Salem Port, Myanmar.

The sound of drums and trumpets continued to sound, and the sound of wind and rain followed. Amid the noise of drums and trumpets, the soldiers of Dashun Prefecture, dressed in blue cloth robes, boarded the Arakanese galleys in good order. The tonnage of these galleys is not large, the load is about 100 tons, double masts, low freeboard, can be used for oars and sails, or they can be driven by oars or sails alone. They are extremely agile when navigating offshore or coastal waterways, but their firepower is very low, usually consisting of a few Franc cannons that can only be used in close combat. But for the Dashun Dynasty, which has no navy and no one knows how to sail, the more than 300 Arakan galleys that are now crowded on the surface of the Yangon River and waiting in line to get to the pier are definitely more than 300 big treasures!

On the pier, in a thatched pavilion that can shelter from the wind and rain, at this time there are drinks and side dishes. Fan. Di Men sat directly across from him, drinking and chatting, while watching the soldiers of the Dashun Dynasty line up in a neat line, stepping on the gangplank and onto the deck of the Arakan ship.

Most of these government soldiers are the so-called "Long March government soldiers", that is, government soldiers who have served for a long time and received military salaries, all of them are young and strong people in their twenties, most of them are the second generation of government soldiers, and they are basically "non-eldest men" - that is, there is no ready-made family business to inherit, and there is no need to bear the responsibility of supporting their parents, and they can wander outside for a long time.

In Li Jicheng's view, these "second generation of the government" who have no family business and nothing to worry about are the real seedlings of good soldiers, and they can be confined in the barracks for strict training.

Therefore, before coming to Burma, he asked Li Guo for his consent and recruited 15,000 "second generations of the government" with land vouchers and co-governance money.

By the way, the land coupons issued by Dashun have not become waste paper, because in the past few years, the Dashun court has been trying to honor the land coupons issued to the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions...... Even if you use the "Juntian Law" to go to the fields of poor peasants, you have to meet the requirements of this group of government soldiers for land!

And unless the consent of the government soldiers themselves is obtained, the Dashun court will not dare to use the land of Myanmar to fool the government soldiers.

After nearly 20 years of development, the soldiers of Dashun Mansion have become a powerful interest group, and even Emperor Li Guo does not dare to offend them on the land issue!

Of course, this is not to say that no government soldiers are willing to settle in Myanmar. Thanks to the efforts of the Dashun Imperial Court (such as giving relocation subsidies and doubling land and other preferential treatments), many government soldiers have been coaxed to settle in Ava and Salian in recent years.

The co-governance Tongbao money is the coinage minted by the Dashun Dynasty, and it is the only copper coin in legal circulation in Dashun, which is full of weight and high value.

The "second generation of the government" who are now boarding the ship not only practiced martial arts hard since childhood, but also determined to "prosper Dashun and fight the Zhu family", but also were inspired by land vouchers and co-governance Tongbao, so they all had a high chest and a bulging belly, and their morale was extremely high.

In addition to morale, their equipment and training also made Bruce very happy. The soldiers stationed in Salem were trained in the new method, similar to that of the Morris phalanx, but the proportion of musketeers was higher, reaching about three-quarters, and only about a quarter of the soldiers used spears.

Although the muskets they used were mainly arquebuses, there were also some flintlock muskets, which accounted for about half of the proportion of muskets they were equipped with.

Whether it is a flintlock pistol or an arquebus, the quality is relatively reliable. Among them, the flintlock pistols were all imported, some were Western, and some were from the Ming Dynasty - the Ming Dynasty's arms export management has always been at this level, and it doesn't matter if they are sold......

The arquebuses used by the soldiers of the Long March in Myanmar are produced by Dashun, and each arquebus is engraved with the name of the craftsman.

In addition to the good quality of the guns, the 3-pound bronze cannon equipped by this Long March army is also very beautifully cast (at least it looks good), and it is also equipped with a fairly good gun carriage and gun carriage, which is obviously imitated from captured Ming artillery.

In addition, the soldiers of the Long March also prepared armor, although the standard is different (it is their own), there are cloth armor, cuirasses, and half-body plate armor, but the quality is also very reliable.

