PS: The child is sick and his heart is very messy. A lot of things that were originally conceived could not be written. Everyone's forgiveness. Also, cheekily ask for a monthly pass.

"This time, the British should have a longer memory!"

On the other side of Humen, in Nansha, Shouhan temporarily erected the handsome flag, through the guò telescope, he can see the entire battlefield clearly. The broken wooden planks on the river, the burning sails, the slowly sinking ships, the people who fell into the water in the waves, and the prisoners who were picked up from the river by the Guangdong sailors all silently explained the outcome of the war.

"Hua Mei, this girl's ability on the water can be regarded as practiced."

Zhang Xiaohu, who was on the side supervising the sailors and waiting to attack in the Jiaomen Waterway, praised the growth of his niece without a mouth.

"Little Liuzi, don't praise it falsely, lest the child hear the arrogance."

That being said, the child whose parents don't want to hear their praises heard?

"My lord, the chief military officer of Guangdong, the general of the Huizhou staff, the general of the Guangzhou coastal defense and other generals, Jiang Yihong, the political envoy of Guangdong, led the troops to the battle, and now he is handing over his handbook to ask for a meeting. Please show me the lord, do you see it? ”

"See what?! Sue them, the war is undecided, the camp is not completed, let them learn and forbidden! Let's talk about settling down with our respective soldiers! ”……

Humen, Nansha and other places, both sides of the Pearl River have become a large military camp.

"Be filial to your son, and be loyal to your ministers. The people of the court are all working hard, and they have high hopes to raise soldiers. There is no need to work every day, and you can eat monthly food comfortably. If you don't contribute to the country, heaven, earth, ghosts and gods will not tolerate it. Since ancient times, there will be many ranks. Hugh despised himself as a soldier. ”

"First, we must study and practice diligently, and make meritorious contributions after learning skills. Weapons are protective objects, and they should be scrubbed and cleaned from time to time. Second, we must be really brave in battle, and we should live naturally without dying. If you retreat from the military order, you will lose your bad name. Third, we must be kind to the people, and all the food and wages depend on their farming. As long as the soldiers and the people become a family, the people will help each other and achieve success. Fourth, do not commit adultery with women, which is not born to parents. The Er family also has wives and daughters, how can they be humiliated? Fifth, I don't see the evil thoughts of wealth, and the robbers will have retribution for a long time. How many gold and silver treasures have been obtained. Hold and kill a void. Sixth, we must respect the officers in the army. The offence of transgressing the order is not light. Don't lie, do things honestly. Seven precepts for gambling and prostitution, the official found out that he should be punished heavily. How glorious it is to keep the money and feed the family. If you keep these words in mind. Inevitably, the leader will be promoted. If it's completely inadvertent. There is no mercy in beating lightly and killing hard. ”

Weddell and others imprisoned in a temporary cell surrounded by wooden fences. Instead of being abused and whipped as he imagined, he was just searched, and his weapons and sharp objects were removed. Even ropes, belts, and other things were searched, but as for the belongings they carried with them, no one looked at them.

"It's weird. If we fall into the hands of those Ottoman pirates, we are afraid that we will not have a single straw stick left! The accountant sighed strangely, "Is this the strength and self-confidence of civilization?" ”

Sir Weddell did not comment on the accountant's remarks, but recorded what he saw and thought in his nautical diary.

"In addition to drills and studies, Li Dashuai's direct military likes to sing, and these songs seem to have persuasion about military technology and military morality."

It was not only the captured Weddell who was curious about the singing of the South Chinese Army.

Outside Humen Town, which was destroyed by the war, the handsome flag of the Han Dynasty and the military flag of the Nanzhong Army were erected, and behind the handsome flag, a large tent made of steel made of steel and multi-layer cotton cloth sandwiched with cotton boards stood here.

With the tent as the center, within 100 paces, the soldiers of the Guards Brigade were either holding fire guns, or carrying spears on their shoulders, or pressing the hilts of their swords, vigilantly looking at the surrounding scenery.

On the left and right sides of the tent, cloth bags and bamboo baskets were filled with sand, and two cannon buds were built, and two ten-pounder cannons and a large Buddha machine were placed in each fort.

The muzzle of the black hole completely sealed off the military formation not far away.

