Chapter 12 Mandarin Duck Formation
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Ten years of teaching,
Swaying rivers and mountains sing Changhong.
——"The Epic of Beiming: The Story of Prince Jing"
The sun gradually rose, and the Yushan Island, which is opposite the corner of Fangang where the sailor camp is stationed, looks like a tadpole from a distance, across the entrance of the Lingding Ocean and the South Sea, and the tail of this tadpole is hidden in the shadow of Qingping Mountain, where is Qingjing Port.
Qingjing Port is backed by mountains and waters, and you must first pass through the narrow and deep natural channel of Qingjing Long Gorge. However, in recent years, with the fall of Xinyue Qingzhou, Qingjing Port also fell into the hands of Luo Wei.
The weather is getting hotter, the red sun is scorching, the clear water is sparkling, along the slope of the camp of the Fangang Sailor is densely covered with the sycamore that is recommended as the best tree for the Xinyue literati, and the love story and all kinds of poems around this tree are not less than 100,000 records.
And the wind blows, and the song of hatred under the thick paulownia leaves is a swan song for the ages.
At this time, my injuries were already healed, although whenever I saw Xiong Luo'er's empty right arm sleeve, I had an indescribable bitter taste.
But Xiong Luo'er is very free and easy about this, and always jokes that this is good, she will no longer have to fight, and she can be disarmed and return to the field. When Kong Lifei stood with her warmly, the sense of fit that could be seen at a glance was so warm that it made people dizzy.
On the day of Kong Lifei, Luo'er and Wei Fu's return trip, Qin Qing did not send each other off in the name of the importance of the war, and I understand that she does not want to see Wei Fu, and with her concept, it is always difficult to accept this kind of political method of secretly collocating money with Luo Wei for the sake of fame and fortune.
And Huang Chun and I are different, firstly, we have a very strong comradeship with Kong Lifei and Xiong Luoer, and secondly, in my and Huang Chun's opinion, it is not a big deal for Wei Fu who has been exposed to us to continue to stay, so as not to provoke the other party's suspicion and mind, or to have the same attitude as always on the surface.
"I gave Uncle Fu a letter to my family, you kid want to help me bring it," I said to Kong Lifei with a wink, "There's something I want to ask Uncle Fu to hire Qin Qing for me to General Qin Yi."
"Look at this, hey, it's still the top name of our Dark Sentinel Martial Arts School, don't be ashamed" Kong Lifei said, and then gently looked at Xiong Luo'er, the little bird beside him, and said, "But let's go back to Beiming first, in the matter of getting married, I have to be in front of you." ”
Everyone laughed.
Along the shore, the two boats had already unfurled their sails and turned oars, and the people who were waiting for the return journey were on board.
As far as the eye can see, one of them has a square head and a square tail, a spacious deck, a small depth, a low freeboard, and a large girder arch design that allows the deck to quickly clear the waves.
There is a clear ship for the purpose of installing elevators, and there are dark ships that are easier to manipulate the canopy, its shape is more masted and more sails, probably for the purpose of increasing the speed, the shape of the rudder is large and can be lifted, probably for the purpose of going to sea, part of the rudder blades are lowered under the bottom of the ship, increasing the effect of the rudder and reducing the drift.
In the event of shallow water, the rudder can also be raised, and the width of the flat keel is 450% of that of a warship of the same class, but the structural strength is still greater than that of other sailing ships of the same class, and the design of multiple watertight compartments is adopted to improve the ship's anti-sinking resistance.
It seems that this time when I returned, I didn't bring some side things, Kong Lifei, Xiong Luo'er and Wei Fu were on this boat with the people who went to Pengcheng.
The other is a small bucket ship responsible for escorting the ship, with holes for oars on both sides of the hull, and a female wall built around the ship, and arrow holes on the female wall to attack the enemy, and soldiers on the stern platform are responsible for observing the water situation.
