1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 135 Marines

"Master, they're still alive!" Ding Chuangen pointed to a few aborigines sitting blankly in the corner of the wooden house in surprise.

These aborigines have been locked in a wooden house for more than 20 days. They are all healthy aborigines from the mining area. They were inoculated with smallpox by Peng Laogui, and then mixed with smallpox patients.More than ten days ago, some of the first and second batch of aborigines who were inoculated with smallpox had been infected with smallpox one after another and died slowly.They are the third batch of aboriginal people to be vaccinated, a total of three, and they are still alive.

Old Ghost Peng walked up to the aborigines without saying a word, and carefully observed their conditions. There were obvious signs of cowpox on their faces and bodies, but they had no symptoms of smallpox.Immediately, he took Ding Chuangen out of the cabin.

"Huh..." Peng Laogui and Ding Chuangen untied the cloth strips that were tightly wrapped around their faces, and let out a long breath.

The two quickly came to a separate bathroom, stripped off their clothes, and then rinsed every part of their bodies with hot water.

"Burn all the changed clothes and bury them deep in the soil." After bathing, Peng Laogui and Ding Chuangen changed into dry clothes again, and when they walked out of the bathroom, he seriously instructed a disciple.

"Master, I know." The apprentice was also wrapped up tightly, dragging the clothes that Peng Laogui and Ding Chuangen had changed with iron hooks, and walked towards the outside of Heishan Fort.

"Chuangen, send someone to the mine, find Huzi, and ask him to send some healthy people over." Sitting at a desk, Old Ghost Peng ordered lightly.

"Do you want to do it again?" Ding Chuangen asked carefully.

"This time, the person is not dead. If the person's physique is good, or there is a special abnormality inside, maybe.... Let's test another group!"

Ding Chuangen responded and went out to find someone.

However, Niuhu is no longer in the mine at this time.He was ordered by the Navy Department of the Dudufu to form a 220-man marine team to prepare for the expedition to the Kingdom of Aceh with the Dutch East India Company in July.

220 marines, 110 musketeers, 50 spearmen, 35 short soldiers (holding long and short knives), and the rest are heavy soldiers.All soldiers were mainly Ming people, as well as former German mercenaries, Japanese wild warriors, and former Spanish sailors.

The commander of the Marine Corps is Niu Hu, and the deputy captain is Li Fade. There are six platoons, and the platoon leaders are former guards. At the same time, some students from the Army Training Institute are selected to study in the morning and practice together with the Marine Corps in the afternoon.

"You know how to ride a horse?" In a meadow training ground outside Montenegro, Niu Hu stared at the tall, thin immigrant who had just arrived in front of him.

"If you go back to Shangguan, you will know how to ride a horse." Fu Jinbiao replied carefully.

"Ride twice and have a look." Niu Hu ordered with a deadpan expression.

"... Let me ride a horse?"

"Yes, take a ride around and have a look."

Fu Jinbiao stopped talking, walked up to the only horse in the Marine Corps, grabbed the rein with both hands, stepped on the pedal with his left foot, and raised his right foot. This is a very beautiful movement of getting on the horse. First, let the horse slip for a while, and then gradually Speed ​​up and disappear in the forest deep in the meadow in a short while.

"Damn it, you don't know how to run away on horseback?" Li Fade stared blankly at the team members on horseback fleeing into the forest in the distance, and couldn't help muttering.

"What did he go out to eat? Eat himself!" Niu Hu said, "It's better than all of us in riding!"

"Could it be that he was a horse bandit before coming to Hanzhou?"

"I can't tell."

The two of them were chatting when they saw the horseman driving back from a distance.

"This horse is not very good, lacks strength, can't run fast, can't charge, and can only be ridden daily." Fu Jinbiao did not forget to comment on the horse's performance after dismounting.

"This horse is meant to pull carts, so of course it can't be used as a war horse." Li Fade said, "What did you do before?"

"If you go back to the Shangguan, you used to be with the Northern Shaanxi Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty, and later it was with the Eight Great Kings."

"Eight Great Kings? What are their backgrounds?" Li Fade didn't know why.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the refugees revolted, they always liked to give themselves a famous nickname.

"Uh, it's the Eight Great Kings who defeated Fengyang, Marshal Zhang (Zhang Xianzhong)!"

"Then how did you get to our Hanzhou?" Niu Hu asked suddenly.

