open sea

Chapter 455 Greatness
The cultural exchange came much earlier than Chen Mu imagined.

Before leaving Haojing, Chen Mu met Li Dan and Huang Cheng, who would succeed Huayu as the folk leader of Haojing, according to his past habits.Huang Cheng, who used to be just a small maritime merchant, has now become the leading maritime merchant in the southern coast of Daming by taking charge of Li Dan and Huayu's merchant shipments. Relying on his official status, his business is booming.

This is a cautious person. Chen Mu is very relieved that he has not had any major disturbances in the years in charge of Haojing business.

When Chen Mu returned to Mindoro Island again, the barracks of the military guards had been built. In order to prevent shelling, the barracks did not choose higher buildings. Lack of wood, each small flag has a barracks, a hundred households are rowed, and each thousand households are located in the middle of the square barracks.

The outer bastion is being built. In the establishment of the military guard, a large number of folk craftsmen from Guangdong were hired to participate in the design. The main purpose is not to let them show their skills, but to learn more different things, such as public health and roads facility.

According to the plan, the military guard bastion has relatively sound water rooms, toilets, and canteens, as well as stone roads paved to reduce mud. The project volume is larger than that of any guard in the Ming Dynasty. A barracks example to build.

They built a large water tower, built the first hand-pressed water well, and connected it to a steam engine to draw water day and night.

He also specially asked the military officials to record the difficulties encountered by the craftsmen in the construction, and compiled a book with various compositions of the craftsmen, and sent it to Guangdong and Beijing after completion.

It has been more than a month since I went to Haojing, and the Guard Banner Army of the Military Mansion finally took on the appearance of a banner army under the drill of the banner officer. Two days before Chen Mu returned to Mindoro Island, Zhang Shijue had just given his subordinates The flag army unleashed the flintlocks and began to practice shooting in bursts.

There was a lot of shouts from the school grounds, and Zhang Shijue saluted Chen Mu and said: "At present, the guards have spent more than a month writing down all the military orders in the banner army manual. After that, they will practice orders, battle formations, marching, and weapons in April. After the expiration of March, pass the assessment , and then divide the banner army into thousands of households."

"At that time, the barracks of the four thousand households outside the military mansion will also be completed. They will practice according to the sub-disciplines of infantry, artillery, vehicles, boats, and engineering, and learn their military skills." Zhang Shijue looked quite emotional, and said: "The past is a The generals have the appearance of training soldiers, and now the officers who come out of the martial arts hall are trained in the same way, and the soldiers trained in this way can have a combat power that is much higher than that of other banner troops."

"Not to mention the best firearms battalion." Zhang Shijue asked Chen Mu with a flattering look, "Chen Shuai, I heard that the Shenji Battalion in the north asked our military bureau to transfer firearms a while ago? "

"The news is very good, you!"

Chen Mu said with a smile: "[-] flintlock blunderbusses, [-] bayonets, [-] flintlock pistols, and the gunpowder formula of our Nanyang military mansion. The blunderbusses are made in Nanyang, and the guns are imported from Xuanfu. General Zhenshuo, a total of one hundred gates."

"[-] infantry, [-] gunners, all firearms. I originally wanted to transfer [-] cavalry guns for the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion. I didn't give them. Although I have never brought cavalry, sabers and spears are cavalry. The key to victory."

"Especially when the Shenji Battalion is fully equipped with firearms, this kind of firepower is beyond the reach of the two guards. It must have a cavalry team with enough courage."

In Chen Mu's opinion, the Shenji Battalion is too stupid. It is completely equipped with elite troops all the time. Although there is only one battalion in number, it is their turn to fight, not to mention their courage. , Tens of thousands of people are needed to provide logistics.

If you don't have the ability to fight alone, you can only use it in the capital.

As Chen Mu said, he turned to Zhang Shijue and asked, "A while ago, Commander Chen Chaojue sent the report on the battle of Guam to all ministries. You generals have read it. What have you learned?"

"I learned it. Those veterans in the martial arts hall have thoroughly analyzed the battle report before sending it to me. Now the newly trained flag troops use their posture to set up their spears, which saves effort."

Zhang Shijue said with some disdain, and said: "My subordinates looked at the strength and weapons of Xiyi, not to mention the [-] American soldiers, but only [-] battalions of Xiyi, equipped with breastplates, matchlocks and flintlocks. Light guns and heavy guns , the spear team and the artillery team, the guns are stronger than me and the cannons are weaker than me, but they will not fight such a bad battle, they are waiting for the wind."

"It's not their fault. If it weren't for Lin Manjue who was always beating around the island, the morale of others would not be so easy to lose."

Chen Mu said with a chuckle, the battle of Guam is 300% possible to win, but the existence of Lin Manjue made the victory come too easily, more than 3000 people fought two to [-] people, and the battle on the island is relatively closed, the fear in people's hearts will be doubled expand.

When Chen Lin and Deng Zilong's army came under pressure, they had already won.

"Weapons are very important. You can equip your subordinates with as good weapons as you can. We generals cannot let our subordinates who are fighting for their lives suffer from foreign objects."

"You can't lag behind others in terms of military equipment. Even if my guns are a little worse than others, I can't let my subordinates hold bows and crossbows to fight with other people's guns. They will definitely lose." Chen Mu said, looking at the distant army. He said: "Arms do not fall on the people. It is the people who decide victory or defeat. It is the sum of their proficiency in combat skills, courage and tenacity, and their determination to defend their homeland and open up territories."

Zhang Shijue thought about it, and asked: "So Chen Shuai added in the new small flag manual in the Wanli year that there must be eloquent flag soldiers in the small flag to pay double wages, and talk about Lin Manjue, Yang Zhaolong, Chen Bazhi, Ma Kam these heroic stories?"

"Of course! But this is not a heroic story. These great and heroic people should be remembered by others. They fought the enemy to the death, fought against the sky, and gave the enemy a slap in the face in a desperate place. Whoever they fight with is a hero."

"I didn't lie to them, I always lied to people, but I never lied to my own people. I don't ask about his origin, as long as he desires greatness, as long as he does his best, I will make him a nobleman if he is alive; It is easiest for me to erect a monument in my hometown and seek wealth and wealth.”

"An army has only one officer, and it is easy to be defeated, but our department has 11 people in one small banner, one main banner and two sub-banners, four people have one officer, and each small banner can command ten people. No matter how hard you hit, you can't break it."

"Find me, Brother Chao, and I'll go see what's up with him."

Chen Mu patted Zhang Shijue on the shoulder and said solemnly: "Take good care of my soldiers. When you are ready, a new era of Ming Dynasty will come. I will take you to a land that has never been set foot in the past dynasties, and open the eyes of others. Let them know our Wude!"

When he left Junfuwei and went to the port, Bei Sheren, who was newly transferred to his subordinates as Captain Ding, joined the army and graduated from the Xuanfu Lecture Hall. Jun Jun asked suspiciously: "The commander-in-chief has made others great, why don't you give it to us?" Banner Army tell us about yourself?"

"I am neither great nor heroic."

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I pave the way for heroes and create greatness."

(End of this chapter)