Yuhua platform.

"Your Excellency the Duke is not afraid of us peeking into their secrets!"

Dicks said, holding up the binoculars.

Here you can overlook the entire Great Church, and at this time, not only them, but actually hundreds of thousands of people crowded the Yuhuatai, watching Her Majesty the Empress give the Protector the ceremony of the festival. This is already a procedure that the Ming army must perform when going out, a gilded knotted knotted sword similar to a scepter, and the same as the sword of Shang Fang in the past, represents the supreme command of the war zone, and can even be cut first and then played.

At this moment, in Dicks' field of vision, Her Majesty could be seen holding the festival with both hands, and her husband knelt down on one knee with a military salute, holding his hands to receive the symbol of life and death.

He will face Li Zicheng.

Lead the world's most powerful legion.

"All the latest flintlock guns, twelve-pounder field guns, twenty-four-pounder mortars, I can't think of an army in Europe that can stop them, not even the Swedes, but fortunately we are far enough away from them!"

Kebel next to him said.

"But isn't he afraid of leaks? This tactic is said to be very powerful, and it was the same tactic in Canton, which defeated the Dutch-trained legions in just a few minutes. The latter had at least reached the strength of the first-class army in Europe, both trained and equipped, enough to fight head-on in Europe and the armies of any country, but were crushed by them with only two volleys, and their salvos were even more terrifying than the Gustav Thunder. ”

On the other side, the Portuguese Consul General Diego said in French.

"Leaks?"

Dix also sneered in French: "May I ask which monarch in Europe can arm his army with flintlock pistols all?" Louis? Philip? Or Ferdinand? Or which monarch in Europe could give his soldiers a piece of land and let their children receive a free education, so that they could still be fed and even treated for free when they were too old to move? Who can do that? Ladies and gentlemen, is the most powerful thing about this army in terms of weapons? We have almost all the weapons they have, but do we have the money to replace them all like they do, and give the same treatment to the soldiers? ”

Kerber and Diego shut up.

Indeed, the weapons of the Ming army are all available except for rockets, even rifled guns are actually available in Europe, and they have been invented for more than a hundred years.

The Ming army was also only a casing type.

But what European monarch would be willing to equip his army with this?

The flintlock pistol was invented more than half a century ago, and Louis XIV's grandfather invited Mahan to his court half a century ago, but the result is that no European country has equipped its armies with this weapon on a large scale. The monarchs and generals of Europe are not unaware of the benefits of this thing, on the one hand, the soldiers need to keep blowing the fire rope to prevent it from extinguishing, and they have to blow the fire rope before firing, and on the other hand, they can just pull the trigger, which is better and fools know, but the problem is that the money is different! Again, a six-pounder gun is certainly better than a three-pounder gun, but it's also more expensive! Not only is the cost expensive, but the cost of firing a shot is also expensive! Not to mention a twelve-pounder gun! The cost of firing a cannon is enough for a three-pound cannon for half a day, is the gunpowder falling from the sky? Anyway, at this time, in order to collect enough nitrate, the whole of Europe is digging urine!

Boiling for a thousand days, not as good as a general!

Who has such a huge manpower and resource advantage as Daming to supply and consume?

Not to mention the gunpowder industry of the Ming Dynasty now, it is the gunpowder production of Chongzhen, which is what European countries look up to! The gap between European countries and the Ming Dynasty is not only technology, but the overall strength is comprehensively suppressed, financial resources, technology, resources, manpower, etc., none of which can be matched, and the strength of the whole Europe may be able to match......

But that's pure dreaming.

European monarchs preferred to bleed each other, not their own blood anyway.

"We are divided into countless large and small nations in a land that is at most about the size of theirs, and we have no idea that in the East a suffocating and powerful nation has risen. They had already taken the steps of colonization, the first fleet to the New World had already set sail, and their navy had become the strongest in East Asia. Once the Dutch could occupy a piece of land beside them, now their fleet has cruised to the Gulf of Siam, and the Dutch can only watch feebly. They had built hundreds of cruisers, their tenth battleship had been launched, and they had mapped more than half of Southeast Asia on their own borders, and their ambitions were so obvious.

It can be said that an elephant has stepped on the scales that we originally dominated.

And what about us?

It's sad that we can only keep sending them boatloads of gold and silver, and even have to kill each other in order to compete for the right to send them gold and silver! ”

Dicks sighed.

It was clear that what he saw in Daming was different from his predecessor.

"So what can you do? Convince the East India Company executives to stop trading with them? Or persuade the British aristocracy to take off the silk from them? Or let the London gentlemen throw away the black tea on their tables? If you can do it, then I will pay you the highest respect on behalf of the French businessmen, and we will take everything you have given up! ”

Kirbel said with a sneer.

