Being nameless on the list means that he is a complete failure, does he want to be an auxiliary soldier in charge of food for the rest of his life? The sage said that the gentleman is far away from cooking, and he deals with iron pots and spoons all day long, how long will this kind of wasted years continue?

All kinds of emotions erupted in an instant, and Yao Qisheng felt a kind of frustration like never before, and all kinds of encounters in the Three Guards Army shattered all his previous pride and conceit into thousands of pieces.

"What about Yao Qisheng? What about Yao Qisheng? Hurry up and roll back to Lao Tzu and brush the pot! ”

The officer's greasy and disgusting voice rang out at the same time. Everyone around looked at the poor young man with a sympathetic gaze.

Soon, the officer shook off his fat body and trotted over.

"What? Still not admitting defeat? What excuse do you have for not going back to the pot today? ”

Yao Qisheng turned back angrily, he really wanted to beat this fat man with one punch, but the military discipline of the Three Guards did not allow it, if he did this, he would completely fall into the abyss of despair.

The crowd around the bulletin board booed. Suddenly, gongs and drums sounded, and someone shouted: "Cheng Junmen's life, where is the auxiliary soldier Yao Qisheng?" Recruit and ask the right question! ”

"What about this, what about here?"

Hearing the shouts of Cheng Mingjiu's personal soldiers, everyone immediately came to their senses, knowing that there was a good show to watch.

Being able to get Cheng Mingjiu's separate summons shows that Cheng Junmen is very satisfied with Yao Qisheng's test paper, so the question is, how should the team officers who have always loved bullying deal with themselves?

Obviously, the officer of the team was at a loss for a while, and he never expected that Yao Qisheng's little shaft would be able to regenerate the salted fish again.

"Hey! Captain Wang still didn't call Mr. Yao back to brush the pot? ”

Mr. Yao is the nickname given by the auxiliaries to Yao Qisheng's playful nickname to satirize his tirade at every turn!

The team officer was completely blindsided at this time, and he couldn't figure out the situation, but he was a person who could bend and stretch, and his face immediately changed.

"Mr. Yao, you, it's important for you to go to see Cheng Junmen, brush the pot, hand over the work of brushing the pot, and hand it over to me!"

The crowd erupted in laughter again.

Yao Qisheng really has a thousand tastes in his heart, one moment in hell and one moment in heaven, he is so small in this universe, all the arrogance is not even a fart in front of a word from the superior!

In just three days, the decree stamped with the seal of the king of Joseon was issued to all those who passed the examination. Yao Qisheng was almost shocked by the order in his hand.

"I hereby appoint a famous man of the kingdom as the envoy of the peace and dethronement!"

This dethroned envoy is not simple, and all local military and political affairs can be controlled by him, in other words, Yao Qisheng is already a figure like a feudal official in the Korean country.

After studying the map, Yao Qisheng quickly noticed Cheng Mingjiu's trust and importance to him. Ping'an Road is located just across a river from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Liaodong is across the sea from it to the southwest.

After the surprise and excitement of the initial reuse subsided, followed by a heavy responsibility and mission! He soon realized the true intention of the Marquis of Zhenyu to send troops to Korea, and what to save the merchant ships and merchants who were robbed by North Korea, these may be excuses, or even nothing in the first place. Defeating North Korea is equivalent to stabbing the ass of the Manchu Dynasty, in the final analysis, it is still to prepare for the attack on the Manchu Dynasty!

On 25 August, the first supply convoy from Nanking arrived on the Han River, accompanied by 10,000 new troops who had just been recruited this year, all kinds of much-needed military ammunition, and among them the secret weapons that had just been mass-produced by the Third Guards.

Bang!

The musket in Cheng Mingjiu's hand trembled, and a humanoid target a hundred paces away fell in response.

"Can this musket be as accurate as this one I have?"

He rubbed his musket up and down, and he couldn't put it down, and his eyes sparkled with excitement.

He Bin had just returned from Nanjing, and he had brought a Westerner named Albert, who was said to have been in charge of the production and development of weapons for the Three Guards, and was now sent over to train a new type of model musketeer for Cheng Mingjiu.

Albert took another musket of the same size from his attendant, and from another attendant a short blade nearly two feet long, shaped between a short knife and a dagger. I saw that he lightly said that the short blade was inserted into the card slot of the muzzle, and the special fixed clip was fastened, and a two-in-one weapon of musket and spear appeared in front of him.

"Your Excellency General, the Marquis of Zhenyu has officially named this rifled musket Chongzhen 14 type, and it will begin to enter the stage of mass production in the summer of a few years, and the first batch of 10,000 Chongzhen 14 muskets will all be equipped with the troops of the Three Guards Army stationed in Korea!"

Cheng Mingjiu sighed and admired, "With this kind of weapon, our army stationed in Korea is like a tiger with wings, and the Manchu Dynasty is not very terrible!" ”

Albert continued: "After equipping this rifled musket, the composition of the phalanx and the combat tactics were greatly affected by this. ”

Albert's pomp and circumstance was large, with more than a dozen people in his entourage, one of whom had a bound book of drills.

