Chapter 717

In fact, many military parade records of the Central Plains Dynasty can be found in historical classics, but their military parade is not to let soldiers form a square array to step on the positive step, but generally in the form of hunting.

Cui Zong shouted "reading array", not "parade". Therefore, the military parade in Miyagi square was not a military parade at all, but a necessary "walk through the field".

This kind of "going through the motions" was definitely not created by Liu Yan, nor did it begin in today's Han state.

Records show that there were similar scenes as early as the Shang Dynasty. When sacrificing, a large army will be placed, that is, after a war is won, the meritorious troops will appear at the sacrificial ceremony of the Shang Dynasty.

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 some activities, the Zhou royal family would also arrange "reading array" to show their strength.

In the middle and late Zhou Dynasty, especially in the Warring States period, both "reading array" and "military parade" stopped for a time. That was because the Zhou royal family had no strong soldiers at all, and still didn't show up to be ashamed. Then, the Warring States are fighting almost every year. There is no need to use the form of military parade to deter them. It is 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 is for war."

The troops carrying out the "reading array" are still a little far away. People watching the ceremony can chat casually and inevitably talk about the previous dynasties.

"Read the army?" Xu Zheng thought about it carefully and said with great certainty: "elite naturally needs to be reviewed from time to time."

It refers to the review, not the military parade. It is a kind of supervision and training for the implementation of orders and prohibitions. It also reflects that the army always depends on the obedience to orders, not just on whether individuals can fight or not.

In fact, the "military parade" and "reading array" 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 have conflicts with the nomads in the north, it still maintained relatively low-intensity local conflicts on the whole. In addition, the central government also had the need to frighten local princes and kings, and needed to pull out elite troops to demonstrate from time to time, To tell the princes and kings: I have such a forbidden army. Don't have any bad thoughts.

"The big man is not the first man. The big man has been fighting." Ran Min said, "come again... There is no empress dowager Dou on the king."

All the colleagues around looked at ran min strangely. Most of them didn't understand how such a person could live well. They seemed to live very moist?

"Indeed." Xie an said with great certainty, "emperor Xiaowu of Han Dynasty should have the most military parades."

No one wants to talk to ran min except Xie an. There is no crime for words in the state of Han, but it's really bad to die like that.

The person who liked the military parade most in history was Liu Che. During the suppression of Empress Dowager Dou, he couldn't really pull out his troops to fight with people who wanted to fight. Relevant records show that during the suppression of Empress Dowager Dou, he had to perform military exercises in Shanglinyuan in almost three days. At first, he shouted slogans and so on, and then gradually turned to hunting, which really enabled him to train a strong army in this way. The backbone of the troops behind the bloody battle between the Han Army and the Huns is basically the group of warriors he trained in Shanglinyuan.

After Liu Che started the war with the Huns, the "reading array" and "military parade" basically disappeared in the Central Plains. Not only did Liu Che not do it when he was in power, but also the emperors of the Han Empire in the future. The reason is that Confucianism strongly opposes doing similar things.

In fact, the real reason is that the Han Army has been too strong (and really strong) since Liu Che. Some scholars, including Confucianism, can't lift their heads. It's not possible to do similar things. It's a class struggle between literati and martial arts.

Since the early Han Dynasty, except for the large-scale military review during the founding period of each dynasty change, the second generation of heirs basically did not appear after they ascended the throne.

In the two Song Dynasties, Yuejun simply became an acrobatic performance. There were not many so-called 800000 forbidden troops who could go to the battlefield.

Later, there was a large-scale military review during the Yongle period, which was a response to the king of a powerful country in Central Asia who said he would complete Kublai Khan's great cause again, but the king died halfway through the March.

As for "my Qing Dynasty", it is actually very interesting, but it is basically a pure performance.

In fact, it is quite necessary to perform military exercises and review the army in peacetime. It is a direct and effective way to boost the morale of the army and increase the national pride. If some countries have a war from time to time, the battlefield is the best parade ground. As a result, countries with real war tend to be more entertaining and become a relaxed float parade.

