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Chapter 1003 Vanguard
What happened to Bacon was not complicated in the eyes of Ying Ming, who was promoted to the small flag officer of the Beiyang cavalry.

Under normal circumstances, Ying Ming, who is a small banner officer, would not know anything. If he did not follow a good officer, it would be normal for soldiers with less than a hundred households to step on the battlefield without knowing who the enemy is.

But it's different in Dongyang Military Mansion, Chen Mu has a preacher.

This system, which is independent of officers and soldiers, changes the information transmission in the army. The preaching officer in each small banner is not only the No.3 officer, they are also Chen Mu's mouthpiece in the army-to ensure that every soldier knows what to do. I don't know more about the two questions of who is fighting and why.

Only know what the military government office thinks they should know.

In the past, Qianhu was a hurdle. At the top of this position, basically before the war broke out, they already knew who to fight with, and some people knew how to fight; I don't know anything about the war, and receiving orders often begins after the war.

Further down, there are all kinds of situations. Just take the Qingcheng Qianhu Office as an example. Bai Yuanjie, a grassroots officer, knew the news earlier than other Baihu because his family was deeply rooted in Qingcheng. In one step, Chen Mu knew more than other small banners because he was valued by him, and he was basically equivalent to the general banner.

But Chen Mu is a combat unit, not a combat individual. The individual is Shao Tingda, Fu Yuan, Shi Qi and others in Chen Xiaoqi's period.

If Bai Yuanjie knew 20.00% of the situation of the war, then Chen Mu might know 5.00%, or even one or two percent, depending on Bai Baihu's mood and thoughts.

So as a combat person, that is, what the Banner Army knows, it is one percent to one thousandth, and it is possible that they don't know anything.

And this number may contain what they should know, and it may contain what they should not know.

Sometimes it is a good thing for the flag army to know some news, which will improve the combat effectiveness; but sometimes it is not good for the war if everyone knows some things.

What's more, there are more than a hundred officers in the old thousand-household station, each of whom has a different disposition, choice, deed, likes and dislikes, people talk a lot, don't say what should be said, talk nonsense what should not be said, and the subordinates listen to and listen to what they should not say. It is possible to spread the word after hearing it.

In the Dongyang military government, what the officers know and what the banner army knows are respectively determined by "the military government office to the commander-in-chief of each department, the commander-in-chief to the commander, and the commander to thousands of households", and "the military government government to the head of the preaching department". Officials, the chief preacher to the guard preacher, and the guard preacher to thousands of households, and finally to the small banner preachers to the flag army' these two systems issued.

The pre-war news was cut off by the Qianhu of each ministry. According to the military law, they could not leak military information to the subordinate officers. After the communication is correct, each sergeant will be informed by the subordinates.

Under the constraints of the times, the possibility of spreading rumors in the army is minimized, and the caliber... and thinking are also unified.

The most obvious example of this system being applied to Yingming, the small cavalry officer, is that on the third day after Shi Xiaolou returned to Changsheng, Qianhu, a cavalry stationed in Changsheng, ordered a training march. , two hundred households of cavalry, and one hundred households of cavalry and artillery received the order. Within half an hour of receiving the order, the banner troops scattered around Changsheng to perform different tasks and training were assembled to enter the combat state, and they brought their marching supplies to the east coast of New Spain. Port Way forward.

They were dispatched together with another infantry Qianhu and an artillery Qianhu, both of whom were destined for Port Wei.

There are also several troops that were transferred to the north and south, and the entire Changsheng entered a large-scale military training.

They marched eastward at a rapid marching speed of 320 miles in three days. During the rest of the march, the preaching officer of the small cavalry banner gave a general account of what Shi Xiaolou had seen and heard during the negotiations in England.

The central idea is that it is a great shame and shame, and Elizabeth of England harbors evil intentions; next, they will change their previous slightly slack state and train hard to deal with possible wars.

The road to Port Wei was very long, but it took them only eight days to arrive. Ying Ming felt that his brains were about to be blown away by the horse's back, and he had no chance to think at all.

But there is always someone who can.

During the two-day break after arriving in Weigang, three thousands of households gathered together to preach. On the way, they gathered the questions of the banner troops who still had time to think, and each called a hundred households under their command to give a lecture. After answering all the questions one by one, each small banner preached Transcribe and answer questions for the Banner Army on the way after the break.

Yingming held back a question: "Yingyi came to Changsheng to ask for trade, but the commander refused; the commander sent someone to England for trade, but Yingyi also refused. Isn't this harboring evil intentions?"

Apparently someone else asked the same question before, and the preacher was fully prepared, and replied: "If this is the case, it is not considered that, but the barbarian people are not just like this. The conditions proposed by the Marshal are exactly the same as their request to us. It is just that the two countries The positions were reversed, the barbarians asked us to open the Fu, take care of their merchants, etc.; the Marshal asked them to open the Fu, take care of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, etc.”

"Their refusal was not to retaliate against the Marshal, but to his council, which is similar to the Imperial Council. They finally agreed that it would be harmful to them, so they refused; they had previously submitted such a harmful proposal to Daming, which was naturally harboring evil intentions."

Ying Ming took this answer with him all the way back to Changsheng, clutching his butt and releasing Bacon who was climbing the wall from the cell.

At that moment he thought that Bacon might die.

At this juncture when the Eastern military government is preparing for war, he is the only one in Asia who is from England. What does it mean?
The fact that Shi Xiaolou dismissed him when he came back from Europe already speaks volumes. In the past, he was an investment for Shi Xiaolou, but now he is useless to Shi Xiaolou.

Ying Ming felt that he was not as smart as Shi Xiaolou, and he would not be more knowledgeable than Shi Xiaolou, and closer to the commander of the Eastern Army who had the right to fight.

To start a war, under Shi Xiaolou's reaction... is almost a certainty.

The preachers did not do any unnecessary incitement, and the Banner Army already understood that if a war started, it would be a war aimed at punishment, punishing their bad intentions.

Ying Ming only thought it was a bit ridiculous, Drake and Bacon are here, they deserve to be beaten.

You made a request, I disagreed, and made the same request to you, and you rejected it, saying it was a bad request - a stupid way of thinking about it.

Don't say that the terms of this negotiation are definitely unequal, even if they are equal.

Ask Spain, do you dare to talk about equality with Daming?
But Yingming didn't have time to think about these issues.

Soon, the Dongyang Military Mansion distributed a batch of winter woolen military uniforms made last year to his direct subordinate Qianhu. There were less than [-] sets, but Yingming's Cavalry Baihu Department had all of them.

Immediately afterwards, the news came to his ears from the preaching officer. Mr. Chang Ji, the fleet that departed from Panama last year, had arrived on the east coast of Panama. When he knew the news, King Alan's Restoration Army had already marched towards Port Wei. up.

Immediately afterwards, their transfer order was issued—the four hundred households of the vanguard army, with the Alan Restoration Army, stationed in Weigang, preparing to board the ship.

(End of this chapter)