Five feet inside the ship, and build a shed, and the women's wall, and the shed and the women's wall, the soldiers, the front and back, the left and right tree flags, flags, golden drums, under the wall open holes, there is a shed, and there is a women's wall on the shed, overlapping, dense windows can be placed firearms and bows,
Mainly relying on the sail with the help of wind and sailor paddling, the use of a hard sail structure, the canopy surface with a strut, although this kind of sail is heavier and more laborious to lift, but has a very high wind efficiency, so that the speed of the ship increases.
And the mast is not set up with a fixed crosswder, to adapt to the sudden change of wind and clouds at sea, flexible to adjust the turning of the foot, can effectively use the multi-faceted wind, the two sides and the stern, with a long oar. This kind of long oar enters the water depth, many people swing, and the oar rotates semi-underwater to increase the speed.
Everyone got on the boat one by one, slowly lifted anchor and sailed away. We waved goodbye.
Sending them away, Huang Chun and I walked slowly, speaking of which, Huang Chun and I have not seen much times, so naturally I spoke first,
"You can do it, I can't find anyone when I'm busy, count the number of times you come to see me, it's cool, even if Prince Jing and Prince Ning are soothing, they are more than you."
"It's not okay for you to have Qin Qing take care of you every day," Huang Chun smiled, blinked slightly, and said:
"The plan designed by you and me, you have to know how busy I am to implement the details little by little, and I am also a newcomer, what do you need to prepare for the arrangement of eight hundred hearts, the relationship between you and me, where is the obsessed with these false courtesies?"
"It's not mine," I said, "Hengzhu, now I'm fine, and I have been ordered by Prince Jing that day to supervise the practice of the battle formation in the water division."
After Wei Yucheng besieged the city over there, what was the reaction of the Japanese army inside? They have been burned, their food and their baggage heavy, and the reinforcements of the Japanese army have met with you? How are you armed? Qin Qing has been very busy recently, and I am busy learning the Japanese language and understanding all the trivial matters of the Naluo Japanese court, so I don't know much detail. ”
"The Japanese army of Wei Yu Castle was burned by us and lost their main general, but their ammunition depot was intact, and Saigo Takaya left Sakamoto Masaki to organize resistance, so we have been besieging the city, but the attack has not been able to find the best time, and there are many losses.
However, our estimate was correct, and their local reinforcements and food were difficult to supply for a while, so the Japanese army garrison on Xiami Island soon plundered grain ships in the South Seas and Lingding Oceans in an attempt to relieve the siege of Wei Yu City, which aroused the strong resentment of the merchants along the way.
Later, the lord arranged for General Feng Wenqing of Xiami Island to arrange a warship that was pretended to be a grain ship, and beat them twice, which made them a little more peaceful. ”
Huang Chun sighed, "I heard from the merchants that the Luo Wei people believe in, I used to hear from the merchants, and I thought it was like that, but now that I have seen it, I know that it is more than that." The arms dealers of the Japanese army returned from learning ordnance from the Western kingdom of England.
After that, they developed their own ordnance, and it is said that their craftsmanship was refined. What's even more ridiculous is that they claim to have learned the sword and martial arts, ninjutsu from Tang Zhenguan, the ancestor of the Middle Ages of Xinyue, and carry them forward, which is the orthodoxy of Xinyue. ”
"When did Zhenguan teach people to be brave and slaughtered?" I also reluctantly said, "However, I read in the Wajin book, the shogun said that the principle of his life is 'since you want to do it, it is better to do things absolutely, rather than doing it appropriately.'"
In contrast to the broadly eclectic notions that I have been exposed to over the years, they are looking for an absolute style in everything.
However, this is also the reason why they can go to extremes in craftsmanship and warfare, and win thousands of miles with a small national strength. Their traditional concepts of patience, modesty, martial arts, seriousness, cooperation, discipline, etc., are planted in the concept of evil expansion and aggression against others, and the flower of evil that blooms stains the blood of thousands of miles of soldiers. ”
"Yes, our idea is that the tide would be high enough for us to send the besieging infantry directly into the range of their defenders, and then our sailors will fight with the sailors who remain outside the city, and the infantry will fight the siege.
