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Chapter 368 Ryukyu
What Zhao Shizhen said was not false. Chen Mu's fleet could not run for three thousand miles.

The shipbuilding at Xiangshan Shipyard was rushed by Chen Mu. Dozens of small shark ships were launched at the same time, and then hundreds of ships were built at the same time. The progress was fast and the effect was very good. The problem brought about was the warship. The maintenance of all get together.

When a ship is due for maintenance, the situation is almost the same for dozens of ships in the same batch.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Longqing, Chen Mu sent dozens of ships to Weigang. It was not that the materials for the ships were not well painted in Manila Bay, but the shipyard here was still expanding and could not accommodate twenty small ships. The shark boat is maintained and repaired at the same time.

Calculating the time, instead of wasting time in Luzon, it is better to send a ship to Nanyangwei every half a month. The shipyard there is large, there are many docks, and there are more hands and feet. It will not take long to repair it, and the next batch of warships will arrive soon , the restoration efficiency is better than in Luzon.

Of course, Luzon also has a small number of ships resting.

The reason why he is in such a hurry now is that when he started to build the shipyard, the technology was not good enough. Chen Mu only cared about the shape and performance of the ship, and the artillery battle, and didn't think about other things, so he didn't work hard on the ship materials. Later, the large ships built in Nanyang Port were much better.

Lime, fish oil, and tung oil are applied to the bottom of the large ships built in Weigang, which have a protective effect on shipworms. In this way, even if some wood is damaged, it is not a big problem. Just die.

As for the Spanish method of wrapping the copper skin, Chen Mu also decided to learn it from the big ships in the future. The copper skin is very thin, and it doesn't cost much to nail the copper skin on a thousand-material ship like Liuding Liujia.

Therefore, in the future, large ships built by Weigang Shipyard and Xiangshan Shipyard will be clad with copper on the bottom.

While waiting for the ship, Chen Shuai was not idle. He held a military parade in Macheng, the capital of Luzon.

This Ming-Lv United Banner Army is the normal state of the Lu Song Army in Chen Mu's eyes. It is all made of cloth in the early Xiangshan period. The five thousand households, except for the engineers and [-] households, are practicing mandarin duck formations. In the mountainous area in northern Luzon, Hachiro clearly positioned them as mountain infantry.

The weapons equipped include cold weapons such as the Qi family knife made by Xuanfu, wolf sticks, rattan cards, hard bows, poisonous crossbows, long cards, boring handles, etc., and hot weapons are matchlock guns, small flag arrows, tiger squatting guns and direct commanders. Twenty two-jin and ten five-jin guns.

Half of the sergeants in the Yuanyang formation wear single-sided breastplates, and the musketeers, gunners, and flag drummers are all lightly armed. They are protected by shield hands with long cards and single swords and killers with Qi's swords.

The drill was very proper, and the military appearance was neat. This is the military appearance of Xiao Baye. During the training process, Hachiro killed 600 of the 370 soldiers, and they were recruited again.In his words, there are still a few steps missing.

"Father, where can we fight, send the child there."

Xiao Hachiro is really Chen Mu, watching him grow from a dead child who doesn't understand at four or six to the appearance of a young warrior today. While inheriting Chen's proficiency in the use of blunderbuss, artillery and warships, he also learned how to train soldiers and horses from Qi's Sober and meticulous.

Recruits need to see blood. Although Hachiro's subordinates are not recruits, it is not easy for a group of defeated soldiers to be trained by him to look like they are today. Of course, Chen Mu can tell at a glance that these elite soldiers are not just putting on airs—but he is also a servant. The old pawns can defeat them with two thousand-man teams.

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

"It's hard to talk about fighting. I'm going to take soldiers to Sulu recently, open up the trade routes, and send their kings to pay tribute." Chen Mu pondered for a while, still worried, and said, "Go to Ryukyu by yourself, can you do it? "

"Going to Ryukyu?"

Little Baye thought about it and didn't expect that his adoptive father would send him to Ryukyu. He asked in amazement, "Ryukyu has always served the imperial court the same way. Do you want to fight them?"

In fact, before the Korean War, North Korea was not special to Ming among the tributary countries, and the Ryukyu Kingdom never stopped paying tribute in one or two years. During the Longqing period alone, they paid tribute four times, so there was no need for Chen Mu to make trouble.

"It is precisely because of the consistent service to the suzerain. A few days ago, several ships from Ryukyu called at the port. The man who came was a descendant of Hokkien named Zheng Pei. There is news that King Shoyuan of Ryukyu passed away last year, and the middle school is now in chaos."

"Because the eldest son was a concubine, the ministers supported the second son, and sent you to lead five families and thousands of households to sail with Zheng Pei to the Ryukyu Islands to cheer for the orthodox king. Other than that, don't make trouble."

Chen Mu stared at the map for a moment, then continued: "Dan'er is going with you. He is going to lay trade roads, not Ryukyu, but Japan."

"There are a lot of merchants going to Japan, and Kyushu is the most. We are all doing business in the three princes. If there is no battle in Ryukyu, you can continue to train your troops. Build a port on the islands in the north near Tanegashima and Kyushu. Don't build too much. It's very fast. Good tributary country, don't cause trouble for others."

Balang nodded in response. In fact, he thought it was funny to make trouble for other thousands of households when he was a child. He had seen a lot of the world during his trip to the north. Now Chen Mu was influenced by Ye Luzi's practical theory of leading troops, and he was under Qi Jiguang's command. Accepting the strictest orthodox military law education made him a lot more stable.

But the dead child was still the same, and asked again: "Then, where can we fight?"

The essence of Qi Jiguang's art of war does not lie in the theory of using blood as an alliance with ghosts and gods, or even in outsider tricks such as the use of military weapons and mandarin duck formations. Everyone can learn these things, but no one can lead troops as elite as Qi Jiguang, because his true essence It is the most stringent military law in the world.

Just two words, kill and reward.

Now the Northern Guards of Luzon has gone from killing soldiers to killing the enemy. He needs a war to not only kill the enemy, but also use military methods to kill his own people in the course of the battle, so as to turn the military orders that the Banner Army has already mastered in their minds into reality.

Only after this can the Banner Army be truly elite soldiers who enforce orders.

"Wait in Ryukyu. Let Li Dan identify which prince is the most friendly and which prince is the most evil. When the pro-Ming attack the evil, you will send troops to help them deal with them." Chen Mu said, thinking that Balang's mind was a little twisted , and hurriedly followed up and said: "Don't knock people down all at once. For example, if the Dragon Building Temple is evil, you will help Shimadzu or Otomo. If Nagasaki is taken down, no more troops will be sent in."

"If it's Shimadzu, take Kagoshima and Tanegashima, don't talk about occupying it, just talk about stationing local troops to rest, drying the maggots on the boat, building a few water villages, etc., and accepting some Ming Portuguese, Yi and Korean merchants, It's called assisting defense."

Speaking of which, Chen Mu waved his hands and said, "Li Dan will take care of these things, you just need to go to war."

Chen Bazhi smiled in satisfaction, bowed his fists together and said, "Father, don't worry, the boy trains with Qi Shuai's method of fighting the Japanese, and they are the ones who will be beaten. When the guns are fired, his parents will raise him for nothing!"

(End of this chapter)