The northern part of Panama has an excellent harbor, formerly known as the Shelter Bay, and now the Sheltered Bay of Kirinwei.

Like the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty, there are the same typhoon periods, with hurricanes rising at sea from June to November every year, and this bay is an excellent shelter from the storm to protect ships, hence the name.

Li Dan stood on the top of the mountain wearing a cuirass wrapped in a hairband, looking over the Qilin Acropolis at the bottom of the mountain and looking at the long and boundless coastline on the east side.

The so-called Acropolis was nothing more than a slight modification of the Western Military Port, and the unfinished wood-and-stone complex mixed with the dense trees of the tropical jungle looked extremely sloppy.

With its ready-made harbors, masonry barracks, and the perfect shelter during typhoon season, and the surrounding Aboriginal tribes that could provide food for sale, it was difficult for the Ming army to abandon this place and choose other places.

Behind Li Dan, is the lighthouse that Qilinwei is building, this lighthouse is jointly funded by 24 businessmen such as Li Qi, a businessman from Quanzhou who went to sea, according to the scale of the sea vessels, imitating the shape of the Chongwu lighthouse in Quanzhou, building a 30-zhang city pier on the high cliff of the sea, and erecting a 10-zhang high lighthouse, which plays the role of guiding ships to enter the port and detecting the enemy's situation.

The Chongwu Lighthouse in Quanzhou, built in the 20th year of Hongwu, may be the earliest lighthouse in China, which was built by Quanzhou fishermen with funds raised by the fishermen, and thousands of candles were lit in the tower to guide the fishing boats.

The official lighthouse will be a little later than the tenth year of Yongle, on the beach of the Liuyang River estuary at the mouth of the Yangtze River, a mound of 100 zhang and 30 zhang high will be built to guide ships in and out of the Yangtze River estuary, and smoke will be raised during the day and open fire at night.

By the way, there was also Li Dan among the twenty-four funders, who did not repair the city pier, but transferred four heavy artillery pieces, built the battlements on the city pier, and built the first coastal defense fortress in Shelter Bay.

In the past, ships had to be diligent in lighting candles, but now the lighthouse is much less troublesome, and Majiagang is transporting kerosene to Panama, and when the goods are unloaded from there, they will be pulled here by horse-drawn carriages, and the lighthouse in Sanctuary Bay will be almost operational.

From Korea to Japan, they don't know how many businesses they opened, relying on the difference in prices, goods, supply and demand, and currency, and doing business under the protection of the country's strong military power to do almost anything.

What is now in their eyes is a new ocean for the people of the Ming Dynasty, which will make them not hesitate to fund all infrastructure to the military government, ports, military villages, lighthouses, watchtowers, grain, grass, clothing, as long as they have it, they will do their best.

Everyone knows what Sanctuary Bay means to the state of Daming.

Li Dan was different from them, when his eyes looked at the shore, he could only see a bottomless challenge as cold water.

On the beach, a red sun flag with a yellow background of the Ming Dynasty slowly rose, and the sergeants of the Fusang battalion can be seen everywhere under the flag, as well as those who wear a white cloth with a spike gun to tie the boxy curtain, and the white cloth is painted in the middle of the golden dragon pattern symbolizing the Ming Emperor, and below the dragon pattern is a large number of small family coats of arms.

When the grain truck walked out of Qilinwei and arrived on the coast, Li Dan could hear the cheers on the beach.

The soybean paste named miso boiled in water and put into the kombu aroma caused the ashigaru sitting around the pot to salivate, and the ashigaru, who went to get the millet, had not yet returned, and the peasants who couldn't bear the hunger poked their necks and sniffed the aroma in the pot greedily.

They heard someone shouting beside the grain truck: "It's not millet that is dialing, it's not millet, the lord has sent us rice!" And meat! ”

The people picked up their weapons and cheered at the cliff where Li Dan stood, and the joy was real, but the ashigaru people may not have much gratitude in their hearts - it was the young man on the cliff who made them leave their homeland, and they might never go back.

