Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 469 1000 VS 50,000, the advantage is mine, the stabilizing force
"let's start."

Zhu Jinzhen gave a casual instruction.

Yang Ning nodded slightly to An Ling, the deputy general of the Beijing Garrison.

The next moment, the Beijing garrison began to assemble rapidly. No matter how intense the training had been, they quickly donned their armor and formed huge square formations, which appeared before Zhu Jinzhen and the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

With permission, Anling stood before the drill ground and addressed all the soldiers of the Beijing Garrison in a loud voice: "His Majesty wishes to inspect the combat strength of the Beijing Garrison. I have received the imperial decree and will now inform you of today's training mission."

"Actual combat!"

Anling's voice was as loud as a bell. Even though there were 50,000 Beijing garrison soldiers packed tightly together, almost bursting the Beijing garrison training ground, and there was another sea of ​​Beijing garrison soldiers outside, his voice still clearly reached everyone's ears.

"I order you to do everything in your power to annihilate these thousand new recruits of the Tian Ce Mansion before you."

"I believe many of you know them."

"Because they are the elite selected from your Beijing Garrison."

"But don't be too happy yet, because their orders are to use their strength, without armor, to defeat you and break through the entire Beijing garrison."

"Now tell me, how should we respond to such provocation?"

As soon as Anling finished speaking, the anger of the Beijing garrison soldiers was ignited, and a chilling atmosphere filled the air.

“Kill, kill, kill!!”

The soldiers of the Beijing Garrison glared angrily at the thousand soldiers of the Tian Ce Army.

To send 1,000 against 50,000 troops of the Beijing Garrison is not a sign of contempt, but an insult to the garrison and a trampling of their efforts over the past few days.

At the same time, Yang Ning, facing the thousand newly recruited Tian Ce soldiers and pointing to the fifty thousand high-spirited Jingying soldiers, said with a relaxed expression, "You've all heard it. Your mission is to crush them before sunset."

"If you can do it, then you have passed the selection and officially joined the Tian Ce Mansion."

"If someone is defeated, the person who defeated you will join Tian Ce in your place."

"besides……"

"Although you are only a thousand, you are not allowed to wear armor or use sharp weapons. Although this martial arts exercise is a real battle, it is not a place for you to vent your strength at will. If you deliberately kill someone in order to win, or even accidentally kill the soldiers of the Beijing Garrison, you will be punished."

"I will also handle this according to military regulations."

"Remember, your goal is to subdue the enemy, not to kill them."

"Do you understand?"

As Yang Ning spoke the last sentence, he suddenly raised his voice, causing the thousand Tian Ce soldiers who had been transferred to tremble violently. They instinctively opened their mouths and shouted, "Understood, we will obey the general's orders."

The officials and civil servants who accompanied Yang Ning were all dumbfounded when they heard about Yang Ning's harsh restrictions.

No armor is allowed, no sharp weapons are permitted, and while injury is allowed, killing is not.

Moreover, a time limit was set.

Under such stringent restrictions, could those thousand Tian Ce soldiers really accomplish it?

Many people expressed their doubts.

A thousand Finger Profound Realm Grandmasters are indeed strong, but the capital garrison has more than 50,000 soldiers. Even if you were to slaughter 50,000 pigs, it wouldn't be something that could be done in a short time, especially if you were restricted to only being able to injure the enemy and not kill them.

They felt that even with five times the number of troops, they probably couldn't finish before sunset, let alone before sunset the next day.

Compared to the doubts of the Ming Dynasty officials, Zhu Jianqiu couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this scene: "If His Majesty hadn't thought this through in advance, I'm afraid the morale of the Beijing garrison soldiers would have plummeted after today's battle."

"No destruction, no construction; destruction precedes construction."

"Although the Beijing garrison has made great progress under Yang Ning's training, they have never seen blood or truly been on the battlefield. Although this blow is heavy, it is of great benefit to their growth."

"Most of the soldiers in the Beijing garrison seem quite confident. Fifty thousand against one thousand, the advantage is on our side?"

