Sweep the World

In historical classics, you can actually find many military parades of the Central Plains dynasty, but their military parades did not allow soldiers to form a square formation to step on the right foot, generally in the form of encirclement hunting.

Cui Zong called "parade" instead of "parade", so the parade in Miyagi Square was not a military parade at all, it was a necessary "walking through the scene."

This kind of "walking through the scene" is definitely not Liu Yan's original creation, let alone the present Han country.

Records show that there were similar scenes as early as the Shang Dynasty, where a large army was placed during the sacrifice, that is, after a certain war was won, the Meritorious troops appeared during the Shang Dynasty sacrifice ceremony.

The Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, and some traditions of the Shang Dynasty were continued. When the princes entered the "dynasty" to participate in certain activities, the Zhou royal family would also arrange "reading formations" to show their strength.

In the middle and late Zhou Dynasty, especially during the Warring States Period, both the "parade" and the "military parade" were stopped for a while. That was because the Zhou royal family had no strong soldiers at all, and it was ashamed of not showing up. Furthermore, all warring states are engaged in wars almost every year, and there is no need to use military parades to deter them, but to directly pull out troops to fight with other countries.

"Of course!" Ran Min grinned and said, "Soldiers are not actors. The meaning of the army's existence is for war."

The troops engaged in the "reading" are still a little far away, and those who watch the ceremony can chat casually, and they will inevitably talk about the affairs of the previous dynasties.

"Reviewing the military?" Xu Zheng thought about it for a moment, and said with certainty: "The elites naturally need to be reviewed from time to time."

It's a review, not a military parade. It is a kind of supervision and training that prohibits orders. It also shows that the army has always relied on the degree of obedience to orders, not only on whether individuals can fight.

In fact, the "parade" and "parade" have not happened for a long time since the Zhou Dynasty. Similar things reappeared in the Western Han Dynasty. Even though the Han Empire continued to clash with the northern nomads, it still maintained relatively low-intensity local conflicts. Furthermore, the central government had the need to deter local princes and kings from time to time. You need to pull out the elite troops to demonstrate it, so as to tell the princes and kings: Lao Tzu has such a forbidden army, don't have any bad thoughts.

"The big man is not the first man, the big man has been fighting war all the time." Ran Min said nonchalantly: "Come again...the king doesn't have a queen Dou."

The surrounding colleagues looked at Ran Min weirdly. Most of them didn't understand how such a person could still live well. It seemed that he was still alive and well.

"Indeed." Xie An said very positively: "Emperor Xiaowu of Han should be the one who conducted the most military parades."

Except Xie An, no one wants to talk to Ran Min. There is no such thing as a crime in Han, but it's really not good to die like that.

The person who likes military parade most in history is Liu Che. It was during the suppression of Queen Mother Dou, he could not really pull out the troops to fight with people who wanted to fight. Relevant records indicate that during the suppression of the Queen Mother, he had to perform military exercises in Shanglinyuan almost two or three days later. At first he shouted some slogans and then gradually turned to hunting. It really made him use this method. A strong army was trained. The backbone of the troops that followed the **** battle between the Han army and the Xiongnu was basically the group of warriors he trained in Shanglinyuan.

After Liu Che started the war with the Xiongnu, the "reading battle" and the "war parade" basically disappeared in the Central Plains. Not only did Liu Che never do it again when he was reigning, but the emperors of the Han Empire never did it again. The reason was that Confucianism strongly opposed it. Do something similar.

Actually, the real reason is that the Han army has been too strong since Liu Che (and really strong), and the literati, including Confucianism, can't hold their heads up. It is no longer impossible to do similar things. It can be regarded as a class struggle between literati and warriors.

From the early Han Dynasty, except for the large-scale military parades during the founding period of each dynasty change, the second-generation heirs basically did not reappear after they took the throne.

In the Song Dynasty, the military review had simply become an acrobatic performance. The so-called 800,000 forbidden army could not go to the battlefield to start filming at all.

Later, during the Yongle year, there was an ultra-large-scale military parade. It was a response to the king of a powerful country in Central Asia saying that he would complete Kublai’s great cause again, but the king died of illness halfway through the march. Up.

As for "I Daqing" and the like, it is actually very worth seeing, but it is basically a pure performance.

