The Haihan militia has been training with live ammunition 'shooting' more frequently, especially the artillery who is short of personnel, and the Military Commission has been sparing no effort to invest resources, and even tried every means to contact the Portuguese to hire instructors. , the latest chapter of the visit wèn:. As one of the most technically 'strong' arms at present, the training course of artillery is also the most complex, and the training cycle is the longest in the army. If you want to shorten the training cycle, the most effective way is to arrange a lot of live-fire training for the trainees, so that they can master the correct posture of the 'maneuver' gun in the live-fire 'shooting' hit.

While Enrique was living in Victory Port, he could hear the roar of artillery coming from the artillery range across the harbor. At first, Enrique was just as scared as other newcomers, but later learned that this was a regular live-fire 'shooting' training conducted twice a week by the Haihan militia. The locals have long been accustomed to this situation, and when they see frightened outsiders, they will inadvertently 'show' a little superiority - haven't you seen it? We have a high-class port protected by artillery!

Enrique had long wanted to go to the militia camp on the east side of the harbor to find out what kind of army was the level of the South Vietnamese army that had fought on the battlefield of Annam. However, his scope of movement in Victory Harbor was limited, and without the special approval of the Executive Committee, it was impossible for him to go to the heavily controlled military garrison. This time, Enrique was able to visit the live-fire training through the arms trade negotiations, and Enrique finally fulfilled his wish.

After stepping onto the land of the barracks, Enrique, like Li Nai, who had visited the area for the first time, noticed a considerable number of children near the pier walking in a learning queue. These children are all wearing the same gray 'colored' military uniforms as the Haihan Mintuan, and they are standing in a team according to the formation of the squad and platoon level, which is simply a miniature version of the Haihan Mintuan Army.

"This is our boy scouts, most of whom are homeless orphans. We recruit them here for military training, and at the same time give them the opportunity to receive cultural education, all for charitable purposes. Yan Chujie took the initiative to explain to Enrique in a timely manner.

"This is a truly commendable act of kindness, may the Lord bless these lovely children. Enrique squeezed out a smile and replied a little reluctantly.

Enrique didn't believe what Yan Chujie said, if it was for the sake of these children, why not let them study at Victory Harbor Primary School? Or send them to work in the workshop, at least they can learn a trade to earn a living. Let these parents children grow up in the barracks from an early age, will they go to work elsewhere when they become adults?

Enrique also noticed that the barracks of the Haihan militia also adhered to the simple and bright Haihan architectural style, and the barracks were all east-west, which, according to Yan Chujie, would allow the interior to be better illuminated. Although the barracks were made of bamboo and wood, Enrique also noticed that the windows of the barracks were glass, which he considered to be a luxury in terms of hardware.

Yan Chujie took Enrique to 'sample' a few barracks at random, and the cleanliness of the interior gave Enrique a new assessment of the discipline of this army. Although he was not a soldier, he had come into contact with many professional soldiers before, and he knew that the level of internal affairs could reflect the combat effectiveness of this army in a certain way -- if even the barracks where the soldiers themselves lived were 'messy' and smelly, then how could such a loose army be expected to strictly observe military discipline and carry out military orders on the battlefield? Obviously, the Haihan people's level of army management was no less than their ability to do business, and Enrique also somewhat understood why the Haihan people had the confidence to dare to send troops across the sea to fight in other places.

"This is our troop honor room. Yan Chujie was not in a hurry to take Enrique to the shooting range, but took him to continue to visit the barracks facilities, which naturally included the honor exhibition room with a special 'color' of Haihante.

Enrique noticed that this "Hall of Honor" was one of the few brick and stone buildings in the entire camp, which is enough to show the importance that the Haihan military attached to this facility. Enrique, who was fluent in Chinese, and even some southern Chinese dialects, was not very fluent in the written text - in fact, he didn't even know in what order to pronounce the words on the board. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the text is generally written and read from top to bottom, from left to right, but Enrique has been in contact with the Haihan people many times, and he also knows that the rules of the Haihan people are somewhat different, and it seems to be written horizontally from left to right. Yan Chujie also seemed to know that Enrique was not suitable for this aspect, so he explained to him: "The content above is to tell the time, place and reason for the formation of our Haihan People's League, as well as the main battles and achievements that we have participated in since the formation of the army. Who, you read the board to Mr. Enrique. ”

Although the militia also has literacy classes run in-house, there are not too many people who can read and write in the hundreds, so much so that now the Military Commission has taken literacy as one of the criteria for the promotion of officers. At the same time, in order to raise the cultural level of the troops, the Central Military Commission also specially recruited some young down-and-out literati to serve as civilians in the army. This honor gallery has a large number of texts and pictures, so it is also specially equipped with literate soldiers to act as interpreters here.

"Lord Yuyan, the humble post is Lu 'Ting', a subordinate of the Propaganda Department of the 1st Battalion Headquarters of Shengli Port. The staff of the showroom who followed immediately stepped forward to report their identities.

