Let’s not mention the thoughts of the tribes on the grassland for the time being.
As soon as Ding Hongguang from Yunzhou County received the news from Wang Huaien that the prince wanted to report a Yunzhou Army military parade in half a month, he immediately found Guan Ning.
The two current generals in Yunzhou County immediately made arrangements to spread the news to the entire army in Yunzhou County.
The Yunzhou Army has a total strength of 300,000 people. Currently, 100,000 of them are attacking the Japanese city. I just received news a few days ago that the Japanese Guanbai mobilized 300,000 people immediately after the Yunzhou Army captured Nagasaki. Establish defenses in the Shanguofan area.
Three hundred thousand people gathered together to prepare for a decisive battle with the Yunzhou Army, which was heading north.
And all the troops of the Yunzhou Army who landed in the Japanese country finally gathered together.
In addition to the 50,000 Yunhui and Yunyao troops, plus the 100,000 menial troops and 300,000 poisonous servants recruited from the grasslands, a total of 500,000 people also arrived at Shanguo Fan.
The battle between the two sides is about to break out. If the Yunzhou Army wins, then the Yunzhou Army can march straight ahead all the way to Shijian.
The Japanese side will not be able to gather another half million troops for at least half a year.
These 500,000 were already composed of the 250,000 troops that Guan Bai of the current Japanese state had recruited from various vassals of the Japanese state, plus his own army of 250,000.
It can be directly said that Guan Bai has devoted all the strength of the Japanese country to fight this island defense battle.
However, the Yunzhou Army is full of confidence in this.
Forget about the 300,000 poisonous servants, they are just making up the numbers.
But as for the Japanese army of 500,000, not to mention the Yunzhou Army, there are also 100,000 elite Tatar cavalry as auxiliary troops.
Just their own two armies are enough to take care of them.
They are fully armored!
How many of the 500,000 people on the other side are wearing iron armor?
How many people are wearing cloth or leather armor?
If these add up to 5,000 people, it is already considered too much.
Hitting them is just like playing!
But in the military parade half a month later, Yunhui Army and Yun Yao Army will definitely not be able to participate.
Therefore, the candidates for the military parade square could only select elites from the remaining upper four armies, Yun Ting and Yun Xiang, as well as the two lower armies, Yunjiang and Yunhe armies.
The first person to be selected must be the infantryman Fangzheng. A square formation plus two leaders equals 352 people.
There will be a phalanx of twenty-five people in a row, a total of fourteen rows, for the parade.
And for the sake of the reputation of these 352 people, almost all the remaining infantry in Yunzhou County's 200,000 army are going to lose their minds.
In the end, Ding Hongguang personally stepped forward and selected 350 infantrymen with a height of about 5 feet 1 and the best combat achievements to form the first square formation.
The two commanders really fought with their fists.
For the position of commander of the first phalanx, these guys directly reported an officer competition without telling Ding Hongguang and other superior officials, and the first and second place got these two places.
Although the first and second two men all had injuries on their faces in the end, they smiled extremely happily. The officers who saw the defeat secretly gritted their teeth and vowed that they would beat the two of them with teeth everywhere next time!
Make them laugh so happily!
The second square formation is undoubtedly the shield soldiers.
The shield soldiers are much simpler. Due to the characteristics of the Yunzhou Army, which is always more offensive than defensive, there are not many shield soldiers in the Yunzhou Army. It is not easy to find 350 shield soldiers with the same height. It wasn't easy, but I managed to get it together, but there wasn't much trouble. The others could only blame themselves for not being tall enough, or not having as many battle achievements as they did.
The two team leaders were not as fierce as the infantry, and they got the position of team leader with almost no serious injuries. This made the infantry leader who had worked so hard to get the team leader's position feel itchy to the teeth!
In response to this, the leader of the shield soldiers smiled extremely happily, just like the infantry leader just now.
Then came the spearmen, archers, and crossbowmen.
