The chariots are rolling, the horses are rustling, and the soldiers are holding bows and arrows at their waists.
Flags fluttering, hunting with the wind, swords, guns, swords and halberds, the scorching sun shines brightly, but when I look back, I can’t see the Xiaguan Bridge!
When returning to Chang'an this time, Li Xiuning naturally had to act like a princess. As the most powerful princess in the Tang Dynasty, when she was about to enter Chang'an, she put on the princess's clothes and prepared the honor guard of Princess Pingyang.
And Lu Chen was finally able to see Princess Pingyang's honor guard with his own eyes. He had seen this princess's travel honor guard in books or on TV before, but after actually seeing Princess Pingyang's honor guard, Lu Chen felt that The imitations of later generations are all "lite" versions.
But speaking of it, it is estimated that Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning's honor guard should not be regarded as a normal princess honor guard. After all, Li Xiuning is returning to Beijing with an order this time. She even received an imperial edict a few days ago. This time, Li Xiuning's return ceremony directly uses the "Emperor's Guard of Honor" ", and the date of entering the city was chosen to be an auspicious day. Li Yuan would lead the civil and military officials to welcome Li Xiuning back to Chang'an to highlight Li Xiuning's outstanding contributions to the Tang Dynasty. However, Lu Chen estimated that when Li Yuan issued this edict, it was probably There were many battles with the people from the aristocratic family, but in the end they couldn't compete with Li Yuan, not to mention it was just a guard of honor.
The emperor's ceremony was very grand, with a "guide" in front and four carriages clearing the way. Normally there should be eight carriages. However, after all, Li Xiuning is just a princess, so naturally she cannot really be like an emperor. Although she has been given the title "Emperor" "Guard of Honor", but when it comes to Li Xiuning, it will naturally be deleted, but it is enough to be beautiful. The horses pulling the cart are all carefully selected strong horses.
The carriage was followed by the "clearing team" consisting of two teams of cavalry and six teams of infantry. As the name suggests, it cleared the road so that Li Xiuning behind could travel smoothly.
Following the Qingdao team, eight strong infantrymen held high eight colorful flags, four flying phoenix flags and four Qingluan flags. The normal emperor had twelve dragon flags, and then came the special fleet. Of course, these fleets were also Vehicles with symbolic meanings, such as the guide car, the Jili drum car, the egret car, the Luan flag car, the Pi evil car, the Pixuan car, etc. These vehicles are also drawn by four horses, with eight drivers and one craftsman. .
After the guide comes the ceremonial guard. The ceremonial guard is different from the guide. The leader of the ceremonial guard is directly composed of eight rows of cavalry holding horizontal knives, bows and arrows. The guard is followed by a drum band. The main musical instruments are various drums, mainly drums, big drums, cymbals, festival drums, snare drums, Yubao drums, etc., as well as wind instruments such as flute, Xiao, and Jia (also called Hu Jia, a wind instrument of the northern ethnic group) , Changming and Zhongming (both trumpets), Dahengchui (transverse flute), Zhuozhen (wind instrument), etc., as well as percussion instruments such as Jinzheng. The entire band consists of more than 300 people.
At this time, the entire band was only more than ten miles away from Chang'an Chongxuanmen. As the flags swayed, they started playing music directly, and the music played was the "War Drum Beat" taught by Lu Chen these days, but Lu Chen only chose the first two characters and called it "War Drum".
As the rapid drum beat sounded, a feeling of fear and fierceness immediately emerged. Because Li Xiuning didn't like those weak songs, Lu Chen had no choice but to find a "War Drum Beat" player in the base. When the score came out, luckily Lu Chen had some musical training before, so it didn't take much effort to convert it.
As the "War Drums" played, the elegance of the entire honor guard suddenly increased by 30%. The sound of the music spread out, and a chilling atmosphere directly filled the sky.
Those who knew, this was Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning's return to the court, but those who didn't know thought that someone was going to directly attack Chang'an City.
"This song, Military Advisor, is so well written. It makes my blood boil. I want to go directly to the battlefield and charge for a round!" Fang Qi, who was sitting on the horse and riding side by side with Su Dingfang, said with a loud smile.
"Don't talk nonsense! Pay attention to the queue!" Su Dingfang warned Fang Qi.
Although they belong to the rear guard, they are at the forefront of the rear guard. After all, the more than fifty people guarding Wei are cavalry, and everyone has a horse, so they belong to the leading cavalry team.
Behind the band was a flag array consisting of flags, banners and flags. After the flag array were two teams of Feifeng flag and Qingluan flag. When the emperor went on patrol, he carried the Qinglong flag and the White Tiger flag. These two flags The team is also a cavalry team with weapons, guarding the left and right.
After the guide and the driver came the chariot of Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning, a magnificent chariot pulled by four horses. Li Xiuning sat on the chariot, wearing a seven-hair phoenix crown, a light yellow court dress, and gold threads. The embroidered phoenix made Li Xiuning look more graceful and noble. He wore a white fox cloak outside his court clothes. After all, it was already winter. If he didn't keep warm, he would probably freeze to death when he entered the city at this ceremonial speed. Although Luan Jia There is also a charcoal basin on top, but it cannot hold up the air leakage!
