Chapter 1: Confusion

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On the eleventh day of April in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, in the camp of the three-mile sailor division northeast of Weihai Acropolis, Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong, the warship Fuhai swayed slightly in the swell, Zhao Lie was in a daze in the cabin, and when Wanji stood with bated breath behind him, he was accustomed to the frequent daze of Lord Xiao Zhao Wanji and other companions, well, since eight months ago, Zhao Lie's companions from hundreds of households were Wanji, Huang Han, Zhang Gusheng, Yu Dabao, Du Li and others were making trouble, and after waking up from the bow of the Fuhai falling into the water and fainting, it has been a habit of Zhao Lie to be in a daze from time to time. If you don't have a few sluggish times a day, you are not Zhao Lie, Lord Zhao. Zhao Lie will definitely be mad if he hears Wanji's muttering in his heart, damn, I wore it from the prosperous era of the Celestial Empire to the chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the depression and panic in my heart are also known to you, a Xiaobai of the Ming Dynasty, and it is normal to not be able to think about miswords and deeds for a while.

Zhao Lie just turned sixteen a month ago, officially became a Ding, and became the captain of the Daming Wei Navy Division Fuhai, thanks to the Ming Dynasty's good hereditary military household system, because the father Zhao Haiming is the commander of the Daming Denglai Naval Division, the commander of the Weihai Wei Water Division, and one of his own sons has made military merits early and served as a hundred households.

Zhao Lie was in his early thirties, a sales manager in Liao Province, a Hong Kong pharmaceutical company, 1.7 meters tall, with an ordinary appearance, a girlfriend, no marriage, and a makeshift career. One day, on the way from Dalian to Qingdao by boat, when walking on the deck, he fell into the water due to the sudden wind and waves, and then, there was no then, inexplicably came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the only benefit of coming here is that he is young and strong, more than 80 meters tall, strong physique, because he has practiced martial arts since childhood, he is proficient in spearmanship, archery, knife skills, and the water is good, but his face is dark, and he does not conform to the aesthetics of later generations.

When he first arrived here, Zhao Lie was confused, he only knew the general trend in this period of history, not to mention that the historical records were all written by the victors, and the credibility was really not high. Now that it is the year of the Apocalypse, can you only sit and wait for the troubled times to come, tie a pig's tail, and become a good slave of the prince, Beile, and Beizi in the early Qing Dynasty.

Since the waist is a little hard, the skin is a little thin, and the hairstyle cannot be changed, then I can only think of some other ways. So the servants in Zhao Haiming's mansion found that the second son, who had always been rough and arrogant, had become extremely diligent, practicing martial arts every day, mostly reading by candle and night at night, and asking the staff and the general manager for advice during the day. However, these people don't have too many complaints, they are all gritted their teeth to support it, as the children of military households, of course they know that this is the son is accumulating lineage for the future, and the way out for them who were born in military households lies in this. What's more, what Zhao Lie said is a truth that they have never heard of, what Daming is just a small part of the land under their feet, there are still many countries in the east and west, and the ship can go around from east to west, between many people do not believe it, Zhao Lie also drew a simple map of the world, and everyone suddenly realized, oh, the country of Wa is not far from the east, no wonder it is often robbed of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Hongyi cannon that they often hear about is in the extreme west, and so on.

The only doubt of the rest of the army is how Zhao Lie knows so many things, and Zhao Lie's explanation for this is that he met Father Franji and the soldiers on his trip to Dengzhou a few months ago, and then he knew. However, Yu Dabao shook his not too bright head and thought about it, and he couldn't remember what Francos he had met anyway, but he accompanied his son to Dengzhou last time. Could it be that my own family is misremembering, there is really such a thing?

Today, Zhao Lie is still thinking about the way out in the future, in the past few months, he has thought about several ways, but each has its own shortcomings, and it is not too appropriate.

Two horns sounded from the fort at the mouth of the water village, and Zhao Lie saw through the porthole that a Cangshan boat was slowly sailing into the camp.

Zhao Lie took a closer look at this Cangshan ship, which was hung with the flag of Lord Wang, the commander of the Denglai Naval Division, and it was a sentinel ship in Dengzhou, and it must have come to Weihai to inform him of something.

Sure enough, after the tea, the official office sounded three horns, and the command was ordered.

"Your Excellency, Armor." Huang Han and Yu Dabao, who specialize in taking care of military equipment, presented armor and Yanling knives respectively.

Well, a lot of improvements. Zhao Lie nodded secretly, much faster than before.

Zhao Lie finished putting on his armor, and looked at a few people who had found it.

"Out." Huang Han drove forward, Zhao Lie Wanji was in the center, and Yu Dabao was behind, and they got off the boat and walked towards the official office in turn. When I arrived outside the official office, I happened to see Yu Fu at the bow of the Fukushima, Huang Tieshan at the bow of the Fukuyama, and Wu Shan at the bow of the Fumen.

"Lord Yu, Lord Huang, Lord Wu." Zhao Lie clasped his fists and saluted.

Several people also smiled and returned the salute, although this master is the second son, but in the future, the Zhao family's position in the army will be hereditary by him, and he should not be neglected.

"Daddy." Yu Dabao and Huang Han stepped forward to give gifts, they are the sons of Yu Fu and Huang Tieshan, Yu Fu and Huang Tieshan are Zhao Haiming's descendants for many years, and their sons will accompany Zhao Lie when they are older, which is also the style of the Ming Army.