"Heh, ignorance is bliss."

As Zhu Jianqiu spoke, Li Chengen, Xue Zhi, Xu Changhai, Feng Yebei, and other generals from Tian Ce and Cang Yun also joined in the discussion. They were all in perfect unison, none of them favoring the Jingying garrison. Zhu Jinzhen overheard the officials' reactions and their conversation, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

This military exercise served as a test for the soldiers of the Beijing Garrison.

This also reassured the officials.

It also serves to intensify the aspirations of other soldiers for selection by Tian Ce or Cang Yun.

It can be said that it kills several birds with one stone.

"start!"

boom!!
With Yang Ning's command, the thousand Tian Ce soldiers, one by one, charged like tigers and wolves, transforming into destructive huskies. Instead of immediately rushing towards the 50,000-strong Jingying army, they transformed into a thousand afterimages and frantically rushed towards the surrounding areas of the Jingying camp.

Seeing this, An Ling's expression changed slightly, and he cursed inwardly, "These bastards, do they want to dismantle the Beijing Garrison?"

Sure enough, the next moment.

Those thousand new Tian Ce soldiers transformed into silly huskies, wreaking havoc on the house.

The giant trees around the Beijing garrison that required several people to encircle, as well as the ordinary trees that only one person could encircle, and the buildings within the Beijing garrison were all demolished, and the main beams and various crossbeams were removed.

They all charged back like Sun Wukong carrying a giant golden cudgel.

This scene was incredibly visually striking.

The faces of the Beijing garrison soldiers who had already launched their charge at the forefront changed drastically.

But clearly, those thousand Tian Ce soldiers wouldn't give them time to regret or retreat. One by one, they grabbed pillars and giant trees weighing hundreds or thousands of kilograms with one hand and swept them towards them.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In just one exchange, all the shield-bearers in the front row of the Beijing garrison were swept away.

If the Tian Ce soldiers hadn't held back, the hundreds of pounds of pillars sweeping across would have been enough to turn many people into mincemeat, and even those with shields wouldn't have been able to withstand their impact.

……

Then, until sunset.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have experienced the longest period of their lives, witnessing firsthand what an invincible army truly was.

Although the capital garrison was large, numbering over 50,000, with many more joining later, they were powerless against the Tian Ce soldiers, who were like tigers among wolves—no, tigers among chickens.

A thousand Tian Ce soldiers launched a one-sided "massacre" against a 50,000-strong capital garrison!
Thousands of people raised their shields to block, but a pillar swept across, causing men and horses to fall, shields to shatter, and people to fly.

A massive encirclement and attack by ten thousand men who disregarded their own lives and fought to the death.

Those Tian Ce soldiers could grab tree trunks weighing hundreds, even thousands of kilograms and move them around in mid-air. They were unaffected by arrows, as if they were being bitten by mosquitoes. With just a hundred men working together, they could quickly rout an army of ten thousand men.

If Yang Ning hadn't imposed numerous restrictions, allowing injury but not killing, and if the primary objective of the martial arts exercise hadn't been to subdue the 50,000 soldiers of the Imperial Guard, then...

Today, the Beijing garrison must be littered with corpses and rivers of blood.

For the first time, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, both civil and military, directly experienced just how vast and terrifying the gap was between ordinary troops and organized military forces.

That was not a war at all, but a one-sided massacre.

For the first time, they clearly understood just how terrifying an army composed of grandmaster-level experts—those capable of establishing their own sects in the martial world—would be on the battlefield. Their figures flashed, covering hundreds of feet in an instant, leaping dozens of feet into the air with a single touch of their toes, able to borrow strength from the void, impervious to a hail of swords, spears, and arrows.

Their stamina was more than a hundred times greater than that of ordinary soldiers.

After the martial arts competition, apart from a few who were accidentally injured, not a single one of the thousand new soldiers of the Tian Ce Army was eliminated!

Only then did the officials of the Ming Dynasty understand what Zhu Jinzhen meant by "reassurance".

Is this reassuring?

This is a pillar that can stabilize the sea!
(End of this chapter)