On May 17, Zhu Cixiang took Yuan Guiyueyang to Long live Mountain after breakfast. He wanted to check the recent training situation of the East Palace Guards.

When Zhu Cixiang arrived at Longevity Mountain, Zhou Yuji led the East Palace Guards to have completed the cross-country run. Seeing the arrival of the crown prince, he gave an order:

"Pass this general's order, and the entire army will form a formation to welcome His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"yes"

The members of the East Palace Guards immediately lined up in order under the command of their respective Baihu general flags!

When Zhu Cihong came to the front of the formation, Zhou Yuji immediately stepped forward and bowed to salute:

"See Your Highness!"

More than a thousand members of the East Palace Guard followed Zhou Yuji in bowing and saluting, and at the same time shouted in unison:

"Meet Your Highness!"

These soldiers were all elites selected by Cao Huachun from various teams, and there were also many frontier soldiers among them. After a short period of training, they had begun to look like a strong army.

Looking at the neat array in front of him, Zhu Cixiang nodded with satisfaction. He waved to Zhou Yuji and the guards and said:

"General, no courtesy!"

"Soldiers are exempt from courtesy!"

"Thank you to the Crown Prince for his thousand years!"

After the guards thanked them, they made a "swish" sound and almost fell back to their feet at the same time. Their formation was still neat and orderly!

Zhu Cixiang looked around for a moment, and then said to Zhou Yuji:

"General Zhou, Long Live Mountain is too close to the palace and is not suitable for actual combat drills. I ordered the guards to go to the Yongwei Camp training ground. I want to review the recent training results."

"yes!"

After receiving the order, Zhou Yuji immediately turned around to face the array of guards in the East Palace and loudly ordered:

"Brothers, His Highness has decreed that the whole team should set off immediately to the Yongwei Camp training ground!"

"yes"

More than 1,100 people, led by hundreds of households each, mounted their horses.

Zhu Cixiang gave the order, and the East Palace Guards immediately went to the Yongwei Battalion.

There were frequent military visits in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. A team of more than a thousand people ran through the streets of the capital without attracting much attention. The team soon arrived at the gate of the Yongwei Camp.

Before the guards could come forward to ask questions, Zhou Yuji rode his horse to the camp gate and shouted loudly:

"The Crown Prince has arrived, open the camp gate immediately!"

The guards of the Yongwei Camp saw that the person coming was their general. Just as they were about to step forward to greet him, they heard the Crown Prince arriving. They hurriedly stepped forward to open the camp door and then stood on both sides with bows.

Zhou Yuji waved to the team behind him, and the East Palace Guards immediately entered the Yongwei Camp training ground.

Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan were directing the training of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, when suddenly a group of cavalry rushed into the training ground.

The two of them looked at each other with confusion on their faces. They thought some big shot had come to inspect the Yongwei Camp again.

As the team arrived at the podium where they were, Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan discovered Zhou Yuji and Zhu Cihong, and they hurriedly walked down the podium to greet the crown prince.

"Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan, please see Your Highness!"

Zhu Cixiang jumped off his horse and stepped forward to help Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan:

"Two generals, please excuse me. I would like to use the Yongwei Camp training ground today. Please let the Yongwei Camp soldiers rest for now!"

"As you command!"

Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan immediately took the order:

"Soldiers, the East Palace Guards are using the Yongwei Camp's martial arts training ground. You should stop training immediately and exit the martial arts training ground. You can show me how the East Palace Guards train outside."

The two generals did not let the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion return to camp to rest, but ordered them to train with the Modon Palace Guards outside the training ground.

Zhu Cixiang didn't care about this. He took out the training bombs he exchanged last night and handed them to Zhou Yuji:

"General Zhou, this is a projectile for practice. Order the infantry to line up and fire three rows of this projectile. At the same time, order the cavalry to attack the infantry formation for practice.

The cavalry must be about twenty steps in front of the infantry formation and spread out to both wings, so as to put pressure on the infantry and not accidentally injure the infantry."

"Got the order!"