"Well, get up." Huang Tieshan and Yu Fu are full of Lao Tzu's shelves.

"Ahem." Zhao Lie glanced at each other, and the two hurriedly stood up with their chests folded. Wan Ji stood with his hands crossed and smiled.

"Three adults, please." Zhao Lieli is thoughtful, although he is the son of the commander, but these are all subordinates of his father, and he must be humble as a junior.

The old three did not continue to be humble, and entered first, followed by Zhao Lie and the others.

Entering the official office, there are already a lot of bows in the wide front yard, and when I see a few bows, I am very enthusiastic when I come forward to greet them.

"Your Excellency has arrived." The two guards shouted.

The first to appear was Zhao Haiming's personal guard Li Hu, followed by Zhao Haiming, a commander who was nearly 1.8 meters tall, with a slightly dark face and a stout body, followed by staff Li Mingyu and Wang Zhe, and finally Zhao Da, Ma Biao, and Cui Hai.

"See your Excellency." The bow of the ship bowed and bowed.

"No courtesy," Zhao Haiming helped him weakly, and everyone got up. Zhao Haiming sat down after entering the official case.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's Dengzhou sentinel ship brought the military order of Lord Wang of Denglai Naval Division, ordering my Weihai Naval Division to arrive in Dengzhou in three days and go to Dongjiang on business." Zhao Haiming said while looking around at the subordinates below, "I order you to wait for the beginning of the day after tomorrow, when the soldiers and armor are ready, and you will go out of Dengzhou." ”

"Yes." The crowd responded in unison.

"If you wait for the armor to be lacking, find Mr. Wang to do it. Step aside. Zhao Lie came with the official. Master Zhao immediately turned back to the back hall, and Zhao Lie hurriedly followed forward. Everyone sent each other hand-in-hand.

Subsequently, the voice of "Mr. Wang" was everywhere, Zhao Lie didn't see it, everyone must be surrounding Wang Zhe, planning to ask for more things, if it wasn't for his father's recruitment, he was also one of them, and the child who would make trouble would have milk to eat.

After turning the back hall, Zhao Haiming took off his official hat and official uniform, left only a net scarf, changed into regular clothes, served tea and retired others, only Zhao Haiming, Zhao Lie, Li Hu and Zhao Da stayed indoors.

Zhao Lie arched his hand to Li Hu and Zhao Da, these two taught Zhao Lie marksmanship and archery when they had time, they can be regarded as Zhao Lie's master, and Zhao Da is still a member of the Zhao family. The two returned the salute with a smile.

"Lie'er, how are you practicing martial arts recently?" Zhao Haiming asked while drinking tea.

"Father, the child does not dare to slack off every day, and he practices all the time, and he has a little success." Zhao Lie said loudly.

Zhao Haiming's slightly dark face turned to Li Hu.

"My lord, the second son has been working day by day, and his spear skills, knife skills, and archery skills have been completed, in addition, the son's strength has increased greatly in the past few months, which can be called divine power. Li Hu bowed and replied.

This is the welfare of crossing, according to the people around him, his strength has increased greatly since more than half a year ago, and Zhao Lie is also inexplicable.

"Very good, don't lose my son." Zhao Haiming twisted his beard and laughed, extremely pleased.

"Lie'er, this time on the expedition to the Dongjiang River, a total of dozens of warships such as Fu Boat, Haicang, and Sha Bird Boat are out of battle, Yu Jiannu is afraid that there will be a battle, you have a short time to lead the ship, it is better to stay in the village this time." Zhao Hai looked at Zhao Lie without saying a word.

"Father, now the old slave has occupied the whole territory of Liaodong, the imperial court only occupies Lushun, Juehua Island, Phi Island and other dozens of small islands, more than 300 miles from southern Liaoning to Dengzhou District, Dengzhou is already a battlefield, and there is no place to retreat, the child hopes to follow his father to fight, and now the old slave is weak, not in danger, but beneficial, I hope my father will be perfect." Zhao Lie is looking for an opportunity to see the invincible wild boar skin in Chinese history, how to give up, since he was born in a military household in Dengzhou, he will be with Jiannu in the future, of course, the sooner he knows the enemy, the better.

"Haha," Zhao Haiming was happy, "Zhenwu Qilin'er, okay, as you wish, I will come out in two days." "Zhao Haiming is also a school examination Zhao Lie, after all, the eldest son Zhao Meng fell off a horse when he was young, and his right arm was bad, and now he is mainly taking care of his own Zhuangzi in Wendeng County with his old wife.

Zhao Lie grinned bitterly, I have four Chinese New Year's Eve today, Qilin'er, how can I be embarrassed.

Walking out of the official office, the three companions followed, Zhao Lie said, and the three of them were elated.

"I'm not afraid that I won't be able to come back, but this time I'm going to fight." Zhao Lie tried it.

"Don't be afraid, my husband's fame will be taken immediately, and I am still the second son, so I am very afraid." Huang Han replied with a grin.

"Yes, we are not the eldest sons, we are all military surpluses, it is better to go out." Wanji also agreed.

Well, Zhao Lie thought about it for a while, it's true, including himself, is not the eldest son, most of them are second sons, Huang Han, Zhang Gusheng are still concubines, what a group of second-hand combinations.

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