Military exercises and military parades in peaceful times are actually quite necessary. They are a direct and effective way to boost the morale of the army and increase the pride of the nation. If some countries have a war from time to time, the battlefield is the best parade ground. As a result, countries with real wars tend to be more entertaining during military parades, turning them into a relaxing parade.

The reason why military commanders attach great importance to military exercises and military parades is that they regard similar behaviors as a way of training troops, especially to remind the troops to maintain discipline at all times.

"Every standing army can be regarded as a meritorious army, right?"

"nature."

"It's just that there is no way to walk as neatly as the Janissaries."

"..."

That's something that can't be said at all. The Janissaries are "mass-produced" troops. In addition to random appearances, the height of a unit is fixed, and they can be completely uniform when they walk in an array. Nowadays, people know what a robot is, and they will definitely say that.

The establishment of the thirteen standing armies of the Han Dynasty is in order. The standing army ranked in the top five is basically the army that followed Liu Yan from Qingzhou and went through the entire battle of revenge against the Jie clan. The troops ranked outside the top five, the sixth to tenth were only formed in the later stage of the battle against the Jie clan, and the tenth to thirteenth were simply the troops formed during the battle against the grassland and the battle against the swallows.

The thirteen standing armies are indeed all meritorious troops. They have held their own prisoner offering ceremonies one after another, but in recent years there have been fewer ceremonies for offering prisoners to the emperor.

Today there will be a prisoner offering ceremony, which is a gift to the king of prisoners of war captured by the Gupta Dynasty.

"The navy... is independent from the thirteen standing armies!"

"Is not it?"

"Asan's prisoners of war can be regarded as the result of the seventh and ninth standing army and the navy."

There are thirteen standing armies in the Han Dynasty. The Tiger and Ben Army are equipped with heavy cavalry. The Yulin Army is an integrated cavalry. There are also the first, second and fourth cavalry corps. The remaining third, fifth to eleventh are infantry. military.

In addition to the thirteen standing armies, Liu Yan established a firearm-operating unit in Yuanshuo seven years, and deployed the standing armies separately. The Habayashi Army has the largest number of auxiliary firearms units.

The firearms of Han were used the most in the battle against Yan, and they were basically not used on a large scale later, but the experiment has never stopped.

In the seventh year of Yuanshuo, Liu Yan ordered the development of a warship capable of carrying bronze guns. It is currently in the experimental stage and there is no finished warship yet.

The "reading" during the sacrifice to the sky is a cutscene. It is not a real military exercise or military parade, even if it is, when a uniform line of soldiers advances to a predetermined position in the square, including members of foreign missions and those civilians. Apart from being stunned, the people were shocked.

"It's very pomp, it's so posh!" Olus Sykestus Cicero used two consecutive exclamatory words: "We also have similar activities in Rome, but we walk too loosely."

Kiyanush Alta Aldahir simply has nothing to say. Whether it is the Parthian Empire or the Sassanid dynasty, the Persians have basically never engaged in military exercises and other activities. In this respect, they are scarce. Very much.

Compared with the Persians, the Romans like to engage in similar activities very much. Every time they win a foreign war, they will go to Rome (city) to hold a triumphal ceremony, but it is to show many elements of the spoils, and then let the soldiers accept the Roman citizens. Spreading flowers and cheering, there will be a queuing into the city ceremony, but as Olus Sykestus Cicero said, it is just a parade, really not a military parade.

In the exclamation of people who hadn't seen a similar scene, the phalanx that had arrived at the position suddenly sang.

A total of six thousand soldiers sang "Songsong Liezu". It was originally a poem used to sing the soup, but it is also suitable for sacrificial ceremonies. There is no conflict or conflict with the ancestors of the civilizations of Zhu Xia. The Zhou Dynasty would not do that.

When the soldiers of the Han army chanted "Songsong Liezu", they were very magnificent. The first sentence is "Wang Liezu! There is a rank of Sihu." It is full of the characteristics of respecting ancestors of the civilizations of the Xia Dynasty. The translation is " Praise my great ancestors! Great luck and great benefit have great blessings.” The whole poem is actually a process of praising the ancestors and then praying to the ancestors for blessings.

Because of the particularity of "Songsong Liezu", the Han army sang in unison to the end when they sang the phrase "Come on holiday to feast, and blessings without boundaries", just because the final ending "Gu Yushun taste, soup "Sun Zhijiang" is an exclusive word for the descendants of Chengtang.