Zhou Yuji took the projectile, looked at it, and said worriedly:

"Your Highness, there are not many cavalry in the Guards. What should we do if there are casualties?"

Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, general. The material of this projectile is cowhide wrapped in flour. It will not harm the soldiers."

"Your Highness is wise!"

Zhu Cixiang's words made Zhou Yuji instantly enlightened. He was even more impressed by the Crown Prince's strange moves and artifacts, and immediately went to arrange actual combat drill tasks.

The mental quality of a musketeer is very important when facing a cavalry attack. Once someone is afraid to retreat, it will definitely cause other soldiers to panic.

Not only is the shooting inaccurate, but it also affects the speed of loading ammunition, and it is easy to collapse.

When the Ming army fought against the Eight Banners in the East, they had no time to reload their firearms after firing. The opponent's cavalry had already rushed to the front of the Ming army's formation. The Ming army, whose combat power had seriously declined, could only run away and was instantly defeated.

Zhu Cixiang will never allow this situation to happen, so today he will practice cavalry assaulting the musketeer phalanx.

This is used to train the psychological quality of the soldiers so that the Guards Musketeers can be more confident when facing powerful enemies.

Zhou Yuji stepped down from the podium and immediately called three cavalrymen from Baihu and said:

"You always pay attention to the flags on the command platform, and lead the cavalry to attack the musket target according to the command. Once a soldier is hit by a surface bullet, immediately withdraw from the battle. At the same time, be careful not to accidentally injure the musketeers. It is best to disperse to the two wings twenty steps in front of the musket target.

,violators will be punished by military law!"

"yes"

The cavalrymen Baihu took the order and left, and Zhou Yuji ordered people to call the musketeers Baihu and the general banner.

Soon the commanders of each group of musketeers came to Zhou Yuji and bowed:

"Meet the general!"

Zhou Yuji waved his hand:

"Without courtesy, the Crown Prince has an order to order the musketeers to line up against the cavalry. The results of this training will depend on your performance today.

We must face the cavalry attack calmly and calmly. If anyone is timid and afraid of disturbing the morale of our army and handle it according to the law, bring the drill projectiles with you!"

"yes"

Both sides took orders and immediately began to arrange formations and cavalry charge tactics. Zhou Yuji returned to the command platform with his two deputies.

Thousands of soldiers from the Yongwei Battalion stood in the distance and discussed:

"What are the East Palace Guards training for and why are they forming formations? They wouldn't come all the way to the Brave Guard Camp to practice forming formations, right?"

"I don't know, just watch the excitement. They are the crown prince's people. They will never have the chance to go to the front line to kill the enemy in this life..."

Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan stood behind Zhu Cixiang. Seeing that the cavalry of the East Palace Guards were hiding far away, but the musketeers were in urgent formation, they looked at each other with sullen expressions on their faces.

The Yongwei Battalion usually trained on individual soldiers fighting, cavalry assault, and later practiced formation and physical training. There had never been such training as cavalry watching the musketeers array from a distance.

When Zhu Cihong saw the formation of the musketeers finished, he turned back to Zhou Yuji and said:

"let's start!"

"According to the order!"

Zhou Yuji received the order and immediately issued orders to the two deputies beside him holding red and blue flags:

"The drill begins!"

In the distance, hundreds of cavalrymen from the East Palace Guards saw the attacking semaphore and immediately gave the order to attack:

"Brothers, as long as you rush 20 steps in front of the infantry formation, you will be victorious. Anyone who is shot before 20 steps will immediately withdraw from the battle. Charge!"

"Go ahead..."

"Da da da da..."

Three hundred cavalry raised their swords high and urged their horses to charge towards the musketeer square...

Sun Yingyuan and Huang Degong instantly understood the Crown Prince's intention. It turned out that His Highness was practicing a cavalry charge into battle.

The two of them stared closely at both sides of the exercise. They wanted to see how many rounds of cavalry charges the musketeers could hold off. I like the Ming Dynasty, and the prosperous age began with the prince supervising the country. Please collect: (https://www.myxls.net) The Ming Dynasty, the prosperous age started with the prince supervising the country.
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