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Chapter 124 Inquiry
Xiangshan field, Juntian Kinki.

Ten hundreds of troops were stationed in the formation of the garrison, and some civilians who had no time to return and did not want to come back tomorrow at night, some lived in army tents, and some lived beside the road.

The guards didn't set up a camp, but just brightened the surrounding lights.

The night in this era is too dark, and many people are blindfolded, which is commonly known as night blindness. The bonfire is not to guard against enemies that are impossible to appear, but to guard against beasts and snakes that appear at night.

Chen Mu's small tent with the army was crowded with four or five people. The officials and soldiers who followed Zhang Han and Yu Dayou were all outside, and there were two accompanying scribes inside.

The two old men sat in the upper seat, and Chen Mu sat in the lower seat. Zhang Han listened with great interest to their report on Liurong Temple's occupation of military land, but Yu Dayou was not interested.

After he finished speaking, Yu Dayou waved his hand and said: "Chen Qianhu can decide these matters by himself. The general Tian Mintian can take it back, and there is no need to go to war. It is difficult to travel at night, so I will transfer the soldiers back tomorrow, and let Tianshi go to Liurong Temple to explain to the abbot. "

"No one cares about you, and you still want to lead troops to demolish the Six Banyan Temple?"

Of course, Chen Mu didn't think so. Hearing what Yu Dayou said, he smiled lightly, and said hastily: "I don't dare to be a lowly official. I just brought the troops here because I was afraid that the flag soldiers would not come to conflict with the monks. It's just for training."

This veteran soldier has a relationship with the Buddhist monastery. He once hit Shaolin with a stick and passed on Shaolin martial arts in southern Fujian. Now that the monks of Liurong Temple occupy the military fields of Mintian, he is not interested, as long as there is no conflict.

What's more, monks...how can the flag army have the qualifications to start a conflict?
In his opinion, Chen Mu only needs to send someone to say a word to take back the field, and let the monk send tenant farmers to plant rice for half a year and then get the land back.

A bit cloudy.

"zipper?"

Yu Dayou had never heard of this word, but he could understand the literal meaning, and then asked what he was interested in, and said, "You let Banner Army carry so many things on his body, what's going on?"

Hearing Yu Dayou's question, Governor Zhang Han also showed some curiosity.

They walked all the way from Zhaoqing and inspected the Seven Guards. Only Chen Mu had the most soldiers and looked more decent.But the Xiangshan Banner Army has something that all soldiers do not have, whether it is the Banner Army, battalion soldiers, or recruits.

"It's a small idea of ​​the humble staff some time ago, the two adults wait a moment."

Chen Mu said to go out of the tent, and yelled at Qi Zhengyan to call a well-equipped gunner to come over, brought him into the tent and said, "Take off all the armaments on your body, and set them up."

Where did Xiaoniao gunslinger see the governor and the general soldier, but when Chen Mu was the commander-in-chief, he didn't see Yu Dayou on the battlefield in Xinjiang.

Taking advantage of this moment, Chen Mu clasped his hands to the two of them and said, "Some time ago, the county magistrate of Xiangshan Zhou informed the lowly-ranked Huangliang capital, Lao Anshan, that Xu Laoyao and a group of native thieves were entrenched. Qianhusuo did not have troops to transport luggage."

"The banner troops are all newly recruited, and it is inevitable that there will be casualties against the bandits attacking the mountain, and it is impossible to deploy 300 people to transport the luggage, so I want the banner army to bring as much as possible to save the luggage."

"You go out and wait." Seeing that the Gunner took off his leather armor and stood aside, let him go out first, pointing to everything and said: "This is the armament of the Gunner, and it is the same as the rest of the infantry. different."

"A thick cloth belt with a wide waist, hanging a waist knife, inserting [-] bamboo medicine pots in the front and back, inserting accessories for repairing damaged bird guns on the left side, and three lead rods on the right side for supplementing lead pellets when camping."

