The day after Zhang Chengye arrived, Li Yan specially convened all the seven battalions of Shamen Town Army to conduct a military parade and exercise, and asked Zhang Chengye to review. On the field of the Shamen Island Colonel, the bricks and stones in the north were piled up on the stage with a high point. Li Yan and Zhang Chengye appeared on the stage with a smile on his face. As soon as he came, Li Yan was willing to give 100,000 tributes to the emperor. In Zhang Chengye's view, this is not only Li Yan's loyalty to the emperor, but also Li Yan's strong support for him as the military supervisor.

Generally, there are always some conflicts between the military supervisor and the generals who commanded the troops, especially before coming, he knew that Li Yan was still a young man, but had just won several big victories. Not only was Cui Yunqing's favorite student, but he was still a young general under the guise of the Jishou Song Wei. He thought he would be a proud general. Unexpectedly, at first sight, Li Yan was so easy to talk and so generous, which made him lose his vigilance and defense towards Li Yan in his heart.

"Please order the review by the military supervisor!" Li Guan politely told Zhang Chengye.

Zhang Chengye shook his head, and he chuckled, "Our family is just stationed in the army on behalf of the emperor, comforting the soldiers, and informing the soldiers of their loyalty and courage. As for the specific matters of commanding the troops in this army, we dare not exceed the authority, so let General Li come."

Seeing that Zhang Chengye did not want to intervene in military affairs, Li Guan was very satisfied. What he was afraid of was that the military supervisors relied on their identity as military affairs, intervened in military affairs, pointed at each other, and commanded randomly. As long as Zhang Chengye did not intervene in military affairs, everything else would be easy to say. Li Guan winked at the messenger behind him, and the messenger immediately waved the flag. Then, a short while, everyone on the generals heard the sound of footsteps. The rumbling sound came, neatly and rhythmically.

Listening to the uniform rhythm of footsteps, Zhang Chengye couldn't help but exclaim, and was very surprised. Suddenly he took a deep breath and saw a neat army coming from east to south of the school ground. With countless footsteps, smoke and dust spread everywhere, covering the troops and horses, making them even more powerful. In the neat steps, a group of soldiers were moving like a moving copper wall and iron wall. They were running in front, all of them were covered with iron helmets and armor, and they were covered with red battle robes. They were holding a square iron shield with a tiger-head pattern in their hands, holding an eight-foot spear in one hand, clamped under their armpits, and a two-foot long edge was slanted towards the sky.

The clanging sound of a piece of iron armor rubbing. The steps are surprisingly listed.

These iron armored soldiers are soldiers of the Sword Capital. Behind them is still a neat iron armor array, but these iron armored soldiers are double thick armor, full-covered surface armor, each with a tall and burly height of more than six feet. The bear waist and tiger backs are like moving small iron mountains. They all carry a shiny snow-shaped sword on their shoulders, with a long sharp edge like snow. This is a group of steel-armed giant beasts, with the thickest armor and the strongest minions. Just looking at these strange swords and iron armor is enough to make people tremble.

Zhang Chengye is not unaware of the world. He used to walk around the palace and saw many of the Shen Ce imperial guards. Compared with the soldiers in front of him, there were also Mo Dao soldiers in the imperial guards, and even better equipped than those of Li Guan. However, when he was walking, he had never seen the momentum of the soldiers in front of him. This was a murderous aura, a momentum of moving forward and breaking his opponents on the battlefield, which was incomparable to the officials and playboys in the palace.

Then, the sword and shield jumping soldiers entered the battlefield neatly. The sword and shield soldiers were round shields with one hand and horizontal swords with the other, and some were holding battle axes and warhammers. They were wearing light leather armor and were generally much shorter than Mo Dao Dao, but although they were smaller, they also accumulated a momentum of iron blood. When the sword and shield soldiers walked, they always half folded the round shield on their chests and advanced defensively.

The crossbowmen behind them were much more relaxed. These crossbowmen were always behind or in the formation on the battlefield, protected by surprises and cavalrymen, so they didn't have to worry too much about themselves. All they had to do was to bow and shoot arrows nervously. Except for the opponent's archers who could attack them, they didn't have much worry. A set of leather armor, a battle robe, a bow and a crossbow, two pots of arrows, and a horizontal knife outside. The archers marched quickly.

Zhang Chengye was very surprised when he saw this. When he was in Qingzhou, he was a military commander and also brought a 500-man guard. Although it was just a military commander, he had already led the troops, so he naturally knew how much effort it would take to achieve the appearance of the soldier in front of Li Guan. Many people rumored that Li Guan defeated Feng Zhang first by ambush, and the second by that mysterious fire. But now he knew that it was inevitable that Li Guan could win.

His eyes lit up and he whispered to Li Guan next to him: "What a soldier!"

These soldiers were strong and well-equipped. Such good equipment made him sigh at the cost of Li Yanshe. But it was not enough to have weapons and armor alone. In terms of equipment, the 150,000 troops of the Shen Ce Army were just better equipped than Li Yan's army. The key is the soldiers. These soldiers are young and strong, especially each queue is basically the same height and uniform. The heroic spirit revealed between the eyebrows and the muscles bulging under the battle robe all indicate that this is a real army.

