Luo Siwei stood quietly on the deck of the merchant ship, looking at the blue sea, he was the first and second place in the Wuchen Kewu Ju in the first year of Chongzheng, which is the so-called Wujin Shi and Wu Bangyan.

The Wu Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be more unlucky than the Wu Jinshi of all dynasties, because there are too many hereditary generals in the Ming army, and it is difficult for the Wu Jinshi to come out. However, this situation has changed greatly in the Chongzheng Dynasty, the Chongzheng Emperor has made great efforts to expand the army, and has paid special attention to the generals who were born in the martial arts.

He naturally joined the Praetorian Guard as a first-class leader, and was fortunate to be incorporated into the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard, and in recent years, he has accumulated military merits and has been promoted to the general of the first battalion of musketeers of the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard, and he has 10,000 elite musketeers in charge of the Praetorian Guard!

This time he was ordered by the emperor to come to teach the allied soldiers to use muskets and artillery, this ally he knew, it was Portugal, which had recently formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, and he also knew why he wanted to teach them to use muskets and artillery, because they bought 10,000 24-type flintlock pistols and 100 518-type howitzers from the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor was afraid that they would not use them, so he specially sent him to lead a hundred musketeers and a hundred artillery soldiers to teach them on the spot.

There is a tradition of selling weapons to vassal states, but it may be the first time to sell weapons to foreigners, and it is even more unprecedented to send people to teach foreigners. Therefore, the emperor attached great importance to it, not only personally selected him as the person in charge of the professor, but also summoned all the soldiers who participated in the professor, and even personally read out the holy edict, telling them to pay attention to maintaining the image of the Ming Dynasty outside.

This oracle had been printed in a pamphlet, one for each of them, and he had to gather all his soldiers every day to read it out and then conduct his regular drills during the voyage at sea.

He had already memorized the contents of the oracle:

After you step out of the country of the Ming Dynasty, you represent the image of the Ming Dynasty, and you must always remember that you are a glorious Ming soldier and win glory for the Ming Dynasty. Here, I would like to emphasize a few points:

First, we must remember that our Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and we must always pay attention to our appearance and behavior, and do not lose the face of the Ming Dynasty;

Second, we should treat our allies and friends without arrogance, humility or arrogance;

Third......

Just as he was silently reciting the oracle in his heart, a soldier ran over and saluted respectfully: "General Qiyu, the steward of the merchant ship said that Goa is about to arrive." ”

When Luo Siwei heard this, he immediately ran to the bow of the boat, and an endless black line appeared on the sea in the distance, which should be land. He immediately turned around, walked to the front of the deck, and shouted, "All assembled." ”

Soon, countless soldiers wearing double composite armor with guns on their backs ran from all over the cabin and deck to the middle of the deck, and in less than a stick of incense they formed two neat phalanxes.

Luo Siwei glanced around majestically, all the soldiers raised their heads and stood straight, he nodded slightly, and then said loudly: "Check the equipment and tidy up the appearance." ”

All the soldiers moved neatly from top to bottom, flintlock pistols, grenades, bullets, medicine rooms, bayonets, ......,

After checking their equipment, they began to straighten their helmets, straighten their collars, smooth their composite armor, and tighten their belts .......

Everything was packed up, and everyone raised their heads again, stood upright, and waited for the review of the generals.

Luo Siwei looked over in rows, and saw that everyone had no problem, so he nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Everyone, stay put." ”

With that, he himself walked to the front of the line, and stood there with the hilt of his sword in his hand.

Soon, a huge merchant ship sailed into a harbor, and at this time there was a place where hundreds of soldiers had gathered, presumably to pick up the goods.

The merchant ship approached the berth directly in front of the group of soldiers, and as soon as the stairs were lowered, several leading foreigners and a group of soldiers eagerly climbed up the ship.

Before the foreigners showed their heads, Shi Weila's strange Chinese with a slight Beijing accent came over: "Oh, Ruopot, my friend, I haven't seen you for a long time, have you brought me muskets and artillery?" ”

The steward of the merchant ship had already come to Luo Siwei's side, and he did not greet him, but stood there solemnly and waited.

Soon, Schwila's head popped out of the side of the boat, and he said with some reproach, "Oh, Jopote, why don't you come to greet an old friend?" I....... ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at the deck, and when he saw the neatly standing Ming soldiers, he couldn't say anything of surprise at once, and stood at the top of the stairs like a fool.

At this time, I remembered a burst of Portuguese (all typed into Chinese for ease of understanding): "Count Schwila, why don't you move, don't you know that it is very uncivilized to block other people's paths?" ”

When Shi Weila heard this, he immediately jumped down from the staircase, stretched out his hand and pulled the person behind him, and apologized in Portuguese vigorously: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Kong Dede, I suddenly saw the soldiers of the Ming Empire, I was so happy, I forgot that you were behind, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

Kong Dede was not really angry, he was just joking with Shi Weila, listening to Shi Weila's words, he immediately looked up at the deck, oh, the one who bought the cake, is this the soldier of the Ming Empire? It's just imposing!