Cheng Mingjiu has been in battle for a long time, especially has a deeper understanding of the use of muskets and spears. He knew that as long as this kind of musket with a short blade in the muzzle was popularized in the army, the pikemen would completely withdraw from the stage of history, and the outrageous accuracy and greatly improved range of the flintlock musket could even compress the depth of the phalanx, and only a wide battle line could form a powerful enough firepower, so that the impact of infantry and cavalry, the Three Guards were a nightmare that they could not bypass.

He pointed to the short blade on the musket and asked Albert, "Is this short blade famous?" ”

Albert nodded, "The Marquis of Zhenyu said, this short blade is called a bayonet!" ”

Bayonets, bayonets! What a vivid and straightforward name!

Cheng Mingjiu couldn't wait to see a new army equipped with such a sharp weapon appear in front of him.

Soon, the work of selecting the new army was put on the agenda, and after Cheng Mingjiu solved the matter of being sent to various places to serve as deposed envoys, he devoted himself to the formation of the new new army. Albert didn't say much about the recruitment of the new recruits, his purpose and mission were very direct, that is, training!

Cheng Mingjiu had specially asked Li Xin for instructions to set up four artillery battalions in North Korea, but Li Xin's reply was even more radical, directly approving the quota of eight artillery battalions.

"When does He Junmen plan to leave for Nanjing?"

He Bin has a good sense of Cheng Mingjiu, this is the only senior general in the Three Guards who does not have a shelf.

"The Marquis of Zhenyu once had an order in advance, and he was ordered to assist the military gate to guard against the sea invasion from Liaodong! So I won't leave this time, but I also went back to replace Wallace, and I heard that the Marquis of Zhenyu has another important task! ”

Cheng Mingjiu sighed, this was originally reasonable, and it was normal for the generals of the navy to change their guards, and it was normal to adjust their defenses. As for Wallace's appointment for returning to Nanjing, He Bin didn't say it, and Cheng Mingjiu wouldn't rashly open his mouth to ask.

On the contrary, He Bin couldn't hold his breath and lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the fleet sent out by Kaichun has discovered a gold mine in the east of the sea, and the Marquis of Zhenyu is going to send a new army of about 5,000 people to guard against the looting of Westerners!" ”

Cheng Mingjiu had heard about Li Xin sending people to explore the east of the sea, but he didn't think it was true at first, and he didn't want to have a result now. If you can really bring back gold by boat, the benefits of this kind of sea expedition will be much simpler and more enjoyable than the tax on growing crops.

"But the Americas?"

Cheng Mingjiu continued He Bin's words.

He Bin high-fived and praised: "What Cheng Junmen said is not bad, the Marquis of Zhenyu once said that there are gold mines in the Americas, and he didn't want to send people to them, so he really found gold mines!" I heard that the Americas are a barren land, and the Marquis of Zhenyu used the price of 100,000 taels of silver to buy a territory with a radius of thousands of miles in the hands of the Franco, and now he has found gold, and 100,000 taels of silver is not even as good as this small fingernail! ”

He Bin's words were full of admiration for the prescient nature of the Marquis of Zhenyu, but at the same time, he was a little worried.

"The Franco-people have suffered a big loss, but I'm afraid they won't give up, our route to the Americas was opened up by the Franco-people, and there will inevitably be a maritime conflict at that time. The Marquis of Zhenyu said that this battle will be inevitable sooner or later! ”

Hearing that Fran Jiren was going to war with the Three Guards again, Cheng Mingjiu was also shocked. Knowing the art of war, he knew that fighting on two fronts was not a wise move. According to the plan of the Zhenyu Marquis, the top priority now should be to attack and suppress the Manchu Eastern Captives. If they misfire with the Francophiles and have a great war at sea, the sea routes between the DPRK and Nanjing will inevitably be affected, and the variables will increase at that time.

"The Marquis of Zhenyu also said that now is not the time to start a war with the Francophiles, and he plans to buy peace with money, at least to ensure that there is no war at sea for three years!"

He Bin's words made Cheng Mingjiu suddenly feel like he was being given a deadline to pacify the Manchu Dynasty within three years!

Is this possible? The Manchu Qing Dynasty ravaged the northern part of the Ming Dynasty and became a border trouble that has intensified since the Ming Dynasty, and even besieged the Ming Dynasty several times. Even if the soldiers of the Three Guards were well fed, Cheng Mingjiu never thought that he would be able to pacify the Manchu Dynasty within three years.

The Marquis of Zhenyu set this timetable, and no matter what, it can't help but make people think about it.

Cheng Mingjiu's mind is alive, yes, today's Three Guards are no longer what they used to be, how can the bows and arrows and sabers of the Manchu Dynasty be the opponent of muskets and cannons? It takes nearly a year to make a good bow and arrow, and a musket in a few days. It takes more than a dozen years to train a qualified archer, while it takes more than a year or even a few months to train a skilled musketeer.

In contrast, isn't it clear which is better and which is better?

The rumbling sound of artillery sounded on the side of the Han River, and this was a large-scale coordinated combat exercise between the artillery and infantry battalions of the Three Guards Army!