Dix let out a long sigh of sorrow.

At that moment, a young woman not far from them suddenly burst into tears, but then an elder beside her reprimanded.

"What are they talking about?"

Kirbel asked Diego curiously.

"This woman's husband is in the procession, she is a little reluctant, her father is reprimanding her, saying that even the empress can personally send her husband to the battlefield, what reason does she have to be reluctant!"

Diego said.

He had lived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years, and he had no barrier to the language here.

"It's really respectable!"

Kerber said.

"It's just a show, first of all, you have to know that this Lord Duke is said to be a vampire, a wizard, or whatever, so he is immortal. Her Majesty didn't care about his safety at all, and I even saw him and Feng with my own eyes. Father Bell's duel, whose bullets did not reach his body at all. ”

Diego said soberly.

Feng. Father Bell is John Tong.

"Is this true?"

Kirbel said in surprise.

Then he and Diego immediately found a common topic and studied the legend of Yang Qing, while Dix next to him looked at them with a sad expression, but it was obvious that these two fools did not have such a wise mind as him, and he had to continue to look at the huge formation in the distance with the gloom that everyone in the world was drunk and I woke up alone.

At this time, the ceremony of awarding the bell was completed, and the cavalry, as the vanguard, moved forward first.

These cavalrymen still rode Mongolian horses.

After all, such a short development time is not enough to make the Ming Dynasty's war horses change qualitatively, the good war horses are in the cavalry army, and the infantry is even the Guards is an inferior war horse. In order to reduce the load, these cavalry did not have plate armor, but wore a light military uniform with multiple layers of silk and cotton, this kind of military uniform to say that bulletproof is indeed not good, but the anti-arrow effect is excellent, and it is okay to deal with stray bullets, of course, the cost must be high, fortunately, there is no shortage of silk in the Ming Dynasty. But the color was not red, but an earthy yellow closer to the northern environment, and all the cavalry carried flintlock carbines, straight-bent double sabers, and a spear in their hands, and thousands of cavalry lined up in a neat line, marching along the outer ring road to the docks amid cheers from the mezzanine

Behind them was Yang Qing's Chinese army.

The Protector sat on his Andalusian horse with a knotted horse, and on the left was Zhang Mingyang, the commander of the First Guards Army, who was Zhang Mingzhen's younger brother and had died in Zhoushan in the original history.

On the right, followed by Zhao Yinxuan, the deputy commander.

He is a native of Yunnan, originally followed the patrol of the imperial history Chen Xin to rescue Nanjing with the Yunnan army, and later followed He Tengjiao in Hunan, so he fought in a mess until Guilin fell, he took the remnants of the Yunnan army to Li Dingguo, and there has been no record since then. But this time he performed well in the battle against the Tusi in Yunnan, and then as the general of the Yunnan Army, he also made some contributions in the chaotic battle in Hunan, became the brigade commander when he was reorganized, and participated in the recovery war in Shandong, so he was promoted to the deputy commander of the Guards.

At this time, the new generation of generals basically grew up like this, and Zhang Mingyang also followed his brother to participate in the chaotic battle in Huguang, and transferred the Yangtze River Water Division to become the brigade commander when the armies were reorganized.

Then there is the fight for meritorious service and promotion.

They are still not trained by Yang Qing Military Academy, the age of the latter cannot reach this position, the current Ming army is in control, and the generals who command the first-level generals are all these inconspicuous in the past, but they have been promoted in the past seven years in large and small battles, and after their stubble, it is the turn of those military cadets trained by Yang Qing, and at this time, the first batch of military cadets is at most a battalion commander.

It is not possible for the army not to pay attention to seniority.

At the beginning, those military leaders who crossed to the south were either not capable enough to retire at this time, or they were the commanders or deputy commanders of various places.

Yang Qing's Chinese army was followed by the chariot infantry of the assault infantry brigade, and then the four infantry brigades and the huge army of 25,000 people. Her Majesty's chauffeur followed them, personally sent the soldiers to the Shimonoseki Pier, and waved goodbye to her husband in the eyes of the crowd......

Well, it's also for show.

The pregnant empress personally sent her husband to the battlefield for the sake of the country and the people!

How great!

How can the people of Daming not be moved!

In other words, their husband and wife are indeed extremely sensational, looking at the empress who is holding her stomach with one hand and facing the tears of the protector, what do the people of the Ming Dynasty have to be dissatisfied with, and what parents send their sons and wives to their husbands are all duty-bound.