Compared with the local officers and troops in Guangdong, the military appearance of the Nanzhong Army was extremely strict.

Although the Liao Dongzhi Brigade in Humen was nominally composed of a rebel army from Guangdong, there were a large number of veterans of the Nanzhong Army who served as a commander, and after months of training, the military appearance was strictly organized.

At the same time, the local officials and soldiers in Guangdong, who were chaotic, noisy, noisy, and scolding, made the officials of Guangdong Province feel that they were silent, just standing with straight eyes and looking straight ahead, and the entire military formation was as neat as a knife and axe.

In comparison, the army in Guangdong Province is more like a group of people.

Huichao's deputy general Ma Rujin, Chaozhou general Xia Zhimu, Zhaoqing garrison Zou Weixun, Xiangshan garrison Wang You, Nanshao garrison Shi Fengyuan and others, supervised their troops, and stood on the left side of Liao Dongzhi's brigade and guards brigade with some embarrassment, waiting for the marshal to summon them.

There were about 17,800 troops in the entire open field, which belonged to six units, except for the Liao Dongzhi Brigade and the Guards Brigade which belonged to the Nanzhong Army, and the rest of the nearly 10,000 people were under the control of the above five generals. However, there was no team of more than 2,500 men. It is that half of these people are still old and weak, all of them have tattered military uniforms, and most of them do not have the temperament of formal training on their faces, and they are completely people from the market who have been brought in to make up the numbers, and the tattered military uniforms on their bodies are numbered, and the autumn wind blows on the river, and from time to time there are tattered strips of cloth flying in the wind. The weapons in each person's hands are also extremely inferior, many people are a wooden stick with a spearhead tied to it, I don't know whether it is pig iron or wrought iron, the spearhead is rusty, and it has not been well polished, oiled and other maintenance.

Relatively speaking, the military appearance and equipment are better, that is, the adjutant generals, staff generals, and the family members standing next to the garrison, each officer guides the economic conditions according to the different positions and defense areas in charge, and the number of family members supported is also different, with hundreds of people at most, only two or three hundred people at the least, and more than 100 people at the least. Most of them are young and middle-aged men, with excellent armor and weapons, and it can be seen that they are all outlaws who dare to fight, but their array is also loose and sparse, a typical rabble.

These guys. Judging from the military discipline of the Southern Chinese Army, they are all thorns, and they do not abide by military discipline, and even take the lead in destroying military discipline.

It is no wonder why tens of thousands of horses, known as tens of thousands of horses, were helpless against the five armed merchant ships and hundreds of company security guards of the merchant fleet of the English East India Company.

Chaozhou general Xia Zhimu put on an iron armor. Tied with a cloak made of large red brocade. Under his own flag, he is also tall and burly, and he is majestic. However, at this time, he also had envy on his face, and his eyes glanced at the soldiers of the Liao Dongzhi Brigade standing next to him from time to time, and carefully looked at the soldiers standing under the iron-blooded eighteen-star military flag.

Those are good soldiers. All of them are young adults over 18 years old and under 40 years old. Sturdy build. Discipline. The water vapor soaked their armor and robes as the river wind swept through the various military formations as the river swept through the water droplets from the Pearl River, but they still stood solemnly with their guns in this weather situation.

From Qi Jiguang, the chief military officer of Guangdong, to Yu Zhigao, the son of Yu Dayou, the general soldier of Fujian, Yu Zhigao, all had an influence on the Guangdong army. They are all trying to put the Guangdong army guarding the South China Sea in order, but one thing, money and food!

From the late Wanli period, with the gradual pacification of the so-called Southern Wa and the rise of the Liaodong rebels, the strategic focus of the Ming army gradually shifted northward, and the South China Sea defense system, which had been operated for generations, was gradually abandoned.

Taking Nanao as an example, which we mentioned earlier, the original Nanao rangers originally had 1,835 soldiers and 40 ships of various types, but in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), it was reduced to 874 officers and soldiers and 34 warships, and by the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), only 8 warships and 721 officers and soldiers remained. Among the six water villages in coastal defense set up during the Jiajing period, only in the Baisha Water Village in Qiongzhou, because the hand of the Han guard had already reached into the Baisha Water Division in the name of assisting in defense, which maintained the original scale, but it was the strength of the left wing of the Water Division!

