Lu Da nodded, and said a few more words to the squadron sergeant, who was also a veteran with considerable experience. Generally speaking, new officers are old sergeant majors, the responsibility of the sergeant major is to assist the officers in managing the old soldiers, the position of the new officers is higher than the soldiers, but it is not easy to get their love, you need to show real talents, and it takes time to come out. The sergeant major of each department is elected among the veterans, and has the most experience, followed by the courage to stand in front of the queue to encourage the soldiers to move forward bravely, and at the same time, they must also coordinate the relationship between soldiers and soldiers, and also coordinate the relationship between officers and soldiers, and at the same time have a greater say in daily training and management.

This is also Zhang Han's theory, the number of veterans in an army and the status of veterans directly determine the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the army, the more veterans, the higher the status, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the army.

Such an army may be defeated, but it will never be like the Ming army, which will directly collapse in the face of the charge of the enemy cavalry and the diffuse fire of a few rounds of horses and bows, not to mention ordinary petty officers, even if it is a general soldier, the adjutant general will not be able to suppress it. Lu Da knew that his brother Lu Si was also a squadron-level sergeant, and Lu Si had already mentioned in the letter that he was going to take the officer exam, and he very much hoped that Lu Si could pass, so that the four brothers of the Lu family, except for Lu San, who had died in battle, the rest of the brothers had their own developments...... Of course, Lu Da hopes that the fourth child can become an officer, the fourth child is still young, and he looks handsome on the outside, but in fact, he has a ruthless spirit, and in terms of development, Lu Da feels that the fourth child is more promising than the second child......

Of course, it is impossible for Lu Da to say these words, Lu Dafu has already taken up the position of battalion commander, and his official position is a big cut away from his younger brother, and he is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he is very good at engaging in relationships, which is incomparable to Lu Si, who is full of anger and ruthlessness.

Shaking his head, removing the meaningless thoughts in the early morning, Lu Da looked at the sea, the sea was calm, and the typhoon that had been raging for several days finally subsided, which was very happy, the sea was like a blue mirror, almost motionless, thinking back to yesterday it was still stormy, and the sea was turbulent......

"Sergeant Major, let's go."

The squadron leaders on both sides made a handover, and the squadron leader on Lu Da's side beckoned Lu Da to leave.

Of course, leaving is not in charge of this squadron, he can not be on duty or go down to the squadron, at most he can go to each company to see the specific situation, and he can usually stay at the battalion headquarters without moving, but Lu Da is obviously not the kind of person who lives idlely, when he has free time, he will go down to the squadrons, and sometimes he will go out with the squad to perform tasks......

For this old sergeant major, there is a lot of admiration from top to bottom.

In fact, Lu Da is only thirty-five or sixteen years old, and the child is less than two years old...... Lu Da used to be an old bachelor, the four brothers in the family were poor and couldn't open the pot, and no woman would marry into the fire pit of the old Lu family, and then Lu Dafu became a soldier first, and the four brothers were taken out by Lu Dafu, although Lu San died, he also left blood and bones, and the brothers married wives and had children, only Lu Sicheng got married not long ago, and ran around with the army, and there were no heirs. Lu Da has no worries and ties, he has parents and wives in the family, there are many fields, and the military department takes good care of them, the bereaved families of the fallen soldiers will be well taken care of, no one can bully, he uses all his thoughts in the army, and of course he has been loved and respected by everyone.

"Hmm......" Lu Da nodded again and said with a smile: "After I go back, I will cook breakfast for everyone myself, cook it with rice and oysters, sprinkle some green onions, this is a very good and delicious ......"

The squadron leader smiled: "Sergeant Major, you're going to talk about my saliva......"

Lu Dadao: "In coastal places, you can be sorry for yourself if you don't eat seafood." By the way, you can also add some dried scallops, the shrimp we caught a few days ago were dried and put in the porridge. ”

This is a serious pot of seafood porridge, just think about it and know that it is extremely delicious, and many soldiers laughed when they heard it.

Lu Da is not a false person to win the hearts of the people, he is actually no worse than the commander of the company, but he still cooks a lot, and he does not hide his identity, anyway, his identity as the head of the original auxiliary army also knows, and he has never hidden it.

Lu Da also laughed, and walked back along the official road with everyone, this is a large gentle slope, green grass, on the slope is a shade of land, there was originally a large area of turf, now it has been shoveled into a sugarcane field, the sugarcane is long and lush, and the rice is in a good mood, people are happy at a glance, and a hundred steps away is the beach, there are many small crabs running back and forth under the early morning sun on the large white sea sand, but no one catches it...... This thing is not edible, it is useless to catch it, only the children who run out of the tunpu to play on the beach will pick up this small crab on the beach for fun. Beneath the beach is the rushing tide, and after a while on the sea, fishing boats are infested, and dozens of small boats catch fish at sea every day, feeding tens of thousands of people on the island......

