open sea

Chapter 46
In Yingde County, Shaozhou Prefecture, there is a company camp for more than ten miles outside the city.

Chen Mu was so annoyed by the shouting exercises of the sergeants near the camp, he tried to draw a bow and shoot a few arrows to practice archery but couldn't do it, and when he returned to the army tent to read the military books, he couldn't understand it, and was so angry that he wandered around in the camp with nowhere to get angry , Complaining to the left and right: "They all ran to Shaozhou Prefecture to practice something, shouldn't they recharge their batteries and wait for the big battle, ah?"

Qi Zhengyan and Long Junxiong followed behind him, holding the Japanese sword at his waist, and smiled at each other.

Shao Tingda and others have become the sole leader of the small flag army, and can no longer accompany him to run errands for him. Even Xiao Hachiro has to lead his flag army to shoulder greater responsibilities during the war. Fortunately, the small flag sergeant It has been practiced almost by Chen Mu.

Although they still often have a contemptuous and foolish mentality towards Wei Balang, they are afraid of being punished and dare not play around at will during the expedition, otherwise Xiao Hachiro really can't control them.

But Chen Mu was used to having a few people running around at any time, so he took these two Japanese pirates with him.

Now they wear black net scarves on their heads and iron helmets to protect their heads tightly, and wear mandarin duck iron wire war jackets bought by Qingcheng military craftsmen. They look quite like two general banner soldiers.Although the Japanese sword is still inserted in the waist in the old way, it looks a bit weird, but there are not a few people who practice Japanese swords in the Ming army, so it will not make people feel weird.

It's a pity that no one gave Master Chen Jun medicine.

However, the sword skills of these two people are really good. Qi Zhengyan's sword skills are second only to Shao Tingda among the military households under his banner. This still suffers from his slightly short stature, otherwise Shao Tingda may not be an opponent.Long Junxiong was even stronger than Shao Tingda. He had studied challenges from samurai in Japan for six years. Looking at Qingyuan Wei, there might not be anyone who could beat him one-on-one with a sword.

"What are you smirking about?" Chen Muzheng was annoyed, turned to see the two people giggling, and said, "Or do you know why they practice this?"

"General Banner, go out and have a look. Ninety percent of the camps that are being practiced at this time are guards."

Long Junxiong was not a military household in the past, but now he integrates more slowly, holding a knife all day long and dare not speak.

Qi Zhengyan has been a military household since he was a child. Although he escaped for a few years, it is not difficult to reintegrate in. After a few months, he has become accustomed to being around Chen Mu, and he said flatteringly: "The people who are silent in the camp are the chieftains, generals, private soldiers, Recruiting soldiers. There is no other reason, and I am cramming for the time being, fearing that it will be too ugly to die in a fight!"

After Qi Zhengyan finished speaking, he still didn't forget to add, "Our brothers have all seen the guards in Guangdong, and the only ones who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the soldiers of the General Banner are those who recruit soldiers and lead private soldiers."

Chen Mu glanced at him, these two idiots, for fear that he would forget that they used to be Japanese pirates!But he doesn't really care about this, it's more or less a merit to be able to use it for himself and not go out to harm others.

"You have seen many Ming troops. Let me ask you, you have been defeated by Qi's army. Tell me what the Qi's army looks like." How does Qi's army compare?"

Qi Zhengyan and Long Junxiong were a little bit happy before, but when they heard Chen Mu's question, they both stuttered and couldn't speak.In the end, Long Junxiong took a careful look at Chen Mu, and said: "General Banner, Qi's army fought against Japanese pirates, killing more than a hundred Japanese, often without hurting anyone. This... we can't compare this!"

Chen Mu laughed out loud when he saw the silence of the two, and found a wooden barrel where the gunpowder was placed, waved them to sit down, and said: "I just asked casually, the army behind won't be able to stop chattering so that we all stay here Can't start, just chat casually, tell me, how is Chen's Xiaoqi not as good as Qi's army?"

Of course he knew that his army was inferior to General Qi Jiguang's army, but he didn't know where it was inferior, whether it was armament, organization, morale, battle formation, or a mysterious and mysterious strategy?He, who learned about the ancient army through the ancient texts he had read by accident, could not have any objective and accurate understanding of the most elite army of this era.

It is better to learn from each other than to know. At least knowledge is worse than ignorance. When the knowledge of 400 years later is combined with practice, he can grow into an excellent ancient general.

"This is something that we have little knowledge, so we can't say for sure. If you say something wrong, you can just don't get angry." Qi Zhengyan felt a little relieved when he saw Chen Mu making a small talk, and pointed in the direction of the tents in the other guard camps He said: "Let's put it this way, if these guards were under General Qi's command, seventy percent of them would be killed by their own soldiers in a single battle."

Chen Mu was stunned, frowned and said: "What nonsense are you talking about, how could General Qi's army kill the army and take the lead?"

"Hey! It's not about killing the army, it's about military discipline." Qi Zhengyan pursed his lips and smiled, then showed a look of reminiscence on his face, and said with a little fear: "When the Qi family army fought Xianyou, my subordinates were among the Japanese pirates. Seeing a musketeer drop his medicine pouch, a pawn fail to take out his weapon, and then his ears were cut off by the purge military law, he didn't hesitate at all. In this matter, the Japanese pirates can't do it, the general flag can do it Got it?"

Chen Mu nodded, and then asked: "The Japanese pirates have good military discipline too?"

He only remembered that there was indeed no noise in the Japanese pirate formation, but the two real Japanese pirate teams were hiding in the woods at that time, so he didn't have a chance to take a closer look.

"Not all of them, like the Japanese pirates, or ronin, have poor military discipline, but they charge fiercely; if it is Japanese soldiers, their military discipline is much better, much better than the guard army, and they can't make noise when marching and looting , but they can’t compare with General Qi’s Yiwu mine soldiers, they are far behind!”

"Go on and say, Qi's army is better than Qi's army."

"What's more, we don't know. Before the battle, the sky was full of gravel from nowhere, and the people around were blown up. They fought without getting up. I just felt that there were shadows of big bamboo spears everywhere. Even if they were to deal with the guards one by one, they would not be able to use a one-to-one jumping battle, and the Japanese guns would not be able to injure them, so they were defeated in a daze."

Qi Zhengyan had a smirk on his face when he said this, and finally said to Chen Mu embarrassedly: "General Banner, to be honest, I have never fought with Qi's army with real swords. I saw the front retreat from a distance, so I ran away. Those who fought are dead, where can I find out how they fought."

Chen Mubai waved his hand boredly, these words are very powerful, those who have seen Qi's army fighting have died, but this is of no use to him!

"Forget it, I'll see if I have a chance to see Qi...Qianhu in person!" Chen Mu was talking when he saw Bai Yuanjie leading a few barbarians approaching quickly, and hurriedly got up, then saw Bai Yuanjie walking and said to him: "Sitting on the gunpowder is not afraid of being blown up! Call the flag army, and there is an order!"

Note: There is an example in the Qi family army. When returning to the camp after the war, those who have no ears will be cut off.

(End of this chapter)