When the expedition was assembled, they divided into small teams and began to search the small port.

At this time, more than a dozen dinosaur soldiers hiding in a camp tent in the harbor looked at the humans who were slowly searching this way with fear.

This island is not big, and their current situation is that there is no way to enter the heavens and no way to the earth.

Moreover, the bodies tortured by other diseases are already weak, and even if humans don't kill them, they won't be able to last long with their physical condition.

The remaining supplies in the port had been eaten up three days ago, and it was impossible to do it with a trace of bravery and human despair.

The expedition team conducted a carpet search of the port.

He Tie's team of more than a dozen people vigilantly opened the tents.

At this time, one of the expedition members suddenly shouted: "Come on, there is an enemy here." ”

With this shout, the rest of the expedition members quickly gathered in this direction and surrounded the camp.

After the captain motioned to several members of the expedition to lift the curtain, he saw more than a dozen dinosaur people lying in the tent, looking at their skinny appearance, if it were not for the ups and downs of their chests, they looked no different from dead.

Seeing the enemy's situation, the captain immediately breathed a sigh of relief, asked people to put down their weapons, and ordered several expedition members to carry the dozen dinosaur people out.

"Captain, what's the matter with these dinosaur people." He Tie asked suspiciously.

The captain sneered and said: "These guys are probably infected with that mysterious disease, just like those captives in the country, a few people have taken care of them in the past, and the rest of them continue to search this island, and if the enemy resists, they will be killed." ”

A bunch of explorers stepped forward to tie up these dinosaur people who had no resistance to them, and the rest of the people quickly dispersed and searched for this smile in an all-round way.

However, after searching the side, everyone found that there was not a single enemy on this small island, except for a few dinosaur people who had only one breath left.

It is naturally a good thing to occupy the enemy's territory so easily, the captain is the commander of the navy, which can be regarded as opening up the territory for the Xia Kingdom, and after returning to the Xia Kingdom, it is just around the corner to be promoted and make a fortune.

The captives of the dozen dinosaur people, he had no intention of executing them, although no one in the fleet could understand the language of the dinosaur people, but when they were brought back to the Xia Kingdom, they could understand from their mouths why this port became like this.

The doctor who went to sea with the expedition team diagnosed and treated the dinosaur people, and they also knew something about the unknown disease, although there was no purple mountain vegetable on the ship, but these dinosaur people seemed to be only weakened by long-term hunger, although the disease ravaged their bodies, but there was no sign of fatality.

After checking it, the replies just instructed the rest of the people to prepare food for them, and ignored the dinosaur people.

Although the port built by the dinosaur people is very simple, these things left behind are just enough to provide a place for the expedition team to rest.

The port was also built with a simple wall of stone and wood, making it a good base with simple reinforcements.

The initial mission of the expedition was completed, and after a stay of more than ten days, the two expedition ships returned to the west.

In the age of sails, ships relied heavily on ocean currents and trade winds, and the route back was completely different from the one they came from, and it was an unfamiliar shipping lane, and it was inevitable that there would be unexpected situations on the way home.

At the same time as the expedition initially completed its tasks.

In Yancheng, ten-year-old Wang Hai didn't know why he became interested in dragoons, and spent most of the day in the dragoons' camp, watching those dragoons ride wings and fly high.

Looking at the newly hatched little pterosaurs in the animal pen, Wang Hai squatted beside him and stared at them intently.

Although these pterosaurs have just hatched, they eat a lot of food and need a lot of meat every day to fill their hungry bellies.

Seeing these pterosaurs stretching their necks and chirping at him, Wang Hai knew that these little guys must be hungry.

From the wooden barrel on the side, he took out a small piece of meat and threw it into the animal pen, which immediately caused these little pterosaurs to snatch for a while.

"Second prince, what do you think of these cubs?" An officer in military uniform laughed.