With the northward shift of the strategic center and the increasing financial difficulties of the state, it will be unable to meet the food and salary needs of the huge army, and it will inevitably cut money and food to meet only a small part of the material treatment of the so-called elite soldiers.

If something is good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom, and when it comes to the army, the generals will inevitably use this part of the salary to give priority to the most loyal and combat-effective personal guards around them. In this way, there will inevitably be a situation where many soldiers will be used, which leads to the emergence of the family system at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The role of the family is contradictory. On the one hand, each side will summon the family members, support them, and prepare the forwards, and every time they encounter a battle, the family members will take the lead, and the weak soldiers will follow, so they can drum up courage to win. Therefore, when Liaodong once dismissed most of the families, and the surviving families were only paid a single grain, they also felt that they were saving salaries for a while, and the Liao soldiers could not fight in the future ("Ming Jing Shiwen Edition" volume 422 Li Hualong "Picking Chen Liaozuo's Urgent Matters").

On the other hand, the generals of the family Ding Sheng relied on it, ignored the ordinary soldiers, and supported the family members thickly, and used the battalion soldiers to fill their service, galloped their horses, and listened to their harassment.

In order to support these families, the generals who led the troops vigorously deducted the food and salary of the rest of the soldiers and horses to support these people, and there were often tens of thousands of soldiers on the military register, but the actual number of soldiers who could fight was only a thousand.

Moreover, with the promotion, transfer, or even resignation of the generals leading the troops, these private soldiers also went with them, and this formed a strange phenomenon of using the state's military funds to support the private soldiers for the leading officers.

Such an army is full of resentment and extremely poor combat effectiveness, rushing in when it is victorious, and fleeing thousands of miles when it is defeated, even if there are some brave and warlike soldiers around the general, it will not be able to reverse this vicious situation.

Generals with elite and heavy troops in their hands are bound to be in danger of becoming warlords, dooming only the interests of their own small groups and ignoring the interests of the country. The army raised by the imperial court with a lot of money was at a critical moment. There is a danger of defecting to the enemy, and there are too many such examples in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Xuanfu Army, the Guanning Army, and the Shuzhen Army of the Southern Ming Dynasty at the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty were all like this.

Of course, the reasons for the emergence of the Ming family system are complex, and without private soldiers, it is easy to be swayed by others, especially the imperial court.

Family, soldiers are generals. The generals invaded the army, and the family was paid a lot and the soldiers were thin. Favoring one over the other, those abandoned sergeants are not thoughtless people, who are regarded as waste, how can they not have resentment? These people are often the first to collapse on the battlefield, and they create a very bad situation. No matter how good the family is, it won't help.

Moreover, the family members are the private property of the officers, and many of them are still the domestic slaves of the generals, and the officers, in addition to embezzling military salaries, occupy a large amount of land to support their families. How easy is it to dismiss the officers' families? This is their lifeline, if you want to cut off people's life, they will fight with you!

The most obvious example is the ancestral family in Liaoxi, Zu Dashou rebelled many times, and the Liaodong army also mutinied many times. But the court did not dare to dispose of them at all. It is because the ancestral family and the rising Wu family have an intertwined in-law relationship. Among the officials and generals in Liaodong, there are many responses, and there are a large number of private soldiers in both families. This is also the capital that they can extort from the imperial court, between the imperial court and the Liaodong rebels, and the future Li Zicheng Dashun army.

The so-called thing of being angry at the crown is just not good. Find yourself a fig leaf. It's just an excuse to defect to the enemy.

Compared with the nine-sided military town and the officers and troops in various parts of the north. In the Ming army in Guangdong, the habit of generals supporting their families was also deep-rooted. Slightly better, though. Because the disaster was not as severe as in the north, the food and nutrition of ordinary battalion soldiers were much better than those in the mainland.

Compared with the officers and armies in the interior, the gap between the South Central Army and the mainland army seems to outsiders to be in military appearance, morale, equipment, and diet. In fact, the biggest gap is hidden. One is a modern army in the rising stage, and the other is a feudal army in the declining stage.

Because of the large amount of grain and meat, the South China Army laid the foundation for the development of industrialization and trade, and accumulated enough money, food and materials to maintain the army's equipment and training. The enhancement of the army's combat effectiveness and the expansion of its scale have provided a larger market for these industrial and agricultural products.

