If the days passed slowly in the midst of Mary's marriage, Margaret's fostery, and the underground development of the republican organizations, then perhaps it would be a good thing. At least for Smyrna, it has begun to look more and more like a Kyoto master, and although it is still dominated by Greek architecture, there are more and more Chinese characters.

And the people of Smyrna also began to get used to bowing to the teachers who wore Ming-style Confucian shirts and held scrolls in their hands, because these were the teachers of the Rongcheng Shu Academician Myrna Branch, and the academy that did not charge tuition fees and also provided accommodation, clothing, and school supplies still knew that this was a way to get ahead. So for these teachers, they all give very sincere respect.

But for the aristocracy and the wealthy, they will have a greater reverence for the hospital newspaper, because in the past six months, the appendix surgery alone has relieved the suffering of many rich people, and even saved their lives. Of course, there are some who die on the operating table, not individually, but some. But the patients who were carried to the hospital, at least at this time, were basically seriously ill or dying. What's more, according to Ding Yi's words, the patient is required to sign an exemption clause, so there is no way to make trouble.

However, the days did not make the Taixi Ming Empire grow slowly.

Neither Mary's marriage nor Margaret's foster birth could hide a bright star rising.

Wang Yue began to show the light of his original famous general, in this stage where he could completely let go of his actions, in this stage where he didn't need to please the eunuchs and didn't have to worry about Shilin's attack.

Ten new divisions, three months after the new training at Ephesus and Smyrna. Wang Yue proposed to Ding Yi to start a military operation. His plan was to move the six divisions with the best results in the new training from Smyrna to the east. The way of sea transport through guò. Pounce directly on Sethiokia, and then annex the region of Lesser Armenia!

"It's a bit of a risky battle plan." Ding Yi was not very supportive of Wang Yue's strategy. Rather, it was thought that it would be more stable to march directly from Ephesus to the east, to advance steadily on the land route through Guò, and push to Thiokia. Because Ding Yiyi was worried, "Even if the graduation results of these six divisions are good, and more than 95 percent of the recruits have met the assessment standards, there are many problems in this." ”

"Most of the soldiers have a good grasp of the official language of the Ming Dynasty. It's basically queue passwords and combat orders; Although most of the Master Chiefs and Officers, during their years in the West, were able to understand some Greek, they were not proficient in it. War, not to go to the street to eat or go to the Qinglou, so a few words, it is difficult to support them to carry out complex military order transmission. ”

"And the soldiers are not trained in professional subjects, so if they are pulled out like this, of course it will not be a problem to fight with the wind. If you attack a tough battle or meet on a narrow road, it is easy to defeat the whole army. This is because not only have the professional combat skills not been well trained, but also the ideological education has not kept up. ”

But Wang Yue persuaded Ding Yi, and he admitted the question raised by Ding Yi: "What Mr. said is extremely true. It's just that the disciples thought that in the sea march, they could be trained in specialized subjects. And for the language level. If we have so few cultural teachers at present, it will take at least three years. to complete literacy; After half a year, most people can speak Huaxia. ”

"The training strategy advocated by Mr. Naturally, it is excellent, but I, Taixi Daming, is it necessary to train troops such as the First Division of the Rong and the First Division of the Praetorian Guard? If you follow Mr.'s method, I am afraid that what you will practice will not be ten new editors, but ten new Rongyi divisions. The disciple is foolish, and he is slightly suspected of killing chickens with a knife. ”

Why crush the Rongyi Division and add new recruits to form these ten divisions? It is because the Rong 1st Division is a very strong opponent, but it has not fought a decisive battle, and it has become a strategic deterrent weapon. And to maintain such an elite army, the cost is really the same as running water. Otherwise, who fool doesn't know how to get elite soldiers? Money, not to mention that the military salary of this elite soldier is high, whether it is the ammunition used for training or the food, this person can't see any money, and a division is not an ordinary expense.

And Wang Yue said to Ding Yijin: "The disciple is willing to make a military order!" ”

"No, you just do it." Ding Yi made a decision after pondering for a while, and also asked Liu Ji to draft an order, "Xingwen Mamluk, do your best to meet the needs of our army." "Because the region of Lesser Armenia is further east of the territory of Mamluk," it was the military and civilian of Lesser Armenia, the governor of Shichang. ”

Wang Yue did not disappoint Ding Yi, and Sethiokia did not waste too much of his time. And it only took half a month for Wang Yue to set off from Sethiukia to the entire territory of Lesser Armenia. And the six new editors he brought with him did not have any major losses. This was a recruit who had only been trained in Ephesus for three months.