Wang Hai looked back at the people and said, "It turned out to be General Liu, I like these pterosaurs very much, when will they be able to fly into the sky." ”

General Liu replied: "It will take more than a year, but if you want to fly manned, you have to wait until they are at least two years old." ”

Wang Hai nodded and said, "When will I be able to ride them into the sky?" ”

General Liu was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Second prince, don't look at this dragoon flying around in the sky on weekdays, this class of troops is very dangerous, if you don't go through strict training, you will definitely die if you fly into the sky and fall, in the past few years, there will be accidents when the dragoons are trained, you are a noble person, Your Majesty's child, this kind of dangerous thing, you still don't want to participate." ”

Wang Hai was silent for a while and said, "General Liu, if I convince my father to let me be a dragoon, can I keep this little winged dragon." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a pterodactyl with a yellow stripe on its mouth.

"This... As long as His Majesty agrees, the lower official will personally teach the second prince, but the second prince, you have to think clearly, the training of this dragoon is even harder than the rest of the troops. General Liu said slowly.

Wang Hai nodded solemnly and said, "After thinking clearly, Counselor Liu has decided on us, and I will go to my father." ”

Looking at Wang Hai, who ran away like a gust of wind, General Liu frowned and sighed, not knowing whether it would be a blessing or a curse for him to let these two princes follow him to learn flying skills.

After months of rigorous training in the musketeer training camp, the more than 100 musketeers walked in a uniform formation, and their momentum looked almost the same as the military parade in China.

This group of big characters doesn't know a rough man, but Wang Lang is very relieved to be able to get to this point now.

The brand-new musket is carried on the shoulder, and the soldier's waist is straight, so as long as the army has 100,000 people, Wang Lang feels that he can sweep any enemy in this era, of course, he also knows that this is impossible, such strict training, the financial resources consumed to train this hundred people is an extremely huge number, he does not expect that after the expansion of the musketeers, they can meet the standards of these people, which must have half the strength, then the military level of the Xia Kingdom will have a qualitative leap.

The soldiers shouted the slogan of one-two-one in unison, and the rumbling footsteps seemed to make the earth tremble.

The king of the pirates lay outside the wooden fence of the camp and watched the musket team train. , his expression was full of hesitation.

"Since you're here, come in!"

At this time, Wang Lang's voice suddenly came, which immediately startled him.

swallowed his saliva, lowered his head and walked slowly towards Wang Lang.

"Erchen has seen his father!"

Wang Lang glanced at Wang Hai and said, "What is the matter with coming here to find me." ”

"Erchen... Sons... ”

Wang Hai nervously grabbed the corner of his clothes with both hands, not knowing how to talk to Wang Lang.

"If you have something to say, just say it, spit, don't be like a."

Wang Hai's face turned red, he gritted his teeth, and said, "Father, Ercheng wants to become a dragoon." ”

Wang Lang raised his eyebrows, glanced at Wang Hai and said, "Why?" ”

"Erchen is very envious of those dragoons who can fly in the sky, and I want to be like them." Wang Hai said in a deep voice.

"Don't mess around, each of those pterosaurs is the precious wealth of the Xia Kingdom, how can you be treated as a toy." Wang Lang reprimanded.

When Wang Hai heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Father, my son is not for fun, I really want to be a dragoon!" ”

"Do you know how hard dragoon training is?"

"Erchen knows."

"Do you have the perseverance?"

"Yes!"

"Heh, have you seen these musketeers, they train every day in addition to practicing queue shooting, but also to run more than ten miles, and the requirements of the dragoons are much higher than them, the dragoons are carefully selected from the army, they are all extremely proud of the character, if you can't stand the hardships of training, even if you are my son, they will look down on you, you are different from your eldest brother, you have not experienced any hardships since you were a child, I don't think you can persevere." Wang Lang shook his head and said.

Wang Hai saw Wang Lang and Wang He, his fists were clenched tightly, and he solemnly clenched his fists and said: "Father, the son will definitely not be worse than the eldest brother, and I can do what the eldest brother can do." ”

Wang Lang stared at Wang Hai for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, in that case, I'll give you a month, let me see your determination, if you can hold out for a month, I will agree to you join the dragoons." ”

Wang Hai was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Father, what you said is true. ”

"I am the emperor of a country, and I will definitely do what I say."

