"Sixty cavalry of the front army entered the city..."

The first batch of commanders responsible for the ceremonial transmission work set out from Zhengyang Gate and quickly headed towards Daming Gate.

When I heard the number of "sixty cavalry", let alone the people waiting there, even Zhang Heling, Xiao Jing and others felt extremely cold...

You have been out of the expedition and returned to the capital to serve the king and make great achievements. You should dispatch more cavalry to be the vanguard. How could you dispatch 60 cavalry at once?

Chen Xi was aware of his own affairs. He didn't have many cavalry at all. He basically sent the cavalry that could be mobilized to pursue the Tatars and recovered the Zijing Pass. The sixty cavalry at hand were pieced together randomly. It is very likely that even the war horses were temporarily drawn from the Beijing camp, and it is not easy to be able to make a little move.

In Shen Xi's view, even if there are elite riders, they should be used as messengers. After all, the heroic posture of a rider who gallops past Zhengyangmen Street is the most intuitive existence in the eyes of court officials, city guards and ordinary people.

Chenxi was at the foot of Tumu Fort, Juyongguan and the capital. Although there were examples of winning by cavalry, the cavalry he relied on was not brought out by himself, but the elite of the border troops. The imperial court allocated him only infantry, and there were only a few hundred scouts in the middle, but they didn't take horses at night, so it was understandable that the cavalry was young.

The key to Chen Xi's continuous victory lies in the use of infantry formations, as well as the unique use of cannons, muskets, crossbows, and digging trenches for defense.

These things are difficult to show to court officials, soldiers guarding the city and the common people in a small place like Zhengyangmen.

Could it be that he would set up a square infantry formation at Zhengyangmen? Experts can see the tricks and laymen can watch the fun. Without the Tatars, they would not be able to show the power of the infantry formation at all!

When the vanguard of sixty cavalry entered the city, although they were not impatient or impatient in the process and seemed very strict, it was obvious that the performance of these cavalrymen was very disappointing.

They are all light cavalry. Even if the horses move slowly, they are slightly bumpy and unstable. This shows that the quality of the cavalry is very poor, and the quality of the horses is not good. Fortunately, they just move slowly, otherwise these sixty cavalry would have to lose all the face of Chen Xi.

Zhang Yanling's lips curled up and he deliberately ridiculed: "Shen Zhongcheng, the soldiers you brought are nothing more than that!"

Chen Xi smiled indifferently and said, "Everyone is the same!"

Zhang Yanling was about to ask Chen Xi about each other, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that the soldiers and horses under Chen Xi were allocated from the Jing camp under his command? He said that Chen Xi's soldiers and horses were just like this, which was actually derogatory to the Jing camp troops he commanded.

Seeing that his uncle seemed a little dissatisfied with Chen Xi, a hero of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Jing quickly spoke out: "Marty, Lord Shen, it is important to supervise the three armies to enter the city. Don't worry too much, let's be at peace!"

Chen Xi smiled. In fact, the initiative of the soldiers entering the city was not at all with him. It depends entirely on the preparations of the soldiers and horses outside the city. He was only responsible for accepting the newspaper, and the person who was transmitting the newspaper was just a transfer here. The most important thing was to report the progress to the Meridian Gate.

The messenger quickly reported the next situation to Chen Xi: "Three hundred soldiers of the front army entered the city..."

Although the number of 300 infantry is a little more than the previous sixty cavalry, they are a little petty after all. Zhang Yanling frowned and asked, "Shen Zhongcheng, how did you dispatch it? Can't arrange more troops to enter the city at once? How much time will it take to be so slowed down?"

Chen Xi thought to himself: "I'm going to ask your brother-in-law... If your brother-in-law hadn't transferred 5,000 troops into the city first, the left-behind soldiers outside the city were mainly responsible for escorting them. Why didn't there be too many soldiers coming out to support the Ming Dynasty? While trying to be safe and unrest, they also wanted to maintain decent things. Where is such a good thing in this world?"

During the process of leading troops to attack, the only thing Chen Xi trained was the most elite infantry in the world.

When the infantry arrived at the city gate, the officials, soldiers and ordinary people present suddenly felt a sense of murderous aura, and the temperature around Zhengyang Gate seemed to have suddenly dropped by several degrees.