They were armed with only black powder with cartridge shells and bolts, and more than half of the soldiers were black soldiers who Du Ziteng believed were not worthy of wearing military uniforms at all—"the rest of the army in the old guard station was not as good as the rest of the army." But Wang Yue did it, and perhaps the only problem was that he directly turned Seleucia into a historical term: complete ruin.

The cause was the killing of an ensign staff officer sent by the city to negotiate during the attack on Seleucia.

"Dying on the battlefield is the fate of the soldiers, but the two countries are at war! What's more, the people you kill are citizens of the Ming Dynasty! The word citizen was used in ancient Rome, but when translated into Chinese, it was still invented by Ding Yi, and this was the first time that the word was proposed in diplomacy.

"There is no country that can kill the citizens of the Ming Dynasty without paying the price." These were Wang Yue's last words to the Seleucian nobles who wanted to sacrifice the city and beg for mercy at the end. And then it's really that the chickens and dogs are not left, regardless of men, women and children.

It was for this reason that the fighting in the region of Minor Armenia quickly subsided.

The little Armenians, who have been ruled by the Arabs, Byzantines, and Tatars, and now deprived of even the last vestiges of sovereignty by the Ottomans, are not necessarily too difficult to accept for a change of master. Moreover, the 5,000 cavalry of Mamluk, in response to Wang Yue's mobilization, put on a posture of attacking left and right on the border.

This is so that little Armenia simply has no choice, to submit, or to ruin miè, Wang Yue did not say so, but the fact is that he does not even want slaves. So looking at the battle flag of the Ming Dynasty, the nobles of Little Armenia came out to greet them. According to them, it is the fate of fear resistance: "Who knows if it will kill a citizen of the Ming Empire on the battlefield?" "It was a ridiculous thing, but it was accepted by the nobility of Little Armenia, because the fate of Seleucia was in front of them.

Wang Yue obtained three Armenian auxiliaries in Minor Armenia, as well as the 3,000 men who Mamluk pleaded with the Ming army to fight. A large amount of art, gold and silver, as well as part of the war reparations received in Minor Armenia, were shipped to the fleet for the return of Smyrna.

And this huge wealth made Mamluk's eyes red, and they claimed: "We are also Poseidon's lackeys!" Why don't you get the opportunity to bite your prey for your master? This was echoed by the Israelites, the Venetians, and especially the Israelis, who bought the booty.

"We follow Poseidon's orders! We don't want food! We bring our own weapons and horses! "This is how the army of Mamluk begged Wang Yue. Of course, it is not necessarily that they are really loyal as they say, but this war dividend has made the soldiers and generals of Mamluk red-eyed.

Low casualties, or rather, in the tens of thousands of battles, a dozen or so deaths, hundreds of wounded, almost negligible, and penicillin and field hospitals, the vast majority of the wounded were saved. And compared to this meager price, it is a shipload of jewels and money heading west, and it is difficult for anyone not to be blushing.

So they begged bitterly, and Wang Yue had no choice but to write a letter to Ding Yi to report the matter, and then take them north with him.

But before they left Little Armenia, the Israelis sent more than 2,000 men with them, hoping to follow them. So Wang Yue had no choice but to organize the Israelis, Mamluk, and Armenian auxiliary regiments into a temporary foreign supplementary regiment and set off for Ankara together.

"My teacher is indeed great, and his wisdom is favored by God." After receiving the battle report, Bayezet did not burst into a rage, but commented, "Every disciple of the teacher has the ability to revitalize a country!" In any country Du Ziteng is placed in, it is enough to lead 100,000 people; Chen San: If any country gets him, it can not worry about foreign aggression; Liu Ji and Wan An, if the Duke of Burgundy can get any of them, then we will see a new empire rise between France and Holy Rome! ”

"And before they became the teacher's students, they were just obscure petty officials, and it is said that Du Ziteng and Chen San were even more lowly military households than slaves, right, my friend?" He asked Shi Pu beside him, who nodded.

Bayezette smiled and played with the teacup in his hand, it was obvious that he was deliberately imitating Ding Yi: "And Wang Yue is a military genius!" No one can beat my teacher, no one except himself. ”

"Take back, take back our troops, and station them on the line of Brusa and Nicaea."

Then Bayezet said to Shi Pu, "Then it's up to you, my friend. ”

"Ding Rongcheng may not be fooled." Shi Pu was a little worried.

But Bayezet said to him with certainty: "No, my teacher will never be fooled. ”

"Please don't insult his wisdom, he will see through our intentions at a glance."

"But he's a hero, and he'll see through our intentions and step into the game we've set up."

Shi Pu was a little puzzled: "Just because Ding Rongcheng is a hero?" ”

"Yes, just because he's a hero. It's hard to guess what the cowards will collapse; But it's easy to know when the hero's blood is boiling. (To be continued......)