After all the infantry units appeared, the final cavalry appeared.
The first to appear was the cavalry unit composed of mercenaries from the local Tatar tribe in Yunzhou County.
They wore leather armor, and occasionally some wealthy people could wear iron armor.
Then there was the cavalry formation formed by the Tatar grassland soldiers, but they were all leather armor, and only the leader was in iron armor.
Finally, there are the light armored cavalry and the last heavy armored cavalry in the Yunzhou Army.
The phalanxes of each branch of the army selected their own phalanx after an extremely fierce selection. Then they seized the time of half a month to start training hard, only waiting for the military parade to arrive in half a month.
As the news of the military parade spread wider and wider, people from all over Yunzhou County who wanted to see the military parade gradually gathered in Yunzhou City.
This has also led to the recent increase in the flow of people in Yunzhou City.
When Zhao Duan went out to drink tea in the tea house in the morning, he found that there were many more people on the street than when he came before, and many inns were starting to be full.
Some local people in Yunzhou City who are business-minded directly rent out their empty rooms to earn rent. They are indeed business-minded.
As the time approached, Zhao Duan was even more surprised to find that there were not only more and more Song people in Yunzhou City, but also more and more Tatars.
It turned out that delegations from various ministries on the Tatar grassland began to gradually arrive.
Originally, according to the habits of these Tatar tribes, their arrival would definitely cause trouble in Yunzhou City.
But what surprised Zhao Duan was that he once saw that the Song people in Yunzhou City were not afraid of the fierce-looking Tatars, but they often looked at them sideways, making these Tatars feel like eating. All the people in Yunzhou City looked down upon them.
And these fierce Tatars are surprisingly honest in this environment where everyone is rolling their eyes. Even though they are despised by these people, they still show a flattering smile to others.
Zhao Duan sometimes suspected that if he hadn't known that the patrolling Wuhou in Yunzhou County were fairer, and that as long as they made trouble, they didn't care whether you were from the Song Dynasty or not. The Tatars only distinguished between right and wrong, regardless of race.
I am afraid that these Song people are about to let these Tatars lick the soles of their shoes, and judging from the performance of these Tatars, they may really lick them without hesitation.
In this regard, Zhao Duan was very curious as to why such a phenomenon occurred.
So he stopped the vendor buying candied haws.
Just now he saw with his own eyes a Tatar who was obviously a tribal nobleman buying candied haws from the vendor. The arrogant expression on the vendor's face almost made him want to punch him twice. The Tatar nobleman still licked his face and smiled at the hawker, and finally left quickly with a look of disdain on the hawker's face.
So he asked: "Brother? That was a Tatar just now. If you treat him like that, aren't you afraid that he will get angry and hurt you?"
Unexpectedly, the hawker looked Zhao Duan up and down and asked: "Uncle, are you not from Yunzhou County? You just came to Yunzhou County recently?"
Zhao Duan said in surprise: "How do you know?"
The hawker suddenly showed a proud expression and said: "Of course I know that if you were from Yunzhou County, you wouldn't ask this question.
These Tatars are just paper tigers, there is no need to be afraid of them!
If the prince hadn't been kind and gave them a way to survive, they would have been killed by our Yunzhou Army a few years ago.
A group of defeated generals, what is there to be afraid of!
As long as they are honest in Yunzhou City, believe it or not, as long as they dare to hurt one of our Song people in Yunzhou City!
Tomorrow the prince will dare to let them be exterminated!
How dare these mere barbarians run wild in our Yunzhou City? !
We don’t need to look good on them at all! "
Seeing the confidence on the vendor's face and his straight back, Zhao Duan felt a little shocked for some reason.
He felt that although the hawker in front of him was just selling candied haws, he had something that even the Song people in the pass did not have, even the officials.
And this thing is owned by all Song people in Yunzhou City!
That's a kind of pride!
A kind of soul!
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(End of chapter)