But this year, the weather has not been satisfactory, and the tide has not been able to meet the expectations to help me. At present, it seems that it may be changed to the way of encircling the point to send reinforcements," Huang Chun said, "However, because the Luowei mainland has just passed through the tsunami, the reinforcement ships have been blocked, so the war has not yet been triggered.
Before that, we must better hone our army. In order to prepare for this big war and make the poison bomb brought by the 'turtle' more effective, I have already helped Prince Yangning to repair my book to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess and send Wang Geng to help in the war. ”
"You miss our classmate Wang Meiren, right?" I was happy for a while, and I forgot about those nonsense rumors in the army and amused Huang Chun.
Suddenly, he thought of the firepower of the Japanese army and the huge cannon of Wei Yu City, and said, "When besieging the city and feintting, try our poison bombs, I am always afraid that the weather will be hot, and the vitality of the poisonous snakes and poisonous insects raised in it will weaken, have you ever experimented in actual combat?" ”
"Needless to say, it has already been tried, but that thing is precious and needs to be kept as a new weapon for naval encounters, so there is no mass trial, and the rear is still caught in the forest valley on the outskirts of Qiongcheng and Wuyangcheng to store and further produce poison bombs," Huang Chun said.
"The mixed extract of realgar, Aracea and snake extinguishing door is applied, those poisonous insects and poisonous snakes do not run to our soldiers at all, but whenever they hit it with explosives, there are fire snakes and poisonous insects spitting out cores and screaming, and it is also thanks to the deterrent power of these things, Luo Wei has rarely felt the surprise attack to go out fishing recently, but I don't know if there are other places in the city to store grain."
"By the way, don't let them catch any of our soldiers, the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle can't be let of them, once they have the recipe to apply, we can't rely on this surprisingly winning poison bullet to relieve some of the pressure of the opponent's stronger firepower in the encounter.
There is also the underwater adsorption and blasting of the sea magnet, I don't know if it can be combined with the 'Fire Dragon Out of the Water', if it can, it may be of great help to completely destroy its most elite ironclad warship. I nagged.
……
Before I knew it, Huang Chun and I had already traveled to the camp of the water master.
From afar, I saw that the battalions were training in their own ways. And Qin Qing's training of the scout camp was based on the formation made by me and the girls of the Phoenix Pavilion on the day of the assassination, and the formation made by the Mandarin Duck Formation in the narrow camp of Luo Wei, which was the key training for Qin Qing when he encountered the infantry and crossbowmen as a spy repellent.
Used for raids and charges. Seeing her tireless repeated drills, I knew how much she valued the vitality of the sergeants of the spy camp, and it was already July at this time, but she still did not take off her armor, and shouted loudly over and over again in the field:
"Within 100 paces of the enemy, put a Franc machine, throw dart guns within 80 steps, and coordinate the fire killing system within 200 steps.
In the first row, twenty rattan players stand side by side, equipped with rattan cards, waist knives, and dart guns.
In the second row, twenty wolf wheaths stand side by side, with wolf whizzes.
In the third row, forty pikemen stood side by side, armed with pikes.
In the fourth row, twenty short knife hands stand side by side, with boring and palladium.
Dart guns, wolf guns, and spears are long weapons, rattans, waist knives, and boring palladium are short weapons, Franc machines and arquebuses are fire weapons, and the rest are cold weapons. Long weapons are used to assassinate, short weapons are used to protect long weapons, long and short weapons are mixed, and stabbing guards are combined. One, two, three......"
