Chapter 1 The Departure of the Great Army

At this time, it was already December, and the tropical weather of December did not feel the cold wind at all, but the warm sun shone on the Champa Port military camp.

At this time, more than 500 new officers and soldiers in the barracks were standing on the playground listening to Lucci's lecture, and the princess sat on a stool beside her, looking boredly at the group of soldiers in crimson uniforms below. The cloth used in the uniforms was not as bright red as the original sample, but a dark red that resembled black-red. This is because at this time, the chemical dyes that pass through the crowd cannot be produced in large quantities, and until now, the chemical team still tosses these chemical products as if they were doing experiments in the laboratory, and the raw materials they use are the original ecological raw materials full of various impurities rather than the pure raw materials that can be bought in the chemical store in the old space-run once, so the products obtained are also of different forms and contents. Because of this, they have not been able to match the big red used for dyeing before, so they can only use this dark red to fill the number. But fortunately, the material of this batch of clothes is very good, and it feels good to wear, and the interest of the soldiers is not entangled in the color of the clothes. Coupled with the dense straps sewn into the undyed Senate belts, they excitedly loaded the distributed propellant pouches and fire cap pouches and various bags on them, so that no one paid attention to the color of their uniforms that was different from what they had seen before.

"We are about to face a battle with the barbarians, and in the new battle, some of us will be injured and may even be killed, but your sacrifice is not meaningless, the people will always remember your contribution to the safety of the country, and His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Princess will also remember your sacrifice to the country." Looking at the soldiers below looking at themselves a little blankly, he suddenly realized that at this time, not to mention this Annan, even the Wu Dynasty does not have the concept of a nation-state. "Everyone fights with the barbarians for His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely reward you heavily, even if there are sacrificed soldiers, you will definitely be able to get His Majesty's pension."

At this time, the soldiers below began to shine with light in their eyes, and they were not so afraid of death, they were afraid that as soon as they died, as the pillar of the family, the family would be completely finished.

The princess made a gesture to Luffy on the side, and Lucci remembered, "His Majesty the Emperor has a will, each person in this new army will receive a barbarian allowance of three taels when they come back, and those who sacrifice will receive twenty taels, and according to the heads of the barbarians, they can be credited, and each head is eight pieces of silver." So what should everyone do? ”

"Swear to kill the Nanban!" A few non-commissioned officers who had been notified in advance yesterday took the lead in shouting, and then all the soldiers were also led to shout, and for a while on the playground "Swear to kill Nanban!" The shouts shook the sky.

Eight coins of silver is not a small amount, although the Nanban is rumored to be eating human flesh with three heads and six arms, but these soldiers have the power of the Senate rifle in their hands is obvious to all, not to mention the Nanban who is not very armored on weekdays, even if he is wearing iron armor, Nanban must be a gun and two holes within a hundred steps, right? When the time comes, cut off a few heads, and hand them in when you come back, then you will have half a year's salary, and then you will marry a daughter-in-law or something, and your life will be perfect. At this time, the soldiers were stimulated by this high bounty and screamed, and at this time, they did not have the tension of getting up early in the morning and were about to face the battle, even if they were to face hundreds of heavily armed Nanbans at this time, no one would feel afraid at this time.

In the midst of a jubilant shout, the princess naturally stood up and waved to the New Army soldiers below, and then Shi Shiran stepped off the podium. With the help of two maidservants, she changed her clothes in her car, dressed like an ordinary soldier, except for a new cavalry knife made by the industrial department of the Eastern Port. This cavalry knife is basically based on the Patton sword, with a length of 86 centimeters and a width of 25 millimeters, and because of its slender blade, this cavalry knife is extremely suitable for stabbing rather than chopping. Although the use of chopping as a knife is far greater than that of stabbing, the lethality of stabbing is far greater than that of slashing, so George Patton proposed in January 1913 to "replace the prevailing scimitar with a straight sword in France", and by 1916 all cavalry units of the U.S. Army had been replaced by this "Patton sword". Due to the pace of modern warfare, although this cavalry knife did not play a big role in the subsequent World War I, and became a model in the Second World War, the excellent design concept of this well-designed cavalry knife cannot be erased. Because the Senate was about to begin to form a cavalry unit, in addition to equipping the cavalry with a 1628 carbine, the choice of melee weapons was directly chosen with the Patton sword. The Patton sword in the princess's hand is a special cavalry sword, and the material used is not even from the plane, but the high-carbon steel brought by the old plane, which is not only more difficult to bend, but also very hard, reducing the possibility of being broken in battle. The princess liked the 1628-style cavalry knife very much, because it was not as heavy as the broadsword she usually saw carried by ordinary soldiers, but it was very slender and did not feel heavy at all when wielded. The princess also likes to dance knives and guns on weekdays, and those ordinary sabers often make her feel like her wrists are about to break, but this one has not brought her this feeling, and the material of this knife is also very solid, she has cut several straw mats, and she has not seen any phenomenon of curling blades or anything so far, so she put on this cavalry knife when she sneaked out this time.

