The Nanyang Military Government, headed by Chen Mu, the Minister of Nanyang, passed a bill to set up additional military guards in Mindoro almost at the same time that the Kugu Sanwei sent the North Asian Merica Pioneer Fleet to set off.

The military guard is the same as the rest of the guards, but the difference this time is that not only is it actually subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, but it is also actually subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, in other words, this is also the only directly governed guard of the Nanyang Military Government.

In addition to the more than 500 officers who are veterans and graduates of the first phase of the Navy Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, all the banner troops are recruited by the two Guangxi and selected elites...... Because the Liangguang Banner Army has not been able to select elites, but all those who have fought with Chen Mu in the past have been drawn out.

With those who have fought with others, whether it is bad habits in the army or different tactics, Chen Mu thought about the difficulty of training, and simply recruited recruits from the civilian sector except for the special positions that the family can fill.

Not to mention, the Nanyang specialty hero is the best recruitment manual, and the flag army recruiters sent to various places came back half a month earlier than Chen Mu imagined.

As the commander of the military government guard, he also knew that Zhang Shijue, the right guard of Guangdong in the past, had just come out of the naval lecture hall, although he was not actually taught when he entered the school, but he was promoted to a higher level, and he was catching up with the shortage of people in the military guard, and he was familiar with Chen Mu, so he was transferred.

This is the case for most of the military government guards and deputy households, and Chen Mu's family soldiers are mostly small flags and general flags, and they do not compete for official positions with these graduates.

Jiading is a veteran of the war, but those who speak of martial arts also have their strengths, each with its own direction, not to mention that there are not many people in Chen Mu's family who have more than 100 people in command and have combat experience, and if they are promoted, they may not be able to improve their combat power.

It's better to abuse his power and send some idle people to wait until winter to enter the fourth phase of the martial arts hall.

By this time, Chen Mu's family in his early years had a place to go, and the junior officers of the Nanyang Zhuwei were everywhere, and there were a group of people who entered the martial arts hall in winter, and in the end, there were one hundred and ten people left by his side, holding a guard of honor and a guard.

However, there are few families, and it can no longer have any impact on Chen Mu, because the military government guard does not have a station, although their military field is in Minduluo, but the station is not Minduluo.

Where the military government is, where is their station, and where Chen Mu is in the front of the military government, they are there, because their station is the Chihai Fleet, which happens to be a thousand households.

Since the Ming Dynasty, almost no effort has been spared to improve the literacy of the common people, and the government, prefecture, and county levels of government studies, the border and guard level military studies, and social studies have been everywhere.

Teaching people to read and write also increased the popularization of law, the heavy criminal law and normal laws written by Emperor Taizu himself, crowns, marriages, funerals, rituals and historical calculations, and of course, traditional archery that has lasted for thousands of years.

However, up to now, Chen Mu's personal experience of military education is almost blind, and the official school and the imperial court still attach great importance to it, but most of the people are forced to live and have no chance to go to school.

There are many literate people, but not many literate words.

The man on the street asked ten questions if he was illiterate, and three or five of them answered in the affirmative, but when asked who of these people could read through a book of the Three Kingdoms without stumbling, or write a letter to his family without drawing circles, there may or may not be one.

After all, Mengtong's education is 2,000 words, and with the few opportunities for girls to receive education, there are very few people who really have the ability to read and write fluently.

Among 1,000 people, there are only three or four poor talents, and among 10,000 people, there may not be one lifter.

But that's enough, Chen Mu recruited soldiers in Liangguang this time, not to show talents, let alone raise people, the requirements are not high, there is no disability or disease, there is no problem with the brain, and if you can stumble and read the flag army laws and regulations in the flag army drill manual, you can go overseas to eat military rations.

These young people with heroic dreams crossed the ocean from Liangguang, and they never expected that the first thing they would do when they came over was to build a warehouse, and after building a warehouse, they would also build barracks and move bricks and mud.

The bricks and tiles of Nanjing, the iron bars of Foshan, and the cement of Nanyangwei were sent to the Nanyang Military Government together with the grain carrier, and they were not enough to transport them at one time.

Chen Mu took advantage of this time to patrol Minduluo Island with Gao Gong and others, looking for a suitable location for setting up camps and defenses, and finally selected the military government to be located on the five-mile highlands on the north coast of the island, with a port under it, and camps in three places on the island, but for the time being, it was only a design, and it was not considered.

"This island will definitely not be used as a military garrison for a long time, but the mines on the island are still enough to dig for many years, and they must always be in the hands of Daming before they are hollowed out, even if the military government leaves in the future, a guard and horses must be transferred over."

Chen Mu took his subordinates to draw a topographic map, pointed to the north of the island, and drew the shape with charcoal and said: "Use a low pentagonal fortress to build two layers inside and outside, and then lead a ditch from the port to surround the city in the future, and the road is on this side of the ditch, let them walk two more sections." ”

As he spoke, Chen Mu drew another straight line and said, "This city wall was finally rebuilt, and the city gates were placed on both sides to facilitate entry and exit." When the castle walls are built and the road is paved, outsiders will have to walk a little longer to attack the city. ”

Chen Mu pulled Xu Wei over as he spoke, drew the appearance of the castle on the sketch, and said: "How high the city wall is, make sure that the heavy artillery can hit this position, and the inner city wall is a little higher, so you can hit this, just do it." ”

Heavy artillery flat fire, usually the distance is 1,000 steps, the elevation angle can only hit the shore, but that distance is not powerful and inaccurate, the key to defending the city is still bird guns and artillery.

Chen Mu pointed out the country to the topographic map, Xu Wei looked at it with interest, and suddenly saw Chen Mu shaking his head and saying, "It's still too scattered." ”

"What's too scattered?"

"Arithmetic is applied to the fortress, and there is a lack of overall rules in all aspects of proportion, such as how thick the wall should be, how many oblique angles of the wall, and the least powerful artillery, and we don't have regulations at hand."

After that, Chen Muyan stopped and said: "First move the materials and set up a warehouse, build a barracks for the banner army, and then let the Ordnance Bureau and the Wutang experiment with the rest of the matter, come up with accurate regulations, and then build this military city." ”

"This is the first castle built with geometry and arithmetic, there will be more in Daming in the future, once there is a charter, as long as the ship can reach the coast, a city can be erected in half a year!"

"I can do it, but it's too ugly for me to make it, so I still have to let the beauty know how to do it."

The military government put it on hold for a short time, and sent a boatload from the mouth of the Pearl River to Minduluo, and soon prepared all the materials, and the Ordnance Bureau and the lecture hall began to study the fortress at the same time, and the most difficult place has been found by Chen Mu, and the next step is much easier.

In June of the first year of Wanli, along with a new batch of warships sent to Mindoro Island, there was also news from Luzon that Lin Dayuan, the garrison of Chenlai Island, had taken three ships of Xiyi, and they waved white flags saying that they were ministers sent by King Philip to negotiate peace and treaty compensation.