"Erchen will definitely prove it to his father, Erchen, this dragoon, is decided."

Wang Lang nodded and said, "I know, you go and talk to your mother and aunt!" ”

Wang Hai said with some embarrassment: "Father, can you not tell your mother and eldest mother about this matter for the time being." ”

"Why?"

"If this matter is known to my mother and eldest mother, there will definitely be a lot of incidents, and I don't want them to worry."

"Okay, I will ask General Liu to arrange the matter of you joining the dragoons, but while training, don't forget to read more books, knowledge and body are equally important."

"'Erchen knows.'"

"Alright, let's go down!"

"The retainers retired."

After Wang Hai left, Wang Lang shook his head and smiled, his two sons are very self-willing, and they don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.

The Xia State directly skipped the slave society and feudal society from the primitive society and stepped into the monarchical bureaucratic society.

And Wang Lang does not plan to fief his heirs, those who have not inherited the throne, those who have the ability to be an official in the Xia State, and if they are not capable, they will be an ordinary person.

The children of the royal family in the past dynasties of the Chinese Dynasty were raised by the state, one or two generations are fine, but with the continuous reproduction, the number of people will become a great burden on the country, in order to put an end to this situation, Wang Lang decided to prevent this situation from the source.

Xia Guo does not have the concept of king, and since it has not appeared, he thinks it is better to never appear.

Due to his own appearance, the development of human civilization in this world is deformed, not in line with scientific principles, it originally took thousands of years of continuous exploration, and he finished it in a hurry for decades, he didn't know that this was not to pull out the seedlings, but he did not regret doing it.

But people are not ruthless, he naturally hopes that his children and grandchildren can live well, but as a modern person, he inexplicably has a sense of historical mission, he is creating history and participating in a new history.

In this, he plays not a father or an emperor, but a guide to human civilization, which makes him have to give up a lot of emotions and look at the problem from the perspective of all mankind.

Anything that is unfavorable to human society will be discarded by him, even if it seriously harms his own interests.

But compared to the fate of mankind, one's own interests become insignificant.

The people of the Emperor Dixia Kingdom are supreme and sacred, but for him, this throne is simply not worth mentioning, if possible, he would prefer to be an ordinary person, and travel with his family in this picturesque and wild world.

Just as Wang Lang was distracted, the musket pair, which had completed the training subjects of the Qi Infantry Army, came to the school field and quickly divided into three columns.

The operation of the arquebus is extremely complicated, and although it has taken more than a month of design practice, an arquebusier can only maintain about one shot per minute.

Three-stage shooting, which can only shoot three rounds in a minute, is obviously impossible to go to the battlefield with this rate of fire, not to mention that the performance of muskets today has not surpassed that of bows and arrows.

In order to make a musketeer truly useful, Wang Lang believes that a skilled musketeer can shoot at least two shots a minute to have actual combat value.

There is still a long way to go in the training of these musketeers.

"Bang bang bang!"

The muskets roared, and the barrage of dozens of projectiles pierced the plank in front of them in the blink of an eye.

Due to the dangerous handling of the arquebus, each musketeer was kept at a certain distance from each other.

After the musketeers in the first row finished firing, they quickly retreated to the last row, and the musketeers in the second row stepped forward in unison, pulled the trigger and continued the new round of shooting.

But after all three rounds of shooting were completed, the musketeers of the first round of design had not yet been prepared, and Wang Lang couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this.

At present, the effective firing range of the arquebus is about 60 to 70 meters, even if the range is improved to more than 100 meters, such a distance, with the running speed of the dinosaur people, such a rate of fire can not effectively suppress the dinosaur people, not to mention, this does not take into account the situation that the enemy has cavalry.

If it can't reach two rounds a minute, then the arquebusier, after three rounds of shooting, can only close his eyes and wait for death.