The third volume sailed in the Ming Dynasty

Poor command and the inability to effectively coordinate between different units in real time are probably the shortcomings of this era.

There are four issues involved: fixed time, accurate maps, effective communication, and unified scheduling.

The team that marched to this drill was 2,000 soldiers led by Yu Youhan and his personal guard Zhao Shun.

Originally, he wanted to cooperate with Zhang Yun to encircle and suppress Scar Six, but because the two sides did not have contact, they missed each other, thus losing an opportunity to train troops.

Qin Haoming stood on the riverbank, already thinking about it very intently, and solving these problems was already brewing in his mind.

In the past, it did not matter when there were a few thousand soldiers and a single cavalry, but in the future, the number of officers and men under his command would be increased by tens of thousands of horses, and different branches of the armed forces would be particularly important in this era of extremely backward communications and dispatch.

The mountain wind hunts, and the rain is coming.

The branches of flowers and trees danced in the wind, swaying, the dark clouds became thicker, the old branches of dead trees roared in the wind, and the sky instantly became dark and gloomy.

"Zhao Qianhu, let the soldiers cut down the wood and tie the wooden platoon, and prepare to cross the river."

The march of troops, the opening of roads in the mountains, and the building of bridges in the rivers are all due meanings.

As for the complex and changeable weather environment during the march, it can exercise the troops' adaptability, so there is no need to worry.

"No!"

Dozens of steps into the river, the soldiers began to cut wood and bamboo, and with a simple rope to tie it, people and horses could cross the river.

Two thousand people is not much, and the workload is not too much.

As soon as the river was crossed, there was a thunderclap in the sky, as if the sky had been cut apart, and the rain poured down, flowing down from the sky, condensing into a curtain of rain, and splashing on the ground.

"Running for thirty miles, the front is Ningde Mansion. Yu Qianhu is in charge of the palace, pay attention to the brothers who have fallen behind, and go! ”

With such a heavy rain, the soldiers were drenched in soup in an instant, including Qin Haoming himself.

But he was unmoved, and took the lead in running forward with his guards.

Although the scale of the map is problematic, the orientation between cities is basically accurate, and the means of mapping of the ancients are not as backward as we think.

In fact, for thousands of years, the method of making maps has been called the "six bodies of cartography".

That is, the fraction (scale), the quasi-wang (direction), the road (distance), the high and low (the undulating terrain), the square evil (the angle of inclination), and the roundabout (the straightness of the river and road).

Today's maps are poor in cartographic technology, without contour lines and accurate scales. As long as these two shortcomings are made up, there is not much difference from future generations.

Ningde Fu is the central city in the northeast wing of Fujian Province, facing the vast East China Sea in the east, facing Taiwan across the sea, and Fuzhou City, the provincial capital, in the south, and is the closest central city in Fujian Province to Japan and South Korea.

After an hour and a half, the team of 2,000 people gasped and entered the Ningde Mansion with mud and mud, and the prefect Lei Mingxiao and officials of all sizes were waiting at the city gate to greet them.

Ningde Mansion is a land of maritime frontiers, except for the harassment of the Japanese invaders, there has been almost no war for hundreds of years.

In addition, its land is small and sparsely populated, and it has never belonged to the important towns of Fujian.

The prefect Lei Mingxiao is in charge of this place, and he has just arrived in office, not very old, only in his thirties, and he was a jinshi in his early twenties, and he has been an official in Jinling for many years, and he has been delegated to the Ningde prefect for less than a year.

The rain is urgent, and it is also fast.

Lei Mingxiao saw that Qin Haoming and two thousand soldiers were in armor, their whole bodies were wet, and they hurried to the small Ningde Mansion from nowhere in the rain, and they were uneasy.

The whole Fujian is divided into Fuzhou, Jianning, Yanping, Ningde, Xinghua, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tingzhou eight prefectures, so it is called eight Fujian.

And Ningde is only at the bottom, and has never been taken seriously, why did the prestige of the Qin Governor come quietly, there was no movement in advance, and there was no notice from the Governor's Yamen Mansion, what is the matter?

Thinking about what Ren had done, although it was useless, it didn't seem to have gone wrong, and my uneasy heart gradually let go.

