During this trip to Zunhua, Portugal's special envoy Schvira was destined to be shocked and stupid. He was just shocked by the team outside Zunhua City that was so shocked that he could not speak. When he saw Zunhua City, he was shocked again: "Oh, the one who bought cakes, this, this, this, another big city with more than one million people!"

It is just a big city with more than one million people. In modern times, it is just a small city, but that era was different. At that time, there were less than ten big cities with more than one million people in the world. Schvira was well-informed, but the city of a million people he had seen, including Zunhua, only three, one Jinling, one Beijing, and the other was this Zunhua City, all of which were the cities of the Ming Dynasty!

Why did he see at a glance that Zunhua City is a big city with a population of millions? It is actually very simple, because he can see the city wall two or three miles away from the city wall, but at such a long distance, he couldn't see the turns on both sides of the city wall. This shows that the city wall on this side is at least ten miles long, so what is it that a big city with a population of millions?

When he entered the city wall, he was shocked again. It was not because there was the old city wall of Zunhua City inside. The capital was also divided into the inner city and the outer city. There was even the imperial city inside the inner city and the Forbidden City inside the imperial city. Therefore, the two-story walls did not surprise him. What surprised him was that there were neat military camps between the inner city and the outer city! How many troops could it take to fill it up!

Earl Shiweila was shocked and a little demented today. Zhu Cijing stopped irritating him and said nothing all night. The next morning, Zhu Cijing led a group of followers, generals and Zheng Chenggong to the city gate tower at the north gate of Zunhua City outside the city to review the military's training.

Participating in the inspection were Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Shi Kefa's Second Imperial Guard Corps. A total of 200,000 troops were in the first place, and there was nothing to say about this. As long as you line up in a square formation for one or two hours every day, you can basically practice neatly in just a month.

Zhu Cijing looked at the array drill casually and did not make any comments. At this time, Shi Weila began to mutter in his heart. He heard that these troops were all against rebels. According to European standards, the rebels were only tens of thousands of people at most. So many troops could definitely be easily wiped out. In such a battle that would win the battle, he could send hundreds of troops to help and show it so that he could win the favor of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

There was so many army arrays that could not be completed for a while. He couldn't help but want to show his desire, so he ran to Zhu Cijing and asked carefully: "Your Majesty, I heard that your army is preparing to fight against the rebels. I wonder how many rebels in the Ming Dynasty are. Do you need the cooperation of Weichen's subordinates?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing asked curiously: "How many people do you have?"

Schvira said proudly: "I have three or four hundred people under my command, all of them are elite musketeers."

Zhu Cijiu almost couldn't hold back his laughter when he heard this. Three or four hundred people went to play with Hou Jin, you are joking with me internationally! He resisted the urge to hilariously and said truthfully: "Then forget it. Although there are not many rebels in the north of the Ming Dynasty, there are still 300,000 to 400,000. Your 3000 people will not have any effect."

Thirty to four hundred thousand! Schvira's face changed so scared. What a joke? Is that a 300 thousand or four hundred thousand still called a rebel? The strongest country in the European continent has only 300,000 to four hundred thousand troops!

He wiped the cold sweat from his head and went back obediently. As for the matter of sending troops to help, he couldn't even think about it. His three or four hundred people were not enough to use them as cannon fodder.

Next is the joint practice of infantry and artillery. This time, the Liaodong regained the battle, Zhu Cijiu prepared to bring 800 cannons. Several legions in Liaodong could not transport the cannons because the road was blocked by ice and snow, so he simply distributed all the 800 cannons to the Tianxiong Army and the First Corps of the Imperial Guards.

It's only the first month of the year, and the cannons have only made more than 200, so the scene is not very spectacular, which didn't shock Schvira.

At the beginning, the drill was fixed-point shelling, which means that some circles were marked with lime at a distance of hundreds of steps, and then the artillery bombarded one by one. This was mainly about the accuracy of the drill. Seeing that the shells fell into a circle of about two meters in diameter, Zhu Cijing finally nodded with satisfaction. At this time, Schweila was shocked again. It was obviously the shells fired by the same artillery, so why could it be shot into circles with different distances and directions? Moreover, the adjustment speed of the artillery was quite fast, basically every two minutes!

He really couldn't understand this, because the artillery at that time had no angle and direction adjustment system, so it was not impossible to adjust the firing distance and direction. It had to manually push the base of the artillery and put something under the barrel. An experienced gunner could achieve the accuracy he saw just now, but the adjustment time was definitely more than five minutes, unlike the Ming Dynasty artillery, which only had two minutes to adjust and fire!

He wanted to use Zheng Chenggong's telescope to see what was going on, but he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor would be unhappy. This was probably the military secret of the Ming Empire, so he did not dare to investigate it casually.

In fact, Zhu Cijiu did not feel anything great about the angle and orientation adjustment system. You should know that the artillery in later generations can be adjusted. The worst ones are equipped with hand-cranked wheels and very fine scales. As long as there are parameters for shooting elements, grab the wheel and shake it hard for a few times. It is very convenient. High-end ones are even more amazing. They are all automatically adjusted with servo motors. As long as the parameters are input, the barrel can be automatically adjusted in place!

