guns, guns, rockets, kerosene, these weapons bloomed under the noses of envoys from various countries.

This time, the envoys of the Timurid Kingdom took the lead in kneeling and kowtowing, "kowtowing their heads to the ground", completely ignoring "there is no such custom in our country". Since then, the Timur Empire has sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty more than 60 times throughout its life.

Timur's deputy envoy Gai Suyedin later said frankly in his memoirs: "I have to admit that it was a lucky thing for the emperor to die on the way to the Eastern Expedition, which allowed him to preserve his fame throughout his life."

Nine years later in 140, Emperor Longqing chose to accept the audience of various countries on the same day as his ancestors, and invited them to participate in the military parade.

It's just that Emperor Longqing was much more frugal than his ancestors. He only summoned more than [-] generals and more than [-] troops, which looked extremely shabby.

Not far from the left and right sides of the city gate tower, far away from the emperor and the cabinet ministers, there are also many people standing in the place separated by the great Han generals. Those people are all dressed in strange clothes. On the right are the envoys from the tributary country, and on the right are the envoys invited from Alta, Jineng, and Wala. In fact, their identities at this time are more like envoys from the enemy country.

Among these people, only Altan Khan's grandson, who led more than ten people to the south to join the Ming Dynasty, served Han Naji as the commander of the Ming Dynasty and stood not far from Emperor Longqing, and participated in the ceremony on the same stage.

When Emperor Longqing sat on the slightly higher dragon chair set up at the top of the city, the flags were waved together, and the low-pitched horns sounded from the top of the city, spreading to the outside of the city, and people could see the farther end of the sight blocked by the streets and alleys. The wind and sand were blown up and the dust flew up to the sky. There were soldiers and horses shouting long live, which could still reach the top of the city across the vast woodland.

In order to cover up his pale complexion under the unhealthy sunlight, Emperor Longqing rubbed a little powder on his face, waved his hand slightly, and the eunuch Chen Hong, who was in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies, reluctantly handed over the edict to Feng Baoshou, who was standing at the head of the city. On the face, although he was smiling, there was a poisonous snake in his eyes.

Feng Bao, on the other hand, was really happy. Standing at the top of the city, he read the imperial edict aloud with a somewhat weird but not unpleasant voice. Afterwards, banners and banners were unfurled under the city. An inaudible shout sounded there.

"All people are united, the mountains can be shaken..."

It’s still Triumph, it’s still the same army with both horses and horses, the only difference is that Chen Mu is riding a horse and looking through a telescope from a long distance away. He thinks that Qi Jiguang must be leading the Qi’s army this time. Confidant, you should turn around and think about sending something over.

Who knows that he frowned when he looked at him, raised his hand and handed the binoculars to the excited and anxious Deng Zilong, raised his finger and said, "Wu Qiao, look, does the young general who leads the soldiers look familiar!"

Then I heard hundreds of eunuchs proclaiming in unison under the south gate of the capital: "Jizhen's commander-in-chief Qi Shuai is in the formation, and the Qingshankou Cheying commander Chen Bazhi will lead the army!"

Chen Mu's hands were stuck to his face. Could it be familiar? That was his son.

"First straight out!"

Hachiro is also an adult, riding a horse in the battle formation and walking outside the formation with a bit of a general's air, following his orders, the sound of the trumpet, and the sergeants change formation.

There are four rows of cold weapons on the front, back, left, and right, riding on the long snake formation. The Chinese army's blunderbuss team is advancing steadily. Behind the whole northern Qi's army formation, there is a smaller car battalion. .

In the middle of the chariot formation, there are 16 drummers who drum up the Chinese army flag. They hold trumpets, suonas, gongs, gongs, jiegus, cymbals, cannon horns and other musical instruments, but they are not used for playing, but only as signals during the formation .

"Get ready for battle!"

Just in the process of walking towards the city gate, the army changed formation twice. The musketeers in the middle of the phalanx spread out into a horizontal formation and formed a row under the palace gate. The long-prepared shooting of earthen mounds and wooden walls, as well as the regular assault and assassination in the military parade of the Ming Dynasty, and the change of formation against the enemy won a lot of applause from the city.

Chen Mu watched with gusto such items as assassination in hand-to-hand combat and changing formations against the enemy. His flag army didn't have these items, let alone for military parades, and they didn't even have these items in normal training.

After leading Qi's army, Li Chengliang's heavy armored cavalry, Ma Fang's Mongolian soldiers, Shenji Battalion's infantry, and Zhenbao Town's infantry and cavalry combined attack were all very exciting. In particular, among them, Deng Zilong's troops are the most boring.

He had some newly recruited soldiers who had been training for less than three months, and he didn't dare to use the barbarian army as Chen Mu wanted, so he could only bite the bullet and lose someone under the city, showing a mediocre performance.

Just when Deng Zilong's soldiers and horses passed by the south gate, the envoys of Jineng and Wala in the city also came not far from Shengjia, and said loudly why they asked Hannaji for me, saying that these troops were nothing to look at. .

"There are only 500 people, what can be seen!"

Emperor Longqing didn't answer, and looked at Gao Gong with an unhappy expression, Gao Gong didn't speak, turned his head and looked at Feng Bao with a bad face, Feng Bao didn't answer, grinned, and raised his finger to the eunuch Yumajian Chen moment.

In the crowd, Chen Ju lowered his head and stepped forward, first bowed his hands to Emperor Longqing, and then pointed to the large open space outside the south gate that had been cleared for the grand parade.

"Your Majesty wants to watch the battle of the Juma River. The servants are building and building soldiers outside the city. Please watch, Your Majesty."

It used to be covered with red cloth, but at this time, a soldier from the Jingying opened up the distance between [-] and [-] steps below the city, revealing densely packed earthworks of wooden figurines. Sergeants of the Jineng Department on the river, they charged in a storm, and that's how the battle was fought."

As he said that, drumbeats sounded from the imperial street in the distance, and a phalanx composed entirely of infantry came in neatly. For some reason, there was only one sound when their feet stepped on the ground, and it was the sound of gold and stone.

The envoys of Ji Neng had a bad face, while the envoys of Oara were full of jokes. They all knew about the battle, but they had never experienced it personally.

"Wanquan is in charge of Chen Shuai, and personally leads the banner army!"

Hearing the eunuch's voice from the city, Emperor Longqing turned his head to look at the messenger I answered and smiled kindly, "I hope you all have patience and take a good look at it. Wanquan is located along the Great Wall. From now on, we will be neighbors with General Chen."

(End of this chapter)