For the samurai, rice as a military ration did not make them happy or grateful, it was more of a metaphor for the coming of a fierce battle.

The lower-ranking samurai of each family were the same, and their position and treatment determined that they could only eat fragrant rice before the big war, not to mention that Li Dan also prepared meat for them.

"I envy you!"

On the mountain road next to Li Dan, Chen Jiujing led the horses with two entourages, turned his head to look at the Fusang camp on the beach that was excited by rice, wiped the fine sweat on his head, and his tone was sour: "A meal of rice can boost morale, but not the Baishan camp, you can't feed anything!" ”

Li Dan's hand rested on the crooked handle at his waist, and he chuckled when he heard it: "The Baishan camp eats the grain of the Beiyang, and the Fusang camp eats the grain of the Wa Kingdom, two different things, who let you mix the grain on the ship?" ”

As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is the White Mountain Camp settled?" ”

Chen Mu believes that soldiers can only eat and drink well to be full, but Li Dan's cognition is just the opposite, he agrees that the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, so he basically maintains the past eating habits of the Fusang Battalion, and only prepares the food that the Beiyang Army usually eats for them before major events occur.

He believed that this would maintain the ferocity of the Fuso camp, and that the less people had, the easier it would be to be satisfied when they got some.

"After settling down, I grabbed the water and killed one and injured three, my head was opened and I complained about the leakage of the tent, I was also crazy, and I actually received a batch of tents from the military department."

Chen Jiujing's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "It looks the same as the one produced in Beiyang, but even the tent of the general dares to leak!" ”

Before going to sea, Beiyang was well prepared, and the food of all parts was fine, but the conditions of the Baishan Camp and Fusang Camp in Qilinwei Shelter Bay were more difficult, and the biggest problem in the Fusang Camp was that it was not good to eat, which was a man-made disaster, and it was possible to eat well if there were conditions, but Li Dan did not act, but the most ashigaru was very able to accept it, but there was no problem.

The most common battles in the Fuso camp were fought among the samurai class, and those samurai who had served various princes in the past were now gathered together, and it was inevitable that there would be new and old grudges.

The Baishan camp is eating well, Chen Jiujing doesn't have so many crooked brains, and he received Beiyang's military rations when he crossed to the east, basically except for the slightly scarce meat, eggs and milk, the Dongyang military government has no reservations about the Baishan camp in terms of military rations, but the Baishan camp is not good.

Chen Jiujing received a batch of military supplies directly from the Ministry of War in North Korea, and this batch of military supplies was the business of Wu Qingbo Li Wei, but he didn't know that military tents, military uniforms, military blankets, backpacks, and firearms looked no different from those produced in Beiyang, Nanyang, and Xuanfu, but when he was away from home and used them in the New World, there was a problem.

Beiyang's military tents, military uniforms, and backpacks are equipped with different specifications according to the military rank, but rain and moisture prevention is the most basic, and a single tent can be worn on the body to make a poncho or four or five pieces connected together to make a large tent, but his batch looks exactly the same, and it is not waterproof at all.

From the flag army to the commander, the military tents of each military rank, when it rains, there is no leaky one, and this place in Panama is rainy and wet, and his soldiers, including himself, are suffering from skin diseases such as ulceration and blistering to varying degrees.

When the conditions are poor, people are naturally in a bad mood, and young subordinates often appear deserters, and the officers who are from the leaders of the small tribes under Chen Jiujing are mainly focused on catching deserters, and their secondary energy is on fighting.

Because you can fight for a pot of boiled clean water.

It's a terrible thing to get hot, "Water Margin" has told people that Yang Zhi himself is also a conscientious escort, but Shengchengang was still robbed, why is this?

It's hot, and there's no way to relieve your fatigue.

In this way, Chen Jiujing suspected that the sergeants of their two battalions might not have the energy to fight pirates.

In the sea and sky, when the first mast slowly surfaced to the sea, the crimson bow of the red ship under the flamboyant crane wing sail revealed the Liujia battleship carved with gods, watching the successive warships approaching, Chen Jiujing's restless heart finally calmed down.

"The ship is coming!"