Behind him was a stream like a river, and along the stream were the mountains, and after the stream a hundred and fifty miles was the great man, where the city of Geranza was.

The two forces are separated by more than 100 miles, which is really very close, and sometimes the soldiers guarding the fort can hear the sound of firing guns in the mountains more than ten miles away, and it is expected that it is the Dutch who are capturing the alpine natives in the mountains not far away, in order to avoid unnecessary friction, the garrison of the fourth regiment has no intention of interfering...... As relations between Hutchison and the natives improved, more and more natives moved to areas controlled by Hutchison, and the Dutch had to continue to go deeper into this side, and both sides knew that war was inevitable just because of this friction and land grabbing.

Lu Da, who was in a happy mood, finally glanced at the sea at random, he planned to come back again after resting, looking for Lao Wang, who was fishing, to ask for some good fresh sea fish, and after cutting into pieces, stew fish at night to replenish the body of the young men on duty tonight, staying up late is very hurtful, especially in this tense atmosphere, even if there is an hour of rest, the average officers and soldiers can't sleep well, and after a night of duty, it can be said that the vitality is greatly damaged.

Originally, it was a casual look, but Lu Da's figure suddenly stopped.

Everyone saw that Lu Da stopped, and his face became a little nervous, but fortunately, Lu Da's nervousness was only a momentary thing, and soon he regained his composure, Lu Da pointed to the sea, and said to everyone: "Look, the Hongyi boat is coming!" ”

The entire squadron turned around quickly, and more than fifty people made a uniform turning motion on the seawall.

On the quiet sea, a fleet is sailing with the wind and hurrying forward.

"The day of the decisive battle has arrived." Lu Da's face had turned purple and black, he sneered, and said, "Hurry up and call the personnel stationed in the fort to fire cannons and release wolf smoke!" ”

There is no doubt that the day of the decisive battle will come, but people really didn't expect it to be so soon, and the day after Sun Jingting and other high-level military officials came, the Dutch drove a big ship to seek a decisive battle.

"One, two, three, four......" One of the officers began to count the other party's ships, and the more they counted, the more ugly their faces became.

Lu Da was also observing, and there should be seven serious large warships, all of which were serious large warships with more than a dozen or twenty guns on both sides. In addition to the large warships, it was the kind of O-type Dutch merchant ships.

After a long period of study, they were able to distinguish the various ship types such as the Galen ship, the Clark galleon, the Dutch merchant ship, the approximate tonnage, and the number of guns on board.

"There were eight Galen warships, eleven Dutch merchant ships, and a total of nineteen large and small warships." Lu Da reported the numbers with a calm face, and his heart was already sinking.

The squadron leader also looked like a sinking face, and said: "Hongyi has quietly mobilized the main fleet, I heard that in Batavia their permanent warships are only six. ”

"It should be deliberately intensified for the sake of fighting us." Lu Da said, looked at the merchant ships and said: "But the real difficult thing to deal with is the warship, and the merchant ships of the Dutch don't count." ”

The Dutch merchant ship was a famous ghost ship protagonist in later generations, and the image of the Dutch ghost ship was seen in some influence dramas and even cartoons. Because in order to seize the colony and maritime territory, the Dutch built a large number of merchant ships in addition to building warships. Because it is a merchant ship, it does not need to be built with a lot of materials like the Galen battleship, the hull is extremely strong, the problem is relatively clumsy, the merchant ship is as lightweight as possible, reduce the number of weapons and sailors, increase the cargo hold, increase the space under the waterline, so that the merchant ship has become an O-shaped wide and round hull, which makes the Dutch merchant ship lightweight, high-speed, body cost, high cargo capacity, usually the cut wood is dried and stored, and the hull is taken out and connected when used, and many places on the hull are filled with wood mosaic. This results in a significant reduction in the time and cost of the shipbuilder. But because of this, Dutch merchant ships have the characteristics of deep draft, thin hulls, and difficult to repair after leakage, and they are also the most sinkable sailing ships of this era...... Of course, this is the easiest to sink is also relative, the great voyage of this era is not as romantic as later generations think, and it is not a game, every three ships depart from Europe, almost one must be sunk, typhoons, big waves, reefs, pirates, countless risks under the sinking or unsinkable most of the ship is providence, that is, the risk of large warships of more than 1,000 tons is smaller, after all, ordinary wind and waves can resist the past, and it is impossible to be robbed and killed by pirates.

By this time, the sound of artillery had already sounded, and several batteries along the coast were firing their guns, and at the same time wolf smoke and gongs were sounding.

Fishing boats preparing to fish on the beach entered the harbor one after another, and on the calm sea, these small boats were like flying fish gliding at a fast speed, and they returned to the port area almost in the blink of an eye, and then they all came ashore and ran in the direction of the seawall above. Many fishermen have forks in their hands, and when they run closer, they can hear their scolding, which turns out to be scolding the Dutch Hongyi, and carrying fishing forks, of course, in case a Hongyi comes ashore, so that they will not be unarmed.

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