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Chapter 443 Military Fort
The Nanyang military government, headed by Nanyang Minister Chen Mu, passed the proposal to add military guards in Mindoro almost at the same time that Kuwu Sanwei dispatched the North Asian Merica vanguard fleet to set off.

The number of military guards is the same as that of other guards, but the difference this time is that not only does it actually belong to Daming, but it also belongs to Daming in name. In other words, this is the only guard directly under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Military Mansion.

Except for the more than [-] officers in the guard who are seasoned servants and graduates of the first class of the Navy Lecture Hall, all the flag troops are recruited from Guangdong and Guangxi, and the elite are selected... because the Guangdong and Guangxi Banner Army can no longer select elites. Those who Mu fought in the war have already been drawn out.

Regardless of the bad habits in the army or different tactics, Chen Mu thought about the difficulty of the drill, and simply recruited recruits from the people except for the special positions that the servants could fill.

Needless to say, the Nanyang Specialty Hero Storybook is the best recruiting manual. The recruiters of the Banner Army who were sent to various places returned half a month earlier than Chen Mu imagined. Counting the soldiers, they rushed to Mindoro with their families and the rest of the army.

The commander of the military guards was Zhang Shijue, a small Qianhu of the right guard in Guangdong in the past. He also just came out of the Navy Lecture Hall. They were short of people, and they knew Chen Mu well, so they transferred over.

This is mostly the case for the deputy thousand households of the military guards, and Chen Mu's family soldiers are mostly serving as the general banner of the small banner, and they did not compete with these graduates for official positions.

The servants are veterans who have experienced many battles, but those who come out of the martial arts hall also have their strengths, and each has their own direction. Besides, there are not many people in Chen Mu's family who have commanded more than a hundred people with combat experience, and it may not be possible to promote them by force. How much combat power.

It's better to abuse your power and send some idlers to wait until winter to enter the fourth session of the lecture hall.

By this time, Chen Mu's early family members had a place to go, and the Nanyang guards had their figures everywhere in the lower-level officers. In winter, another batch will enter the martial arts hall, and in the end, there will be a hundred people left by his side to hold a guard of honor. , Suwei.

However, the lack of family members has no influence on Chen Mu anymore, because the military guards have no garrison. Although their military field is in Mindoro, the garrison is not in Mindoro.

Wherever the military mansion is, they will be stationed there. Among them, the Weiqian Qianhu Office of the military mansion is where Chen Mu is, and they will be there, because their station is the Chihai Fleet, which happens to be a thousand households.

Since the Ming Dynasty, almost no effort has been spared in improving the literacy of the common people. There are government schools at the government, prefecture, and county levels, military schools at the border and guard levels, and social schools everywhere.

Teaching people to read and write has also increased the popularization of laws, severe punishment laws and normal laws written by Emperor Taizu himself, crowns, marriages, funerals, rituals and historical calculations, and of course the traditional archery that has lasted for thousands of years.

But until now, the military studies that Chen Mu personally experienced are almost blind. The government still attaches great importance to official studies, but most of the people are forced by life and have no chance to enter the school. In general, it is elementary school and social studies education.

There are many people who can read and write, but not many Chinese characters.

Men on the street asked ten questions about whether they could read or not, and three or five of them answered in the affirmative, but if any of these people could read a book of Three Kingdoms without stumbling, or write a letter to their family without drawing circles, there might be one Or maybe not.

After all, there are only [-] characters for Mongolian children's education. Coupled with the fact that women have few opportunities for education, very few of them are truly fluent in reading and writing.

In a thousand people, there are only three or four poor scholars, and in 1 people, it may not be possible to produce a juren.

But that's enough. Chen Mu recruited soldiers in Guangdong and Guangxi this time, not scholars, let alone recruits. The requirements are not high, there is no disability, no brain problem, and he can read the banner army decrees in the banner army drill manual stumbled. Then you can go overseas to eat military rations.

These young men with heroic dreams sailed across the ocean from Guangdong and Guangxi. They never expected that the first thing they did when they came here was to build a warehouse.

The bricks and tiles from Nanjing, the iron bars from Foshan, and the cement from Nanyangwei were sent to the Nanyang Military Mansion together with the grain escort ship, and there was not enough transportation at one time.

Chen Mu took advantage of this time to patrol Mindoro Island with Gao Gong and others, looking for a suitable location for setting up camps and defenses, and finally selected the military mansion to be located on the five-mile highland on the north coast of the island, with a port under it. There are three camps on the island, but they are only designed for the time being, and will not be considered.

"This island will definitely not be used as a military residence for a long time, but the mines on the island are enough to be dug for many years. Before it is dug out, it must be in Daming's hands. Even if the military residence leaves in the future, a guard must be sent over."

Chen Mu took the topographic map drawn by his subordinates and pointed to the north of the island to draw the shape with charcoal: "Use a low five-cornered bastion to build two layers inside and outside. In the future, a ditch will be drawn from the port to surround the city. The road is on the side of the ditch. They take two extra steps."

With that said, Chen Mu drew another straight line and said, "This city wall will be rebuilt last, and the city gates will be put on the two sides for easy access. After the castle walls are built, the road will be paved, and outsiders will have to walk a little longer to attack the city."

As Chen Mu spoke, he pulled Xu Wei over, drew the appearance of the castle on the sketch, and said, "How high is the city wall, so that the heavy artillery can hit this position, and the inner city wall is a little higher, so that it can hit here, that's fine."

The heavy artillery fires flat, usually at a distance of a thousand steps, and can only be fired at an elevation to hit the shore. However, that kind of distance is not powerful and inaccurate. The key to defending the city is bird guns and artillery.

Chen Mu pointed to the topographic map, and Xu Wei looked at it with great interest. Suddenly, Chen Mu shook his head and said, "It's still too scattered."

"What's too loose?"

"When arithmetic is applied to the bastion, there is no overall law in the ratio of various aspects, such as how thick the wall should be, and how much the angle of the wall should be to minimize the power of the artillery. We don't have regulations at hand."

After finishing speaking, Chen Mu silenced his banners and drums, and said: "First move materials and set up warehouses, and then build barracks for the banner army. The rest will be tested by the Military Weapons Bureau and the Martial Arts Hall, and the exact regulations will be produced, and then this military city will be built."

"This is the first castle built with geometry and arithmetic. There will be more in Daming in the future. Once the regulations are in place, as long as the boat can reach the coast, a city can be erected in half a year!"

"You can do it if you ask me, but I'm too ugly to make it, so let someone who understands beauty do it."

The military mansion was put on hold for a while, and a ship from the Pearl River Estuary was sent to Mindoro. All the materials were quickly prepared. The Military Weapons Bureau and the Lecture Hall began to study the bastion at the same time. The most difficult part has been found by Chen Mu. , the next step is much easier.

In June of the first year of Wanli, a new batch of warships were sent to Mindoro Island, and there was also news from Luzon that Lin Dayuan, the garrison of Chenlai Island, took three ships of Xiyi. They waved a white flag and said that they were sent by King Philip. The minister who came to negotiate a peace treaty and compensation.

(End of this chapter)