Lu 'Ting' is originally from Yacheng, and he was also a person who studied for a few years before joining the army, but he didn't get fame, just a child. He was already in his twenties, and he knew that his talent for studying was limited, and his family did not have any spare money for him to apply for the examination again, so it was difficult to have a bright future on the road of the imperial examination. Then after I came, I found out that although the rumors were true, the treatment of this part-time job was actually divided into three, six, nine and so on.

The remuneration of migrant workers who are not naturalized in Shengli Port is not high, and there is not much advantage over Yacheng, but the living facilities here are complete, and the cost of living is slightly lower than that of Yacheng. If you want to get a high salary under the rule of the Haihan people, you must first obtain the status of a naturalized citizen, but the naturalized nationality is not an application can be obtained immediately, and you have to go through a period of inspection in the local area.

According to the military's recruitment announcement, as long as all the conditions meet the requirements, they will immediately obtain the naturalized nationality after enlistment, and they can also bring their immediate family members to get the naturalized civilian status that originally had to wait for a month or two. Quite a few young people from the nearby Li and Miao ethnic groups have obtained the status of naturalized people in this way, so as to get out of the mountains. Although Lu 'Ting' is a scholar, his family is relatively poor, and he does a lot of farm work on weekdays, and his body is not weak.

When Lu 'Ting' joined the army, he specially declared his cultural expertise -- this is also clearly written in the recruitment announcement, and anyone who has reached a certain level of literacy can be specially recruited into the army and awarded civilian posts. After enlisting in the army, he was assigned to the propaganda department of the battalion headquarters as he wished, and usually did things such as writing slogans and materials, and occasionally gave lectures in literacy classes to help ordinary soldiers carry out literacy education. After the completion of the Honor Showroom last month, he was transferred here to take on the role of docent, and he was responsible for explaining the history of the Haihan militia to recruits and visitors.

Yan Chujie didn't go out of his way to correct his 'fault' in the title, but just nodded and said, "Give Mr. Enrique a good talk about the situation of our militia army." ”

"Obey the order!" Lu 'Ting' cleared his throat, then stood in front of the display board, 'spoke' a non-standard Haihan Mandarin, and began to explain to Enrique: "Our Haihan People's Militia was established in the seventh year of the Great Tomorrow, and the people's armed forces under the direct leadership of the Haihan Executive Committee and the Haihan Military Commission are now mainly stationed in the Shengli Port Military Region......

Enrique was not very interested in Yan Chujie taking him to see this kind of exhibition hall at first, but when he understood the 'sexual' nature of this exhibition hall, he quickly changed his mind. The Haihan militia is a very mysterious armed organization for both the Ming and the Portuguese, except for knowing that this unit has very strong weapons and combat effectiveness, the outside world knows almost nothing about its internal situation, its establishment, training methods, equipment level, combat experience...... These are all things that Enrique is very interested to know, and this qiē seems to be found in the Hall of Honor.

"Since its establishment, our militia army has participated in more than 30 large and small military operations, participated in many battles in Shengli Port, Annam, Guangdong and other places, annihilated thousands of enemies, captured tens of thousands, and achieved many victories with less......

This is not the first time that Lu 'Ting' has conducted this kind of explanation, and almost every batch of recruits has to come here to visit and study. What Lu 'Ting' had to do was to memorize all the propaganda materials written by the military top brass himself, and to be able to smoothly describe to the visitors the glorious image of "our army" being invincible when he explained it.

Enrique saw that in addition to the text, the propaganda materials posted on the wall also had a large number of hand-drawn drawings, most of which were battle scenes on the battlefield. Although this unit has been in existence for less than two years, if you just look at the propaganda materials here, you may think that this is a veteran army that has been in many battles.

Enrique was very interested in the two sorties of the Haihan militia in Annan, one in the south and one in the north, and the battle of Lijiazhuang, and raised a lot of questions when explaining the relevant parts, and Yan Chujie had to stand up and block the gun for Lu Ting: "Mr. Enrique, some of the questions you raised involve the military secrets of our army, and I can only say that I have nothing to say about this. ”

"Mr. Yan, I think you have misunderstood my intentions. Enrique, of course, was well aware of the differences between the two sides, and immediately explained: "I just wanted to understand the details of the battle process to confirm the reliability of Haihan's weapons on the battlefield, and I didn't mean anything else." ”

"As for the weapon, you can see the real thing later, so you don't need to dwell on it here. Yan Chujie smiled and didn't argue about this matter any further.

Enrique is not interested in the content of the last part of the meritorious service award, because in his opinion, although the Haihan people do have their own strength, the executive committee is only a grass platform team after all, that is, an institution at the same level as the Portuguese Council of Australia, and the awards it gives are really not much authoritative 'nature' at all. However, it seems that the soldiers of the militia are very enthusiastic about this, because he can feel that several members of the military entourage, including the commentator himself, are red-eyed at the military medals on display, and they are obviously very eager to receive such a reward.

