Isn't that a bad result?

At least when García Romero crossed the border with his infantry company at the end of the road, Duke Alva thought that maybe that might not be a bad outcome.

When they appeared at the end of the official road with their spears, the soldiers on duty on the fortress rushed to find the Duke of Alva urgently, thinking that the Ming army was about to attack.

The soldiers of Garcia's infantry company had all their equipment changed except for their faces.

They wore a domed helmet on their heads, a cast and welded lion's head on the top of their heads, a red tassel hanging down their heads, and a cloth iron armor with red edges on an orange background to protect their cheeks and neck, and a cloth bubble nail iron armor with red edges on an orange background on the same body, and a Ming army standard cuirass on their upper bodies.

However, there is no iron arm on the arm, and there is no Ming army carrying equipment on the body, only a leather arm guard on the wrist and a tanned bison leather belt around the waist, and a broad-bladed short knife is tied to the waist behind the Ming waist knife.

Under the cloth armor skirt, the short cloth boots of the Ming army are also the standard of the Ming army, and they are wrapped in orange canvas.

They had no spears in their hands, and each of them was armed with an open-made arquebus, which could neither be equipped with bayonets nor ammunition, but they were allowed to come out with them.

Duke Alva, who was standing on the fortress, looked at the infantry company parked at the border tax card for a long time before he reacted, and asked Almanza, who was with him, "Are they waiting for us to pass?" ”

When Duke Alva arrived and rode over with a few knights in the fortress, he saw that next to the company that was neatly dressed in the standard equipment of the Ming army, there was a senior general of the Ming army who was chuckling lightly, and Almansa said to him: "That is the commander of the Ming army on the border, the chief officer Fu Yuan." ”

"The darker-skinned general next to him is Juniper, Chen Mu's subordinate leader, and the bearded middle-aged man on the side, the one who didn't smile was Lin Manjue, the commander of the guerrilla army, leading the green cloak."

"The one riding the white Andalusian horse in the back is the Black Cloud Dragon, the cavalry general, who led the Ming cavalry to storm the knight in the Battle of the Canyon and win."

Several generals of the Ming army talked and laughed loudly, and from time to time looked at the company next to them with all Ming equipment, and saw the Duke of Alva coming out, Fu Yuan rode his horse and walked briskly across the border line, inserted the horsewhip into his waist bag with his backhand, hugged his fist and gave it to his hand, and reported to his home: "Fu Yuan, the chief military officer of the border of the Heavenly Army, the army that Spain wants to borrow has arrived." ”

Duke Alva was puzzled, he couldn't figure out how Garcia's company could be dressed in neat Ming armor and holding the arquebus of the Ming people, but it was not easy to ask questions at this time, so he had to say hello to Fu Yuan first, and then asked: "Their clothes, what's wrong?" ”

"Oh, you said this, this is what we mean, on the trade treaty, didn't the Western Army want to buy our military uniforms, this is the military uniform specially made for you, as well as armor, waist knives, bird guns, the marshal said that this is called a full set of Ming weapons company."

Ming Machinery Company?

Fu Yuan only used these words in Chinese, and most of the other words were said in Spanish, after all, it was a little tiring to let him say 'Mingguo Equipment Company' in Spanish, he squeezed out a smile on his face and then hidden, and said: "These three hundred sets will be sent to you, go back and try how about it, and place an order if you want it in the future." ”

Duke Alva felt good about this 'Ming Weapon Company', nodded and said: "They seem to be well-equipped, please tell General Chen for me, I am very grateful for his gift, how much will it cost if you place an order?" ”

Cuirasses were not a necessity for Spain, and the only way to develop Spain's handicrafts was in the arsenal in the context of successive foreign wars, and in Toledo, their steel swords, cuirasses, and high-topped helmets were made in a steady stream.

But the Western army really needs standard uniforms very much, because their high-topped helmets are heavily copied in Europe, and the French, Portuguese, Holy Romans and English, all of them are using imitations of their high-topped helmets, and once they enter the melee, they can't tell who is who.

In the past, soldiers would be given ropes of different colors to tie around their shoulders before the war to distinguish friend from foe, because under the European military system, soldiers' clothes and armor were sometimes purchased at their own expense, and it was difficult to achieve the standard effect.

And now Alva looked at this set of Ming army equipment and arquebuses, and he thought that if the quality was good and the price was lower than that of his own manufacturing, maybe it would be a good choice to buy weapons and armor directly from the Ming Kingdom.

"The marshal said, this is a mid-grade military uniform, counting the musket and waist knife, the full set is 26,000 Tongbao; If you don't want muskets and waist knives, the inner and outer clothes and cloth iron armor are 9,000 tongbao, if you don't want cloth iron armor, you only need 3,000 tongbao. ”

Fu Yuan raised his hand and said: "The three thousand Tongbao looks exactly like this, but there is no iron armor inside, and it cannot defend against arrows, muskets, swords and swords. ”

"If you want a different color, say it in advance, and you can do it."

In terms of the pricing of military uniforms, the Ordnance Bureau has done market research, but the research is not Spain, but England.

Zhu Xiaoen, the king of Alan, knew the price of muskets in England, a arquebus was eighteen to nineteen shillings, which was a high price of nearly ten taels of silver, and the cost of an arquebus under the water and fire chamber bed of the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau had been reduced to less than one tael, and it was obvious that the Ming Dynasty could make huge profits by selling weapons to Europe.

"As for the better and more ordinary military uniforms, Fu has not seen them for the time being, and he doesn't know the price, if the duke wants it, he can write to Chen Shuai." Fu Yuan said with a smile: "I heard that the duke is going to take his troops back to the sea?" ”

Fu Yuan's words were not his prediction of the situation like Chen Mu, it was Garcia who slipped his mouth at the banquet last night, and the old duke obviously guessed this reason, and when he heard it, he raised his eyes and glared at Garcia who was standing upright on the side.

Fu Yuanquan didn't see the duke's small movements, he raised his finger and pointed to the Western Army company next to him, and said: "Don't care who the duke is going to fight, teach them how to use muskets, three months is enough, and then take them back to Europe, when the war comes, see the performance of the Ming Weapon Company." ”

Alva was noncommittal, the so-called Musketeers were heavily armoured musketeers, European musketeers were usually not armor-piercing, so as to move quickly, and this was covered with cloth iron armor and cuirass, and how to move quickly to advantage the terrain.

"These heavy armors should be used with swords and shields, it is best to clash with the enemy formation, and how to retreat with muskets."

"Back off?"

Fu Yuan's eyes widened now and he showed extreme surprise, and then nodded knowingly, and said, "Yes, your muskets are advancing and retreating while fighting, so don't move...... To be honest, you're pretty unimposing. ”

"A company, to a company, no one can go in front of them."