There was originally going to be a band after Luanjia, but it was canceled by Li Xiuning. It was enough if someone was playing in the front, but Li Xiuning couldn't stand it when he was still playing in the back, so he directly canceled the rear group and replaced it with the rear group, which was led by the rear group. It's Lu Chen's back guard.
The Beiwei Guards are now regarded as an alternative among the Guards. It is said that they are under the command of Li Xiuning, but the person directly under them is Lu Chen, and Li Xiuning has given the task of close guard to Beiwei when he returns to Beijing. Weiwei.
Behind the Beiwei Guards are Li Xiuning's 3,000 Guards, divided into cavalry and infantry teams. These teams all carry banners with legendary gods and monsters, such as evil spirits, jade horses, yellow dragons, unicorns, dragon horses, three-cornered beasts, Xuanwu, Taurus, etc.
Lu Chen rode on the white fox and couldn't help but look around curiously. Seeing the curious look on Lu Chen's face, Li Xiuning who was sitting in the Luan couldn't help covering her mouth and snickering, because it was rare for Li Xiuning to see Lu Chen like this. He looked like he had never seen the world before.”
Lu Chen naturally saw Li Xiuning's snickering look, and rode up to Li Xiuning's side, "Your Highness, are you cold?" Lu Chen, wrapped like a bear, looked at Li Xiuning and chuckled.
"What do you think!?" Li Xiuning gave Lu Chen a look. Although the Luanjia was equipped with a charcoal basin, she was not wearing thick clothes. She didn't have a cotton-padded jacket at this time, so she relied on the fox fur cloak to keep warm. Activities, can it not be cold?
"This means that the demeanor has no warmth, and if it is beautiful, it will freeze people!" Lu Chen chuckled.
"You!" At this time, Li Xiuning had to maintain the reserved style of the princess. Ever since Lu Chen laughed at her for being a female celebrity that day, this guy has become more aggressive recently. He teased the princess twice, and Li Xiuning could only sigh angrily. He glared at Lu Chen.
"Military advisor, we are almost at the Chongxuan Gate!" Lu Qiuming reminded Lu Chen while Lu Chen was still teasing Li Xiuning.
"Oh!" Lu Chen raised his eyes and looked ahead. The outline of the towering city wall could already be seen vaguely. "Your Highness, go on! You can hold it in your hands or carry it in your arms. It's very warm!" Lu Chen didn't either. Nonsense, he took out a round object from his arms and threw it to Li Xiuning.
When Li Xiuning saw Lu Chen throwing something to her, she hurriedly caught it and held it in her hand for a closer look. In Li Xiuning's opinion, this thing was very exquisitely made. It had a brass shell with patterns carved on it. Li Xiuning held it in his hand. After a while, it became warm.
It's not like Li Xiuning has never seen hand stoves before, but the hand stoves in this era are relatively large. In fact, the charcoal basin on her Luanjia is also a type of hand stove. This shows how big the hand stoves in this era are, and the size is actually about the same size as the charcoal basin. The hand stove that Lu Chen threw to him was actually only the size of a fist, and the temperature was much higher than the charcoal basin.
"He said you can put it in your arms?" Li Xiuning suddenly remembered what Lu Chen reminded her, and tried to put this flat hand stove in her arms. Suddenly, warmth flowed directly through her body, and she felt warm all over her body. .
And Li Xiuning finally understood why Lu Chen could still wear regular clothes in this kind of weather, but the regular clothes were bulging, and the guy Emotion actually had such a good thing in his arms!
"Aye, Third Sister is still about three miles away from the city gate!" Just when Li Xiuning was sitting on the Luanjia and feeling the warmth of the stove, Li Shimin, who was standing next to Li Yuan at the top of the Chongxuanmen city, rushed excitedly. Li Yuan said.
"Yeah!" Li Yuan nodded after hearing Li Shimin's words. He calculated that he had not seen his third daughter for at least three years. Li Yuan squinted and looked ahead hard. At this time, Li Yuan was already nearly sixty years old. , the eyesight is no longer what it used to be. To put it bluntly, he has some presbyopia.
"Is this a newly composed piece by the Music Department?" At this distance, Li Yuan and others could naturally hear clearly the "War Drum" played by the agitation band. The music directly made Li Yuan, Li Shimin and his son a little excited, not to mention the other ones. The generals all felt that this piece of music was very suitable for boosting morale on the battlefield.
"Your Majesty, I haven't heard of any new music from the Da Le Department recently!" The person who saluted Li Yuan in reply was Yu Chigong, who was Taichang Qing at that time, "Besides, there are no new songs reported to the Propaganda Department!"
"Oh!" Hearing Yu Chigong's response, Li Yuan responded lightly, "I'm afraid Xiuning made this song herself?" Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin and said with a smile.
"I don't think Third Sister has this ability!" Li Shimin answered seriously, "When it comes to marching and fighting, I'm afraid not many in the Tang Dynasty can beat Third Sister, but when it comes to singing poems and singing, the knitting girl , Third sister, I'm afraid..." Li Shimin stopped talking at this point, but looked at Li Yuan and smiled bitterly. The meaning was obvious, don't you know that you, the third sister, are your father? How could she be the type to live a quiet life?
