Zhao Ming asked someone to release the news that he wanted to win the position of King of Han, so he no longer paid attention to the envoys of the Tang and Lu vassals.

Now the two vassals are in Jiangxi, and the war situation is still unclear. Whether it is Zhu Yihai or Zhu Youjian, they will try their best to win him over.

Therefore, Zhao Ming naturally wanted a lion to have a big mouth. Zhu Youjian and Zhu Yihai used the Wing King and the King of Yue to fool him, so he would not do it.

Now, Zhao Ming is not in a hurry anyway, it depends on how the Tang and Lu vassals react.

Zhao Ming was in the palace and discussed with everyone for a while to understand the current situation, so he ordered the government officials to prepare.

First, arrange materials and accept refugees; second, train large troops, prepare military funds and prepare for war.

Outside Hangzhou City, the Wu Yue Army Camp was built.

Zhao Ming stayed in Liaodong for nearly a year and a half. After training, the soldiers he recruited had gradually formed combat power.

As soon as Zhao Ming returned to Hangzhou, he came to the new military camp to inspect the results and see if the new army can take on a great responsibility in the subsequent war.

At this time, a huge exercise was being held on the school grounds in the south suburbs of Hangzhou. The soldiers of the Five Army of Wu and Yue showed their style to King Zhao Ming of Wu and the people of Zhejiang.

Previously, Zhao Ming had less than 100,000 troops under his command, but when the Ming Dynasty was in conflict, Zhao Ming incorporated Zhejiang troops and annexed Li Guo's army, obtained more than 100,000 troops, and then recruited 100,000 troops. Now a total of 300,000 troops were present.

Among them, the elite combat soldiers, including the five armies in the front, back, left and right, and the navy divisions, totaling 180,000, and the remaining are the prefectures and counties.

So many people wear cotton armor and iron armor. Even if Wu and Yue are rich, they cannot afford it. Of course, they cannot create so many iron armor and cotton armor.

Therefore, most of the new army was equipped with gray military coats and large-brimmed hats, dressed in modern military style, with only a small number of them wearing iron armor.

Zhao Ming actually wanted to modernize it completely, but there were still defects in the power and quality of firearms, so in the army, relatively some cold weapon troops must be retained to make up for the defects of firearms.

At this time, on the reading stand, Zhao Ming was wearing a big dress, and many generals around him followed suit, getting military uniforms and horse boots. He was dressed in a very bright outfit, energetic and majestic.

Below the school ground, nearly 20,000 Wu Yue soldiers were dressed neatly, equipped with brand new flintlock rifles and shiny bayonets to conduct queue drills.

The 20,000 soldiers were divided into dozens of square formations, with neat steps, horizontal and vertical lines, bayonets were undulating through the reviewing stand in sequence, and the cannons dragged by war horses were all lined up, which looked extremely deterrent and shocking.

Outside the school grounds, Zhejiang people gathered and didn't go out much, so my aunt, Liang and his wife also came to join in the fun.

They looked at the heroic soldiers under the support of their military uniforms and couldn't help but smile and talked red, and were surprised. Why didn't they think that these soldiers were so energetic and so upright before?

The scholar shook his head and exclaimed, "It's really a tiger running for the powerful team!"

"It is our blessing to be such a powerful army!" The merchants also sighed.

After the 20,000 soldiers were arranged neatly, they stood on the school ground. Zhao Ming stood on the platform with red flags waving and immediately gave a speech.

After a long discussion, the generals in the audience took the lead, and tens of thousands of soldiers applauded at the same time.

Zhao Ming then raised his hand and said loudly, "The Lone King announced that the exercise will begin!"

At this moment, 20,000 soldiers began to conduct exercises according to their military branches.

Nowadays, there are the most musketeers in the Wu Yue army, with thousands of musketeers standing on the school ground, practicing the changes in horizontal formations and hollow square formations, and then placing guns and volleys.

In the era of cold weapons, the infantry had many battle formations and were very complicated. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Sun Bin gathered the achievements of his ancestors and summarized the ancient formations before the Spring and Autumn Period into ten formations. Later, many formations evolved from dynasties, such as the Six Flower Formation of the Tang Dynasty, the Split Formation of the Song Dynasty, and Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation.

It is very difficult to practice these formations. It often takes one or two years for an army to master one formation skillfully, let alone master multiple formations at the same time.

The army of this cold weapon has complex training, long cycles, and is not easy to supplement.

Now, 70% of the Wu and Yue army are musketeers, and they basically only need to master two formations, namely horizontal formations and square formations.

These two types of military formations, which are relatively simple to form a large array of swords, shields, spears, bows, crossbows, cavalry and other troops. When musketeers want to exert their maximum firepower, they will arrange them into horizontal formations and then fire their guns in a volley. When they are raided by enemy cavalry, they will form hollow square formations to defend.

With these two formations, combined with our own artillery and cavalry, it is basically enough to deal with many situations.

After the musketeers practiced, artillery soldiers joined in to practice fast maneuvers, as well as infantry and artillery coordination, and finally, grenadiers, cavalry, and other armies practiced.

However, it was not all firearm soldiers. There was also a 2,000-man infantry on the school ground, wrapped in iron armor, wearing this iron mask on his face, waving a one-person-high horizontal sword to perform the exercise.

They walked in like a wall, and at the same time they waved the big knife in their hands to cut off the wooden stakes as thick as their arms in front of them, which was particularly shocking.

Zhao Ming looked at the muskets line filled with smoke and the exercises of other military advisors, and couldn't help but nod, saying to Ruan Mei: "Governor Ruan, the new army soldiers are well trained, and I think they can be used!"

When Ruan Mei heard the words, she couldn't help but say joyfully: "Brothers from the front army have made great contributions outside the pass. I am in the rear and I am envious. If this war begins, I would like to ask Your Highness to give the soldiers of the rear army a chance to lead them to make achievements for Your Highness."

Wang Yi said immediately, "Your Highness, if the war begins, the soldiers of the Central Army Camp will be willing to die for You."

Tang Tong next to him couldn't help but say, "The responsibility of the rear army is to ensure the rear of the army, and the central army must protect the safety of His Highness. It's better for our left army to be the vanguard!"

Seeing this, Zhao Ming couldn't help but waved his hand, "Okay! Don't fight, I will give you some advice!"

Several people immediately bowed and clasped their fists, "Please make a decision!"

Zhao Ming smiled and said, "In the current exercise, although the soldiers are in line with neat queues and familiar with the changes in equipment and military formations, they are all based on the review process and the training structure. On the battlefield, they will not follow the process."

Zhao Ming looked at everyone and said, "When you wait for the four armies at the left and right, you can choose a battalion of soldiers, demarcate the area, and engage in battle. Whoever wins will be the vanguard!"

Ruan Mei and others looked at each other, their eyes sparked with sparks, and they clasped their fists, "I obey your arrangements!"

Although he looked good, he was just performing the show, but for Zhao Ming, who has been through a long battle and is used to killing, he is actually just a fancy and is not satisfied at all.
Chapter completed!