"That's right, but, haha, I found that you are becoming more and more like your General Qin," Huang Chun smiled at me with a side face when he saw this,
"Also, she assisted in the training of battle formations and tactics, and she was full of complaints, and it was too strict to use the set of the Dark Sentinel Martial Arts School to train ordinary soldiers, don't be like Zhang Fei, it's good to be --- by the soldiers with grievances in your heart" Speaking of this, Huang Chun gestured with his hand on his head.
Thinking of the many devil trainings we had at the Dark Sentinel Martial Arts School, I couldn't help laughing, and replied, "What are you afraid of, we are all from here, who complains?" Not to mention the assassination of the military attache lecturer of the martial arts school.
But what you said is also true, these soldiers don't have the salary and future of those classmates in our martial arts school, so they don't need to deal with such complicated things, so I will go back and persuade her to give a little grace and power."
I nodded.
After that, when I had the opportunity to watch her training, I always followed Qin Qing with a fart, "Drink some water, I feel sorry for your mouth is cracked", let her rest and rest, and the soldiers who were trained below also took the opportunity to drink some water.
"Well, the arquebus is so often that it explodes, so that the sergeant is afraid to hold it with both hands and aim it accurately. There are also many cases where the lead bullet of the artillery does not match the size of the caliber, and some even fail to ignite the fuse. Tell me, they are all made of ordnance, why are Luo Wei's things always better than our army? ”
It's already time to be a child, but the big war is coming, Qin Qing often works hard all day long to prepare everything, count war materials, and train soldiers. Sometimes I think, maybe in this army,
I'm more like a spy, Huang Chun is more like a military advisor, and people like Qin Qing are really like a general who was born on the battlefield. I thought of the way of the samurai in the culture of Luowa, and perhaps, the samurai who can make better guns are also the same people who are like chickens, who are devoted to one thing and even cruel and patient?
……
Wang Geng came quickly, presumably because all parties in Beiming knew that the big war was imminent, and they fully cooperated, and when the typhoon and tsunami calmed down, it would soon be full of gunsmoke.
Along with Wang Geng, there were also summoners sent on behalf of the Lord to reward everyone's military exploits, as well as our respective letters of ten thousand gold. On behalf of the Lord, the summoning envoy made great rewards to the soldiers, from Prince Jing, General Zhu to the soldiers below, all of them were rewarded with silver and salaries.
Although the encouragement of the higher officers was mainly spiritual, the middle and lower rank officers were promoted to the next rank.
Xiong Luo'er assassinated Xixiang Longgu, rescued the seriously injured General Fu of his peers, and led the troops to resist the battle of Kosuke Shunji's exploits are even more praised, and he was named the Marquis of CW, although Luo'er was not in the army at this time, but it was still read out together, this is the first female general to obtain the marquis for military merits since the founding of Beiming, and he is fifteen years old, and his deeds are destined to become legends.
Shi Lingyun, Liu Mengmei, Wen Zi, He Youyou, Lu Yiyi, and the soldiers who died in the anti-Japanese war also posthumously awarded bereavement pensions to comfort the hearts of the army and boost morale. Huang Chun was awarded the title of Sima of the Fifth Rank of the Chinese Army, and he was one of the best civil officials in the military account of King Jing and General Zhu.
And I was appointed as the superintendent of the formation, and I was still suspended from the rank of Wu Sipin Leopard to supplement the guard, in charge of the drill of the military formations of various armies and the survey and grinding battle formations.
Wang Geng sent General Qin Yi's letter to his children, so he came to me and sent Fu Shao's letter to me.
I took Fu Shao's letter, but it was a big wax pill, Wang Geng did not give it to me directly, but cut the wax pill with a knife, it turned out that the wax pill had two layers, and the two layers of wax pills were wrapped in venom, if you pinch the wax pill directly, not only will it be poisoned, but the venom will directly corrode the letterhead.
Only those who know how to take the trust can open it. Not only did I exclaim, "You kid is so thoughtful about this."
