open sea

Chapter 225
In any case, the orders for guns, cannons, and armors have been drawn.

Artillery Jizhen needs hundreds of gates to be transported continuously in March. Jia first ordered a thousand pairs of single-faced breastplates for small soldiers. The courier back to Nanyang is galloping on the road. You can go to Nanyang in half a month at most.

In the future, there is no need to worry about the transportation capacity. The letters from the six departments can open the door of convenience along the way. Regardless of whether it is land transportation or water transportation, Chen Mu does not need to worry about the following things. Liao only needs to collect the guns, and has Daming Express to help with the work.

This was also a concern for Chen Mu, he didn't want to transport Tianjin with sea boats loaded with guns, even though it was so fast and convenient.

As a military officer, he never knew where the officials were swearing, so he did less work if he could, so as to avoid being scolded for doing more.

After inspecting the situation of the soldiers and horses stationed in the field, Chen Mu went to the governor's office of Jiliao in Miyun, just got off the horse, but saw the horse being pulled out by someone, looked at it, and smiled: "General Chen, it's not a coincidence for you to come. You have to go out, please wait a moment."

Chen Mu laughed, the yamen of the governor of Jiliao was not opened for his family, and there was nothing he could do about it. He raised his horse whip and scratched the back of his neck, and saw Tan Lun coming out of the yamen with a large number of entourages. Chen Mu, who was beside the pile, said a few words to his servants, got on his horse and waited in the road, while his followers stood in line with the formation behind him.

Taking a rough look, there were forty or fifty entourages. Chen Mu thought in his heart: Tan Shuai is quite particular about ostentation, and he can barely catch up with Nanyang Wei Chen.

"General Chen, my master asked you to get on the horse and follow."

"Thank you!"

Chen Mu cupped his hands to express his thanks, then got on his horse, and walked halfway outside the queue before realizing something was wrong.

Wait - who are these people?

He didn't pay attention just now, thinking that Tan Lun was followed by family soldiers, all of them were fully armed, and when he got closer to the limit, he took a glance and found that although they were wearing armor, there were men, women, old and young, although their spirit was not the same as Discipline is like a soldier, but the things in his hands are wrong.

There are those with stilts under their ribs, those who carry big drums and snare drums, and those who hold flutes and clapboards. Well, of course, there are also big hooligans in the folk music world, the Suona of the Zhejiang Army.

Damn!Master Tan is out with the troupe!

Tan Lun didn't take a sedan chair when he went out, but rode a tall horse. He saw Chen Mu's surprised expression at the troupe from the side, smiled lightly, and waved to the family soldiers who cleared the way to avoid him. Chen Mu raised his two fingers and said, "Haven't you seen it? This is my theater troupe. Tan Zili has only two hobbies in his life. One is soldiers and the other is opera. I am from Jiangxi, but I like the Haiyan opera in Zhejiang. General Chen is lucky." it is good."

Talking about opera, Tan Lun was not as serious as sitting in the yamen hall, and said with a smile: "Today, Qi Shuai is offering sacrifices to heaven in Ji Town, and Tan's Haiyan opera troupe also went to help the soldiers. In the past, there were no such musicians during the Japanese invasion in Zhejiang. In order to make a living, I am the magistrate of Taizhou, so I will keep them in the army and form a separate group to practice. General Chen has seen Japanese pirates before, so you know Japanese pirates like to jump into battle, right?"

Chen Mu nodded and said: "Yes, the Japanese like Xiaowu before the battle. His movements are slow and stiff, and he is very serious. He claps his hands and advocates the conch, and then attacks. If you kill the dancer and the conch blower with a bird gun, you can defeat three enemies. Be sharp."

"Haha! You are straightforward. Tan is not like that. I trained a thousand soldiers and horses in Taizhou back then. They danced and I sang operas. I happily defeated them and wiped them out. Later, the Japanese pirates ran away whenever they listened to the operas and saved Zhejiang. Many musicians!"

Chen Mu blinked, but he heard that Tan Lun used to fight in Taizhou to fight until the blood soaked his wrists and sleeves, and it took him a long time to wash off the blood. For a long time you are a man with background music.

What can he say, he cupped his hands and said very seriously: "This is really a merit!"

In fact, Chen Mu has thousands of troops rushing past in his heart. He really can't imagine how the army who sang big dramas in the camp before the war won the battle, and how the commander Tan Lun commanded with a Haiyan opera accent. Soldiers marching in formation.

If he lost or hadn't fought Japanese pirates before, Chen Mu could still understand that this kind of play-like method was mixed in the army formation, but he couldn't attack everything, and how high command ability would he have?

"The general came here today, and he must have already prepared a plan for the drill of the Yanqing Three Guards. How long will it take for the Yanqing Three Guards to be like the Nanyang Guards, with complete armaments, banner troops, and self-sufficient food?"

"Two years." Chen Mu walked along with his horse, slightly lowered on horseback, and said, "Training soldiers is not difficult, but the difficulty is that it is difficult to unify orders. The humble post is not the commander of the three guards of Yanqing. Guards, the power to unify orders, a lowly post will be used by the banner army in two years, and the capital's guards will be implemented in four years!"

Tan Lun had a strange expression on his face, he tucked his beard and looked back at Chen Mu, then he closed his eyes and thought for a moment while pacing forward, and said: "There is no hurry to promote the capital, since you are required to train troops, it is necessary to control the power of the three guards." I will definitely give it to you."

Chen Mu didn't know what his words meant to Tan Lun. The imperial court had established a rule that usually one thing should not bother the two masters. Whoever submitted the memorial and the implementation of the matter was usually done by this person.

The Outer Guards are subordinate to the Commander's Division, and the Commander's Division is attached to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, while Jingwei is directly under the Fifth Army's Commander's Mansion——Chen Mu's words to promote the capital made Tan Lun believe that he had entered the Fifth Army's Commander's Mansion ambition.

Who can promise this?Three or four years later, a general who is less than [-] years old will enter the Dudu's Mansion of the Fifth Army.

Become a first-rank official at the age of 30, and quit in the future?
Tan Lun would not accept this.

"When General Chen was in Nanyangwei, did he also use worship to the gods of heaven and earth to restrain his soldiers?" Seeing Chen Mu shaking his head, Tan Lun nodded lightly, and pointed before raising his whip: "Then just go and have a look, and learn more. I want to teach you to know that Tan is better at generals, who is temperate and shrewd, and there are no taboos, so you can rest assured and let go to do it from now on."

Chen Mu didn't quite understand what Tan Lun meant, until he saw more than [-] flags of the new army in Ji Town covering the sky in the Miyun school grounds, all kinds of flags and banners hand-painted by Qi Jiguang rose in the wind, Qi Jiguang and hundreds of his subordinates on the stage The generals, worshiping the heaven and the earth while the giant bell was ringing, drew out their knives together, and drank blood for the allies.

"Heaven, earth, people and gods all learn from each other, and we swear here that in the future, if military funds are arbitrarily collected for donation, natural disasters and man-made disasters, plagues, and fires will kill the whole family; more than!"

"Furthermore, you know the scriptures of Buddhism, talking about heaven and hell, and talking about the retribution of reincarnation. Now you believe my orders as if they were scriptures of Buddhism, and you are as afraid of them as retribution of reincarnation. Everyone obeys and respects everyone. This is the unity of all people. Nothing to fear!"

　To be precise, Tan Lun's opera troupe is Yihuang Opera, but the concept of Yihuang Opera was only invented in the Qing Dynasty, so it is also called Haiyan Opera.

　　
　
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