Just after several square formations entered the school ground, a sudden thunder sounded, and dust rose up in the rumbling sound of thunder, and a cavalry arrived quickly.

The four-foot war horses, six-foot cavalry, three-foot sabers, eight-foot cavalry and spears, and the three cavalry among the three camps of the Black Bear Camp, the Green Wolf Camp and the Flying Eagle Camp were all galloping, and a total of six hundred cavalry gathered together and galloped like thousands of horses galloping, and waves emerged.

All the Liaodong war horses were tall and agile, and they were paired with young and brave warriors, with iron helmets and light armor, sabers and rifles. Speed ​​was their strength, and charge was their verdict. It was like a wave, and even more like a whirlwind. They entered the field quickly, and then quickly turned around and slowed down amid the iron whistle. In a moment, they had already formed a formation on the open space of the school ground.

Zhang Chengye saw toughness, bravery, and self-confidence. Such soldiers were too rare. In Chang'an, the Shen Ce army only saw domineering. When he arrived in Qingzhou, he saw more arrogance, while some soldiers he saw in Dengzhou were numb. Now he saw the soldiers in Shamen Town, which were completely different. The army had military spirits. If you look at the spirit and morale of a army, you can know what the background of this army and their generals were.

He now felt that the army's spirit in front of him was enterprising and confident and brave.

There were several other battalions behind him entering the schoolyard one after another, even medical care, logistics, and engineering soldiers entering. But Zhang Chengye no longer needed to look at it anymore, he could already feel the elite of this army.

Although he knew that Shamen Town originally had only 300 soldiers, but after being upgraded to the town shortly after, with the addition of the second fort and nine garrisons, there were only 2,000 soldiers. However, today the number of soldiers entered the school yard to participate in the inspection has reached more than 7,000. This number has increased by three and a half times. He is a military supervisor, and this super-soldier matter is under his control. But he just smiled and didn't say much.

The elite army of Li Guan was obviously not formed in one day. But he didn't want to care about these things. As long as Li Guan was loyal to the court, what would it matter if there were more soldiers? Anyway, he would not take the court's money, food and military pay. Besides, at this time, the generals who led the army either had empty salary or even had a false reputation, but they were often decayed in the camp, and less than two or three of them could really count. This is the case in the wealthy places in Jiangnan. Or, just like Li Guan, expanding troops to buy horses often means two or three times the actual number of soldiers. These have long become common practices. Anyone with a little ambition holds the troops in his hands, and the court is unable to control it.

The soldiers of the Seventh Battalion conducted a drill on the school ground, which was some array demonstrations. Then the surprise soldiers practiced the shield formation, and the swords and shield soldiers jumped and fought back, and fought in close combat. The crossbow soldiers conducted an archery exercise on the spot. Several of the best archery team leaders also performed several sets of fancy archery techniques, such as piercing through the poplars and money holes, which attracted a lot of cheers. Of course, the most exciting thing was the cavalry's horse chopping the scarecrows immediately, with the horse galloping, and the horse's swords sharp. The heads of the scarecrows were cut off one by one, which attracted Zhang Chengye's admiration.

After the drill, Zhang Chengye asked, "I heard that there is a fleet in the town, why not show it together?"

"There were also people who came to the field to practice for the military supervisor just now, so you even shouted loudly." Li Yan said with a smile.

"What we are talking about is not that, I am talking about the fleet in Zhendonghai."

Li Guan was stunned for a moment, not knowing why Zhang Chengye suddenly mentioned this matter, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Zhang Chengye smiled relaxedly and said, "General, don't be surprised. Since we are already the military supervisor in the town, we will be one in the future. The matter of the East China Sea was mentioned to Zhang Wanrong's military supervisor in person, saying that General Li Guan successfully recruited the pirates and asked the military supervisor to report to the court on his behalf to give them a place. Before I came, the court had already responded, and the matter was fully decided by the military supervisor in Zhang and the military supervisor in Song Jie. The two of them handed over the matter to me again and said that they would take them to Shamen Town."

He smiled at Li Yan, "Song Jieshuai and Zhang Jianjun are very relieved about the general."

When Li Guan heard about this, he had already responded and was overjoyed. He had already mentioned the matter of recruitment with Huang Huzi and others. Anyway, Zhendonghai has basically become the non-staff fleet of Shamen Town. They have no objection to this. It is a good thing to be able to whitewash the land, but they have not found anyone who can be trusted before. In the past, many pirates believed that the official army was recruited and went ashore, but they just lied to them to go ashore to kill and receive merit. Li Guan is a person who has trusted them. If Li Guan could whitewash them, they would naturally be willing.

"I wonder what resettlement method Qingzhou has given?" Li Guan asked.

"Just a group of pirates, how could they get into the eyes of the two husbands? I said that, you will deal with this matter. Anyway, you are the ones you recruited, so you can just give me an official position and place it under your hands." Zhang Chengye narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I guess the general is satisfied now, right?"
Chapter completed!