The reason why military generals attach importance to military training and military reading is that they regard similar behaviors as a way to train troops, especially to remind troops to maintain discipline at all times.

"Can each standing army be regarded as a meritorious army?"

"Nature."

"Just can't walk neatly like the forbidden guards."

“……”

That's something that can't be said at all. The forbidden guard is a "mass production" force. In addition to the random appearance, the height of a branch of arms is fixed. They can walk in a neat and uniform array. If people now know what robots are, they will definitely shout that.

The thirteen standing armies of the Han state were established in different times. The standing army ranked in the top five is basically the army killed by Liu Yan from Qingzhou, which has gone through the whole battle of revenge against the Jie nationality. The troops outside the top five, the sixth to tenth, were established in the later stage of the war against the Jie nationality, and the tenth to thirteenth were simply the troops established in the war against the grassland and the war against the Yan nationality.

The thirteen standing armies are indeed meritorious troops. They have held their own prisoner offering ceremonies successively, that is, there have been few prisoner offering ceremonies to kings in recent years.

There will be a prisoner offering ceremony today, which is a tribute to the prisoners of war captured by the Gupta Dynasty and the king.

"The Navy... Is independent of the thirteen standing armies!"

"Isn't it?"

"The prisoners of war of ah San are the fruits of the seventh and ninth standing armies and the Navy."

There were thirteen standing armies in the Han Dynasty. The Huben army was a heavy cavalry, the Yulin army was a comprehensive cavalry, and there were the first, second and fourth cavalry armies. The remaining third, fifth and eleventh were infantry armies.

In addition to the 13 standing armies, Liu Yan established a firearm operation force in the seventh year of Yuanshuo, which was deployed to each standing army, with the largest number of affiliated firearm forces of the Yulin army.

The firearms of the Han Dynasty were used most in the war against Yan, and there was basically no large-scale use later, but the experiment did not stop.

In the seventh year of Yuanshuo, Liu Yan ordered the development of warships that could carry bronze guns. At present, it is in the experimental stage and there is no finished warship.

The "reading array" at the time of offering sacrifices to heaven is just a passing through. It is not a military exercise or parade in the real sense. Even so, when the neat and uniform soldiers march to the predetermined position of the square, including members of foreign diplomatic missions and those non-governmental people, they are shocked in addition to being stunned.

"Very ostentatious, too ostentatious!" Olus Setus Cicero used two exclamatory words: "we have similar activities in Rome, but it's too loose."

Kianush Alta Aldasher said nothing at all. No matter in the Parthian Empire or in the Sassanian Dynasty, the Persians basically did not engage in military activities, and they were very scarce in this regard.

Compared with the Persians, the Romans liked to engage in similar activities very much. They won every foreign war, There will be a triumphal ceremony in Rome (city), but it is to show a lot of booty. Then, let the soldiers accept the flowers and cheers of Roman citizens. There will be a queue into the City ceremony, but as olus Sextus Cicero said, it's just a parade. It's really not a parade.

In the exclamation of those who had not seen similar scenes, the square array that had reached the position suddenly sounded a song.

A total of 6000 officers and men chanted "Ode to Shang liezu", which was originally used to praise Cheng Tang, but it is also applicable to sacrifice. There is no conflict with the worship of ancestors by Zhuxia civilization, but the Zhou Dynasty will not do so.

When chanting Shang song liezu, the officers and men of the Han Army had great momentum. The first sentence was "Ho Ho liezu! There are rank Sihu." It is full of the characteristics of respecting ancestors of Zhuxia civilization. In translation, it is "praise the great ancestors! There are great blessings in Italy.", The whole poem is actually a process of praising our ancestors and then praying to our ancestors for blessings.

Because of the particularity of "Shang song. Liezu", the Han army who sang in unison ended with the sentence "come to leave and feast, and bring blessings to the boundless". Only because the final ending "Gu Yuji, the general of Tang sun" is the exclusive word of Cheng Tang's descendants.

