Zhao Shizhen is not talking about false words. Chen Mu's fleet can't run out for three thousand miles now.

The Xiangshan Shipyard was urged to drive it away by Chen Mu. At the same time, dozens of small shark boats were launched, and hundreds of them were built at the same time. The progress was very fast and the effect was very good. The problem was that the maintenance of warships was crowded.

When a ship is about to be maintained, this is the case with dozens of ships in the same batch.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Longqing, Chen Mu sent dozens of ships to the Weigang. It was not that the ships were not well painted in Manila Bay. It was because the shipyard here was still expanding its scale and could not accommodate twenty small shark boats at the same time.

After calculating the time, instead of spending time in Luzon, it is better to ship to Nanyang Guard every half month. The shipyard there is large, there are many docks, and it will take a long time to repair it. The next batch of warships have arrived, and the repair efficiency is better than in Luzon.

Of course, there are also small batches of ships in Luzon to rest.

The reason for being so busy now is that the technology was not up to date when building the shipyard. Chen Mu only cared about the shape and performance of the ship, and did not consider anything else, so he did not work hard on the ship's material. Later, the large ships built in Nanyang Port were much better.

The bottom of the ships built by Weigang were covered with lime, fish oil and tung oil, which had a protective effect on the shipworms. In this way, even if some wood was mothed, it would not be a big deal. When you land on the shore, you would have to dry it for a few days, and all the shipworms would die.

As for the Spanish method of wrapping copper skin, Chen Mu also decided to learn it in the future. The copper skin is very thin, and even if it is a thousand-material ship like Liuding and Liujia, it will not cost much.

Therefore, in the future, the large ships built by Weigang Shipyard and Xiangshan Shipyard are covered with copper skin.

Chen Shuai was not idle while waiting for the ship. He held a military parade in Macheng, the capital of Luzon. The 5,600 flag army under Chen Bazhi, the commander of the Luzon North Commander.

This Ming-Lu joint flag army was the norm for the Luzon army in Chen Mu's eyes. In the early days of Xiangshan, all the units were fabricated and carried by the carriages. Except for engineers and hundreds of baggages, the remaining 800 households were all practicing the mandarin duck formation. Because they were located in the mountainous areas in the northern part of Luzon, the positioning of Hachiro was obviously mountain infantry.

The weapons equipped include the Qi family swords, wolves, rattan cards, hard bows, poison crossbows, long cards, boring handles and other cold weapons, while the hot weapons are fuse-rope bird guns, small flag arrows, tiger squat cannons and the twenty-two-pound and ten-five-pound cannons of the direct commander.

Half of the soldiers in the Mandarin Duck Formation were equipped with single-faced breastplates, gunners, gunners, and drummers. They were protected by the shield hands holding long-card single-kill swords and the killer holding Qi's swords.

The training was very appropriate, and the military appearance was neat. This was the military appearance of Xiao Baye. During the training, 5,600 people were killed by Hachiro and 377 of them were recruited again. In his words, there were still fewer steps.

"Father, where can I fight? Send my child."

Xiaobalang is really Chen Mu. Seeing him growing from a dead child who doesn’t understand 46 to a young warrior today, he inherited Chen’s skillful use of bird gun cannon warships, and also learned from Qi’s meticulousness in training troops and horses.

The new recruits need to see blood. Although Yaro's command is not a new recruit, it is not easy for him to train a group of defeated soldiers to look sophisticated by him. Of course, Chen Mu could see at a glance that these powerful soldiers were not slutty - but he could defeat them by leading two thousand-man teams from his old servants.

Because they have never won, they lack the momentum to win.

"It's hard to say when fighting. I'm going to lead troops to Sulu recently, open the trade route, and send their king to pay tribute." Chen Mu pondered for a while, but was still a little worried, and said, "Can you do it by yourself when you go to Ryukyu?"

"Go to Ryukyu?"

After thinking about it, Xiaobaye thought about it and never expected that his adoptive father would send him to Ryukyu. He asked in surprise: "Ryukyu has always served the court consistently. Do you want to fight with them?"

In fact, before the Battle of Korea, North Korea could not be called the special tribute country among the Ming Dynasty. The Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute in one or two years and continued to be exorcized. It paid tribute four times during the Longqing period alone, and there was no need for Chen Mu to cause trouble.

"It is precisely because of the consistent service to the sect leader that several boats in Ryukyu had arrived at the port a few days ago. The descendant of the Fujian people named Zheng Hui came. He studied in the Imperial College for six years. After returning to China, he specialized in tribute affairs in the Ming Dynasty. He brought news that King Shangyuan of Ryukyu died last year, and the country is now in chaos."

"Because the eldest son was born in vain, the ministers of the country supported the second son and assigned you to lead five thousand families and follow Zheng Zhui to the Ryukyu islands to cheer for the orthodox king. No trouble apart."

Chen Mu looked at the map for a moment before continuing, "Dan'er went with you, he went to pave the commercial road, not Ryukyu, but Japan."

"There are many merchants going to Japan, and the most are Kyushu. We are all doing business in the three princes. In Ryukyu, you can continue to train troops. Near Seed Island in the north, build a port on the island of Kyushu Island. Don't build more. It is a good tribute country and don't cause trouble for others."

Hachiro nodded. In fact, when he was young, he found it funny to find trouble for other thousand households. He saw a lot of worldly life when he traveled north. Now Chen Mu was influenced by the practical theory of Yeluzi leading troops, and then went to Qi Jiguang to receive the most severe orthodox military law education, which made him much more steady.

The kids are still the same as the ones, and they asked again: "Then, where can we fight?"

The essence of Qi Jiguang's military strategy is not about the theory of bloodshed and alliance with ghosts and gods, nor even the use of military weapons and the outer paths such as the Mandarin Duck Formation. Everyone can learn these things, but no one can be as elite as Qi Jiguang's troops, because his true essence is the world's first-class harsh military strategy.

Just two words, killing and rewarding.

Now the Northern Guard of Luzon has gone from killing soldiers to killing enemies. He needs a war to kill both the enemy and use military methods to kill his own people during the battle, turning the military orders that the flag army has become familiar with in their minds into reality.

Only after this can the flag army be truly elite soldiers who are prohibited.

"Wait in Ryukyu, Li Dan will identify which prince is the most close to Ming, and which prince is the most negative to Ming. When the queen attacks Ming, you will send troops to help fight them." Chen Mu said as he thought Hachiro's mind was a little abrupt, and he quickly reminded him: "Don't defeat people in one go, for example, Ryuzai Temple is the worst negative to Ming, you will help Shimazu or Otomo, and then you will not advance again after conquering Nagasaki."

"If it is Shimazu, take Kagoshima and Seed Island. Not to mention occupying it, just say that the local garrison rests, drying up the maggots on the ship, building a few water villages, and accepting some Ming Portuguese and Korean merchants. This is called assisting in defense."

As he said that, Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "Li Dan will do these things well, you just need to go to war."

Chen Bazhi smiled with satisfaction, clasped his fists and bowed: "Don't worry, father, I trained my troops using Qi Shuai's method of controlling Japanese troops, and they were all attacking them. When the guns and cannons sounded, he called his parents to be in vain!"
Chapter completed!