"Xiaguan Ningde prefect Lei Mingxiao, with civil and military subordinates, I have seen Lord Qin Du!"

"I've seen Lord Qin Du!"

Lei Mingxiao took the lead, with the large and small civil officials on the left in official uniforms, and the military attachés in armor on the right.

"Thank you colleagues, this Governor's march is passing through here, and it coincides with the heavy rain to leave guests, who is the garrison here?"

One government and one garrison, ruling two to three thousand households, guarding the safety of the whole government. Ningde Mansion is not an important border town, and there is generally no general army or deputy general army.

Qin Haoming looked at everyone left and right as he spoke, Lei Mingxiao's face was white and young, his official uniform was spotless, and he was a standard literati at a glance, coming in a sedan chair.

The rest of the civil servants were tidy and well-maintained.

It's just that these military attaches Qin Haoming shook his head again and again, and he didn't see a few people wearing neat iron armor. Although it is not easy to wear an iron armor of dozens of catties, it is enough to show how lax the armament is.

"The last general Ningde Mansion guards Chen Hui, I don't know what Governor Qin commands?"

An official who looked to be about fifty years old, with a fat head and big ears and a white face, hurriedly stood up and bowed down to answer.

"Hurry up and lead the soldiers to the barracks to wash up, by the way, boil some ginger soup, and prepare for food and lodging tonight."

September is the cool autumn season, although it is not enough to feel cold, but it is not a trivial matter for the soldiers to get typhoid fever because of the rain.

"No!"

Garrison Chen Hui smiled with a smile on his face and bowed down in response.

Chen Hui's words and deeds made Qin Haoming feel a little weird, and when he turned around and ordered his guards to leave with Yu Youhan and Zhao Shun and others, in contrast, Qin Haoming found that he was actually wearing literati clothes.

"Governor Qin, please go to the prefect's yamen to wash, and by the way, instruct the lower officials to wait for one or two."

Lei Mingxiao had great eyesight, and bent down to invite Qin Haoming, who was frowning.

How can the conditions of the barracks be compared with those of the prefect's yamen?

"It's good!"

Qin Haoming did not refuse, in his heart, the geographical location of Ningde Mansion was important, and he needed to make a good plan.

"Hurry up and let the house boil water and prepare wine and food."

The stars welcomed Qin Haoming into the city like a moon, and Lei Zhifu was one position behind, slowly introducing the things on the left and right streets in the city.

His guards and soldiers also entered the city with him, and the rest of them were welcomed by Chen Hui's personal guards to the military camp on the edge of the city.

It's just that these guards were so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks along the way, where did they think that Qin Du's team was so huge?

The barracks are naturally not enough, and the school yard has been abandoned for a long time, overgrown with low grass and trees, where is there a place to place so many people and horses?

Ningde Mansion Ya, Qin Haoming quickly finished washing, and the yamen was full of waiting local civil and military officials.

Qin Haoming was not allowed to sit in front of the hall, and sat thundering in the sky.

Under his introduction, they were roughly familiar with one or two, and everyone stopped talking and looked directly at Qin Haoming in the first seat.

Qin Haoming also knew that he should say a few words by himself, slowly put down the tea cup with strong fragrance, and said:

"Now that I'm here, there are two things that need to be dealt with.

First, to reorganize the armament, and second, to ask the Governor of Lei to build a large dock wharf in Sanduao.

For example, today's smoke is everywhere, and the center of gravity of armament has shifted to the border of the north, so the armament in the Jiangnan region has been slightly slackened, and it should be reintegrated.

Recently, there have been thieves in the northwest, and although Fujian is far away from the war, we should also fight hard to ensure the safety of the party. ”

Qin Haoming's words were already clear, the first thing was to reorganize the army.

The officials under the hall naturally breathed a sigh of relief, and the new officials took office with three fires, and it seemed that they couldn't burn them.

On the contrary, the dock was built, although I don't know what Qin Du's plan was, but this construction project and other projects have always been the most lucrative, and there are always places to get their hands on.

Looking at the garrison Chen Hui and his subordinates thousands of households, their faces were naturally heavy, and the situation of their soldiers was clear. Looking at the elite soldiers under the command of Governor Qin, I can't help but let these people not be in a hurry.