"What are they singing?" Olus Syxtus Cicero asked the interpreter eagerly. He had a firm idea that Rome could fully learn from the Chinese, and that's how it would appear eager. .

The translation was dumbfounded, he just understood ordinary Chinese, and he really didn't understand too esoteric!

There are three kinds of "Songs" in "The Book of Songs", namely "Songs of Shang", "Songs of Zhou" and "Songs of Lu". "Ode to Shang" and "Ode to Zhou" are both literary and martial arts that praise the founding princes. The state of Lu itself is a state of vassals, and it is really not qualified to write any "odes." The question is whether the princes of Lu are the historians of the Zhou royal family, or "Zun Changguo", and then Confucius and his elders "went hundreds of poems" when they went to "Innocent", leaving only what they thought was appropriate, so that the "Book of Songs" that future generations saw was actually incomplete.

As a native of Lu, Confucius will of course leave "Song of Lu", and then in "Song of Lu", in addition to the relatively shameless praise of Xi Gong's cultural and martial arts, it expresses the hope that Lu country will restore its status as the prestigious leader at the beginning of the week. Strong desire.

When there is a need to chant the "Book of Songs" about the "Song", basically no ruler of any dynasty will pay attention to the "Lu Song", but the people of Lu people will sing the "Lu Song" with closed doors from time to time. Especially the Confucian disciples in Ludi were the longest doing it, and that was because they really wanted something.

"It's all iron armor!" Goodhouse's eyes widened, and he was full of saliva. "I thought Rome was rich enough, but I didn't expect Syris to be stronger!"

Indeed, one of the troops drawn to the Miyagi Square is considered to be exquisite metal armor. The difference is that the Imperial Guard is a fish-scale armor system, and the rest are mainly a plate armor system.

It's hard to say whether Rome is rich or not, but their armies really use leather armor mostly, and only a few legions are equipped with metal armor. Roman leather armor is a hard-pressed style. It's not really a layer of leather, even if it's finished, it's usually based on the body of the owner used. It must be said that the protection is really not much weaker than metal armor. In terms of metal armor, the Roman metal armor is a plate-like laminated style, which looks like a pipi shrimp.

The current Germans are unquestionably barbarians. The vast majority of Germanic tribes still use stone tools. Only a few Germanic tribes possess metal weapons. That is because they have not mastered the smelting technology at all, and their desire for metal weapons is unlimited. Raised height.

It’s not that it’s really hard to feel anything when you listen to the "Book of Songs" live, but you can fully experience the atmosphere when you are in it, especially if you feel something in your heart.

Many people present have not heard of the poems in the "Book of Songs" for too long, especially under such solemn occasions, so that many people are tearful and extremely excited.

"It's worth it, it's worth it!"

"I thought that there was no such thing in this life, it's really worth it!"

Zhang Kang and Sun Fang are the two tearful people. They were both officials of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They could hear the poems in the "Book of Songs" on private occasions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was shameless. I wouldn't have a big scene to celebrate, I have to have that face to do after the restoration of the Central Plains from Hu Lu.

As long as they are descendants of Zhuxia, they will resonate with poetry, that is, they don’t know a big character, and they will feel inexplicable even if they don’t understand the artistic conception. This belongs to the descendants of Zhuxia. Kind of emotion.

Liu Yan is someone who doesn't understand the meaning of poems, but it doesn't prevent him that he will have the emotions of being a descendant of all summers. People of his generation grew up in a white-skinned culture, and occasionally heard pop songs adapted from ancient poems. As long as it is not hard to hear torture the ears, just listening to music full of Zhuxia characteristics I feel comfortable, and I feel that the lyrics are simply too beautiful.

"Shen'er." Liu Yanman asked Liu Shen solemnly: "Do you know what roots are?"

Liu Shen has been learning to read from the age of four, but he has not had time to learn too advanced knowledge, obviously unable to answer his father's questions.

"The root is to accept the beneficial foreign culture while not forgetting the part that belongs to Zhu Xia." Liu Yan looked at Liu Shen, who was ignorant, and emphasized every word: "Once Zhu Xia's culture disappears, Zhu Xia will not have it. Now. Be sure to remember this!"