After 'spending' half an hour to visit the honor showroom, Yan Chujie took him into another showroom, and this time Enrique never showed any impatience, because the display in this place was the Haihan weapon that he had always wanted to get close to.

There are the first batch of Type 27 arquebuses manufactured at the earliest, the first 'Gate' 6-pounder cannon cast by the Ministry of Military Industry, and the latest Type 28 breech-loading flintlock pistol, short-barreled shotgun, 24-pounder long-barreled shore defense gun and other new weapons, which made Enrique's eyes a little 'flowery', and he didn't know where to look for a while.

Although all the weapons here have been installed in the troops, it is impossible for the naturalized soldiers to grasp the detailed 'sexuality' of these weapons, so the explanation of these weapons can only be carried out by Yan Chujie himself: "This is the first rifle we have made after settling in Shengli Port, and I am sure you will notice that it is no different in appearance and use from the arquebuses exported to Annam by your merchants." But I want to make a special point that due to the use of more advanced manufacturing technology of gunpowder, our rifle exceeds the distance of about three-tenths of your arquebus in the "firing" range, and the "precision" accuracy in the effective "firing" range has also been improved to a certain extent, in addition, our manufacturing standards are very unified, and all the parts and ammunition on the guns can be universally interchanged, which greatly reduces the wear and tear of weapons in battle. ”

Enrique pointed to the sample and asked, "Can I pick it up and have a look?"

"Absolutely. Yan Chujie made a gesture of please.

Enrique held the gun in his hand and found that the size and weight of the gun were not much different from the arquebuses sold to Annam by his own merchants. However, if what Yan Chujie said just now was not bragging, then the North Vietnamese army, which was equipped with a large number of such weapons, did have a greater chance of being able to defeat South Vietnam.

"This is the 27 type front-loading flintlock pistol that our army is currently using, but has been prepared to be replaced and eliminated, and the 'sex' ability of this gun has comprehensively surpassed the arquebus in all aspects, and the speed of loading 'shooting' has also been significantly improved, which has been fully proven on the battlefield, so I don't need to say more. ”

Enrique picked up the gun and couldn't help but sigh that the weapon manufacturing technology of the Haihan people was indeed outstanding. Although the flintlock pistol was invented in Europe as early as the last century, for some ridiculous reasons, the flintlock pistol was not able to gain rapid popularity in Europe.

After the invention of the ramming flintlock pistol in the last century, the Frenchman Mahan was highly regarded by the king, and was even appointed by Henry IV as a "court valet", but in 1610, Henry IV died in assassination, and the process of equipping the troops with flintlock pistols stopped. Many French generals objected to the use of flintlock pistols in their armies on the grounds that the sparks from the flint were not enough to ignite the black fire 'potout' - yes, no one thought about how to improve the purity of the gun' or other technical means to solve this small problem, but directly rejected the prospect of such weapons, which directly led to the delay of the French ** army's large-scale use of flintlock pistols by several decades.

Of course, it was not only the French who made flintlock pistols in the same era, but German, Italian and Spanish craftsmen made flintlock pistols, but due to the complex structure and high cost, this advanced weapon has not been popularized in European troops. In its original history, it was not until the mid-17th century that the flintlock pistol became the main individual weapon of European forces, and it continued until the mid-19th century. In this respect, the Ming Dynasty did lag behind the West a lot, and it was not until 1635 that Bi Maokang, a firearms expert in the Ming Dynasty, produced the first flint fire self-generated firearm.

What the European armies have not been able to achieve, the Haihan have already done, and they are just a group of armed merchants entrenched on an island in the Far East! This fact made Enrique, who claimed to be a subject of the Portuguese Empire, a little embarrassed, and the most annoying thing was that the Haihan people were actually ready to eliminate this high-grade weapon and replace it with a new rifle that Enrique had never heard of.

"About the 'sexual' ability of this new rifle...... Yan Chujie looked at Enrique's eager eyes and smiled: "I'm sorry, this involves our military secrets, so I have nothing to say." ”

"God, you can at least sue me for something, just say anything!" Enrique was very dissatisfied with Yan Chujie's sale, and he could only look at this extraordinary new rifle with his eyes through the glass window, and guessed in his heart how this rifle that did not use a fire rope and did not have a pot of gunpowder and 'medicine' was able to 'shoot'.

"The only thing I can say is that the 'sex' ability of this new rifle can completely sling all kinds of muskets that are currently known, and in front of it, other muskets, including the 27-style flintlock pistol you just held, are all scum!" Yan Chujie didn't seem to be satisfied with this kind of show-off, and didn't forget to add another knife at the end: "Of course, this new weapon will not be included in the arms for sale." ”

Enrique finally swallowed back the swear words that had already poured into his mouth, and asked with a forced smile: "This means that if we Portuguese want to buy, we can only buy the weapons that you have eliminated?" "Of course, is there anything wrong with this?" The smile on Yan Chujie's face made Enrique really want to swing his fist and smash it.