On October 28, the 25th year of Wanli, Xiao Ruxun, the commander of the Nanhou of Ming Zhen and the chief military officer of Shizhen Burma Yubian Pingnan, was ordered by Emperor Wanli to lead 3,000 troops and 40 warships to attack the Philippine Governor's Palace, a Spanish colony that caused the death of Ming immigrants and Ming soldiers.

On the morning of the same day, Xiao Ruxun held a swearing-in meeting at the port of Yangon Military Port, announcing that he would personally lead the army to recruit the Spaniards in Luzon to avenge the tragic death of the Ming Dynasty and loyal soldiers.

"In the past, Chen Tang said, "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away", this brilliant words have not been extinguished through the ages, and they still exist in our hearts, I hope that all the soldiers will never forget this word, but there are clear offenses in the world that I am a clown who jumps off the beam in China, and the soldiers of the Han family will give up their lives and ask for it! Even if it is far away, it will be punished! ”

All the soldiers shouted in unison: "Although it is far away, it will be punished!" ”

"Expedition!!"

Xiao Ruxun waved the command flag, the drums rumbled, and the sailor set out!

On this expedition, Xiao Ruxun brought Chen Longzheng, the general counselor of foreign affairs, and left Yuan Huang to guard the base camp of Myanmar, and everything was handled by Yuan Huang.

Xiao Ruxun took the flagship Zhennan ship, this warship is the largest warship in Myanmar, weighing 700 tons, it is a congratulatory gift specially dedicated to Xiao Ruxun by the masters of the shipyard, Xiao Ruxun named the ship with his own title, making it the flagship of the Myanmar Zhenshui Division.

Speaking of this matter of naming the battleship separately in the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Ruxun did it first, before that, the Ming Dynasty sailors were not established, and there was no tradition of separate names for warships, generally sentinel ships, Fu boats, sand boats, black ships and the like, without a separate name.

After Xiao Ruxun named this battleship, the sailors began to rise to name the warships with outstanding achievements, and only the three warships with the greatest achievements in each naval battle had the right to name them, so far, the Burma town fleet of 400 warships, only 27 warships have names, and the rest are all following the old Ming system.

A battleship with a name can generally become the flagship of a small and medium-sized naval battle, while the captain of a battleship with a name is generally qualified to become the deputy chief of a detachment.

Xiao Ruxun's Burmese Town Water Division set up a general soldier, that is, Jiang Dahai, with ten deputy commanders, who commanded ten detachments respectively, and this time it was the sixth detachment, the fleet under the jurisdiction of deputy commander-in-chief Wang Wei.

Originally, if Xiao Ruxun didn't go on the expedition, the Zhennan ship would not go on the expedition, and Jiang Dahai would not go on the expedition, but Xiao Ruxun decided to go on the expedition, so Jiang Dahai had to accompany him to become the commander of the fleet.

Speaking of which, the army under Xiao Ruxun's command, whether it is the army or the navy, is built by him, and there is basically no color of the Ming court in it, and the old foundation of the 5,000 Ningxia firearms battalion was formed by him personally selecting officers and soldiers in Ningxia, and it is his starting unit.

After coming to Burma, the soldiers who expanded the army were also selected by himself, and then he used his military exploits as evidence to promote grassroots officers and middle-level officers, and the choice was made by him, without the intervention of the Ming court.

And the sailor is even more so, if the old subordinates who followed him still have the military position of the Ming court, and the officer of the sailor division was picked up by Xiao Ruxun, when the Ming court transferred back to the sailor, basically only Xiao Ruxun left a boat, and the officers and soldiers of the sailor division did not leave much.

There were only about three or five hundred officers and men, not to mention the former captains and other officers, only three or four remained, and these three or four old men were all killed in the naval battle for more than three years, and many of the old sailors were also killed in battle, but the newcomers they brought out grew up rapidly.

It can be said that the sailor is also a soldier and officer selected from the refugees, all of whom were personally promoted by Xiao Ruxun, for example, Jiang Dahai, the chief soldier of the sailor he appointed now, this guy whose name is full of water characteristics is a Fujianese, who used to be a boat operator who ran with merchant ships, and ran merchant ships with his family at the age of seven.

Later, when he was twenty-one years old, the merchant ship he was following was attacked by pirates, and the people on board, including his father, were killed by the pirates.

But because all the people on the boat died, there was no one else in the family except my father, and he was in a trance, became a homeless person, and was sent to Myanmar with a group of people in a daze.

I thought I was waiting for death, but it turned out to be the second spring of my life, just in time for Xiao Ruxun to expand the sailor, calling on people who had sailor experience and boat operation experience to join the sailor, he was the first to sign up, and participated in the first water battle in his life twenty days later.

There are people who are born to fight, and there are people who are born to be war geniuses, which is inexplicable.

It's like Huo Quai's seventeen-year-old entry into the battlefield, and until he died, he never lost a battle, who did he learn the art of war with? How many years have you been studying? Experienced?

But the Huns, who beat countless experienced famous generals of the Han Dynasty to the point of helplessness, fell into the hands of Huo Quzhi and really poured blood mold, and he was going to lose when he met Huo Quai, and he never won once, and finally hit the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and even the old nest was gone, you said that he went to the battlefield at the age of seventeen, how could he be so able to fight?

Yue Fei once said a sentence - the use of wonder, there is one heart.

This "heart" is probably something that only military geniuses have.

Huo Qu also has disease, so he is a genius of war, born for war, and when the war is almost over, he died, as if his life was only for those short six years, leaving an immortal story.

Jiang Dahai has Jiang Youhai in his name, and the reason why his father named him is that he hopes that he can crisscross the rivers and seas, and he can't read a basket of big characters, and after Xiao Ruxun's literacy action, he barely mastered more than 300 words, but that's it, this guy has not tasted defeat since he participated in the sailor division for three years.

The first time he participated in a naval battle against pirates, he was just an ordinary gunner, but he did the captain's business, the captain of the battleship was killed by a stray bullet from the pirates, the battleship was surrounded by three pirate ships, and the inexperienced sailors and soldiers on board were in a mess.

This guy held his breath and stared, and with red eyes, he shot through the command building of a pirate ship, directly killed the captain of the pirate ship, and then replaced it with a flowering shell, fired three shots in a row, and blew up the pirates on the ship.

His heroic performance and wonderful accuracy drove the courage of the soldiers, and those recruits followed him, bravely opened fire, and even sank a pirate ship, fighting their way out of the siege, and after that, Xiao Ruxun personally met him and was promoted to captain directly in the line of fire.

Within a year of that, he commanded his warships and gunners, and won successive battles, sinking three pirate ships for the second time, four pirate ships for the third time, and the fourth time, Xiao Ruxun directly gave him the command of seven warships of a detachment at that time, and let him act alone to pursue a pirate gang composed of twelve warships.

This gang had just robbed a merchant fleet of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Ryukyuan people were unable to pursue, so they asked Xiao Ruxun for help, and Xiao Ruxun let Jiang Dahai go.

No one is optimistic about him, and even Yuan Huang questioned Xiao Ruxun's decision, thinking that such a decision is too dangerous, and let a Fujian boy who can't read a lot of big characters serve as the commander of the detachment, what if something happens? It is not only Xiao Ruxun's prestige that is attacked, but also the prestige of Daming.

Then he returned with seven ships all bearded and tailed. 10