Soon chaos began to ensue in the playground, the soldiers in dark red uniforms began to pack the marching baggage of tents, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion began to pile up grain, grass and ammunition on large trailers, and the princess took advantage of the chaos to get to Luchi, who was riding a horse.

Lucci had just climbed onto a horse with the help of two soldiers, and was embarrassed to see the princess coming skillfully on horseback. The princess greeted him with a suppressed voice, and then began to follow him around the barracks. By this time, the princess's car had already left, and no one in the entire barracks knew that there was a woman mixed in this new army, except for Lucci and the princess herself. Of course, when the two of them were secretly proud, they didn't know that there was another veteran in the army at this time-Qian Longzhou.

At this time, Qian Longzhou, whose face was painted with ash from the bottom of the pot, did not take much effort to get a set of military uniforms of the new army in Zhanchenggang through the Ministry of Trade and put them on, but even if he painted his face as a Martian, he would be recognized by Lu Qi at a glance. The first is because this guy is not wearing a rattan helmet, but an 80 steel helmet, the shape of the steel helmet is completely different from the rattan helmet, at this time, even if he is covered with a helmet, he can still be seen at a glance; The second is the pit father's senate armed belt, ordinary soldiers are all a waist seal, and this guy is wearing a molle vest, which is full of bags with various magical functions, not to mention, and carries an earthy yellow 3D backpack.

For these reasons, Qian Longzhou nested directly in the transport convoy of the baggage company, and threw all the equipment on the transport vehicle, and waited until he needed to get it. A long line of more than 500 people was marching south along the road to Champong Port, and they had received a distress letter from Tangma three days earlier that Wenshan Port had been besieged by the Nanban, saying that the Nanban had been looting outside the city walls at this time, and at least 1,000 people had been captured. Because Wenshan Port was a shipbuilding port, these Nanban also burned the ships under construction, and also drove away the ships that were parked in the port.

Because the river in Wenshan Port City comes from outside the city, Nanban has cut off the water source in the city at this time, and there is a serious shortage of water in the city now. There are also rumors that there are spies from the Nanban who have infiltrated the city of Wenshan Port. At this time, the city was in chaos, people could go days without eating, but not for days without drinking water, at this time everywhere in the city as long as they could find water was turned upside down, whether it was in the drainage ditch on weekdays or the clay tank that stored water. These people are unable to dig wells to get water, because the port is too close to the sea, and the saltwater infiltration is very serious. A few years ago, seven or eight wells had been drilled in the city, but all of them were salty, bitter water, and completely undrinkable. And at this time, once the river in the city is cut off, the safest waterway from the city to the port can not be passed, these Nanban have set up many ambushes nearby at this time, and every time Wenshan Port goes out of the city, Tangma must have more than ten people, and run out in different directions at the same time to disturb the Nanban blockade.

The county commander Yingji was standing on the castle tower and looking to the north, and the pond horses he had sent out at dawn in the last two days had been captured by the Nanban, some of them were directly tied to the pillars outside the castle tower, their stomachs were cut, and their intestines were pulled out by livestock, and some of them were cut off and thrown in front of the castle tower, where the bow and arrow could not shoot...... These unfortunate heralds were wailing one by one, but such injuries would not die for a while, so their wailing continued from early morning until the afternoon, and then these Nanban began to take these heralds in front of them and eat them. Such a tragic situation deeply hit the morale of the defenders in the city, but fortunately, it was these southern barbarians who were eager to kill, otherwise I am afraid that these defenders in the city would have surrendered long ago. At this time, he could only look north from the tower several times a day, hoping that the Tangma who had not been caught would break out of the encirclement safely and successfully rush to the port of Champa or other nearby cities to send the information out. At this time, he did not know whether the port of Champa was under siege, nor did he know whether Annan would be able to raise an army to rescue the port of Wenshan. As far as he knew, those officials who declared in the court that they wanted to confront Nanban head-on had all died down at this time, because the entire Annan was afraid that he would not be able to find a general who dared to fight in front of Nanban, let alone a soldier who dared to fight.

"Lord Yingji, Nanban has sent someone to persuade him to surrender again." A soldier stepped forward to report to the emergency department.

Hideyoshi, whose name is Hatano, comes from Japan and is a descendant of the Meideno people who developed in Japan and set off a rebellion in Japan that overthrew the shogun, but was suppressed. The Medenor people could not assist these believers, so they had to transport them out. But they couldn't afford to support these thousands of Japanese believers, so they sent them all to the few free ports in Annam. These believers took root here, and even Hatano Hideyoshi became the prefectural commander of Wenshan Port, so there are still quite a lot of Japanese in the entire Wenshan Port, and fortunately, these Japanese have always obeyed orders and dared to fight, so that this Wenshan Port has not fallen.