As Schvira's hesitation, the exercise continued, and the next was the joint attack of infantry and artillery. The method was similar to that of Zhu Cijing's military parade in Victory Square. A bunch of wooden models were placed opposite him, first with a bombardment, and then with a intensive wavy fire of the flintlock rifle.

Seeing the continuous barrage, Schvira couldn't stand any longer. He ran to Zhu Cijing and asked in surprise: "Your Majesty, how could the fire speed of this musket be so fast? How could it be that the muskets of the Dutch and the British were not so fast!"

Zhu Cijing said calmly: "Look at the exercise first, let's talk about it after the exercise is over."

Upon hearing this, Schvira had no choice but to retreat helplessly and the exercise continued.

But even Zhu Cijiu was scared in the next exercise. What was going on? On one side were a hundred cannons and thousands of spearmen, and on the other side were tens of thousands of cavalrymen! These shells and bullets were not eye-catching. If you really use cavalry to rush, it would be a heavy casualty!

Seeing that the two sides were gathering and attacking each other, Zhu Cijiu couldn't sit still. He stood up and shouted: "Lu Xiangsheng, what are you doing? This is not a real battlefield. If you arrange this way, many people will die!"

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he hurried to Zhu Cijing and saluted respectfully: "Your Majesty, the shells and bullets are specially made and cannot kill anyone."

Zhu Cijing asked in surprise: "What's the difference between special ones?"

Lu Xiangsheng continued to reply: "Your Majesty, the shells are all stone bullets the size of eggs, and the bullets are hollow and cannot kill anyone."

Damn, is it enough to not be beaten to death? Zhu Cijiong said angrily: "That's not possible. If you are not careful, you will be seriously injured or even disabled. If you do this, how many people will be reduced at a time? Is there anyone who practices like this?"

Lu Xiangsheng continued to explain: "Don't worry, the cavalry and war horses are all wearing new double-layer armor and new shields. They will not be seriously injured, and at most they will be scratched with some skin."

Zhu Cijing then remembered that he had already started to manufacture new armor and shields before the New Year, which was also part of the military reform.

The new armor is actually a combination of soft armor and chain mail. Before there is a punch and a rolling machine, the manufacturing of chain mail is very complicated. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to forge the iron block into thin cast iron sheets. With a punch and a rolling machine, it is different. First roll some thin steel plates out, and then use a punch to punch. At that speed, one punch can punch out thousands of chain mail pieces a day, and it is thin, light and has a higher strength than the cast iron sheet. The matter behind it is simpler. There are two small holes on the armor sheet, and then make a few rows of holes on the soft armor of cooked cowhide and directly sew the armor sheets. These ordinary civilians can do it.

The new shield is simpler. Just use the thin steel plate to make some fried scoop-style shell, and then insert thicker wooden boards inside. They are light and strong, and it is not difficult to wave with one hand.

Thinking of the performance of these shields and armor, Zhu Cijing finally breathed a sigh of relief. He waved his hand and sat down, signaling the exercise to continue.

Lu Xiangsheng then raised his hand, and the guards on the city wall waved the flag. Ten thousand cavalry below lined up in neat formations and began to charge. As soon as they rushed to about five hundred steps away from the musketeers, "boom boom boom" a roar of artillery, and the shotguns were covered like dark clouds.

The horse's cavalry immediately put their heads close to the horse's neck, then raised their shields to protect the human head and above the horse's head.

After a series of "Ding Ding Dangdang" sounds, no one fell off the horse, but more than half of the cavalry began to take the initiative to slow down and exit the battlefield. If they looked closely, they had a lot of red paint on their bodies. It turned out that red paint was also applied to the stone bullet. This was an exercise. If there was a key hit by the stone bullet, they had to take the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, indicating that they had been killed.

The remaining half of the men had just rushed to about two hundred steps away from the spearmen. The flintlock spear opened fire, and it was difficult to block it. If you blocked the front with a shield, you would be invisible. If you rush around with your head covering, you wouldn't know where you would rush to. So people kept getting shot on their faces, bruised noses and swollen faces were light, and there were many people with bloody heads. Slowly, most of the cavalry automatically slowed down and withdrew from the battlefield.

The musketeers retreated in rows of waves. When the cavalry rushed to the front row only about fifty steps, all the musketeers stood up at the same time, quickly installed bayonets and rushed forward. At this time, there were only a few hundred cavalry left, and they were soon surrounded by musketeers. Of course, they would not really stab the bayonets. At this point, the exercise would be over.

Zhu Cijiu stood up again and said with satisfaction: "Yeah, very good. Judging from the effect of the exercise, the Tianxiong Army can fight and win against 100,000 Jiannu cavalry alone. Keep working hard. I hope you can truly defeat 100,000 Jiannu cavalry on the battlefield."
Chapter completed!