Chapter VII: The Allies
The baggage fleet from the imperial court arrived, and Ma Gui and other Majiagang generals stood in the port early, and the artillery pulled out from the Tibetan Cannon Mountain of Shuihu Peak was lined up on the shore, and more than 200 banner troops gathered from the left and right hundred households were urgently lined up and waited.
Dogs barked one after another in the camp behind them, and they also sensed the nervousness in the hearts of their owners.
Ma Gui held the telescope and looked into the distance, and the lens revealed the figure of more than 20 huge sea ships of the Ming Dynasty, and what attracted attention was that there was a Spanish warship with red fork sails next to the 500-material shark ship headed by the Nanyang gunboat.
He looked carefully and carefully, and it seemed that there was no naval artillery battle between the two ships.
The flag army beside him whispered a few times, and Ma Gui moved the telescope slightly, only to find that before the two big warships led by the fleet, there was a small boat that was less than 100 materials, and this ship Majiagang flag army was familiar and could not be more familiar - it was a dhow boat they built themselves.
They built a total of five of these small boats, called small hemp boats, and now three are parked at the side of the Majiagang trestle, and one has gone to the mast to cover the shore, which has been covered with snow into a small snow slope.
The rest of the ship should be in the Zheng Tu tribe of Zhuangyuan Bridge.
The fleet gradually approached the port, the sails were slowly lowered, and the flag-bearers holding the colorful flags of the five gods were waving on the slightly higher stern of the warships guarding the baggage fleet, and the flag of Marshal Wen, which symbolized the blue hands and blue faces of the East, was very conspicuous.
Ma Gui put down the binoculars angrily and ordered his subordinates: "Raise the flag and let them stop the ship, send a baggage and toss a ship, we should be attacked by the enemy!" ”
The two sides waved flags to each other, confirming that they were comrades and friends, and the fleet stopped at the coast of the small Majiagang, and the boats put down their boats to carry the goods, and those without goods also rowed their boats to the shore.
Ma Gui kept looking at the Spanish warship, and he found that Xiyi's ship had no portholes and gun muzzles, and now the gun ports were nailed to the wooden planks, and the Xiyi sailors with different looks put the boat down, but five Ming soldiers got down from the boat and rowed the boat first.
There was also the small hemp boat, which was parked by the trestle with its sails, and one of his bannermen hurried over with two burly Zhuangyuan Bridge natives.
The five Ming soldiers who came down from the Spanish ship looked different, a general wearing a bright cuirass and a bearskin coat with four horses, and when the horses got off the boat, each of them threw a dozen long guns into the boat, and now this small boat is like an arsenal, full of guns.
The boat was rowed to the sand on the shore where the ice was formed, and the leader of the general strode forward, although he had a power to control the situation, but the look between his eyebrows and eyes still showed a little hob meat scoundrel appearance.
"Under the payment of yuan, Chen Shuai of the Oriental Fleet will attack in guerrilla."
Ma Gui's eyes lit up when he heard the name.
The impression of Chen Mu is still in the era of Chen Nanyang, at that time, Fu Yuan was also famous, from the flag army to the commander, the good news transmitted to the north continued for months, and it was a very common name in the newspaper that followed Chen Mu.
"It turned out to be General Fu, Ma Mou has admired his name for a long time, but your official position is ...... I remember that you were a conductor in Luzon before you went to sea, why are you a guerrilla now? Could it be that the Oriental Fleet is different? ”
In the past 20 years, the Ming Dynasty was a time when the military system was chaotic, and the guards, battalions, recruits, and private soldiers were everywhere.
When a government quells chaos, a commander leads a small general army, and a province quells chaos, and a commander sometimes receives the rank of staff general, and the two sets of officer systems are parallel, in fact, to put it bluntly, the guard officer is the commander of the army, and the battalion officer is the commander.
Only Nanyang, because he is fighting overseas, does not use the central system, and the commander is both the commander and the wartime commander, and the difference is only whether Chen Mu issued a military transfer order.
Therefore, the power position of the overseas commander of the first guard is much greater, and the Luzon commander like Fu Yuan, who is transferred back to the mainland, is at least to command the affairs or even command the same knowledge.
Guerrilla generals? This is the threshold for lower-level generals to be independent middle-level generals, and the grade is a bit low for Fu Yuan, right?
He's still a chief military officer!
Fu Yuan smiled, admiring Yu Magui's eyes, and didn't explain just waved his hand, pointed to the entourage on the boat behind him, and said: "When I came, I was catching up with the Xiyi ship to pursue this small boat, I saw that the shape looked like our ship, so I intercepted this Spanish ship, and I collected all the firearms, and there were some swords and spears on the ship. ”
"There were forty-four Spanish soldiers and fifty-three sailors, all of whom were taken down. I thought there would be an artillery battle, but I didn't expect them to say that they were allies with us and would not fight. ”
Fu Yuan said and stepped forward to get closer to Ma Gui, and asked in a low voice: "They said that they were looking for revenge against the Turen and had no intention of being the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and that the Turen killed their military villages and soldiers. ”
"I don't think it's true, I don't think anything about them."
Fu Yuan's eyes widened when he said a few words, and he said in surprise: "The Zhuangyuan Bridge has been breached? And what about the town of Kansai? ”
"What, what is the Zhuangyuanqiao Town in Kansai?" Fu Yuan was confused by the celebrity name of this place, since the official deputy Qianhu, he is a frequent visitor to Guangcheng teahouses and wine shops, and the dialogue is so familiar that he can't be more familiar, and suddenly he heard that the sense of time and space dislocation is too strong, and he was stunned for a moment, then he took off his helmet and rubbed his short hair and said: "The natives they beat are our people?" ”
Fu Yuan's hair was not shaved in Beiyang, he cut his hair short when he was in Baigu malaria, and later felt that short hair was very comfortable, but fortunately he didn't have long hair - he was a big-headed soldier who was idle and gambling and used to stealing, and he didn't care what others thought of him at all.
He doesn't talk about etiquette, he talks about rivers and lakes.
Our people?
Fu Yuan's words are very Jianghu in Ma Gui's ears.
The chief officer of Kuwu Island thought about it for a while, pursed his lips and nodded slightly, and sighed before saying: "The banner army sent to teach Chinese has returned, and the people who have not yet become our have been exterminated by Xiyi." ”
"They weren't wiped out, most of them ran north after being defeated, Xiyi wanted land, intending to drive them away, and the soldiers below wanted revenge, but the legion commander above them thought it would be beneficial for them to let the people of this tribe spread panic."
"Fu doesn't know much about other things, Ma Shuai can ask your flag army."
Fu Yuan said and looked back at the Spanish ship, on which the flag army with a strong atmosphere of rivers and lakes was escorting the Spanish soldiers off the ship, and there was hardly a trace of the Nanyang Army's forbidden temperament on them.
Although they wore standard military uniforms, each with large shoulders and round waists, their demeanor was frivolous and did not look like soldiers.
Fu Yuan waved his hand to the family on the boat, turned his head to Ma Gui, and said: "No matter what, don't make up your mind early when looking at Ma Shuai, Chen Shuai has set sail from Tianjin Dagu, and the army will arrive at Majia Port." ”