"When I was attacking Luzhou (now Hefei), I fell off my horse and was injured..." Fu Jinbiao couldn't help lowering his head as he said.

Niu Hu and Li Fade immediately understood that the refugees attacked all the way, fell off their horses and were injured in the battle, and it is impossible to give you certain conditions to heal and recuperate your injuries.

"Since you know how to ride a horse, you can also raise a horse." Niu Hu asked.

"I can raise horses and take care of livestock."

"Okay, you quit the Marine Corps, go raise horses for us, and train some riders by the way." Niu Hu made a decision immediately.

"Shangguan, did you make a mistake?...You don't want it anymore?" Fu Jinbiao was a little panicked. He didn't seem to know how to make a living other than killing people on horseback. Therefore, when the Governor's Mansion announced among the immigrants that it would recruit some Marines , he was the first to sign up.Originally thought that with excellent riding skills, he could win the favor of the Shangguan, and then he would be able to make a name for himself.Unexpectedly, he was dismissed.

"You idiot!" Li Fade scolded, "I went to fight that Tubang in July. They are all mountainous and dense forests, so there is no need for cavalry. On the contrary, our Hanzhou, near Jianye City and Heishan Fort, has meadows and valleys. Few, you can use the cavalry to patrol. Shit, in the future, the cavalry commander of Hanzhou, I guess it will be you!"

Fu Jinbiao was overjoyed when he heard this, and half-kneeled on the ground, "Don't worry, Shangguan, I will definitely bring out a team of qualified cavalry to ensure that the young people nearby will have nowhere to hide!"

"Tomorrow, I will take you to Director Pan of the Civilian Government, and I will assign you a job of raising horses!" Niu Hu lifted Fu Jinbiao up, "When you arrive in Hanzhou, work hard, and you will have a bright future!"

"I know! You guys can eat enough and eat fish every day. You will do well!" Fu Jinbiao said, patting his thin chest.

At present, Hanzhou has fifteen horses, 23 mules, and eighteen donkeys, which can already meet the transportation of materials between Jianye City and Heishanbao.Therefore, taking out a few horses to investigate and patrol around can be done with difficulty.However, as the population continues to increase, the development of farmland five kilometers south of Black Mountain Fort is gradually on the agenda.In the later period, the transportation of materials and materials will inevitably increase, and the corresponding demand for large livestock such as mules and horses will also increase.

"Everyone line up, shoot line! Four-stage fire, get ready!" Every day, the military training ground outside the Montenegro Fort, there will be the slogan of the Marine Corps training, as well as bursts of gunfire.

"It's already February now, and it's less than four months before we set off in June. Is it too hasty for these more than 6 people to train for such a short time?" Qi Tian accompanied Yu Fukun outside the training ground, watching The landing corps conducts various tactical drills.

I remember that in later generations, it was just the military training for college students before entering school, which lasted for a month or two weeks, and it seemed that it only trained the queue and mental outlook a little.In the regular army, recruits are trained for three months, and the later tactical drills, and even the combined drills between battalions, will take at least more than a year before they can go to the battlefield.

Of course, there are also war years, and you can go to the battlefield with a gun.But that is based on the cold-blooded battlefield survival rate to train soldiers. In one battle, half of the soldiers are left, and they are regarded as soldiers;

But how many people do we have in Hanzhou? If 200 people go up, half of them will be reimbursed at once, which will be heartbreaking.

"Eating enough food every day, exercising twice a day, and never stopping every day, soldiers and horses in all dynasties have never been like this!" Yu Fukun is quite confident in the marines in front of him, "In ten days, there will be another confrontation drill. All kinds of deficiencies and problems. Let me tell you, they have trained for four months, which is enough to be called elite soldiers."

At present, the Marine Corps is constantly training, confronting drills, and summing up experience, trying to verify all the problems that occur on the battlefield one by one, and find the correct way to deal with them.According to this era, they can actually be regarded as the embryonic form of the modern army. Not to mention the natives in the mountains and forests, even the refugees from the Ming Dynasty can fight and win.

But, the premise is that you don't come with too many people.Thousands of people are coming, no matter how well-trained and well-equipped your 200 people are, they will drown you in the sea of ​​people in an instant.

Therefore, Qi Tian didn't mind helping the Dutch East India Company to fight the "little monsters". Apart from flattering the Dutch East India Company and gaining more trust and assistance, they could also take this opportunity to attack the weak natives and grind them down. Practice it, their puny armed forces.

(End of this chapter)