After lunch, Chongzhen took a carriage and drove to the Yongwei camp under a large number of Jinyi Guards.

The predecessor of the Yongwei Camp was Tengxiang Four Guards, which was a direct emperor and an imperial guard under the charge of the inner court. The selection criteria for its officers and soldiers were "the annual strength of the official army of the Tianxia Guard Office and the men who walked back among the enemy". The initial number was about 3,000, and the combat power was strong. Later, during the Jiajing period, it was organized into the Warriors Camp and the Four Guards Camp, and the number gradually increased, but the combat power gradually decreased.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he ordered Cao Huachun to be the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor to reorganize the Yongwei Camp. Cao Huachun himself was a eunuch in the Sili Supervisor. He had complicated affairs and had little energy to take charge of the Yongwei Camp. So he chose the direct eunuch Lu Jiude and Liu Yuanbin as the eunuch in charge of the daily life of this army. His base was outside the imperial city and he could reach the northeast after leaving Donghuamen along the palace wall for about half an hour.

There is a large military camp outside the Imperial Horse Prison, and there is a large school ground in the barracks. Outside the gate of the school ground, several eunuchs and several generals with helmets and armor were standing outside the gate.

Seeing that Chongzhen's carriage had not arrived yet, a group of people rushed forward under the leadership of the eunuch. The carriage that Chongzhen was riding had not stopped yet, and everyone fell to the ground. The eunuch in the lead voiced loudly: "I, the servant, the chief eunuch, and the head of the horse, the seal of the imperial horse, Cao Huachun, led the generals of the Yongwei camp to welcome the emperor!"

The carriage stopped, and Wang Chengen served Chongzhen to get off the car. Chongzhen looked around and said warmly: "Get up! Since I ascended the throne, although I have ordered you to rectify your business, I have been disturbed by government affairs and have never come to see it. If you have time today, I will see how your Cao Huachun army is practicing and whether you have any entrusted me!"

Everyone kowtowed and stood up. Cao Huachun raised his hand and bowed to report: "Since the emperor appointed his servants to a heavy responsibility, although he had several positions and had heavy customs, he was afraid of delaying the emperor's affairs, so he specially ordered Liu Yuanbin and Lu Jiude to stay in the camp to specialize in the daily life of supervisors and soldiers. These two men lived up to their responsibilities, and they were able to practice an elite soldier at night. They also asked the emperor to inspect and inspect!"

Liu and Lu hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed to greet each other. Chongzhen waved his hand to let them get up and said, "You Cao Huachun's tone is quite good. You dare to say that you have trained elite soldiers! Okay, I will take a good look today, what are the so-called elite soldiers? Who are these generals?

When several generals heard the emperor's question, they quickly stepped forward and knelt down and kowtowed. One of them looked weak and thin, while the other two generals were tall and strong.

After kowtowing to the weak and gentle man, he replied loudly: "The last general, Yongwei Battalion Deputy General Sun Yingyuan, meets Your Majesty!" "The last general, Yongwei Battalion General, Huang Degong, meets Your Majesty!" "The last general, Yongwei Battalion guerrilla warfare Zhou Yuji, meets Your Majesty!"

After hearing the reports from several people, Chongzhen couldn't help but nodded secretly. They were all famous loyal ministers and generals in history! They were all heroes who fought hard to die in the country. Sun Yingyuan and Zhou Yuji both fought fiercely with the thieves, and Huang Degong was one of the four towns in Jiangnan during the Longwu period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and finally died in the battlefield.

He raised his hand and said with a warm voice: "Please rise, generals! In the future, we will suppress the thieves and the enemy, and we will also fight on the battlefield to save the people and the fire. On the day of success, I will not hesitate to reward the Duke and the Marquis!"

It was the first time that Sun Yingyuan and others had seen Tianyan. They were already very excited. When they heard the emperor's encouragement, their hearts were boiling and blood surged on their faces. The three of them replied loudly, "I wish to die for the Holy Lord!" Then they kowtowed heavily and stood up.

Cao Huachun led the way in front and entered the schoolyard. At this time, the schoolyard was full of officers and soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, all wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets and hats on their heads, all standing upright with swords and guns, silently.