In the previous few battles, Chen Xi used drum beats to determine the soldiers' insurgency points, paying attention to advance and retreat together to prevent soldiers from becoming confused in formation. At this ceremony of entering the city, this fine style was maintained.

In this era, there is no such thing as stepping on the battlefield. Even if the emperor ordered troops on the battlefield, the guards of honor did not walk in a straight or in a row.

However, this method was brought to the Ming Dynasty by Chen Xi.

Therefore, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers and the people actually experienced the review model that was popular in later generations.

The soldiers held spears, listened to the drums, stepped on the steps, and entered the city gate in a uniform manner. The crowds of onlookers in the city were first silent for a brief moment, and then they burst into a shocking cheer.

This is the first army to enter the capital since the Battle of the Capital. At this time, many news in the city was not smooth, and ordinary people didn't even know how far the war outside had developed. Now they were most inspired when they saw the Ming Dynasty's majestic infantry entering the city.

When the soldiers came to Chenxi, they looked to the right and continued to move forward while aligning.

In Shen Xi's opinion, most of these soldiers are baggage soldiers, and their training is very sparse, and they often use war instead of training, so the neatness of the stairs seems to be relatively poor. He seems to be enjoying a stairs performance at a primary school sports meeting, but such a clumsy performance quickly won the recognition of all the officials, soldiers and the people present.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is a shocking way to enter the city. No soldier in the world can achieve such a high degree of unity and consistent steps.

Zhang Mao, Wang Shouren and others had already reached the top of the city wall, and at this time they all came down from the city wall and stood behind the high platform where Shen Xi was, just like the generals who visited the inspection ceremony, following Shen Xi to enjoy the glory.

When the first batch of infantry passed, Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel, came to Chen Xi's ear and pointed to the infantry team heading towards the direction of Daming Gate, and said to Chen Xi: "Did you arrange this?"

Chen Xi nodded and said in a normal tone: "That's true, not true!"

Ma Wensheng frowned slightly and asked unhappily: "What is and isn't it?"

Chen Xi replied seriously: "The soldiers of the three armies were actually only following the infantry formations they were trained on weekdays. Outside the Xizhimen and Zhengyangmen in the capital, our army also used this method when fighting against the Tatar cavalry to ensure the consistency of the pace of all soldiers in the infantry phalanx. Now they are just using drum beats as a cooperation. The soldiers are actually not planning intentionally! "

As his status improved, Chen Xi did not have to be humble in front of Ma Wensheng and called himself a "low-rank official". Ma Wensheng was the second-rank minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and he was also the right censor of the second-rank official. In terms of official rank, the two had the same status. Moreover, he was the chief official responsible for presiding the city ceremony today, so naturally he did not have to respect Ma Wensheng.

Ma Wensheng did not care about Chen Xi's "rudeness", and a happy smile appeared on his face, saying, "Yu Qiao always praised you in front of me, but it was indeed not in vain. Look at the infantry you brought, and then compare with the bad soldiers on the city and on both sides of the street, you will know what the gap is!"

Because when Ma Wensheng spoke, he didn't even care about Zhang Yanling standing next to him, and this was a big blow.

Although the soldiers stationed at Zhengyang Gate looked energetic, they were not on the same level as the soldiers under Chen Xi's command.

Both of them are soldiers in Beijing, like two completely different armies.

The only difference is that these Beijing soldiers followed Chen Xi and took only three months to go, as if they had completely changed their individuals.

If Chen Xi's soldiers had experienced the test of a war, the soldiers garrisoned on the spot had also experienced continuous battles, and even the bloody battle at the top of Zhengyangmen was more tragic than the war outside the city. However, the spirit of the soldiers led by Chen Xi was different. The main reason is that after these Beijing soldiers followed Chen Xi, they suffered all kinds of hardships, and even had those who were trapped in the Jedi, and had today but not tomorrow, and they had developed a tenacious character.

Moreover, these soldiers followed Chenxi to win battles and gradually accumulated strong self-confidence, as if the world was magnificent and could go anywhere? This is a kind of military confidence! Now that they have withdrawn from the capital, the court has arranged such a grand entry ceremony to show their prestige in front of their colleagues in the capital camp, so they naturally have to show their strength.

(End of this chapter)
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