Fourteen days after the arrival of the first batch of migrants, Xu Jin and more than 100 families including Ding Hai set off for their destination, a small village on the border of western Ming and the West.

Before leaving, they received the cattle allocated to them by the army, six yellow dogs, eight oxen, twelve sheep, and twenty-two horses, mules, and donkeys.

In addition to livestock, eight two-wheeled large rows carried 16 water tanks, 33 dishes, oil, candles, salt, rice sauce, 9 firewood knives, 8 hoes, 12 axes and saws, 12 waist knives, 16 foot bows, 32 spears and boring handles, 17 arquebus guns, 20 zhang ropes, sufficient ammunition for mixed arrows, eight tiger and leopard flags of various colors, and one inlaid dragon flag.

Because they were the last to receive the supplies, they received relatively more things, and some villages in front of them only received eight dishes from forty households, but those villages in the relative area were closer to Changsheng County, and when this wave of immigrants passed, they would soon be able to make up for their needs, and they would be different.

They were going 500 miles away, and Mexico City was a stone's throw away, and Changsheng County was far away.

For a while, they had to rely on themselves for everything over there, and the only thing they could rely on was that Chen Mu sent the news that they were going over to Alva in Mexico City by the riders to ensure that the Spanish soldiers would not attack the civilians.

"There's a reason why the Beiyang Army respects you Nine-Sided soldiers, and your physical fitness is very good." Xu Jin leaned against the trunk of the tree and panted slightly, took out a small medicine bag wrapped in oil paper from his bag and handed it to Ding Hai, and said with a smile: "It's not bad to be able to keep up." ”

"The first-class physician of the Beiyang Medical Academy is equipped with a thousand miles of walking, seeping into the soles of his shoes."

Forty miles a day, the old and weak women and children sat in the car, and the flag army and the men below were carrying large bags and small bags to hurry, and Xu Jin of the hundred households had been worried that Ding Hai and these people would not be able to keep up, but it seemed that others might not be able to hurry, Ding Hai and Ding Lu and Wang Yang were much better.

Their performance was no less than that of Xu Jin's Beiyang Banner Army, which made Baihu a little embarrassed, and complained: "The Aztecs built this road like the road stepped on by the common people outside the mouth of Liaodong. ”

In fact, Beiyang does not have much physical training, Chen Mu recruits all the children of good families, the people of all counties have to rush every few times a month, plus they work in the fields on weekdays, their physical fitness is not bad, the training of the Beiyang Army focuses on discipline and the use of weapons, and battle formation training, and it is really not much stronger than the nine-sided veterans in terms of physical fitness.

Although their training is more scientific and targeted.

"Respect?"

Ding Hai was a little puzzled, took the medicine bag and sniffed it under his nose, took off the worn cloth shoes and poured them on the soles, and handed them to his younger brother. ”

Xu Jin was a little dumbfounded, it seemed that Ding Hai was not so happy to hear that the Beiyang Army respected them, he said: "How can I go to the Nine Sides, I can't hide it, four years ago I was still a small flag, I fought two pirates in the Nanyang escort patrol, and was transferred to Beiyang as a training officer, making up for the lack of 100 households." ”

Ding Hai frowned, he had heard that Nanbei Eryang was promoted quickly, but he didn't expect it to be such an understatement, he wondered: "Then what?" ”

"Oh, you said that the Beiyang Army respects the soldiers of the Nine Sides? When I was still a small flag in Nanyang, the big marshal first created a small flag to set up a propaganda officer, and that's what the propaganda officials said, and they hadn't been to Jiubian. ”

"The preacher is a substitute for the deputy flag, is there no deputy flag in the north? There are three officers in a small banner in the south, a small flag, a deputy flag, and a propaganda, which is to tell the bottom of the flag army what hundreds of households, thousands of households, and even commanders and commanders have seen, so that everyone knows why they are fighting. ”

Xu Jin's eyes were full of reminiscences: "At that time, they said that we, the flag army and flag officers, will become hundreds of households, thousands of households and even commanders in the future, but we can't be self-conscious, this is not because I have learned superman, but because I have been touched by the luck of the imperial court to expand the territory, we must know that it is the people who raised us, and it is other robes who are fighting to the death in the hinterland on the nine sides, so that I can wait for the glory of opening up the territory for the imperial court." ”

"Even if you are promoted to a knighthood in the future, you should not look down on others, because this luck may belong to anyone, just because we are there, we take this luck away, and preach so that we remember to be grateful to others."

"Huh!" Xu Jin smiled, shook his head and said: "Now that I think about it, it is true that everyone in Nanyang is forging ahead, signing up for martial arts, and going overseas to fight against the miasma, but this effort is actually the same for others, in that progressive environment, everyone is like this." ”

"That's good."

Ding Hai, who was powerful and powerful, listened to Xu Jin's words, leaned against the tree and slowly leaned down with his upright figure, almost curled up, and the plain narration almost taught him to cry out loud, but he twitched twice with his nose, greedily breathed the air to stabilize his emotions, and repeated heavily: "It's good!" ”

Isn't that nice?

The flag army, the dun army, and the night are not collected, and the nine-sided characters are as lowly as dogs, but they don't need to do anything overseas thousands of miles away from their hometown to get a thousand acres of land, of which 500 acres belong to him, and whether he can eat or not depends on himself.

He can also hear from others' mouths 'We all respect you', this 'others' are not cats and dogs, they are the Beiyang Army that the entire Ming million-dollar army wants to become.

Xu Jin didn't ask Ding Hai's feelings, he had heard some rumors about the soldiers of the Nine Sides, and he asked: "You don't accept it at night, why didn't you think about defecting to Beiyang after the three-way cut?" ”

Ding Hai shook his head and said: "My family is not a generational military household, it is a hook army, and I have been a flag army in the Miyun Guard for six years. ”

"But that's not the case, in the past seven years, sometimes with good luck, will be transferred to the Great Wall by thousands of households or commanders to manage the cultivation of Liantian, which has half a year without worry, but more often in the dungeon outside the Great Wall, only five people live there with their wives and children, each pier has a stone carving, and the writing on it is the same."

"Five dun troops, five water tanks, five pairs of dishes, five bed boards, five flags, and nothing else, there are monthly inspections by the commander, and there are Mongol footprints in the trenches outside the piers to be punished."

"If you don't collect at night, you don't come from training, you don't know anything and no one teaches you, you raise horses, shoot arrows and guns, you learn by yourself, and if you die, you die, and you don't die...... If you don't die, you won't be good, if you have a head, you won't be meritorious, and if you have merit, you won't be promoted. ”

Ding Hai smiled contemptuously: "I don't want to be a soldier anymore." ”

What else could Xu Jin say, he let out a long sigh of relief, and said: "That's really a pity, when the imperial court is using troops here, your village is the Great Wall of Asia...... Alas. ”

In fact, this time, why didn't Ding Hai go to a different place?