Under the leadership of Cao Huachun, Chongzhen climbed to the scholastic reading platform south of the schoolyard. The red carpet had been laid on the stage, and a dragon throne and imperial case were set up. After Chongzhen sat down, everyone served on both sides.

Chongzhen said, "Start the martial arts!" Sun Yingyuan held a red flag and walked to the front of the platform. He waved left and right, and only heard the sound of the collision of armor leaves, and his footsteps yelled. The soldiers under the stage retreated like a tide. In less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of people had retreated to the side of the school ground to stand far away. Sun Yingyuan held the red flag and shook it again, followed by a few short and sharp sounds of horns. The earth slowly shook, and thunder seemed to be faintly sounding in the distance. Smoke and dust rose everywhere, and the earth seemed to be trembling.

The sound gradually increased and got closer. With the rumbling sound, a cavalry suddenly emerged from the dust rolled up in the sky, with thirty cavalry as a horizontal row, and then neatly trotted into the schoolyard. The cavalry wearing cotton armor and iron helmets all held long spears in their right hand, pulled the reins in their left hand, and pointed the spear straight towards the sky, with spears as like a forest. This sentence is not an exaggeration here. There is only the sound of horse hooves and the occasional neighing of war horses in the field, rumbled past the school reading platform.

The cavalry who arrived in front of the platform raised their spears high towards the sky, turned their eyes to the platform and saluted. No one spoke. Hundreds of cavalry rowed by. The cavalry who opened the road in the front circled and arranged neatly in front of the platform. The cavalry behind them circled the field in turn and then stopped the war horses and lined up under the command of the school officer.

This was the first time Chongzhen had seen such a large-scale armed cavalry in his previous life. From entering the field to standing in a row after a week, the whole process was very short, but the powerful aura that hit him was still shocked, as if this power could destroy the world. His personal bravery was as vulnerable as an ant in front of the cavalry line. Looking at the cavalry in costume dramas like children's plays on TV in later generations, it was really a difference.

When the cavalry team stood up, Sun Yingyuan raised the flag and shook it again, this time he changed to the black flag. With the sound of the trumpet, the withdrawn infantry began to gather and then headed towards the open space on the other end of the school ground.

First, a thousand soldiers holding bows and arrows arrived and stood in two rows. A general stepped out of the line, raised a pennant flag and shook it. The soldiers drew their bows and arrows, pointing to the sky obliquely. The sound of the trumpet blew a short sound, and with a buzzing sound, a thousand long arrows shot above the sky. After a brief flight, they turned around and fell rapidly. The open space about a hundred steps ahead suddenly seemed to grow a crop like a crop.

Each of the archers shot ten arrows, and the open space ahead was covered with long arrows. If there were enemies in front, the survival rate could be imagined under the cover of tens of thousands of long arrows.

After shooting ten arrows, the archer quickly pulled his bow and turned back. After 2,500 spearmen were divided into several cards and walked up to the drum beats. After standing still, the spearmen were closely adjacent to each other, and the formation was very compact. The guns were poked out in the front row, and the back rows were placed on the front row shoulders.

At the command of the school officials, the spearmen shouted in unison: "Protection!" The spearmen were stabbed out more than one meter of long spears in their hands. The spear head was shining coldly and extremely sharp, as if it could pierce all objects in front of them. There were five hundred swords and shields on both sides to protect the two wings and guard against the enemy's side attacks. Then, under the command of the general, the spearmen swords and shields gathered their teams and came to the center of the schoolyard with neat steps. They stood in a team not far from the cavalry, and the military performance ended.

Chongzhen secretly praised that the Ming army was not all weak troops that would be defeated when faced with strong people. Strong generals had no weak soldiers under their command, and the celebrities in history were indeed famous. These eunuchs and these military generals did not disappoint the emperor's entrustment, and they really had a strong soldier.

Cao Huachun came to Chongzhen near and asked in a low voice: "Emperor, do you want to give a few words to the officers and soldiers?" Chongzhen nodded, got up and came to the stage, looking at the mighty army below, his young faces were full of excitement and excitement, and his eyes were both awe and hope.

He shouted loudly: "Thank you for your hard work, soldiers of Yongwei Camp!"

