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Chapter 227 Four Fears
Not surprisingly, the next day after the soldiers and horses moved to Changping, people from the Ministry of War awarded the official positions of Deng Zilong, Hu Liangpeng, Juyongguan general and guerrilla general respectively. The scattered steps of General Pinwude.

On the other hand, Chen Mu met with the Shangguan, Yang Siwei, the commander-in-chief of Changzhen, who was stationed at the South Camp of Changping with the [-] chariot battalion and the [-] horse battalion in his hand.

"It's nothing to say. The chief asked you to come to Changzhen for military training. Yang will definitely work together with you, but you have to let Yang see your skills first."

"If someone casually came from the south and wanted to practice Changzhen soldiers, even if Yang agreed, the commander of the three guards would not agree."

Yang Siwei was a little older than Bai Yuanjie, he was born in Liaoyang, Liaodong, and he was a famous general with great achievements in the northern border. After a complete victory, Longqing was transferred to Changzhen in the second year, and together with Qi Jiguang guarded against the long border.

Chen Mu had nothing to say, and the Five Hundred Banners Army was formed in Xixiaoying, Changping Prefecture.

Yang Siwei originally wanted to take a look at the flowers on the general platform, but he didn't know that when he saw Chen Mu's banner army, he stopped and asked, "This is your banner army?"

What kind of people is this in front of him?

There are only 500 people in the area, and there is not a single horse army. In front of the formation, there are [-] mules and horses, [-] carts and [-] artillery pieces that Yang Siwei didn't understand. There must be armor in the jacket. If the huge artillery is not shocking enough, it is the weapons in their hands.

Spears, as far as the eye can see, the square formation is full of spears, except for a row of long plaques erected on the front of the formation, there are at least two hundred five-foot long spears and two hundred eight-foot short spears inside, making the entire army formation look like a The big hedgehog, besides this, there are no long-handled weapons such as boring handles and long knives at all.

Yang Siwei glanced at Chen Mu, squinted his eyes and looked at the army formation again, then walked off the stage.

The formation was too tight, and Yang Siwei couldn't see clearly what was behind these flag soldiers. Looking closer, each flag soldier was carrying tents, felt blankets, and small leather bags on their backs. These things were exactly the same uniform system. , the same as the one carried by Chen Mu's soldiers, with water bottles and other utensils hanging on it.

At first, Yang Siwei thought that only the servants who followed Chen Mu had it, but now he didn't expect the whole army to have it.

The most common ones are bird blunderbusses. Chen Mu's blunderbusses are short, unlike the five-foot blunderbusses that Qi Jiajun or Yang Siwei have seen anywhere. The blunderbusses of these flag troops are only four feet long, hung on the right shoulder with a canvas belt, and the five-hundred-foot flags There are at least [-] guns in the army, some gunners are only equipped with waist sabers, and the rest have an eight-foot short spear in addition to waist sabers.

Yang Siwei knocked on the chest of a flag soldier casually, and as he expected, he was wearing iron armor.

To be honest, if we want to say how powerful these banner troops are, Yang Siwei can feel that these banner troops are full of momentum, and they are all veteran soldiers who have experienced battles. These things can be seen by veterans on the battlefield at a glance. It's not obvious at a glance how powerful they are.

Yang Siwei had only one feeling, he turned his head to look at Chen Mu who was following him with a kind face - this Nanyang guy is really fucking rich!

Uniforms, armor, and military weapons are all uniformly manufactured, and their cost is more obvious than the level of their masters. For Yang Siwei, what he sees is not an army formation composed of 500 people, but a living silver mountain.

"Chen Zongbing, you have to tell Yang the truth."

Yang Siwei pulled Chen Mu aside and asked, "This flag soldier must have 15 taels of silver on his body?"

Chen Mu didn't expect Yang Siwei to have such a reaction, so he was stunned and calculated in his heart before saying: "Back to the general soldier, almost."

If you talk about the selling price, it is indeed almost the same.

"You are in Guangdong, is this the case for the Banner Army of the Nanyang Guard?"

Yang Siwei asked eagerly.

"Not yet, my subordinates dare not lie. Last year Qiuyue just took over as the commander of the Nanyang Guard. These are all the banner troops trained by Xiangshan Qianhu. The remaining four are newly recruited. Although they have been carefully drilled, they have not experienced any battles. Their combat effectiveness It's a little bit different."

"I didn't ask you about the war. The Nanyang Guard Banner Army wears armor and holds spears on their backs?"

"Oh, that's what the chief soldier asked. No, they are all newly recruited banner troops. The armor and equipment for the soldiers have not been completed when Chen Moubei came. They should wait until early next year."

Yang Siwei's eyes were very big, Chen Mu stared even wider after speaking, took a deep breath, shook his head after a long time, and then asked: "The three guards of Yanqing, can it be the same?"

"Changping has iron, so it's easy to talk about armaments. The iron is loaded and transported to Nanyang Wei. Nanyang Wei can send the blunderbuss, knives, and armour. If there is no iron, rice and grain can be exchanged for silver. It's enough to exchange things at the price of iron. The quality is better than that of iron." It’s cheap outside, and these foreign things are easy to talk about.”

Chen Mu said that these were very light, and said: "The key is to drill the flag army. Without the whole body of the three guards, Chen Mu alone can't do it well."

Yang Siwei looked at Chen Mu like a poor man looking at a rich man, "Don't you know, General Chen, that ninety-nine percent of military officers in the world would worry about this to death as far as you said 'easy to say'?"

Chen Mu felt that he wanted to be an arms dealer more and more. He pursed his lips innocently and said, "Who, which guard is worried, come to me."

Although Chen Mu spoke openly, he felt more and more that this matter could no longer be done like this. In the past, in the south, the various guards in Guangdong exchanged information, which was permitted by the law, and this time the Ministry of War asked him to give advice to the border guards. Recruiting soldiers and transporting artillery already means that the law is neither prohibited nor permitted. If the business is transferred to the general Jia Ding Buqu another day-it will be on the verge of breaking the law.

A well-behaved third-rank official should not embark on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.

"Okay, look at your flag army, Yang is also relieved, you will train the three guards of Yanqing, and the normal defense of Changzhen will be garrisoned by my second battalion. You and I are different from each other, but Yang will definitely help you if something happens. It's up to you."

The relationship between the chief soldier and the deputy chief soldier is not a direct leadership and subordinate relationship. In wartime, the chief soldier is the leader, and he commands his soldiers and horses to meet the enemy;Of course, in terms of status, the chief soldier is higher than the deputy chief soldier, which goes without saying.

Leaving aside Chen Mu's military training ability, leading the guards does not rely on military training methods. Even people like Qi Jiguang can't stand in the guards. There is only one reason. The guard is a negative number, it is difficult to go from zero to one, and it is even more difficult to go from negative to zero.

The key to relying on it is to make money in a proper way, let the guards take care of food and clothing first, otherwise they will not be able to become full-time sergeants like recruits.

In Yang Siwei's view, as long as Chen Mu can use his golden hands to make Yanqing's three guards live comfortably, even if the war is a fool, he will be happy to hold it high, let alone Chen Mu in Guangdong. How much less fearful than Yang Si is!
(End of this chapter)