It is clear that this army is better than Bruce. Fan. The coalition forces of the Celestial Sultanate that Dimon had seen in the Malacca Peninsula were much stronger.

Although those allied forces were trained and equipped with the help of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch were not at ease with the Sultan of the Celestial Sect on this side of the Strait of Malacca! How can you give away all the real skills and real treasures?

Moreover, the Sultans of the Celestial Sect here in the Strait of Malacca could not fight, and their roots were nothing more than Arab and Persian merchants, who established their own city-states with the help of missionaries and the Gulam Guards. How could their combat effectiveness be compared to the Turkic tribes and the Celestial Sect Empire developed from the tribes?

It's not a grade at all!

So no matter how much they teach, they will be like that, and they can't beat the Ming army at all...... So you have to send troops in Dashun!

Bruce and Li Jicheng chatted while drinking, very pleasantly, and time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, it was dusk, Bruce was a little drunk and top-heavy, and he spoke with a big tongue. When he was complaining that the Tianfang Sect coalition forces on the Malacca Peninsula were all tofu scum, he saw Li Jicheng's military advisor Song Yaowen with a few armor soldiers escorting a person who seemed to be the commander of the Arakan Navy to the pavilion!

Bruce, who was half drunk, pointed to the man who was tied up with five flowers and shouted: "This person, this person is not the commander of the Arakan naval army, called, called Ming, Ming, what is Ming......"

"It's called Minmara!" Li Jicheng reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes...... It's Ming Marava! Bruce asked, "Why did you arrest him?" ”

Li Jicheng asked Song Yaowen with a smile: "Military advisor, why did you arrest him?" ”

Song Yaowen said: "Your Royal Highness, this Ming Moropa does not know the current affairs and refuses to return to the Dashun Heavenly Dynasty!" ”

"What? Submission? Bruce broke out in a cold sweat and was halfway awake from his wine, "Why do you want him to submit?" ”

Li Jicheng smiled: "I just want to ask him to lead the way and take them to raid Miaowu City!" ”

"Raid on Myoo Castle!?" Bruce. Fan. Dimon was completely stupid.

What a situation this is! Didn't you go to Malacca and fight in the Ming Dynasty? Why is it about to raid Myowu City in the blink of an eye?

Li Jicheng smiled and said to Bruce: "Mr. Fan, you are really not interested in the Strait of Malacca or Penang...... You feel that the territory of the Arakan country is more realistic! Large areas are paddy fields, and they are all cultivated to feed people! ”

"You guys, you ......" Bruce. Fan. When Di Men heard this, he was so anxious that he trembled a little, "Your Royal Highness, how can you rob the land of the Arakan Kingdom?" You've just made an alliance with the king of Arakan! ”

"yes!" Li Jicheng smiled, "That's why I can sneak attack!" Otherwise, you will have to climb the mountain, and the mountain road is very difficult to walk! Where is it comfortable to take a boat? ”

"You, you're a bandit!" Bruce roared.

Li Jicheng was not angry, he actually nodded and said, "You're right!" That's what robbers do...... Mrs. E is a robber! Grandpa is a robber! Eada is also a robber! is a filial son and grandson, of course, he has to be a robber! ”

"You, you, how did you become robbers?" Bruce. Fan. As soon as Dimen's words came out, he remembered that Dashun's gang were robbers! The Ming Dynasty called them Liukou......

What a miscalculation this time! Bruce. Fan. Dimon knew that the East India Company was going to give this gang of Dashun bandits a miserable pit!

This also blames the executives of the East India Company for taking it for granted, thinking that the rulers of China are as trustworthy as Zhu Cihong - although Zhu Cihong is treacherous, his credit is still very good, and he has never repented of his contract after doing business with the East India Company for so many years!

Li Jicheng stepped forward and patted Bruce, who was already stunned. Fan. Dimen's shoulder, smiled: "Mr. Fan, don't be afraid, I won't harm you...... Dashun, I want to be friends with you Holland. Let's go fight Arakane with you! ”