"One roll of felt pad, two pieces of tent cloth, one backpack with a wooden frame, two ropes on the top, bottom, left and right sides of the backpack, the felt pad wrapped around the bottom, the tent cloth rolled up on top, a pair of lead molds, three-day rations, fire sickle and flint in the bag , wooden bowls and chopsticks."

"The left leg is wrapped with a small square cloth and wrapped with a roll of scalded linen, and the right leg is wrapped with a wooden medicine cartridge, and the gold sore medicine for external use is placed inside."

"Small flags are paired with a fire soldier, one to carry the pot, and two coconut ladles."

"When we are stationed in the camp, the rucksack is untied, and the tent can be made by cutting wood and bamboo, and the troops can go into battle lightly." After Chen Mu finished speaking, he cupped his hands and said to the two: "In this way, if the bandits are suppressed in Xiangshan, the There is no need for luggage, and even if you are attacking a fortified area, you can carry it with only a few or a dozen vehicles."

As he said that, Chen Mu unconsciously revealed a smug look on his face, and said emphatically, "You Qi Dengdao."

"I have asked about Xiangshan and Kinki Islands in Guangzhou Prefecture. I can travel lightly when I get on and off the ship. Without the baggage, the flag army can travel sixty or seventy miles a day and still have combat power; if it is carrying baggage, it is not bad to travel forty miles a day. .”

The wooden barrel theory is also applicable to marching. Simply infantry rushing, the best army of this era can even travel hundreds of miles a day, but it is different with luggage. The speed of luggage is slow, and the speed of the army cannot be increased.

What's more, Chen Mu's Thousand Households had no artillery or heavy artillery.

Armed with heavy artillery, the best army can hardly travel forty miles a day.

"very good."

For example, in terms of military excellence, Yu Dayou, who was known as "Yu Longqihu" at the time, was even better than Qi Jiguang. He said: "Soldiers are expensive, and your method is very good. If the southeast guards are like this, you will always be disadvantaged."

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid. I gave them the things. There are more than 30 thousand households in the seven guards. Who can be like Chen Erlang? Hmph!"

Zhang Han snorted, his words were very unpleasant, but he looked at Chen Mu more appreciatively.

It's interesting to say that Yu Dayou is a man who doesn't owe favors and is unkind. At first, he wanted to return the telescope that Chen Mu gave him, and he didn't want to owe Xiao Zongqi any favors.But later, Zhang Han said "the proud student" at the governor's mansion, which changed the taste.

For a while, apart from Chen Mu and Yu Dayou, who knew what was going on, the whole of Guangdong believed that Chen Qianhu belonged to Yu Zongbing.

Chen Mu and Zhang Han are even more interesting. The phrase "the governor's door is good to enjoy the coolness" has recently been spread more and more unsightly among people in various yamen and government offices in Guangzhou.

Chen Qianhu seems to have a great background in the eyes of others. Zhou Xing asked him to help the governor's office to speak well, probably because of these rumors.

It is false to have a background, but it is true to be appreciated.

The professional ability of military officers in the Ming Dynasty not only included fighting, but also included drilling and interpersonal relationships.

"You are credited with intercepting Zeng Yiben's news. The governor of Fujian sent news the day before yesterday that Zeng Yiben led more than [-] large ships, not counting small boats, and harassed Fujian by the wind. Hiding in Nan'ao, Shangzuo blamed me for not sending troops and boats to help Guangdong, and said that scholars have their own opinions."

Zhang Han with a white beard raised his head when he mentioned this matter. He raised his hand and wanted to slap the table. When he hung his hand in the air, he realized that Chen Mujun's tent was horribly crude. Let me remind you, last year the two provincial capitals suppressed each other, and they kept pushing each other, so the two provincial armies agreed that the bandits would be in Guangzhou, and Guang Zeguang would take charge of themselves. If the bandits escaped from Fujian, they would take charge of Min! Now it’s my fault that I don’t add troops to help!”

"The imperial court issued an order to supervise the construction of warships. No one in the Kinki Guards of Guangcheng can do anything except Xiangshan. The old man asks you, if bandits attack Guangcheng, what can your Xiangshan thousand households do?"

(End of this chapter)