As a saying circulated in the Nanzhong Army, "We are fighting for the sake of our fathers, brothers, sisters, wives and daughters at home!" Grab the land for your father and mother to plant, and grab the place to sell the cloth and porcelain woven by your father and mother-in-law! ”……

Dozens of high-headed horses flew out of the gate of the camp guarding the Han, and the flag on the back of the knight on horseback was torn into a plane by the galloping horse and the river wind, and people could clearly see the words on the flag.

"Herald Communication."

Behind this small team of horses were seven or eight four-wheeled carts.

"The Great General has an order! Officers and soldiers from all over the country came to help, and they all had merit! Thanks! ”

The cavalrymen in charge of the herald shuttled back and forth in the array of five local generals in Guangdong, loudly conveying this grace of General Li to the ears of every soldier.

Nowadays, arrears of wages in various parts of the Ming Dynasty have become a common practice, and it is a strange thing not to be in arrears. Not only are there arrears of salaries in the nine borders, but also the arrears of salaries for the officials and soldiers in the interior are the same as those in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, which are located in developed commerce and trade and rich people. Among them, Zhangzhou Wei was in arrears for three months, Quanzhou Gaopu and other places were in arrears for 10 months, and Tongshan Institute was in arrears for 20 months. In order to make a living, the officers and men had no choice but to show their talents, some of them helped others, and some of them started their own small businesses, but more often they still extorted money and even robbed them.

The soldiers in the war camp need a monthly salary of two or three dollars and five cents, plus five buckets of rice in their own colors, and the southern soldiers have a salary of one or two five dollars per month, and five buckets of rice in their true colors.

However, the soldiers in the array were very excited.

Many people smiled for the first time when they heard the news, and many people did not receive a penny of military pay for half a year. Unexpectedly, this time I followed the general to Humen to run this time, and I received a military salary, although there were a few blood blisters on my feet, and I was beaten by a few whips from the family, but thinking about the military salary that was about to be received, what is this matter? I just ask you adults to be less deductible! It's been half a year, and the adults above have finally paid their salaries.

The officers, their eyes glowing green, stared at the four-wheeled cart behind the knights, and it could be seen from the heavy body and deep ruts that the cart was loaded with silver! As long as the silver is sent down, Lao Tzu will go to the flower boat on the Pearl River tonight!

"Even if General Li's troops and horses can fight, they are still a dragon crossing the river, if you want to exterminate bandits in Guangdong, you have to rely on these local snakes!"

Xiangshan garrison Wang You was proud in his heart. He had already planned that when he received this salary, he would first go to a few shops in Guangzhou City to equip his family with armor, knives and guns from Nanzhong, so as not to fall behind in front of the Nanzhong army.

However, the knights who ran in front of the generals' array shouted again, and the hearts of the officers were cold.

"According to the Ming military system, the guards of the army and the horse army will be given two stones in the month, the general flag of the infantry army will be given one stone and five buckets in the month, the small flag will be given one stone and two buckets in the month, and the sergeant will be given one stone in the month, and the defenders of the city will be given in full, and half of the people in Tuntian will be given. Sergeant monthly salt, two catties for those who have a family, and one catty for those who don't. The soldiers in the war battalion are paid two or three dollars a month, and they are given five buckets of rice, and the ordinary battalion soldiers are paid one or two and a half dollars, and they are five buckets of rice. The grace of my lord and father, regardless of the family and battalions, will give each person three silver dollars! Add a piece to the length of the armor! Put a total of ten pieces! Fifteen dollars in total! ”

What the fuck! If this matter of military pay is so public, how can we start up and down and erode and deduct from it?! Someone was about to have a seizure, but looking at the soldiers of the Guards Brigade and the Liao Brigade around them, they had to suppress this resentment.

"Lao Tzu still had the foresight to temporarily gather all the domestic slaves and tenants in the countryside to serve as battalion soldiers to deal with it, and now it's okay, thousands of silver dollars are in hand!"

Ma Rujin, the deputy general of Chaozhou, sat on the horse and watched proudly as a mouthful of silver boxes was carried down from the car by the soldiers of the Nanzhong Army. (To be continued......)