"What are they singing?" Olus Setus Cicero asked the interpreter eagerly. He had made up his mind that Rome could learn from the practice of the Han country. That's how he became eager.

The translator is confused. He just knows ordinary Chinese. He really doesn't understand too profound!

There are three kinds of ode in the book of songs, namely, ode to Shang, ode to Zhou and Ode to Lu. Both Shang song and Zhou Song praise the literary, political and martial arts skills of the founding monarch. The state of Lu itself is a vassal state, so it is really not qualified to write any "ode". The problem is that the vassal of Lu is the historian of the Zhou royal family, or the "elder state". Confucius and his elderly people "go to hundreds of poems" when they go to "innocence", leaving only what they think is appropriate, The book of songs that later generations see is actually incomplete.

Confucius, a native of the state of Lu, will certainly leave the "Ode to Lu", and then the "Ode to Lu". In addition to the relatively shameless praise of Duke Xi's literary, political and martial arts, it expresses the strong desire of the state of Lu to restore its senior position in the early Zhou Dynasty.

When it is necessary to chant the ode to the book of songs, basically no rulers of any dynasty will pay attention to the ode to Lu. On the contrary, people in Ludi will close the door and sing the ode to Lu from time to time, especially the Confucian disciples in Ludi. That is what they really want.

"It's all iron armor!" Goodhouse's eyes were wide open and full of saliva: "I thought Rome was rich enough, but I didn't expect cyris to be stronger!"

The difference is that the forbidden guards are fish scale armor system, and the rest are mainly plate armor system.

It's hard to say whether Rome is rich or not, but most of their troops use leather armor, and only a few legions are equipped with metal armor. Roman leather armor is a hard pressed style. It is really not a layer of leather. Even if it is finished, it is usually formulated according to the body of the owner. It must be said that the protective force is really not much weaker than metal armor. In terms of metal armor, Roman metal armor is a plate-shaped laminated style, which looks like skin shrimp.

At present, the Germanic people are undoubtedly barbarians. The vast majority of Germanic tribes are still using stone tools. Only a few Germanic tribes have metal weapons because they have no smelting technology at all. Their desire for metal weapons is infinitely high.

It's really hard to feel when you don't listen to the chanting of the book of songs on the spot. If you are in it, you can fully experience the atmosphere, especially on the premise that you feel it in your heart.

Many people present have not heard the poems in the book of songs for too long, especially on this solemn occasion, so that many people are full of tears and extremely excited.

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

"I thought there was no such scene in this life. It was really worth it!"

Zhang Kang and sun Fang were two of the people with tears in their eyes. They were officials of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They could hear the poems in the book of songs in private occasions, but the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty would not make a scene to celebrate any more. They would have to recover the Central Plains from the captives.

As long as you are a descendant of Zhuxia, you must have resonance with poetry, that is, you don't know one big character. If you listen to people reading poetry, even if you don't understand the artistic conception, you will also have inexplicable feelings. This is an emotion belonging to the descendants of Zhuxia.

Liu Yan is a person who doesn't understand what poetry means, but it doesn't prevent him from having the emotion of being a descendant of Zhuxia. People of his generation grew up in a white skin culture. They occasionally heard that popular songs were adapted from ancient poetry. As long as they were not hard to hear, they would feel comfortable listening to music full of Zhuxia characteristics, and they would feel that the lyrics were simply too beautiful.

"Be careful." Liu yanman asked Liu Shen seriously, "do you know what is root?"

Liu Shen began to learn to read when he was four years old, but he didn't have time to learn too much knowledge. Obviously, he couldn't answer his father's questions.

"Root is to accept foreign beneficial culture and not forget the part that belongs to Zhuxia." Liu Yan looked at the ignorant Liu Shen and stressed word by word: "once the culture of Zhuxia disappears, Zhuxia will disappear. We must remember this!"