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Chapter VIII Drilling the Foreign Army

Luo Siwei stood quietly on the deck of the merchant ship, looking at the blue sea waves. He was the second in the Wuchen Martial Arts and Wuchen Martial Arts in the first year of Chongzheng, which is what the saying goes, Wu Jinshi, and Wu No. 2.

The Wu Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be more unlucky than the Wu Jinshi of all dynasties, because there were too many generals inherited from the Ming army, so it was difficult for the Wu Jinshi to make a comeback. However, this situation changed a lot in the Chongzheng Dynasty. After Emperor Chongzheng's dynasty, he worked hard to govern and continuously expanded his army. He also valued the generals who were from the Wuchen ranks. The Wu Jinshi of the Wuchen ranks were basically recruited into the army, and at least they were the hundred generals and thousand generals. The top three in the first class were directly recruited into the Imperial Guards and served as guerrilla generals.

As the first-ranked leader, he naturally joined the Imperial Guards, and was fortunate to be incorporated into the First Corps of the Imperial Guards. In recent years, he has accumulated military merits and has been promoted to the rank of the First Battalion of the Musketeers of the First Corps of the Imperial Guards. He is in charge of the entire 10,000 elite musketeers of the Imperial Guards!

This time he was ordered by the emperor to teach the soldiers of the Allied Powers to use muskets and artillery. He knew that this Allied Powers was Portugal, which had recently formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty. As for why they had to teach them to use muskets and artillery, he also knew, because they bought 10,000 Type 24 flintlocks and 100 Type 518 howitzers from the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was afraid that they would not know how to use it, so he specially sent him to lead 100 musket soldiers and 100 artillery soldiers to teach them on the spot.

Selling weapons to the vassal states and the Ming Dynasty had this tradition, but selling weapons to foreigners may be the first time, and it was the first time to send people to teach foreigners. Therefore, the emperor attached great importance to it. Not only did he personally choose him as the head of the professor, but he also summoned all the soldiers involved in the professor, and even read the imperial edict himself, urging them to pay attention to maintaining the image of the Ming Dynasty outside.

This sacred edict has been printed into a booklet, each of them has a copy. During the time he sailed on the sea, he would summon all his soldiers to read the sacred edict every day and then carry out regular exercises.

He had long memorized the content of the sacred edict:

After you step out of the Ming Dynasty, you represent the image of the Ming Dynasty. You must always remember that you are a glorious Ming soldiers and bring glory to the Ming Dynasty. Here, I want to emphasize a few points:

First, remember that the Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and always pay attention to your appearance and behavior, and do not lose the face of the Ming Dynasty;

Second, treat friends of allies without being arrogant or impatient, and neither being humble or arrogant;

third......

Just as he was silently reciting the decree in his heart, a soldier ran over and saluted respectfully and said, "Report to General, the merchant ship manager said Goa is coming."

Upon hearing this, Luo Siwei immediately ran to the bow of the ship. An endless black line appeared on the sea in the distance, which should be land. He immediately turned around, walked to the front of the deck and shouted: "All of all."

Soon, countless soldiers wearing double-layer composite armor ran from the ship warehouse and the deck with guns on their backs and into the middle of the deck. In less than a stick of incense, they formed two neat square formations.

Luo Siwei glanced around majesticly, and all the soldiers raised their heads and stood straight. He nodded slightly, and then said aloud: "Check the equipment and tidy up the appearance."

All the soldiers were touching from top to bottom in a uniform manner, flintlock rifle, grenade, bullet, medicine room, bayonet...,

After the equipment inspection, they began to straighten their helmets, straighten their collars, smooth out their composite armor, and tighten their belts...

Everything was done, and everyone raised their heads and stood attentively, waiting for the General's inspection.

Luo Siwei looked over row by row, and saw that everyone had no problems, he nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Everyone, stand by on time."

After saying that, he himself walked to the forefront of the team, holding the hilt of the sword in his hand, and standing there straight.

Soon, the huge merchant ship sailed into a harbor. At this time, hundreds of soldiers gathered on the shore, probably to receive the goods.

The merchant ship leaned directly to the berth in front of the group of soldiers. As soon as the stairs were put down, a few leading foreigners led a group of soldiers to climb up the ship impatiently.

Before the foreigners showed up, Schvirana had a slightly weird Chinese with accent and came: "Oh, Ruoport, my friend, it's been a long time since I saw you, have you brought me both muskets and cannons?"

The merchant ship manager had already arrived at Luo Siwei. He did not meet him, but stood there seriously waiting.

Soon Schvira's head emerged from the edge of the ship's side, and he said with some blame: "Oh, why don't you come to greet your old friend? I..."

He said, looking up at the deck. When he saw the neatly-standing Ming soldiers, he couldn't even say anything surprised. He stood blankly at the entrance of the stairs like a fool.

At this moment, I remembered a while of Portuguese (for the sake of easy understanding, it was all written in Chinese): "Earl Schweila, why don't you move? Don't you know that blocking others' path is a very uncivilized behavior?"