The cavalry dismounted and knelt on one knee with the infantrymen, and said in unison: "See the Lord!"

Chongzhen waved his hand to ask them to get up, and Sun Yingyuan and other generals quickly signaled everyone to get up and wait for the officers and soldiers to stand up again.

Chongzhen continued to say loudly: "You are my personal army, a brave army that can only fight in the Ming Dynasty! You come from all parts of the Ming Dynasty, some are from Liaodong, some are from Xuanda, some are from Shaanxi, some are from Henan, and some are from other places! In the current Ming Dynasty, there are bandits rampant inside and Jianlu are in danger outside. Some of you, some of you, were killed by your relatives, your family was destroyed, or your home was destroyed, your family was lost, you were left home.

The originally stable life was destroyed by the war! Who caused all this? It was the bandits and Jiannu! It was them who killed your parents, brothers and sisters! It was them who destroyed the fields you were about to harvest! Therefore, only by completely destroying the bandits and Jiannu, can you and the people of the Ming Dynasty live a safe and good life! I hope you can speed up your training. In the near future, I will send you out of the capital to sweep the illegal people in the world and avenge your relatives!”

The officers and soldiers in the audience listened quietly, and there was no scene of the passionate and slogans in later TV series, which made Chongzhen a little embarrassed. He knew that he had never experienced such a big scene and his eloquence was average, so he could only try his best to express what he thoughts.

He continued to sing: "I promise you here that anyone who bravely kills the enemy will burn 100 taels of silver! Twenty acres of Yongye land will be given to his family forever, and fifty taels of silver will be given to the disabled, and fifty taels of silver will be given to the permanent land of Yongye land, and ten acres of Yongye land will be given to you forever! Local governments will come to visit and condolences every New Year's Day! I want to choose a place in the capital to build a temple of Martyrs, and all those who sacrifice for the country will go to the temple to enjoy worship. The Ming Dynasty will not perish! After I returned to the palace, I issued an order to promulgate the world. I cannot let the loyal people shed blood and cry! I swear to the heaven and never break my word!" After speaking, Zhu Zhenqing became excited and his tone became passionate.

In this generation of extremely shortage of money, poor families can see few taels of silver a year. The common people have a family of four, and even if they have more than ten taels of silver a year, they are considered wealthy. The emperor can give out so much silver rewards and there are also fields that will be exempted from taxes for generations. Many of the officers and soldiers in the audience are orphans, and their parents, brothers and sisters die in the war. At that time, people were most afraid of being buried if they die, and no one would sacrifice them. Now the emperor said that building temples and worshiping is endless every year, so he is not afraid of becoming a lonely ghost. It is worth it to be sold to the emperor!

The officers and soldiers in the front row of the audience were close to the emperor, so every word was heard. As soon as Chongzhen finished speaking, the officers and soldiers in the front row knelt down on their knees, some blushed, some cried bitterly, and some neighed. As Chongzhen's words were known to all the officers and soldiers, there were no soldiers standing below the audience, and everyone knelt down and kowtowed, and the crying sounded throughout the school ground. Everyone on the stage was also infected by the fanatical atmosphere and were all bowing to the ground behind Chongzhen. Sun Yingyuan and three other generals were both excited and excited. Following such a wise king, even if they were wrapped in a horse's body, it would be a waste of their life.

Chongzhen raised his hands and asked the officers and soldiers to get up, but no one respected the order. The officers and soldiers were in a state of fanaticism and could not calm down for a long time. After a long time, at the command of the people on the stage, the officers and soldiers stood up and stood up, with tears still on their faces.

Chongzhen was also very excited. Perhaps in a while, many of these simple soldiers would sleep under the ground, while others would be disabled for life. But it is precisely because some people dare to sacrifice that more people can live and work in peace and contentment.

Thinking of this, his eyes were slightly moist, and he was excited. He was afraid that he would choke up when he spoke, so he bowed and bowed deeply to the officers and soldiers below the stage. The officers and soldiers were all stunned. After reacting, they bowed to the ground again. The people on the stage quickly knelt down, and Sun Yingyuan and others were also moved. Huang Degong couldn't help but straighten his upper body, clenched his right fist, and raised it up and shouted loudly: "I wish to die as the emperor!"
Chapter completed!