In fact, it is possible to open up territory in Brazil, but Lu Feng can't feel it.

The Rio Guard's banner army did this almost every day.

"Although Lu was promoted to the commander of the Rio Guard last year, he only had more than 2,000 banner troops in his hands, half of which were the headquarters of the previous thousand households, and half were the troops sent by the marshal when he came to Brazil; There were not enough soldiers, I couldn't spread out, and the military government couldn't afford to give me more support, so I had to recruit troops, but the commander wouldn't let me. ”

Lu Feng said that Zhao Shizhen knew about this, and he sent a recruitment report to the military government, intending to recruit aborigines to fill in the flag army, but Chen Mu did not agree, and sent a letter to tell him that the Ming Banner Army is a national armed force overseas, and the Ming people must serve as the flag army.

That being said, but the armor has no combat effectiveness.

The key to this problem is not whether the flag army is still armored, but that the Oriental military government will only give the flag army sufficient military resources, even if two people who are illiterate and have no military skills, enter the Daming Banner Army sequence and fight against each other on the second day of the local armor, and the one who dies must be the armor.

Because Bao Jia may not have received his own bow after a month, the banner army not only has a full set of weapons and armor on the second day of formation, but also has additional fire support from various ancient soldiers.

Regardless of whether it is an iron shell or a clay shell, at least he will have a grenade hanging on his waist, and he may also have a small steel wheel plug in his waist bag that can only be easily transformed into a mine, and a small flag quiver only two feet seven inches long will hang on his back.

Each Banner Banner will have two Banner Soldiers carrying quivers, usually with tall and strong recruits carrying them.

Not to mention the mirror water-patterned waist knife and the Wanli World Taiping Gun with excellent craftsmanship.

What Lu Feng really wants is not the flag army, but these weapons and equipment, with the weapons and equipment of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, what kind of flag army can't be trained.

Zhao Shizhen knew.

"The military government doesn't have so many weapons and equipment, clay pots, grenades, small flag arrows, and general flag arrows can be made by themselves, but the output of Changsheng Jincheng bird guns is only enough to replenish the troops, and the armor is too slow to build, except for the gunpowder can't be used up, we don't have anything else."

Saying that, Zhao Shizhen laughed to himself: "It's quite annoying for this to come out, but it's true, we lack everything except gunpowder." The strength of the flag army is not surplus compared to the vast land that needs to be garrisoned, and the imperial court attacked from all sides, and the three phases of the flag army were not sent to North Asia. ”

"Once the opening of the mixed formation with the local armor is opened, they will degenerate from a Beiyang army that can go to the far sea to fight tomorrow on board the ship to a guard army that has been stationed in the place for a lifetime, the commander said."

Lu Feng closed his eyes, he was about to see his head now.

"But Commander Lu doesn't have to be discouraged, the imperial court has sent a new batch of domestic flag troops over, and the Rio Flag Army will be replenished first."

Hearing this, Lu Feng's eyes finally shone again, and then poured bitter water: "The military government doesn't know, how difficult it is for my two thousands of households to be here, there are no soldiers and no people, send people along the river into the forest to find the people, many hundred households will not come out when they bring troops into the rainforest, and they have the heart to lead troops to support them, and the port of Rio must also be guarded." ”

Zhao Shizhen had never heard Lu Feng say such a thing, so he frowned and asked, "Don't come out, support?" Is it the people of the people who raise the army? ”

The actions of the Ming army in various parts of the New World were not all smooth sailing, the vast majority of tribes had no intention of fighting the Ming army, and the two sides deepened their relations through trade and help in peace and quiet, but there are two in everything, and many tribes have a feud with each other, and if you help this, that will regard you as an enemy.

The most significant contribution of the Spaniards to the Ming was that they completely destroyed the basic tribal form in the central region, and everyone hated them, even the doglegs who had done things for them before.

Lu Feng shook his head: "The natives in the mountains and forests will warn our banner army not to enter their territory, but if the banner army wants to trade with them, they will also accept it, and the flag army is not chasing the natives in the forest, but the Portuguese." ”

"The first messenger to inform Rio was that it was a general banner who had been attacked, that the people who had been attacked had asked him for help, that the Portuguese had attacked their huts in the woods, and that they had kidnapped women and children and strong men after killing, and that there were many tribes doing things for them, human traffickers, just as they had done to the people of the Ming Dynasty in Haojing."

"Later, there were more and more scouts and banner soldiers sent to the jungle, and I received more and more news from the aborigines asking for help, and they were willing to help, so I let them go."

Zhao Shizhen looked at Lu Feng and sighed, and finally smiled helplessly, as the commander of the town, Lu Feng's actions are not too competent, Rio Wei didn't even do a good job in the construction of the surrounding tribes and coastal port fortresses, but he sent troops into the jungle to help the natives find their relatives?

But he approves of it.

The people of the Celestial Empire, even if they have not read, when they are incapable, they will sigh because of the suffering of others and strive to be a good person, and when they have the ability, they are willing to uphold justice and pursue kindness.

He nodded slowly and said, "The commander should summon them back." ”

At the same time as Lu Feng's brows furrowed, Zhao Shizhen said: "Take those aborigines and recall them together, the Beiyang Banner Army is the heart and soul of the handsome, they can't die in the jungle for no reason, how many people can you send out, two hundred and three hundred?" No matter how big the jungle is, twenty or thirty thousand people can't be cleaned, and the Portuguese can help the abusive natives as helpers, and the banner army can't go far without supplies and baggage. ”

"fell into the hands of the dead and besieged, and had to avenge them. Commanders need soldiers, these bereaved natives are the best soldiers, giving to the weak can indeed make the flag army achieve inner satisfaction, but our culture does not advocate blind charity, the Celestial Empire only teaches the weak how to survive, how to be self-reliant. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Shizhen hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Those who help themselves, the Heavenly Empire will help them." ”

"Makino has a group of the best Miao crossbowmen, commanding the native soldiers to train the armor to defend the flag army, teach them to make bows, swords, crossbows, and crossbows, it is useless to pursue those traffickers, even if the flag army kills this group in the jungle, they will send the next group, as long as there are Portuguese plantations in Brazil, as long as there are Portuguese town strongholds, they will always send the next slave capture team."

"Train armor, teach martial arts and tactics, they grow in the jungle, it is easier to save people, the goal of the most elite Beiyang army of the Ming Dynasty should be those strongholds and plantations in the Portuguese Yi, one by one, uprooted."

"Didn't the commander want to open up the territory and become a marquis? Don't say that the feudal marquis, even if the feudal uncle is not only the merit of the war, the general looks down on the herdsmen, but a good general can open up the territory, he must also be a good herdsman official, such a large land in Brazil, is it not enough for the general to realize his ambitions? ”