Upon hearing this, Schvira immediately jumped down from the stairs, reached out and pulled the person behind, and kept apologizing in Portuguese: "I'm sorry, sorry, Condede, I suddenly saw soldiers from the Ming Empire. I'm so happy that I forgot that you were behind. I'm sorry, sorry."

Condede was not really angry. He was just joking with Schweila. After hearing Schweila's words, he immediately looked up on the deck, Oh, the one who bought the cake, is this the soldier of the Ming Empire? It's so majestic!

It's not possible to be imposing. In order to show his majesty, Zhu Cijiu specially selected two hundred elite soldiers with a height of about 1.8 meters and very strong bodies from the 50,000 musketeers and 20,000 artillery soldiers of the First Army of the Imperial Guard. Moreover, their flintlock rifles and composite armor were all launched. More importantly, they were all pulled onto the ship and tried it. They were seasick, so they were all full of energy and majestic now.

Before the guards behind came up, Schweila immediately pulled Condede to Luo Siwei and asked anxiously: "This general, are you sent by His Majesty the Emperor?"

Luo Siwei had actually seen Shi Weila, but there was no way. This guy often followed the emperor's butt and there were not many people in the Imperial Guard who had never seen him.

After all, Schvira was the emperor's personal title of Chengyi Bo, and was considered a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, so Luo Siwei gave him a standard military salute and said loudly: "The last general Luo Siwei, the first battalion of the Musketeers of the First Army of the Imperial Guard, met with the Earl. When he said to the Earl, the emperor was afraid that the Earl's subordinates would not use our Ming Dynasty musketeers and artillery, so he specially sent the Mongols and Artillery to lead one hundred musketeers and one hundred artillery soldiers to teach the Earl's subordinates to use musketeers and artillery."

Shivera almost jumped up happily when she heard this. He held Luo Siwei's hand excitedly and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor is so nice to me. Thank you, General Luo, thank you for your hard work, why don't I let my subordinates take you to rest?"

Luo Siwei was so confused by his messy words that he was dizzy, but he still understood the last sentence. He shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Count, we can't go to rest now. The emperor has told you that you must hand over all the muskets and cannons. Now the muskets and cannons are still on the ship, so we can't leave."

Schvira slapped her forehead and said, "Look at me, I will forget this when I am happy. Wait a moment, and I will have someone come to move immediately."

After saying that, he explained to the guards behind him in Portuguese. The guard immediately ran to the edge of the deck and shouted a few times at the shore. Soon, a large number of Portuguese soldiers in uniform uniforms climbed onto the ship and carried a box of weapons off the ship under the guidance of Luo Siwei and the merchant ship manager.

Schvira stood aside, looked at his chaotic subordinates, and then looked at the Ming soldiers who were neatly arranged in two square formations, standing there motionless. He was so envious. The soldiers of the Ming Empire were well-trained. They stood in a neat manner, not like the new recruits I just recruited. The square formation that stood out was like the African jungle, crooked, giving people the feeling that they would get lost as soon as they entered.

There is also the helmet, the armor, the belt, and the weapons, all neatly and upright, unlike the recruits under my command. There are not many soldiers with a straight military cap, and most of them deliberately tilted to one side, even those with hats on the belt!

The more he looked at it, the more he became envious. Suddenly, he remembered that General Luo was a general. According to the military system of the Ming Empire, he should have led an army of about 10,000 people. If he could help him train these 10,000 new soldiers, wouldn’t he be as neat as the Ming army in front of him? Don’t underestimate this neat team. He had seen the Ming army fight with his own eyes. His movements and efficiency were like storms and rains when shooting, without any stopping; the speed of loading shells was so fast that it was incomprehensible. If his subordinates could have that speed, he would even dare to directly lead these 10,000 people to go to war with the most powerful Mughal Empire on this subcontinent!

He asked Luo Siwei aside with a nervous mood, and asked in an almost pleading tone: "General Luo, can you help me train these new troops? You have also seen their appearance. How can you go to the battlefield like this?"

Luo Siwei was shocked and asked in disbelief: "Sir Earl, is this your new army? I thought they were the porters you invited! Haven't you trained them?"

Schvira's face was flushed with shame, and he said awkwardly: "This, I have only trained hundreds of guards, and I have never led an army of tens of thousands of people. General Luo, don't you teach them to use muskets and cannons? Just help me. Do a favor, help me."

Luo Siwei was just wondering why the so-called new army was just like porters. It was not that he didn't want to help him train the army. When he came, the emperor specifically told him, and tried to take the opportunity to practice more of the new army under Shi Weila, so that they could identify with the Ming army and do things in the future.

He didn't know what the emperor would do in the future, but now Schvira came to him and wanted to hand over the new army to him for training, so he naturally wanted to do it. So he replied simply: "Since the Count thinks so much, then the general will help you practice them. If the practice is not good, I hope he can forgive me."

Schvira was overjoyed and said, "General Luo is so grateful to you. Just practice with confidence. As long as you can practice as a second-class legion in the Ming Dynasty, I will be satisfied. You are the general of the first-class legion and will definitely not disappoint me."
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