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Chapter 691 Guerrilla
It's normal for Fu Yuan's 23-member family team to have a quack air, and it's also normal to have no military temperament, because they are not soldiers themselves.

He bid farewell to Die Niang and went all the way from Guangzhou to Beishan. He couldn't bear to lose face and walked with Shao Tingda and others. He rode a horse alone. When he passed Yangzhou, his hands were itchy for a while. The money he won from betting was a little too much, and he was watched by others. He took out his guns before taking out the money. The situation calmed down.

This group of strong men who used water transportation in the early years to beg for a living, and then idled about, invested in Fu Yuan, received military uniforms in Beiyang, and became Fu's guerrilla soldiers.

It is definitely not possible to let these people fight wars, but they are quick to do things, and the marketers have developed a superficial sense of observation and observation. People in the mud know best how to distinguish what is the life-saving straw that can pull them out of the sea of ​​suffering.

For guerrillas who don't have much money, they are a group of people who are more than successful.

There are many vacant houses in Majiagang. In order to avoid the long winter, Magui led his troops to set up two hundred households near the port like a cat’s nest. There are also two settlement camps in Majiagang. After moving the goods, they scattered and lived in settlements not far apart.

The advantage of Chinese-style sailboats over Western-style sailboats is that they require very few sailors. A large two-masted ship can be operated by a few people. However, each ship on their voyage carried double the number of sailors to deal with possible problems.

Fu Yuan, who arrived in Majiagang safely, felt that the entire Beiyang military mansion was making a fuss, obviously because he was frightened by the risks Ma Gui had encountered before. As long as he knew the way, avoided the most risky winter, and didn't go too far north, the mere two A month's voyage is not too difficult.

There were indeed some risks, but they did not match the level of Chen Mu's careful preparation.

If Ma Gui had been so fully prepared at the beginning, so many people would not have died.

"He's not taking revenge anymore, he just wants to ask when we will let them go."

The fireplace in the brick and wood house was warming. Fu Yuan stretched his arms and took off the bear fur cloak and hung it on the wall. The Beiyang military boots made a dull sound when they stepped on the wooden floor. He sat on the wooden chair next to Magui and rubbed his hands. , warming up by the copper smoker.

He turned his head to Ma Gui and said, "The Xiyi soldiers on this boat are all ignorant and vulgar people who know very little except fighting."

Ma Gui's foreign language proficiency is very poor, he can only know the daily language of the Ming army written by Chen Mu, and all of their Kuwu Island Banner Army can only know this.

And there are only three aspects in it: war, victory, and persuasion, as well as a sentence of memorizing characters as a guest pirate when I was a child-extremely monotonous.

But Fu Yuan's foreign language level is very high. Although he can't write it, he can basically speak it.

The enemy had a lot of options when they were on the ship, and Fu Yuan didn't ask too many questions, but when these Spanish soldiers got off the ship and their weapons were confiscated, he could ask about everything.

The result was very disappointing. Fu Yuan's hand warmed a little, took two bowls of shochu, took a sip, and said to Ma Gui, "I can't ask anything if I keep it, how should I deal with it?"

"By the way, Xiyi already knew that the Ming army had landed in America. They found the Huangming Banner, so they didn't attack northward. They also wanted to find us when they sent this ship."

Listening to Fu Yuan's words, Ma Gui nodded slowly, and said, "Then they found it, what do they think after they find it?"

Fu Yuan shook his head and said: "The soldiers of the Xiyi navy don't know, their mission is to find the Ming army. In fact, they don't know whether the Ming army has come or not. A Xiyi soldier told me that in New Spain, they Call it New Spain."

"There has always been a saying here that the natives are the Tang people who were separated from China, and the natives who work for them in Mexico will also say the same, but they all think that this is the Indians they said to return to freedom in the name of the Tang people body."

"Xiyi doesn't believe it at all. There are indeed Tang people in this land, but they can tell who is from Tang and who is not."

Needless to say, anyone can tell the difference, looking at clothing, behavior, and speech, in fact, even if they have the same blood, they may not be recognized.

Fu Yuan laughed as he spoke, and said: "But don't worry about how they identify it, Chen Shuai has already made a decision on this matter, how they identify it is not important."

Ma Gui nodded first, and then said, "What did Shuai Chen say?"

"Chen Shuai said that of course they are not Ming people, let alone Tang people—but they can be."

It can be very domineering, but also very imaginative.

But Ma Gui agrees. The people he has met, Mongols, Jurchens, Koreans, and people from the Western Regions, as long as they are willing to serve the emperor, they can all be Ming people.

It wouldn't hurt to add an American.

Ma Gui said with a smile: "Chen Shuai is also interesting. He is very keen to let others fight for the imperial court. The imperial court is not without soldiers. It may not be enough to say that a million troops are not enough. These veterans pick one out of twenty and train for half a year. , can’t we gather an expeditionary force of 5 people?”

"I really know this matter. Chen Erye didn't think about it, and Ma Shuai didn't know about it. In recent years, regardless of whether it is the provincial capitals, the Beijing camp, or the imperial army, the North and South Martial Arts Halls are the first choice for recruiting junior officers."

"The Beiyang Military Mansion built for the expedition to the East has also become the largest military training ground for the imperial court. It can train [-] soldiers from the two guards every year. This year, Shandong, the Beijing Camp, and the Forbidden Army will also send [-] soldiers to practice there."

"Mashuai, don't think there are too few people. There are 1 people every year. The second master estimates that he will retire after five years. If he can survive, those who lack banner officials everywhere will recruit them away. competent."

"Five years from now, the students who graduated from the lecture hall will serve as commanders and first-level generals. At that time, there will be new troops from top to bottom. They will lead soldiers for another five years. What will happen to the imperial court's military?"

"What will the million-dollar army that Ma Shuai mentioned look like then?"

Ma Gui didn't understand. In fact, when Fu Yuan said so, everyone could see that the situation was going well... But what does this have to do with Ma Gui's question?

But before Ma Gui asked, Fu Yuan concluded: "They are all elite! The army has always been the same. The soldiers at the bottom do the hardest work and get money that can only fill their stomachs. Alas, this is human nature. , it’s the same anytime.”

"Chen Shuai couldn't give too much money to the people below, so he let the people below develop their skills, and then found a group of people to do the hardest work."

Ma Gui now understood that it was actually to turn the Banner Army into a Banner Officer, and the Banner Officer into a general, and recruit another group of people to be the Banner Army.

This was beyond what he could think about. He thought about it carefully for a while, and was noncommittal about it. Finally, he shook his head and put aside the subject, saying: "I plan to let someone go back first, and discuss with Xiyi to use the Zhuangyuan Bridge as the boundary, and then the town. The tribesmen in Kansai exchanged this boat for their return."

Zhuangyuan Bridge, Fu Yuan has figured out where the Zhuangyuan Bridge is, and as the leader of the vanguard fleet, he also brought a map of Asia drawn by Yang Tingxiang when he came back from Spain.

He shook his head to dissuade him: "Ma Shuai should stop negotiating the boundaries with them, let Chen Shuai do this matter, I think Chen Shuai must feel at a loss, a big loss, with Zhuangyuan Bridge as the boundary."

(End of this chapter)