"It's Fu Xianggong's mind. Although Venom is my contribution, this method was made by Fu Xianggong based on the records of Hou Jiangzhe of Chu Township in the ancient book,"
Wang Geng's peach blossom eyes floated slightly, like a swimming dragon, and I was fascinated by a big man, only to hear this beautiful man say again, "How do I know if there are secrets in the letterhead, I heard that only the letterhead with confidential matters in the middle, Fu Xianggong used this method to seal."
However, Fu Xianggong said that the main reason is not that the letter is specially sealed for you because it involves secrets, but that he wants you to know that this method of sealing and opening the letter is easy to use when you need to transmit confidential information. ”
I couldn't help but be a little amused as he listened to him go around and around with a simple sentence. Suddenly, I looked down and saw the wax pill again, thinking of the small wax pill hidden between the fingernails of Miss Shi Yunling and the poisonous wax pill that sealed the throat with blood, and felt sad in my heart. Slowly opened the letterhead. Seeing Fu Shao Qingjun's words walking between the letters:
"Nephew:
The battlefield is dangerous, and the unknown situation is good. When I heard the war report, I was very proud of your meritorious achievements, and I was very worried that you were injured, and I didn't know how to put pen to paper.
Everything is fine with the family. Since it is rare for you and Qin Qing to be happy, General Qin Yi will hire a marriage for the two of you, and General Qin Yi will also approve it, you don't have to worry, if you have military achievements, maybe the Lord will personally give you a marriage......
…… In the past two years, the new Yue Emperor is quite cheered up, I see that although he is young, but he has made great efforts, has the posture of a Ming Jun, since the use of a group of new law officials in the military advice, has begun to help the green seedlings, agricultural affairs, waste land, water conservancy, planting trees, Xing ticket number, punishing corruption, drastic measures, improving the accumulation of defects, appointing virtuous ministers, quite insightful, recently also the new Vietnamese army restructured, the details of the restructuring I know ominous, we are also in many spy agents, your father is all fine in Xinyue......
…… In order to cope with the war, the Lord has asked me to negotiate with the important trading houses in Beiming, because my Beiming's silk embroidery, brocade clothes and skirts, palace lanterns, gold, silver and jade ornaments, daily porcelain and other items have gone to the sea to trade with overseas, and the profits are huge.
Therefore, the major trading houses were quite resentful of the various incidents of the robbing of merchant ships by the Luo Japanese pirates, and in terms of the war with the Japanese army, the food and salary were raised smoothly, and the lord also set up a new firearms battalion for the enthusiasm and interest of the people, and ordered the commander of the forbidden army to be the minister in charge, and set an example by personally operating firearms.
Equipped with shotgun and meridian artillery battalions, more than 7,000 soldiers have been recruited, and three teams have been formed, with one battalion of guns and one battalion of guns and horses in the firearms battalion inside the city, and one battalion of firearms outside the city specializing in shotguns.
The Fourth Prince, Prince Li, with the Emperor's holy decree, also promoted the study of the history of the Japanese language in the territory many times, bringing further talents, in order to know himself and the other, better than the temple......
…… You need to be cautious when you get along with the princes outside, Prince Ning and Prince Jing must also strictly abide by the duties of the courtiers according to their rank rather than relatives, I am not a person who pursues hypocrisy, but after all, the monarch and the minister are different, and the interests and disadvantages, you have always been keen, when you know the severity, between advance and retreat, there should be room to hold the middle, be respectful in matters but not humble or arrogant, and take good care of yourself in the war...
In the event of a dispute between princes or the affairs of the court and parties, my mind is to be as mellow as possible, impartial, and not too close or too far from anyone, but if you have other young people who are thinking about the future and have followed them in your heart, I can also understand and perceive my intentions, I hope you understand. The battlefield is dangerous, pay attention to it, and the way to preserve it is also the art of war......"
After reading the letter, I sighed softly, my heart was full of emotion, and I thanked Wang Geng, then walked out of the military tent, took the fishing tackle and harpoon, and walked to the beach.