In order to show his prestige, Zhu Cijiong specially asked people to select two hundred elite soldiers who are about 1.8 meters tall and physically strong among the 50,000 musketeers and 20,000 artillery soldiers of the first legion of the entire Praetorian Guard, and their flintlock pistols and composite armor are all new, and more importantly, they have all been pulled to the ship to try, and those who are seasick don't want it, so they are all full of energy now, and the majestic ones don't want it.

Without waiting for the guards behind to come up, Shi Weila immediately pulled Conde to Luo Siwei and asked eagerly: "This general, are you sent by His Majesty the Emperor?" ”

Luo Siwei has actually seen Shi Weila, no way, this thing often follows the emperor's ass around, and there are really not many people in the Praetorian Guard who have never seen him.

This Shi Weira is the emperor's sincere uncle, and he is a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, so Luo Siwei gave him a standard military salute and said loudly: "The last general, Luo Siwei, the general of the first battalion of musketeers of the first regiment of the Praetorian Guard, see Lord Earl." If you go back to the earl, the emperor is afraid that the earl's subordinates will not use my Daming's muskets and artillery, so he specially sent the last general to lead a hundred musketeers and a hundred artillery soldiers to teach the earl's subordinates to use muskets and artillery. ”

Shi Weila almost jumped up with joy when he heard this, he excitedly shook Luo Siwei's hand and said: "Thank you so much, His Majesty the Emperor is simply very good to Weichen, thank you General Luo, General Luo has worked hard, why don't I let my subordinates take you to rest?" ”

Luo Siwei was dizzy from his nonsense, but he still understood the last sentence, he shook his head directly and said: "I'm sorry, Lord Earl, we can't go to rest now, the emperor has explained that we must hand over all the muskets and artillery to you, now the muskets and artillery are still on the ship, we can't go." ”

Svera slapped his forehead and said, "You see that I forgot about this as soon as I was happy, you wait a minute, I will let someone move it immediately." ”

With that, he explained to the guards behind him in Portuguese, and the guards immediately ran to the edge of the deck and yelled at the shore a few times, and soon a large number of Portuguese soldiers in uniform climbed onto the ship and moved a box of weapons off the ship under the guidance of Luo Siwei and the merchant ship steward.

Schwila stood aside, looked at his chaotic subordinates, and then looked at the Ming soldiers who were neatly lined up in two phalanxes, standing there motionless, the envy in his heart, the soldiers of the Ming Empire were well-trained, look at the one they stood in a neat one, which was like the recruits I just recruited, and the phalanx that stood out was like the African jungle, crooked, giving people the feeling that they were going to get lost as soon as they entered.

And the helmet, the armor, the belt, the weapon, all neat and upright, like those recruits under my command, there are only a few military hats with a straight belt, most of them are deliberately crooked to the side, and even the hat is pinned to the belt!

The more he looked at it, the more envious he became, and suddenly, he remembered that this General Luo was a general, according to the military system of the Ming Empire, he should have led an army of about 10,000 people, if he could help him train these 10,000 recruits, wouldn't it be as neat as the Ming army in front of him. Don't underestimate this neat team, he has seen the Ming army fight with his own eyes, that action, that efficiency, when he shoots, it is like a storm and rain, without the slightest stop; The speed at which the shells were loaded was even faster than was incomprehensible. If his subordinates could have that speed, he would even dare to directly lead 10,000 people to directly start a war against the most powerful Mughal Empire in this subcontinent!

He invited Luo Siwei aside with apprehension, and then asked in an almost pleading tone: "General Luo, can you help me train these new troops, you have also seen their appearance, how can they go to the battlefield like this?" ”

Luo Siwei was taken aback, and asked in disbelief: "Lord Earl, this is your new army?" I thought they were the porters you hired! Haven't you practiced them? “

Shi Weila's face was flushed with shame, and he said embarrassedly: "This, I have only trained hundreds of guards, and I have never brought an army of tens of thousands of people." General Luo, aren't you going to teach them how to use muskets and artillery, just help me practice. Do yourself a favor, do yourself a favor. “

Luo Siwei just wondered why his so-called new army was the same as a porter, not that he didn't want to help him train the army, but when he came, the emperor specially explained to him, and tried to take the opportunity to practice and train the new army under Shi Weila, so that they could have a sense of identity with the Ming army and be easy to do in the future.

He didn't know what the emperor was going to do in the future, but now that Shi Vera himself sent it to the door and wanted to hand over the new army to him for training, he naturally couldn't ask for it. So, he replied very simply: "Since the Earl sees the last generals in this way, then the last general will help you train them, if the practice is not good, look forward to Haihan." “

Shi Weila said happily: "General Luo thank you so much, you just have to rest assured to practice, as long as you can practice like the second-class army of the Ming Dynasty, I will be satisfied, you are the general of the first-class army, you will definitely not let me down." “